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Obama derangement syndrome reaches the conservative mainstream?

Thomas Ash
13 - 10 - 08

The over-the-top reactions of some liberals to George W. Bush's presidency earned the label 'Bush Derangement Syndrome'. I think it's time to diagnose a conservative equivalent: Obama Derangement Syndrome. We've seen signs of it in the video Kanishk posted a few days ago, and in the McCain supporters calling Obama a terrorist and Arab. But what's more startling is its spread to the conservative mainstream. If you have the time, take a look at The Corner at National Review Online - a blog populated by the most prominent journalists from the American right's most widely-read, well-respected journal. On it, you'll find the likes of Andy McCarthy speculating that the real author of Barack Obama's autobiography Dreams From My Father was William Ayers. It really has to be seen to be believed.

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Unbelievable. That's so

Solana Larsen | Tue, 2008-10-14 15:28

Unbelievable. That's so absurd.

By the way, Bill Ayers has written is own biography, "Fugitive Days", which is a very good reflection on his youth, activism and militancy.

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...and I should also have

Thomas Ash | Tue, 2008-10-14 09:53

...and I should also have mentioned this, again from the aptly-named McCarthy:

"Obama's radicalism, beginning with his Alinski/ACORN/community organizer period, is a bottom-up socialism. This, I'd suggest, is why he fits comfortably with Ayers, who (especially now) is more Maoist than Stalinist. What Obama is about is infiltrating (and training others to infiltrate) bourgeois institutions in order to change them from within — in essence, using the system to supplant the system."

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From the Corner as well:

Kanishk Tharoor | Tue, 2008-10-14 09:42

From the Corner as well: Obama chastised for attempting to pronounce Pakistan correctly.

"When Obama says Pock-i-stahn I have an uncontrollable urge to read the New Yorker and find some Chardonnay.

Fortunately I have an old copy of NR and a Coors Light to snap me back to reality.

Seriously though — no one in flyover country says Pock-i-stahn. It's annoying."

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