We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/obamanation_sna.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:01:28 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification [Kat] Victor Hanson has a piece up on the seeming paradoxic love affair with Obama: The Way Ahead But it was this comment that caught my attention: As Kathy Parker at WaPo and others are astutely pointing out, Obama's nascent rise reflects uncomfortably on who we are.."We are the change!"...as a nation, both the good -optimistic, reasonably messianic, idealistic, good-natured, generous, progressive - ....and the bad - pathologically narcissistic, spoiled, fatherless, rootless, undiscerning, selfishly pragmatic ("Hey, free health care? Sounds good to me! Why not?") Obama somehow manages to combine the two sides, with a very toxic result, where Americans... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/obamanation_sna.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/obamanation_sna.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:46:53 -0600 Whoops .... I see that I failed to change the word Deutsche to American above when I separated the 2 paragraphs, and gave the impression that Obama was making promises to the German people. My bad. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/obamanation_sna.html#comment-70045 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/obamanation_sna.html#comment-70045 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:18:28 -0600 emdfl, My thought exactly. I was reminded of this when I first saw photos of women at Obama rallies in an almost religious euphoria, fainting and swooning at the power of his "charisma" and his promises of "change" for the Deutsche volk. The parallel between these photos and those I've seen of women's reactions at Hitler rallies was truly frightening. I think we all need to seriously ask ourselves just how Obama has become so popular, so quickly, with so much of the electorate while offering so little in terms of real policies and ideas. Change simply for change's sake is not necessarily a good thing ..... and something or someone that sounds too good to be true usually is. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/obamanation_sna.html#comment-70044 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/obamanation_sna.html#comment-70044 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:13:58 -0600 Not wishing to invoke Godwin's Rule, but it seems to me the last time this sort of thing happened was in the early thirties... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/obamanation_sna.html#comment-70041 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/obamanation_sna.html#comment-70041 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:58:07 -0600