Posted on 09/14/2008 12:44:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
That's Obama for you ...monkey see monkey do!
Right now it is not about the American people getting it. It is about Obama getting it. He’s getting hit over the head with a baseball bat and looking like he wants to file an amicus brief about it.
It would be silly to count out the Obama strategists; they have defied every prediction and surpassed every expectation thus far. But watching the Obama response to the Sarah Palin frenzy, conjures up sad images of John Kerry, Al Gore, or, dare we say it, Michael Dukakis.
I JUST love it when Dems cannot seem to figure out what happened or is happening. 7 more weeks.....it’s looking good!!!
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December 16, 2007
Better off adrift, than Bushed
Terence Samuel of the liberal American Prospect has penned an editorial in defense of congressional Democrats, the penning of which one assumes required numerous pauses for some serious gastrointestinal heaving. I’ll give him credit for pluckiness, though, since defending the indefensible requires a real chin-out, stiff-upper-lip sort of damn-the-torpedoes paralogism that few with good reputation would be willing to dangle for public consumption and inexorable ridicule.
Will GOP Pay The Price For Foley? Oct 14, 2006
American Prospect: Scandal Could Bury Republicans In Midterm Elections - CBS News ... American Prospect: Scandal Could Bury Republicans In Midterm Elections ... (The American Prospect) This column was written by Terence Samuel. (CBS News)
Apparently, the Obamanuts sitting right next to the Messiah when he uttered the lipstick line got the joke and knew it was a knife in the back of Sarah Palin. Yet, we are supposed to pretend that the people whom The Messiah was speaking to understood something that doesn’t exist to the members of the media who watched it on TV. Maybe The Messiah has the ability to telepathically communicate with his cult and his words are merely a distraction for the rest of us.
Deputy Editor of TheRoot.com
Terence Samuel is deputy editor of TheRoot.com, an online magazine aimed at African-American readers. Samuel is a former senior editor at U.S. News and World Report and was once a New York-based national correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has been the director of news programming at AOL Black Voices and is a political columnist for the online edition of The American Prospect, where he has written mostly about Congress.
From 2000 to 2005, he was the chief congressional correspondent for U.S. News, where he covered the historic 50-50 Senate of 2000, the Jim Jeffords defection, the demise of Trent Lott and the dissolution of the Republican Revolution. He has appeared on PBS’s Washington Week, Hardball on MSNBC, CNN International and Fox News, as well as on international media outlets including the BBC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
For Obama to win, the country needs to be mature enough to get past some age-old stereotypes and divisions. The recent McCain surge is a reminder of how difficult that may be. There is simply no denying that race is an issue. But if Obama is defeated in November, it may have less to do with overt racism than another obvious issue in this race: class, and a striking inability for a majority of white, working class Americans to connect with Obama and his vision for the country.
Obama's unique task is to introduce Americans to the concept of changechange that is about far more than policy issues. He has to convince Americans that, regardless of the color of his skin, his vision and his plans for the country are superior to those proposed by John McCain.
He also has to connect with working class and rural white Americans, many of whom, believe it or not, have not ever really had an intimate friendship or dialogue with a black person, especially one whose education, career and life prospects far outpace their own.
It may work. It may not. But black people, particularly those of us of Obama's generation and younger, who have been blessed with great educations, opportunities, jobs and incomes, need to come to grips with the fact that we cannot have it both ways. We cannot both see ourselves and our success reflected in Obama's rise, and at the same time blame racism as the only explanation if he loses. That rationale simply won't wash anymore.
Much can and will happen over the next eight weeks to challenge all of our perceptions about what is possible. But we have advanced the ball too far down the field to claim racism as our principal national weakness. Regardless of the outcome, we have drawn closer to fulfilling this nation's great promise and America's political landscape has changed forever, whether people actually vote for change or not.
Sophia A. Nelson is a media commentator and political analyst.
Small correction. The collective IQ is actually rising. The guys at the top are not getting any smarter but the guys at the bottom are gaining IQ points at the rate of about 10-20 points every 30 years.
It's called the Flynn Effect after the guy that discovered it.
“ut the very specific kinds of changes we want to bring, in terms of green technology jobs in America,”
Govt doesnt create jobs, Mr obama!
He will destroy traditional jobs in America in the process of have govt subsidies for these so-called gree jobs. Its the same old socialists govt industrial policy that has failed before.
” investing in our education system, making college more affordable”
Ream the taxpayers for even more $$$, to overfund the over=expensive and extravagant college educations that few can afford because ... the govt is interfering too much.
” making health care accessible to every American.”
It already is accessible, the issue is cost and affordability. The Democrats keep insisting on making health care LESS affordable, by opposing tort reform, adding mandates to health insurance, and adding more and more govt funding, which drives up costs more.
The first rule:
NEVER bring a community organizer to a Moose Hunt.
Cheers!
[Hes been nasty but every time he has it has backfired.
Thats their problem. ]
Conservatives, more or less, are constrained by telling the truth. The reason this seems so nasty sometimes is that the truth is often nasty and filled with ugly consequences.
Calling Obama a communist is both nasty and truthful.
I agree. When they accuse McCain of using it with Hillary they forget that he pointedly used it referring to one of her policies, not her.
It’s even less wise to slap a pit bull - or a barracude!
It’s called cognitive dissonance, and it is rampant on the left...
THAT's what is really disturbing (though never surprising) -- leftists like Terence Samuel and Helen Thomas go along for years within the MSM shaping coverage, sometimes blatantly, sometimes subtly, but always with partisan bias. Then if they finally strike out on their own or for more openly ideological entities, we suddenly see much more blatantly what they have been about all along.
AND, of course, much of the upper ranks of the MSM editorial cadres comprise people much like Helen Thomas and Terence Samuel who happened to get promoted further.
You’re right, it is called cognitive dissonance.
But blind, insane rage is what it is.
And a hoot to watch.
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