I’m Looking Through You
By Charles Lemos on July 15, 2008 at 12:45 PM in Barack Obama, Campaign Financing, Chicago politics, Democratic Nomination, FISA, Flip Flopping, Gun Control, Iraq, Jesse Jackson, Obamatopia, Obamedia
The repudiation of Barack Obama continues unabated. It is something so unprecedented in American history to have so many rebel against the presumptive Democratic nominee even before he has been nominated.
Yet another anti-Obama website has been launched and this one is by former supporters of the very junior Senator from Illinois.
The Chicago Tribune’s columnist John Kass picks up the story of Obama’s supporters now wincing.
When Jesse Jackson’s Castrato-gate or the Barack Obama Nuts Controversy or whatever you want to call it erupted last week—as captured by the hot microphones of Fox News—terrible cries of pain went unnoticed.
Not from Obama, who, as presidential historians will tell us after his inauguration in January, was the great beneficiary of the rhetorical (and never actually attempted) Jacksonian castration, and no cries from Jackson, either.
Jackson’s too busy to shriek. He’s suffering the ambition of African-American politicos eager to replace him as America’s race broker. And he’s been hooted down in the style of pre-Revolutionary France, by white liberals who once feared him, though they no longer feel compelled to feign interest in Jackson’s ridiculous rhymes.
The cries of pain came not from Obama or Jackson but from the American political left, from scribes and liberal editorial writers and broadcast analysts and eager bloggers. The true believers who evangelized that Obama would transcend politics as we knew it are suffering a Barackian hangover.
Greedily, they drained the kegs once full of sweet Obama Kool-Aid, drained them to the dregs and mopped up the remains with stale crusts. The inevitable happened—the pain that comes as everything finally becomes clear, in the rosy-fingered light of a terrible dawn.
Obama used them to crush the Clintons, but now the left is finally realizing it’s been betrayed, on issue after issue, with Obama changing his positions in order to defeat a tired and disillusioned Republican Party in November.
They’re at the dance now and he’s the one with the keys and he’s the only ride they’ve got. And they don’t like it.
He has flip-flopped again and again, on campaign finance, on government eavesdropping of overseas phone calls, on gun control and even Iraq. Future President Obama now says he’ll listen to his generals about when to withdraw. He didn’t say he’d listen to the commissars of the blogosphere.
And his cheerleaders are beginning to realize that Obama may not be the Arthurian knight in shining armor, that he may not be Mr. Tumnus, the gentle forest faun of our presidential politics. Months after his inauguration, after he makes Billy Daley the secretary of the treasury and Michael Daley the secretary of zoning and promotes Patrick Fitzgerald to become the attorney general of Mars, the political left may figure out that Obama is a Chicago politician.
“Only an idiot would think or hope that a politician going through the crucible of a presidential campaign could hold fast to every position, steer clear of the stumbling blocks of nuance and never make a mistake,” wrote Bob Herbert in The New York Times. “But Barack Obama went out of his way to create the impression that he was a new kind of political leader—more honest, less cynical and less relentlessly calculating than most. . . . Obama is not just tacking gently toward the center. He’s lurching right when it suits him, and he’s zigging with the kind of reckless abandon that’s guaranteed to cause disillusion, if not whiplash.”
This panic of the left—particularly among many political media types—is profoundly instructive to foreigners seeking to understand American character. The American media elite chose to portray Obama as some kind of knight in armor. They’re analysts. Yet they were desperate to believe in a political fairy tale from Chicago. Somewhere in this desperate yearning is an answer.
Obama is not their fool. And he’s not weak. He got down on one knee to the Chicago Democratic Machine and didn’t make any waves and asked that it make him a U.S. senator. He lectured the Africans about political corruption and kept his mouth shut about corruption in Chicago, and the national press ignored the inconsistency and pampered and protected him. He waited and he’s ready and now they’re worried? Too late, boys and girls.
I don’t mean to pick on Mr. Herbert, an elegant writer. His is but one of many voices, stunned on the side of the road, wondering what happened. I felt the same Kool-Aid hangover, and the same whiplash, but from the opposite direction years ago, when I was run down in the middle of a paragraph by a clown car driven by Karl Rove.
The Bush White House became the champion of big government, of big spending, of Jack Abramoff and of perjury under oath. The clowns boiled out of the car and I watched them go, taking the Republican Party with them, dragging it out into the desert, where they’d dug a big hole and stuffed it with Kool-Aid-addled conservatives.
So I have some sympathy for those on the left when it comes to Obama. They feel jilted, and the story was of a growing sense of betrayal, until Rev. Jackson whispered his desire to remove Obama’s valuables.
Then the left joined in with the right, and with the viewers of Fox News in the front row—representing those Reagan Democrat votes Obama will need in November—we all pounded Jackson, righteously, in Obama’s name.
From my blog, By The Fault.
Do you know the difference between Barack Obama and Miley Cyrus?
One tours the country singing empty verses to teenage fans, the other is a pop singer.
Obama Montana
Ficticiuos character or ficticiuos name?
Flip-flop, flip-flop…it’s Obamafish!
I wonder how many “W.O.R.M.s” it took to catch this slippery little feller.
http://www.figarospeech.com/it-figures/2008/7/8/this-flip-is-a-flop.html
I never have to tell people what I really mean. I say what I mean and I mean what I say.
I’ve never seen a person that has to explain worm constantly.
LOL…good one!!
I was going to say the age of their fanbase…but no, that’s about the same also!
Another potential VP contender runs for the hills. According to CNN, Reed from R.I. has said NO WAY.
The pickins’ are gittin’ slim my friends.
Is this standard? What’s behind these public, emphatic, rejections of serving as veep?
I recall it took a while for McCain to say publicly he would not be Kerry’s veep, and the way I read it as Kerry would not take the hint privately, so finally McCain had to go public.
Maybe Webb, Rendell, Reed, Strickland saw something up close they didn’t like.
Standard? not hardly. Most are chomping at the bit to become the heir apparent.
maybe they realize these coattails belong to the Emperor without clothes.
Eww…that just conjured up a disturbing image.
yes…and apparently a disturbing image that becomes clearer and more in focus each day.
In the end, he’ll probably only have Patrick Kennedy left, and he’s a baffoon.
It;s looking like Dodd or Hagel at this point.
Hell, I’d run, too. Being Senior Senator, even from a small state, is preferable to being “Losing VP Contender.” It’s hard to recover from that.
Definition:
Castrato-gate: A scandal involving a forced cajonectomy.
The case of Barack Obama proves what we always suspected–progressives are stupid.
Are you one of the bitter 25% for bush? Kinda sounds like it. I hate the term “lol”, but it applies here in multiples.
Yes, and it doesn’t help either of our causes (in my case I am a Bush fan on most things). I don’t agree with progressives on many things, but I wouldn’t call them ’stupid’. Anyway, trolls are trolls, disregard if you can.
If Hillary gets the nomination, or if McCain wins, then Obama won’t be president. Both of those are preferable alternatives, so maybe we can avoid the ad hominems in the meantime
Gee, I see you waving your big broad brush…for a moment I thought YOU were an Obama fan! They just love to generalize, too….
Anyone seen/heard this? I’m surprised Muslims aren’t upset about this. Talk about your false prophets.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PhA8jvytE3g
A little humor: Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) mixes up Osama and Obama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wh2NW5t4ZI
And the political cartoonist for the Seattle Post-Int makes a point: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/horsey/viewbydate.asp?ID=1792
Sestak proves he’s from “The Land of the Lost.” (I’m showing my age)
LOL the slestaks!!!!!!
Will and Holly!!
Marshall Will and Holly…
to the laaaand of the lo-o-o-st
Greatest earthquake ever known…
Seestak is a huge Clinton supporter…makes me smile it does.
Today HuffPo ran a piece on Hillary’s fundraisers and the reasons some are not jumping on the bandwagon.
The rhetoric from Obamamaniacs was the usual. No shift in tone or anger or bitter feelings at all.
HuffPo had to shut down the thread because it degenerated into nothing but insults (not from Hillary supporters, either).
I conclude that the unity will only come at the expense of Clinton Democrats. It’s a “Take you prisoner” atmosphere that is not abating.
The damage was done.
I have this in my list of good reads today
Hill Democrats miffed at Obama
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11750.html
Among the grievances described by Democratic leadership insiders:
• Until a mailing that went out in the past few days, Obama had done little fundraising for Democratic candidates since signing off on e-mailed fundraising appeals for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee immediately after securing the Democratic nomination.
• Obama has sometimes appeared in members’ districts with no advance notice to lawmakers, resulting in lost opportunities for those Democrats to score points by appearing alongside their party’s presumptive presidential nominee.
• The Obama campaign has not, until very recently, coordinated a daily message with congressional Democrats, leaving Democratic members in the lurch when they’re asked to comment on the constant back and forth between Obama and John McCain — as they were when Obama said earlier this month that he would “continue to refine” his Iraq policies after meeting with commanders on the ground there.
• Coordination between the Obama campaign and the House and Senate leadership is so weak that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) — who will chair the Democrats’ convention in August — didn’t know of Obama’s decision to move his final-night acceptance speech from the Pepsi Center to Invesco Field until the campaign announced it on a conference call with reporters.
Yes, and note that Obama blew them off.
The best part of that article is where senior Democratic members describe Obama as “insufferable.” lol.
Glad to hear people are beginning to sober up from the cult-aide. It’s the middle of July - is there enough time for the SD’s to get their act together or is it too little too late?
The SD’s have to realize that as a matter of National Security, endorsing The Big O is a big mistake. They wuz jus messin wit us, right?
NOBAMA. No way.
Yes, some of our e-mails might be gaining some sympathy at last! LOL*
why would this surprise anyone? Obama doesn’t need reid and Pelosi anymore either. They dragged him over the finish line. Their usefulness is over.
Did you notice towards the end of the article that this is all because Hillary battled til June? Like usual, everything (according to the BO campaign) is Hillary’s fault. Spare me.
The American Psychiatric Association, gives the criteria for narcissism as any five or more of the following: 1. has a grandiose sense of self-importance; 2. is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love; 3. believes that he or she is “special” and unique; 4. requires excessive admiration; 5. has a sense of entitlement; 6. is interpersonally exploitative; 7. lacks empathy; 8. is often envious of others or believes others are envious of him or her; and 9. shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.
Source:Ego in Overdrive?
http://jay1949.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/ego-in-overdrive/
Wow, a test BO passes with flying colors! I’ve done a little independent study in psychology, with an emphasis on narcissism, borderline personality and sociopaths/psychopaths. Before this year I simply regarded him as another Chicago Machine politician. Now I consider him a danger the country who must be defeated in November. I don’t hold much hope that something will change at the convention.
Obama CAN’T broadcast where he’ll be….like Bush he’s gonna get PROTESTERS wherever he goes.
That was a good read. Thanks for the link. I think this sentence says it all: ““They have to set the tone, and they are setting the tone,” Wolff said. “Arrogance is sometimes mistaken for competence.” I’m sure they meant to say competence is sometimes mistaken for arrogance, but I think they got it right the first time. Kinda funny that he didn’t waste any time giving House and Senate Dems the one finger face scratch. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of jackasses that are sometimes mistaken for donkeys.
Evidently some in the Democratic Party have finally gotten around to vetting Obama. Seems as though they don’t like what they found.
The vetting should have been done during the primaries.
Our great Democratic leadership at work.
I still say it’s McCaskill or Napolitano.
They’ll try to use them to soothe Hillary supporters.
They don’t seem to get the real problem. Most people against Obama don’t want him at the top of the ticket - period.
That’s my guess, too. I think some of them have seen the whitey tape, personally.
I cannot think of any reason other than something big that has so many potential VPs stating: Unavailable.
Some of these guys know that there is no way to keep a lid on this stuff.
Like we were talking last night Wright my get his chance at that VP slot after all…at the rate they are saying no to Obama he is going to have to pick a republican to run with him…lol..
maybe not so far off the mark, I’ve heard Chuck Hagel mentioned
That must be funny. Not to him of course, but he calls people and they say “I’m busy that day”.
I wouldn’t vote for any ticket with Obama on it, the vp choice does not matter to me.
Larry Sinclair for VP
ohh if he picks ANY woman but Hilary watch the fur fly
esp MCCASKILL
Napolitano either, she is my GOV but should not have backed the maroon,
I dont think just anyone with a uterus will do Uhhbbama
Napolitano is an air head. She is too busy giving money to universities, fruitless after-school programs, and illegal immigrants that she failed to notice the giant, black hole of a budget shortfall. Now she is filling the hole with the “rainy day” fund instead of cutting the out-of-control spending. McCain could rake her over the coals for the crap she pulls here. Mrs. Need-a-new-tax-tano/Mrs. Illegal-red-light-ticket-ano is terrible.
I don’t want him on the ticket at all!
http://nativeamericansagainstobama.wordpress.com/
Is this old news? Is it widely known that Obama used the call to Allah for his intro?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PhA8jvytE3g
Obama Scrubs Website; Changes Date for Troop Withdrawal
from 2009 to 2010 - more flip flopping at the expense of American Troops’ Obama is no different Obama is just another NIXON
I got the screen shot from the cache..here is a tiny if anyone wants to read the page
http://tinyurl.com/6zj9ux
Watch this Video For Hillary as President!!!
http://elect2009.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/pastor-manning-congratulates-hillary/
Good video. e calls ‘em like he sees ‘em. Have you ever seen his other video where he calls Obama a pimp and warns Bill, “Don’t let this pimp put your wife on the stroll”?
Please watch the video I linked above. Let me know if this is old news. I thought it was disturbing.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0708/Surge_meets_purge.html
Politico is pounding him today. Jonathan Martin has the above article up about the purge of the surge.
I’m starting to think that it will take a Republican to end the war (except for Hillary, who would do it right). It was Nixon who got us going with China. It was Bill Clinton who worked on NAFTA and welfare reform. There are many other examples of these paradoxes.
Thanks for the link..I added it to my good reads list..
:blink:
Exactly. McCain would not have to purge Muslim Americans out of photo-ops. No one accused Reagan of being ‘weak on terrorism’ when he pulled the Marines out of Lebanon. No one accused Nixon of being ’soft on Communism’ when he went to China to make the deal McGovern never could have made.
Hawks won’t follow doves to peace, but doves will follow hawks to peace.
What goes around comes around, and Obama has been dishing out crap through his surrogates ever since he begin his campaign. Now the Obama chickens are coming home to roost and his bus is not big enough to hide them. I refuse to vote for anyone who resides under a bus.
Not true, Mr. Kass: They’re at the dance now and he’s the one with the keys and he’s the only ride they’ve got. And they don’t like it.
They can call a taxi.
very good, charles. i loved the visual of karl rove in a clown car! unfortunately, it is now the democratic party that has devolved into a circus.
nobama…not now, not ever
Can anybody answer the following nagging questions?
What is the procedure for having somebody’s name being placed on the ballot (DNC convention)? Is it a simple process of someone nominating them and having it seconded, or is it more complicated? How can another candidate block a nomination?
Hillary suspended her campaign, she didn’t quit the race, therefore, is she still eligible to be on the ballot?
Can Obama’s efforts to raise money to retire her debt be construed as a pay-off not to oppose him, which in turn can be construed as bribery?
Is it legal for foreigners (non-US citizens) to make campaign contributions, thereby having a foreign power influencing the outcome of our elections?
Charles Lemos, great catch!
Beatles-”I’m Looking Though You”
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Obama has nowhere to go…One while driving cross-country, I purchased a bag of M100’s in western Kansas be dropping in to the deserts of Wyoming…I should have kept them on ice.
By the time I got to California, the heat of Wyoming and Utah had turn them into duds. Imagine my disapointment…no bang for the buck. Same for BO.
Question is how long is this going to take for the SD’s to get the big picture. You have to wonder how chicken shit they are or how much they are willing to not act in thier porkpipe ways…
I still don’t buy the “former Obama supporter” website.
Just because the “admin” changed to “Julie” after my critique. It’s not a person. There is no personal story, no information, no credibility.
There is no community of former suporters. It’s a sham site that just culls stuff from real anti-Obama sites.
Someone is either squatting on the site name hoping to be bought out, or it’s the effort of the McCain supporters, as opposed to those of us voting McCain as a protest vote.
No amount of NoQuarter threads citing it will make it any more legit. Grassroots efforts from impassioned real people are self-evident.
As are faux bullshit sites.
Cnn shows Obama’s Dirty Politics!!! Was This Legal?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Ned5TQoW4
WOW, I’ve read about it but, it’s different having the news media cover the Chicago Politics of Obama.
Looking rather “tattered” isn’t he? LOL
Obama bought the $uperdelegates with campaign contributions of 5 10 and 15 thousand dollars a piece.
He promised them more money based on what he expected to raise (his campaign was thinking they would start pulling in 100 million a month once they got rid of “the Bitch”).
He also promised them that he would bring his campaign to bear on local races and that he had the potential for massive coattails.
Problem is that the funding is nowhere near what they were expecting, the coattails are non existant, and the rabid and racebaiting obama supporters are beginning to scare the shit out of the rest of the country.
Now we have a little over a month before the convention, obama and his campaign are showing their colors too soon, the money is not panning out, the support and communication is non existant, and the takeover is nearly complete.
Right now the Super delegates and party heads are walking around in an “oh Shit what have we done” haze. They know they have to act but they are scared and are hoping for some major gaffe to help them come together and say you know this is not the Obama we knew and we won’t go along anymore.
The problem is that their non-existant spines are a bit on the weak side still and until somebody big has the balls to step to the plate and say HOLD ON MINUTE! nobody has the guts to stand up to the rabid one and his pack of political savages.
God Help the DNC, they are going to need it.
Lieberman sure has the guts. LOL* He ripped him today on Iraq but good.
Number of times Hussein Obama invoked 9/11 in his Iraq speech: 6
Number of times John McCain invoked 9/11 in his Iraq speech: 0
Watching the Obama camp try to scrub and change history on the google-cached internet: Priceless
Just watch. Cynthia McKinney has accepted the Green party nomination and all of Barry’s disillusioned ex-supporters will find a new home there.
The Hip Hop blog is all ablaze with the news.
see my post
http://democratsforrealchange.info
Bob Herbert is one of the key reasons I stopped reading the NYTimes, he was so in the tank for Obama. No sympathy here.
And who joined in with Fox(?) and the left to bash Jackson? Don’t count me in there–I thought it was honest and hilarious.