Barack Obama has never had to deal with serious adversity in his adult life.
Think about it. He’s had a pretty good go of things, has he not? Law school, editor of the law review...then he became a “community organizer,” whatever THAT is. Let’s just say it’s probably not a job where he got criticized too much, I’d imagine. Oh, and he was also a lecturer in a law school too.
He decided to get into politics, and there he was, the perfect “narrative,” as Peggy Noonan might say. Attractive, black (well, bi-racial, but the white part obviously doesn’t count), “post-partisan,” intelligent, articulate, a tremendous orator. His Chicago pol friends paved the way for him, and helped him get into the State Senate, and then the US Senate...remember those releases of Jack Ryan’s nasty divorce papers that forced him from the race against Obama? Gee, how’d that happen?
So here he is. Barack Obama has the world by the short-n-curlies. A man who can send eighty thousand people in a stadium into fits of ecstacy with honeyed, empty-calorie words of “hope” and “change.” A man who took a long-shot bid at the Presidency and ran it roughshod over the dominant political force in the modern Democratic Party, and made it look easy. He’s had the skids greased for him to coast into the White House, in a year where the press has convinced the American people that Republicans are thuggish hypocrites and President Bush is simultaneously a fascist evil genius and a blithering idiot.
And all of a sudden, there’s a problem. Somebody isn’t sticking to the script. The Republicans aren’t going with the program and rolling over like Republicans do. Their nominee mostly shored his relations up with their base, they patched up their internal cracks, and then WHAM. Hurricane Sarah made landfall in St. Paul and all Heaven broke loose. And she took him apart like she’d field-dress a caribou.
And he has NO IDEA what to do about it.
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His college records are sealed and he refuses to release them. Was affirmative-actioned into Columbia under a make-work "major." Affirmative-actioned into Harvard Law. Benefitted from the rules changing from the Law Review President being the best student to his being the most oppressed minority (not making this up). No record of his ever passing the bar. "Associate" at law firm that extorted protection money from companies who were threatened with being called "racist" (paging Jesse Jackson). If ANYONE EVER reads an MSM newspaper again after this election it will be a sure sign of brain damage.
Boy, that analysis is spot on. Well said.
That translates into "Bullshit Artiste"!
He got called out by a woman in front of the whole country.
And he really hasn’t got anyplace to run or hide.
The Chicago Tribune sued to get them opened
Obama campaign manager David Axelrod worked at the Trib for years
Behind the scenes the Obama campaign urged the the Trib to sue and slime Jack Ryan
Conversely Obama keeps as many of his own records sealed as possible.
Such as college transcripts that will reveal affirmative action
His files from when he was a state legislator