The Obama Thugocracy has arrived early
October 11, 2008
By Michael Barone
The Coming Obama Thugocracy
Attempts to shut down political speech have become routine for liberals.
Obama supporters who found the campuses congenial and Obama himself, who has chosen to live all his adult life in university communities, seem to find it entirely natural to suppress speech that they don’t like and seem utterly oblivious to claims that this violates the letter and spirit of the First Amendment. In this campaign, we have seen the coming of the Obama thugocracy, suppressing free speech, and we may see its flourishing in the four or eight years ahead.
There is a reason Michael Barone is one of the most respected pundits in Washington, he knows what he is talking about. Here it is, arriving a tad bit early if you ask me, the Obama Thugocracy, via DRUDGE,
The Obama campaign has decided to heave out three newspapers from its plane for the final days of its blitz across battleground states — and all three endorsed Sen. John McCain for president!
The NY POST, WASHINGTON TIMES and DALLAS MORNING NEWS have all been told to move out by Sunday to make room for network bigwigs — and possibly for the inclusion of reporters from two black magazines, ESSENCE and JET, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
Despite pleas from top editors of the three newspapers that have covered the campaign for months at extraordinary cost, the Obama campaign says their reporters — and possibly others — will have to vacate their coveted seats so more power players can document the final days of Sen. Barack Obama’s historic campaign to become the first black American president.
Ed Morrisey at Hot Air,
Obama and his supporters have gotten vicious with reporters who ask questions and do research that put Obama in a bad light, and this adds to the general pattern we’ve seen since the primaries. It also looks a little self-indulgent. Obama’s clearing room on the plane for — what? Documentarians who will produce hagiographies about his historic importance. That fits into another pattern we’ve seen for months, one marked with fake presidential seals, The Barackopolis, and infomercials. In the coming Age of Obama, only the worshipers will get front-row seats to history.
People asking legitimate questions, what do they get? How about an involuntary colonoscopy!
What a joke that Obama and many of his supporters consider themselves “liberals“.
lib·er·al (lbr-l, lbrl)
adj.
1.
a. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.
b. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
They are lusting for the so-called Fairness Doctrine and labor union intimidation via card check. They are anything but liberal. They are among the most intolerant segments of American society.
October 31, 2008 10:01 am 
Pity them. They know not what they do.
“So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
(Last four lines of “Richard Cory,” by Edwin Arlington Robinson)
Those lines for some reason remind me of Erica Jong.
Erica Jong, best known for her 1973 feminist novel Fear of Flying in which she coined the memorable term, “zipless f*ck,” hasn’t had a best seller in 35 years despite churning out seven other novels, eight works of non fiction, and six books of poetry over those three and a half decades.
Undeterred and undiscouraged, she keeps plugging away but lately must be gobbling up more Valium than she customarily consumes. She’s terrified that Obama might lose!
Currently on her fourth marriage, (multiple marriages must be a consequence of modern feminism, which hates the male of the species), Erica is upset beyond measure at the prospect of those Wascally Wepublicans perpetrating yet another election sleight-of-ballot next Tuesday.
Poor Erica. She admits to having developed an “obsession. A paralyzing terror. An anxious fever that keeps you awake at night” over the thought of an American war hero and long time United States Senator besting her hero, an inexperienced political novice and long time advocate of left wing causes.
Whatever can Erica do?
Well, main thing she seems to do, outside of hiding under her bed, is call and email her good buddies, two other true blue patriots, Jane “Hanoi-Jane” Fonda and progressive feminist Naomi Wolf.
They commiserate over many nasty realities of existence, of course, but lately over all the horrors that beset America’s…
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1) You fail to mention that FOX News still has a seat on the plane.
2) Where were your indignant comments when McCain kicked Joe Klein or Maureen Dowd off his plane?