Swords into plowshares

My thesis is simple:

Folks like Rush Limbaugh practically egged Democrats on to select Obama over Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primaries and caucuses. If the Dems didn’t nominate Obama Rush and Company could say that the Dems were chickens who had no faith in the public to elect a truly eloquent and spirit lifting figure. If the Dems did get shamed into nominating Obama then he would lose. the Republicans would win either way.

Oop! Obama won.

New tack:

Obama is a radical, commie, America hating, Muslim, spendthrift, who can’t bowl worth a damn. It’s the 2011 version of 1968’s George Wallace. (He didn’t use the “n” word either but he did say “nigra” a lot.) Throw in generous Republican kudos for Kingfish Ed Cain to mask the real fears back in the GOP’s limbic regions and you can see why the GOP is willing to risk a world financial meltdown to atone for the miscalculation in 2007. Its not about a better America. Its about zero sum winning…. The last man standing…. He who accumulates the most toys before dying wins! And hey, in the new evangelical churches the man with the most toys can even take them all with him. He just has to get off his camel because the “eye of a needle” is really the name of an arch which is too low for a man seated on a camel to pass through without dismounting and leading his camel through. Its not really a needle’s eye you silly!

I hope Obama keeps killing them with kindness.

“I think that we forget when he was alive there was nobody who was more vilified, nobody who was more controversial, nobody who was more despairing at times,” the president said. “There was a decade that followed the great successes of Birmingham and Selma in which he was just struggling, fighting the good fight, and scorned, and many folks angry. But what he understood, what kept him going, was that the arc of moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. But it doesn’t bend on its own. It bends because all of us are putting our hand on the arc and we are bending it in that direction. And it takes time. And it’s hard work. And there are frustrations.”

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