Marx Lite(weight)
Kristol summons up the ghost of Marx in a bid to understand Obama. Howzabout some Stalin? One campaign misstep is a tragedy. One after another after another after another is a freakin’ trainwreck. OK, that’s not exactly what Stalin said. Your morning’s campaign blood spillage follows:
You remember Karl Marx, right? Discredited 19th century wackjob German parlor utopian whose idiotic ideas, practically applied, became an excuse to launch bloodbaths and landgrabs in the 20th century, laying waste to entire countries and rendering millions of lives bleak and horrible. Much like Obama, Kristol notes, Marx considered religion to be the opium of the masses.
No commie Malkin, she’s marketing SNOBama wear.
Obama, in a classic Marxist move, opts for heated offense as the best defense, tries to make it about Hillary: “Shame on her!” Darned kulak!
By the way, the last time down-home Hill went to church or fired a gun is none of your business.
Powerline posits Clinton’s stance is to be less obvious inauthentic.
Gateway looks askance and cruelly PhotoShops the Hero of Tuzla’s gunplay claims.
Ed at Hotair suggests Obama, in the shooting gallery, attempts to dodge the high-velocity bigotry corks, prefering softer “bitterness” pellets.
Surber suggests Obama placate the gun-toting Jesus-addled rubes by channeling Brenda Lee: “I’m sorry.”
Kuhn at RCP: Obama’s Kerry moment. Bitterness = Being for it before he was against it.
Surveying the bloody Dem contest, I just keep thinking of the old Clinton campaign theme, “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow.” This will go on at least until April 22 and more likely June 3, maybe into the convention in August. So many tomorrows to not stop thinking about!
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:45 am on Monday, April 14, 2008
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April 14th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Bottom line is in these Kristol observations
“Was he simply flattering his wealthy San Francisco donors by casting aspersions on the idiocy of small-town life?…disdainful of small-town America — one might say, of bourgeois America. He’s usually good at disguising this. But in San Francisco the mask slipped. And it’s not so easy to get elected by a citizenry you patronize…”
Mask Slippage
April 14th, 2008 at 10:25 am
That hunting stuff cracks me up every time. Memo to politicians: if you don’t actually hunt, it’s probably not a good idea to pretend you do. Even if you have gone hunting before, it’s probably not a good idea to mention it if the mental image people will have of you hunting is one of ridiculousness. I know it’s hard to believe, but there’s more on the minds of them backwoods country folks than just hunt’n and fish’n. Like people everywhere, they want respect for their interests, but they hardly expect everybody to share them.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Obama says so many contradictory things to so many different people, it’s hard to puzzle out what he actually does believe. If he believes in anything, that is. He’s been described as an empty suit, but to me, he’s a man without a face.
April 14th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Didn’t Lenin refer to the “idiocy of rural life”? This is part and parcel of the same.
It is truly good theater to watch the Dems, who clearly don’t get “America”, and have not since JFK, race around trying to trump each other on distinctions only they care about. Now this Steve Erkel with a tailor is racing to the left and alienating the very people who kept the Dems in power back in the day. “Lessee, I will dis millions of blue collar schlubs to get the vote of one millionaire with a grey ponytail.” Which Democrat strategist came up with that one? Then the next thing we’ll hear is that the election was “stolen”.
Is it lost on people that the only Rockefeller in politics nowadays is a Democrat?