Dry Scholars for Defeat

A "dry and scholarly" approach to what would be the end of one of the last outposts of enlightened Western Civilization. Putting our religious freedom and our way of life at risk.

Are we talking the elitist and self-absorbed, detached from reality, hope glossing over doom and gloom message of Barack Obama? He's got a conflict here:

You can win an election on bad news if it’s obvious, but not if you have to sell the voters on it first. Hope is a powerful emotion, and given the choice between a candidate who says we’re doomed and one who says we’re winning, most voters will prefer to believe the latter, particularly when the facts bear him out. Why choose to feel dismal? Moreover, suppose you think that America’s mission in Iraq is imperiled but not lost. Which side are you going to vote for — the one that wants to fight things out or the one that wants to quit? The doomsaying strategy works only on voters who are naturally inclined to despair, and thankfully, they make up a small part of the electorate.

Are we talking America, where Dem House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is again peddling the phony and depressing Dem message of failure in Iraq? Even as an al-Qaeda leader himself admits failure in Iraq? Even as we capture a major terrorist on the Afghan/Pakistan border and put the Sept. 11th Six on trial for war crimes, captured in our war on terror. Even as the Iranians continue to prepare nuclear material to tip missiles that can reach Europe, not to mention Israel right next door.

As LGF notes, just last August Obama the seer with the great judgment was pronouncing Iraq a "complete failure". But it's not Sen. Barack Obama talking nice this time to evil in the world--

it's the Archbishop of Canterbury in Britain, speaking of the inevitability of Sharia Law, which has worked so well for non-believers, not to mention women and other abused persons.

As I've said before, it's hard to turn the other cheek when someone wants to cut off your head. Dry and scholarly to the bloody end.

Keeping us and hope alive may require another kind of leadership.

UPDATE: In my previous post on Obama, Rezko surfaced again. Now this disturbing question on another Barack donor--is Khaleel Ahmed the same Khaleel Ahmed who has been arrested for conspiring to commit terrorist acts? If it's the same person, I blogged about this almost a year ago, Chicagoans for Jihad. Info on this and other Obama donors involved with domestic terrorism at Bill Baar. (At the very least this shows naivete on Obama's part.)

UPDATE: And Sebastian Mallaby, WaPo, on the perils of taking a foreign policy timeout.

UPDATE: Paul at Powerline notes Barack Obama's foreign policy advisor:

We've written before about Samantha Power, the virulently anti-Israel academic who serves as a foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama. Power has the distinction of arguably being to the left of Professors Walt and Mearsheimer in her view of Israel's "domination" of American foreign policy.

Read on for some news of Obama's chitchat with the Electronic Intifada. More questions about Power at NRO here.