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Towards A Comprehensive List of Things Obama Is Pushing Us To

Jul 29, 2010
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Politics & Current Events, WTF?

Via Jonathan Turley, I see that Mike Huckabee, a probable candidate for the 2012 Republican nomination for President, had a discussion on Fox with Moral Majority leader Sean LaHaye about whether whether President Obama is pushing us "closer to the apocalypse." No, not metaphorically. As in the end times.

I've heard a lot of things that President Obama is pushing us to, and I realized that it is long past time to compile a comprehensive list, with the help of you, Gentle Readers.

BARACK OBAMA IS PUSHING US CLOSER TO:

1. The Apocalypse/The End of Days/Rapture
2. Socialism/Communism
3. One World Government
4. Slavery
5. Fascism/Nazism
6. Widespread sexual perversion/mandatory and/or widespread homosexuality (how you doin'?)
7. The Destruction of Israel
8. The Downfall of America
9. Economic ruin (within a quasi-capitalist frame of reference)

C'mon, help me out here.

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  1. Imaginary Lawyer  •  Jul 29, 2010 @12:43 pm

    You left out the Destruction of the American Family. DUH.

  2. Patrick  •  Jul 29, 2010 @12:43 pm

    The problem with this sort of commentary, by Huckabee and LaHaye, is that it causes those who have serious and thoughtful disagreement with the administration's policies to be drowned out in noise. The problem with mocking this sort of commentary is that it allows those inclined to support the administration's policies the false security of believing that all who disagree are hysterical twits, which may lead them to ignore criticism which is actually well taken. For what it's worth, people like Jonah Goldberg are every bit as guilty of calling disproportionate attention to loonies as the people at, say, Sadly No!

    I realize that's no fun, so in the spirit of your post:

    10. A plague of mongrels overrunning our streets.

  3. Ken  •  Jul 29, 2010 @12:45 pm

    I take your point, Patrick, but I think that we question the administration enough that we can get away with ridiculing its nuttiest critics.

  4. Patrick  •  Jul 29, 2010 @12:47 pm

    Who's we? I haven't criticized the Obama administration in six whole hours.

  5. Ken  •  Jul 29, 2010 @12:48 pm

    Also, I think that folks like Huckabee and LaHaye discredit the (voluminous) good criticisms of the administration far more than our puny power to add or detract from it. Failure to make fun of them, I think, poses a different risk: the risk that such viewpoints are seen as legitimate and accepted elements by other critics of the administration.

  6. Patrick  •  Jul 29, 2010 @12:51 pm

    Now you're making me feel like Ezra Klein, counseling that all of American journalism ignore Jeremiah Wright. All I really want to be is Spencer Ackerman, shoving faces through plate glass windows.

  7. ano33  •  Jul 29, 2010 @12:52 pm

    Shouldn't true Christians be happy that Obama is pushing us to the endtimes, where they finally get to ascend to heaven and all of us sinners get to realize the error of our ways?

  8. Grandy  •  Jul 29, 2010 @1:31 pm

    11. Exclusively running 4e D&D

  9. SB7  •  Jul 29, 2010 @1:37 pm

    How about…

    11. The Fall of Western Civilization

    … to either the Chinese or Muslims, or some other threat from the exotic reaches of the Orient. Whoever seems scariest this week.

  10. Chris  •  Jul 29, 2010 @1:52 pm

    Mandatory death panels for senior citizens.

  11. PLW  •  Jul 29, 2010 @2:19 pm

    11. A post-racial America?

  12. Mark Thompson  •  Jul 29, 2010 @3:11 pm

    11. Sharia.
    12. Racial Segregation/Apartheid in reverse (see Rush Limbaugh's comments on Missouri school bus beating)

  13. matt  •  Jul 29, 2010 @3:44 pm

    you forgot to add (and i feel fine) to the end of number 1

  14. Noble  •  Jul 29, 2010 @10:34 pm

    I'm sure these Moral Majority folks know (and appreciate) that both Ronald Reagan and George Bush Junior were vocally and proudly pushing us "closer to the apocalypse."

  15. John Burgess  •  Jul 30, 2010 @8:32 am

    Organic backyard vegetable gardens and Portuguese Water Dogs!

    Go ahead… try to deny it. I've got Oprah-strength proof!

  16. Nim  •  Aug 2, 2010 @10:24 am

    but is it the ZOMBIE apocalypse… ?