February 6, 2010

Barack Obama: Imaginary Friend of Democrats. Cause and Cure.

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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. -- Gertrude Stein

Atheists, like songwriters, are always seeking lines more glib than true. Glib is golden because it obscures the fact that deep down atheism is, like a pop song, shallow. One of the more tedious quips, oft repeated with a tone that oozes ‘What a good boy am I,’ is "God is just an imaginary friend for adults.”

The possibility that God may have given glib atheists everything – space, time, a planet, evolution, and free will – that allows this bromide to roll trippingly off their tongues is something they will not and can not conceive. Their wetware is not evolved enough to perceive God should He deign to reveal himself. God is not finished buffing out their fatal flaw, although He will be, by and by. Until then they cannot grasp that, in some cases, “imaginary friends” can be as real as their friendship is illusory.

Exhibits A, B, and C today are the Virginia and New Jersey elections last fall and especially the Massachusetts senate election of Scott Brown. These established the new truth of contemporary American politics, Barack Obama is the imaginary friend of Democrats.” This dovetails well with another of his many roles: Stand-in lower-case god for the vast majority of American atheists.

If there were still any doubt he's only an imaginary friend, last week's run-in between the President and panicked members of his party removed it. The depth to which Obama is willing to betray Democrats is trouble was summed up by a Washington Post writer, PostPartisan in Obama dismisses Blanche Lincoln's plea to be more centrist:


The pivotal moment came when Sen. Blanche Lincoln of deep-red Arkansas, a centrist who’s on her way to defeat in November, practically begged the president to repudiate “extreme” liberals -- a clear reference to the Nancy Pelosi-led House -- and tack to the center. Arguing that the Democrats’ ambitious legislative agenda was sowing job-destroying “uncertainty” in the business community, she asked: “Are we willing as Democrats to push back on our own party?”

Obama’s reply, in a nutshell: Sorry, Blanche.

If the price of certainty is essentially for us to adopt the exact same proposals that were in place for eight years leading up to the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression -- we don’t tinker with health care, let the insurance companies do what they want, we don’t put in place any insurance reforms, we don’t mess with the banks, let them keep on doing what they’re doing now because we don’t want to stir up Wall Street -- the result is going to be the same. I don’t know why we would expect a different outcome pursuing the exact same policy that got us into this fix in the first place.

Still, give the president credit: No one can accuse him of bending his principles to politics. Of course, if there’s a price to be paid for that this year, he won’t be the one paying it. Blanche Lincoln, among others, will get to do that.
This was summed up memorably by Ace at Ace of Spades with

     Blanche Lincoln: Please Moderate Your Course So You Don't Get Endangered Democrats Like Me Booted Out of Office.
     Obama: FYNQ.

and by one of his commenters as:

     Barrack Obama: Do you know what real love is, Blanche?
     Blanche Lincoln: No.
     Barrack Obama: [whispers in her ear] Sacrifice...

Even as Obama’s methods grow more radical, his means more aggressive, and his motives darker, and his ideology more naked, most Democrats polled persist in their belief that he really is their friend. It’s entirely imaginary, of course, since we see with every passing day that the “friendship” of Obama only lasts as long as it is needed -- by Obama. When the need is no longer there, the friendship fades like the Highland mist at dawn. The now tattered and overused phrase “Under the bus” has become code for “Any speed bumps on Obama's road will be steam-rolled to a flat black stain on the pavement like an armadillo on an Arizona highway in August.”

And yet, if we are to believe the polls, Democrat love for Obama endures in many even as the pain from his policies grows. The tryst that was consummated in the soft and moonlit honeymoon suite in January 2009 by February 2010 seems more and more like a long dark night in Michelle Obama's Dominatrix Dungeon with no safeword. Incomprehensible as it may seem to any neutral observer many Democrats continue to believe, in the face of stark facts daily seen, that Obama is indeed their friend. It has to be tiring because this fantasy -- now entirely a product of the imagination -- requires that greater and greater energy is expended on the part of the believer in "Keeping it real."

How can Democrats continue to "feel the love" even as the whip comes down? Yes, it's perverse but they have no choice. Those that believe Obama is their friend find it necessary to believe. Why is Obama the imaginary friend necessary to them? Because, regardless of their age, all Obama acolytes and most Democrats are children. They need to believe in Obama like Virginia needs to believe in Santa Claus, and like a beaten woman needs to believe her man really loves her. These are immature attitudes but in the USA of the 21st century “childishness” is what we do. It's the one sector of manufacturing in which we still lead the world.

We’ve been producing the manchild, the femchild, and the girly-boy in this country for decades. What the Chinese emperors once did to women's feet we can now do to human souls and we're not outsourcing. The binding that cripples the soul begins in the early indoctrination of kindergarten, where they learn all they need to know and then stop learning much of anything else. To make sure it sticks, the indoctrination is repeated for as long as they remain soaking in the thick multicutural, transnationalist, progressive soup of our educational system:

The New York Times, Grievance Groups, Government, Diversity = Good” vs “The Great Books, Individualism, Responsibility, America = Bad.”
That’s pretty much it these days. Rinse and repeat that mantra like a Hari Krishna on crack and you too can actually succeed in school right up to a Ph.D. in “Diversity Studies.”

It’s Big Education’s formula for stunting spiritual growth and producing Peter Pans and Pams that won’t and can’t grow up. As a result the liberal Democrat's capacity for sustaining imaginary friends never really abates. Indeed, with some many Baby Hueys living well into their fifth and sixth decade the imaginary friend demand was exceeding the supply. This was all solved by Big Media’s manufacture and distribution of Barack Obama as a kind of “Barabi Doll – The Only Imaginary Friend You’ll Ever Need!”

As some have gotten chary of pointing out, Obama was tailor made (by an as yet unknown tailor in an as yet undisclosed location) for rich and/or liberal white people. It was a classic example of branding a substandard product in such a way that it gained major market share in the target demographic. Without them, Obama was nothing. Without Obama, they were less than zero.

What was the product? It was “Your New Best Friend in the White House.” It was “President Jed Bartlet, But Better Because a Bit Blacker.” To underscore this point comedian and soothsayer Chris Rock has a routine in which he relates,

“These days black folks have a LOT of white friends and white folks all have ONE black friend.”
This has, he notes, been a trend for quite some time and, given the relative population percentages of African-Americans versus Americans of the Caucasian persuasion, it was only a matter of time before there was an African-American/Caucasian friend gap.

Obama seems to fill that gap providing “a friend in need.” He’s cool. He’s slender. You not only want him to come to dinner, but to stay for the long weekend and bring his family. His family is picture perfect in a Tiffany frame. You want that framed picture with you in it to hang on your ego wall. Obama knows you want that photo-op more than anything. He also knows what you like to hear, and he knows how to say it when he’s doing just the opposite. His stiletto is so smooth you hardly feel it going in.

Obama is a better liar than most politicians because he’s far beyond shame. Shame was stripped out of him as a teenager. Shame is for sissies. Truth is not the tool of tyrants.

Most of all Obama knows how hard it is to stop loving someone even when you see them buying lap dances from Nancy Pelosi night-after-night in the champagne court at the back of the DC titty bar. Like all abusive spouses, Obama knows that once he can get you to stick around after he’s been unfaithful and knocked you around, you’ll stay around for even more abuse and infidelity. Why? Because you’ve come to need the abuse more than the love; you’ve come to want more than anything else to just spend more time close to him in the hope that he’ll change and finally feel your pain and feed your needs.

The problem is your needs may be real, but Obama’s got a full schedule when it comes to his “Let’s wreck America as quickly and completely as possible” needs. He just doesn’t have time to hang out with you. So you’ll just have to imagine the love.

Where did this compulsive need for an imaginary friend come from? A 2006 study of the phenomenon of imaginary friends by Dr. Louise Newman, child psychiatrist and the director of the New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry , sheds a glimmer of light:

Most children grow out of imaginary friends, Newman says. But in some cases an imaginary friend can emerge in adulthood, usually in response to trauma, inability to cope with stress and sometimes psychotic illness.In rare cases some adults develop what's known as Doppelganger syndrome, which occurs when they believe a twin or invisible friend accompanies them.

Seen in that light, it’s easy to understand why so many folks retain the impression of Obama as their imaginary friend. It is, as it always is, the fault of George W. Bush. What was once the mental disease that crippled tens of millions of American minds, "Bush Derangement Syndrome" (BDS), has morphed into "Obama Arrangement Syndrome" (OAS)

which requires that people interpret or ignore events in a manner that reinforces their preconceived, and rigid, notions about Obama.

If Bush Derangement Syndrome needed a 12-step program, Obama Arrangement Syndrome is going to need a 13-step program. It begins with, “We admited to ourselves and others that the idea Barack Obama was our friend was utterly imaginary, and no matter how many times he promised it we were never going to be sharing long, hot showers into the wee hours of the morning.”

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Last night upon the stair
I saw a man who wasn’t there.
He wasn’t there again today.
I hope he never goes away

-- Variation on a nursery rhyme

[Rewritten, updated, and republished from November 4, 2009]

Posted by Vanderleun at February 6, 2010 11:46 AM
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"And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name..."

Looks like the girls found their man.

Posted by: Hallelujah at November 4, 2009 7:05 PM

Obama is an imaginary President...a creation of Marketing.

He's like The Shell Answer Man, Reddy Kilowatt and Speedy Alka-Seltzer all rolled into one.

At least the Shell Answer Man tossed out some useful info once in a while.

Posted by: Mumblix Grumph at November 4, 2009 10:45 PM

I walked into this empty church, I had no place else to go
When the sweetest voice I ever heard, whispered to my soul
I don't need to be forgiven for loving you so much
It's written in the scriptures
It's written there in blood
I even heard the angels declare it from above
There ain't no cure,
There ain't no cure,
There ain't no cure for love
--Leonard Cohen

Posted by: Gagdad Bob at November 5, 2009 7:01 AM

Well, I'm one of those who "imagined" just how bad O would be, and tried to get people to listen. But they believed the hype, to their great regret. As Will Smith said in "I, Robot", "Sometimes 'I told you so' just doesn't quite say it".

Posted by: waltj at November 5, 2009 7:24 AM

Your post calls to mind one of the dominant aspects of the Clinton Administration (and of Bill Clinton post-presidency): while Clinton was very good at achieving his own ends, he was very poor at getting other Democrats elected. This was a constant complaint from within the Democratic Party itself for years and years.

The results yesterday may indicate a similar fate for Obama, who has little of Clinton's genuine charisma, nor is he, I suspect, as bright as Clinton himself (remember that Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar, while Obama refuses to release his college transcripts and thesis).

If the Republicans can really get their act together (always a big if), 2010 really could be a bloodbath for the Democratic Party, especially if Congress rams through some form of 'health care reform' and/or 'cap-and-trade'. ..bruce..

Posted by: bfwebster at November 5, 2009 7:36 AM

Ah, Gunny Highway. He knew how to deal with boy-men like Obama!

Posted by: Steve Johnson at November 5, 2009 9:10 AM

This post must have been inspired by the anniversary of "Sesame Street", which originally provided children with imaginary friends that even parents could find likable. Later the subtly adult backsides of the show's characters were scrubbed clean of reality and drowned in a hopey-changey rainbow hued gloss ... Cookie Monster no longer had a ferocious and human cookie obsession, but lukewarm love for veggies instead.

The children who were protected from consequences and rewarded for just being their immature, narcissistic and undisciplined little selves certainly find everything to love about Obama. Parent-funded liberal colleges and grant-funded "socially relevent" pastimes in hedonistic coastal cities made Obama worship inevitable.

The ultimate price, I fear, will be paid by us all.

Posted by: AskMom at November 5, 2009 9:54 AM

What the Chinese emperors once did to women's feet we can now do to human souls and we're not outsourcing

Who is this 'we' white-boy? But that is a nifty line. I'm going to swipe that.

Posted by: Eric Blair at November 5, 2009 8:35 PM

Why do you hate =======
What's the difference between Barack Obama and God? Barack Obama actually exists and is my personal god.

Posted by: The Truth at December 1, 2009 7:30 AM

I would like to state again that Barack Obama is not "my personal god," and I thirst for open debate on the issue.

Posted by: The Truth at December 1, 2009 12:49 PM

I admit that I am becoming over stimulated by Glenn Beck and have to curb my urges. Somebody please call my family and have them intervene!

Posted by: The Truth at December 2, 2009 8:02 AM

[Somebody tried to say something here but alas could not be heard.]

Posted by: Vanderleun at December 2, 2009 9:19 AM

I had a friend with a dog named Mike. Mike hated every living creature on earth except his master. Mike's favorite pasttime was finding a greasy spot on the street where an animal had been flattened, and rolling around on top of it. One more notch up the foodchain, erstwhile ally.
Obama reminds me of Mike. Willing, even eager to roll around on the greasy spot he's created from his erstwhile allies. And hates every other thing on the planet except his master. Allah.

Posted by: Velociman at February 6, 2010 12:38 PM

"Don't worry; I'll be right behind you."

Posted by: O. Bama at February 6, 2010 2:06 PM

"We’ve been producing the manchild, the femchild, and the girly-boy in this country for decades. What the Chinese emperors once did to women's feet we can now do to human souls and we're not outsourcing."

While public education (through college) is an indispensable part of the process, that is the result of the progressive's holy grail, "cradle to grave" care, isn't it?

Posted by: Harry at February 6, 2010 4:13 PM

There are some very telling moments in Hugh Hewitt's interview of Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessing Hewitt asks Lessing several questions about Obama who "taught" at Harvard while Lessing was there. Obama is a zero. A sub-par intellect promoted by the Peter Principal of affirmative action. He made his way on looks, voice, charm, and race. His real world accomplishments total zero. Indeed, the man is the end product of a country saturated in facile media imagery, political correctness, and clever marketing. Read the new Steyn piece as well. It would seem that the Zero not only needs his teleprompter, he relys on phonetic spelling as well. http://www.hughhewitt.com/transcripts.aspx?id=863399cc-3052-465c-a665-0a1818ae3ffd

JWM

Posted by: jwm at February 6, 2010 6:06 PM

"Don't worry; I'll be right behind you."

Yes, we feel him there frequently.

Posted by: waltj at February 6, 2010 8:45 PM

A black recipient of Affirmative Action betray his liberal white patrons? Inconceivable!

Posted by: Chris at February 7, 2010 6:02 AM

Ow. This really made my eyes hurt. There's not enough bleach made that can clean them.

"buying lap dances from Nancy Pelosi night-after-night in the champagne court at the back of the DC titty bar"

Thanks a lot for THAT particular visual.

Posted by: Former Lurker at February 7, 2010 9:24 AM

If God is an imaginary friend, then God is one stern friend, demanding adherence to certain rules in order to keep his friendship.

That is not necessarily a bad thing, when mercy tempers the law.

Posted by: Mikey NTH at February 7, 2010 12:06 PM

I had no idea that Barack Obama was in an episode of "Matlock"

Posted by: Stephen B at February 8, 2010 8:29 AM

I'm a Buddhist Libertarian and I detest Obama both as a man and a leader. (I never claimed to be a good Buddhist) My take is that Obama shares the same blind belief in metaphysical abstractions that makes both the right (Religious Bush) and left (Commie Obamie) feel that they must foist their own belief systems onto people by force (read: government).

Also, people should read the history of the word "Atheist" (yes, words have histories too) before making assumptions about what they/we are claiming in positive terms. It really is quite different from the "I-can-prove-there-is-no-God!" parody it is often depicted as.

Posted by: ThomasS at April 13, 2010 7:48 AM