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LIMBOsevic: "I'm starting to SUCK!1" (He said that.) Later he read an ENTIRE screed by a Progressive
Edited on Tue Feb-23-10 03:08 PM by UTUSN
The two incidents were unrelated. Earlier he said that he gets the same ten e-mails every day: "That the (Rethugs) SUCK. That the Democrats SUCK. And *I'm* beginning to SUCK!1"

O.K.

Then he read almost the entire deal below by one p.o.-ed Progressive professor, LIMBOsevic glorying in being able to read somebody else's vitriol on OBAMA in particular and Democratic pols in general. He totally salivated in saying, "Heads up to the Secret Service!1 This guy REALLY hates OBAMA. You'd better find out whether he owns a small plane!1"



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http://www.opednews.com/articles/This-Is-Liberalism-by-David-Michael-Gree-100221-110.html

This Is Liberalism?


By David Michael Green

.... As it happens, I hate Barack Obama, too. And my reasons for doing so are piling up fast. But I would never mistake him for a liberal. And that, in fact, is one of the things I most despise about this disastrous fool of a president. I couldn't possibly care less what happens to him, other than hoping for fate to return the favor after all he's done (and, especially, failed to do) to the country he promised to rescue. But I do care about progressivism (or liberalism, if one prefers I typically avoid that term now that the Atwaters and Luntzs have turned it into something slightly less hated than pedophilia), and I'm furious that this pathetic president and his horrid little whorehouse of a political party, who are about as liberal as George W. Bush was, are taking down the political ideas I care about with their own sinking ship.

By not refuting the false accusations that he is a liberal or even a socialist, and by running an abysmal presidency, Obama has done as much as the scum on the right in service to wrecking a set of ideas that are not only noble and correct, but are desperately needed now by a country imploding under the weight of the regressive politics which has been ascendant for thirty years now. Worst of all and quite by design Americans are forgetting what any sort of progressive politics would even actually look like. Orwell understood the significance of this phenomenon so well he made it the existential nightmare of his protagonist, Winston Smith. All Winston wanted to do was to hold onto some sense of a tangible reality. O'Brien, his torturer, showed him what happens when power not only wants to win battles, but better yet end them forever by eliminating the very opposing ideas people might embrace. ....

But what's really amazing is how Obama is broadly perceived as being a liberal. This is just yet another framing victory by the right, and one of stunning proportions. By erroneously tagging Obunkster with the bleeding-heart liberal moniker, they manage to simultaneously tear him down, make liberalism unpalatable to the public, and shift the center of political gravity so far starboard that even a right-wing president like Obummer and his band of Democratic merry men become unacceptable because they are insufficiently regressive.

Like I said, you have to admire these guys for their craft. You know. Just like you have to admire the Holocaust for its good ol' German efficiency. ....

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