the legend of obamessiah

gardenweasel

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4392846.ece

(click the link and read the whole thing)




"And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.

The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.

When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: ?Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope??

In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes of Working Class Whites.

And so it was, in the fullness of time, before the harvest month of the appointed year, the Child ventured forth - for the first time - to bring the light unto all the world."



i laughed, i cried(i`m manic depressive?...NO!...i`m in awe.)..

this is even better than watching mentally ill chris matthews sprout hearts from his head when he talks about "the bock"........

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Funny stuff Wease...

Funny stuff Wease...

In this day and age of ignorance and avarice on a scale inconceivable to many, I will take that hope...no matter how bleak the outcome.

At least he CAN talk, good God when Shrub opens his pie-hole, the world leaders tremble with laughter and wonder why he does not have clown makeup on.

Actually Ron Paul is my man; he, unlike many politicians , believes in the constitution and sound money...he would make a much better candidate than Mc Clone.
 

gardenweasel

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In this day and age of ignorance and avarice on a scale inconceivable to many, I will take that hope...no matter how bleak the outcome.

At least he CAN talk, good God when Shrub opens his pie-hole, the world leaders tremble with laughter and wonder why he does not have clown makeup on.

Actually Ron Paul is my man; he, unlike many politicians , believes in the constitution and sound money...he would make a much better candidate than Mc Clone.

you`re entitled to your opinion,dead...

thanks for having a sense of humor....seems to be missing on both sides of the fence these days..
 

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In this day and age of ignorance and avarice on a scale inconceivable to many, I will take that hope...no matter how bleak the outcome.

At least he CAN talk, good God when Shrub opens his pie-hole, the world leaders tremble with laughter and wonder why he does not have clown makeup on.

Actually Ron Paul is my man; he, unlike many politicians , believes in the constitution and sound money...he would make a much better candidate than Mc Clone.

top shelf, dm.
 

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Weasie I kinda like Boltens take on subject--leaves little to dispute--

One world? Obama's on a different planet
The senator's Berlin speech was radical and naive.
By John R. Bolton
July 26, 2008
SEN. BARACK OBAMA said in an interview the day after his Berlin speech that it "allowed me to send a message to the American people that the judgments I have made and the judgments I will make are ones that are going to result in them being safer."

If that is what the senator thought he was doing, he still has a lot to learn about both foreign policy and the views of the American people. Although well received in the Tiergarten, the Obama speech actually reveals an even more naive view of the world than we had previously been treated to in the United States. In addition, although most of the speech was

These troubling comments were not widely reported in the generally adulatory media coverage given the speech, but they nonetheless deserve intense scrutiny. It remains to be seen whether these glimpses into Obama's thinking will have any impact on the presidential campaign, but clearly they were not casual remarks. This speech, intended to generate the enormous publicity it in fact received, reflects his campaign's carefully calibrated political thinking. Accordingly, there should be no evading the implications of his statements. Consider just the following two examples.

First, urging greater U.S.-European cooperation, Obama said, "The burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together." Having earlier proclaimed himself "a fellow citizen of the world" with his German hosts, Obama explained that the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Europe proved "that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one."

Perhaps Obama needs a remedial course in Cold War history, but the Berlin Wall most certainly did not come down because "the world stood as one." The wall fell because of a decades-long, existential struggle against one of the greatest totalitarian ideologies mankind has ever faced. It was a struggle in which strong and determined U.S. leadership was constantly questioned, both in Europe and by substantial segments of the senator's own Democratic Party. In Germany in the later years of the Cold War, Ostpolitik -- "eastern politics," a policy of rapprochement rather than resistance -- continuously risked a split in the Western alliance and might have allowed communism to survive. The U.S. president who made the final successful assault on communism, Ronald Reagan, was derided by many in Europe as not very bright, too unilateralist and too provocative.

But there are larger implications to Obama's rediscovery of the "one world" concept, first announced in the U.S. by Wendell Willkie, the failed Republican 1940 presidential nominee, and subsequently buried by the Cold War's realities.

The successes Obama refers to in his speech -- the defeat of Nazism, the Berlin airlift and the collapse of communism -- were all gained by strong alliances defeating determined opponents of freedom, not by "one-worldism." Although the senator was trying to distinguish himself from perceptions of Bush administration policy within the Atlantic Alliance, he was in fact sketching out a post-alliance policy, perhaps one that would unfold in global organizations such as the United Nations. This is far-reaching indeed.

Second, Obama used the Berlin Wall metaphor to describe his foreign policy priorities as president: "The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down."

This is a confused, nearly incoherent compilation, to say the least, amalgamating tensions in the Atlantic Alliance with ancient historical conflicts. One hopes even Obama, inexperienced as he is, doesn't see all these "walls" as essentially the same in size and scope. But beyond the incoherence, there is a deeper problem, namely that "walls" exist not simply because of a lack of understanding about who is on the other side but because there are true differences in values and interests that lead to human conflict. The Berlin Wall itself was not built because of a failure of communication but because of the implacable hostility of communism toward freedom. The wall was a reflection of that reality, not an unfortunate mistake.

Tearing down the Berlin Wall was possible because one side -- our side -- defeated the other. Differences in levels of economic development, or the treatment of racial, immigration or religious questions, are not susceptible to the same analysis or solution. Even more basically, challenges to our very civilization, as the Cold War surely was, are not overcome by naively "tearing down walls" with our adversaries.

Throughout the Berlin speech, there were numerous policy pronouncements, all of them hazy and nonspecific, none of them new or different than what Obama has already said during the long American campaign. But the Berlin framework in which he wrapped these ideas for the first time is truly radical for a prospective American president. That he picked a foreign audience is perhaps not surprising, because they could be expected to welcome a less-assertive American view of its role in the world, at least at first glance. Even anti-American Europeans, however, are likely to regret a United States that sees itself as just one more nation in a "united" world.

The best we can hope for is that Obama's rhetoric was simply that, pandering to the audience before him, as politicians so often do. We shall see if this rhetoric follows him back to America, either because he continues to use it or because Sen. John McCain asks voters if this is really what they want from their next president.

John R. Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of "Surrender Is Not an Option
 

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Actually Ron Paul is my man; he, unlike many politicians , believes in the constitution and sound money...he would make a much better candidate than Mc Clone.

luap nor?.......i had forgotten about him...

for those that are waxing nostalgic,heres some photos from an old ron paul-fest for auld lang syne...

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they even had blimp-kabobs?

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ron paul.......:142smilie


some things can`t be explained....they just happen...:shrug:....................
 
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six hand selected snippets out of a bazillion..

six hand selected snippets out of a bazillion..

luap nor?.......i had forgotten about him...

for those that are waxing nostalgic,heres some photos from an old ron paul-fest for auld lang syne...



Not exactly unbiased random reporting, is it Wease?

Whatever you think of Paul good or bad, he puts America and the constitution first and foremost....
 

gardenweasel

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dead and wocky....you guys ever think of relocating?.....real estate is a bargain these days...

http://paulville.org/index.html

i thought we already had communities like this?(you know,those "communities" where all the attendants wear white coats).........

:rimshot:D
 
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gardenweasel

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"The goal of Paulville.org it to establish gated communities containing 100% Ron Paul supporters"

/i.e. trailer parks.....


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I truly believe that gardenweasel loses sleep at night half-dreaming that this Barry guy might be President.

Weasel, settle down, my man.

Nothing could possibly be worse than what we've just gone through the last 8 years.

Let's try something different, and if that doesn't work, we'll see what great candidates we have to choose from in 2012.
 

gardenweasel

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i thought this was a ron paul pow wow?....

obama,ron paul....whatever...

btw...obama now up by 9% in the latest gallup poll...

now, i don`t know hwether that was a poll of people in the u.s. or citizens of the world....so don`t get your hopes up just yet...

omg....i gotta go... i`m watching a sad drowning polar bear commercial for climate change...

"polar bears ARE on their way to extinction...

save 'em for only 16 bucks a month...

world wildlife fund"...

`scuse me...i have to get my credit card out....

g`night...
 
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