Sorry To Be A Party Pooper, But I Can't Share This Swooning Obama Hysteria

Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | January 21, 2009

[Steelfish]

MELANIE PHILLIPS:

Sorry to be a party pooper, but I can't share this swooning Obama hysteria Has everyone lost their marbles?

The inauguration of President Obama is being treated like the Second Coming.

The coverage is so gushing we might all drown.

Of course it’s a great thing that America, with its history of slavery and segregation still a shockingly recent memory, now has a black President; the palpable joy of African-Americans is entirely understandable and deeply touching. And there’s no doubt that Obama is a highly charismatic and attractive personality.

But what’s more than a wee bit troubling is that the swooning hysteria reflects the fact that people appear to believe that as of today the world will be saved. Swords will be beaten into ploughshares, peace will be brought to the Middle East, Iran will be pacified, every American will have health insurance, poverty will be eliminated and utopia will have arrived.

[cherry]

I had to admit to my husband tonight that I forgot to watch the coronation today....he asked if I had recorded it....LOL

[sport]

Nor can I.

[Tempest]

The Media is a disgusting cheering squad.

The American media has not issued one critical article about the foreign national, media installed Illegal Resident of the United States all day.

I remember all the hate articles and news time they gave to protesters during President Bush's second inauguration. I'm ashamed of the American media.

[Ditter]

Was the obbamanation today? OH NO! I missed it too.

[silentreignofheroes]

A hard rain is gonna fall.

Sit back and watch.

But prepare.

[Chickensoup]

I found it difficult to be excited about the death of freedom.

Our country is about to be overrun with thugs.

[RetiredArmy]

Wrong. We have a half and half president. NOT a black president. Besides, Bill Klinton was the first BLACK president. Just ask him.

[Dallas59]

RACISM!

[two23]

This is the 3rd non-American news media article that I’ve read today that dares to say what American media will not.

[CaribouCrossing]

Very good article, Steelfish. Thanks for posting it.

[FlingWingFlyer]

When the chips are down, I always look for the humor in these things. Right now, I'm pondering what the average I.Q.s of those bozos who were standing at the base of the Washington Monument during the swearing in ceremony must be. ROTFL!

[mrsmel]

Of course it’s a great thing that America, with its history of slavery and segregation still a shockingly recent memory...

It must be because she's a Brit that she considers this a "shockingly recent memory". I'm not young, and my memories are of bussing, AA, quotas, "diversity" over merit...

[fkabuckeyesrule]

The media is acting like a bunch of teenage girls at a Jonas Brothers concert.

[lilylangtree]

I see a fraud and an illegal. I don’t see a president.

[RoadKingSE]

Swords will be beaten into ploughshares, peace will be brought to the Middle East, Iran will be pacified, every American will have health insurance, poverty will be eliminated and utopia will have arrived.

The author forgot this bit of horsemanure. "..this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."

[Buck W.]

“Of course it’s a great thing that America, with its history of slavery and segregation still a shockingly recent memory...”

Melanie, I always love your perspective as one of the few voices of reason in the UK, but let’s not forget that Britain’s abolition of slavery in the Empire occurred just a few years before that of the US. Our two nations share a common history of slavery from which we have both emerged.

[musicman]

"The Media is a disgusting cheering squad."

[NObama2008]

Even FOX News is joining the slober fest. It’s almost like a comedy out of SNL.

[manic4organic]

Didn’t watch a single second of it.