The Reality-Based Community Returns To Life
Friday, October 10th, 2008 by RLRFrom The Regressive Antidote
By David Michael Green
Pardon my oscillations.
It’s been a bumpy ride, 2008 has. This election should have been an earthquake, a hurricane, a tsunami – pick your natural disaster metaphor (or combine them for exciting new variations!) – just waiting for the calendar to run out and make it official.
In the end, it looks like that’s how it will be after all. One gets the sense now that the laws of physics are finally reasserting themselves, and modest measures of sanity are stubbornly reclaiming their inevitable places. This is true both in the proximate sense, as Election 2008 now appears to be coming in for a landing, but also more broadly, as the last year or two perhaps mark the end of an era in American politics.
Nevertheless, there have been some weird and therefore scary moments along the way, and those regular readers of this column have been forced to share my personal roller-coaster ride, twisting from highs of modest and tentative hopefulness, sinking to lows of outraged despondency, and back again. And back again, again.
That should never have happened. It has often and accurately been remarked that no Republican should have had the remotest prayer of winning the presidency against any Democrat this year. That idea made a ton of sense a year ago, and fantastically more so a month ago. And yet, miraculously, it was in fact just a month ago that John McCain had recovered from a losing posture and was smiling his Cheshire grin as every significant indicator of the race’s trajectory turned favorable to his election.
He was winning, and, he was doing it the old-fashioned way: through the Grand Old Party’s good old pattern of filthy, cheap politics. Moreover, Barack Obama seemed to be keeping his appointment with destiny by fulfilling the equally time-honored Democratic nominee’s role of watching as his summer lead dissipated, bending over for the full Rovian proctological treatment. Indeed, so anxious was Obama to accommodate Republican needs that he even went the extra step of generously agreeing to be a black man running for president in a still very racist country.
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Liberals live in a pot-induced fantasy world, they are incapable of seeing past their blinding hatred and seem to have the same reaction to truth/facts that vampires have to holy water. Obama got us into this economic crisis with his ‘Community Redevelopment Act’ simply to get votes. “Look what I did, vote for me!”. He is friends with terrorists and those who preach hatred of whites/America, he advocates killing babies who survive abortions, he can’t even put his hand over his heart to show respect to the American Flag. His over-taxing of the rich & big business will kill our economy. How can you vote for this person? The solution to all of Americas problems seems very simple: deport all liberals, then finally this country can be great again going back to it’s conservative roots (please while you’re smoking all your pot don’t believe for a second that liberals founded this country, if it was up to them we’d still be under British rule).
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The “conservative” founders of America give us the right to speech. So if you don’t like what you see, you don’t have to be here. If there is anybody that is Un-American here it is you! It is proposterous that you wanted to “deport” liberals. So you want to deport liberals, people born here in the U.S. Military Men and Women that consider themselves liberals. If anybody is spewing hatred towards Americans, it is you, so just look yourself in the mirror before you post your hatred. Lucky you the blog owner is a real American and lets you post you “free” speech post here. F^@#%r!