Friday, March 29, 2013
BITING THEMSELVES IN THE ASS
At last, the wing nuts are getting their own comeuppance.
They have painted Obama as a plodder, ignorant, a guy who lucked out because of affirmative action and on and on. He plays golf (gasp). How dare he? A Tiger Woods thing.
A lot of it is code for "dumb nigger". But let's not read between the lines there.
On the other hand he is power mad, intent on taking over the country, a socialist of the worst sort.
There is a paradox here. Which is he? The laid back steppin fetch it? Or the driven maniac.
Today Kevin Drum notes John Podhoretz' warning to his fellows about painting the black man black. Well, that is not it exactly.
The weird condescension his opponents display toward him is ludicrously wrongheaded. They seem eager to believe he is a lightweight, and he is not. Obama is very possibly a world-historical political figure, and until those who oppose him come to grips with this fact, they will get him wrong every time.....It’s not just the comforting delusion that he’s a golf-mad dilettante, but also the reverse-negative image of that delusion—that Obama is a not-so-secret Marxist Kenyan with dictatorial ambitions and a nearly limitless appetite for power. That caricature makes it far too easy for Obama to laugh off the legitimate criticisms of the kind of political leader he really is: a conventional post-1960s left-liberal with limited interest in the private sector and the gut sense that government must and should do more, whatever “more” might mean at any given moment.
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