If there is one thing that separates liberals/”progressives” from conservatives/classic liberals it is the liberal/”progressive” devotion to symbolism. President Obamas administration celebrates winning a Twitter war in cyberspace while Putin carves new boundaries in the real world. They are prosecuting a sort of Candy Crush brand of foreign policy where wins are technically wins - but are essentially meaningless to anyone who doesnt play Candy Crush. They create this idiotic meme for a bored and listless President - the bear is loose - evoking the image of a fierce, caged animal breaking free... Somehow, I dont see Putin playing Candy Crush on his iPad. He shoots actual bears and skins them...with his teeth. Based on his performance to date, it seems clear that Barack Obama was elected because he was a symbol, an expression of reality instead of something that was truly real. In actuality, he was guy inexperienced in just about everything meaningful to running the country at the national level and only stumbles in the direction that the true left in America want him to go. They are more than willing to keep their mouths shut about his maintenance of Bush era terror policies and the expansion of domestic spying – because they just know that right wing terror is the real danger and if they cast a big enough net, they will catch some, right? The same people who screamed about Bush’s use of “signing statements” are perfectly cool with Obama using administrative law (regulations) and the constitutionally dubious practice of issuing executive orders to bypass Congress on just about any pet issue and are largely quiet now. There are a few peeps from people like Dennis “The Menace” Kucinich but the endless revolving door of leftist handwringing talking heads getting airtime during Bush’s terms are missing now in the newspapers, on CNN, the Alphabet Networks and MSNBC. It says something when lefties like Kucinich can only get covered at places like the Washington Examiner, Fox News and on right leaning blogs like Real Clear Politics. We have as the current President, a lightly regarded Illinois state Senator, who once read a teleprompter really, really well at the Democratic convention, a guy won his Senate election after sealed divorce documents of his Republican opponent were somehow mysteriously released and after getting elected, logged a grand total of 304 days in the US Senate before announcing his run for president – the number of 143 days was floated by a blogger in May of 2008 was helpfully corrected by a member of the palace guard, FactCheck.org – as if somehow 10 months was much more of a qualification for the Presidency than 4.7 months was. If the “white establishment” is what is keeping the black man down, they sure missed the boat here…and if blacks believe this, then they would really have to question why Obama was “allowed” to become the President of the United States instead of having a bit part in The Oprah’s movie, ” Lee Daniel’s The Butler“. The raw truth is that in American history, there have existed no greater racists than Democrats. They have a long and storied history of brutal actions resting on nothing but hatred based on race. While The Oprah invoked Emmett Till as an example of racism in America a while back, it was the good Democrats who tortured, killed and dumped Till’s body in the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi. How would one hide the racism that pervades one’s political party? You engineer the election of a symbol to negate the criticism. Webster defines “symbolism” as: >>>The art or practice of using symbols especially by investing things with a symbolic meaning or by expressing the invisible or intangible by means of visible or sensuous representations.>“I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.”>‘A lifelong Democrat, Mr. Zeifman supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career.’>“Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.’>On Wednesday, the New York Times ran a blistering investigative report revealing the Clinton Foundation as a nonprofit rife with crony capitalist conflicts of interest and multi-million dollar deficits despite raking in at least $492 million from 1997 to 2007. In 2007 and 2008, the Clinton Foundation, which is soon to be renamed the “Bill, Hillary, & Chelsea Clinton Foundation,” ran a $40 million deficit. Last year, it ran a deficit of over $8 million despite the Foundation and two subsidiaries generating $214 million in revenues... The New York Times says the cronyism and conflicts have reached critical mass. “The Clinton Foundation had become a sprawling concern, supervised by a rotating board of old Clinton hands, vulnerable to distraction and threatened by conflicts of interest,” reports the Times. “It ran multimillion-dollar deficits for several years, despite vast amounts of money flowing in.”
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:45:20 +0000
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