A new kind of politics
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.”
