Is there nothing Obama can't do?
"Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don't have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon."
(Note - a publishing error on my part resulted in a duplicate of this post appearing a few hours later. I apologize for the deletion of the comments that occured when I removed it, and you're welcome to repost them on this thread).
Boy that's bound to do it bozo, keep up the good work.
Posted by: Western Canadian at July 23, 2008 8:41 PMAhhhhhhhh. Now I get it. Obamalama's word is more powerful then all his other socilaist buddies in the Useless Nations. Damn. Just think. If he had been around 2000 years ago how much suffering we could have stopped!!
Posted by: Justthinkin at July 23, 2008 9:19 PMWell, he would. If it were his committee, that is. Which, it ... well, actually, isn't. Problem, that.
Posted by: Megaera at July 23, 2008 9:20 PMIncredible; he says it's 'my committee' and yet, he's not even a member of the committee?
And the MSM press does nothing?
And no-one in Congress says a word?
It's quite something to see - the Democrats have created a totally fictional character as the nominee. Nothing about him has any validity; he's like a two-dimensional floating image on a screen, a screen-saver, forming a square at one instant; then a circle, then a triangle, then back to a square. Coloured red; then blue, then green, then...
As such an amorphous entity, Obama aligned himself for years with radicalism - because radicalism's focused hate (against America, against 'whites', etc) 'grounded' him.
And why would the Democrat party choose such an amorphous fictional entity? Is it because such a 'thing' (and he's not really a person in his being; he's like a chameleon, colouring up and taking the shape of whomever is dominant near him)..is it because such a 'thing' is more malleable to get the identity vote?
After all, the Democrats chose to split the population into identity blocs: gender and 'colour' They've got Obama - and they aren't presenting him as a man of experience, reason, wisdom, care...they are presenting him as: black.
And if you don't vote for him, you are a racist.
The fact that he openly lies - irrelevant.
That he's without principles - irrelevant.
That he has no ideology other than power - irrelevant.
Quicksand to the people.
Posted by: ET at July 23, 2008 9:24 PMLike it or not, and I don't, Obama will be the next President of the USA, the liberal MSM will ensure it happens. Just as certain is that our media will make sure the Citoyen Dion is the next PM.
Posted by: Peter at July 23, 2008 9:30 PMIt's quite something to see - the Democrats have created a totally fictional character as the nominee.
Yeah, that's it alright. Lately, for some reason, the Woody Allen character Zelig keeps popping into my mind when I see Obama in action.
Gore invented the internet, Hillary visitied Bosnia under fire, Edwards kept pushing a utterly false Dickensian view of America, Obama owns a committee he's not even on.
The scary thing is: these people aren't lying. They're delusional.
Posted by: Me No Dhimmi at July 23, 2008 9:40 PMI'm entitled to my commitments.
Posted by: David Dingwallabee at July 23, 2008 10:10 PMNext he'll launch a Senate Subcommittee boycott of the International House of Falafel, to really turn the screws on them.
My, Mr. Obama, what big ears you have.
Posted by: Clyde Wells at July 23, 2008 10:13 PMHe's polling even with the margin of error. That means as of right now, at least half the folks don't appreciate the bias.
Also, bias is supposed to be there, but unseen and unspoken about. These past few weeks have seen the light shine on this issue (of course contributed by the media acting like a drunk at the middle of a party not caring about appearances the next morning) like perhaps never before (see also the Rasmussen report on bias).
Add in the fact that the media, albiet biased, are also fickle, fad driven, and unscrupulous and so could turn on their hero on a dime - or at least pretend to turn on him, which would be enough, in order to be able to tut-tut their fellow reporter from the safety of their newfound pedestal impartiality,
mix in the new media's rise,
and layer it with a healthy dose of the fact that Obama is the political equivalent of a paper thin, card board Hollywood movie set,
and you have the makings of a fall Obama bubble burst.
Actually I'll go on record to say that McCain will win handily, perhaps even by near landslide proportions.
Posted by: biff at July 23, 2008 10:25 PMyah gota hope the LAD didn't inhale!!!!!
Posted by: GYM at July 23, 2008 10:32 PMSo it's not "his" committee,and he isn't even on it. So what? Since when has the truth or facts meant anything to the left? Some people(okay 99%)don't get the fact that leftardism is a disease,and as such,all carriers should be eradicated as the vermin they are. I would be ashamed if I was a black person,and saw this empty piece of sh*t supposedly representing me and my "people's" views and thoughts.
Posted by: Justthinkin at July 23, 2008 10:53 PMNext thing you know, he's going to claim that he invented the internet.
Posted by: Gord Tulk at July 23, 2008 11:08 PMThis is rather frightening on several levels. First, as ET has pointed out, this guy is essentially a fictional character, of his and the MSM's creation. He is utterly without substance, utterly without any grounding in reality. It's as though the Democrats were running Max Headroom as their candidate, the MSM were promoting him and half the voters in the US were supporting him.
In the event this wholly delusional character is elected, the US will be worse off than if they had no president at all for they will have a president with real power absent any real world reference point to anchor his policy and decisions. The president will be an illusion. The result will be chaos. Charles Krauthammer recently wrote a piece about Obama titled "Who does he think he is?", not as an expression of outrage, but as an expression of perplexity. As Krauthammer pointed out, it's difficult to think of any prominent figure in recent memory whose concept of himself is more distant from his real life achievements.
That being said, he is perhaps the ideal candidate for liberals, so utterly devoid of substance that he can conjure up no history of policy or action, while speaking endlessly about fantasies and fluff of a future than can be put off just long enough to get elected. And then will come the reckoning. And the price will be blood and human misery to which the libs will turn a blind eye. God Save America 'cause God knows Obama won't.
American people twice elected as president a sexual predator, and let's not forget that the black community adopted Slick Willie as one of their own.
Now that a black man actually represents the dems, he is all but untouchable, given the legacy left behind by Smirkin' George. The American media have fallen in love with an empty suit.
But I can't be too critical of our southern cousins. After all, we Canadians elected that dilettante commie Trudeau, didn't we?
Posted by: Alienated at July 23, 2008 11:21 PMHe'll be creamed in the debates ... if there are debates. I'm guessing we'll see a totally different MSM micro-managed format to insulate the fraud.
He knows nothing and expresses that nothing inarticulately.
The public will very soon get that MSM is force-feeding them. The public never likes that. Then backlash.
And soon, he'll be mercilessly mocked in the Letterman and Leno monologues. He will be an object of mass mirth. We will look back in amazement that he was considered a serious candidate.
It suddenly hit me: Vitruvius could crucify me with this from the archives!
Posted by: Me No Dhimmi at July 23, 2008 11:22 PMOther notable "Obama achievements":
Invented the telephone (1876)
First solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1927)
Four track & field gold medals at the Berlin Olympics (1936)
First man to break the sound barrier (1947)
Developed the first effective polio vaccine (1952)
First man to reach the summit of Mount Everest (1953)
First man into space (1961)
First man on the moon (1969)
Personally tore down the Berlin Wall (1989)
Nobel Peace Prize for his working in ending South African apartheid (1993)
Personally brokered the Led Zeppelin reunion concert negotiations (2007)
IS THERE ANYTHING OBAMA CAN'T DO?
Posted by: MarkJ at July 23, 2008 11:24 PMJustthinkin – the tragedy is, there are many, many blacks in the US who would be a shoe-in if they ran for the Presidency. Unfortunately, I can’t think of any on the left though.
I’m afraid the Demoncraps in their last group masturbatory euphoria session left their followers with very slim pickings by just giving them two choices. Either be a sexist or racist!
But the question now is, can you really see Billery’s followers drinking the coolaid and voting for Obamarama Glamour?
Bah. It's not his committee. It's my committee.
That was easy!
Posted by: Doogie at July 23, 2008 11:47 PMFirst man into space (1961)
Not true. That was John Glenn. Obama was the chief rocket scientist.
Damn, in my little list of delusionals, forgot to mention Hillary being named in honour of Edmund Hillary -- who didn't climb Everest till she was six.
Posted by: Me No Dhimmi at July 23, 2008 11:53 PMMND..."First man into space (1961)
Not true. That was John Glenn. Obama was the chief rocket scientist."
Huh???? Then Obama must have been speaking Russian(yeah,I know he can) but I think Yuri Gagarin holds that little honour.
Posted by: Justthinkin at July 24, 2008 12:34 AMObama can say or do anything and his adoring fans will still vote for him. We can only hope that there will not be enough of them to get him into the white house. I wouldn't be surprised if he wants to change that name to the house of color or the black house. In any case it will be a political whore house with him in it.
Posted by: John V at July 24, 2008 1:20 AMJohn:
When 87% of the black population is bamboozled by the illusion Obama is black.
Heck, they even look the other way when you bring up the fact he was raised by white folk, his grandparents.
Guess those people who never knew who their father relate to him on a certain level.
If they vote him in and listen to what he's really saying, that people need to be responsible for themselves ... woo, hoo ... watch the anger boil up.
stupid keeps rising to the top these days. it used to be the cream or as some would say the best.
Posted by: old white guy at July 24, 2008 6:57 AMTwo points:
First- If there is ANY black heritage in his past then he is black (kind of like First Nations), and,
Two - I am still waiting for him to turn water into wine, although that should be coming up soon.
For what it's worth an acquaintance of mine that lives in the US and a stanch Democrat says he will not vote for Obama. Why? For a lot of the reasons stated here but mainly because he says he doesn't feel he can trust him. He also feels that Obama won't be running things the bureaucrats will because he simply isn't smart enough. I think he’s right and still feel and hope Obama gets slaughtered. One other thing, he also hated Clinton and their politics.
Posted by: Western Canadian at July 24, 2008 10:36 AM"Then Obama must have been speaking Russian(yeah,I know he can) but I think Yuri Gagarin holds that little honour."
Well, Obama does like communists...
Justthinkin: Me Go Duh on that one, eh? Yeah, forgot about Sputnik. 1957?
Yeah, Obama is not smart. Charles Johnson recently made the point that the guy simply doesn't know any history. We will have noticed that he didn't allow any foreign journalists to travel with him in the ME. Only US celebrity anchors.
One other thing: he was president of the Harvard Law Review, an extremely prestigeous position for which a lawyer receives enormous respect all though his career. The president of the HLR tends to write important scholarly articles and usually gets a fast track to a law clerkship to important judges etc. BHO wrote nothing of any import at all and got no such offers. He excuses this, of course, with his nonsense about personal sacrifice in favour of "helping the people". And his election to the post was extremely controversial in the first place. Affirmative Action stuff.
BHO is the perfect AA specimen.
ET nailed it in referring to him as a fictional character and did DrDave with his perfect Max Headroom anaology.
Posted by: Me No Dhimmi at July 24, 2008 11:00 AMI overhead an interesting conversation in a little bed and breakfast in Vermont between two women who were visting from Massachussetts. One whispered to the other, but not so quietly that no-one could hear. "I would never have believed this two weeks ago, but I might vote for McCain." The other agreed. I was sort of stunned. That is his core constituency.
Posted by: Tim in Vermont at July 24, 2008 3:19 PMActually,MND,Sputnik was,as you guessed,launched in 1957,and was the first man-made object launched from,and to orbit, the earth.(satellite) On 12th April,1961,aboard Vostok 1,Yuri became the first man in space and the first to orbit the earth. Odd as it sounds,on March 27,1968,he and his instructor died when their MIG-15UTI trainer crashed,probably caught in the turbulance from a Su-11 Fishpot interceptor which was running a practise intercept on them.He never lived to see his real dream, "man putting his foot on the moon"
Posted by: Justthinkin at July 24, 2008 7:05 PMAlan Shepard was the first english speaker in space,then Gus Grissom . John Glenn was third, he was kind of like obama, talked alot , so he got noticed.
Posted by: cal2 at July 24, 2008 8:51 PMThanks Justthinkin'. I really, really DID know that Sputnik was unmanned, no really I did! Most interesting about Yuri's death. Didn't know that.
If I'm not mistaken the sputnik launch was a humiliation for the US and helped launch a massive revision of science education.
cal2: First English speaker in space. LOL.
Posted by: Me No Dhimmi at July 24, 2008 11:39 PM