Obama, The Paper Lion?
By Pat Racimora on August 6, 2008 at 8:00 AM in Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, Barack Obama, Courage, Debates, John McCain, Paper Tiger
Bring on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and every other unfriendly world leader and Obama will sit down and chat with them directly. And, according to the Associated Press, “In May, when a McCain adviser proposed a series of pre-convention appearances at town hall meetings, Obama said, ‘I think that’s a great idea…Obviously, we would have to think through the logistics on that, but … if I have the opportunity to debate substantive issues before the voters with John McCain, that’s something that I am going to welcome.’”
Alas, not unlike the Lion from the Wizard of Oz, Obama was just messin’ with us.
Is Obama a Paper Lion, similar to the concept of Paper Tiger? The original use of the term was used by the Chinese to negatively characterize what they saw as imperialistic nations (such as ourselves and the Soviet Union). In 1956 Mao Zedong declared that despite the appearance of power there was nothing to be afraid of. Mao’s application was faulty back then (can you spell “nuclear weapons”?), but it may fit who Obama is now with regards to stepping up to the plate and fulfilling his promises: “Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain.”
I guess it would look too suspect for Obama to duck out of the three traditional post-convention debates, that is, if you can call asking canned questions (some of which are invariably stupid) with tightly timed answers and no opportunity for sustained interaction “debates.” (FYI, those dates are September 26th, October 7th, and October 15th.)
In the meantime we will just have to keep guessing who Obama really is and what it is he firmly stands for.
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Great Cartoon Pat….Keep em’ comin….
I think that for me it’s clear who Obama is….a FASCIST….nuff said
GREAT PAT! That LEO may THINK he’s something something but he’s really no, nada, nothing!!
Paper! Good one!
Yup, definitely a Paper Lion Puppet with lots of strings.
name one fascist policy proposal of obama’s.
I don’t know if it’s fascist or not, but Obama’s proposal to start a Civilian Police Force scares the hell out of me!
First, you’d be hard pressed to find any original Oblowme ideas. If they are decent he got them from another candidate.
If they’re racist look to his family and friends.
Oblowme didn’t write for any of the schools he attended and
he doesn’t even write his own speeches.
The real issue is that Oblowbe can’t be trusted.
Oblowme has always strongly held a Black Liberation belief system - the same as Farrakhan.
Which explains how Oblowme could hang with Uncle Wright for over 20 years and marry MEchelle of TUCC.
Ayers’ and Dohrn’s anti-American terrorist actions and rhetoric would be treason to McCain, but Oblowme laps it up
He’s THE ONE sick bastard.
I see Obama as more of just another front man for corporate interests.
Lispolaris, this may cement your beliefs:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/us/politics/06bundlers.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
Why did Barack Obama lie about the donations
Because he’s a liar. I just found this on another web site. I thought it was illegal for candidates to take money from sources outside the USA. Shouldn’t he be made to give it back?
“The brothers Edwan hail from Rafah, GA. That’s GA as in Gaza, not Georgia. They contributed a whopping $29,521.54 to Senator Obama’s campaign, more than 13 times the legal limit that applies to American citizens. And as foreigners, they’re not even allowed to contribute”.
I think he is just willing to do whatever it takes to be president. He doesn’t stand for anything. I have been ranting this morning (on this site and at the NYObserver) about the Obama painting Bill Clinton as a racist. The stupidity of the media and Democratic party leaders in favoring Obama when it is Clinton who had the guts to stand up against racism in Arkansas. Obama is a spineless, self-centered adolescent who caves on anything if it benefits him. His one consistent goal seems to have been a belief that he will “heal” this country’s racial division yet he has repeatedly been willing to use character assassination by playing the race card against people like Bill and Hillary, inflaming racial tensions.
The man is a gutless wonder.
The media continues to bash the Clintons to increase ratings —
Tense times for the Clintons and Obama
MSNBC
http://tinyurl.com/6mtdma
consider the source.
His latest speeches against McCain are notable for two things:
First, he called McCain a “liar” - a word that most politicians shy away from.
Second, he called the McCain group “ignorant”. Now, I don’t know the code words that Gergen thinks that McCain uses that are racist words that whites use, but having made films with black filmmakers, I recognize the adjective “ignorant” as a favorite one that they liked to use for racists. I don’t think Obama’s choice of words was accidental.
Apparently there is a NY Times article today confirming what we have known all along: most of Obama’s money comes from large donors that he has zealously courted for a long time. He has raised more from large donors than both McCain or Clinton.
As Riverdaughter asks: “Wonder what he promised all those Wall St. investors and hedge fund managers to make them so excited about his candidacy?”
Privatizing Social Security perhaps?
Well he hates old people anyhow, so why not pull the rug out from under them? His top ten contributors have been Wall Street creditors and sup primers since Day One. We are talking JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, Lehman Brothers. This guy is nothing more than a greasy hoax upon the little people. If you recall he voted NO to capping interest rates on charge cards. He voted NO to a THIRTY PERCENT CAP! He said he voted NO because the cap was “TOO HIGH”. To quote John Edwards, “So NO cap is better?!!”
This really blew me out of my socks:
I was just now over at HLF’s blog, she has a link to Obama’s website with the following event announcement:
quote:
pray for HRC and her supporters (community Service)
….we can’t wait for Hillary to see the light on her own, we need to begin praying for her and her supporters now.
Please commit to praying for them daily:
1)stop trying to hurt the Obama’s and the Democratic Party
2) pray God will speak to them all and change their hearts so their only persuit will be party unity and wholeheartedly backing Sen. Obama
….
unquote.
Among Associated groups: prolife for Obama
Sorry to be off topic, but this is, well, I don’t know what to say. Go look for yourselves!
cripes, that sounds like a Jim Jones revival
Well, he did say that Social Security is in trouble and something had to be done. Bush type code words for “I’ll let my Wall Street cronies get their hands on your safety net money so they can do to it what they did to everything else they touched.”
I’m guessing all those former ENRON employees and others that had retirement funds invested are glad they have Social Security to fall back on. Now Obama wants to give that away too. Obama is no Democrat.
Did you do the art work? Nice stuff. The second picture is adorable — not what we want in a presidential candidate — but adorable enough for a kids’ book.
Oh, the wheels of the bus go clunk clunk clunk this morning as another Obama adviser resigns. http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB121797906741214995.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_leftbox This was served nine days as the Muslim coordinator for the Obama campaign.
If Obama were to squeak in as President, can you imagine the turnover in his cabinet? There’d be a new headline every week or so.
The WSJ story is a bit thin — I imagine it will be fleshed out as more becomes known.
Wow, between WSJ and NYT, the hits just keep on coming!!! Your cite has some interesting stuff in it:
LOL! Notice how they have to confirm (AGAIN) that BO is a Christian.
Clinton Fan
do you have a link to this article?
Where did it come from?
Thanks
F
“searching for a new national Arab American and Muslim American outreach coordinator,”
Maybe BO himself could do it. Past coordinator, past, well, you know…..
Hell, all he has to do is phone his good friend Louis F. and ask for a list of resume’s.
Excuse me, but when has it been nescssary for a campaign to have religious coordinators?
Obama also has black religious leadership in his campaign.. Don’t recall the exact wording of the name, but the gist of it was that. What if Mccain had a white religious leadership in his campaign?
ever since somebody started taking donations from muslim organizations inside AND outside of the USA.
it’s an outreach coordinator, you idiot. every campaign has outreach coordinators to drum up votes in different subgroups, especially minorities. obama has a separate group reaching out to evangelical christians. you’re so blinded by… something, i don’t know what, that you just spew this bullshit without giving anything three seconds’ thought. this whole site is like that. there are legitimate arguments to be made against obama, but the amazing thing about this site is that for all of its anti-obama fervor, reasonable arguments against him almost never surface. it’s always this overreaching, irrational bullshit. there’s a reason y’all are not taken seriously.
Yaz…Yu’re such an effective little FASCIST TROLL….QUICK! Get me that pledge to dear leader….you have convinced me…lol…..I want my free vacation in GAZA at the Indoctrination Center and I hope Israel has turned on the water…..
fascist? look it up dipshit, you clearly have no idea what it means.
i never claimed to be trying to convert anyone, so your response is a non sequitur, albeit funny in its randomness.
all i was saying was that these KINDS of arguments are childish, ineffective, and ignorant. which doesn’t make sense when there are real arguments to be made against obama. where are they? and what does their (relative) absence on this site say about the people here?
Yaz, not for anything, but what’s so reasoned and mature about your tone, name calling and profanity?
Clue us in, though:
What ARE some of those REAL Arguments to be made against Obama?
Please elevate this site to the substantive level you suggest you can offer.
it’s not my job to make arguments against obama for you. i support him. all i’m doing is pointing out that the antagonism toward obama on this site is WAY more transparent than most of you seem to realize. b/c these bullshit arguments have no substantive basis.
Hi–Yes Katmandu, I do the artwork–with a secret desire to do a kid’s book!
When I clicked on the link provided, there was an interesting chart showing that 57% of those polled think Obama is a Christian. I’m assuming that 57% of those polled haven’t seen the Rev. Wright video or researched the web site for Trinity United Church of Christ.
That Obama’s campaign was having a call to prayer for HRC and supporters to see the light was an interesting turn of events, since Obama doesn’t believe this is a Christian nation, well just..
oops, this went into the wrong place. It was meant to comment on the link about the Muslim coordinator resigning.
Best cartoon ever.
ever? really? that is sad.
An acquaintance of mine says this blog is trying to undermine PUMA with disinfo (Larry Sinclair, the ‘Whitey’ tape, the forged COLB hoax), but that’s only because she’s starting to cave in to the Obama Fool-Ade!
She said she knows McCain will draft her grandchildren while Obama probably won’t. I told her, ‘Wake Up!’ That’s the real disinfo!
Keep up the good work, ya’ll!
Tell her that McCain has a son in the military–is he going to knowingly risk his own son’s life without due cause?
are you stupid? if his son is IN the military, he would have no reason to oppose a draft. and aside from that, mccain himself will tell you that he supports more military action than obama. there’s no secret position here. you’re not making any sense.
Ypu could point out to your friend Obama’s changing positions on FISA (Telco immunity), abortion (women get one if they’re feeling blue), Social Security (give your money to Wall Street shysters), and the one she is worried about, Iraq troop with draw (he was for it before he was against it)
Loved the cartoon. You can add the Tin Man (no heart) and the Straw Man (no brains) as well.
Starring….
Tin Man (no heart)…Dean
and the Straw (Wo)Man (no brains)…Pelosi
Don’t forget The Wicked Witch … Brazile.
I think the title should have been “Obama the Cowardly Lion”. It’s certainly more descriptive of him.
or Sean Hannity, or Bill O’Reilly, or Mickey Mouse, or uhuhuhuhuh——-well uh, clearly I said, uh uh uh, on uh second, or third uh, uh uh thought, I am uh, uh, uh scared to uh uh, uh debate, anybody, uh uh uh anywhere.
No he won’t debate Hannity, but he proudly declared that some guy named “Burgess” would eat Hannity for lunch. So he has to send his people to do his debating for him.
Obama = Big time girlyman.
Don’t insult girls like that! Obama is just a poor excuse for a man.
Speaking as a man, not a human whose equipment differentiates him from a woman, but as a man, Barrack Obama is no man.
I’ve even known some damn fine excuses for men and even they would be insulted at his inclusion in their midst.
Everyone has their own definitions for what a man is…
And here with all you sisters, I’m more than aware that there are some definitions which might even make my ears burn.
I believe that any true man must have this characteristic in ample doses: The ability to not only admit he is wrong but to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for it.
Barry has “said all along,” and “been for it from the start,” on both sides of so many things that the above criteria and he are completely incompatible.
I also believe that saying what you stand for means standing and saying it even if it means getting thumped. Been there, done that, got the f**king shirt.
Many of you here, especially you who marched for yourselves and others have stood for what you believe and not wavered.
So far the only unwavering Barry has done has been his resolute attention to his own reflection.
Here is one of his girlie moments…
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:SpzjitNGemcBNM:http://blog.pennlive.com/pennsyltucky/2008/06/CaseyObama60308.jpg
Is that Senator Bob Casey who’s making him giggle?
just a reminder to Casey, dumprick was never about electing Bob Casey; it was about taking down Santorum.
why should a presidential candidate DEBATE an admittedly biased political commentator? what responsibility does he have to do this? when has that ever been the norm? you’re just making shit up now.
OK so why won’t he accept Hannity’s invitation to be INTERVIEWED…
why should he? hannity is an intellectually dishonest ass. it would add nothing to the national conversation; at least not any informed conversation.
With less than 90 days to go, Team Obama has not yet released the following fairly routine requests for documents. Surely we. the People have the right to know who we are going to entrust with our country before we give him the keys.
1. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate
2. Columbia College records
3. Columbia Thesis paper
4. Certification of Live Birth
5. Harvard College records
6. Illinois State Senate records
7. Illinois State Senate schedule
8. Law practice client list and billing records/summary
9. Locations of all step-siblings and step-mothers
10. Medical records
11. Occidental College records
12. Parent’s Marriage Certificate
13. Record of baptism
14. Selective Service Registration
15. Trips schedules for trips outside of the United States before 2007
16. University of Chicago scholarly articles
17. Campaign donor analysis requested by 7 major watchdog groups
and finally, Senator Obama, the People would like to meet your maternal grandmother. Why wont you allow anyone to go near her in Hawaii. She can hardly say something that could be fatal to your run for the Presidency?
John McCain’s mom is what, ninety six? He didn’t try to muzzle her, either–she did a LONG interview on C-Span where she waxed eloquently on a variety of topics…and told the interviewer that those Republicans would have to “hold their nose” and vote for her son. It was funny!
I’m not a Republican, but it does seem odd that Obama’s granny is so…sequestered.
Unless she suffers from dementia (and if she does, why not say so?) it seems a bit…presumptuous…to muzzle her so aggressively.
He has muzzled all of his former Harvard Law classmates as well (methinks he would be embarrassed by some of their comments regarding his lackluster, really zero, performance as “selected” Law Review Editor), and the Columbia yearbook for the year Obama graduated is not avaialabe. I think he had few friends in either place.
A Harvard classmate of his posts at one of the Clark groups I frequent. He was considered smart, disliked, and surprisingly ignorant.
Thanks Harp-
Your post is good: short-sweet-straight to the point.
Hope you dont mind if I crosspost your post on to other blogs that I post to…
I can’t improve on your wording
i’m sorry, but:
9. Locations of all step-siblings and step-mothers
are you kidding? can you give me any reason why this is relevant to the presidential campaign? step-siblings? i mean, this is so outrageously stupid that even if any of the other items on your list were remotely reasonable, you’ve completely blown your credit with items like this one and nobody reasonable is going to take you seriously. step-siblings! i say again, there’s a reason people don’t take you guys seriously.
Here’s a reason: Billy Carter
Hugh Rodham
Jackie Kennedy’s Aunt Edie
that’s probably so over yaz’s head
way too much loft on that club…
god you all think you’re so smart, but distant relatives ARE NOT A REASON not to vote for a candidate. how is this useful. it’s idiotic.
Obama is wise to decline a debate
If he cares about his electoral fate
Today he refutes, with a limitless gall
His very positions from summer and fall.
For leaders we hungered, only to see
Eloquent speeches, and duplicity.
This candidacy I long to see fail,
For this ship of state must not ever sail.
Nice poem, and great meter too.
Agreed-great poem. Fun to say it outloud.
Of all the signs that Barack Obama is not qualified to retain his senate seat, let alone run ANY nation, let alone the U.S., his reticence at debating John McCain (or anyone for that matter) is the biggest tell. It shows a man completely unsure of himself (hubris often hides insecurity anyway) and lacking in the fundamental core tenants of adulthood. Essentially, he’s a child playing grown up games and he will NOT be questioned on it.
Truly disturbing.
Take care,
Patrick
“a child playing grown up games”
That is what he always looks like to me–as if he is faking it, and the sycophants are only too willing to aid and protect him. There’s no there there.
actually, the front-runner is always reticent to give the other “guy” a free chance to land punches. that’s just politics.
Except that at the moment there IS no frontrunner - he repeatedly expresses his willingness to debate “anytime/antwhere,” then can’t seem to make time in his busy schedule when aleed on it. This is JOHN MCCAIN for Gawd sakes, WTF is your guy afraid of? Wouldn’t he like to give the unconvinced a chance to see the light?
Oh, I forgot - he doesn’t need us. That’s good, because I so look forward to seeing him proven WRONG.
Oops, “called on it”
Great Pat!
The “O” is really as lazy as Garfield!
We know he doesn’t stand for former first ladies!
He doesn’t stand for wounded troops in the hospital!
He doesn’t stand for flag lapel pins!
He doesn’t stand for debates with his opponent!
Why the “hail” did he stand for office?
As it’s said
“He who stands for nothing will fall for anything”
Gawd help us if he somehow gets into the WH.
Pat you have outdone yourself!!!!!
Obama, Obama, why are you lying?
Can’t you just hear all the trolls sighing?
Flip-flop, flip-flop like a fishy for sure
You seem to be losing a bit of allure!
Once high & mighty, now a bit of a clown-
One thing’s for sure- You’re GOING DOWN!
P.U.M.A.
Great pun with allure and fishy
Brodie–you are really a good poet!
rhyming poetry.
that was supposed to be:
rhyming does not equal poetry.
the “” didn’t print.
dammit. did it again. nevermind.
you three must have a lot to talk about.
Jeez, who the hell invited your contrary ass to this party? Piss off, Mr/Ms Wonderful- you seem to be too special to hang out with us “little people”. Go back to Barky-ville, please. Thank you ever so much.
Obama and his camp are hypcrites and their followers are stupid to not see through their rhetoric of being all things to everyone.
Their family values (or any value for anyone) can be seen in this website and video that is being advertised on FaceBook and My Space. Their attempt to sell our kids on Obama, through only having sex with a Democrat (subliminal message being that Repubs are not cool), is so harmful to society. Just ‘hooking up’ with anyone - the girl in the video doesn’t even get the guy’s name right, but they’re ready to have sex. And when she ends up suddenly pregnant or with an STD, I guess Planned Parenthood and the taxpayers’ money will take care of both.
This video (this whole website), is shameful and shows just what the Dem Party is getting with an Obama presidency.
http://truththroughaction.org/
Great post. Another one he will not talk to is Sean Hannity.
I received a letter and a request for a donation, in the mail today, from Barack Obama.
On the front of the envelope it has in bold letters, “This is our moment. This is out time”
Here are a few statements made in the letter. What a joke. “When the commitment of the Democratic Party and the hopeful spirit of the American people cone together, we have the POWER to CHANGE this country, and TRANSFORM THE WORLD… But to bring about this change we so desperately need, we have to overcome the forces of FEAR and division that the other side has made a central part of their campaign”, It goes on to mention Iraq and al-Qaeda. ” Working together, UNITED around the values and principles that we share as Democrats, we can move beyond yesterday’s policies - but only if our party has the RESOURCES to make our MESSAGE OF HOPE HEARD FAR AND WIDE across this country. That’s why I hope you will seize this moment of GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR PARTY and our nation by RUSHING a GENEROUS contribution…Make no mistake: it will require an ENORMOUS amount of resources to build the national grassroots movement that is as the heart of our Campaign for Change.”
Must be desperate times for Obama. I will be sending back the envelope, I will not be “using my own first-class stamp, so I can save the DNC much needed funds.” I will donate today to McCain, just so I can have the tire gauge, ( after all , it will be my way of supporting Obama’s energy plan ), Then I will send the receipt along with a little note stating that “I have already made a contibution for our country by purchasing a tire gauge and I will encourage everyone I know to do the same to help our great country during this energy crisis. Then I will sign it, PUMA - NO DEAL
Perfect response! Go PUMAs! LOL!
I just had a wicked thought. Remember back when Bush the Lesser had his pretzel incident? Germans sent him bags of them in appreciation. Wouldn’t it be funny if Obama’s donation mailers were returned with pictures of tire gauges or the wrappers?
Oh, after I receive my tire-gauge, I will also be sending that to the DNC, as I want NOTHING in my house with Barry’s name on it. Just looking at it would cause me tremendous stress.
NOJOKEOBAMA
Same rhetoric he used when tons of possible solutions to MI and FL were put forward during the primaries. Oh, how nicely he would talk about how he was “all for” solving the problem and doing the right thing by those voters - but he always, “somehow,” found “the logistics” lacking - always making sure no actual solution was ever allowed to be implemented - always working behind the scenes to undermine exactly what he was “in favor of” publicly. From the beginning it was all a set-up and a lie - as is everything with this fraud.
That’s always his M.O. Publicly he plays the good guy so behind the scenes his thugs can do just the opposite. And his minions in the media, as planned, make sure they never look beyond his public statements so they can attribute only the best motives to what we know are anything but…
Yes, he is afraid of McCain and, so, apparently are his supporters…even in Australia&