Posted by
rycK on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:59:56 AM
Little Minds Mind the Mindless Meddling in the Democrat[ic] Party at the New York Times.
We can always thank the New York Times as they hearken back to their Marxist Roots and interpret political events with the acclaimed method of revisionism. Today we are treated to an intricate essay in ‘fundamental changes’, an impossibility in leftist politics, but we should read this latest tome anyway for amusement if not for any meaningful content or illumination. All this has to do with the sudden and explosive support for Senator Obama by the Kennedy Klan thus pushing support away from the proper Marxist choice who would raise taxes and appease our Islamo-Fascists with gifts and apologetics. Some Walter Duranty Spin is usually injected into such machinations in the political area so that the NYT can ‘influence public opinion,’ a euphemism for the crass propaganda that daily gushes from the Old Gray Lady.
We read: “Something fundamental has shifted in the Democratic Party.”
Really? They are off their tax and spend addictions?
“Last week there was the widespread revulsion at the Clintons’ toxic attempts to ghettoize Barack Obama.”
We have not seen that this was ineffective as yet. Does the term widespread include independents and Republicans?
“And then Monday, something equally astonishing happened. A throng of Kennedys came to the Bender Arena at American University in Washington to endorse Obama.”
Didn’t the NYT just endorse Hillary??
“’With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion,’ Senator Kennedy declared. ‘With Barack Obama, there is a new national leader who has given America a different kind of campaign — a campaign not just about himself, but about all of us,” he said.’”
Now, how much of this is directed toward Billary? Who is the Senator talking about?
Kennedy, in a fleeting instance of sobriety, gives the signal summary of a new age:
“Then, in the speech’s most striking passage, he set Bill Clinton afloat on the receding tide of memory. “There was another time,” Kennedy said, “when another young candidate was running for president and challenging America to cross a New Frontier.” But, he continued, another former Democratic president, Harry Truman, said he should have patience. He said he lacked experience. John Kennedy replied: “The world is changing. The old ways will not do!”
This sounds like Teddy just chucked Billary in the can. This “change” notion, actually invariant in terms of the tax mongering and socialization goals of the left, clearly led in part by the Kennedys, is the buzz word of the times. Change, of course, means no change in the leftist lexicon of tax and spend goals and socialism. Change is a rubber word that actually may be translated as no change and can accommodate numerous physicals turns and bumps like a condom. Peace is War and all that 1984 stuff. Change is changeless.
But Brooks then explains all this (at least to his own satisfaction) with this amazing demystification of the Kennedy Mystique, the title of his article, as usual in propaganda, the conclusion.
“Sept. 11th really did leave a residue — an unconsummated desire for sacrifice and service. The old Clintonian style of politics clashes with that desire. When Sidney Blumenthal expresses the Clinton creed by telling George Packer of The New Yorker, “It’s not a question of transcending partisanship. It’s a question of fulfilling it,” that clashes with the desire as well.”
This statement is so snarled with political ringers, enigmatic boomerangs and valiant verse that it is completely unintelligible. Somewhere we learn the lesson that partisanship will be transcended by dumping the strongest political vector in the party. Isn’t this really some form of anti -partisanship? We suddenly hear of some 9/11 “residual” that begs some sacrifice and service and we must enter some new era where we must transcend partisanship. This may mean that embracing Obama is the best party choice.
The Kennedy Mystique was already trashed by one of the leftist’s own sages; one Seymour M. Hersh exposed the JFK Myth entitled The Dark Side of Camelot. Seymour flashed a long brown light on the chic Camelot scene and exposed the slimy and criminal history of JFK and his consorts. A contemporary review comes up with the observation that this is an indictment of the mythology of the New Frontier after covering many of Jack’s impulsive sexual intermezzos and other follies including bungling wars, invasions and worse.
It appears that Ted Kennedy has sent the NYT staff into some paroxysm of political confusion and despair. Teddy has crossed the Times by endorsing somebody other than the Walter Duranty Anointed Candidate. Where is the shame? Or, perhaps the Times missed this obvious golden opportunity for partisanship.
And, it was so simple. All they had to do was defeat Bush in Iraq and show that his economy was failing and then get the ‘It’s the economy, stupid’ Duo back into the White House so they could engineer more tax hikes. Now, old Teddy has injected confusion into the best laid plans of the Times.
What do they do now? Dump on Bill for his obvious racism and switch support to Obama? Luckily for the Old Gray Lady, all three Democrat candidates prostrate themselves before the grimy and unwashed Altar of Tax and Spend and support failure in the War on Terrorism and are wild about Global Warming and socialized medicine and giving more money to North Korea.
The fine planning and political persuasion mechanics at the Times have failed to give Billary a clear path back into the Oval Office.
rycK
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The Kennedy Mystique By DAVID BROOKS Op-Ed Columnist
Published: January 29, 2008
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n3_v14/ai_20174386. The Dark Side of Camelot. - book reviews. Insight on the News, Jan 26, 1998 by Michael Rust. “Many allegations are quite believable, however; there is much to admire in Hersh's stern prosecution. Most notably, he makes a case that the president had prior knowledge of the murder of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and that he knowingly abandoned the Bay of Pigs invaders. The dishonesty of the Kennedy acolytes in their account of the Missile Crisis is nicely chronicled. Also, for the first time Secret Service agents talk en masse, leaving a picture of a president whose compulsive need for sex overwhelmed basic security considerations -- including the president's much-rumored assignations with a German woman who just possibly was connected with East German intelligence.”