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Title: Obama: I'm a Symbol of 'America's Best Traditions'
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URL Source: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner ... ymbol-americas-best-traditions
Published: Jul 30, 2008
Author: Warner Todd Huston
Post Date: 2008-07-30 10:14:00 by Peppa
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Jonathan Weisman is reporting on his "The Trail" blog that presumptuous Democratic nominee Barack Obama told House Democrats that he believes himself to be the symbol of all that is good in America. It appears that he is beginning to believe the over-the-top hype that he really is the Obamessiah for America. So, will this little Washington Post blog post make waves in the media? Will Barack's increasingly out-of-control ego become the talk of the day? Weisman reports that candidate Obama met in a closed door meeting with House Democrats and he let loose with a "real zinger," as Weisman put it. He told the rapt audience of House members that his candidacy was the moment "the world is waiting for" -- as if the whole world clamored for his presence? He went even further than that proving that he may be losing touch with reality and believing his own surreal campaign rhetoric. "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions," he said. Wow, the arrogance in that. The hubris, the astounding hubris of it all is overwhelming to anyone that knows even a tiny bit of human history. This is the sort of thing if said by a Republican would be hung around that candidate's neck like a mill stone. The epithet of "arrogant" would be the tail pinned forever to him and would appear in every single news story. Should a Republican bespeak of himself in such terms, he'd be branded the next Hitler leading us all to ruin. Why Obama gets a pass for this sort of messianic rhetoric is amazing to me. It also amazes me that his string pullers are allowing him to speak like this. He is building himself up so high that he cannot possibly maintain this level of acclaimed perfection of purpose and spirit. If he wins in November, when the inevitable compromises and missteps begin to occur, and his high flung rhetoric begins to ring hollow, he will assuredly fall far faster and much farther than any common politician. Certainly his reputation as the new messiah will not be able to stand the tarnishing of real life and his mind-numbed fans will awake from their stupor and find themsleves livid at his failures? Measured by his impossible campaign rhetoric, meteoric rise without being vetted by his fans, and his utterly empty experience, Barack Obama could easily crash and burn because he won't be able to live up to the hype. And surely his candidacy will drive cynicism to ever greater heights. Let's hope that small reports like Weisman's start to get through to people and cracks begin to appear in Obama's current teflon coating. But so far, he has been allowed to get away with massive amounts of arrogance in rhetoric and campaign posters. The media has thus far either ignored, made excuses for, or merely joked about this style of campaign he has been running -- a style that is only getting more pronounced as the weeks roll on. Many of you will recall when George W. Bush said that Jesus was his role model. You'll recall how the media nearly went apoplectic over his use of a religious figure and he's been called a "zealot" ever since. Well, here we have a candidate who thinks he himself is that religious figure and the media hasn't even noticed. If this doesn't show how they are in the tank for Obama, it's hard to find a better reason.
Poster Comment: POSTER COMMENT FROM SITE: July 30, 2008 - 08:17 ET by motherbelt ==== “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country,” she told a Milwaukee crowd today, “and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change.” -- Michelle Obama Feb. '08 JUST WORDS??????????? Ugh.
What was that his prayer at the Wall said?
"Help me guard against pride......" (corrected)
Yeah, right.
I am curious about what TRADITIONS he's referring to. Like the ones Congress apologized for a day or so ago?
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#1. To: Peppa (#0)
As a blind, morbidly obese, illegal Mexican, Jewish convert, I demand that Obama apologize to me ASAP!
Also anti-American July 30, 2008 - 08:16 ET by WingletDriver This dovetails nicely with his commercial that starts: "We are a beacon of light around the world. At least that's what we can be again. That's what we should be again." In other words, we aren't a beacon of light around the world. This guy can't give a compliment or express any patriotic sentiment without a caveat. Somebody should ask him what these "best traditions" are that we've apparently abandoned and when he held them. It obviously couldn't have been before the 1960s with segregation. Or the mid-70s with Nixon and Viet Nam. It couldn't have been the 1980's with Reagan. Or the 90s with the Clintons who he's criticized. Are these earlier best traditions only the Carter years and what are these traditions and heartland values you want to return to?
Racist!
He has the mandate of heaven, and he knows it; the hype will live up to him. He told the rapt audience of House members that his candidacy was the moment "the world is waiting for" I'll translate for the house dems: His candidacy is the moment the non-white world has been waiting for.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
His candidacy is the moment the non-white world has been waiting for. That's what it boils down to. He's got nothing else.
I once told a liberal Jewish friend that my ideal world would be 1950s America minus Jim Crow. He looked at me like he was utterly stunned by my stupidity, but did not try to explain; I now realize he was right on both counts.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
He became the special man, then we were Obama's band.
He looked at me like he was utterly stunned by my stupidity, but did not try to explain; I now realize he was right on both counts. Tauz, There is no putting Humpty back together again. The entire Dumpty family is cracked.
Wellll, not moi.;)
Black Obama will lose it if voices of sanity can penetrate the walls of his locked universe and thus profane it.
Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.
stunning AUDACITY
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more likely the mandate of hell
Do You Know What Freedom Really Means? Freedom4um.com
stunning AUDACITY LOL
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Unless Obama is going to urge people to take up arms and become proficient with them and encourage them to stop watching football and start holding their politicans accountable he's just bloviating...
Obama is just repeating what his masters told him tongue in cheek - unfortunately Obama took them seriously and like the empty suit he is, he parrots their words to others.
We really need to start an Obamanese to English dictionary.
Oh he's all for mandatory public service!! He probably does support the above in the 'right' form. Yesterday someone on the tube was talking about how everybody is making everything historic. Especially with respect to Obama. But, it's true.. when Paterson became NY gov., it was HISTORIC. I think Obama just made a historic blunder forgetting the scam to be pulled over the public. He may have just taken those football watchers off their couch, and pushed them in the booth for McCain. This goes back to a discussion the other day about him not having the faintest understanding of anything coming out of him mouth. Traditions? WHAT? Did he pick that word up over in the ME?
Yep. Obama's mouth is McCain's best vote getter.
Exactly. Bet you a donut he'll be out tommorrow clarifying his comment. I guess he also let more gas out of his bag in his closed door meeting with the Dem leadership. Check this out: blogs.abcnews.com/politic...08/07/obama-to-house.html Obama tells Dems Israel is about to attack Iran? Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, met with House Democrats yesterday, talking about his trip abroad and his observations. Obama told the caucus, according to an attendee, "Nobody said this to me directly but I get the feeling from my talks that if the sanctions don’t work Israel is going to strike Iran."
ROFL! WaPo's Milbank: Obama's Biggest Challenger Is His Own Hubris By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive) You can now include the extremely liberal Dana Milbank in the growing list of Washington Post reporters seemingly disgusted with the arrogance of presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama. Frankly, one has to start wondering what's going on at the Post as writer after writer comes out from under the Obama-ether and begins pointing an accusatory finger at the would-be president in a fashion quite contrary to most in the media. With that as pretext, readers are advised to strap themselves in tightly as they review this column from a man that is so far to the left that he's practically a regular on MSNBC's "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann (emphasis added): Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee. Fresh from his presidential-style world tour, during which foreign leaders and American generals lined up to show him affection, Obama settled down to some presidential-style business in Washington yesterday. He ordered up a teleconference with the (current president's) Treasury secretary, granted an audience to the Pakistani prime minister and had his staff arrange for the chairman of the Federal Reserve to give him a briefing. Then, he went up to Capitol Hill to be adored by House Democrats in a presidential-style pep rally. Along the way, he traveled in a bubble more insulating than the actual president's. Traffic was shut down for him as he zoomed about town in a long, presidential-style motorcade, while the public and most of the press were kept in the dark about his activities, which included a fundraiser at the Mayflower where donors paid $10,000 or more to have photos taken with him. His schedule for the day, announced Monday night, would have made Dick Cheney envious. [...] The 5:20 TBA [on his schedule] turned out to be his adoration session with lawmakers in the Cannon Caucus Room, where even committee chairmen arrived early, as if for the State of the Union. Capitol Police cleared the halls -- just as they do for the actual president. The Secret Service hustled him in through a side door -- just as they do for the actual president. Inside, according to a witness, he told the House members, "This is the moment . . . that the world is waiting for," adding: "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions." As he marches toward Inauguration Day (Election Day is but a milestone on that path), Obama's biggest challenger may not be Republican John McCain but rather his own hubris. [...] It had been a long day of acting presidential, but Obama wasn't done. After a few hours huddling with advisers over his vice presidential choice, Obama made his way to the pep rally on the Hill. Moments after he entered the meeting with lawmakers, there was an extended cheer, followed by another, and another. "I think this can be an incredible election," Obama said later. "I look forward to collaborating with everybody here to win the election." Win the election? Didn't he do that already? Once again, let me remind readers that Milbank is one of the far-left Post writers that has routinely gone after President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and virtually anyone associated with this White House. If Obama's arrogance is beginning to wear on him, it must be overbearing.
Only Algore, JFingKerry and Fobama could make Wolf Bush and mcCain palatable to the sheeple. Unreal. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Amazing turn of events. Joe Scarborough said Monday, before all of this... he had a 'feeling' the press was about to turn on Barky. I wonder what he knows...... Still, as many have stated already, everything is scripted for him.. so, the titans are battling it out.. it's the neo's v the trilats
Just more b.s. drama from the Rockefeller-Rothchild gang. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
I wonder what he knows...... Scarborough is quite familiar with the almost exclusive membership of "the press", particularly the news commentator press. Scarborough probably saw a well known rivalry come to fore in Obama's candidacy. Pass the popcorn. The press is liberal but they also have a loyalty that Obama does not share or worse still even recognize to their satisfaction.
Oh this just get's better. Michelle O: 'I Could Be Very Competent Putting in 70%' By Mark Finkelstein | July 30, 2008 - 12:01 http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/07/30/people-interview- michelle-o-brags-her-smarts Rush Limbaugh likes to joke that he has "half my brain tied behind my back, just to keep it fair." But there's no sign Michelle Obama [file photo] was anything but serious when she said something similar in a current People magazine interview, h/t Michelle Malkin. Mrs. Obama claimed she could be "very competent" on policy putting in only a 70% effort. Throw in a few more statements from Mrs. Obama in the interview attesting to her own intellect, and a picture emerges of a woman either very sure of her smarts . . . or perhaps feeling the need to reassure others--and herself--on the subject. Excerpts [emphasis added]: Ask Michelle Obama whether she offers her two cents on her husband's presidential campaign policies and she sounds a bit like Saturday Night Live self-esteem coach Stuart Smalley. "I guess I could," she says. "I'm smart enough, I'm trained enough." Q. A friend of yours said you are purposely not engaged in policy because, as an attorney, you so over-prepare that if you can't master something you won't dive in at all. Is that true? Michelle: On some level I view myself – as do many women in my position – as 120-percenters, meaning we feel good about what we're doing when we're doing it at 120 percent. So, I could be very competent putting 70 percent in, but I don't feel good about it. I feel like, if I'm going to master it, I'm going to master it. Where I've had to come – not just in this campaign, but in my life of having so much that I'm doing, my career, the role of mom and exercise and all these other things that I have come to believe are just as important – is I've had to sort of let go of that 120-percent thing and say, I can't do everything. I am not going to realistically be the policy expert on every opinion and position that Barack has because I don't have the time to do it, quite frankly. And I have to be okay with that. Q. I'm not sure people will buy that. They see you as so strong and smart and assertive [NB: tough interview!], that it's natural to assume that you're weighing in on policy. Michelle: That is the internal struggle that I, and a lot of women, have. You listen to the outside, which says you have an obligation – because you're smart and well-educated – to do this. And it's like, 'Yeah, but I also have these kids. So, several times in a short interview, Michelle Obama works in references to her own smarts. Self-confidence, or doth the lady protest too much? Note: See my related item from last year: Michelle Obama: Inferiority Complex Prevents Blacks From Supporting Obama
Scarborough probably saw a well known rivalry come to fore in Obama's candidacy. Pass the popcorn. The press is liberal but they also have a loyalty that Obama does not share or worse still even recognize to their satisfaction. All good points. Mika (Zbig) has been in a 3 day snit, that's for sure. There's a word for her and begins and ends with a T.
A task force of writers should be assembled to expose Obama's self-love which gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars. Exposure could turn Obama from a pop star to an object of ridicule.
Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.
So very true....... The media's slobbering affair with him has been nauseating. Just tell the story, and keep your clothes on why don'tcha. The facts alone are already there.. they always have been.. Now he's getting drunk on his own koolAid.
So, I could be very competent putting 70 percent in, but I don't feel good about it. I feel like, if I'm going to master it, I'm going to master it...but in my life of having so much that I'm doing, my career, the role of mom and exercise and all these other things that I have come to believe are just as important She puts her role of Mom and doing exercise as being equally important???? Sheesh! What a talking walking embarrassment to women. Honestly. This is why Affirmative Action is so wrong. It gives a leg up to meritless people solely on qualities ( gender, color) that bear zero relationship to abilities. Then when the AA candidate goes out in public and demonstrates rank stupidity and hubris like Mrs. Obama does, the whole group is smeared to which the dumbo is related. In this particular case, successful women who earned success due to their innate abilities and hard work are hurt by affirmative action women. People should be promoted in society due to merit not due to their chromosomes.
BHO has started to think that the sun shines out of his ass, and it's obvious why. Most of his supporters act more like a thirteen year old girl with a crush than like rational voters. Being surrounded by these loons at rallies day and night has given Obama one hell of an ego.
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes. When they do not love us, they credit us with nothing, not even our virtues. -- Balzac A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride -- for the opening or the shutting of a door. -- Stendhal The Crowd is a woman. Historians are fickle, and may yet be kind to him. Don't fight the tape; remember the Mandela bull market. People likely will continue, with very poor justification, to separate in their minds Mandela and his successors. But in the long run, in which we are all dead, you are right.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Looking at the cumulative distributions... that's about right!
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
I'd like to buy a vowel.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
That's what happens to Hollywood movie stars. Although let's not put 100% blame on Obama's fans for his mega-ego. I think Barry started out with a greater than normal level of self-adoration and arrogance. What a pill he is. I said this before and I'll say it again. McCain's best strategy is to keep his mouth shut and let Obama do the yakking - the more Obama talks, the more he reveals himself, and the better McCain will do at the polls. Seriously, Obama is his own worst enemy.
LOL Leave the seat up just one time on THE wrong day and WHOA! ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
And it's like, 'Yeah, but I also have these kids. I believe they have referred to children as 'appendages' in the recent past. This is why Affirmative Action is so wrong. It gives a leg up to meritless people solely on qualities ( gender, color) that bear zero relationship to abilities. Then when the AA candidate goes out in public and demonstrates rank stupidity and hubris like Mrs. Obama does, the whole group is smeared to which the dumbo is related. In this particular case, successful women who earned success due to their innate abilities and hard work are hurt by affirmative action women. Amen to that. I do hope others that have made the most of their opportunities recognize what a cheese head opportunist she is. Hopefully they will look into her 'work' with hospitals.
Most of his supporters act more like a thirteen year old girl with a crush than like rational voters. Being surrounded by these loons at rallies day and night has given Obama one hell of an ego. ROFL! YES THEY HAVE! *giggle* Bring back the swooners!!! Kerplunk....
:)
LOL!
#2. To: All (#0)
Anothe poster comment from source site.. Good observation.
"I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions" - BHO
#3. To: Jethro Tull (#1)
As a blind, morbidly obese, illegal Mexican, Jewish convert, I demand that Obama apologize to me ASAP!
#4. To: Peppa (#0)
Barack Obama could easily crash and burn because he won't be able to live up to the hype.
#5. To: Tauzero (#4)
I'll translate for the house dems:
#6. To: Peppa (#2)
This guy can't give a compliment or express any patriotic sentiment without a caveat. Somebody should ask him what these "best traditions" are that we've apparently abandoned and when he held them. It obviously couldn't have been before the 1960s with segregation. Or the mid-70s with Nixon and Viet Nam. It couldn't have been the 1980's with Reagan. Or the 90s with the Clintons who he's criticized. Are these earlier best traditions only the Carter years and what are these traditions and heartland values you want to return to?
#7. To: Peppa (#0)
I've already said too much.
#8. To: Tauzero (#6)
I once told a liberal Jewish friend that my ideal world would be 1950s America minus Jim Crow.
#9. To: MUDDOG (#7)
He became the special man, then we were Obama's band.
#10. To: MUDDOG (#7)
#11. To: Peppa (#0)
He told the rapt audience of House members that his candidacy was the moment "the world is waiting for"
#12. To: Tauzero (#4)
He has the mandate of heaven, and he knows it; the hype will live up to him.
#13. To: christine (#11)
He told the rapt audience of House members that his candidacy was the moment "the world is waiting for"
#14. To: Peppa (#0)
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” Schweizerische Schutzenseitunt (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#15. To: Peppa (#0)
(Edited)
He told the rapt audience of House members that his candidacy was the moment "the world is waiting for"
#16. To: christine (#11)
stunning AUDACITY
#17. To: X-15 (#14)
Unless Obama is going to urge people to take up arms and become proficient with them and encourage them to stop watching football and start holding their politicans accountable he's just bloviating...
#18. To: Peppa (#17)
I think Obama just made a historic blunder forgetting the scam to be pulled over the public. He may have just taken those football watchers off their couch, and pushed them in the booth for McCain.
#19. To: scrapper2 (#15)
empty suit knows only how to parrot.
#20. To: scrapper2, christine, jethro tull, cynicom, tauzero, JD, Rotara, WKWE, all (#18)
July 30, 2008 - 11:18 ET http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/07/30/wapos-milbank-president- obama-continues-hectic-victory-tour 
#21. To: Peppa (#20)
You can now include the extremely liberal Dana Milbank in the growing list of Washington Post reporters seemingly disgusted with the arrogance of presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama.
#22. To: Rotara (#21)
Only Algore, JFingKerry and Fobama could make Wolf Bush and mcCain palatable to the sheeple. Unreal. ;-)
#23. To: Peppa (#22)
the neo's v the trilats
#24. To: Peppa (#22)
Joe Scarborough said Monday, before all of this... he had a 'feeling' the press was about to turn on Barky.
#25. To: scrapper2 (#18)
Yep. Obama's mouth is McCain's best vote getter.
#26. To: scrapper2 (#24)
Scarborough is quite familiar with the almost exclusive membership of "the press", particularly the news commentator press.
#27. To: Peppa (#20)
If Obama's arrogance is beginning to wear on him, it must be overbearing.
#28. To: Zoroaster (#27)
If Obama's arrogance is beginning to wear on him, it must be overbearing. A task force of writers should be assembled to expose Obama's self-love which gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars. Exposure could turn Obama from a pop star to an object of ridicule.
#29. To: Peppa (#25)
"I guess I could," she says. "I'm smart enough, I'm trained enough."
#30. To: Peppa (#0)
(Edited)
"I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions," he said.
#31. To: christine (#12)
more likely the mandate of hell
#32. To: Peppa (#25)
Rush Limbaugh likes to joke that he has "half my brain tied behind my back, just to keep it fair." But there's no sign Michelle Obama [file photo] was anything but serious when she said something similar in a current People magazine interview, h/t Michelle Malkin. Mrs. Obama claimed she could be "very competent" on policy putting in only a 70% effort.
#33. To: Peppa (#26)
#34. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#30)
Most of his supporters act more like a thirteen year old girl with a crush than like rational voters. Being surrounded by these loons at rallies day and night has given Obama one hell of an ego.
#35. To: Tauzero (#31)
#36. To: scrapper2 (#29)
She puts her role of Mom and doing exercise as being equally important???? Sheesh! What a talking walking embarrassment to women. Honestly.
#37. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#30)
BHO has started to think that the sun shines out of his ass, and it's obvious why.
#38. To: Tauzero (#32)
Looking at the cumulative distributions... that's about right!
#39. To: Tauzero (#33)
I'd like to buy a vowel.
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