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President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour (MSM starting to catch on)
wash post ^ | dana milbank

Posted on 07/30/2008 5:33:03 AM PDT by milwguy

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.

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; electionpresident; obama; obamapotus; obamavisit
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Even the Wash Post will not continue to run cover for an Egomaniac as big as Obama........."I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions." ....He really believes he is the Messiah, and that scares the hell out of me.
1 posted on 07/30/2008 5:33:03 AM PDT by milwguy
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This guy has risen way too far and way too fast. He’s starting to believe in his own divinity. Guys like that always crash and burn and its ugly. I pray that happens before November 4.


2 posted on 07/30/2008 5:35:42 AM PDT by henkster (Politics is the art of telling a bigger and more believable lie more often than your opponent)
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Then, he went up to Capitol Hill to be adored by House Democrats in a presidential-style pep rally.

The only "presidential pep rally" I'm aware of was the one his Democrat congressional suck-ups threw for Bill Clinton after he was impeached.

3 posted on 07/30/2008 5:40:16 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Without the second, the rest are just politicians' BS.)
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Let Obama and his sycophants live in their extreme delusions form now until 11:30 PM on November 4th 2008. After that they need to live with the reality of President elect John McCain.
4 posted on 07/30/2008 5:44:19 AM PDT by jveritas (God Bless President Bush and our brave troops)
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To: milwguy

Very good article by Dana Milbank. Thanks for posting.


5 posted on 07/30/2008 5:47:50 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Steely Tom

We need to gently remind everyone about this guy’s overweening pride and confidence in light of his total inexperience.

I personally have serious worries that he will try to jam down our throats some sort of compensation bill for black Americans and slavery. He mentions it obliquely every once in awhile, like last week at the minority journalists’ meeting.


6 posted on 07/30/2008 5:48:23 AM PDT by Gumdrop
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THE ALSAMMARAE-REZKO-AUCHI TRIANGLE CONNECTION TO BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA SHOULD BRING HIM DOWN



CORRUPT TO THE CORE

THE TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

Sooner or later, like with Wright and Ayers, the MSM will be forced to report on this.

7 posted on 07/30/2008 5:48:37 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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“I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged,” the Democratic presidential hopeful said.

“I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it’s Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.”

B. Hussein Obama


8 posted on 07/30/2008 5:54:19 AM PDT by milwguy (........)
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If Dana Milbank isn’t careful, he’s going to find himslf disinvited from all of those Beautiful People cocktail parties. Don’t “Dis” the Messiah, dude.


9 posted on 07/30/2008 5:55:21 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.)
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To: milwguy

Amazing column. Thanks for posting it.


10 posted on 07/30/2008 5:57:37 AM PDT by syriacus (Democrats got THEIR "change" in Election 2006. Are WE better off now?)
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This is the moment . . . that the world is waiting for, I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."

What traditions would that be?

11 posted on 07/30/2008 5:59:56 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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while the public and most of the press were kept in the dark about his activities,

This is what gets the MSM in a tizzy. They want access. They want their respect. And they want to ride on the plane, hobnob, take pictures, and get bragging rights that they rode with the Messiah.

The ones doing the squawking are probably the ones left out of the fun.

12 posted on 07/30/2008 6:06:21 AM PDT by Huck (A Teddy Roosevelt wannabe is better than a Che Guevara wannabe.)
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later


13 posted on 07/30/2008 6:06:42 AM PDT by I_be_tc
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Reparations indeed. They are free to leave, go back to their lttle spot of Africa, and claim “reparations” from those meanie rival tribesmen that sold them.


14 posted on 07/30/2008 6:07:59 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: milwguy
I got this from a friend. My apologies if it's been posted before but it's sooooo funny.

He ventured forth to bring light to the world

The anointed one's pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle in action - and a blessing to all his faithful followers

Gerard Baker

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.

The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.

When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organization with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?” In the great Battles of=2 0Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes of Working Class Whites.

And so it was, in the fullness of time, before the harvest month of the appointed year, the Child ventured forth - for the first time - to bring the light unto all the world. He travelled fleet of foot and light of camel, with a small retinue that consisted only of his loyal disciples from the tribe of the Media. He ventured first to the land of the Hindu Kush, where the Taleban had harbored the viper of al-Qaeda in their bosom, raining terror on all the world.

And the Child spake and the tribes of Nato immediately loosed the Caveats that had previously bound them. And in the great battle that ensued the forces of the light were triumphant. For as long as the Child stood with his arms raised aloft, the enemy suffered great blows and the threat of terror was no more.

From there he went fo rth to Mesopotamia where he was received by the great ruler al-Maliki, and al-Maliki spake unto him and blessed his Sixteen Month Troop Withdrawal Plan even as the imperial warrior Petraeus tried to destroy it.

And lo, in Mesopotamia, a miracle occurred. Even though the Great Surge of Armour that the evil Bush had ordered had been a terrible mistake, a waste of vital military resources and doomed to end in disaster, the Child's very presence suddenly brought forth a great victory for the forces of the light.

And the Persians, who saw all this and were greatly fearful, longed to speak with the Child and saw that the Child was the bringer of peace. At the mention of his name they quickly laid aside their intrigues and beat their uranium swords into civil nuclear energy ploughshares. From there the Child went up to the city of Jerusalem, and entered through the gate seated on an ass. The crowds of network anchors who had followed him from afar cheered “Hosanna” and waved great palm fronds and strewed them at his feet.

In Jerusalem and in surrou nding Palestine, the Child spake to the Hebrews and the Arabs, as the Scripture had foretold. And in an instant, the lion lay down with the lamb, and the Israelites and Ishmaelites ended their long enmity and lived for ever after in peace.

As word spread throughout the land about the Child's wondrous works, peoples from all over flocked to hear him; Hittites and Abbasids; Obamacons and McCainiacs; Cameroonians and Blairites.

And they told of strange and wondrous things that greeted the news of the Child's journey. Around the world, global temperatures began to decline, and the ocean levels fell and the great warming was over.

The Great Prophet Algore of Nobel and Oscar, who many had believed was the anointed one, smiled and told his followers that the Child was the one generations had been waiting for.

And there were other wonderful signs. In the city of the Street at the Wall, spreads on interbank interest rates dropped like manna from Heaven and rates on credit default swaps fell to the ground as dead birds from the almond tree, and the people who had liv ed in foreclosure were able to borrow again.

Black gold gushed from the ground at prices well below $140 per barrel. In hospitals across the land the sick were cured even though they were uninsured. And all because the Child had pronounced it.

And this is the testimony of one who speaks the truth and bears witness to the truth so that you might believe. And he knows it is the truth for he saw it all on CNN and the BBC and in the pages of The New York Times.

Then the Child ventured forth from Israel and Palestine and stepped onto the shores of the Old Continent. In the land of Queen Angela of Merkel, vast multitudes gathered to hear his voice, and he preached to them at length.

But when he had finished speaking his disciples told him the crowd was hungry, for they had had nothing to eat all the hours they had waited for him.

And so the Child told his disciples to fetch some food but all they had was five loaves and a co uple of frankfurters. So he took the bread and the frankfurters and blessed them and told his disciples to feed the multitudes. And when all had eaten their fill, the scraps filled twelve baskets.

Thence he travelled west to Mount Sarkozy. Even the beauteous Princess Carla of the tribe of the Bruni was struck by awe and she was great in love with the Child, but he was tempted not.

On the Seventh Day he walked across the Channel of the Angles to the ancient land of the hooligans. There he was welcomed with open arms by the once great prophet Blair and his successor, Gordon the Leper, and his successor, David the Golden One.

And suddenly, with the men appeared the archangel Gabriel and the whole host of the heavenly choir, ranks of cherubim and seraphim, all praising God and singing: “Yes, We Can.”

15 posted on 07/30/2008 6:12:29 AM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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"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."

I thought there was a $250 limit.

16 posted on 07/30/2008 6:14:10 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: milwguy

I’m convinced the guy has a god complex. I fully expect him to follow in the footsteps of Caligula if he’s elected.


17 posted on 07/30/2008 6:16:20 AM PDT by DemforBush
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To: milwguy

18 posted on 07/30/2008 6:18:12 AM PDT by End_Clintonism_Now (Hitler: "Into The Truck!"..... Obama: "Under The Bus!")
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To: Nathan Zachary
I thought there was a $250 limit.

There must be a loophole. Don't all the big shot politicians charge thousands for these photo-op dinners?

19 posted on 07/30/2008 6:21:17 AM PDT by Huck (A Teddy Roosevelt wannabe is better than a Che Guevara wannabe.)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma
"And suddenly, with the men appeared the archangel Gabriel and the whole host of the heavenly choir, ranks of cherubim and seraphim, all praising God and singing: "if we do this, and if we do that, then Yes, We Can.”
20 posted on 07/30/2008 6:29:22 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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