Posted on 09/18/2008 4:55:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Democrats have spent a year demonstrating yet again why they are unfit to lead the nation and perhaps unfit any longer to be a major political party.
A year ago, they were the default option and seemed to have the '08 election in the bag. All they had to do was step up and act responsibly. Then along came Barack Obama starring in a self-produced one-act drama about a fictional hero named Barack Obama.
The New York Times and Washington Post swooned. They rushed out rave reviews and embellished the script with additional exaggerations of their own. So did CNN and the networks.
Soon, the high-octane prospect of a left-wing charismatic with bonus points for race and a claim to historic significance became irresistible. Before the rank and file caught on to the media hustle, Barack Obama walked off with the nomination and ownership of the Democratic Party.
Now the Democrats are compounding the fraud by foisting him off on the voters. The Barack Obama they are peddling is a media-created virtual person endowed by his creators with characteristics that do not represent the real Barack Obama. Millions of people are being duped.
The fictional Barack Obama may win the election in November, but if he does, it will be the real Barack Obama who will occupy the White House and exercise nearly untrammeled power over the lives and livelihoods of 300 million Americans. Therein lies the enormity of the trick the Democrats are playing on the American people.
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“Therein lies the enormity of the trick the Democrats are playing on the American people.”
I remember this trick. The Soviets did it for nearly 70 years. Control the information the people get and you control the people.
I agree , He’s an empty suit. But somehow he’s ahead
In another universe, 0bama would be in a cheesy sci-fi movie.
They are about ready to start screaming.
So they say.
Great op-ed. This should be printed up and posted throughout every workplace, every street corner. Obama is the biggest fraud in the history of American politics.
If he wins, and the Congress is held by the Dems, IMHO, things will get so bad (think Carter days) that the Democratic party will be in ruins. If McCain wins, and things continue to go south, they’ll just blame the Republican administration...which is exactly what is happening now. They’re blaming Bush, when the Dems control Congress, were responsible for abuses in Fannie and Freddie, etc.
A small part of me would like to see them descend into the total confusions that would be the Obama administration....but that’s the evil “we told you so” part of me. My saner side says McCain must win or we’re in big trouble, on the defense, economic, and international level.
After Clinton got into office I didn’t think they could come up with a sleazier more unqualified person... Oops! I was wrong!
I can hardly wait to see what they come up with NEXT time!!!
This editorial is hilarious, true, but hilarious. Great post!
Oh, no, not even close. There is nothing in the history of our country that comes close to what will happen with Obama in control of the Department of Justice, the Treasury, the Pentagon.
Think Weimar republic.
A great failing of President Bush IMHO has been his reluctance, near unwillingness in fact, to fight the congress publically. Congress blocks everything he wants to do then blames him for the inactivity and he says nothing. Given that he doesn't fight back, the public is left to assume the congressional attacks by the likes of Reid and Pelosi and the media that print them must be fair. It hurts Bush and it hurts every other republican.
I don't think McCain will be quite that passive.
Polls are easy to skew and are meaningless.
The poll that counts is on Nov 4th.
I’m a foreigner (Italian) watching this election cycle. One hardly recognizes America, once the world capital of “horse sense”.
Bill Clinton - of all people - got it right, back during the Dem. primary campaign, when he complained that Obama was all symbol and no substance.
For the first time the reality of a candidate’s background is ignored in favor of what he symbolizes. Never has this happened to such an unhinged degree. One cheers, one even cheers wildly for a candidate, but when did Americans ever faint for them or applaud when they sneezed? When would Americans ever forgive any 20 year, donating, marrying and baptizing association with a “Goddam America?” or “the Honkies invented AIDS to kill off the black folk?” When would they forgive any association whatsoever with an unrepentant terrorist? When would they have ever even bothered to consider someone with a hidden past and absolutely no accomplishment fueling such a rapid rise (in Chicago of all places)? When would so many lies have gone unpunished, so many gaffes unscoffed? When in the past would a candidate saying “THIS is the moment the oceans started to recede, etc.” have been taken seriously?
Please, America, don’t go over the edge. This is not just about leftwing / rightwing, liberal or conservative, but runs much deeper.
Excellent article. Thanks for posting.
I had thought that Hillary was that “sleazier more unqualified person”, but compared to the damage that Obama would impose she is an absolute lightweight.
The democrats reaped almost zero benefit from their control of Congress. They fail to enact almost nothing from their left wing liberal agenda. In fact on the most important issue of the century, the war on terror, they have failed miserably on every measure to impose their defeatist agenda.
Il suo usaggio d’inglese é perfetto, anché tutto che hai ditto. Dové hai studiato inglese?
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