The same old smoke from Hippie Hill

[Pryderi]

I have the distinct misfortune of living within range of the Cincinnati Enquirer's distribution.

At his best, Barack Obama captures some of that 1960s euphoria. He shows how hungry we are for better leaders with new answers. But sometimes when he speaks I can almost smell the hash pipes on Hippie Hill.
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And most of his disciples do not even blink their pinwheel eyes or wonder what kind of messiah complex it takes to utter such extravagant grandiosity.

"Better get used to 'President Obama,' " one of them growled in an e-mail the other day.

Maybe so. Maybe every generation has to have its own dreams and disillusionments. But I wonder what the country will look like by the time we smell a problem, scrape off our shoes and finally put a leash on the new Obama nation.


http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080810/COL05/808100354/1004/COL

[librechik]

1. they never got over the hippie thing, It's a perennial favorite for the exophobics.

Eww--that male has long hair LIKE A GIRL, Ewww, that girl doesn't shave her legs, EWW. the smell!

And they spit on the soldiers (a damn lie, BTW)

Get over your hatred of folks who don't look exactly like you, America. Remember the motto on the Statue of Liberty and celebrate the rfact that this is the land of opportunity for ALL!

How did that America, a shining beacon of tolerance, turn into a quaking kingdom of fear?

I know one thing--it didn't happen all on its own without a lot of help from the RW haters.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. "How did that America, a shining beacon of tolerance, turn into a quaking kingdom of fear?"

Reason #1: the radical clergy.

[depakid]

2. It's very difficult to have any sympathy for Ohians like this

Pity, perhaps- but not sympathy.

[angstlessk]

3. ain't cincy one of the worst cities ever for people leaving...after cleveland?? sorry ohio

you screwed the pooch once and the country totally...get over yerself!

[Botany]

5. my e mail to the writer

[email protected]



Peter,

Is hard getting through your day being such a stupid tool? Does getting your penis stuck
in your zipper day after day when you go to the bathroom still hurt? So Barack Obama's
ideas and speeches are some sort of dope dream that sooner or later will make an
unknowing person fall victim to STDs, murder, prostitution, or rape? Hey I got one
for you; An unelected idiot takes power in this country after a coup and lets thousands
of people die in an attack he was warned about, lies us into an unneeded war, causes
over 1 million people to be dead, outs a CIA agent, lets his Vice President and his
buddies loot the federal treasury, watches as an American city goes under water and
does nothing, turns over environmental control to the polluters, uses the NSA to spy
on us, uses the DoJ (that would be the Department of Justice .... must educated people
would know that but judging from your work I can see you need some "help") as
political muscle with the U.S. Attorneys being the "hit men," and steals another election
all the while a lap dog media play with themselves.

BTW just in case you might want to know about Stoner Obama:

Columbia University (Honors)
Worked for a Private Business
Harvard Law School (top of his class)
Editor of the Harvard Law Review
Passed on a 6 figure job to work with the poor in Chicago
Corporate Law
Civil Rights Law
Professor of Constitutional Law University of Chicago
Author 2 Best Selling Books
Illinois State Senator 1998 - 2004 (I dare you to look up what he did as a State Senator)
U.S. Senator 2004 - Present
Husband and Father
Put together and ran a highly successful Presidential Campaign (that would be called management)
Smart enough to tell Fox news to "stick it"
Successful Public Speaker
Successful fund raiser from the common man ... average donation around $80.00


But go ahead and be a tool and sell the lie that Obama is just "an empty suit" or
as meaningless as somebody smoking dope as they watch t.v..

I have a bet for you .... I will bet that Obama's speech on race will be studied in classrooms
just like Lincoln's Gettysburg Address or MLK's, "I have a Dream Speech" and your work
will be forgotten as meaningless crap from a two bit hack.

[roseBudd]

11. Hey Botany put your comment here....

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080814/COL05/808140379/1004/COL

So lots of people will see it

[Union Thug]

6. You see, drugs and prostitution did not exist prior to the advance

of the hippie scourge upon this great nation.

MOre than this, the subtext of this, at least to me, is that we need an authoritarian government to protect us from ourselves. Otherwise, we're just flea-ridden dogs who attack eachother and eat squirrels.

Geez, that sounds like a lot of right-wing bubbas I know of.

[AndyTiedye]

7. His Attack on Hippies is as Old and as Irrelevant as that Old Newspaper He Cited

No doubt the paper was a source of inspiration.

The feral dogs had as little to do with the hippies
as the hippies have to do with Obama.

But when you have been commanded to write a hit piece
and you've drunk up all your inspiration,
sometimes you gotta go with whatever you've got lying around.

[12string]

8. hash pipes

Wow,hash pipes.Haven't been able to get hash for many years around here.I'm going to Cincinnati.

[Botany]

10. Cincinnati used to have some good hash

... just saying :rofl:

[bronxiteforever]

9. Hippie Hill? Next he is going to complain about tubes on the internets

[Ramius]

12. WTF are you trying to say?

OK... being from Cincinnati, as someone who works for one of the local TV stations in Cinci .... having read the article to which you linked in my hands... and a reluctant Obama supporter....

WTF are you trying to say? Do you have an opinion of your own?

[provis99]

13. is Peter Bronson related to Charles "Death Wish" Bronson

he's got the same fascist "kill em all" attitude that Charlie's character has in the Death Wish series.

Maybe he would have more credibility if he admitted that the people who attacked and oppressed hippies were not hippies; they were Middle America Faacists like him.