ASKING TO BE TESTEDOBAMA'S AMBIGUITY INVITES ATTACKS

New York Post ^ | October 24, 2008 | Amir Taheri

[fiodora]

FOR once, Joe Biden wasn't making a gaffe when he warned that, if elected president, Barack Obama would quickly be put to the test by America's many enemies.

Biden didn't say why this is bound to happen, but the answer is clear: Obama would be put to the test because he is untested.

More important, perhaps, as a candidate, Obama has worked hard to remain untestable by offering ambiguous, contradictory and confusing views on key issues of US policy:

Obama's interest in international affairs looks to be quite recent. As a community organizer and then a Chicago politician until 2005, he was more interested in building a power base than in forming a broad view of America's place in a dangerous world.

In his early years, Obama was influenced by radicals - Franz Fanon, Edward Said and Louis Farrakhan, among others - who saw the US as an imperialist power and Israel as its bridgehead in the Middle East. But now, as a presidential candidate, he knows that the self-loathing discourse of homegrown anti-Americanism repels more voters than it attracts.

All that said, the main reason for Obama's contradictions and confusion may be his own uncertainties. He has tried to be everything to everybody, a Pirandellian character in search of multiple authors. No one knows who he is.

Biden is right to warn that a President Obama would be tested - just as Jimmy Carter was tested and found wanting almost 30 years ago.

[Perdogg]

ping

[El Gato]

Obama must figure it's really in the bag. He's running "hip hop" commercials on Nickleodean, specifically during "Sponge Bob Square Pants". Just heard one, (I'm not where I can see the TV", thank goodness)

Now I'd always thought that the people who watched SBSP were a might on the young side to vote. I guess he's working on recruiting for the Obama Youth?

Weird

[comebacknewt]

As for the SBSP ads, Obambi just has more money than he knows what to do with.

This editorial is excellent.

Biden has warned us all what is coming. The media didn't want to "vet" Obama, but you had better believe our enemies will.

America is on the verge of committing a huge mistake for which there will be a heavy price to pay. I just pray we all survive it.

[GOPJ]

Thugs find weakness seductive.

Thanks for the ping.

[pray4liberty]

No, he's trying to get the attention of their mothers.

This mother would switch the channel. Is there no escaping this man, not even for a minute? I hear him on the news, and now during my downtime with Sponge Bob? PLEASE...enough already.

May Almighty God make all Obama's efforts backfire, and backfire big. Never before have we seen one mere man try to usurp God's place in our lives and try to get people (Christians, too) to worship him in God's place!

Every Conservative needs to boycott all news channels (yes even you, FoxNews) and just VOTE!

[GOPJ]

The media didn't want to "vet" Obama, but you had better believe our enemies will.

Sounds like a great "tagline" to me...

[marron]

I just figured Biden had seen the intel and knew that all the “Bush lied” baloney was baloney.

We get to vote the first week of November. Reality gets to vote all year long.

Obama is America’s fantasy candidate. He is America’s vacation from reality. The problem is that reality never takes a day off.

[JEH_Boston]

As a former worker in the Trade Center (1982-1994), I especially enjoyed the last paragraph which sums up (at least in my mind) of why 9/11 could occur.

[fiodora]

The change that our enemies believe in...

[fiodora]

Not only the attention of their mothers, but the indoctrination of the whole family!

[pray4liberty]

Good God, this guy is looking more and more like the Antichrist prophecied in Revelation.

Scary.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Terrorism? Hey, it doesn’t matter.

He’s black and that’s enough for me.

Oh, and ELECTED first black prez of HLR.

[TalBlack]

What would really tank an Obozo presidency is not just Obama’s adolescent arrogance and stupid hard leftisim but the fact that no matter who he listened to, no matter what he did HE WILL get tagged with the result, and for all of time too. Leftist are, at heart, Cowards.

[Elsie]

Excuse me Mr. Obama, I mean Senator Obama, Sir. Um . . . I know you're busy, and important and stuff. I mean running for president is very important and -- ah -- I hate to bother you Sir. I will only take a minute. Ok Sir?

See, I have these missing pieces that are holding me up, and I was wondering Sir, if you could take time out of your busy schedule and help me out. You know, no big deal, just some loose ends and things.

Hey, you have a nice place here! The wife sees houses like this on TV all the time and says boy she wishes she had digs like this you know? Is that painting real? Really? Wow. I saw something like that in a museum once!

Oh, sorry Sir. I didn't mean to get off the track. So if you could just help me out a minute and give me some details, I will get right out of your way. I want to close this case and maybe take the wife to Coney Island or something. Ever been to Coney Island Sir? No? I didn't think so.

Well, listen, anyway, I can't seem to get some information I need to wrap this up. These things seem to either be "Not released" or "Not available." I'm sure it's just an oversight or glitch or something, so if you could you tell me where these things are -- I -- I have them written down here somewhere --  oh wait. Sorry about the smears. It was raining out. I'll just read it to you.

Could you please help me find these things Sir?
  1. Occidental College records -- Not released
  2. Columbia College records -- Not released
  3. Columbia Thesis paper -- "Not available"
  4. Harvard College records -- Not released
  5. Selective Service Registration -- Not released
  6. Medical records -- Not released
  7. Illinois State Senate schedule -- Not available
  8. Your Illinois State Senate records -- Not available
  9. Law practice client list -- Not released
10. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate -- Not released
11. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth -- Not released
12. Record of your baptism -- Not available

Oh and one more thing Senator, I can't seem to find any articles you published as editor of the Harvard Law Review, or as a Professor at the University of Chicago . Can you explain that to me Sir?
   
Oh but, hey -- listen! I know you're busy! If this is too much for you right now -- I mean --  tell you what. I'll come back tomorrow. Give you some time to get these things together, You know? I mean, I know you're busy. I'll just let myself out. I'll be back tomorrow. And the day after. . .

What's that Senator? Who wants to know these things?
We the People of the United States of America ! You know, the ones that vote.

[fiodora]

Your post deserve a Front Page in any newspaper, however, I also would like also to know if we can read Mr. and Mrs. Obama’s thesis.

[AmericanVictory]

Yes, but he can count on the MSM and the educracy and academia never testing his ambiguity, being in the tank for him from the outset. Ttuth,who needs stinking truth, cry they.

[Elsie]

It’ll get around.

It came to me as e-mail yesterday...

Remember how short the attention span is of those who are STILL undecided!

It may be a blurb seen the night before the election that ‘sways’ them.