Posted by
netfotoj on Friday, May 30, 2008 8:13:16 PM
Historian Victor Davis Hanson channels Obama madness from the viewpoint of the pointy-headed liberals about to see their vision of America come to pass after four decades of disappointments as their left-wing presidential candidates bit the dust in the voters’ booths or in office.
Quote: At last the hopes and dreams of the 1960s are in our grasp. McGovern imploded. Carter was hopeless and suspect. Mondale was inept; Dukakis a punching bag. Clinton carried the torch, but only by triangulating and betraying the dream. Gore was cheated out of his victory; Kerry Swift-Boated.
But at last (if that **** Hillary would just get out of the way!) we have the perfect candidate—charismatic, young, fresh, multiracial, and we know that he is the furthest on the left of the entire bunch and the most likely both to win and actually make the long-overdue changes in America—tax the rich (get those income rates back up to 40%, subject all income to payroll taxes, restore all death taxes, up capital gains), subsidize the needy (more welfare, food and housing subsidies, universal state health care, more federal loans, more farm aid, more government programs to aid the middle class), change the government (more ideological appointments who will enforce an equality of result, more liberal judges and bureaucrats), follow international leads (more “soft” power, less military bellicosity, more deference to the UN, a true partnership with the UN, a backing off from hot spots that put us on the wrong side of history, get out of Iraq, more “balance” with the Palestinians, talk with Iran, Venezuela, etc who are misunderstood progressives anyway, follow the intellectual and cultural lead of the foundations and the universities (more candid support for gay marriage, abortion on demand, gun control, affirmative action, revisionist views of U.S. history, more emphasis on “oppression studies.”)
How’s that for a scary vision of 1984-style reality? Sad but true. IMHO, the only thing standing between Obama and the White House are those video cameras on the pulpit at Trinity UCC in Chicago. Keep them cameras rolling! Another guest speaker like not-rev. Pfleger’s sermon at Obama’s church or maybe a return engagement by the not-rev. Wright and Obama might just manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, like he plans to do in Iraq.