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Bye Bye Barry

 

Joel S. Hirschhorn

 

The final results are in on this historic November day.  Despite the hundreds of millions of dollars he raised, Barack Obama has lost the 2008 presidential election.  American voters have boldly spoken truth to arrogance.  Turned out that all those pre-election opinion polls that showed Obama’s inability to get over 50 percent support were prescient.  Much of the public was never comfortable with Obama, though he clearly was so comfortable acting like he already was president.

 

Hillary and Bill Clinton are probably drinking champagne and having the sweetest time since Bill won his first presidential election.  Hillary must now bite her lip repeatedly and resist saying publicly that “I told you so!”  Hillary in 2012 will reveal that she learned her lessons well.

 

All that Obama audacity of arrogance from the smiling, glib politician finally died the death it so richly deserved.  Too many pundits will blame his loss on his blackness and racist voters.  But the larger truth is that sufficient voters saw through the many lies and deceptions.  Obama always had a hard time giving a simple, short straight answer to tough questions.  He was always mentally calculating exactly how to game his answers so that he would achieve all the benefits he had his eyes on.  He was simply too damn presumptuous and too smart for his own good.  In the end, Americans do not want the smartest person in the presidency or endless nuancing.  They want someone they can easily understand and trust, despite their skepticism.  There were many reasons not to trust the calculating Obama to do anything he promised to do or, for some people, to fear he might.

 

And now the bloviating pundits will also blame third party presidential candidates for siphoning votes from Obama, as if Americans have no right to exercise their political freedom and vote for someone they honestly think has the best policy positions and would most help restore American democracy.

 

Jon Stewart and other late-night comics will feast on these election results, as they should.  I can’t wait to hear jokes about Obama’s wife becoming a more vocal and militant critic of the good old USA, now that she has proof positive that so many Americans are stupid white racists.

 

Of course, now the nation must suffer through the ineptness, confusion and dementia-like dullness of the living-in-the-past John McCain, tough-talking but brain dead.  Will the McCain presidency look like an extension of the incredible terrible George W. Bush White House?  Of course.

 

Still living off a once-true characterization as a maverick, McCain must now surround himself with people who actually are smart and knowledgeable about myriad issues.  Should be no problem finding enough lobbyists.  Pundits will start speculating that McCain will be lucky just to stay alive for four years, but thankfully his vice-president seems more capable.  One thing for sure: the power plutocracy that really runs the country will have little trouble pulling the strings behind the scenes and keep the puppet McCain dancing to tunes written by corporate interests.

 

Ralph Nader summed up this way: “A large fraction of Americans know that we need a Jeffersonian political revolution to fix our corrupt system.  They were not fooled by the Obama rhetoric about change, not from someone that has been a product of and servant for the two-party plutocracy.  Yes, all the votes for me and the other third-party presidential candidates spelled the difference between Obama winning and losing.  Our voters correctly protested against the corrupt two-party system.  They did not elect McCain.  Only those who voted for McCain elected him, and that is something they must live with as they watch a McCain administration continue dismantling American democracy and budget-busting global warmongering.”

 

Cynthia McKinney wisely noted that “It is time to stop saying God bless America, and begin repeating God save America.  The good news is that we will build even greater public support for a true political revolution during the McCain presidency.  All too often things must get much worse before they can get better.  They will get worse.”

 

As to Obama, half-jokingly he said: “I may come back as a third-party candidate.”  Or did that reflect a calculation that Democrats had learned their lesson?  As to all the screaming from the left that the Republicans stole this election also, Obama immediately said “John won it fair and square.”  Thanks Barry, exactly what I expected from a phony change agent.

 

[Contact Joel S. Hirschhorn through www.delusionaldemocracy.com.]

Submitted by sprawlkills on Wed, 2008-08-20 19:41.

The Audacity Hustle 

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"I've been hustled," said Obama, after a Euro tabloid fell down and worshipped his big muscles at the gym during the Ego Trip to Germany.  Well, yes. The Euromedia instantly recognized a slick hustler from America, and they celebrated his Ego Trip with giant headlines for Marxoman. But the real victims in Obama's Audacity Hustle are millions of gawking, slack-jawed, suckered, mind-numbed voters in America. Because Europe and Obama share the same overriding goal, which is to hitch America to the wagon of worldwide socialist elites. Marxists really love America, you see -- but only if America bows to the Party Line. That's the Audacity Hustle we are seeing today.

The Obama campaign sends completely different messages to different audiences.  He sends out reassuring 'post-racial' messages to Middle America.  But he also sends out race-baiting messages to his adoring fans. As he just said, he "doesn't look like those other presidents on the dollar bills" (big laugh from the libs).   

A lot of gay messages were sent out by the big Speech to Planet Earth at Berlin's Tiergarten -- the Berlin zoo, a center of gay life, right by a nude park for gay men, which the media somehow forgot to tell you about. The gym photo op was really part of Obama's gay outreach. Obama is getting a ton of money from gays. That's another message they won't tell you about.

Most of all, Americans don't realize that  the Obama campaign is constantly sending out famous Marxist slogans,  which are instantly understood by the radical Left, including Obama's buddies in the Black Liberation movement. Then Senator O tells the oil companies to send a thousand bucks to each American, playing the anti-capitalism card that they love so well. It's all part of the Audacity Hustle.

Obama is running the most audacious campaign in American history. But the Hustle only works for the real suckers. It's up to honest conservatives to tell people what's going on. 

Senator O began his German Tiergarten speech with "Citizens of the world!" -- a direct echo of "Workers of the world!" from the Communist Manifesto of 1848. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their Communist Manifesto in German, and German school children know it pretty much by rote. So his 200,000 German listeners knew exactly what he was saying, even if the American audience didn't. It's all part of the Audacity Hustle. 

Or take the Obama slogan, "We are the change we've been waiting for!"  It's repeated in The Obama Hustle over and over again. But it's just Fidel Castro's slogan, "La Revolucion Somos Nosotros!" --- "We are the Revolution!" That slogan been dinned into the ears of starving Cubans for fifty years. But Leftist snobs just love it. So the Obama campaign just translated Castro's big slogan into English, changed "the revolution" to "the change" --- and presto! -- we get the Audacity Hustle: "We are the change we've been waiting for!"

The Leftist in-crowd just loves how Obama is putting Castro's propaganda over on millions of ignorant American suckers. It's just the Audacity Hustle, folks. Just break the code, and it all becomes crystal clear.
 

All the Obama messages say the same thing: You can trust the Messiah of our Age! He's one of you!

Obama is Bill Clinton without the integrity.

Watch for the Audacity Hustle for the next hundred days, and maybe for the next eight years. But only if Americans fall down for the biggest sucker job in American history.

Suck - errrrrs!
Submitted by Iron Mike on Mon, 2008-08-04 13:22.

No comment that I can add speaks louder than this excerpt from the London Times. 

 

 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4392846.ece

 

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  And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.

 

The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.

 

When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”

 

In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes of Working Class Whites.

 

And so it was, in the fullness of time, before the harvest month of the appointed year, the Child ventured forth - for the first time - to bring the light unto all the world.

 

He travelled fleet of foot and light of camel, with a small retinue that consisted only of his loyal disciples from the tribe of the Media. He ventured first to the land of the Hindu Kush, where the

 

Taleban had harboured the viper of al-Qaeda in their bosom, raining terror on all the world.

 

And the Child spake and the tribes of Nato immediately loosed the Caveats that had previously bound them. And in the great battle that ensued the forces of the light were triumphant. For as long as the Child stood with his arms raised aloft, the enemy suffered great blows and the threat of terror was no more.

 

From there he went forth to Mesopotamia where he was received by the great ruler al-Maliki, and al-Maliki spake unto him and blessed his Sixteen Month Troop Withdrawal Plan even as the imperial warrior Petraeus tried to destroy it.

 

And lo, in Mesopotamia, a miracle occurred. Even though the Great Surge of Armour that the evil Bush had ordered had been a terrible mistake, a waste of vital military resources and doomed to end in disaster, the Child's very presence suddenly brought forth a great victory for the forces of the light.

 

And the Persians, who saw all this and were greatly fearful, longed to speak with the Child and saw that the Child was the bringer of peace. At the mention of his name they quickly laid aside their intrigues and beat their uranium swords into civil nuclear energy ploughshares.

 

From there the Child went up to the city of Jerusalem, and entered through the gate seated on an ass. The crowds of network anchors who had followed him from afar cheered “Hosanna” and waved great palm fronds and strewed them at his feet.

 

In Jerusalem and in surrounding Palestine, the Child spake to the Hebrews and the Arabs, as the Scripture had foretold. And in an instant, the lion lay down with the lamb, and the Israelites and Ishmaelites ended their long enmity and lived for ever after in peace.

 

As word spread throughout the land about the Child's wondrous works, peoples from all over flocked to hear him; Hittites and Abbasids; Obamacons and McCainiacs; Cameroonians and Blairites.

 

And they told of strange and wondrous things that greeted the news of the Child's journey. Around the world, global temperatures began to decline, and the ocean levels fell and the great warming was over.

 

The Great Prophet Algore of Nobel and Oscar, who many had believed was the anointed one, smiled and told his followers that the Child was the one generations had been waiting for.

 

And there were other wonderful signs. In the city of the Street at the Wall, spreads on interbank interest rates dropped like manna from Heaven and rates on credit default swaps fell to the ground as dead birds from the almond tree, and the people who had lived in foreclosure were able to borrow again.

 

Black gold gushed from the ground at prices well below $140 per barrel. In hospitals across the land the sick were cured even though they were uninsured. And all because the Child had pronounced it.

 

And this is the testimony of one who speaks the truth and bears witness to the truth so that you might believe. And he knows it is the truth for he saw it all on CNN and the BBC and in the pages of The New York Times.

 

Then the Child ventured forth from Israel and Palestine and stepped onto the shores of the Old Continent. In the land of Queen Angela of Merkel, vast multitudes gathered to hear his voice, and he preached to them at length.

 

But when he had finished speaking his disciples told him the crowd was hungry, for they had had nothing to eat all the hours they had waited for him.

 

And so the Child told his disciples to fetch some food but all they had was five loaves and a couple of frankfurters. So he took the bread and the frankfurters and blessed them and told his disciples to feed the multitudes. And when all had eaten their fill, the scraps filled twelve baskets.

 

Thence he travelled west to Mount Sarkozy. Even the beauteous Princess Carla of the tribe of the Bruni was struck by awe and she was great in love with the Child, but he was tempted not.

 

On the Seventh Day he walked across the Channel of the Angles to the ancient land of the hooligans. There he was welcomed with open arms by the once great prophet Blair and his successor, Gordon the Leper, and his successor, David the Golden One.

 

And suddenly, with the men appeared the archangel Gabriel and the whole host of the heavenly choir, ranks of cherubim and seraphim, all praising God and singing: “Yes, We Can.” 

Submitted by Iron Mike on Sat, 2008-07-26 10:46.

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  Our Founders were wise to dump European monarchy in favor of government of the people, by the people and for the people.  And because of our Founders' direct experience with capricious rulers, American tradition has shied away, in every generation, from putting our leaders upon larger-than-life pedestals. 

Hero worship of politicians just reeks of old-world kingdoms, and thus produces visceral disgust among Americans.

As Herbert Spencer so wisely noted, "Hero worship is greatest where there is least regard for freedom."

And that's just not us, is it?

As Americans, we honor reasoned discourse, and spurn emotionalism in our elections.

As Americans, we honor accomplishment, not birthright.

As Americans, we listen, consider and carefully elect.

We don't fawn and follow.  We don't faint.  And we don't coronate.

So, how has it come to pass that we now have a mere candidate for the Presidency of our United States of America, who is being received upon foreign shores as though he were not only already our President, but also our king?

Barack Obama is an American anomaly.  An enigma.  An aberration.

  • Never in American history has a man with so pitifully little on his resume received such adoration. 
  • Never in American history has a candidate had the temerity to mimic our Presidential seal the place it upon his podium. 
  • Never in American history has a mere interviewee deigned to write the rules for our interview. 
  • Never in American history has a mere candidate had the gall to travel abroad with a press corps and secret service in tow to give "fake press interviews"  for manipulated "news" coverage.
  • Never in American history has so little respect been given to our electoral process. 

The whole disgusting spectacle just smacks of old-world Europe, those folks so quick to hail a Bonaparte or a Hitler.

And sadly, oh-so-sadly, the comparisons don't stop with the fawning masses surrounding our audacious whippersnapper, Obama.
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Submitted by Iron Mike on Thu, 2008-07-24 17:29.

Clever bit of political maneuvering on the part of Obama. 

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'Did I Mention He's Black?'
By JAMES TARANTO

"Barack Obama told a group of Florida donors Friday night that Republicans will try to make voters afraid of him, and suggested they would use his race to scare up votes for John McCain," Fox News reports:

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Submitted by Iron Mike on Mon, 2008-06-23 21:02.

There's been a great deal of speculation why Obama's pastor, having weathered the initial storm of controversy over racist comments consistent with his embracing Black Liberation Theology, would make a second round of stupid racist statements forcing Obama to finally grow a backbone and renounce him. Geraldine Ferraro speculated this was a coordinated effort between Wright and Obama to inoculate him by creating a rift between the two that will survive scrutiny in the fall. I’m not so sure.
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Submitted by Iron Mike on Thu, 2008-05-01 18:12.

How Hillary Can Knock-Out Obama

Joel S. Hirschhorn

Now is the time for Hilary Clinton to take a bold position that in one brilliant, courageous stroke shows the nation that she is more willing to pursue true reforms of the two-party plutocratic political system than Obama is.
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Submitted by sprawlkills on Wed, 2008-04-23 16:48.

Hope mongering has been working much better than experience mongering. Now, the rest of the story….

As befits American culture, politics is all about slick selling to the masses. Hillary Clinton is selling Day-1 help to victims and sufferers. Barack Obama is selling effervescent hope to yes-we-can dreamers. This media hyped horse race is like a fight between diet Coke and diet Pepsi, artificially sweetened candidates devoid of real nourishment.
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