Before getting back to my good man Barack, however, let me say a word or two about John Edwards. What a creep! We always knew that he was nothing more than a trial lawyer with big hair -- the kind of guy who wants to soak "the rich" so he can himself become one. Rules don't apply, of course -- not even his own vows to stand by his wife stricken with cancer.
Edwards was a master at repackaging himself for whatever suited his purpose. In the 2008 campaign he became a populist, fighting for the "little guy" -- even though he's a multi-millionaire. Such is the gullibility of the electorate that is
almost worked.
All those press conferences that used his poor sick wife standing beside him to elicit sympathy is just another example of how far these sociopaths will go for power. It's sickening. And since he was the one to bring "the moral voice" to the Democrat party, you have to wonder what that says about all those other
crooks -- Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, etc. It's a long list!
Speaking of packaging yourself for the American people, Barack Obama is the new master of this art form. After all, his campaign manager, David Axelrod, has managed to take a first-term United States Senator with no experience, no accomplishments and make him the next coming of the Messiah -- not a bad trick! He's also managed to inoculate Obama by using the "race" card strategically, negating the justifiable criticisms of his (slim) record, his campaign promises and his relationships with nefarious characters (Ayers, Wright, Rezko, etc.). Its been a brilliant political strategy -- even if it does America huge damage.
At the core of this packaging, of course, is to convince people that Obama isn't a Marxist who generally dislikes America. He's been carefully scripted to give soaring speeches, but at the margin they have a tinge of negativity to them. Even in front of 200,000 Berliners, he couldn't help but dig at the nation he seeks to lead, saying in effect that America hasn't always lived up to its best aspirations and ideals. Excuse me? Perhaps he doesn't realize that America lost over 250,000 men liberating the world from Nazi tyranny, and then spent trillions of dollars protecting the Germans from Soviet aggression -- all so those Berliners could safely congregate to hear Obama's speech. It was America who ran the Berlin airlift when the city was divided, and who forced Gorbachev to "tear down that wall" that separated East from West. Of course, history isn't Obama's strong suit as I've written previously (
Obama:Don't Know Much About History) -- but shouldn't a prospective U.S. president understand the role for good and justice that America has played in the world??
You see much more of Obama's basic negativity toward America when he speaks off the cuff. Recently, he attempted to answer the question that a seven year old girl posed to him -- THE standard question you get when you run for president: "Why do you want to be president"?
Rather than give some soaring answer about how, though this is a great nation, we have problems at the margins that need to be fixed, Obama fell into despair. It was telling -- because it fits with a candidate whose true agenda is a total revolution in the social, economic and political structure of the country:
It is very similar to the comments that Michelle Obama made in the campaign -- before she was deep-sixed from sight. Notice how you don't see much of her anymore and that she isn't allowed to speak now? Its because the campaign is afraid she'll slip up again and say what she really thinks and feels. Can't take that chance! Remember what I wrote about her previously that reviewed her thesis work at Princeton? Read it again here:
Michelle Obama's Racist America.
So the moral of this story is, don't believe what you see and hear of Barack Obama. And don't believe what you read in the main stream media, who is invested in his coronation. You must think critically, read the blogs, subscribe to the Weekly Standard or National Review, listen to Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Prager -- do your homework!
We are being hard-sold a packaged good by a very talented marketing team -- and we need to resist the temptation to "buy now".
We'll be paying for it later!