The Obama We Don't Know

Wall Street Journal ^ | 6 5 08 | OpEd Staff

[Dick Bachert]

With Barack Obama clinching the Democratic Party nomination, it is worth noting what an extraordinary moment this is. Democrats are nominating a freshman Senator barely three years out of the Illinois legislature whom most of America still hardly knows. The polls say he is the odds-on favorite to become our next President.

Think about this in historical context. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were relatively unknown, but both had at least been prominent Governors. John Kerry, Walter Mondale, Al Gore and even George McGovern were all long-time Washington figures. Republican nominees tend to be even more familiar, for better or worse. In Mr. Obama, Democrats are taking a leap of faith that is daring even by their risky standards.

[Jeff Head]

Nothing you can say or do will convince these people otherwise...


Because I am the one they and I have been waiting for...and I am lovin' it.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

Those wild eyed people represent the millions of Americans raised in the government day-care and indoctrination centers we call public schools who did not have, or would not listen to, parents and others who tried to counterweight the garbage they heard at school...who have been raised on 60 second sound bite time spans and know no better.

You have other tens of millions on the dole who will vote for him regardless of position because he promises to keep pilfering the public largess for them.

Still othes of millions will vote for him simply because he is black.

Other millions will vote for him because they know exactly who he is and what he represents and agree with his anti-American positions.

The first three are all what is termed, useful idiots, a term coined by Lenin for the dupes he got to support him.

Against this it is left to us to educate, arouse, and amass the tens of millions of Americans who understand and hold fast to the foundational principles our constitutional republic rests upon...many of them the bitter, rural Americans clinging to their guns and religion that Obama so arrogantly spoke of.

[WayneS]

Barry Hussein Obama has never MANAGED anything in his entire life. Not a business, not a town, not a county, not a city, not a state.

But because he is an “attractive” black man who has a good speaking voice a majority of Americans are seemingly ready to make him the CEO of the United States of America.

Holy crap!

[NonValueAdded]

I’m also concerned that he did not grow up in the United States.

[sarasota]

America the Pitiful

[hoe_cake]

As George Clooney’s character in “Oh Brother Where Art Thou” repeated,

“Damn, we’re in a tight spot.”

[Jacquerie]

Quite right. The Presidency is not an entry level CEO position.

[pepsi_junkie]

Barry Hussein Obama has never MANAGED anything in his entire life. Not a business, not a town, not a county, not a city, not a state.

This fact is possibly our best hope. It means he may (if elected) be prone to try to over-reach. He is a Marxist and if his victory speech the other day is any indication he has a messiah complex (his securing the nomination will be remembered as the moment when we healed the globe? C'mon!) If he becomes president he'll feel he can do anything, and his agenda will be radical.

My scenario for Obama if elected: Given that he is prone to serious gaffes, and has demonstrated horrible judgment in his associates, he will very possibly try to simultaneously push an extremist agenda while trying to get a collection of the most ultra-left wingers into his cabinet as possible. I think by the time his first 100 days are up, he may be finding the country saying "WTF? No WAY!" to him a lot.

[Little Ray]

Barak Hussein Obama isn’t going to manage anything as president, either. He’s just a sock puppet. You have to wonder who will have his hand up his @$$, though.

[WayneS]

True, yes.

But I was thinking more about his “dumb as a bag of hammers” line from the same movie...

[Dick Bachert]

No wonder here.

It will be the same old money, One World elist crowd that has owned and operated the White House since Woodrow Wilson.

The Rockefellers are near the top of that list.

[hoe_cake]

LOL!

a million useful idiots as dumb as a bag of hammers!

[foyen]

The more I see and hear about this guy makes me suspect he is the anti-Christ. Black Liberation Theology is about as opposite as one can get from Love Thy Neighbor, compassion and loving kindness.

[Beckwith]

he may be finding the country saying "WTF? No WAY!" to him a lot.

But the dhimmicratically controlled Congress will give him carte blank and push his agenda through no matter what We, the People think about it.

And the fools who continue to whine, "I won't vote McCain," will be the useful idiots that facilitate the process.

[Polyxene]

“You have to wonder who will have his hand up his @$$, though.”

George Soros?

[doodad]

And he had the nerve to say that he praised McCain’s accomplishments even if John ignored Barack’s. What a tool.

[Dionysius]

I think I know who he is. Putting aside McCainesque sniveling and mealy-mouthing, Obama is no patriot, far from it — in fact he’s virulently ant-American. He and the far left mob surrounding him want to destroy the nation, and rebuild it into a socialist state that will maker Europe look reactionary. Our military will be emasculated far more than Carter and Clinton were able to accomplish and we will appease third world tinpots and cow-tow to the scum of the earth at every turn. Our economy will be destroyed and our rights, especially 2nd Amendment, will be abridged in a liberal-fascist onslought that will begin the moment after he takes the oath. And, to compound my fears, The GOP doesn’t seem to have the cojones to stop this scenario. McCain is going to make-nice himself all the way to the chopping block. I’m increasingly despondent of a mortal intervention; perhaps God will do something.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Obama is a construction of MoveOn and the Netroots Liberal activists.

Remember how they were able to get Ned Lamont!!! a victory in the Democratic primary over Joe Lieberman. They control the democratic apparatus.

Remember that Hillary won the primary contests, but lost the caucuses — which are much easier for the activists to take over.

In Texas, a majority favored Clinton in the primary, but a caucus held the same day went strongly for Obama — again showing that caucuses do not accurately reflect what a majority of the people want.

Now we will see if Obama’s general election fate is similar to Ned Lamont’s. Remember, Ned not only got beat by Lieberman in the general election, he was fairly trounced.

[Vaduz]

Why do you think he selcted a Kennedy to pick his VP?.

[Retired Greyhound]

NO WAY this guy wins.