Daily Archives: Saturday, November 15, 2008

I have won what I call political capital and now I intend to spend it.—George W. Bush, November 3, 2004

 

And here is a letter to President Bush following his 2004 re-election from Reverend Bob Jones III, president of Bob Jones University.

In your re-election, God has graciously granted America—though she doesn’t deserve it—a reprieve from the agenda of paganism. You have been given a mandate…. Don’t equivocate. Put your agenda on the front burner and let it boil. You owe the liberals nothing. They despise you because they despise your Christ….

Undoubtedly, you will have opportunity to appoint many conservative judges and exercise forceful leadership with the Congress in passing legislation that is defined by biblical norm regarding the family, sexuality, sanctity of life, religious freedom, freedom of speech, and limited government. You have four years—a brief time only—to leave an imprint for righteousness upon this nation that brings with it the blessings of Almighty God….

If you have weaklings around you who do not share your biblical values, shed yourself of them.

And here’s Bob Novak after the 2004 election…

Q: Bob Novak, is 51 percent of the vote really a mandate?

NOVAK: Of course it is. It’s a 3.5 million vote margin. But the people who are saying that it isn’t a mandate are the same people who were predicting that John Kerry would win. … So the people who say there’s not a mandate want the president, now that he’s won, to say, Oh, we’re going to accept the liberalism that the — that the voters rejected. But Mark, this is a conservative country, and it showed it on last Tuesday. [11/06/04]

We’ll just note here that Obama’s margin of victory was about 3X greater than Bush’s in 2004.  We’ll note also that Dems made further gains in House and Senate, not to mention in state races.  But apparently none of that matters to Novak who wrote in the Chicago Sun Times on Nov 5, 2008…

The first Democratic Electoral College landslide in decades did not result in a tight race for control of Congress. […]

[Obama] may have opened the door to enactment of the long-deferred liberal agenda, but he neither received a broad mandate from the public nor the needed large congressional majorities.

Then there is Brent Bozell, conservative movement organizer, on Fox, Nov 7…

“That means that Barack Obama does not have the mandate to enact the left-wing agenda he wants to enact. He didn’t run on it, he ran from it.”

And what is Bozell referring to with “that” which provides his justification for claiming that Obama, if he has any mandate at all, only has a mandate to forward conservative policies?  Pay attention now because this is a bit of a head-scratcher.

This is Bozell on Fox a week before the election…

“…when you go through the entirety of the campaign saying the kind of things that you’re saying in the debates, where on, for every question, you’ve got a redistribution of wealth answer, where you’ve got socialism, where you’ve got the government controlling every aspect of life. You don’t expect a reporter to ask you, ‘Is this socialism?’ Because the media don’t ask that question.”

In other words, Obama is a bloody god-forsaken socialist, particularly on that economic stuff.  That’s clear, right?  Now, here’s Bozell two days after the election, on Fox again.  Obama has no mandate to forward policies one might expect from a Democrat, particularly in economic matters because he…

“ran as a Reaganite” and “won over … the public as a fiscal conservative.”

These guys just make it up as they go along.

more data to be found at  http://mediamatters.org/items/200811070010