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The Long Unraveling of Obama
Jeff Gannon - A Voice of the New Media ^ | 2/26/2008 | Jeff Gannon

Posted on 02/26/2008 7:26:58 AM PST by ConservativeMajority

Last week, Sen. Hillary Clinton jumped all over Sen. Barack Obama for speeches he made that employed phrases and flourishes previously used by Deval Patrick during his run for governor of Massachusetts. The overblown charges of plagiarism from Clinton’s surrogates and the candidate’s own attack line, “change you can Xerox” unleashed during a debate had little effect.

The juvenile back-and-forth between the Democratic candidates about who used what words when hid the fact that neither Clinton nor Obama had much new to say. The campaigns of both candidates focused on the word “change” without offering any clue as to the specifics of the change they wanted to bring. Since both Clinton and Obama are disturbingly unqualified to be Commander in Chief, voters should ask as Walter Mondale did 24 years ago, “Where’s the beef?”

Sen. Clinton’s agenda is not much of a mystery, since it is reasonable to expect her presidency to be a third installment of “Weekend at Bill and Hill’s” or perhaps “Back to the Future III.” The country would be plunged into four years of the scandal and corruption that has followed the Clintons throughout their public lives and government run amok with liberal judges appointed to implement social policy from the bench and Marxist economists imposing fiscal policy to confiscate larger and larger amounts from individual taxpayers, small businesses and large corporations and redistribute it to cronies, bureaucrats, liberal activists and the lazy.

Some Democrats and the Old Media have portrayed Barack Obama as a combination of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. with a bit of the Messiah mixed in. However, the Illinois junior senator’s soaring oratory, while powerful enough to send a shiver up Chris Matthews’ leg, is devoid of substance. To say that Obama’s record of accomplishment is thin would be generous, virtually non-existent would be more accurate.

Because the racial politics Democrats waged against Republicans for decades have come home to roost, Obama has not been vetted by the party on the verge of making him their choice to take on John McCain, the only adult among the three presidential contenders. The Old Media has no intention of taking a critical look at someone who has sparked a flashback to their hippie days of marching for civil rights and against the Vietnam War.

The job of introducing the electorate to the real Barack Obama will fall to the New Media. A good place to start is with Obama’s “Global Poverty Act”, a massive giveaway program that not only puts hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars into the hands of corrupt United Nations types, but also commits the United States to various sovereignty-sacrificing programs such as gun control, global warming reduction schemes and the International Criminal Court.

Strip away Barack Obama’s seductive “Barry White” speaking style and mocha exterior and what is revealed is a garden variety far-left radical. The photograph the Clinton campaign passed around Monday that pictured Obama dressed up like Osama bin Laden was a valid political shot, contrary to the gasps and outrage of the Obama campaign and the Old Media. It showed how comfortable Obama was in a turban, yet the man who wants to lead the United States confessed how uncomfortable he felt with an American flag pin on his lapel:

"Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq War, that [American flag lapel pin] became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest.”

This is only the beginning of the long unraveling of Barack Obama.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; barackobama; hillaryclinton; jeffgannon; obama

1 posted on 02/26/2008 7:27:04 AM PST by ConservativeMajority
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To: ConservativeMajority

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl32Y7wDVDs

WHY OBAMA SHOULD NOT BE PRESIDENT!

In just 52 seconds! scary


2 posted on 02/26/2008 7:28:39 AM PST by buffyt (Obama threw his turban into the presidential campaign ring!)
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To: ConservativeMajority

I like it.
Barack Obama, more comfortable in an African turban than with an American Flag lapel pin.


3 posted on 02/26/2008 7:31:19 AM PST by counterpunch
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To: ConservativeMajority

I certainly hope that you are correct in your prediction.


4 posted on 02/26/2008 7:31:29 AM PST by maplenut
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To: buffyt

Scary indeed.


5 posted on 02/26/2008 7:33:12 AM PST by manic4organic (Send a care package through USO today.)
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To: buffyt

Watched the video. Obama is very dangerous!


6 posted on 02/26/2008 7:35:43 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: ConservativeMajority
In 2006 Obama campaigned for his cousin and constant friend, Raila Odinga the opposition leader in Kenya. Obama's efforts were so stridend that the sitting government accused him of inappropriate influence in a national election.

Odinga is an islamo-fascist with ties to east African AQ like organizations. A MOU between Odinga and a terrorist organization surfaced a few months ago. In this MOU Odinga promised to institute Sharia Law throughout Kenya if he were to win.

Odinga lost and the horror stories of rape, murder, intimidation and church burnings began. It is widely accepted that Odinga is responsible for most of these atrocities. It is also acknowledged that Obama is in weekly communication with his terrorist cousin.

google; 'odinga kenya sharia' for a start.

7 posted on 02/26/2008 7:37:35 AM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: ConservativeMajority
http://www.kxmb.com/getArticle.asp?ArticleId=210573

GLOBAL POVERTY ACT sponsored by Barack Obama to give MORE of your HARD EARNED money to corrupt leaders in corrupt countries!

I informed my daughter that she is NOT hard working American according to Obama. She and her fiance’ together make way more than the $45K Obama calls HARD WORKING AMERICANS. This week and last week my daughter, who is a Geoscientist, UT Grad 2006 HydroGeology.... is in Andrews Texas. Wearing hard hat, steel toe boots, driving a truck, wearing a monitor to protect from radioactive exposure, drilling water wells. She has a crew doing the drilling. She is surrounded by rabid coyotes, one bit the tire of the truck... a mountain lion... rattlesnakes... they already killed one of those that wouldn’t go away. But according to Obama she is NOT A HARD WORKING AMERICAN! I told her so she would know. I thought she should know. And my husband drives an hour to Houston daily, leaves before 6am and gets home about 8pm. But he is not hard working, because he makes more than the magic $45K.

8 posted on 02/26/2008 7:38:10 AM PST by buffyt (Obama threw his turban into the presidential campaign ring!)
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To: wtc911

Obama just gets scarier and scarier.


9 posted on 02/26/2008 7:38:59 AM PST by buffyt (Obama threw his turban into the presidential campaign ring! If he wins ATLAS WILL SHRUG!)
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To: ConservativeMajority

The Old Media has no intention of taking a critical look at someone who has sparked a flashback to their hippie days of marching for civil rights and against the Vietnam War.

And therein lies the reason he will lose. The media figures if we don’t report it, it did’nt happen. Obama is smoke and mirrors.


10 posted on 02/26/2008 7:40:22 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: buffyt

trust me.... the media may be cheering but their candidates are on the wrong side of most every issue.


11 posted on 02/26/2008 7:40:44 AM PST by Republic Rocker
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To: buffyt

Your point is well taken. It will be up to the New Media to match the rhetoric to the reality, since the mesmerized lamestream media won’t do it.


12 posted on 02/26/2008 7:41:38 AM PST by ConservativeMajority (If war isn't the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
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To: ConservativeMajority
Oh, but The Great O does stand for something. He was the only member of the Illinois legislature to speak against the Born Alive Infants' Protection Act, which stated that if a baby is inadvertently born alive in the course of an attempted late-term abortion, the medicos have to treat the baby as what he or she is --- a newborn --- and act to preserve the baby's life.

The Great O said he opposed it because he didn't think the baby ---the born, chest heaving, fingers clasping, blinking, squirming baby --- was covered under the 14th Amendment, the amendment which defines the rights of "persons."

Claims he's for the "little people." Big O.

13 posted on 02/26/2008 7:43:37 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Cordially.)
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To: ConservativeMajority

This whole election has been a set-up to get Johnny McCrazy elected president, and that is exactly what is going to happen. IT will be at least 4 years of crying by the media that America is just a *racist* country.


14 posted on 02/26/2008 7:44:28 AM PST by subterfuge (1st choice: Hunter------2nd choice: Thompson-----3rd choice: there is no 3rd choice!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

In years past, Americans would not be shown the truth, for example the defeat of the Viet Cong in the Tet Offensive.


15 posted on 02/26/2008 7:44:36 AM PST by ConservativeMajority (If war isn't the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
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To: ConservativeMajority

“Change you can Xerox” was a good line, IMO. Too bad it didn’t do anything.


16 posted on 02/26/2008 7:59:12 AM PST by abercrombie_guy_38
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To: ConservativeMajority
It showed how comfortable Obama was in a turban, yet the man who wants to lead the United States confessed how uncomfortable he felt with an American flag pin on his lapel.

Excellent comparison...not to mention his hands folded in front of his crotch rather than over his heart in another familiar picture of the man who would be POTUS, while our flag was being honored .

17 posted on 02/26/2008 8:08:08 AM PST by LucyJo
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To: ConservativeMajority

It just seems like the democrats want to reward the non workers rather than the hard workers!

Atlas, take notice.


18 posted on 02/26/2008 8:13:23 AM PST by buffyt (Obama threw his turban into the presidential campaign ring! If he wins ATLAS WILL SHRUG!)
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To: buffyt

I can just see leaders in China and Russia cheering him on. Obama really is turning into another Jimmy Carter. I can’t believe we ever named a sub after that douche bag peanut farmer. /rant


19 posted on 02/26/2008 8:57:57 AM PST by catbertz
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To: ConservativeMajority
Message to Obama: Please don't unravel until after you beat Hillary.
20 posted on 02/26/2008 9:42:04 AM PST by AZLiberty (President Fred -- I like the sound of it.)
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To: ConservativeMajority

Unravelling? Hardly. This Marxist POS will very likely be our next president.


21 posted on 02/26/2008 9:45:56 AM PST by LIConFem (Thompson. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter Lifetime ACU Rating: 92 (any combo will do, fellas))
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To: buffyt

Duh!


22 posted on 02/26/2008 9:47:53 AM PST by caffe (please, no more consensus)
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To: LIConFem

Goodness! It’s only February. There is a long, long way to go. Conservatives might consider shifting their focus from displeasure with McCain to really looking at B. Hussein.


23 posted on 02/26/2008 10:08:34 AM PST by ConservativeMajority (If war isn't the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
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To: ConservativeMajority
"Conservatives might consider shifting their focus from displeasure with McCain to really looking at B. Hussein."

That's precisely where my focus is, for all the good it'll do. And yes, it is still early and a lot can happen between now and November. But the way it looks now, The Marxist Dictator-in-WaitingTM will trounce Hillary in the primary, and McCain in the general.
24 posted on 02/26/2008 10:20:38 AM PST by LIConFem (Thompson. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter Lifetime ACU Rating: 92 (any combo will do, fellas))
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To: ConservativeMajority
Jeff Gannon?

Besides writing, what other careers has Mr. Gannon pursued?

25 posted on 02/26/2008 11:08:12 AM PST by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: trumandogz

I don’t know his resume, I only post some of his writings that I find interesting.


26 posted on 02/26/2008 11:12:51 AM PST by ConservativeMajority (If war isn't the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
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To: ConservativeMajority

It appears that James Gannon aka James Dale Guckert, had once been employed as a prostitute.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36733-2005Feb18.html


27 posted on 02/26/2008 11:24:45 AM PST by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: trumandogz

Funny, I heard he was a reporter. In today’s media, same thing.


28 posted on 02/26/2008 11:55:21 AM PST by ConservativeMajority (If war isn't the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
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To: ConservativeMajority
The photograph the Clinton campaign passed around Monday that pictured Obama dressed up like Osama bin Laden was a valid political shot, contrary to the gasps and outrage of the Obama campaign and the Old Media. It showed how comfortable Obama was in a turban, yet the man who wants to lead the United States confessed how uncomfortable he felt with an American flag pin on his lapel

Gannon was going good until this point ... and then he descended into this blather.

Sometimes politicians end up in silly clothes:

That folks are trying to read something more into Obama wearing a turban is just silly.

30 posted on 02/26/2008 12:26:57 PM PST by r9etb
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To: r9etb

Likewise people claiming that a benign photo of B. Hussein in a turban is some kind of smear. Obama can’t have it both ways!


31 posted on 02/26/2008 12:51:00 PM PST by ConservativeMajority (If war isn't the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
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To: ConservativeMajority
Likewise people claiming that a benign photo of B. Hussein in a turban is some kind of smear. Obama can’t have it both ways!

That doesn't make sense: it was put out there as a smear, and Obama's elves are entitled to attack the smear. It was presented as something "bad" -- and Gannon repeats the misdeed.

There are plenty of real, adult reasons to be against Obama's candidacy. If we can't concentrate on and present those, we're doomed.

32 posted on 02/26/2008 1:03:34 PM PST by r9etb
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To: r9etb

I think Gannon’s premise is that Obama’s “unraveling” is just beginning and all of the “adult” issues will be examined in due course by the new media.


33 posted on 02/26/2008 1:09:11 PM PST by ConservativeMajority (If war isn't the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
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To: ConservativeMajority
I think Gannon’s premise is that Obama’s “unraveling” is just beginning and all of the “adult” issues will be examined in due course by the new media.

Obama "looking comfortable in a turban" is not an adult issue.

34 posted on 02/26/2008 1:10:52 PM PST by r9etb
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To: wtc911
In 2006 Obama campaigned for his cousin and constant friend, Raila Odinga the opposition leader in Kenya. Obama's efforts were so stridend that the sitting government accused him of inappropriate influence in a national election.

Odinga is an islamo-fascist with ties to east African AQ like organizations. A MOU between Odinga and a terrorist organization surfaced a few months ago. In this MOU Odinga promised to institute Sharia Law throughout Kenya if he were to win.

I'm not usually surprised or shocked by anything political these days. But this is something else!!

35 posted on 02/26/2008 1:12:05 PM PST by dennisw (Never bet on a false prophet! <<<||>>> Never bet on Islam!)
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To: r9etb

True, but Obama’s attitude about the symbols of the nation he wants to lead is an “adult” issue.


36 posted on 02/26/2008 1:16:07 PM PST by ConservativeMajority (If war isn't the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
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To: dennisw

google ‘obama odinga sharia law kenya violence MOU nmalef’ in variations and your eyes will be opened.


37 posted on 02/26/2008 1:17:28 PM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: ConservativeMajority
True, but Obama’s attitude about the symbols of the nation he wants to lead is an “adult” issue.

No, it's not. It's a silly time-waster of an issue that is a) easily swept aside; and b) detracts from actual adult issues such as, "who do you want to be our president when Iran announces it has developed and tested a nuclear warhead."

Flag pins and turbans might be masturbatory fare for some, but they're not issues for serious folks.

38 posted on 02/26/2008 1:21:02 PM PST by r9etb
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949514/replies?c=15

Yes a lot out there including #15 on this thread
This campaigning for a Sharia Law Muslim by Obama must be thrown in his face in the future. Slickster ‘Boma went way too far here. He will regret it. Run it along side Calypso Louie’s endorsement


39 posted on 02/26/2008 2:32:24 PM PST by dennisw (Never bet on a false prophet! <<<||>>> Never bet on Islam!)
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To: buffyt

Good youtube clip.
What a sick in mind con artist he is. He’s crazy trying to disarm America. McCain will defeat this puke


40 posted on 02/26/2008 2:50:27 PM PST by dennisw (Never bet on a false prophet! <<<||>>> Never bet on Islam!)
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To: dennisw

BTTT


41 posted on 02/26/2008 3:54:10 PM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion (Global warming is to Revelations as the theory of evolution is to Genesis.)
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To: r9etb

“Flag pins and turbans might be masturbatory fare for some, but they’re not issues for serious folks.”

One can count the “serious folks” who will vote for Obama on one hand; everyone else in it for the posturing images and sound bites.

The challenge is to counter the imagery, and part of that is to deconstruct the Obama campaign’s imagery.

Let’s not pretend that elections are in fact decided by the “serious folks” arguing serious issues seriously.


42 posted on 02/26/2008 4:02:35 PM PST by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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To: r9etb

“Flag pins and turbans might be masturbatory fare for some, but they’re not issues for serious folks.”

One can count the “serious folks” who will vote for Obama on one hand; everyone else is in it for the posturing images and sound bites.

The challenge is to counter the imagery, and part of that is to deconstruct the Obama campaign’s imagery.

Let’s not pretend that elections are in fact decided by the “serious folks” arguing serious issues seriously.


43 posted on 02/26/2008 4:02:44 PM PST by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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