2008 PEW POLL
Posted on 01/31/2009 7:05:02 AM PST by BraveMan
At first glance, Bush hatred and Obama euphoria could not be more different. Hatred of Mr. Bush went well beyond the partisan broadsides typical of democratic politics. For years it disfigured its victims with open, indeed proud, loathing for the very manner in which Mr. Bush walked and talked. It compelled them to denounce the president and his policies as not merely foolish or wrong or contrary to the national interest, but as anathema to everything that made America great.
In contrast, the euphoria surrounding Mr. Obama's run for president conferred upon the candidate immunity from criticism despite his newness to national politics and lack of executive experience, and regardless of how empty his calls for change. At the same time, it inspired those in its grips, repeatedly bringing them tears of joy throughout the long election season. With Mr. Obama's victory in November and his inauguration last week, it suffused them with a sense that not only had the promise of America at last been redeemed but that the world could now be transfigured.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
accuracy from a national newspaper. i’m stunned.
Accuracy from a Stanford professor even more stunning.
Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Guidance
Every thing bad is Bush's fault...America's fault...Liberty's fault.
Here, quick, lets all rush to be marxists so we can once and for fix all the worlds problems like Obama wants! [/dripping sarcasm]
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS
NOW WE KNOW WHAT A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER DOES
OBAMA, THE STOCK MARKET, AND ENERGY
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S UPBRINGING
FR was ahead on this “philosophical news” by a few weeks at least.
I like to tell my pot smoking liberal acquaintances: Sorry, I voted McCain cuz I was high.
The Church of Liberalism.
Flies get attracted to honey, but also to excrements.
A $10,000 question: I think OES predates BDS from pot smoking weirdness of the 60s
Thanks for the link. It was a great piece.
Yes, faith is different from superstitious idolification.
Beware: strange liberal phallic UFO symbols attacks in your neighborhood coming soon. Shhh don’t tell them Obama is not from planet Earth... the natural born issue has become taboo, “you know”, as Caroline Kennedy says all the time.
The surge was a seminal event enabling a positive outcome of our costly efforts to stabilize Iraq. The wider implications of the surge for the region remain to be seen, but its pretty clear that, strategically speaking, the surge was the right decision and it worked. It was one of the key American military/political decisions of the decade, and Obama was dead wrong about it. Yet the media and academia gave him a complete pass on it. They were too busy with a "surge" of their own pushing for an Obama victory.
2008 PEW POLL
From the avalanche of vehement and ignorant attacks on Bush v. Gore and the oft-made and oft-refuted allegation that the Bush administration lied about WMD in Iraq, to the remarkable lack of interest in Mr. Obama's career in Illinois politics ...... wide swaths of the media and the academy have concentrated on stoking passions rather than appealing to reason.
“I like to tell my pot smoking liberal acquaintances: Sorry, I voted McCain cuz I was high.”
Thing is what you thought was a voting machine was really a condom dispenser in the mens room of Joe’s garage. Better luck in 2012.
I’d prefer to think of them as two cheeks of the same posterior.
I would argue that Bush euphoria and Obama hatred are manifestations of the same disorder, and there are plenty on the right and left suffering from it, even though we on the right claim to use reason in all our decisions.
BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) has no counterpart on the right. There is no ODS on the right. We think he's a fraud and charlatan but I detect no hatred.
.Liberal suffering from BDS
"From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale".
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''Whom the gods would destroy they first make liberal.''
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