This is the new sticker MoveOn.org is offering for free. Well, one is free. Three dollars will get you five of them, shipping free. Here's the whole reason in a nutshell as to why Obama's detractors are so afraid he's a Marxist-so many of his supporters are. Just look at the logo.
"United We Progress Toward A More Perfect Union"
What the hell does that even mean? Is this the left's version of the classic "You're either with us or against us?" Well, of course it is. I think at this point they would probably be too arrogant to deny it.
The image here is so much like giant posters of Lenin and Mao you used to see hanging up in city squares in Beijing and Moscow it's scary. What do you want to bet half the people that send off for these things have Che' Guevara t-shirts-which is probably one of the few items of clothing they regularly launder?
Never mind Obama. He's almost fucking irrelevant. Or he will be once his crowd of worshipers get through making everybody with a lick of sense sick to death of hearing his name or seeing his face. I've been trying hard to find reasons to like the man, at least on a personal if not a political level, and I'm honestly trying to find reasons to believe he has the best interests of the country in mind, but I'm telling you, these people are dangerous.
Check it out:
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Crazy stuff.
I'm willing to add you to my blog roll if you're willing to return the favor. Let me know.
So uh, you won't believe what I found when I typed in the phrase:
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Heh
To me, most advertisements are noise whatever they're trying to get across. I don't believe you can judge anyone based on an ad campaign, whether the campaign's capitalist, communist, or what not and a powerful man will attract all sorts of people: good, bad, and ugly.
ReplyDeleteUh, yeah... the thing about 'a more perfect union' is from the US Constitution. You knew that, right?
ReplyDeletePatrick, honestly, I think that sticker is pretty banal and stupid. But, you don't think that you're maybe experiencing a bit of Obama Derangement Syndrome here? That thing's about as anodyne and devoid of meaning as... well, every other political poster I've ever seen. Seeing secret Marxist messages in it is really reaching, even if it is MoveOn.
You don't think maybe you're developing a bit of a 'either with us or against us' mentality here? You seem to be increasingly pissed off at anyone who doesn't have a picture of Sarah Palin over their bed. Maybe you need to take a break from the Internet. Get out and talk to people. Go see a band play. Smoke a bowl. Rent a stupid comedy. Drink a six-pack.
I know I'm being rude here, but I say it because I actually like reading your blog. But, man, you just don't want to become a miserable bastard like those idiots who have spent the last eight years bitching and moaning all the time because their neighors voted for Bush. Life's too short. Let it go.
Rufus-
ReplyDeleteYou're right about a lot of this. Actually, I am not mad at most people that voted for Obama, nor am I mad at Obama, who I genuinely hope has the country's best interests at heart. Though I will criticize him when its called for, I would never treat him personally like the MoveOn and others of their ilk treated Bush, whom I have also strongly criticized at times.
How I treat the MoveOn people, now that's a different story. They are my main targets in all this. I just want to give them a taste of their own medicine. It's cathartic, after all these years of hearing and seeing their antics.
This is no excuse, but bear in mind also I've been fighting off a flu that's been kicking my ass for the last week.
My main-really my only concern with Obama and the Democrats-are the kinds of judges they are probably going to appoint. If not for that, I wouldn't be nearly as down as I am now. In fact, I probably wouldn't care. My nightmare is seeing the Supreme Court file into chambers, and all damn nine of them are Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Bad laws can be reversed, appealed, or thrown out. Bad judicial rulings tend to last a long time, if not forever.
As for Palin, my main gripe over her is not the fact a lot of people don't like her. That comes with the territory of being a politician. My main gripe concerning her is how she was treated by the media, by Charlie Rose especially, but others as well, most of whom didn't just go after her, but after her family, and questioning her qualifications while not paying due diligence as journalists to questions about Obama's, whose qualifications were every bit as questionable as Palin's, if not more so.
I was never that concerned about Obama's qualifications, to tell you the truth. If anything, I think its high time we got away from the mindset of assuming that the only people qualified to be President are career politicians who've spent their whole lives in politics, and in many cases whose qualifications for the job is based not on merit, but on family connections. Obama might be a breath of fresh air from that type of thinking. I hope he is. I don't assume that a President should be somebody who's spent his whole life being groomed for the job.
But that's just as true of Palin. She is closer to the concept of a citizen leader than anybody we've seen in some time. Obama is close to that concept as well. Biden to his credit has made an honest career-long effort to stay close to the people he represents, the people where he's from. McCain's service of course goes without saying, but he frankly has been mired in Washington politics for so long that in fighting to clean it up, he's spent more time fighting his friends than his foes. That's one of the things that beat him.
The point is, Palin didn't deserve a lot of the crap she took from the left, and she especially didn't deserve the treatment she received from the media. I haven't even started on them yet. They haven't been fair and impartial in their coverage of this election cycle since going back way into the primary season, when they treated Obama with kid gloves while applying a different much tougher standard to Hillary Clinton. It's not just the Republicans whom they shafted in this election.
Even Saturday Night Live recognized this phenomenon, and did skits where they skewered the networks over it. That should tell you a lot.