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| 2008-10-29 |
| Individually, the extra-electoral efforts are irrelevant. But in the aggregate, they start to add up. In 1996 Obama goes to court, challenges the petition signatures of mostly African-American voters, and gets all his rivals eliminated from the ballot and so de facto runs unopposed. In 2004 sealed divorce records were strangely released destroying the chances of his chief Democratic rival Blair Hull; then in the general, lightning again struck, and Republican front-runner Jack Ryan's sealed divorce records were likewise mysteriously released—and he too crashed, in effect, leaving Obama without a serious primary or general election rival. In this campaign, Acorn galvanizes to register voters and almost immediately runs into serial charges of voter registration fraud. Now an Obama ad runs asking Americans simply to take the day off to help get out the Obama vote: apparently American businesses, universities, and the government all are supposed to sacrifice hundreds of millions of dollars in lost collective work days to subsidize the Obama campaign in order "to change history"? When one marries all that with the swarming of radio stations when someone like Stanley Kurtz goes on, the threats to go to court to stop ads, or the blacklisting of TV stations who dared to conduct tough interviews, the same old pattern reappears of by any means necessary. And in turn the explanation for all that? The messianic style—the cosmic tug to "change history", or stop the seas from rising or the planet from heating, juxtaposed with the creepy faux-Greek columns, Michelle's "deign to enter" politics snippet, the fainting at rallies, the Victory Column mass address, the vero possumus presidential seal, and the 'we are the change we've been waiting for' mantra—reflects the omnipresent narcissism: the exalted ends of electing a prophet always justify the often crude and all too mortal means. If this is considered 'right', I'd rather be wrong with McCain. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #10 I don't necessarily think Ayers is the head honcho, Glenmore; more like the local handler/trainer of the not-so-Manchurian candidate. But since we know where his political sentiments lie.... And I do think that Soros is at least one of the money men. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-10-29 18:59 |
| #9 Not Ayers. Nowhere near important enough politically. Soros - maybe - but he seems more like a money-man than a Lyndon Johnson type politician. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2008-10-29 18:43 |
| #8 Ditto Barb. With a little help from nameless overseas money launders, this entire Obama exercise is a Soros funded, David Axelrod produced Hollywood event. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-10-29 16:13 |
| #7 Ayers & Soros, for starters, Glenmore. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-10-29 15:07 |
| #6 Who 'owns' Obama? Starting in 1996 strange things have happened to quickly move him up the ladder. No outsider or newcomer could possibly accomplish that. He is seriously beholden to somebody powerful behind the scenes. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2008-10-29 14:25 |
| #5 from AP News: Two viewers who don't seem excited about all the exposure are Obama's two young daughters. Appearing on Jay Leno's talk show Monday, Obama's wife, Michelle, said 10-year-old daughter Malia got a little worried to hear that her dad's infomercial would blanket TV. "'You're going to be on all the TV? Are you going to interrupt my TV?'" her mother said Malia asked. Michelle Obama said the presidential candidate assured his daughter that he hadn't bought time on the Disney Channel. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-10-29 12:10 |
| #4 Baseball tradition isn't important, watch the infomercial, and |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-10-29 11:28 |
| #3 Messianic? Nah. Brought to you by the same kind of folks who brought the world Dear Leader and Uncle Joe. Obama is just one of the family. Really. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-10-29 11:11 |
| #2 The messianic style--the cosmic tug to "change history", or stop the seas from rising or the planet from heating, Credits to the following from the Wik: At the age of 27, Axelrod became the City Hall Bureau Chief and a political columnist for the Chicago Tribune. He worked at the Tribune for eight years, covering national, state and local politics. He became the youngest political writer there in 1981.[4] Unhappy with his prospects at the Tribune, in 1984 he joined the campaign of US Senator Paul Simon as communications director; within weeks he was promoted to co-campaign manager.[5] He formed a political consultancy, Axelrod & Associates, in 1985. In 1987, he worked on the successful reelection campaign of Harold Washington, Chicago's first black mayor. This established his first experience in working with black politicians and he later became a key player in similar mayoral campaigns of blacks, including Dennis Archer in Detroit, Michael R. White in Cleveland, Anthony A. Williams in Washington, D.C., Lee P. Brown in Houston, and John F. Street in Philadelphia.[6] Axelrod is a longtime strategist for Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley and styles himself a "specialist in urban politics." In 2004, Axelrod worked for the presidential campaign of John Edwards. During the campaign, he lost responsibility for making ads, but continued as the campaign's spokesman. Regarding Edwards' failed 2004 presidential campaign, Axelrod has commented, "I have a whole lot of respect for John, but at some point the candidate has to close the deal and—I can’t tell you why—that never happened with John."[7] [8] In 2006, Axelrod consulted for several campaigns, including for the successful campaigns of Eliot Spitzer in New York's gubernatorial election and for Deval Patrick in Massachusetts's gubernatorial election. Axelrod also served in 2006 as the chief political adviser for Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair U.S. Representative Rahm Emanuel for the U.S. House of Representatives elections, in which the Democrats gained 31 seats. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-10-29 11:03 |
| #1 From what I can tell BO and his fellow travelers will do ANYTHING to get elected. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-10-29 10:56 |