Posted on 10/21/2006 6:31:39 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
I DVD'ed Olbermann overnight to check just how fawning of a performance Keith would put in with his guest Barack Obama - whom FCC regulations require me to describe as "the rising star of the Democratic party." When it came to Olbermann's sycophancy, I wasn't disappointed. After accusing Republicans of "terrorizing" Americans, the MSNBC host continued:
"proposing an alternative course for American politics, one that replaces fear with - of all things - hope, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and his new book, The Audacity of Hope."
The toughest question Olbermann posed to his guest, touted as a possible 2008 presidential nominee, is why Obama would want to be president given the awful legacy he would be inheriting from George Bush. An indulgent Obama gave Keith a verbal pat on the head, congratulating him on his "good question."
But all the fluff aside, I was stunned by something Obama said. Describing his proposal for a phased withdrawal from Iraq, Obama added that it would:
"send a message to the Iraqis as well as to the regional powers including Iran and Syria that they have to take some ownership for creating some stability there."
What? Obama's plan is to turn Iraq over to the tender mercies of Iran and Syria? And just what kind of "stability" does he imagine that would produce?
Barack might be the Golden Boy of the MSM, but with that one statement, he demonstrated that he is not ready for prime time, letting alone for becoming Commander-in-Chief.
Aside: what does it say of Barack's ambition and ego that the photo displayed here comes from his official senatorial web site?
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EXACTLY RIGHT
I don't see how Keith Olberman can hold down a job as a prime time news anchor when it is more than obvious that he is nothing but a shill for the socialist international.
Does anybody really watch his brand of cr*p? Or pay any attention to it?
I suspect most of his audience is comprised of masochistic conservatives looking for their daily dose of outrage.
He is smoother than Clinton, but does he have the killer instinct? Old Bill could turn the IRS on you as soon as look at you if he wanted to and everyone knows it. And then there are the FBI files.
This yet again displays why I continue to pray that the left will put Obama up for the '08 election. This guy is about as ignorant as they get for a politician, I mean, what an airhead. He has made one stupid gaffe after another over the past calendar year and nothing would please me more than to see the left once again attempt to rely on style over substance.
That was priceless. They should use that in a video...
Paging Ken.
Obama is the Black France Lite.
Thanks for your work (and all posters) for bringing potential '08 presidential (or vice presidential) candidates into our reasoned debate.
I will never forget that hearing .. I was ROFL
I had the misfortune of spending Thursday night in the Atlanta airport. Osama Obama was everywhere in the D concourse on the CNN monitiors and Larry King Live.
I would bet more peple saw him in the Atlanta airport than all the rest of the country put together.
I had to hunt a quiet spot between two speakers to try to get some sleep.
The travesty imo was that these bantam weights were questioning John Bolton's competency to represent us at the UN.
.....the only bullet point on his cv...he is black....
Au contraire mi amigo (a little frogmex lingo there) Obama is in the tradition of Coming To America an Africian (nonslave) heritage. He was received like Eddie Murphy, a fictional prince, in Kenya
In that case... maybe he should watch this video:
http://www.msunderestimated.com/2006/10/19/larry-elders-new-political-ad-video/
A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat and supported the distribution of all wealth. She felt deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican which she expressed openly.
One day she was challenging her father on his beliefs and his opposition to higher taxes on the rich & the addition of more government welfare programs. Based on the lectures that she had participated in and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that for years her father had obviously harbored an evil, even selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father.
He stopped her and asked her, point blank, how she was doing in school. She answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain. She studied all the time and never had time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn’t even have time for a boyfriend and didn’t really have many college friends because of spending all her time studying because of her more difficult curriculum.
Her father listened and then asked, “How is your good friend Mary doing?”
“Mary is barely getting by,” she replied. “She barely has a 2.0 GPA, and all she takes are easy classes and she never studies. But Mary is extremely popular on campus. College, for her, is a blast. She goes to all the parties all the time and very often doesn’t even show up for classes because she is too hung over.”
Her father then asked his daughter, “Why don’t you go to the Dean’s office and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your 4.0 GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0? That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.”
The daughter, visibly shocked by her father’s suggestion, angrily fired back, “That wouldn’t be fair! I worked really hard for mine and Mary has done little or nothing! She played while I worked real hard!”
The father slowly smiled, winked and said, “Welcome to the Republican Party.”
"I suspect most of his audience is comprised of masochistic conservatives looking for their daily dose of outrage."
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that's a great sentence. it should go into bartlett's quotations!
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