President Obama - Kool-Aid Drinkers Hope He Fails

While most of the nation is heaving a huge sigh of relief to be rid of Georg W. "I'm a Cretin" Bush, the Kool-Aid drinkers of the loony and Christianist far right are wailing and gnashing teeth as if the end of the world were at hand. The prospect that science, logic, objective facts, and facing reality and a rejection of religious extremism will be the new way of governing the country is terrifying to these folks. One example of the whacked out elements that for now have been relegated to the lunatic fringe comes from Leon Wolf at Redstate. These people supported Bush, torture, a war based on lies and doctored intelligence data, the trampling of Constitutional freedoms, the suspension of habeus corpus, and yet they claim Obama is immoral. Their logic is twisted beyond belief. Here are some highlights from his rant:

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Many sensible centrists and conservatives – even among those who did not vote for Obama – have expressed a willingness to give Obama the benefit of the doubt. They say, for the sake of the country, that they hope that Obama will make a good President. It’s a natural enough sentiment, I guess; people like for the trains to run on time. I will agree with it in this one respect: I hope that he keeps the country safe from a terrorist attack. Beyond that, however, I hope that Barack Obama is a failure as a President.

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Before you recoil in horror that I could express such a sentiment, allow me to remind you what the pleasant face and smooth rhetoric hide in the case of Barack Obama: they hide a morally depraved and crooked man . . . . A man who has gotten to his position of power by climbing the greatest and dirtiest ladder in all of politics.

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You see, what happens when the trains run on time is that people are quicker to forget the moral failures of their elected officials, and their government at large. As we saw in the late 90s, when people are by and large materially prosperous (especially if they are artificially so), they dislike being bothered by those who would point out that their government is populated by the corrupt, the immoral, or the liars. . . . in such an environment, it becomes much easier for a Democratic President and Congress to pass the abominable Freedom of Choice Act, repeal the Hyde Amendment, increase extortionate taxation on order to funnel more corrupt graft to their supporters, and otherwise abuse the trappings of power for immoral means.

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Barack Obama is sure to have a lengthy honeymoon with many people, who will be willing to overlook his essential moral emptiness for as long as it appears that he is doing a competent job of running his Administration. As for me, it is my hope for America that Obama’s moral emptiness will be exposed through his actions for all to see, and in such a way that we will not continue to allow ourselves to sweep it under the rug.

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And as for myself, because I know who Barack Obama is and what he really stands for, I will oppose everything he does, and I will do so from day one. Who among you will join me?