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Obama Calls For A Huddle, Whispers Jibberish

Calls a play, forgets what the score is

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  July 31st, 2008 at 08:21 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Sorry for the football analogy, but Obama seems to be unclear on who he’s running against. Via Drudge, we’re entertained with this little gem this morning:

Stumping in an economically challenged battleground state, Obama argued Wednesday that President Bush and McCain will resort to scare tactics to maintain their hold on the White House because they have little else to offer voters.

“Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me,” Obama said. “You know, he’s not patriotic enough, he’s got a funny name, you know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”

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“That’s a definition of madness, but that’s what John McCain is offering. He’s offering Bush economic policies and Karl Rove politics,” Obama said.

Umm, Mr. Obamident? Bush is actually, um, LEAVING the White House in January, and Rove’s already gone. Did you fall off your metrosexual bicycle and hit your head?

Perhaps the most eyebrow-raising underbelly of this little exchange in the “economically challenged battleground state” of Missouri is Obama’s own pre-emptive use of the race card. Why do we need to hear from Obama that, because he looks different, McCain wants us to be afraid of him? Can’t he just say his policies are better than McCain’s, and that it’s because of his POLICIES and ideals and principles that McCain wants us to be afraid of him?

Oh wait…

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  • sergee3

    Hamilton ($10), Franklin ($100), and Chase ($10,000) were never president.

    Also, Lincoln ($5) issued the emancipation proclamation and Grant ($50) won the war for the Union in the field.

    To Obama’s defense, Washington ($1), Jefferson ($2), Jackson ($20), and Madison ($5,000) all owned slaves. But McKinley ($500), Cleveland ($1,000), and Wilson ($100,000) did not.

    More about Jefferson on our money at Commodore Perry.

    • Marcus_Traianus

      In the effete world of liberalism there is no meaningful debate on policy. The appeal is to a host of subliminal, perceived peccancy and baseless prejudices in order to make points which otherwise would be discounted by a conscious mind.

      So Obama appeals to the masses psyche vis-?-vis the shameful tactic of superimposed, fallacious guilt as the adoring, celebrity intoxicated crowds, including his traveling press cheerleaders, provide the standing ovation.

      So let?s skip the facts which are that Obama has no related experience, tangible accomplishments, policies founded through personal experience, consistent track record on any meaningful issue or anything resembling the basis for belief he is qualified to be President.

      Obama is a sloganeer, so we might as well just recite ?Have it your way? or ?You can do it, we can help? in line with ?Hope and change?. We can also put him on the cover a People Magazine perhaps next to Bono or his idol Ludacris, light candles and perform celebrity worship.

      Honestly, Obama?s tendencies and proclivities are so dangerous it is hard to fathom what people are thinking.

      • haystack

        I can’t add a thing to that-well done!

        • Achance

          We seem to have approached a medieval level of ignorance and superstition in this Country and it is evident that the masses will follow any well-televised hysteria.

          Universal public education and modern technology give people access to historically unprecedented amounts of data but confer on them almost no ability to organize that data in time and space.

          There really is no sense of how “things” work or of any historical continuum to things. The post-modernist view that reality is as I perceive it and that history begins with my birth and ends with my death has taken a firm hold on the major culture, even if they don’t know enough about philosophy to know that they are post-modernists and nihilists.

          In medieval times, that which was feared or not understood was attributed to God or Satan. In these secular times, neither supernatural nor scientific explanations are accepted. There must always be some sinister Weberian “other” at the root of things that we fear or don’t understand. That “other,” whether industrial CO2, big oil, evil capitalists, must be at the root of things. No other explanation will suffice. And as a result there is about the same amount of rationality in the Global Warming Cult or the followers of the Obamassiah as there was in the Childrens’ Crusaders or the flagellants cavorting against the Black Death.

          While life in a World Lit Only By Fire may physically have been short, nasty, and brutish, that World may have been more comfortable for the Soul.

  • stickler88

    Are they collectible? Are there rookie race cards?

  • CK_MacLeod
    • Marcus_Traianus

      Like a modern vision of The Wizard of Oz, don?t look behind the curtain. The population obsessed with Obama are the same folks who buy People Magazine, watch TMZ-TV and look for other distractions to hide their shameless lack of self respect or topical grasp of facts.

      Ask yourself, what type of person applauds the dependency which Obama sells? Is that the language of self sufficiency and independence? Does anyone have proof our government is the model of efficient services? No? Then why listen to Obama preach about how giving him more of your money, allowing him to kill private sectors such as health care and electing more SCOTUS justices such as the eminent domain bunch will provide hope and change;. it?s more like dope and deranged.

      ?Yes we can?? More like Full of Spam.

  • wolfgang

    That’s why an ordinary two to three year economic downturn lasted eleven. Long enough to be labeled “Great”.
    Some of the future members of his “Brain Trust” had even ventured to the Soviet Union in the twenties for an interview with “Uncle” Joe Stalin.
    That’s why, when Hoover asked for his assistance to save the banks in the interim, between the election and the inauguration in March, five months later, Roosevelt turned his nose up and his back to the pleas. Better to just sweep up the debris afterwards, rather than be associated with it’s cause.
    Banks in Salt Lake City began printing their own script. There was no money.
    In the mid thirties, some seven or so years into the Depression, Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, faced with a budgetary cash crunch, sat down, calculated how much profits the nation’s businesses had retained that year, instead of distributing their employees and stockholders, told Roosevelt he would write a law to get at those 5.4 billions in dollars. The Undistributed Profits Tax. Money that was being retained for new plant, new equipment, retaining valuable employees should times get leaner.
    The Dow was near 190, unemployment ranged down to 14 per cent, from high’s near 19.