People are laughing Barry

Heard at the O Club

“   20090525 19:28 Pappy One from wretchard: Saul Alinsky taught his disciples that authority figures could survive anything except public ridicule. Once people began to laugh at you, things were heading downhill. The recent actions and rhetoric from North Korea and Iran openly mock the Obama administration. Ahmadinejad was dismissive of Obama’s offer of direct negotiations and has challenged the US President to appear in a freakshow debate of his own device before the UN. If the news reports of Ehud Barak’s remarks are accurate, then even the Israeli Defense Minister, who would ordinarily be diplomatically correct and deferential towards an American President is practically characterizing his trip to Washington as a waste of time. Is President Obama, the sweep of whose hands it was once believed could silence the world, in danger of becoming an object of derision? He is in any event, in the middle of the challenge which Joe Biden predicted he would face. 20090525 19:36 badanov I think Alinsky and his follows are clinically insane if they think that race politics ( and his guide to hellraising ) will [bring] about anything remotely resembling socialism in the US. The only thing his ilk will wind up with his a helluva lot of headaches and large majority of pissed off former allies. ”