For the Americans who stand on the sidelines and watch the spectacle of those zombie-like followers of Obama, who have suspended disbelief and seemingly accepted a parallel reality without an iota of critical resistance, this election season is like a very scary movie…except IT’S REALLY HAPPENING!

Have huge swaths of our fellow citizens have simply gone mad? Is that why they are blind to any rational argument that opposes their addiction to Obama? It is as though Obama’s Kenyan Granny taught him how to cast a spell or concoct a powerful witch’s brew (and, no, this isn’t a racist comment–witchcraft is alive and well in Kenya according to the Catholic Church).

Thomas Sowell, at Real Clear Politics today, comments on this strange blindness to the facts that afflicts Obama’s followers…

The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back into a substantial lead over John McCain– which is astonishing in view of which man and which party has had the most to do with bringing on this crisis.

It raises the question: Do facts matter? Or is Obama’s rhetoric and the media’s spin enough to make facts irrelevant?

Fact Number One: It was liberal Democrats, led by Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, who for years– including the present year– denied that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taking big risks that could lead to a financial crisis.

It was Senator Dodd, Congressman Frank and other liberal Democrats who for years refused requests from the Bush administration to set up an agency to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

It was liberal Democrats, again led by Dodd and Frank, who for years pushed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to go even further in promoting subprime mortgage loans, which are at the heart of today’s financial crisis.

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