Opinion on Obama
Here is a brilliant piece by Gerard Baker that uses King James English to put into words what we all feel is the attitude toward Barack Obama on the part of many of his followers and the media. This is the first part of the piece, but you have to read the whole thing! Simply brialliant!
And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.
The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.
When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”
In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes of Working Class Whites. . . . (Read it all)
Hat Tip: The Corner
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On Fox News Sunday yesterday, June 22, 2008, Brit Hume managed to summarize the entire Obama candidacy in about 40 seconds - a new, charismatic personality with nothing but old-style liberalism to offer America.
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Here is a YouTube video by a young man who has been a backer of Barack Obama - but who is now rethinking his support as a result of Obama's dishonorable decision to not take public financing of the General Election Campaign as he had previously promised to do. It is interesting to watch the "wheels" in this young man's mind turn as he comes to grips with who Obama really is. This MAY offer a sign of hope that some of Obama's young supporters are starting to actually think about him and what he would mean for our country. We can hope, anyway.
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As Barack Obama lecturingly told Hillary Clinton during the campaign - "Words Matter." Obama's choice of words the other night in his pep rally speech upon winning the Democratic Nomination give us a window into what he really thinks about America.
Sure, he has taken to wearing a flag pin now part of the time, and he throws in statements about America being great, but at the end of that speech he called on his followers to help him "remake" this great nation. Huh? If he thinks America is great, why does he want to "remake" her?
Syndicated Columnist Mark Steyn has written a masterpiece of a column entitled, "Obama the Humble Savior." He deals with this issue and others. Great reading!
The short version of the Democratic Party primary campaign is that the media fell in love with Barack Obama but the Democratic electorate declined to.
"I felt this thrill going up my leg," said MSNBC's Chris Matthews after one of the senator's speeches. "I mean, I don't have that too often." Au contraire, Chris and the rest of the gang seem to be getting the old tingle up the thigh hairs on a nightly basis. If Obama is political Viagra, the media are at that stage in the ad where the announcer warns that, if leg tingles persist for more than six months, see your doctor.
Out there in the voting booths, however, Democrat legs stayed admirably unthrilled. The more the media told Hillary she was toast, and she should get the hell out of it and let Obama romp to victory, the more Democrats insisted on voting for her. The more the media insisted Barack was inevitable, the less inclined the voters were to get with the program. On the strength of Chris Matthews' vibrating calves, Sen. Obama raised a ton of money – over $300 million – and massively outspent Sen. Clinton, but he didn't really get any bang for his buck. In the end, he crawled over the finish line. The Obama Express came a-hurtlin' down the track at 2 miles an hour. read more »
Here is a great column by David Limbaugh on why Barack Obama's mantra of bringing unity to America with his message of change actually rings very hollow:
It's interesting that the main people pushing Obama in the name of unity and civility are the same ones brutally trashing Hillary (and Bill) Clinton. They seem to have no sense of their own hypocrisy in defending the Clintons yesterday for far greater misconduct than that for which they are mercilessly excoriating them today in their editorials and so-called news reporting.
The hypocrisy and absence of self-reflection of this group -- mostly the mainstream media and the leftist cabal of the Democratic Party -- is born of its profound arrogance. This arrogance is also evident in the striking incoherence of their assumption that Obama can be a unifying force while working to change America in ways that are repugnant to a large plurality, if not a majority, of Americans.
You have to recognize that something about this group is just not natural when its members, such as MSNBC's Chris Matthews, can say without embarrassment that Obama sends shivers up his leg or when swooning crowds of supporters faint in his presence. read more »
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Michael Barone has written an outstanding article that reveals the sizeable damage done to the candidacy of Barack Obama by his longtime relationship with Jeremiah Wright:
Is the bottom falling out for Barack Obama? It's too early to say that, but there are some disturbing signs. On the positive side, superdelegates still are breaking his way. Rep. Baron Hill, whose southern Indiana district almost certainly will vote for Hillary Clinton, came out for Obama. So did fellow Hoosier Joe Andrew, who previously endorsed Clinton and who was named Democratic national chairman by Bill Clinton in the 1990s. (James Carville may have another name for him.) Obama is still well ahead among delegates chosen in primaries and caucuses, and he is not very far behind in superdelegates, either.
But what about the voters? Here there are some ominous signs. The latest Fox News poll, conducted after the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's appearance at the National Press Club, showed Obama's favorable/unfavorables at 63 to 27 percent among Democrats, compared to Hillary Clinton's 73 to 22 percent. Suddenly she's not the only one with high negatives. And 36 percent of Democrats say they would be disinclined to vote for Obama because of his longtime relationship with his former pastor. There's more bad news in The Pew Research Center poll of Democrats. Obama's national lead among Democrats is down from 49 to 39 percent to a statistically insignificant 47 to 45 percent. read more »
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Columnist Charles Krauthammer has written
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
"Real change has never been easy. ... The status quo in Washington will fight. They will fight harder than ever to divide us and distract us with ads and attacks from now until November." -- Barack Obama, Pennsylvania primary night speech
WASHINGTON -- With that, Obama identified the new public enemy: the "distractions" foisted upon a pliable electorate by the malevolent forces of the status quo, i.e., those who might wish to see someone else become president next January. "It's easy to get caught up in the distractions and the silliness and the tit for tat that consumes our politics" and "trivializes the profound issues" that face our country, he warned sternly. These must be resisted.
Why? Because Obama understands that the real threat to his candidacy is less Hillary Clinton and John McCain than his own character and cultural attitudes. He came out of nowhere with his autobiography already written, then saw it embellished daily by the hagiographic coverage and kid-gloves questioning of a supine press. (Which is why those "Saturday Night Live" parodies were so devastatingly effective.)
Then came the three amigos: Tony Rezko, the indicted fixer; Jeremiah Wright, the racist reverend; William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist. And then Obama's own anthropological observation that "bitter" working-class whites cling to guns and religion because they misapprehend their real class interests. read more »
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An interesting letter to the editor. If Obama gets the nomination, would this be a trend among women?
Mar. 11, 2008 12:00 AM
If Hillary Clinton is not the Democratic nominee, don't expect all her passionate supporters to gleefully jump aboard Barack Obama's bandwagon.I would never vote for the man who spoiled my dream of seeing a woman president in my lifetime.
If Obama is the Democratic nominee, I will hop aboard the bandwagon of John McCain. At least he has a wealth of experience. - Luann V.,Phoenix
Don't know, but it would not take many, even 5%, to make a huge difference in a tight election.
Michael Gerson has laid out for us, in all it's splendor, what the first 100 days of an Obama Presidency would look like in terms of Foreign Policy. What he projects as Obama's initiatives are logical steps to fulfill his desire to stop, what Obama terms "bullying," by the United States. Instead, an Obama administration would wholly embrace "appeasement, protectionism, and retreat." Here is part of Gerson's outstanding article:
As a thought experiment, consider the foreign policy achievements of Obama's first 100 days.
Redeeming his Inaugural pledge to "pay any price, bear any burden, fly any distance to meet with our enemies," Obama's first major international meeting is with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. National security adviser Samantha Power does her best to talk tough on human rights in preparation for the meeting. But, as Henry Kissinger once said, "When talks become their own objective, they are at the mercy of the party most prepared to break them off." Having made Iranian talks "without precondition" his major foreign policy goal, Obama is left with little leverage to extract concessions, and little choice but to move forward.
The New York Post runs a front-page picture of the Obama/Ahmadinejad handshake under the headline "Surrender Summit!" The story notes another of Obama's historic firsts: the first American president to meet with a Holocaust denier. The Israeli prime minister publicly asks, "Why is the American president meeting with a leader who calls us 'filthy bacteria' and threatens to wipe us 'off the map'?" Tens of thousands protest in Tel Aviv, carrying signs reading "Chamberlain Lives!" read more »
