Susan Estrich: Obama Needs to Make Nice on All Sides

Fox News ^ | July 30, 2008 | Susan Estrich

[2ndDivisionVet]

Spare me the true believers.

I don’t mean the people who support Barack Obama for president. I support Barack Obama for president. I mean the people who worship him to the point that anyone who says anything raising questions about the inevitability of his rise to sainthood, much less the perfection of him and his wife and his campaign, is deserving of damnation.

I wrote a column last week about how the Obama campaign needed to guard against the arrogance that many people tell me they have detected in dealing with them. I didn’t condemn the candidate. I didn’t say he doesn’t deserve to be president. I just made the point, which seems almost obvious to me, that he isn’t president yet, that even with the great speeches and adoring crowds he found abroad, the race remains very close, at least; that there is resistance in many quarters to his candidacy and while some of it may be race-based, some of it reflects legitimate questions about experience, and policy; and that whatever its basis, in the end it doesn’t matter if more people vote for McCain than for him.

“Heinous,” one woman wrote to me, in describing my thoughts, and me. Heinous? Oh, of course, and racist and stupid. Thanks. Such comments came not from conservatives who oppose Barack Obama but from true-believers who are ready to condemn anyone who has not joined the revival.

Hold on a minute.

I’ve been out there fighting to elect Democrats for the better part of three decades. I know what it’s like to win, and I know what it’s like to lose, and winning is definitely better.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Keep slurping the Kool-aid, Susan, and here...have a hit of Hopium...now, don't you see that Obama is the chosen one, the one we've been waiting for?

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Please no pics. Thank you.

[Gaffer]

Susan don’t realize that when Obama win, “ain’t gonna be no ole’ wrinkle-up fat white chicks in my stable —— only young hot blonde airhead b!tches”.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Estrich: "some of it reflects legitimate questions about experience, and policy"

Extraordinary.

You think Hannity and O'Reilly hypnotized her? She's now one of the programmed multiples with lip gloss? This will freak liberals out.

[goldstategop]

Its liberals who don't like the fact Susan Estrich has pointed out the flaws in the Obamessiah's character. They take mere criticism of the Holy Man as an attack upon them.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Actually, I think her plastic surgeon did a pretty good job! Before the surgery, she was stomach-churning! Now she’s just disgusting!

[wjcsux]

Please no pics. Thank you.
Ditto that!

[alice_in_bubbaland]

ROTFL!

BTW all liberals are disgusting, plastic surgery or not. :0)

[y6162]

“I’ve been out there fighting to elect Democrats for the better part of three decades”

Wise up Susan. Look what the Obambamites did to Gerry Ferraro.

[I still care]

Actually, it’s an interesting article.

Basically, she makes the point that we have picked up on, that Obama is not the friendly, common guy he portrays. She says it is going around that people that have not backed him from the beginning are being “paid back”.

Now she also says that she doesn’t think Obama himself is doing it (it’s the campaign!).

She’s picked up on something that Republicans have known for years, that Democrats are vindictive and seek to shut down those with which they disagree. Libs can’t stand dissent.

[Right Cal Gal]

I’ve been out there fighting to elect Democrats for the better part of three decades

And I'll bet Zell Miller wasn't one of them.

[what's up]

that Democrats are vindictive

Especially the Marxist, black-Muslim types.

And that's who's running the show right now.

[YdontUleaveLibs]

I hope they keep attacking each other and running against George Bush. Do they even know they are running against John McCain?

[freeplancer]

I literall cannot look at her on tv. I don’t know how she could even show her fake face on tv and that lovely smoker’s voice. Yuck

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Susan needs to increase from 4 to 6 packs of cigarettes a day.

[colorado tanker]

Obama not only is inexperienced, but has very thin skin. He's never been through a tough campaign.

Rotten things get said about a Presidential candidate of either party. I'm waiting on The Chosen One to have his Ross Perot minute.

[peeps36]

Susan Ostrich thinks Berry is too holy and pure to be involved with the dirty tactics of his campaign. If he can't run his own campaign how the hell will he run the country? I think Berry is a puppet who is being controlled by the wealthy scumbags who fill his pockets, pull his strings and put the words in his teleprompter.

[ari-freedom]

Sorry. Today just isn't your day. :)

[Glenmerle]

I’ve been out there fighting to elect Democrats for the better part of three decades.

Yes you have, Susan. And you don't get it that your chickens have come home to roost, do you?

[2ndDivisionVet]

President Lincoln was called a baboon, a n*@@~^ lover, a gorilla, etc. This is nothing new, and in the words of President Truman “if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”