Big Media want the presidential campaign to focus on “the issues” by which they mean the mesh of confusing statistics on the economy, tax cuts, energy and health care by which Obama…twisting and turning…endeavors to make himself invisible to hair-splitting evaluation. On the economy he is a master at changing direction to obfuscate the fact that he is a redistributionist. On foreign policy he is a veritable chameleon hiding the fact that in debate with Hillary Clinton he advocated negotiation with Iran with no preconditions. On energy he tongues-in-cheek a mention of drilling and says as an aside “yes, nuclear” but is the same-old, same-old. In issue debates, frankly, the truth isn’t in him. As he never has recognized absolutes of any kind, he is at a distinct advantage. He is a giant squid, inking the water with deception and the establishment media cheer him on-warning McCain that the worst thing he can do is to focus on “character.”
Nonsense, the only way McCain can win is to ask these three questions and take the furor that Obama and his media allies diffuse.
What sort of man is it who four straight times…as chairman of Senate Judiciary… killed the “Born Alive” bill in the Illinois Senate…thus depriving babies born alive from botched abortions to receive nutrition and medical care? No other Democratic candidate for president has taken that position. The answer contrived by Obama’s Artful Dodger, David Axelrod, that the legislative bill was different from the one that passed the Congress later is a lie. Obama…and his wife…were willing to allow infanticide to exist so that “Roe v. Wade” would not be jeopardized. A shocking disregard for human life that cannot be contrasted by any other Democratic presidential nominee.
Answer: A craven, rudderless opportunistic trimmer with no fixed principles who has always placed his own opportunistic career advancement ahead of anything else including human life.
What sort of man is it who sits in a church for 20 years while his pastor…his good friend…god damns the United States of America? And who then throws his pastor under the bus when it gets hot?
Answer: The same. A craven, rudderless, opportunistic trimmer with no fixed principles who has always placed his own career ahead of anything else including his once firm friends whom he later saw as impediments to his political career which he placed ahead of any other factor.
What sort of man is it who buddies with an undisguised, unrepentant terrorist (who never apologized for bombing the Pentagon) and who used this association in the early days to advance himself by gaining a foundation chairmanship and other benefits-throwing Billy Ayres under the bus when it became advantageous…Axelrod, the Artful Dodger, declaring that Obama never knew of Ayres’ connection because Obama was 3 years old when Ayres bombed the Pentagon?
Answer: A craven, rudderless, opportunistic trimmer with no fixed principles who has always placed his political career ahead of anything else including his once firm friends whom he later saw as impediments to his political career which he placed ahead of any other factor-including love of country.
A bit of history. There was never a time when Bill Ayres allowed his radical history to dissolve into the mists of time. He traded on it. I met him in the 1980s when he and Bernardine Dohrn lived in a Hyde Park carriage house adjunct to the house John McDermott owned. McDermott was his landlord. This was about the time Obama came to town. Ayres has always boasted of his hatred of the United States and always…to me particularly…said how he regretted not doing more damaged to the United States. In fact given this culturally deprived society we are living in, Ayres and his wife benefited from their terrorist associations…she landing a job in the law firm where Michelle Obama worked…he become a celebrity in the fey, decadent lefty society that comprised the Hyde Park of the time.
Axelrod gets away with the fiction that Obama didn’t know Ayres’ background because he trades on the lefty nature of the pro-Obama, supine media of Chicago…imagine a prominent TV “political reporter” on CBS-TV asked him to allow a photo taken with his family when he gets to the White House and to send him a Christmas tree ornament. That’s the objective nature of this local media beast with no teeth but gummy patronization where Obama is concerned. Why did it take a local blogger, Fran Eaton (kudos to her) to unveil the truth about Jeremiah Wright? Why did it then take a national ABC TV correspondent to make it national? Where was the supine Chicago media cross-eyedly Democratic ? Hoping to get THEIR kids to be photographed with the next president.
These are the questions that can make the difference-if. If McCain is willing to risk
George says:
Tom, if the MSM just keeps covering up for Obama, how can McCain get these issues to break through?
Jerry Fahey says:
Hickey,
did you raise your righteous fists in anger as you typed "supine soup"?
You gentlemen, and I use that term lightly, should start practicing the phrase "President Obama".
Look at the bright side. Eight years of using the word "obamanation" or the phrase "Barack HUSSEIN Obama". Really it will be good for the GOP.
Perhaps you can toss the evangelical nutjobs off and go back to being the party of Barry Goldwater in his later years.
A party that cynically nominates Sarah "I Kill Moose" Palin has no business running the White House. The party of Bush, Cheney and Rove needs to remake itself.
The real question is not who will win in 26 days, but how long it will take the GOP to become something better than it now is. I don't expect perfection in this life, but I do demand something better.
To quote from George Will's latest column in the Washington Post:
"In 1987, on the eve of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's third victory, the head of her Conservative Party told a visiting columnist: "Someday, Labour will win an election. Our job is to hold on until they are sane." Republicans, winners of seven of the past 10 presidential elections, had better hope they have held on long enough."
To borrow Will's idea it is time to hope Obama is "sane". Barring intervention from the Almighty the McCainiac has about as much chance of beating Obama as Reverend Jesse Jackson has of being put in charge of a college cheerleading program at Morehouse or Bill Clinton leading a "character formation" conference at Wheaton College.
John Powers says:
Fahey,
Barring major media actually reporting Sen. Obama nutty positions on issues, he could certainly win.
JBP
Jerry Fahey says:
:,
So now Obama is responsible for Farrakkhan?
Seems nutty to me. Now his association with Bill Ayers seems fair game to me, but this is just more kool aid drinking.
Should I post a video of McCain and the late unlamented Jerry Falwell?
I have news for you. Obama is not responsible for everything some goofy black guy says or does. Just like McCain isn't responsible for every thing some of his supporters have been saying.
If we want to start tearing up both candidates for having bad associations then "let slip the dogs of war".
McCain has been associated with some real scumbags. As has Obama.
Does this election come down to whose scumbags are scummier?
If Bill Ayers were eaten by a pack of wild dogs I would worry that they got food poisoning. The same could be said of some of McCain's associates. Poor doggies.
doozy says:
Sheeesh, by your logic, McCain, by his friendship with Lee Annenberg, who funded the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, is associating with people who fund terrorists.
Where also is your outrage with Sarah Palin's husband, who belonged to a secessionist organization for seven years! Secession by definition is plainly UnAmerican. C'mon, this guy wants to rip a star off the American flag, and you're defending his wife. I guess I better look up the word traitor again, I think the definition has changed.
John Powers says:
Fahey,
McCain never managed a $100 Million project with a terrorist, then denied knowing him when he ran for office.
Obama really stretched to claim that Ayers was just some guy from the neighborhood. Do we really want a President who leverages guys like Ayers to get what they need? Even worse, do we really want a President who won't own up to his background?
JBP
Olivier says:
Tom,
You do not understand that this does not solve the current problem which america has.
It's uncompetitive, the education system is terrible, we pay the highest cost for the a terrible health care system and we are wasting away in debt. Of course, One can not expect a 80 year old republican from Park Ridge to understand all this.
So, keep trying this "what sort of a man rethoric". McCain is no better man than Obama, but the election is not about Obama or McCain.
It is about the terrible state this nation is in.
Olivier
:) says:
OK America is uncompetitive.
BO spent a $100,000,000 on political pork instead of reading programs and math / science.
he is personally corrupt forget the "friends".
he also has more to do with the current sub prime crisis because he forced banks as acorn's shark to make them.
so BO breaks the window and blames everyone else for the cut on his foot.
Jerry Fahey says:
Chris Buckley endorses Obama.
I suspect Bill is smiling that reptilian smile somewhere.
Pat Hickey says:
Tom,
That is about as well stated and sucsinct a response to the ever dimishing Obama mythopoeic efforts spouted by Axelrod,Zorn, Sweet and the balance of the 'supine' soup drinkers.