September 06, 2008
— Ace This is the man we want leading America-- a simpleton who becomes irrational and unbalanced when challenged by a woman, and continues falling into the trap of having a debate with McCain's junior officer, rather than his actual opponent for the presidency.
As Allah says, it's rather rich that Obama, who's requrested three-quarters of a billion dollars in earmarks, including for his wife's hospital, which then coincidentally promoted her and gave her a ginormous raise, should be questioning the pork-appetite of a former mayor and governor.
Mayors and governors do not represent the interests of the entire country as Senators do, Obama. A mayor is a local official and a governor a state official. They do not, as Senators, represent both their home constituency and the entire nation at large.
But even setting aside that: Palin's dipped her snout into the trough a whole lot less than Obama, who has requested almost $1 million in earmarks for every day he's been in the Senate.
In the Senate? Well, not in the Senate most of the time. Let's just say he draws a paycheck from the Senate and leave it at that.
I had suggested that Obama would fall into this trap... but I didn't really entirely believe that. I thought he'd lapse into this, but would then be restrained by his coaches and handlers, the people actually running the campaign that supposedly is proof of his competency for the highest executive office.
And yet here we are. Another day, another land war in Asia for the scary-qualified leader whose judgment is unimpeachable.
I'm not knocking Obama for taking on a woman, mind you (although doing so is made especially problematic, given his dismissive treatment of Hillary in the primaries). I consider Palin his equal -- much more than his mere equal, actually, so it's not a question of "Mean Man picking on Poor Little Lady." Palin can take whatever this naive neophyte can dish out.
It's just that... she... is... not... running... for President. But Obama is elevating her to the presidential level. So the race, it seems, consists of two candidates of presidential timber on the Republican side, and one weak, confused jackass on the Democrat side.
And somewhere Joe Biden is talking to an unenthusiastic crowd of three dozen people, half of whom were confused by his constant mentions of "Scranton" and showed up in the erroneous belief that he was Dwight K. Shrute from The Office.
Norman Conquest explains Obama's variation of "The Chicago Way:"
You wanna know how to get McCain? They pull a knife, you pull a hissy fit.They pull a gun, you call a press conference to tell the media how mean they are.
She attacks your record, you attack her 17-year-old daughter.
She fights back, you hide behind Hillary's skirts.
That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get McCain!
Oh! And Obama's attempt to get Hillary to fight his battles for him hasn't worked out so well. She says, basically, "Yeah, sure, I'll get to it when I get to it."
You know what can arrest Palinmania? Sebiliusmania!
OODA: Several readers and bloggers have noted that McCain is inside Obama's OODA loop (which is, I think, a pilot catchphrase for the decision cycle of Observe-Orient-Decide-Act as elaborated (I think) by 30th level Master Pilot John Boyd).
Here's one mistake Obama's making (among many). Sarah Palin is not, in fact, the most easily assailed member of the ticket. John McCain is. And John McCain is, of course, the more important target.
Now, I don't have access to their internal polling or their strategy. Perhaps they feel absolutely forced to take on Palin. (And if so -- wow. That means their polling is showing she's a deadly threat to them. And that she is not an "Attack Dog," as vice presidential candidates often are, but some mutant form of Super Killer Attack Dog -- an attack dog people actually bother listening to and believe.)
But it is so much easier, it seems to me, to attack John McCain for his weaknesses.
But McCain and Palin are just now outright mindfucking him. He probably is smart enough to know he's doing all the wrong things, but he just has no idea of what else he can possibly do.
And neither, it seems, does his brain-trust of 300 super-talented scary-smart advisers, who will similarly respond with open-mouthed stupidity if, God forbid, he calls upon them for advice in dealing with Vladimir Putin.
JackM's Thoughts: JackM. wrote similar thoughts in an email and suggested I polish it.
Well, Jack, I'll polish it the same way I polish most of my stuff-- not at all. But I do think it's plenty polished enough for a blog post, anyway.
Is Obama displaying the judgment and cool under fire we want in a CinC? I don't think so.
One of the thing that American's look for in a prospective President, and that actually can be revealed by the stress of running for President, is how that would be Commander in Chief, responds to a crisis.This typically doesn't reveal itself in primary battles. Those are inter-squad scrimmages where everyone is on the same page, and the audience is specifically narrow and pre-disposed to give you the benefit of the doubt.
These instances arise after "first contact" with the other side. Opposing parties are capable of throwing any number of unforeseen or unexpected challenges in your way.
The selection of Palin presents Obama with the first truly legitimate instance in which the American people can see how he would respond to an unexpected event.
Can anyone say that Obama has displayed any sense of knowing how to respond adversity?
All he has essentially done since the Palin announcement is flounder. His responses have been all over the map. He criticizes her, then walks it back. He has surrogates attack her, then flips on that. He chief reactions have been those of denial (She's a Mayor of Wasilly) and self-pity (Why are the mean Republicans ridiculing my resume???)
Denial and Self Pity. Those are the traits that indicate he could handle the sudden vaporization of an American city?
When Bin Laden attacked was the American response one of denial and self-pity, or one of confidence, determination and resolve?
I would argue that the latter traits are the ones that McCain-Palin have been effectively conveying.
Palin, by essentially rising above her doubters and critics on the biggest possible stage. McCain by charting his own course, and doggedly sticking to it, despite an onslaught of personal attacks on his character, judgment, etc. One of the reasons the "Eagleton" meme was so weak is that, unlike McGovern, McCain never seemed to waver in his doubts about the quality of the person he selected. Even the little things like welcoming Levi into the campaign's extended family, display this.
I don't think anyone could seriously argue that the last week has been a "crisis management" success for Obama.
It's really his first test of leadership with the Country watching. And he has shown that neither he, nor Biden, the man Obama selected to be a steady hand can even rise to this occasion.
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Posted by: EC at September 06, 2008 04:05 PM (j2Tjh)
Posted by: Team America at September 06, 2008 04:05 PM (e+exz)
Posted by: BabaChewy at September 06, 2008 04:05 PM (UUwxQ)
She (Governor Palin) is everything Obama is not and yet pretends to be.
Probably going home to cry on Michelle's shoulder. "It's not fair!"
Posted by: GarandFan at September 06, 2008 04:06 PM (HLrE4)
Posted by: billypaintbrush at September 06, 2008 04:06 PM (zL5QC)
A future that is haunted with night terrors of being hunted by some crazy woman on a dog sled.
K
Posted by: Kestrel at September 06, 2008 04:08 PM (gBnKJ)
Posted by: fredras at September 06, 2008 04:09 PM (1OMSg)
Posted by: topsecretk9 at September 06, 2008 04:09 PM (pIFVE)
Posted by: Admiral Akbar at September 06, 2008 04:11 PM (0WhiX)
Posted by: Reggie1971 at September 06, 2008 04:12 PM (mdGGr)
Posted by: topsecretk9 at September 06, 2008 04:12 PM (pIFVE)
You're right, being forced to fight little Sarah Palin from "Wasilly" just makes Obama look like a "community organizer" in the mold of Jesse Jackson.
Today, McCain and Palin drew another record and enthusiastic crowd. Obama's people are always present for these things and they're seeing what is happening on the ground. Can you imagine the reports filtering back to Messiah HQ?
Just when they thought they had the GOP demoralized and whipped, along comes Sarah Palin and she's drawing bigger crowds and getting actual cheers. Their lead in the polls has evaporated and even Michigan -- Michigan, for god's sake -- is in play.
And to top it off, Obama is burning through money like there is no tomorrow (and there may not be one if he loses this one badly -- Democrats do not often go with the losers a second time). Obama not only fights like a girl, he manages money like the UN.
Posted by: prairiemain at September 06, 2008 04:12 PM (uDqa7)
Posted by: londonamerican at September 06, 2008 04:21 PM (oTN4t)
Posted by: David Ross at September 06, 2008 04:26 PM (rtzHA)
Posted by: eman at September 06, 2008 04:26 PM (6VBMO)
Posted by: Al at September 06, 2008 04:26 PM (Lk931)
Biden might dump Obama.
Hah! I hadn't thought of that. You gotta wonder what's going through Biden's mind right now. He got to enjoy thinking he made a good decision and he was finally going to reach the White House for about, what, 3 days?
Qwinn
Posted by: Qwinn at September 06, 2008 04:27 PM (3FVXC)
Get that guy some blow, stat!
Posted by: toby hussein 928 at September 06, 2008 04:28 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: eman at September 06, 2008 04:30 PM (6VBMO)
Hell, prairie; if Obama could fight even like a girl, maybe he would have won that majority of Democratic primary voters who'd actually voted for Hillary.
But the Dems are stuck with this whimpering chihuahua; if they dump him for the Biden / Clinton ticket, it will cause "unpleasantness" in certain urban areas; and the Dem ticket will be like polonium-210 on Election Day.
Posted by: David Ross at September 06, 2008 04:31 PM (rtzHA)
His campaign is well-run but only in the dimension that gets you this far. IE the no-opponent Chicago, community organizer, hopey changey initial-upswing dimension. Talk a bunch of shit, get smarty narcissists to support you and you can go pretty far at the beginning.
There's nothing like a War Room, with tight and ultra-fast messaging decided on by genuine "operationally smart" people. Its a semi-coherent confederation of interests and opinions with no real rudder.
And of course, Obama SHOULD be that rudder but he's absolutely useless in any kind of real leadership role. He mainly seems to defer to his lieutenants, all 69476849025 of them.
No wonder he can't really articulate (!) well in regular dialog. He's got like twelve perspectives on each issue that he has to navigate, parse, and convey every time he pipes up. Every idea from his mouth is a rhetorical Kessel Run (and he's gotta go real slow-like cause he's used to having to actually defend his positions).
Posted by: tachyonshuggy at September 06, 2008 04:32 PM (JBuzy)
The untold story of the campaign is that McCain has been "mindfucking" Obama for a long time.
Take a look at the chart for the RCP average. The Obama-McCain gap peaks in late June and has been in a downward trend ever since, interrupted only by the World Tour and the Convention.
What's significant about late June? It's when Obama started playing defense. Trying (too hard) to convince people he's a Christian patriot, lunging like a cartoon Nixon on terrorist surveillance, Iraq, etc. And who pushed Obama into the World Tour, that was then turned into the "Celebrity" ads? Ads taking the Rovian tack of turning your opponent's strength into a weakness? And made the Barackopolis look stupid? Who picked a VP whose main weaknesses make Obama look worse, while her strengths play to the "change" environment of this election cycle?
Barack Obama, David Axelrod, etc. have never run a race against a serious GOP opponent. (w/ one arguable exception for Axelrod in the 1980s). McCain has had them playing on his national security/foreign policy battlefield for months, and has pivoted to return to the reform theme just as Camp Obama figured it out. Camp Obama is being played... and has been for months.
Posted by: Karl at September 06, 2008 04:35 PM (acC/M)
Posted by: Andy at September 06, 2008 04:36 PM (iIvIk)
he's NOT used
Posted by: tachyonshuggy at September 06, 2008 04:38 PM (JBuzy)
Posted by: topsecretk9 at September 06, 2008 04:39 PM (pIFVE)
Posted by: toby hussein 928 at September 06, 2008 04:40 PM (evdj2)
Those are not laughs. They're internal poll numbers that have him constantly thinking, "What the FUCK am I doing here making this speech and answering these questions? You mean I have do this for another 2 months only to get waxed? Screw you guys, I'm going home."
Posted by: Editor at September 06, 2008 04:42 PM (p4YSL)
Biden's thinking that he is not going to resign his Senate seat. No way. No how.
Posted by: Reiver at September 06, 2008 04:44 PM (s7h/P)
Posted by: Slappy White at September 06, 2008 04:45 PM (8el+/)
Obviously you need more bunk time, brother.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 06, 2008 04:46 PM (4gBsr)
>a simpleton who becomes irrational and unbalanced when challenged by a woman, and continues falling into the trap of having a debate with McCain's junior officer,
(SSSssssssssshhhhhhhhhh!!!! The plan is working...!)
Posted by: Jones at September 06, 2008 04:46 PM (VkNlv)
Posted by: londonamerican at September 06, 2008 04:47 PM (oTN4t)
Posted by: DelD at September 06, 2008 04:49 PM (FDAHM)
So, since he doesn't listen to Admiral Akbar anyways (so there's no real harm in discussing it), what McCain trap does he stumble into next?
I figure the earmarks rope-a-dope will be good for a couple of days.
Next step...let the loons run with the Palin's snakehandler church and then reintroduce America to Rev. Jeremiah Wright?
Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at September 06, 2008 04:50 PM (wgLRl)
What's a cult of personality good for if not to let Dear Leader shoot himself in the nuts? We've heard nothing but hero worship from his campaign and the MSM, so no one should be surprised that "The One" is going crazy-stupid. When you begin to believe your own press releases, it's the start of a long way down, and The Cult of Obama has prevented his team from setting up the nets.
Posted by: adamthemad at September 06, 2008 04:52 PM (aVVGO)
Parents who, regardless of the validity of reason,
leave their children can cause irreversible psychological damage.
Mr. Obama has abandonment issues and has created a facade to hide his
fear and grief. Mr. Obama hates women. All women, especially white women. His Mother and Grandmother most of all.
He is probably a closeted homosexual.
People very close to him have reported that he does not accept changes
or challenges to his ideas without angry and sometimes unhinged
reactions. Fear that, if the mask slips, people will see the raw and
injured child behind.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
He is a very dangerous individual.
Posted by: Beto Ochoa at September 06, 2008 04:53 PM (F1b/5)
The way the Republicans understood the situation and responded appropriately and the way the Democrats misunderestimated Mrs. Palin is quite telling. Including young Levi in the extended family took some toughness. It definately caught the Democrats/media/elites flat-footed. Who could know that those bumpkin Christers, like, you know, forgive?
We're not just seeing the OODA loop here. We're seeing how the two sides respond to challenges. One side is starting to look a lot like Wyle E. Coyote, sooooper genius
Life and the world will toss unpleasant surprises and you have to cope. That's how you survive. If you then cope while tossing unpleasant surprises at your adversaries faster than they can cope, that's how you prevail.
Posted by: steve poling at September 06, 2008 04:54 PM (UWHTf)
Obama keeps crying the race card. Well shit I, as a member of the G O P, have no choice except to go all racist Aryan pride on this dude.
Wait, I'm mixed - half American Marine and half Okinawan Sweetheart. I also happen to like Palin a lot. Wut to do? So confused.
Posted by: Mainstreet at September 06, 2008 04:55 PM (8nB5X)
Posted by: toby hussein 928 at September 06, 2008 04:55 PM (evdj2)
It doesn't matter, as Ace said several days ago, the libs think they're smarter than everyone else and thus don't listen to anyone except themselves.
Posted by: RedFox84 at September 06, 2008 04:58 PM (vs8h/)
Q: How much do the Obamas spend on Halloween decorations each year?
A: Nothing, they just take the skeletons out of their closets!
ba-da-bing!
Posted by: Hermit Dave at September 06, 2008 04:58 PM (WhFvm)
London, I find it hard to believe that Dean, Pelosi, and Kerry have even three brain cells between them. To use an expression with which you may be familiar, Pelosi in particular couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.
Posted by: David Ross at September 06, 2008 05:00 PM (rtzHA)
>Wait, I'm mixed - half American Marine and half Okinawan Sweetheart
hey! I'm half Air Force AP, half Welsh donut girl! Cheers!
Posted by: Jones at September 06, 2008 05:00 PM (VkNlv)
Posted by: David Ross at September 06, 2008 05:01 PM (rtzHA)
Beto, I didn't see the sarc tag, so, really? You want to go with that? He may be many things besides a ass, but really, accusing him of being gay? Did you deduce this from reading the bumps on his head or was it that crazy jazz music he is fond of?
Posted by: adamthemad at September 06, 2008 05:04 PM (aVVGO)
Posted by: Tushar at September 06, 2008 05:05 PM (PTWes)
Posted by: David Ross at September 06, 2008 05:06 PM (rtzHA)
EEEEEEwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Posted by: Bender Bending Rodriguez at September 06, 2008 05:08 PM (QQGzM)
Posted by: eman at September 06, 2008 05:09 PM (6VBMO)
People very close to him have reported that he does not accept changes or challenges to his ideas without angry and sometimes unhinged reactions. Fear that, if the mask slips, people will see the raw and injured child behind.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
He is a very dangerous individual.
Soauces!!!!!
Posted by: bleh at September 06, 2008 05:12 PM (GNCy6)
Posted by: londonamerican at September 06, 2008 05:13 PM (mOpWn)
Posted by: notropis at September 06, 2008 05:17 PM (A3mhA)
Posted by: Al at September 06, 2008 05:21 PM (Lk931)
I understand your healthy skepticism.
Men whose fathers and mothers abandon them, then are taken further by tragedy, have horrible scars. He is a woman hater and the odds are he is homosexual.
Please ask someone you trust about abandonment syndrome. He was not only abandoned, he was drug about with no ability to ground himself to anyone or anything and the likelihood is he was abused by brutish and domineering men and betrayed by a mother that insisted he not make trouble for her.
Posted by: Beto Ochoa at September 06, 2008 05:21 PM (F1b/5)
Posted by: notropis at September 06, 2008 05:28 PM (A3mhA)
Posted by: Arthur at September 06, 2008 05:31 PM (5dNhb)
Among those who would traffic in identity politics, he could win. The mere threat of his telling others he was "different" (code word alert) paved the way for His Majesty, a path further smoothed by a complicit media that has its own identity issues. Among those who sneer at those identity politics, his tactic wouldn't work. It couldn't work. And that shield of critique composed of the race card with sycophants in the press on standby ready to keep it polished was pierced by Obama himself with the assistance of Reverend Wright and Father Pfleger. This showed that he could be defeated by those who would point out the obvious and not defer to His narrative but rather to the truth.
Once his shield was damaged, a whole volly of other critiques could pass through, hit flesh. Hillary, as a liberal, never could risk a full-on assault on Obama. The GOP could and did because a) it was so transparently obvious that Obama doesn't have much to offer, and b) it wasn't restrained by the victimhood and identity-politics that permeates Democrats. Obama is just a political pincushion without his surrogates doing the dirty work behind the scenes and with assistance from the MSM. Ironically, the Donk machine and the MSM's abysmal behavior has made it so much worse for Team Obama that McCain/Palin are inoculated now.
Poetic justice is being served. Obama has no one to blame but himself. Credit, however, to McCain, Palin, and whoever the political tacticians are for Team McCain. The current assault is worthy of comparison to Operation Iraqi Freedom - bold, fast, dominant.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at September 06, 2008 05:37 PM (sI5Ho)
Posted by: Tushar at September 06, 2008 05:37 PM (PTWes)
Posted by: Larry Sheldon at September 06, 2008 05:45 PM (OmeRL)
This isn't merely getting inside OODA loops. This is Exhibit A of leadership and judgment. Obama played it safe figuring that the GOP couldn't beat him and that his nearest rival was behind him in the form of Hillary.
He and his hundreds of advisers couldn't think that McCain would choose Palin. Palin does several things for McCain - most important of which is that McCain gets to be Maverick while Palin gets to preach to the choir of conservatives while picking away at the Democrats on the fringes - PUMAs for one, and women in general. McCain gets to do his thing - attack the graft and corruption in the GOP - and can now run as a true outsider since his #2 is herself an outsider.
Obama chose the insider; the guy who knows his way around DC because it was seen as the best way to shore up Obama's inexperience. Instead of making nice with Hillary, he opted for Biden. That's not to say she would have accepted, but she never got the chance, and that was a strategic blunder on his part.
Now, you've got Obama attacking Palin at every opportunity, which only further highlights his failure to grasp the situation fully and by doing so shows that he is not experienced or clever enough to see what has happened.
He should be attack McCain's judgment for picking Palin, not attacking Palin. Avoid naming Palin at all. But he's now calling on surrogates to do the job for him, and did so in such a clumsy way that it shows he really has lost something significant here.
Posted by: lawhawk at September 06, 2008 05:53 PM (bMRnM)
Posted by: Kestrel at September 06, 2008 05:54 PM (gBnKJ)
Posted by: PA Cat at September 06, 2008 05:56 PM (HnHK/)
Posted by: Al at September 06, 2008 06:01 PM (Lk931)
58 Tushar, Very well put, SIR. Is Tushar some sort of palindrome for Rush Limbaugh? (Ok, not the right term, but I can find Rush in there some where)
That disctiption should be on a business card and be the entire Republican platform.
Posted by: Mephitis at September 06, 2008 06:03 PM (17pTk)
#46 Tushar
I disagree...that attack isnt worth bringing out even the Junior officer. Let the sentry take care of it.
Posted by: oldcat at September 06, 2008 06:05 PM (JPGoJ)
Posted by: Jazz at September 06, 2008 06:10 PM (eMHQM)
(londonamerican, welcome, and this is a waayyyy inside joke ... kind of)
Posted by: Andy at September 06, 2008 06:14 PM (iIvIk)
Obama says running a campaign is experience for a commander in chief. Lets accept that for now.
He apparently spent no time thinking what McCain might do, even when given a month or more to experience his jabbing, light attacks. He still has not found a workable response to ANY of McCains moves, not just Palin.
He apparently did not understand how his no holds barred Chicago moves in the primary might rebound on his base, and on his image outside the base. He also apparently has no strategy for winning them back.
He apparently had no moves prepared to try and drive a wedge between McCain and HIS base. And now of course its far too late for that.
He so little understands the temper of the electorate that the moves he and his surrogates have made have actually helped his opponent.
He's a lost patrol, moving through the jungle without scouts, repeatedly ambushed and firing wildly in all directions, including back in his own column.
Posted by: oldcat at September 06, 2008 06:18 PM (JPGoJ)
Posted by: Tushar at September 06, 2008 06:19 PM (PTWes)
Regarding teh ghey thing, I only observe that he's very thin and very neat. I'm not encouraging you to infer anything. I'm just observing.
And if Sarah's so-called mispronouncing "nucular" calls her intellectual capabilities into question, I'd say "Nittaly Lions" proves he was watching Judy Garland movies when real teenage boys were watching Penn State football in its glory days.
Posted by: Norman Conquest at September 06, 2008 06:21 PM (E9Jrr)
Posted by: Jazz at September 06, 2008 06:22 PM (FTOHu)
Posted by: Andy at September 06, 2008 06:22 PM (iIvIk)
Posted by: Norman Conquest at September 06, 2008 06:25 PM (E9Jrr)
Posted by: Tushar at September 06, 2008 06:28 PM (PTWes)
Posted by: Arthur at September 06, 2008 06:40 PM (5dNhb)
Regardless of marital status, regardless of "good will", homosexuals will often turn against a mother figure, whether face to face or behind her back. Readers see "closet homosexual" and immediately deny in order to remain comfortable. Deniers are most likely young adult professionals who may likely have a gay friend at the office where strict PC protocol is enforced at risk of one's social standing if not one's job. Deniers forget, though, that PC protocol is its own brand of fascistic social conditioning that loses sight of the truth staring them in the face. Because Obama behaves as he does, experts should absolutely look into his lack of stability.
That deniers' brains can't wrap around Beto Ochoa's message without recoiling in pain does not mean that the message is wrong, however uncomfortable. In my opinion, it is most likely correct. There are those readers who realize that Beto Ochoa has hit the bull's eye, and it smarts because such truth always hurts, particularly if the bull's eye is your own self interest. Beto has his own expertise that has led him to make an astute OBSERVATION about Obama. Take it or leave it. But don't say that you alone are in the right. And cetainly don't kill the messenger.
Morons. The point was made. "People very close to Obama have reported that he does not accept changes or challenges to his ideas without angry and sometimes unhinged reactions. Fear that, if the mask slips, people will see the raw and injured child behind. This is just the tip of the iceberg. He is a very dangerous individual."
Posted by: maverick muse at September 06, 2008 06:55 PM (F1b/5)
On. F'in. Fire.
"The Obama-McCain gap peaks in late June and has been in a downward trend ever since, interrupted only by the World Tour and the Convention. What's significant about late June? It's when Obama started playing defense."
Um, actually, what's significant about late June is that it's just before Darth Rove's Sith apprentice Steve Schmidt took over the McCain campaign. Only now, at last, does Barry know the true power of the Dark Side...
"what McCain trap does he stumble into next?"
Ace may be right that they don't pay attention, but I wouldn't risk it. I definitely have some ideas though.
Posted by: someone at September 06, 2008 07:01 PM (2z2WN)
Man, y'all are smoking hot tonight!!
Anyone see "The Prestige"? That's what this campaign is reminding me of, except that McCain has all the tricks.
Posted by: rockmom at September 06, 2008 07:01 PM (iZqUY)
But has anyone ever seen Steve Schmidt and Karl Rove in the same place?
Schmidt is one of Rove's proteges, and was a member of his "Breakfast Club".
Truly in this case the student is exceeding the master.
Posted by: Dead Career Sketch at September 06, 2008 07:32 PM (5Psnq)
Posted by: Al at September 06, 2008 07:36 PM (Lk931)
<blockquote>Parents who, regardless of the validity of reason, leave their children can cause irreversible psychological damage.
Mr. Obama has abandonment issues and has created a facade to hide his fear and grief. Mr. Obama hates women. All women, especially white women. His Mother and Grandmother most of all.</blockquote>
BINGO! I'd noticed how "weird" Obama's campaign was -- a total lack of women in senior advisory levels -- unlike Clinton, McCain, Rudy, Huck, Mitt etc. There is a LOT of female political talent on both sides of the Aisle (Susan Estrich and Donna Brazile are the exceptions not rules). Yet Obama has none and has deliberately antagonized Hillary and her supporters. It would have cost him not that much to have paid off her debts and vetted her, if not going her way at least asking her counsel and taking it seriously. He could have brought on some senior Hillary women into his organization also, that would have been helpful. And not fired ones either like Patty Solis Doyle. Which was a slap in the face.
McCain did a lot for Mitt, Rudy, Fred, Huck and that's why the Party was unified on that angle. McCain reached out. Obama did not. Why?
He does have serious abandonment issues, with Mommy, hates Granny even though she sacrificed for him (his typical white person comment was shameful), and idolizes his good for nothing polygamist drunk father.
Sarah Palin seems to enrage him, just by being. I doubt if Mitt were the VP candidate, Obama would have deigned to notice him even if he said the SAME EXACT THINGS. IMHO he sees Palin as his own Mother. Sigh. Very unhinged. Makes Nixon look sane.
I don't think Obama is gay, given his rather blade-ish reputation among girls in HS, and no shortage of girlfriends before Michelle. His stepfather Soetero seems to have been a decent sort. If he'd stayed with him and Mom he probably would have been a better man. I do find his passages in Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, suggestive, where he gets into a rage at a white man interviewing him, just over the guy's skin color, and later dumps a white girlfriend because he cannot see himself related to her white parents who were he admits unobjectionable except for their skin color. It's in his book -- you can look it up. [Caveat -- it might be self-serving dramatics, which also says something profoundly immature, if these incidents were grossly exaggerated.]
But more than Obama, his TEAM does not like seem to like women either. It's not all Obama -- a lot of these Palin-smears are generated by his staff, out of sheer hatred for Palin's even existing. I think her toughness and achievement scare them. And also make them jealous.
Posted by: whiskey at September 06, 2008 07:40 PM (4878o)
Posted by: O. Winfrey at September 06, 2008 08:03 PM (X7Ey1)
I still can not believe a majority of fools would be taken in by this very outspoken communist.
I hope Palin/Mac can win this.
I do remember history.
WAF if it goes to heusain.
Posted by: Hugh Jass at September 06, 2008 08:13 PM (dnTjT)
Posted by: Hugh Jass at September 06, 2008 08:16 PM (dnTjT)
Posted by: mark at September 06, 2008 08:39 PM (AtsHC)
We just finished watching "A Face In The Crowd" -- certainly brings you down to earth.
Time to turn in thinking good thoughts and wishes.
Posted by: maverick muse at September 06, 2008 09:12 PM (F1b/5)
Posted by: mrobvious at September 06, 2008 09:32 PM (r1Au/)
Interestingly enough, I've heard many of the same criticisms being levelled against Obama made in regards to George Bush as well.
I'm now convinced Obama's going to lose. The Republicans have almost everything going against them, but Obama is a very weak candidate and McCain has turned out to be one of the finest campaigners of our era, and is way overperforming. The McCain campaign is running rings around Obama and he and the left seem to have no response in their arsenal other than to howl incoherently in rage and hope the MSM can save them. There is no doubt in my mind that if the MSM didn't exist, McCain would be 20 points ahead of Obama by now.
Posted by: CaptainOverkill at September 06, 2008 09:52 PM (nTEiz)
Man, I'm just kinda amazed. I remember how only several or so months ago, Obama was perceived as this unbeatable force of nature. Then, the Reverend Wright bomb dropped and it's been a downward spiral ever since. I'm not sayin' Obama's definitely gonna lose, but this ain't lookin' like the sure-thing for him a lot of people expected it to be.
And man, Obama's been acting like a major idiot since the Palin pick was announced. It's like watching Daffy Duck having "pronoun trouble" with Bugs Bunny in "Rabbit Seasoning". Example:
Daffy: "Shoot him now! Shoot him now!"
Bugs: "You keep outta this! He doesn't have to shoot you now."
Daffy: "He does so have to shoot me now! I demand that you shoot me now!"
Guess who is Daffy and who is Bugs.
Posted by: SpideyTerry at September 06, 2008 10:43 PM (EqsUQ)
"Obama not only fights like a girl, he manages money like the UN."
#12 p-man: That line is a KEEPER!!
Posted by: rabidfox at September 07, 2008 12:36 AM (AIVrP)
It probably is the case that Palin did not come into the race well-versed in foreign policy and the national issues that she wouldn't have been focused on as governor - unlike Obama, who's had two years to be briefed, and Biden and McCain who've been familiar with these issues for decades. She's getting a crash course on all this stuff now (and from much better advisers than Obama's). We'll see how Palin does in the debate and in the political talkshows. That will indicate something about how she'd do as president handling an unexpected situation, since an effective president would have to be able to absorb and comprehend a lot of new information quickly in such a situation. I suspect she'll do really well. So, her lack of foreign policy and national experience might actually benefit her by showing how strong she is at getting up to speed, just like the poise she's shown so far in the face of the scandal-mongering makes her shine.
Posted by: UpNights at September 07, 2008 03:22 AM (4onRb)
Unless ... I'm a dangerous homosexual denialist, too.
Ah ha! Your trap worked. I fell right into it, didn't I. My congratulations, Perfessors.
Posted by: fredras at September 07, 2008 03:46 AM (1OMSg)
What convinced me that Obama could be had was his reaction to the New Yorker cover. Remember that? The one where he was depicted as a Muslim and Michelle with an AK-47 strapped to her back? Obviously, the New Yorker people were attacking Obama's critics - or rather, a straw man whom they presented as Obama's critics - but Obama took it as an attack on himself, and reacted in a way that can only be described as a hissy-fit. My sister (a sane Obama supporter) agreed with me me that the proper reaction would be to laugh, and maybe request the original drawing to hang on his wall. The fact that he could be so distracted by something that didn't even criticize him spoke volumes about the man.
I have no idea if Obama is gay, nor do I care. I would never want to attempt to psychoanalyze the man - I'm not qualified, and I have no particular desire to do so in any event. What matters to me is not his sexual orientation, but the fact that Obama the man is weak. Like most weak men, he is hypersensitive to criticism, and susceptible to flattery. Like most weak men, his decisions ultimately will be made not on the basis of right and wrong, but on how they will affect people's opinions of him. In this regard, he reminds me not of Jimmy Carter, but of James Buchanan - a distrastrously weak president. Fortunately, he's running against John McCain, not Franklin Pierce: Book it, he's toast.
Posted by: Brown Line at September 07, 2008 03:50 AM (OMiLl)
Highly recommended! The man was a warrior monk who reinvented modern warfare.
As to the main subject of the column, SSSSSSHHHH! Don't interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake. It's theoretically possible that someone one the D side might be paying attention. On the other hand, if they were paying attention, would they be acting in this manner?
Posted by: alanstorm at September 07, 2008 03:59 AM (1v1yp)
Beta Ochoa: I would've just gone with Obama is an asshole.
Obama is a cocooned marxist. He doesn't seem to handle any critism well. Whatever he so-called brain is made of, he should have stayed in chicago so it didn't compare so badly against others. Wait a minute... maybe the senate is good for him.
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