Chomsky on President Obama

There's Nothing There

It gets really bad in politics when even your ideological friends admit your opponents were right--about you.

Noam Chomsky has long been a radical to the Left of the ideological spectrum.  One would have thought that he would be consistently supportive of President Obama--the Chicago community organizer who was elected as the first black president of the United States.  After all, Obama's left wing radicalism and activism on the streets of Chicago were well documented.  (Not so well documented, of course, were his ties to the systemic corruption of Chicago Democratic politics.)

Chomsky has now admitted that Sarah Palin has been right all along about Obama.
  This from TheBlaze:

Probably the last person you’d expect to cite Sarah Palin favorably is Noam Chomsky. Yet in an interview with the Leftist news organization Democracy Now, Chomsky did precisely that, saying Palin was right to mock Obama for his lack of substance.

“I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin,” Chomsky said, “but when she was making fun of this ‘hopey changey stuff,’ she was right, there was nothing there.”

Watch Chomsky’s surprisingly honest admission below:

When Obama is seen by a leading intellectual storm trooper of the Left as nothing more than an "empty suit" it is significant. It implies that disillusion over the President will be running deep within the belly of the Democratic Party.

Chomsky's cynical remarks also help explain why Obama and his handlers have focused so much on money, money, money as the key to electoral success. They really do believe that people can be manipulated into voting for their candidate. It's certainly true that manipulation and artifice can work for a time. But Lincoln's dictum still holds true: you can fool some people all of the time, and you can fool all people some of the time, but you can't fool all people all the time.

Another dictum also holds true: fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Chomsky is clearly not going to fall for it again. We suspect that he expresses a disquiet widely shared amongst by many people ordinarily Democrat supporters.