Hope is the all-consuming terror of liberal fascism:
Much as I am disgusted with the Clintons and the other “monarchs” detailed below, I am more fundamentally scared of Barack Obama because I don’t know what he stands for other than “hope,” “change” and other truisms. He has done a brilliant job of avoiding the nitty-gritty and now with this welter of big time endorsements and the wind at his back we are not likely to get any specificity soon. He is certainly a charming main. Why not rely on that and not rock the boat with ideas subject to debate or thoughts that might reveal lack of preparation or experience?
But, as we learn from Noah Pollak who has been doing some interesting digging at the contentions blog, we have serious reason to be wary of Mr. Obama’s foreign policy advisor Samantha Power, just as we have reason to be disturbed by the idolatrous support of the racist Louis Farrakhan by Obama’s minister. [...]
And, like most people when getting the approbation of the crowd, I imagine Obama is loathe to alienate it and finds himself agreeing with it as the line of least (temporary) resistance. But Obama’s particular crowd is partly a dangerous rabble that has not thought through the times in which we live on any serious level and responds in the most generic peacenik manner. As a single issue voter – the War on Terror – I am more than a little bit concerned.
As someone whose political worldview is entirely defined by a fear of poorly-defined, dark-complexion’ed threats, I couldn’t agree more.
… Related. Chilling.
January 31, 2008 at 3:43 pm
dark-complexion’ed threats
You do realize that the purpose of the apostrophe is to indicate that the ‘e’ is left out?
Too bad. You had a pretty good blog here and until you went and ruined it all.
January 31, 2008 at 3:47 pm
I’ll pass that on to Keats.
January 31, 2008 at 4:00 pm
The same market-based approach is used by environmentally crapulent liberal celebrities all the time. Everywhere, unthinking mobs of “independent thinkers” wield tired clichés like cudgels, pummeling those who dare question “enlightened” dogma. The greatest exposé of postmodern asininity appeared, in 1996, in the pages of a respected postmodern magazine called Social Text.
The folks at United Nations Plaza have proved themselves to be either well-intentioned incompetents or cagey, crapulent kleptocrats. Charles Krauthammer, Bill Bennett, Bill Safire, the editors of The New Republic and National Review have pointed to the countless examples of bad faith, bad logic, and just plain bad manners in Gore’s manifesto of asininity.
But if you step back and let your eyes focus you can see this fog of jargon wasn’t an argument, it was a tantrum.
January 31, 2008 at 4:00 pm
“Fear of Obama” is the “Fear of a Black Planet” of liberal fascism?
(Too easy?)
January 31, 2008 at 4:09 pm
If Obama is elected than “9/11 is a joke in your town?”
January 31, 2008 at 4:29 pm
The stupid sneaks in on little cat feet.
January 31, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Just as we have reason to be disturbed by the idolatrous support of the racist Louis Farrakhan by Obama’s minister. […]
Wha? How is this relevant to anything? St. Rudy of the Rectal Specter didn’t dick around with the whole “bad friends of his pastor” trap, he came right out and courted the Dominionist Nutzis like Pat “Teh Devilz is a Lesbians” Robertson and no one thought that he was anything but a thrice-married, cross-dressing, pandering, wholly corrupt, crazy warmonger.
January 31, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Scenes from a Mall is the casablanca of…
that’s just beautiful.
aimai
January 31, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I just received my copy of the justly-hyped, ‘Liberal Fascism’ by The Editors. I must say it more than surpassed my expectations (or is it expectorations?)
as teh eds have gotten rid of their previous works on the intertubes. I did enjoy the Bayeux tapestry version of `King George’. This is the best ‘Liberal Fascism’, an argument never before made with such detail or such care.
January 31, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Obama wants to dance with Roger’s dates?
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January 31, 2008 at 10:14 pm
When I hear Barack Obama talk about hope, I am reminded of John Lennon’s Imagine. And Lennon, we now know, is really Hitler.
This shit is spooky!
January 31, 2008 at 10:27 pm
It is rarely that such care and detail is utilized in a manner such that all around is so brightly illuminated. The ways in which Obama wishes to fuck the U.S. would make a Frenchman press his lips so tightly that he might require balm for two weeks hence.
Obama clearly would require a burka for my woman, and a textbook on environmentalism for my boy.
Obama, keep your swirly writing off my boy’s lunch pail!
February 1, 2008 at 9:08 am
So I received your book in the mail – great content, but I was promised (paraphrasing) ‘a bunch of old blog posts stapled together.’
There isn’t a damn staple to be found in the thing. WHERE ARE THE DAMN STAPLES I WAS PROMISED!!!
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{Seriously, very good stuff. Best wishes for excellent sales.}
February 1, 2008 at 9:32 am
I think Obama should just bust out old-school in his next speech: Farrakhan’s a prophet and I think you ought to listen to! What he can say to you! What you wanna do is follow for now!
After his stroke, Roger L. Simon will remind us that he once wrote for Richard Pryor, and in that capacity was largely responsible for Pryor’s policy of racial accomodation.
Your grammarian-huff reader reminds me of the old joke: “Where’s the library at?” “You are at Harvard, sir. At Harvard we never end a sentence with a preposition.” “Okay, so where’s the library at, asshole?”
February 1, 2008 at 3:49 pm
To paraphrase, “when I hear the word ‘Hope’ I reach for my gun.”
Hmmm. Who said that? Its on the tip of my tongue. Gore? Goreing? Something like that.
February 1, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I believe that boring issue bullshit in yesterday’s debate only strengthens Roger’s point that Obama never talks about the issues.
I don’t know why he’s so upset. Just because the Nation has been fooled into thinking there are actual progressives in the race, doesn’t mean it’s true. no time to panic for the ruling class.
February 2, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Is this the same Obama whom I’ve read is likely a Manchurian-type islamic fascist?