Posted by
Sgt.Stryker on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:40:26 PM
Now that the polls seem to have settled down a bit, it appears that John Sidney McCain has seized the momentum from Barack Hussein Obama, but there are still nearly two months until the election, and one never knows what types of issues or gaffes may turn the tide. With that fact in mind, I believe it is prudent to keep up the pressure on Barry and keep him on the defensive.
It's looking like his campaign is on the verge of imploding...he has just
blamed McCain for his "lipstick on a pig" comment , as if he didn't actually utter the words himself. Then he decried the fact that this is another "made-up" controversy and he blamed the media. It sounded as if he wanted to just take his ball and go home. This may be a gift that keeps on giving.
But what of the fact that he had to come out and personally address this, when it was a comment he made? The choice to use the "lipstick on a pig" reference when others were available had obvious potential for harm, and was a not-so-subtle jab at Palin's earlier joke. Either he used poor judgement in choosing that phrase, or he is not informed enough to understand the potential for harm and backlash. Just as bad, why did his "handlers" let this slip through? Again, poor judgement about who he surrounds himself with, and if it was calculated, poor judgement on the impact. He will be paying dearly for this one.
Obama also did a terrible job recently of "explaining" his abortion/beginning of life answer from Saddleback in this
video with George Stephanopolous. In that same interview, he mangled his retort about accusations that the McCain camp is questioning his religious upbringing. While all of this is good fun, and some of these items may just be signs of fatigue (he has been running for 2 years straight, after all), we need to try to limit the debate to issues of judgement, character, and performance.
Up until this point, we have a whole list of activities that Barry has admitted (or are matters of public record) were poor judgement:
- his "teen" drug use (just teen? really??)
- his decision to stay in Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years
- his associations with Rezko
- and Ayres,
- the fact that he has not called to order one single meeting of his Senate Foreign Relations Commitee's Subcommitee on European Affairs
- his opposition to the surge in Iraq, which he only just recently conceded had succeeded
- his choice to snub Hillary Clinton on his ticket, and choose Biden instead
Biden, who is antipathetic to Obama's signature message of "hope and change", can hardly be characterized as a change agent. Biden was supposed to shore up Obama's foreign policy credentials (as he has NONE), but where is the crediblity in his misguided
proposal to partition Iraq according to ethnic lines? The two of them can't muster half of McCain's foreign policy gravitas between them, surge position notwithstanding. While Biden may not be hurting the ticket, he certainly did nothing to help. Barack's supreme intelligence and judgement gained him exactly... nothing.
Regarding Obama's performance, we have been
regaled with countless tales of his voting "present" in the Illinois State Senate. I would be interested to see how anyone could characterize these actions as proof of anything. They certainly don't engender any confidence in his ability to make a decision. Apparently there were at least 130-some odd issues above his pay grade.
Similarly, his claims that his "community organizing days" count as some kind of experience ring just as hollow when held up against what type of "change" he bought to the South Side of Chicago. From the sound of it, he got frustrated after accomplishing little, quit, and left for Harvard Law. Certainly not enough on which to base a presidential run. The South Side doesn't look much different after his "efforts" and his "experience".
There has also been news dribbling out of Chicago regarding the "Chicago Annenberg Challenge," one of the boards that Obama sat on with William Ayres. Apparently, this board was tasked with spending over $100 million to improve schools in Chicago and other urban areas. According to
Wiki
"The project appears to have failed to achieve any of its stated, measurable educational goals. For example, a comprehensive study by the
Consortium on Chicago School Research concludes:
"Results suggest that among the schools it supported, the Challenge had little impact on school improvement and student outcomes, with no statistically significant differences between Annenberg and non-Annenberg schools in rates of achievement gain, classroom behavior, student self-efficacy, and social competence."
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Another feather in BHO's hat, to be sure. Once again, where is the excellence?
There will be more to come out, either through the blogs or, heaven forbid, through the MSM, exposing some of the other issues still pending, including, but not limited to;
- Obama's association with Mike Klonsky, a friend of Ayres who "traveled to Beijing to seek the endorsement of Communist China for a political party he had helped establish in the United States, the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)." (Wiki)
- Obama's relationship with Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour, aka Donald Warden, who was a mentor for Bobby Seale and Black Panther founder Huey Newton (H/T to IBD)
- Biden's relations with Joseph Cari, Jr., a convicted associate of Tony Rezko...this one goes deep
On one hand, we have a pro-life, pro-military, pro-America, bona fide war hero. On the other hand, the guy who has to keep denouncing things he has said and people he has known, and about whom we know only what he chose to tell us in his "autobiographies".
This one is in my pay grade.