Posted on 09/16/2008 10:19:07 PM PDT by pissant
Seldom has there been a larger contrast between the style of a candidate and the strategy of his campaign.
Barack Obama is cool, firm and permanently unruffled. It is precisely this quality of steadiness that has made him seem a credible prospective president with the thinnest of résumés.
But Obama's campaign is rootless, reactive and panicky. At every stage since securing the nomination, it has seemed fearful of missteps and unsure of its own organizing principle. So it has invariably adopted the Democratic conventional wisdom of the moment.
Obama's first major decision was his running mate. He could have reinforced a message of change and moderation with a Democratic governor who wins in a Republican state, or reached for history by selecting Hillary Clinton. But his choice came soon after Russia invaded Georgia, and the conventional wisdom demanded an old hand who knew his way around Tbilisi. When the Georgia crisis faded, Obama was left with a partisan, undisciplined, congressional liberal at his side. This has served to undermine Obama's message of change -- and has allowed Sarah Palin to pilfer a portion of that appeal.
Obama's second decision concerned the tone and content of his convention. Here the Democratic conventional wisdom was nearly unanimous. Obama should shelve his highfalutin rhetoric and talk like a real Democrat. Go after McCain. Talk about "bread and butter" issues -- code words for class-warfare attacks on consumers of blinis and caviar.
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What a bunch of bollocks.
Are these MSM losers serious?
Obama just spent an evening in Beverly Hills collecting 9 million bucks from people who "consume blinis and caviar."
"Barack Obama is cool, firm and permanently unruffled."
Yeah, and I am Batman. Anyone who saw the interview with O'Reilly saw the fear and borderline lunacy in Obama's mannerisms.
Hey! He's got an economic plan that will knock your sox off.
Maybe not.
Err, Gerson, that's more the sort of thing that's going on tonight at Obama's dinner/Streisand concert.
“Barack Obama is cool, firm and permanently unruffled.”
Perhaps at the level of a street hustler or someone who could talk their way out of a shoplifting collar. But this punk is light years away from anything remotely resembling presidential. It still absolutely amazes me how in hell he could have gotten this far. He reminds me of someone who should be trying to sell fake $10 Rolexes in a parking lot.
Obama is shallow and arrgant, he never will let you see him sweat, he’s too cool. He doesn’tcare that he’s an empty suit, I doubt he even realizes it.
If you’ve ever had the “pleasure” to be around students from an ivy league law school, you recognize exactly what is going on with Obama.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Uh,uh, Michelle, uh what uh do I do next? I don't know hockey, uh basketball, boating, fishing, uh that uh snowsled thingy, shooting, uh uh... Dang, isn't there uh something I know that uh she uh doesn't?"
Really good analysis. Thanks for posting it.
And, here's the best part, the Obambi himself says that running his campaign is his "executive experience" - rootless, reactive, and panicky. BWAHAHAHA!
Barack Obama is cool, firm and permanently unruffled.
The kneepads over at WaPo have now worn as thin as their hold on reality if they think this panicky little juvenile is the least bit "cool" or "unruffled." His disintegration is apparent to anyone who actually watches and listens to him on TV. Why do you people think he's gone to all-teleprompter-all-the-time if he's so unrufflable?
PUH-LEASE WAPO!
This isn't even fun anymore. It's like slicing the legs off that knight in the Monty Python sketch who keeps screaming "come back and fight!" when the only thing left of him is the head. Here's a pointer: In order to be effective some aspect of propaganda actually has to be based in reality. It's actually more dangerous than a lie because a small kernel of it's actually true. It's no fun to kick your asses when you just print inanities. We need just a little teeny bit of sport.
Please?
“In the last six months there have been 292 murders in Chicago.
Sens. Barack Obama & Dick Durbin, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., Gov. Rod Blogojevich, House leader Mike Madigan, Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan, Mayor Richard Daley..... are the leadership in Illinois..... and all Democrats are, of course, blaming each other. They can't blame Republicans; there aren't any!
The state pension fund is $44 Billion in debt, worst in the country. Cook County (Chicago) sales tax is 10.25%, highest in the country. The Chicago school system is one of the worst in the country (having been reformed by Ayers no less). This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois.... and he's ‘gonna fix Washington politics’????”
>The ONLY thing keeping the magic negro in the race is the MSM’s 24/7 Obama pimpfest.<
It was also the only thing that even got him in the race to begin with.
Not to worry, he has taken his teleprompter “binky” on the road with him.
I think the “powers that be” said...shut up and read the words.
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