The London Daily Mail3 January 2009 Obama's victory?
A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacherJeremiah Wright, the mainstream media who abandoned any sense ofobjectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely becausethey depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless butwould not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups. Avictory for Obama-worshippers everywhere. A victory for the cult of thecult. A man who has done little with his life but has written about hisachievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winninga marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth. Victory forstyle over substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising overreality.A victory for Hollywood, the most dysfunctional community in the world.Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros and Sarandon. Victory for thosewho prefer welfare to will and interference to independence. For thosewho settle for group think and herd mentality rather than those whofight for individual initiative and the right to be out of step withmeager political fashion.Victory for a man who is no friend of freedom. He and his people havealready stated that media has to be controlled so as to be balanced,without realizing the extraordinary irony within that statement. Likemost liberal zealots, the Obama worshippers constantly speak of Fox andLimbaugh, when the vast bulk of television stations and newspapers aredrastically liberal and anti-conservative. Senior Democrat ChuckSchumer said that just as pornography should be censored, so shouldtalk radio. In other words, one of the few free and open means ofpopular expression may well be cornered and beaten by bullies who evenin triumph cannot tolerate any criticism and opposition.A victory for those who believe the state is better qualified to raisechildren than the family, for those who prefer teachers' unions toteaching and for those who are naively convinced that if the West issufficiently weak towards its enemies, war and terror will dissolve asquickly as the tears on the face of a leftist celebrity.A victory for social democracy even after most of Europe has come tothe painful conclusion that social democracy leads to mediocrity,failure, unemployment, inflation, higher taxes and economic stagnation.A victory for intrusive lawyers, banal sentimentalists, socialextremists and urban snobs.Congratulations America!
Editorial StaffLondon Daily Mail
