Barack Obama Reveals His Steel
Not only has John McCain been myopic in his military strategy, as he lays out his case for commander in chief. He’s been completely clueless about the other serious threats we face beyond Iraq. It’s as if he’s never thought about them. Central Asia takes second place to Iraq, while Senator McCain misidentifies the borders of Pakistan. Meanwhile, McCain displays the same arrogant recklessness as Bush when recently saying “we are all Georgians,” when it’s clear our priorities are anything but aligned and certainly not connected through quantifiable actions.
Barack Obama laid John McCain out, calling him on, not only his lapse of military judgment and strategic vision, but tying that to the first priorities of all presidents: the people’s welfare.
America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this. (APPLAUSE)
This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster after a lifetime of hard work.
We’re a better country than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment that he’s worked on for 20 years and watch as it’s shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news.
We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty… (APPLAUSE) … that sits… (APPLAUSE) … that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes.
The African American gentleman standing beside me said it best, when he didn’t think I was listening. “Lord have mercy. After all these years…” …then his voice trailed off.
America, our work will not be easy. The challenges we face require tough choices. And Democrats, as well as Republicans, will need to cast off the worn-out ideas and politics of the past, for part of what has been lost these past eight years can’t just be measured by lost wages or bigger trade deficits. What has also been lost is our sense of common purpose, and that’s what we have to restore.
We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country. (APPLAUSE) The — the reality of gun ownership may be different for hunters in rural Ohio than they are for those plagued by gang violence in Cleveland, but don’t tell me we can’t uphold the Second Amendment while keeping AK-47s out of the hands of criminals. (APPLAUSE)
I know there are differences on same-sex marriage, but surely we can agree that our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters deserve to visit the person they love in a hospital and to live lives free of discrimination.
Martin Luther King, Jr. has his heir.
So I’ve got news for you, John McCain: We all put our country first. – Barack Obama
Make no mistake about it. The Republicans are in rewrite.
Cue Brooks & Dunn.
“Barack Obama Reveals his Steel”
Looks more like aluminum foil to me.
***don’t tell me we can’t uphold the Second Amendment while keeping AK-47s out of the hands of criminals***
He! Barry’s hubris never fails to amaze. The Dems have an unbroken record of attacking the Second Amendment. As to the AK-47s, tell it to the residents of Dem-controlled cities like Detroit, Cleveland, New Orleans………
I sincerely believe the following article rebuts much of what was said….no need to censor the entire post!
http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2008/08/28/obama_criticism_of_mccain_needs_a_bit_of_context
and why should anyone believe that obama is not just a lot of hot air, considering he is not even saying much of anything he was saying in the primaries? how do we not know that he won’t throw all of us under the bus, too?
mccain may have all of the problems listed, but to think that obama can deliver on anything is taking him at his word with no evidenec that he can, or will, do anything at all. i’m still not seeing why we should vote FOR obama.
“”"In his historic speech, Barack Obama once again… “”"
A person must have first accomplished great or infamous things to make a historic speach. Barack Obama has 143 days of experience in the US Senate. Nothing he says is ‘historic’. He made a footnote in history as the first black nominated to run for president in the Democrat party. That required melanin in his skin.
The greatness of the speech must have escaped me. I thought both Clinton (Bill) and Biden did better than Obama.
But my job ain’t hype.
Psst…every abortion “reduces the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country”
Isn’t that the point?
(APPLAUSE)
His voting record and associations (Ayers, Dohrn, Wright, Rezco….) speak with far more credulity than anything he says now in his effort to become the President of the United States. That people actually take seriously anything this man says at this point is a bit frightening. It’s willful blindness.
I pledged my time last night to watching a dedicated, talented African-American man build his dream. Of course, I’m talking about Ice Cube in “Are We Done Yet?”
Having read Obamamessiah’s warmed-over, vapid canned heat prior to his deification, I strongly suspect watching the dollar rental was a much better value.
@Byron the Aussie: of the 20 most violent cities in the U.S., 19 of them have Democrat mayors.
I notice you are censoring the rebuttals. That displays exactly how much confidence you really have. One assumes you don’t allow rebuttals because you have no other argument.
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.”
Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)
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Not historic just a lot of hot air from a empty suit. Could the Dems be any more full of themselves. Obama a footnote in history.
“…the most remarkable production in U.S. political history”. Pray tell, what was the third most remarkable “production in U.S. political history”? Remarkable…able to have remarks made about it…? So…? This was just a superbowl halftime show combined with the Academy awards, followed by Disneyland fireworks at the end. And this, “…the one issue they always use against us: national security.” When you quickly follow those words with these, “For — for while — while Senator McCain was turning his sights to Iraq just days after 9/11, I stood up and opposed this war…” Just days after Sept. 11th, exactly what “war” did Barry oppose, and what was he standing on, or stepping in, when he “stood up”? Does he want us to believe that he could see that in 2001 that three years later the USA would be fighting terrorists in Iraq, with things not going very well, and, Cassandra like, he was the only one who knew this, and was fated to be ignored? Please. And what happened to this great Promethean foresight when he opoposed the now very successful surge? And where is that vision now? Why can’t he say, “I was wrong. It worked.”? Huh? Why can’t he do that? Why can’t and won’t any of the Democratic ‘leadership’? Is it because Democrats are sturdy and reliable defenders of the security and safety of the United States? Or is it because they love the Party first, and the country second? Or something else? And this hamster-wheel spin: “John McCain stands alone in his stubborn refusal to end a misguided war”. Really? Every political personage in the USA, 99.999999999999% of all the citizens, plus every dog, cat and pony want to
“…end a misguided war”, and John McCain is the only one plugging up the tubes of ‘PEACE!!!’ with his stubborness? This is movie trailer verbage. “One man stands in the way of peace. Until one man, prophecies predict, will arise, will stand up, a man from Hawaii-cago-enya, and …change….everything.” Budgie bollocks! And you wrote: “Not only has John McCain been myopic in his military strategy, as he lays out his case for commander in chief.” What is the difference between myopic strategy, near-sighted strategy, squinty-eyed strategy, far-sighted and macular degerative strategy? Can any of these be ameliorated with Lasik? Glasses? Contacts? And this: ” He’s been completely clueless about the other serious threats we face beyond Iraq.” Does his cluelessness extend to that “tiny country”, um, what’s its name…OH! Iran! (Have you forgotten that while His Messiahness was sending out for jelly donuts in Berlin, Senator McCain was in Columbia. Why is Columbia important? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?)
” …will need to cast off the worn-out ideas and politics of the past…” Will he be casting off all his Clinton administration advisors? Will he be casting off the idea that that stuff in the womb is just undifferentiated tissue mass? (Forty million abortions and not once has someone guess wrong, and delivered to term and undifferentiated tissue mass. Zounds!) Will he be casting off the worn out idea that the rights guaranteed…no, not guaranteed, spelled out by the Constitution are not the property of the Feds, to be altered to fit circumstances? If anything, those plagued by gang violence anywhere need to be armed, not disarmed. (You can “get guns off the streets”, but you’ll have to go into people’s homes to do it.) Will he be casting off the worn out idea that mothers without fathers and children from several different sperm donors is OK? How ’bout he casts off the worn out idea that all it will take to overcome human nature is a bigger government, taking more and more of the money earned by citizens, at legal gunpoint, and giving it to other citizens, to make things ‘fair’? That worn out idea failed the Jacobins, failed the Nazis, failed the Commies, failed in pre-colonial Virginia. But Barry, the One, can make it work? One last thing. If “part of what has been lost can’t be measured by” all those ‘Queen for a Day’ misery stories, why does he bring them up?
Another teleprompter speech is a nothing accomplishment. The empty suit has done nothing, except send out thugs trying to stop people from finding out what he has done (AIP commericial and the Annenberg documents).
Oh sure. Obama was invited to get in the ring and go mano a mano with McCain in a series of town hall meetings. America is still waiting to see the “man of steel” in verbal combat.
I know you want to appear fair and balanced, but why do you give Taylor Marsh a soap box here. She has her own megaphone for her arrogance which is only matched by that of Barack Obama and she isn’t going to convert anyone here. Tell her to take a hike. She is a “has-been” who “never-was.”
Hank Roth
http://inyourface.info/
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It’s kind of pathetic that some people think insults are rebuttals.
As for Obama’s speech, of course the right wing will not like it, but I think it was extremely effective in bringing Hilary supporters back and bringing moderates in.
A question for ‘The One’…
If you are so eager to debate John McCain how come you would not accept his earlier challenge to debate numerous times in townhall forums rather than just the three debates run by the major media?
I’ll wait for your answer to be fed to you on your teleprompter so take your time.
Some people who I have met who support Obama point to the books he wrote and the smart thoughts inside them. I haven’t read them but I will take their word for it. What Obama does not have is relevant experience running anything. Smart books are not enough.
Peter Drucker, the man who invented management of large corporations wrote over 40 books on the subject and was hired as a consultant through out the corporate world. He was well renowned and respected, incredibly well known. Peter Drucker was never hired to or ever managed anything larger than his own consulting business.
Its a great thing that we have an African American as a presidential candidate from a major party. Truly a milestone. Unfortunately, he does not have the credentials by any standard to do the job.
And as a country we are in for big troubles. If he wins the chances are good he will not do a good job. So that will be bad for the country and blacks. And if he loses we all be called bigots.
I’m making the move to the Obama camp. I can’t back John at this point in his career. It’s clear, to me, that Obama, as inexperienced as he is, is the best choice out of the two. God Bless (save) America!
You know Barry kept saying he was his brother’s keeper. Why does he keep his brother, George, in a shack?
Marsh: “[T]he most remarkable production in U.S. political history”?!
Yeah, well…
…I guess it is, if you perceive unbridled vanity, vacuity and metrosexuality as “sheer brute masculinity.”
heh.
The only question I have is in the aforementioned “production” – who, aside from Soros, substantially “produced” this political fraud?
My bad. I’ve mistakingly visited The Huffington site I believe.
Taylor – even I could tell this article was satire, but not up to your usual standards. You believe you’re on the Titanic – it shows!
Judging from last night’s speech, Obama’s “steel” has all the tensile strength of warm corn mush. Lots of pretty words, but, once again, few specifics.
I also liked how Obama claimed that talking tough to our enemies wouldn’t solve anything, but then immediately turned around and tried to talk tough to…the GOP. I guess they’re easier enemies to attack since he knows bitter, religion-clinging Republicans won’t blow up his house or cut off his head no matter how much he insults them.
Special safety tip to “The Man” above regarding his pending “move to the Obama camp”:
“Man,” before you make your “move,” be sure to buy and put on a motorcycle helmet and leathers–they’ll significantly reduce the injuries you receive after Obama throws YOU under his bus.
I missed it, sadly. Did he wear a toga? Was the Pope there to confirm his sainthood?
Did he talk about the “surprising” 3.3% jump in the U.S. GDP? Or did he not have time to work that into his sermon?
Did he note that the only people “surprised” by this economic news are the ones who’ve ignored the last 7+ straight years of economic growth… like his drooling, leg-tingling lapdogs in the media?
Did he mention that the last seven years of consistent U.S. economic growth resulted directly from the policies of the current administration, which reversed the recession caused by President Bush’s predecessor? (that would be a real recession, not the imaginary one the media’s been “reporting” for months now)
Or did he just try to “blame” the public’s ignorance about the economy on Bush… I mean McCain? (…these days they’re awfully hard to tell apart) That would have been honest, at least.
Did he give any update on the progress of his attempts to silence a private citizen using his power as a U.S. Senator?
Did he read aloud from his threatening letters to the DOJ, or explain why he didn’t first go through the FEC? Did he note that his complaint is not about any federal crime, but one he’s fabricated against a 501(c)(4) organization’s legal sponsorship of an ad that is accurate in every detail?
Did he happen to mention what’s so damaging about an examination of his relationship with Ayers and his chairmanship of Annenberg that he’s willing to risk having his candidacy destroyed by the blowback from this ill-advised legal action when it fails?
Did he mention that threatening letters from the government are the sort of “freedom” we can expect if we dissent under an Obama regime?
But I digress…
Good for Barack.
Now his list of “accomplishments” includes:
- a speech he gave in 2002
- a speech he gave in 2008
- a failed education “reform” program that was co-founded by a Marxist who still thinks he didn’t do enough domestic terrorism against Americans in his youth
- a fawning media that is an embarrassment to journalism (which, these days, takes some real doing)
- the first threat in recent memory by a sitting U.S. Senator to abrogate the First Amendment Rights of a U.S. Citizen
Quite the resumé.
The only “steel” shown by the Obama campaign so far is in the water pails the dying legacy media have been using to carry water for him.
Just words….Just speeches
Obama has found the energy alternative. A speech like this, given daily, can power all the wind turbines we need.
Now, now — no need to be hostile, hot headed and fact challenged here.
To Goy: that “surprising” 3.3% jump in the U.S. GDP was just a bump from exports — with the US dollar going the way of the Lira, it made “buy American” a good deal for a while to foreigners; and that “his attempts to silence a private citizen” was nothing of the sort — right-wing crank Stanley Kurtz was in Chicago soley for a little “Swiftboating 2008″ action using the Ayers smear (Obama was all of eight years old when Ayers was doing his thing with the Weather Underground, and later on Ayers turned his activist leanings from bombings to school reform), and Kurtz was just getting some fully deserved comeuppance (aka b*tch-slapping)) for his naughty behavior. Obama and his people are only showing that they learned well from what happened to Kerry in 2004 that nothing is too nasty for the GOP and their proxies, and that you can’t count on the press at all these days to do their homework, never mind their jobs, in sorting out even utter nonsense from truth.
To Ed Wallis: that Town Hall piece rebutted nothing — it only tried at best to spin the goofy things McCain and his advisers actually and which Obama referred to.
To SAF: What’s so wrong in wanting to bring back smart people into government? We’ve tried it the other way for the past several years and that hasn’t really worked out too well….
What has he done substantially in his life besides give great speaches???? Barack Hussein Obama is an eloquently tailored empty suit. No resume, no accomplishments, no experience, no original ideas, no understanding of how the economy works, no understanding of how the world works, no grit, nothing but abstract empty rhetoric devoid of real substance.
Taxing everything one needs to live, is taxing everyone it takes petroleum products to make every electronic tool we use. This include all the cell phones and other devices used in Denver during the concert for Obama. All the hundreds of millions of dollars wasted by Democrats in last four days could have covered some the forced extortion Obama, Pelosi, Reed and their constituents are getting ready to force on this country in the name of unity, peace, hope, and change. Real change in Washington would be term limits on Congress and a cap on retirement benefits for civil servants, which would include all public officials, law enforcement agents, court employees, and anyone directly or indirectly receiving retirement benefits from any government agency, department, grant, or quasi-government board, department, grant or any other form of payment.
we are better than what again? anecdotes.
if we could just see the future and it is grand, you would just see the plan i have for you, and if you can’t see it than you are just like GwB/MCcain. it was like he never said anything before and we can’t remember it. o just thinks we are stupid. but i felt all warm and fuzzy.
In the give credit where it’s due department, I think all of you, except TheMan, are trying awfully hard to ignore a remarkable political moment. It illustrates weakness, as well as a lack of grace to acknowledge a job well done. Frankly, it’s just petty, especially considering that it’s not really doubted that Barack Obama delivered.
Patrick J. Buchanan said this about the speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m71sP1dAFwE
“It was a genuinely outstanding speech. It was magnificent. It is the finest – and I saw Cuomo’s speech, I saw Kennedy in ‘80, I even saw Douglas MacArthur, I saw Martin Luther King – this is the greatest convention speech, and probably the most important because unlike Cuomo and the others this is an acceptance speech. This came out of the heart of America and he went right at the heart of America…” – Patrick J. Buchanan
Bill Kristol had this to say:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx2WpjiNOXw
“Barack Obama faced very high expectations tonight and honestly I think he met them and I honestly think he exceeded them…He eloquently explained America’s promise. He explained why the Bush Cheney administration had fallen short of that…I thought it was an awfully impressive performance.”
I thought only Michael Steele could reveal his Steel. The only thing BO revealed are that he, his “beliefs” and those who support him are just like his initials.
By the way, GOT MILF? Johnny Mac is about to get some!
There was a speach last night? By who? I was watching Aramis Ramirez crank a grand slam into center field in the bottom of the 8th to push the Cubbies past the Phillies 6-4! Now that was hsitoric.
Oh, wait, I did flip back and forth a couple times. I would think that some declared Obama voters might want to wait and watch the upcoming debates. We all aren’t Pro-Wrestling fans, easily enthralled by crowds, props, fireworks and scripted performances.
My wife and I watched our first Obama speech last night. (No, we don’t live in a cave, we work for a living.)
We had high expectations and were eager to see and hear this new superstar who aspires to lead our nation.
Instead, we heard nothing more than reprocessed left wing tripe. Even more disappointing was the cynical, angry, almost militant tone and attitude projected by this obvious con artist.
His shallow message seemed to be, “We’ve convinced you America is a terrible place and Bush is an evil man. Now, free yourself from these delusions by giving me yet another job I’m not qualified to perform”.
Considering the historic backdrop of this event, it is a shame that Obama did not have the intellect, class, or skill to rise to the occasion.
This pretender is unfit to flip burgers for a living. I pity the sheep that would follow this babbling buffoon.
God help this country if Obama is the best example of “leadership” the Democrat party has to offer.
Taylor Marsh’s article shows that he saw and heard the speech (just words) and pep rally much differently than the majority of the more critical thinking comment writers above did. Obama’s votes, friends, associates, and previous statements (on video) show the real Obama agendas. Actions and track records speak much louder than words. He must be a “stealth” candidate who hides his real agendas from the voters to win. The conservatives are too smart to buy into his “BS”.
Rocketman
Hey Taylor Marsh,
Wake up and smell the coffee. Obama is the first 21st century snake oil vendor. I can’t believe that you even have the credentials to be posting on this website, what with this complete adorarama-for obama.
Please BIOYA
In the give credit where it’s due department, I think all of you, except TheMan, are trying awfully hard to ignore a remarkable political moment. It illustrates weakness, as well as a lack of grace to acknowledge a job well done. Frankly, it’s just petty, especially considering that it’s not really doubted that Barack Obama delivered.
You and I saw different speeches, apparently.
I saw an arrogant beneficiary of affirmative action reel out all these pie-in-the-sky socialist promises he can’t possibly keep and then make some amazingly dunderheaded statements, such as accusing McCain of being all talk and no action. The guy who spent five years in a POW camp is just a big talker. Brilliant!
Basically, he bitched for 45 minutes about how horrible everything is, then he set off happy fireworks. Yay! Let’s celebrate our horrible country! I love this horrible country as much as you wingnuts!
The guy is one of the least impressive politicians I’ve ever seen.
So, yeah, I do doubt that he delivered, at least in any way except the most superficial and TV oriented.
Exit question:
How many ‘historic speeches’ can pundits pile on The Chosen One?
Seems to me every single one of the speeches he gave, it is always the most significant, or historical, Gatteysburg-like, etc.
Don’t you get tired after a while? Think of the poor future school children, how many they have to memorize after this election?
BTW, a true ‘historic moment’, given to The Chosen One, due to the self-smugness of the Democrats. “We are so broad-minded, we’ve elect a totally unqualified half-white to be our POTUS nominee.”
Yet The Chosen One did not rise up to the occassion. Who would give it equivalence to or as memorable as any of the great speeches? Name just one past great speech, in your mind, Obama’s speech last night has the same kind of historical quality and value?
McSame has lots of experience like in the 80s he was involved in the lincoln savig n loan scandle which screwed many retired people out of there money..forgot already.how about this lobbied 4 AIRBUS [french owened]co.to get a national defense contract.thanks to congress they reopened the bids.off shore oil drilling is the biggest sham..he had to cancel a photo op on a oil plattform due to an oil spill he was goin to speak how safe they are..here on calif.coast there are no refineries to turn it into gasoline they are at capacity so they have to ship it to another country and ships are all booked for years this lame idea just shows that big oil is in charge prices will not go down.dont REAGAN raised taxes and overspent[war on drugs star wars programs ]are still alive and wasting billons of tax dollars,the BUSH adm.spent billons on war in iraq but let talliban make 100 million $ off herion trade sorry i just cant vote 4McSame
Taylor,
General Petraeus revealed his steel when the situation was getting worse and worse in Iraq, people like Barack Obama were screaming in his ear that it was a lost war; that it was time to cut and run. And Barack lent his firm support to the Move-On American haters who ran an ad saying that Petraeus would betray us.
Well, instead of Petraeus betraying us, Petraeus demonstrated his steely resolve to take the fight to the enemy in Iraq, and to do something in Iraq that no American loathing Presidential candidate would ever think of doing. Winning.
John Kennedy revealed his steel when his speed boat was cut in half at night by a Japanese Destroyer. First he swam out and rescued two injured members of his crew. Then he figured out a way to bring them all back alive.
After being elected President, John Kennedy, November of 1963, reached back for a ton of steely resolve when he faced down the Soviets during the cuban missile crisis, and sent them packing with their tails between their legs.
General Anthony Clement McAuliffe said, “Nuts” to the German general who had him surrounded at Bastogne, during the Battle of the Bulge. The steel point of a bayonet couldn’t have made the case to the Germans better than McAuliff’s steely will.
Reagen showed his brand of steely resolve when he said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Then Reagen proceeded to win the cold war.
Point being, it takes more than words to demonstrate a man’s steel. It takes deeds. And Barack has yet to do anything that would remotely reveal a man of steel.
Barack reminds me of the joke where the guy comes up with a knife to rob someone, but the victim quickly realizes the robber is a Mr. Milktoast when he sees that the knife still has butter on it.
You write about Barack,”The sheer brute masculinity”. Are you talking about the guy with the cute little pimple on the port side of his face. The guy who, in the senate, crossed the aisle only once when he asked a Republican where the bathroom was?
Are you talking about the guy who said, “John McCain says he’ll follow Osama BinLadin to the gates of hell, well, then why didn’t he visit the cave where Osama lives?”
Taylor, didn’t you ask yourself, “What’s Barack’s point? What is Barack saying?” Is he saying McCain is afraid of Bin Ladin? What’s Barack implying? That Obama is a Rambo who will chase Osama wherever he goes? And then what? Give him a good tongue lashing?
When confronted mano a mano with McCain at the Saddleback Church, Barack bumbled and stumbled through answers like a school boy. Then like a school boy, Barack, afterwards, said that, “McCain cheated. He knew the questions beforehand.”
Taylor, are you confusing, “sheer brute masculinity” with whining? I mean, Barack does talk loud. But babies can cry loud. That doesn’t show their “Steel”, though. More likely, it shows their diapers are full.
And you say Barack is full of steel.
Did McCain speak with a loud masculine voice at Saddleback? Or a calm, low voice? Seems to me if the moderator had a metal (or medal) detector that evening Barack would have registered zero.
Then, Taylor, I loved your statement that if McCain wants to narrowly debate about the temperament and judgment needed to be commander in chief, “That’s the debate I’m ready to have.”
Translated that means, I’m not ready to talk strategy, tactics, weapons systems, the significance of the surge, the affect of General Petraeus on the war or anything else. I guess that’s why Barack has said,”No” to ten debates so far. Debates that John McCain has asked Barack to participate in.
Barack will talk temperament because Barack is trying to smear McCain as having a bad temper. And Barack will talk judgment.
Don’t know why.
In Barack’s judgment, the surge failed. In Barack’s judgment it’s fine to be friends with an unrepentant terrorist. In Barack’s judgment the small businessman, big businessman and all entrepreneurs don’t deserve at least a tip of the hat for all the jobs they bring to America, not to mention the highest standing of living in the history of the world. In Barack’s judgment, to sound impressive in a speech, let your mouth write checks, there’s no way you can cash. Free everything to everyone. The government caused you to buy a house that’s over your head. The government caused you to credit card your way to financial oblivion. And Barack will have the taxpayers , who he’s raising the capital gains tax to over 30% pick up the tab.
Free health care to immigrants here legally and those who are legal by desire.
I swear Barack, in law school they must have taught you well how to slice and dice words because you do it with the best of them. I bet in a courtroom, you could even give your buddy John Edwards a run for his money.
I loved it, Barack, I mean your clever use of words when you said you could no more disown Reverend Wright than your Grandmother.
Your Grandmother. Who you then smeared to make some muddled point about racist white women I suppose. Then you disowned the Reverend Wright, who you told us you couldn’t disown.
Barack. Did you ever think of saying what you mean. And meaning what you say?
Then you talked about agreements.
“Well, we may disagree about the wisdom of slaughtering more than one million unborn a year”, Barack says. But at least we can agree that killing 900,000 is better. Agreeing with Barack sure does bring out my humanity.
Barack, honey, there’s not much I can agree with you about. Don’t let criminals have AK47′s but believe in the second amendment?
What does that mean, Barack? Is that like saying we can set the national speed limit at 65mph, but we can agree not to let children under ten years of age drive? Barack, that’s crazy talk. It has no meaning.
Barack, you remind me of a computer that’s overloaded with informational nuances. Finally, it just puts out jibberishi. Meaningless gobblygook.
You say you want to be commander in chief, but you never even took the time to take Basic Training.
It’s like a guy wanting to play pro football but he runs the forty in 7.1 seconds, has little or no experience playing football. And what there is, was with his private school chums playing touch football.
Taylor, you remind me of Rod Serling writing a Twilight Zone episode, so removed from reality. When I read what you write, I have this disturbing desire to get back to planet earth. When you’re at the computer, do you constantly play the Twilight Zone music in the background?
Last night, what Barack revealed in my opinion wasn’t steel. It was his ability to say anything that sounded good, with no concern for reality, making promises till the cows came home with no idea how to pay the piper.
Dumping on McCain every chance he got, even to imply that what McCain really is, is afraid of Osama, impugning McCain’s manhood. Which I guess you can do if you want to. It’s a free country and all that.
Except for one thing. John McCain’s one of the ones who suffered, almost died, but demonstrated a steely resolve to live; to come home to a free America where little men with big egos and audiences like Barack can run off their mouth whenever the mood strikes him, demeaning true American heroes like John McCain. With no sense of decency. Just thoughts of political expediency.
Taylor, I’ve gotta admit I’m disappointed in your piece. Last night, Barack showed nothing more than the ability to stand on a stage and make a speech. A lot of people throughout history have shown that ability. Some good. Many evil.
One of the major problems with Barack is that there’s nothing to back it up.
Taylor, were you see steel, I see a man with the substance of cotton candy.
Barack Obama doesn’t have the substance to be commander in chief. If his speeches get him elected, then one day the sun will come out and the fog that makes up Barack will lift. And this country will be left with nothing.
Taylor, at the end of the day, when Barack goes to bed, if you were able to look into his closet, you’d see the man you rave about.
You’d see the empty suit. And holding it up would be the only metal this man has. It’s not steel.
It’s called a hanger.
mccain has missed more votes than fellow senator who suffered a stroke and was out for ten months,mccain voted to reduce funding for our troops when they return home injured,is what he means by supporting our troops .all the money bush has sent to middle east most of it goes building contractors like K.B.R CUSTTER N BATTLES BLACKWATER[hired guns] oh ya HALLIBURTON,THEY
[Ed. note: PJM doesn’t censor rebuttals, but it does not publish ad hominem attacks against contributors or other commenters.]
Deciding an what makes ad hominem attack IS censorship. Listing facts with citations is NOT an ad hominum attack.
Since that phrase doesn’t mean what you think it does, here is a clue; http://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/person.html
Now we will see if you think me pointing out your lack of information is an ad hominem attack.
If someone says something foolish, pointing that out is NOT an ad hominem attack. Neither is pointing out that in the normal course of events, foolish statements are made by fools.
A long as the statement can be proven foolish, there is nothing ad hominem about it, since it was the argument that was attacked, not the person making the argument.
If that results in the person looking like a fool, then they need to not make foolish arguments.
“Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.”
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
British physician (1654 – 1734)
we have borrowed billons from china to wage war but we do nothin when china kills teibetn monks,poisons our children and pets.instead we r all over russia for invading georgia thanks george.im votin for change
sorry im a working man not a rich CEO,rachel thats alot of rhetoric,this new republican party is not my grandfathers party they overspend ,tax, more govt.against states rights..these were values of the republican party
The late and mostly unlamented Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin did not start off life with that last name. The name he chose, “Stalin” translates roughly as “man of steel.” In light of all the questions about Obama’s associations with radicals and Marxists I find the allusion to his steel to be amusing and disturbing at the same time.
Get over it,Barack will be the next president of the U.S.
“Barack reminds me of the joke where the guy comes up with a knife to rob someone..”
Why, because he’s black?!?!?
we have borrowed billons from china to wage war but we do nothin when china kills teibetn monks,poisons our children and pets.instead we r all over russia for invading georgia thanks george.im votin for change
Are you writing with your feet?
Or are you just a disembodied head typing with its tongue?
- It illustrates weakness, as well as a lack of grace to acknowledge a job well done.
Normally, that should have read “not to acknowledge a job well done”. But in this case your Freudian slip is telling… and absolutely correct: anyone who acknowledges Obama’s bloviating as “a job well done” – as if he actually accomplished anything – is certainly lacking in something. And it ain’t “grace”.
Taylor, maybe you missed the memo, but style is not the same as substance. Obama hasn’t actually done ANYTHING yet except to give a(nother) superficial speech and he hasn’t DELIVERED anything except for the fawning media he’s provided for the Democrats. So give it a fracking rest.
BC: – … that “surprising” 3.3% jump in the U.S. GDP was just a bump from exports …
LOL!!! Funny. “just”?? HA. Ha. ha. When exports drop, people complain about trade deficit. When exports surge, people complain that… what? What is your complaint exactly?
– with the US dollar going the way of the Lira, it made “buy American” a good deal for a while to foreigners;
So… you’re saying you have a problem with a US dollar that is worth EXACTLY what it was during the Clinton Administration? Interesting.
– … right-wing crank Stanley Kurtz was in Chicago soley for a little “Swiftboating 2008″ action using the Ayers smear …
Sorry bub, you’ve been misinformed. Assuming you’ve been informed at all, which looks doubtful since all you’ve managed to respond with is name-calling. Obama is not afraid of an association with activities that occurred when he was eight. You should look into it. You might learn something about why education has been faltering in America for the past 25 years, thanks to “reformers” like Ayers and their political hack enablers, like Obama.
– … Kurtz was just getting some fully deserved comeuppance (aka b*tch-slapping)) for his naughty behavior.
Uhm… Kurtz wasn’t the one threatened. So much for your understanding of the issue. You really should do a little research before embarrassing yourself with stupid statements like that. But you say it’s “naughty behavior” to fully vet the work history, professional associations and financial activities of a presidential candidate? Sorry, bub, but we’re not Zimbabwe just yet.
- Obama and his people are only showing that they learned well from what happened to Kerry in 2004…
No, actually. They’re showing that they learned well from the Clintons’ tactics of legal action to prevent embarrassing details from being revealed to the public – as they’ve been doing with Peter Paul for years now. Ask Taylor about it, I’m sure she has all the relevant links – including one to the video that proves Hillary committed fraud and campaign finance law violations.
… you can’t count on the press at all these days to do their homework, never mind their jobs, …
Which of course is why no one knows WHAT Obama did while chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge or WHO he gave those tens of millions of dollars to. That’s why people like Stan Kurtz have to do their jobs FOR them.
The reason Obama is willing to risk the blowback from this dangerous legal action is because of the tens of millions of dollars distributed (wasted) during his chairmanship of the failed “reform” program he was running on behalf of his Marxist pal, Ayers. That’ll play well in Peoria, don’t you think?
Super comment mishu,brief and says everything about what’s wrong with Obama, and most every other socialistic minded person> they pay taxes so why is there still more poverty soeone else better pay more to get rid of the porblem so we can get on with our lives, rather than looking around themselves and see they can help out in their entourages…
BREAKING THE GLASS CEILING … THE DEMOCRATS ARE RUNNING SCARED …
Sarah Palin having been a mayor, and a governor with an 80% approval rating, while raising 5 children, is more experienced and more qualified to manage this country than Barack Obama … who was a community organizer, and spent half of his short time in the senate campaigning for President. Democrats brag about the success of their convention, when the only thing notable about it was the size of the crowd, and the fireworks. Obama’s speech was the same old platitudes and grand promises, with broad generalities on how how he would deliver. Elect McCain/Palin in November !!!
“Ed Wallis:
“Barack Obama Reveals his Steel”
Looks more like aluminum foil to me.”
Typically, crows are very intelligent birds, but they will get hit by a car should they see an aluminum foil gum wrapper on the highway.
Barack Obama’s speech was the same ultra-extreme left-wing rhetoric. His method of delivery does not change the fact that he has next to zero experience as a political leader or responsible representative of his constituents, and has demonstrated nothing in his past that would leave a person to trust him. Questionable consorts (see Weather Underground and Rev. Wright), no service to his nation in any position of sacrifice (vs. fighter pilot-in and of itself a testimony to a persons resolve and charachter, not to mention several years in a POW camp),and a spouse who has done nothing but vilify her country every chance she could. Mr. Obama has attempted to polarize this country on the grounds of race, a situation which has been vastly improved upon for 40 years and which he is being using for political purposes and vote getting only. He has no qualifactions as a leader and has demonstrated nothing but an intense desire to say whatever he can to lead this country to the brink of destruction through a well schemed system of ultra socialist policies. He does not in reality deserve his party’s nomination let alone to be President of the United States. This is like asking a boy scout troop leader to step up as Commandant of the Marine Corps. That would probably work if that troop leader was given the same propoganda machine to work with as Mr. Obama has in the U.S. and worldwide main stream media. Mr. Obama has no substance. Fanatical friends, followers and media admirers is all he has.
All of you here are obvious REPUGS who use to pretend to be Hillary’s supporters. Now what are your excuses? Now we are the lefties. Paid Trolls I saw the ads when John McCunt McDunce McMismanagement McOld was hiring.
Steel. that’s what barry’s got in his head. how did he get that i wonder. he never served in the armed forces. in any case, it accounts for some of his foggy remembrances, like ayers just lived in my neighborhood, or i sat on reverend wright’s knee for 20 years and called him my spiritual mentor, but i never actually knew what he was talking about, or oh. did i say we need youth and none of those wsshington insiders. and, c’mon, i never called hillary or my white grandmother a racist. do i have a white grandmother? and so forth. man of steel in his head. thanks taylor marsh. at least you’ve cleared up that much for me.
John McCunt McDunce McMismanagement McOld
*This* deserves to be posted?
This is so Typical of Obamanation Voters,
Obama Campaign calling the kettle Black,,,
Sarah Palin has Has Just as much experiance as Barack Obama if not more so,, Obama has NO Experiance and riding on the Coat tiles of the black Nomination,, There is no way Thay can put her down,, Say she Not experiance because,,Then Barack Obama will have to say since he have 0 experiance what make him so special,
Attacking Her going to be like attacking him self,,
This is going to be good, We finally have a woman to vote for,, I voted for Hillary and like I said I voting for McCain, now that he picked a woman,, more woman voter are voting for her,,,
Sarah Palin will be a great VP,, anyone who says other wise, will have a lot of explaining to do,, Because,, Barack Has NO experiance and he thinks he could be President!!!!!
And Barack Speech was the same old speech he gives Everyone wants change Why don’t someone tell Barack Time to get an Agenda, Time to change his speech’s he been singing,, getting old,
But then again Only Barack thinks everyone should vote for him
No matter what criminals he had with him,, Ryzko , Who got barack his House,, and Like always,, barack bringing up McCain Houses, how dumb again, calling the kettle black again,, 2 people Rich People,,,1 worth 4 million and the other worth 400 million,, Gee to me and every other middle class in america Rich is rich,, so barack want to get into a pissing match over Houses,, instead of telling the people what he going to do,, He done Nothing every news Media knows he adopted Hillary campaign, Pelosi and Dean And Barack Obama are making Hillary Unite this party ,, Barack Obama won the Primary so why is it up to Hillary to unite this party,, Why are they asking Her,is this all she can do,, it not up to her,, Its up to Barack Obama,, What we have Here is Bush Tactics, they are going to do all they can to fraud and Hi-Jack this Campaign, and rig the election, like they did with Hillary,, they way they gave Obama florida and Michigan even tho Hillary won those fair and Square ,,no Barack wants half after the fact,,,
Well I am glad Hillary is not the vp for barack now she can run in 2012, against McCain ,,,and she can be the first Woman President, But right Now Sarah Palin going to be the First Woman Vice President, who has Just as much experiance as Barack Obama,, McCain Made a great choice,
I guess That greek temple of a joke stage barack made for his speech is the closest he going to get to the white house,,
He Really thinks He is already President, Well at least I did go out and started using barack obama energy Plan I bought a TiRE GUAGE, ,, wow we are saving money Now,
Don’t FOR Get BarackObama Seal,, He Stole from commander & Chief Seal, The Man is an EGO Maniacs,,, I am a Proud Democrat, I will not blindly vote for a Man who will Hurt this Country, I will not do it, If Hitler was a democrat , I have to vote for him,, ,NO way No How NO OBAMA
Heard the last Obama conspiracy:
The book “The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate” is claiming to “reveal ” the following:
* Why Obama’s inexperience and extreme left-wing voting record is more dangerous than any threat we face today.
* Why the Rev. Wright debacle reveals Obama’s poor judgment of character and deceitful nature.
* Why it won’t be politics of change with President Obama–it will be liberal politics as usual.
I heard that this book is a Liberal conspiracy, do you believe it?
If you haven’t read it yet that, that’s a link to get an idea:
http://astore.amazon.com/zell-20/detail/1596985666/105-5397958-5310063
mac offered to have a number of town hall meetings with ole tin ears. i guess they weren’t in a venue he is used to, a mixed choir. he read a good speech, but there was no substance, just a litany of pricy socialist dreams using money from the already overtaxed public. one thing did stand out, his tone on the second amendment is a little scary. his whole agenda sounds like an old coco-cola ad.
the only steel this jerk knows is chicago polotics, and he spelled it wrong, it should be steal. just like saying the generals are following his timetable in iraq and afganistan. he says mac won’t go after lin biden, i don’t see osama obama very eager to go after his cousin either.
yes Ms.Marsh: Obama if J.Mccain wants to debate…judement..I’m ready now..is that similar to I’ll debare anwhere anytime….how many debates have you seen Obama with Mccain…yes he is an empty suit JUST WORDS….gosh next you’ll be pitting him in a blue “man of steel” “S”..GET REAL IF THAT IS TOUR MAN OF STEEL you have the wrong comic books
Taylor Marsh wrote, “I think all of you, except TheMan, are trying awfully hard to ignore a remarkable political moment.”
Ms. Marsh would do well to study the concepts – demagoguery, bombast, bromide, and cliché – as well as the 2,000-year old science of logic including particularly its fallacy of ad misericordiam. She would then improve her ability to arrive at the whole truth in full context by considering the differences between content and style and the contexts in which the latter is more important than the former – as in , say, running for the office of President of the US.
Oh, she also wrote, “Frankly, it’s just petty, especially considering that it’s not really doubted that Barack Obama delivered.” So, she also needs to learn why the appeal to authority (vericundiam) is a fallacy – as in “10,000 plantation slave-owners, or 80,000 Obamarama attendees can’t be wrong,” or: “if Pat Buchanan said it, it has to be right.”
Finally, those here advocating her removal as a contributor to this site need to be careful to not accept the same principle as Obama is in fighting Kurtz, and as McCain did in drafting McCain-Feingold: censorship. Only the property-owners of this site should decide what gets published on their forum, and if they want to provide drivel, that is their right. It’s also our right to ignore it.
The growth of good ideas requires the presence of bad ideas for contrast – a fact that anti-educators like Ayers and their functionaries like Obama rebel against.
Hitler, too, was a “remarkable” speaker! And the German people who voted him in by a plurality in 1932, like Taylor Marsh today, had already been conditioned by the Ayers of their day: don’t think, feel!
Of course, abandoning the mind, as the entire left, and most of the right are doing in the US today, leads to only one system – dictatorship: “don’t think, obey!”
Now, now…Obama went up against the Clintons and well earned his right to be the Democratic nominee. That’s not such a small thing. And as far as McCain vs Obama in general goes, people forget that when you elect a President, you’re not just getting a Vice-President as well — a virtual army of new agency heads, staffers, diplomatic people, and so on comes along as part of the package. McCain having already picked neocon, PNAC member Randy Scheunemann as his foreign policy advisor does not bode well at all for the type of people McCain would bring in. This country cannot afford yet another 4 years of corrupt, Machiavellian incompetence. Obama, on the other hand, looks like he’ll be able to choose from the best and the brightest if he gets elected.
oops, my 2nd paragraph, 2nd sentence should read, “…in which the former is more important than the latter…” Sorry!
- This country cannot afford yet another 4 years of corrupt, Machiavellian incompetence.
Tennessee agreed with you and as a result – thankfully – we haven’t had “leadership” like that in America since the late (late) 20th Century.
Barack has so much steel he has websites making stuff up about Palin.
BARACK OBAMA: MAN FOR ALL SEASONS AND THE NEW MASSIAH!
For a heartwarming, original video about the Obamassiah, click on this link: http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=183509.
WARNING! It will bring a tear to your eye and put a lump in your throat.
(Compliments of Comedy Central and Moonbattery.com)
“The sheer brute masculinity, coupled with….”
Sometimes, to amuse myself, I write as a satirical figure these threads, attempting to portray the caricature of the amalgamate leftbot moonbat you find inhabiting the drearier, darker, danker corners of cyberspace these days. I am so glad that Roger has hired a good satirist to add some quirky humor to this webzine. Thank you.
You outdid anything I could have come up with. Keep it up!
“pat”…ooh…talk LATIN to me!!! (GREAT POSTS)
I would add that many of those critical of this author have been moreso suggesting that PJM get better “Leftist” writers…no one – to my knowledge – has been doing the “off with her head!” schtick. And…why “get rid” of her, when her writing is soooooo funny?! As if she meant the stuff!
And humor CAN BE a powerful weapon…in the right hands. See the following as an example:
http://townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles/2008/08/31/conservative_christian_columnist_doug_giles_endorses_barack_obama
When “pat” wrote, “Hitler, too, was a “remarkable” speaker! And the German people who voted him in by a plurality in 1932, like Taylor Marsh today, had already been conditioned by the Ayers of their day: don’t think, feel!”, all I could do was to start the refrain,
“Feeeeeeeeeellllingssss, whoa whoa whoooooooaaaaaa, FEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLINGSSSSSSSSS…”
obammy reveals his “steal’
“The sheer brute masculinity”
Marsh is one of those women who giggles like a swooning schoolgirl at the thought of Obama. Just like Chris Matthews.
“Barack Obama Reveals His Steel”
Probably not quite as much as Marsh would like. See above, hint, hint.
If a Republican had spoken in the way Obama did, you’d be calling that macho swaggering or some such pejorative term.
Obama? Steel?
Ha! Sarah Palin could body slam him without breaking stride.
In defeating corruption while Obama embraces it, she has more backbone than Obama will ever know.
AFTER the Palin choice (& “RE’s” 9:21 comment), I now repeat here POST #1 :
“Barack Obama Reveals his Steel”
Looks more like aluminum foil to me.
heh.
From my view, Sarah Palin’s speech was the most remarkable production in US political history. Hmmmm… sounds familiar. But one of us is writing the truth, while the other is writing “just words”.
From my view, Sarah Palin’s speech was the most remarkable production in U.S. political history.
Hmmm… where have I seen that before? Oh yeah, the first paragraph of this fantasy piece. One of us wrote the truth, while the other wrote “just words”.