The Obama Delusion Alive and Well at KOS

Tuesday the media had a field day showing off pictures of chest bare Barack Obama, frolicking in the Hawaiian waters right behind his 30 million dollar compound he “rented” for the holidays.

(Looks like the economy is bad and is going to get much worse for everyone except the Obama family and their friends!)

Drudge.com didn’t join in on the MSM /Obama love fest, but chose to display Obama’s picture above a similar bare chested picture of Vlad Putin. Then Drudge ran a poll. Poll title “Shirtless.”

I'd say the poll is asking 'Putin or Obama, who is more buff?' Or, even better, as Rush Limbaugh put it, it is the “Drudge's hunkiest authoritarian socialist poll.”

At this moment, Putin has doubled Obama in votes.

{{{DRUDGE POLL}}}SHIRTLESS:

OBAMA 34% 39,900

PUTIN 66% 78,089

Total Votes: 117,989


Humorous, right?

But not for KOS writer “manoftheearth.” This author is saying Drudge is anti-American for taking this poll!

Doctor! Possible case of ObamaDelusion! Let’s explore, and search for the cure. I recommend reading the full article to see all the symptoms.

Here is a money paragraph from the article:

“However as a side note, I would like to address the people who simply want to talk about who would win in a fight, Putin or Obama - I didn't even see that element in the poll in the first place, but since its been brought to my attention it is quite obvious that Obama would pull a Buddha-esque feat and completely dissolve Putins aggression with his awesome-like grasp of the true workings of reality, and the interactions of order to chaos. By the time the fight was over, Putin would have joined Obama's quest for true change, and spread compassion and hope all around the world.”

Is everyone done throwing up? Is it time to sing Kum Ba Yah yet?

No? Ok. Let’s continue…

The KOS author is saying Drudge is Anti-American for running a “shirtless” poll??? Anti-American???? Wow!

If the author is really sincere about the concern for someone who will be the United States of America’s President, why didn’t the author bring this accusation forward just a few short days ago when two shoes were hurled at the CURRENT President of the United States of America and DailyKOS writers were applauding and celebrating the attack????!

Examples??

Quote in italics from DailyKOS.com Article By: girl

"So while I didn't get to personally shove my Christmas tree up George W.'s ass, watching the shoes whiz by his head was almost as good. "

Quotes in italics from DailyKOS.com Article by: Bill in Portland

"CHEERS to the sole man. "

"You know what they say: "That's shoe biz!" "

"P.S. Seven years ago today, Richard "Yeah, I'm A Dick Alright" Reid tried to light the most famous shoe bomb in history. He's the sole (ha ha) reason we all have to take off our Buster Browns at airport security checkpoints. The National TSA Screeners Guild has a message for passengers to commemorate the anniversary: "Foot powder, foot powder, foot powder!. " "









Ohh ha ha ha… I forgot that it was funny that all our lives have been drastically altered by selfish Islamic radicals interested in killing us and taking away our freedoms… What a riot that it is the anniversary of the shoe bomber right around when our President is attacked by a reporter with shoes. Oh yeah, each time we stand in line for hours to ride a plane we get an extra laugh out of that one. Pass the freaking powder.

Ho ho ho ho. Heh.

The President of the United States of America was attacked and could have been injured or even killed depending on what that shoe was made of, and the KOS author’s home base website was glorifying it! Celebrating it! Enjoying it! Laughing about it! Along with too many in the pathetic MSM.

Where was the author's disgust then?? When did the author say THAT was Anti-American?? Complete silence about the celebration of a real physical threat to a current President of the United States of America! President elect Obama had his PR picture on Drudge, and a harmless poll was taken, and that rises to the Anti-American threshold??? Please! No one was throwing weapons at Obama. There was no threat to his well being!

I’d like to think that Rush was right in his description of the poll. I'd like to think that Drudge was making a statement about how both Obama and Putin use propaganda like these pictures, and how both have totalitarian socialist goals. Because that is the TRUTH!

(Want to learn more about totalitarian socialism? Great 4 part video here (1) (2) (3) (4). Make sure you sit down, you will see the truth of what is going on in America far more clearer than you ever have before.)

And the TRUTH is what we all need right about now!

We all need to face it! We all need to wake up!

Wait a second? Wait just one second! Something is not making sense with this whole Obama/Putin/Shirtless/Anti-American accusation.

Comparing Obama to Putin bare chested is anti-American??? Why?? Does that tell us that the KOS author really doesn't like Putin too much??

If so... I am shocked that anyone on the left would not like Putin or would think Putin is bad?

Is Putin bad because he is a communist by any chance???? Is that where the whole Anti-American lingo came from?? If so, I am even more shocked!

Why am I shocked?? Because, if someone didn’t want the communists running the United States of America, and they voted for Barack Obama, they voted for the wrong person and they voted for the wrong party!

The illusion of Obama as a Budda-esque savior against communism is wrong. Obama wants to lead us down the same rat hole Putin is keeping his people in, Castro is keeping his people in, Chavez is keeping his people in..etc..!

They have just dressed the new model communism/socialism up with pretty words like ‘change” and “hope” and “saving the Nation's soul.” And with hoaxes like "Man Made Climate Change" and "Global Warming."

But, no, Barack Obama wouldn’t turn Putin in any other direction if he was put up against him in a fight! He will join him! You are fooling yourself if you think anything different!

Again, if someone wants to tack in a direction away from Putin, they voted in the wrong man and the wrong party if they voted Obama!

When was the last time anyone heard Obama speaking bad about communism?? He surrounds himself with socialists and communists! If you haven't heard the name Ayer's yet, look him up! He is not just some guy from Obama's neighborhood!

Messiah Obama has more in common with Putin, than the media lets on. The MSM media isn't going to tell! Everyone must go and look and find the truth for for themselves. But the sooner everyone looks for themselves, wakes up and deals with that, the better it will be for the rest of us!

Final note on this subject: Not long after opining that Drudge is being anti-American, manoftheearth made this statement: “extreme behavior whenever it is present, in republicans, in democrats, in human beings its unhealthy for anyone who comes in contact with it.”

Why doesn’t manoftheearth point out and accuse KOS peers, before accusing others, if that statement is really believed??

Rebuttal to DailyKos.com Article: drudge acts anti-american imo - by manoftheearth

15 Billion is Chicken Feed, Obama

Someone calling himself Meteor Blades has written a missive entitled Open Thread for Night Owls, Early Birds & Expats in which he bemoans the fact that the One plans to spend only a paltry 15 billion dollars a year fighting climate change.

Fighting climate change may well be a noble calling on par with windmill tilting and unicorn chasing. I can see the romance in it -- really, I can. After all, science says it must be done and if science says it, it must be right. Only the most bone-headed fundamentalist would have the effrontery to question science.

So, in order not to appear ignorant, I will happily own to global warming even though I am freezing my ass off in the first snow storm of the year in the Great Lakes region. There is one nagging question that continues to bother me no matter how unseasonably warm things may get.

How in the hell is the government going to do it?

I suppose we could invade China and force environmental controls on them. After we showed them the error of their ways, I'm sure that India and other emerging industrial nations would take notice.

"Indrani, we must stop driving our automobile because the One has decreed it."

"I agree, Hadji, a bicycle was good enough for mother and it is good enough for me."

Of course, the One will not invade China. He will attend meetings in Poland, bemoan the state of the climate, and make promises to the world that we will mend our wastrel ways. Then he will come home, realize there really isn't a damned thing he can do about the weather, and spend money we do not have on a problem we cannot solve.

And people like Meteor Blades will complain that 15 billion dollars a year isn't nearly enough.

It would be funny if our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren didn't have to pay for it.

Kossacks' Tantrum over Lieberman Shows Democrats' Fundamental Weakness

The Kossacks have been writing furiously yesterday and today about the Senate Democratic leadership's handling of Senator Joe Lieberman. This anger-fest is particularly amusing because of yesterday's post by Jed L (author of the Jed Report) on the so-called Republican "circular firing squad". To borrow (a revised version of) Jed's opening line, "Ah, don't you love Democratic infighting?"

The coverage on DK began in earnest yesterday with posts by Kos himself. Kos clearly wanted Lieberman drawn and quartered for supporting McCain's Presidential campaign. He was delighted when Lieberman's allies turned on him, calling for "significant consequences" (namely, stripping him of powerful committee leadership appointments). Noting that there was nevertheless a movement afoot to minimize these "consequences", Kos wrote:

The American people voted overwhelmingly, in landslide numbers, for change. Lieberman is George Bush's most faithful ally on Iraq, and his continued chairmanship of the committee tasked with national security would be spitting in the face of the American electorate.

It's looking like maybe, just maybe, the caucus truly does realize it and plans to act accordingly.

In a subsequent Monday post, Kos complained that the Senate Democrats planned to vote on the Lieberman issue using a secret ballot process:

Now these senators may not care what their constituents think. But given the American people voted overwhelmingly for change, keeping George Bush's best friend on Iraq in his committee, removing him in favor of someone in tune with popular sentiment (and the incoming administration) should be a no-brainer. And if the Senate spits in the face of this desire for change, then at the very least they should have the balls to own up to it.

Interesting, isn't it, that what Senate Democratic leaders feel is best for American workers (namely, Card Check, which is an Obama priority), is not good enough for them? Unions should be able to harass workers publicly into joining a union, but Senate Democrats do not have to reveal to each other or their constituents whether they supported or opposed Lieberman.

Next, Kagro X argued that the District of Columbia should not be represented by Lieberman because Obama carried DC by a 93% margin. "Wait a minute," you say, "doesn't Lieberman represent Connecticut, not DC? DC doesn't have a Senator!" Here's how it works:

And as you're no doubt aware, the District's affairs are fairly closely overseen by Congress. It's not a state, and as a federal district, Congress has a pretty big say in how it gets run and who runs it.

So who handles that on the Senate side? That's right, the "Governmental Affairs" side of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. And that means Lieberman -- the guy who must think 93% of DC pals around with terrorists.

It's true. According to the committee's web site, Senate Rule XXV(k)(1) gives them jurisdiction over the "municipal affairs of the District of Columbia, except appropriations therefor." Which is why this afternoon, Joe Lieberman's committee will be holding confirmation hearings for two DC judicial nominees. Right. Not the Judiciary Committee -- that's for federal judicial appointments. DC municipal court nominations are in the hands of... Joe Lieberman.

Actually, Sarah Palin must think that 93% of DC pals around with terrorists. Having lived there for five years, I'd have to agree.

But, I digress. Yesterday afternoon, Roll Call reported that a deal was brokered in which Senator Lieberman would lose only a subcommittee chairmanship. This drove Kos into a curse-laden tizzy:

Um, what idiot would think that taking away a subcommittee from Lieberman would be seen as a "stinging rebuke"? In whose DC-Beltway-addled mind is that even remotely punishment?

Let Lieberman keep that subcommittee. No one gives a shit about it. The only thing that matters, the only thing that Lieberman wants, and the only thing we don't want him to have -- is the chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee.

If this is the "starting point", and given the Senate Democrats' history of capitulations, expect Lieberman to come out of that meeting as majority leader.

In fact, today Lieberman lost "only . . . his spot on the Environment and Public Works Committee", according to Roll Call. Apparently at President-Elect Obama's direction, Senate Democrats did take Margaret Hoover's "bad advice", Jed L. Kos responded, "There isn't a more tone-deaf group of people anywhere in this country than inside the U.S. Senate." I guess the Senate Democrats aren't giving that "seat at the table" to the Daily Kos after all. In a subsequent post, Kos added, "the Senate Democratic caucus are a bunch of spineless asses utterly unwilling and unable to deliver the change the American people requested."

The reality of the Lieberman situation is that Senate Democrats believe that they need him to caucus (and, more importantly, to vote) with them. As the Democrats' very own "maverick" (who used to be a "DINO" before he went "independent"), he could have been a great thorn in their side if they had spanked him too hard. In exchange for the leniency, Lieberman promised to be a good boy:



More importantly, though: the Daily Kos' coverage of the Lieberman debacle is a preview of the tantrums that the left wing of the Democratic Party will throw whenever soon-to-be inaugurated President Obama appears to be straying from their radical political path. All moderates and other traitors must be thrown under the bus! For Kos, this includes the left-wing leaders themselves: "I'm done with Reid as Senate leader."

This internal divisiveness, which is coming to light even before Obama has been inaugurated, points to potentially serious problems in the Democrats' ability to govern, "given the Senate Democrats' history of capitulations." If Kos wants to go on thinking that having Joe Lieberman in the Senate is equivalent to having President Bush in the White House, that's OK with me. Here's the kind of dialogue that this mindset creates:

Jane Hamsher: With all due respect Governor Dean, we were just told to go screw ourselves, that our concerns for Barack Obama and our concern about the war and everything else that we fought so hard for within the Democratic party is meaningless and that Joe being happy and giving in to his threats--and he did threaten Democrats in his press conference--is more important than we are. And so I don't think it was a matter of reconciliation. I think we were told to go Cheney ourselves.

[Howard] Dean: I haven't seen the blogs about this because this just happened but I'm sure the sentiment online is one of outrage. But I would line up with Barack. I don't think you were told to go screw yourselves at all. I think he has got to now practice what he preaches during two years of campaigns if he wants to bring America together and as objectionable as Joe's behavior was, and frankly unprincipled, I don't think that this is the thing that should divide us. And I don't think it's about his votes for FISA or anything else. I think it's about what kind of a tone do we want to send. Do we want a purge as the first thing we do? I don't think so.

Meanwhile, many Republicans are attempting to return the GOP to classic conservative ideas, values and policy goals. Let's hope the Democrats keep on fighting amongst themselves while the GOP rebuilds and retools (pace BarbinMD). This is the stuff of which the Republican resurgence in 2010 will be made.

In Response To: Dean on Obama, Lieberman, and Us