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Wednesday, 16 April 2008
A working class hero is something to be, and golly I sure wish I could sound like one right about now...
Watching the Democratic debate in PA just now, I was really feeling for poor Barack Obama. They were, of course, asking him about the "religion and guns" thing, and he was trying to act like he welcomed the chance to explain what he meant to say, when obviously he welcomed it about as much as a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. And who can blame him?
Meanwhile, Hillary was trying not to jump up and down and hug herself with ersatz proletarian glee. Of course, when her turn came, she starts in with, "Well, I am the granddaughter of a factory worker from Scranton..."
This is totally unfair -- who'd a thunk Mrs. Clinton would be anybody's working class heroine? -- but Mr. Obama did create the situation all by his lonesome.
Maybe he should make himself a note: In future, when running in a tight race in Pennsylvania, stay out of San Francisco...
Posted by Brad Warthen at 07:24 PM in 2008 Presidential, Barack Obama, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, The Nation
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Keep you doped with religion,
and guns and antipathy to people who aren't like you...
but you're still benighted peasants as far as I can see.
Nah, I still like Lennon's version better.
Posted by: Brad Warthen | Apr 16, 2008 7:37:42 PM
Hillaryous!
She tries to make herself out to be a cross between Laura Engels and Annie Oakley. Roger McBride must be turning in his grave.
And Obama, without a log cabin for a home, tells how he lived on Food Stamps, and worked his way up to a $2,000,000 house bought by Mr. Resko.
Posted by: Lee Muller | Apr 16, 2008 10:00:57 PM
Mr. Obama did create the situation all by his lonesome.
-Brad
No he didn't. This is a 100% media creation. His words when put into context are nothing like what the MSM has twisted them into. It would be oh so easy to do the same thing with John McCain. Heck, this man who is supposed to be an expert on foreign policy doesn't even know the difference between Shiites and Sunnis. He made the same "gaffe" 3 times recently, once corrected by Joe Lieberman. Does the press even care about fairness in this campaign? It's obvious to me that the press has become nothing but a propaganda tool for the GOP.
Posted by: bud | Apr 17, 2008 7:09:20 AM
That was painful. Somebody better end this quickly if the Dems want to have a viable candidate.
Posted by: Mike Cakora | Apr 17, 2008 7:20:21 AM
While Obama sings this:
He went out tiger hunting with his elephanting gun.
In case of accidents he always took his mom.
He's the All-American, bullet-headed Saxon mother's son.
Hey, Bungalow Bill
What did you kill?
And makes amends with this:
Happiness is a warm gun.
When I feel my finger on your trigger,
I know nobody can do me no harm.
Mother Superior jumped the gun.
Bungalow Bill himself can chortle out this:
She's not a girl who misses much,
Do do do do do do- oh yeah.
She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand
Like a lizard on a window pane.
Because he is:
The man in the crowd with the multicoloured mirrors
On his hobnail boots,
Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy
Working overtime.
And keeps pointing us to:
A soap impression of his wife which he ate
And donated to the National Trust.
She herself, the woman wronged, who has experienced so much while actually doing so little of benefit to anyone, can step on these lines:
I need a fix 'cause I'm going dow,n
Down to the bits that I left uptown.
I need a fix cause I'm going down.
And I offer this with apologies to Mr. Lennon:
You think you're so clever and classless and free
But you can't see the forest for the leaves on the tree.
If you wanna be a hero, then just be like me
If you wanna have real heroes, then vote GOP.
Posted by: father mckenzie | Apr 17, 2008 7:44:39 AM
mr. bud, the press giveth and the press taketh away. They created Obama (ooh, finally, an electable black Democrat; we can be clever and classless and free) but then realized their mistake (God damn America, Resko, Pentagon bomber in the inner circle), so they're turning on Obama without unendorsing him.
It's their way of telling the two sides of the story without realizing what a two-faced bunch their inconsistent sermonizing makes them appear.
Posted by: mack black | Apr 17, 2008 7:57:22 AM
We have $4/gallon gasoline. Heating oil prices in the stratosphere. An endless occupation of Iraq. People are losing their homes because of unscrupulous lenders. Health care is not only unaffordable but increasingly ineffective in making Americans live longer. College education is becoming out of reach for many Americans. Katrina victims continue to be ignored. (This started when Bush visited John McCain to celebrate his birthday. Did the Senator from Arizona suggest to Bush that maybe he should tend to the hurricane issue. Of course not). Osama Bin-Laden runs free. Afghanistan festers as the Taliban rises. North Korea remains defiant. Greenhouse gases go unabaited.
This has occurred under the utterly incompetent administration of one George W. Bush. A major accomplise in this downward spiral has been the United States congress. And of course one of the co-conspirators in this crime against America has been our very own straight-talk express enabler - John McCain.
So what does the press talk about? Obama's preacher, Obama's alleged gaffes and Hillary's various trivial comments. Why doesn't the press talk about the issues? The answer is clear, the press wants an election-year contest, not a landslide. By assisting John McCain they balance the scales in a way no honest discussion of issues ever could. This has to be one of the most diabolical scheme for ratings ever concocted. But that's the only explaination that makes sense. Shame on the American press!
Posted by: bud | Apr 17, 2008 8:12:38 AM
I don't know what all the fuss is about. Don't all working class politicians lend their campaigns 5 million dollars ?
Posted by: Richard L. Wolfe | Apr 17, 2008 8:46:33 AM
Father,
The line is,"Down to the "bitch" that I left uptown".
Bless me,for I have sinned.
Posted by: bill | Apr 17, 2008 9:01:15 AM
Obama's preacher of 20 years, and mentor, is an a bitter hater of Americanism, just like so many other socialists and communists who have been major influences in Barak Obama's personal world view:
his father - socialist, racist
his mother - socialist hippie
Frank Marshall - Communist Party
Saul Alinsky - socialist agitator
Bill Ayers - terrorist bomber
Bernadine Dorn - terrorist bomber
Angela Davis - terrorist
Malcom X
Louis Farakan
Posted by: Lee Muller | Apr 17, 2008 11:32:56 AM
Those of you who suspect that there's an actual flesh-and-blood real-life story of the remarkable woman who was Barack Obama's mother, irreducible to a cartoonish phrase like "socialist hippie," I recommend checking this out.
Posted by: Phillip | Apr 17, 2008 12:10:14 PM
I think Lee's two word summaries are all I need to know, thank you. Occam's Razor, people....
Posted by: Jay | Apr 17, 2008 12:19:27 PM
Hillary's audience now is superdelegates. And they will have a very difficult decision to make because even though Obama is ahead in all the main indicators (popular votes, pledged delegates, states won), he is appearing increasingly unelectable by the day. How many Obama voters have buyer's remorse?
Hillary could still win this. And if she doesn't and Obama looks too unelectable, could Al Gore emerge as the consensus candidate?
Posted by: The 7-10: Anthony Palmer | Apr 17, 2008 1:18:13 PM
But only if you use the term "win" loosely. A Pyrrhic victory is the best she's likely to manage -- she might stand bloody over the mangled body of her party before Labor Day, and then what?
And bud, get a grip (I could say the same to Lee, but I feel like you might be somewhat more likely to listen). "His words when put into context are nothing like what the MSM has twisted them into?"
Not really. I listened to his explanation last night, and it sounded to me like he meant to say what he did.
That doesn't keep me from feeling sorry for him, the way questioners went on and on about that and other stuff, like the William Ayres thing. I got the feeling for awhile that George Stephanopoulos wanted to work in a Clinton administration again...
Posted by: Brad Warthen | Apr 17, 2008 2:22:29 PM
Ahmed Yousef, chief political adviser to the Prime Minister of Hamas, announced this on Sunday:
Hamas has endorsed Barack Obama for President. Yousef said, "We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election." Why? "He has a vision to change America." Maybe Yousef has some insight into what Obama means by all these vague references to "change."The endorsement is not up on Obama’s website yet for some reason…
Posted by: Mike Cakora | Apr 17, 2008 2:29:40 PM
Was that endorsement made before meeting with Jimmuh Carter, or after?
Posted by: Lee Muller | Apr 17, 2008 4:23:00 PM
Well, Mike, I'm sure that Mahmoud Ahmedinejad would heartily endorse George W. Bush for a third term if W were eligible.
Posted by: Phillip | Apr 17, 2008 4:31:27 PM
Philip, you silly speculation is no match for Mike Cakora's fact: Obama appeals to terrorists because he sympathizes with them.
Posted by: Lee Muller | Apr 17, 2008 5:34:18 PM
That's a horrible thing to say, Lee...even for you. Shame on you.
Posted by: Phillip | Apr 18, 2008 5:30:12 AM
Lee,
There are those that blog that do not have the foresight or the knowledge of history that would make them able to think for themselves. When they read the liberal bias and hear the same repeated in the news programs on TV they must do a background check on the item at issue. Most of the time when you give the blogger the history and background of the subject matter they want to deny the entry of the information into their brain.
Do not stop the flow of the true facts because you might get through to a few that are the working class because there is no hope for the do-gooders. The only things that will save this great nation are thinkers like you.
Posted by: slugger | Apr 18, 2008 7:16:43 AM
I didn't say that Obama sympathizes with terrorists.
Terrorists said it.
Posted by: Lee Muller | Apr 18, 2008 11:06:57 AM
Communist Party claims connections to Barack Obama:
Professor Gerald Horne, a contributing editor of the Communist Party journal Political Affairs, talked about it during a speech last March at the reception of the Communist Party USA archives at the Tamiment Library at New York University. The remarks were posted online under the headline, “Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party.”
Horne, a history professor at the University of Houston, noted that (Frank Marshall) Davis, who moved to Honolulu from Kansas in 1948 “at the suggestion of his good friend Paul Robeson,” came into contact with Barack Obama and his family and became the young man’s mentor, influencing Obama’s sense of identity and career moves. Robeson, of course, was the well-known black actor and singer who served as a member of the CPUSA and apologist for the old Soviet Union. Davis had known Robeson from his time in Chicago. "
- from an article, Columbia School of Journalism, March 18, 2008
Barack writes about Frank Marshall Davis as another of is "mentors" in his autobiography.
Posted by: Lee Muller | Apr 18, 2008 11:10:36 AM
Good work, Lee. Keep up the cutting and pasting, or "thinking" as Slugger calls it.
Meanwhile, two more well-known stinking Commies just endorsed Obama: former Senators David Boren of Oklahoma and Sam Nunn of Georgia. What's worse, they've agreed to join his national security advisory team. I see nothing but extremists, terrorist sympathizers, commies on Obama's team, people like Nunn or Bill Richardson or Bob Casey. Goodness gracious, where will it stop???
I also heard that a babysitter who Obama's mother used to hire in Hawaii turns out to have formerly been married to a man whose second cousin once met a woman who used to work as a music copyist for Aaron Copland, who as we all know was a Jewish homosexual Communist.
Maybe somebody a bit older out there can answer me: is this what the 1950's were like?
Posted by: Phillip | Apr 18, 2008 12:23:40 PM
I don't see how endorsements of any Democrats offset the support Obama has from communists, terrorists and socialists. That reflects on the lack of character of anyone who would support Obama, knowing his lifelong connections to the Communist Party.
Posted by: Lee Muller | Apr 18, 2008 1:51:47 PM
In the 1950s, a lot of Stalinists were outed, but most politicians in both parties were veterans of WWII or Korea, patriotic and anti-communist. Today, young people have no appreciation of how reactionary and murderous socialists were then.
Posted by: Lee Muller | Apr 18, 2008 1:56:16 PM
