The Obama cult

Riley Hunter at Big Hollywood has a devastating summary of Obama and the Obama cult. (Note: you have to get past some bad language in the first paragraph where Hunter quotes Salon commenters’ obscene response to Camille Paglia’s critical article about the One’s administration, discussed by me here.) He writes:

Ms. Paglia’s Salon article and comment section betray two strains of debilitating denial currently ravishing the Obama Left. The more obvious case is that of the rank-and-file goose-steppers who see nothing wrong with bungling cabinet appointments to the point of absurdity; inexplicably insulting our strongest foreign ally; publicly indulging a juvenile personal vendetta against a meanie radio host; fear-mongering the Dow to 12-year lows; signing the filthiest pork bill in U.S. history without reading or writing it; lifting America’s knickers and bending over for the much more clever Vladimir Putin; closing Gitmo without an exit strategy; etc. In the eye of the true believer, all of this is miraculous and wonderful by definition because Obama did it. For this group, any blemish on Obama’s record is sooner the fault of George W. Bush, Sasquatch or the Illuminati than it is that of the first African-American President of the United States.

Normally it takes at least a couple of years for a president to accumulate a litany of foul-ups like that. Obama hasn’t been in office two months.

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Sage McLaughlin writes:

Thanks so much for pointing out that anti-Obama column today. It’s the best of its kind I have read, by a mile. What is frustrating, of course, is that the same denial that led people to vote for him will lead them to invent or swallow any petty excuse in his defense.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 14, 2009 12:09 PM | Send