tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35969109.post8939610869075758943..comments2023-10-29T02:16:11.866-07:00Comments on Infelix Ego: The things one sees on the highwayMelancholicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014441675379441845noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35969109.post-92166766459079133802008-12-20T07:01:00.000-08:002008-12-20T07:01:00.000-08:00Indeed, since different factions within his suppor...Indeed, since different factions within his support base do not see eye to eye, hence he must displease one to retain the loyalty of the other. For obvious reasons Obama cannot afford to alienate the African American vote, and 'gay rights' issues are of considerably less importance to African Americans than they are to the white, middle-class, university-educated elite; remember the outburst of what can only be described as racist fury from the homosexual lobby and their hangers-on following their recent failure in California to stop Proposition 8 (restricting the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman).<BR/><BR/>After the euphoria of his election victory, it will be interesting to watch the disillusion setting in among the liberal cohort as they gradually wake up to the fact that the "change" trumpeted constantly by the Obamessiah during his election campaign will in practical terms more closely resemble business as usual than the creation of their leftist utopia.<BR/><BR/>Nevertheless, Obama is still poised to do a great deal of damage, and he will, if he thinks he can get away with it.Melancholicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11014441675379441845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35969109.post-73360516476650575422008-12-18T08:35:00.000-08:002008-12-18T08:35:00.000-08:00Well, Melancholius, you can consult Dostoyevsky's ...Well, Melancholius, you can consult Dostoyevsky's 'The Devils' on this one. The character Ivan Shatov is a former revolutionary modelled on the author himself. His observation on the revolutionaries is to say that their whole outlook is based on hatred, hatred of the world and all in it. And the worst thing that can happen to them is that they get their utopia and that it is every bit the paradise they predict it will be. Because then they will have nothing left to hate and they will have nothing more to live for.<BR/><BR/>The supporters of Obama are not so badly off, as he has already flipped on many of his so-called core-causes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com