The O-Train is simply unstoppable. As a recent convert (I gave my first $50 just this week), I must say I certainly couldn’t resist getting on board.
Well, I just picked up the latest issue of The Economist, and seeing Obama on the cover – am sure this must be a sure sign of yet another endorsement. (Please follow below.)
I turn the page to their first "Leader" and the suspicion seems to be confirmed – check out the praise of Obama:
It is not just that he has managed to survive the Clintons’ crude onslaught with grace. He has persuaded huge numbers of people around the world to reconsider politics in an optimistic way. To many Americans, a black man who eschews both racial politics and the conservative-liberal divide is a chance to heal the country’s two deepest divisions.
The man's appeal is just universal.
They then go on to comment on how the Clinton candidacy is dead after Hillary ran a "leaden and nasty" campaign.
Can’t argue with that.
After some discussion of the way McCain has historically appealed to independents, the piece then goes for a crescendo:
Mr. Obama’s voting record in the Senate is one of the most left-wing of any Democrat. Even if he never voted for the Iraq war, his policy for dealing with that country now seems to amount to little more than pulling out quickly, convening a peace conference, inviting the Iranians and the Syrians along and hoping for the best.
Huh? I’m confused. Where did that come from?
The Economist is a conservative magazine whose US bureau is dominated by Republicans. And, as we all know, Republicans love Obama almost as much as they hate McCain.
To take just one example, the barber of my brother-in-law’s adopted nephew is a hard-core right-wing evangelical and he swore an affidavit last week that Obama is the greatest candidate he’s ever seen.
(He’s predicted a 43-state landslide, but I think that’s low-balling.)
So what the hell?
On the economy, [Obama’s] plans are more thought out, but he often tells people only that they deserve more money and more opportunities. If one lesson from the wasted Bush years is that needless division is bad, another is that incompetence is perhaps even worse. A man who has never run any public body of any note is a risk, even if his campaign has been a model of discipline.
Now wait a minute. This must be a bunch of typos.
And the Obama phenomenon would not always be helpful, because it would raise expectations to undue heights. Budgets do not magically cut themselves, even if both parties are in awe of the president; the Middle East will not heal, just because a president’s second name is Hussein. Choices will have to be made – and foes created even when there is no intention to do so. Indeed, something like that has already happened in his campaign. The post-racial candidate has ended up relying heavily on black votes (and in some places even highlighting the divide between Latinos and blacks).
Well, they’re full of crap. But rest assured: Since none of these attacks are true or fair, we don’t have to worry about them. Ever.
(Does The Economist website allow reader comments where I can go type in a ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz.........? Ha! That will show them...)
Still, the whole article makes no sense – unless... its all a conspiracy being secretly directed by The Nearly Invincible CLINTON ATTACK MACHINE!!!!!
Now everything comes into focus (whew)! The Clintons, with their crack armies of sliming shock troops will stop at nothing in their vicious, narcissistic quest to rule the world! They’ve even infiltrated The Economist!
Well, they’ve really done it this time.
But, while this Clinton opposition is historically fierce, rest assured: we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills.
We shall fight until we have crushed Clinton completely – once and for all – and scattered her deluded supporters to the four winds!
We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be!
Right?