Dateline: Washington. Saturday night. Important news! First sentence:
Barack Obama opened his presidency by breaking sharply from George W. Bush’s unpopular administration, but he mostly avoided divisive partisan and ideological stands.
Pop quiz: Is this, a) Pravda, or b), some random Junior High School newspaper?
Answer: neither. It’s the Associated Press.
Let’s see… avoiding divisive, partisan stands…
Would that be referring to Obama’s partisan rush to sign wildly unpopular taxpayer funding of abortions? To his moves to release terrorists we know will rejoin the battle against us? (Because their compatriots already have.) To his finger-wagging interactions with Congressional Republicans being told they really shouldn’t listen to Rush anymore if they want to play nice? To his oh-so-slick-and-subtle abandonment of Israel? To his calling global warming ‘eradication’ a priority during one of the coldest winters on record? To his plans to do more in one bill to create socialism on these shores and bankrupt the country (while needlessly fomenting race and class warfare) than anyone in the last seventy years?
Or maybe it’s just me. I must be the divisive one to be thinking all these non-adulatory thoughts…
What universe are these people living in?! Honestly. I wasn’t going to blog any more this weekend but, it seems as though every time I think the media can’t get any more loopy, they prove me wrong.
Pursuing policies I disagree with is one thing. Calling them non-ideological and non-divisive is beyond hallucinatory. I keep coming back to it: “God sends them a strong delusion so that they may believe what is false”.
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By: Having it Both Ways « New Wineskins on January 26, 2009
at 9:18 am
Add to the list of B’rack-ups the abandonment of his own ethics rules and the resultant “friendly” visit with the press. I’m not surprised as we saw inklings of this arrogance during the campaign, most notable was the mortgage crises meeting at the White House. I find the duplicity of the media in this sickening, but not surprising.
By: Kevin on January 26, 2009
at 8:57 am
1/2-Wise: yes.
I am torn between two things:
1) In the longest view, God wins (already did, really). The thought that that conclusion may be quite soon gives me even more hope than usual.
2) BHO’s reaction to a public backlash and to the inherent difficulties of the job, I suspect, will be to seek greater power… to ‘bull through’, as it were… which will lead to some serious ugliness.
I’d like to think that people will wake from this dream sooner rather than later, but when the media is ‘all in’ for him, it may take a very long time… not to mention the fact that if 2Thess is correct, this IS God’s will for our ultimate good — the self-deception included.
I rest on your final paragraph. Amen, brother!
By: ultraguy on January 25, 2009
at 8:36 pm
I think we have to resign ourselves to taking a long view. Just the same way that stock markets went up and up despite the inner derivatives-based rot, then finally crashed, opinions go up and up despite inner emptiness, then snap the other way.
President B.O. is getting a free ride from a worshipful public and press, for now. This too shall pass. If it is like the stock market, the reversal will be sudden and vicious and will cut a broad swath. No one likes being lied to, taken advantage of, and made a fool of. This includes the public.
I look for attitudes towards corporate bailouts, climate change hysteria, and living beyond our means, to all reverse more or less simultaneously, replaced by a serious realism about what actually makes the world work.
But perhaps that is just my usual wishful thinking. We all need hope; many have chosen to pin their hope on Pres B.O. We all seek redemption; many seek it through AGW activism and calls for radical self-denial. We all seek security; many expect their government to provide it.
2000 years ago Someone offered authentic hope, redemption and security. Let us all remember His offer still stands…and kneel before Him.
By: Halfwise on January 25, 2009
at 4:32 pm