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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]
well, what do you expect? he IS a member of the brat pack.
His looks have sure gone to hell since Pretty in Pink.
Do they have The Corner in the Oval Office?
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.
the new mccarthyism. duck and cover, everyone.
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.
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?
jodyleek: 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.
Joe, Andrew or Charlie: Which McCarthy is the biggest blockhead?
Er, why then were your fellow travelers cheering for Ad-whatever-the-fuck?
Crickets…
Carry on, then.
Shorter Andy: Will someone please bust a cap in Obama’s face?
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??
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.
By “anti-Communists” does he mean “Nazis”? Because in that case…
Hey! where do I get me somma that Obamma-yeah-mamma! “hard left”??? Dibs on that!
The greatest achievement of the conservative movement is the mainstreaming of the insane.
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?
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.
Rich Lowry, translated: Please, please, PLEASE don’t blame National Review when one of our readers decides to take a shot at the President.
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.
Less Than Zero.
4tehlulz: Yes. That.
At long last, sir, have you no sense of decency?
GDuvall: That’s exactly what it reads like, isn’t it?
This, of course, will not lead to Andy’s firing anytime soon.
Monsieur Grumpe: 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”.
“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?
“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.
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.
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?
I saw Obama swat a bigger fly than this dickweed just the other day. He could handle him with a back hand.
SayItWithWookies: 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?
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.
“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.
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.
norbizness: Actually, K-Lo and Doughy would just clog up the hole.
Their sacrifices shall be remembered for all eternity.
Is Obama’s “Hard Left” a distinguishing characteristic like Bubba’s crank?
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.
“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.
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?
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.
One has to wonder just who it was that Mr. McCarthy prosecuted. And why he no longer does so.
I want this hard left president. Where do I sign up?
BlueStateLibtard: The “hard left” references were much too distracting for my dirty mind. Everything else was crazy-man crickets.
I know first hand there is nothing leftists dig more than repressive theocracies.
What’s with the random George Soros hate? If you like third world democratic revolutions, you should love George Soros.
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”?
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.
This also explains why Obama can’t hold the tune on “Bomb, Bomb Iran”.
Birdcrash: Word!
McCarthy is a disgusting piece of shit. I am saying this because I respect him. Being an insufferable, insane douchebag is his strength.
Birdcrash: 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.
Monsieur Grumpe:
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.
[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.
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?