Posted by
Gribbit on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 5:39:13 PM
It seems that the man with the middle name Hussein is a bit miffed at the usually accommodating press for accentuating his comment from yesterday - "you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig" - which any reasonable person would assume is a jab at GOP VP Nominee Sarah Palin. He is claiming that it was taken out of context. He's even more miffed at the McCain campaign for highlighting Obama's insensitive comment.
"See, it would be funny, but the news media decided that would be the lead story yesterday. This happens every election cycle. Every four years, this is what we do. This is what they want to spend two of the last 55 days talking about...Enough!"
It is about time that the Obamassiah receive the same treatment from the press as everyone else gets in Presidential politics. Kind of reminds me of a song from one of my favorite bands.
"I know a thing or two about her, I know she'll only make you cry, She'll let you walk the street beside her, but when she won't she'll pass you by..." - KISS 'Strutter'
The "her" and the "she" in the lyric reminds me of the press. It can be overly accommodating at one point then turn on you like a possessed pit bull at others. The press has been in the tank for Obama for so long when it decided to turn on him he had the reaction of an individual who is NOT prepared for the riggers of the Presidency.
His harsh reaction to the press's 180 is proof that he cannot be an effective leader. If he cannot handle the minor criticism of the American press what is he going to do when faced with Russia's increasingly hostile posturing, Iran's quest for nuclear weapons, and al Qaeda?
Obama went on to say,
"These are serious times and they call for a serious debate...spare me all the phony outrage. Spare me all the phony talk about change."
He's right, these are serious times and we need serious people in charge. Problem with Obama is that he cannot handle the job. We've been saying for the past 19 months that he is ill equipped to handle the Presidency of the United States of America. The job is simply above him.
The McCain campaign, being the reasonable people they are, had the same reaction of Obama's pig comments as the rest of us did and took him to the mat over it which sparked his comment from today. Reacting to today's comment from "The Chosen One", McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said,
“Barack Obama can’t campaign with schoolyard insults and then try to claim outrage at the tone of the campaign. His talk of new politics is as empty as his campaign trail promises, and his record of bucking his party and reaching across the aisle simply doesn’t exist.”
As for Obama's comment, "Spare me all the phony talk about change," then Barack ought to drop the word from his vocabulary entirely. He's not an agent of change. He is nothing more than a younger version of Teddy "The Lush" Kennedy and nothing else. Barack Hussein Obama is nothing less than the same old product of the Chicago Democrat Machine. Change... He doesn't know the meaning of the word.
If he hopes to defeat Hillary Clinton for his Party's nomination in 2012 then he's going to have to learn how to deal with a hostile press and people taking what you say out of context because that is what the job entails - like it or not. Because he's losing this election and even the most hardened Democrats are realizing this.
Salon.com columnist
Camille Paglia has even written...
I must admit that McCain is currently eating Obama's lunch.
And...
Conservative though she may be, I felt that Palin represented an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American feminism. At her startling debut on that day, she was combining male and female qualities in ways that I have never seen before. And she was somehow able to seem simultaneously reassuringly traditional and gung-ho futurist. In terms of redefining the persona for female authority and leadership, Palin has made the biggest step forward in feminism since Madonna channeled the dominatrix persona of high-glam Marlene Dietrich and rammed pro-sex, pro-beauty feminism down the throats of the prissy, victim-mongering, philistine feminist establishment.
They see the election slipping away. They see the writing on the wall. They see a day in January when John S. McCain III on the steps of the Capital Building raises his right hand and says, "I John S. McCain do solemnly swear..." They see Sarah Palin doing the same and their world is crashing in around them. They've nominated the wrong candidate for President and they know it.
H/T: The Politico