Of course, none of this had any impact on him — just as his twenty years at a church based around Black Liberation Theology had no residual effect on his ideology.
He was just in it for the pussy, I’m guessing.
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BROS BEFORE HOS!
Can I get an AMEN?
Amen!
Pass the redistribution plate!
AMEN! PREACH IT, BROTHAH!
A lot of leftists I knew during my University days were in it for the babes, as I recall. Not that most other people found their idea of “babes” attractive, but I guess somebody’s gotta love ’em…
Amen, brother Jeff. Afuckingmen. But these commie bitches are pretty nasty. And bros don’t go down on that stanky shit.
But, but, but… I keep hearing that Baracky IS NOT a Socialist!
Oh, what to believe??!!
And yeah, working at decidedly lefist institution of higher learning. There are places man was not meant to go…
Well, that and the street cred. How else is a brother supposed to get some decent rock?
I condemn myself.
They are forgetting his Uncle Frank:
Obama writes in Dreams From My Father that he saw “Frank” only a few days before he left Hawaii for college, and that Davis seemed just as radical as ever. Davis called college “An advanced degree in compromise” and warned Obama not to forget his “people” and not to “start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that ####.”
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/
The influence started well before college.
“The arguments of liberals are more often grounded in reason and fact,” Obama wrote…
Ahem, excuse me. How? Gimme, gimme, gimme is fact?
One could almost sense a pattern here.
Come now, all he wants are our lupins! He’s just a modern Dennis Moore, galloping through the night.
This morning on the radio, Alan Colmes told me O! wasn’t a socialist. Are you saying Alan Colmes is a two bit, lying hack with no scruples?
That’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are.
I guess if you reason that what people produce ultimately belongs to the state, and you think it’s a fact that people would be perfect if society didn’t make them otherwise, then I guess you can use those words, though they don’t mean what you think they mean.
I’m saying he’s the son of Skeletor. That boy needs to eat a few hamburgers or something.
Alan Colmes lied. That’s so stupid. Baracky is a dirty socialist spawn of dirty socialists what loved their dirty socialism more than they loved him so they made him go live with his racist grandmother and now he’s a dirty socialist with unresolved issues to work out and our little country is what he wants to work them out on. Him and his skeezey woman.
Are you saying Alan Colmes is a two bit, lying hack with no scruples?
That is part of his problem, being a fucking moron is also a factor.
I see two possible options here:
1) Obama was just in college and didn’t really believe in this ideology, which makes him a chickensh@t liar: pretending in order to not be a “sellout”.
2) Obama is really a Marxist.
Neither of which tells me what the f-ck a “structural feminst” is.
Well thank God for that subtitle or the average Fox News reader might have mistaken him for Santa Claus.
http://tinyurl.com/6xdrrk
Compare and contrast with the current Democrat Manifes…er… Platform.
Structural feminist means gimme your fucking money you white bedicked piece of shit.
More likely Grizzly Adams, now retired, AJB.
Because everybody knows Santy Claus is always in color.
“Comment by happyfeet on 10/28 @ 2:15 pm #
Structural feminist means gimme your fucking money you white bedicked piece of shit.”
Oh.
My first wife.
Oh. A Marxist code word for “wife”?
I’m thinking if I make an international call to the Alan Colmes show tomorrow morning to call him a lying fucking moron son of Skeletor, he’s going to cut me off. I can see this being a pattern for the next few years.
You’re funny, hf.
Jeff,
Q: Is it possible to get any pussy from “structural feminists”?
Neither of which tells me what the f-ck a “structural feminst†is.
Something with I-beams and load distribution.
It didn’t. Not like that. Daley in a commie beard is still only Daley.
When I keep saying Obama sounds like an idiot, what I mean is this: He doesn’t speak; he makes noises. If he’s not a moron, he’s a sociopath. Being a generous soul, I say both.
He slips into Marxoid cant when he’s improvising, trying to be sociable, etc. That’s an environmentally conditioned reflex; look how he came up. In what situations does he talk like that? The ones where that’s what the audience wants to hear. Sometimes he misjudges that.
Those misjudgments, as in the Joe incident or the leaked San Francisco speech, arise from his not knowing what his shibboleth reflex is signifying, philosophically, or what it means to people outside his career path. He understands how these phrases work for him socially. But his social life has been severely limited, narrowed to those who can block for him as he runs upfield.
Like Southern is the is the accent of Defense, cod Marxism is the accent of the Machine, so he adopted it — willfully, as he says in his book. Marxism is the Machine’s talk, not its ideology. Mindlessly self-sustaining organisms don’t have one. Predators only pretend to.
You can call Obama a Marxist and have a point. But the problem is that he’s not one. (You’re only right enough to “organize” yourself.)
Obama’s always — and seemingly honestly — surprised when the obvious meanings and well-known provenances of his cliches are pointed at. Why? He never thought about these things. He mimics, pleases, moves on up.
He fucked up with Joe because he doesn’t know what Joes want to hear. He hasn’t thought about it. Because Joe’s not real. Because he’s not helpful.
He’s thought about stepping on Joe’s head to get places, not about how to make Joe cheer it. Because he never met a Joe before. And he didn’t plan for it.
That’s how sociopathic morons roll.
That psycho, was a by god tour de force.
I thought he said he sought out the marxists and radicals while at college. Maybe I missed something somewhere?
#17 FreakyBoy:
I think ‘structural feminist’ means you can’t get their legs apart without high explosives. And for such small mercies we should give thanks to God.
I denounce myself.
Well, psycho, I think you have a valid point. Right now, the only thing that Obama thinks he knows about working stiffs is what his advisers tell him that they’re going to be posting on the campaign website or including in the next cycle of radio and TV spots.
Thus “working people” and the “middle class” just want the guv’ment to give them some filthy lucre and they won’t notice that their investments, when sold, will pay double the Capital Gains Tax or that their tax increase will occur when the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire. The middle class doesn’t care about that. They care that women only make 70% as much as men and won’t notice that that percentage has been debunked for many years. They want a touchy, feely health care system that isn’t too expensive and won’t bother to to wonder how Obama will “bring down costs by going after insurance companies.” The middle class wants stem cell research and no one will notice that the only problem there is embryonic stem cells. The middle class wants to hear about “tax breaks for big oil” without bothering to notice that Bog Oil gets many of the same tax breaks that most other businesses get.
He is pandering the message exactly as the brain trust wants him to with the full knowledge that a crashing economy gives him license to babble at the cartoon images of working people in his and his advisers’ heads. Enough people are pissed off that they will suck it up like so much gruel after a plague and not bother to step back and really understand the implications of the cartoon or the mindset that drew the cartoon over the last 30 years.
INVEST IN BOG OIL!
(You’re only right enough to “organize†yourself.)
There’s that again. I don’t think I get it but it makes me uncomfortable like maybe on some level I do.
hey,guys , which line is the one for redistribution again?
He was just in it for the pussy, I’m guessing.
And the awesome bud and blow, of course. The Young Republican clubs have that bullshit homegrown and weak, stepped-on blow.
But Lisa, they do have the best Brandy and those bitchin’ all guys stage reviews!
The one on the left…
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is anybody here from Alabama?
But Lisa, they do have the best Brandy and those bitchin’ all guys stage reviews!
Are we talking about this? Or this?
Because if it is the latter then I made a terrible, terrible mistake in college, goddamnit.
No, but I just flew home from Anaheim about a week ago, and boy are my arms tired!
(Thanks. I’ll be here all week…)
hey , BJTex,
you owe me a drink.
i predicted Phillies will take it…….
I see Barry has now put a red star in his “O” symbol. How appropriate.
psycho is of course correct. It is one of the corollaries of Ric’s Rule #3: The ants find the sugar.
There is an aspect of the human personality or psyche that seeks dominance, that wants to be the boss. Like every other aspect, it is expressed at different levels in different people, our old friend the Bell Curve. When you build something that requires a leader, somebody in charge, people who are a couple sigma east of the median in Dominance are drawn to it as moths to the light, and the stronger the opportunity for dominance the stronger the attraction. The socialist paradigm absolutely requires Leaders at all levels, and therefore is very attractive to those seeking Dominance.
And, as psycho points out, actual belief in the tenets of whatever philosophy may be espoused is entirely dispensible and is sometimes an impediment to the goal of Dominance. At the extremes, people like that only believe in themselves and their desire to be boss; the rest of it is simply means to an end. What they want is to be Boss. They will say or do anything to achieve Bossdom.
It would be nice to come up with a system that weeds such obsessives out, but unfortunately all the systems we have come up with weed them in. It’s hard to achieve Bossdom. People who are less obsessive about it drop out of the race, and the obsessives are content that this should be so — they themselves aren’t bothered by the difficulty, and the less competition the better, no? Which is why every attempt at electoral reform ends up cementing the position of the dominance seekers who have managed to achieve their goals.
Regards,
Ric
Ric,
May sound strange, but I only hope that your’e right and Obamas obsession is with the office and not his so far hidden agenda. I think the last ten days or so have revealed a different person than the media has been selling us for the last eighteen months, this man may be a retard, a true socialist. That would change everything. Most Americans think they know what socialism is, but I doubt the majority realize the implications to our way of life.
psycho put into words exactly what I have been feeling, thank you. It is one of the reasons I am reluctant to vote McCain, because I don’t fear an Obama/Pelosi/Reid machine all that much. I think psycho has described not just Obama, but the entire Democrat leadership, and also exposed why they would be utter failures at attempting real leadership. They have the potential to do far more damage than McCain, but not the ability. McCain has the ability.
Now convince me I am wrong.
Now convince me I am wrong.
Iranian or Nork nuke in a US city: more likely under McCain or Obama?
Monumentally bad Supreme Court nominees who are willing to take what little is left of our freedom: more likely under McCain or Obama?
Environmental regulations that destroy our economy: more likely under McCain or Obama? (yes, I know McCain spouts the AGW bullshit — but I don’t think he’d go as far down that road back to savagery as Obama would).
There are other reasons.
I’m no McCain fan; McCain-Feingold was one of the the most breathtakingly unconstitutional acts in our nation’s history (I must confess that I’m feeling a certain degree of schadenfreude at seeing him hoist on his own petard).
Nonetheless, I support him. Half a loaf, dude.
Exactly, Spies. You can still make sammiches. McCain has the ability to help define Republicans. The ones what don’t kiss his ass are the future. With baracky, who is a dirty socialist, you just go back to the soup what we had I think.
Let’s be honest here – how many of you haven’t done something just so you could get some sweet poon tang? Cause all of us straight guys will do just about anything for a piece of pussy!
I think domestic surveillance and security is going to get ratcheted up several notches under Obama, the loonies are already on the move if you haven’t noticed. I have almost no doubt McCain is going to appoint compromise picks to the Court. He has spent 30+ years doing it, I can’t believe he will suddenly change now. Same with environmental regulations, none of them believe and/or care about that shit, but all of them will pander as needed, McCain has the ability to do more damage.
Once the election is over, this will no longer be about campaigning and raising money, it will be about politics. None of the top Democrats have shown any skill at all at building alliances and playing politics. Quite the opposite in fact, they appear to be back-biting, childish narcissists, the lot of them. McCain knows how to git-r-done, and I don’t trust him.
Don’t make me defend McCain. He’s a fag.
O! was a bit of a red-diaper baby, lest it be forgotten. Momma was a red, as was his father and that whole Luo tribe on Dad’s side. Family friends and connections, too. O was raised up in it, steeped in it, and hardly knows anything else, I think.
At least not deeply. He has no deep affinity or core loyatly to the founders vision, and actively rejects it.
I thought the same as Rick Smith for a while, but the more I look the less I believe it.
Look: supposing Obama did decide to go center or center-left, rather than the hard left we see. Where would he get the concepts? Where would he get the advisers?
He doesn’t know anything except the Left and the Machine. He has no, absolutely no, longtime associates — people he could ask advice of, people he could appoint to positions where their advice would be heeded — not a single one who isn’t either a hard Leftist or a Machine politician. Ready for Bill Ayers as National Security Adviser? Look at his unguarded or semi-guarded statements. The man doesn’t believe in “production”, and there has never been anything in his life that would fill out the concept for him, so he has no problem with redistributive policies because he sees no reason whatever why a person who is simply lucky should resent sharing. The very notion that the person who has something earned it (or might feel he has), and therefore gets sore if it’s taken away, is not one that has ever impinged upon his sensorium, let alone penetrated his thoughts. He has no, repeat no, familiarity with any sort of negotiation or compromise — his ideas of how that goes began with the I-am-infallible concepts of Progressivism and were developed in an atmosphere where, if somebody disagrees, you go for the kneecaps. He simply has not even the slightest trace of the equipment he would need to work from center-left, much less center.
He might even be able to keep the proles in line if he were running for President of, say, Mexico, but this is the United States. He’s going to have to deal with leaders of other countries, where he cannot simply send the goons ’round to convince (or — ahem. — persuade), say, Putin or Ahmadinejad of the error of his ways for disagreeing. The man has never won a contested election, much less succeeded in anything resembling “diplomacy”. Look at his response to Joe the Plumber. It’s not so much the content as it is the style; he didn’t seek to convince; his instinct was to destroy. This isn’t bull in the china shop; this is tiger in the tea-room. And Biden is correct, little as I like the notion of agreeing with him — “world leaders” see this clearly, and are gleefully anticipating rolling the newbie. That may be shortsighted. This is a guy who has the U.S. Army to help him when he feels buyer’s remorse.
So he’s not going to implement many of his hard-left notions. He isn’t going to have time to do it. He’s going to lurch from crisis to crisis, never ever figuring out what’s going on until too late to do anything but make it worse. People remarked on how much the Presidency aged Jimmy Carter in a mere four years, and one of the big things about Reagan was not so much that he made it look easy as that he made it look possible after four years of Jimmah flailing to no avail and angsting over the non-results. When Barack Obama’s done with four years, he’ll be 51 and look about 75. And the rest of us are going to feel like it’s been about that long.
Regards,
Ric
McCain’s job is to behave like an adult with respect to Iraq, drill oil, build nuke plants, and preside over gridlock blessed gridlock with grace. His job is NOT to hook up with his fag buddies Arlen and Lindsey and foist a bunch of fag judges on a nation what didn’t vote for that. We just keep it simple and me and President McCain we’ll get along just fine. But I disagree that Baracky is not a dangerous dirty socialist. He has the media alloyed to his anti-American ideology to an unprecedented degree and two houses of Congress. That’s scary.
NPR looks at THE WHITE SUPREMACIST THREAT tonight. They don’t get a link.
A “coming race war” is a very real possibility apparently. Thanks, NPR.
Yup. A week to go and NPR sets a place at the table for white supremacists to join in our national conversation about race. What’s wrong with these people?
I think they’re preempting the riots that will happen regardless if Baracky wins. Riot if he wins, riot if he loses. Recall that there is no such thing as black racism as per NPR so they’re planting the narrative seeds for later to grow into nice skunkgrass.
I don’t understand what the guy, Levin?, means by this. Can you all untangle this blither?
sigh. Here’s the link. Read on for…
It’s like linking to a latte-sipping Stormfront.
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What, they don’t tolerate white people in Los Angeles?
Ah, so this Levin guy was channeling the minds of the haters for NPR’s consumption, not speaking for himself. I got it.
It’s notable that there is no contextualization of the hate groups in the demographic of the nation at large, nor any serious comparison of the size of one hate group to another. It is all just left to float there, ripe for the imagination of the alarmists to fill in howsoever they may. That’s what I’d call shit for reporting.
Yes. NPR won’t let the white supremmies speak for themselves but they’re more than happy to do it for them. Sick hatey socialist radio pukes.
I think the NPR thing is also a rhetorical trick to highlight the people who don’t like Obama as the far radical side of everbody so its easier to paint the whole right with the same brush. What you’re against the Barackster the one? Well you know you’re allied with the white supremacist crowd, right? sort of thing. They’re entire view of Republicans can be summed up in their one sentence, “simmering concerns over how white supremacists are reacting to the possibility of a black president.” Of course the neo-nazis should and will be prosecuted, the left will run with it like mad, GWB assassination plots and pr0n notwithstanding.
Wanna see a real live hater in action? Wander over to the pub and get a face full of William on Dicentra’s thread “On professions and their moral hazards”. Yeesh.
William is a tenured professor, so he says.
Psycho, I agree with the idea that Obama is reflexively Marxist, it’s what’s “home” to him, it’s what feels right, and authentic, and his conscious choices later are from being raised up that way. But he is conscious to a degree of the danger of tipping the hand. Somehow he is cognizant of danger and the need for codes.
( See that latest clip of him talking about Wright when promoting Dreams. )
He is careful to use the code, to clean it up, to Alinsky-ize it.
Yet I do I think he identifies with the ideology in the sense that he has nothing else. No other anchor, no other experience – and he never had any incentive to break from the path that, as you say, brought him social approbation and professional success.
I think it is probably astonishing to him at times to have negative reactions to that patois so common to his previous experience. He can only explain it away in terms of the observations of Alinsky himself. Like he can’t really wrap his mind about what American liberty and self-government really mean to actual natives of the US, or persons who come here specifically to adopt them.
He’s stupid that way. But he’s a Marxist all the same. If you undertake a task and perform by aping or perform by rule, it still gets done, and I don’t like what he will do. For if he isn’t his own Marxist, he will be surrounding himself with those who speak and act those noises he can comprehend.
He’s a guitarist and lutist, he teaches music performance and other music stuff. He is also a hater.
Glenn Reynolds links to some Princeton tool what says Baracky is a harmless kitten. Read the whole thing. Jesus fuck I listen to NPR I don’t need to do extra credit.
Um, perhaps we should think, pace Jerrod Diamond, perform by third chimping?
Jared, sorry.
I think it is probably astonishing to him at times to have negative reactions to that patois so common to his previous experience.
Yeah, it’s like Mowgli or Tarzan. They were raised by animals, he was raised by the academy.
the funny thing about a race is…i.m in lane 4[bobby orr]
and i try not to glance at my 3rd world competitor [4 it would dishearten me!] he’s so chiseled/NO way i’m gonna win!
then i put my hand in the starter blocks …and look at my
ice hockey skates-and pray to the goracle….
tripping?/cross-checking?/butt-ending?
it only takes a hockey mom…
to fuck shit up..
go SARAH go
Let’s be a little clear: there may, possibly, be a hundred actual Marxists on the planet; it is conceivable that there are a thousand. A million? No. And Barack Obama isn’t one of them.
Marx’s philosophy is negative-liberal, but uses liberal arguments. He recognized individual liberty as a force; he simply considered it a sham and a deceit, used by capitalists and other class enemies to keep the proletariat divided and therefore powerless. He expected the United States to be the first Communist country, and he was almost right — Americans reacted to Marx with a combination of admiration and a “D’oh?” reaction to the class-warfare bits. All through the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries, Americans went for all kinds of collective efforts, although we tended to style them “co-operatives.” They linger still, mostly as utility providers, water and electric power especially. The American form of labor unions also differs considerably from the original Marxism, but remains a collective form.
Europeans did no such thing. Socialism hardly had any traction at all in Europe until the very late Nineteenth century, when several thinkers, Ulyanov prominent among them, came up with the notion of “Cadre” or “Vanguard”, a higher form of thinker who would lead the Proletariat to the Revolution. Having thus reduced the matter to a form comfortable to Europeans, i.e. a Nobility shepherding the Peasants to God, they went on to the Russian and German Revolutions, and from triumph to triumph in the form of “Social Democracy.” Karl Marx would call them Fabianists and spit, and he’d be right.
That doesn’t prevent them from quoting the Prophet Karl in support of their dogma, of course, any more than millenialist suicide-cult leaders have any problem dredging up Biblical quotations to back up their insanity. It’s wrong of us to take them at their word about it, just as it’s wrong of us to accept as Christians people who can quote the Bible but don’t act the part. Barack Obama has heard the cant all his life, and in fact doesn’t know much else, but he’s about as Marxist as I am.
Regards,
Ric
Baracky will just have to do for a Marxist until a more authentical one comes along. He was apathetic about genocide in Iraq what would be blamed on my country. I don’t care about Marx so much cause that’s as Stalinesque as I can take.
Ric,
Respectfully, “It’s not voter fraud, it’s only voter registration fraud.”
Meaning what should we properly call him/them. Besides the ward-heeler stuff.
Me, I’m stuck on Obamonauts, after Cosmonauts.
Sarah is right. Obama is aware enough of the noises he’s making and the ideas he’s mimicking to try to “code” them when necessary.
So in that respect I think his study of Alinsky certainly had an impact on him, as did his years with Wright.
It is also true that his first goal — his primary motivation — is power, and so perhaps it is reasonable to argue that once he achieves it, he will govern as a “pragmatist” and ignore those radicals who helped get installed.
But they won’t ignore being ignored, and they’ll bring pressure to bear on the O! — who, if he is truly as Ric and psycho describe, will do what they please in order to gratify the company and keep his place in the scheme.
Or, to put it another way, I think psycho gives Obama too little credit; true, Obama uses his mirror reflection bit to soothe the moderates and middle, but ideologically speaking, he truly believes in his own tripe about “social justice,” and his ascendancy to the Presidency will only convince him it is his destiny, along with progressive congress and a compliant media, to take America toward Utopian glories of progressivism.
And yeah, that will involve a lot of heavy handed suppression of speech, not to mention the kind of structural maneuvering that will weaken many fundamental rights in the name of their opposites (cf., free speech and “tolerance”).
Just as Palin shouldn’t be underestimated for her intelligence, Obama shouldn’t be underestimated on his fidelity to the Cause.
Jeff, my emphasis is a little different from psycho’s. Let me try an analogy.
I think most of us have had the “naked in public” nightmare. There is an equivalent for those of us who are technicians. It goes like this: you’ve traveled far and with great difficulty to arrive where the machine that needs repair can be found. When you arrive, you discover that the machine is completely different from what you expected, and your schematics, your repair instructions, and your experience are all useless.
Obama believes that he has a complete schematic and a full set of tools — all his training and experience tells him so. He can use a few verbalizations that describe something else, but they are strictly evasions; he’s confident that he knows how to determine if the machine is faulty, that the schematics he has will lead him to the fault, and that the tools he has will suffice to do the repair. It isn’t so, and he doesn’t know it, because nothing in his experience and none of his associates have ever described anything different.
It’s not that he’ll abandon “pragmatism” at the behest of the Kossacks; it’s that what he defines as “pragmatism” matches what the Kossacks want. He doesn’t have wings, and therefore can’t fly; he equally lacks the necessary structures to govern from the center. The only tools he has are Left-handed, and any fix that needs a straighter one thus becomes impossible.
Regards,
Ric
On that we can agree, Ric.
Sdferr @ 29 referring to psycho… at 28:
“That psycho, was a by god tour de force.
And a big +1 from me. Wow.
I worry about Obama’s objectives on the presidency; merely winning isn’t close to what he’s aiming for. I’ve called him a commie, a marxist, a socialist, and lately I’ve tossed the term “sapper” into the mix; he’s not equipped to be an executive and the coalition he’s surfed on so far couldn’t run a whore house in a Navy town.
Oh, and by the way, we’re fighting two major fronts in a war that has a decade or two to play out. The world economy isn’t interdependent; we are finding out that it was based on U.S. wealth but that’s no longer operative. As our economy falters, the brigandage empires of Russia, Iran, and Venezuela totter – all three with records pointing to military adventurism as cures for domestic ills – and China, while not being nearly brigand, is most definitely our closest trading partner by volume. Congress will be run by Democrat incumbents with fiefdoms built over an average of sixteen years per member… led by Nancy “No, they don’t blink” Pelosi and Harry “There’s one born every minute” Reid.
Whoever wins this election gets no honeymoon. NONE. I can’t stand on the same sidewalk with the likes of Ric or Jeff … but I can by God recognize an empty suit after having him piped into my living room for the last two years. And whoever wrote his books really fucked up in that Obama’s rhetorical style is continents removed from what is on display in those fantasies.
If he’s not running this race to realize a revolutionary fantasy, then he’s simply just a fool. To be a product of Harvard and Columbia and the “elite” of one of our major cities to be such a construct is a pretty sad thing when you step back and think about it.
And then you realize he’s got millions of people thinking what he sells is worth their vote, and it’s not sad at all. Just terrifying.
Barack Obama will not only be our next President he stands a very good chance at being the most influential man in the world for the next 100-years. The chimeras of fear that swirl in your head are a result of either your expectations being crushed or that of your idols, Hilly and McCain, being melted for scrap, or possibly because you just not capable of forward thought.
To deny the man is capable of greatness is to deny the existence of the very ground on which you stand.
Tremble with fear, or shake with excitement, President Barack Obama brings with him a new American century.
O! is the 1!
and UNICORNS!!!!
After the final Bush years the buttercups are dripping with cynicism and anger at the who-go-there.
#86
Heroin or crystal meth? You decide.
An Obama administration is going to make you wish for Jimmy Carter.
Barack Obama will not only be our next President he stands a very good chance at being the most influential man in the world for the next 100-years.
Who were the most influential men of the past 100 years? I don’t think this is the positive you think it is.
Thor, I think Obama will be as influential as Jimmy Carter with training wheels. The Republic will survive. We’ll have our third lesson in why socialism works in practice, but not reality. Yes, it’ll hurt, but in four years it wil be over, and with luck, the lesson will last for the remainder of my lifetime.
Heck with politicians, I’m gunning for gerontologists.
Regards,
Ric
With luck? Luck wasn’t required in order for you to end up stupid.
being the most influential man in the world for the next 100-years.
Nope. Elvis wins. Obama hasn’t done anything, and hasn’t even promised to do anything that earth-shattering. If he does get elected, there’s nothing influential about repackaging lukewarm hippy tripe about hope and love and other garbage. Raising taxes on some and releasing others from their Social Security obligations isn’t all that influential either. He hasn’t really made a statement on how the free world should respond to any kind of threat.
He hasn’t built anything, thought up anything or changed the way we do anything.
Mark Andressen? Bill Gates? Jobs and Wozniak? Robert Kahn? John von Neumann? John McCarthy? The Google Boys? Michael Martin Hammer and James Champy? Peter Drucker? All will be more influential over the next 100 years than Obama could ever dream of being. Shit, Shawn Fanning will have more pages in a good history text than Obama ever will.
Right now there’s someone out there with an idea that will completely change the way we live our lives. Like Elvis did. Hell, without Elvis there’d be no Obama.
Obama’s ain’t Elvis, he’s not even Frank Ifield.
Thor drops by with his usual load of incoherent drivel. Thor, O! may be famous in the future, but NOT influential. Personally, I think he’ll be infamous for the next 100 years, assuming he actually wins the election, an increasingly tenuous possibility.
I agree with Ric and psycho regarding the problems O! will have once in office. To further his inexperience with other ways of thinking, recall that he spent much (most?) of his youth outside the United States. He is an American, but only by birthright. His formative years were spent elsewhere. Between that, and the 46 years of left-wing indoctrination, he has no clue. And no hope.
BTW, even self-professed Marxists usually can’t slog through Marx’s shit. They just like to have the book on the shelf.
luck is how liberals think wealth happens though. Poor people were just not lucky so the government can fix that. With cash. Who needs hard work when you have “luck.”