“Backtrack Obama”
By Kirk Tofte on July 13, 2008 at 5:25 PM in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Democratic Nomination, Electability, Hillary Clinton
I propose a new name for the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party: Backtrack Obama.
I have no idea what I am going to do this fall but I do know that Obama is a complete and unadulterated fraud. He is NONE of the superior things he held himself out to be in Iowa and is no more than a run-of-the-mill political hack. Perhaps e.e cummings was right and we will ALWAYS have to settle for politicians defined as “arses upon which everything has sat except a man.” Perhaps McCain is a bigger arse than Obama, but he not a bigger fraud.
There was no reason for Obama to run for the presidency other than his enormous ego. The Democrats had a qualified and deep field before he entered it. Obama was the least qualified based on experience alone to be nominated. Yet he chose to divide the Democratic Party along ideological, racial, generational and gender lines. The Party will pay for this in the years–if not decades–to come.
Obama has trashed the proudest parts of Bill Clinton’s legacy. Clinton practiced what he preached: Opportunity, Responsibility and Community. Clinton’s approach benefited virtually ALL Americans. I always found it informative that virtually no black leader criticized Clinton’s welfare reforms and I have felt that they did not do so because his economic policies help lift twenty million people out of poverty. Yet Obama openly criticized Clinton’s welfare reforms in 1996 and 1997 when it really mattered and has said on several occasions that Ronald Reagan was a more transformational president.
In fact, the Obama campaign has pointed to the racist elements within the CLINTONS’ careers in politics. Obama is like the kid that killed his parents and then pleaded for sympathy because he is an orphan. If Chicago machine politics and Reagan worship are what we can expect from an Obama administration, I want no part of it.
By the way, check out my story of Obama’s rise within the Daley machine.
Now Obama is running ads that claim his efforts on behalf of welfare reform cut the rolls by eighty percent. THAT is the politics of hype. Obama is not only opposing budgetary measures that do not add up, he now OPENLY says that even starting to balance the budget is the least of his worries. And since he trapped himself in the debates with Hillary regarding a social security tax hike, he now has to promise that no one who makes less than $250,000 per year will have their taxes increased if he is elected president.
The new taxes he has proposed so far on those who make over $250,000 come nowhere near meeting his new spending initiatives (especially if he “revises” his plans for troop withdrawals from Iraq–which he will) and do virtually NOTHING to address the need for social security and medicare funding.
In the area of foreign policy, Obama once again painted himself into a corner out of which he cannot escape during his debates with Hillary by saying that he would meet unconditionally with the leaders of even the most rogue states at their bidding. Whether this is what he meant to say is irrelevant now that he has had to expend so much time and energy “manly standing” behind his original foolish formulation of his new kind of foreign policy.
And it not just his support of FISA that has exposed Obama for the fickle politician he is. He abandoned the ONE part of the public financing of campaigns that has actually worked, now supports almost unlimited gun ownership rights, thinks convicted rapists should be subject to the death penalty and believes women who are “just feeling blue” should not be allowed to have late term abortions. Obama is giving the concept of triangulation a very, very bad name.
After Hillary withdrew from the race, Obama’s national lead should have soared to at least a double-digit one. At this point his favorability ratings are about equal to McCain’s. After Obama is exposed for the inexperienced fraud that he is, this will looked upon as the high water mark with respect to his popularity. Obama is about to find out how tens of millions of dollars of advertising works AGAINST the carefully crafted (and false) image his campaign created for him. Obama spent over $15 million on television ads in Iowa prior to the caucuses. It fooled about 75,000 people into supporting him. Hundreds of millions spent by the Republicans on negative ads against him will do much more harm than anything Obama can do to counteract them–especially if the best he can come up with are ads like “Dignity” that lie about his past stands on welfare reform.
If, (as I think he will) Obama loses the general election, he will have cost the Democratic Party not only its best opportunity to win back all three branches of government in a long time, he will have tarnished the Democratic brand as much as Bush has marred the Republican brand. In fact, this election should have been about the policies of Bush. Instead, it will be about Obama’s qualifications and character–or lack thereof.
I have never been more disillusioned about politics than I have become this year. What happened to Hillary was a tragedy of epic proportions. But disillusionment is mostly a good thing (i.e., we become disabused of our illusions) and one of my most fervent hopes is that Hillary Shrugged will lead to a third political party that needs neither the Christian Right or the knee-jerk left. THAT would be change I could believe in.
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Hillary in 2008 …
Or 2012…
I can wait if need be….
I can’t wait. Hillary 2008
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OMG Look at the cover of the New Yorker that is out! If this doesn’t tank him, nothing will.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/13/yikes-controversial-emnew_n_112429.html
PUMA
Ha! One picture worth a thousand words. Of course the article in both the New Yorker and the Huffpuff are denouncing these “fear” tactics….but it may just backfire on them!
They weren’t denouncing shit over the Hillary cover. Fuck `em.
I shouldn’t comment at NQ while listening to George Carlin on YouTube.
Read the comments on Huff & Puff. They are wild.
I feel like writing a comment in there…what’s a matter? Don’t you get satire??? Lighten up! But it wouldn’t be published.
And you are so full of humor that any small remark made about Hillary was cause for hysteria.
furthermore, many people were FURIOUS at Bill Clinton and his welfare reforms…he went completely republican on that bill – where have you been?
Obama is the presumptive nominee – get used to it. This Hillary worship (and believe me it was FAR MORE worship of her than any Obama supporters felt towards their candidate) – your outright exaggerations and lies are just not going anywhere.
ellen its not that i worship hillary,its that i love and respect this country so much that i will not support a marxist no experiance say anything fraud.so i say to you go back to troll land,be gone.
I have a tremendous amount of respect for Hillary, get that, respect. Her years of public service and work on children’s issues in particular. Don’t give me your condescending “get over it/get used to it” garbage. Your candidate has been fawned over like a new baby. No vetting what so ever. He is a weak, flawed candidate that was carried over the line. Millions of Americans reject that empty suit, he’s not going anywhere, get used to it.
I don’t know why they aren’t banning me, but my comment did get published.
HuffPo must be hurting for subscribers.
The remarks are so funny. They are a mirror of ours over the comic, except even less charitable.
They don’t get it that the article is actually quite on the nose.
I laughed so hard I think I peed a little!
My remark was, “Can’t you guys take a joke?”
Now THAT’S funny! Who says feminists can’t laugh out loud?
Ayers should like it,there is an American flag in the fire.
OMG, I love it. It is about time. Maybe Obami & wife are going to get a taste of what Hillary had to put up with. You know the old saying, what goes around, comes around. Or karma’s a bitch.
The only thing missing is Dean, Axelrod and Brazilla.
Hillary in 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN8-NJg_pe4
Do you all remember this video..this video gave me a boost!!
wow-thank you!! awesome….
THERE you see a WINNER vs a whiner. And he had to have stolen votes to claim the title of “presumptive” nominee…
She may wear pantsuits and be a female, but there’s a world class leader; in the same class as Indira Ghandi, Golda Maier, and hundreds of other women who have headed nations.
And politicians are willing to settle for someone like Bush.
Dear goddess, I miss her!! What a classy, classy woman. OBama cannot hold a CANDLE to her.
And he knows it. That’s why he doesn’t want her on the ballot. Running unopposed (or essentially unopposed, as was the case with Alan Keyes) seems to be his M.O.
Pride and love and tears in my eyes.
“Backtrack” Obama it is, but to be fair try
“Dar Marcha Atras” Obama or
“Retirarse” Obama.
It’s not too soon to make sure
the children speak Spanish, also.
I will go with Backtrack Obama for his name and that 3rd party sounds good too…
Backtrack Obama is THE perfect name for him.
But the 1,002nd “third” party isn’t going to save us.
Why can’t Backtrack and his bully supporters leave OUR party and start their own 3rd party. They can call it the Obamalicians or the Partying Party or the Slackers Party. I don’t know. I want my party back.
They don’t need to start a new party. Their plan is to start a new religion.
The Church of Obamalogy – “The Wright Way”
Dances with Snakes
or “backtrackians”
Backtrack Obama is GREAT for a formal name (you know, the kind that goes on a birth certificate), but my pet name for him will always be “Waffles”.
But I thought Obama was against Welfare Reform. Now he’s for it. He’s touting the same type of program he used to trash Bill Clinton. Okie dokie.
And he said he voted on in an ad and he did not have anything to do with the passing of the bill
Now there you go making me miss Bill Clinton again. The real hope and change president.
“Obama is like the kid that killed his parents and then pleaded for sympathy because he is an orphan.”
Exactly. If there’s one common thing I hear from anyone who admired Clinton, it’s that he owes Obama absolutely nothing.
At the governor’s conference, Bill said yesterday that we needed to not be so divided into our niches. That sounded like unity.
Then he went on to extol the virtues….of Theodore Roosevelt. *haha
1 for Clinton
1 for McCain
0 for Obama
I read that article too. And as usual Bill is able to articulate a vision that shows true change and says it in way that offers and inspires us to achieve it without the empty slogans of change and hope. (did I mention I miss Bill Clinton?)
Bill also said at that meeting, …”I used to tell people I loved going to the governors association,” he said, “because it was the ‘center of wonkdom.’”
lol*…..he does love that stuff. He wrapped that little Teddy bit up in a “history lesson,” which he so loves to do.
Still, cracked me up. McCain just came out with his new and improved Teddy Roosevelt attitude this week.
That is so like Bill, very clever. It ties into things on multiple levels and fronts. Bully for Bill!
Charge!
Hillary Shrugged will lead to a third political party that needs neither the Christian Right or the knee-jerk left.
What I’m hoping is that it will lead to at least ONE FUCKING PARTY in this country that accepts women as equal with men. The right? Nope, never has, never will.
The left? *bursts out laughing*
We’re the ultimate political mendicants in this country. We have no home. The right ignores us, and the left beats the hell out of us and then when we finally say we’ve had enough, they belch beer breath in our face, grab our asses, and go, “Where else you gonna go? *burp* Bitch’ll be back.”
Maybe there will be a party where women’s issues doesn’t consist of either learning how to fluff pillows or putting on a bikini and jiggling for votes. *vomits*
sorry ain’t NO MAN belching beer breath in MY FACE and then grabbing my ASS and expecting to still have his hand attached as he recoils
that’s overtly stereotypical and I swear if I meet any woman putting up with that shit I will rescue them myself! I don’t know anyone puts up with that anymore.
Not saying they don’t exist……… but UGH! NO WAY!
unless its for fun (and BOTH know it)
what will the super delegates do in late aug. when obama has completely tanked ! he is already the paris hilton of politics! they will have to nominate hillary! ‘xcept they are afraid of being called “racist” for keeping the best interests of the party and nation in mind. there only hope is for the straw that will break the camels back ” politically mortally wounding barak “jellyfish” obama!
you are right, I feel alot of the support Obama has received up to now is based purely on FEAR OF BEING CALLED RACIST. I think if something very damaging came out about him then they would feel they were off the hook so to speak and could support Hillary and feel they had a legitimate reason wo the racist crap. Personally if people would stop biting the bait on this the racist name calling would stop.
No, not all. My brother is a huge Clinton Dem, but he’s going with Obama. I could tell he was surprised by my political stance.
He really bought the story that Hillary blew it.
I don’t agree, but that’s OK.
But he’s in no way for Obama due to liberal white guilt. He’s a Texas boy. They don’t have much of that.
“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.” I’m tired of the media smoothing things over for Obama, I’m tired of lies, I’m tired of a punk with no experience thinking he knows better. The presidentcy is not an internship. I’m voting for Hillary as a write-in, if necessary. But I’m hoping Democrat SD’s take their responsibility seriously and come to their senses at the convention and elect Hillary as the nominee. If not, Hillary should become the head of a new, progressive party. I know she’d win, and the country would be the better for it!
I don’t even want to get started on how backstabbing the black community has been to Bill Clinton or I will get angrier than I already am. No loyalty, gratitude or respect-NONE. They should be ashamed of themselves. All I can say is “we reap what we sow”. So when all hell breaks loose, and believe me, IT WILL, you’re going to see and hear an awful lot of people whining and bitching even though Obama did anything and everything to win and STILL LOST. Why? Because as my Mom used to say “you can’t plant tomatoes and expect corn”. Until people realize that they will keep repeating their mistakes.
Well, it was definitely overkill. They really slashed and burned through the Clintons to win the nomination. Now, they have a problem, but it’s not Hillary’s fault.
I never understood this strategy. Bill was enjoying record high approval ratings when this started. And those type of approval ratings come back, after everyone forgets how he got red-faced and wagged his finger. LOL* So I wondered why Obama was choosing to piss off that many people who love Bill Clinton.
But…..he did. Now, it’s over. He can’t take it back. You can’t have a successful campaign based on “Get over it.” That’s silly thinking.
So I don’t see his numbers shifting much.
This is going to be won or lost in the swing states, and there are more of them than the Democrats should feel comfortable with.
We’ve made virtually no headway at all. NM…tight. CO…..tight. Oregon…..tight. MO….tight. Virginia…..tight. Ohio…..tight. PA…..tight.
If he has even one Wright moment, it’s over.
Watch it — by just saying that people should have the common sense to know where their best interests lie, you are automatically a racist. You are demanding not acknowledgment and sober awareness of hard-won advances, but ass kissing “just because he’s a white guy.”
Or did you know? According to Spike Lee, Bill Clinton is practically the grand wizard of the fucking KKK at this point, and acknowledging that he deserves loyalty and respect (the same loyalty that women voters show him as a man) is the same as demanding that White Man get his feet rubbed and drinks made by the Black Guy. Giving intelligent, sane props to Bill Clinton for the loyalty HE has shown to the black community is apparently exactly equivalent to stepping and fetching.
Also ignore the fact that, despite his possession of a dick, women voters like him fine, because he was always ready to defend our interests. I am ready to defend him and give him loyalty, and I don’t equate that to bringing him a drink and forking over a blowjob, people. And you will not find a more hardassed, flame-snorting, no-slack-cutting feminist bitch on wheels.
Whoops, sorry — I forgot. We’re just voting our hormones or sumpin because obviously we can’t think straight in the face of our hormonal onslaughts.
It’s all such a giant pile of runny shit.
I am a Republican, voting for McCain, so to some degree I want to believe Obama is a misogynist or something.
But even setting that aside, that whole ‘periodically’ attack on Hillary takes your breath away.
There is some kind of psychological problem with this guy. He absolutely NEEDS to feel adored. In the primaries that means the netroots and left-wing, and now it means the center more. And if he’s not telling you what you want to hear? You’re not listening right.
Just love him.
Obama is damaged because he was abandoned by BOTH OF HIS PARENTS, I remember a comment he made about single mothers being “Punished” by having a child, this guy has issues from his abandonment. Most people that have never known their father would just shine him on and not think or care about him. Not Obama, he must have been obsessed with trying to fit into a culture that he knew nothing about, he was raised by white folks, never knowing anything else, but he rejected the white world at a early age. This is a very mixed-up person.
I’m not sure he has a dick, frankly. Where’s his spine?
I understand what you are saying woodj
But not EVERY Black person is for Obama.
I did not vote for him. I have supported Hillary and I continue to do so.
It really is messed up how so many Black people bought into the myth that Bill Clinton is a racist. I mean seriously, the man used to be called the First Black President, now all of a sudden he is racist? Why? Because Backtrack said so? We are supposed to take that liar’s word? The same words he copies from Patrick? The same words that he flip flops on?
Just say no deal.
I didn’t say every black person was supporting Obama.
Half the people that bought into the right wing talking points about Bill Clinton weren’t even old enough to experience his presidency. My neighbor who’s an older black woman spotted Obama’s bamboozling long before I did. Her grandkids still don’t get it.
I know – that has infuriated me, too. After ALL the work BOTH Clintons have done on behalf of the AA community their entire adult lives, and Obama paints them as racists. When John Lewis of GA stabbed Hillary in the back, and Jim Clyburn, and Jesse Jackson, Jr. – hell, he stabbed his own FATHER in the back, and on and on, I was just stunned. But even my younge brother – one of those wine-sipping professors someone mentioned here yesterday who is gung ho Obama started regurgitating the whole “Bill Clinton is a racist” thing over what he said here in SC (which was all TRUE, btw – Obama’s fairy tale stance on Iraq, that is). I was SHOCKED when he started that and straightened him out right quick. I told him it was beyond insulting that Obama has engaged in race baiting with the Clintons after all they have done for the AA community. I mean, really – it is racist for Hillary to point out LBJ Signed the Civil Rights BILL into a LAW? (What, has no one ever seen School House ROcks abt how a bill becomes a law? You’d think a freakin’ lawyer would know how it works, though!) Just appalling what Obama has done to them on this level.
Apparently, I get pretty worked up over this, too.
Grrrr.
GREAT post, Kirk!
bactrack barak…if the shoe fits.
BTW, Sugar of “Sugar N Spice” has been calling him that for months. FANTASTIC blogger.
I love reading Sugar’s blogs. She is often ahead of the curve and is spot on.
Here is a great post by jay1949
Ego In Overdrive?
http://jay1949.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/ego-in-overdrive/#comment-125
He really pegs Backtrack…read it when you have time..I think you will like what jay has to say.
i use Baracktrack…
i dunno, its got more of a ring to it… heh heh…
nice one!
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
I am 19 years old, and I just became interested in politics. And after this campaing season, I have lost all interest in the 2008 election. Obama has expose me to all the nastiness of a campaign, and what is so upsetting is that he gets away with it all. I will get invoolve in politics again, when McCain wins this year and HRC challenges him in 2012.
In 2012 I will quit my job to campaign for HRC.
alright!!
Kiki you can’t do that. My daughter said the same thing she was just going to stay at home in Nov when all this started coming out.
It’s very important for you as a young person and for her to be a leader. You’re “OUR” future. You must fight for the the things you believe in. If you allow them to push you around now, it will be a never ending cycle. Don’t do that. Rise above. There will be dissapointments along the way. Compromises. Nothing is ever handed to us. Democracy in this country is worth fighting for, not only along side of us, but for your future. You can carry your head high and proud knowing you stood up and fought for the right things.
There are many of us standing right behind you to help pick you up if you fall or get discouraged.
What can you say-with a phony jerk like Homobana. Hey doesn’t he remind you of Robert Mugabe! Mile High stadium speech. Just like paid Mugabe thug supporters cheering on their murdereous, egomanic leader. He has created a Democratic party which appears to be like a party from Zimbawe. Paid thugs supporting their master. In this case, our pupppet is a controlled, compromised, blackmailed puppet!
Read what Ryan Lizza has to say about Obama dumping supporters. After the Dems took control in IL and were able to redistrict, Obama drew himself out of poor areas and into latte-sipping areas:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_lizza?printable=true
Well, they have always said that politics is a contact sport…so, rack ‘em up and hand me my pool cue!
Homobana? Why the gay bashing?
Ditto — that sort of repugnant name-calling and bashing is something we can leave to the Barkybots, thanks.
Blu Listen, nothing against gays….just don’t want that in the W/H…A drug addicted, may be involved with a murder of a Donald Young. Puppet in the White House. Like everything regarding Bo…one has to look deep into this myth. Which has been created by monied, corrupted corporations, the same corporations which control our MSM. Which propps up this compromised, controlled puppet.
just don’t want ‘that’ in the W/H.
Hmmm. My homophobe radar just went off.
What do you get when you put the Obamas on Air Force One?
SNAKES ON A PLANE
http://sugarnspice.typepad.com/
I’d single out one of her posts where she coins the term “Backtrack,” but best you just go and read everything.
obama’s birth certificate…what do you think?
http://thevote.abc13.com/2008/07/born-and-raised.html
and did you see that mccain dumped gramm?
http://thevote.abc13.com/2008/07/nothing-to-whin.html
Smart of him. I agree with Gamm on several points. I do think we’re competitive, for example. I also don’t agree with him that it’s not a recession. But I’m in CA, and we’re toppling under foreclosures. Sky-high here. That’s already caused a bank failure. Jobs are scarce. Good jobs are disappearing. The companies are using a lot of temps.
I have to admit, I never watch CNN.But I’ve watched the Lou Dobbs show, in the last week, and he’s really do a good job, of showing Obama’s and Mccain’s Negatives this week.He has to be the most out spoken person on Television,and he’s so honest, Even if its his opinion, it sure is getting out to the public. Tonite, he called Obama an Elitist again, and talked about Obama’s stupid suggestion all American Children should speak Spanish.He also mentioned,this is not the time,for Obama to tell Americans, he’s embarassed with America.Last week Lou lost it, and had lots negatives on both candidates,and couldn’t believe these two people are the nominees. I wish someone could get the transcripts for last weeks shows.They would be entertaining themselves.lol imo
Lou Dobbs along with Fox Hannity&Colmes, Greta Live are the best yet, for negativity on Obama, and hope it keeps going.
Go Puma
Jeez, the heat is on!! Keep it going all! Something that will be happening soon is that Obambi will announce a VP pick ad the mainstream media will swoon (the idiots). It would be great if Hillary were to talk about who she would choose (or at least a short list), so that going into the Denver convention the superdelegates see competing slates.
FINALLY, please, can we begin thinking of our PUMA movement as an incipient 3rd party? Thank you for floating the concept!
The lead comment by Kirk is terrific. What we need to do from this point on is work hard on keeping up the pressure on the Supers – Undecideds, Hers to stay strong for Her, and His to switch. The Convention is looming. PUMAs are counterattacking with $$$ to retire her debt and doing the Daily Activity(ies). People are contributing to The Denver Group (did you see its first ad buy in the July 11th Chicago Tribune – great!)in order to put out the word in the print media that Convention powers-that-be must allow Hillary to be nominated, have her name on the ballot, give a prime-time speech, etc. and having the states roll-called to vote for a nominee as has always been done instead of some perverted “coronation” at Invesco. On to Denver!
Very interesting that Obama is losing support not because of the attacks from the Repugs but because people are knowing more about his character.
How sad that the DNC party has messed up big time.
Having a third party to push Sen Clinton as the Presidential standard bearer is the best suggestion so far. Then we don’t have to grudgingly vote for McCain.
Hillary Clinton for President!!! Vox Populi, Vox Dei!