Just Make Stuff Up

National Review Online ^ | June 12, 2009 4:00 AM | Victor Davis Hanson

[Clemenza]

0boma obviously has lots of white people voting for him too

Yep. You would be hard pressed to find anyone white in the NYC/Tri-State area that would admit to voting for Bush or McCain.

[Scotswife]

Every new column surpasses the previous one.

[Texas Fossil]

Obozo = Zero

Zero is a symbol for Nothing.

A total illusion.

We his past is hidden and we do not even know what his real name is. Honestly we do not even know what his real name is.

Is it:

Barry Dunham
Barry Toots
Barry Davis
Barry Soetoro
Barrack H. Obama Jr.

Or something else.

[dennisw]

Having the media in your pocket certainly helps. My opinion is that Obama makes conflicting statements to have soundbites to buttress his case, no matter which side he's arguing from. Because in the end it's all about maintaining power.

The media is his Ministry of Propaganda
I have told people that John McCain would have won if he had the media in his pocket the way 0boma did

[workerbee]

the press is the one thing that could have called Obama to account for his wild mischaracterizations of his own and all other history; yet it is mesmerized by him for some reason and has probably contributed more than anything else to enabling him.

[usmcobra]

Stanley B. Toots. My odds on favourite for Obeyme’s real name

[Tolik]

Very much related:

Hovering on High: Obama Surveys the World
Townhallcom ^ | June 12, 2009 | Charles Krauthammer

[Taxman]

When the history of the world’s great con men is written, Obozo will certainly be at the top of the list.

We can only hope that his psychoses (severe mental disorders in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted) — he most certainly has more than one — become more and more evident to the American people (and the world, for that matter) and he is, metaphorically, run out of WDC on a rail, tarred and feathered!

Perhaps the Obozo presidency, when it fails (as it surely must), will forever seal the doom of Socialism in America?

[dennisw]

Ministry of Propaganda

[dennisw]

lol!
all in the family

[Taxman]

Thanks, workerbee, for posting this extraordinary essay. VDH is my modern-day hero

All, please see my post #48.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Terrific article. Thank you for the post.

[Tennessee Nana]

Remember Obama’s own assertions that he was a “student of history” and that “words mean something. You can’t just make stuff up.”
_______________________________________________

I listened to Rush for the first time in 1990...

sometime around or since then...shortly thereafter...

RUSH said...

“words mean something.”

So President Obama listens to Rush ????

[Texas Fossil]

At this point I would not place a bet.

Most probable, Barry Dunham (no father).

That would embarrass him, but it would not explain why he is in such stealth mode about his past.

Unless Frank Davis really is his father. I doubt that.

We will eventually know, as this plays out.

[Neidermeyer]

You’ve just got to parse it correctly...

“You can’t just make stuff up”
**************************************************
“You can’t just make stuff up” (I can!) ,, you see the emphasis should be on “YOU”.

[andy58-in-nh]

Perhaps the Obozo presidency, when it fails (as it surely must), will forever seal the doom of Socialism in America?

I am not nearly as optimistic as you in that regard.

A Con Man is not hard to spot, but he may be hard to resist. The reason why such people inspire confidence in the first place is because their victims desperately want to believe what they are being told. Snake oil does not sell itself; it depends upon a ready supply of suckers who will happily part ways with their cash in the pursuit of... what? Of Hope.

After two generations of dumbed-down education (devoid of objective philosophy and history), cultural degradation, and the celebration of dependency, America is no longer as proud or skeptical - or intelligent as it once was. The sad truth is that far too many of us now await patiently, gratefully in line for our cup of Kool-Aid.

[maica]

Excellent observations. I agree with you completely.

[maica]

He not only speaks differently to different audiences, he supports both sides of an issue in the same speech - often in the same long rambling sentence.

So everyone listening to him, hears something that they like, and they relax, thinking “he does agree with me.”

“Everyone” even includes pundits on fox news who refused to face the reality of the man’s modus operandi.

“On the other hand” is probably the Dunham/Obama family motto.

[oldbrowser]

All of the critics, who only knew him in passing, were stunned. They thought he had just made a mistake; they had no idea he was actually not all there. In passing, he seemed like a very articulate and intelligent expert. It wasn't until exposed to sharp, public pressure directed at his competence that he publicly exposed his severe mental problems. (Which I knew about all too well, because I was stuck working with him for months)

You are talking about Dan Rather, aren't you?

[griswold3]

A liberal recently identified Obama’s ‘world view’ as ‘Third World sectarian’....

Fits.