Guardian Writer: If Obama Can't Defeat the Republican Headbangers, Our Planet Is Doomed

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It is a post-apocalyptic world. The oceans are a grayish brown, not blue. No green vegetation. In fact, no life on the planet at all. Just heat, wind, and dust. The movie on how this happened could be called Terminator 5: Rise of the Republicans.

This is pretty much the scenario that Jonathan Freedland of the U.K. Guardian paints in his article laughably titled If Obama can't defeat the Republican headbangers, our planet is doomed. Yes, the future of the planet depends on ObamaCare passing which those wascally Wepublicans are blocking. Even Freedland admits he probably sounds quite hyperbolic:

Anyone who cares about the survival of our planet should start praying that Barack Obama gets his way on reforming US healthcare. That probably sounds hyperbolic, if not mildly deranged: even those who are adamant that 45 million uninsured Americans deserve basic medical cover would not claim that the future of the earth depends on it. But think again.

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Only mildly deranged?  I beg to differ. It sounds extremely deranged. And Freedland continues his Chicken Little act by invoking next week's climate change summit:

Next week, world leaders will attend the first UN summit dedicated entirely to climate change. Their aim will be to plunge a shot of adrenaline into stuttering efforts to draw up a new global agreement on carbon emissions. The plan is to replace the Kyoto treaty with a new one, to be agreed in Copenhagen in December. Trouble is, the prospects of getting a deal worthy of the name get bleaker every day.

And why is the sky about to fall? Because Barack Obama isn't quite the mystical Lightworker that liberals imagined him to be a year ago:

Which brings us to Obama. Last November, the sigh of relief among greens and diplomats could be heard around the world. While George Bush had ripped up Kyoto, Obama would surely lead the way to Copenhagen.

Now that early confidence is fading. Those same diplomats and negotiators have seen the president struggle to make what, to outsiders, look like pretty reasonable changes to US healthcare. They have seen a summer campaign demonise him as an amalgam of Stalin, Hitler and Big Brother, bent on sending America's frail grannies to their deaths in the name of a new socialism. If that's the response he gets when he suggests Americans should be covered even when they change jobs or get sick, imagine the monstering coming his way if he tells his compatriots they have to start cutting back on the 19 tonnes of CO2 each one of them emits per year (more than twice the amount belched out by the average Brit).

Of course, most of the blame for our imminent doom falls on the "evil" Republicans according to Freedland:

...Once again, if Obama cannot even get his healthcare reform through a Democratic-controlled senate, what chance a climate change treaty that goes beyond Kyoto? One European diplomat closely involved with the talks despairs at the "Republican headbangers who cannot resist a chance to damage Obama, believe global warming is based on junk science and regard action on climate change as ungodly because it will delay the second coming".

Freedland concludes his apocalyptic soap opera by urging non-Republican Americans to work without sleep for the next three months to save the planet from imminent doom:

...What's needed is for US campaigners to step up their efforts, starting now, and not letting up for three months: no sleep till Copenhagen. Their mission must be to build the public support for action on climate change that might act as a counterweight to those "Republican headbangers" and give Obama the space to act. Not for the first time, the fate of the world rests in the hands of US domestic politics. As it did a year ago, autumn begins with the world watching the Americans, holding its breath that they will do the right thing.

Although it seems that the liberals on the other side of the pond are every bit as loony as the ones here, Britain also has a fair share of level-headed types who laugh at the Chicken Little hysteria stirred up by those like Freedland as you can read in some of the comments on this doomsday story:

This article does sound hyperbolic and deranged. No ifs ands or buts about it.

This article is as stupid as the end of the world comments over Greenham Common a generation ago. Whatever happened to those folks, anyway?

Copenhagen will fail because, in their muddling way, the people of the world have far too much sense.

I'm getting seriously worried about the survival of the Guardian. Printing acres of mindless tripe and losing both authority and money appears to be a link the editors haven't yet made.

And for the next three months your humble correspondent will sleep quite soundly knowing that one Jonathan Freedland will remain sleepless while worrying about the sky falling all because of those darned "Republican headbangers."

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


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Earth to Guardian...

Obama can't get enough Democratic votes.

Go have a scone.

Freedland, and everybody else in the UK, better hope ObamaCare

...never gets passed, as a lot of Brits are going to die because they will not be able to fly here to get the medical treatment they can't get in the UK.

-Dave

I agree with Rush. It's time for Obama to resign.

Dave... Good

Dave...

Good point...thinking ahead by the leftists isn't something they know how to at times.

'Go Green...Recycle Congress'

Given that people exhaling

Given that people exhaling CO2 is the problem, Mr. Freedland should stop exhaling until the problem goes away.

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

Obama vs The American People

Free speech and all that stuff -- Bet he didn't expect that.

When Hugo Chavez took over Venezuela and turned it into a commie paradise lost, I note that Mark LLoyd said he made a mistake, he should have controlled the media first. 

  They're all a bit dizzy

  They're all a bit dizzy over there as they swirl around and around as Britain goes down the toilet.

Republican Headbangers? I

Republican Headbangers?

I resent that!!... I am a knuckle dragger and don't forget it!

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

Republican Headbanger, reporting for duty

What? Oh never mind. Aw man!!!!

"If the man, with the power, can't keep it under control...some heads are gonna roll." -Judas Priest

Don't worry Restless our

Don't worry Restless our day is coming! (remember to keep your phone number updated with the party!)

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

HEADBANGER'S BALL...

 HERE...

 

"...How blind can you be, don't you see...

...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."  

Nightwish

Freedland and Gore must be

Freedland and Gore must be kissing cousins.

'Go Green...Recycle Congress'

BT, does their family tree go straight up?

Freedland and Gore must be kissing cousins?

Now there is a visual you'll never forget!

"Why, she's no fun, she fell right over!" - Firesign Theatre

Earth to Guardian

Merely by speaking the Word, the Messiah decreased the number of uninsured by 15 million, or weren't you paying attention to "The Speech"?

For the record, The Guardian

For the record, The Guardian is a progressive left wing newspaper that makes the NYT look like the house organ for the John Birch Society. These dudes are really out there in la la land.

No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.

IT IS AMAZING...

 celalator,

That's just it, most people here in the States don't realize how far left they are. That sort of slant would put a paper in bankruptcy over here. But London might be the 1 place where newspapers are alive & well.

Now when I look at UK papers, I tend to go to the Telegraph. Why? 1 reason is that I liked it anyway, but when I saw Richard Quest(no irony in that name...)was on CNN with Howard Kurtz, & refering to the Telegraph as the "Torygraph". Well, if it's too far right for the idiot Quest, that is good enough for me.

 

"...How blind can you be, don't you see...

...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."  

Nightwish

Headbanger, yes. Republican, no.

"Republican Headbangers?"

Hey, I sure as all hell am a headbanger but I sure as all hell AM NOT a Republican!!! 

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

→ Thanks Unsane

Maybe it was a few years before Headbanging, but I felt led to seek out Mountain, "Flowers of Evil".

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

The sky will not fall!

 

The American people have gotten it, I wonder when Washington and the greenies will. Polls say that the percentage of voters who feel that climate change is an important issue is somewhat less than staggering. In fact somewhere around 2% I believe. This probably makes Cap and Tax unnecessary.

All in all, I think Mr Obama is being besieged by reality and he isn't liking it!

I however am!!   

 

 

 

 

Captain Zero

Tell me that the UK Gaurdian's Johnathan Freedland hasn't based our planet's hopes on a half-term senator with zero experience. 

One would think the crappy gifts obama gives would serve as a wakeup call to Freedland.

Like Charles Gibson, Freedland ain't up on the news

If he'd been watching Obama right along, he would've noted that not a single world leader has been persuaded to follow our eloquent President.  Hey, maybe they're racists :-)

Unlike a good part of the US electorate, world leaders seem to sense the lack of leadership, steadiness, and reliability in this inexperienced politician.  They know that Obama can't do anything but talk.

And that was long before this summer's health care revolt.

 

Yes. A valid comparison. Let's do that.

more than twice the amount belched out by the average Brit 

  The average Brit lives on an island that is very small compared the the United States.

  The average Brit lives on an island that is artificially warmed by the Atlantic heat conveyer.

 So the average Brit does not have to travel as far to get somewhere and does not have to heat his home as much. Got it, let's all move to Great Britain. That is the answer.

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

Great photo of 0bama in the Phantom zone


Forward to 1:30

That's pelosi and reid with him, I wish..

Iranians with H BOMBS is a planet killer...

State controlled health care is Tort Reform.

Telemprompter Zone

That's actually a photo of Obama in the Teleprompter Zone. His reflected image off a telemprompter or his real self in the Teleprompter Zone. You decide.

I is offended.

  As a white persons that enjoyed the heavy metals, I is offended at the racist headbangers remark.

mis-use of the term......again!

Another term gets mis-used.  Where do these liberals get their education these days, I thought they wuz smartz.  First teabagging (which I still can't believe CNN and MSNBC and others haven't gotten publicly chastised for by the FCC, but I forget who's in control) and now headbanging?

Heck, I can't imagine headbangers and Republicans as one and the same, once again the liberals make the wrong application of well-known term.

 I guess there's intelligence, and then there's being smart....neither of which applies to liberals.  I suppose that makes me a racist, but hey, everything does, right?

-Jon

             Ju

             Just shows that it takes more than a "community organizer" to run a country.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

oh brother...please...

I sure hate to be the bearer of bad news for all those who are so passionately in love with the earth, but...um...her days are numbered and there isn't a single person or government or public science project that will stop her fate.

 2 Peter 3:10-12  But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!

Go ahead, try to save her if that floats your boat, but in the end, all your efforts will be in vain. God will frustrate every plan of men. God is in control, and He will determine the fate of His creation, not Obama or our godless Congress.

 

"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will
be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for
pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner."
— Malcolm Muggeridge

start praying

"Anyone who cares about the survival of our planet should start praying…"

Start praying to whom? You folks don't believe in God and to pray to Obama would make him God-like, but if he's God, he's all powerful and doesn't need the prayers of the folks to defeat the dumb Republican legions.