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"If Only Stalin Knew!"

Neo-neocon nails it:

But Noonan (and certain others) who fell for Obama hard during the campaign now find themselves suffering the pangs that disappointed lovers often feel, and a similar reluctance to face the truth that they were hoodwinked and used by a con artist.

Happens all the time, I’m afraid. It happened during the Stalin years, as several commenters on the Noonan thread have pointed out (see this, for example). The phenomenon then was called “if only Stalin knew,” and was predicated on the belief that the bad stuff was happening outside of Stalin’s awareness and orchestrated by his underlings, and that if only Good Old Joe knew about it he’d stop it.

It seems laughable now. But as I said, hope dies hard. Very hard indeed. And this is especially true of many of those who voted for and supported Obama in the hope that he’d be the uniting and reasonable centrist he promised.

Heh. A great many people (and not all of them liberals, of course) bet the farm on Obama. That one vote for that one man was supposed to deliver the conceit that we were past the politics of race, and that one pull of the lever, or porking of the chad, would act as the communion wafer and wine: to absolve the voter of any vestiges of racism. It was like a baptism: that one vote was the immersion that would wash away everything, all original sin, and we'd all live happily ever after in our post-racial Eden.

One bit of nastiness happened, however: that leap of faith, that fingers-crossed fervent belief that he can't be that bad was proven an illusion. Of course he's that bad. In fact, he's worse. The facts were as the plain as the nose on your face that this guy was a committed leftist radical. He's governing from his core principles; what you see really is what you get. He's not lying to you anymore; you're lying to yourselves.

In the parable of the blind men and the elephant one of the blind men really should have stuck his arm up the elephant's ass, and said "I don't know what it is, but I'm getting the hell out of here!" Many may have been deluded about what Obama really is, but it's their own fault for willfully refusing to look in the right places. So now we are treated to the grim spectacle of all of the lotus eaters spinning, backpedaling, excusing, lying, and sticking their fingers in their ears, crying "It can't be true! If only Obama knew!"

As if a professional, highly trained rabble rouser from the south side of Chicago would not look at union thugs whomping on citizens, and congressmen frantically shouting down these citizens in rage, and all of his machinations coming together, and say: Just as I planned. Now what's your fucking problem?

An aside: if I turn myself into fishy@redhouse.gov can I get some kind of matching funds, or at least some carbon credits? I wouldn't want to be perceived as a speedbump on the Barack's Autobahn to Utopia. Heaven forfend, and pass the compresses.

Posted by Velociman at August 9, 2009 8:57 PM | TrackBack