Slate Writer Already Celebrating Obama Election Victory

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You know that old saying about "Don't count your chickens until they hatch?" Well, Slate senior writer, Timothy Noah, decided to discard that advice and gloat over the "inevitable" Barack Obama victory this November. Yes, Noah's gloating does grate on the nerves but we should thank him for the enormous public service he has performed for us by providing a look at what liberals will be able to say out loud "when" Obama wins. First, you need to sit through the annoying gloating on Noah's part but I assure you the payoff will be huge when we get to the revelatory part of his article:

There's a new scent in the air. If you're a Democrat, you haven't felt it tickle your nostrils since October 1996, when everybody knew that Bill Clinton was about to beat Bob Dole. The perfume hasn't been this strong since October 1964, the eve of Lyndon Johnson's landside presidential victory. It's the sweet smell of success that you can take for granted.

With every passing day, it's harder to imagine that the next president of the United States will be a Republican—even a "maverick" Republican like John McCain. A consensus is emerging that the next president will be Barack Obama, a Democrat. Obama may not win in a landside, as some predict, but the common wisdom is that he will win and that the Democrats will expand their majorities in the House and Senate. Like the houseguests in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, swing states are disappearing one by one. Goodbye, Michigan; farewell, Ohio. Will Florida evaporate next? Colorado? Missouri?

And now we shall take a moment to allow Noah to savor the "victory" that has yet to happen:

Conservatives can carp all they want about the insularity of the cultural elite, but it's been a very long time since liberals had the chance to experience electoral complacency at the national level. You'll forgive them if they take a moment to taste it, savor it, perhaps bottle a little extra to tide them over during the next conservative ascendancy. Practically the only thing you can't do is securitize it, but it would be churlish to complain about that, given the central role the financial markets' collapse played in bringing the New Complacency about. Democrats, you want to worry about something? Worry about your portfolio!

Yes, Timothy, why wait for tiny details like the elections results. Pop open your champagne bottles and celebrate your victory now. In fact you better enjoy that champagne now because what you about to reveal might actually pull the rug from under your "victory." 

During the past 25 years, there have been countless sentiments that respectable Democratic politicians were never, ever supposed to say out loud for fear of angering the all-powerful Republicans. It still isn't wise for Obama to say them, but maybe the New Complacency will loosen other tongues within the political mainstream. Even if it doesn't, it's fun to think about what those utterances might be. What follows is a list, compiled with help from my fellow Slate staffers. The views expressed don't necessarily reflect those of the contributors—one of whom is a conservative Republican—or even me. But they sure are a refreshing change from what we've been hearing since 1981. With a little luck, they may soon be orthodoxies.

And now here is a sampling of what Noah and his fellow Slate writers think it will be safe for liberals to say once Obama is elected:

I think Karl Marx had some valuable insights into capitalist economies!

I think abortion should be safe and legal. Rare is fine, too, but the way to achieve that is contraception, baby!

I think Mormons are kooks!

The Second Amendment does too allow government to ban handguns!

Let's standardize the federal age of consent at 16!

Gee, maybe you should have waited until after the Obama victory to say this because by revealing it now, all you do is make it much, much harder for Obama to win. And Noah isn't even close to finishing. Here are some more kooky statements that he thinks liberals will feel safe to say out loud:

I don't support the troops. I support some troops, depending on whether or not they've committed war crimes!

The military-industrial complex is a greater menace than most foreign nations!

If Israel isn't out of the occupied territories in six months, we'll cut off all aid.

America isn't the greatest nation in the world. We think it is only because it's our country. Duh!

America won't be the world's most powerful nation forever. And you know what? Handing that responsibility off will be a relief!

America's official languages should be English and Spanish!

Judges should legislate from the bench if they want to. Conservatives do it, so why not liberals?

Keeping digging yourself and your fellow liberals even deeper into the hole, Noah. More! More!

What's so great about the Judeo-Christian tradition?

Big-city values are better than small-town values!

I'm glad the Muslims whupped the Christians during the Crusades! Served 'em right!

We're going to need affirmative action for a long time.

We're undertaxed. Look at Europe!

Terrorism isn't that big a threat to America!

And now Noah finishes off in grand style:

I'm not a "progressive," for Pete's sake. I'm a liberal!

I'm not a "liberal," for Pete's sake. I'm a leftist!

I'm not a "leftist," for Pete's sake. I'm a democratic socialist!

I'm not a democratic socialist, for Pete's sake. I'm a Communist! Just kidding!

Perhaps you're just kidding but your humble correspondent regularly monitors the Democratic Underground and, believe me, they're not kidding. In any case, you have performed a tremendous public service, Timothy, by revealing the liberal agenda out in the open. And if Obama loses because of your premature revelation, may we dedicate his loss to you?

—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.


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He left off: We should round

He left off: We should round up all those people who disagree with us and keep them in one place so we can keep an eye on them.  Lets start construction on some camps in the desert.

baby murdering, america

baby murdering, america hating commies...Obama Hussein in the White House...i think i feel sick...

Yeah, Obama is up by 2% in the latest Zogby poll....

...with several weeks to go.

Only a liberal would start celebrating the "immenent victory".

Oh, and like in 2004, "Don't forget - The cell phone crowd isn't  counted in polls and they'll all vote Democrat!!!" - Already hearing that one on the airwaves. 

This is

This is really sickening.

Simply Amazes Me

That the left really believe that they have this one in the bag. They keep forgetting that blue collar Hillary voters aren't voting for Obama.  Seniors aren't voting for Obama. White middle class families who play taxes aren't voting for Obama. This is why they are not polled as they were in 2004.

Which leaves the same group of voters who pulled the lever for Kerry in 04 and Gore in 00. Blacks, future Marxists and the NE Elite will vote for the Obaminator.

In other words, McCain will be President in 08.  

We're still screwed....

If McCain wins, we're screwed, and will survive as a struggling USA. Unless of course, the many's fears come true, and he dies in office and Palin becomes Prez. Then all will be gravy.

If Obama wins, we're screwed, broke, and will be the first western muslim country. Not to mention what we will be paying for gas. I'm guessing 6 bucks a gallon when oil is 90 bucks a barrell. Mostly in taxes I am sure. 

God help us!

God help us!

"Forget change, I want improvement!"

This was a GREAT

This was a GREAT post!
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Obama’s 180 on genocideposted at 10:10 am on October 8, 2008 by Ed Morrissey

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Jeff Jacoby detected a mighty spin coming from Barack Obama’s attempt to define his doctrine on interventionism in last night’s debate. In Nashville, Obama said that the American military must stand ready to stop genocide whenever and wherever it occurs. However, Obama seemed to have little concern last year to the genocide that would have resulted from a precipitous pre-surge withdrawal from Iraq:

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Though most of the debate dealt with domestic issues, it was a foreign-policy question that sent me flying to my files. Moderator Tom Brokaw asked the candidates what their “doctrine” would be “in situations where there’s a humanitarian crisis, but it does not affect our national security,” such as “the Congo, where 4.5 million people have died since 1998,” or Rwanda or Somalia.

In such cases, answered Obama, “we have moral issues at stake.” Of course the United States must act to stop genocide, he said. “When genocide is happening, when ethnic cleansing is happening . . . and we stand idly by, that diminishes us.”

But that wasn’t how Obama sounded last year, when he was competing for the Democratic nomination and was unbending in his demand for an American retreat from Iraq. Back then, he dismissed fears that a US’t a good enough reason to keep US forces there,” the AP reported on July 20, 2007 (my italics). withdrawal would unleash a massive Iraqi bloodbath. “Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn’t a good enough reason to keep US forces there,” the AP reported on July 20, 2007 (my italics).

What kind of candidate is it whose moral response to genocide - genocide - can reverse itself 180 degrees in a matter of months? Is that the kind of candidate who ought to be the leader of the free world?
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Obama’s answer also ignored the multiple genocides of the Saddam Hussein regime. We knew well before our entry into Iraq that Saddam had conducted genocides against the Kurds. He used the chemical weapons that people now claim he didn’t have at Halabja, for which he and his henchmen deservedly received the death penalty (although Saddam had already been executed by then). He also conducted a genocidal campaign against the Marsh Arabs, draining their wetlands and leaving them to die for their opposition to his regime. Saddam persecuted the Shi’ites after an uprising in 1991, one that continued in defiance of the no-fly zones — the same tactic Obama recommended as a stop against genocide in Sudan and elsewhere.

Now Obama says that American intervention in Iraq was the wrong move, but in an Obama Doctrine, that would have been an acceptable response. Saddam was a genocidal tyrant, and no one else in the region was going to act to stop him. The only difference here is the political juice Obama gets for opposing the Iraq war.

And, as Jacoby points out, Obama can’t even be consistent. He decries genocide and pledges American intervention to stop it, but earlier said that potential genocide wouldn’t be enough reason to keep American troops in place. Huh? Either Obama is confused, or he only cares about genocides when it doesn’t involve Iraqis.

M-B

Link to Zogby poll to vote in

Don;'t let kos kids slant these polls, right now barry is only up by 2 in Zogby.....       http://zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1575

Join poll and vote, and pass it on........Steve

 

"If your 20 and not a Liberal, You have no Heart. If you are 40 and not a Conservative, You have no Brain"    Sir Winston Churchhill

'64 and '96

"There's a new scent in the air. If you're a Democrat, you haven't felt it tickle your nostrils since October 1996, when everybody knew that Bill Clinton was about to beat Bob Dole. The perfume hasn't been this strong since October 1964, the eve of Lyndon Johnson's landside presidential victory."

Both 1964 and 1996 were incumbent president races.  Bad metaphor because Obama is not an incumbent president.

Slate writers are delusional

Obama hasn't won anything yet.  He got his party's nomination because Hillary decided not to fight for it.  When she gave up in June he was only a small percentage of delegates ahead.  Vote for McCain/Palin and NOT for Obama/Biden.

Before McCain started down

Before McCain started down the Road to Bailout, I cant figure out whether he is Hope or Cosby, I had all teh confidence in his campaign.  But now I am depressed at teh thought of Obama winning which is an ugly chance of reality.  Well McCain is the only candiate who has true hope so Hope it is.

I do know whatever canditate is chosen for President the American people will have gotten what the richly deserve.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

Remember

This is all about the elitists reinstating their power over the electorate, in true Goebbels (or Stalinist) fashion: declare the "election" already won by ceaselessly promoting the favored candidate as inevitable.

 

 

there's a smell in the air allright..

the smell of BO. It smells a lot like BS. I worry about people who find such scents pleasant. Smells to me more like it's time to change the diapers-as Reagan warned us about in partial jest years ago.

Coincidence? I think not.  :)

"to call an illegal immigrant an "undocumented alien" is the same as calling a streetcorner drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist".

"You spend your money anyway you want and respect other's rights to do the same"

There's a new scent in the air

everytime I smell that " new scent in the air" I have to check the bottom of my shoes to make sure I did not step in doggie doo...

Actually, the media crowned Obama months ago

Actually, the MSM crowned Mr. Obama "king" way back in February!  Anyone who dared opposed him was doomed to a crushing loss, in the arrogant eyes of the "news" media. 

The press is doing to Mr. McCain what they did to Mrs. Clinton; frightening, isn't it? 

MSM coronation

The press has always wanted the power of coronation: this time around they're crowning their Black King (Obama) and dethroning their White Queen (Clinton). 

A bit more fun with the chess analogy: the Bishop is Wright; the Queen is Michelle; His Fannie Mae funders are the Rooks; the Press are the Knights; and the pawns are average democrat voters...

Somebody set up the McCain side for me...

 

 

 

I for one feel a lot better

I for one feel a lot better about McCain's chances than I ever did about Dole.

But if I'm wrong, looking on the bright side, if Carter got us Reagan, just think what Obama could get us.

 

Noah is right!

Yep, there's a scent in the air all right.  Every time you hear a story about ACORN or AYERS, or WRIGHT, or ANNENBURG, you smell something.  Obama's campaign is just like a dead herring in the moonlight...It shines, but it STINKS!  Obama is nothing more than a slick-talking flimflam man selling snake oil by the barrel to an audience that wants to believe his fatuous claims.  "Buy a bottle of Obama and you'll be magically cured!"  Just don't ask whats in the bottle.  Noah can pat himself on the back and gloat all he wants, but this fight isn't over yet.

Some Slate Writers are Fairer

Camille Paglia, a liberal and Obama supporter, who writes for Slate and is also a Professor at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania wrote this in Slate today:

"One of the most idiotic allegations batting around out there among urban media insiders is that Palin is "dumb." Are they kidding? What level of stupidity is now par for the course in those musty circles? (The value of Ivy League degrees, like sub-prime mortgages, has certainly been plummeting. As a Yale Ph.D., I have a perfect right to my scorn.) People who can't see how smart Palin is are trapped in their own narrow parochialism -- the tedious, hackneyed forms of their upper-middle-class syntax and vocabulary."

For the purpose of full disclosure, Camille Pagilia may be a liberal but she is someone who has a important conservative admirer. Rush Limbaugh is a Camille Pagilia admirer and has said of her: 

" Camille Paglia, a big Obamaite, and, as you know, I have tremendous respect for Camille Paglia"

"Now, Camille Paglia is one of the smart liberals, one of the smart Democrats."

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“You’re not going to see me ever be partisan. I’ll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.” ~ CNN ‘s Campbell Brown

 

Paglia writes for Salon

Not Slate.

 Also, when you read her column, you can click on Slate's "Palin coverage", of which every bit not written by Paglia is lies, smears, and name-calling.

Oops

I meant "Salon's Palin coverage"--wow, that's too easy to confuse.

Heather

Thanks for the catch. Sorry about that. I can't believe I wrote Slate when I meant Salon -wow, that really is too easy to confuse. As for Salon, it is as leftist as The Huffington Post. I peruse them both to see what the enemy is saying. However, I do enjoy reading Camille Paglia.

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