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A Wise Perspective On The Man Behind The Mask and Open Thread

By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on January 20, 2009 at 7:40 AM in Backtrack Obama, Barack Obama

Despite the longest presidential campaign in history, so many in the mainstream media have stated of late that they still do not have a handle on the real Barack Obama. Further, they are scratching their collective heads as to how he really plans to govern. Well, his policy positions are, shall we say, flexible. In light of this, we thought it only fitting to share an insightful comment that was left by one of our posters, Apishapa, on Larry Johnson’s thread earlier today, Getting A Handle On Hate.

All thanks to Apishapa for sharing these thoughts on P.E. Obama’s persona and what he needs to do in the days to come:

What I told my daughter who voted for Obama because she felt McCain would be a worse choice after Hillary ceased to be an option is this. I hope Obama is a better President than I think he will be. I think he is a fool and a liar. He’s proven his lack of character again and again in the lies he’s told and his complete lack of conscience in throwing one group after another to the wolves at first indication they might become a political liability. He is completely without a moral compass as far as I can discern.

However, we are stuck with him and I hope for the sake of this nation I love that he proves me wrong. I am somewhat heartened that Hillary will be there to try to steer us in the right direction.

However, Obama is not Martin Luther King Jr. He is not JFK or RFK and he is not Abe Lincoln. …

It is time for this man to tell this country who he is and try to form a thought on his own without stealing everyone else’s legacies. I have never seen anyone so obsessed with trying to claim he represents the legacy of every great man in our history without ever providing any evidence he is capable of doing a damned thing. It is time to cowboy up.

If he is going to save this country he needs to be a man himself and stop playing dress up. This country is in serious peril and we need a true leader capable of walking in his own shoes, not a child playing make believe he is someone else.

Thoughts?

Chat away.

wodiej

yes, that was an excellent comment yesterday by Apishapa…

If the media is scratching their collective heads it’s their own fault for having it stuck up Obama’s ass instead of vetting him like they should have. I am not even sure if all of the journalists really are adoring fans as much as they just wanted the attention, advertising and circulation dollars. News whores is all they are.

BernieO

I don’t notice the media scratching their heads. If anything the sycophancy is getting worse. Anne Applebaum makes a comparison in today’s Washington Post to the US Air pilot but ignores the fact that Sully’s outstanding quality was his extensive experience and Obama’s is that he gives good speeches.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/19/AR2009011902234.html

If you want to have a laugh, read the comments about Sally Quinn’s defense of Obama’s pick of Rick Warren in today’s Washington Post. They are overwhelmingly negative and really hammer Miss Priss. It made my day! I can never forget my astonishment when I read how appalled Saint Sally was by that trashy Bill Clinton’s sexual dalliance with Monica. This is the same Sally Quinn whose own husband, Ben Bradlee, had described in his memoir how Sally persued him even though he was married, starting with anonymous memos then eventually initiating an affair. The only reason she has so much influence over the opinion of beltway insiders is because she is married to Bradlee. She is the DC society queen, regularly entertaining the likes of David Broder, Cokie Roberts, the late Tim Russert, etc.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/19/AR2009011902374.html

Apparently adultery is perfectly acceptable to this crowd as long as you are not some hick from Arkansas.

Tess

I read in one of the JFK bios that Bradlee lent Sally to JFK.

Thinker

I can believe it.

And what is so amazing is how JFK slept around so much, blatantly, he supposedly lent Marilyn to his brother, but people respect and honor him but take any & every opportunity to slam Clinton for what he’s done. I know what he did was wrong, I’m not defending that, I just don’t get how he’s such a bad guy and JFK is a hero.

I guess it’s like BernieO said:

“Apparently adultery is perfectly acceptable to this crowd as long as you are not some hick from Arkansas.”

Betty

JFK and RFK are puzzles we will probably never know if they could have attained the greatness lent to them by MLK.

I awoke yesterday and realized that the Kennedys are just parasites who have managed to include themselves in the legacy of MLK, and I guess sometimes even overshadow MLK within his own legacy.

http://firefox AnnieCollier

Yes, all men in power seem to have zipper problems. Even MLK. Fortunately, most of them had such solid partnerships with their wives that they stuck together. Last night on a History Channel program, I was reminded of how J. Edgar Hoover tried to disengage the King’s marriage by sending tapes to Coretta of MLK in a motel room with a woman. She eventually was able to rise above it.

BTW, Sally the whore has a strange idea of who is a hick. Pots and kettles and all…

wodiej

Apparently adultery is perfectly acceptable to this crowd as long as you are not some hick from Arkansas

oooh…well said, bravo!! I second that…bunch of hypocrites I say. All nasty about Bush but did the same thing. Pot calling the kettle black….
eurogirl70

Sally Quinn is a nasty piece of work as is Maureen Dowd, whose NY Times piece from earlier this week referenced how “tacky” the Clintons are.

I sure hope Sally and Maureen have investments with Bernie Madoff!!

nancy

people like Maureen are jouwhorenalist who are making money by selling their honor.

avwrobel

Thanks for that BernieO!
Animal Control

I guess what’s good for the gander is not good for the goose.

nancy sabet

Infact he is nothing, he is a FRAUD and I will never accept him as my president.

Bazooka

Silly comment. Same old unproven cliches.
Phishmelt

This is a great way to sum it up.
chandler

The thing that is the most heartbreaking for me is the realisation that it has become an accepted part of our political process to lie your ass off if it gets you elected. It has become accepted to be dishonest in this country. Hard working, honest people that are fair and ethical are nearly extinct.

truthtelling007

chandler, that might be a ‘spotlight fallacy’. Just because we see the pronounced actions of dishonest people doesn’t mean that this means a significant part of the populous is dishonest. A Spotlight Fallacy is a fallacy committed when one assumes the actions of a spotlighted group or example becomes a rule for the general populous or group.

1 X with quality Q receive a great deal of attention or coverage in the media.
2.Therefore all Xs have quality Q.

This is uncritical.
The media usually watches exceptional stories or examples out of the norm.
http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com Undercover Black Man

“It has become accepted to be dishonest in this country. Hard working, honest people that are fair and ethical are nearly extinct.”

“I’m going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman… Miss Lewinsky.”

eurogirl70

“And I did not have sex with my chief of staff…..Chrisine Beatty”
Or fire unlawfully (2) police officers looking into the allegations.

[Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick]
eurogirl70

“And I did not have sex with my chief of staff…..Christine Beatty”
Or fire unlawfully (2) police officers looking into the allegations.

[Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick]

eurogirl70

Now felon….Kwame Kilpatrick!

Donna Brazile

Glad to see the faux black man STALKER can’t let go of Bill Clinton. Talk about get over it already.

Stop the lovefest!

Thinker

I know right?

Once again, his guy “won”, he’s being sworn in today, right at this very moment, but UBM is still on this site, a site filled with people that don’t like Obama, filled with people that respect the Clintons. Shouldn’t he be out celebrating or something?

His guy “won”! But he’s still here taking jabs at the Clintons.

Amazing.

http://firefox AnnieCollier

UBM gets time and a half today to stay in the basement = $10hr. He’s the one they don’t let out.

brodie

oh, hell- are you STILL here?

alibe

The only criterion is that you can lie and be consistent with your lies. You cannot admit lies. One must pretend well. Keep on message is the greatest virtue of all, so say the media. I have never seen such a large amount of the media standing in BS up to their eyeballs and pretending that they are standing in tall cotton with nothing to worry about. The fools are relentless with their sycophancy and delusions. Many write or say just one negative comment about 0bama, just to cover their butts, but it has been a total lie fest.

SJ

It will soon be over and we will all wake tomorrow looking at each other dumb founded and wondering what now.

All the media hype is coming to an end, after today a lot of people are going to be like addicts coming off of a good high, I am sure some are going to have a hard time trying to get back into the normal run of the mill stuff, as reality soon begins to step in.

So let me take in the final moments of this circus being played out by FOX, CNN and all others, strange that it seems as if even with all these thousand gathered there are no incidents of crime going on I would of really liked some media house to give a view from the other side, the parts that we are not seeing as to what is going on in that crowded mess.

Am sure there will be incidents that go unreported but as always lets only show the happy face and pretend that the world is going to change at noon when the messiah is reborn.
betty

I really believe that the media’s bias towards Obama was as a result of “orders from above”. And that is why Chris Mathews said it was his responsibility to make Obama be a good president. He knows what he/they did to this democracy.
The question for me is: who is behind Obama, or what is behind Obama, and when did the grooming start? Did it start with Ayres and the SDS in New York when he was in college? Or with, in Chicago, with her connection to the Combine? The way she and her daughters refer to their father in public it is obvious that twenty years ago if he said he was going to be president he would have been laughed out of the house unless she knew that there was a powerful force behind him. Was the force herself and the Chicago political machine or Bill Ayres and the SDS in New York when he was in college? Did Ayres and SDS morph into stooges for Corporate America or are there greater surprises awaiting us after the inauguration?

In Denver, at a protest during a broadcast by Chris Mathews there was as very tall man in a suit yelling over the top of everyone else “sniper fire, sniper fire”. That disgusted me so I rolled my sign into a mega pone, started yelling back “Bill Ayres, Bill Ayres” and moving through the crowd towards him, and guess what – He tried to ran from me. I followed him though, still shouting through my mega phone till finally at the edge of the crowd he turned and gave me such a vicious snarl that I stopped in my tracks. But he left and never came back that I saw.

truthtelling007

“yelling over the top of everyone else “sniper fire, sniper fire”. That disgusted me so I rolled my sign into a mega pone, started yelling back “Bill Ayres, Bill Ayres””

Awesome! Thanks for being there!
wodiej

It began when Obama turned his back on God.

I am personally glad the big spectacle leading up to this is nearly over. It is disastrous to prop someone up like this on such a high pedestal. Obama is a man,not a messiah and he will ultimately fail because no human can possibly live up to the expectations people have of him.

There are alot of sad, sick, pathetic people in this country who have been duped into believing Obama will save the world. “God will not be mocked”
Take comfort in any way that is best for each of us. We can’t control how other people act. Just take heart in knowing while they can act any way they want, they also will be held accountable for it too-count on it.

God Bless America!!

http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com Undercover Black Man

“There are alot of sad, sick, pathetic people in this country who have been duped into believing Obama will save the world.”

Know who’s sadder, sicker and more pathetic, wodiej? All those who were duped into believing that Obama is an Arab, a Muslim, a socialist, a black nationalist, a foreigner, a bastard, a homosexual, and the Anti-Christ.

No one who ever became President of the United States has been so variously and viciously lied about.

If only the liars could be held accountable for their sick destructiveness.

jbjd

BO is not the President of the United States. Joe Biden is. Because according to the Constitution, when the President-elect lacks the qualifications for the job, the Vice President acts as the President. I will be looking for Joe Biden’s signature on every document that crosses the ‘President’s’ desk.
Ani

Dear Lord UBM — there is so much factual stuff about O to have a problem with — who cares about smears and nonsense.

Stop distracting with this — you know people here discuss many real issues, actions and policies that he has flip flopped on or lied about. Stick to that. That is the majority view of those who are not fans of his. Why start trouble by always voicing the gross minority as a distraction — is it because you have no answer for the real questions we are asking?

oowawa

I really believe that the media’s bias towards Obama was as a result of “orders from above”

In Tweety’s case, I think the orders came from way way up, from high above the clouds, descended to Earth in the form of a dove, then transmuted into a small barely visible tingler that crawled up his leg. It crawled into his earhole and cuddled into his brain, and has been whispering instructions ever since.

Phantom Dick

Something like the Holy Spirit, then?

So, you’re calling “god” intellectually disabled?

Is that sacrilege?

(I’m kidding)

oowawa

(I’m kidding)

I suspected you might be. Your blogname alerted me that some snark might be headed my way . . .

don

Get real! That tingle that Matthews experienced was probably pee running down his leg.

oowawa

I beg to differ Don. As Mr. Matthews reported the phenomenon, the “tingle” ran up his leg, counter to the force of gravity. It is typical of you NQ folk, that you tend to scoff at what was clearly a moment of divine epiphany. His subsequent words have consistently born witness to the sincerity and depth of his miraculous conversion.

Tess

Thanks for being here, both NQ and comments. Im going for “Don’t Give Up” today; it’s just a question of whose: Peter Gabriel? Willie?
I do like the idea of the O playing “Dress up”: so far, no cross-dressing. We can but *HOPE* (tee-hee)?
And I bought David Harris’ book, so everytime I think of that weasel Bill Ayres, I can remember there are still people like David Harris.

Phantom Dick

I hate to say this, but I keep getting a visual of men with very small penises, and all the baggage that accompanies them.

Therefore, I’m going with “In Another Life,” by XTC.

ACPD

The following might be Bush’s best move, yet:

January 16, 2009, President George W. Bush enacted an Executive Order providing for, in part, “Reinvestigating Individuals in Positions of Public Trust.” The Order in its entirety is attached hereto for reference as Exhibit “A.”
9. The Order provides in pertinent part that, “It is necessary to reinvestigate individuals in positions of public trust in order to ensure that they remain suitable for continued employment.”
10. The Order further provides in pertinent part:
“Sec. 5. Reinvestigation of Individuals in Positions of Public Trust. Individuals in positions of public trust shall be subject to reinvestigation under standards (including but not limited to the frequency of such reinvestigation) as determined by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, to ensure their suitability for continued employment.
“Sec. 6. Responsibilities. (a) An agency shall report to the Office of Personnel Management the nature and results of the background investigation and fitness determination (or later changes to that determination) made on an individual, to the extent consistent with law.
“(b) The Director of the Office of Personnel Management is delegated authority to implement this order, including the authority to issue regulations and guidance governing suitability, or guidance related to fitness, as the Director determines appropriate.”
11. Article II, Section I of the United States Constitution, states, in pertinent part, as follows:
“No Person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President;”

http://truthisgold.blogspot.com truthisgold

@ ACPD, do you have a link and number for this XO?

As the Central Park 7 makes its debut tonight on Blog Talk Radio’s My-Two-Cents “Constitutional Radio,” we’ll be introducing ourselves and talking about our Constitution, and the Signal Moment for each of us during the past election cycle. I’d like to bring your post about this Executive Order into the discussion. Many TIA, and may all of us be given the strength and courage to survive what look to be among the darkest times in our history.

hmmmmmmmmmm

TODAY IS THE KICK-OFF OF THE BEGINNING OF

OBAMA’S 2012 RUN!

Don’t expect any true “democratic” goals to be obtained!

http://baddemocrat08.wordpress.com/ obamastolemyboyfriend

He believes he has all the demo love so now he will try to get the Repub love.

We’re in trouble.

apishapa

I must admit, I’m really surprised and honored to wakew up and find my thoughts on the front page. I truly believe that we have never been told who Obama really is. I do not believe he is THE ONE. If he is “The ONE”. Which one?

We get story lines, made for television, about Obama’s life, revised or fabricated to make him look heroic, none of which ring true. I know for certain that riding a train and eating the same foods Abe ate will not help Obama absorb the decency and honor that made Abe Lincoln heroic.

All of these comparisons to Americans who proved their strength and leadership through thier own actions, when Obama, himself, has never shown any exceptional strength of character, offend me. I am tired of it all. I want him to prove he is a man of ideals himself. I’ll be happily surprised when he does.

jbjd

Given your otherwise spot on analysis of the man, I wonder why you ask him to tell us who he is. He has told us, just not in the ‘words’ that speak loudly enough for most to hear.
PKJayne

We get story lines, made for television, about Obama’s life, revised or fabricated to make him look heroic, none of which ring true. I know for certain that riding a train and eating the same foods Abe ate will not help Obama absorb the decency and honor that made Abe Lincoln heroic.

All of these comparisons to Americans who proved their strength and leadership through thier own actions, when Obama, himself, has never shown any exceptional strength of character, offend me. I am tired of it all. I want him to prove he is a man of ideals himself. I’ll be happily surprised when he does.

Api you are a wise person.

Thinker

She sure is!

I really liked your post Apishapa.

Ani

Apishapa,

We appreciate your letting us reprint your quote for the top item.
http://truthisgold.blogspot.com truthisgold

apshipa, yes indeed…although jbjd is accurate in his assertion that BO has already told us who he is…he is Nothing, wrapped in something of the vaguest facade, a sound and a fury, signifying…nothing…except the portend of dark days ahead.
http://firefox AnnieCollier

apishapa, I liked your comment so much, I’ve copied it for posterity. I feel exactly the same way.

jpatelis

I’ve waited four years for today only to take no pleasure in the day at all. Today I pray for America and the great country that she is.

You are right we are stuck with him and I will continue to pray that he makes the right choices and that I am wrong about him.
http://sonicninjakitty.wordpress.com Sonic Ninja Kitty

If you are having a heart attack and have your choice of doctors, you would absolutely choose the one with experience, a proven method/track record, and strong moral character (you don’t want him skipping out on your surgery or dealing with unqualified/corrupt colleagues/suppliers).

The nation is having a heart attack and yet we have chosen the ‘doctor’ who has zero experience, used failed methodologies, and no moral character–but hey, he looks the part!

I am furious at my fellow countrymen for being so stupid. At this point ‘wishing him well’ is a pitiable platitude.

oowawa

The nation is having a heart attack and yet we have chosen the ‘doctor’ who has zero experience, used failed methodologies, and no moral character–but hey, he looks the part!

Thank God the nation is deeply anesthetized, and won’t feel the pain for quite some time. It would be horrible to wake up in the middle of the open-bypass and see The One beaming down at us, bloody scalpel in one hand, medical textbook in the other.

http://deleted Buzz Latte LaRue

Nah, America was given the soap opera doctor. He was hand selected by the casting directors from the DNC.

He can only spit out lines fed to him by script writers.

oowawa

But-But-But–what about my heart condition?

DAB

Ani’s comment about Obama playing “dress up” just about sums it all up for me.

I believe it was Emerson who said that All great men remind you of no one else. By wrapping himself in the amorphous cloak of so many others, Obama proves that he is really a nobody with no unique identity. Also great men usually are judged to be so after the fact — not before. Seems a bit backwards to me.

I know, I know, That One is black and is certainly playing that to the hilt but someone else (can’t remember who) wisely opined that we will be done with racism when nobody talks about it any more. Guess there’s a long way to go, because that seems to be all that anybody wants to talk about right now — how historical the event is. To me, it’s mostly hysterical.

grtphoto

I totally agree with your sentiments about comparison. It always puzzled me that he should be compared to such great leaders of the past, this tells me many things, one of which is that he is a no body b/c no one would feel the need to do any comparing if he were a stand alone guy-since he has no record of greatness they pick who they want and compare him. It is also quite insulting to the public to act as if he is the second coming of anything, isn’t he supposed to be “change and new?” My biggest fear is that he will not be held accountable for anything b/c of the race card, these msm folks are scared shitless of that title.

vanroth

What I can’t get over is how the man’s 2002 speech (touted as testimony to his “great priciples and statesmanship”) made at an anti-war rally in an overwhelmingly safe liberal district and which gathered zilch attention at that time became his trump card. What makes it worse is how he did absolutely nothing for the anti-war movement, scrubbed any references to that speech from his website, went on record to state that he did not know how he would have voted and did not utter a single word against the war in the Senate.

The whole thing is the tallest tale, or rather a fairy tale as Bill Clinton so appropriately put it. But the liar got away with it. Just like he got away with Rezko, Wright, Ayers et all. The fix was in a while ago – finish off Hillary and install him come what may..

dee1153

It WAS a fairy tale and a well-planned scheme. I’ve said the same thing all along. The fix was in years ago. Don’t know from where or who, but Barky’s selection was a done deal long before the presidential campaign. They knew exactly how they were going to rig the system to “defeat” Hillary. Sleazy b*stards.

Something else I believe. If Hillary is confirmed as SOS, she’ll be asked to resign. One way or the other, I don’t believe she’ll serve the entire 4 years. It’s another part of the plan. Old Washington will finally get rid of the “hicks” and Caroline Kennedy will be the new jr. Senator from NY.

I can’t believe I called myself a Democrat for 32 years. The only way I’ll ever vote Dem again is if a Clinton’s name is on the ballot.

Magic Puzzle Box

I did see something on one of the Chicago news websites going back a few years that said Axelrod and Co. planned for this presidential run and “branded” Obama was post-partisan, etc. His choices since then seem to be in line with creating that “brand”. No positions taken on anything significant when voting probably fits that idea. Too bad the rest of the article was mostly praise from his fellow Senators, because it never did get into the why or the goal of such a project.
derridog

I agree with you, Dee. I was just thinking that today. Obama’s actions are always in patterns. He uses people until they become “unuseful” or detrimental to his image. Then he dumps them.

Look at what he did to Richardson. This is a template for the pattern. He offers him a job in his cabinet, probably knowing full well that he is never going to actually give it to him. There’s an insult in there too, in that, everyone knows that Richardson wanted the State Dept. Plus, everyone knows that Richardson sold out the Clintons for this job, so Richardson is humiliated just by being offered Commerce. Suddenly, Obama is threatened by Blagojevich — that is, being outed for doing the same kinds of corrupt things as Blagojevich. Richardson’s similar record of pay for play becomes a liability. More news on the subject is not what O wants. So, even though Obama already knew about Richardson’s problems when he nominated him, he now has a good reason to get rid of him before he is even inaugurated and so he does. Richardson didn’t even know what hit him. Obama probably planned to do that at some point all along, since he doesn’t want to surround himself with people who might sell HIM out and those who will sell out other people are prime suspects in that regard. Maybe that’s why Kerry and Dean didn’t even get an offer to be in his adminstration.

Now, with Clinton, he might have other motives, but the pattern could be the same. He appoints her to a prestigious job that gets her out of the Senate where she could be a liability. He then undermines her with the appointment of Susan Rice and putting Rice in his cabinet. He also undermines her with negative media coverage about Bill’s possible conflicts of interest (could help down the line if she won’t go peacefully) and backstabbing comments, like letting it be known via Oprah that he offered Biden both SOS and VP and so on and so forth. This kind of petty humiliation may only get worse until Clinton decides to resign somewhere down the line. Then she will have no influence and no ability to threaten him. Caroline Kennedy, a cipher with no apparent political ability or knowledge — will do as she is told in that seat.

The Chicago Way. I hope David Patterson defies them. But you are right. Whatever happens, we can count on the fact that it was fixed beforehand. With Obama it seems certain, since everything he’s done in his life has been a fix.

http://www.georgianindex.net/Napoleon/coronation/coronation.html trixta

Yup, derridog. HRC will resign at some point; Sen Caroline Kennedy will replace Biden in 2012; Caroline will then run for president in 2016.

mountainaires

Apishapa, well said! And, thanks to Ani for highlighting them. It is so true: Obama is MLK, Jr, RFK, JFK, Lincoln….but seems determined to disguise who Obama is. It’s quite curious, that.

Cowboy up. Where’s the picture of BO in that black cowboy hat?

We shall see…I’m with Apishapa, in that I hope he proves that he is up to the job, because we are in dire straights in this country.

I haven’t seen any evidence so far that he’s anything but a con, who loves the trappings of wealth and power, without all the messy work that comes with the title.

But, we’ll see…
Pkat

People have to make their own choice to support this guy or not. I know I won’t, because, unlike Obama, I have scruples. There are some things that good and moral people cannot bring themselves to do to others, like lie to them, or about them, cheat them, be dishonest to them, deceive them, or turn our backs on them, especially if we believe them to be good and moral people like ourselves.

I choose to be around the people who share the same values and scruples as myself. I am cordial to, but avoid, closeness with the type of people that practice and dish out unscrupulous actions for personal gain, or people who discredit others to make themselves look better.

Therefore, I won’t be supporting this guy at all. He has inflicted displayed publically everything I don’t care to be around or involved with. So when it is all said and done, I will stay true to myself and the code of ethics I abide by. That is nothing more than what I would expect from the President of this great country.

I have seen months of this guy’s unscrupulous behavior, and it is anything but Presidential. He displays none of the characteristics of Honest Abe, but will ride his coat tails. He has none of the moral characteristics of JFK for racial equality yet he will ride his coat tails while he brings racial divide. He has not made honorable friendships, and hasn’t shown his honor with the friendships that were honorable including his own Grandparents. I will honor nothing about Obama. The only CHANGE I can hope to see is with him as a person. I am truly ashamed that this is the person who will represent me as an American.
SJ

My problem is that this event is so over hyped by the media and all involved to the public, that if Obama does not deliver as fast as possible its human nature to become frustrated and angered.

As expectation are not being met we can end up in a very chaotic situation. I do think this is a dangerous move by the media, too much hype is going into the make believe President.

All this honest Abe nonsense, the end of a racial America, blacks walking around with signs saying their future has now begun. All this is just begging for trouble if things don’t happen fast enough. I sure wished he media would be just a little more concern as to the gravity of the problems facing this nation, and cut out the BS of making one feel that we are on the crest of great things.

http://www.hillaryorbust.com Hillary or Bust

My greater concern is that the hype and propaganda will continue to keep the masses hypnotized and compliant in the next four years, as Obama and the power brokers behind him quietly seize total control of our government.

I’m a Linda too

Woohoo Apishapa!

I’ve said stated the same many times myself.

And while we’re at it, can they please stop, so rudely claiming that Michelle is like Jackie, they are nothing alike. I realize they bought her a bunch of clothes to look like how Jackie dressed on her makeover, but hardly that make any similarities and all that shows is that they TOO DRESSED HER UP LIKE SOMEONE ELSE. I guess they never heard “clothes don’t make the person”.

If that were the case, this is the new first lady before make over.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3125/2895194839_2d390cb346.jpg?v=0
grtphoto

I have so much to say but first to reply to SJ, I agree the pressure is on to fulfill the wishes of the AA community but I fear that when their needs are not met they will simply blame others and not obama, they’ll blame “the man” for keeping him down, this is an easy out for him not to come through on all of his hope. We have already seen the signals of him not living up to his rhetoric of the campaign.
Also, many here have mentioned the idea of when did this person come about? Donna Brazile and DNC made a calculation after 2000 to get more AA’s into the Dem party and vote D, well they picked their guy just as the R’s picked W for 2000. Well, they got what they wanted. Early on I questioned him, wondering “who writes a biography by the time they are in their 40″s?” This is just one sign of either 1) a huge narcissist or 2) a pre ordained candidacy.

Tess

I absolutely agree here, with grtphoto. We’ve been had. It’s one thing to be had, but by DONNA BRAZILE?
And as if we haven’t suffered enough, here comes Jill Biden telling Oprah that Joe had a choice of jobs with O: the Veep or the SOS. Jill told Joe to take Veep so he’d be home more with the family. Can you stand it?
So now we’re to believe that Hillary was at best 2nd choice for SOS? AFTER Joe (“Don’t let ordinary people declare bankruptcy” and “I don’t believe Anita Hill”) Biden? Ewwww.

Ani

Tess,

I would not put too much stock in what Joe Biden said — he told 14 documented lies in his debate with Palin. That’s just one evening.

Whatever else he is, good or not, he is also a bit of a blowhard and given to bragadoccio so I’m sure he wants to make himself look more powerful given that hs is now invisible compared to Hillary.

Always consider the source. This way he can blame his wife asking him to stay close to home for the fact that Hillary is outshining him.

This is also the man out on the campaign trail in NH who said that Hillary would have been a better choice than him. And a wonderful president.

No kidding.

Mandelay

Just heard Rick Warren refer to Obama’s father as “an African immigrant.” Doesn’t an immigrant leave one country to become a citizen of another? I was going to repeat my wish that we “follow the money” in the coming years. I guess we also have to follow the biographies, too.
CarlyinNJ

In less then 5 minutes a man who believes himself to be the reincarnation of Abe Lincoln, JFK, RFK, MLK, JC and maybe even Julius Ceasar will be sworn in as POTUS of the US. IMHO, I think he is a far cry from any of these individuals.

I am grateful for other kindred spirits who see that the Emperor is still unclothed and that there are those at No Quarter who still have the courage to not be silenced and who will speak the truth (as they see it).

The pagentry and coronation that is taking place in DC is meant to make up for the lack of substance in this man. You can project his image on huge screens over and over to depict him as God-like but to me I only see the naked one.

We have much to do; be well all!!
We Will Not Be Silenced!!!
regmaxi

Seems as if you guys/gals have had your heads stuck up GWB’s ass for the last 8 years .
He’s never tried to be anyone other than himself . You and others made the comparisons . Accept the situation , as you have for the last 8 years , and deal with it . Buck Up and shut the f&*&*k up

oowawa

Buck Up and shut the f&*&*k up

Shouldn’t that “Buck Up” read “Bend Over”? But the idea is the same: “you might as well grin and enjoy it, losers.”
avwrobel

‘He’s never tried to be anyone but himself’?!? Keep tokin’ of dat reefah and enjoy the tv show doofus.

susan h

Too bad the lying DNC ruined it for all of us. Today would have been a wonderful day: A Democrat being sworn into office after 8 long years of miserable George W., Cheney & Co. But alas, it is not to be. People I would have been happy for (Joe Biden for one) I am now disgusted with. The entire democratic party has made me so ashamed of the depth and content of their lies, along with the liberal media (Keith Olbermann for one) I once enjoyed, I cannot think of Obama, the DNC, the MSM, Oprah, or anyone who perpetrated the biggest con on the American people without feeling disgust. If Obama had even won fair and square, and had really been the choice “of the people”, I could have been happy for him. But knowing how this “different kind of politician” was just an ordinary thug and mobster (and a good one at that), to me there are no festivities today and nothing to celebrate. Our system is broken and no one in Congress seems to care. I hope Hillary will be okay working with the Chosen One.
regmaxi

Here festers a gaggle of Republican wannabes . Sad , because reality is right in front of you . You sat quiet and complacent for 8 years . Continue to do so now.
http://firefox AnnieCollier

Sharing the basement today with UBM, are you? You obviously don’t know who you’re talking to anymore than BHO knows who he is.

No one secure in his own identity has to constantly compare himself to those from the past. Do you Barack Abe Franklin John Martin Luther King Obama pledge…Problem is most of us know history and some of us were alive to experience the era’s of JFK and MLK. We know the difference and he’s none of the above. Who he is remains to be seen…along with the exposure of his Puppet Masters.
Annie

It is now time for a legitimate third party.