Barack Obama is like Jesus but cooler
Posted at 12:27am on Jun. 29, 2008 The New York Times does its part to ensure John McCain's election.
You know, I have *no idea* whether or not that was the intent.
By Moe Lane
We're in Here Be Dragons territory now, folks, and it isn't even July yet. Via Hot Air Headlines, take a gander:
Obama Supporters Take His Middle Name as Their Own
Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge. But this spring, Ms. Nordling, a 19-year-old student from Fort Thomas, Ky., gave herself a new middle name on Facebook.com, mimicking her boyfriend and shocking her father.
“Emily Hussein Nordling,” her entry now reads.
With her decision, she joined a growing band of supporters of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name.
Because - as all men know - nothing says "normal, mainstream behavior" like "symbolically taking on the middle name of your guru."
Read on.
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Posted at 2:11pm on Jun. 23, 2008 Obama's Latin Metaphor: "Yes, We Can...What?" [Updated]
Not Exactly Semper Fidelis
By Dan McLaughlin
So, Barack Obama has recently debuted his very own presidential seal, declaring him to be President of Obama for America. There are several obvious problems with the Great Seal of Obamastan:
1. It's exceedingly presumptuous and makes him look like he thinks he's already won the election. What's next, his own "Hail to the Chief"?
2. It reinforces the cult of personality aspects of the Obama campaign.
3. It's possibly illegal, in violation of a federal statute governing the use of facsimiles of the Great Seal (see here and here) (H/T).
4. Its color scheme is unfortunate, given that Obama's trying to get his rhetoric (as opposed to his record and his platform) away from being the blue-states-only candidate.
Anyway, all that being said, let's take a look at the Latin motto that adorns the seal. Presumably, somebody in Obama's crack marketing department decided that a seal needed a Latin motto to replace "E Pluribus Unum" (from many, one) on the real Great Seal, and they appear to have sent somebody off to figure out what "Yes, We Can" translates into in Latin, and they came back with "Vero Possumus."
Unfortunately (but unsurprisingly), it appears that either nobody on the Obama campaign understands Latin, or the marketing genuises on the campaign felt that something that looked like Latin was more important than the real thing. Because what they have instead produced is not just appalling Latin grammar - as RS Director Emeritus Thomas Crown pointed out, in Latin it sounds more like a child saying "I do it!" - but a marvelous metaphor for Obama's entire campaign.
UPDATED: Well, just to prove you can never ask too many educated opinions, Dr. Weevil has weighed in and disagrees with the various sources I consulted, and thinks the Latin works.
Read On...
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Posted at 1:57pm on Jun. 18, 2008 Your Obamessiah Thought For The Day
By Dan McLaughlin
We were having a discussion among the Contributors in which it was noted that Obama seems to have some appeal to Christians and, unlike many Democrats, some facility with religious language. But here's the thing: Obama does speak the language of Christianity, but unlike most religious politicians, he always seems to use language that places himself in the role of the Lord.
Posted at 2:01pm on Jun. 13, 2008 Obamacon Job
By Dan McLaughlin
Ben has an outstanding op-ed in the Washington Times on the so-called "Obamacons."
Posted at 10:09am on Jun. 6, 2008 To Battle With a Metaphor
john mccain shows up for the gunfight with a nerfball
By streiff
This cartoon is not intended as a joke. It is the product of the profoundly obtuse Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles (he won the contest the post held to find a cartoonist both dumber and less insightful than the deceased Herblock).
This should serve as a warning to the McCain camp. The 2008 campaign is not against a fairly lightweight, unaccomplished first term senator with a habit of shooting from the lip and no apparent interest in or knowledge of either foreign or domestic policy. In the 2008 campaign John McCain is fighting a metaphor not arguing policy or even facts.
Unless he does something to strip away the patina of a transcendent post-racial leader who will usher in the Age of Aquarius from Barack Obama, John McCain will spend election day shouting "where is the outrage?"
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Posted at 9:56am on Jun. 4, 2008 Breaking Down Obama's Sermon on the Mount of Victory
By Erick
Go get your Obama shirt at CNN, and then come back to break down his rhetoric.
From Obama's speech last night:
We will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.
"this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick"
As it stands, the United States has the greatest healthcare system on earth. In fact, the healthcare systems in the places Obama wants to model are so bad that those who can flee to the United States for healthcare. What Obama really means is that we should be prepared to accept lower standards of care so that every single person can get a bed in the hospital while they wait for treatment, assuming they don't die first. That is, after all, how it works in his preferred countries.
If you haven't barfed yet, keep reading . . .
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Posted at 4:19pm on May 16, 2008 Friday Open Thread: Top Ten List
Top Ten Reasons for Voting for Obama
By absentee
I wrote earlier this week about the new Obamacan ad being run by MoveOn.org. Today TMRB.tv has a new vid mocking the ad (click here to reveal it below:)
Words words words. We have them in abundance. But what of reasons?
So here is today's top ten list.
Hint: click on the linked text to reveal even more sound reasoning!!!
Number 9: CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! whew, breath .. short ... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Number 8: Waffles!
Number 7: Bowling!
Number 6: Bowling for Waffles!
Pay attention Fox Network, I smell a celebrity edition featuring John Kerry and Flavor Flav!)
Oh, it only gets "better" ....
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Posted at 4:04pm on May 13, 2008 Can I get this in Black Velvet*?
No, really: I have the perfect place in the living room for it.
By Moe Lane
In fact, I don't know how I ever got through life without a painting of Obama ejaculating roses:
Image (both the actual physical one, and the unfortunate mental one) via Slog (note the post title; see also the attached endorsement, which is... weird, somehow). See also Hot Air, who has simultaneously a: rather good video lampooning the lameness that is the latte Obama fanboi (see also Ben Smith); and a link to Andrew Sullivan telling people to calm down. Given that the artist probably spent a good five minutes trying to decide whether to paint a horn on the happy white horsey's head, this is probably too little, too late.
And no, we do not believe it when we're told that this was meant to be ironic. This is pretty consistent with the existing idolatry.
Moe Lane
PS: No, sorry, hate to say this, but you Obama supporters really are this lame. How lame? Well, let me put to you this way: have you ever made a crack about fundies?
Yeah, well, you should probably stop making those.
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Posted at 1:13pm on Apr. 22, 2008 You Can't Ask Me That!
By Dan McLaughlin
So the left-blogosphere, mainly the Obama supporters, has erupted in characteristically unbounded fury at the questions asked in Wednesday's debate - the fact that so many were pointed questions, the fact that they were heavily tilted towards recent controversies around Obama, the fact that the first 45 minutes of the debate covered those controversies before moving on to debate the candidates' positions on the issues. Obama himself has whined and complained and moaned about the debate and cancelled the next scheduled debate, leaving in doubt whether there will be any further debates even if this race goes on for another six weeks of voting.
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Posted at 3:52pm on Apr. 17, 2008 Unto Us A Candidate Is Given
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
In response to critical blog posts concerning Barack Obama by my colleague Erick Erickson, we have this response, which is supposed to tell us . . . what? That Jesus calls upon Erick to repent? That Obama does? That there is no difference between the two? That Erick is one of the scribes or Pharisees and does not understand that Obama/Jesus is absolving the sinners? That John McCain is marked by the number "666" and will be defeated by Obama in the end times and that in the meantime, those of us who have not experienced the Rapture and joined the Obama campaign ought to do our best not to given in during the Tribulation and join or donate money to the McCain campaign?
I suppose that all of these questions deserve answers. But I tell you, dear readers, I am thinking very seriously about quitting RedState and going over to be a Daily Kos writer. That way, I can cover my bases and root for Obama full bore.
Remember, I am Jewish. And it's a risky thing to deny someone hailed as the Messiah. We have a reputation for that sort of thing--whether deserved or not--and it has led to trouble for us in the past.
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Posted at 8:21am on Apr. 15, 2008 Racism vs. Sexism: The Final Countdown
By Ben Domenech
“Fame,” Rilke wrote, “is the sum total of all the misunderstandings that can gather around a new name.”
I bet Barack Obama can quote Rilke when he's in front of the right audience. He had a good line or two about bitterness. Smart people like to quote Rilke.
Read on.
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Posted at 2:43pm on Apr. 3, 2008 Quote of the Day, Pennsylvania Primary Edition
By Dan McLaughlin
"It took Saturday Night Live to bring some fairness to this election," Rendell said, referring to the show's now famous skit lampooning the media's crush on Obama. "It's stunning. Does Keith Olbermann get checks from the Obama campaign?"
Posted at 1:51am on Mar. 23, 2008 Happy Easter from Barack Obama
By Ben Domenech
As we all know, Easter is the day where we all gather in our finery to celebrate the day Barack Obama, the perfect man, the "Adonis-who-changes-winter-into-spring", wrought of heaven and sunshine, surrounded by flowers and puppies, emerged from the empty tomb to take away the guilt of the honkeys. And so we Americans celebrate by eating chocolate bunny rabbits, dying eggs with a sheen of colorful ink, hiding others filled with candy in the grass, finding and enjoying them before wallowing in our own crapulence.
Don't worry if you ate too much: Barack Obama will help us all lose that Easter weight.
Peace be upon you. Now dig on some of this Cadbury.
Posted at 1:10am on Mar. 22, 2008 Another well-done Obama/Jesus video
By Jeff Emanuel
Similar to the Cake one, but with an older song and better quotes (like the great
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