The Huffington Post on why Barry O can’t win:
To earn the Democratic nomination, as Fred Thompson points out, Obama ran as George McGovern without the experience, a left-of-center politician who would meet unconditionally with Iran, pull us precipitously out of Iraq, prohibit new drilling for oil, and grow big government in Washington by all but a trillion dollars. In his general election TV ad debut, however, Obama pirouetted like Baryshnikov. With a commercial Mike Huckabee could have run in a Republican primary, Obama now emphasizes his commitment to strong families and heartland values, “Accountability and self-reliance. Love of country. Working hard without making excuses.” In this yet unwritten chapter of his next autobiography, Obama tells us he is the candidate of “welfare to work” who supports our troops and “cut taxes for working families.” The shift in his political personae has been startling. Obama has moved right so far and so fast, he could end up McCain’s Vice-Presidential pick.
Emphasis mine only because I love that phrasing so much. Because you know that the “next” Barry O book of self-love is probably already in the works.
This one will probably lament how racism and whitey kept him from the Presidency. He’ll probably blame Hillary, too.
In the defining moment of his life, McCain was willing to give everything for one thing, and that one thing was his country. Contrast that with Obama, who has told America that he is “a proud citizen of the United States and a fellow citizen of the world.” Obama is the talented salesman who seduced one state after another saying “Iowa, this is our moment,” “Virginia, this is our moment,” “Texas, this is our moment,” and then tells Europe, “people of Berlin, people of the world, this is our moment.” How many times can Barack Obama sell the same moment to everyone, before he becomes Mel Brooks in “The Producers”? Who is Barack Obama? His campaign, as it reupholsters him before our eyes, says we can never know — perhaps because Barack Obama does not know himself.
This paragraph is the essence of the difference between McCain and Obama — the defining moment of their respective lives. The “everything” that McCain was willing to give for his country? It was his life.
Barry’s defining moment? We’re still waiting on it. But I assure you, whatever it is, it will have nothing to do with offering his life for his country. He’s just not that kind of man.
Anywho…the Huffington Post piece isn’t news to Conservatives, we’ve been pointing out these things since pretty much Day 1 about your boy Barry.
I disagree with the thesis of this article. The Huffington type Democrats are going to vote for Obama no matter what he says or does. It wouldn’t matter to them if he was a convicted felon. The blue collar Democrats like those in my family are the ones Obama should be concerned about. They loved Bill Clinton. And, Bill Clinton doesn’t love Obama. In fact, I think he despises him.
If any of the major networks would play the full Bill Clinton interview I saw yesterday and this morning on cable, Obama’s ratings would drop like a bowling ball, but the in-love-with-Obama major media won’t do that. Let’s hope they watch it on CNN, Fox and even MSNBC is running the interview.
Left by Anonymous on August 5th, 2008 at 9:24 am