Posted on 07/30/2008 3:17:19 AM PDT by cdchik123
Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee.
~snip~
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.
Inside, according to a witness, he told the House members, "This is the moment . . . that the world is waiting for," adding: "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."
As he marches toward Inauguration Day (Election Day is but a milestone on that path), Obama's biggest challenger may not be Republican John McCain but rather his own hubris.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“Prom Queen”...I love it.
I wonder how he’s going to act after he gets crushed in the debates?
I've noticed that posts of this nature have become next to non-existant now, except for some bitter-enders.
The threat of an Obama presidency.....with its implications for the war, for the Supreme Court, for the various threats to religion, free speech and property rights, for the announced intentions for robbing us blind via taxation.....has, I believed opened many eyes to the extreme danger we are in from the marxist/fascist dictator-in-waiting.
Unhappy conservatives may well recall President Lincoln's sage line "A house divided against itself can not stand". All of us on the right side of the political and social spectrum have to unite now as a tightly-knit SWAT team against the arrogance and radical philosophy of this aggresive and wily pretender-to-the-throne, or suffer the consequences later.
Leni
Why does the image of a “Three Card Monte” dealer haunt me?
Absolutely.
As an aside, there was a hottie contest and Miss Didi and I were not nominated?? What the...? ;-)
Un-******-believable.
I never thought I would see someone more narcissistic than Hitlery. But there you go.
-- 2 well-delivered speeches
-- 147 work days as a US Senator
-- 3 years as a Community Organizer for an organization whose name he cannot remember.
-- 2 fairly well-written books about his favorite subject: Barack _________ Obama.
EXACTLY!
(responding on this thread because the other thread was locked)
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