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Obama Derangement Syndrome?
Works and Days ^ | December 23, 2011 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 12/23/2011 2:23:19 PM PST by decimon

I’d say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you’ve lost your mind. — John Edwards

When does the legitimate “I oppose Obama” descend into the illegitimate “I hate Obama”?

It is popular now to suggest that conservatives in general and congressional Republicans in particular suffer from an obsession characterized by an uncontrolled antipathy for Barack Obama — personal and visceral — that warps their entire political outlook. No doubt some do experience the same obsessions that infected the Left in their furor at George W. Bush. One can find unhinged posters at anti-Obama rallies similar to those at anti-Bush demonstrations. Bloggers can show hatred for Obama in the manner one found them despising Bush. Perhaps for Howard Dean’s rants about Bush’s supposed foreknowledge of 9/11, we have Donald Trump insisting on a fraudulent Obama birth certificate. Truthers are analogous to Birthers. And for every conspiracy theory that Bush was continuing a long family tradition of profiting from Nazi trade, there was a suggestion that Obama was a Manchurian candidate planted here by Islamic interests to destroy from the inside the United States.

But again, I am not talking about conspiracy rants and raves, but a general psychiatric affliction that infects the influential political class — politicians, journalists, and those in popular culture and the arts.

So how does one distinguish natural political opposition from a psychotic state? In other words, when will we know that popular opposition to Obama’s worldview and a dislike at the way he seeks to divide the country degenerate into the paranoid venom that was unleashed against Bush?

Here are some things to watch on the national scene to warn us:

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: birthers; certifigate; ods; onetermobama; truthers; vdh; victordavishanson

1 posted on 12/23/2011 2:23:20 PM PST by decimon
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To: decimon

I don’t hate him. I just want him to stop touching stuff.


2 posted on 12/23/2011 2:24:35 PM PST by SandyInSeattle (Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface)
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To: decimon

Mr. Hanson, in his closing statement here, forgot “THE RACE CARD”....which we will hear plenty of during the campaign.


3 posted on 12/23/2011 2:28:31 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: SandyInSeattle

Nah-—I hate him and the horse he rode in on...............Will be so glad when we defeat him next November.....and hope never to see or hear from him again.


4 posted on 12/23/2011 2:30:28 PM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: decimon

My loathing of the illegitimate Halfrican Marxist Kenyan Muslim Usurper knowns no bounds. FUBO!


5 posted on 12/23/2011 2:38:38 PM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: decimon

I don’t hate Obammy. Hate is just a four letter word. I use a 12 letter one.


6 posted on 12/23/2011 2:38:51 PM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: decimon

“Obama Derangement Syndrome?”

Absolutely. Every single one of his supporters is afflicted with it. What we NEED is for selfless conservatives to provide them with a cure.


7 posted on 12/23/2011 2:39:12 PM PST by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: decimon

Speaking for myself, it is indeed visceral. Anyone with half a brain can see the damge he’s done to the country...and he thinks he’s doing great. I despise the criminals in his adminstration and in high office that continue to thumb their noses at the will of the people and our laws.


8 posted on 12/23/2011 2:41:08 PM PST by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: basil
I hate him and the horse he rode in on.

AMEN!

I hate Obama with every fiber of my being, much as I hated his fellow Marxist Joseph Stalin.

That said, I wish Barry the Kenyan Kommie Klown no physical harm. In fact, I wish him a very long and lucid life after he is evicted from the White Hut in January 2013 at which point it will again become a place of dignity, as the White House, when on that Happy Newt Year. I want Obama to face the consequences of his traitorous crimes against America, living every day for the rest of his long life in orange prison garb. So here's to a long, physically healthy life for Hussein -- but a life daily filled with mental anguish for the suffering he has inflicted on our country.

9 posted on 12/23/2011 2:41:17 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: decimon

Hate Obama?

YES WE CAN!


10 posted on 12/23/2011 2:43:08 PM PST by Youaskedforit
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To: decimon
Initially, I just despised him for what he stood for....

In the last 2 years I have learned to hate him with the brightness of 10,000 suns

A visceral hate wells up within me whenever I see his puss

I only hate his white half though....

11 posted on 12/23/2011 2:46:39 PM PST by Popman (Obama is God's curse upon the land....)
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To: Dallas59

“I use a 12 letter one.”

That’s what my ex used to call me!


12 posted on 12/23/2011 2:47:01 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: decimon

I readily admit my derangement. What’s the problem?


13 posted on 12/23/2011 2:47:11 PM PST by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
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To: Old Sarge

This true American patriot and protector of our country sizes up Obama. Vice President Dick Cheney saw right through the facade of Hussein with a genuine FUBO look.

14 posted on 12/23/2011 2:48:34 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Are you a socialist/marxist?/s


15 posted on 12/23/2011 2:51:01 PM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: decimon

Hate? Far too mild a word! I utterly despise the corrupt sack of $#!\ and everything he stands for. Every time I see him I want to vomit.

How’s that VDH?


16 posted on 12/23/2011 2:54:01 PM PST by piytar (The Obama Depression. Say it early, say it often. Why? Because it's TRUE.)
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To: re_nortex

God Bless you, Dick Cheney.


17 posted on 12/23/2011 2:56:37 PM PST by mickie (My grandson made it, he's now a Marine.)
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To: decimon

18 posted on 12/23/2011 2:56:59 PM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: re_nortex

I miss Big Time.


19 posted on 12/23/2011 2:58:38 PM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: decimon
It is quite disappointing to see the usually quite perspicacious Victor Davis Hanson make the statement that birthers are analogous to truthers without offering any support for the notion. The one group is concerned with adherence to the Constitution, which, despite descriptions to the contrary, is not conspiratorial, whereas the other is positing a cover up and conspiracy that accuses officials of the willful murder of scores of people for political gain. Where is the analogy?
20 posted on 12/23/2011 3:02:12 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: decimon
He is scum! If that means someone calls me full of OBD syndrome, then so be it.

Maybe it is not fair to compare Obama to Hitler. Hitler, afterall, would never had to use a teleprompter. He could write a line or two on a piece of paper and makes a half and hour to an hour speech from that. Hitler also had CIC ability and the Messiah clearly doesn't have any.

Hitler worked to kill Jews on his own, while Obama leads from the rear and is hoping Iran will do his dirty work against Israel, which has 5.5 million Jews. Obama has been midwifing Iran's nuclear bomb.

Nah.... Obama isn't Hitler. He is like a more incompetent copy. Maybe an affirmative action Hitler.

21 posted on 12/23/2011 3:04:32 PM PST by Stepan12
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To: Dallas59

ODS is NOTING compaired to PDS.

Give Obama the PDS treatment and wsatch him melt like butter on a skillet.


22 posted on 12/23/2011 3:25:23 PM PST by Kolath
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To: Stepan12

Hitler was also a vegetarian, while Hussein outsources his healthy diet to Moochelle who foists it on other people’s children.


23 posted on 12/23/2011 3:30:24 PM PST by omega4179 (We can't wait!............. for the end of an error.....1-20-13)
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To: decimon

this is bs
i hate all democrats
everyone of them
b.o. is just like boxer, durban murray and the rest of the #$%^%$


24 posted on 12/23/2011 3:32:43 PM PST by genghis
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To: omega4179
Another example of leading from behind rear.

Moochelle's ample behind.


Better to be wanted by the police than not wanted at all

25 posted on 12/23/2011 3:37:36 PM PST by Stepan12
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To: decimon
Obama Birth Certificate Faked In Adobe Illustrator - Official Proof 1 ( Layers )

Explain that, Victor, or lose all credibility.

"I'm not a computer expert" is not an acceptable answer.

26 posted on 12/23/2011 3:45:20 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: piytar

Hate is like you a far to soft word. I do believe that if someone is doing wrong to you, your family or your country, it should be screamed out loud and that person should be told how you feel. I despise and loathe this person. He is everything that is wrong with the world. He is in my mind a demon from Satan. His plan is to destroy the only god fearing, freedom loving country in the world. As he plans for Isreals demise also.. God please let us have a normal American loving President back next year.


27 posted on 12/23/2011 3:53:03 PM PST by crazydad
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To: decimon

An adult piece from VDH. It will not be popular here, though.


28 posted on 12/23/2011 4:09:10 PM PST by paudio (0bama is like a bad mechanic who couldn't fix your car - he just makes it worse. Get somebody else!)
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To: decimon
Et Tu, Victorious Caveus Hansonius??

After losing Goldberg and Barone this is more than I can bear.

29 posted on 12/23/2011 4:51:46 PM PST by Calusa (The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles. Quoth Bob Dylan.)
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To: Calusa
After losing Goldberg and Barone this is more than I can bear.

what about this can you not bear? You did read it, right?

30 posted on 12/23/2011 4:57:39 PM PST by decimon
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To: decimon
I hate what Obama has done to this country. I hate the utter craziness that comes out of the mouths of his uncritical supporters who just don't seem to see the closed stores or have any unemployed friends/relatives, and who blame "racism" for any criticism of Obama.

I've never been able to think of Obama as an American black. When he opens his mouth at an event when he wants to appear intelligent, what comes out sounds like the mutterings of an old white hippie, which is essentially what he is. His melanin is incidental. He's just another leftist who loathes this country.

I don't hate Obama. I don't waste energy on an emotion like hate, except in very special cases. I want him voted out of office. I never have fantasies of him suffering violence, although sometimes I visualize him in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs.

I find Michelle one of the most irritating public figures in decades. I think she made a terrible bargain: marry the gay guy, pose as the wife and smile, and you will have a politically influential position. She already had an attitude of entitlement, and adding to this the expectation of a payoff for the role she has played makes Michelle a most unhappy, bitter, nutty woman. Listen to the way she talks about him. Listen to the way they treat "their" daughters--no birthday or Christmas gifts--who doesn't want to treat their children well? But I wish no evil upon Michelle, either, I just want her out of the WH. She probably wants out, anyway; no doubt she has her eye on far more grandiose settings for herself.

The daughters? I feel badly for them, because they're stage props, just like the dumb-looking dog.
31 posted on 12/23/2011 5:04:17 PM PST by Nepeta
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To: Nepeta

Wow! Pretty great post. Especially detailing Michele’s role as beard.

I must say that Obama’s name is spoken in my prayers every day. “Please, God; make Obama go away.” Sometimes I pray for Obama’s salvation because I think that a true conversion would be the ultimate stunning testimony. It would/could serve to change the world if our president made decisions from a Christ-filled heart.

But... if he would just go away, that would be fine with me.


32 posted on 12/23/2011 5:17:17 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: decimon

No doubt some do experience the same obsessions that infected the Left in their furor at George W. Bush. One can find unhinged posters at anti-Obama rallies similar to those at anti-Bush demonstrations. Bloggers can show hatred for Obama in the manner one found them despising Bush. Perhaps for Howard Dean’s rants about Bush’s supposed foreknowledge of 9/11, we have Donald Trump insisting on a fraudulent Obama birth certificate. Truthers are analogous to Birthers. And for every conspiracy theory that Bush was continuing a long family tradition of profiting from Nazi trade, there was a suggestion that Obama was a Manchurian candidate planted here by Islamic interests to destroy from the inside the United States.

But again, I am not talking about conspiracy rants and raves, but a general psychiatric affliction that infects the influential political class — politicians, journalists, and those in popular culture and the arts.

So how does one distinguish natural political opposition from a psychotic state? In other words, when will we know that popular opposition to Obama’s worldview and a dislike at the way he seeks to divide the country degenerate into the paranoid venom that was unleashed against Bush?

Here are some things to watch on the national scene to warn us:

Me: He forgot the /sarc alert. For a minute there I thought the last righteous scribe had gone over to the dark side. And some of us are still a little edgy from the Orcs from Mordor and the Nazgul having swept roughshod across Shire more time.


33 posted on 12/23/2011 5:20:36 PM PST by Calusa (The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles. Quoth Bob Dylan.)
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To: decimon

No doubt some do experience the same obsessions that infected the Left in their furor at George W. Bush. One can find unhinged posters at anti-Obama rallies similar to those at anti-Bush demonstrations. Bloggers can show hatred for Obama in the manner one found them despising Bush. Perhaps for Howard Dean’s rants about Bush’s supposed foreknowledge of 9/11, we have Donald Trump insisting on a fraudulent Obama birth certificate. Truthers are analogous to Birthers. And for every conspiracy theory that Bush was continuing a long family tradition of profiting from Nazi trade, there was a suggestion that Obama was a Manchurian candidate planted here by Islamic interests to destroy from the inside the United States.

But again, I am not talking about conspiracy rants and raves, but a general psychiatric affliction that infects the influential political class — politicians, journalists, and those in popular culture and the arts.

So how does one distinguish natural political opposition from a psychotic state? In other words, when will we know that popular opposition to Obama’s worldview and a dislike at the way he seeks to divide the country degenerate into the paranoid venom that was unleashed against Bush?

Here are some things to watch on the national scene to warn us:

Me: He forgot the /sarc alert. For a minute there I thought the last righteous scribe had gone over to the dark side. And some of us are still a little edgy from the Orcs from Mordor and the Nazgul having swept roughshod across Shire more time.


34 posted on 12/23/2011 5:20:55 PM PST by Calusa (The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles. Quoth Bob Dylan.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
Even if Obama "got religion" and became a God-fearing, Constitutional originalist, nothing much would change because the daily business of the destruction of this country is directed by people other than Obama. He's the figurehead who made it possible to get a lot of dangerous, America-loathing people into positions where they could do a lot of damage.

Look at his daily schedule at whitehouse.gov: he does very little every day. Sometimes he does not get his daily briefing until 10.30 AM, and that's the first thing on his schedule. Some days the only things on his schedule are the mid-morning briefing (30 minutes) and lunch with Biden (O to be a fly on the wall and take in the scintillating conversation...)
35 posted on 12/23/2011 5:26:52 PM PST by Nepeta
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To: decimon

I suffer from Obongo the Marxist Islamic Kenyan syndrome. I oppose him, hate him, detest him, despise him, loathe the ground he walks on and live for the day he leaves the White House.


36 posted on 12/23/2011 5:51:06 PM PST by mojitojoe (SCOTUS.... think about that when you decide to sit home and pout because your candidate didn't win)
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To: Old Sarge

Ditto x 100


37 posted on 12/23/2011 5:57:16 PM PST by mojitojoe (SCOTUS.... think about that when you decide to sit home and pout because your candidate didn't win)
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To: Dallas59

He sho do have a little wanker, I guess Larry Sinclair wasn’t lying.


38 posted on 12/23/2011 6:09:35 PM PST by mojitojoe (SCOTUS.... think about that when you decide to sit home and pout because your candidate didn't win)
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To: MayflowerMadam
Sometimes I pray for Obama’s salvation because I think that a true conversion would be the ultimate stunning testimony.

Obama has an immutable hardened heart. His lifelong and unaltered commitment to "my [his] Muslim faith" (his very words) assures he'll never have a Saul on the road to Damascus awakening. As a avowed Marxist, a key part of his very being is to hate Christianity and all the Good that it represents.

You're right that such a conversion, as far fetched as it may be, would be utterly stunning. Still, I personally can't envision being in the same Eternal Heaven with the likes of Obama since the treachery and unspeakable evil he has sown here on earth can't be undone.

39 posted on 12/23/2011 7:52:32 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: decimon
It's not really derangement since we try to make sense of Zeros chaos and
I doubt many here are confused about his leadership direction.
We don't froth from the mouth or blame Zero for snowy days in march.

On the flip side the RAT supporters blamed everything on Bush. That's derangement.

40 posted on 12/23/2011 8:03:53 PM PST by MaxMax
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To: re_nortex

“Obama has an immutable hardened heart.”

I fear you’re right. I believe that some people are beyond hope, and he’s one of them.


41 posted on 12/24/2011 4:32:12 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: SandyInSeattle

I hate Obama as well as anything connected to him.


42 posted on 12/24/2011 4:42:23 AM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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