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The Worm in the Chameleon Suit

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I’m a little confused. And it’s starting to bother me. Just when I think I am beginning to understand who Obama is the guy just up and changes. As easy as putting on a new pair of socks. But forgetting that your feet still stink. So I’ve been wondering if it is possible that Obama stands for anything at all. Or if he wasn’t kidding about all that change stuff. Maybe that is why the rest of us need hope so bad. Because we sure as hell can’t count on him to show any backbone. But worms are like that.

I mean you gotta figure that a politician will change from time to time. Especially when they talk about working across the aisle. The art of compromise requires a little give and take. And call me silly, but I actually think that people willing to evolve their perspectives are the kind of folks we need in politics. If someone is incapable of learning and growing then they sure as hell don’t need their hands around the reigns of power.

But that doesn’t appear to be what is happening with Barky Obama. No, I think he has a bad case of the I have no core values syndrome. AKA I will be whatever people want me to be as long as it allows me to gain power over them. And what gets me is that he has the audacity to call this a new kind of politics. It’s such a shame that a Harvard graduate wouldn’t know that slimeball I’ll pretend to be on your side politics has been around for ages. Hardly a new phenomenon.

And I am not the only one scratching their head over these sudden transformations. Even some on the fringe left are starting to question Obama’s positions. Or should I say the lack of them. But most are making excuses for him. WORMs for the Worm. An army of them.

One such WORM is Stephen Ducat who writes for the Huff and Puff Huffington Post. The dude is a true believer. That’s for sure. But at least he has accepted that Obama is not divine. One of the fortunate few. So maybe there is hope after all.

Understanding Obama’s Recent Right Turn

To see Barack Obama behave like any other invertebrate Democrat is an especially painful blow.

You see what I mean? Ducat actually realizes that Obama is a Worm. And he sees clearly that this talk of a new politics is just a ruse, a fancy slogan that sounds good and people hope is true.

Obama’s resort to the triangulation of the old politics is an admission of a much more serious limitation. It tells us that he does not believe in his own ability to reframe certain key issues in a way that makes a progressive stance the one that is obviously the most moral. It shows that he does not feel up to the task of rendering some liberal principles intellectually clear and emotionally compelling.

Ducat recognizes that Obama is not a real leader after all. Which is actually kind of comforting. Maybe he has been laying off the Cult-Aide for a few days.

His limited ability to exercise moral leadership leaves him with no choice other than to accept Republican frames on issues. So, on the FISA bill, for example, loss of privacy and immunity for criminal telecom companies become a trivial price to pay for protection from unfathomable and pervasive Evil.

But just when I thought I had some hope Ducat goes ahead and spoils it for me. Because even though he realizes that Obama is all hype and doesn’t even believe his own bullshit, he can’t help himself but to come to Obama’s defense. He has a game plan. A strategy that he believes will make everything all better. And if it wasn’t so absolutely ridiculous it might be funny.

Ducat is of the mind that all Obama needs to do is create a commercial. He can make the fallout from his nasty little flip flops go away by adopting that tried and true strategy: Divert attention away from yourself by blaming the other guys for the things you support.

The 30-second ad opens on a scene in a middle class suburban kitchen. A mother is speaking on the phone. Her voice is muffled and is drowned out by an intermittent electronic beep, along with the sounds of someone frenetically striking a computer keyboard. The screen quickly splits in half to reveal the woman’s nine-year-old daughter speaking by cell phone to inform her mother that she is ready to be picked up from the school bus stop. The screen is then split in thirds to reveal a man wearing headphones sitting in front of a computer typing notes, obviously monitoring the mother-daughter conversation. Behind him is a massive warehouse filled with computers and scurrying NSA technicians. This image then takes up the entire screen. The voiceover says, “Republicans, like George Bush and John McCain, have taken away our freedoms, invaded our private lives, and made us less safe.” We then quickly see a succession of images — a scene from Iraq that features a burning American tank, a scene of grenade launchers being placed into a packing crate, a scene of an unguarded American port where uninspected shipping containers are being off loaded, and finally a scene of a car with blacked out windows slowing down in front of an unsecured nuclear power plant. A window rolls down. A hand holding a camera reaches out to snap photos. Then the car speeds away. The voice over then concludes, “Protecting America means preserving our rights [cut to an image of the Constitution in which the camera scrolls down the Bill of Rights section], along with defeating terrorists.” The last image is a scene of Barack Obama standing up and pointing toward a large map of some unidentifiable part of the world. Below him is a large conference table of twenty or so advisors who are listening with rapt attention. (Emphasis mine)

And the sad part is that this strategy might just work. Because it focuses on fear. The very thing that Obama claims is the old politics. We are to ignore the irony that this is being presented as a “progressive” plan. Obama’s lack of moral principles extends down to his followers. Worms all.

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Comment by Greg | 2008-07-01 21:14:26

 

Comment by standard | 2008-07-01 21:22:15

it is interesting that even hard core zoids are starting to smell the B.O.
Olbermann’s diatribe yesterday was certainly a surprise.

Comment by Andy | 2008-07-01 21:39:22

standard:

What was K.O. diatribe about?

Comment by Yvette | 2008-07-01 22:59:52

I had the same question; I think it might be this:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#25466045

Comment by George | 2008-07-02 07:07:53

Whoa !
Present , Present , Present & a Gold Star for attendance.

 
 
 
 

Comment by Andy | 2008-07-01 21:22:23

Thy name is BARACK ZELIG

(as in Woody Allen’s Leonard Zelig character)

Comment by ginaswo still says no to Uhhbama | 2008-07-01 22:15:27

YES YES I have been thinking that and couldnt think of the name FRAKKIN ZELIG the chameleon man!!!!!!!

Comment by Steven Mather | 2008-07-02 12:47:14

I like Barackiavelli.

Comment by Steven Mather | 2008-07-02 12:48:23

Oops. The name, not the person.

 
 
 
 

Comment by Uña de Gato | 2008-07-01 21:23:48

“The last image is a scene of Barack Obama standing up and pointing toward a large map of some unidentifiable part of the world.”

That is what will become of the USA when ‘Bama becomes president: a large map of some unidentifiable part of the world.”

Comment by Kelly | 2008-07-01 23:43:47

VERY funny. I am not sure he could even point out all 57 or 58 states.

 

Comment by Obama is a bum | 2008-07-01 23:44:40

Obama cannot even identify the US on a map.

 
 

Comment by flyingsongster | 2008-07-01 21:24:16

Obviously Zero has Zero values.

 

Comment by Jack | 2008-07-01 21:25:49

Or if he wasn’t kidding about all that change stuff.

In a way, he wasn’t. He’s changing. He is the personification of CHANGE. He is a chameleon, that’s a bullseye from you. And he’s a nasty lizard infusing his announced CHANGES with little put downs and superior remarks.

It’s not only his policies. Everything about Obama is CHANGE. There are many kinds of change, Obama’s is betrayal. BETRAYAL. Obama should replace the word CHANGE to BETRAYAL on his posters. Throws everyone under the bus. I wrote earlier that Obama did a DOUBLE CHANGE with Grandma and Wes Clark. It now looks like Obama may do the triple lutz of CHANGE , throwing Clark under the bus, putting him back on board, now possibly under the bus again.

 

Comment by John | 2008-07-01 21:25:49

He’s just a shameless, pandering, triangulating politician, everything his supporters claimed that Hillary was. His success was built entirely on rigged caucuses, barrels of bundled money and a sexist, fawning media army determined to destroy Hillary and using him as a vehicle to do just that. He’s as shallow as a mud puddle during a drought. A total empty suit who read words that were not his own off a teleprompter to screeching drooling audiences of breathless idiots.

What does Barack Obama believe in? Nothing. What does he say he believes in? Whatever he needs to to win.

What would he do as President? Who the hell knows? Which is why we can’t afford him.

Comment by janicen | 2008-07-01 23:05:45

You are absolutely right, John. This is what we’ve been saying about him all along. It’s a shame that it took Hillary stepping out of the limelight to let in shine on him. Now that the world can see him for what he is, or what he isn’t, is it too late?

 
 
 

Comment by Bill Dupray | 2008-07-01 21:28:56

Semi-Literate Michelle Obama Got By On Affirmative Action. Dinesh D’Souza breaks out the red pen on Michelle Obama’s thesis. “To wreak so much havoc on the English language in one sentence, without conveying anything of substance, is perhaps deserving of a prize. Is this what her professors were thinking when they granted her honors?”

http://patriotroom.com/?p=492

 

Comment by Marc | 2008-07-01 21:31:00

From everything I have seen, Obama is different than most politicians. He panders more. He rides the fence more. He lies more. Just look:

He accused Hillary of being for NAFTA while he stated he was always against it. Well we later found out, he told Canadian officials, not to worry, he was just trying to get some votes in Ohio. Now we know for sure he is a liar.

He was for gun control in the big cities before he was against it.

He was for taking public funds in running for President before he was against it.

He did not vote on the Iran issue so he could accuse Hillary of voting for it, while the Republicans could not accuse him of voting against it.

Look at all those present votes. Sometimes he was the only one in the Illinois state senate to vote present.

Stating he was against the Iraq War at the beginning, yet he was not in the U.S. Senate to vote at all. My hunch, he probably would not have voted.

As the worm turns, the true politican shows us just how slimy he can be.

 

Comment by jadwiga | 2008-07-01 21:31:02

Obama is learning the art of deception from the best. Hitler’s methods to come to power were very similar. (I am not compering him to Hitler, only the methods.)
It is an old trick to promise everybody something. This way everybody can feel comfy about the future. ‘We don’t have everything we wanted, but we will have some of it.’
Obama’s problem is that he is not a very good pupil. The key is to promise ‘everybody something’, not everybody everything.
He engangels himself in totally contradicting promises. Eventually people will wake up and see him for what he is.
Our problem with him is that this wake-up may happen after the election in November.
Our hope that there is plenty of time yet and he makes plenty of speeches.
Our duty is to keep our movement as agile as we can.

Comment by jadwiga | 2008-07-01 21:35:50

Sorry, comparing and entangels typos.

 
 

Comment by HARP | 2008-07-01 21:34:21

Maybe it`s time General Clark answers for some of his own statements:

“During extended remarks delivered at the Pulaski County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner in Little Rock, Arkansas on May 11, 2001, General Clark declared: ‘And I’m very glad we’ve got the great team in office, men like Colin Powell, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice… people I know very well - our president George W. Bush. We need them there.’”

Clark praises United States President George [H. W.] Bush with these words:

“President George Bush had the courage and the vision… and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship.”

The New York Times, September 19, 2003

Gen. Wesley K. Clark said today that he would have supported the Congressional resolution that authorized the United States to invade Iraq, even as he presented himself as one of the sharpest critics of the war effort in the Democratic presidential race. General Clark also said in an interview that he would probably oppose President Bush’s request for $87 billion to finance the recovery effort in Iraq, though he said he could see circumstances in which he might support sending even more money into the country

Comment by Billy Beane | 2008-07-01 22:43:52

Go back to 1998 when Congress passed and Clinton signed the Iraqi Freedom Act authorizing military action to take out Saddam Hussein over his WMD program. Read the comments made to the press and in the Congressional Record by Kerry, Pelosi, Gore and Jay Rockefeller, they sound like they were ready to take up arms themselves to deal a final blow to Saddam.

It was Bush who was the original peacenik before 9/11, the Dems kept prodding him to get unilaterally tougher on Saddam, while Bush was working with the constraints of the no fly zones jointly patrolled withthe UK and the UN mandate. After 9/11, when Bush decided it was time to act, the Dems first give overwhelming approval to Bush to invade.

Then the Dems do what they do best, try to erase history as if no one has an attention span long enough to remember. They are all hypocrites.

 
 

Comment by believe | 2008-07-01 21:36:32

This is where Obama was today:

Obama’s first public campaign stop Tuesday was the Eastside Community Ministry in Zanesville, Ohio, a non-profit group that provides groceries and clothing to families and tutors 32 students.

The visit came on a day when the Obama campaign rolled out a plan for a White House office that would support faith-based programs. A fact sheet provided by Eastside side shows that its funding comes from the United Way, churches, civic groups and individual donors.

Children in grades K-12 are offered help with their homework and life skills training, along with activities including 4-H, Bible Club and Girl Scouts.

Obama visited three classrooms and dropped in on the food pantry and clothing room.

The pantry shelves were stocked with boxes of cereal and canned goods.

Obama, accompanied by Davidson, asked if more people have come in for groceries in the last six months. Davidson said no. High gas prices may be cutting down on trips to the pantry, he said.

Obama said he appreciated the group’s work. “What I really like about these kinds of programs is you develop a relationship with people,” he said, “which means that with the financial literacy work you’re doing over time you can help people make better choices in a way that some of these other programs are just not going to do.”

http://thepage.time.com/pool-report-of-obamas-eastside-community-ministry-tour/

Comment by let them eat change | 2008-07-01 21:42:25

If he so strongly “believes”, believe, then he would not have left his church. Did he join a new church and we all missed it. Or is he just going to go around now and proselytize to the masses. And again, “believe” in what?

Comment by Medusa | 2008-07-01 21:55:10

Apparently for many evangelicals, BO has already failed the test for Christianity.

Obama is no Joshua; denies uniqueness of Christ, hell

http://www.townhall.com/news/religion/2008/06/30/obama_is_no_joshua;_denies_uniqueness_of_christ,_hell?page=1

 

Comment by believe | 2008-07-01 22:11:57

Yeah, he joined a new church quite awhile ago.

Comment by dpax | 2008-07-01 23:00:14

He is the new church. just Believe..

 

Comment by street_parade | 2008-07-01 23:17:58

He only “left” TUCC in the beginning of May following the Jeremiah Wright FU tour, so how could he have joined a new church “quite awhile ago”. Unless in your world less than 2 months IS quite awhile ago. You need better information, you better get back to the mothership, sweetie.

 

Comment by Disgusted | 2008-07-01 23:23:05

What church is that? I remember him saying that he would postpone his church seeking until after the election. I know we can’t believe what he says but he did say it. His reasoning was “joining a church is a big decision” and “as of now I am not sure where I will be residing.” “So it would be foolish to seek a new church at this time”. Is he going to St Sabinas part time? Is he now a member of Our Lady of the Worthless Miracle? Living in Chicago if Obama picked a new church it should have been front page news. Didn’t see it.

Comment by Karma | 2008-07-01 23:57:36

The church on Father’s Day….when he threw black men under the bus.

It was a stand in until the proper church vetting can occur.

I wonder who is on that team? ;)

Comment by Disgusted | 2008-07-02 00:07:07

Oh that’s right, wanna bet he isn’t welcome at that church anymore? He’s on his piss off the voters tour 08.

 
 
 
 
 

Comment by Zimeeisme | 2008-07-01 21:59:08

We are quite aware of Obama’s daily political pandering.

Come on now…you don’t honestly believe that the MSM could let us get by with anything less?

 

Comment by BigG | 2008-07-01 22:03:42

Wow, you get around! Obama must have upped your pay. I mean having to deal with all these non supporting Obama voters.

 

Comment by memyself&i | 2008-07-01 22:49:15

Typical of Obama, he ignores their concern about high energy prices and makes some patronizing little speech.

Obama has NO ideas, NO plans, NO clue. NOBAMA

 

Comment by Teakwood | 2008-07-01 23:26:05

“…you can help people make better choices in a way that some of these other programs are just not going to do.”

So BO has shown everyone that he is the one who has the market on “good choices”?

The Operation Board game is due to be put out by the good folks who make Obomaly. Just like the Chicago “programs” BO was a key player in, eh?

 

Comment by ginaswo still says no to Uhhbama | 2008-07-01 23:31:24

So what happens when the Boy Scouts apply for these funds, and they ban gays, which was upheld by SCOTUS as their right to do so, we will be in the middle of a nightmare thats what, separation of state funds and religious groups is there for a reason, I support the scouts but dont expect my gay neighbor to with his tax dollars……

 
 

Comment by Andy | 2008-07-01 21:37:22

Pagan, I don’t think the add would work; it might for Ducat and the like sbut not for the general public.
Obama went along with Dems on FISA and that’s clear to everyone.

Besides, if you travel often you see the amount of
“invasion” if you wish that occurs everyday with TSA at airports; the belts, the jacket the shoes, the deodorant the toothpaste, the liquids, the computer, the watch, even the little file on the nail clip…. and in addition I pretty much need to wash all my unused clothes if they happen to open my bag and toss everything around with horribly dirty rubber gloves…

It is all pretty annoying and frustarting if you travel a lot and are in a hurry. Traveling is a nightmare these days…And what? Noone complains.

I don’t think an image of where you say

“Protecting America means preserving our rights [cut to an image of the Constitution in which the camera scrolls down the Bill of Rights section], along with defeating terrorists.”

would do much for Obama. It’ll hurt him actually b/c it’ll remnind people of national security and on this Obama will lose everytime, big time.

imho …

Comment by Rodhamdem | 2008-07-01 23:07:38

That wasn’t Pagan proposing the ad, you know.

 
 

Comment by Marion | 2008-07-01 21:41:03

Having no core values is a sign of a mental illness. I’m not diagnosing, but it seems like either narcisscism or something worse. My gut tells me that this is a dangerous man.

Comment by Medusa | 2008-07-01 21:59:39

Agreed.

BO is a classic sociopath with a narcissistic ego structure.

http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html

Comment by lmv | 2008-07-01 23:28:21

You are 100% CORRECT.

I’ve said the same thing for months.

I can’t support him for that very reason. These people are self-preservationists. He’ll throw the country under the bus before he’ll do the right thing.

And, as far as I can tell, he has nobody around him who can speak truth to power. (Witness the RBC meeting, the Solis Doyle fiasco, FISA, etc.) He doesn’t care what the political fallout is because he believes he’s untouchable.

 

Comment by ginaswo still says no to Uhhbama | 2008-07-01 23:32:21

yep and a malignant narcissist at that, only happy tearing others down while using that to build himself up at their expense…

 
 
 

Comment by 30yrdem-not any more | 2008-07-01 21:42:51

He is doing now to McCain what he did to Hillary during the primary…sending someone out to smear McCain while he keeps his hands clean….some are falling for it yet again….I even heard said on fox news that it was not a planned thing…how can they not see he has been doing this all along?…You watch…he will have McCain’s plan to bring the troops home with in the next month…he does not have Hillary to steal from now so he will move so far to the right he will just make a few changes and call it his plan…he has already started moving on this…have you noticed it is not …bring them home in 16 months….it is already looking like McCain’s…a little more every time he talks about the troops coming home…when he is done it will be McCain’s work…not Obama’s…

Comment by AF catfish | 2008-07-01 21:47:03

So if he’s president, who will he copy from then? Hugo Chavez?

Comment by 30yrdem-not any more | 2008-07-01 21:53:40

That,s just it …who knows….Bush I would imagine…he isn’t going to win…who in history has had this much against him and won the White House?….how many things were used against Kerry and Gore…add them up and Obama still has more negatives….

Comment by Northwest rain | 2008-07-02 04:51:41

Because we haven’t been able to detect any core values in Obama — we have no idea how to predict what he would do if our worst nightmares come true and he gets the keys to the white house.

I don’t believe he has any core values — he has mentors and he copies his mentors. The only way to figure out what he might do is to determine just who his mentor is — oh about 5 minutes before he has to make a decision.

That’s why his speeches are bits and pieces of many speeches — and not in his own words. It’s almost as if his speech writers have software and they can pull up a “just words” to meet the occasion.

Honesty isn’t one of Zero’s core values.

Nothing he says is believable — unless it is verified by someone who is impartial and qualified.

How the hell did someone as lazy and self absorbed as Obama get this far???

Oh, right, according to poopolosie he is “fresh”.

 
 

Comment by A.Citizen | 2008-07-01 23:10:59

 
 

Comment by ginaswo still says no to Uhhbama | 2008-07-01 23:33:26

yep he is the passive aggressive candidate

he will perhaps send Nancy Pelosi to talk mean to other countries or MEchelle perhaps….he will say okay okay yeah we can do that and then drop a bomb on their ass

 
 

Comment by Big Oil | 2008-07-01 21:45:59

In the 1970s oil was at records high. The Brazillian government made a committment to the people of Brazil that they will never be dependent on Middle Eastern oil again. Within 10 years Brazil was getting most of its fuel for cars from sugar cane. Today Brazil has discovered one of the largest sources of oil in this hemisphere. If a tiny nation like Brazil can be energy independent, so too can America. The last thing the Arabs want is for America to drill for domestic oil. As gas prices increase, the American people will become even more angrier with the democratic majority Congress and Brack Obama. SInce the democrats got control of the COngress, gas prices have gone up 80%. Everytime Obama says he does not support drillign for oil, the price for a barrel of oil goes up. Everytime Obama opens his mouth on not drilling gas prices goes up. Watch the trend. The democrats need to drill here and drill now. By 2015 America will never see anothe roil crisis again if they drill domectically. Brazil is a case study where it has worked.

Comment by ginaswo still says no to Uhhbama | 2008-07-01 23:34:43

yes and PS Petrobras is sitting on a HIGE oil field under water, I am buying it hand over fist, yesireebob

and how is life in Brazil, GDP growing, middle class growin, are they socialist, cause we need plan B…

I ca learn to speak Portugese perhaps?

 

Comment by ginaswo still says no to Uhhbama | 2008-07-01 23:35:04

yes and PS Petrobras is sitting on a HUGE oil field under water, I am buying it hand over fist, yesireebob

and how is life in Brazil, GDP growing, middle class growin, are they socialist, cause we need plan B…

I can learn to speak Portugese perhaps?

Comment by Linda K | 2008-07-02 03:35:27

Yes, we really need plan B - Lester R. Brown style.

 
 
 

Comment by anonymous | 2008-07-01 21:46:31

Sinclair on the radio tonight 12 Midnight Eastern, 11 PM Central, 10 PM Mountain, 9 PM Pacific.

Go here and listen to Network 3.

I have news for all the Obama supporters out there. This is not going away until it is addressed by the media or the Obama campaign.

I would think Obama would consider this one major smear yet it is not mentioned on his fight the smears web site.

Comment by 30yrdem-not any more | 2008-07-01 22:02:23

he is in denial…he thinks if he does not put it there it will go away….

Denial
1.an assertion that something said, believed, alleged, etc., is false: Despite his denials, we knew he had taken the purse. The politician issued a denial of his opponent’s charges.
2.refusal to believe a doctrine, theory, or the like.
3.disbelief in the existence or reality of a thing.
4.the refusal to satisfy a claim, request, desire, etc., or the refusal of a person making it.
5.refusal to recognize or acknowledge; a disowning or disavowal: the traitor’s denial of his country; Peter’s denial of Christ.
6.Law. refusal to acknowledge the validity of a claim, suit, or the like; a plea that denies allegations of fact in an adversary’s plea: Although she sued for libel, he entered a general denial.
7.sacrifice of one’s own wants or needs; self-denial.
8.Psychology. an unconscious defense mechanism used to reduce anxiety by denying thoughts, feelings, or facts that are consciously intolerable.

Comment by Teakwood | 2008-07-01 23:37:45

30yrdem-not any more;

NUMBER 8 Psychology. an unconscious defense mechanism used to reduce anxiety by denying thoughts, feelings, or facts that are consciously intolerable

deny his gayness
deny his misgivings about his ‘whiteness”
deny the fact that he was abondoned.

Comment by yaz | 2008-07-02 08:56:16

gay, huh? doesn’t that feel just a little bit out there to you? there must be a ton of things about obama you could criticize without so evidently expressing your own insecurities.

 
 
 

Comment by Slobodaneee | 2008-07-01 22:49:30

If someone with the credibility issues this Larry Sinclair clown has made allegations against Hillary or Bill would you believe him? Probably not, but you are willing to believe anything negative about Obama. All because he beat Hillary. After the election I’m going to enjoy coming back here just to read the pity party that is standard fare here.

Comment by anonymous | 2008-07-01 22:58:39

 

Comment by Obama is a bum | 2008-07-01 23:31:38

Obama has credibility issues as well. The media needs to thoroughly investigate Sinclair’s story.

Comment by yaz | 2008-07-02 09:04:49

while i believe that we should always be skeptical of the media (and everything else), this kind of paranoia that the entire structure of the media (and everything) has just suddenly, and immediately, stopped working, is something completely different. what evidence do you have other than the fact that you don’t like barack obama and can’t fathom why everyone who does, does?

just step back for a second and think about how any member of the media would LOVE to break the story that obama is any one of the insane things that you guys here like to repeat. what’s their incentive not to try? think about how broken our entire country would be if the media (all of it, every non-interconnected piece of it) had just spontaneously decided to stop being independent. isn’t that just a little crazy?

the media is surely far from perfect, but when you’ve concluded that they’ve completely abandoned their purpose, you need something more than paranoia and dislike for one person.

Comment by let them eat change | 2008-07-02 09:27:23

“stop being independent”

no pictures of flag-draped coffins coming back from Iraq

no pictures, reports of how many Iraqis killed and exciled

Comment by yaz | 2008-07-02 09:34:53

again, this is a flaw but i’m not sure it is proof that there is NO independence in the media anymore. i’m won’t disagree that we have a problem, especially with BIG media. the point i’m trying to make is that in order for some of the more extreme allegations on this site to be true yet completely unexamined by the media there would have to be a truly profound disintegration of the free press. there is no evidence of such a thing and no reason why the media would have gone in for it anyway. they do pretty well for themselves in our capitalist economy as private entities.

Comment by let them eat change | 2008-07-02 09:43:47

Paid generals to talk up bushes talking points to get us in Iraq?

This lack of independence started well before Obama. Did they just up and say, “Hey Senator Obama is here know to fix everything. We should start being independent again.”

Comment by let them eat change | 2008-07-02 09:49:17

If the MSM would say, “Hey, we are so sorry that we helped get us in this war…”

Maybe, just maybe, I would believe that they weren’t being paid off to prop up Obama.

 

Comment by yaz | 2008-07-02 09:57:19

alright, well, you’re convinced. i’m not, for the reasons i stated. i think we’d be in a whole lot bigger mess if independence were completely eviscerated. nevertheless, i will continue to fight for further independence (and frequent non MSM outlets as much as possible). but reform is different from revolt and each requires its own justification.

question: assuming independence is gone, how does the press’s interest (or anyone’s for that matter) align between bush and obama? your evidence shows they were compliant wrt to the sitting administration. what would encourage them to act the same way about obama who does not have the power of the government behind him AND happens to be ideologically very different from bush? wouldn’t bush use his power over the press to tear down obama in favor of mccain? (oh, right, they’re waiting until after the convention. well, we’ll see. i’m unconvinced.)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Comment by cathnealon | 2008-07-01 21:53:11

His chameleon routine might work in the confines of Chicago politics because they’re probably used to this but bringing it out into the wider arena of a general election won’t work. It’s like living in a dysfunctional family, you don’t really know how crazy it is until you grow up and leave. Well, BO has left Chicago and one thing Americans, given enough time, will discover is how phony you really are. Bush was lucky with 911, it carried him through the first 5 years. BO is running out of time, the primary season was long and people are already seeing this fraud and are sick of the hypocritical rhetoric.

Comment by A.Citizen | 2008-07-01 23:12:46

I think there is a good chance he won’t be the nominee. They do have to vote at the Convention.

 
 

Comment by Kiki | 2008-07-01 21:54:33

BO stand for this- He “hopes” we dont see all the “changes” he has been making.

 

Comment by Uña de Gato | 2008-07-01 21:55:57

I would love to see Ducat’s ad done by Tarantino or Robert Rodriguez. Dancing go-go girls can appear at the end.

 

Comment by desert man | 2008-07-01 22:04:36

It’s an Islamic norm that before Obama becomes the commander in chief of the USA, Obama is the champion of all the oppressed, depressed and exploited American people.

But when Obama becomes the commander in chief of USA, Obama will be the mother of all suckers in the universe.

This is the trend of filthy politicians when seeking top political posts.

The politicians nowadays are ignorant and stupid thinking that they could commit blatant heinous crimes with impunity in this New Millennium.

The hardworking American people will hunt all these avaricious politicians down no matter which corner of the world they are hiding and make them cough out every single cent which they stole/plundered from the hardworking American People.

Comment by yttik | 2008-07-01 23:11:46

“Obama will be the mother of all suckers in the universe.”

Cool, we just had the King of all Idiots running the country, now we’ll get the mother of all suckers.

But uh, leave the mama’s out of it. We’ve got McCain writing “Faith of My Fathers” and Obama writing “Dreams of My Father.” Apparently these two were hatched.

Comment by ginaswo still says no to Uhhbama | 2008-07-01 23:36:41

I noticed that as well,a and the Russert books were abut the Dads too

 
 
 

Comment by Dot | 2008-07-01 22:05:14

Comment by 30yrdem-not any more | 2008-07-01 22:27:37

Did you read the comments on that video?

 
 

Comment by Billy Beane | 2008-07-01 22:23:10

From the article above:

I think he has a bad case of the I have no core values syndrome. AKA I will be whatever people want me to be as long as it allows me to gain power over them.

and a quote from BO’s own book:

“I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.”

Comment by Leisa | 2008-07-01 23:53:23

This is why he is the chameleon candidate.

 
 

Comment by candymarl | 2008-07-01 22:24:51

Obama is where ever he needs to be. Does he actually care about those people? I think not. After all, taking money from Chicago slumlords that misused his own people didn’t bother him

Photo-ops? Yes. Doing something? Not so much.

 

Comment by stop Hussein | 2008-07-01 22:26:25

 

Comment by jwrjr | 2008-07-01 22:26:51

One of the biggest problems with Obama is that it is impossible to tell what he REALLY thinks, what he REALLY will do. He changes what he says on a daily (or more often) basis. How can you trust a man when you don’t know what he will do? How can you vote for him?

 

Comment by Uña de Gato | 2008-07-01 22:31:13

For Obama, the answer is blowing in the wind, along with any hope of this country ever recovering from its 8-year nightmare.

Comment by Obama is a bum | 2008-07-02 00:06:36

Obama is like gas blowing in the wind.

 
 

Comment by Just Say NoFraud, NObama | 2008-07-01 22:33:14

So I’ve been wondering if it is possible that Obama stands for anything at all. Or if he wasn’t kidding about all that change stuff. Maybe that is why the rest of us need hope so bad. Because we sure as hell can’t count on him to show any backbone. But worms are like that.

I think he will do and say anything to get elected and the “real” Obama will emerge. The one that would make Michelle proud for the first time in her life. The one that agreed with Rev Wright but who had to temporarily distance himself from him. The one that will start attending TUCC again. The one that will be having tailgate parties with American terrorist and flag-stomping Wm. Ayers. The one who won’t put his hand over his heart for the national anthem.

IMO–Obama has beliefs, he just knows he won’t get elected if he tells us what they are.

The Obama we know flipped off his Democratic challenger and the former first lady. The Obama we know smeared former Pres. Clinton. The Obama we know played games with the FL and MI votes and voters (though he had his surrogates do the dirty work). The Obama we know won’t let you talk about his wife; his preacher; his prior votes; his patriotism; his birth certificate. The Obama we know disrespected McCain’s service (through a surrogate) and then delivered a speech to say he will not allow anyone to question McCain’s patriotism–(unless, of course, Obama’s patriotism is questioned.)

The Obama we know lets children do his battles for him by assuming his middle name. The Obama we know hides muslim and african-american voters off camera. The Obama we know will whine through surrogates about reasonable questions during a debate. The Obama we know would send out post-pubescent surrogates onto the internet to harass and shut down sites that point out anything at all negative about him.

No, the readers of this site, if nowhere else in blogosphere, knows Obama. The picture aint pretty.

Comment by Uña de Gato | 2008-07-01 22:38:23

The truth shall set you free, and this post is the God’s honest truth!

 
 

Comment by Obama is a bum | 2008-07-01 22:45:00

If anyone is not wise to Obama by now then they are just plain slow. Don’t try to understand Obama by what he says because he is all over the place saying today what he thinks will get him votes. Obama is not the sharpest knife in the draw and in a lot of cases just doesn’t know (lack of experience/knowledge). Obama is using the media to his advantage since they are trying to elect him and they are happy to ignore his faults or help cover them up.

One thing we can conclude about Obama is he believes in black liberation theology by virtue of belonging to Wright’s church for 20 years.

Comment by Slobodaneee | 2008-07-01 22:54:26

He was sharp enough to beat Hillary and will do so with McCain and don’t blame the media. As between McCain and Obama, the media absolutely loves McCain. See the greetings they received at the press club event months ago. the media elites gave McCain a hearty welcome and donuts. Obama got the cold shoulder and a presenter who referred to him as Osama.