The
Truth
What does it mean that the fundamental aspiration of a major political party is to win the November election by persuading Americans that the antipode of Truth is "gospel?"
What does it mean that the normalcy of "spin" has been displaced by categorically fanciful falsehood?
(according
to the GOP)
What
does this grotesque misrepresentation mean for The Body Politic?
What does it mean that the fundamental aspiration of a major political party is to win the November election by persuading Americans that the antipode of Truth is "gospel?"
What does it mean that the normalcy of "spin" has been displaced by categorically fanciful falsehood?
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Consider:
Barack HUSSEIN Obama is a Kenyan-born
Muslim socialist, anti-American, job-killing quisling, whose Anti-Christ goal
is to strip Americans of their guns as prelude to surrendering the United
States to a One World Government headed by Arab sheiks.
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Desperately seeking the real Obama
Last week something notable happened. The Daily Caller, a conservative Web site, came up with a tape of President Obama speaking in the spring of 2007 to an audience of black ministers about matters of concern to black ministers and their black congregants. After the tape was aired, conservative commentators announced with considerable urgency that they had discovered “the real Barack Obama.” He is — and there are reliable sources for this — a black man!
The perspicacious Fox News host Sean Hannity was among the first to note the importance of the speech. He said it offered “a glimpse into the mind of the real Barack Obama.” The real Barack Obama is not, as you might foolishly think, the man who has been in the White House for almost four years — covered by the media, giving speeches, pardoning Thanksgiving turkeys and not returning the phone calls of key members of Congress. He is, instead, the man who gave a single speech back in 2007 and who lapsed, as many politicians do before black audiences, into a black speech cadence that, if you ask me, he should use more often.
As for the speech itself, while it might have sounded innocuous to the average (white person’s) ear, it supposedly contained “dog whistle” messages that could be heard only by black people in the audience. This explained the headline on a column by Washington Examiner columnist Gregory Kane: “Obama’s dog-whistle speech from 2007.” Kane, too, wondered if the speech revealed “a glimpse of the real Barack Hussein Obama.”
The search for the True Obama is the Holy Grail of the conservative movement...
... Some of us, in fact, think we know the real Barack Obama. He is a man of the center — or maybe a wee to the left of it — who is prudent in all things, dotes on his children and is loving to his wife. His most radical program is called Obamacare, and if it has sent us all down the road to socialism, we have somehow become stuck in a suburban cul-de-sac. Instead of a single-payer plan — the one adopted by much of the industrialized world — we stick with private insurance companies, those soft-hearted institutions that would, if they could, seize the La-Z-Boy from under a retiree. This is not Trotsky. It’s not even Hubert Humphrey...
... This need to turn a political foe into the frightening “other” is a reaction against modernity — the permanent platform of the Republican Party.
