On Oct 10, 8:11*am, Family-Outdoors wrote:


There is a method of operation that permeates the efforts of the
whacko right. They denigrate ideas of those who are not in their
club. *It is in my opinion, vital to understand that they are not
exclusively taking shots at ideas or positions, but people.

To put a somewhat finer point on it, they are not interested in ideas
at all.

I do not
believe all who oppose Obama do so because of his color, but I believe
it does affect many who do not even know that it does. *The habituated
method of operation of the right as taught by Rove and others is to
viciously oppose people that are not in the club. *(BTW how damn
ridiculous is it to trot out one of the few black conservative
columnists or commentators whenever it is convenient to do so?
Obama's election has certainly benefited them.)

Proof that Obama's ideas are not the target are revealed in areas like
the "death panels." *The idea of end of life counseling being covered
by medicare was originally floated by conservatives. *When it became
part of healthcare reform, Palin and others wrapped it in a different
package and pounced. *Many of Obama's positions are consistent with
portions of what the right desires. *But he isn't in the club. *Sounds
a little childish.

Winning the Nobel Prize is like throwing meat to the lions. *When you
hear them say, "We just can't figure out what he won it for," *what it
really means to many of them is that they just need a little time to
formulate a smear campaign based on this new dynamic. *What it means
to the rest, is they are SO small minded, they honestly are incapable
of realizing... a)how much damage Bush did to our country domestically
and abroad, destroying a large portion of the respected status we
had. *He also failed miserably to capitalize on the genuine sympathy
availed to us after 9-11...b) Why an international organization would
send a message (as it clearly is) saying congratulations on replacing
an abject foreign policy failure with a man who at the very least is
communicating the ideas that will promote peace.

What an international organization is doing isn't quite as clear to me
as it seems to be to you.....let alone their motivation for doing so.
However, let us, for the sake of argument, suppose that your
assessment is correct. That makes the Nobel committee about as
puerile (though not quite so reprehensible) as those whom they seek to
criticise without having the balls to state clearly, simply, and
unequivocally that Bush et al. were, and remain, a pack of pigs.
Meanwhile, a comprehensive record of Mr. Obama's foregin policy
successes and failures remains to be written.....should take about
another three and a half or seven and a half years if I understand the
rudiments of national government in this country.

I will remain a sidelined conservative until the leaders of
conservatism turn from these tactics and the morons of the
conservative media are taken down.

Don't hold your breath.

giles