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The night we waved goodbye to America... our last best hope on Earth
Daily Mail UK ^ | 09 November 2008 | Peter Hitchens

Posted on 11/11/2008 9:50:09 AM PST by Lorianne

Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to modernise Heaven and Hell – or that at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead.

The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced civilisation. At least Mandela-worship – its nearest equivalent – is focused on a man who actually did something.

I really don’t see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducted in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts.

It already has all the signs of such a thing. The newspapers which recorded Obama’s victory have become valuable relics. You may buy Obama picture books and Obama calendars and if there isn’t yet a children’s picture version of his story, there soon will be.

Proper books, recording his sordid associates, his cowardly voting record, his astonishingly militant commitment to unrestricted abortion and his blundering trip to Africa, are little-read and hard to find.

If you can believe that this undistinguished and conventionally Left-wing machine politician is a sort of secular saviour, then you can believe anything. He plainly doesn’t believe it himself. His cliche-stuffed, PC clunker of an acceptance speech suffered badly from nerves. It was what you would expect from someone who knew he’d promised too much and that from now on the easy bit was over.

(Excerpt) Read more at hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2008; bho2008; hitchens
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To: Lorianne
if there isn’t yet a children’s picture version of his story, there soon will be.

It's been around for years.


41 posted on 11/11/2008 10:38:40 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Obama ripped W a New Tone.)
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To: ladyjane
Did you catch Obama’s “we need a international solution”? That's right: not “an international”; “a international”. Believe it or not, the NYTimes’s transcript was accurate. (I was sure the Times would clean that mistake up and, if anyone had called them on it, would have claimed Obama merely had stammered.)
42 posted on 11/11/2008 10:38:46 AM PST by utahagen
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To: Lorianne
. Its amazing what covert hypnosis can do.
43 posted on 11/11/2008 10:43:30 AM PST by expatpat
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To: Lorianne

I could not have said this better myself. It’s not as though there wasn’t plenty of information out there on BHO’s radical associations, left-wing track record, and near total lack of accomplishment. What is truly beyond belief is the slavish devotion and complicity of the U.S. news media to BHO’s movement. Such sycophancy and brown nosing would have made Joseph Goebbels blush with envy. I expected BHO to do well among the urban proletariat who have longed for redistributionist economic policies, a blind eye towards illegal immigration, and a more lenient approach to law and order. What is truly shocking was that so many upper income and educated suburbanites so easily fell for BHO’s vacuous platitudes and media hype. Socialism and environmentalism are cool and hip. People who believe in limited government, lower taxes, free markets, and a strong defense are dummies in this New Order.


44 posted on 11/11/2008 10:45:19 AM PST by Welcome2thejungle
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To: Welcome2thejungle

Life after Obama assumes office:

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!


45 posted on 11/11/2008 10:47:51 AM PST by PBRCat
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To: ladyjane

when Obama said, “President Bush has invited Michelle and I

Thank you ladyjane for pointing out something that has been a pet peeve of mine and drove my kids crazy as I tried to instruct them in the proper use of grammar.


46 posted on 11/11/2008 10:48:50 AM PST by rj45mis
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To: TaraP

Could not have said it better myself.


47 posted on 11/11/2008 10:52:54 AM PST by Bombshell
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To: expatpat

It’s even more amazing what stupid people in large numbers can do!


48 posted on 11/11/2008 10:53:35 AM PST by gr8eman (Everybody is a rocket scientist...until launch day!)
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To: rj45mis

“President Bush has invited Michelle and I...”

When he said that it sounded like chalk on a blackboard. And surely his speechwriters must know the meaning of the word enormity. If Bush had made any of these errors the press would have been all over him.


49 posted on 11/11/2008 10:53:54 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: Lorianne
The night we waved goodbye to America... our last best hope on Earth

Gloom, despair and agony on me. Deep dark depression excessive misery. If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all.

50 posted on 11/11/2008 10:56:04 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Dan 4:17 and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.)
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To: Lorianne

51 posted on 11/11/2008 11:01:58 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Do we trust 0W0N$PENDALOT, Pelo$i, Barnie, Dodd & Reid to leave our 401k's/IRA's alone?)
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To: mlocher

“My only hope for America is that the economy goes bad enough to make it impossible to fund any of Obama’s socialistic plans.”

Be careful what you wish for!

Obama Wins, Economy’s Doomed! (This ‘ain’t Grampa Dave making this quote!)

Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital and author of ‘The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets,’ says a big-government Obama administration will lead to an economic collapse on par with the Great Depression.

Sun 11/09/08 04:59 AM EST — Gregg Greenberg

Check the video linked below to really make your day, week, month, year, decade:

It will take about a minute with an ad and a viewing of our new dictator Zer0 celebrating his victory.

http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/video/strategysession/10446771.html?cm_ven=YAHOOV&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA


52 posted on 11/11/2008 11:04:33 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Do we trust 0W0N$PENDALOT, Pelo$i, Barnie, Dodd & Reid to leave our 401k's/IRA's alone?)
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To: Nowhere Man

I remember the miniseries as well. Wish they’d run it again as its relevancy has a contemporary ring to it.


53 posted on 11/11/2008 11:06:58 AM PST by sarasota
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To: Bombshell

God made sure the Good v Evil choice was clear.

The majority of the American electorate chose evil.

Judgement time.


54 posted on 11/11/2008 11:07:05 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, and Thuggery)
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To: Grampa Dave

I was watching The Actor’s Studio last night and believe the guest host (Black comic whose name escapes me) was wearing a Malcolm X tshirt.


55 posted on 11/11/2008 11:16:01 AM PST by sarasota
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To: MrB

At the beginning our republic, only property owning males were granted the right to cast ballots. With the benefit of hindsight, I now see the wisdom of that model. After BHO “cuts taxes” for those who do not pay them, the mob will only demand more. We saw this in ancient Rome, when conquering generals pacified the urban masses with a steady stream of entertainment extravaganzas and free grain from the surrounding countryside. Christians were persecuted and idolatry and hedonism thrived to new heights. And the emperors acted like deities and were received as gods by the masses. Does any of this sound familiar?


56 posted on 11/11/2008 11:17:28 AM PST by Welcome2thejungle
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To: GaryLee1990

I compare his supporters to those women who always fall for the guys who tell them anything to bed them then run off the next day. They fall for it everytime and it always has the same result. This is exactly what I think Obama is, that guy.


57 posted on 11/11/2008 11:22:36 AM PST by chris_bdba
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To: TaraP

“The American people destroyed the USA with their tolerance for Abortion and Homosexuality...”

In just a week, California and America is being subjected to Hate Crimes brought about by criminal gay deviates!

We don’t march and threaten gays with axes, axe handles, ball bats and other weapons. As done by Hate Filled Gays in a church as shown in the picture linked below:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L6pDyjqqsvY/SRi3fTH9Z6I/AAAAAAAAW4E/xDkqkkZ9-Vs/s400/bash+back.JPG

More hate crimes committed by hostile Gays:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jiwc9ybBiAw&feature=related

Vandals Target Mormon Church In Orangevale:
http://cbs13.com/local/Vandals.Strike.Orangevale.2.859342.html

Nor do we threaten elderly gays and rip their rainbows away from them. However gays committed this hate crime against an elderly Christian woman as shown in the link below. There will be a short bumper ad before it starts:
http://gatorgop.blogspot.com/2008/11/crazy-lefties-attack-old-lady-at-no-on.html

We can boycott the corporations funding the repeal of Prop 8.

There are many corporations funding the repeal of Prop 8.

This link takes us right to the corporate sponsor page to repel Prop 8:
http://laglc.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=SU_CORPORATIONS

Boycotts can work for our side too.


58 posted on 11/11/2008 11:28:50 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Do we trust 0W0N$PENDALOT, Pelo$i, Barnie, Dodd & Reid to leave our 401k's/IRA's alone?)
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To: sarasota

We will probably see a lot of Malcolm X tshirts, sweatshirts and hoodie proudly worn by Zer0b0ts.

Also, the Che outer wear will become even more popular.


59 posted on 11/11/2008 11:33:16 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Do we trust 0W0N$PENDALOT, Pelo$i, Barnie, Dodd & Reid to leave our 401k's/IRA's alone?)
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To: Grampa Dave

You know I remember as a kid listening to my mother and father discussing, when my mom was a child a elderly woman in her 80’s had told her (this was in the early 40’s) that War would not destroy the world but homosexuality would...

They thought that was the most absurd insane thing they had ever heard....hmmmmmm.

We need to do whaever we can to protect Marraige and to fight back with these deviants, they are truly disgusting!


60 posted on 11/11/2008 11:36:06 AM PST by TaraP (A Big Black Horse and a Cherry Tree)
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