Obama naysayers speak out: No O-kumbaya!
Posted by Carlos C. on Sunday, January 18th, 2009 at 10:50 am
With Barack Obama’s approval ratings in the 70s and his visage plastered on every shop window and Metro card in Washington, it’s hard to remember that 58 million Americans voted for the other guy.
Even President Bush — who presumably counts himself among that group — said last week that Obama’s inauguration is “a moment of hope and pride.”
That’s not exactly how Michelle Malkin describes it.
“Jan. 20 has turned into a schlock inauguration, (where) every last moocher has come to cash in on Obama,” says the conservative blogger and pundit. “There are some of us who want to bang our heads against the wall.”
While most Republicans now in office are saying all the right things about Tuesday’s proceedings — roll tape on “peaceful transfer of power” and “historic moment for the country” sound bites — some conservatives can’t quite get themselves in the “We Are One” mood.
Not even for a day.
On his radio show last week, Rush Limbaugh railed against “people on our side of the aisle who have caved and who say, ‘Well, I hope he succeeds. We have to give him a chance.’”
“Why?” Limbaugh demanded. “They didn’t give Bush a chance in 2000. Before he was inaugurated, the search-and-destroy mission had begun. I’m not talking about search-and-destroy, but I’ve been listening to Barack Obama for a year and a half. I know what his politics are. I know what his plans are, as he has stated them. I don’t want them to succeed.”
Every television channel, including HBO, is going to have wall-to-wall coverage of the inauguration. The coverage will be saturated with music and movie stars getting their “me” time and nauseating the masses with their bullcrap of faux peace and love well-wishes. And yes, the historical aspect is good, but I am over that. I do not care about Obama’s skin color. I care about exposing Obama’s Socialist policies that he has so deceptively wrapped up as “hope and change”.
While I do not care for Barack Obama’s upcoming policies, I do care about Barack Obama the man. He is a husband and father. He will be the President of the United States on Tuesday. I am disgusted by all of the assassination attempts and plots that have been formulated in the past few months. Scoop This has reported each one (here, here, here, here, and here).
Really, do you want Joe Biden to be the President?
Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin
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I hope the results of his policies are “good for the country.” However, I think Obama’s opinion of what’s good for the country is quite a bit differen’t than mine and so will his measure of whether he’s “successful” in this regard. This is where I imagine a lot of my criticism will come from over the next four years.
I can say with confidence that my criticism of Obama will be far more educated and more well informed than much of the criticism of Bush I’ve seen out of the left. I think that Limbaugh’s criticism will be as well but I believe his criticism of people like me for hoping that Obama does good by the country which isn’t really the same thing as “being a success,” is misplaced.