“The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion . . . sppkkkk . . . pop . . . skikkk . . . sssssssssssssssssssss"

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Vilifying, condemning,, marginalizing, labeling and suppressing free speech of their political opponents. Who woulda seen that coming from the Left?

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R.I.P. America. Hey, it was great while it lasted.

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You can't tell me that these fucks aren't evil pieces of shit.  If they had it there way, we would be in the gulag or re-education camps in no time.  Fuck that treasonous piece of worm shit.

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This!

"It is hard to remember a more dismal moment in American politics," Weisberg moans in a column originally written for the Financial Times. It starts out as a standard partisan attack on Republicans for failing to fall into line with liberal dogma––excuse us, "science":

President Obama is trying to push a jobs agenda. But for the federal government to spur growth or create jobs, it has to spend additional money. The antediluvian Republicans who control Congress do not think that demand can be expanded in this way. They believe that the 2009 stimulus bill, which has prevented an even worse economy over the past two years, is actually responsible for the current weakness. . . .
Some of the congressional Republicans who are preventing action to help the economy are simply intellectual primitives who reject modern economics on the same basis that they reject Darwin and climate science

To Weisberg, the failures of the Obama administration prove not only that Republicans are "intellectual primitives" but that you are stupid: Among the "sobering lessons" that "we" have "learned," he writes, is "that there's no point trying to explain complicated matters to the American people."

But Weisberg's attitude toward the American people, if not as openly hostile as it is today, was characterized by a deep suspicion. Obama was not doing as well in the polls as Weisberg thought he should have been, given the all-around awesomeness of the junior senator from Illinois. If Obama lost to John McCain, it could mean only one thing: America was irredeemably racist. (As we noted at the time, in reaching this conclusion Weisberg committed a rookie error of logic, which makes today's pompous pronouncements about "science" all the more hilarious.)

Weisberg's latest amounts to a lament for democracy. Even if the American people aren't as racist as he suspected you were back in 2008, you aren't up to the challenge of being governed by the handsome, brilliant and cool Barack Obama.

We would offer an alternative hypothesis: The American people, while imperfect, are basically OK. You just made a mistake in choosing a president. Oh, there were any number of reasons why Obama seemed better than Hillary Clinton or John McCain, and who knows? Maybe either of them would have been even worse. But the point is, Obama was never all that, or even nearly what, he was cracked up to be.

It takes an authoritarian mindset to look at a failed leader and fault the people for failing to follow him. This is not just an ideological authoritarianism, although it does have that element, as evidenced by Weisberg's peremptory dismissal of opposing viewpoints. But he treats Obama not as what he actually is––a human being and a politician––but as a sort of religious figure––a potential savior in 2008, a martyr in 2011.

This is the Cult of Obama. Many of the then-candidate's supporters––especially highly educated ones who pride themselves on their superior rationality––saw Obama as a sort of idealized version of themselves. The classic of the genre was a June 2008 column by Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle's website, who, citing unidentified "spiritually advanced people" (we are not making this up), described Obama as "a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being . . . who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment."

Obama refuses to accept personal responsibility, and Cult of Obama die-hards like Weisberg refuse to assign it to him. Too much of their own identity is bound up with their idealized vision of him, so they lash out at those who are not part of the cult. They lash out at you. But try not to take it personally. Anger is depression turned outward.

The Chicago Tribune notes with understatement that Obama "probably will be forced to run on something other than his economic record." That something is the fierce urgency of ferocity:

"It's not going to be 2008 'Yes, we can' anymore. I think it's going to be slash-and-burn," said Democratic pollster Paul Maslin. "We have an embattled incumbent who doesn't have much hope of improving his standing except by point of comparison with his Republican opponent. It's going to be a very different kind of election that's going to be brutal, to be honest."

"It is hard to remember a more dismal moment in American politics," Weisberg writes. If Maslin is right, things are going to get more dismal still. And we won't be surprised if a year from now Weisberg is defending the handsome, brilliant and cool incumbent's vicious campaign on the ground that it's just what stupid, racist Americans deserve.

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They are very afraid. This is good.

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Boxcars to the labor camps?
 

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Yes, because the people who are already spending 26% 100% of GDP and want more taxes are the "seroius" people.  It's those people who want to cut spending to match revenue which are crazy.

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yep

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You know, the Libs have been saying so many outrageously idiotic things lately that the Repubs, if they were smart, could create MANY magnificent commercials that show juts how insane the Democratic party has gotten.

Like fish in a barrel.....


CMOS

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You know, the Libs have been saying so many outrageously idiotic things lately that the Repubs, if they were smart, could create MANY magnificent commercials that show juts how insane the Democratic party has gotten.



Like fish in a barrel.....





CMOS

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But don't forget that they have to empty those pesky gun cabinets first.

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I swear, if it wasn't for the 2A, I'm beginning to believe these commies would have already placed us under marshall law.

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fuck that mother fuck and will all the massholes vote this shit bag out of office

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You should change your avatar.  The one you are using is already taken and it is considered poor taste to copy a current members avatar.  

Oh and +1

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Agreed.  The Founders knew whereof they spoke.