Backlash: Washington Post And Real Clear Politics Very Jittery About Hussein
by Jim Tankersley
Has Barack Obama become his own campaign message? And if so, is he undermining his campaign?
That’s the possibility raised by a pair of thought-provoking commentators today, who both, in different ways, question whether the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is running a dangerously image-based campaign.
“I know that Barack Obama is a near-perfect political package,” columnist Richard Cohen writes in his piece “Obama The Unkonwn” in the Washington Post. “I’m still not sure, though, what’s in it.” Jay Cost, a data-whiz blogger at Real Clear Politics, argues in a detailed analysis of campaign messaging that “Obama’s organization is built around a politically risky meta-narrative… (which) often seems to be: this great man will unify a divided America around himself.”
Cohen’s main point is this: He can name major accomplishments of Obama’s presumptive opponent, Republican John McCain. He can’t do the same for Obama - and he believes many Democrats can’t, either. (He explicitly discounts Obama’s early Iraq war opposition as an accomplishment.)
He goes on to warn against underestimating Obama, with reminders that similar criticisms were once leveled at presidential candidates Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. “My guess is that Obama will make a fool of anyone who issues such a judgment about him,” he writes. “Still, the record now, while tissue thin, is troubling. The next president will have to be something of a political Superman, a man of steel who can tell the American people that they will have to pay more for less — higher taxes, lower benefits of all kinds — and deal in an ugly way when nuclear weapons seize the imagination of madmen.”
Cost takes a different approach, arguing that Obama’s elevation of his image to the center of his campaign - and the borderline angelic imagery on his Web site - undermines the economic message that should be the Democrat’s slam-dunk pitch to voters.
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Anytime a genuine Liberal opens their mouth and reveals their true “feelings” notice I didn’t say thoughts, they will get a backlash. Why is this? Because people like Hussein view life through the prism of haves/have nots, rich/poor, blacks/whites, big house/small house, male/female…You get the point. Their philosophy on life causes division. They cause class envy and someone with any intelligence gets pissed off and says “screw you, pal!”
Most of all, his puking on our military and their mission is beyond the pale. I have to say that my eyes were filled with tears when I learned that he would not visit our wounded soldiers in Germany. I don’t even have words to describe this. He needs a backhand across the face along with his backlash. He’s no American.
July 29th, 2008 at 4:51 pmhttp://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=302137342405551
The guy is a fucking Marxist.
July 29th, 2008 at 5:14 pmWake up America!!!
Someone tell me what he means by Deeds.
http://starbulletin.com/2008/07/28/news/story05.html
“I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it’s Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.” OBAMA
July 29th, 2008 at 5:17 pmThe wife who could be first lady says, “We have lost the understanding that in a democracy, we have a mutual obligation to one another — that we cannot measure the greatness of our society by the strongest and richest of us, but we have to measure our greatness by the least of these. That we have to compromise and sacrifice for one another in order to get things done. That is why I am here, because Barack Obama is the only person in this who understands that. That before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation. “
- Michelle Obama
“We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass. From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
- Karl Marx
July 29th, 2008 at 6:08 pmI just had dinner with some of my liberals friends, Democrats to the core, they hate Obama and his Marxism, all plan to vote McCain.
July 29th, 2008 at 6:12 pm“How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
July 29th, 2008 at 6:15 pm-Ronald Reagan-
I need Pat to see this!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHsCKsk8Oyo
July 29th, 2008 at 7:02 pmFirst Lady Hussein replaces “No Child Left Behind” with “Re-education Camps”. Wouldn’t Chairman Mao be proud!
“fix our souls”?
Folks, this Hussein train gotta stop!
Gary: Love the quote from RR.
July 30th, 2008 at 5:05 amGo here: http://texasdarlin.blogspot.com
Hussein has dual nationality. He is indeed a “citizen of the world”.
To be more precise, he is a citizen of Indonesia.
As such, he is not eligible to run for President.
This dude is a total fraud. Every stage of his life is a lie.
I have no idea if some super powers will force him to be elected
even illegally.
What I do notice, is Hillary has not released her delegates.
July 30th, 2008 at 6:12 amSomething is up, still. Texasdarlin has a pretty good read on it.
Check this development out! I think his corruption is going world wide.
July 30th, 2008 at 6:50 amhttp://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=70972
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/28/pelosi-san-francisco-valu_n_115344.html
“But what they are really afraid of is economic justice.”
- San Fran Nan talking about what Republicans are “afraid of” while talking up San Francisco values and using the same code words for Socialism as Dear Leader ObaMao.
July 30th, 2008 at 8:21 amEconomic Justice: when someone breaks into your house and steals your TV, he’s just practicing a little “economic justice.”
July 30th, 2008 at 8:31 am