Quote: Bill S. speaks about the phenomenon of throwing people under the bus:
But 'tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Brutus at II, i)
Riddle me this. What's the difference between Bush supporters and most Obama supporters today (at least the ones who comment on blogs)?
Me: I don't support going into Iraq Neocon: You aren't patriotic
Me: I don't support Senator Obama Obama Supporter (OS) You aren't a democrat
Me: I support Al Gore because he is smart, capable and experienced Neo: I want to have a beer with George Bush
Me: I support Hillary Clinton because she is smart, capable and experienced OS: Obama gives me hope!
Me: I want to know about Bush and his national guard service Neo: Liberal Media Liberal Media Liberal Media Dan Rather is a jerk
Me: I want to know more about Obama's connections with Ayers, Rezko and Wright OS: No more debates. He's answered the question! Charlie Gibson is a jerk
Me: The press is in the tank for Bush and won't vet him Neo: Al Gore created the interets
Me: The press is in the tank for Obama and won't vet him OS: White Water, Monica, Travelgate
Me: I think it's disgusting that Bush called a reporter an asshole Neo: He is!
Me: I think it's disgusting that Randi Rhodes called Senator Clinton a "fucking whore" OS: She is!
Me: I want all the votes in Florida counted Neo: Bush won!
Me: I want all the votes in Florida counted OS: They broke the rules!
Last night this clip was up on No Quarter - my current go to blog - it is alarming, to say the least. It really exposes Obama as a politician of expedience. Plus I am under the weather and don't feel like writing much.
In case you forgot why the GOP is aching for Obama in the fall:
Oh and weenie Barry can't handle any more debates.... he cancelled the one in N.C.
hmm wonder why cuz- the Little Prince got his ass kicked in by Hillary during the last one. He even got his cult members to chant "No more debates" - for no other reason than it seemed to make their LORD and GOD pleased. Next they'll be sacrificing a virgin from the village for him. A mob is a mob is a mob....
I know I am correct on this assumption: the Obamites are just this side of violence. I bet we'll see a violent eruption from their side before this is over. They are not committed to a candidate, they are worshipping a false God. They just don't know he's false yet.
An ongoing fascination I have with the Snob-gate story is the ongoing cluelessness of the Obamites. None of them seem to understand why Obama's remarks in San Francisco are so offensive to so many people. They truly don't get it: including the man himself. Obama did not say he was wrong, merely that he did not say it very well. What he said was, in essence, Marxist. The masses are stupid but needed. If they were not stupid they would not use guns and religion as an opiate. Obama has yet to refute this sentiment. His supporters are befuddled that everyone can't see the inherent wisdom of Saint Obama's remarks. Tom Dashle, a man who as minority leader lost his seat in South Dakota, defended Obama's remarks forcefully. Instead of responding to the basic class-ism Obama put in play the Obamites react with an indefensible defense.
Sensing that Ohio and Pennsylvania may now be lost in November to Mccain, Obamites insist they can make it up with Virginia and Colorado. All I can say is - they think we're the stupid ones. Even on the off - very off - chance Obama could win Colorado and Virginia the electoral college votes would still leave a 19 vote gap. They can't even do simple math. (Hey Arugulas - there is a calulator on your Iphones). Floridians are rightfully livid. There is no reasonable argument against seating all those delegates and counting all those votes. It is a heist by high end criminals to steal millions of votes.
The 1952 election looks like it may be the go to template here. War hero vs. egghead. The egghead loses. In 1952 young people were over the moon for Stevenson and his edicts issued from on high. 2004 is instructive as well. I doubt, to this day, Kerry understands why the windsurfing photo op was such a debacle. Gee, doesn't every one in Scranton windsurf? BTW: Morianna Huffington approved the piece from David Geffen's yacht in the South Pacific. Nice work if you can get it.
It is increasingly impossible to imagine "President Obama". I have no idea what is going to happen anymore. I have assumed it was over for Clinton about 45322 times since January. And onward she marches. The misogynist (read: almost all) media, the Wrong Rev. Dean and the spoiled elites have been after her with the long knives since last Fall. She still has a brutal fight ahead if she is going to pull this off. I have some hope now - but not much. She has conducted herself with stunning tact. Despite the Obamite horsecrap about her "throwing the kitchen sink" she has hardly laid a glove on him - to mix the metaphors. I respect her restraint but I do not like it. Obama is a very strong candidate, until you get to know him. If she really would "do anything to win" she would have dropped the Wright bomb in January. She did not drop it at all. If she really would "do anything" Obama's state senate no shows, his pals, the terrorist William Ayres, and the slumlord Rezko would have been on everyone lips in February. I promise you, Boone Pickens, is salivating at the prospect of dumping millions this Fall into the project of ensuring we know who Obama really is.
As Lynne in Lakeland said to me on the phone today: You can't win a general election with a coalition of African- Americans and people who buy brie.
One last note: I am fed up with being called a racist every time I post something critical of Obama. I know plenty of other who have had it with this Obamite meme as well. Frankly, the only thing left remotely intersting about BHO is his bi-racial background. The rest is errant, dishonest nonsense: a life populated by bombers, slumlords, and lies. I am sick to death of being threatened by the "you're a racist!" verbal rifle butt. I am not a racist. Anyone who thinks a white voter who opposes Obama is by default a racist is, in fact, a racist.
Besides all you Obamites: stop being such wimps - come to the actual fight. Stop cowering behind rhetorical straw men. Let's slam it for our candidates on merit, in the real world.
Oh yeah, you can't do that since you don't live in reality.
I see no reason to be polite about it. The Obama campaign is divisive and nasty. The assholery from Obama is now officially relentless. The idiotic excuses and "blame Hillary" at all costs from Obamites like Huffington and the tactless, mindless Olbermann have become rancid.
Obama, you talked down to a vast swatch of American workers from your smug mountain top in San Francisco. Admit it. Quit dancing around the truth. Tell your goons to stop repeating "He just told the truth." It is revolting that so many people think what you said was "the truth." You know nothing about working people. You know nothing about religious people. You sucker punched an entire nation with your plagiarized speeches. Your mentor, Rev. Wright is a hate filled hypocrite who spews resentment and calls it Christianity.
I've said it a thousand times before and I say it again: You are a fraud. You said last summer "To know me is to love me." That is your biggest lie to date, Senator Obama.
Sunday you joked "Who does she think she is, Annie Oakley."
Wow. I keep saying "wow" because I can't get my mind around what a first class snot you are turning out to be. Yes, Barry, Senator Clinton is very much like Annie Oakley.
Read this letter from a 33 year old African-American woman.
The tone of your campaign has become overtly nasty. The message of "hope" has been overtaken by the true message of your overreach: Vote for me, because I am better than you.
Does us all a favor and find an excuse to quit the race, and take your Prius driving, Arugula chewing, "I refuse to put my hand over my heart", Weather Underground hugging, 60's rejects with you.
Also: Does anyone know if this nugget is true: On June 15 2005 obama bought his $1.65 million mansion without a mortgage. CASH. But nowhere does he say how he managed to put together this kind of capital- given his salary and his wife's salary. Any advances from his writings were subject to taxes and would not have made such a lump sum possible. Obama's tax record do not give any answer as they show no large sums of capital or stock holdings that could explain the source of the money. AND the questions about Obama continue.... BTW his book "the Audacity of Hope" came out in Oct. 2006
A number of factors have driven this blog toward its harsh criticism of Obama and his campaign. 1. His supporters. 2. The Candidate. 3. The media bias. 4. The stupidity of Howard Dean and the DNC.
Tonight I will write about the first reason:
His supporters
I have been upset by his supporters for a good, long while. In the olden days - before Keith Olbermann blew a cog and it became clear the media was going to massage Obama and attack Hillary shamelessly - it was, in fact, only his supporters who bothered me. I was still open to the man and what everyone kept repeating was his "transformational" message.
It was his supporters that began the end of any romance I might have had with Obama. As early as last spring any good words for Hillary on message boards at places like the Huffington Post were quickly and viciously attacked by swarms of Obama fans. Often they amounted to "our guy is better" and "it's time for a change" - both are fair enough assessments if you feel that way. Then -with ample coaching from the writers on these blogs - the comments turned overtly hateful toward Clinton. Again - if one must come up with reasons - this too seems within bounds for blogs. They are the Left's answer to Talk Radio - and the "callers" had much pent up frustration with the war and everything else. If you can't stand being hated you had better not get into politics. I still believe the comments then were contextualized by an overriding desire for a clean break. This is another sentiment I don't adhere to (there are no clean breaks in history, believing there are or can be is a delusion) but it is a legitimate impulse. Every leader is a reaction, in some measure, to the one before. Besides, Obama has proven he will not be a "clean break" with his wavering on the war and support for its funding as a Senator. So the "clean break" Obama seems to represent is another amorphous illusion based entirely on - wait for it - HIS RACE. The honest answer would be: If he wins I won't be embarrassed by our President anymore. That is what they were saying.
Then Obama fans became a mob. I am not sure exactly when. For me it may have been one night not long ago that I posted this on a large liberal blog: Can anyone tell me why they think Obama would be a better Democratic President than Clinton? The comment conversation was flying that night but I got no bites - so I wrote it again. Soon the roof fell in. I used my last name (Smart) so the obvious insults were first. Then the long knives came out on Hillary. It was no longer dislike or even hate - it had solidified into mindless fury. "Bitch" "Liar" "Murderer" and the cute, yet smug as shit, "Billary". Bitch and Billary are insults based squarely in sexism. Sexism exists in America. Everyone with a brain knows this. What was startling is the glee and unconsciousness these liberals - men and women - indulged in rampant gender hatred. One person did write a long list of BHO's "accomplishments" - fine - but even if true (many were not) they simply were no comparison to Clinton's, so it hardly answered the question. I was, of course, told I was a Republican ("troll" in the Americablog vernacular)so I should go directly to hell. I am not a Republican - but even if I was I asked a legitimate question. The nastiness kept up. I have done this on other blogs at other times and the result is the same. No answers, just bile. Insane, baseless attacks. The cognitive dissonance between the "message of hope" these Obama supporters said they adhered to and the crap being thrown on the walls of liberal blogs was obvious to anyone who could reason. Thank God, a backlash began. The Daily Kos was boycotted by pro Clinton writers. Taylor Marsh said, in essence, hold on a minute! No Quarter USA is doing fine work on the Obama cabal and its deceits.
Still, the Pro Obama wing of the "Democratic" party became nastier and more strident. ( I use quotes here because I have come to believe that except for African Americans, Obama's support among rank and file Democrats is clearly a "Deanite" rump minority and does not represent the Democratic Party's values and voters. Final voting tallies will support this.) Again, "nasty" and "strident" are not deal breakers for me. This became the deal breaker: beyond the amorphous slogan "hope" and the fallback slogan "change" there is STILL no intelligent rational for Obama's support. No centering issue. No "New Deal". Nothing. The speeches are not part of the campaign. THEY ARE THE CAMPAIGN. The "uplifing" race speech has inspired us indeed- to stop talking about race and by default stop talking about Wright and his influence on Obama. But that's where that "major" speech ended.
The more strident the Obamites become, the more this lack of policy ballast becomes clear. Which is why attacking Clintonis the rational for supporting Obama. Arianna Huffington was first out of the gate here. She began the slow, smug burn of Clinton in 2006 - or before - for reasons I strongly suspect are about her psychological make up. I saw her on the campaign trail for her ex husband in 1994 when he ran against Diane Feinstein. The contempt for any strong women beside herself was evident then as it is now.
But for me the show stopper and final straw was Olbermann's idiotic rant about Fererro. More than Chris Matthews smarmy sexism, it defined the lack of reason, fairness, decency and proportionality that are the Obama supporters currency. That "special comment" was the moment I realized that Obama fever was a sickness that had spread far and wide. The fact that the Wright tapes broke the next day and Keith busied himself with excuses for BHO drove the point home.
As Lynne wrote about this morning: The Obama sickness's main symptom is an utter and complete inability to see reality clearly. Whether it be an obvious, and harmless, observation about race to a small newspaper, or the snide dismissal of the last Democratic President, or even the disconnect between Obama's statements about Iraq and his actions regarding the war as a U.S. Senator. Reality DOES NOT MATTER to Obama's supporters. The clear antecedent here is Cheney/Bush and WMD's.
Thought experiment: Compare what they said about Ferarro with the excuses they fling about BHO's 20 year tenure in his church. I think Obama can and should go to any church he wants to for 20 or 200 years. I also WILL NOT BE TOLD THAT IT DOES NOT MATTER what went on in that congregation. I will not check my brains at the door for Obama's or Olbermann's convenience.
Or try this: Randi Rhodes verbal vomitting is being excused under the banner of "freedom of speech" - as if anyone said she did not have the RIGHT to say what she said. She does. Now imagine this: Rush Limbaugh is speaking to a crowd of the like minded and says "Obama and Jesse Jackson are a couple of lazy spooks." Would anyone DARE make excuses for this based on "freedom of speech"? Of course not. There would be hell to pay.
Yet the Obamites march on - calling themselves "liberals".
And before anyone screams "unfair!" I say bullshit. THEY ARE THE SAME REMARKS in spirit and intent. Calling 2 women "fucking whores" and calling 2 black men "lazy spooks" is directly analogous in this society given its history. To say that the long fight for women's equality is less important in this election year than the long march away from chatel slavery based on race is bullshit. On a stick. If you think not it is because sexism is more deeply imbedded than racism. Period. "Whore" and "Bitch" still get thrown around with ease. This is not because they are less hateful - they are simply still acceptable.
So the beat goes on.
Say this to an Obamite: Rezko - the answer is "does not matter"
Say: He lied about his law teaching resume: Does not matter.
Say: He lied about the Kennedy family and the Selma march: Does not matter.
William Ayres: Does not matter.
Race baiting in South Carolina: Doesn't matter, she deserved it.
20 years in that church: Get over it! We have to get past it. We're not going there. He made a speech...etc, etc.. (again the SPEECH is what is held up as absolution. Not the reality of 20 years in that church and overtly lying about his presence there.)
Bosnia: OH MY GOD SHE'S A LIAR!!! She has problems with the truth. Usually ending with "controlling" which is code for bitch.
Xanax is a marvoulous drug. It directly obliterates one thing and nothing else: anxiety. There are a few side effects: drowsiness, and memory problems. Obama is the Xanax candidate. He relieves his supporters of their fears and all they have to do is take a dose. But once the drug wears off nothing has changed. The problems that caused the anxiety remain.
Finally, I can only assume that Obama's supporters cannot answer the simplest question - why him? - because they cannot afford to. They know, and we all know now, there is no answer. He's not better on the issues, he loses on the leadership front (he has shown no ability to lead without a large crowd and a teleprompter. There simple is no comparison between the 2 candidates on leadership. ) there is no contest when it comes to work ethic, and there is nothing in his history, once vetted, that indicates an ability to follow through and achieve stated goals. His experience - and there is some - adds up to mayor not President.
He can't win a campaign based on reality. His supporters know it so they avoid it.
One PS: whether it is now or in the fall - Rev. Wright and his connection to Obama will not go away. This is the defining event in this campaign. It defines him. He even says so. In print. The media has put up a protection shield around Obama and Wright- but it will be broken. If anything proves the unfairness of the media and the free ride Obama has gotten it is the Wright tapes.
Obama has injected a poison into the body politic of the United States. The ugliness Obama has stirred up is real and severe - all the more damaging because he is so charming. We are past now the dizzying, frothing, mindless adoration from Huffington and the Daily Kos. We are now past the snotty, childish attacks on Clinton by Olbermann and Caferty. We are into a new realm now. The hatred quietly coached and encouraged by Axelrod is now bubbling forth everywhere. The media has been taken by over by a hate filled sickness. The nastiness and bias against Senator Clinton is so severe at this point that it can only be called psychosis. Clinton bashing for sport has infected a huge portion of the media. This infection results in a fear of questioning Obama the man - not the hype. But mostly it is a fear to face the cold truth about how much we have willingly surrendered since 9/11. Which is, finally, our soul. This infection has a host. It is the Obama campaign.
The Obama campaign has no basis in reality. Nor does it want a basis in reality. This means anything can be projected on it. Hope, progress, better times, sexism, denial. The man leading this infection is profiting greatly from it. He is a skilled magician. Nothing in his history, and nothing about what he promises indicates an understanding of reality. This makes him the perfect post Bush man. Even questioning his most basic lies - that the Kennedy's brought his father to America - is off limits to those who hold the megaphone.
Our sickness serves them too. The infection is spreading:
Randi Rhodes called Senator Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro "fucking whores" on stage. Do the math with me on this one moment: a liberal female talk show host called the first female V.P. candidate on a major party ticket and the first viable female Presidential candidate "fucking whores".
For fun.
This is a symptom.
Obama supporters are rallying behind and defending Rhodes.
This is a symptom.
The Democratic Governor of New Mexico refused a a call from the Democratic President who appointed him to 2 cabinet posts.
This is a symptom.
Barrack Hussein Obama spent 20 years in a church that preached, bluntly, racial separatism. Yet, the national conversation on this has been stuffed by a media infected.
This is a symptom.
The Obama campaign is responsible for this. I include Olbermann and the rest of the Obama adoration society in the media as part of the BHO campaign. It began last spring with the "1984" video. Barrack Obama has run his campaign with misdirection. Because misdirection is all he has.
It did not have to be this way. He could have run an honorable campaign. But he is not an honorable man. William Ayres, Rezko, Rev Wright and his repeated lies prove this now - beyond doubt. He is a demagogue.
Those of us who have not been infected by the Obama psychosis can see those who are. We can see them clearly. I now hold out no hope that sanity will return. The media has determined that the electronic lynching of Senator Clinton must proceed. Facts be damned.
Whether this means they will turn on him once the nomination is settled or it means BHO is truly the Manchurian candidate I do not know.
I do know we their will be a post Obama moment. A point when those left standing will see clearly what happened. We won't stay unconscious forever.
and mean in spirit, and coldly calculating, and vaguely sexist, and just plain DUMB.
Why in the world would Clinton drop out now? Those calling for her to leave now need to come clean on their motives. Essentially they are lying by omission. But as we know, it is part of the Obama playbook to remove the competition from ballots.
Bullet points: 1. A mere 130 delegates separate Senator Clinton from Senator Obama. 2. Clinton is behind in the popular vote by 1% by most counts. ONE PERCENT 3. If polls hold as they are now in PA and West Virginia she could pull ahead in the popular vote and another pillar of Obama's legitimacy will collapse. Will Pelosi make pronouncements about the "national popular vote" if Clinton has the majority? And what is this nonsense about not counting Michigan and Florida voters in the totals? What planet are these pundits on? 1.7 million people in Florida matter. Dean has done real damage to the party in Florida with his lunk headed edicts. 4. If the FLA delegation is counted - as it should be - Senator Clinton is behind a mere 90 delegates. Obviously if PA and WV hold she would shave that lead further. (To 60? 50?) THe point being the race is close. 5. Clinton has beaten Obama in nearly all the large states or states Democrats must have in the fall: Mass, California, RI, NY, Ohio, Florida, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey. She has shown true strength among traditional Democratic voters. A huge chunk of BHO's coalition are not even Democrats. 6. BHO has run up some impressive victories but quite a few are in states that will never go BLUE in a general election. NEVER. South Carolina, Wyoming, Alabama, Kansas, Utah. 7. Every-time Clinton has been counted out she has roared back: After Iowa with NH and Nevada, after South Carolina with Florida and ALL the large states on Super Tuesday - except BHO's home state. After BHO ran off a series of minor wins she won Texas, R.I. and thumped him in Ohio - a lynchpin state. 8. BHO's wins in Washington, Minnesota, and Wisconsin indicate a weakness in Clinton's message - but hardly amount to having to exit the race. 9. There are states that a DEM will not win in the fall where Clinton won the Democratic primaries: Arizona, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. This proves that not all states where the Democratic party is a minority automatically went BHO. In short: Clinton has won big Democratic states AND small Democratic states. 10. BHO still has not been vetted. The Wright debacle coming AFTER the large majority of contests proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that ALL voters need to be heard. Imagine if the Wright tapes had been aired relentlessly in January. What else do we need to know about BHO? The major media has remained in an Obama trance throughout this year. But the truth has a way of coming out. By removing his opponents from ballots, and running against very weak opposition Obama has never really been tested. Nor does he intend to be. Presidents should be tested. Democrats have a responsibility to vet candidates. I know Hillary has been tested by on going, ruthless attacks. Everyone does. BHO is another story all together. He survived the Wright crisis with excuses and a compliant media - but lost a major component of his candidacy's must touted reasoning: Cross over Republicans. There won't be any. So if Clinton drops on now, and we find out something else disastrous about Obama - what then? The Rezko trial is ongoing, William Ayres has not been discussed by the television news outlets, nor has his weak Senate record. What else don't we know? I suspect quite a lot. 11. There would be an argument for Clinton to leave if the race was not close. It is exceedingly close. The Obama cabal that is harping on this wants to short circuit the remaining contests. Again: WHY? The media, that is wildly pro Obama, sat on the Wright tapes until the moment they could do the least damage: with 7 weeks between contests. Those tapes were going to be seen. The ideal time was chosen to shove them into the arena. There is no GOOD reason ABC could not have shown us the "God Damn America" tape in January. Or any other outlet. If Clinton leaves now the BHO cabal and the pro BHO media can air out any other damaging information this Spring, making it survivable. October surprises - especially in the case of a man people are prone to distrust already - are much more lethal. Believe me, the RNC has plenty. 12. My hunch is Clinton knows there is more damaging information on Obama. I do not know this. It is a hunch based on this: Clinton explained recently that all delegates have the right to change their minds. Why did she do this? It seems pointless. As things stand now both sides are hardened in their positions. Was she just being wistful? Hillary has many interesting character traits. Wistfulness is not one of them. The pattern of BHO's campaign has been pretty easy to follow - when he is allowed to make unfettered speeches he soars, when he is examined he wilts. The perfect example of this is when he wandered off the stage after 6 questions about Rezko saying "Come on guys!" as he left. Clinton, upon close examination, does quite nicely. Nearly all Clinton's "mistakes" have been in the present tense i.e. foolish statements by advisors, misreading Iowa voters etc. Obama's troubles have all been about his unexamined past. People intuitively know the difference here. 13. Finally, I suggest that Obama has gotten so far because he appears to be the perfect antidote to the awful Bush years, not because he is a better choice than Clinton. This is a reasonable and quite effective strategy. Hadhe run up large leads in votes and delegates I would agree that Clinton should go. No such thing happened. "Change" is a good, but overrated, campaign meme. Ask Carter. He ran on it in 1976 and began the race lapping Ford - by the time things had settled he won by 2% and was hobbled going into the White House.
Clinton is still a strong, viable candidate by all estimations except those of the pro Obama media and his fearful supporters. But there is nothing to fear in allowing the remaining states to have a choice. At least nothing for Clinton to fear. If, with a fair resolution to the Michigan and Florida issue, BHO garners enough delegates to win - so be it. If he does not, as he does not now, then the race should play out. If the race remains a virtual tie and BHO wins it with superdelegates but NOT the 9% of voters in Michigan and Florida (yes, Dean is throwing 9% of the voters overboard) his nomination will not be legitimate. Especially if a breakdown of the registered Democrats who voted indicate a preference for Clinton. Our parties nomination will have gone to the person who got the minority of Democratic votes.
Clinton is being asked to roll over for no good reason and plenty of disingenuous ones. She should do no such thing.
on another note entirely: What is not being discussed by the inept American Media is the dangerous events in Iraq and what they may mean about war with Iran. Read this link.
If I ever reflect on how it is that I went from being a huge fan of Obama's, to a person who was excited about him and waiting to hear his plans, to wondering why I was not hearing anything tangible, to coming to terms with that fact he had no intention of clarifying anything, to coming to understand that he was a shallow pretender, to loathing everything his campaign represents - I will look no further than this email I received today from an Obamite:
let me guess with all respect, -- you are below college education. thats for sure. right? -- you have a working class background. thats also for sure. right? -- you are not interested in politics. thats possible. right? -- you prefer to eat cheese stakes at geno's. thats also possible. right? -- your are just a bad bad-boy who likes to play mind games. maybe. right? have a nice day
I loath these people. I will vote for McCain or no one if Obama gets the nomination. Not because every one of these assumptions is wrong about me. I have a BFA, come from a middle class background, am obsessed with politics, and am a bad boy but not a "bad bad" boy. (A cheese "stake" would be a bizarre and pointless item so I have no use for it, but I do like a cheese steak every now and again). I will vote for McCain or not at all because of the dripping, oozing condescension that Obamites have for those without college degrees. Because of the high end, fraudulent contempt Obamites have for the working class. Because I do not want to sit through another 4 years of an administration populated by those who think "cheese steak" consumers are less than equal partners in a democracy. I don't give a flying crap where the prigs land on the Left/Right scale.
By lying overtly and covertly about who he is Obama has poisoned this campaign and this country. He has used his considerable talents as an orator to fool the chattering classes and the media. He has used skillful oratory to blur his questionable past, rewrite our recent history, and open another gash in the wound of race in America. He has taken the difficult issue of race and turned it into a Benetton commercial and wonders why Pennsylvania isn't buying it. He breathlessly compares his grandmother to the putrid Wright and wonders why his grand "speech" didn't take. He has taken the low road, while claiming the high one. He has lied about his intentions for the wars if elected. He has lied about his association with his church: Our Lady of Perpetual Resentment. He has plagiarized speeches, lied about both Clintons, lied about NAFTA, and run a dishonest, ruthless campaign. He has willfully associated with bigots, slumlords and terrorists to further his career. (Yes, William Ayres is a terrorist.) He has turned the idea of meritocracy on its head by elevating vagueness and self promotion to messianic heights. He has accomplished nothing of note in his public life and insults those who have. Finally, the clip below of the staged "woman fainting" at his revival meetings is seemingly minor but goes to the heart of the Obama ideology: Illusion over reality.
He is a fraud.
I loath his campaign for good reason.
Voters in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, and North Carolina can drive a stake (cheese?) into the heart of the Obama campaign - or Republicans, Independents, and 25-40% of the Democrats can in November.
Let me tell you: if Michigan and Florida had not been thrown overboard by Howard Dean and Donna Brazile - Obama would not matter. "God Damn, America!" is not going away. It is testimony to the willing irresponsibility of the media that Wright's bile was not shown to the nation earlier. If Wright had been known to us in January, Obama would be a footnote now. It was out there to be seen. It is only compliant, brain-dead, synchophants in the MSM that kept those tapes off the air for so long. With two candidates that cannot get a majority of the delegates we have a real monster on our hands.
Obama has never been qualified for the Presidency. But staying in a church in which your pastor screams GOD DAMN AMERICA! from the pulpit disqualifies him forever. He is responsible for his actions. His action in this case was to make excuses. All the ass kissing by all the kings men - and women - (Olbermann, Dowd, Rich, and the rest) can't put Obama back together again. Independents are falling away like Greenland glaciers. Republicans will be energized. And half the Democratic party will be angry.
Finally, when all is said and done - it is his lunatic supporters I fear most. We have gotten a small taste of that happy mob turning ugly this week. Imagine what they'd do with a President Obama (lol) stranded between his own rhetoric and reality.
The illusion of a sound economy - or even an economy that makes sense - is being stripped away. The Fed "saved" Bear Stearns over the weekend and will drop the base interest rate that it now dumps money into the system by 1%. I don't know much about economics - but I know this - the problem WAS cheap money. The problem IS a massive amount of bundled bad debt that banks are holding. Debt even they can't figure out. Money being a little cheaper is not going to wipe those bad debts out. It may make the markets rise a bit but does nothing to address the problem. In a frenzy of psychotic borrowing over the past five years everyone from the busboy who was bought a house in the burbs up to largest banks in the country is holding the hot potato. The passing has stopped. What even cheaper money means now is not houses for those with bad credit - but inflation for all of us. The Fed has decided that in the fight between the dollar and the perception of an economy that works - the dollar loses. The game is not pass the buck - it's kill the buck. On Saturday I wrote that one or two large banks could fail soon. The Fed could keep printing cash to stave off bank collapse. But with every worthless dollar it prints every dollar in your pocket is rendered more and more meaningless.
Another "perception catching up with reality" note: Obama's overnight poll numbers sank by a record amount according to Rassmusen. On Friday the head to head Clinton/Obama number was 54% Obama 42% Clinton. By Monday is was Obama 46% Clinton 45%. This is a remarkalbe slide even in this crazy year. Rev. Wright's sermon on Christmas, finally widely seen, was clearly a swift punch in the gut to many. Clinton now has the opportunity to drive a stake in the heart of Obamamania. Will she?
