The Top Ten Reasons Barack Obama Knows He's In Serious Trouble
10) He can't string two sentences together without a teleprompter.
9) The Debate Committee rejected his request for teleprompters and accepted McCain's request for Instant Replay
8) He picked a running mate who has more hair plugs than brains
7) His convention bounce was smaller than expected because he forgot to check his tire pressure.
6) Reverend Wright is planning a big Halloween Party
5) He raised 47 million in July, but couldn't send twenty bucks for his Kenyan half-brother to disappear for four months
4) Sarah Palin's not a typical white person
3) It turns out, he's a typical black person.
2) After Bush, he didn't expect experience would be that important
And the number one reason Obama knows he's in trouble...
1) Of all the people running for President and Vice President, he's the least qualified
There are, of course, a thousand and one questions about Barack Obama, and that's just about how many bigots and terrorists he's rubbed elbows with, but here's a big, serious one:
Who do you think Iran would rather negotiate with, Barack Obama or Sarah Palin?
"Sarah," say it soft and it's almost like praying...
They're goin' crazy(er) in Liberaland!
Here's an amusing little article, but what's much funnier are the comments that follow it. You can feel the insanity. Obama and McCain have dealt the Hillary Horde a one-two punch, and they're reeling...
Remember how your heart soared and you were filled with pride when you heard Sarah Palin accept John McCain's invitation to be her Party's Vice Presidential nominee? Well, when you read this, your spirit could be in permanent orbit...
I also want to highlight two comments about the article:
Julie, an American, says, "What a refreshing change from the same-ole, same-ole we have seen in recent months and weeks..."
Meanwhile, Jennifer from New Zealand read the story and had this to say: "What a revolting family - having such pleasure in killing beautiful creatures..." Talk about "same-ole, same-ole," eh?
Upon hearing that John McCain had named Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential running mate, what would you do as the "hope and change, trans-racial, unity seeking" opponent? Would you:
A) Compliment him on his choice and say that you looked forward to a lively and spirited campaign?
Or...
B) Criticize McCain and Palin and dismiss her as "more of the same?"
Obama, acting exactly like the punk he is, and with Joe Biden at his side (Foot and Mouth), couldn't find an ounce of magnanimity within himself.
Even more amazing was having his campaign staff criticize Palin for her alleged inexperience.
Obama's complete lack of grace was certainly the result of panic. He felt he needed to say something in an attempt to counter what was sure to be overwhelmingly positive initial publicity, and he was caught without a teleprompter.
Moreover, he had probably already prepared a general comment in anticipation of McCain's pick being a Romney or Pawlenty. How else to explain the disconnect in awkwardly describing Palin as more of the same?
Since the choice of Governor Palin was a surprise to everyone, it's also likely that Obama was unaware of her background, and as a result, he blurted out an insulting non-sequitur and invited comparison to his own appalling lack of experience. For her part, Palin had just demonstrated that she was an inspiring speaker, and the details of her life and career indicate that she's 180 degrees from being an advocate of the status quo. She's a fighter and a doer of dynamic proportions. Just listening to what she'd done in such a short amount of time left me in need of a nap.
And the enthusiasm and excitement Palin generated were real, not the sort that is manufactured by liberals that manifests itself in overly-effusive praise for a candidate who merits little if any.
Obama's single major qualification: he's black.
Palin has demonstrated competence in running a government and fighting corruption. Incredibly, this small town mayor took on her own party and defeated the sitting Republican governor. Now she's challenging Big Oil in an attempt to get a pipeline built to serve her State's and the nation's energy needs.
Forget about Erin Brockovich, Palin's accomplishments against waste, fraud and abuse dwarf the stories movies are made of.
So how is it then that some are saying McCain's choice mutes the GOP's ability to focus on Obama's inexperience? On the contrary, it shines a cold bright light not only on Obama's inexperience, but also on the fact that he has precisely none while audaciously seeking the world's highest office. And Palin offers evidence that limited experience need not be an obstacle when it's the right kind, it gets results, and the office one is seeking is of significantly lesser importance.
It also exposes Obama's "vision" as mere fantasy insofar as, even if it has merit, there is literally no evidence that he has any ability to see it through to a successful conclusion.
Palin's actual accomplishments in the job of mayor aside, her experience at that small town post is far more relevant than any experience Obama can show on his resume. Even the fact that Palin hunts moose is a heftier qualification than what Obama offers.
Whom would you rather have, a -President- with delusions of grandeur and not the slightest track record in implementing a single program, but who will nevertheless rush headlong into implementing his plans with only the art of speculation at his disposal in assessing the eventual outcome?
Or would you prefer a -Vice President- who already has considerable executive experience and an admirable track record in both business and government, and who will be learning and forming her own vision based on her participation in the programs and policies of her President?
So when the Obama camp asks if you really want someone a heartbeat away from the Presidency who has little experience, they either have no realization of the comparison they are inviting or they're just plain stupid.
We know what experience Obama will bring to the Oval Office if he is lucky enough to occupy it next January, and it won't be materially more than the 140 odd, and I mean very odd, days he served as a Senator prior to, in essence, abandoning his seat to run for President.
And we've seen the shocking gaffes and naiveté as a result of his lack of experience, not to mention his arrogance and complete disinterest in details - from saying he'd invade Pakistan and allow genocide in order to get our troops out of Iraq, to saying that Iran is a tiny country that poses little threat to us, to placing himself on Senate committees of which he wasn't, and had never been, a member.
To call whatever experience Obama has had substantive much less applicable to being the President and Commander-in-Chief of the world's most powerful country would be merely laughable if it didn't have gravely serious real-life implications.
And that's if Obama were pure of heart and had only the best interests of America and its allies in mind, something that I don't believe for a minute. He's already had too many "deals" to suit me with pastors, terrorists, slumlords, and God knows who else.
And by the way, do you think Barack Obama imagines that he has more experience than he actually has?
That's another thing you can say about Sarah Palin - her experience and accomplishments are not a product of anyone's imagination. They're dynamic. Furthermore, even with the immensely more and better quality experience Palin has compared to Obama, she was apparently too humble, too practical, and too realistic to think it qualified her to seek the Presidency.
But if John McCain were unable to serve out his term, Sarah Palin, right now today, has infinitely more of the proper sort of experience to take the reins as President than Obama does. And each day she will have served as Vice President will add to that experience. Filling the then vacant position of Vice President with an infinitely better version of Joe Biden would be a relatively simple task.
So the GOP should continue to hit Obama hard on his pitiful resume and force the comparisons with Sarah Palin. Will the Dems really want to debate that issue? After watching Sarah Palin's acceptance speech for a second time last night, I found it had lost none of its initial power, and I'm reasonably certain she's prepared to deal with liberal lightweights after dealing with and dispatching her own party's heavyweights.
Still, I want to be clear that Palin is an unknown, even if we already know much more about her than we do about Barack Obama, and so there's only one thing I can say about Sarah Palin with any real degre of certainty, and it's that she's the greatest Vice Presidential pick in the history of the Republic!
Well that, and also that she's our first pin-up politician.
What a delightful election this is shaping up to be. Sarah Palin was who I hoped McCain would pick, but I wondered if he'd feel she brought enough to the ticket being from Alaska, and while I have yet to hear her utter a word, her image is electrifying, and that alone makes her the most exciting pick in my lifetime.
Of course, time will tell if she can cut it, but I believe she'll get the same considerations Bobo has gotten from the mainstream media... not! Will Bobo rue the day he threw Hillary under the bus? And how angry is Hillary today?
If you're young, there has never been an election like this one, and there's not likely to ever be again.
For those who think Bobo Obo has a Messiah complex, he didn't disappoint them tonight, All I could think of while watching is, that boy's crazy.
That and, is America buying this?
But for me, The Speech, while reminiscent of the Twilight Zone in its approach, was even more like the old Danny Thomas joke.
He's going to reduce health care premiums, find bin Laden, finish the job against the Taliban, stop Russian aggressiveness and keep Iran from getting the bomb... and he didn't stop there.
The great Danny Thomas once talked about the old TV and movie westerns with the singing cowboys (Bobo is certainly, at his essence, sing-song). Thomas was referring to how preposterous the stories in these westerns often were, but they left everyone fulfilled and feelin' good at the end, as Roy or gene rode off into the sunset singin' a song of the open range.
(In a panic) "Sheriff, sheriff, did you know that the James Gang is robbin' the bank?"
"Yep, I know it."
"And... and did you know the Dalton boys are rustlin your cattle?"
"Yep, I know it."
"SHERIFF, did you know Billy the Kid is kidnappin' your wife?"
"Yep, I know it."
"HOLY COW, WHAT ARE YA GOIN' TO DO ABOUT IT?!?"
"Well, I'm gonna stop the James Gang from robbin' the bank... and I'm gonna stop the Dalton boys from rustlin' my cattle... and I'm gonna stop Billy the Kid from takin' my wife... But first... I'm gonna sing you a little tune."
And that's more than Bobo will do. He's audacious, all right... actually he's a punk. How dare this no-experience idiot think he can accomplish what his betters couldn't.
And that would be bad enough, but then to lie bald-faced about McCain and his approach and proposals only makes Bobo more despicable.
And the term: "The Rottenest Man Who Ever Ran" turns out to be far too kind.
I've said it several times now that the Obama campaign reminds me of the rise of the Nazis in 1930s Germany. I wasn't there, but I saw Cabaret a bunch of times.
The most memorable scene for me was in the beer garden when a beautiful young man starts singing, and more and more of the crowd joins in as his "patriotic" song stokes their fire. Older people mostly stare in confusion about all the fuss. And as the lad finishes, he raises his hand in the the now menacingly familiar salute which reveals the Nazi armband.
Our heroes, Liza and Co, leave that scene understanding the ominous implications of it all, but even they don't grasp the scope. And at the end of Cabaret, theres a pan of the Cabaret audience that repeats the opening scene with a notable difference. In the beginning, it's just an audience that's there to be entertained. In the end, the audience is laced with individuals sporting that same armband.
That wasn't just a reflection of the changing scene, it was the result of Nazis having beaten the owner of the cabaret to a pulp for having expelled one of their members earlier.
Up to now, my comparisons to Germany were based on the mindless support for a vacuous individual who promises hope and change but who offers neither the details nor the experience nor the competence to support his "movement." That's changed. The intimidation has started. Earlier this week, Obama tried to sic the Justice Department on a guy from Texas who produced an ad Bobo doesn't like, and he has demanded that stations and channels not carry it.
And they aren't.
Thank God for the Internet.
Those in the media aren't all in the pocket of the Obama campaign, but they aren't fools either. The ad is valid. It's not a baseless attack, but owners and managers know that a President Obama won't forget, and that things can get mighty ugly, the threat of the reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine being just the beginning of it.
And now Obama has turned his focus on a talk show host at WGN radio in Chicago whom he is trying to silence because the host is apparently relentlessly critical of the Obama-Ayers connection, something that, at the very least, hasn't been fully explored. Obama had his supporters bombard the station with calls and emails, and is likely employing other methods of intimidation. Even though he's been invited to appear on the show to state his side of things, Obama and his campaign staff have refused to appear.
This isn't just an incident or two, this is central to what an Obama Presidency will be. Bill Clinton used intimidation and investigation, most notable the IRS, in his attempts to stifle the opposition, but that was after he became President, and it was relatively benign in comparison to what candidate Obama has already done. We've seen too many third world Messiahs employ similar tactics (think Hugo Chavez), but they have always been "over there." Thugs and bullies have never risen above State government in America.
When I say that Obama is The Rottenest Man Who Ever Ran, some may think I'm joking or exaggerating. If anything, I'm understating. What we've seen is more than enough to make that assessment of Obama, but it's what's to come that's unimaginable, and if you disagree or don't understand... or you subscribe to Obama's approach, then you're the rottenest citizen there ever was.
I was lucky enough to catch the last bit of Biden's speech, and by that I mean I turned it on very late so I was lucky enough to miss almost all of it. In fact, the only reason I saw anything at all of, as Ann Coulter calls him, the Vice Plagiarist's speech was because I was expecting America's Got Talent to start.
America has got talent - but it's not Biden.
Then my luck ran out as Biden was joined onstage by The Rottenest Man Who Ever Ran, and as the camera kept panning the stage and the audience, I suddenly screamed out - ANIMALS!
This cream of America's scum has been killing America since John Kennedy was killed, and it has to stop.
There was a magnificent column today about what needs to be done to achieve a more equitable energy position for our country, and it was clear that the reason we are where we are today is all because of Democrats and their filthy constituent groups who have been able to block all meaningful development for four decades.
Even now, they promote "clean" energy while at the same time others in their ranks block any means of attaining it.
We are at a fork in the road. Choosing the wrong path will be disastrous, and the Democrats with their "all talk all the time" approach, whether it be with respect to our energy needs or our enemies, could be the death of us. At the very least, it will leave us impotent in a world that is not developing new energy as fast as it's developing new menaces.
Now I don't think Obama can be elected, but tonight was the closest I've come to feeling that he has a chance - because he's not a McGovern, a Carter, a Dukakis, a Gore, or a Kerry, fine animals all in their own right. And John McCain has this marvelous propensity to say and do the wrong things at just the right time, as in every time he mentions that he's a subscriber to the "global warming" grand scam. Now we await his VP announcement that could easily allow him to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
And if McCain does pick Lieberman and he loses, it will be hard to continue saying that Obama is The Rottenest Man Who Ever Ran, even though he will be our rottenest President the moment he takes the oath of office.
Is it possible to really love your country even though you think it's just plain mean and you've only become proud of it twenty-five years into your adulthood after it confers an enormous benefit and accompanying prestige on your husband?
I suppose so.
But isn't it more likely under those circumstances that you've just come to love your country because it elevated your husband against all odds? In which case, under the most charitable assessment, it would amount to an epiphany - "Hey, this country may really be as great as they say it is!"
But then if Bobo and Mickey hadn't been given this high honor solely because they're black, is it safe to say that America would still be just plain mean and Mama Michelle would still be ashamed of her country?
I saw a bit of Mickey's speech last night. It was hard to watch for two reasons:
a) Like her husband, Mickey is singularly repulsive - but in a different way. Bobo is the sing-song arrogant undertaker, Mickey is the mean- ass little woman - something her Stepford demeanor couldn't conceal
b) My wife was yelling to get her off the TV screen, and you have to know my wife to understand how rare it is for her to be so repulsed and to convey it by yelling.
Such is the nature of the reactions Bobo and Mickey elicit - they make thinking people scream. If they lose, look for them to become obnoxious commercial pitchmen on TV. Oh, I'm sorry, make that "pitchpersons."
But seriously, what happens if Bobo does lose? Will the 2012 election be a "Groundhog Day" for Democrats? Will Hillary and Bobo and Jo-Bo find themselves vying for the nomination yet again? Isn't the mere anticipation of it enough to cause you to want Bobo to lose this year?
Everyone will have learned from the current experience and it will become a real-life chess game - with bigger and better insults and bigotry!
Will Bobo learn how many States there are?
Will Mickey be proud of her country for the second time?
Will Hillary have had a facelift?
Will Bill be dead?
Will Biden have even more hair and less brains?
And will Pelosi and Biden still be Catholic?
I'm already giddy with anticipation.
And for the first time in my adult life I'll be proud..
Ah well, you get the idea.
