Wieseltier’s Caveat-Laden Endorsement

As I read this endorsement, I had a horrible sinking feeling in my gut. It came as I read, “and I cannot shirk the feeling, as I watch him rise, that I am witnessing not so much the triumph of a cause as the success of a plan.”
Something has bothered me about Obama from day one, and I’ve read all of the information on both sides,…but it hit me just then. This guy is dead on. Obama is going to win this election, and it has been planned for many, many years. What have we created?

It’s so funny to watch Conservatives struggle and flounder and flail and lash out in coming terms with the fact that the Neo-Conservative ideology has irretrievably failed.

West Coast Mess:
And just what is the “Real McCain” if not a brand that has not found a marketing slogan that works.
This “endorsement” is one that Senator Obama can do without, because its superficial claims do not bear out research, but simply speak to fear-laden right-wing talking points so easily repeated and spread by the right-wing nuts who rear their ugly heads on this blog.
I had the pleasure of seeing Senator Obama speak in Reno today an he is far from passionless — I term I would more easily apply to John McShame and even Sarah Palin, whose folksy variations in tone tend to mimic passion.
I am so glad this election is winding down and that we will soon be rid of Senator McShame and Governor Failin!
Obama/Biden 08

Leon’s an astute LitCrit, but he’s also a crashing bore when it comes to capital hill. The problem with his back-handed “endorsement” (seriously: why even make one?) is that it’s so predictably cranky. On the occasional instances when he crawls out of his TNR hovel to wax political, my reaction is always the same: “Him again?” Followed by a long yawn.

Hillary’s campaign originally obtained the story about Obama and Vera Baker. Now the democrats are sticking together and not revealing this. The urgency to have a democrat as president and as a majority in the house is too important to them.
So hide this, hide Obama not releasing documents proving his being a natural born citizen. The latter being a requirement of the constitution. But the agenda is more important than honesty and following laws.

It doesn’t surprise me that the neo-Cons side with Obama. They have weakened our country and they want Obama to finish us. Elitists band together to turn us into a Socialist government.

Here is Wieseltier’s conclusion, for those who REALLY care about this endorsement:
Obama is a smart man. He is a decent man. He is an undangerous man, in the manner of all pragmatists and opportunists. He reveres reason, though he often confuses it with conversation. His domestic goals are good, though the titans of American finance, the greedy geniuses of Wall Street, may have made many of those goals fantastic. He will see to it that some liberalism survives at the Supreme Court. This leaves only the rest of the world. What a time for a novice! I dread the prospect of Obama’s West Wing education in foreign policy: even when he spoke well about these matters in the debates, it all sounded so new to him, so light. He must not mistake the global adulation of his person with the end of anti-Americanism. And he must not mistake his hope for the world with his analysis of the world. But OK, then: Obama, and another anxious visit to the ballot box, with–in the stinging words of Du Bois–”a hope not hopeless but unhopeful.”

ABC could have done an in depth look at the people most important in Obama’ life, as to their own beliefs and visions for America, about society should work.
From that look, and from what Obama has said and done a composite could have been made of what would be most likely under an Obama Presidency, and Democrat Congress.
ABC could have cast an opinion about what America will look like four years from now.
Instead ABC has chosen to suppresss news, to edit interviews, to ignore the obvious, to make light of any story that could have negative implications for Obama.
There was a time when the MSM’s had the respect fo America, and I believe that is gone. ABC has joined the club of filtered news and sensationalism journalism chaired by the National Enquirer and The Daily Kos.
I suppose it is because ABC thinks and believes like Obama, and since we will have to wait and see what happens next. Wieseltier could be right. We have experienced a plan in Obama’s rise, not a cause.
If Obama is elected we will see if we then agree with the plan.

What a great endorsement for the most heavily product of our time, Barack Obama®

Bottom line: Obama is not Bush, McCain IS Bush.
While the Bush/McCain brand stands for alienating our allies, waging an unnecessary war, a failed economy, 5 tours in Iraq, a depleted military, lack of care for the wounded vets………
Obama’s brand stands for hope, and that’s sufficient. After the Bush/McCain mess, hope is overdue.
Despite the smears, Obama is not a muslim, not a terrorist, not a communist, not a socialist, and not a religious wing nut nor a BushBot.
Obama gets my vote!

Steave writes, “I don’t know what to think of having in my family Uncle Barney Frank or others to make decisions for me.”
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That’s just sad. You would think, listening to men like yourself that the United States of America just fought for their freedom from the British, didn’t have any branches of government and simply went about its business all willy-nilly.
Please stop the nonsense. To suggest that revamping a “tax code” so that more middle-class Americans can actually get tax-breaks that have historically benefitted the wealthy is an attempt to “take care of you” is silly.
As far as the article above? The author, in typical “only we (white)know how to get things done” fashion is about as accurate as men and women who told Columbus the world was flat.
When John McCain admitted he didn’t know the difference between a Sunni and Shiite he lost ALL credibility with me. It seems the author was pretty comfortable with that ignorance because it seems John’s ignorance and lack of knowledge would terrify Islamic countries.
Maybe he’s right. (lol) Then again, if I’m part of the international community and an ally to the U.S. I’d be terrified as well. Which if you really think about it they currently are….Go figure.

Not all Obama supporters think he is the Messiah. I don’t — but I think he’s the much better candidate.
Obama will not continue the policies of the Bush administration. He is not a saber-rattler and will get us out of the insane war in Iraq. He will not appoint anti-abortion rights ideologues to the Supreme Court. He did not choose an unqualified wingnut for his running mate. He ran his campaign extremely well — a good clue of how he would run his administration.
And what is wrong with the “success of a plan” rather than the romantic nonsense of “the triumph of a cause”? After eight years of George Bush, I and millions of voters long for a competent pragmatist, and not someone who tries to force some ideal on his nation and the world.

It seems there is an enormous divide in America. It seems to be getting worse as the election gets closer.

Today writes, “Ayers hates America to this day. Surprisingly Rev. Wright holds pretty much the same opinions.”
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Let me be the first to say so what? Right now McCain is and has always surrounded himself with individuals who hate Americans who don’t look like them. You could put on a blindfold and toss a rock into a McCain crowd and I will guarantee you’d hit a racist. (lol) Which is worst? Having reservations or disliking your country’s policies or its people?