America did not see the real Barack Obama last night. (DNC acceptance speech)

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  • shosh
    Banned
    • Jun 2004
    • 4668

    America did not see the real Barack Obama last night. (DNC acceptance speech)

    For months, Barack Obama has complained about the poverty his family suffered while earning a mere $200,000 per year. Last night he ridiculed his political opponent for a joke he had made about high-income earners qualifying as “middle class.”

    Last night, the man who opposed welfare reform bragged that while serving in Illinois he had “moved more families from welfare to work.”

    The man who misled the public for four years about his vote to let a Chicago-area hospital continue leaving premature abortion survivors to die, and who promised that his first act as president will be to re-legalize partial-birth abortion, offered this calm plea to the nation: “We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country.”

    The man who is evading legitimate debate by smearing our own mild-mannered, thoughtful Stanley Kurtz as a “fear mongering . . . right-wing hatchet man,” last night called for “a new politics for a new time.”

    If you think that Senator Barack Obama stretches the truth, then don’t forget to take his introduction by Senator Dick Durbin with a grain of salt, as well. “To a country weary of the politics of division and deadlock, he has brought a message of unity and change,” said Durbin. “This man, Barack Obama, has inspired America to believe that we can come together and meet the challenges of this new century and rise up to a better place.”

    What “better place” might that be? He can’t possibly be referring to Chicago. There must be someone out there who remembers the 2006 election, in which Durbin and Obama together thwarted the efforts of bipartisan reformers who had reached across party lines to clean up their city’s politics. In that election, which I describe in detail in the most recent print edition of National Review, the two senators endorsed, as a “good, progressive Democrat,” a man named Todd Stroger. Both Obama and Durbin knew well that Stroger would continue to use the Cook County payroll as a private fund to support the politically connected — they just didn’t care.

    Stroger, a man described by liberal Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn as “an unimaginative legislative drone” and a “machine hack candidate,” won his race with Durbin and Obama’s help. As expected, he went on to shutter health clinics, lay off hundreds of nurses and dozens of prosecutors, and raise taxes — all in order to pay for the hundreds of unqualified but politically connected patronage workers that he and various politicians had “sponsored” for county jobs. John Stroger, his father and predecessor, had even taken the wise step of putting Tony Rezko’s wife on the county payroll.

    Obama notes that his opponent, Senator John McCain, voted with President Bush 90 percent of the time. Obama sides with Mayor Richard M. Daley 100 percent of the time, whether in regards to Stroger’s election or anything else that helps keep Chicago politics dirty. That is the real Barack Obama — not the smooth-talking Greek god who plays a reformer on television, but the man who has never met a Daley-backed Chicago pol he could not support. He doesn’t work against politicians for whom Tony Rezko raises money.

    The real Obama sides with the Chicago Teacher’s Union 100 percent of the time. Education is a top priority for Obama except when it comes to fixing the terrible school system caused by CTU, and the five-hour, 45-minute school day that the union bosses adamantly refuse to lengthen.

    “If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the judgment and temperament to be commander in chief, that is a debate I welcome,” Obama said in last night’s speech. This was meant to be a defense of his foreign-policy abilities, but it is actually an amusingly counter-factual statement about the man’s life and political career. What sort of judgment has Obama shown in his political endorsements? How about his choice of friends, which one might charitably describe as “interesting?”

    By what criteria does a man choose his friends and end up with the likes of Tony Rezko, Jeremiah Wright, and William Ayers? How does he choose his political advisors and end up with advocates of reparations for slavery, fans of Hugo Chavez, and two individuals who have been forced to resign over their alleged connections to Hamas?

    When Obama’s poorly chosen friends become liabilities, he suddenly shows a level of cognitive dissonance unworthy of the obviously intelligent author of Dreams from My Father:“This isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew . . .”“The [Rev. Wright] that I saw yesterday was not the person I met 20 years ago . . . ”Thanks to Kurtz’s work, we may soon hear, “That was not the William Ayers I knew . . . ”What happens when you put someone like Obama in a room with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? A few years later, after a smiling President Obama’s reassurances about Iran’s intentions prove untrue, you might hear this statement from the White House: “This is not the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad I thought I knew . . .

    The man who repeatedly stifled reform, who endorsed and embraced systemic corruption throughout his career in Chicago and Springfield, campaigns as the agent of positive change. The man with no judgment campaigns as the “wise leader.” There is a pattern to all this.

    Many voters, similarly lacking in judgment, will be fooled by last night’s speech. If Obama wins, they should not be surprised, three years from now, to hear themselves saying something similar:

    This is not the Barack Obama I thought I knew . . .

  • toasty
    Sir Toastiness
    • Jun 2004
    • 6585

    #2
    Re: America did not see the real Barack Obama last night. (DNC acceptance speech)

    Nice hit job from the National Review. Shocking that it would be critical of Obama.

    In related news, Wick Allison, National Review's former publisher and staunch conservative, has written an essay in support of Obama.

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    • 88Mariner
      My dick is smaller
      • Nov 2006
      • 7128

      #3
      Re: America did not see the real Barack Obama last night. (DNC acceptance speech)

      ^ read that this morning. I believe Obama did all those things. Of course, I also believe McCain invented the Blackberry, Al Gore the internet, and Marconi the radio.
      you could put an Emfire release on for 2 minutes and you would be a sleep before it finishes - Chunky

      it's RA. they'd blow their load all over some stupid 20 minute loop of a snare if it had a quirky flange setting. - Tiddles

      Am I somewhere....in the corners of your mind....

      ----PEACE-----

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      • shosh
        Banned
        • Jun 2004
        • 4668

        #4
        Re: America did not see the real Barack Obama last night. (DNC acceptance speech)

        Originally posted by 88Mariner
        ^ read that this morning. I believe Obama did all those things. Of course, I also believe McCain invented the Blackberry, Al Gore the internet, and Marconi the radio.
        how can you discredit them when they are facts?

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        • 88Mariner
          My dick is smaller
          • Nov 2006
          • 7128

          #5
          Re: America did not see the real Barack Obama last night. (DNC acceptance speech)

          yeah? and? is it really that suprising that he backs teachers unions? i'm actually of the opinion that unions do serve a good purpose. i think teachers unions are one example that is helpful. I can give you dozens of examples of dipshits trying to sue teachers because thier little child can't learn a goddamn thing because the parents don't give a damn about thier learning.

          let's see...guilt by association. good. that's typical of the NRO nowadays. it wasn't like this back in teh day. Stanley Kurtz is a right-wing hatchet man. I worked below his rank at the Hudson Institute. An asshole indeed and an unthinking neocon. It's funny that the NRO blames Obama for failing school systems when it isn't the schools who are to blame but the kids attending them who don't give a damn about learning. Like O'Reilly said...the blame falls primarily on the parents. And yet the NRO has seeminly supported NCLB...a big-government hack job to that has been a great disaster to education.

          AH, so the main point is ...er...that obama chose them as friends. OK. and....so?
          you could put an Emfire release on for 2 minutes and you would be a sleep before it finishes - Chunky

          it's RA. they'd blow their load all over some stupid 20 minute loop of a snare if it had a quirky flange setting. - Tiddles

          Am I somewhere....in the corners of your mind....

          ----PEACE-----

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          • shosh
            Banned
            • Jun 2004
            • 4668

            #6
            Re: America did not see the real Barack Obama last night. (DNC acceptance speech)

            the unions are good when everyone in chicago knows they are the reason why their education system is so bad? (yes family in chicago) who are the unions good for? not the students or the schools, only for the lazy ass teachers. blame the kids and the parents for the system, but if the school system sucks, they have even less support.

            so you are ok with obama having those kind of friends? those who you associate with define your character. deny it all you want but is blatantly evident obama is only a puppet.

            kurtz is a right-wing hatchet man? at least he doesnt rant out racist shit while being obamas confidant and best friend, doesnt have communist or hamas ties, or wasnt a terrorist. amirite?

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            • 88Mariner
              My dick is smaller
              • Nov 2006
              • 7128

              #7
              Re: America did not see the real Barack Obama last night. (DNC acceptance speech)

              Originally posted by shosh
              the unions are good when everyone in chicago knows they are the reason why their education system is so bad? (yes family in chicago) who are the unions good for? not the students or the schools, only for the lazy ass teachers. blame the kids and the parents for the system, but if the school system sucks, they have even less support.

              so you are ok with obama having those kind of friends? those who you associate with define your character. deny it all you want but is blatantly evident obama is only a puppet.

              kurtz is a right-wing hatchet man? at least he doesnt rant out racist shit while being obamas confidant and best friend, doesnt have communist or hamas ties, or wasnt a terrorist. amirite?

              Edit: you could put Milton-fucking-Friedman in one of those classrooms and you're still going to have children who don't give a damn to learn.

              yeah. i'm ok with the unions. You can throw as much goddamn money at them, but you can't force children to think. Look at DC for example. Teachers unions are red herrings to the lack of willingness to learn on part of the children. that thier apathy is bolstered by thier parents indifference, i think, is the clincher. I would probably argue that absentee fathers are culpable in this as well. Lazy ass teachers? I literally know dozens of teachers personally (not classroom professors) across this country and they work thier ass off: even before No Child Left Behind. Now with NCLB, teachers have been shat on by the Bush Administration. I guess it's easy to call them lazy when you think they're all liberal and thus adverse to your propogation of republican socialism.

              First of all, you alone define your character. Who you hang out with does not. That's a bullshit cliche that you've pulled out of church and have never thought beyond the scope of what that means. What you're suggesting is that who you have associations with, even if they are professional in nature, define you as a person. Balls to that, That's a collectivist mindset if I ever saw one. This is the hilarious guilt-by-association fallacy you have adopted from liberals. I suppose its too difficult for you to have friends with different viewpoints. Then again, the collectivist mentallity demands conformity in thinking. Yeah, i guess it sounds really SMART in e-mails but the real world implication is fucking nonsense. Blatantly obvious that Obama is a Puppet? That's a good one. You know who would be a puppet if ANYONE right now?

              I'll give you one chance to guess her name.
              you could put an Emfire release on for 2 minutes and you would be a sleep before it finishes - Chunky

              it's RA. they'd blow their load all over some stupid 20 minute loop of a snare if it had a quirky flange setting. - Tiddles

              Am I somewhere....in the corners of your mind....

              ----PEACE-----

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              • dylan.lindgren
                Getting warmed up
                • Dec 2006
                • 63

                #8
                Re: America did not see the real Barack Obama last night. (DNC acceptance speech)

                good god republicans are assholes... less smearing plz

                that is all

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