Michael Barone: Outrageous Vulnerabilities - Obama may not Weather this storm.

National Review Online ^ | August 30, 2008 | Michael Barone

[FlingWingFlyer]

I can already hear Olbermann and Matthews humming that old Loretta Lynn tune, “After the Tingle Is Gone.”

[rawcatslyentist]

>" Finally, there is Obama’s 2003 vote against a bill, “virtually identical” as the Obama campaign admits, to one that passed the U.S. Senate 98-0, banning the killing of fetuses who have survived abortions."

[volunbeer]

One of the better pieces I have read recently although I would lump Ayers/Wright and add in Rezco (sp?) and simply call it associations. Might even add his mentor as a young man, Frank, the communist party member.

This is a man who has repeatedly shown questionable judgment. The only thing I can find that he ever took a principled stand on was this abortion bill where he cast the lone vote.

The rest of the time he specialized in voting “present” which does not indicate leadership to most Americans.

[CASchack]

Obama’s ego will not allow him to admit error. “I can no more disown my position on a woman’s right to choose than I can disown my white grandmother....”

[BlessedBeGod]

Oh my God, that cartoon is spot on.

[uncbob]

If I were advising Obama, I would tell him to confess error, as he arguably has on Wright, on both Ayers and the Born Alive Protection Act, lest they cause his campaign as much damage as the furlough ads caused Michael Dukakis and the Swift Boat ads caused John Kerry.

Yeah right confess to errors as if that makes everything right---Cut me a break

[353FMG]

That cartoon is valid as long as the babies are non-Muslim.

[jwalsh07]

BArone has zeroed the RNC weapons for them. Obama is vulnerable here bigtime and McCain’s media op has been absolutely stellar. We will be seeing a lot of Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers and a small baby left to die in a filthy closet in the next two months methinks.

[Bahbah]

But Obama does not believe he is in error. He believes our country is irretrievably flawed with its ideas of individuality and rising or falling on your own efforts. He absorbed the teaching of Frank Davis. He’s a red diaper baby who, unlike David Horowitz, was unable to discern what crap he was being fed.

And most horrible of all, he believes that those babies should be left to die because, after all, someone was trying to kill them in the first place.

I cannot believe this man is the candidate that the democrat party put forth as its candidate for president.

[PghBaldy]

The baby killing and Ayers can doom his campaign. Even pro-choice people will find t hard to fathom his objections to helping a suffering baby, if for no other reason than it won’t play in Peoria. Same with Ayers. Same with Wright. Same with invading nuclear Pakistan. Hammer him on these issues, day after day, and he loses.

[gridlock]

If I were advising Obama, I would tell him to confess error, as he arguably has on Wright, on both Ayers and the Born Alive Protection Act, lest they cause his campaign as much damage as the furlough ads caused Michael Dukakis and the Swift Boat ads caused John Kerry.

What Michael Barone fails to realize is that Barack Obama never admits he made a mistake until he is absolutely backed into a corner. By then the damage is catastrophic.

Obama starts from the assumption that he is always right, and goes on from there. Even when he mis-speaks, the mis-spoken statement becomes the new and operative truth. If he said it was sunny on a day it was raining cats and dogs, he would walk around all day without an umbrella rather than admit he was wrong.

Take a look at what happened with his throwaway line that he would meet with hostile foreign heads of state "without preconditions". Rather than temporizing his statement, which would have cause absolutely no controversy, since his statement was idiotic, he has married himself to the position and enshrined it as the lynch-pin of his prospective foreign policy. He is willing to commit the United States to disasterous negotiations so he doesn't have to admit that he made one small error in a Democratic debate a year-and-a-half before the election.

Similarly with Rev. Wright. Instead of just admitting that he listened to some of the more bizzare rants and discounted them as matters of style, he embraced Wright and all his statements, to the point of throwing his own grandmother under the bus. It was only when Rev. Wright pressed the issue by going on national TV that Obama was finally forced to put some small distance between himself and his Pastor of 20 years.

Obama is never wrong. Get it through your head. This one realization makes all of his behavior make sense.

[gridlock]

It would be interesting to do an analysis to see if any Senator in recent history has had a worse record over his Senate career of attending votes that Barack Obama. I would wager not.

OK... maybe the guy in a coma has been worse of late, but not when you factor in the previous years of his career, I bet...

[grey_whiskers]

Cheers!

[Devilinbaggypants]

Wave bye bye Joe! This a close as we're going to get!

[ntnychik]

Fantastic graphic! Are there bumper stickers yet?

[grey_whiskers]

No -- I'm having a conversation on FReepmail with another FReeper about it; I'd like the graphic to be a bit more professional before going ahead...

Do you *really* think people would go for it?

Cheers!

[Ragnar54]

We should be concerned with the ongoing relationship between Obama and Ayers the bomber. As demonstrated by Democrats openly salivating over another New Orleans flood, Obama (and Democrats in general) are always in a position to profit from disaster. A well-timed bomb in a levee could reenact the Katrina tragedy. Even if Jindal saves lives by forcing the evacuation of the city, the property damage would be again blamed on Republicans. Jindal and the Feds should take steps to prevent any “participation” in the campaign on the part of Ayers and friends. Bush no doubt wants to keep his hands off the campaign, but the special “political activism” for which Ayers is known can only be handled by a Governor or President.

[Fred]

An ideal Obama cabinet member

[ntnychik]

I think people who understand the Christian fish symbol would go for it, and there are lots of them. I love it!