CONGRATS TO BARACK OBAMA
From HUSTLER columnist Robert Scheer, “Morning Again in America”:
It’s time to gush! Later for the analysis of all the hard choices faced by our next president, Barack Obama, but for now, let’s just thrill, unabashedly, to the sound of those words. Heck, both he and we deserve a honeymoon, at least for a few paragraphs of this column.
It is “Morning Again in America,” to reclaim and revise the slogan from the 1984 campaign of President Ronald Reagan, only this time the promise of an American renewal is in the hands of a moderate post-Cold War leader who embraces, rather than denies, the diversity and complexity of the modern world. It is difficult to imagine Obama ever asserting the arrogant jingoism that has come to mark Republican stewardship of this nation in the eyes of the world.
How refreshing for Americans to have elected a leader who was among the first to reject the imperial hubris that led this nation to invade Iraq over the objection of most of our allies. A leader who had the courage in the midst of a hotly contested primary election campaign to refuse to play the inveterate hawk in order to qualify as commander in chief, and instead had the audacity to advocate efforts at dialogue even with those we despise. The dead hand of Joe Lieberman has been lifted from the party that he betrayed. It is hoped it is also the end of the road for the neoconservatives who had rallied around John McCain as their last best hope for establishing a Pax Americana.
On the all-important domestic front, with our economy crumbling, it is reassuring that the man whom what’s-her-name from Alaska derided as a “community organizer” does indeed have that background. It is not a guarantee that he will be mindful of those suffering most in this economic downturn as he turns to deal with the banking mess, but it is a start.
The Reagan Revolution of rampant deregulation of the economy in the interest of big business is over. Not because Obama has anything to do with the “socialist” label that the Republicans attempted to stick on him, but rather because a decisive role for the federal government is at the heart of the Bush bailout and the vastly expanded military economy a President Obama will inherit.
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November 7th, 2008 at 12:41 am
I am not sure that President-elect Barack Obama won’t be a jingoist. Although I can say that I have 100% confidence in him and feel that the election is the best thing that’s ever happened to this nation (and I do go out on a limb to say so), I fear that he will embrace being in charge of the most powerful military in the world (and it’s far more likely that he will follow suit with what I have prescribed rather than that he will “be mindful of those suffering most in this economic downturn.”) What does that mean though? President Bill Clinton authorized strikes on the Balkans, and on Sudan. President Bush #41 championed Persian Gulf #1 and then Somalia. President Reagan brought us the Contras. President Carter was the only one who did not directly authorize military strikes anywhere, but before that, it was Vietnam.
Not that it’s ideal to go on, but two wars and a manhunt for Osama bin Laden means that our military and our funding will continue and be very active.
November 19th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Screw Obama!!!!!!!! He’s just another Pro-War, police state, big government politician who talks good.
I can’t believe Larry would support someone like him.
November 25th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I’ll just mention that Larry Flynt actually supported Hillary Clinton, but she was not on the final ballot.
January 13th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Abama, may be a Jimmy Carter. I supported Obama’s campaigns in his thought on stoping this usless quest on the current war on hemp.
He at the least got 20 millon votes for his misleading thought on
decriminalizing hemp. 44 millon dollors spent each year on aresting people and incareration. For What ? a just because thing.
Give every kid a medical card and teachers a raise with that 44 millon.
November 10th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
I cant beleive what I’m reading here! I realize this is from a columnist but does Larry agree?
July 20th, 2010 at 9:36 am
The latest “Washington Post” poll shows that around sixty percent of respondents admitted to Obama’s administration “no confidence”, which he had that voice mass response of “Yes, we can” than the real differences are apart. At first, the support rate as high as Bacheng about the “Obama” the political trademark, as the economic crisis in the abuse of money in India, has now been devalued substantially.