After the Swoon

Townhall.com ^ | January 5, 2010 | Marvin Olasky

[ohiogrammy]

Funny thing - my lib friends and family are still defending him. All I ever get is, he ain’t Bush. Please God, wake these people up!

[Kaslin]

Unfortunately by the time these people wake up, it will be to late

[padre35]

"Glenn Reynolds, the internet's Instapundit, recently offered a perceptive summary: "I think Obama's 'charisma' was based on voter narcissism—people excited not just about electing a black president, but about themselves, voting for a black president. Now that's over, and they're stuck just with him, and emptied of their own narcissism there's not much there to fill out the suit." That is the best explanation of Election 2008 I've read, it was not that Obamao was a great candidate, it was PC being fed. "Oh joy, I can vote for the black candidate, I'm special!" When the thrill leaves, it leaves, now that the concept has been fulfilled, there is not much left for such an out of the mainstream President to do other than run for the center-right, or govern to the left and call it "compassion". At least he is not Bush? No, he is worse than Bush ever was.

[Graybeard58]

people excited not just about electing a black president, but about themselves, voting for a black president.

There you have it - How this total incompetent won the election. Can't imagine any white person with zero's lack of qualifications winning or even being nominated.

[stayathomemom]

the president isn't "the person of integrity and even classiness they had thought." She wrote that late last year "a critical mass of influential people who once held big hopes for his presidency began to wonder whether they had misjudged the man."

His lack of class was apparent to some of us. These people did not misjudge him, I would say these people were blinded by prejudice.

[RU88]

Let me be perfectly clear. This is not about me...

No one's going to give a rats arse about what the man child or bomb belt Michelle do or say when they're smack dab in the middle of Obamaville.

Living your life on false hope and spare change won't get you very far.

[Kaslin]

Indeed. It didn’t matter if he was qualified or not. The only thing was that he was the first black man to be elected and that he was a democrat

[Josa]

One oblah-blah voter has said, “I’m not so sure I like what he’s doing.” Hey, it’s a start.

[dirtboy]

One well-networked D.C. journalist, Elizabeth Drew, recently reported in Politico that those who once held "an unromantically high opinion of Obama" and were key to his rise are now concluding that the president isn't "the person of integrity and even classiness they had thought."

Gee, maybe, just maybe, if they had looked further into Obama's associations with the likes of Ayers and Wright, his lied about such, his completely hidden history and the stench of corruption that surrounded him (such as his wife's $300K job that was created for her after he became US Senator), the truth might have come out in time. But nooo, it was all just dismissed as right-wing sour grapes.

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...but a third question is crucial: Will mainstream press cheerleaders stop dishonoring journalism?

Good question with a tragic answer. The mainstream journalists will never support a conservative over Obama. In this regard they are just like the 97% of African-American voters. The best we can hope for is that they just stay home and keep their bias to themselves.

Obama was run for president by a group of ideologues and the media failed the nation and the GOP failed the nation and here we are - three long years remain and all we can do is hang on and pray for some opposition to be elected in 2010.

[dps.inspect]

Pride is on the line with folks like that... its awfully hard to have offered your soul to an idea or man and then turn around and say, “man was I wrong”, especially when it was such an easy thing to do, to go with the flow... points you out as delusional and cheap.

[randita]

If Obama had been a CONSERVATIVE black man, does anything think the DBM would be voicing such drivel as the following?

Most major television networks were over-the-top propagandists. ABC's Bill Weir: "Can national pride make a freezing day feel warmer?. . . Never have so many people shivered so long with such joy. From above, even the seagulls must have been awed by the blanket of humanity." CNN's Carol Costello: "It was like you're standing in the middle of these strangers, and all of a sudden you had a million friends around you. That's what it felt like yesterday." Andrea Mitchell on NBC's Nightly News: "The mass flickering of cell phone cameras on the Mall seemed like stars shining back at him."

[jonno]

Glenn Reynolds, the internet's Instapundit, recently offered a perceptive summary: "I think Obama's 'charisma' was based on voter narcissism—people excited not just about electing a black president, but about themselves, voting for a black president. Now that's over, and they're stuck just with him, and emptied of their own narcissism there's not much there to fill out the suit."

Yep - this was my take-away from the article...

[OldBlondBabe]

My liberal, Obama-voting relatives said exactly that; they voted for him to be “part of history”. Not sure where they stand on him now, I don’t talk to them much.

[Joan912]

Ping...very insightful!

[highlander_UW]

Elizabeth Drew, recently reported in Politico that those who once held "an unromantically high opinion of Obama" and were key to his rise are now concluding that the president isn't "the person of integrity and even classiness they had thought." She wrote that late last year "a critical mass of influential people who once held big hopes for his presidency began to wonder whether they had misjudged the man."

And yet when conservatives pointed out that Obama was an unqualified fraud we were accused of being racists. So, welcome to the ranks of the great unwashed racists you liberals who are waking up. Better late then never I suppose...but next time LISTEN to those who are wiser than you are!

[Liz]

Let's keep in mind that candidate Ohaha was an empty suit---dressed up by the Chicago mob as presidential material.

PR guru Axelrod and his best friend Wonder Boy Rahm Emanuel did the deed.......and both got top WH jobs.

It always makes me laugh when conniver Axelrod goes on TV with that deer-in-the-headlights-look, trying like heck to look "harmless."

Wily Emanuel duped the American electorate time and time again.

(a) Marxist Ohaha was presented to the electorate as a clone of Ronald Reagan. Rahm even had puppet Ohaha say to voters, "I want to be another Reagan."

(b) As 2006 Dem Congressional Campaign Committee Chair, Wonder Boy Rahm ran Godless, lefty Congressional candidates in solid Republican districts as "reverential believers"....and won.

Rahm softly/coyly speaks the language to appeal to American values, but this conniver is nothing more than a latter-day Uriah Heep. Like Uriah Heep, power-hungry Rahm feeds on others, and deploys self-serving strategies for his own self-absorbed purposes.

Dickens' ingratiating scoundrel (from David Copperfield) fits Rahm to a tee. Uriah Heep was notorious for wielding undue influence, a manipulative bounder who was always planning and plotting, ingratiating himself into the confidence of others. Uriah Heep was obsequious, manipulative, and wormed his way into positions of influence. Uriah was a consummate con man, and not to be trusted.

Translated into the language of the popular culture, Uriah Heep Rahm, positions himself as amenable to American values but is insincere in these feelings; he uses issues and crises to advance his hidden agendas and political ambitions

Rahm The Wonder Boy's motto: "Party First, America Last." The Wonder Boy is obsessed with party politics. Installing a permanent leftist majority of Dims is his game. This nasty toad evinces an utter contempt for US culture.

[stephenjohnbanker]

I notice C-Span is locked out of House & Senate negotiations on Obamacare

Obama: “ We will be the most open administration in history, and will broadcast all legislative negotiations on C-Span”

[Kaslin]

As far as I am concerned, he is still an empty suit