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The Hammer Drops On Obambi
Posted by: in Imperial Thoughts, Politics, Socialist Swine5:31 PM
I can’t always agree with one of the country-club conservative talking-heads, part of the group demanding we fall into line with the McTreason lemmings and pull whilst holding our noses once again, but once in awhile the Hammer gets it spot-on. To characterize what we’re seeing now in the Obama camp is nothing short of eerie. Krauthammer gets it right with this piece.
Obama Teetering On Being A Cult Personality
My opinion by: Charles Krauthammer
There’s no better path to success than getting people to buy a free commodity. Like the genius who figured out how to get people to pay for water: bottle it (Aquafina was revealed to be nothing more than reprocessed tap water) and charge more than they pay for gasoline. Or consider how Google found a way to sell dictionary nouns — boat, shoe, clock — by charging advertisers zillions to be listed whenever the word is searched.
And now, in the most amazing trick of all, a silver-tongued freshman senator has found a way to sell hope. To get it, you need only give him your vote. Barack Obama is getting millions.
We’re seeing something here, and it’s doesn’t bode well for the 2008 Election Season. The Obama campaign, almost discounting the conventional wisdom of just a few month ago, with the Hildebeast presumptively receiving the coronation of the left is now within easy striking distance of relegating the Klintoon Krime Kartel to the ash heap of history. Only a fool would expect the Cankled Bitch of Chappaqua to sit out another term in the Senate waiting for another chance at the golden ring. This may be the beginning of the end for them both, good riddance to bad trash, as granny would say.
This kind of sale is hardly new. Organized religion has been offering a similar commodity — salvation — for millennia. Which is why the Obama campaign has the feel of a religious revival with, as writer James Wolcott observed, a “salvational fervor” and “idealistic zeal divorced from any particular policy or cause and chariot-driven by pure euphoria.”
And behind that friends, lies danger, mortal danger for the republic. Based on his previous promises and record, B. Hussein easily falls into the category of a narcissistic zealot. There is nothing quite so dangerous as a politician that actually believes in his own rhetoric and refuses to recognize his own limitations, predicated on the real world. That messianic image won’t get him a a cup of coffee on the world stage.
“We are the hope of the future,” sayeth Obama. We can “remake this world as it should be.” Believe in me and I shall redeem not just you but your country — nay, we can become “a hymn that will heal this nation, repair this world, and make this time different than all the rest.”
Move over Jim Jones and David Koresh, you’re political/social equal now has the stage and it strangely sounds like he thinks he’s the second coming, the only thing lacking is the Seventh Trumpet.
And believe they do. After eight straight victories — and two more (Hawaii and Wisconsin) almost certain to follow — Obama is near to rendering moot all the post-Super Tuesday fretting about a deadlocked convention with unelected superdelegates deciding the nominee. Unless Hillary Clinton can somehow do in Ohio and Texas on March 4 what Rudy Giuliani proved is almost impossible to do — maintain a big-state firewall after an unrelenting string of smaller defeats — the superdelegates will flock to Obama. Hope will have carried the day.
But what hope is being offered? An ignominious retreat and surrender to the War on Terror, a purely socialist New Deal Circa 2008, even more costly and dangerous to the free market capitalist system and a massive increase in nanny-state big government programs, heaped on the backs of the middle and upper class?
Interestingly, Obama has been able to win these electoral victories and dazzle crowds in one new jurisdiction after another, even as his mesmeric power has begun to arouse skepticism and misgivings among the mainstream media.
ABC’s Jake Tapper notes the “Helter-Skelter cultish qualities” of “Obama worshipers,” what Joel Stein of the Los Angeles Times calls “the Cult of Obama.” Obama’s Super Tuesday victory speech was a classic of the genre. Its effect was electric, eliciting a rhythmic fervor in the audience — to such rhetorical nonsense as “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. (Cheers, applause.) We are the change that we seek.”
The messiah, a party-hack groomed nearly from birth into party politics and honed by the Chicago political machine, into a full-blown socialist acolyte of Alinsky, Stalin and FDR. Without the benefit of experience in realpolitik. A political neophyte catching the wave of history, with an ADD riddled electorate that’s more interested in reruns of American Idol and Survivor than real issues domestically and an enemy at the very gates. We’ve lost interest in the unpleasant world and long for a period of time that never existed except in our minds. A return to Camelot, minus the Soviet Bear and an aggressive Red China spreading it’s malignancy across Southeast Asia.
That was too much for Time’s Joe Klein.
“There was something just a wee bit creepy about the mass messianism,” he wrote. “The message is becoming dangerously self-referential. The Obama campaign all too often is about how wonderful the Obama campaign is.”
You might dismiss The New York Times’ Paul Krugman’s complaint that “the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality” as hyperbole. Until you hear Chris Matthews, who no longer has the excuse of youth, react to Obama’s Potomac primary victory speech with “My, I felt this thrill going up my leg.” When his MSNBC co-hosts tried to bail him out, he refused to recant. Not surprising for an acolyte who said that Obama “comes along, and he seems to have the answers. This is the New Testament.” [Emph Mine]
A socialist toady, that’s manged to brilliantly enter the national political arena carried along by sheep longing for a fresh face promising to lead them to green pastures. Even if the leader rides a pale horse. Never forget we learned all we needed to know, by the Cuban flag and the rotting face of Che hanging behind the Houston Campaign office desk. That’s the true vision of his followers.
I’ve seen only one similar national swoon. As a teenager growing up in Canada, I witnessed a charismatic law professor go from obscurity to justice minister to prime minister, carried on a wave of what was called Trudeaumania.
But even there the object of his countrymen’s unrestrained affections was no blank slate. Pierre Trudeau was already a serious intellectual who had written and thought and lectured long about the nature and future of his country.
And Obama’s nearly blank slate of real experience even writ large, makes him only more dangerous to the Republic. This is the candidate that would sit with our sworn enemies with no precondition, to negotiate from a position of weakness and cowardice, in the name of peace without justice. Chamberlain would be proud.
Obama has an astonishingly empty paper trail. He’s going around issuing promissory notes on the future that he can’t possibly redeem. Promises to heal the world with negotiations with the likes of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Promises to transcend the conundrums of entitlement reform that require real and painful trade-offs and that have eluded solution for a generation. Promises to fund his other promises by a rapid withdrawal from an unpopular war — with the hope, I suppose, that the (presumed) resulting increase in American prestige would compensate for the chaos to follow.
Prestige and $1.00 buys you a double-cheeseburger at Mickey D’s. Economic chaos is entirely too generous, his proposals, what few we’ve been allow a peek at would result in utter economic suicide. His campaign has from the start and remains purely one of rhetoric with the focus on the candidate and to hell with exactly HOW his change with the past wouldn’t destroy the republic. Any doubts? Look carefully at this piece of legislation currently in committee: Global Poverty Act of 2007 it let’s the UN set a universal tax rate on the United States to meet their world poverty goals. That a political candidate, particularly one that wishes to occupy the Oval Office would suborn sovereign power to levy taxes to the UN in and of itself, forever disqualifies said candidate from being allowed within the office of POTUS let alone visiting the White House even as a tourist.
Democrats are worried that the Obama spell will break between the time of his nomination and the time of the election and deny them the White House. My guess is that he can maintain the spell just past Inauguration Day. After which will come the awakening. It will be rude.
Unfortunately, with McVain the presumptive nominee, they just might be right and that friends, scares the hell out of me.
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:em38:
Someone tell this nitwit that “Stargate SG1″ was canceled thus they aren’t casting for another system lord.
February 15th, 2008 at 5:35 PMUsing
An inexperienced Socialist, an old socialist bitch, and a senile, backstabbing unstable liberal RINO bastard. If you had asked me 30 years ago if we would ever be stuck with these shitty choices I’d have said it wasn’t possible because the American people were too smart to elect such trash.
So much for how smart the people are. :em98:
February 15th, 2008 at 5:40 PMUsing
I don’t think it’s so much a lack of intelligence as it is self-delusion. Even highly intelligent can be and are snookered quite often when having the heart’s desire dangled in front of their faces, especially when said people are of weak character and lacking in self discipline.
February 15th, 2008 at 5:45 PMUsing
As much as I hate admitting it, McCain looks good compared to THAT.
February 15th, 2008 at 6:04 PMUsing
Gee, and I’d wondered why I wasn’t going to vote for Obama when the primary comes to PA in April. Bad enough he has a lack of experience, especially executive experience, but not he appears to be acting as if he’s a messah. Sorry, already seen that story, and I’m not waiting to see myself going bye-bye. Guess it’s a Vote for Ryan Howard when the primary arrives. (Okay, the last part was an attempt at humor, but I’m not voting for either Obama or Clinton.)
February 15th, 2008 at 6:10 PMUsing
Whos Ryan Howard
February 15th, 2008 at 6:32 PMUsing
http://www.myfoxhous.....geId=1.1.1
When you watch this video, please not the cuban flag hanging on the wall in the Oboma Houston office. On this flag you will see the face of Che Guevara. Che Guevara was a Marxist who fought for Castro (and was an expert at Guerrilla Warfare). He is an icon of the Socialist movement today.
Pass this along to true Americans who will remember this on election day.
If you see an Oboma supporting, it should be your duty as an American to ask them to give you one example of the change he wishes to bring you and me. Is it Che’s Socialism? And then ask them to name one accomplishment by Oboma. A leader should be able to accomplish things and get others to do the same.
Help save the Nation from Socialist and pass this along to your friends. If you love freedom, you will do it.
Thanks
February 15th, 2008 at 7:02 PMUsing
dangit!!
make that not a note — errrrrr :em98:
February 15th, 2008 at 7:05 PMUsing
looking into the future.
President Obama is talking with his best friend Rep. Charles Rangel. They are discussing the new taxes they are going to impose “On the rich.”
Rangel is already talking about 2-3 TRILLION in new taxes.
I foresee a depression that makes the one we had back in the 30’s look like a minor recession. Would anyone care to guess what will happen to this country with an unemployment rate of say 30-50%?
Can we say civil war?
February 15th, 2008 at 7:07 PMUsing
That asswipe Obama’s about as smart a Dhimmi Kahtuh on LSD!! He’s SO typical of the left, all talk and poise and NO substance whatsoever!!
February 15th, 2008 at 7:10 PMUsing
Dhue, the fit is about to hit the shan in ObamessiahLand™.
:em01: :em99: :em93: :em03:
Oh, and Dhue, there’s no need to explain who Che was, here at the Rott.
February 15th, 2008 at 7:13 PMUsing
torturer,
cool, but that is an email I have been sending out. Bad thing is, I just noticed I have been sending it out with not NOT note!!
errrrrrr
February 15th, 2008 at 7:18 PMUsing
tortuerer,
That is the first I saw that pic. I notice they got flag with the footprint of the American chicken.
February 15th, 2008 at 7:23 PMUsing
I’ll believe the Clintons are done when someone else gets inaugurated on January 19, 2009. They will do absolutely anything to hold onto, or to claim power. Remember: it’s always about them.
I remember immediately after the 1994 elections telling a friend of mine that Clinton would tack towards the center. When he said, “But that will hurt his own party!”, I replied that he didn’t understand the Clintons at all. Anyone who thinks the race is over is hoping, not thinking. Here’s how it might unfold:
1) Clinton wins Wisconsin, Texas and someplace else; I don’t care where.
2) THe Florida and Michigan delegates get seated.
3) Enough arm-twisting is used to grab enough super delegates to win the nomination
All the people who claim that they’ll leave the party if Clinton wins because of the super-duper delegates is full of shit. Those people are interested in one: Just win baby. Scruples need not apply. And this is really Hillary’s last chance. If Obama wins the whole thing this year, he’ll probably serve for 8 years, at which time Hillary will still be a nasty, shrill leftist, but she’ll be a really old nasty shrill leftist. Think Helen Thomas with fatter ankles.
Of course, I could be wrong. We could get stuck with an inexperienced socialist fool with messianic delusions of grandeur and no fucking clue about economics. So, you know, everybody loses.
February 15th, 2008 at 7:38 PMUsing
I think it is simply that chattering classes want to have a black or female president like Condi Rice, but she said no, we get to chose virile blackish, faded femalish vs. faded White.
Due to national shame about the stained dresses and inability to prevent 9/11 in our Clintons closet, and McCains lack of real balls or POSITIVE CHARISMA or OLD WORLD CHARM, I predict Obama will win, in a small but clear landslide, mainly by raising voter turnout (of all minorities including women, as well as Libertarians sick of the Drug War which Obama is on record as saying he wants to scale back).
The Right should have offered up a minority with a libertarian bent (pro-gun, anti-drug-war, non-activist on early term abortion etc.).
So the question is who’s Obama’s vice president? Guilini? That would be a kick, and if the the vice president has much influence, then it would somewhat balance the influence of socialism. Hillary? Impossible. He knows that would hurt him vs. McCain/Feingold (ha ha). Bloomberg? OUCH. A billionaire? That would drive people crazy. Who? I don’t know.
Uh oh. I’m on his web site: http://www.barackobama.com/issues/energy/
“Reduce Carbon Emissions 80% by 2050″!!! (!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Yet the logical result of this policy would be to scale WAY UP on environmentally friendly NUCLEAR, thus sucking the lifeblood from the psychopathic Middle East. He has already thumbed his death punishable nose at them by converting away from Islam. And his idea of kicking major ass in Afghanistan and border regains of Pakistan don’t sound like a bad idea since bombs since bombs are still falling on bad guys, and this policy does not stink of defeatism.
But let’s compare to McCain: http://www.johnmccai.....b278db.htm
Utter fluff about “our heritage” *but* also an admission of of being pussywhipped Gore apologist: “He has been a leader on the issue of global warming.” He’ll probably even pick Gore as vice!
The thing about Global Warming: The Left knows it’s going to end soon, as the sun mellows out, explaining their PANIC to VERY quickly instigate policy to curb emissions, so when it *does* get colder, they can claim they literally saved the Earth from “everybody dying” as Bloomberg just spewed forth, despite the fact that up the road from me, the unfertilized, non-urban-heat-island-effected West Point naval acadamy is actually getting COLDER, unlike Central Park where cabs run all day long except Sa/Su and the trees grow twice as fast as in surrounding states:
I’m not as worried about Obama. FDR had the Great Depression. Johnson (see ‘Liberal Fascism’) had the assassination of JFK, Bush Sr. had to rely on an EMERGENCY “War on Drugs” after Reagan over-successfully relied on the Red Scare. What does Obama have? A won war? Global Poverty? Makes sense to spend money on poverty rather than on creating more of it. Marxian class warfare about “the rich”? That’s just talking points.
The fact that 1/3 of black men are in jail on non-violent (drug) offenses? Can’t quite say that out load during a campaign.
Can you imagine how nasty and destructive the Left will become if McCain wins? But if Obama wins, they not only forever lose the racism/sexism card, they must then compromise with instead of sabotage the GOP side of congress if they want to get anything done.
February 15th, 2008 at 7:41 PMUsing
A caller in to the Dennis Miller show yesterday said that she had come up with the perfect Obama Campaign theme.
Coincidentally, Dennis had just finished interviewing Ted Neely. :em01:
February 15th, 2008 at 7:50 PMUsing
Yes, I’m a little concerned about this myself.
February 15th, 2008 at 9:04 PMUsing
And that sentence right there probably explains Obama’s popularity. With his undeniable charm, charisma, good looks and excellent* public speaking skills, Obama even looks like an American Idol contestant, and not just a politician. Who has, for good measure, come out of nowhere to “outwit” and “outlast” ruthless and experienced political Survivors like the Clintons. It’s great TV, and he’s playing the part of the plucky underdog to the hilt.
And, let’s face it, the Democrats and a large chunk of the independents have always had a weakness for showmanship and symbolism over substance. How do you think the Clintons managed to stay in office the first time around? The only difference between the 2008 campaign and the Democrats’ efforts in the 1990s is that this time Obama and/or his handlers have demonstrated that they can play the media and public relations game every bit as well as the Clinton machine…and even the Donks are getting sick and tired of the corrupt Clintons. (Not that Obama, who came out Chicago politics, is likely to have clean hands himself. Just ask Tony Rezko…)
But yeah, for a couple of weeks now I’ve been expecting Obama to make Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality” his campaign theme song, such is the intensity of the… adoration…of Obama by his fans. And David Codrea of the War on Guns blog has taken to calling Obama “Thulsa Doom” after James Earl Jones’ character in Conan the Barbarian, and Obama’s campaign the “Cult of Set.” :em99:
(*I would have said “articulate,” but I guess that’s still considered somehow a racist word in this context, isn’t it? Oh well…)
February 15th, 2008 at 11:43 PMUsing
Alright already
February 16th, 2008 at 9:12 AMThe dem-nom needs slogan input moniker designation: Thulsa Dumb
will give us ‘hope from dope’ and, uh, ‘chicken-shit in every life’ ‘the world hates the United States. I’ll issue an executive order; from now on this is never-never land.’ ‘here’s your tax bill. it matches your bank balance. you need a hug.’ and last but not least. “I promise change. You want Pampers or Huggies?”
Dr. Price was right. Where’s Oliver Cromwell when you need him? Pssst: he’s in the army, air force, marines
and a few other places the pols never look. Even though I was born Catholic, I’ll fight for him.
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Interesting article on Barak Hussein Obamas ties to Che and tactics.
February 16th, 2008 at 9:51 AMUsing
“Every time I hear the word ‘conservative’ it makes me sick to my stomach.” (Charles Barkley)
NBA GREAT CHARLES BARKLEY CALLS CONSERVATIVES ‘FAKE CHRISTIANS’
what a brilliant man, this Charles.. what a great generalization
February 16th, 2008 at 11:27 AMUsing
and just in time for Obama’s presidency:
State Department Drops Ban on HIV-Positive Diplomats
the whores in DC and near the U.N. building better watch out!@
February 16th, 2008 at 11:32 AMUsing
Sir Christopher maybe we can send them to iran or france.
February 16th, 2008 at 11:53 AMUsing
The only reason that Obama is where he is today is that when he ran in the primary for US Senator (in a crowded field) a billboard on the Bishop Ford Freeway was showing Obama in an embrace with Jesse Jackson Jr.
This was the only billboard of it’s kind anywhere in the Chicago area. All of Obama’s other billboards had no pictures and just his last name. This particular billboard was in Jr’s district.
IMHO, Obama is a product of the Je$$e Jack$son machine. He would be taking orders from Rainbow Push HQ, and “reparations” will be at the top of the agenda if he is elected.
Clinton wants to be queen, Obama wants to be slavemaster.
February 16th, 2008 at 11:54 AMUsing
Jim Jones in blackface
February 16th, 2008 at 12:07 PMBarack Hussein Obama
Adolph Hitler’s twin
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One potential upside to an Obama bin Laden presidency is that it really would end the America is racist crap from Jesse Jackson, Charlie Rangel, John Conyers, Al Sharpton and their ilk. No more “we are all failures because of discrimination.” We can point to Obama and say Gee if you’re any good - any good at all, you can become president of the United States. You all are abject failures because you are complete and total losers.
February 16th, 2008 at 12:50 PMUsing
Um, baslimthecripple, one of the reasons I posted my list of 10 things to do before the election was this: If Obama wins, the black inner city ghettos might just explode in riots worse than those after any NBA teams wins its championship. Think of the televised joy after O.J. Simpson got off, on more steroids than Barry Bonds ever dreamed of not taking :em99: And if he loses, well, whitey keepin’ the black man DOWN, don’cha know, and the black inner city ghettos might just explode in riots.
The likes of Je$$e Jack$on, Inc. will NEVER admit that America isn’t racist, because that would turn off the flow of
February 16th, 2008 at 11:11 PMextortion moneyprotection racket gravy“reparations” for past suffering (as well as maybe forcing them to become ditch diggers, a job for which they’re only slightly overqualified).Using
Wild-Eyed Charlie i am shocked you would even suggest the good reverend was overqualified for any job involving actual work. :em93:
February 16th, 2008 at 11:38 PMUsing
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Obamamaniacs no doubt rejoicing landing another cherished and worshipped endorsement! :em38:
February 17th, 2008 at 10:28 AMUsing
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Snarls Barfley is a fake politician–to say the least. His rant on “judgment” is a classic piece of leftish arrogance.
Stick to basketball–& maybe acting–you incompetent celebrity wannabe Jackass aristocrat! And keep your bloody fatwas to yourself!!!
February 17th, 2008 at 5:50 PMUsing