From Cynicism to Madness
You expect the waning days of a presidential campaign to feature some cynical and underhanded attacks, but my guess is that National Review’s Andy McCarthy believes every word of this:
Second, and relatedly, Obama’s radicalism, beginning with his Alinski/ACORN/community organizer period, is a bottom-up socialism. This, I’d suggest, is why he fits comfortably with Ayers, who (especially now) is more Maoist than Stalinist. What Obama is about is infiltrating (and training others to infiltrate) bourgeois institutions in order to change them from within — in essence, using the system to supplant the system. A key requirement of this stealthy approach (very consistent with talking vaporously about “change” but never getting more specific than absolutely necessary) is electability. With an enormous assist from the media, which does not press him for specifics, Obama has walked this line brilliantly. Absent convincing retractions of his prior radical positions, though, we should construe shrewd moves like the ostensibly reasonable Second Amendment position as efforts make him electable.
What I’m wondering, though, is that if Obama is secretly a Maoist then does it really make sense to wonder if he’s also secretly much more liberal on gun control than he lets on? I mean, they have some very stringent gun ownership regulations in the United Kingdom, but even though I take a pretty right-wing view on gun control issues I think life under Gordon Brown is still clearly preferable to life under Mao.
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October 9th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
I for one welcome our new Maoist overlords and look forward to brandishing and quoting from the little red version of “The Audacity of Hope.” Also, I am thinking being sent down to the countryside and enduring years of famine might just be new fad diet Americans are looking for.
October 9th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
What Obama is about is infiltrating … bourgeois institutions in order to change them … A key requirement of this stealthy approach … is electability.
Isn’t this called… democracy?
October 9th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
it’s not democracy if the GOP loses. then, it’s treachery, stealth and conspiracy.
October 9th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
One side of the TV screen has a fat guy at a McCain town hall attacking Obama’s “socialism.” The other side of the screen says “Treasury may buy up banks.” Is Obama president already?
October 9th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Are all those guys at NRO crazy, or just very, very old?
October 9th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
So ACORN is officially the new ACLU, then?
October 9th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Are we sure this isn’t from THE ONION?
October 9th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
The truly sad thing about this is that for someone tossing around references to sixties student-radical type Maoism, he doesn’t even accurately portray the Maoist strategy.
If one takes the French Gauche proletarienne, who were Maoists, as an example, one finds that the point was not to ‘infiltrate’ institutions in order to subtly change them, but to simply stop doing what the institution asked of you, to refuse to contribute to its effective functioning. In this regard, one could consider the famous episode of Jacques Lacan’s daughter Judith Miller, a GP member, who more or less bragged in an interview that she was not teaching in her university post.
Ironically, this strategy has much more in common with the whole conservative “shrink government to the size where you can drown it in the bathtub” approach to institutions than any kind of progressive change them from within approach.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
How does one satirize conservatives these days? Seriously. When their “intellectuals” are this stupid, how do you mock them other than by mutely reproducing their own words? It’s almost sad.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
To me, the NRO guys sound very, very young. I’m baffled by the hysteria. Does Andy McCarthy still have a day job? Because the freakouts of this one month are going to dog his career as a blogger for a long time.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
“[D]oes it really make sense to wonder if he’s also secretly much more liberal on gun control than he lets on?”
This has to stop at some point. More gun control can’t be the more liberal position. It just can’t be. I’m as much in favor of the bastardization (see?) of language as the next guy, but we have to insist on limits.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Obama is much more closely linked with the treacherous Lin Biao who felt that Mao was a running dog. Obama’s daughters of course will lead the Khmer Noir shock troops that we can expect to start machine-gunning rural landlords, and vice-principals 1/21/09. Thankfully, LGF has been on to them for months calling them “creepazoids” and “anti-Semitic demons”.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Ah, his career peaked with Mannequin anyhow.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
.. or it’s all just projection. The radical right has been infiltrating from the bottom up for decades. Get a few seats on the school board. Run one of those people for city council. Go for the state house and then maybe Congress. Or town council and attempt and win the Governorship of a small lightly populated conservative state….
October 9th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
I said this over at the Washington Monthly, but its a joke that perhaps only I think is funny. So here goes:
Whats the difference between Andy McCarthy and 9-11 Truthers?
Truthers have their own t-shirts.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
This is the genesis of this generation’s Clinton Chronicles. Obama and Ayers have this tenuous connection — both working for a foundation whose president just endorsed McCain, no less — and the nutcase right has suddenly invented out of whole cloth a whole mythology for it that they all take at face value. Just as a couple million crazies still believe the Clintons killed Vince Foster and ran a coke ring in Little Rock, so will they believe Obama is both a secret Muslim terrorist and a secret Maoist agent. These people are deluded — literally, I think they are mentally ill. Many of them may not be in a position to get help, but I have to imagine the NRO folks are.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
To be fair, he just criticized Obama for being “more Maoist than Stalinist”. I wonder where McCarthy would describe himself along that continuum; presumably at the opposite end from Obama.
I would join Obama in being more Maoist than Stalinist too, because of my bias toward small town life and collectives instead of heavily centralized industrialization.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Pretty funny coming from a former federal prosecuter who advocates snatching people off the street and holding them without charges or trial indefinitely, torture and gunning down Gitmo prisoners rather than release them.
I guess that makes a debate about McCarthy’s politics one of Pol Pot vs. Saddam Hussein.
I think douchebag vs. goatfucking asshole is a tie though.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Read Holbo’s analysis of this over at Crooked Timber. It’s pretty good.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
I believe the term McCarthy wants is “Gramscian”. Gramsci believed that you had to infiltrate cultural institutions first to build support for communism.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
I guess we’re supposed to fear that Barack Obama is going to make Bill Ayers the “Re-Education Minister” in charge of simplifying English and leading our cultural revolution. Seriously, I doubt anyone who seriously believes a “Maoist” is running in this election is functional enough to get themselves to a polling place on election day.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
枪杆子里面出政权
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Wait, McCarthy is leaving out the part about how Obama will then steal all our precious bodily fluids. To me, that’s the key part of the whole plan.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
I just think Republicans are upset they don’t have the anti-gun lobby to kick around any more. They pretty much won that battle years ago and it still seems they can’t quite believe it.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
I mean, his last name is McCarthy. On a side note, he’s a fuckin loser.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
“Bourgeois?” Did he say “bourgeois?” Nobody says that anymore.
Chairman Mao is so five minutes ago.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
McCarthy was much more charming when he was with the Brat Pack.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Palin’s rallies remind me of seeing a Nazi rally with her in the role as a female Hitler. The way the crazed mob chants and sing-songs her name over and over again — Sarah, Sarah, Sarah! In a very dazed, fevered and crazed way, almost like being hypnotized! A crowd who would do anything for her, maybe even Kill for her!
Yet this is the very same Palin who is so illiterate that she is unable to go on Meet the Press, like every other vice presidential candidate who has gone before her. Palin a/k/a Hitler, who could be a heart-beat away! Scary…dangerous, scary!
October 9th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Who is it that for the last 7 years crowed quite publicly about creating a permanent revolution that would overthrow existing institutions and power structures?
You’re talking right wing ‘Trotskyists’ like Podhoretz and Kristol.
The right wing simply sees in the likely victorious opposition the underhanded anti-democratic ‘revolutionaries’ (fighting to overturn the weak in favor of the avaricious and warmongering) that they themselves were.
And it frightens them to imagine that the limitless power they just spent 7 years creating might end up in the hands of the enemy they thought they had permanently destroyed.
Of course it’s going to unhinge them.
But the burrowing insider leech counter-revolutionaries like Kristol will soon begin taking advantage of the over-niceness of the (if it so happens) victorious Democrats, while their populist right wing demon-spawn will try to stir up a greater and uglier new equivalent of what once were terrorist militia movements under Clinton.
When the right wing speaks of burrowing into democratic institutions to turn them into tyrannies via counter-revolutionary plots, they know of what they speak from the last 7 years of experience.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
I hear that there are bands of guerrillas roaming the entire country enlisting the support of the peasants.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Actually, individual gun rights will be more important than ever when the Maoists ravage the countryside and kill our Christian fetuses. Think about it, man.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Absent convincing retractions of his prior radical positions
First, he’s got to quit beating his wife.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
I don’t see how anyone can argue with the fact that Presidential mismanagement over the past 7 years has greatly damaged US National Security.
And last time I checked , the Maoists weren’t in charge — it was people that the National Review strongly supported.
Why isn’t there a web site devoted to telling the people of this country how the National Review, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly etc lie to us?
I don’t mean Matthew’s limpwristed snarks — I mean someone who calls upon the People to hang these lying sonofabitches from the damm trees. OR at least demand that their damm asses be fired.
These right wing liars are getting rich putting out unchallenged propaganda that has dragged –and is dragging –this country over the cliff.
Its too bad we DON’T have Maoists in this country. Because if you look at the rise of the Nazi Brownshirts, the only ones who fought them were the Commies.
The fucking Social Democrats were too well-mannered — all the way into the concentration camps.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
It seems to me like they’re just trying to string together as many keywords as possible now, namely “terrorist”, “Ayers”, “Wright”, “ACORN”, and “socialism”. Doesn’t matter if the sentences make any sense or not.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
I suspect that Steve Sailer has it right about Obama. To the extent he has links to radicals, it is because this was necessary for winning his state senate seat. I don’t think that if he were elected, he would try to rock the boat to the extent that some conservatives fear.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Matt said: but my guess is that National Review’s Andy McCarthy believes every word of this
I believe you’d be guessing wrong. We’ve read enough memoirs and heard enough on/off-mike comments to realize that just anyone with the chops to get paid as a right wing columnist or pundit doesn’t believe most of the crap they’re churning out. I’m dead certain that Ann Coulter chuckles to herself each time she pens another big seller.
Andy knows that - for instance - his 8/8/08 “Corner” column is complete crap, except that Obama avoids as many specifics as possible to avoid pissing off potential voters. Just like McCain, or McAnybody in their position.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Don Williams,
I’m not certain about what the German Communists’ policy was, but Communist Parties in other Western countries suddenly lost their enthusiasm for fighting the Nazis the moment that Stalin and Hitler signed the pact of 1939.
The various independent Marxists with anti-Soviet convictions were, as far as I know, honorable exceptions.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
This country could use a little does of Maoism. Look at the economic machine they have going over there. Notice we don’t boycott products made by ‘little red devils’.
This country is backwards stupid.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Matthew’s limpwristed snarks
Spare us the homophobic crap, ass.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Are you are telling me that all the conservative writers and pundits of this country and the ENTIRE CAMPAIGN APPARATUS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY missed out on the possibility that a Maoist/Stalinist became the Democratic candidate for president? Even though this man had been a State Senator in Illinois for 6 years and had become a US Senator? And that they only discovered this fact after Obama surged ahead in the polls by 7-11%?
Or did Barack Obama only BECOME a Maoist/Stalinist candidate for the presidency BECAUSE he surged ahead in the polls by 7-11%?
It seems to me that, if you — and the man who wants to be the next Republican President of the United States are right — weren’t you kinda asleep at the wheel for the last several years?
And if that is the case, are you REALLY sure you all should be protecting us from “future threats?”
October 9th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Funny, back in the late 60’s and early 70’s, when people renounced confrontational tactics to “work within the system,” that sounded like a cooling of revolutionary fervor. Who knew that those “work within the system” folks were really Maoists?
October 9th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
“With an enormous assist from the media, which does not press him for specifics”
What, like John McCain’s problem is that he’s been pressed too hard to give specifics about his policy plans? Gimme a break.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
I don’t mean Matthew’s limpwristed snarks — I mean someone who calls upon the People to hang these lying sonofabitches from the damm trees. OR at least demand that their damm asses be fired.
Don - one time recently when I was writing to some academic colleagues I was proposing a far-future book project in vague terms, but then I had some lame line along the lines of “not that I’m volunteering to do it, or anything.” My wife looked over my shoulder and made me take that line out because, of course, I was volunteering the idea but then didn’t want to take responsibility for it. After she pointed that out, I took responsibility for my idea.
So start your damned web site, already. Don’t limpwristedly snark about Matt’s limpwristed snarking - start it up. I’ll read it.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Dumb mistake of mine…..of course the German communists were mostly dead or in death camps after 1933, so there was no way they could have fought the Nazis in 1939. Sorry, Don Williams.
It remains true of course that official Communist Parties in most of the world did behave shamefully by their loyalty to Stalin, including by aquiescing to the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
What we’re seeing are republican hacks preemptively creating excuses for a McCain loss. What they’re trying to do is set up the narrative that Obama only won since McCain failed to show the public Obama’s true “radicalism”.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Four legs good, two legs ba-aad, yabetcha also!
October 9th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
MattY’s post - and I’m going to guess the majority of the comments - are yet another example of GIGO: most of the issues with BHO hacks like MattY have never heard about because the MSM is telling them what they want to hear. Why bother engaging in independent research or independent thinking when the WaPo does all the thinking MattY needs?
Meanwhile, those who are intellectually honest can read about BHO being a member of a party that were “self-described [as] ’socialist democratic.’”
October 9th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Meanwhile, those who are intellectually honest can read about BHO being a member of a party that were “self-described [as] ’socialist democratic.’”
Yer a member of a party that is nationalizing banks and such as we speak. We are all socialists now, comrade.
Just beyond snark, what sort of dipshit manages to get excited about your sort of bullshit today? If that’s how a sentient being goes about threat assessment you should in a fair world been run over by something by now.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Dear Matt,
Having finally read Obama’s “Dreams from My Father,” perhaps you should cite all the pages in Obama’s book refuting McCarthy’s allegation. There’s like page … well, no, not that one … but there’s definitely page … oh, no, I guess we shouldn’t mention that one … Well, anyway, I’ll leave it up to you to quote Obama’s autobiography at length to refute this.
Or, you can just read David Samuels of Harper’s on Obama’s book in the new New Republic:
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=5c263e1d-d75d-4af9-a1d7-5cb761500092
October 9th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Steve, I used to work in the settlement and annuity business. I’m reading that MetLife is being closed in on by the CDS raiders. That has my heart beating just about out of my chest. If that goes down, we are in Mad Max land and you may as well skip all that highbrow, painting by numbers, make Obama a Marxist bullshit and get your crew of skinheads together as their warlord.
October 10th, 2008 at 12:48 am
another piece of contemptible steve sailer commentary (really choice: he’s complaining that obama didn’t write a book answering the question “do you still beat your wife?”).
24aheaddotcom, actually, we’re all quite familiar with the substance of this round of right-wing mythologizing, which is next to nothing, and we pay it as much attention as you seem to be paying to the fact that john mccain selected as a vice presidential candidate the spouse of a member of a political party that proudly hates the united states of america.
so wake us up when you take that seriously, why doncha?
October 10th, 2008 at 12:57 am
Oh, the next four years at least will be good for Sailer at least. He’s got a bunch of mouth breathing, ijits, that will be in high fever for awhile, and buy a bunch of bullshit from a racist mounteback. I bet he sells some books.
LoneWacko is just a sad ass moron who is so fucked up he’s probably going to lose his internet connection soon as he moves into a half-way house.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:32 am
If he doesn’t sell any books it’s because I made a blog comment that wasn’t complimentary of Sailer and that’s really, crucial and I’ve done some sort of Alpha Male thing against him and established my dominance. That’s the way you go about beating down the oppressed white proletariat these days. If you make fun of nigger bashing you win! It’s all free ponies from here on out.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:57 am
I didn’t think that Sailer could go even more over the edge, but by gum he managed it. The fact that Obama didn’t talk about McCarthy’s paranoid delusions in his autobiography is PROOF that McCarthy’s delusions are true?
Generally speaking, if you tell people that there’s a hidden message in a mainstream book, they’ll start coaxing you into the hospital where the men in white coats will give you some nice medication that will make you feel better. But if you choose just the right person to have your paranoid hallucinations about, you too can have a lucrative career at the National Review!
October 10th, 2008 at 1:57 am
If that’s how a sentient being goes about threat assessment
Touche, Ed. This is a meme for our times. I want to ask five hundred people what the hell their problem is with threat assessment.
It’s a neo-con thing. I keep being reminded of a cartoon I saw when Pappy Bush was president. Bush Sr. was a little kid in bed, pulling the covers up to his chin and crying like he just woke up from a nightmare. Uncle Sam is leaning in the doorway to his bedroom asking, “What is it now, George?” And George says “Cubans!!!”
Obama’s a terrorist. Riiiight. What a bunch of pussies.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:10 am
Speaking of subterranean Maoism - at some TV director’s party around the time of the First Gulf War - in the midst of a conversation with this ABC travel reporter (some boomer named Greenberg, forget the first name) about the War - he counseled me: Greenberg: “You know, I used to feel as you do, but ever since the Khmer Rouge -” I realize that the liberal point of view is hopelessly naive. To which I replied. T: “You know, actually, I wish that the Khmer Rouge were here now so they could start killing people like you.”
October 10th, 2008 at 2:48 am
Fools! He’s a cokehead pretending to be an Islamic Fundamentalist pretending to be a Maoist pretending to be a Troskyist pretending to be a Social Democrat pretending to be a Liberal pretending to be a Centrist pretending to be a pro-business, pro-military, traditional values, moderate Conservative.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:05 am
He’s a cokehead pretending to be an Islamic Fundamentalist pretending to be a Maoist pretending to be a Troskyist pretending to be a Social Democrat pretending to be a Liberal pretending to be a Centrist pretending to be a pro-business, pro-military, traditional values, moderate Conservative.
You forgot terrorist. That’s where you really punch it up. When you think about Obama, you should feel like running down to Home Depot for plastic sheeting and duct tape. Maybe some Cipro. Dry goods. Geiger counter. Ammo. Tin Foil.
Oh the children—God help us!!!!
And the unborn! Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 3:49 am
Richard Hofstadter takes a whack at it:
Perfect illustration of how delusional these people are: watch this from 1:50 on … Palin chastizing the MSM for not asking Obama the hard questions (Ayers, etc.) That’s right - SARAH PALIN complaining that the media is not grilling one of the candidates sufficiently. The audience loves it.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:58 am
“bottom-up socialism”? “infiltrating… bourgeois institutions in order to change them from within — in essence, using the system to supplant the system”?
Then why don’t I like him more? If I thought any of this were true, I wouldn’t have to hold my nose nearly so much on Nov. 4. I remember thinking, when all the right-wing nutsos were raving about Hillary’s suppressed thesis on Saul Alinsky, that it actually made her seem more likeable to me at least, to think that she’d had a tinge of genuine Leftism instead of being a typical managerialist liberal.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:36 am
Just as a couple million crazies still believe the Clintons killed Vince Foster and ran a coke ring in Little Rock, so will they believe Obama is both a secret Muslim terrorist and a secret Maoist agent.
Actually, could anyone link me to a debunking of the Vince conspiracy theories? Because certain aspects of that always did sound kind of sketchy.
October 10th, 2008 at 6:08 am
The Democratic Party is a fairly ‘bourgeois institution’ these days, “change” is meaningless, and Barrack has been primarily concerned about electability since 2000.
That being said, I will fellate McCarthy if the top marginal rate goes to 39% under Chairman Obama. At this point, Obama’s bi-partisan fetish and risk aversion may be the only thing keeping the Republican party from being destroyed.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Not a one of these dipsh*t right wing and racist conspiracy freaks are making a single point worth actually engaging — it just all depends on how much you might enjoy taunting them as a liberal Democrat black guy with a Muslim name is about to be their President and as Bush Jr’s own Treasury Secretary is pushing the Ronald Reagan Legacy memorial helicopter off the side of a carrier.
Me, yeah, once again I’m both horrified at how much Republicans hate America and Americans and everything it’s ever stood for, and amusing myself consistently at how they’re freaking out wildly because they’re about to get their a**es seriously kicked. America ain’t falling for their sh*t anymore, and since they got nothing else, they get all “None Dare Call It Idiocy” on us.
Enjoy the wilderness, douchebags.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:05 am
But at least we know the general outlines of the plot of “The Obama Chronicles” that these losers will be passing around.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:06 am
Wow, I’m not being sarcastic, but I’m getting a real education reading some of the comments here. Seems you have a highly educated readership here, Matt. I’m really enjoying this, especially some of the history comments, as well as enjoying how tongue-in-cheek some of it is.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:19 am
The thing that really gets me is that when Obama takes office and shows America the slightly liberal civic republican that he really is, the right is going to give itself credit for thwarting the Maoist revolution.
And if Sailer’s previous wonderful contributions are anything to go by, he would be perfectly willing to accept such a radical state of affairs so long as Obama promised to keep the mexicans out.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:24 am
if Obama is secretly a Maoist then does it really make sense to wonder if he’s also secretly much more liberal on gun control than he lets on? I mean, they have some very stringent gun ownership regulations in the United Kingdom
I think you have something backwards here. The accusation is that Obama, supposedly being a Maoist, must therefore be more left-wing on gun control than he lets on. Your point about Gordon Brown only makes sense if the question was whether or not his position on gun control means that he must therefore be a Maoist. Put another way, your point about Gordon Brown only makes sense if the causal link is the reverse direction from how you established it.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:17 am
I;’m sure that Mr. Yglesias will want to comment on his favorite columnists’ opus in todays’ Washington Post. “the neocons are absolutely desperate.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100902328.html?hpid%3Dopinionsbox1&sub=AR
October 10th, 2008 at 9:33 am
This seems like as good a place as any to note the hilarity of something I just read. It seems Palin has now added a passage to her stump speech linking all this to Obama’s supposedly excessive “ambition”. Now any politician attacking any other politician for being overly ambitious is hilarious to begin with, but her prepared remarks also include the line:
“Ambition explains launching your political career in the living room of an unrepentant terrorist.”
Just try to wrap you head around that thought.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:14 am
speaks in euphemisms — “change,” “social justice,” “due process,”
Isn’t “due process” directly quoted from something?
October 10th, 2008 at 10:23 am
I love hearing the gleeful death squad & genocide cheerleaders palling around with their Central American slaughterer friends in South Florida talk about the threat posed by standing in a room with a 60’s Weathermen.
If there had been a real international court of justice, much of the Reagan administration would have been tried and hung for their Central American slaughters alone, much less Southern Africa.
Nobody hates America like Republicans hate America.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:40 am
The accusation is that Obama, supposedly being a Maoist, must therefore be more left-wing on gun control than he lets on.
We’re going to see a lot of this over the next 4-8 years. Yes, Obama might have moderate economic policies, but that’s just because he’s covering up his Maoist side. Yes, Obama might not dismantle the military and instead pursue streamlining in line with the advice of the defense establishment but that’s just to make sure people don’t realize he hates the military. And so on, and so on.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Should someone like McCarthy be allowed to have a security clearance?
October 10th, 2008 at 11:43 am
I hope somebody is mirroring the Corner as their spiral into madness continues since I am sure more creepier posts are going to be vomited passed their collective frontal lobes and quickly pulled. I am guessing the words “demon” and/or “possession” will find themselves affixed to Obama. Lowry better stock up on anti-psychotics at the NRO medicine cabinet cause it is going to be a long 3+ weeks till November. Are we sure Obama isn’t the anti-christ ?????
October 10th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Obviously we should assume Obama is the Anti-Christ absent convincing retractions of his prior Satan worship.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
I believe Cabin Boy is on to something here. Since there is nothing in Dreams of my Father that says that Obama is not the anti-christ, I believe the american people need to question the fact Obama may be the anti-christ or is “palling” around with the anti-christ or maybe some other minor demons or succubi or whateverthefuck we can come up with next.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I’m just looking forward to all of the people in my neighborhood out on their knees scraping the bumpersticker that says “I support the Troops AND our President” off of their SUVs on November 5th.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
blank_stare: Just follow them through an RSS reader. I’ve got a nice collection of embarrassing posts that were quickly pulled, but have achieved immortality at Google Reader.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I do have them on my Google Reader but would I have to “star” them or do something to make sure they stay put ?? Would a “refresh” toss these errant posts into the “bit bucket” ??
October 10th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Tyro - in case it wasn’t clear, I was not arguing that Obamai s a Maoist or even that it is reasonable to think that he is secretly a Maoist. I’m just pointing out that Matt’s point about Gordon Brown and gun control is scrambled logically.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
I picked up a copy of “Dreams from My Father” last month. As an older Obama himself notes in the preface, it wasn’t written with opposition research in mind. While he was typing up the first manuscript, he had no reason to hold back, and wasn’t considering getting elected to anything.
I think GWB got off the weed and blow at an older age than OHB, so not even the drug references amount to anything.
Finally, the story surrounding his grandfather’s conversion to Islam shows that the family’s Moslem credentials are pretty weak… “not that there’s anything wrong with that.”©
October 10th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
“OHB”, geez, aren’t I a bit dyslexic today?
October 10th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
What would really be nationally cleansing (after Obama takes office) is McPalin Campaign 2008—The Musical. Something a little Kafka, a little bit Blazing Saddles…
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