Posted on 07/29/2008 8:22:18 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee.
Fresh from his presidential-style world tour, during which foreign leaders and American generals lined up to show him affection, Obama settled down to some presidential-style business in Washington yesterday. He ordered up a teleconference with the (current president's) Treasury secretary, granted an audience to the Pakistani prime minister and had his staff arrange for the chairman of the Federal Reserve to give him a briefing. Then, he went up to Capitol Hill to be adored by House Democrats in a presidential-style pep rally.
Along the way, he traveled in a bubble more insulating than the actual president's. Traffic was shut down for him as he zoomed about town in a long, presidential-style motorcade, while the public and most of the press were kept in the dark about his activities, which included a fundraiser at the Mayflower where donors paid $10,000 or more to have photos taken with him. His schedule for the day, announced Monday night, would have made Dick Cheney envious:
11:00 a.m.: En route TBA.
12:05 p.m.: En route TBA.
1:45 p.m.: En route TBA.
2:55 p.m.: En route TBA.
5:20 p.m.: En route TBA.
The 5:20 TBA turned out to be his adoration session with lawmakers in the Cannon Caucus Room, where even committee chairmen arrived early, as if for the State of the Union. Capitol Police cleared the halls -- just as they do for the actual president. The Secret Service hustled him in through a side door -- just as they do for the actual president. "I'm doin' good," Obama said with a wave.
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It's going to be worse if he's out before November. The chaos would reach outside Denver to our borders. It may be beginning within the media.
The "suspended" Hillary campaign continues to hover.
Perhaps he is seeing Obama for who he really is.
I agree. Either way before Nov or in Nov if he loses I fear we will see riots.
I don’t think we’ve heard the last of Hillary either. I expect scorched earth.
Did you ever think you’d see the day when conservatives expect Hillary to “save the day?” That’s scary enough.
Yeah, it is. Which leads to the next question, can McCain win against her?
I thought that to him and his typical wife person that America's traditions included only ongoing persecution of blacks.
Enough of a reason to get a little perturbed, if true. He did it in Europe, too.
Oh, yes, the man who would be king.
Demoralized? I think that is one of the greater understatements in history!
“Why would the WP write this about the dem nominee?”
Because that’s what the Clinton campaign wanted written.
This nomination will be stolen from him. Someone at this moment is planting the seeds in the superdelegates heads that this man thinks he is the messiah and should be in a straightjacket and not in the Whitehouse.
Pride goeth before a fall.
Lets just anoint him now and skip the election. Think of the money we will save. METHINKS we will NEED IT----Change you know.
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