Posted on 05/30/2008 3:35:44 PM PDT by neverdem
For months, Barack Obama has had the image of an incandescent, golden-tongued Wundercandidate. That image may be fraying now.
As smart and credentialed as he is, Sen. Obama is often an indifferent speaker without a teleprompter. He has large gaps in his knowledge base, and is just as likely to dig in and embrace a policy misstatement as abandon it. ABC reporter Jake Tapper calls him "a one-man gaffe machine."
Take the Auschwitz flub, where Mr. Obama erroneously claimed last weekend in New Mexico that his uncle helped liberate the Nazi concentration camp. Reporters noted Mr. Obama's revised claim, that it was his great uncle who helped liberate Buchenwald. They largely downplayed the error. Yet in another, earlier gaffe back in 2002, Mr. Obama claimed his grandfather knew U.S. troops who liberated Auschwitz and Treblinka – even though only Russian troops entered those concentration camps.
That hardly disqualifies Mr. Obama from being president. But you can bet that if Hillary Clinton had done the same thing it would have been the focus of much more attention, especially after her Bosnia sniper-fire fib. That's because gaffes are often blown up or downplayed based on whether or not they further a story line the media has attached to a politician.
When John McCain claimed, while on a trip to Iraq in March, that Sunni (as opposed to Shiite) militants in Iraq are being supported by Iran, coverage of the alleged blunder tracked Democratic attacks on his age and stamina. (In fact, Iran may well be supplying both Sunni and Shiite militants.) Dan Quayle, tagged with a reputation as a dumb blond male, never lived down his misspelling of "potatoe."
Mr. Obama, a former editor of the Harvard Law Review, has largely been given a pass for his gaffes. Many are trivial, such...
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1. I am not convinced Obama is that smart. If he is, he sure is dumb for a smart guy.
2. Many of these are not gaffes. They are lies.
That image may be fraying now.
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Fraying? It is gone. He has been exposed as the radical, anti-American, anti-military, anti-defense, anti-Constitution, racist, Marxist, socialist that he is....
He’s the gift that keeps on giving. Naturally, since he’s Liberal and not 100% white he cannot be ridiculed as stupid when he makes gaffes, even though all of the evidence indicates that he’s every bit as stupid as all of the other people who have been the butt of the wags and jesters who inform so many of our casual American observers of daily life. In fact, in Obama’s case a merely sonorous tone leads Liberals to wet their pants and pant about how articulate the glib young man is despite the fact that most of what he says is boilerplate Liberal claptrap.
Can anyone posit a scenario in which this Manchurian Candidate is not successfully shoehorned in as POTUS?
He could never get elected, of course. However, as long as he keeps making a stir, his machinery behind the scenes can pull out all the stops, call in all the markers, make all the threats and spend all the Oil Wealth they need to make it happen.
Either I need a serious reality check or it's time to start thinking in terms of contingency plans.
What if he's elected -- how much damage will he do? What if he's not? How much damage will be done?
etc.
Maybe I should start a thread for this.
Yeah, why don't you start a thread on how nobody reads the 2.07 million copies of the Wall Street Journal every day!
Yeah, really - “As smart and credentialed as he is,”
I haven’t seen evidence of either myself.
B. Hussein Obama (Peace be upon him) DOES NOT LIE!
He just does what any good Muslim would do.
taqiyya - precautionary dissimulation or deception and keeping one’s convictions secret
kitma - mental reservation and dissimulation or concealment of malevolent intentions...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1454121/posts
I think I'd have a hard time convincing you, at least.
The idea is that there are 20 million bozos who believe everything they see on Oprah.
Can you connect the dots now, Michealangelo?
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... in all 57 states.
Obama's Church: Why Hillary Cried - Father Michael Pfleger
Add in Obama's votes or support for banning semiautos, handguns, concealed carry and self defense, I don't think so, IMHO.
Thanks for the link.
Are you saying his record and obvious allegiance to the fringe left will prevent him from riding the wave of adulation his propagandists are creating into the White House?
Who will stop him?
You forgot affirmative action; I cannot believe that the US will elect the first affirmative action candidate.
Who's voting for communists? Gun owners? Bitterly disappointed Hillary supporters? Those who don't know all of Obamas foibles will hear it all on TV and radio in the last week.
Dead people. Foreigners. Non-existent people. Intimidated people. Black people. Useful idiots. The young and hip.
etc.
The liberal media always portrays the liberal as being smarter than the conservative. They do this even when the liberal is a complete moron who can’t speak about anything he/she hasn’t prepared for. Being a liberal democrat means you have no courage, common sense or morals.
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