What You Might Have Missed
05 April 2008 6:00 pm by Taylor Marsh
Andrew Sullivan stepped in it on Tim Russert’s MSNBC show this weekend that showcased a trifecta
of Clinton haters: Russert, Sullivan and Christopher Hitchens; though Hitchens
is at least amusing and incredibly bright, with Sullivan, whether you like him or not (though his Clinton derangement is embarrassing), being very earnest if nothing else. Anyway, Sullivan was talking about Iraq, John McCain and Barack
Obama, when he let this little beauty slip without any sense of irony or the damage it could cause his favorite candidate:
“I actually think they’re not as far apart as some people say.”
– Andrew Sullivan
Out of the mouths of Obama babblers.
Saying Obama and McCain are “not as far apart as some people say”
is deadly for Obama in the Democratic primary, in case you’ve been asleep for
the last year. Let me also remind you that Sullivan is a devout Obama cheerleader.
In light of a
second Obama surrogate going off reservation on Iraq and residual troop
numbers, I’d say we’ve got another verification that what Senator Obama is saying
on the campaign trail is not at all related to the reality he knows he’ll face
in ‘09, should he be our nominee. Though it is clearly not being conveyed to
voters, who actually are buying Obama’s baloney.
Again, I’ve said for over a year now that we will not be able to get out of
Iraq completely or as soon as any of us would like (I was against going in),
getting a lot of grief for stating the fact. Obama has been disingenuous at
best about military reality in Iraq, for which the Obama blogs, led by the traditional
media, including cable, led by Keith Olbermann, Eugene Robinson and Richard
Wolffe, have all responded with a collective yawn, or worse, group fawning for
their political idol.
I’m sure Mr. Sullivan has no problem with this either: PGN (Philadelphia Gay News) invited both Clinton and Obama, as well as presumptive Republican candidate John McCain, to speak with us. Only Clinton granted an interview.
Moving on… .. Ya
think? What I said in January applies double today.
Meanwhile in Pennsylvania, Obama showed his true colors once again. Bonnie Erbe blasts him on “sweetie”:
If the media truly are not more gender than race biased, then Barack Obama’s
remarks on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania this week should get as much
coverage as Hillary Clinton’s remark about Martin Luther King and Lyndon Johnson.While flirting with female factory workers in Allentown, he called one “sweetie,”
a paternalistic way to address a woman if there ever was one. It might have
worked had he been trying to do his best imitation of Lily Tomlin’s Ernestine,
the telephone operator, but this was no spoof. This was Obama trying to relate
to working-class women in a way that went directly south.
Oh, and don’t miss an Obama
blogger’s kidnapping, followed up by progressive propaganda of the highest
order.
A Hillary
thank you, with an ask for more help, especially since Obama is outspending
her by at least 2 to 1.
This
hospital story is so convaluted, but that didn’t keep the Obama blogs from
picking it up, doing what they do best in missing the story entirely. Big
Tent Democrat lays it out so I don’t have to. The bottom line is not in
the headline of the original story on the matter, but in the final line of the
piece: Neither paper named the hospital or challenged Mrs. Clinton’s
account. That’s because Clinton didn’t name the hospital. It’s a bad game
of telephone all ’round.
After Friday’s fulminating on Clinton’s tax returns, I’ve got one question:
Where are McCain’s? Hmmmmm? Maybe Senator Obama can spend a moment
on that little item.
But the most ludicrous and likely overlooked I’ve saved for last.
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Above is the page capture on which the musings below appear. Quite a blog post on one of the community blog pages on the official site of Barack Obama for President:
Field Slave/Obama Supporter:
“I seen a way to freedom and power. C’mon go with me. I figured out a way to the promise land – that place Martin and Malcolm spoke of. There’s hope and possibilities out there for us. There some white folks I know say they gon help us get there. The time is now – right now. Come On…”House Slave/Clinton Supporter:
“Massa Clinton been good to us. Git on ‘way from here Obama. You gon cause problem fo us all!! Didn’t Massa Clinton give you food and shelter all these years. Where you gon take us? You never been nowhere but right here on dis plantation wit us. This here fine living. We don’t know where you trying to go. They gon kill you. Then how us gon survive? Aint no white folks gon hep you. Get on way from here Obama. Gon now…git”Looking at from this historical perspective . . . who was right????
Satire in the age of Candidate Hope. Interesting also that Obama fans can report offensive posts within his community pages, but no one did in this case, with the above posted back on February 14, 2008. So if you have any doubt about what African American supporters of Clinton are experiencing, this should clarify it. The courage of those sticking with Clinton cannot be overestimated.
Open thread, folks. Engage.
