Bush Opens the Door, Wide Wide Open, for a Very Liberal Obama
I knew it!
I knew it I knew it I knew it I knew it!!!!!!
Liberal Values almost had me fooled -- Obama is absolutely lethal to what's left of the tradition of individualism, self-reliance, and small government.
Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Dish has this to say:
I went to see Obama last night. He had a fundraiser at H20, a yuppie disco/restaurant in Southwest DC. I was curious about how he is in person. I'm still absorbing the many impressions I got. But one thing stays in my head. This guy is a liberal. Make no mistake about that. He may, in fact, be the most effective liberal advocate I've heard in my lifetime.
The overwhelming first impression that you get - from the exhausted but vibrant stump speech, the diverse nature of the crowd, the swell of the various applause lines - is that this is the candidate for real change. He has what Reagan had in 1980 and Clinton had in 1992: the wind at his back. Sometimes, elections really do come down to a simple choice: change or more of the same? (Andrew Sullivan, The Reagan of the Left?)
Andrew Sullivan (author of The Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom, and the Future of the Right) supports Obama less (and now MUCH less) as a viable candidate than as severe shock therapy for a conservative movement that needs to be slapped back into reality:
And just as Carter branded liberalism in a bad way for a generation, so Bush and his acolytes have poisoned the brand of conservatism for the foreseeable future. When you take a few steps back and look closely, you realize that Bush has managed both to betray conservatism and stigmatize it all at once. That's some achievement.
I fear he [Obama] could do to conservatism what Reagan did to liberalism. And just as liberals deserved a shellacking in 1980, so do "conservatives" today. In the Bush era, they have shown their own contempt for their own tradition. Who can blame Obama for exploiting the big government arguments Bush has already conceded?
Andrew wraps up my greatest fears realized with this ominous question:
There's a reason for his wide appeal. The over-whelming question for me at this point in this historic campaign is a simple one: who will stop him?
Good Lord! After 8 years of Bush, is Andrew right? Do we now probably have 4+ years of a "cure" to look forward to?
(sigh)
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I have said that all along. After going to Wisconsin and hearing the young adults at Immanuel Lutheran College (where my son went to school) speak about him (Obama) and then you add the minority vote no one stands a chance.
Even the Republicans do not care for McCain.The best we can hope for is that he surrounds himself with really great people OR we as a country put Representatives in place to over ride his signature as President.
I agree. Obama will probably win. The Republicans only have themselves to blame, because we let those we elected in the last 8 yrs have betrayed us without us raising up in protest.
Nice image of Obama. Real class, that logo of his morphing into a hammer and sickle, image of Africa, closed fist for black power, and a muslim crescent just thrown in there for good measure, right? I'm surprised you didn't have time to fit a swastika into that rotation -- maybe you're feeling a bit lazy?
Asshole.
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Dear Tas,
Thanks for commenting on the logo. Yes, many people really like it.
The leftest logos are really the coolest. We on the right really admire the red and black Che Guevara logo -- so much so, we tried the same design but using Reagan (imitation is the highest form of flattery), but it just didn't work out.
Anyway, I didn't design this logo -- it was someone called 'ptgustan' on Michelle Malkin's blog.
Michelle is using the logo to make the point (she's really a crazy funny nut, that girl -- gotta love her) that many many people see Obama as too beholden to old school leftest values. I'm not so convinced, but, as I see Obama as a better choice than HRC and McCain, I want to help put him on the defensive so as to push him as far right as possible. A swastika is a good idea, but -- I think it goes too far.
Anyway, thanks again, but watch the language. I haven't posted my comment policy yet -- it'll be an anything goes policy (I'll never censor anything, unless it's obviously spam -- or really lame porn), but I do want it to be a PG-rate blog, so "asshole," or "butthole," or "cornhole," or "asshat," or "asswad," or "3704559" typed into a calculator and then turned upside-down, any of these are fine, but nothing stronger. Thanks!
And please, keep commenting . . . I'm . . . lonely . . . and this blog . . . well, it's all I have . . .
- Cheers,
The Charters Of Dreams
P.S. I like your blog name, SugarMyths.