Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Obama Derangement Syndrome?
Works and Days ^ | December 23, 2011 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 12/23/2011 2:23:19 PM PST by decimon

I’d say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you’ve lost your mind. — John Edwards

When does the legitimate “I oppose Obama” descend into the illegitimate “I hate Obama”?

It is popular now to suggest that conservatives in general and congressional Republicans in particular suffer from an obsession characterized by an uncontrolled antipathy for Barack Obama — personal and visceral — that warps their entire political outlook. No doubt some do experience the same obsessions that infected the Left in their furor at George W. Bush. One can find unhinged posters at anti-Obama rallies similar to those at anti-Bush demonstrations. Bloggers can show hatred for Obama in the manner one found them despising Bush. Perhaps for Howard Dean’s rants about Bush’s supposed foreknowledge of 9/11, we have Donald Trump insisting on a fraudulent Obama birth certificate. Truthers are analogous to Birthers. And for every conspiracy theory that Bush was continuing a long family tradition of profiting from Nazi trade, there was a suggestion that Obama was a Manchurian candidate planted here by Islamic interests to destroy from the inside the United States.

But again, I am not talking about conspiracy rants and raves, but a general psychiatric affliction that infects the influential political class — politicians, journalists, and those in popular culture and the arts.

So how does one distinguish natural political opposition from a psychotic state? In other words, when will we know that popular opposition to Obama’s worldview and a dislike at the way he seeks to divide the country degenerate into the paranoid venom that was unleashed against Bush?

Here are some things to watch on the national scene to warn us:

(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: birthers; certifigate; ods; onetermobama; truthers; vdh; victordavishanson
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-42 next last

1 posted on 12/23/2011 2:23:20 PM PST by decimon
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: decimon

I don’t hate him. I just want him to stop touching stuff.


2 posted on 12/23/2011 2:24:35 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: decimon

Mr. Hanson, in his closing statement here, forgot “THE RACE CARD”....which we will hear plenty of during the campaign.


3 posted on 12/23/2011 2:28:31 PM PST by EagleUSA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SandyInSeattle

Nah-—I hate him and the horse he rode in on...............Will be so glad when we defeat him next November.....and hope never to see or hear from him again.


4 posted on 12/23/2011 2:30:28 PM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: decimon

My loathing of the illegitimate Halfrican Marxist Kenyan Muslim Usurper knowns no bounds. FUBO!


5 posted on 12/23/2011 2:38:38 PM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: decimon

I don’t hate Obammy. Hate is just a four letter word. I use a 12 letter one.


6 posted on 12/23/2011 2:38:51 PM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: decimon

“Obama Derangement Syndrome?”

Absolutely. Every single one of his supporters is afflicted with it. What we NEED is for selfless conservatives to provide them with a cure.


7 posted on 12/23/2011 2:39:12 PM PST by MestaMachine (obama kills)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: decimon

Speaking for myself, it is indeed visceral. Anyone with half a brain can see the damge he’s done to the country...and he thinks he’s doing great. I despise the criminals in his adminstration and in high office that continue to thumb their noses at the will of the people and our laws.


8 posted on 12/23/2011 2:41:08 PM PST by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: basil
I hate him and the horse he rode in on.

AMEN!

I hate Obama with every fiber of my being, much as I hated his fellow Marxist Joseph Stalin.

That said, I wish Barry the Kenyan Kommie Klown no physical harm. In fact, I wish him a very long and lucid life after he is evicted from the White Hut in January 2013 at which point it will again become a place of dignity, as the White House, when on that Happy Newt Year. I want Obama to face the consequences of his traitorous crimes against America, living every day for the rest of his long life in orange prison garb. So here's to a long, physically healthy life for Hussein -- but a life daily filled with mental anguish for the suffering he has inflicted on our country.

9 posted on 12/23/2011 2:41:17 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: decimon

Hate Obama?

YES WE CAN!


10 posted on 12/23/2011 2:43:08 PM PST by Youaskedforit
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: decimon
Initially, I just despised him for what he stood for....

In the last 2 years I have learned to hate him with the brightness of 10,000 suns

A visceral hate wells up within me whenever I see his puss

I only hate his white half though....

11 posted on 12/23/2011 2:46:39 PM PST by Popman (Obama is God's curse upon the land....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Dallas59

“I use a 12 letter one.”

That’s what my ex used to call me!


12 posted on 12/23/2011 2:47:01 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: decimon

I readily admit my derangement. What’s the problem?


13 posted on 12/23/2011 2:47:11 PM PST by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Old Sarge

This true American patriot and protector of our country sizes up Obama. Vice President Dick Cheney saw right through the facade of Hussein with a genuine FUBO look.

14 posted on 12/23/2011 2:48:34 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Are you a socialist/marxist?/s


15 posted on 12/23/2011 2:51:01 PM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: decimon

Hate? Far too mild a word! I utterly despise the corrupt sack of $#!\ and everything he stands for. Every time I see him I want to vomit.

How’s that VDH?


16 posted on 12/23/2011 2:54:01 PM PST by piytar (The Obama Depression. Say it early, say it often. Why? Because it's TRUE.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: re_nortex

God Bless you, Dick Cheney.


17 posted on 12/23/2011 2:56:37 PM PST by mickie (My grandson made it, he's now a Marine.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: decimon

18 posted on 12/23/2011 2:56:59 PM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: re_nortex

I miss Big Time.


19 posted on 12/23/2011 2:58:38 PM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: decimon
It is quite disappointing to see the usually quite perspicacious Victor Davis Hanson make the statement that birthers are analogous to truthers without offering any support for the notion. The one group is concerned with adherence to the Constitution, which, despite descriptions to the contrary, is not conspiratorial, whereas the other is positing a cover up and conspiracy that accuses officials of the willful murder of scores of people for political gain. Where is the analogy?
20 posted on 12/23/2011 3:02:12 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-42 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson