THE LIE

Politico has - sort of - come clean. Obama is a thief and a fraud. What Chicago Slim has done is lie about his own agenda repeatedly and take Clinton's stances as his own. Gee, thanks for the tip, Politico.

President Obama is morphing into old rival Hillary Clinton

...(Obama) had a hard date for ending the war. Clinton repeatedly questioned the wisdom and sincerity of Obama's pledge to remove all combat troops from Iraq within 16 months of taking office. It was the biggest difference between the two candidates-and one of the top reasons Obama won the nomination.

I would argue BHO's Iraq lies were the main reason he garnered the Democratic support his did. All of those people were lied to. All of them.

We can argue about the reasons the DNC and the media gamed the process to ensure Obama got the nomination all we want. My opinion as to the main reason remains sexism. The only debate in my mind is whether sexism was the accelerant or the fire itself.

There were other elements in play to be sure. The Democratic elite's contempt for the Clintons (mirrored now by the GOP elite's contempt for Palin.) played a part. Nothing so satisfies the monkey brains on the Dean Left as much as a nice round of mindless Clinton bashing.

Additionally, race was used as a shiny toy flashed in front of the likes of Huffington and the MSNBC idiots. "Look he's Black!" Which was the modern version of "I'm not racist. I have black friends, I swear!"

But what under girded all of this was a bourgeois, largely unspoken and often unconscious fear of powerful women. I am sure Olbermann, Cafferty and Huffington don't think of themselves as bigots. But they are. It seeped through in broadcasts and posts throughout last year. "Bitch" was thrown about like confetti on Obamablogs. One has to wonder what would have happened if Obama had been referred to as a "spear chucker" on a Clinton blog. Even my visceral reaction to "spear chucker" is more pained and pronounced than it is to "bitch." Why? Both carry the same amount of vile meaning and stereotyping. I am as inured to the debasing of women as the next man. It is in the atmosphere of this culture. Sometimes it is the atmosphere.

It is still perfectly acceptable to attack a female politician by going after her gender. In fact, that is the first line of attack. Cold. Bitchy. Emotional. Whore. "Everyone's first wife." Obama even used "periodic" to imply Clinton was unstable. And on and on the Chris Matthews goombahs of the media elite went.

God Bless Hillary Clinton for fighting through. I mean that. God Bless Clinton.

I will never let up on this point. Clinton was better qualified, more honest (which is to say simply - she is honest and Barry is not) a real leader, and not a concocted brand spraying soothing lies across the land.

So John, you ask, if BHO has taken Clinton's stances what is the problem? The problem is - as it always has been - THE LIE. He was never vetted. He STILL hasn't been. He was not held to any of the standards Clinton was hammered with. His past was not questioned. His life was not questioned. To do so invited a scathing attack from the petulant media and Obama's Children of the Corn.

Obama was wheeled through the city gates as a great gift bestowed upon us. Once the battle was won out of the Obama Trojan Horse came Bush's policy on Iraq (Obama lied), the "brain" trust of Goldman Sachs, Rick Warren, Bush's bailout policy, phony "stress tests" for the banks, health care reform lead by the same people who created the mess, a coward on Gay rights, a "Constitutional scholar" who abrogates contracts that annoy him, a narcissist who won't or can't let another living soul take center stage even for a millisecond, and a tacky man who insults our closest allies.

Given the context of the times, Obama is not "historical" at all. He's run of the mill. Take away the "Obama show" we are force fed and the remainder of his Presidency so far is entirely expected. In fact, take the mind game a step further. Make BHO a white male in your mind's eye and play out his first 4 months. He becomes shatteringly mediocre. His race is still a bobble white liberals use to amuse themselves.

McCain would have passed a stimulus bill (smaller, but he still would have done it.) Clinton would have too. Any Democrat from Edwards to Richardson would be working on health care now. The fact that he is disinterested in and apologetic to a fault for American foreign policy should only shock the willfully moronic. Ditto for the Afghan policy. He's more conservative than Bush on the right of the Feds to intrude on privacy. Is this a surprise? It shouldn't be. He telegraphed it loudly last year by ditching FISA.

The "change" he promised is still in the form of a series of announcements. Anything that might remotely upset the status quo will remain in the form of an announcement. The Guantanamo "announcement" sounded good - except he forgot to form a policy before he went before the TV cameras. The "big change" in environmental policy is dying in the House as I type. The over the top fantasy budget WAS a bit unexpected but it is no where near becoming law so remains merely an announcement. His promises to gay Americans are lost in the Axelrod wilderness. 2 weeks ago he thumbed his nose at Armenians - apparently for sport.

The one big move I can say has surprised me a bit is his intrusion into Detroit. But I must follow quickly with - that intrusion is arrogant, and counter productive. His huffy attack on the hedge funds who want a fair deal and disregard for contractual law tells us much about the man's actual temperament.

This blog stated almost immediately that his "announcement" on torture was gamesmanship and would certainly end up being destructive. He will dodge this shot at his own foot only because Pelosi is an 8 on the hypocrite Richter scale and she has now run for cover.

I defy anyone to tell me what Obama has done so far that isn't either:

A. What any Democrat would have done.
or
B. Stupid.

He was handed the Democratic nomination in a Democratic year not because he was the best choice. He was handed the Democratic nomination in a Democratic year because he had a penis and his opponent did not.