R. Emmett Tyrrell: The Prophet Obama -- Not Funny

Human Events ^ | July 17, 2008 | R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

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Emmett Tyrrell wrote: "Yes, I think the Prophet Obama is in trouble. Thus, members of the Obama cult within the media are striving to ever-higher levels of inventiveness to maintain their oracle's exulted presence in the presidential race. One tactic they tried this week was to claim that Obama haters on the fringes of the blogosphere have been planting slanderous misinformation about the prophet among members of the moron vote. Some claim that he is a covert Muslim. Others insist he attended Islamic schools in a faraway country. Still others spread the rumor that he smokes cigarettes, possibly even indoors. None of this is true, cult members in the press insist. So he should be elected president.

An even more inventive tactic was tried by a reporter for The New York Times, Bill Carter. His thesis is that it is almost impossible to get a laugh off the suave, erudite, eloquent, highly intelligent, incomparably gifted Prophet Obama. Yes, the same Obama who had so much difficulty several months back with the waffle and the gaffability, and was he attacked by that amphibious rabbit, or was it Jimmy Carter who was ambushed? The Times reporter looked everywhere for drolleries or witticisms about Obama and came up empty-handed. "

I think he is on to something here. They need to figure out a way to get Obama to laugh in mid gaffability stride. Some sort of laughing gas mickey in his cocktail and that of the Mrs, preferably. Someone should dress up as the hillbilly Peanut Farmer (insane grinning Jimmy rubber mask) and follow the messiah wherever he goes, preaching about "nook-yoo-ler alms" (whatever that is). Never underestimate the level of disorientation and silliness Jimmy Carter can bring to a campaign even in surrogate form. Even a large grinning Jimmy Carter piñata on stilts would work.

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"16 months... 16 months...16 months"

It sounds like Obama is talking about the gestation period of a walrus.

Actually, the 16 months translates to much more than that when it's considered that Obama's timetable wouldn't get started until January 21, 2009. If Obama and the democrats were really interested in a timeline, then they would be showing how serious they were about it by submitting immediate legislation for the 16 month timetable to leave Iraq.

As it stands right now, we have 6 months before a new president takes office, which means if you add 16 months to it, you get 20 months before the troop pullout timetable would have been met.

That means that if by Bush's own projections (estimates?), which have him pulling out our troops as conditions warrant and as the Iraqi government makes progress, that our troops would very likely have been pulled out even ahead of Obama's timetable.

The whole timetable issue is nothing more than a moot point if the timetable won't get started until after January 2009. It shouldn't even be an issue in the campaign.

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If Obama and the democrats were really interested in a timeline, then they would be showing how serious they were about it by submitting immediate legislation for the 16 month timetable to leave Iraq.

Good point.