2008: The Great Deception

Sorry about the Obamania posts lately, but I think it’s important for all readers, regular or not, to understand the danger this man poses to our country.  I’m really tired of hearing and seeing good people fall for the “hope and change” rhetoric that has drawn so many people in who really haven’t been following the news that much.  I see it in many friends and family of mine and it’s really disturbing to see the average MSM talking point news follower blindly follow the same garbage fed to them daily in the news. They only hear what the MSM tells them and therefore know NOTHING about this man.

I don’t know how or why but I stumbled this post that just drew me right in…check this:

In short, Obama is an African American candidate in high office who is not compromised by civil rights activist establishment of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.  Racial reconciliation and presenting a youthful, post-racial face to the world are rightly seen as good things.  The press has breathlessly and uncritically reported his emergence.

But it is all happening so fast and bad signs are clear. The only publicly known people who have known Barack since before he was famous are an unrepentant terrorist (Williams Ayers), two racist preachers (Wright, Pfleger), a crook (Tony Rezko), and a wife prone to controversial statements when making political speeches (pull quotes include “Barack will make you work” and “Proud of my country for the first time in my adult life”).

Barack himself speaks in souring rhetoric when giving prepared speeches and aided by a tele-prompter, but descends into serial “uh’s” and “um’s” when asked questions. To put it mildly, his views on everything from tax policy to international relations are not fully formed.  To put it less mildly, he makes things up as he goes along, tells audiences what they want to hear, and changes his views to whatever serves him in the moment (from Rev Wright to FISA).

He also reminds us of Obama’s limp to the finish in the recent Democratic primary:

Barack Obama essentially clinched the Democratic nomination before the revelations about Reverend Wright and his overtly political and racial church came to light.  Would he have won 11 straight primaries had they been run after these quotes came out?  The combination of proportionate delegate apportionment (rather than winner take all) and the partial disenfranchisement of Florida and Michigan voters mitigated Hillary’s wins.

After the crash started, he lost Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas.  After it was clear he was the Democratic nominee, he still lost several Democratic primaries by 40 percentage points.  This is the definition of limping to the finish.

And then the clincher:

Americans do not vote for a candidate who acts like he is better than they are.

• When a candidate goes to a San Francisco mansion and smugly looks down his nose at the guns’n'God folks in flyover country, he hurts himself.
  
• When a candidate goes abroad and gives voice to negative foreign perceptions about America, he hurts himself.
  
• When a candidate chastises his fellow citizens for failing to speak foreign languages (especially when he does not speak one), he hurts himself.
  
• When a candidate will not deign to be interviewed, he presents himself as either having too weak a grasp of the facts to manage that sort of give-and-take or too self-interested to get “off-message”.  Neither option offers Hope or Change.
  
• A candidate who will meet the tyrants of the world without any preconditions but will not meet Fox News under any conditions hurts himself.
  
• The fact that he has so little in tangible accomplishments and speaks in platitudes only underscores the space between hope and reality.

When it all shatters in 100 days or so, half will wistfully look back thinking of what could have been while the other half will wonder what the fuss was all about.

And let’s not forget:

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