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Drudge flashes the leaked Obama/DemPress talking points for tonight. Get ‘em before Drudge yanks the page. Got yours, Zac?

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Don Surber

the New York Times thinks it is bad because the firm of Republican John McCain’s campaign manager represents Fannie Mae?

Here is the architect of the self-destruction of Fannie Mae constructing the Obama presidency.

Heh.

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There’s a real possibility that Obama will not be able to ever regain the massive momentum he carried for more than a year. And he did nothing wrong to blow it, Tom Friedman (notwithstanding smears against Palin by his allies in the blogosphere) It’s not for any lack of campaign discipline, appropriate combativeness, or targeted hype. Those are still sharp gears in his well-oiled message machine.

It’s not because he’s somehow not connecting with the guts of the undecided voters. It’s because they’re guts are sick of eating astroturf all the time.

Although this alone would eventually catch up to him, what does it say about his candidacy that the mere announcement of a female opponent (not even a direct opponent!) was enough to divert significant chunks of likely voters away from him?

Something was artificial from the start.

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It’s still the same old story, told to the same adoring crowds of “open minded” supporters (and a few mythical Obamacons!). ‘We were attacked on 9/11 by Islamic zealots and we responded by. . . invading Iraq and chasing Saddam Hussein around a secret network of spiderholes.’ What a terrible example America has set–Russia now thinks it can do the same.

Russia’s incursion into Georgia closely parallels the actions the international community took against Hussein since 1990. Wait, dumbass, no it didn’t. It’s not even like that confusing affair in Kosovo, as the Ruskies claim. And Putin didn’t appear to have been stalled the least bit by corrupted allies and a disinformation regime funded by Georgian strategists giddy on the silly money leaking from unenforceable UN transfers.

So, yeah, keep making the morally equivalent jabs. It really seems to be working.

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Prepare for the onslaught of polls showing Obama dragging behind a resurgent McCain. Which will lead to all sorts of underdog cheerleading by an “impartial” national press.

*update* No better way to guarantee your underdog position than to appoint Joe Biden as your VP! It’s almost as if they’re trying to lose. . .

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This chicken & egg argument about the Surge vs the Anbar Awakening, and how this is a major McCain gaffe is truly bizarre. No matter how desperately the Obama camp wants to steal this issue from McCain–and no matter how screechy the Obama fanboi sounds in the MSNBC message board–it is simply not factual to say the Awakening happened without American involvement! Technically, it may have happened before the first Surge brigades set foot in Anbar, but guess what? The tribal sheiks that provided momentum in the early, dark days of the Awakening were already working with American troops.

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Sure you will.  Does being a moderate mean you can feel sorry without actually having to apologize?  What the hell is a vote if it’s not an official endorsement?

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The Wall Street Journal hits it succinctly here– the Democratics have essentially nominated a shiny bauble, not a worthy adversary.  Obama promises nothing otherwise his scant record would prove it.  And the supposed ’safeguard’ of the superdelegates failed to prevent it.

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To the American Idol crowd, the typical Obama foreign policy stump speech might sound appealing.

To others, the same speech might sound terribly naive and immature.

To those appreciative to the nuances of political theatre, the same speech sounds like a press release from Socialist International.

Obama’s stance on foreign policy is not naive or immature, it’s socialist.  This is what socialists sound like. He’s not urging for more solidarity between the leadership of our nations.  He’s calling for enhancing the prospects of the Socialist International.  And he’s charging dumb Americans 20 bucks a pop to be part of it.  One hell of a campaign strategy.

No dialog between the US and these iddy biddy countries?  Even his own political machine has its own Congressional backchannel to talk with them (and their terror-loving proxies!).  For what reason?  To lend support to the opposition of the Colombian Free Trade deal. . . . an assistance welcomed by various regional socialist congresses. . . . Very nice indeed.

So, yeah, let’s have the that dialog, if only to covertly undermine US foreign policy.

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Tee hee hee. A little Friday fun. . .  And to think there a people worried sick over this.

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. . do they take to donning purple street garb, organizing bus caravans, and violently intimidating dissenting union members?  I guess Americans respond to stimuli in different ways.

The excuse for such street fascism open debate?

“At a time when the economy is in a downward spiral, when income inequality and economic uncertainty are at record levels and when only 12.1 percent of the U.S. workforce has union representation, we simply can not abide by union-busting and member poaching between unions. Unions must stand united for the interests of working people.

“The more than 800 SEIU members who traveled to Dearborn from all parts of the country tonight would much rather be at home: holding their local state and national representatives accountable; going door to door to elect pro-worker candidates; and helping security officers, janitors, healthcare workers, and other service workers unite to attain a voice on the job [ed--and mailing $20 donations to the Obama campaign]. But CNA’s recent actions threaten the future of the labor movement for all workers—and we cannot remain silent. [ed-so let's bust'em up????]

“Open debate [ed - read: physical intimidation] serves an important role as we work to strengthen our movement. The Labor Notes Conference is the right time and place to discuss our differences. Emergency room hallways and days before contentious union elections are not.

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From ABC’s Political Radar blog:

Worth mentioning:  Senator Obama receives a crucial endorsement from a “gun rights” group, bolstering his recently-battered Second Amendment mystique.

Worth mentioning:  Senator Obama receives this endorsement on the anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre.

Not worth mentioning: Why this isn’t “bad timing”, but ironic timing, since the endorsement comes from a “gun rights” group that has substantial links to the gun-control movement! (an irony lost on ABC).

Political Radar: Obama Endorsed by Gun Group on Anniversary of V-Tech Killings
“Sen. Obama will be a strong voice an unabashed voice for Americas hunters and shooters and it is with great pleasure that we endorse his candidacy,” President of the Association Ray Schoenke said, citing Obama’s commitment to the traditions of gun ownership.

Schoenke said they had reached out to the Obama campaign several weeks ago to offer their support – but the announcement wasn’t made public until today. Schoenke added that the timing amid the controversy was important.

That’s because you want to make a gun-control statement while exploiting the memories of victims of gun violence. Violence that no law could have conceivably prevented.

How exactly does this bolster Obama’s  support among hunters and sportsmen?

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From NYP via Glenn,

Why was Sen. Trent Lott’s kindness to former segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond a scandal but Obama’s acquaintance with an unrepentant terrorist a triviality?

That’s because you are the inevitability you’ve been waiting for, and the past means nothing to you.

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Back in 2006, conservative types were aghast at the notion of Hillary Clinton finding the softer side of Rupert Murdoch. Rightist icon Murdoch hosting a fundraiser for HRC? Preposterous!

NewsCorp gallops to the rescue of a floundering Clinton campaign.

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(updated title–I couldn’t resist)

The politics of meaning. The politics of change. Speaking truth to power. The power of hope. Inspire hope.

Here, hope is displayed on the office wall, next to the picture of Obama (about 16 secs into the clip).

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Only for a split second, though, on the Cult of Obama:

I won’t try for fake evenhandedness here: most of the venom I see is coming from supporters of Mr. Obama, who want their hero or nobody. I’m not the first to point out that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.

Ok, it must be so obvious that even Krugman concedes it.  But there’s more:

We’ve already had that from the Bush administration — remember Operation Flight Suit? We really don’t want to go there again.

. .<groan>. Well, it was brief, but I should have predicted that.  Was Krugman referring to the “Mission Accomplished” episode, where Bush-haters lent massive inertia to a crudely juxtaposed misrepresentation of Bush’s flight deck speech?   Or is he insinuating that there is a Bush equivalent to the Obama cult?

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When there’s nothing around but (strange) overenthusiasm, that might be an indication that there’s not a whole lot there.  Even some of the left feels a little weirded out.  Things are getting a little Chavista on the campaign trail.

Witness how manufactured zeitgeist can compensate for a complete lack of substance.

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How delightful.

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Consider this the point at which reverent adoration became sick idolatry.

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Hoping to appeal to progressives, liberals, socialists, and whole-grained fascists across America, Hillary Clinton suggests that she would be open to the idea of garnishing the wages of American workers who refuse to buy mandated health insurance

The New York senator has criticized presidential rival Barack Obama for pushing a health plan that would not require universal coverage. Clinton has not always specified the enforcement measures she would embrace, but when pressed on ABC’s “This Week,” she said: “I think there are a number of mechanisms” that are possible, including “going after people’s wages, automatic enrollment.”

Clinton said such measures would apply only to workers who can afford health coverage but refuse to buy it, which puts undue pressure on hospitals and emergency rooms. With her proposals for subsidies, she said, “it will be affordable for everyone.”

This is beyond insane.  Have at it, you Marxist ass-hats.

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. . .which really is an immature reason to vote.  Do Americans really know anything about government and oversized bureaucracy?

Do Americans honestly believe that the Obama™ brand will impart real change in Washington when the apparatus controlling his every appearance and scripting his every word already controls most of the (supposedly) despised Washington establishment?  Whether it’s Obama, Clinton, or even McCain, it’s  “Honey, which color scarf should our little Establishment wear today?”

So yeah, let’s vote for “Change”.

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“The problem is that Sen. Obama wants us to transcend something at the same time he implicitly asks us to give that same something as a reason to vote for him. I must say that the lyricism with which he does this has double and triple the charm of Mrs. Clinton’s heavily-scripted trudge through the landscape, but the irony is still the same.”

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