That's Not the Barack I Knew
Fighting Fire with Guns
By absentee Posted in 2008 | Hope and Change | Obamafiles — Comments (12) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
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.
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Agent Smith:It seems that you've been living two lives. One life, you're Barry Obama, Politician for a respectable political party. You have a social security number, pay your taxes, and you... help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in the seedy underground, where you go by the hacker alias Barack and are guilty of virtually every political crime we know. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not.
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-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
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Very nice!
But I think "the Bar" is forecasting what the US will be like once we're no longer able to own guns -- only the criminals have them. That makes his "WE" pointed.
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Listen up America. This is the message from Obama the Great Uniter. He will bring us together and sing kumbaya, of cause if you will survive the shooting by BO thugs.
that cited this.
great work man
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/06/14/obama-threatens...
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
I looked at the link, and it reminds me of my opinion that (some of) Putin's PR problems might be at the hands of free agents acting on their own. I know we're at a point where it seems, literally, that anything can happen, even against the expectations of partisans on both sides, but, seriously, we all know we have plenty of opportunity to counter Obama in the arena of ideas.
Not blaming you a bit for anything, GC. I was just trying to say that things like this pop up and totally floor us. It's an extreme example of something I've said to my roommate a few times, that anytime we see a headline, it's already been framed the way they want us to see it.
pass given to Obama for a statement that, if said by McCain or any repub, might well have trumped the memeotials to Russert this weekend.
Its called hyperbole and satite and sarcasm jon, and yes, we resort to it, while the lib dems and msm resort to faux outrage and unjust vilification and namecalling against us.
Jon, we can't empty our arsenal in the face of the enemy we face in the msm and dem coalition.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
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NObama...no way!.....McCain '08 !