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August 02, 2008

WaPo: Obama's record "tissue thin" and "troubling"
— Purple Avenger

Ouch. This going to rankle the Obama bots considerably.

...Still, the record now, while tissue thin, is troubling...

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 10:04 AM | Comments (45)
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1 What a racist thing for the WaPo to say.

Posted by: DSkinner at August 02, 2008 10:17 AM (TOaf/)

2 How dare you criticize him, WAPO! Don't you know he is THE ONE?

Posted by: Kaitian at August 02, 2008 10:19 AM (on8IE)

3 What!? How dare Cohen question the OUTSTANDING record of the Chosen One. Why, He single handedly, uh. ah.....and, oh yeah, he, ah.....and there was.....not to mention.....and who could ever forget.....and by the way, he's black! So there! Cohen. Hmmmm....sounds Jooish to me. Racist!

Posted by: GarandFan at August 02, 2008 10:20 AM (eJ32B)

4 Ignore the video, the lyrics is what it's about:

You Haven't Earned It

Posted by: Merovign at August 02, 2008 10:25 AM (UXoQt)

5 And he won't even debate McCain before the convention, as I'm surprised to see Yahoo news is running as its top story right now.

Posted by: brak at August 02, 2008 10:26 AM (F7VNV)

6 Old!

Posted by: Dudley Smith at August 02, 2008 10:26 AM (uVCZA)

7 A surprisingly fair assessment given the source. He'll still vote for Obama even though he's not sure why and a tingling feeling that he's about to make a huge mistake.

Posted by: CozMark at August 02, 2008 10:26 AM (GX4F0)

8 yeah but he spends more time talking about what a bastard McCain is than about Obama's ill qualifications and notes he still will vote for Obama.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 02, 2008 10:30 AM (0+Ggj)

Fucking Old!

We have standards here, Dudley old boy.

Posted by: sherlock at August 02, 2008 10:39 AM (ojW85)

10 I understand when he took his wedding vows he said "present"

Posted by: Frank G at August 02, 2008 11:10 AM (P0rQD)

Well-played, #10, well-played indeed.

One has to get up pretty damned early in the afternoon to beat you to the Val-U-Rite stash.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at August 02, 2008 11:17 AM (wgLRl)

12 Wow, I'd never had guessed this was written by Richard Cohen if I hadn't seen his name on it--Obama, you have a problem! (and I love it!)

Posted by: ECM at August 02, 2008 11:17 AM (q3V+C)

13 Richard Cohen? Ah.... Hillary's support is starting to show. Her people on the left are just attempting to show Obama where his weak points are so he can move forward more gracefully, if less successfully. See you in '12 or Denver.

Posted by: Potosi Joel at August 02, 2008 11:47 AM (TPRbZ)

14 So who's left that's 100% in the tank for Ohbummer: Herbert, Rich, Overbite, the Tingler and the staff of the Today show? What a crew of mensas.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 02, 2008 11:48 AM (eP9wS)

15 This is crazy. Didn't WaPo get the memo? Obama is The Hopey McChange We've Been Waiting For, and McCain collaborated with the NVA and passes time on the Straight Talk Express by drowning kittens in a bucket.

Posted by: Jones at August 02, 2008 12:14 PM (KOkrW)

Cohen writes

I know that Barack Obama is a near-perfect political package. I'm still not sure, though, what's in it.

There NOTHING in it, motherfucker! Flush out your headgear!

Posted by: Jones at August 02, 2008 12:17 PM (KOkrW)

17 baroque obozo tissue thin record, not paper thin, but tissue thin...

Disposable dilettante bandwagon platform
constructed of paper mache
paste, pulp and inflated thin air

1. Charmin, gentle but strong (*sswipe Pelosi)
2. Bounty, the quicker picker upper (MSM)
3. Kleenex, let it out...let it all hang out '70s (Sen./Mrs. Obama)

Posted by: maverick muse at August 02, 2008 01:40 PM (F1b/5)

18 He's got serious problems when the sycophants in the MSM begin to doubt him.

Posted by: thebronze at August 02, 2008 01:56 PM (J72JN)

19 What's black and white and red all over?

BARACK OBAMA

Posted by: richard mcenroe at August 02, 2008 02:39 PM (l3IrE)

20 Is WaPo setting up to endorse McCain? Second, and I believe this a fascinating possibility, is the Post looking at the NYT self-destruct, and making a gambit to become the new 'paper of record?' They're left of center to be sure, but they rarely cross that threshold into 'irresponsible' for lack of a better word. Unlike their brethren in Manhatten.

Posted by: Lee at August 02, 2008 02:48 PM (+kJAy)

21 Rove, you magnificent retard! I want to dip my balls in the WaPo! I already have the CoolWhip, let's play uppers and downers, Cohen.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 02, 2008 03:07 PM (N8eC4)

22 Technical note:
While it *is* troubling that a guy like Cohen would say this, you really shouldn't cite it as "The Washington Post says Obama's record is thin" or whatever. Cohen's just an op-ed columnist, who technically speaks for the Washington Post just as much as fellow op-ed writer Charles Krauthammer does, which is to say not at all....

It looks a little amateurish to just label the blog piece "WaPo".

Posted by: David C at August 02, 2008 03:24 PM (iuKoW)

23 #5 -- He'll run away from a 71-year-old man, but he'll stand up to terrorism.

Posted by: richard mcenroe at August 02, 2008 03:57 PM (l3IrE)

24 Posted by: David C at August 02, 2008 08:24 PM (iuKoW) I found a link that will highlight the policy differences we've seen between Krauthammer and Post: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/charleskrauthammer/archive.shtml In lieu of another link I've appended a list of all the major policy differences between the WaPo Editors and Cohen.

Posted by: Potosi Joel at August 02, 2008 04:04 PM (TPRbZ)

#20 hey, where's the second list, dude? No really, where is it? Oh for fuck's sake, there must be something on the list, right?

Posted by: sherlock at August 02, 2008 04:13 PM (ojW85)

This rankles no one. The Obambots love him precisely because his resume is paper thin. They think it makes him mysterious or something. The have watched too many movies where the unknown, downtrodden nobody has a moment of glory.

Except in this case replace glory with "raising taxes" and "rise of the nanny state."

Posted by: adam h at August 02, 2008 04:43 PM (X2xSP)

27 Carl Gordon has it. I knew I shouldn't have loaned it out.

Posted by: Potosi Joel at August 02, 2008 05:30 PM (TPRbZ)

I suspect that the reason that BHO’s record is paper-thin is that there are too many of the wrong kind of failures, very few successes, and more than a few unearned rewards.

This article in the NYT suggests that BHO’s years as a Community Organizer were essentially a study in uninspired mediocrity.

I recall reading, somewhere, that the law firm BHO worked for refused to comment on the subject of BHO’s work. I also understand that this is when the Rezko connection started and/or matured.

Most of BHO’s papers from his time in the Illinois state legislature were disposed of (by BHO); the remnants, his voting record, indicates a penchant for voting "present". Did BHO in fact do anything as a state legislator? There is evidence that BHO proposed state legislation, but for others.

Then there are the housing refurbishment projects, many of which went bankrupt, and he seems to be somehow involved. Where did the $43million go?

Then there’s BHO’s time in the US Senate; not even half of one term completed, and he’s running for the Presidency. What significant legislation has he roposed?

I think that the WaPo (could be someone else) lists BHO’s voting record. IIRC, he’s missed 44% of the Senate votes during his term in office.

I think that the shine is fading fast, and many people are starting to ask tough questions. I think that most of them realize that the answers won't be good to BHO.

Posted by: Arbalest at August 02, 2008 06:03 PM (XUQkf)

Now add in the known record of BHO’s personal connections and actions:

- 20 years at TUCC under the tutelage of Wright (and who knows who else)

- Start in politics in the home of one Bill Ayres (Bombthrower - Weathermen)

- Business associates / friends like T. Rezko (a $2.6million house for $1.6 million)

- The contents, verbatim, of his book "Dreams . . .". Remind me, who abandoned him and who raised him?

- Which came first: the grant to the hospital where Michelle works, or Michelle’s fabulous (and presumably well-deserved due to hard work) 190% (?) pay raise? Remind me; what particularly importand, difficult and hard-to-fill senior executive job does she do?

All old news, but put enough of the pieces of the puzzle together and the picture looks bad.

Then there’s the race card. Who played it first? Who keeps trying to play it by trying to be seen to not play it?

Is the WaPo starting to have suspicions, or am I misreading Cohen’s writing?

Posted by: Arbalest at August 02, 2008 06:53 PM (XUQkf)

30

But hey, he wears tight slacks while cruising for foxes, so that the protruding bulge will be more easily noticed by the foxes.

Plus, he's black!

that's all anybody needs to vote for the Swingman.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at August 02, 2008 07:23 PM (vFeQi)

"Tissue thin?" "Troubling?"

Sounds like a freaking feminine hygeine comnercial.

Posted by: notropis at August 02, 2008 08:12 PM (l7IiS)

'Tissue thin?' I do not have a thin skin. It's you paleocon knuckledragging white rascists that keep bringing up the skin thing.

Dont hate a brother just 'cos he's mocca!

Posted by: Barry Hussy Obama at August 02, 2008 08:51 PM (Lw8MU)

33 Don't you bastids get it?

The "One", by definition, must have a tissue-thin record. It's fundamental.

God. Wake up.

Posted by: Slavedog at August 02, 2008 09:14 PM (6Gy0q)

34 Shorter Cohen: I'm so deep in the tank for Obama, no combination of facts will deter my devotion.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 02, 2008 09:47 PM (qm2ea)

35 It looks a little amateurish to just label the blog piece "WaPo".

Hey look - it rankled one already!

Posted by: Purple Avenger at August 03, 2008 02:03 AM (SLqkZ)

36 "Tissue then?" To get a thinner resume you have to go back to Lar "America First" Daly. Serially.

Posted by: JorgXMcKie at August 03, 2008 05:26 AM (1Sf5X)

Even when you duly note the fact that Cohen was not writing an official WaPo editorial, it apparently gives him (like most libs) the willies to vote against a black guy, whatever the reason. I think Dickey was trying to point out that, even when he factors in the "skin" thing, Barry is still mighty weak gruel.

Which he is, of course.

Posted by: trentk269 at August 03, 2008 05:42 AM (WUM14)

38 Richard Cohen is a dirty Jew. Minister Farrakhan was right about them. When we get Change he's going to get his hymie ass Changed into a lampshade.

Is this thing on? Oops.

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama Campaign Blog Outreach Coordinator at August 03, 2008 07:53 AM (V7sy6)

39

Thin skin?

Coded phrase for black!

I read it and Joshua Micha Marshall Paisley-Passey's blog.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at August 03, 2008 08:28 AM (vFeQi)

40 Cohen's oped is almost a week old. What is that in dog years? Down the memory hole. Move along, nothing to see here. I mean it, break it up you morons and get off my lawn before I call the cops.

Posted by: typical fucking moonbat at August 03, 2008 09:26 AM (lYRc1)

41 aaa

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42 広島市インプラント

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43 口コミ

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