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2008-06-23 Home Front: Politix

Obama's Political Teflon® coating is delaminating

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Posted by Mike 2008-06-23 17:06|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Is that why he's 15 points ahead in the polls, cause he's screwed?
Don't count him out quite yet, this tool could very well be our next president.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-06-23 18:04|| 2008-06-23 18:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Jim, I'm not too worried about the "15 points up in the polls"...that was ONE poll (Newsweek), about which Brit Hume supposedly said back in 2000 that they'd proclaim an expected Gore victory if their entire sample had been taken from the Bush family.

That being said, the Political Teflon will remain solidly intact. Notice that the ONLY MSMer to get seriously vocal about the Obamessiah's 180 on public campaign funds was PBS's Mark Shields, who basically came right out and called the Anointed One a lying sack of ka-ka. The rest of the MSM's coverage (save Fox, of course) has been decidedly muted and VERY circumspect in not "editorializing" about the subject.

Here in ~~the People's Republic of Pugetopolis~~ Seattle, *neither* of the daily fishwrappers has seen fit to criticize His Saintliness. Of course, if McCain now turned around and said that he too was going to open the financial floodgates, all hell would break loose...the MSM would make it sound like Mac was the greatest American hypocrite since Jimmy Swaggart.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-06-23 18:28|| 2008-06-23 18:28|| Front Page Top

#3 The press played this game with Candidate Kerry in 2004. An editor of one of the major mainstream news outlets (Time Magazine?) boasted in a television interview that the press's support would be good for 15 points in the polls. But by sheltering their favourite candidate from meaningful criticism during the primaries, they disarmed him for the main event. Now it's poor Candidate Obama's turn.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-06-23 18:33|| 2008-06-23 18:33|| Front Page Top

#4 TW, the difference between '04 and now is that Jawn Effin' Kerry didn't inspire the kind of cultish devotion that the Obamessiah has created among his ~~witless sheep~~ ~~stooges~~ supporters. Journos were working aggressively to get Kerry elected back then, and the only reason they didn't succeed is that Kerry was a particularly uncharismatic lunkhead. Say what you will about The Anointed One, he definitely ain't uncharismatic. He routinely disses the traveling press, and they're STILL willing to carry his water.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-06-23 19:19|| 2008-06-23 19:19|| Front Page Top

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