Tag: Barack Obama

It’s Not Racism When THEY Do it

Late last week, Democratic-leaning pollster Stan Greenberg released a focus group study showing that conservative GOP base voters live in an alternative universe of their own political paranoia. In this world, President Obama is ruthlessly advancing a secret agenda to ruin — yes, ruin — the economy so he can impose socialism upon the United States and destroy the core civil liberties of American democracy. And in this covert crusade, Obama is no more than a frontman for unseen interests aiming to annihilate the United States.

Put The Pedal To The Medal

A toast! To the remarkable pace of change, hidden in the maelstrom. THE SAME PEOPLE who told us that John McCain won his debates with Barack Obama are now embarrassed and outraged that Europeans have recognized the United States has a leader who is changing the world, one little bit at time.  And the RW gasbags nearly rent themselves in …

The Religion of Nice

So here we are, wallowing in our dysfunction. Governed — if you listen to the rabble rousers — by a black nationalist from Kenya smuggled into the United States to kill Sarah Palin’s baby. And yes, I could almost buy their belief that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, only I think he shipped them to Washington, where they’ve been recycled as lobbyists and trained in the alchemy of money laundering, which turns an old-fashioned bribe into a First Amendment right.

The Warm Up

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRVB4kq59Sw&eurl[/youtube] “I want health insurance that works as well for the American people as it does for the insurance industry.” —President Barack Obama

Dog Whistling Racist Violence

The source of the problem?  Lizard Brain is diagnosed by unusually thick cranium and remarkable subcutaneous fat layer; trapped, terrified lizard is always symptomatic. As Jacques Ellul points out in his classic 1964 book, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes, propaganda cannot create something out of nothing. The human mind is not an empty vessel in which ready-made ideas can …

The Teachable Moment Goes Down

The “teachable moment” promised by president Obama which the hapless MSM dubbed teh Beer Summit has gone into the history books without so much as a footnoted burp. Fortunately— or not— some press monkey was thoughtful enough to bring a parabolic mike to the sidelines where the White House corralled the press core after an initial mingle moment, and has produced this remarkable transcript of the event.