Kingdaddy of ‘em All: Huey Long The real shift in this country’s politics was well-summarized in Mediocrity’s Post, How to Make Real Dissent Impossible:What I think has changed is that there is now an automatic belief that the state is…

#15 If the right indeed limited itself to just your kind of critique, you wouldn’t hear a complaint from the likes of me. But true bad faith operators like #14 keep implying that electing Obama would not just result in ham-fisted governance, but instead talk about ACTUAL TERRORISM and MARXISM, and other such patently absurd, mind-numbingly stupid scenarios. It’s pathetic and ridiculous. OBAMA IS A DEMOCRAT, not a nazi, terrorist, or black supremacist. Please tell me that the people claiming otherwise are just cynical, inflammatory political hacks who aim to manipulate, and not INCREDIBLY STUPID CRETINS WHO BELIEVE THAT @#@$%.

We have been. You haven’t been paying attention. Obama’s early political career showed no legislation passed or even submitted until the Democrats took control of the legislature. Then there were a flurry of bills submitted by him. What isn’t common knowledge is that these were all OLD bills, drafted and submitted by other Democrats during the “wilderness years”, but that the new Democrat state senate leader had submitted in Obama’s name. There are a number of Democrat state senators who still grumble about this.

Obama is a manufactured messiah. He’s been carefully nurtured in a (political) hot house and groomed for his role as Great White Hope. The reason he sprang out of nowhere to the Senate and now the race for the Presidency is that he is a nothing, merely an empty suit mouthing the speeches running across the teleprompter and written by his handlers. He makes the Manchurian Candidate look like a self-made man. And that’s why he’s doing so poorly in the debates: Can’t think on his feet to save his soul.

That country is dead, and beyond being saved, except for maybe parts of Western Canada.

If Obama is elected with a Democratic Congress, he will destroy America the same way, with Socialism, and squelching of dissent via repeal of the Fairness Doctrine and imposition of hate speech laws, backed to the hilt by a lapdog leftwing, media and legal establishment.

If he is not elected, we can expected, race riots and left-wing terrorism, with the MSM blaming it all on evil, gun-totin’, bible-thumpin’ white racist Americans.

Either way now, we lose.

I believe there is so little in Obama’s record that suggests corruption, character flaws or violence that his opponents are digging really deep to try to find something, anything to hang on him. The overall strategy is to insinuate that Barack Obama, a United States Senator with a 20-year record of public service, is at once a marxist, and also a terrorist.

This is no exaggeration. By the time November rolls around, the right wing will be trying to paint him as all these things at once. Marxist, corrupt machine pol, muslim, terrorist.

This does not affect my perception of Obama because all of it is transparently absurd for any thinking person. John McCain is not being held to the same standard, in which all of his previous acquaintances and associates are considered to be proxies for the man himself and his recorded views.

If this were an ideal campaign, Obama’s opponents would criticize him on the basis of his public service record (his votes and legislation) and his stated positions. Not those of his pastor, his acquaintances, his drycleaner, or his dog. If you are a real conservative, there should be enough there to argue with– Obama is a traditional democrat, with social-democratic positions, like those of Europe’s right wing parties.

Instead, spurious adolescent-minded attacks on character are instigated and repeated. Obama is demonstrably not a terrorist, a muslim, a black separatist, or a terrorist, and yet all these things are hinted at. It’s actually just pathetic. And out of touch. And unlikely to carry Republicans to victory.