TOBY PETZOLD

Many of us who are opposed to Barack Obama —because of the enormous lies he tells about himself, as well as the extreme Leftism hidden in his story— are too slow to surrender to reality. We cannot yet accept that the America we live in is ready to hand the keys over to a narcissistic socialist in the White House and the most liberal Congress in 35 years. The disconnect may be attributed to a quaint adherence to the old standards of patriotism and, indeed, politics. When else, after all, have we made a cultural interloper of this degree our President? I don’t refer to his racial identity —although that’s certainly there— but to his foreignness. He doesn’t have a claim on this culture that I would recognize as American. Instead, he is a harbinger of the Post-American Man —the Citizen of the World who, on nothing but the power of celebrity and diabolism, went before the German throngs and debased what we are. Yes: debased. He reduced what this Republic is to a mistake that needs to be apologized for. So I do not trust his motives and I do not like his supporters, who strike me as woefully ignorant and emotional little feelers. They do not have any reason to support this man but for their emotional reaction to him. They are taking him on faith. What else do they have, though? Some evidence of his worth such as, you know, an achievement? Ask a hundred of his followers and not two of them together could tell you a single fucking thing he’s achieved that would warrant his elevation to the Presidency.

Anyway, we supporters of McCain and Palin are on our own little fools’ errands in trying to persuade the public of the dangers of this New Socialism. I have —and will have, be sure— no regrets for my own part in criticizing Obama, but it’s still poignant to read the people I depend on for my information trying so hard to break a story or pursue a new line of investigation in these last, though interminable, weeks. They want so much for what they write to matter, but it does not. What Obama draws on now is not the rational considerations of informed voters, but the raucous and fanatic emotionalism of the new idolatry —an anti-Bush and anti-Right movement determined to replace what it despises. You will not reach into those little rodental heads and convince them of anything: The One must be made the Change We Need.

What Obama is —as a man and as a patriot— is somehow irrelevant now. The icon got ahead of his reality. These are the days for dreaming. Not American Dreaming, of course; that would be too provincial. These are the days, rather, for illusions and fantasies and all the thoughts of absolution we will enjoy once we do to ourselves what must be done. Now the abnegating! Now the denigrating!

The knowing comes later. The realization must come, but last.

Is it really possible that Barack Hussein Obama authorized the dissemination of the handwritten prayer he stuck in a crack in the Western Wall in Jerusalem last week? When I first heard that the note had supposedly been plucked out by a bystander and published, I thought it was a pretty contemptible thing to do, regardless of my dislike for the non-Christian phony who stuck it there. But if these new rumors prove true —that Obama actually shared his prayer with reporters upon leaving the King David Hotel— then I will have to revise my list of his most egregious campaign moments thus far.

The reason the rumors ring true is that this is a man who abandoned his church because it had become a political liability for him. Making a press release of his prayer to the Almighty doesn’t sound like much of a stretch at all.

Be sure to catch Jake Tapper’s report of an open mic conversation caught between Obamachrist and Britain’s Conservative Party leader David Cameron:

“You should be on the beach,” Cameron told Obama. “You need a break. Well, you need to be able to keep your head together.”

“You’ve got to refresh yourself,” agreed Obama.

“Do you have a break at all?” asked Cameron.

“I have not,” said Obama. “I am going to take a week in August.”

Translation: “You’re slippin’, Barry. Charisma can’t pull the whole load. You also have to know what you’re talking about, but it’s too late for that now.”

It isn’t enough to be offended at the obscenity of Barack Hussein Obama’s nomination by the Democratic Party; one must recognize what a danger this man has become and act against it. This utterly vapid speech he gave in Berlin today is a declaration of ego the likes of which I have never seen in an American politician. The only thing that comes close is the narcissism of Huey P. Long. Then again, the Kingfish got things done, whereas this unqualified liar has merely used the system to advance himself personally without actual regard for the welfare of those whom he claims to represent.

We are witnesses to the increasingly deranged fantasy of a cultural interloper and a post-American demagogue. He has abused all decorum and has made a mockery of both JFK and Reagan —and for what? The benefit of footage for his campaign ads? He actually thinks that his Big Media carnival show of a whole week’s duration is a substitute for the hard work of dedication, experience, and real judgement in foreign policy? What an obscenity!

And standing there before a crowd of 200,000 Germans was this miserable crypto-Muslim fraud, condemning his own country before the descendants of mass murderers:

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

There is no excuse to not vote against this idiot come November. Just the who the hell does he think he is?

Over at the Eschaton opium den just now, my friend Steve Simels made the mistake of asking me if I thought that

Obama’s more to the left than Bill Clinton? If so, you’re beyond stupid.

Now, it’s true that Obama and the Big Dog are unusually soulless men who have only ever desired power, but it is also true that Bill Clinton had a great wealth of electoral and executive experience that almost certainly burned out of him any real tendencies he might have had towards socialism or full-on racial or gender equality. Obama, by contrast, has virtually no executive experience (outside of being a grievance engineer in a very corrupt city) and, so, is obviously more smitten with pie-in-the-sky Leftist horseshit. That’s why he thinks it personally necessary to go and apologize to the Eurozombies for the bad feelings they’ve been feeling about America. Pobrecitos! Once Obama Skywalker alights upon Washington, all the world will ooh and aah and feel good about us again. Because that’s what we’ve been needing: the approval of people who don’t even have the sense to defend themselves against the Mohammedan Menace.

When Barack Hussein Obama is President, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk again.

Just caught the last few minutes of Madame Couric fluffing Obama Soter —and it turns out that the reason he’s going to hold a campaign rally in front of Hitler’s favorite monument to Prussian militarism is to get the krauts “to feel good” about America again. And to say we’re sorry to our “old enemies.” So very, very sorry.

Obama is an abomination. Inshallah, this wankfest he’s been on this past week will be the beginning of the end of his hopes. Surely Americans won’t reward this degree of narcissism.

Drudge links to this report about Muslim women in Europe (and presumably elsewhere) who are choosing to surgically restore their hymens:

Gynecologists report that in the past few years, more Muslim women are asking for certificates of virginity before marriage.

That trend in turn has created a demand among cosmetic surgeons for hymen replacements, which, if done properly, they say, will not be detected and will produce tell-tale vaginal bleeding on the wedding night. The service is widely advertised on the Internet; there are medical tourism packages to countries like Tunisia where the procedure is less expensive.

“If you’re a Muslim woman growing up in more open societies in Europe, you can easily end up having sex before marriage,” said Hicham Mouallem, a doctor in London who performs the surgery. “So if you’re looking to marry a Muslim and don’t want to have problems, you’ll try to recapture your virginity.”

What a pathetic commentary on Islam —and dhimmitude— in Eurabia. If you “don’t want to have problems”? What problems? Oh! You mean problems like a young woman getting kicked to death by her own father and brothers because she was seen talking to an infidel? That happened recently in Iraq, but we hear about the Mohammedans’ sharia-approved murder all the time throughout what once was Europe.

It’s interesting that the term “honor killing” has passed by that very form into the public discourse without any question or qualification. Is it a literal translation of something the Prophet said? Doesn’t it appall the Western Left? Or are they too sure of Bushitler’s crimes against humanity to ever stop and consider what sort of enemy we are really facing as a civilization?

Jim Hoft mines from the Gorebot’s speech today before the Nobel Committee the motto that should follow him to the compost heap where his grave shall be: “We Are What Is Wrong.”

How succinctly put is the self-loathing essence of the Left. What a window on their soul!

Ewen MacAskill of the Guardian Unlimited writes:

But pivotal to the US investigation into Iran’s suspect nuclear weapons programme was the work of a little-known intelligence specialist, Thomas Fingar. He was the principal author of an intelligence report published on Monday that concluded Iran, contrary to previous US claims, had halted its covert programme four years ago and had not restarted it. Almost single-handedly he has stopped - or, at the very least, postponed - any US military action against Iran.

His report marks a decisive moment in the battle between American neoconservatives and Washington’s foreign policy and intelligence professionals - between ideologues and pragmatists. It provided an unexpected victory for those opposed to the neocon plans for a military strike.

The report, the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which represents the consensus of the 16 US intelligence agencies, gave President George Bush one of his most difficult weeks since taking office in January 2001.

Fingar’s findings were met in many Washington offices occupied by foreign policy and intelligence professionals not only with relief but with rejoicing. They had lost out in the run-up to the war in Iraq in 2003, but they are winning this one.

Well…one can plainly see the importance that Iran’s sympathizers and apologists have invested this NIE with. The degenerate pacifists of Eurabia are determined to sell out their own civilization to keep the peace with Islamist psychopaths. Disgusting.

A couple of days ago, an Iranian ”supervision bureau” executed a 21 year-old gay man for sex-related crimes he supposedly committed several years before.

Government-ordered executions of homosexuals is one of those things one might suppose would anger the “progressive” West, but no. It’s more important to undermine Bush in his fight against the mullahcracy.

The ongoing incarceration of a British schoolteacher in the Sudan for the great crime of permitting her young pupils to name a teddy bear Mohammed is the most disgusting act of moral insanity I have heard of in weeks.

Gordon Brown should advise those filthy floor-kissers that they either put that woman on a plane back home in the next half-hour or he will make their country’s life miserable for years to come.

This is the kind of stuff within Islam that we must act to destroy: this childish and even monstrous ignorance of how the modern world works. Your degraded and superstitious beliefs are destined to die, submitters. That schoolteacher did nothing wrong and you have done nothing right. The judgement will be harsh and it will go against you in the end.