Perception is Often Reality
Jul 21, 2008 Political
It is of little consequence that some things are absolutely true if people do not see them that way. When John McCain said that it would be OK to have troops in Iraq for 100 years he clearly stated that it would be contingent upon them not getting shot at and likened a presence to the ones we have in Europe and South Korea. Still, through deliberate distortions, many Americans think McCain wants a 100 year war in Iraq. It does not matter what the reality is, it is how it is perceived.
The Obama campaign is indicating that the fact that a reporter from the New Yorker did not get a seat on his plane for his campaign trip through Europe and the Middle East had nothing to do with the satirical cover the magazine published. The campaign asserts that 200 reporters applied for 50 seats and Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker did not get one. This might be the absolute truth but the perception is that the lack of a seat was retribution for the cover. It is reported that Obama has great respect for Lizza and the piece he wrote in the New Yorker was favorable toward the candidate.
In reality though, it does not matter if this was the luck of the draw and perfectly innocent because it will be perceived as a deliberate payback for the magazine cover. If the Obama campaign really had no ill will toward Lizza (or the magazine) then it should have made sure he had a seat so as to remove all doubt about payback. This would be the most prudent way to show there were no hard feelings.
Tags: Obama, plane, retribution, ryan lizza, seat
McCain Shatters Obama’s Secrecy
Jul 20, 2008 Political
The Obama camp is upset with John McCain because he disclosed that the young Senator was on his way to the Middle East. The camp is upset because they have closely guarded the information regarding his departure even though the major networks have mobilized to follow him around like Bill Clinton following the scent of an intern.
For weeks now, Barack Obama has closely guarded the details of his planned fact-finding trips to Afghanistan and Iraq, citing security concerns.
But Friday, the Democratic presidential hopeful’s Republican rival, John McCain, may have let the secret out of the bag - infuriating some Obama supporters and putting Camp McCain on the defensive. Daily News
I understand the need for a certain amount of secrecy in order to ensure safety but the news has been abuzz about the anointed one and his trek across the world. The supposed “fact finding mission” is really a campaign ploy which explains why Obama has an army of advisers to keep him from making a mistake that might cost him votes. However, the reality of the situation is that a lot of people knew the Messiah was leaving the country and a lot had a pretty good idea when he was doing it.
Obama Redeemed by a Mistake?
Jul 20, 2008 Political
Jesse Jackson said it was a redemptive campaign. Obama’s foreign policy wisdom has caused great joy in moonbat-ville tonight. Only problem, it is all predicated upon a mistake.
The MSM and the Internet are all atwitter as liberals frolic at the news that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has agreed with the Messiah, Barry Obama. A German publication quoted Maliki as agreeing with the Messiah on a 16 month withdraw plan for US forces. I have been reading the reports of this at ABC’s Political Punch and the liberals are having multiple orgasms. They are thanking Obama and attributing all this to his vast foreign policy experience. The only problem in all this is that Maliki never said that he agreed with Obama. He was either misquoted or his statement was mistranslated.
Tags: experience, Iraq, Obama, peace, rock star, war, withdraw
Al-Obama Backers Resort to Terrorism
Jul 18, 2008 Political
There have been disturbing reports that people who oppose Barack Obama have received death threats and have had their property vandalized. One person had a site up with a petition to get Obama’s birth certificate released (the real one, not the photo shopped Kos copy) but he had to take the site down because of death threats that included information like his address.
A group of women who supported Hillary Clinton in the primary and who still support her have formed a group that is opposed to the Obamination. A number of them have received death threats and that list of victims continues to grow. The latest victim received several email threats and a phone call before someone set fire to a tree on her property. A woman who runs the Hillary is my girl website is that victim.
Two weeks later as PUMA began to gain attention the Campaign began bothering me again. I received an email and then the phone calls started.
One evening I received a phone call another death threat and then shortly after my son came in and yelled fire. Someone set my tree on fire. The fire department said the fire was arson.
I do not care for Hillary Clinton and I would never vote for her because I do not agree with her politics and I believe she is a criminal. Having said that, no one should be threatened or have their property vandalized because of who they back politically. This same thing happened in 2004 when Democrats keyed cars with Bush bumper stickers and set Bush/Cheney signs on fire. These acts are unacceptable and do not help any candidate.
I am here to say that I oppose Barack Obama. He is a Socialist and he is a disaster waiting to happen. He lacks leadership ability and the only thing that helps him is a charisma that mesmerizes weak minded people and lures them into robotic servitude. I cannot stand his politics and I think he is a typical mob like Chicago politician (and the terror tactics show it) and he will say or do anything to get elected. Having said that, if the Obama terrorists don’t like it they can take their death threats and go straight to hell.
The unfortunate thing is these liberals who are being threatened probably have no means to protect themselves because liberals are not in favor of guns. Who knows, maybe now they will become bitter and start clinging to guns like the rest of the unenlightened.
I hope that the terrorists in the Al-Obama camp are caught and prosecuted and I hope these tactics damage the Messiah’s chances of winning.
To the PUMAs I say, I don’t support Hillary but I respect your right to do just that. I wish you safety and hope they catch whomever is committing these crimes.
Now, is it any wonder Obama wants to make nice with the terrorists?
Tags: death threats, Obama, puma, terrorist, vandalism
Vote Obama or You’re a Racist
Jul 18, 2008 Political
The idea that Obama’s ascent to the nomination is related to redemption is not new nor is the idea that if one does not vote for him then that person is a racist. Jesse Jackson called this campaign a redemptive one (as if affirmative action in the presidency redeems anything) and the claim that those who do not vote for Obama are racists has been floating around since about the West Virginia primaries. Now it will begin full force and those who want Obama to win will stop at nothing, including stirring “white guilt”, in order to get him elected. The Gateway Pundit and the Prairie Pundit both report on New York Governor David Patterson’s speech to the NAACP where he makes that very claim:
“Can America reject the crucible of race that has dictated and pervaded all of our history to embrace an African American man who has the right polices for the next decade in this country? Can America overlook its past practices that were so grave that in1820 the great Scottish Whig, Sydney Smith, writing in the Edinburgh Review, said of America: ‘How can they protest the tyrannies of Europe when they torture and brutalize one-sixth of its population?’ How can America get past this and elect an African-American president of the United States?” Mr. Paterson said.
He continued: “Can America go past the crippling way that we’ve shot ourselves in the foot over and over, denying opportunity to people who are bright, to people who are qualified, to people who are able because they didn’t look like us, or they didn’t come from where we came from, or they are from a different gender, or they are from the African continent? Can America push that away and find new leadership? We’ll find out in the next few months what America can do.”
Mr. Paterson, who is New York’s first black governor, also turned the focus on himself, strongly suggesting that people have belittled his governorship not because of the unusual way in which he took office but because of his race.
To Patterson, anyone who does not vote for Obama is continuing the racist ways of our country. We would be crippling ourselves by rejecting Obama even if we don’t agree with anything he says. Patterson believes that if Obama loses it is because people did not like the way he looks. It can’t be the message because Patterson tells us that Obama has the right policies for the next decade.
This, of course, is the problem with liberals. They believe that their message is the correct one so there is no way any thinking person could reject them. Therefore, if you reject Obama you are rejecting him for his color and that makes you a racist. The truth is, not everyone agrees with the message and many of us do not believe it is the correct one for the next decade. His ideas were not the correct ones decades ago when Jimmy Carter came to power and they certainly are not the right ones now.
Patterson goes on to say that he has had a hard time, not because he did nothing to earn his job, but because of his race.
I don’t imagine his admitted drug use and extra marital affair (his and his wife’s) would have anything to do with the way people see him. No, to liberals those messages are right as well.
Get ready folks because the onslaught is coming. A lot of people will be branded racists before this is all over. The Democrats are laying the groundwork early so they can make a lot of people reflect and then feel guilty about the past. Their plan is to tap into enough guilt to get Obama elected.
It won’t work for me. I don’t care what they label me. I will never vote for anyone based on skin color and I will never vote for Obama because he is not what this country needs. I have no guilt and won’t feel badly at all when I vote for someone who is not Obama. If an Obama defeat is a victory for racism, as Patterson says, then I am on the side of victory for racism.
Over 90% of blacks will vote for Obama no matter what because about that percentage votes Democratic anyway. Those who decide not to vote for Obama will be voting against an ideology and not a color regardless of what David Patterson or any other liberal moron says.
I plan on making a redemptive vote. I plan on voting to reject Obama and therefore redeeming America’s slide toward liberalism.
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