Author Topic: Obama the Yuppie; a column by Victor Davis Hanson (Read 8035 times)

Monkeyleg · « **on:** August 15, 2010, 11:31:42 PM »

One site I check each night is Victor Davis Hanson's. Lately his columns have seemed to be rehashes of what he wrote just a week prior.

Tonight's column about Obama's yuppy-ism is different. He makes some really good points about Obama's disconnect with the America people, and does so in some ways that I haven't seen mentioned before.

The column is here.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #1 on:** August 16, 2010, 01:09:03 AM »

Meh. It's just another way of saying that Obama's out of touch. Old news. It would be more interesting if he provided cites for what he's talking about. For those of us who haven't been paying attention to where the Obamas go for vacation.

longeyes · « **Reply #2 on:** August 16, 2010, 02:40:04 AM »

If only Obama were just a yuppie...

cassandra and sara's daddy · « **Reply #3 on:** August 16, 2010, 04:36:50 AM »

the term is buppie

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #4 on:** August 16, 2010, 08:58:10 AM »

"Buppie"?

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #5 on:** August 16, 2010, 10:11:31 AM »

Quote from: Monkeyleg on August 16, 2010, 08:58:10 AM

"Buppie"?

Black yuppie I presume.

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #6 on:** August 16, 2010, 10:17:11 AM »

That's racist.

longeyes · « **Reply #7 on:** August 16, 2010, 10:55:47 AM »

Muppie is more appropriate.

That's a Marxist yuppie.

Headless Thompson Gunner · « **Reply #8 on:** August 16, 2010, 12:40:40 PM »

Marxism doesn't have yuppies.

longeyes · « **Reply #9 on:** August 16, 2010, 01:22:31 PM »

Wrong. It does now.

I guess you don't understand that in Obama we have the first "bi-polar" President. Be patient, you'll get it eventually.

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #10 on:** August 16, 2010, 02:10:55 PM »

Quote from: longeyes on August 16, 2010, 01:22:31 PM

Wrong. It does now.

5 star resorts in Spain are the new Dacha-on-the-Baltic.

longeyes · « **Reply #11 on:** August 16, 2010, 02:33:13 PM »

Yes, that's exactly right. The nomenklatura was the Soviet equivalent of our yuppies. Of course they didn't have to bother with the blood, sweat, and tears of capitalism to get their caviar, yachts, and sirens of the night. Amoral technocrats, though.

charby · « **Reply #12 on:** August 16, 2010, 02:33:45 PM »

Limousine Liberal is an old but good term to describe.

MechAg94 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 16, 2010, 05:20:20 PM »

Quote from: Headless Thompson Gunner on August 16, 2010, 12:40:40 PM

Marxism doesn't have yuppies.

IMO, Not true. Marxist followers are not the working class. They are all middle class types, often disaffected in some way.

Headless Thompson Gunner · « **Reply #14 on:** August 16, 2010, 05:44:40 PM »

Quote from: MechAg94 on August 16, 2010, 05:20:20 PM

IMO, Not true. Marxist followers are not the working class. They are all middle class types, often disaffected in some way.

Tru nuf, that.

I just kinda think it's strange to say that there is anyone professional or upwardly mobile in a Marxist system. There are only workers, and the only mobility is downward.

TechMan · « **Reply #15 on:** August 16, 2010, 07:54:19 PM »

Quote from: charby on August 16, 2010, 02:33:45 PM

Limousine Liberal is an old but good term to describe.

+1

longeyes · « **Reply #16 on:** August 16, 2010, 09:34:57 PM »

There's upward mobility for the select few in Marxist systems; someone has to rule the sweaty masses.

MechAg94 · « **Reply #17 on:** August 17, 2010, 08:52:52 AM »

Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. There is upward mobility, but it is all political in the party. The Russians just replaced one form of aristocracy for another.

Waitone · « **Reply #18 on:** August 18, 2010, 08:26:08 PM »

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/obama_the_african_colonial.html

A very interesting analysis of what may be driving Obama in his actions and policies. I think this one piece does a better job of explaining what we see than what VDH proposes.

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #19 on:** August 18, 2010, 11:06:06 PM »

A good article, Waitone, but I don't think the two articles contradict each other. The first highlights Obama's yuppie values, the second his line of political thought.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #20 on:** August 18, 2010, 11:36:32 PM »

Quote from: Waitone on August 18, 2010, 08:26:08 PM

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/obama_the_african_colonial.html

A very interesting perspective. In the first line, though, she should replace the word "Americans" with "Obama voters."

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