When Barack Gets Dissed by Donna and Maureen, Who’s Next?
By SusanUnPC on July 16, 2008 at 3:29 PM in Barack Obama, Bernie Mac Scandal, Donna Brazile, Obamatopia, Obamedia, Sexism
Donna Brazile, at Huffington Post:
Donna Brazile, who ran Al Gore’s 2000 campaign, said the Obama campaign has had a “lousy start to the general election. Although the political environment continues to favor Obama and the Democrats, the candidate is still not fully on four cylinders.”
Maureen Dowd, in today’s New York Times column, “May We Mock, Barack?,” in which she chides Obama for his uptight response to the New Yorker cover cartoon:
But he does not want the “take” on him to become that he’s so tightly wrapped, overcalculated and circumspect that he can’t even allow anyone to make jokes about him, and that his supporters are so evangelical and eager for a champion to rescue America that their response to any razzing is a sanctimonious: Don’t mess with our messiah!
If Obama keeps being stingy with his quips and smiles, and if the dominant perception of him is that you can’t make jokes about him, it might infect his campaign with an airless quality. His humorlessness could spark humor.
Dowd continues:
On Tuesday, Andy Borowitz satirized on that subject. He said that Obama, sympathetic to comics’ attempts to find jokes to make about him, had put out a list of official ones, including this:
“A traveling salesman knocks on the door of a farmhouse, and much to his surprise, Barack Obama answers the door. The salesman says, ‘I was expecting the farmer’s daughter.’ Barack Obama replies, ‘She’s not here. The farm was foreclosed on because of subprime loans that are making a mockery of the American dream.’ ”
John McCain’s Don Rickles routines — “Thanks for the question, you little jerk” — can fall flat. But he seems like a guy who can be teased harmlessly. If Obama offers only eat-your-arugula chiding and chilly earnestness, he becomes an otherworldly type, not the regular guy he needs to be.
He’s already in danger of seeming too prissy about food — a perception heightened when The Wall Street Journal reported that the planners for Obama’s convention have hired the first-ever Director of Greening, the environmental activist Andrea Robinson. She in turn hired an Official Carbon Adviser to “measure the greenhouse-gas emissions of every placard, every plane trip, every appetizer prepared and every coffee cup tossed.”
The “lean ‘n’ green” catering guidelines, The Journal said, bar fried food and instruct that, “on the theory that nutritious food is more vibrant, each meal should include ‘at least three of the following colors: red, green, yellow, blue/purple, and white.’ (Garnishes don’t count.) At least 70% of the ingredients should be organic or grown locally, to minimize emissions from fuel during transportation.”
Bring it on, Ozone Democrats! Because if Obama gets elected and there is nothing funny about him, it won’t be the economy that’s depressed. It will be the rest of us.
It’s alright. I’ve always found him boring and humorless.
What disturbs me is that Maureen Dowd — and a long line of “liberal” bloggers — completely ignored the sexist “jokes” of Bernie Mac as well as Obama’s excusing of Mac’s repugnant humor at an Obama fundraiser last week:
“Having a black first lady is different: You’re still going have to do the dishes and the laundry and all that . . . you got to pick up the kids,” Mac said. “‘You didn’t pick up the kids?’ ‘I just came from Korea, talking about nuclear weapons.’ ‘You were on Air Force One and you couldn’t stop to pick up the kids?’”
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Mac said he is a Democrat “born and raised” but added that “I’m a Republican at tax time.” …
He then talked about his wife who he’s been married to for 35 years, and how she just went through menopause.
“I can’t take it,” he said. “My house is so doggone cold all the time.”
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The Chicago-born comedian and actor told what he said was a joke about his nephew coming to him and asking the difference between a hypothetical question and a realistic question.
To demonstrate the difference, he tells the nephew to go ask his mother if she would make love to the mailman for $50,000. The mother says she would make love to the mailman and anybody else for $50,000.
He tells the nephew to go ask his sister if she would make love with her neighbor for $50,000. She says she would make love with the neighbor and anybody else for $50,000.
So he tells the nephew: “Hypothetically speaking, we should have $100,000. But realistically speaking we live with two hos,” Bernie Mac said. …
Obama’s response to the audience?
“… Bernie you got to clean up your act. This is a family affair… I’m just messing with you.”
Read the full story here.
Perhaps, instead of worrying about Obama’s lack of a sense of humor, Maureen Dowd should write about the sexis humor that Obama gives a pass.
Perhaps, instead of writing about Obama’s lack of humor, Maureen Dowd should note that getting upset over jokes about one’s self is a sign of narcissism.
But he does not want the “take” on him to become that he’s so tightly wrapped, overcalculated and circumspect that he can’t even allow anyone to make jokes about him, and that his supporters are so evangelical and eager for a champion to rescue America that their response to any razzing is a sanctimonious: Don’t mess with our messiah!
Obama supporters being called “evangelical”…that’s gotta hurt.
Does Maureen Dowd qualify for Secret Service protection?
SENATOR BILL NELSON Jul 16, ‘08 4:32 PM
for everyone
Isnt he just wonderful!!!! He says the same memo the rest of the greenies say,,,lets go after the speculators, so we can throw money to the trail lawyers in advance attn fees, (these attns fund the dems campaigns by the way), and tell those bad speculators to stop! and drill on the 68 millon acres even if there is not enough worth drilling for on those acres, However lets not drill off the coast of FLA, let china and russia do it! could it be that he has an investment in helping them? why would he say to us , well lift the embargo off cuba and drill there! we know what these creeps are up to…and its time for a CHANGE !!! time to change Bob Nelson,,,time for him to go! vote McCain and republican, put an end to this runaway spending, and taxing us to death, we have more than enough resources in our country to get us through the next 60 years, there are many countries who are just waiting to attack us..of course they are hoping for Obama their brother to get in , and help them out…so if you want to change america,,,to a marxist, and worse than that country keep voting dems, who tell americans to drop dead! He is so full of it…its all about the enviromentalists, well mr bob you wont have to worry about tourism,,,when iran attacks and we have no oil , shale or coal to use…we wont have to worry about tourism , or fish…you are so brite! dah?? or maybe thats just what you want…
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tish,
Talk about tightly wound up. For you there’s an Obama under every bed. Obama panders to the left and the right, evangelicals, tired weathermen have been terrorists, Syrian business men, wealthy Jewish dowagers, get a gripe he is not left or right he is “knock,knock. who’s there? Opportunity. Opportunity who? Opportunity at your beck and call.”
There is a misguided belief on these blogs that Obama is some kind of communist radical. He is a smart believer and practitioner of subterfuge. He uses the left and the right to achieve his goal. He is not married to any philosophy that he can’t throw away for expediency. I keep reading the same complaints from both sides of the spectrum. He uses people the way a baby uses diapers, they don’t stay clean too long.
Those of you who are set on making him some kind of left wing boogy man are just as delusional as those that are saying he is closer to McCain than McCain is. In fact if you follow his history he is a craven lover of money and power and he doesn’t care where it comes from. He let’s people like you fill that blank up so that we can fight amongst ourselves as he smiles his way to the WH. You know he’s not that smart, it just that we are so stupid, that he got this far so fast. (When I say we I don’t mean literally all of us but those that drank the kool-aid.
“There is a misguided belief on these blogs that Obama is some kind of communist radical. He is a smart believer and practitioner of subterfuge. He uses the left and the right to achieve his goal. He is not married to any philosophy that he can’t throw away for expediency. I keep reading the same complaints from both sides of the spectrum. He uses people the way a baby uses diapers, they don’t stay clean too long.”
wow nice change! change we to be a s*it?
In short, Obama is a Ho. Ho-bama.
“I will never forget the quote,” Mr. Ellison said, leaning forward in his chair as he recalled the aide’s words. “He said, ‘We have a very tightly wrapped message.’ ”
When will he throw both Maureen and Donna underneath his?
I would love to throw Donna Under a bus. Unfortunately she would cause more damage to the transmission of the bus than the bus could ever cause her.
I do NOT want Donna under MY bus. Can Obama get another bus for the people that are ex kool aid drinkers and keep them away from our nice crowded area?
Just Donkey Brassiere’s WIG would screw up the undercarriage of your bus!
And we know how much she LOVED Hillary or as she affectinately referred to her BILLARY!
There is a padded cell somewhere missing it’s occupant and I have a feeling that quite of few of you on this site fits the bill….
Maybe you didn’t GET IT ….
The point would be that when even those who fawn over you to the point of nausea begin to criticize you maybe the bloom is off the rose.
DUH!
Radio Dj introducing McCain relentlessly refers to Obama’s middle name and McCain scolds him for the tactless remarks.
Bernie Mac makes sexist remarks and Obama scolds him ending with “I’m just messing with you”
Difference between class and an ass, Obama is the latter without a doubt!
Seems to me, most comedians are afraid of being labeled ‘racist’ if they joke about the mighty O. Guess they’re suffering from Richard-itis. Or maybe we should call it Kramer-itis.
He reminds me of a guy I know. He smokes weed, drinks in excess, smokes cigs, but insists on a green house. Healthy food won’t save a smoking coke user either.
OH, SNAP!!!
I forgot that Obama STILL SMOKES!
We should say let’s make Denver SMOKE FREE and see if Snobama signs on!!!
There are TONS of snob chits exactly like that. The ones who crack me up are the VEGETARIANS who smoke.
And you watch…they all throw their non-biodegradable butts on the ground. Some environmentalists.
I live in Denver, and let me tell you that the same people who scream “green” are the same ones driving their H3 and SUVs. They ride their bikes as a hobby, not as a mode of transportation to and from work (with Boulder perhaps being the exception because it’s a campus town). The folks here frequent the Farmer’s market as something to do, not necessary as being good to our earth. We all can’t afford them arugula on the menu, know what I mean. I still see plenty of people driving around in their big trucks, and wearing designer clothes made in China. If someone tells me Colorado is green, I want to see some facts. How many hybrids are we talking about compared to elsewhere. I see more windmills out in Tracy California than I have anywhere here.
Oh Vinnie, it’s as though you read my thoughts, LOL. Living here slays me.
No one has ever called me a snob but I do smoke and have been known to go through long periods of being a vegetarian and sometimes vegan, not for health reasons or to be hip. Sometimes I just get over sensitive about eating other creatures. Since tobacco was never a blood and guts breathing creature with big brown eyes I don’t mind smoking the stuff.
BTW, I think Denver is pretty much a smoke free zone already.
Or vegetarians who wear leather shoes ….
Joking about him is one thing, but Senator Rock Star gets offended by a whole passel of subjects.
IOW, you can’t talk about…
Michelle O
his voting record
his former pastor
his birth certificate
that’s just four items no one is supposed to comment on let alone make funnies.
Let’s face it: being called racist nowadays is as stigmatized as being called a child molester. Of course racism is bad, it’s a terrible thing that should be eradicated.
But so is sexism and homophobia, and making fun of other groups like Hispanics and Asians.
It is not okay with me that some forms of bigotry are taboo, and other forms are just kind of ha ha wink wink funny.
Obama benefits from people being afraid of criticizing him for fear of being called a racist. And then he laughs at jokes about women.
That pisses me off more than anything. And I sure don’t want to live through 8 years of that bullshit.
We start by defeating Obama who is a racist.
I agree. But Oblahblah would probably say that calling him on his racism is racism. You just can’t win.
Sorry but barky and his minions have turned being called a racist the same as calling someone dude.
Racist has no meaning anymore.
If President Bill Clinton is a racist then we should all try to be racists.
Racism still has meaning to those who get the news from the voices in their heads.
Why don’t you explain it to us …
The term “racist” has been so overused it is losing it’s meaning. By the time the election rolls around it will be like background noise and we’ll have to think up a new term to represent prejudice; like “swiftboating” now indicates propaganda used against an opponent.
Narcissists tend to be brittle and unable to laugh at their own flaws, due to their own insecurity.
I think Obama has real negative issues with women.
He was abandoned by his mother at age 10 when he moved to live with his Grandparents, this was after being abandoned by his father at birth, I guess he has issues, rightfully so.
Understanding why he has issues with women and being willing to make myself subject to the leadership of someone who has those kinds of issues are two different things.
BO has mommy issues…it’s so evident.
Yes, you’re right. He has issues and should seek counseling, not office. He claims to have “pressed the wrong button” when called on bad votes in the senate. So, we know he should be kept away from the oval office at all cost.
So does Woody Allen. I wouldn’t vote for him for POTUS either. If he’s that damaged, he needs therapy not a red phone … jowo.
Doesn’t anyone approve this stuff before an event? I thought everything politicians say/do is completely scripted and planned. Wouldn’t someone run a review of content that will be presented at an event like that?
That seems bizarre to me. No read-throughs, no reviews, approvals?
I know exactly what it is.
The audience.
They know their audience is not only uninformed, they’re misinformed and under the influence of Hopium.
My circle is all creative class. I’m known among them for doing political performance pieces, riffing on the absurdities of blowhards.
I haven’t written or performed one piece on Barack, although I did post a spoof on one site where they appreciated it.
Why? Because I know my audience is too ignorant and zoned out to even get it.
Even now, with half of them howling over FISA and government money to CHURCHES, and the other half still believing Obama is just “messing” with the rubes to get their votes, they aren’t in any mood to laugh.
The only avenue open is laughing AT them…and I have to admit, I’m not at all adverse to that.
Someone’s gotta laugh to keep from crying.
I agree with you Zee. Your comment reminded me of when John Stewart was lampooning Obama about his ridiculous Presidential Seal and Stewart had to tell the audience that it was ok to laugh at Obama.
That was a brilliant remark, and captured perfectly that Stewart knew the score.
That said, I’m known for being brutal and I do feel like I’m failing to step up, but the fact is, I’m in no laughing mood myself.
Banks are crashing, they’re calling the police out on the populace and it would be bad enough if we had to wait 6 months to get the one candidate in office to help us, but she’s not even on the ballot.
Yet.
I’m a firm believer in using humor to pierce the high and mighty. My life’s purpose, as stated (paraphrased) by EB White: the despot doesn’t fear impassioned speeches of ideals…he fears the drunken poet who may crack a joke that takes hold.
Maybe I need a stronger drink?
It’s a shame that John Stewart more accurately portrays the news than the news media does.
He was on a show with someone attacking him for mocking the mockable and he responded that they were on an actual news show, his show is prempted by a show about puppets making prank phone calls, he’s not in it for the news, he’s on COMEDY CENTRAL.
It’s just a shame that Comedy Central is actually more serious than the MSM.
Besides, a adore John Stewart, the man is an awesome, intelligent and astute comedian who could think circles around the supposed “latte librals” who surround Obambi, AND is better looking while doing it!
When Dan Quale misspelled potato, it practically ended his political career. This guy doesn’t know the number of states in a country he wants to govern, and it is the least of his stupidities and people afraid to point that out because he is black? How is it even that related. The more excuses those journalists make for not wanting to do their jobs or just giving him a free ride to the WH, are getting ridiculus by the mintue.
I’ll never forget the look on old man Bush’s face when Quayle opened his piehole at the Republican convention after he had been appointee VP.
Bush was frozen with embarassment as Quayle prattled on.
I think the reason Bush only got one term was because everyone feared for the country if Quayle somehow became president.
But back to the subject at hand. Obama’s finished. The only reason he would be allowed to continue after the convention is fear of reprisal from AAs.
Good Point about Quayle, I guess the MSM does tend to play favorites, and they just love Obama.
Obama gets dressed by Donna and Maureen.
That’s how I read it.
Donna’s got his slack(s). Literally?
And Michelle could have his nuts in a jar thanks to Jessie?
Would be like two BB in a box car…
In a Prada bag…
If you watch the comedy channel many of the black comedians are relentlessly racist…Against whites only…I see in this nobama and his worshippers a double standard of the greatest magnitude…Enough with the kid gloves approach to the messiah…Enough
Sounds like there’s gonna be some more folks under the bus soon.
OMG, I just realized it, Obama has invented a bus that doesn’t need gasoline, it runs on human bodies and all those people he has thrown under it hasn’t been because he wanted to get rid of them, he’s just been low on fuel!!
BO: Well, I sure do love you Michelle, but with the price of gas these days and campaign costs, I’m going to have to throw you under the bus so I can make it to Denver.
MO: But Barack! But…but..WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN!!!
BO: I used them way back in Missouri, it’s your turn woman!
The humans don’t burn clean either. That cause the bus to lurch back and forth on positions. First he is in the anti-FISA lane, then he changes into the FISA lane, running over the Constitution and the American Flag. Just hope he doesn’t rush into oncoming traffic.
Why does the MSM love Obama. He isn’t funny, not particularly smart, and he probably won’t win the election. I think the media is putting their eggs in the wrong basket.
because he is a rock star who sends chills up Chris Matthews’ leg
He sends chills up my spine.
Maybe they are afraid of boycotting. ratings, ratings, ratings. Since the Imus fiasco they are heavily pandering and obviously intimdated. Sharpton is HQ in NYC.
AND, he makes all those Pre-Boomer and Boomer broads… you know, the Coal-Burner Wannabe’s with the Belafonte 45’s and the DVD’s of, “They Call Me MISTER Tibbs,”.. get those Oogie-Woogie feelings south of their navels.
The MSM needs disasters to report on, the popular media has become sensationalist. An Obama presidency will provide plenty of disasters for the media to report, just as id did with GWB whom the media supported.
Imagine if the media reported every murder in Detroit or East St. Louis with the same ferocity as each killing in Baghdad. We would be sending Gen Petraeus to our own cities.
I recently saw an excellent satire on how the media would report the invasion of Normandy using today’s catch phrases. It would be reported as an unmitigated disaster and quagmire from which we should immediatley withdraw.
If it bleeds it leads. You will never see a headline PEACE BREAKS OUT. During her lifetime, how many front page headlines did Mother Teresa make?
Just as it was not ok for blacks to be treated as less, it is also not ok for them to turn and treat whites this way. That is exactly what they are doing. While they are crying racist they are guilty of the very thing that makes them angry. This is super hypocritical. This is a perfect time for courageous people to stand up and say this shit is going to stop NOW.
Sad commentary that it takes courage to stand up to the do the right thing anymore in this country.
I agree wholeheartedly with your post.
Change of topic - the news that Obama made the decision to move the acceptance speech without informing Pelosi or Reid before he announced it to the press has started showing up in MSM - just on a blurb on MSNBC. Sure makes Pelosi and Reid look like fools.
Also, has anyone noticed how Obama, for the past few days, sounds like a pre-schooler trying to read Dick and Jane when giving his speeches. What’s up with that? I never thought he was a good speaker, but this is new.
The campaign trail is hard on him. When you use cocaine to help “make it through”, it has adverse effects on one’s ability to think and speak clearly.
Not accusing him of doing so, but it’s a definite possibility and I wouldn’t be surprised if that is the case.
First, I come from Pelosi’s district, she is a fool. She proves the old agage, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The campaign trail may be hard. When he made one of his more famous gaffes, it may have been the 57 states one, he stated afterwards he was exhausted from the rigors of the campaign and could no longer think clearly.
Well, I got news for you, Obama, the campaign trail will seem like a lazy Sunday afternoon in the park compared to the rigors of the Oval Office. If you don’t have the stamina now to deal with the stress, why should we trust your thinking to be any clearer when your decision could hold grave consequences for America and the world?
Maybe he plans to break Bush’s Vacation record.
Maybe his chronic fatigue is the reason he won’t release his medical records.
Maybe, since he’s only worked part time but can still afford a 6+ million dollar home, he sees no need to put in more than half days.
Or maybe he’s just lazy like Bush.
I prefer the term shiftless to lazy. Bush is lazy; Barry is shiftless.
Having read the NY article inside the magazine, I realized that Obama’s path has been to move up the ladder with enormous aid and never stopping at each rung to actually accomplish anything. No sooner does he get a new position, he’s off looking for “friends” to propel him to the next level.
Those “friends” have been very unsavory so each move is a net negative to society.( ie. Rezko slums, Exelon pollution give away bill.)
Obama. Has. Accomplished. Nothing.
If the campaign trail is this hard on Obama, shouldn’t we expect McCain to be on life support? No, it isn’t the campaign that is hard on him, it is keeping track of his shifting positions, his loud-ass wife, his disappearing war chest, and anyone who talks bad about him. I’d look terrible if I learned that no money was coming into my campaign and that everyone had realized I am a big scam artist.
Obama has nowhere near the physical and mental stamina of McCain, despite being much younger.
Talking points only go so far. Beyond that you actually have to have a grasp of the issues. Oblahblah, unlike Hillary, can only speak in platitudes, mainly borrowed from other people. He really isn’t that bright at all.
He graduated with a “D”. Call up the school and get the info.
That wouldn’t surprise me at all. We’ve had a lot of intellectually-challenged politicians recently.
It’s a step down from the C-student Bush. If a C-student causes as much damage as Bush has, what would happen under a D-student? The sky would implode? The White House would accidentally catch on fire? Obama isn’t going to just choke on the pretzel, he is going to have to have it surgically removed after it gets stuck up his ass. He will say that questions about how the pretzel got there are distractions and we should just pray that no changes occurred in his rectum.
I have never been able to listen to Obama speak or read from a teleprompter. I think he sounds like some kind of robo dimwit.
However, I think the comment about trying to read Dick and Jane is interesting because years ago I thought Hillary sounded exceptionally stilted in many of the speeches she gave as first lady. I decided back then that she may have intentionally been speaking more slowly and distinctly than usual because she expected her speech to reach a foreign-speaking audience which might have more trouble understanding a faster-paced speech.
Obama could be doing something like that. I guess he figures he’s figures he doesn’t really need to talk to the US public and he is electioneering abroad to his real base. It’s one world now and he fully expects to be running the show.
Heaven forbid!!
He is real good reading the TELEPROMPTER, but when he just has to talk without it he’s lost
Maureen and Donna you will now report to the bus. Once there you will crawl beneath it.
Signed,
Obama Campaign
“Oh it’s time for some campaigning”
Barry Dunham is an American-African.
Hahahahah aahaha oh, not funny and nothing racist about it.
HOBO introduced this message into the campaign way back in February while the press was stifling his personal and professional affiliations. He alone set back peace and race relationships by a good 35 years. He and he alone has caused white and black people alike to wonder if our lifelong friends and neighbors harbor ill feelings about one another.
He makes me sick and he is an enemy of race relationships. Just like us so called “European Americans”, the African American race is also being diluted. Look around you. Bi-racial is a beautiful thing and it is only a matter of time that purebreds are a minority.
He is a disgusting nothing. Hating his effing guts has nothing to do with his race(s). Same goes for MO, ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!. She has spent her entire life trying to separate the races. Read her Princeton thesis. If you can. How the hell she got out of 8th grade is amazing.
She had a bank of 1200 AA graduates. She sent out 400 questionnaires to random “folks” and received 88 responses. The whole thing goes like this: words, thus, more words, thus, some more words, thus, thus, thus. “Thus” is the hallmark of the entire 99 pages of bull crap. I say to her, “so”?
And on a lighter note they crack me up. The exude conceit while believing they come across as aloof. Now that is funny!!!!!!!!!
Obama is not a natural, he’s not a people person, doesn’t take well to questions or critics.
They want to make him into another Clinton, someone who loved debate and met people as an opportunity.
Barack gets that “Is class over YET” look somewhere around question number three…
Bill Clinton gave a State Address with a stuck teleprompter.
I voted for Big Dog, I know Big Dog, and you are no Big Dog, Barack Obama.
Mr. Murder, that was beautiful. Thank you.
When you watch a barky speech he constantly shifts from teleprompter to teleprompter he can never look straight at the camera. He must be afraid we would see that he is full of shit.
THATS EXPLAINS WHY HIS EYES ARE SO
BROWN JUST FULL OF IT
HILLARY OR MCCAIN
FOR US
brown eyes
we want hillary
puma
Indeed. His political appearances are more like lectures than genuine dissemination of information about him and his ideas. He behaves like the worst kind of know-it-all professor, the ones who “can’t do” but can talk a whole lot about absolutely nothing.
Yep. He’s a professor. He’s a preacher. He’s a psuedo-philosopher. Somtimes he thinks he’s Rodin, just sitting there gazing and thinking hopey, changey stuff.He’s a poser and a proser. He’s so profound. But one thing he is not, is a presider.
He’s definitely a potus, that being a piece of trinity unity shit.
Yep. And whenever he pontificates, he sounds like Barney Fife, sniffles included.
LOL
Excellent points..
But he’s not a policy person either.
free associating - that memorable line from “House of Sand and Fog” about a generation of Americans:
good post i agree
Donna attacks her self-proclaimed messiah. Give me a break.
Karma is a bitch isn’t it. Go barky, back to your island and stay there.
What we are seeing with the Brazile and Dowd pieces is the transformation of Obama from the new new thing to the old new thing on his way to becoming the old old thing.
His white, upper class “creative” supporters never really cared about the issues. They just wanted to make an image statement by wearing this year’s designer rock-star-as-politician bumper sticker. It makes them look cool.
But as yesterday’s rock star fads into the discount bin at Wal-Mart, so too does the image appeal of Barack Obama.
Too bad the country is facing real issues and not Billboard Pop Top 100.
A recent analysis of voter trends in Palo Alto , CA (wealthy, white, highly educated) made that conclusion. Obama is worn as a fashion statement. Issue? they could care less as long as it doesn’t effect them directly.
It found a herd mentality of peer pressure among this class to be socially and politically correct. They need because of their status to self identify as liberals so they don’t seem like uncaring snobs. But everything they do, the private schools, the make and model of their car, is dictated by what is acceptable in their ranks.
The true extent of their liberalism extends no further than bumper stickers and giving the illegal immigrant tending their lawns a little extra at Christmas while wishing them Feliz Navidad in a Frito Bandito accent. This type of liberalism leads to such incongruous results as a Keep Tahoe Blue (an updated version of Save Our Planet) bumper sticker on the back of a 6000 lb SUV stuck in commuter traffic.
Yesterday’s snob; today’s sheeples.
This has long been my theory of this part of the left-wing.
It is why Al Gore failed to get elected.
This latte leftist elite has an oppositional identity — the new new thing is a good good thing when it allows the latte leftist to be in opposition to something.
For these folks, William Ayers stepping on an American flag is a good good thing because it is a cool cool thing because it shows an oppositional identity. For the rest of us, Ayers stepping on a flag makes us vomit.
When Al Gore could have won the Presidency, then he wasn’t opposed to anything and he was an old old thing that was a bad bad thing.
Now, that he isn’t likely to run and is opposed to global warming and has an Oscar (and some other international award that isn’t as cool as an Oscar) and he is now a new new thing.
This is why as long as the liberal side has to depend on the latte leftist in order to win elections, they will always fail. If the liberal side selects a winning