Posted by
Dan Abbett on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 9:42:39 PM
Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama has recently refused yet another invitation from John McCain to participate in a Town Hall style debate. Instead, he insists that he will only participate in the three traditional debates in the fall. Probably a wise move for someone who does not seem to have the ability to react spontaneously to questions without a teleprompter.
It is all but a certainty that only noted liberal pundits from the ranks to the broadcast and print media will conduct these debates. A setting certain to bring only questions for which Mr. Obama will be extremely well rehearsed. It is not OK for Obama to hide behind his teleprompter and speechwriters. It is not OK for him to appear only in carefully choreographed settings with the certainty that he will not be tripped up by a question he does not expect.
Barack Obama is a manifestation of political calculation and media hype. Worse, he now believes he is as all powerful as his sycophant media embeds have made him out to be. He must be made to talk with, not at what he now considers his subjects. Obama is not reactionary; he doesn't do well when off script. This is the side of Sen. Obama that the American people have a right to see.
While the usual suspects in the liberal media are falling all over themselves to declare Obama's "sermon" in Germany as something close to a message from on high, it doesn't seem to be playing all that well in Poughkeepsie and Podunk. The intention of his eminence to focus a bright spotlight on himself may have done just that. If folks didn't know who or what Barack Obama is, by virtue of a gaggle of some 300 reporters and advisors, they do now.
Reagan speaking in Germany asked Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." We have a virtual wall between the real Obama and us. Mr. Obama, "tear off that mask."
The man who transcended race, the new candidate of hope and change has now played the race card. On three separate occasions in Missouri, Obama said in his stump speech, "what George Bush and John McCain are going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills."
Well, you can say rightfully, Barack Obama is not your standard handle for J.Q Citizen. You have to admit, he isn't like you or me, he believes himself to be a deity. When it comes to being afraid of him, what he has in mind for America should scare the pants off everyone. As for the race card, Obama is the Joker. Nothing he says, does or promises, can be taken seriously.
Barack Obama can use racial invective in his campaign speeches, yet even some of McCain's supporters are criticizing him for such ads as the Paris/Britney spot. Neither defining your opponent nor justifiable criticism of his policies and positions can be regarded as “hitting below the belt.” Obama believes he is above criticism however and that anything critical is cynical or racially motivated. He should listen to his own rhetoric when slamming McCain, distorting his statements and casting him in ridicule.
Barack Obama most likely won the Democratic Primaries because he originally had a message of inspiration to a public long beaten into pathetic submission by a media that had delivered seven plus years of doom, gloom and hopelessness. His ethnicity worked to his advantage. He offered an opportunity for Americans to break free of the stereotypical image of another elite politician of long Washington lineage, ascending to the position of the President of the United States.
He had the charisma and eloquence but his inexperience has been his undoing. The reality of that which is Barack Obama, his radical associations and his equally radical designs on this nation trumped his skilled ability to present himself as someone he was not. As his real identity becomes more and more obvious, the more he underscores that identity. Barack Obama could have won the November elections with room to spare if he had, had the patience and demeanor to remain above the fray. His ego, his inexperience, his arrogance, his attitude and his radical associations and beliefs betrayed him.