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Obama on Independence: No Biggie

By PaganPower on July 5, 2008 at 5:00 PM in Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers

I wonder if Barack Obama had a good Independence Day. I’m thinking not really. What is so special about independence to him after all? He is independent every day of the week. Independent of any real experience. Independent of conviction. Independent of class. And independent of good sense. Apparently. So it is largely just another day in the Obama household.

Rather than spend time together with family celebrating the sense of what it means to be an American like the majority of us do, Obama chose to go out on the campaign trail. Demonstrating what he calls patriotism by campaigning for president. Some more of that new politics of hope in action.

I wonder if he had a flag pin on? It would be so like him. Telling us that the flag pin is a substitute for real patriotism while sporting one proudly on his lapel. That’s patriotism one can believe in. Obama style.

Do you think he gave Bill Ayers a call? Maybe they compared notes. Bill would recount all the American flags he and his spouse terrorist pal Bernadine stomped on. And Obama could enthusiastically counter with all the Constitutional freedoms he had stomped on just this past week. Oh these progressive patriot types. The fun they must have trying to outdo each other dismantling the foundations of our democracy. I betcha that was a fun conversation. Oh to have been a fly on that wall.

So just exactly what did Obama do on Independence Day? He spent the day giving a speech. One he hoped would make up for his total screw up the day before when he needed two news conferences to state clearly without any fear of confusion just exactly what his real position on Iraq is. And since the day before didn’t work out very well, what better way to prove his patriotism than refine his message once more so that we all know where he stands on Iraq. As of yesterday.

We are all fondly recounting what our country and our freedom mean to us. And Obama is out there trying to get us to think about him. How utterly frickin patriotic of the dude.

So there he was in Montana bitching about George Bush which always fires up the crowd. Then he lets loose with his standard applause getter:

In Montana, Obama Tries to Rally Support on Iraq

“It’s a war we need to bring to an end,” he added, speaking over applause from a crowd of about 1,000 at a picnic outside the World Museum of Mining.

But the funny thing was that all the people didn’t believe what he had to say. Of course it might have had something to do with that pesky little fact that he changed his position on Iraq twice just the day before. And wouldn’t you know it, the people finally payed attention to his shifts. Saw them in action. And some weren’t very pleased.

“I think he should be careful about what he says,” said Bob Evans, 67, a Butte native who now lives in Wisconsin. “I hope he doesn’t change his mind on the war. I think he’s a man of principle.”

I’m trying. I swear I am. Really doing my best to stop laughing over that man of principle line. You can bamboozle some of the people all of the time and all that.

And then I read something that almost did me in. The Governor of Montana is under the impression that Obama’s flips and flops, his Independence you might say, doesn’t really matter to the voters of Montana. Because they are just so totally fed up with the war that Pinocchio himself would be an acceptable Commander in Chief.

If they only knew.

“Most people in Montana have figured out it was the wrong war for the wrong reasons,” Mr. Schweitzer said in an interview at the Freedom Fest Independence Day celebration. “I think Americans have very little stomach for a permanent engagement in the Middle East.”

So according to Montanans, it doesn’t matter what Obama says. As long as he keeps replaying that speech he gave against the war so many years ago and then tells folks how much he is still against it all will be cool. In Montana.

For myself, I am not impressed with Obama. His continued history making, chameleon, quick change artist act makes him seem more like a snake than a reptile to me. Or maybe a worm.

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