What Biden Knows and Brand Obama

Update: Below I take what any logical person would read as a dig at Chris Hedges. I was not clear. I have read Hedges here and there and he spoke at my church once and I attended. What I have read and heard from him I found edifying and thought provoking.

Hedges is morally consistent, unlike so many others on the Left.

My interjection of "gee. ya think?" was in response to my annoyance with the entire Lefty chattering class using a cut and paste from Hedges as back up. It reads as a direct dig at Hedges which is unfair. And it was sloppy of me and I apologize for it.

For morning reading I suggest two pieces:

1. Uppity's cross post with Pundita on what a pandemic really is (we have them all the time.) and some sober thoughts about this Fall - is a must. Biden's impolitic yelp may have been scary - it also may have been informed. Biden is so easy to punk that one can't be expected to resist. But his verbal ejaculations are sometimes worth deconstructing. That "we'll need your help when we are in trouble next fall" remark still haunts.

2. Cannonfire features a piece by Chris Hedges who is now consistently articulating - from the Left - how tricky and dangerous the Obama phenomenon is - and that he is, in fact, a Trojan Horse. (As you know, I prefer Brando's verdict in Apocalypse Now:...an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks....He is a finely appointed errand boy and the grocery clerks work for Goldman Sachs but you get my much repeated point...)

What does gall me about Hedges' work now is that he is saying what we, the dukes and duchesses of minor blogland, have been saying for well over a year. It grates on my nerves and ego to have a bigger player come in very late in the game and announce things like:

Obama, who has become a global celebrity, was molded easily into a brand. He had almost no experience, other than two years in the Senate, lacked any moral core and could be painted as all things to all people.

Gee. Ya think?

I wish I had a penny for every time I screamed those sentiments from this blog over the past year. I'd have about 600 pennies....

I suppose one must suck it up and be glad Truthdig has posted some TRUTH. I imagine The Nation will get on the "Newsflash! Obama is a fraud!" bandwagon soon enough. Followed - after he slips below 50% - by that shell company the NYTimes and then, with the the startled look of a goldfish who can't remember it's seen the fishbowl castle 2000 times before, CNN will reveal that Obama is actually really not very good at Presidenting beyond the showing off parts - or a particularly honest man. (The corruption being revealed in the Chrysler/Hedge Fund attack is quite remarkable...you can take the thugs out of Chicago but you can't take the thuggery out of the thugs.)

What is dangerous about Obama has not changed in the last 15 months. That being that he is everywhere and nowhere, all things and nothing- making him the perfect front man for ongoing looting. This is what has occurred so far - and, I will bet right now, his health care proposal will - when and if it is actually read - will benefit certain insurance companies enormously.

Obama is the outsider the elites brought in to do the job. In this way he is the perfect and logical extension of Bush. Effective blowback against him will be apparent in the media in direct proportion to the degree he goes against the wishes of those who brought him to the party.