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July 18, 2008Alas, hypocrites! Hat tips all around!Almost everything I am linking to today is thanks to either Larwyn or Maggie’s Farm. Great resources! The Doc is In links to Donald Sensing who writes excellently about the positive side of hypocrisy:
See, it’s the toughest part of any religion - living up to the standards. Even Al Gore is having difficulty living up to his new religion!. Or, you know…he may really be all about deception, after all. Now some members of the American Physical Society are saying “WHOA….Bessie…let’s put some breaks on that there global warming/climate change whiligig!, or words to that affect:
Ace is saying this is the year the global warming hoax starts coming apart. Well, Obama DID say in June that just nominating him would get the oceans to stop their rising, and we’d finally start employing more than the usual 95% of the people, so…there you go. Nat Hentoff says that in 60 years of covering politics he’s never felt more let down and disappointed in a politician than he is in Barack Obama. I actually concur with much that he writes in the beginning, especially this line:
Yeah, well…so much for that. Obviously I came out of the ether a lot faster than Hentoff, but you’ll want to read his whole piece to the end. Frankly, while I pooh-poohed those people who two months ago were saying they were “afraid” of Obama, I am starting to get why. This has made me really uncomfortable since I first read it.
And the fact that the speech is difficult to find and has been “disappeared” from Obama’s site (along, it seems, with anything he has said in the past that doesn’t jibe with what he is saying today) actually makes me more uncomfortable than anything else about this guy. Lowly BLOGGERS know that if you post something and then re-think a thing, you write a new piece linking to the old and explaining why your thinking has changed. Why doesn’t this presidential candidate know that? Why doesn’t the press that covers him? Why don’t the search engines that love and do not cache his website know this?
I don’t know how you get to edit the HLR without writing - that’s actually a pretty impressive thing to pull off. I have no idea why a lawyer would not release his application to the bar, why a man wanting the most powerful office in the world won’t release his medical records (we’d like to know the engine won’t fail, sir). We DO have some experience with lawyers in the WH refusing to show billing records (must we go back there?) But really…why is it so difficult for this fellow to put his birth certificate out there? Seems like a no-brainer, that one. Bush released thousands of TANG papers, which could not have been a cinch to collect. How hard is a birth certificate? If something that easy is hard for Obama, how the hell is he going to deal with real problems? Why is so much of this man’s day-to-day kept in shadows? It does not make me comfortable. The besotted press does not care, but the American people have a legitimate right to “see” this candidate in the harsh light of reality. I wrote in 2004 that the press “is blocking my view of John Kerry” and that’s how I’m feeling once again:
Wasn’t this election going to be about hope, and change and transparency? I see nothing but same-old-same-old, and I mourn the American press, which has fallen into a prostrate position of ardent surrender and is ready for Obama to walk on their backs - so his feet won’t touch the ground - into the White House. By the way, in case you missed it - more good news from Iraq, more or less ignored by the press. Shameful. Finally - John McCain has finally put out a good ad - and all he’s done is used Obama’s own words. It’s quite powerful. Lorie Byrd also does some damage in noting that Obama blows with the expedient winds. http://theanchoressonline.com/2008/07/18/alas-hypocrites-hat-tips-all-around/trackback/ 18 Responses to “Alas, hypocrites! Hat tips all around!” |
July 18th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Great post, Anchoress. How do we get the truth out about Obama? People are so blind. Keep up the good work.
July 18th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
[...] 101, Bad Manners, DimWitDems, Election2008, Fourth Estate, Libtards, Politics, Stop Obama) The Anchoress sums up my feelings about Obama in a well-reasoned post. The operative word is UNCOMFORTABLE. How [...]
July 18th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
FWIW, he did release his birth certificate…
http://www.barackobama.com/images/fts/BO_birthcert.jpg
Doesn’t make him any less shady, though, imho
July 18th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
We have a national police force. Its called the FBI. I seriously doubt a “civilian national security force” is even constitutional if by the he means a military force.
I mean…this is a very strange thing to say.
Why does Obama say things like this? I’m starting to find his mutterings deeply troublesome. It seems as if he knows nothing about the US, or thinks he’s going to get elected and rebuild the country from scratch the way he wants it to be. Its not just his wife but Obama himself that seems to dislike the country he is running to govern.
I’ve lived through a lot of elections now but I really can’t remember one with a candidate like Obama.
July 18th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
“Civilian national security force?” That is scary. Does it remind you of the Great Leap Forward?
At the risk of being a poor guest, allow me to direct you to two articles I’ve written about Barack Obama’s background. My conclusion is that Obama has not spent a moment’s time outside of radical circles before he ran for US Senate, so regardless of how centrist he tries to make himself sound, and as carefully as he’s masked his background, he’s going to bring neo-Marxist impulses to every decision he makes, and every policy he considers. Short version, Obama is not a Democrat, he’s a Marxist.
Obama’s upbringing and early career here.
Obama’s middle career here.
My apologies for the cross-links. I hold your site in the highest regard.
July 18th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
He has got to be kidding: “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” What is this massive home grown force supposed to do with itself? I don’t think we need to live in a police state! This is creepy stuff…
July 18th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Julie, my understanding is that birth certificate was released by a website unconnected with Obama’s campaign, and he “verified” it.
Which is not the same thing.
July 18th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
This guy just keeps creeping me out. And now he will go to Europe where thousands of screaming groupies will swoon at his feet. After all, there are a lot of anti American socialists over there and Obama is an anti American socialist himself. Those folks who were burning American flags a couple of years will be chanting his name. And the media will cover it is as if it were the Rapture.
July 18th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
“Seventy six trombones led the big parade, with a hundred and ten cornets right behind”. Then came this guy playing a penny whistle. My apologies to Mr. Dylan for copping a phrase.
July 19th, 2008 at 4:02 am
As usual, quotes taken out of context and twisted to appear as red meat for the snarling 23%ers (and dropping). The speech is hard to find?!?! TRY GOOGLE. What he’s calling for is nothing more than volunteers to try and hold the domestic scene together so we can face the world as a united front. It’s as “scary” as the Peace Corps. Obama recognizes that Bush’s war of terror has not made us safer but, in the long run, weaker. Foreign policy should be about changing minds, diplomacy, working with others and helping people change their governments from within, not merely blasting them back to the stone age. The war on Iraq has been the best thing ever for the jihadists, a 5 year recruitment video. The only reason there’s serious talk now, from all sides, about america leaving is because the big oil contracts have been given out and now we can get back to bidness. Obama is simply a man trying to reverse the disaster of the last 7 years and get us moving forward as a united country. Perfect, hell no. No one could enter the cauldron of american politics without his suit getting rumpled. I’m a bit disgruntled myself with him, but you’ve got to play the game according to the rules, and as your blog consistently shows, the rules keep moving.
July 19th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Google it and you’re find excerpts that bloggers have - not the speech, not on Obama’s site.
In writing this piece I had a hard time finding this report in the search engines. From blogs, yes, but not from other sources.
He’s going to “unite the country”? He’s having trouble uniting the party, and it’s not for lack of the press trying.
The rules keep changing? With Obama the FACTS keep changing!
And “rules changing” is how it feels to us, too. The president gets told “Iraq has to make these benchmarks” Iraq makes most of them and the dems refuse to acknowledge and the press yawns. Goalposts have been moved on this administration over and over, and I’m getting tired of this “mess of the last 7 years” baloney, too.
Perhaps you are too young to remember Jimmy Carter’s presidency - 17% mortgages, 10% unemployment, double-digit inflation, gas shortages and our hostages held for 444 days. THAT was “a disaster” of a presidency.
For the “last 7 years” the press and dems have been bitching about the “looming recession” that still hasn’t arrived (although yes, finally it LOOOMS) while unemployment has been between 4.5% and 5.5% - even after terror attacks that had us needing to seriously bail out cities and airlines. I thank God that Bush did not lock us into the Kyoto treaty because look what his happening in Germany. Over-zealous “carbon managing” is driving business away to saner states, and Europe is already dealing with “routine” unemployment in the 8-10% range.
Speaking of Europe, I’m also tired of hearing “Bush made Europe hate us”. No. Europe hated Bush before he even got into office. It doesn’t hate him anymore. Merkel likes Bush. Brown deals with Bush. Sarkozy loves Bush. Poland loves Bush. Eastern Europe loves Bush. Columbia and the Canadian PM loves Bush, so do the Japanese. Oh, yeah, AFRICA loves us, and the Kurds want to be our 51st state, and Iraq is saying, “we’d like you to stay a bit longer, please…” America is “hated” by socialists and tyrants - people like Mugabe and Chavez and Castro. To my way of thinking those are good enemies to have.
The “disaster of the last 7 years” has been no more terror attacks on our soil or against our interests abroad (did you forget the 1990’s)? Continuous growth (slowed, yes, but notice the oil prices started coming down as soon as Bush said “drill).
And, oh, yeah, no more rape rooms, no more people having their tongues whacked off - the liberation of millions of people who are learning to live in a democratic way - which can only be good for America and the world. If a Democrat president had managed it all, you’d say, “yeah some mistakes, but look at all the good he did.” And I’d AGREE with you because (as you would see if you looked in my archives), I’m capable of looking at Clinton and saying “he did some good things.”
Perfect president? BY NO FREAKING MEANS. But aside from the minimum wage increase that hurt summer jobs for college and high school kids this year, what has the Democrat congress done in two years? Please list their accomplishments so I can feel A LITTLE BETTER about a future where both houses, the WH and the SCOTUS are ruled by them.
Obama is not “a man trying to reverse the disaster of the last 7 years.” He is a tirelessly self-promoting man who has never done much actual serving or leading (130 votes “present” in the state legislature) who seems already out of his depths.
Finally - you Obama supporters had better man-up. Bush has taken continuous abuse since before 1998 from the press and the left - much harsher stuff than anything I have EVER written (or probably will ever write) about Obama. If yer man gets into the White House, you’re going to have to learn not to whine and complain about the small slights. There will be plenty of big ones to get your goats. I’m quite sure, though, that you will not have to see movies and videogames about his assassination being marketed, or pictures of his head being unattached from his body.
July 20th, 2008 at 3:08 am
Anchoress;
Yowza! A left, and a right! and another right! And an uppercut! Remind me not to tick you off, K?
Obama is now being hunted by PUMAs : GOD WILL GUIDE THE HAND OF JUDGMENT THAT WILL STRIKE YOU DOWN!
When watching his antics, I am reminded often of the observation that sociopaths can only feel true empathy for their own suffering, however trivial.
July 20th, 2008 at 4:04 am
Bush’s latest disapproval ratings place him as the most unpopular president in our history, so I guess, you “folks” are simply smarter than everyone else? I live and travel in Europe and, while I haven’t talked to Sarko or Brown lately, the people I meet keep asking “How did he win a second term?” They simply hate him. Where do these millions of people living in democracy live? Certainly not in Iraq. It’s the press’s fault that Bush is scorned and Obama walks on water? Nixon used that one too, and from my side, it’s the press’s fault that we ever got into Iraq in the first place. Wrong war, wrong country and now look at Afghanistan. Bush authorized illegal (some day soon) surveilance on thousands of americans, promoted TORTURE and renditions, lied (yes, lied) us into a disasterous war, totally mismanaged the above, presided over deregulation of the banking/loan industry (good idea that, see the LOOMING recession), embarrassed the country (and himself) a thousand times with his moronic cowboy (my apologies to cowboys) persona, and, now that he’s almost gone (thank god), leaves it all to the next guy. Drill!?!?!! This is a solution? You can’t be serious. Seriously, you can’t be serious???? Can you?? Finally, I do remember the Nobel Peace Prize winning Carter years and if we had heeded him in his much maligned “malaise speech”- where he had the balls to tell americans that we must do something about our energy use, develop fuel-efficient cars, that we must start financing alternative energy sources, mass transit, and conservation- how much better off we’d be today. Right speech and ideas but wrong audience. Grandpa came in, schmoozed OPEC into reducing prices and it was back to happy americans maintaining their destructive habits and now we’re looking at, GASP- doing what Carter said we must do almost 30 years ago. Oh, I’m sorry, it’s people that actually have ideas saying that; Bush says drill!!! What a moron!
July 20th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
“Bush’s latest disapproval ratings place him as the most unpopular president in our history, so I guess, you “folks” are simply smarter than everyone else? I live and travel in Europe and, while I haven’t talked to Sarko or Brown lately, the people I meet keep asking “How did he win a second term?” They simply hate him.”
I’ve never understood the fixation some have on “popularity” as a measure of a man’s worth or success. Abe Lincoln and Harry Truman were both despised on the same level as W. Just because someone is “popular” does not mean they’re “right”. Just because everyone does something does not mean that a thing is worth doing. Being “hated” does not mean he’s wrong…it just means that people believe what the press tells them, and the press has done nothing but ring the hate bell on Bush since 1999. Look at the accomplishments and they don’t actually square with the hate.
“Where do these millions of people living in democracy live? Certainly not in Iraq.”
It must be some other country that has painted its fingers purple and is trying to learn how to be a democratic nation.
“It’s the press’s fault that Bush is scorned and Obama walks on water?”
Actually, yes. If Bush had done the things he has done, and he had a D after his name, the spin would be completely different. What has Obama done to make him “walk on water?” Take a look at how the press is willing to misreport or let misreporting stand in order to build up Obama. Please try to look past your hate. This is not an illusion.
“…it’s the press’s fault that we ever got into Iraq in the first place. Wrong war, wrong country and now look at Afghanistan”
No, it’s not. It’s Saddam’s. The UN gave 14 resolutions to which he didn’t comply.
“Bush authorized illegal (some day soon) surveilance on thousands of americans, promoted TORTURE and renditions, lied (yes, lied) us into a disasterous war…”
You guys need to learn more notes - you keep singing the same ones, and I’m tired of answering it: The administration went to the UN TWICE and had congress vote on this war; he shared the intelligence that the whole world believed was real - Clinton believed it in 1998 when his Administration devised the policy of deposing Saddam, and when his Administration - the CLINTON Administration - initiated the first redactions (you can look it up). Up to 2003, all the Dems (including Hillary who said the intel Bush was showing was “consistent with what we had seen in the White House”) believed the intel and the Senate Intel Committee just admitted that everything Bush said was “substantiated by intel.” We just helped move 500 metric tons of yellowcake to Canada. Waterboarding is not our finest hour, but three men waterboarded for three minutes seemed to help decimate Al Qaeda, and until we can figure out whether water-boarding is a lesser, equal or greater evil than, say, partially delivering a baby, shoving a scissor up into its skull and vacuuming out its brains, I think we can remain a little ambiguous about the issue. So, deposed dictator who had tried to assassinate an American president, free people trying out democracy, and we haven’t been attacked in 7 years - not the wrong war, not the wrong country, and Afghanistan is going through a rough patch because ALL wars hit rough patches; a perfect one has not yet been fought. You do understand there is a movement of terrorism that wants the West to convert or die, right? And to wipe Israel off the map? What is worth fighting for? Again, let’s look past the hate.
You’ll have to forgive me if I remain monumentally unimpressed with Carter’s “Nobel Prize,” since the Swedes themselves admitted the thing was given to him “as a kick in the leg to Bush.” Since I LIVED through Carterism - after casting my first vote for him - you’ll not convince me that Bush was a worst president.
FInally - you’re just ranting now, and that’s just boring the crap out of me. You’re writing off the talking points of the left, and you’ve ended by calling me a moron, which is simply rude. In no instance have I stooped to calling you a name, and I wouldn’t dream of going to someone’s site and name-calling them. Please mind your manners.
I’m done with this debate unless you can have it with me without namecalling either me (your hostess) or the American President (you’ll look through me archives an never, not once, find me namecalling Clinton or Carter, and if Obama (GOD FORBID) is elected, you’ll not see me call him names either. I respect the office too much). Say something real or move on, please.
July 21st, 2008 at 12:47 pm
I love you, Woman. You surely know how to take someone’s dirty rear end and hand it back to them on a silver platter!
July 21st, 2008 at 5:39 pm
[...] Alas, hypocrites! Hat tips all around! [...]
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:35 am
The economy, environment, america’s standing in the world, the wars, the deficit, and mood of the country are behind Bush’s never-seen-before disapproval ratings among the people he works for. So again, we’re all wrong and you’re right? Point to one bright spot in the national scene and connect it to the Bush administration’s actions and I’ll give you credit. The purple thumb is evidence of democracy? About as much as the pathetic picture of a few dozen people tearing down Saddam’s statue was “proof” of victory and vindication. It will take much more work and time to get Iraqi’s out of their tribal and sectarian chains than a purple thumb. The press? Tired, tired, tired argument and you use that to claim that people don’t see the true goodness of Bush’s cartel? Like I said, Nixonian thinking but in his case, he was right. The press (Woodward etc.) was out to get him and did. That evil press, uncovering that inconvenient burglary. But this is old and for every instance you give for your stance, I can give one back. Yes, the congress did vote for war (despite the objections of a few clear-minded (guess who?) souls but in the climate after 9/11, no one was thinking properly (except the salivating neocons). Yes, Bush went to the UN but it was only windowdressing and their minds were already made up. And the coalition of the willing? No Germany, France, Russia, China etc. Just a list of states who needed favors from the americans. Doing the minimum, I might add. Britain? Where’s Tony today? What about the dozens of people who pointed out the inaccuracies and falsehoods of Bush’s “reasons’ who were ignored, threatened, or marginalized because it was inconvenient to the story Bush wanted told? And a nice segue into abortion but did you really justify torture because of it? Did anybody else notice this? This alone is not only cancerous to any credibility you may have but there IS NO EXCUSE for torture. This is selling out the core values of america and has done more long-term damage to america than even the war itself. How many jihadists or potential jihadists are sitting in cafes right now, justifying themselves and their murderous ideology? How do the millions of other people, thinking about who is right or who has the moral high ground separate the good guys from the bad? Even al-Qeida recognized that lopping peoples heads off in front of a camera is a bad tactic and did more harm than good. And your incessant rap that there’s been no terrorist attacks since is typically american. London, Madrid, Istanbul etc. Oh, no americans died. Your pointing out that Saddam tried to whack a president is probably closer to why we went to war than even images of mushroom clouds. And to malign Carter’s prize because one man made a statement- which he later backed off from and was condemned by the others on the board for-that’s just mean. The man has worked tirelessly for a better world his whole life, didn’t get the prize when he should have because of a technicality, and was, most people agree, stuck with problems for the most part out of his control. A great president? No. His economic gaffes alone will keep that adjective at bay. But I notice you didn’t say anything about his proposals, which was why I brought him up. And finally, I’m not ranting nor did I call you a moron. I called Bush one and he is.
[Okay, I'll accept that you did not call me a moron, but while I'll approve the comment (because I almost never reject them) I am through arguing. This is a 5 year old argument and you and I are simply going to keep saying the same things. So, as I said, let's move on. This is unproductive and neither of us will be persuaded. What is very sad is this - I suspect that in 5 years, should Obama be elected, we'll watch the same sorts of stubborn and intractable arguments occur in the reverse. We'll be telling you everything Obama does sucks, and you'll....well...very likely you'll STILL be blaming Bush for everything!
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July 22nd, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Probably, because it will take at least that long to dig us out of the pile he left us in!
[The saddest part of all of this, of course, is that I KNEW you would respond with exactly that remark, when I wrote my last. Your hate is so old and stale it's actually predictable. Think about that. Meanwhile I'm done with this back-and-forth that goes nowhere. Mental masturbation is neither alluring nor productive. -admin]