[StBernard] Obama's Victory

[Westley Annis]

London Daily Mail editorial 11/9

Obama's Victory

A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah
Wright, the 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 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 meagre 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.

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