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Posted at 2:39pm on Jul. 8, 2008 Part of the Problem
Obama Campaign Ad
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We've got to run a different kind of campaign. So we're not going to go around doing negative ads. We're going to keep it positive. We're going to talk about the issues." - Sen. Barack Obama
You know an attack ad when you see it. They have lots of red text and "ominous" stills. They have that voice. You've seen them. The DNC has been running them for months now against John McCain.
Senator Obama, though, is bringing a new kind of politics. Right?
If the New York Times knows it's a negative ad, then it's a negative ad. Negative, as in not "positive." As the McCain campaign said today, "Barack Obama's commitment to a new type of politics is officially over."
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Posted at 5:47pm on Jul. 2, 2008 Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords is No Basis for a System of Government
The Obama Campaign Employs 'Monty Python Defense'
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If you listen to the noise machine on the left, you have developed a picture of John McCain's military service. From a comfortable position, feet up, in the passenger seat of a jet orbiting the earth, John McCain coldly and safely pushed buttons to dispense laser death on unsuspecting Vietnamese civilians. After some sort of emergency landing, John McCain stayed at a Hilton, from which he distributed communist propaganda videos for five or so years. When he returned home, he had an adminstrative authority over a group of planes. Later, he used a racial slur regarding the staff at that Hilton and highlighted the episode to pretend he was in the military.
It was only weeks ago that Max Cleland, in an interview with the New York Times, said "McCain is my friend and brother, and I love him dearly, but I think you learn something fighting on the ground, like me and John Kerry and Chuck Hagel did in Vietnam." They learned something, you see, which you do not learn coasting safely above or in bamboo cages below. The Democrats' service counts, McCain's doesn't. The article Cleland was quoted in, by the way, was about how "some" of McCain's "fellow veterans" thought his "different" Vietnam was responsible for his being so misguided on Iraq. You know, misguided like being right about the surge, supporting the war throughout, visiting the troops, that sort of thing. Obviously, he's out of touch.
How about Senator Jay Rockefeller a few weeks earlier? "McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit," he said. "What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn’t know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues." McCain didn't care who he was indiscriminately destroying. He was just some white guy with electronics who likes killing people.
Rockefeller was really just doing exactly what you'd expect a Democrat politician to do: echoing the left media. Remember what Bill Maher said? "We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly."
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Posted at 12:40pm on Jun. 29, 2008 AOL Hot Seat Poll: Trust in Obama?
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Ed Morrissey wants to know if Obama's reversals are hurting him. Judging by the poll results, I'd say that's a big yep.
Posted at 9:33pm on Jun. 26, 2008 AOL Hot Seat Poll: China
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I find this question, and the results, interesting. I encourage you to chime in!
Posted at 7:37pm on Jun. 26, 2008 I Have A Dream
Or Rather, I Think I'm Having a Dream Right Now
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In a move that is sure to have you asking yourself "Did I actually wake up this morning?", NPR took Senator Obama to task this weekend. That's what I said: NPR.
Scott Simon, heard here in a podcast well worth the listen, wants to know if it just might be possible to question Obama as a candidate without being branded a bigot.
For choice quotes, you can hardly beat this one:
"To my knowledge, Senator McCain has never mentioned Senator Obama's race, much less in the tone Senator Obama implied. What has John McCain ever done or said to merit the charge that he's going to make Senator Obama's race an issue?"
The clean campaign has its rewards. The issue, of course, is Senator Obama's charge last week that the Republicans would, during the election, try and make people afraid of him. Here is the quote:
"We know what kind of campaign they're going to run," said the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. "They're going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. 'He's young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?'"
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Posted at 7:30pm on Jun. 25, 2008 The Only Thing To Fear - Open Thread
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Posted at 8:01am on Jun. 24, 2008 Man and Superman ... and Man
The Incredible Reversible Man
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Senator Obama is Superman. He is the hero of the age. A post-modern poster boy, Obama is post-everything: post-racial, post-partisan, post-pastors, and post-primaries. He is black and white, and he is Muslim and Christian. He is Liberal and Conservative, American and African. He is man and he is woman.
Senator Obama is not merely Superman, though. He is supernormal, as well as paranormal and even extra normal. The halo and chest-"S" imagery embraced by the campaign and their familiars in the media illustrate this in post-religious pop splendor. He is the evolved man. Also Sprach Obama. So say we all.
Such is the myth of the man as it stands today. The primary trials have ended, the ascension has begun.
The veneer of post-perfection is, however, imperfect, and beneath the cape and halo the other Senator Obama is glimpsed. Of late the glimpses have been more frequent and apparent, as the surety of destined enthronement has reduced the trepidation of his inner Hulk. His sainthood is not yet complete, and when still this side of paradise, the enraptured can yet return to rationality through rage.
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Posted at 11:23pm on Jun. 18, 2008 I don't reckon I got no reason to kill nobody
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From AOL: "Barack Obama says if Osama bin Laden were captured on his watch, he'd want to ensure he doesn't become a martyr if he were prosecuted. Obama said he's not sure that the terrorist mastermind would be captured alive."
RedState's Mark Impomeni writes at Political Machine that "these latest comments from Obama about the death penalty for bin Laden will not resonate with the majority of the voting public." I couldn't agree more.
Mark's blog entry has a poll asking if Osama should be executed. What do you think?
Posted at 12:44pm on Jun. 17, 2008 Disposable Heroes?
How Cheap Is the Well Being of a Soldier?
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The Washington Times has a lengthy and detailed exposé up this morning exposing negligent treatment of American fighting men and women.
Men and women suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder were given the drug Chantix as part of a smoking cessation study. Among the side effects of Chantix are psychosis and suicidal behavior. Read that again. Veterans suffering from PTSD were given a drug which can cause suicidal behavior.
The article highlights the story of Iraq war veteran James Elliott. Elliot participated in the "smoking-cessation treatment for veterans with post traumatic stress disorder" study, which was part of the Cooperative Studies Program (CSP).
Two videos are included with the story online, in which Elliott details his state of mind while taking Chantix. Eventually he became so disturbed by his experience that, during a psychotic episode, he was tasered by police while reaching for a concealed handgun.
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Posted at 3:33pm on Jun. 14, 2008 That's Not the Barack I Knew
Fighting Fire with Guns
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Senator Obama has one more prominent figure in his life about whom he's sure to claim "he's not the man I knew" ... Senator Barack Obama.
If you have not yet heard Senator Obama's calls to transform politics; if you haven't yet heard his claims of post-partisanship, his plans to bring us together ... well you don't, then, have a television or the internet. Likely, therefore, that you are not reading this, so stuff off.
For the rest of us, the relentless feel-goodery from the HopeChangeiac has been so total that I believe I have actually developed a rash which, in the right light, looks like it spells hope in flowers.
However, like Senator Obama's friends, coworkers, religious figures, and family members, that unity message has been thrown under the bus. Senator Obama's many bus escapades are surely contributing a near un-offsettable carbon footprint.
Addressing the possibility of Republican attacks against him to a crowd in the City of Brotherly Love yesterday, Senator Obama said "they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." My, I feel so transformed. I guess that's what you call post-post-partisan. The Barack that Barack used to know had a different message:
"I chose to run ... because I believed that Americans of every political stripe were hungry for a new kind of politics, a politics that focused not just on how to win but why we should, a politics that focused on those values and ideals that we held in common as Americans... "
Ahh, memories.
Of course, the rhetoric has long been undermined by deeds, as the campaign has used distortion and age-mongering against Senator McCain for months.
Still, it's amusing that one of the "guns" Senator Obama has drawn is his "Fight the Smears" website, (presumably the product of his crack cybernauts) which is prominently headed with a quote from Senator Obama: "What you won't hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge, and patriotism as a bludgeon -- that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge, but enemies to demonize. Because we may call ourselves Democrats and Republicans, but we are Americans first. We are always Americans first."
We are always Americans first. At least, the we that he used to know.