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July 23, 2008
The Audacity of Inevitability
Rick Moran
I was interested to see that I and many readers here at AT weren't the only ones who have been noticing Obama putting on incredibly arrogant airs with regards to his presumed "inevitability" as the next president.
Veteran political reporter Donald Lambro has noted the same thing:
Barack Obama is only a candidate, but don't tell that to the Germans, some of whom have leapfrogged that whole election thing and already are calling him "President Obama" in advance of his visit.
For that matter, his own campaign could use a reminder. For the second time in as many days, reporters traveling with Mr. Obama on his overseas trip corrected campaign staffers for saying White House practices also govern his campaign in dealing with the press, or in delivering speeches.
In his Nightline interview, Obama spoke of his belief that he shouldn't just do what the generals say because if he did, he wouldn't be "doing my job as Commander in Chief."
Earth to messiah: You are not Commander in Chief yet. And that's not the only example of Obama carrying on as if he were already president:
"Days after securing the nomination and losing nine of the last 14 primaries, and 151 days before the general election, Barack Obama is speaking as if he has been elected and re-elected," RNC spokesman Danny Diaz said last month after Mr. Obama suggested he would be ending his second term during the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Mr. Obama's Republican rival, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, says even the press is fawning over the Democrat as if he has been elected, releasing a harsh new ad Tuesday using favorable quotes reporters have given as evidence they are in "love" with Mr. Obama.
The New Hampshire Union Leader reported Tuesday that just one reporter met the Republican at the airport when he landed for a campaign event, but Mr. Obama travels with a press corps that takes up two buses. More reporters travel with Mr. Obama than with the sitting president, and so many scribes wanted a ticket across the Atlantic with the Democratic candidate that the campaign had to turn down about 150 requests.
Whether the American people will take note of this outrageous, egotistical, inappropriate, and undemocratic attitude on the part of Obama and his staff depends on a media that would be willing to report such goings on.
If I were you, I wouldn't hold my breath...
Hat Tip: Ed Lasky
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Comments
This is actually good news. Remember the inevitablity of Mrs.Clinton? The news media were all in her camp back then. Have faith in the American people, we're not as uneducated as the elites would have you believe.
Posted by: biggyrat | July 23, 2008 11:34 AM
Its true I too have noticed Obama's over arrogence. makes me sick. I have also noticed that the entire McCain campaign has been one big Gaff. Look I think McCain served this country and demands the up most respect. He is probably even a patriot. But it is a cold fact of life when you get older you dull intellectually. I think McCain just isnt as sharp as a president needs to be. We cant elect presidents on the mere fact that they are a war hero., They need to be able to function as a president functions. Here is a site that has videos of all of the mccain gaffs. It also has a video of McCain falling asleep on the Conan Obrien show., I cant believe this video isnt being shown on the news more. Wow.! I will leave the link its
http://www.mccanes.com
I would like to take the opportunity to say I would not vote for a McCain Romney ticket, I might a McCain / Huckabee ticket. Here is a link that has all of the Romney attack ad videos, that Romney released against McCain during the primary, along with a video of romney calling McCain dishonest. How could McCain even consider picking Romney. I think the McCain camp is trying to sabotage McCain. The link to the videos is http://www.hotpres.com
You can sign a petition to make Huckabee the VP at http://www.TheVeep.com
Posted by: paul | July 23, 2008 11:34 AM
i remember how liberals complained for years that the media "didn't do their jobs" by questioning bush and the iraq war and how the media was supposedly "right wing" controlled.
funny, now that the media has been bowing down before obama, and not doing their jobs by asking the tough questions, the left is extremely quiet and no longer is the media some right wing controlled giant.
amazing how things can change so rapidly. even FOX News handles obama with kid gloves and i get the impression they give obama more air time than mc cain.
Posted by: mark abby | July 23, 2008 12:17 PM
Comrade Obama has close ties to two organizations well known for election fraud - ACORN and the Chicago Democrat Machine - so maybe he is inevitable.
But even with that help, I still think he'll crash and burn.
Posted by: Ed | July 23, 2008 12:33 PM
I have been aware of the gross favoritism towards Obama in news content. I was unaware of this lopsided coverage - so many covering Obama, almost no one covering McCain.
Since I am an ordinary guy, I may not be alone in this regard.
Most of us expect the press to be our watchdog - helping us guard against abusive government. With what is going on, there is every reason to expect 1) the press is currently not a watchdog on our behalf, and 2) if Obama is elected, the press will be a watchdog on behalf of him, not us.
Given what we see, who knows what they will let him get away with before they admit their error?
Whatever anyone may think of Reagan, Bush, McCain, I never had this anxiety with these leaders. I always knew the press would be watching Reagan and Bush for bad behavior, and I know they will give McCain similar treatment.
Again, since I am an ordinary guy, I may not be alone in this regard. In fact, as time goes on, I suspect more and more of us ordinaries will develop the same valid anxiety regarding a possible Obama presidency.
Posted by: james | July 23, 2008 01:10 PM
Biggyrat,
My thought exactly. (To paraphrase King Kong "It was arrogance killed the beast")
Posted by: Ann | July 23, 2008 02:42 PM
Food for thought Rick. Good stuff. Thank you! I've been chewing on this 'inevitability' issue for a long while.
As a recovering lefty lib-tard I know how I used to 'think'...pre-Reagan. What's happening here is either pre-conscious teen age mythological wishful thinking, voodoo sympathetic magic, where acting, thinking and believing something symbolically will make it real...'Build it and they will come' New Age psychobabble...OR... something more insidious...like a well planned well timed expertly aimed installation of a kindler gentler humane Party Chairman by the shadow forces of DNC owners Sauron Soros and the Goreacle exploiting the implanted ADD mass psychology...horror movie girly scared by Al's science fiction CO2 planetary ultimatum...act NOW or we all die! (The Reichstag Fire/Kristallnacht excuse of the NAZI's, for our time, to keep good civil order.)...Oh God! We've only got 8 to 10 years! Cute baby penguins and cuddly bear cubs are dying in droves on melting icebergs! We have the faked photo-shopped AP pictures to prove it! You're next America! (Relax Red China... you're fine...the key's under the doormat and there's beer in the fridge...enjoy Comrades!)
The traitorous fascistic tyranny of war criminals BushCheneyHitlerRovesputinHannityHalliburtonLimbeaughExxon-Mobil are shredding our civil liberties and are forcing a fragile precious planet, imperiled by rapacious capitalist over-consumption, to cry out in the wilderness for a benevolent, charismatic bi-racial savior who understands, knows, cares, and can fix us with hope and change. His incarnation will usher in the New World Order prophesied by Marxist holy scripture in 1848. Blessed Utopia at last! The Socialist Superman is nigh! (DAMN! I thought it would be Jerry Garcia...oh well.)
Stalin and Hitler are fist bumping in Hell. It's ingenious cartoon political theatre, way beyond their inept primitive 1930's pre-MSM Old School Ministry of Truth skills. It's worked on credulous dumbed down masses since the gorgeous sexy mysterious god-like fashionable Pharoahs in 4000 BC...why not 2008 AD? Same bunch of easily led dependent indoctrinated dopey dupes...same vain degenerate power mad ruthless criminal aristocrats. All that's changed are the hats and hair styles!
Our unprecedented wildly successful hard won American prosperity for all, is circling the drain of their re-written history. The November elections are for show. Crazy old Uncle John...the DNC's chosen candidate for the comatose RNC...is confined to quarters for his own safety...under MSM house arrest to protect us from his demented dangerous lunatic heretical anti-messiah ravings. (Hide sharp objects and confiscate his shoe laces!) They will dictate the relevant facts as needed. They will define the ground rules of their open fair non-debates.
The deal's already going down in UN back rooms. Was Bobby Mugabe the deciding vote? the Castro Brothers? Medvedev? Hugo Chavez? Those too stupid to legitimately compete...subvert and undermine.
We could be toast. PLEASE prove me wrong someone. Maybe it's mental paralysis by paranoid over-analysis. As a self-taught C+ college drop-out I could be all wrong big time!
Oblahblah is point man for the old covert Chicago CPUSA cell, that harkens back to the bloody Haymarket labor riots of 1887...that inspired Lenin, the IWW May Day parades, and their favorite symbolic team color...blood RED...for anarchic violent persuasion. Chi-town's politicos and academics have always been major power players in the global socialist movement. They never gave up. The cold patience of pure revolutionary dogma.
What I'm postulating here is that BHO as POTUS, MAY be a fait accompli. There's too much precedent for weird BS out of left field in the history books. As a card carrying misanthrope, I put nothing past the feral shaved ape of humankind. Nothing is forever. It's my old ranger instincts kicking in...there's a hint of smoke on the wind from somewhere. Let's roll the fire trucks anyway...just in case!
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed is king." Old Persian saying.
Posted by: Ranger Joe | July 23, 2008 05:12 PM
One of the seven deadly sins - pride.
Posted by: EyesOpen | July 24, 2008 08:27 AM
I am a long time Conservative and as much as I hate to admit it, Barak Obama will be our next President. It is inevitable. Why? McCain has no message, at least none that can compare with BO's hollow but catchy message. If he has a message, the MSM will distort or ridicule it. McCain hasn't, nor can he, generate enthusiasm. Why? He is old; he looks old; he thinks old; he sounds old. He acts old. And Americans don't like "old", even those of us who are older. McCain is easy to label as GW part two because of his repetition of "I supported the surge". It will be a tough eight years under Barak for those of us who hold Conservative views and values. I doubt our country will ever be the same again. Some things are impossible to recover once they are changed. The only think we can hope for, is that we might win a few seats back in the Congress in 2010 and a few more in 2012. I doubt that a Republican will win the Presidency again before 2016. By then America will be an entirely different country, a Liberal country that might "try on" some (a few) conservative ideas for "a change".
Posted by: Paul | July 24, 2008 10:19 AM
From now on let us call our dear Obama 'Mein Fuhrer'. You may ask me why. My answer is and why 'Mr. President'. For Obamaniacs 'Mein Fuhrer' is more appropriate because it excites. For all other mere mortals it is appropriate because it forewarns.
Posted by: Dr. Goebbels | July 24, 2008 10:35 AM
Obama is not officially the Democratic nominee and his staff is already making plans for the White House?? This no audacity of hope is is egomania from hell.
I have heard of PUMA, whoever they are..God I hope they make a difference as the Obama cult are sheep with no will of their own.
Posted by: dragonfly777 | July 26, 2008 08:06 PM