Didn't I say or suggest that the most disturbing thing about Obama's speech to the little ones was that people who found fault with it, like myself, were being characterized as racists and how such an unreasonable blanket accusation would have the effect of making dissent itself wrong? Hell, this idiocy had so swamped a dispassionate view of things that Howard Stern - Howard Stern for christ sake! - talked about how those who had a problem with Obama must be motivated by race - it's striking how so many of the people who held this point of view had magically deduced that Obama is so without flaw that those who oppose him must be afflicted with racist thinking - suddenly the most naive, illiterate simpletons in the culture were channeling a Thomistic acumen and reasoning out the racism in everything!
And so it is Jimmy Carter - granted, a man with a knack for saying stupid things with startling regularity - but still, an ex-president, that means something - Jimmy Crater has come out and said Joe Wilson must have been motivated by racism when he called out liar during Obama's speech before congress even though the only things we know with absolute certainty are that Wilson did indeed shout out and Obama was indeed being less than honest.
I understand how fools who lean left may be duped into aping [god, is that racist?] mindlessly repeating these talking points - but the more sophisticated ones surely must understand how dangerous it is for a democracy to be headed by an ideologue, backed by a sympathetic legislative majority, who cannot be criticized - they must understand this and so evidently have decided that a liberal agenda, or more accurately the ideas espoused and championed by a liberal elite, are of such great importance that the ends here entirely justify the means.
Which brings me to what really troubles me about how Obamism is developing - I'm impaired by a poor memory and so can't call forth specifics but I'm sure an astute student of history could point out how many times this kind of ideologically driven arrogance has ended in disaster. [one hardly needs a doctoral degree in history to look back at preceding administration whose worst mistakes were driven by ideological arrogance - it's always been my belief that they fucked up the war plan in Iraq because they were obsessed with the politics of it - likewise I've stated that the democrats health care push is all about politics, not creating an efficient, workable system, or, to put it another way, much like Bush and Iraq, they assume certain outcomes because they are so smitten with the political advantages that would result - my worry has always been that the inevitable leftward over reaction contra Bush would prove inimical to the welfare of the empire because of the impetus brought to it by Obama's personal advantages [which I tend to view as shortcomings, not virtues] - reminding one of a boat that is capsized not by the first thrust but by the over zealous reaction against it - which is why I supported Hillary: the contra Bush over reaction was inevitable but because I saw her as a moderate I figured instability could be contained - I saw nothing moderating in Obama, in fact, quite the opposite - but in the true spirit of Obamism that's apparently because I'm a racist - though, on the plus side, going by the same logic, I guess because I supported Hillary that means I'm not a misogynist? There's an ex-girlfriend or two who may be comforted by that news...]
update: on the other hand, as some are with justification pointing out, having Jimmy Carter rally to your side with moralizing idiocy is quite possibly a sure fire way to scare off independents, and no matter how ripe with liberal zeal Obama may be he's going nowhere if independents sour on him.
