It is said that in Doctor Samuel Johnson's day, it was the custom for those traveling the Thames by boat to amuse themselves by directing jocular invective and abuse to passengers on other boats, safe in the knowledge that the water protected them from anything other than a verbal riposte. Boswell reports that Doctor Johnson once assayed this form of "water wit" with this:Sir! Your wife, under pretence of keeping a bawdy-house, is a receiver of stolen goods!
In like manner, the cover of the New Yorker is adorned with a satirical cartoon showing a turbanned Barack fist-bumping a kalashnikov-toting Michelle in the Oval Office, with a portrait of Osama Bin Laden on the wall, and the American flag burning in the fire place. But that is just the pretence.
The significance of that cartoon has been widely discussed. The Obama campaign has denounced it, although some think that they will be able to use it as an immunization against the charge that Obama is a Muslim-inspired leftist.
The article inside the New Yorker, however, will prove far more damaging to Senator Obama's Presidential ambitions. Ryan Lizza provides ample evidence that Obama is just another hack politician, motivated exclusively by personal ambition, and willing to participate in every aspect of the "old politics" that he pretends to transcend. Flopping Aces has some of the key excerpts.
As The Astute Bloggers have repeatedly posted, this is the story which will lead to the disillusionment of Obama's children's crusade.
The significance of that cartoon has been widely discussed. The Obama campaign has denounced it, although some think that they will be able to use it as an immunization against the charge that Obama is a Muslim-inspired leftist.
The article inside the New Yorker, however, will prove far more damaging to Senator Obama's Presidential ambitions. Ryan Lizza provides ample evidence that Obama is just another hack politician, motivated exclusively by personal ambition, and willing to participate in every aspect of the "old politics" that he pretends to transcend. Flopping Aces has some of the key excerpts.
As The Astute Bloggers have repeatedly posted, this is the story which will lead to the disillusionment of Obama's children's crusade.
barack and michelle!?!?!?
ReplyDeletei thought that was farakhan and angela davis!
same thing.
heh.
i thought the most damning stuff was how his district was created just for him.
and how tight he and rezko really are..
coupled with the fact that he made sure to knock everyOne else off the balLot
it paints a pretty clear picture.
he's egomaniacal scum.
i especially LOVED the fact that two of his earliest supporters snow support hillary.
obama is scum.
the peOple who know him best thinks so.
EVEN JEREMIAH WRIGHT KNOWS THIS AND SAID IT,
THIS WAS WHY OBAMA TOSSED HIM U8NDER THE BUS: CUZ WRIGHT CALLED HIM A POLITICIAN.
MEANING LYING SCUM.
WRIGHT AND KUCINICH SAY WHAT THEY REALLY BELIEVE,
IT'S LEFTWING LUNACY BUT THEY BELIEVE AND DO NOT PRETEND OTHERWISE.
OBAMA IS SCUM.