Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to modernise Heaven and Hell – or that at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead. The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced civilisation. At least Mandela-worship – its nearest equivalent – is focused on a man who actually did something. I really don’t see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducted in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts. It already has all the signs of such a thing. The newspapers which recorded Obama’s victory have become valuable relics. You may buy Obama picture books and Obama calendars and if there isn’t yet a children’s picture version of his story, there soon will be. Proper books, recording his sordid associates, his cowardly voting record, his astonishingly militant commitment to unrestricted abortion and his blundering trip to Africa, are little-read and hard to find. If you can believe that this undistinguished and conventionally Left-wing machine politician is a sort of secular saviour, then you can believe anything. He plainly doesn’t believe it himself. His cliche-stuffed, PC clunker of an acceptance speech suffered badly from nerves. It was what you would expect from someone who knew he’d promised too much and that from now on the easy bit was over. He needn’t worry too much. From now on, the rough boys and girls of America’s Democratic Party apparatus, many recycled from Bill Clinton’s stained and crumpled entourage, will crowd round him, to collect the rich spoils of his victory and also tell him what to do, which is what he is used to. Just look at his sermon by the shores of Lake Michigan. He really did talk about a ‘new dawn’, and a ‘timeless creed’ (which was ‘yes, we can’). He proclaimed that ‘change has come’. He revealed that, despite having edited the Harvard Law Review, he doesn’t know what ‘enormity’ means. He reached depths of oratorical drivel never even plumbed by our own Mr Blair, burbling about putting our hands on the arc of history (or was it the ark of history?) and bending it once more toward the hope of a better day (Don’t try this at home). I am not making this up. No wonder that awful old hack Jesse Jackson sobbed as he watched. How he must wish he, too, could get away with this sort of stuff. And it was interesting how the President-elect failed to lift his admiring audience by repeated – but rather hesitant – invocations of the brainless slogan he was forced by his minders to adopt against his will – ‘Yes, we can’. They were supposed to thunder ‘Yes, we can!’ back at him, but they just wouldn’t join in. No wonder. Yes we can what exactly? Go home and keep a close eye on the tax rate, is my advice. He’d have been better off bursting into ‘I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony’ which contains roughly the same message and might have attracted some valuable commercial sponsorship. Perhaps, being a Chicago crowd, they knew some of the things that 52.5 per cent of America prefers not to know. They know Obama is the obedient servant of one of the most squalid and unshakeable political machines in America. They know that one of his alarmingly close associates, a state-subsidised slum landlord called Tony Rezko, has been convicted on fraud and corruption charges. They also know the US is just as segregated as it was before Martin Luther King – in schools, streets, neighbourhoods, holidays, even in its TV-watching habits and its choice of fast-food joint. The difference is that it is now done by unspoken agreement rather than by law. If Mr Obama’s election had threatened any of that, his feel-good white supporters would have scuttled off and voted for John McCain, or practically anyone. But it doesn’t. Mr Obama, thanks mainly to the now-departed grandmother he alternately praised as a saint and denounced as a racial #####, has the huge advantages of an expensive private education. He did not have to grow up in the badlands of useless schools, shattered families and gangs which are the lot of so many young black men of his generation. If the nonsensical claims made for this election were true, then every positive discrimination programme aimed at helping black people into jobs they otherwise wouldn’t get should be abandoned forthwith. Nothing of the kind will happen. On the contrary, there will probably be more of them. And if those who voted for Obama were all proving their anti-racist nobility, that presumably means that those many millions who didn’t vote for him were proving themselves to be hopeless bigots. This is obviously untrue. I was in Washington DC the night of the election. America’s beautiful capital has a sad secret. It is perhaps the most racially divided city in the world, with 15th Street – which runs due north from the White House – the unofficial frontier between black and white. But, like so much of America, it also now has a new division, and one which is in many ways much more important. I had attended an election-night party in a smart and liberal white area, but was staying the night less than a mile away on the edge of a suburb where Spanish is spoken as much as English, plus a smattering of tongues from such places as Ethiopia, Somalia and Afghanistan. As I walked, I crossed another of Washington’s secret frontiers. There had been a few white people blowing car horns and shouting, as the result became clear. But among the Mexicans, Salvadorans and the other Third World nationalities, there was something like ecstasy. continues [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link.

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It's the cult of personality. They didn't elect a man. They elected an image. That's what happened with Bill Clinton too.

It's like marriage, you just don't marry your spouse, you "marry the in-laws" as well, for better or worse.
Except in this case, the "in-laws" could be outlaws...as in Ayers.......

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Preachin' to the choir. The dear leader nation refuses to see him for what he is...IMO an empty suit. All image, no substance. But miss oprah and lewis farrakhan are never wrong.

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Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, November 4, 1775

We're also married to the rest of the world apparently.

yeah, I know....and our child support payments just went up exponentially....

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Ah see I see that problem with that is don't have a child with someone until you are with them for a long long time, I am sorry but I don't feel sorry for anyone that has child support payments. In this day and age I won't trust a woman, in that sense, as far as I can throw them.

Women for the most part today look at having children as a paycheck, I am not saying all of them but the majority do. This is perpetuated by women being told they can do it on there own, there needs to be no father there.

I don't care what womens reason is for leaving the man, because there were signs that he was an #######, abusive, ect. on down the line, but they think it will change.

So no I don't feel bad that your child support payments are going up, hell I wish they would say everyone not in a realationship has to pay $5,000 a month in child support payments. Maybe then at least guys will be more selective in who they even decide to have sex with.

I wasn't talking about my children per se. I meant all of the liberal encouraged children who give birth to other children and drop out of school. That's who. I'm tired of supporting them and their sorry "Baby Daddies" as well.
but Obama wants to "Spread the wealth" from my hard work to their lazy a-z-zes so they can breed like rabbits and live comfortably.

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wow me and you can agree on something the world has ended. I also don't think children should be something you can just have, maybe a contract before hand. I am just tired of people having babies and expecting the daddy to take care of it, or the mommy for that matter. I think birth control should be mandatory until you are married and then for two years afterwards.

I do not agree with your opinion, first off you make it sound like only the men have it bad IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO..... if you don't want children wrap it.........and both parents should be responsible for a child...... there are dads out there that have custody of there children..... it isn't just poor me cause I'm male...... as far as women havin babies for a paycheck I think that is crap.....I am married to my babies daddy and am happy as well as became a mother to his two children. and trust me if something happened between my husband and I, I could and would find a way to raise my child without his help...A WOMEN SHOULD NEVER DEPEND ON A MAN..... there are men out there that are just as bad if not worse then women..... and the signs of a man that is abusive there are not always signs.... I know from personel experiance I don't believe that people should pay money just cause they ain't in a relationship....Men can be just as bad as women.... you don't want kids don't play

birth control shouldn't be mandatory and expecially after you are married..... Marriages isn't always a gaurentee either...... its a good thing they have rules on this forum or I would really tell you my opinion, some Men need to also start taking responsibility for their actions......it isn't always the females fault

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