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July 22, 2008 - 6:59 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-07-24 12:16:44

Paging Benj to the white courtesy telephone:

“Is there one single important issue that Obama has remained steadfast on without ever reversing his position?”

Since you’re BHO’s big fan, I’m still waiting for you answer that one question. Others here are probably interested too. See if you can keep your reply to only one or two paragraphs. You do know what paragraphs are, right?

ridgerunner: There is a need for a phrase to crystallize the meme that Obama, over and above his committment to historically discredited Marxism, is a shallow narcissist. Might this work: The Audacity of Hype. If this phrase is not in the blogosphere, it should be. I hope that many will see fit to extend, expand and export the phrase with its associated meme. A suggestion for a bumper sticker: “The Audacity of Hype. Obama wrote the book on it.”

I this Sound Bite Age, your suggestion merits more response than it got in this thread. The Internet is the ne plus ultra conduit for memes. “The Audacity of Hype” is one of the finest retorts to Obama’s vapid and hollow-core style of politics.

My own contribution to the Internet’s meme inventory is also begining to get some traction at other anti-jihad sites. I refer to perpetually aggrieved Muslims as:

SKINLESS PEOPLE LIVING IN A SANDPAPER WORLD

I’ll be spreading your “The Audacity of Hype” wherever I go.