WE ARE TESTED IN LIFE MANY WAYS: OLE BARRY'S NOT DOING WELL ON THE FIRST FEW QUESTIONS HERE
God Bless young Barry Obama, he ran as a different kind of politician, a spiritual leader, not like those other folks (Especially those Yesterday Clintons). Well, great! This country needs some new and more spiritual leadership, somebody who will remind us we're going up or down together. Barry won with that--as they say in Australia, "Good on ya, mate!"
Now, for whatever reason, the star of McCain/Palin is rising, their comfort and likability ratings are ascending. When faced with that, a "regular" politician, not a spiritual leader, new age guy, would do everything he could to drive the other team's negatives up--the oldest trick in the book, when name recognition and approval go up, drive the negatives up with them.
A new age leader wouldn't do that. He'd just keep telling people we are in this together, this is "our time". Certainly our spiritual model would not stoop to tawdry driving up negatives.
So that is the test. Barack Obama, spiritual, new age leader (and I mean that as a compliment) would just keep telling his story and uplift the people. Barry Obama, successful but ordinary, mainstream politician would drive up negatives. It's a fork in the road, to be Barry or to be Barrack?
Yesterday he was Barry. I hope he comes to his senses. Every second he talks about Sarah Palin and whether she's a maverick or not is a second he's not only "off message" but "off personality"
posted by UMRBlog @ 09:22
21 comments
21 Comments:
His message? The Hope and Change thing? His work as a community organizer? In a nutshell, what is his message?
I am not a translator. As far as I am concerned, Obama's most endearing character trait is that he's not George Bush and he doesn't think like him.
Here's the point of the post: Obama's making a big mistake attacking on collateral crap like "The Bridge To Nowhere". It makes him look like just what he says he's not: an ordinary gut-fighting politician.
Obama's policy white papers are on line.
TYFCB
You highlighted my main problem with Obama: the rhetoric does not meet the rality.
He says we're ready to move past the politics of the past, yet every one of his proposals are rehashed ideas of the John Kerry campaign. (Why not propose privatizing a part of social security and raising the S.S. tax on the wealthy at the same time?)
He says he is bipartisan, yet he votes with Harry Reid 96% of the time.
I could go on and on here, but you get the picture. He is just not as authentic as he thinks he is.
Bush got elected twice. You gotta fight back. Let no attack go unpunished.
1252,
You're confusing being inauthentic and being a lefty. That's a different thread for a different time.
TYFCB
O,
I agree but this is the wrong attack. The only worthwhile counterattack is the one that helps your cause.
TYFCB
The boy screwed up!! He threw Hillary under the bus for Biden!!
I think he would love a "do over."
Not even Oprah can fix that for him.
Maybe, but I'm talking from a "right now" perspective.
His task is to show his ideas are superior to McCains, not to be the judge of whether McCain and Palin are "mavericks" or not. It's more of that alternative fuel: ChickenFlop.
There are a great number countries that have attempted socialism, and they have proven that Obama's ideas are demonstrably NOT superior to McCain's. And remember, socialism is in retreat in Europe, and they didn't even have to defend themselves from the Russians as their welfare states grew. We are pedalling faster towards socialism, while countries in Europe are doing everything they can to get off the bike.
Slip slidin’ away
Slip slidin’ away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you’re slip slidin’ away
-Paul Simon
(no relation to the senator)
SBA,
There is much truth in what you say. My point to the above anon was simply that being a lefty is not a sign of being inauthentic. Two different issues.
But I think that is the fundamental difference between BO and WJC at the same stage of candidacy: one really believes in the free market economy and one doesn't. Doesn't make anybody evil or phony, just different.
TYFCB
If McCain and the Republicans believe in the free market economy then why are they supporting the Federal bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
UMRblog,
Your post is dead-on. Obama is showing that he is not about 'CHANGE.'
CHANGE was a cute campaign slogan that allowed him to beat Hillary. If we was about CHANGE, and stayed with CHANGE, he would be doing fine.
But, he is a Chicago-pol. It's where he learned politics and it is the politics that he returns to when feeling finched.
He has been feeling pinched well before Palin, when he was only up by a few points, and he was straying far from CHANGE. With Palin on board and stealing his rock-star appeal - he is frantic.
His only two messages,
1. Iraq, and
2. I am not Bush
have been stolen.
It is clear that the Surge worked and that we are winning in Iraq. Not only was Obama wrong on the Surge (strike one), but he will not admit it when everyone knows that he was wrong (strike two), and he would have had us leaving in defeat, when we can now leave in victory (strike three).
As for, "I am not Bush" - it is very clear to all that neither is McCain/ Palin.
It appears as though Obama is well on his way to losing the election that was impossible to lose.
with all these negative and dirty ads seems to me to be the same old politics as usually. I agree Obama should stay on message.
Lets see if these ads change after all both parties are talking the talk. Maybe, one of them should walk the walk.
He is about change. He changed from taxing the rich to maybe not taxing them so much right away. He changed on public financing of champaign. He changed on oil drilling. He may have changed on school vouchers. He's changed on nuclear energy. He's changed on wire taps. He's changed on meeting foreign
leaders without preconditions. He's changed on Jerusalem. He's changed on tapping strategic oil reserve. He changed on Georgia. He changed on Rev Wright. He changed on running for President. He changed on the surge. Whole lot a changing going on.
Ha, ha, ha, ha. Very nice TSpud!
Here is another hit in the polls coming for Obama...
The 9-11 tributes.
How touching!
What a unspoken message that we need a Commander-In-Chief that will be aggressive in the War on Terror,
A C-I-C that will not flee in defeat (like Obama proposed), but a C-I-C that will fight to pursue VICTORY (Surge).
We need one that will enforce our borders and really do something about ILLEGAL aliens. Neither of these have shown the will or the nads to do anything about it except give us a smoke screen that most of us see thru as amnesty and incentive for more to come.
All I have to say about being in support of the free market place is...wasn't it the free market place that got us into the S&L Crisis some years ago? Right after deregulation of Banking as I recall...
Also...isn't it the free market place that has gotten us in the current Mortgage Crisis we're in?
And who decided we should commit up to $200 Billion to save Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae? Isn't that the Government of the free marketer George Bush?
Hummmmm!!!!!
Anon - you are correct.
The same free market system that has provided you with all the comforts that makes life in America as great as it is - also has a negative side.
I know nothing that gives only positives and no negatives.
I have been to parts of the world that are not free market - and I guaranty you that you most definately have a better life in the United States!
(I believe that the millions of illegal immigrants agree that the free market system is the better choice as well - as would the Cuban boat-people that risk their lives fleeing Castro's (non-free market) system).
Not sure who the number one was but D-Kerry was number two on the list of top lawmakers who received campaign donations from the companies (Freddie and Fannie) according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, D-Conn. received the most, $133,900. Barack Obama, D.-Ill., came in third with $105,849.
Don't forget the break up of AT&T. $38 phone bill and I don't even use it for long distance.
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