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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • Our political salvation

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    Washington Post’s “On Faith” discussion drifted off into the spiritual realm of politics today asking if either Obama or McCain were really “The One” we’re looking for. David Waters says this election is about finding our messiah;

    In this presidential election, as in every presidential election, we’re all looking for The One who can lead us to the promised land, The One who can heal the economy, deliver us from demonic forces of evil, save us from the dreadful mistakes of The Previous One.

    I thought it was pretty juvenile to think that any politician could lead us into the Promised Land. As you read through the piece, Waters admits it, too. But looking at the moon-eyed Obama supporters, a rational person would ask “what’s wrong with these people? ” The Ron Paul crowd is no different – they think their prophet isn’t really a crooked self-serving politician, even though all of the rest are crooked and self-serving.

    Then I ran across this article on Breitbart and it all came home for me

    Police said the 42-year-old man dialed 911 twice last week so he could have his sub [sandwich] made correctly. The second call was to complain that officers weren’t arriving fast enough.

    Subway workers told police Peterson became belligerent and yelled when they were fixing his order. They locked him out of the store after he left to call police.

    When officers arrived, they tried to calm Peterson and explain the proper use of 911. Those efforts failed, and he was arrested on a charge of making false 911 calls.

    That’s an Obama supporter; government has all of the solutions to every petty problem that pops up in our lives. Can’t pay your mortgage because you don’t understand variable rate mortgages? Vote for someone who promises to bail you out. Can’t find a broker who gives you good investment advice? Vote for someone who wants to regulate the industry.  Remember in the 1992 election some pinhead in Virginia asked Bill Clinton to be our national father?

    We don’t need father-figures, we need someone who does what the Constitution says he should do; defend the Constitution from our enemies and preserve our rights. I already have a savior and I know how to fix my own sandwiches.

  • The bumpy ride ahead

    Juan Williams writes in the Wall Street Journal this morning that “The Race Issue Isn’t Going Away“. In reference to the discussion about Obama’s “dollar bill” hyperbole, Williams writes;

     Mr. Obama’s campaign concedes it has no clear example of a Republican attack that expressly cites Mr. Obama’s name or race. Yet in the last few days some Obama supporters were at it again, suggesting that a McCain ad attacking Mr. Obama as little more than a “celebrity,” by featuring young white women such as Britney Spears, is an appeal to white anxiety about black men and white women.

    Yeah, “no clear example” but it’s there. More of that “code word” BS we hear from the race baiters like Jackson and Sharpton. Manipulation of the language to make someone sound like a racist no matter what they say.

    Williams sifts through some fairly confusing polling data and arrives at an illogical conclusion;

     In a Wall Street Journal poll last month, 8% of white voters said outright that race is the most important factor when it comes to looking at these two candidates — a three percentage point increase since Mr. Obama claimed the Democratic nomination. An added 15% of white voters admit the candidates’ race is a factor for them. Race is even more important to black voters: 20% say it is the top factor influencing their view of the candidates, and another 14% admit it is among the key factors that will determine their vote. All this contributes to the idea that the presidential contest will boil down to black guy versus white guy.

    Consider also a recent Washington Post poll. Thirty percent of all voters admitted to racial prejudice, and more than a half of white voters categorized Mr. Obama as “risky” (two-thirds judged Mr. McCain the “safe” choice). Yet about 90% of whites said they would be “comfortable” with a black president. And about a third of white voters acknowledged they would not be “entirely comfortable” with an African-American president. Why the contradictory responses? My guess is that some whites are not telling the truth about their racial attitudes.

    Emphasis mine. I guess, it goes right over Williams’ head that maybe it’s just THIS GUY and the people he hangs out with, and his malleable policy pronouncements that makes people nervous.

    I discussed the WaPo poll before – it says 30% of ALL voters say race is important. Since 11% are Black voters, doesn’t that 30% include them? Why does it have to automatically assumed that when the question is about race that it’s all anti-Black?

    How about we make this campaign about issues and not about white guilt or white racism. On the issues Obama is dead in the water. Proof? Because Obama has lost his lead against McCain after his multi-million dollar world tour gambit. The convention won’t help him, so all he has left to count on is white guilt.

  • Happy Birthday, Mr President (Obama)

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    The week’s polls are coming in and it’s not looking good for Obama (or certain unnamed trolls). While the New York Times does it’s best to tint recent McCain ads as racially charged, those same ads seem to be doing their job. The Pheonix Business Journal writes:

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  • The One

    I guess John McCain’s campaign figures that their Brittney Spear/Paris Hilton ad polled well the other day because they released an “internet only” ad entitled “The One”;

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    It pokes holes in the inflated ego of The Barack. From Ben Smith;

    The ad quotes Obama in both serious riffs telling a crowd “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for”; and in a sarcastic one, joking to an audience, “You will experience an epiphany and you will say to yourself, ‘I have to vote for Barack.’”

    The ad then shows Obama expressing his hope that America will look back at the 2008 election as the beginning of the end of global warming. The ad then cuts to an image a Charlton Heston, as Moses, parting the Red Sea, before concluding:

    “Barack Obama may be The One, but is he ready to lead?”

    Of course, the New York Times and the Obama campaign didn’t see anything funny about it;

     Hari Sevugan, one of its spokesmen: “It’s downright sad that on a day when we learned that 51,000 Americans lost their jobs, a candidate for the presidency is spending all of his time and the powerful platform he has on these sorts of juvenile antics. Senator McCain can keep telling everyone how ‘proud’ he is of these political stunts which even his Republican friends and advisors have called ‘childish’, but Barack Obama will continue talking about his plan to jumpstart our economy by giving working families $1,000 of immediate relief.”

    Whew, when the Obama campaign starts talking about rebates, who know someone hit a nerve. The LA Times has the McCain response;

    On the campaign plane, McCain spokeswoman Nicolle Wallace defended the clip as just another harmless quip. “There is an important role for humor in political campaigns,” she told reporters. “I think all of us would slit our wrists if there wasn’t.”

    She also said the spot had a serious purpose: To buck up any McCain backers who may have been dispirited watching Obama dominate the news with his overseas trip and rally. The hope is to “make sure they understand that Barack Obama, who stands in front of tens of thousands, is not anything to be intimidated by,” she said. “We’re proud we’re showcasing our candidate surrounded by workers.”

    Aside from the Moses clip, the rest is in Barack’s own words, so where’s the smear? Where’s the attack? What’s to be upset about? It’s his ideas and his perception of himself that scares people away…not that superficial crap he complains about. The hit dog yelps.

  • So, get out of the kitchen

    As the Obama campaign realizes that his multi-million-dollar foray into foreign policy isn’t giving Obama the return at the polls they had expected, they’ve decided to take the “low road”. (Washington Times link)

    Sen. John McCain accused presidential opponent Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday of playing the race card.

    Mr. Obama ridiculed Mr. McCain for depicting him as a lightweight celebrity.

    A day after the release of a McCain ad comparing Mr. Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, both campaigns veered away from the issues and into a squabble over who said what, who intended what and who insinuated the rest.

    “Folks ought to just buckle up their seat belts,” said Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, telling reporters on a conference call that they can expect more.

    So the campaign decided to update their “Fight the Smears” page of the campaign’s website.

    Lie:
    John McCain, his spokesmen, and his TV ads have all been politicizing our wounded heroes by making the false claim that Barack Obama snubbed wounded troops by not visiting them on his trip overseas because TV cameras would not be allowed to cover the visit.

    Truth:
    The Obama campaign originally planned a private trip (no media) to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany to visit wounded troops, but canceled it to prevent the perception of politicizing our troops.

    Senator Obama was honored to meet with our men and women in uniform in Iraq and Afghanistan during his foreign trip and has visited a combat support hospital in Baghdad as well as wounded soldiers at Walter Reed without fanfare. Barack Obama also called wounded troops at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center while overseas.

    Yeah, Obama is always ready and willing to sacrifice a photo opportunity for someone else’s dignity, blah, blah blah. He’d hold up a terrorist’s severed head for the cameras if he thought it’d get a vote or two. As evidence, the Obama campaign offers this video of an Andrea Mitchell interview.

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    The video doesn’t prove anything except that Andrea Mitchell doesn’t like the McCain ad. Obama also puts up completely useless wire diagram (it looks like IVAW’s Montalvan did it) that describes Who’s Behind the Smears. Somehow Willie Horton’s name cames up. DIdn’t Al Gore start the Willie Horton stuff? Why isn’t his name up there?

    So to counter the ad, Messiah tells voters something that IS absolutely untrue;

     Hours earlier, the McCain campaign said Mr. Obama crossed the line of racial politics. Mr. Obama said Wednesday that President Bush and Mr. McCain attacked him as unworthy of the presidency because, as the Democrat put it, he doesn’t “look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills.”

    I’d like Obama to prove that one. And I’d like an apology from the Obama campaign for thinking I’m so damn stupid I’d believe that.

  • Ad Wars

    I just got an email from the Obama campaign warning me about John McCain taking “the low road” of politics;

    Friend —

    As we face the fundraising deadline at midnight tonight, I want you to know what we are up against.

    Less than 24 hours ago, the McCain campaign launched the latest and lowest in a series of misleading attack ads.

    This Karl Rove-style ploy misleads people about Barack’s energy plan and even mocks his ability to inspire voters and bring Americans back into the political process.

    Watchdogs in the media are calling McCain’s accusations “bogus,” “desperate,” “wrong,” “misleading,” “ugly,” “offensive,” “reckless,” and “a nasty turn into the gutter.”

    Some of McCain’s own supporters agree. One senior Republican strategist quoted by the Washington Post called the latest ad a “wild swing at Obama” that reflects his campaign’s “increasing bitterness” and the lack of “any coherent strategy to elect McCain.”

    Even John Weaver, a strategist who worked for McCain’s presidential campaign in 2000 and on his current campaign last year, called the ad “childish,” adding that this negative strategy “diminishes John McCain” and “needs to stop.”

    The ad? This one;

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    I thought it was pretty tame, considering what McCain could have said about the Fluff Master. But Obama thinks I should send him some money so he can run this ad;

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     With the election less than 100 days away, media pundits and Washington insiders will be watching our fundraising numbers more closely than ever.

    In the face of these new attacks, you can help demonstrate that a movement funded by grassroots supporters giving only what they can afford is ready to take on the Republican fundraising machine and its onslaught of negativity.

    Your support will also give this campaign a crucial boost in momentum as we build our organization to compete in all 50 states.

    There are only hours left to make an impact in July.

    Yeah, what McCain ran was an attack ad. Which part is untrue? Well, none of it, actually. A statement of facts is not an attack. Obama’s ad is an attack ad, though. It attacks common sense by talking about “same old politics” and then lays out Obama’s agenda that’s the same old Democrat rhetoric without real solutions. Same old politics indeed.

  • Combat tours cut

    The President today announced that because of the success of our troops in the Middle East, the enemy is on the run and the troops can count on shorter tours (Wall Street Journal link);

    President George W. Bush declared progress in the Iraq war Thursday, saying terrorists “are on the run” and a generally improved security environment should permit further U.S. troop reductions.

    Standing on the Colonnade outside the Oval Office of the White House, President Bush also announced that effective Thursday, the duration of troop tours in Iraq will be cut from 15 months to 12 months.

    Mr. Bush said this reduction “will relieve the burden on our forces and it will make life easier for our wonderful military families.”

    With no help from Democrats, with no help from the cutthroat back-stabbing sociopaths of the IVAW and Veterans For  Peace, no help from the drama queens at Code Pink, no help from the filthy hippies of ANSWER. With no help from Barack Obama, no help from Chuck Hagel. With no help from Harry Reid, no help from Nancy Pelosi. With no help from phony soldier John Murtha, no help from phony earthling Dennis Kucinich. No help from Jim Webb no help from Ron Paul..

    The troops and the President, all by themselves, did what nearly every media outlet said they couldn’t. Against the odds, against the pseudo-experts.

    They can all claim credit and change their stories from now until the cows come home, but the troops know who stood with them. And who didn’t.

  • Obama’s shallow politics

    Barack Obama is still caught up on the race thing (h/t Ace and Hot Air) – you know that thing we’re not supposed to notice unless he tells it’s OK to notice. The CNN Political Ticker recounts his talk with voters in Missouri;

    “He’s spending an awful lot of time talking about me. You notice that?” Obama asked a crowd of just over one thousand seated in a university gym. “I haven’t seen an ad yet where he talks about what he’s going to do. And the reason is because those folks know they don’t have any good answers, they know they’ve had their turn over the last eight years and made a mess of things.”

    “They know that you’re not real happy with them and so the only way they figure they’re going to win this election is if they make you scared of me,” Obama continued, repeating an attack from earlier in the day. “What they’re saying is ‘Well, we know we’re not very good but you can’t risk electing Obama. You know, he’s new, he doesn’t look like the other presidents on the currency, he’s a got a funny name.’”

    Yeah, McCain doesn’t have any ideas…other than NOT doing what Democrats have done for decades that have gotten us in this mess. He wants to drill here and now while Obama’s ad with his solutions are cleaving to the old ideas of raising CAFE standards and throwing money at alternative fuels. He calls it “fast tracking new technologies” But how do you “fast track” something that doesn’t exist? This ad could have been written in the 80s;

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    Obama does have a funny name but there’s nothing funny about his politics. He’s using the same tactics that worked against Hillary (to a small degree) but I honestly don’t think the voters who are not Democrats will fall for it. Americans have heard the same tired rhetoric for decades and they’ve rejected it almost every time. I guess the Obama campaign thinks they can hand the voters a gilded turd and no one will notice it’s still a turd.