The Left’s Elmer Gantry?
The NYT has an extremely flattering article about Senator Obama that is quite revealing and that dovetails with our piece below:
Barack Obama is a protean figure who inspires devotion in his supporters but remains inscrutable to critics….“I am like a Rorschach test,” he said in an interview with The New York Times. “Even if people find me disappointing ultimately, they might gain something.”
We have to say that we find certain aspects of Senator Obama’s appeal to his disciples very disturbing. He is not at all “inscrutable to critics” — rather, he is the fellow who has the most liberal voting record in the Senate. And by the grandiosity of the way he talks about himself above, he resembles nothing less than perhaps a liberal version of the Elmer Gantry type that the MSM have so ridiculed in recent years. Here’s another apparent example of the same phenomenon:
Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton solidly in the Iowa caucuses in January, but five days later she beat him, painfully and unexpectedly, in New Hampshire. That loss showed him that toppling the royal of Democratic politics would not come easily. “I think this was meant to be,” Obama said privately the next day, recalls adviser David Axelrod. “I think we were flying too close to the sun, like Icarus. When you’re fighting for change, it’s not supposed to be easy.”
“I think this was meant to be” — that’s quite a statement of Senator Obama’s belief in his destiny. Is it possible this fellow really believes his own press clippings, or is he merely a salesman who has discovered that this messiah business really sells well in the US — at least for a while?
June 5th, 2008 at 4:52 am
…he is the fellow who has the most liberal voting record in the Senate.
Liberal? Maybe. Here is a video of Obama campaigning for socialist Bernie Sanders.
“We thought it could never get this bad,” Jack recently wrote. I fear that that phrase may become a mantra in the coming years.
And I blame George Bush. Had he governed competently, an Obama candidacy would have been unthinkable or as foredoomed as Goldwater’s, McGovern’s and Mondale’s (notwithstanding that they ran against incumbents).
June 5th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
You have two types of people in the world, collectivists and individualists. Collectivists believe and want “Big Government” that is under their control. Individualists want small government that does a good job at delivering services that are better delivered in a monopoly environment.
Obama is a collectivist who is looking to attract all collectivists under his tent. By mid-summer he may take a more militant tact as his tent is occupied by the big easy collectivists. The message likely will be …There is only one leader and his name is Obama…
I’ll put my money on the individualists…
June 5th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Reasons for Concern and Reasons for Optimism…
There are too many things to cover these days so I thought I’d simply post a brief sense of what I have been reading and suggest you take a look yourself. Signs of the looming SingularityHuman stem cells used to…
June 6th, 2008 at 5:45 am
They ALWAYS believe. A fraud is satisfied far earlier in the process.