Barack Obama's face is everywhere -- the cover of TIME, countless articles and TV appearances. You can't get away from him or the low hum of presidential buzz.
He was interviewed by Charlie Rose last week.
On last Thursday's Today Show, Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer spoke of Obama as "electrifying" and a "political rock star."
His potential as the future of the Democratic Party was critiqued by loony lib goddess Maureen Dowd in her column, "Obama's Project Runway."
Frank Rich, another New York Times lib soldier, wrote about Obama on Sunday.
And the crowning jewel -- Tim Russert had an EXCLUSIVE interview with Obama on this week's Meet the Press.
How ridiculous to refer to any recent interview with Obama as an "EXCLUSIVE"!
It would be an exclusive to NOT have him as a guest or the subject of a column.
On the Meet the Press website, the interview is hyped this way:
Sunday, Oct. 22
Exclusive! Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), the man Time magazine dubbed "The Future of the Democratic Party," discusses domestic politics, foreign policy, & the 2006 elections.
Watch the interview here or read the transcript.
Thrilling, isn't it?
The Left is absolutely agog over Obama.
OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA.
Hillary Clinton and Russ Feingold must be so jealous. Everyone's talking about Obama. When was the last time you heard ol' Hillary or Russ referred to as a rock star? Probably NEVER.
Frankly, I don't see Obama's appeal. I don't get this Obama-mania. What do people know about him?
Simply put, Obama doesn't deserve all this attention. His popularity is so superficial and contrived.
I do see potential in Obama; but this guy isn't ready to run for the big job, not yet.
Last summer after Hurricane Katrina, I predicted that Obama was positioning himself for consideration to fill the number two spot on the 2008 Dem ticket. It appears that may be the case. He's not ready for that either. What has he done? What has he accomplished to be elevated to that position at this point?
He has been trying very hard to project that he can be all things to all people, but he can't.
The reality is Obama is a lib. He's not a moderate. He just plays one on TV.
Here's some perspective from June 27, 2005:
"In Lincoln's rise from poverty, his ultimate mastery of language and law, his capacity to overcome personal loss and remain determined in the face of repeated defeat - in all this, he reminded me not just of my own struggles. He also reminded me of a larger, fundamental element of American life - the enduring belief that we can constantly remake ourselves to fit our larger dreams."
Barack Obama gives a glimpse of his true colors in this week's issue of Time.
Regarding how Lincoln influenced his own life journey, Obama writes:
Obama questions Lincoln's motives in ending slavery, casts doubt on the purity of his principles, and dismisses the significance of one of our nation's most important documents.
"I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator. As a law professor and civil rights lawyer and as an African-American, I am fully aware of his limited views on race. Anyone who actually reads the Emancipation Proclamation knows it was more a military document than a clarion call for justice."
Obama delivers a final slap at Lincoln when discussing his own election to the U.S. Senate.
"He may not have dreamed of that exact outcome. But I like to believe he would have appreciated the irony."
I suspect these comments will someday come back to haunt Obama, especially in any national campaign.
His address at last summer's Dem National Convention played well across America, impressing Republicans and Independents. His remarks on Lincoln, however, show Obama to be less moderate and mainstream than he appeared to be in the summer of 2004 when he was on the national stage.
I don't know. I doubt that Obama's remarks about Abraham Lincoln will come back to a haunt him. In fact, now I'm certain they won't.
It is interesting though to watch the media create Obama, to see them develop a persona for him that's actually quite different from the man he really is.
Read more instances of Obama's pronounced Leftist, "out of the mainstream" slant here and here and here.
He's not the moderate that he and the libs want you to think he is.
5 comments:
Isn't a "rock star" at least suppose to have some sex appeal? :)
Yes, that's definitely a requirement.
Can Barack rock? :)
I think someone needs to buy him this book, so that he rethinks what he thinks he knows about the Emancipation Proclamation.
That's a great post.
How sad that we not only have to concern ourselves with protecting the future of our country, but we also have to protect our history!
I can understand some of the comments that are said about the Emancipation Proclamation. It was truly a war measure to keep England from attacking the north, make the civil war a "holy war", rather than what it had been before a battle over states rights, and also provide an manifesto to the north as a way to end slavery (even though Lincoln had no control of the southern rebel states). Lastly it was the grand intellect of Lincoln to use it also as a weapon to weaken the south and its slave situation. So it was an amazing document. It did a great deal with out doing to much of anything. That is genius.
Obama is not of this status...In fact I cannot think of any politician in our world today that comes even close. As it was said of Warren Harding in 1920...There are no first raters anymore, and he is the best of the second raters...
Today, we are in very much the same boat...Lots of second raters but I have yet to see in either party greatness. Hope you do not mind my long comment...Best wishes
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