MSM creates Messianic figure, names him Barack Hussein Obama
I know everybody is talking about Obama and it might be a little cliché for me to blog about him, but I just had to share with you my insights on the media creation of Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama has had a quite a run lately. He has completely swept Clinton since Super Tuesday and the media has now proclaimed him the front runner for the Democratic nomination.
Front runner? I think that’s a little premature. Hillary’s new campaign manager needs to remind her that she will not be running against George W. Bush. I think she needs to focus more on her Democratic opponent who has gained quite a bit of momentum since “Super Tuesday.” I think if she takes Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania; she’ll have the edge again. But she will need a new strategy to overtake the Obama explosion.
This strategy should be to expose Obama’s inexperience. This man has done absolutely nothing in the Senate. He’s also missed 80% of Senate votes in the past two months. All he does is preach on college campuses to young kids, yet he wishes to unite everyone? He is rated the most liberal Senator and somehow this is not viewed as the potential to be just as divisive as the Bush administration has been? How exactly will he work with the other side when his policies are further to the left than the majority of Americans? I also have not seen Obama reach out to people who challenge his beliefs.
The Obama “movement” has reached occult status. He has amassed a huge following that seems to be transcending party lines. He has the ability to speak and instill hope and change (whatever that means) in the hearts and mind of the average American. But what the only thing the Obama campaign has become is the next American Idle series. I blame this infatuation with the MSM’s love for brainless sound bites and fashionable new trends. I blame this on the degenerates that our influencing our children. I blame this on the people who don't care if their society is invaded by Islamists. I blame this on the cancerous disease of political correctness. Obama is just the next pop star in a long line of them.
But I digress. It’s going to be very difficult for Hillary to expose Obama’s inexperience because she is indeed trying to convince a base that clearly does not understand the true roles and responsibilities of the President. When she’s tried to expose the rhetoric, it’s backfired. She really does have her work cut out for her. Even ironically so, she is up against the same type of campaign her husband ran in 1992. He promised the world to people just as Obama is doing, and the current average American has forgotten this.
On a more serious note, I would recommend to Obama the he start to think about facing McCain in the debates and having some substance behind his lofty rhetoric. All this change he talks about, what is he waiting for? He has a seat in the very place he calls broken. He could sponsor a bill right now (or could have in the past) that can begin the implementation process for his plans for America. Obama is so against the war in Iraq, and has repeatedly accused Hillary of “flip flopping” yet he didn’t show up to vote on a critical measure regarding a resolution that declared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, an elite part of the Iranian military, a terrorist organization. Clinton voted for it, and he criticized her for it. He said “it would give President Bush a blank check to invade Iran.” If he felt so strongly about it, why didn’t he vote against it? The campaign does consume time, and it’s quite normal for them to miss some votes, but not 80% and not ones that are so critical to their message. The continuance of rhetoric with no substance or facts will not prevail in the end. That may inspire college kids who don’t know any better, but he has a lot of proving to do not only to his own party, but too many who continue to challenge his ideas.
The pandering by the Obama camp is relying on two things; the intellectual lowest common denominator and people’s emotions. I do realize that the vast majority of the sheeple in this country vote on emotions and what they feeeeeeel in their hearts. But if you apply Obamas socialist rhetoric to anything of economic importance, it is found to be devoid of any logic whatsoever.
In the end, I just have to “hope” that there are enough Americans who will see through the rhetoric and realize that true freedom and prosperity for all is achieved by getting big government out of the way. Obama is the best of the least right now. McCain has the power to expose the rhetoric because his base does NOT vote with their hearts. He also does well with independents, which will help with the swing states. If by some chance Obama does win, it will really be something to see when all of his supporters are let down. It will be a hard lesson, but a memorable one.
2 comments:
1) Obama has missed votes because he is...um...oh yeah, running for president.
2) Obama may have a liberal record in the senate, but he has proven time and time again that he has the ability to work with members of the other side to pass important legislation. He has worked closely with Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, one of the most extreme right-wing Republicans, on bills for transparency and lobbying reform.
3) The difference between this campaign and campaigns of the past, is not so much the candidate but the mood of the country and its thirst for something new, for "change." Folks keep repeating that Obama lacks substance, that he is nothing more than lofty, empty rhetoric. This is complete balderdash. When one listens to not only his oratory but his driving message of change, hope, peace, prosperity, and above all, unity and what is possible in American when we work together and rise above partisan differences, one is forced to believe in America again.
We have steroids in baseball, stolen elections in Florida (and maybe Ohio), corruption in government, a free-falling economy, a diminished dollar, and a disastrous, unnecessary war. Americans have stopped believing in America. And Obama, not Clinton nor Sen. Magoo, has the ability to bring us together and effectuate change.
Whether the right wing likes it or not, change is coming. It is inevitable. 2008 will be 1980 in reverse. We will see a liberal revolution akin to the conservative revolution of 28 years past.
We will overcome the politics of fear and divisiveness and in their stead embrace the politics of what is possible--if we work hard, together.
Missing votes is not uncommon but missing 80% of your votes, especially crucial ones to the overall message of your campaign is hyprocritical,especially since this guy holds a position in the very structure of government he loathes. You say Obama is more than the lofty rhetoric he preaches, but then you go on to speak the same talking points repeated by the Obama campaign and MSM. Change to what exactly? Do you mean "peace" by appeasing our Islamist enemies? Do you mean prosperity by imposing global warming mandates on our already struggling economy? Do you mean unity to only leftist causes? This whole post-partisan fasade is "balderdash". It's yet another condesending attempt by the social engineers of the left to "unite" the sheeple to their causes; i.e federally mandated gay marriage,federally supported abortions, global warming mandates, pulling troops out of Iraq, "free" healthcare, speech codes, and the further dengenerative slide of Western culture.
Josh,you obviously are an idealist, such as I. However, our ideals are in direct confrontation to each other because you, like most liberal elites, believe government is the solution. I believe regular American citizens, and a less intrusive Federal government is the ideal solution for American prosperity.
On a side note. Steriods in baseball? Are you serious? We have people poping scrips left and right and people going crazy on prozac and you think the federal government has a role in regulating Baseball? wow.
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