Obama was elected by many voters whose swooning adulation for him is less rational than the whooping of the emotional religious fundamentalists of the right who, these die-hard Obamians believe, are the main threat to our civil liberties. A comparison of the attitudinal character of the two groups is revealing. Obamians assert that the Christian right is mindlessly devotional and lacking in any factual basis for their simplistic convictions. Yet, it is beyond cavil that this kind of emotional mindlessness precisely describes that of a huge percentage of Obamian voters who never studied his vague policy preferences. Instead these thoughtless ones were swept up by a powerful emotional fundamentalism of their own exclusively motivated by Obama’s bromides for “change,” the opportunity to elect a black man as President and their virulent hatred of Bush (largely because of his style and resoluteness). Yet these Obamiacs still dare to call the religious right “mindless.” I hazard the guess that most Obamians would have still voted for their Lord and Savior even if it were revealed that he had secretly negotiated to hand the U.S. over to Medved and Putin as the newest Russian oblast!
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November 14th, 2008 at 4:26 am
Good to have you back Mr. McCormack! You make an insightful comparison.
One thing that I find particularly troubling about the election of Barack Obama is the extention of this blind adoration of the Messiah to the 4th estate. There is no way that Obama’s presidency could have been possible without the hoard of media co-conspirators.
It was not only irrational, but unabashed and almost hypnotic. I can’t remember any presidential election won on a promise to raise taxes on anyone, yet I heard very little analysis of this phenomena in the mainstream media. When was the last time you heard a press commentator describe a candidate’s speach as causing a “tingle” up the back of his leg such as Chris Mathews of Obama’s speach?
I used to debate press bias with liberal friends in the past. As far as I’m concerned, the debate is over! In the past, liberal media had the decency to try to hide its bias. Ok, I understand that equal coverage is out of the question, but how about just a little healthy scepticism?
I can’t tell you how many times during this election cycle I explained to casual followers of government, including my wife, that sunset provisions in the Bush tax cuts ensure a tax increase to practically everyone in 2010. Most I discussed could not fathom this, having heard nothing of this in the media.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. As Sean Hannity has remarked, this election marked the “death of the media” in America.
March 5th, 2010 at 6:57 am
Prediction: Following the resolution of the healthcare monstrosity, Obama’s next push will be to grant amnesty and citizenship paths to illegal aliens (AKA future Democratic voters and/or defacto wards of the gov’t).
The only unknown here is the style in which he will push this. If he and Pelosi are able to bribe and scheme enough votes to pass the health care edict, he will approach immigration like a smug, triuphant, and condescending law professor. If he loses on healthcare, he will be angry, vindictive, and spiteful.