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Charles Krauthammer: Obama's Altitude Sickness or Obama’s Descent to Earth
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| September 12, 2008
| Charles Krauthammer
Posted on 09/12/2008 5:07:53 AM PDT by Tolik
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posted on
09/12/2008 5:07:53 AM PDT
by
Tolik
To: Tolik
Free fall giving Barry the Bends?
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posted on
09/12/2008 5:09:25 AM PDT
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
To: Tolik
Obama is about Obama nothing else.. Just like Hillary is for Hillary....
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posted on
09/12/2008 5:10:48 AM PDT
by
just me
(Liberals do not like children, and children are one of the reasons I like Sarah Palin.....)
To: just me
It’s befitting of someone who wrote his memoirs before he did anything. (Of course, he’s still not done anything...)
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posted on
09/12/2008 5:15:10 AM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: Tolik
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posted on
09/12/2008 5:15:41 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
(Obama - Preferred by 4 out of 5 Dictators & Terrorists// Biden= Big,Blowhard Doofus)
To: Tolik
Charles always hits the nail squarely on the head!
To: Tolik
For no presidential nominee in living memory had the gap between adulation and achievement been so great. It's no surprise when you look at the progressives and how they give more credibility to a teen celebrity who flunked out of high school. Thank goodness that even the MSM has started to get a bad taste in their mouths as they realize that it takes just a little more than celebrity status to manage the country!
To: Lando Lincoln; neverdem; quidnunc; .cnI redruM; Valin; King Prout; SJackson; dennisw; ...
It worth reading just for enjoyment of the language alone
Charles Krauthammer:
Obama was the ultimate celebrity candidate. For no presidential nominee in living memory had the gap between adulation and achievement been so great.
Obama's meteoric rise was based not on issues -- there was not a dime's worth of difference between him and Hillary on issues -- but on narrative, on eloquence, on charisma.
It was inevitable. Obama had managed to stay aloft for four full years. But no one can levitate forever.
The problem is that Obama began believing in his own magical powers -- the chants, the swoons, the "we are the ones" self-infatuation.
Reagan's revolution was rooted in concrete political ideas (supply-side economics, welfare-state deregulation, national strength) that transcended one man. For Obama's movement, the man is the transcendence.
Which gave the Obama campaign a cult-like tinge.
... his triumphal declaration that history would note that night, his victory, his ascension, as "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."
That grandiloquent proclamation of universalist puffery popped the bubble. The grandiosity had become bizarre.
...One star fades, another is born.
Nailed It!
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posted on
09/12/2008 5:19:00 AM PDT
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Tolik
(2008: Maverick/Barracuda vs. Messiah/Mouth or The Hero vs. the Zero and "Our mama beats your Obama")
To: Tolik
And nailed it about 8 times with the same nail.
(Magic nail theory.)
To: Da Coyote
The most amazing for me in Obama phenomenon is that even people who do see that its just rhetoric and no substance still want to vote for him because they want CHANGE. Obama’s personality cult deftly exploited this, but maybe, just maybe, won't be able to get away with it after all.
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posted on
09/12/2008 5:24:41 AM PDT
by
Tolik
(2008: Maverick/Barracuda vs. Messiah/Mouth or The Hero vs. the Zero and "Our mama beats your Obama")
To: Tolik
Obama needs to go to a diner in New Hampshire and tell us all about how *sniffle* difficult it is.
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posted on
09/12/2008 5:27:16 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Lenin was a community organizer - Ronald Reagan was a governor)
To: Tolik
Obama without a teleprompter speaks in tongues.
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posted on
09/12/2008 5:28:41 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Obama without a teleprompter speaks in tongues.)
To: N. Theknow
and that punk Charley Gibson accused Palin of a “blizzard of words” when she was precise and coherent without any “uh’s” and “ah’s”.
To: Da Coyote
His next book- I Barackus!
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posted on
09/12/2008 5:35:50 AM PDT
by
Dr. Ursus
(( commander of the simian host))
To: Graymatter
I loved Krauthammer's language here as much as substance. Look at this quote, for example: "With her narrative, her persona, her charisma carrying the McCain campaign to places it has never been and by all logic has no right to be shes pulling an Obama"
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posted on
09/12/2008 5:40:39 AM PDT
by
Tolik
(2008: Maverick/Barracuda vs. Messiah/Mouth or The Hero vs. the Zero and "Our mama beats your Obama")
To: Tolik; grey_whiskers; Tax-chick; narses; cpforlife.org
"The problem is that Obama began believing in his own magical powers -- "
The turning point was when he didn't fly over the Brandenburg Gate after his speech in Berlin. He's been running out of tricks since then. The followers are starting to lose faith in him.
To: Dr. Ursus
[His next book- I Barackus!]
Perfect.
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posted on
09/12/2008 5:51:41 AM PDT
by
littlehouse36
(I think of taglines all day and can never remember them.)
To: Tolik
Nice! Maybe Obama should run for VP.
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posted on
09/12/2008 5:52:51 AM PDT
by
syriacus
(Calling humans "pigs" is second-nature for anti-war radicals, Black Panthers + radical Islamists.)
To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
“Pay no attention to that man behind the empty suit ...”
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posted on
09/12/2008 5:57:26 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("McCain and Palin: The Normal People Revolution" ~ rrrod)
To: auto power
“Charles always hits the nail squarely on the head!”
ALMOST always. I agree with him 98% of the time.
;-)
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posted on
09/12/2008 5:59:10 AM PDT
by
SumProVita
("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
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