Making Believe; Obama’s speech was deep in fable, short on fact

National Review ^ | June 05, 2009 | Andrew C. McCarthy

[achilles2000]

Petrarch - poet, pornographer, and blackmailer - coined the phrase - it was propaganda for what is propagandistically called the “Renaissance”. If it was the rebirth of anything, the Renaissance was a rebirth of classical paganism replete with retrograde political philosophy (effectively the deification of the state, which led to the doctrine of the Divine right of Kings), degenerate morals, humanism (again not the “nice” thing people assume it to be), corruption of the church, and a host of other things. The Renaissance, in effect, is what the Reformation reformed.

[Bhoy]

I think everyone’s missing the point. Lord O is speaking (and always does) to only one group: the ignorant who voted for him & who he expects will vote for him again. He doesn’t care what anybody thinks. He knows that nobody will challenge him because we’re afraid of rioting in the streets. Of being called racists. He can say whatever he wants. He can throw anybody he wants under any bus.