Obama and “The Audacity of Hate” part II: Franken

We have discussed the hatred that drives many Obama supporters in the past ( examples: link and link ). The saga continues.

With Al Franken now a Senator (by any means necessary) the picture of the 2008 elections is now complete. The issue, the only issue, was revenge. People voted for Franken simply because the idea was so ludicrous that they felt would really stick it to “the man”, whoever the imagined that to be.

I was prompted to write this by a comment from a acquaintance on twitter whose tweet is quoted below. I do not suggest that this is his motivation, only that his words reminded me of the issue as a whole.

“Oh, true! Hell, we can even have morons as Presidents! & I giggle when I think of O’Reilly having to say "Senator Franken". HA!” twitter comment by Ropecast

Now, I am not immune. I personally would have been amused as all hell to see Jon Stewart kill himself on national TV if McCain / Palin had won that election but like Greydancer I also had other factors for my choices this sort of amusement was just a bonus.

For many though revenge and anger was the primary and sometimes only issue. During the elections we saw this sort of thing commonly from Obama supporters. The glee they felt when they imagined the reactions of their straw man “Republicans” to the election of Obama. Their imagination conjured the specter of racism behind every criticism of the man, and they felt a visceral pleasure when they thought about how it would make us feel. Even after the election you can see this illusion played out. Take the idiocy of Janeane Garafalo as a case in point.

This should not really be a surprise: the Democratic party is, essentially, one driven and unified by hatred and the need for a common enemy. The only way to hide the reality of their policies ( confiscatory taxation, racially driven quotas and so on ) is to push the illusion that they are necessary to protect “the common man” from “those evil corporations / capitalists / white guys”.

What is becoming more and more clear to these folks as the confetti and hopium smoke drifts away is that in screwing “us” they also screwed themselves. They elected one of the most corrupt and transparently opportunistic presidents in the history of the nation and simultaneously handed the Senate to a group of slavoring lapdogs that finally see their chance to get their paws on an infinite amount of pork.

Unfortunately the damage done by the “stimulus” will already take us decades to fix and that’s before we see the results of the “cap and trade” boondoggle.If Obamas health care plan actually comes to pass then what started as dangerous greed will end in deaths and lots of them. Deaths that can be firmly laid at the feet of the urge to buy votes by making people dependant on the DNC for their very lives and the power of hate driving politics.

Hopefully these fools are paying attention and will learn something from this very costly lesson.

* As a side note, I dig the Ropecast and think Greydancer is a cool person as well as a fellow freak, so this isn’t a personal issue.