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2009-03-05 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tipper 2009-03-05 05:43|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Obi-Wan: Who's the more foolish: The fool, or the fool who follows him?

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-03-05 06:16|| 2009-03-05 06:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Hello, my name is Maureen and I have voted Obama.

Hello Maureen.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2009-03-05 06:47|| 2009-03-05 06:47|| Front Page Top

#3 NO, NO, NO! You've NOT "been had." You bloody boinked yourselves, and properly at that! Now suck it up, live with your decision, and swim hard with the rest of us! You were all told he was a phueching COMMUNIST long before the election. Bon Apeti you arugula chomping leftest bastards.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-03-05 07:42|| 2009-03-05 07:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, naivete on the part of adults is neither cute nor excusable...plus buyer's remorse keeps one awake at night.

Posted by HammerHead 2009-03-05 08:56|| 2009-03-05 08:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Getting over Obamamania is like any other twelve-step program, first you have to admit that you have a problem, then we can help you. You're making good progress, Maureen.

Posted by Mike 2009-03-05 11:05|| 2009-03-05 11:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Jesus. What does it take to get to the left of Dowd? I honestly didn't think it could be done.

Posted by Iblis 2009-03-05 12:07|| 2009-03-05 12:07|| Front Page Top

#7 It is certainly very interesting. I have been observing the same thing across the spectrum of OP-ED writers. Sadly, they are the ones that lead the opinion of a lot who have no time to sit down and read details of what is going on. The thundering herd reads the opinion pieces and accepts that view. The other side of the coin, is that as these opinion writers get more and more aggressive in their opposition, the thundering herd will catch up. This is evident in the nonsense of the opinion pols. The willingness of people to respond unthinkingly has what has allowed this "change" to occur. Now people will begin to pay attention. Rush Limbaugh for all his faults is certainly a lightening rod and his audience is rising dramatically as the left wing bloggers and broadcasters, newspapers and magazines who haven't already gone belly up, struggle to sell advertising revenue.

At the end of this there will be a rump of true believers who will keep applauding, there will be the dyed in the wool anti obamaniacs who will be saying "I told you so" and there will be the middle who quietly become more desparate and angry, frustrated and disillusioned.

That is the time we will see the true character of the majority of the American people. Will they be cowered into submission or will they say enough is enough? The primary thing now is for a literate, competent, coherent and gifted spokesman to arise up quietly on the conservative side who will sweep these cockroaches from the Congress in the half term elections, block these changes as best they can and then crush this arrogant Mugabe pretender.

Posted by Omoter Speaking for Boskone7794 2009-03-05 12:43|| 2009-03-05 12:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Hearty laptop standing ovation to you Omoter Speaking for Boskone7794. Very well said, particularly the final paragraph.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-03-05 12:48|| 2009-03-05 12:48|| Front Page Top

#9 Very good OSforB. A bit off topic but if this comes to pass it might be interesting to see how the Ø responds to criticism and direct action against him. He doesn't seem to know how to respond to that. Perhaps he will go totally grey in the next two years (barring use of "just for men").

Posted by tipover 2009-03-05 13:28|| 2009-03-05 13:28|| Front Page Top

#10 I predict that within two months the wrapper will come off of the race game and that will be put in play. As the drumbeat of anger finally begins to sound loudly across America, and the Congree runs for the shelters after seeing thye smoking ruins in economy and confidence these idiots have already created, Obama and Empress Michelle will trot out the racism canard to quiet the restless and cow the timid. When that happens, finally, the true test of American courage can be seen. Can we finally get past that BS? I doun't know.....

Posted by NoMoreBS">NoMoreBS 2009-03-05 14:07|| 2009-03-05 14:07|| Front Page Top

#11 They and the rest of the country are figuring out the bitter truth.

The media snipes in the WH press corps have already begun to shred Obamas press secretary. Even the usual cheerleaders are choking when called on their cyclical film-flam. And, most important, the electorate that held their nose and voted for Obama arent exactly pleased. But if Chicago style kick-the-can is what people consider as Hope and Change then he should be fine. If not, Obamas arrogance may be his best asset.

Posted by Glereper and Tenille6826 2009-03-05 14:24|| 2009-03-05 14:24|| Front Page Top

#12 What does it take to get to the left of Dowd?

Them (The Fashionably Left™) getting a big taste of what they said they wanted and realizing it doesn't taste so good. My belief is that a lot (majority?) of the so-called Left in this country think this is some kind of game like they played in High School or Jr. High.

And now they are coming to realize that they have been played for the useful idiots that they are. We will all suffer, but I do believe we will come through this and Leftism/Liberalism/...etc. will perish. Obama is going to destroy the Democrat Party for decades. God, I pray it is so.

Oh, I do not think we will manage to come this without bloodshed however. That is going to have to happen, I see no way around it. Also, there is going to have to be some major return to a strict adherence to the Constitution and some undoing of the damage wrought since around 1913. JMHO.

Posted by Trader_DFW 2009-03-05 14:35|| 2009-03-05 14:35|| Front Page Top

#13 NMBS understands the dynamic. You;ll know when you've wounded the leper Messiah badly when he trots out the "anyone who opposes my policies for any reason is a proven racist" tactic. I've been saying this since before the inauguration.

When that happens, it will be due to desperation on the part of the leper messiah and his goons. As ugly a time as that will be, it will be a time to celebrate.

Posted by no mo uro 2009-03-05 16:35|| 2009-03-05 16:35|| Front Page Top

#14 Why are you all bitching,? He's done exactly what he was elected to do, break open the treasury and shovel it out with both hands and a shovel.

Posted by Redneck Jim"> Redneck Jim 2009-03-05 20:19|| 2009-03-05 20:19|| Front Page Top

#15 Well,with Rev Wright, Black Liberation theology, Bill Ayres, The Che flag in his campaign office in Houston, Michele Obama's "hate America speech", community organizing and most liberal voting record in Congress, someone is actually surprised?

Posted by HammerHead 2009-03-05 21:11|| 2009-03-05 21:11|| Front Page Top

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