I never thought I would see this in the NY Times
Barack Obama, the former community organizer and part time US Senator, has money, no experience and name recognition. His introductory video is all serenity and hope, a deceptively calm way for many voters to meet a splenetic politician with a long history of slashing divisiveness and intolerance.
He refers to himself as a historian, but apparently his personal study of history has primarily taught him about the effectiveness of demagogy. Donald Trump, fiddling with birth certificates, is an amateur compared with Mr. Obama at sliming the GOP — as well as the TEA Party members, average Americans, long-standing foreign allied nations, and anyone who disagrees with him.
The Republicans, who won the House in 2010, including Conservative voters, are “Right-wing radicals†who lead an “extreme corporatist machine,†and suggests in a book that TEA Party members are “racists.†He accused them of producing “the greatest political corruption ever seen in modern America.†And then the inevitable historical coup de grâce: “”And it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.â€
The slurs don’t stop there. He denigrated Americans who stand for the rule of law with a snotty “Or they’ll want a higher fence. Maybe they’ll need a moat. Maybe they want alligators in the moat.†He is promoting the fringe idea that Americans should be searched the same as Islamic terrorists, and supported an “Islamic Community Center (wink wink)” within the debris zone from 9/11.
…..Oh, wait, sorry, the Times was actually assaulting Newt Girngrich (who I’m no big fan of, to be sure, especially after that globull warming video with Nancy Pelosi), after he just barely announced.
