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Obama's Flaws Multiply
The Wall Street Journal ^ | April 15, 2008 | JOHN FUND

Posted on 4/15/2008, 3:18:15 AM by Aristotelian

Barack Obama's San Francisco-Democrat comment last week – about how alienated working-class voters "cling to guns or religion" – is already famous. But the fact that his aides tell reporters he is privately bewildered that anybody took offense is even more remarkable.

Democrats have been worrying about defending Mr. Obama's highly liberal voting record in a general election. Now they need to fret that he makes too many mistakes, from ignoring the Rev. Wright time bomb until the videotapes blew up in front of him, to his careless condescension towards salt-of-the-earth Democrats. Mr. Obama has a tendency to make such cultural miscues. Speaking to small-town voters in Iowa last year, he asked, "Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?"

Mr. Obama is the closest thing to a rookie candidate on the national stage since Dwight Eisenhower, who was a beloved war leader. Candidates as green as Mr. Obama make first-timer mistakes under the searing scrutiny of a national campaign. Even seasoned pols don't understand how unforgiving that scrutiny can be. Ask John Kerry, who had won five statewide elections before running for president.

For all his winning ways and natural appeal to the camera, Mr. Obama hasn't really been tested in a major campaign. In 2000, then-state Sen. Obama challenged Congressman Bobby Rush, who was vulnerable after having been crushed in a bid to become mayor of Chicago. Mr. Rush, a former Black Panther, painted Mr. Obama as "inauthentic" and beat him 2-1.

In 2004, when Mr. Obama ran for the U.S. Senate, he had the good luck of watching both Blair Hull, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, and Jack Ryan, the GOP nominee, self-destruct in sex scandals. Mr. Obama's eventual Republican opponent, Alan Keyes, was an unserious candidate ...

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KEYWORDS: 2008; elections; johnfund; obama; unfit
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"Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?"

This guy just isn't ready for prime time. "Hello, President McCain."

1 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:18:15 AM by Aristotelian
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To: Aristotelian
Seems to me he said last night something about most muslims being "moderate" and "just wanting to raise their kids".

Thats pretty telling.

2 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:22:43 AM by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: Aristotelian

I know I sound like a small town redneck clinging to guns and religion, but what is arugula?


3 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:25:24 AM by Inyo-Mono (If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
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To: Aristotelian

OBAMA: It can be a partner with the Christian and Jewish and Hindu and Buddhist faiths in trying to create a better world.

And so I am always careful and suspicious of attempts to paint Islam with a broad brush because the overwhelming majority of the people of the Islamic faith are people of good will who are trying to raise their families and live up to their values and ideals and to try to raise their kids as best they can and that’s something that I think we always have to remember as opposed to assuming a clash of civilizations that sometimes are overheated rhetoric that politically is talked about.


4 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:25:25 AM by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: Inyo-Mono

arugula is a fancy green for salads....


5 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:26:46 AM by goodnesswins (Being Challenged Builds Character; Being Coddled Destroys Character)
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To: Inyo-Mono

It is a understandably bitter salad green.


6 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:27:59 AM by MediaMole
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To: Rome2000

Transcript excerpt:

Islam can be compatible with the modern world.

OBAMA: It can be a partner with the Christian and Jewish and Hindu and Buddhist faiths in trying to create a better world.

And so I am always careful and suspicious of attempts to paint Islam with a broad brush because the overwhelming majority of the people of the Islamic faith are people of good will who are trying to raise their families and live up to their values and ideals and to try to raise their kids as best they can and that’s something that I think we always have to remember as opposed to assuming a clash of civilizations that sometimes are overheated rhetoric that politically is talked about.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/13/se.01.html


7 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:28:42 AM by Aristotelian ("Sock it to me!" Judy Carne)
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I am always careful and suspicious of attempts to paint Islam with a broad brush

The guy is a crypto-muslim, was born a muslim and as far as anybody knows has never renounced islam or been baptized, now hes saying he's "suspicious" of people telling the truth about muslims.

8 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:29:36 AM by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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I know I sound like a small town redneck clinging to guns and religion, but what is arugula?

I think it's an inflamation of the rectum.

9 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:31:19 AM by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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"Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?"

He was raised by a single white woman, and later his white grandparents.

The guy is no more black than I am.

He is an elitist poser.

10 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:31:28 AM by magellan
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To: goodnesswins
arugula is a fancy green for salads....

Oh. We just use iceberg lettuce around these parts.

11 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:31:31 AM by Inyo-Mono (If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
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To: goodnesswins

My local garden supply store is selling arugula seeds in bulk so I bought some.

I admit I have never tasted it but when I saw the seeds I thought of Obama and decided to buy some.


12 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:33:00 AM by JRochelle (Q. Where are all the polygamist men?.A. Hiding behind the skirts of their many wives.)
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To: MediaMole

“It is a understandably bitter salad green”

...that clings to balsamic vinegrette like small town Pennsylvanians cling to their 45’s.


13 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:33:10 AM by myrabach
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To: Aristotelian
This guy just isn't ready for prime time. "Hello, President McCain."

Do not count your camels until all humps have been watered - Old Arab Proverb

14 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:35:38 AM by ricks_place
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Seems like there is another thread every second on here about Obama’s botched joke.

What is the first rule of holes: stop digging.

We already thought that he was a hypocrite when he did his fundraising on Billionaire’s Row. But his “remarks” made him sound like how the biggest Communist sees a Republican, hob-nobbing with rich oilmen and talking down the po’ folks. My mom came from one of those small towns in PA and she has now made a huge fortune with Northrup Grumman, Barash OH NOES BOMBed A!

Perhaps you need to get your head out of the sand that this isn’t the Great Depression, people are not depressed because the wall market crash sent their jobs down and the Dust Bowl brought away the jobs at the mines. That is my problem with Dems, they always see everyday as either The Great Depression or the South in the 1940s.


15 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:37:12 AM by Merta (They Call Me The Ranting Man)
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To: Inyo-Mono

http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/arugula.htm They built a new Krogers a few years back here and now we know what all the fancy stuff is. :)


16 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:40:20 AM by chris_bdba
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To: Aristotelian
and Jack Ryan, the GOP nominee, self-destruct in sex scandals..

How do you "self" destruct when a paper gets ahold of your sealed divorce proceedings?

17 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:40:51 AM by Last Dakotan
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"Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?"

Arugula? That's up there with Dukakis suggesting Iowa farmers should switch to Belgian endive!

18 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:43:00 AM by Paleo Conservative
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To: Rome2000
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19 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:46:16 AM by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Merta
Seems like there is another thread every second on here about Obama’s botched joke.

How big is this thing really? My wife and I unplugged the TV set four years ago and cancelled our subscription to the local liberal rag, so FR and other outlets on the internet are our only source of news. We spend most of our time reading the Bible and cleaning our guns. Are Obama's comments all over television?

20 posted on 4/15/2008, 3:46:43 AM by Inyo-Mono (If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
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