No Difference

by 'tamerlane'

No Difference - that was the slogan of the astroturfed movement of 2000, with their poster of the morphed heads of Gore and Bush. One-hit wonder Ralph Nader was the darling of the Rich and Fickle (think Michael Moore & Susan Sarandon), and those who chanted "No Difference" in 2000 were the same ones clamoring for "Change We Can Believe In" eight years later.

Yet now that we have the Maker of Change, I can see no difference. No Difference between Barry and McCain on:
Gay marriage
Iraq timetable

No Difference between Barry and Bush on:
Closing Gitmo
Military tribunals
Rendition
Release of war crimes photos
Stealing elections
Lying through his teeth

And the list of no differences goes on.


I'll admit that I'd been secretly keeping another list-one of actions taken by Barry that I could be happy with. I (think) I can add the recent credit card legislation. In olden times, the scandalous usury of the credit card lenders would have gotten their appendages fed to wild animals. But the 'happy' list was short to start, and is quickly getting shorter, as most of it (see above) has been scratched. Two remaining plus-points still on my list are also surely in jeopardy:

-Health Care-sure we'll get something called "health care," but it'll be a watered-down, anemic bill that carefully avoids perturbing the big boys;

-Supreme Court appointments-because heaven forbid pro-lifers get that sixth judge they need to overturn Roe...never mind. You can bet on this mischievous little shit of a pretend president poking his finger in the eye of his ardent leftist base, and nominating some controversial (pro-life? anti-gay?) judge. And the Senate will bleat "bahh bahh," just like they did for the original Caligula.

Where's Barry's glitterati brigade to defend him now? When will George Clooney clarify his main man's apparent perfidy? Why won't Leo give an interview in Parade on how keeping Gitmo open helps him find closure to his grandparents' racism? Could Scarlett Johanssen please text the president immediately and insist he support gay marriage!

I had Barry pegged as an empty suit years ago, after hearing his vapid, mellifluous speech (he only has the one speech) followed by an interview composed of "uhhs", and "errrs." Watching him closely in 2008, I detected uncanny personality similarities between him and another upstart political phenom, Hitler. (Though hopefully Barry is too big a stoner to share Hitler's feverish world vision.)

So for me, all of Barry's seemingly inconsistent moves make perfect sense when you realize he's a sociopathic narcissist- lazy, self-absorbed, emotionally dead, and infantile.

Still I wonder, is BO's Bush III act in any way eroding Obot Nation's devotion? Since it requires extensive mental lacunae to fall for the "no difference" and "change we an believe in" mantras, I doubt very many of the ninnies on the left will ever recognize they've been had. That their Messiah is false, that Barry Soetoro merely a charlatan, stealing hearts at a traveling show. That the party on the left is now the party on the right, and the list of lies has grown longer overnight. Or, as Gunter Grass' Oskar icily notes in Tin Drum, "we thought we were getting Santa Claus...but we were really getting the Gas Man."


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