"We, Americans, ... support Obama because yesterday might be the past, because it is before tomorrow.
Obama will make tomorrow come after yesterday, but only by our voting for him."
Posted on 02/16/2008 4:28:28 AM PST by rhema
These days, Obama worshippers file two kinds of columns. The first school is well-represented by Ezra Klein, the elderly bobby-soxer of The American Prospect:
"Obama's finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don't even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if history has stopped flowing passively by, and, just for an instant, contracted around you, made you aware of its presence, and your role in it. He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair."
Er, OK, if you say so.
It seems to me that Barack Obama is the triumph of flesh, color and despair over word – that's to say, he offers an appealing embodiment of identity politics plus a ludicrously despairing vision of contemporary America (sample: "Trade deals like NAFTA ship jobs overseas and force parents to compete with their teenagers to work for minimum wage at Wal-Mart") that triumphs over anything so prosaic as a policy platform.
On the other hand, if you're running for president not as an unexceptional first-term senator with a thin resume but as the new Messiah, the new Kennedy, the new Gandhi, the new Martin Luther King, you can't blame folks for leaping ahead to the next stage in the mythic narrative. Around the world, a second instant subgenre has sprung up in which commentators speculate how long it will be before some deranged Christian-fundamentalist neo-Nazi gun-nut deprives America of its fleeting wisp of glory. Setting a new standard for fevered, slavering Obama assassination porn, Earl MacRae warned Canadians in The Ottawa Sun:
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
fixed it.
http://mrsircy.blogspot.com/2008/01/obama-could-be-in-big-big-trouble.html
Poor mean, vengeful Hillary, heading for a one-way ticket on the Oblivion Express, has a point. Barack Obama is an elevator Muzak dinner-theater reduction of all the glibbest hand-me-down myths in liberal iconography – which is probably why he's a shoo-in.
A shoo-in.
Maybe more people should see this then... and get used to it.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/191270.php
"We, Americans, ... support Obama because yesterday might be the past, because it is before tomorrow.
Obama will make tomorrow come after yesterday, but only by our voting for him."
Quit spamming that video,that guy is full of it.
Show me...
"Mmmm, Change." Homer Simpson.
Does ANYONE have any doubt at all that liberals get a weird, saliva-dripping charge out of this kind of thing?
Clearly the one thing this writer Steyn quotes would like FAR more than Obama winning would be the sight of him murdered, so he can have the joy of calling all Americans fascists.
I loathe Obama's politics, but the LAST thing I want is for him to be martyred. I would even prefer he WIN to that, because then his policies will be discredited.
But this bizarre person is absolutely broiling in hate, and would rather see Obama sacrificed so he can whoop it up for years shouting 'You're a fascist, you're a fascist!"--THAT would please him more than any success Obama could have.
Jeez, politics brings out the worst in some people.
You gotta help me out. Is this a real quote from a real person? (My Starlet Recognition Rating is about -1.)
If there really were Christian-fundamentalist neo-Nazi gun-nuts bent on regime change out there, they would have taken out Hill & Bill a decade ago!
I realize she’s got rocks for brains but then again it looks as if she’s making up for it in oh so many ways!
I'm not disputing it, just asking. Wow! Hardcore stuff.
All I could think of was "vapor policy." I guess that's why he's Mark Steyn and I'm not.
No it’s not a real quote.
No way it's a Clinton plant.
The Clinton's would have planted someone way better looking, younger and more photogenic. They know the media are a lot more concerned about the presentation of the story, than the actual story.
That guy in the video won't get traction in a MSM world. Too goofy and stupid looking.
Is he telling the truth, who knows?
He already admitted to doing cocaine so his story has lost all credibility. Any decent lawyer would destroy him on the witness stand
His type conveniently ignores Malcolm X's assassination.
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