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2008-07-18 Home Front: Politix
The Audacity of Vanity
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Posted by tu3031 2008-07-18 08:28|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 Great opinion piece by Krauthammer. I just read it on WaPo and was checking to see if it was posted here yet. TU got it! Good find.

The stench of BO really is his own vanity. Always talking down off the end of his nose. Lecturing and lecturing us on basic aspects of our daily lives. Add the Civilian Defense Force he wants to form (see RB yeserday) and his Govt. may be the most controlling and intrusive Govt. since Soviet Communism.

I keep having visions of the endless TV promos with the daily lecture from BO on screens placed all over the public space. Everyone must stop and listen and bow to the BO. "Words just, Words"
Posted by TomAnon 2008-07-18 09:01||   2008-07-18 09:01|| Front Page Top

#2 So he wants to speak at a place that we fought for over policy that he himself wants to institute in the US.

What a huckster.
Posted by newc">newc  2008-07-18 09:05||   2008-07-18 09:05|| Front Page Top

#3 "Ich bin ein Berliner Obamamessiah"
Posted by Besoeker 2008-07-18 09:49||   2008-07-18 09:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Obama is living a dream of being one with Kenedy. A nightmare for us?
Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-07-18 12:23||   2008-07-18 12:23|| Front Page Top

#5 In addition to all the obvious comparisons to JFK and Reagan, I think everyone can agree that NObama is doing this in a shameless attempt to shore up his support within the international community. I suspect that he's hoping that if the rest of the world wants him to be President bad enough, it will push the odds in his favor back home. I guess you could call it global peer pressure.

I think he's making a potentially huge mistake. Let's not forget that in the 2004 election, the rest of the world was seething with rage for President Bush and Kerry was clearly the choice abroad. When he lost, all the cry-baby liberals were whining about all the face we lost with the rest of the world by re-electing that dolt, Bush. Well, I think the American people, being a traditionally independent bunch, don't much appreciate it when the international community pressures us, especially when it concerns our domestic politics. So at best, I think NObama is looking at a zero-sum gain with this stunt, electorally speaking (which makes me wonder why he would do it to begin with but then I remember how much he likes to talk in front of people), and at worst, while it may bolster international support for him, it could backfire on him back home.

Hubris has a funny way of doing that to people.
Posted by eltoroverde 2008-07-18 15:16||   2008-07-18 15:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Obama is living a dream of being one with Kenedy.

Ted Kennedy?
Posted by Raj 2008-07-18 18:49||   2008-07-18 18:49|| Front Page Top

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