Friday, February 15, 2008

Babaloo's Waterloos: Henry Is Now Suggesting that Obama is Reagan's Organic Heir

Henry is now on a first name basis with his idol Obama. He is counting on "Barack" to defeat McCain, not only to be proved right (for once) but because he believes an Obama presidency will usher-in a new Reagan era. No, he's not in favor of unburing the Reagan and sitting him in the Oval Office again (though students of history will recall many medieval precedents). Henry knows that he can't have Arthur again and so will settle for even Mordred so long as he's ideologically pure if foul in word and deed. If you are thinking Newt Gingrich, then you certainly know your Henry.

For now, however, our intrepid advertising man (who could not be lured into journalism even by a handsome $25 honorarium) is concerned with the day to day business of getting Obama elected. This, of course, puts him in a nice pickle. On the one hand he must peddle the Che-Obama story, and even decry the fact that it has not received national coverage, while, on the other hand, he must defend Obama from the charge of being as Socialist (or anything else unsavory) that might obstrude his road to the presidency.

When Claudia4Libertad, who has been at the center of the Che-Obama story, opined on Babalú that Obama's ties to Socialism and his reaction to "Che" Guevara being apostheosized under the aegis of his campaign, led her to question whether "Che" was indeed "one of his idols," Henry replied that he was "giving [Obama] the benefit of the doubt." Which doubt, I wonder? Because there are certainly more than one. Apparently, Henry's faith in Obama is enough to cover all doubts; and, if his faith were to fail him, then his personal attraction to Obama would cover the slack.

By contrast, Henry will not afford McCain "the benefit of the doubt" about anything he has ever said or done in his life. He even refuses to acknowledge that he is a war hero, which even George did. In fact, he called McCain a wimp recently. In Henry's parallel universe Henry is a "hero" and McCain is a "wimp." And Obama, of all people, is "Reaganesque."

Henry has posted a series of links from airheads like himself who contend that Obama is channelling Reagan. How can insubtantiality mimic substance? Reagan never hid what he believed. He was nothing if not frank. Obama is anything but. His hollow rhetoric reduces everything to the most common denominator. It is not that he doesn't have bedrock beliefs, because he does; but, rather, that those beliefs are at variance with those of most Americans and must be concealed. Reagan used his forensic skills to advance his conservative agenda. Obama uses his to conceal his Socialist one.

7 comments:

Ms Calabaza said...

MaT,
something you wrote a few days ago has stayed on my mind. You stated that in any other country Obama would be called a socialist. I agree. It's interesting that there are socialist candidates in England, Spain and most of Europe and Canada but the term here is taboo. I would feel better if things were out in the open.

You have any idea why that is?

Ms Calabaza said...

If I may comment on the Carlos Miller issue. I don't know Carlos and have no idea if he is a communist agent or an alien from Mars. However, I have a problem with blogs accusing people of things with no proof. This is the kind of thing that upsets me about other blogs ~ name-calling. There are a lot of nuts out there and some are just a fuse waiting to be lit so everyone should think before they continue to spread misinformation.

Vana said...

Henry is starting to sound more and more like a commie himself, to not believe that Obama is a socialist, while he keeps extoling his vitues, hoping that he wins the election, something smells rotten at Babalunia,

Manuel A.Tellechea said...

Ms. Calabaza:

I suppose the reason that Socialism dares not speak its own name here is because it is regarded as a foreign ideology conceived after and in contraposition to liberal democracy. The thing itself, of course, does exist here as elsewhere but under different labels.

In Europe, Socialism has always been in the open; but in the U.S. it is and has always been a furtive and even clandestine movement, which only reinforces its reputation as an outsider. But this outsider, under those different names and labels, effectively controls the Democratic Party. Not all Democrats are in league with them, but the majority are. Barack Obama, in particular, is their creation. He owes his political existence entirely to the Socialist networks within the Democratic Party and will answer to them as president.

This is the greatest threat that has faced the American Republic since KGB-spy Henry Wallace was Roosevelt's vice-president.

Manuel A.Tellechea said...

Vana:

It's even worse than you suppose. Henry has admitted in Cuban American Pundits that Obama is indeed a socialist but he is completely indifferent to that fact. Worse, he accepts it and glories in it because he believes that four years of Obama will incite another Reagan Revolution. Well, he's right in one respect: Obama will only be dislodged with a revolution, but there is no Reagan to combat the reemergence of Socialism on these shores.

Vana said...

Manuel:

The American-Cuban is wishing untold woes unto the nation he calls home, I cannot understand that mentality, besides Obama is not going to win, from now on I'll refer to Henry as a socialist and a commie, he's looking redder by the day, the political animal since the age of 5 knows nothing about politics, he will be eating a lot of crow come November.

Manuel A.Tellechea said...

Vana:

Henry has eaten so much crow lately that he has developed a taste for it. Good, because there's a lot more of that for him in the future.