Obama and the Mirror of Erised
By Imv on July 21, 2008 at 7:15 PM in Afghanistan, Foreign Policy, Harry Reid, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi
Barack Obama brags about being a blank screen onto which people can project their beliefs. He claims he can be anything to anyone. Since when is being a human Rorschach test some kind of virtue?
I have another theory. Perhaps, the senator is more like a human Mirror of Erised (my deepest apologies to JK Rowling). In the first Harry Potter novel, Harry discovers a wondrous mirror that reflects one’s heart’s desire. Reflected in the magical looking glass is the You Oprah Dreamed You’d Be.
Howard Dean might have envisioned his 50 State Strategy.
Nancy Pelosi could have seen her Northern California liberal policies.
Harry Reid might have glimpsed a political leader.
Could it be that this election hasn’t been about “the change we’ve been waiting for” but the petty ambitions of a few self-centered leaders? Is it possible that Democratic officials didn’t just project their values onto their rising star, but their dearest dreams?
It gets worse. Now, Obama is playing his shtick on desperate Afghans.
According to John Nichols at The Nation, Obama has been meeting with tribal lords and promising them roses and sunshine:
Unfortunately, Obama is busy making promises.
After meeting with the Democratic presidential candidate inside the US base in Jalalabad, Afghan warlord turned provincial governor Gul Agha Sherzai told reporters, “Obama promised us that if he becomes a president in the future, he will support and help Afghanistan not only in its security sector but also in
reconstruction, development and economic sector.”Translation: Obama is not listening. He is making commitments.
Specific commitments.
Despite the fact that there are more foreign troops in Afghanistan today than at any time since the 2001 invasion — roughly 60,000 total, including 36,000 Americans – Obama is proposing to dispatch two more US combat divisions (comprising more than 7,000 soldiers) to Afghanistan. That will give the United States even greater responsibility for a technically NATO-led occupation.
Apparently, The One is running around countries harboring suicidal terrorists and telling them he’ll give them anything they want. IS HE OUT OF HIS MIND? There are consequences if his alleged promises never come to fruition – PEOPLE WILL DIE.
Afghanistan has been crippled by centuries of war. Its people desperately need necessities like food and running water. It would be honorable and commendable if we could bring that to them. But, Obama is not in a position to do that. Heck, even the real President can’t.
Maybe Obama really believes he can do this. He seems to have drunk a lot of Kool-Aid on the trail. Or, maybe he’s using these poor people as campaign props and he’ll do as much for them as he did for the people in his district (the ones living in the rat-infested, uninsulated, unheated buildings his bud Tony Rezko built on the Illinois taxpayers’ dimes).
Here’s what I know. Confidence men succeed by promising their victims what they desire. They’re “blank screens.” They’re Mirrors of Erised. Democratic leaders, influential left-wing commentators, and desperate voters have spent this primary dreaming of their deepest desires. But, inevitably, confidence men have to deliver what they’ve promised – like filibuster a bad FISA bill or take public financing. When they don’t, which they inevitably won’t, the jig is up. At least, it should be.
Unless electing a flip-flopping, pandering pseudo-liberal, wannabe right-wing Evangelical driving a large careening Blunderbuss is their fondest dream, the Superdelegates need a new mirror.
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OMG! I had to read the link to the Nation to see if it was true! Not that Barry is a blundering fool making promises he’s not in a position to make…no that part I believe. Barry does that all the time. No the part that was unbelievable was that the NATION was reporting it !! The Obamnation!
Let the games begin. The idiot is in foreign affairs school and will make his mistakes in front of the entire world.
One can only hope.
Remember – change we can believe “puke” in!
What a completer ARSE!
Hey, he’s an empty vessel we can puke in.
I can not believe that the Afghan warlords would actually believe any of the BS that o is trying to spoon feed them…I am beginning to think he is truly insane and wierdly, rather than a folie a deux, with his followers, it’s a folie a millions….or mass hysteria as photo op ad nauseam.
On a happy note, not EVERYONE has become drunk on the kool-aid.
It’s starting:
http://hypemovie.com/index.html
The Afghan warlords on meeting Obama would have read him like a book and seen right through him. They haven’t become warlords for nothing. They are powerful people..and they are not stupid.
Afghan warlords …
Their survival depends on it…BO? not so much.
Agreed TeaMug.
totally agree, they have seen many idiots like him in their lives and they are not buying his BS.
Donald Trump suggests WE as a country employ the very best Negotiators the “killers” so to speak with business instinct , not the whamblee pamblie proffessors or the so called “blank Slates” upon which -you- may write anything. what an invitation and in a leadership role?
OMG! It is coming! Hype-the Obama effect movie! Did you look at ordering a dvd???? It said available Septmeber 1st! They are going to slaughter him after the Democratic convention! That is the change we’ve been waiting for! OMG! those are all republicans, too, man!! Get your popcorn, pull up a chair. Obama is going down. Whoo hoo! I wish to hell it was before the end of August, but I understand why they can’t do it as repubs. Damn! OMG. I am too excited to sleep now seriously!
From the people who brought you such greats as Hillary the Movie.
http://www.hillarythemovie.com/trailer.html
Yeah they’re drunk on a different Kool-Aid. And just as dumb or worse.
Of course he’s going around promising everyone the sky and the stars. Otherwise he’d have to negotiate and handle heat and Obama’s far too weak for that. He just wants to be liked.
Has he gone off to China begging for money yet? I wonder what he’s going to talk about with the american business’ there. Sure as hell not about keeping jobs in the US.
I just read that Condi Rice is pulling funding for this trip…is she giving him the hook?
please elaborate. thanks.
Sorry, had mommy duties to attend to… here is the link to the Washington Times story, I actually saw it on a Yahoo news headline. Rice is notifying embassies to limit the help on the visits from both Obama and McCain but she coincidently issued the notice on Thursday, on the eve of Obama’s magical mystery tour.
washingtontimes.com/news/…/rice-limits-embassies-aid-for-candidates
He’s not President yet.
He has no Constitutional authority to make any promises, that the US government must comply with, to any foreign government. Or any foreign government agents.
This is a Constitutional scholar?
We’re in a lot of trouble.
He has no standing. He can’t promise shit. And shit is what everyone will get.
This is outrageous. Who the hell is he to be making promises to anyone? He hasn’t been elected. The president is the mouthpiece for foreign affairs. Not a wannabe. What a little nazi Obama is! Constitutional scholar my ass! Why doesn’t he try abiding by the Constitution?
Let him keep doing this stupid shit, its’ just giving the Republicans more ammo….
Love your analogy and on the money.
I am saddened that it is not a person who’s character and nature is that of the type found in Harry Potter, alas we get Malfoy with the mirror in the chamber of secrets….
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ABC news tonight interview with Obama.
..”a notion of a pull out per se”,
Interrupting a reporter who began by asking a question..”I want to pin you down…{interupted]
“What I won’t allow..What I refuse to do is get boxed in” ….(that would bad) “’cause I would get an email.”
He actually is saying I won’t commit to ANY policy…16 months or never….
“At that time we had to change the political debate…” [What time?]
If only his father had pulled out.
Maybe they should send someone behind him cleaning up his mis-statements.
He and MEchille have had out of control egos from the beginning of their entrance into politics. I half way expected to see her get off the plane with him but maybe not until the segment of the trip financed by his campaign dollars.
Although they announced that she was going to lay low and be mommy for a while, she will definitely want to share the limelight in Europe. Can’t wait for that big foot in her mouth again. We miss you MEchille.
I do believe Obama is sincere about CHANGE.
The Wall Street Journal reported today that a top Obama fund-raiser had ties to a failed bank. According to the WSJ:
Obama recently faced a controversy related to mortgage lending. A member of his vice-presidential selection committee resigned after a WSJ story reported he received favorable treatment on personal loans from Countrywide Financial Corp., a major subprime lender.
You may also recall that the Washington Post reported that along with Christopher Dodd and Kent Conrad, Obama got a sweeter than normal deal on his mortgage.
The CHANGE Obama is talking about is for the WORSE!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121660089138069207.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
The WSJ is a little slow on that uptake. Pritzker has been with him a long time, failed bank and all, and nobody says Boo. She’s into the FDIC for a half a billion dollars. And she’s not one of his fundraisers. She’s his NATIONAL FINANCE CHAIR. Just think about that.
Nobody says boo. This guy is the smarmiest piece of crap that ever ran for president, and he just keeps giving America the finger.
Um, I don’t think McCain wants to bring up failed banks since the s & l scandal cost about 600 billion $… this might have a little bit to do with not talking about Pritzker.
Translation of video:
My “job” is to be important. Their job is to be my low life implementers.
When I unsubscribed from BO’s email list last year, I wrote to the Campaign that their “movement” had nothing to do with reality, but that hundres of thousands of people projected their individual wishes upon the person Barack Obama. That I felt uncomfortable with it, because it was pathological and would sooner or later lead to disaster (as seen 60 years ago in Europe)
I described a condition we see often in psychotherapy, when these projections are confounded with reality, causing all kinds of suffering for the persons and their surroundings, sometimes even leading to disaster, when reality “bites”.
That Barack Obama now braggs about this and lures people into using him as an empty screen is either very ignorant or very, very sick!
Erised ==> Desire. Typically clever of JK. It took most people years to figure that one out.
For a President BO is useless in many ways…. myself being a democrat I’m disapointed in my choice…… (which is none) therefore
screw obama and the horse he rode in on named michelle….
18 million voices say: RISE HILLARY RISE
Mirror of Erised, lol, that is inspired.
Can we have Hillary back yet?