America Got You Down? Ask Your Doctor About Obamacil (TM) Today!
May 15, 2008 at 9:18 pm | In Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, MSM, WH '08 | 1 CommentTags: change, Iraq, Jeremiah Wright, Joe Biden, NRCC
Pity the GOP. Not only will Republicans be fighting for their very lives this November in what has to be the worst climate for them since Watergate, but some deeply myopic soul in their ad shop thought it’d be super-sweet to try to co-opt Barack Obama’s “Change” message. How very fitting it is that said message — “Change you deserve” — is also the slogan for an antidepressant.
Rep. Tom Davis is probably right: Congressional Republicans are in for a bloodbath this fall if the atmospherics of this country continue to hold. The “wrong track” response broke the 80-percent ceiling in last week’s ABC/WaPo poll because Americans are in a deeply pessimistic and, frankly, pissy mood these days. Historically, the state of the union isn’t as bad as CNN et al. would have you believe. (Enough with the round-the-clock gas price coverage, already.) There’s just something about President Bush that provokes a gut reaction in a lot of Americans, and it’s not always rational. But it’s there. And his party will pay for it big-time this fall unless something spectactularly dramatic happens.
So, yeah. I’ve been refraining from saying stuff like “American voters want a national colonic” on the air, even though I think it every damn day. Now I’ve got a new metaphor to bandy about, thanks to the NRCC. Americans want to swallow a gigantic Prozac. And that Prozac looks an awful lot like a certain junior senator from Illinois.
The metaphor isn’t necessarily flattering, though.
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The Treatise On Obama & Race You’ve All Been Waiting For
March 18, 2008 at 4:14 pm | In Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, MSM, WH '08 | 1 CommentTags: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, race
I love how the cable networks keep playing this up as “the most important speech” of Barack Obama’s campaign only to go back to playing those incendiary clips of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on an endless loop. And people wonder why even some Democratic voters still mistakenly believe Obama is a closeted Muslim.
Obama absolutely had to deliver this address because of his decision to separate himself from Wright’s remarks and still count the retired pastor as a counselor and friend.
“I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community,” Obama said in a 40-minute speech delivered at Constitution Hall in Philadelphia. “I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.”
Obama added that he had not known Wright to be a racist in dealing with white people, but for voters who are disturbed by those sermon clips that’s besides the point. This controversy revived a question that many in Obama’s camp thought dead in the water: Whether Obama was that kind of black man.
You know, the stereotypically angry and resentful black man who feels this country owes him something. The only difference between white conservatives and white Dems on that black man is that white conservatives are open about their disdain for him.
For voters who began to fear that The Hope Fairy might be too good to be true, the sermon clips proved that instinct correct. Not only did Wright declare a class war on the “rich, white, privileged” Americans who control the country (and apparently include Hillary Clinton, who is not that wealthy), he also called out “negroes who just don’t get it.” One assumes that by “not getting it,” Wright meant they weren’t sufficiently angry, or something. Continue reading The Treatise On Obama & Race You’ve All Been Waiting For…
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