Monday, August 20, 2012

From Hope and Change to Dope and Chains

As everyone in the galaxy has by now learned, our esteemed Vice President spoke before a group of Barack Obama's remaining supporters last week and included the following in his observations about Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan: "Look at what they value, and look at their budget. And look what they're proposing … unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains." This was no slip of the tongue. It was in a prepared speech delivered with the aid of a teleprompter, and it is part of the trifecta of fear on which he and his boss are betting in the hope that a majority of the electorate can be frightened into voting for them in November. Biden's slimy race-baiting is the inevitable complement to "Mediscare" and "the war on women."
How sad. Four years ago, then-Senator Obama was an inspirational figure for many. Millions of voters pulled the lever for him and watched with glistening eyes as he declared, "If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time … tonight is your answer." Four years later, however, he is just another cynical pol. Thus, when his Vice President produced a disgusting minstrel drawl to conflate GOP victory with the return of slavery, he shrugged it off: "The truth is that during the course of these campaigns, folks like to get obsessed with how something was phrased even if everybody personally understands that's not how it was meant."

Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/08/20/from-hope-and-change-to-dope-a

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