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The Corner! The Corner Knows Why Obama Hasn’t Declared War On Iran Yet

by Jim Newell  3:40 pm June 22, 2009

Very smart ex-prosecutor person Andrew C. “Andy” McCarthy knows most things about Barack Obama, including all of his secrets. McCarthy’s top achievement in life has been proving that Bill Ayers ghostwrote Obama’s memoir Dreams Of My Father. Not many people knew about this, and it was a journalistic scoop, and so is this: “The fact is that, as a man of the hard Left, Obama is more comfortable with a totalitarian Islamic regime than he would be with a free Iranian society.” That’s the fact, okay?

The fact is that, as a man of the hard Left, Obama is more comfortable with a totalitarian Islamic regime than he would be with a free Iranian society. In this he is no different from his allies like the Congressional Black Caucus and Bill Ayers, who have shown themselves perfectly comfortable with Castro and Chàvez. Indeed, he is the product of a hard-Left tradition that apologized for Stalin and was more comfortable with the Soviets than the anti-Communists (and that, in Soros parlance, saw George Bush as a bigger terrorist than bin Laden).

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It’s a mistake to perceive this as “weakness” in Obama. It would have been weakness for him to flit over to the freedom fighters’ side the minute it seemed politically expedient. He hasn’t done that, and he won’t. Obama has a preferred outcome here, one that is more in line with his worldview, and it is not victory for the freedom fighters. He is hanging as tough as political pragmatism allows, and by doing so he is making his preferred outcome more likely. That’s not weakness, it’s strength — and strength of the sort that ought to frighten us.

There you go: another one of Barack Obama’s secrets that Andy McCarthy knows is that the President would rather have the worst sort of Iranian regime remain in place than a flourishing democracy, in this completely hypothetical black-and-white choice he’s invented that has little to do with the hour-to-hour situation in Iran.

Even Starburst got a little freaked out after reading McCarthy’s post, so McCarthy clarified:

Finally, I detect in your post a sense that I’m this close to the fringe. Saying, “whatever policy differences we have with him,” is generally a prelude to claiming that some objection that has been lodged is beyond the realm of acceptable argument. I’ll say two things about that. First, if you look at the sweeping changes that have occurred in the past five months, I think what I argued before the election about the significance of Obama’s Leftist background and radical connections was on the mark. Second, I am saying what I am saying because I respect the president. As I said in the last post, I don’t think he is weak at all. To the contrary, I think he has strategic goals that he pursues in highly disciplined, tactical pragmatism. He is a force to be reckoned with, and I don’t think you reckon with him by hopefully assuming that, on some level, he shares our ideas about what’s best for the country and the world. I credit him for wanting what’s best — but only as he sees it.

C’mon Starburst, get your fuckin’ head in the game. He *knows* that the President wants to do what’s best for the country. It’s just that for him, that means establishing an American caliphate, okay?

Understanding Obama on Iran [The Corner]
Re: Re: Understanding Obama on Iran [The Corner]
Scoring a Wingnut Post [Balloon Juice]

{ 52 comments }

iantenna June 22, 2009 at 3:45 pm

well, what do you expect? he IS a member of the brat pack.

jodyleek June 22, 2009 at 3:47 pm

His looks have sure gone to hell since Pretty in Pink.

Extemporanus June 22, 2009 at 3:47 pm

Do they have The Corner in the Oval Office?

rambone June 22, 2009 at 3:48 pm

I should have known the first time I saw Barry wearing a Hijab while blowing Osama. I guess I just lack McCarthy’s shrewd deductive skills.

slappypaddy June 22, 2009 at 3:49 pm

the new mccarthyism. duck and cover, everyone.

WestEdEd June 22, 2009 at 3:50 pm

I, for one, welcome our new Hard left American caliphate masters.

They HAVE to do a better job than the Texas Chicken Hawk Retards we just got done having.

FlownOver June 22, 2009 at 3:51 pm

Is there a law that every psychotic Republican motivated by paranoiac anti-Communism has to be named “McCarthy,” or is it just happy coincidence so we know what we’re getting in advance, like with Philip Glass music?

Studge June 22, 2009 at 3:51 pm

[re=344527]jodyleek[/re]: He never REALLY stood up to Blain, and he is now a shadow of his former self, which of course was a shadow of a pop star with a shelf life of three years.

Inadequate Blackmail June 22, 2009 at 3:52 pm

Joe, Andrew or Charlie: Which McCarthy is the biggest blockhead?

ManchuCandidate June 22, 2009 at 3:54 pm

Er, why then were your fellow travelers cheering for Ad-whatever-the-fuck?

Crickets…

Carry on, then.

4tehlulz June 22, 2009 at 3:57 pm

Shorter Andy: Will someone please bust a cap in Obama’s face?

CivicHoliday June 22, 2009 at 3:58 pm

I is confused. How can he love right-wing theocratic dictators in Iran but hate them in Israel? He wants to destroy Jerusalem and give it Hamas, right??

Monsieur Grumpe June 22, 2009 at 3:58 pm

As soon as I hear these clones start a sentence with “The fact is” I know I’m in for a poop fest of words. Just listen to some Newt-Speak and note that every other sentence starts with it.

joezoo June 22, 2009 at 3:58 pm

By “anti-Communists” does he mean “Nazis”? Because in that case…

paintitblack June 22, 2009 at 3:59 pm

Hey! where do I get me somma that Obamma-yeah-mamma! “hard left”??? Dibs on that!

Birdcrash June 22, 2009 at 4:00 pm

The greatest achievement of the conservative movement is the mainstreaming of the insane.

SayItWithWookies June 22, 2009 at 4:02 pm

Good gravy:
While the mullahs may be “anti-American” as we understand that term, Obama doesn’t think they would be resolutely anti the America that he intends to shape. (emphasis McCarthy’s).

Yeah, because nothing says religious dictatorship like a suspected agnostic who’s dismantling Guantanamo Bay, stopping the military tribunals, increasing government transparency and trying so hard to build a consensu on everything that it drives his supporters crazy. How long can we put up with it?

Extemporanus June 22, 2009 at 4:02 pm

Charlie McCarthy-style dummies. Sex dolls. Andrew McCarthy. What’s next? Mannequins?!

I fear we may need to stage an intervention before Meshach Taylor pops up in a “Hillary is a Designing Woman” post, or some such shit.

GDuvall June 22, 2009 at 4:03 pm

Rich Lowry, translated: Please, please, PLEASE don’t blame National Review when one of our readers decides to take a shot at the President.

The Cold Sea June 22, 2009 at 4:04 pm

This is a tough one to score. 8.5 overall. Not as good as it could have been. I deduct one point alone for failure to use a birther argument. At least his last name is McCarthy.

magic titty June 22, 2009 at 4:04 pm

Less Than Zero.

[re=344548]4tehlulz[/re]: Yes. That.

tehbenton June 22, 2009 at 4:05 pm

At long last, sir, have you no sense of decency?

4tehlulz June 22, 2009 at 4:07 pm

[re=344563]GDuvall[/re]: That’s exactly what it reads like, isn’t it?

This, of course, will not lead to Andy’s firing anytime soon.

lomri June 22, 2009 at 4:07 pm

[re=344551]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: I’m adding the words “Hard Left” to my right-wingism filter list that makes my brain turn off. It’s like a sanity fuse that pops before my head starts on fire. Also on this list is “Soros” and “wealth redistribution”.

BlueStateLibtard June 22, 2009 at 4:08 pm

“The fact is that, as a man of the hard Left…” Yet another Freudian slip from a Republican–geez, they all secretly want to get in Obama’s pants, don’t they?

Hart88 June 22, 2009 at 4:09 pm

“The fact is, as a member of the wingnut fringe, McCarthy is more comfortable fucking goats than he is at fucking members of his own species.”

Wow, that’s too easy.

Keram2 June 22, 2009 at 4:10 pm

So because Obama is friends with Bill Ayers — a man who fought an admittedly piss-poor fight to bring down the American government — he obviously doesn’t side with the kids now trying to bring down another government? Huh? Nah bra. Nah.

V572625694 June 22, 2009 at 4:15 pm

Okay: there’s Mary McCarthy, who used to boink Edmund Wilson and Philip Rahv, and wrote the wonderful “Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood.” Her brother Kevin McCarthy was an actor whose most famous role was in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original edition from 1957 or so.)” Then there was Joe McCarthy, “Tailgunner Joe,” whose name symbolizes deranged anticommunism and political witch-hunting.

I don’t think this McCarthy gets to be included in that group. Say what you like about ‘em, they all did something.

And what’s all this “hard left” shit? Who’s on the “soft left”–Jimmy Carter? Does this guy have an aching testicle or something?

germansteel June 22, 2009 at 4:16 pm

I saw Obama swat a bigger fly than this dickweed just the other day. He could handle him with a back hand.

SayItWithWookies June 22, 2009 at 4:18 pm

[re=344560]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Consensus. Konsensu is the Japanese word for it.

Also this piece of ridiculousness: “[Obama] is steeped in Leftist ideology, fueled in anger and resentment over what he chooses to see in America’s history…”

Yeah, I’ve pretty much never run across an angrier, more ideological politician in my life. McCarthy’s so right — why isn’t this man fuhrer?

Oldskool June 22, 2009 at 4:19 pm

Wow, he was really opinionating his little heart out there. Thank the loward for people happy to make asses of themselves for our viewing pleasure.

norbizness June 22, 2009 at 4:21 pm

“The fact is that, as a man of the hard Left, Obama is more comfortable with a totalitarian Islamic regime than he would be with a free Iranian society. In this he is no different from his allies like the Congressional Black Caucus and Bill Ayers, who have shown themselves perfectly comfortable with Castro and Chàvez. Indeed, he is the product of a hard-Left tradition that apologized for Stalin and was more comfortable with the Soviets than the anti-Communists (and that, in Soros parlance, saw George Bush as a bigger terrorist than bin Laden).”

One more bugaboo reference (POL POT!!!!!) and this paragraph reaches critical density and collapses on itself, creating a rift in the space-time continuum and a black hole of stupidity so gravitationally intense that nothing can escape, except for K-Lo and Doughy Pantload.

dijetlo June 22, 2009 at 4:23 pm

It used to be you had to go find the village idiot.
Then gave them a website.
Convenience = 1
Sanity = 0

Other interesting articles from the Village Idiots online…

Ronald Reagan STILL DEAD!!!!!
A nation mourns.

4tehlulz June 22, 2009 at 4:23 pm

[re=344603]norbizness[/re]: Actually, K-Lo and Doughy would just clog up the hole.

Their sacrifices shall be remembered for all eternity.

madtowngooner June 22, 2009 at 4:23 pm

Is Obama’s “Hard Left” a distinguishing characteristic like Bubba’s crank?

Anonymous Office Zombie June 22, 2009 at 4:24 pm

Don’t be jealous just because you don’t own a magical tinfoil hat like Andy or Ron Paul. That’s how they get the straight dope that nobody else can see… from the 6th dimension.

nappyduggs June 22, 2009 at 4:29 pm

“He is steeped in Leftist ideology, fueled in anger and resentment over what he chooses to see in America’s history……”

Ummm, so what that would actually look like is Our Man fashioning some sort of internment camps for the boogins, and Bennetts, and Bachmanns- oh, my!- that still populate this land. I think that thus far, he’s done a fine job of taking our collective history on the chin.

McDuff June 22, 2009 at 4:42 pm

If an exclusive private high school in Hawaii, an Ivy league education and law degreee, and a professorship at Milton Freedman U can turn a black man “angry” — then what are my public high school education, backwater college degree, and low prestige civil service job gonna do to me? Should I lock myself away before I kill, socialize medicine, or take over a Fortune 500 company to save it from itself?

FormerDCite June 22, 2009 at 4:45 pm

By Mr. McCarthy’s crazy math Obama is a Stalin apologist. By my crazy math Mr. McCarthy is an America First Brown Shirt, insisting on isolation and opposing the Roosevelt administration in 1940. Of course, he still opposes the course the U.S. took against Germany in WWII.

Humpback June 22, 2009 at 4:58 pm

One has to wonder just who it was that Mr. McCarthy prosecuted. And why he no longer does so.

hobospacejunkie June 22, 2009 at 5:00 pm

I want this hard left president. Where do I sign up?

octupletsmom June 22, 2009 at 5:04 pm

[re=344577]BlueStateLibtard[/re]: The “hard left” references were much too distracting for my dirty mind. Everything else was crazy-man crickets.

Manos: Hands of Fate June 22, 2009 at 5:21 pm

I know first hand there is nothing leftists dig more than repressive theocracies.

Perot le fou June 22, 2009 at 5:31 pm

What’s with the random George Soros hate? If you like third world democratic revolutions, you should love George Soros.

Min June 22, 2009 at 5:53 pm

I credit him for wanting what’s best — but only as he sees it.

Andrew McCarthy, international poster child for Stupidly Stating The Obvious.

BTW dude, what has happened to you since “Pretty in Pink”?

smitallica June 22, 2009 at 6:03 pm

So let me get this straight:

Obama, because he is “hard left,” wants nothing more than the victory of a hard-right, Islamic fundamentalist theocracy.

Ok. Me go make head to esplode now.

WadISay June 22, 2009 at 6:51 pm

This also explains why Obama can’t hold the tune on “Bomb, Bomb Iran”.

[re=344556]Birdcrash[/re]: Word!

Dean Booth June 22, 2009 at 7:26 pm

McCarthy is a disgusting piece of shit. I am saying this because I respect him. Being an insufferable, insane douchebag is his strength.

Georgia Burning June 22, 2009 at 7:47 pm

[re=344556]Birdcrash[/re]: They’re just waiting for the Aryan mothership to arrive and cleanse the planet. An event foretold back in the 1970s when Gov. Reagan closed the mental hospitals in California.

J June 22, 2009 at 11:41 pm

[re=344551]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]:

Newt is also big on saying “Frankly…” And as soon as you hear that dumped-his-cancer-stricken-wife piece of lard shitbucket say “frankly” you know there is a big lie coming and to tune out.

lumpenprole June 23, 2009 at 1:31 am

[Obama] is hanging as tough as political pragmatism allows, and by doing so he is making his preferred outcome [the islamofasco-nanny-state of women!] more likely. That’s not weakness, it’s strength — and strength of the sort that ought to frighten us.

The more centrist and mindful of the establishment he is, the more dangerous he is. Genius.

Lionel Hutz Esq. June 23, 2009 at 6:58 am

Finally, I detect in your post a sense that I’m this close to the fringe.

Don’t worry, Andrew, we know that you are way over the line from the fringe.

And, isn’t “The Hard Left” how you are supposed to be able to identify Bill Clinton?

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