Posted by
Bill Crawford on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:52:44 PM
Or so goes the new conventional wisdom. Geez, give the guy a chance! He's only been in office for eight weeks. When this recession (you know, the one that could be a disaster we 'may never recover from') "turns around later this year, you will see that the stimulus bill worked".
Add to that the notion that attacking Obama is akin to attacking America, as if he were like the Japanese Emporer.
In their usual scattershoot fashion, they then decide to go after Rush Limbaugh, based on their summary of something he was being very careful not to say. He very clearly was saying that America would not succeed if Obama's policies carry, and he hoped Obama would fail so that America would be the better for it.
For this, he was pilloried. What is the surprise in this? Hillary used to tell her East Wing minions that in order to sell a policy, one had to tell a story. And every story has a villain. What I didn't know then was that this was right out of the Saul Alinsky "Rules For Radicals" playbook, which Obama and his Chicago pals were weaned on.
They need a villian because dredging up the Bush name is getting old and unworkable.
It ain't bad enough that much of this 'Obama is America' crap is coming from people who spent eight years opining about Bush being too dumb for the office and wearing "Dissent is Patriotic" bumper stickers on their cars.
What do you expect from a flock of moral relativists? Why should they have a problem with a double standard when they are comfortable for whatever standard is convenient at the moment?