Three things in response to some of the articles.

1. The reason the LA Times writer is trying to walk the horse back into the ‘celebrity is good’ barn is that A) The celebrity meme is accurate and it’s killing Obama; B) It is one of the foundational pieces of his campaign, along with the race card (explicit and implicit); that is, he MUST use it or he has no chance at winning; and, the most immediately relevant point, C) The Invesco Field fiasco is going to be the biggest celebrity event in political history. In other words, Obama is teeing himself up to be destroyed — in true Rovian fashion — by Camp McCain after what is supposed to be his shining moment. The Disaster at Invesco will be a monument to Team McCain’s portrayal of Obama as vacuous celebrity using stunt media ploys.

The writer of the piece knows this, and so they are trying to reverse the meme before the Disaster at Invesco happens. It’s not going to work, however. Team McCain has nailed the essence of Obama and his campaign, and the reason the spots are doing so well is because they are true and people immediately understand them and see them as being correct.

Invesco will haunt Obama. Count on that.

2. I think Andrew Sullivan and other persons of homosexual orientation are really beginning to sour on Obama. I could certainly be wrong about that and I’m not trying to make any blanket statements. However, starting with McClurkin and now the reports that gays are feeling very much put off by the DNC, Obama and Obama’s posse isn’t helping matters any for the feelings of the homosexual community towards Obama. Now, having said that, Sullivan is a conservative. Some will say he was never going to like Obama, anyways. False. Sullivan has been one of Obama’s biggest lauders in all of the media. It seems that period has ended.

3. The Richmond, VA paper is spot on. Obama is taking ENORMOUS risks with his liberal usage of the race card. Team McCain drilled him on this recently, and they will do so again if Obama or punk enablers like Bob Herbert try to play that card another time.

Obama and his loser posse knows they are playing with fire here, and that is why you have seen a number of pieces from his fanboys decrying the crap that Nikki Turner pulled in Tennessee.

However, the real point of these Obama fans’ outrage with Turner is that she got crushed at the polls and she overplayed the race card. That is, she used it (and the religion card) so totally ineptly that it both draws attention to how pols use the card and it makes the environment less friendly for Obama and his peeps to try to play the race card when they want to.

What the Obama people are trying to convey, desperately, is that THEY aren’t using the same vein of tactics Turner did. Sure, a KKK guy in an ad isn’t the same thing as Jesse Jackson, Jr’s “Katrina Tears” nor is it a South Carolina Memo, but the theme is the same: Race card.

What Turner did with a club over the head in the subtlety department the Obama camp is trying to do as a loud dogwhistle. Both camps are trying to manipulate people based on race. And because the Obama camp knows it cannot win without this ploy, its supporters are trying to shoot down the Turner story as fast as possible.

“I strongly condemn the outbreak of violence in Hawaii, and urge an immediate end to armed conflict. Now is the time for the United States and Japan to show restraint, and to avoid an escalation to full scale war. America’s territorial integrity must be respected. All sides should enter into direct talks on behalf of stability in Hawaii, and the international community should fully support a peaceful resolution to this crisis.”

God, he’s a fucking idiot.

Andrew has, apparently, only recently discovered that Congress’s jobs include that annoying “checks and balances” role. Who’d a thunk it!!

And yes, he probably has read NQ–he never has an original idea, it’s always something one has seen elsewhere in his essays.

But we’re not Bots. Not by a long shot.

Wouldn’t vote for Barak Obama if he was the last candidate on earth. YUK