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London Daily Mail, "Obama's
Victory"
A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey,
the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the US mainstream
media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans
who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics
who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare
attack genuinely powerful special interest groups. A
victory for Obama-worshippers everywhere. A victory for the
cult of the cult. A man who has done little with his life but
has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for
cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor
with his teeth. Victory for style over substance, hyperbole
over history, rabble-raising over reality.
A victory for Hollywood, the most
dysfunctional community in the world. Victory for Streisand,
Spielberg, Soros, Moore, and Sarandon. Victory for those
who prefer welfare to will and interference to independence.
For those who settle for group think and herd mentality rather
than those who fight for individual initiative and the right
to be out of step with meager political fashion.
Victory for a man who is no friend of
freedom. He and his people have already stated that media has
to be controlled so as to be balanced, without realizing the
extraordinary irony within that statement. Like most liberal
zealots, the Obama worshippers constantly speak of Fox and Limbaugh,
when the vast bulk of television stations and newspapers are
drastically liberal and anti-conservative. Senior
Democrat Chuck Schumer said that just as pornography should be
censored, so should talk radio. In other words, one of the few free
and open means of popular expression may well be cornered and beaten
by bullies who even in triumph cannot tolerate any criticism and
opposition.
A victory for those who believe the state is
better qualified to raise children than the family, for those who
prefer teachers' unions to teaching and for those who are
naively convinced that if the West is sufficiently weak towards its
enemies, war and terror will dissolve as quickly as the tears
on the face of a leftist celebrity.
A victory for social democracy even after
most of Europe has come to the painful conclusion that social
democracy leads to mediocrity, failure, unemployment, inflation,
higher taxes and economic stagnation. A victory for intrusive
lawyers, banal sentimentalists, social extremists and urban snobs.
Congratulations America
! Your funeral will be sooner than you think!
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