corysub
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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u Cory,please help me to understand....how did he steal the Oval Office? How, by pulling off the biggest con in the history of the country. Obama's timing was perfect. Here is a guy whose only claim to fame is that he ran one of the best political campaigns ever...but has never held a real job with real responsibilities. Here is a guy, a disciple of Sol Olinsky, new on the scene, and overnight became the darling of the liberal elite media from New York Times to Chris Matthews, Bryan Williams, and the nutcase Keith Olbermann...who put him on a pedestal with a sign saying "change" hanging from his neck. Some of Obama's long term "friendships" with an anti-American radical minister, a now convicted felon who made a lousy land deal for himself with Obama, and a guy who is an unrepenting terrorist, a leader of a group that set of bombs in public facilities only came out AFTER he had done a fantastic end-run around Hillary in the early caucus States. So this charismatic weaver of the words...turned a sows ear into a silk blanket of hope for people on the extreme left of the democrat party...activists like himself who get out there and vote, particularly as he played his "anti'Iraq war" comments against Hillary. So the early part of his campaign, in my view, benefited from a total lack of knowing anything about the guy who was speaking in those velvety tones and made for great TV..and he had an anti-Iraq position that rung true to the way left of center democrats. (He had this Iraw position only in local Illinois speeches. One wonders what direction he would have been blown if he was on the big stage in Washington at the time?) He appealed to young idealists, the folk that get out and vote in primaries, particularly in democrat caucus states that . Obama had a small, but energized and effective cadre working in those States while Hillary slept...waiting for a call at 3:00 A.M., I guess. Every one of Obama's top five wins were in caucus states; and of the seven Super Tuesday caucuses, he won them all. Hillary found her voice late in the campaign. She won most of the big States, but by than it was too late to swing the party power elite to her side. After the nomination and the tingles his speeches gave Chris Matthews, we witnesed the Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the possibility of the total collapse of the financial system. Many people gave up and were ready for anything new..any "change". The election was over weeks before the vote! Most people who voted for Obama still know very little about what this man is thinking and how radical is his view of "change" in America. This was the biggest con ever...a political "ponzi" scheme. And now his agenda is becoming known....a "Stimulus Law" that represents two decades of liberal wish lists becoming reality...not only in terms of money to energize a new era of social change in this country...but billions of dollars thrown at non-stimulus pork at a time when we are on the brink of a possible depression. And this is only the FIRST huge "spending bill". As important as this reckless spending, are the new "non-cash" items in the legislation that pave the way for the destruction of the American healthcare system. The Pelosi/Reid/Obama "Stimulus"...the "lets take money from the taxpayer and keep irresponsible people in homes they should never have owned"..and we have not even gone through a full month with this administration. Over the coming months this "unknown" President will use the Executive Branch to bring lawsuits agains the previous administration, nullify the First Amendment with a Fairness Doctrine from his FCC, fund groups like ACORN that will press their MOS of politics via intimidation, raise taxes on the most productive in our society to "bail-out" the most irresponsible, and generally tear this country apart at a time when it needs healing. Obama has no idea if anything he is doing is going to succeed. But success is irrelevant and really predicated on one's agenda. But he still thrills people...his team cherry picks fantastic photo-ops...and culminatin of his years of training and work as a community activist is what we are getting now seeing coming from the Oval Office. Men do things for two reasons..."a good reason..and the REAL reason". We are starting to see light being shed on the real Obama..his REAL raison d'être.
< Message edited by corysub -- 2/19/2009 2:17:20 AM >
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