A new kind of politics
Bookworm on Sep 18 2008 at 7:52 am | Filed under: Barack Obama, Taxes
When the going gets tough, the candidate of hope and change, the one who assured us we’re in for the era of “a new kind of politics,” starts rolling around in the dirt and barking out the same old Chicago thuggery:
“Sen. McCain bragged about how as chairman of the Commerce Committee in the Senate, he had oversight of every part of the economy. Well, all I can say to Sen. McCain is, ‘Nice job. Nice job.’ Where is he getting these lines? The lobbyists running his campaign?”
“I’m not making this up, you can’t make this up. It’s like a ‘Saturday Night Live’ routine.”
“I’m skinny but I’m tough.”
“Yesterday, John McCain actually said that if he’s president he’ll take on — and I quote — ‘the old boys network in Washington.’ I’m not making this up. This is somebody who’s been in Congress for 26 years, who put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign. And now he tells us that he’s the one who’s going to take on the old boys network. The old boys network. In the McCain campaign that’s called a staff meeting. Come on.”
“I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.”
Incidentally, Obama himself admitted that he’s abandoning his “hope” and “change” charade and falling back on his practiced Chicago politics: “Obama has tried to assure donors and voters that he’s been schooled by Chicago politics.”
Nothing is going to affect the true believers, the ones who have staked out Obama as a religious icon of the new Left. One can hope, though, that the independents realize that they’ve been had and start backing off in revulsion.
And if Obama’s ghetto attitude — and I use that term deliberately because of phrases such as the sarcastic “Come on” and fighting words such as “get in their face” — doesn’t make voters nervous, perhaps Biden’s claim that it’s patriotic for us to give the government all of our money might frighten off people. I have a suggestion. How about if all the really, really rich folk who are pouring money in the Obama campaign — the Hollywood crowd, George Soros, Stephen Bing guy — simply hand to the IRS 90% of their money? They’ll still be rich at the end of it all, but they’ll have made a hell of a statement. If they do that, I might contemplate allowing the IRS to take my money, which will leave me poor, not “still rich.”
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Greetings:
“I’m skinny but I’m tough.”
My impression is that his toughness is all in his head and his mouth.
He’s got girly arms and a chest that would cave at the first punch.
Isn’t elevating viciousness to a whole nother level a “new kind of politics”, Book?
How about if all the really, really rich folk who are pouring money in the Obama campaign — the Hollywood crowd, George Soros, Stephen Bing guy — simply hand to the IRS 90% of their money?
That was what I recommended, Book. Since Soros said he would give all his money if it meant beating Bush in 2004, would Soros be willing to give up half his money to see Bush not run for a third term?
The sad truth is that negative attacks work. They’ve always worked.
The American people *will not* punish a candidate that engages in negative attacks, no matter how ridiculous they are. If the American people paid attention, investigated a bit, and maintained a personal list of negative attacks they thought were unfair, and punished the worst at the polls, believe me, this kind of nefarious attack would stop.
Because the American people repeatedly show that negative attack ads work, they will never stop.
Similarly, Congress may have incredibly negative ratings, according to the public, that never seems to extend to their own Congress-critter. Congress may be terrible, but their own Congressman is perfectly fine. Again, as completely makes sense in politics and reelection campaigns, our Congress-critters can safely ignore those high negative ratings, because they simply don’t matter.
During bad economic times, the Administration’s party is punished. (For some reason, the party controlling Congress doesn’t seem to be punished.) Given how truly terrible the news of the last week has been, we can expect Republicans to take a large hit, regardless of whether you think it justified or not. Again, it’s simply the usual rotten pattern of politics and reelection as practiced by the American people.
We can moan and gripe, but it’s not going to help until something fundamental shifts among the American people as a whole. I’m pessimistic this morning.
But keep yer powder dry! A week ago Obama was on the ropes! A week from now, as Americans shrug off the new 1.3 trillion dollars of debt they’re financing and if it works to calm the storm, we may be seeing a different story emerge yet again.
The Messiah, Obama, the candidate of Hope and Change, of “We are all Americans”, of bipartisanship, is responsible for getting Sarah Palin disinvited from the rally against Iran’s evil dictator:
http://wizbangblog.com/content/2008/09/19/palins-disinvitation-how-an-obama-op-politicized-the-apolitical.php
Some excerpts:
Upon news of Palin’s invitation, it was assured that the event would garner a higher level of attention than it already commanded. And the images and footage of Palin speaking in protest [...] would have provided endless campaign fodder with Palin shown standing against the world’s foremost state sponsor of international terrorism amid the audio-visual bites of Obama stating he would hold talks with Iran without preconditions. The effects would potentially be more than just stinging.
It had to be derailed at all costs. And the first step in the mission was to characterize it as a politicized event.
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And the Obama camp wins. Sarah Palin is denied the stage to demonstrate foreign policy leadership and voice principled opposition to the world’s premiere state sponsor of terrorism on Manhattan, in front of the UN and before recording FOX News cameras and microphones. No near-lethal ads this October running in Missouri, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan – where voters would get the message loud and clear.
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In addition to the vague pressure noted in the above article, another link has indicated that additional pressure was applied to revoke the tax-exempt status of the sponsoring organization, had Sarah Palin been allowed to attend. I think that was nothing more than a threat – the exposure of that threat would have been totally damning! – but the organizers discarded their spines and slumped into irrelevancy like jellyfish, earning, I am sure, the contempt of Achmedinejad along the way. I can see that monster now: “Israelis fold again. They are so weak, they always fold. This is all going to be sooooo easy. One early morning, soon, as the sun rises in the east, my nuclear sun shall rise to the west over Tel Aviv.”
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Obama says: “I’m tough but I’m skinny.” Actually, that’s not what he says, but it is the more accurate version. Because there’s no there there, except for a sly viciousness. This is the real Obama, the Chicago Daley-machine Obama, the Ayers Obama. This is the sneak that used odd, never-enforced legalities to force a real reformer – and a Democrat black woman! – off the ballot in Chicago so that he could win that race there. The Harvard lawyer strikes!
His grandma should thank her lucky stars she never stood between him and something he decided he wanted. As he has shown, he is utterly without scruples of any sort in getting what he wants, and, like ‘The Bad Seed’, fools everyone with his charm and smile. Women in particular should take note. He seems to keep saving his very worst for them; Be they Democrat, Republican, Independent, it doesn’t matter.
“There are those who use change as a way to promote their careers, and then there are those who use their careers to promote change.”