Look up in the Sky–It’s Teflonman!
By Pat Racimora on October 18, 2008 at 9:15 PM in Barack Obama, Obamatopia
What keeps Obama so safe from scrutiny?
I haven’t seen anything like this, ever. George W. Bush was also dipped in Teflon, but it wasn’t nearly as thick. I ran out of space in my cartoon or I would have included yet other puzzles accompanying Obama on his nearly perpendicular assent from nowhere that would have flattened any other contender for the presidency.
I used to think it is mostly the < “low-information voters,” as Susan UnPC politely dubbed them, who, innocently responding to inaccurate information, were”OK” with Palin being Obama’s running mate and Obama’s pro-life stance. Or maybe it was largely those who were asked to locate Iraq on a map, and stuck the pin in Australia. (We apparently have a lot of voters who don’t know much about the world they live in.)
So, I asked a number of my intelligent and well-read Obama supporter friends why Obama’s one-ply toilet paper thin resume and some of the colorful (that’s being polite, too) long-term consorts have not figured into their evaluation of him. Here’s how a few of those interactions went down:
Me: What about Tony Rezko?
Friend #1: Oh, the guy who bought the house next door to Obama’s house? That was just a coincidence. Chicago isn’t as big as you might think.
Me: What about Obama’s friendship with terrorist Bill Ayers?
Friend #2: That doesn’t bother me. Obama was only 8 when Ayers set off those bombs.
Me: Would you be friends with Charles Manson if he ever gets out of prison? He did what he did a long time ago.
Friend #2: That’s different. Ayers never hurt anyone.
Me: Would you attend a church for 20 years if the minister was anti-Black?
Friend #3: Well, Obama didn’t go every Sunday.
Me: What do you like about Obama?
Friend #4: He is inspiring.
Me: Is that enough to take over the leadership of our country in a time of great internal and external crises?
Friend #4: I am sure he can find people to help him.
Me: Can you name one individual with a stellar reputation who has been close to Obama for many years?
Friend #5: Can you do the same for McCain?
Me: Well, yes I can. Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton….
Friend #5: [interrupting] Well, no one knows that much about Obama.
Me: I think you are helping me make my point. Shouldn’t we know more? (I am now also thinking that Teflon keeps everything inside from getting out.)
Friend #5: I know I like him. That’s good enough for me.
And so it went. Inaccurate or insufficient information, a mega dose of faith, and some fancy rationalizations.
I felt sorry for Geraldine Ferraro. She stated that Obama was a very lucky man. For that she got nailed with the R word, which, by the way, has now lost its original intended meaning. It seems anyone who disagrees with Obama or mentions his race (unless it is him—he does it repeatedly) is a racist. So is that Teflonman’s secret? The threat of being the reciepient of the R word fends off anyone who tries to vet him? Yep, I think it is.
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Joe the plumber seems to be sticking.
Based on the irrational vindictive mean spirited panic stricken psycho response from The Precious and his thugs they are the ones making him stick. LMAO!
It seems to be sticking but they have been so nasty to Joe.
I think it has been sticking BECAUSE they have been so nasty to him. That was my point.
And they are so full of themselves they haven’t realized it yet.
What they fail to realize is the undecideds are now on to them. The Precious is now coming across as just another sack of shit politician in a cheap suit spewing meaningless platitudes and rhetoric with the addition now of smearing not just Joe the plumber but all working people who can’t afford arugula, caviar and champagne.
What the Obama campaign failed to realize is that Michigan and Ohio are populated by Joe. The union worker controls the vote in Michigan and can do so in Ohio too, not the intellectual liberals that Senator Obama appeals to. Senator Obama may be well on his way to losing both states with his campaign to discredit Mr. Wurzelbacher.
Having spent most of my life within a hundred or so miles of Mr. Wurzelbacher - I’ve met hundreds of men and women just like him in the rusty auto manufacturing region of Ohio and Michigan. I stand next to them in the grocery store sniffing the cantaloupes, sit next to them at rock concerts, they’re at the next table at Applebee’s on Friday evenings and in line next to me at Best Buy a week before Christmas.
They work hard, never quite getting ahead like their parents’ generation was able to do, but they do their best to pay for the necessities and put a little bit of luxury on the credit cards. It works well until an unexpected event happens - a divorce, a health crisis, a lay off, economic downturn (the new word for recession), etc… and then the bills pile up. They work hard to pay those bills, never asking for a hand out. A few bills get pushed aside each month while they juggle payments. But they keep plodding along working for the day they can once again be in the black at the end of each month. One day, they hear about a business that is up for sale and they daydream about how nice it would be own that business, to have a chance of being in the black at the end of each month and maybe, just maybe have a few extra dollars left to put away for their kids’ college and their retirement. It becomes more than just a daydream and they look into financing the purchase of the business.
Along comes a presidential campaign. One candidate wants to raise taxes and our daydreamer turned serious purchaser begins to worry if he buys the business it’ll be another act of futility on his part - will he still be juggling bills at the end of the month? This candidate shows up on a sunny afternoon in our daydreamer’s neighborhood and he asks the candidate about his tax plan.
It’s 2008, not 1978 anymore and Mr. Wurzelbacher ends up on cable news from Detroit to London to Seattle to Sydney. Within hours Mr. Wurzelbacher knows what it’s like to be Britney Spears with the media camped in his neighborhood, their satellite trucks humming away - reporting on whether he’s five minutes late at watering his roses and where the kid delivering the newspapers has thrown his paper today. When that gets a little boring, they start running credit and background checks on Mr. Wurzelbacher and discover he’s typical of Ohio and Michigan. A man who works hard, who has had the typical financial setbacks of the region but keeps hope alive that the day will come where he’s in the black at the end of the month and he can afford to send his child to Ohio State.
Who would have thought that the people I encounter in the grocery store and Best Buy, sit next to for concerts on the lawn at DTE Energy/Pine Knob and are sharing the same server at Applebees with me are a toxic poison in the United States of America and not the back bone as I’ve always been led to believe.
Monet you have much greater insight than the Obama campaign people do. They have insulted the very audience they need…yet again!
Why don’t they just go to Ohio and start a swing state bus tour and call it the low info-Bible thumping-gun clinging-redneck-racist-Joe the plumber-over forty-typical white person-PUMA get out the vote drive?
I really think those ignorant, arrogant creeps would think that a banner like that hung up in towns would just be there so people would read it, recognize themselves and still show up in awe of being in the presence of Oblahma.
Since when is attacking the people who represent the very people you need to have vote for you, a winning strategy?
Also, OT, but has anybody gotten a picture of the house that 11,172 voters in Columbus, Ohio registered from? This is a clear violation of the Help America Vote Act, and from what I can ascertain
if CITIZENS of Ohio file a complaint against assumed illegal practices, it can be investigated, but NOT if the Voting officials try to. I don’t really know how that would work, but if Ohio is going to be fraudulent, and we know this ahead of time, it seems as though it is worth doing exactly what those students who took it upon themselves to investigate the address did…take a camera and record voting fraudulently in Ohio on Election Day. I will go vote fraudulently on purpose in Ohio and record it on video for the News to see, why not? Might as well MAKE them go through all the votes in Ohio. I think the GOP needs to mount a serious counter attack and beat these guys at their own game. IF Ohio thinks that the GOP are coming in to sabotage the Election, they might be forced to do their job, and check each vote for possible fraud. In the process, those Election officials who wanted to do their jobs correctly, will be allowed once again to do just that.
Its only sticking with McCain supporters. Too many messages, too little time. Thats the bottom line.
http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?p=45224#45224
check out this Tax analogy at Peoples’ cube by Comrade Elliot about 10 guys drinkin beer…it’s too funny and accurate…
another good cartoon Pat…keep up the good work
According to http://www.verumserum.com/?p=2907 Obama and Ayers both had offices on the same floor of the same office building from 1995-1998.
Probably never ran into each other though.
This is goin to be a big story. Combined with Ayers/Dohrn babysitting for the OBama kids.
Babysitting? Did they teach the kids how to make toy bombs?
Yes, but see who the co-director is in the article.
http://www.barackbook.com/Profiles/MichaelKlonsky.htm
“Klonsky Told The [Students For A Democratic Society] Membership In March 1969 That ‘Our Primary Task Is To Build A Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Movement…”
“Klonsky, Whose Disgust For Mainstream Politics Led Him To Launch A New, Maoist Communist Party In The 1970s, Today Supports Barack Obama So Enthusiastically That Until Recently He Was Blogging On The Illinois Senator’s Campaign Website.”
Sharing an office? No problem. The MSM will not be interested.
You said he had “colorful friends” …racist.
“Colorful friends” is not inherently racist. It is a common phrase. Color is a metaphor for unique, different, offbeat. etc. Saying it is racist to smear someone makes one a racist. Looking for any reason to call people racists make one a racist. It also makes it harder to make the case against real racism. Look up “crying wolf” if you want to know why. And cut the insane PC crap already.
Crayons are now racist. Get with the program.
Better call the Missouri “truth” squad, the ACLU, DOJ and all other thought police to raid the HQ of Binney and Smith!
Galt - don’t waste your energy trying to explain things to people like Jenniffer. She has a limited vocabulary.
uh oh, you said “truth”, that’s racist too isn’t it?
I know it’s become impossible to list all the words that ARE racist (from obamaandbots view) at this time, but is there a way we can make a list of words that are NOT racist in their view?
I’ll start:
ummmmmmm……well…..I’m havin trouble….ummmm… OH, I GOT ONE!!!
1. A
2. An
3. The
4. Hampster
ok, that’s all I can come up with. Hope none of them are racist, if they are, remove them. Anybody able to think of any others?
Ha, ha, ha, that is funny. I was just thinking though, since the only criteria to be called racists nows days is if you vote against Obama and for McCain, then I rather be a racist.
Galt, Colorful is as Colorful does.
A clown is “colorful”, so is a Monet, some folks can’t tell the difference.
Examining Obama’s resume is like finding mold on one wall in your house. There’s always so much more…
And you used the word ‘color’ in a sentence. Racist!
And now Obama’s Race Police Squad has declared “welfare” a racist term.
No - Obama isn’t interested in the economy, taxes, health care, etc. - those issues are just used to play “gotcha!” to accuse opponents of racism.
I think Jennifer was just kidding–quick satire. I hope so anyway.
The dinosaur media is dying…Ratings down 20-30% this year.
They have to win this with their American idol selection so that they can hold on to the power of thought control..
If the media loses then they’re finished
and I mean Finished for good!!
I am not planning to watch much of CNN, or any of the others. And Fox, the only one I watch now, will not keep me forever. I turn it off quite a bit now.
Lark,
One of the reasons that I hate the left wing MSM is that they screw up our country’s international image.
I read Google news for the readers in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong every day. Google relies on CNN, AP, NY Times and Newsweek as their sources of US news. Can you imagine what US is like in the mind of Chinese language readers?
TV today is for low information people.
I only watch Fox for a few hours each night, yet I get a 1000% more news and information than I did twenty years ago through other means.
A poll out today says that those that listen/watch Hannity and Rush are the most informed voters in the country being able to answer in greater numbers questions like who is the Secretary of state etc.
I get most of my info from great blogs that back up claims with thorough research - like this site.
This site is worth donating money to upgrade their servers to the Freeper levels of activity.
We can all make a difference!
Institutions come and go. This one is killing itself with corruption, so I for one won’t cry.
They deserve it. They’re still under the impression they’re the only source of news.
Another great Cartoon Pat ! !
I think that his two “autobiographies” set us up as this is THE ONE. And Ob’s whole team coming out and saying “They will try to scare you, bamboozle you…” also sets us up so when the facts come out, they are discounted as not being true, or “more racist remarks”.
As far as being teflon, its not over yet. Maybe “class warfare” will stick, but don’t count on it. I think Ob will be the next President, and we better keep his feet to the fire, as a friend of mine likes to say. Hold him to his Flops before he Flipped them.
I agree with Johnny, it is another great and perceptive cartoon by Pat.
My personal opinion as to why nothing sticks to The Precious centers on one of life’s eternal truisms: people believe what they want to believe. And right now, an awful lot of people want to believe in the sanctity of Barack Obama. To see he has feet of clay is painful–for far too many. And since the media also is believing what they want to believe, it is virtually impossible to publicize the truth and make it stick. He chain-smokes. Really? Don’t show it on television. That is a dangerous filthy habit and doesn’t fit the sanctified image.
But as HARP mentioned in the first comment, Joe the Plumber seems to be sticking. That is because people also want to believe in Joe the Plumber. What is shaping up here is a war between symbolic worlds that are competing for belief. The grandiose eloquent Messiah comes up against the common Everyman holding a toilet plunger. What will people finally choose to believe–that The Precious is bringing salvation, or that they can save themselves through their own hard work provided government does not get in the way. I’m betting on the toilet plunger.
;-P
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Thanks, Galt!
BTW… I enjoy your wit!
Your welcome and thanks for the kudos!
Thanks Johnny B and oowawa,
I agree that the times may be a perfect storm for an Obama victory in that people want something to believe in after the last 8 years. Obama was never vetted so his surficial image–an attractive one I concede–just latched on to millions like a deadbolt.
Joe comes along and may have gotten some people to thinking again about what both candidates are saying and what they mean to actually do. The scoren heaped upon Joe by O and company doesn’t help them.
Truth is, none of us know for sure how either will help us out of the mess that BOTH parties (with the media as a handmaiden to the left) created.
For some people though, it is a problem with disbelief. Friends send them info, even though it can be proven true, they just cannot believe it. Why? Well, in their minds, if it were true the MSM would be reporting it. They’re not, therefore it cannot possibly be true. Also, if it were true, no one would support him. Richardson did, Edwards did, Kennedy did, the Clintons do (well pretend to) and so he must truly be a good guy. There is also the disbelief that if Obama is as bad as they are being told, how could he have been allowed to run in the first place? I, too, have been in this state of disbelief, but I let myself go over the edge after a long battle of holding on. Once you go across that what’s real and what’s not real line, there is no turning back and it scary and sickening. Those who can hang on and stay on the false reality side don’t get sickened. It probably feels better than dealing with what you are not used to.
Pat,
I suggest that you add Obama’s mysterious birth certificate in your well-done cartoon.
He has NEVER produced a birth certificate certified by the State of Hawaii as a true copy of the original. The birth certification he posted on his website has no evidential value as it is self-serving, and is not certified by any governmental body as a true copy.
Putting himself above the US Constitution is his biggest problem and least noticed problem. I think this country is upside down; otherwise, how could he get away with it?
I’ve been watching CNN on and off and caught a clip on the Clarence Thomas hearing with Anita Hill. It was on a bio of Biden who chaired the hearings. It all came flooding back to me - destroying a woman who spoke the truth in favor of bowing down before an unqualified black male. That should have tipped us off. It has been the pattern with the media since then.
That birth certificate thing remains a bit of a mystery, doesn’t it. Obama has a confusing childhood.
Actually, there were a number of other “baloons” I could have added–just ran out of cartoon space.
Great post, thanks.
As for Ayers not hurting anyone….Has that person bothered to watch any videos of what he did to America? The news was flooded with stories about the weather underground…fear gripped the nation, my goodness….I read a post the other day, Obama supporters think Ayers is great, their hero. makes me sick.
Timothy was executed while the equally-God-damned Ayers is a hero. I have said many times, part of this country is upside down.
Why, you think Timothy should not have been? What kind of thing are you into?
If AAfP meant they should both have been executed, then I would agree.
Timothy did not have good lawyers,he could not afford them. Ayers whose father is the head CEO for a big energy company in Chicago, did. That is the difference here.
The most amazing part is that the Oborg call us “low information”. I guess that makes Obama supporters “zero information and don’t try to change it”.
They’re beyond zero, they are “negative information” voters
I agree 30 yr Dem…
I always thought, especially after 9/11, that there was no way a friend of Ayers could be elected to eany national office. (Chicago is a strange land of its own politically.) I “saw” what the RNC (or 527) would do in my mind–Ayers, his acts of devastation (they have footage), paired as one image. That ad was actually made early on, and it didn’t seem to cause a ripple.
Pavlov wasn’t always right.
The teacher at the Univ of Chicago during the Greta interview: (I paraphrase) No I have never heard Obama say to me anything that I can associate with the influence Ayers had on him.
Ha!
I don’t think Obama will allow any of us to hold his feet to the fire. He will continue to play dirty Chicago politics and turn our country into a socialist/marxist state. And the American sheep will let him.
I think if he is elected, he will be our last President as America will no longer be a Democracy.
Ah, I will have to do a “feet to the fire” cartoon in any event.
But I agree—sometimes I truly believe that those of us here at No Quarter and other blogs that haven’t towed the Obama line are already on some sort of list.
I have already been “outed” and a Google map to my home displayed on a pro-Obama Thugblog.
I think that is prophetic.
Obama, America’s Last President.
Hello,
Does anyone know why Obama recently returned his law license to IL state bar?
If he does not intent to practice law any more, he can keep it inactive, not to give it up.
I suspect that the IL bar received a disciplinary complaint against him, which he has no defense. If he defended and if he lost, the entire record will become public. If he did not respond but returning the license, the public will never know what that indefensible disciplinary complaint is about.
He is like a septic tank that has not been cleaned for 30 years. So many dirty things are in it. Disgusting!
I read it became inactive in 2002 but I don’t know why.
It was inactive last time I looked. He can reactive any time, although he would have to take some irritating continuing legal education courses to reinstate active status.
Its because he can not be held responsible for lying on his application of his US citizenship.
“He is like a septic tank that has not been cleaned for 30 years. So many dirty things are in it. Disgusting!”
Sounds like another job for Joe the Plumber. I’m sure The Precious would hire him to clean up the Sacred Cesspool.
I think Joe did a damn fine job of flushing out the real Obama, and its a big stinker!!! I do not think the average American like what they are smelling from the teflon candidate, not one bit
probably because he didn’t list his alias “Barry Soetoro” and didn’t want it to go public
Ewwwwww..he’s so scary that Obama man!!!
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Omaba’s plan is much bigger than we ordinary people can even imagine:
He will change the WORLD.
He will be the president of the WORLD.
Therefore, he was fully aware that it would not be appropriate to show his loyalty or love to the United States.
Does anyone really think that the tape is coming out tomorrow? I think API is pulling our legs.
Well..the thing is we know what we know..we just want someone to confirm it..so I hope the tape is real and at 2 am our time that it is on their site! I want confirmation that I am right and BO and MO are the racists!!
Wouldn’t it be so great if it was there? I’d give anything for an automatic Obama defeat. Right now I would trade my entire rare coin collection for an Obama loss. I would trade my big screen television for an Obama loss. I would trade my Lexus for an Obama loss. I would shave my hair bald and walk around naked in the streets if it meant that Obama would lose. Does this make me strange? What would you do if it would mean Obama would lose?
Well..if he wins..We lose all that stuff anyway..but if he loses..we can get it back..HAHA
HillaryDidWin,
I like your name because I believe Hillary did win the primary but her victory was stolen by Obama. ACORN did not start only from the general election. They were all over everywhere during the primary.
I usually thought Hillary is a fighter but now I think she is not. She endorsed the thief who stole her victory. She may compromise for whatever reason. However, if she is truly a leader, she would not abandon her 18 million voters as she did.
I agree Ann Arbor,
By endorsing OB, no matter how half-heartedly, Hill’s political future has been irreparably damaged.
Hillary is no fool. Remember, she’s the Senator from New York.
Who is supposed to have the tape? Guilliani
Where is Guilliani? New York
If Obama has to step down before the election, who will the DNC put in his place? Hillary
Hillary is no fool. She’s playing the game, biding her time, to step in and win the election after obama is disqualified. She has the second highest number of delegates so she would be put above Biden. She has no choice but play the game, otherwise, she would have been the person who knocked the “first real black president” out of his chance and would have lost the election. This way, she gets it in a landslide when she takes over.
This looks like a fun game. If it would mean an Obama loss, I would start watching MSNBC again and swear that Chris Matthews, Keith Uebermann, and Rachel Maddow are the 3 Wise Magi.
If Obama loses the way I sense it is going to happen, I am going to watch the 3 stooges on MSNBC. Chris Matthews will weep uncontrollably and suddenly regain control of his leg, Olbermann will die from the rabies that has inflicted him for so long, and Maddow will be speechless and beklempt.
inflicted = afflicted
and brazillenut will explode revealing the creature from the Alien movies inhabiting her body
Hey listen you sound so enthused, I’ll pay you a buck to do all of the above no matter what.
I’d put on a blue dress and give HILLARY a bj
I’d give anything to see Obama get thrown off the ballot like he had so many of his opponents thrown off the ballots in Chicago.
You don’t need any more information to know they are racists. And that API thing is nonsense unless a recording is released AND it is verified as legitimate. Don’t hold your breath waiting. Its a pipe dream to think “this is it!”
Racist, again? Did you run out of your terminology?
They = The Obama’s = members of racist church = race baiting campaign = RACISTS.
I was replying to the person who thought the API “tape” would prove the Obama’s were racists.
Sometimes with so many voices streaming around, it gets a little confusing as to who is replying to what.
Ask Larry where the tape is??? Hasn’t he made a big enough fool out of all of you? Don’t you feel silly even associating yourself with that kind of nonsense? Larry lied to all of us. Why, of why, do we forgive?
You have no poof he lied. Don’t smear the guy without proof.
Like I’ve said before, if there is no whitey tape from Michelle Obama, it’s only because the cameras weren’t rolling.
If it was a hoax they will pay. But then who has touched the Obama’s and came out with their reputation intact?
Michelle - but she went into the deal just looking for a piece of pie.
something that may stick, as long as people understand Obama’s principles:
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78330
Tony Blankley was just on Fox saying he thinks Americans want more government.
I don’t think so!
I think so. Is called ‘incentives’ now. Government incentives. Aka, stimulus package.
Dude, you’re citing all the right stuff, but your links are’nt there.
click on the link for the article. the links are imbedded within the article.
The Secretaries of State in every state of America MUST require verifiable documentation as to whether any candidate is qualified for the office for which they are contending. If said Secretaries do not perform this legal duty, they may be subject to prosecution for dereliction of duty and other criminal acts.
In 2008, The ONE …. LOST!
The Video that cost Obama the election:
http://www.nextgenerationcorp.com/NextGenBlog/?p=68
That video has been out almost a month and nothing in the news….
I checked w/ my Sec of State and he doesn’t have to do anything of the kind.
The Ohio Secretary says she doesn’t even have to go to work. She can stay home and bake pies.
Typewriter,
You are quite wrong. The OH Secretary of State is working 7/24 to guarantee that ACORN’s voters will not be disfranchised. She has been promised an important position in Obama’s administration.
And the Supreme Court says she can do whatever she wants. So there.
Senator Government won’t be our last President, he will be our First Dictator.
After 100 thousand people went to see him in St. Louis today, I can believe that may happen.
Rock concert and beer probably motivated the participants. Geraldo on Fox is having an Obama orgy tonight. Eww, maybe he will be getting the tingles soon. Wish we locked him in Al Capone’s vault.
What was up with Geraldo? He had on the Obama girl and was laughing at her pathetic performance? OMG
Obama Girl’s Palin “satire” was beneath contempt. This was Geraldo’s most humiliating hour since the empty vault fiasco.
Geraldois thenextbest thingtoa cartoon.
I remember laughing at faux news for hiring him back in the days you couldn’t pay me to watch faux news. It’s sad that they really haven’t changed much but are now the leaders in journalism. It’s all very, very sad.
Well, St. Louis is a BIG city; Sarah Palin had 24,000 (others say over 25,000) people show up for her rally in little ‘ole Nobelsville, Indiana yesterday (Friday). Not a bad showing for a small town which is MUCH, MUCH SMALLER than St. Louis. Of course, you’ll notice NOBODY on t.v. mentioned this.
OMG–Noblesville??? I used to live near there. It IS tiny.
Folks can drive in from Indianapolis, but then there truly is nothing but cornfields for what seems like forever in any direction.
Some of those might be the card board audience Barky takes with him everywhere he goes. He started working with them in his basement when Michelle became too busy with that pie business.
first, the media always inflates Obama’s crowd numbers. second, St. Luois is right next to Illinois, and is only a few hours drive from Chicago, many from Chicago can and must’ve attended that event.
Then the people must be the Brutus to his campaign. And when he screams in his phony voice, in the middle of his “Victory” party: “Et tu, Brute?” we can respond “And Obama falls.”
I suspect that the “race baiting” isn’t aimed at “guilt-ridden” whites, but rather African Americans. It might be about keeping them in the fold. Could internal poles be showing a slip in AA support? The fake “Kill him” story was planted for some reason. Was it part of the effort to convince Colin Powell to go public?
Great cartoon, Pat. and I think we have similar friends. Alas.
Lots of evidence out there now that Teflon is a carcinogenic. Bozo should have a warning sticker:
THIS CANDIDATE IS TOXIC AND MAY CAUSE CANCER!
K Faye:
An endorsement from Powell at this point, so close to elections has to serve for a specific Nobama evil purpose.
I don’t like what is going on.
I remember some local news expressing that the present Generals were not disclosing their voting preferences. After that, news started talking about Powell and then UK publishes C Powell endorsement before it is even fully disclosed here. I don’t care about C Powell, it is the purpose behind it that really troubles me.
Active duty Generals are not permitted to act politically and the disclosure for an active duty is per se political. A retired general can do what he wants.
Very interesting conjecture. I truly wonder how many AA’s who are ostensibly committed to Obama will ask themselves in the voting booth: “If Barack wins and things get really bad, will we all get blamed for it?” Maybe very few. I don’t know.
The Media is complicit in treason against America.
The only thing standing in the way is Joe and all of us.
Here is an example of the backlash…
http://patriotroom.com/?p=3135
Seattle,
If the Chinese government hires the MSM to work as Chinese propaganda machine, the MSM would be so qualified that they can pick up the job right away.
He’s Teflon Man because his “associations” are so convoluted and difficult to follow that the average American voter glazes over trying to follow the bouncing ball.
How does anything stick? It has to have three major components. First, a kapowee item. One that takes the voter by surprise with shock and disbelief (hmmm such as the whitey tape or ineligibility to run for POTUS). Second, it must be such that it can be explained in just a few simple sentences. Having to read a long and complex series of articles to get the gist of it won’t work. Thirdly, it must be recognizable and relevant to the voter, not a vague Chicago Combine item that most know nothing about.
Otherwise, there is no time left for a shady association to gradually seep into the pores of the voters. We need the equivalent of shock and awe, sock ‘em in the gut.
I’m guilty as charged!
I’m trying to keep up—thanks to all of you at NQ!
Pardon me if I beg to differ, it is NOT all that convoluted. All branches lead to trunk, which lead to the roots.
The roots are SDS/Weathermen. Ms Katz= lead spokes person in Chicago Obama campaign, Mike Klonsky & Mark Rudd=progresssives for Obama, Wade Rathke=Founder and current director ACORN, Columbia Univ= Cloward-Piven strategy where Obama &Ayers studied, W.Ayers Annenbeg Challenge… all members of SDS/Weathermen.
Obama’s district, “The back of the yards” southside Chicago. Can anyone say Saul Alinsky.
Same distrct that Frank Marshall Davis was editor for the Chicago Star(red that is)and MAJOR player in the CPUSA, and not so coincidently also the “Frank” in “Dreams of my father”, and his mentor in Hawaii.
Now if a blue collar/returning to school schlep like myself can find all this, document & verify these things and a whole lot more. There is NO excuse that supposedly professional invesigators in the MSM cannot do so. I agree with post above, this tantamount to TREASON!
“The 4th estate” is guilty of dereliction of duty.
Agree, Clara. His associations don’t do soundbites well, especially Tony Rezko. That is the one that I think weighs the heaviest in terms of what it signifies as to judgment related to holding office. Obama made terrible judgments associated with this crook over a long period of time, but it is complex to sift out.
Didn’t hurt anybody? Tell that to Richard Elrod who was paralyzed during an Underground Weatherman attack.
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/would-you-like-to-meet-the-man-the-weather-underground-paralyzed/
Lucky for him Bernadine wrote a song for him to ease his pain:
**Bernardine Dohrn’s Gleeful Lay Eldrod Lay
Lay, Elrod, lay,
Lay in the street for a while
Stay, Elrod, stay
Stay in your bed for a while
You thought you could stop the Weatherman
But up-front people put you on your can,
Stay, Elrod, stay
Stay in your iron lung,
Play, Elrod, play
Play with your toes for a while
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/what-ayers-and-dohrn-have-to-say-about-america-today/
This is just so sickening…that anyone would think that Ayers and company didn’t hurt anyone.
If the evidence against Ayers was so call “legally obtained,” probably he and his wife are still in a jail.
Pat, great cartoon and great article.
In some ways, but I am now convinced that his message is wrapped in ‘conversational hypnosis’ lingo and his technique of comparing by first mocking the opposite candidate position before presenting his position even though ridiculous that sets his credibility and aura. So you have a very well thought out and careful rhetoric based on that technique.
A. First mock your opponent by deriding his position
B. The introduce his position as much more brilliant and rational.
Continue to do that point after point and you have a pretty long and ELOQUENT speech.
lark–you are right. His persuasion tactics get an A plus. I just wish eveyone could see though them. He uses “stealing thunder” (a way to prewarn everyone that they will be “bamboozled”) coupled with pre-canned defenses followed quickly by attacks against his opponent (with the truth being subject to twisting or irrelevant).
Gallup is still doing it –
Their headline for today makes it look like BO has an 5% lead. Then you go the paragraphs at the end of the story and you see this waffling gibberish:
‘Obama’s eight-point lead among registered voters is similar to his margin among this group over the last several days. Gallup’s likely voter scenarios show a closer race. Gallup’s expanded likely voter model, based on respondents’ answers to questions about current interest in the election and intention to vote, shows a 50% to 46% race, which is a more narrow lead for Obama among this group than in previous days. If turnout in this year’s election follows traditional patterns by which the voting electorate skews towards those who usually vote as well as those who are interested in this year’s election, the race shows Obama leading at 49% to 47%, where it has been among this group for three days.’
Bottom line: On the standard measure, it’s still just a 2% lead. And its been that way all week.
So surprised Gallup’s spinning its data!! Not. Gallup is notorious for spinning, spinning, spinning. Furthermore, only 5? Didn’t it used to be 14?
It’s October. I want my surprise!
ROFL
How about this for your surprise.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08291/920614-85.stm
The ‘ears’ on the costumed one gave away the identity of this person in the ‘ultra-man’ suit. LOL!
His teflon is starting to crack now that the media is assuming it’s in the bag.
Michelle Norris did an NPR piece on how all Chicago pols proudly “have a little bit of gangster in them” and Newsweek wrote one on Axelrode’s negative politics.
Teflon man !!! I just love that name lol
Pat this cartoon is implying he will win and be as loved as Reagan.
Could you do a silent majority-type cartoon to counter it? People out there need to know they’re not alone in wanting to vote McCain.
Pat I am otherwise a huge fan of your cartoons and stories.
Hi AF catfish–
Thanks for liking my cartoons…
I really don’t know what is going to happen on November 4th. Every time I think about it I think of Hillary Clinton and how different things should be now.
I tried to like Obama because I have always been a Democrat–but the harder I looked the more concerned I got.
For even MORE shocking information/facts about Obama……….Do a Google search on this….
Barack Obama + Raila Odina
Did you see the new article about Louis Farrakhan???
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,440466,00.html
Obama Sugar Daddy
This makes me upset
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB3qVTsDBE8&feature=related
Tricia,
Thank you for the youtube link. Everybody should watch it.
Ooops…….In regard to the above post…….
It should be Raila Odinga……
Do a Google search on this……
Barack Obama + Raila Odinga
We can blame the media [I certainly do because the press has sold its soul]. We can blame the politicians [many have become corrupted by power and money]. But most of the blame falls on uninformed, disengaged electorate. I’ll give you an example.
Last night I had a conversation with my oldest son’s girlfriend. She wanted to know if I had ever heard of Bishop Desmond Tutu. Of course, I said. She was crestfallen because my son had teased her when she drew a blank on the name.
But in fairness, she’s only 22 years old, a chef who went to culinary school. And my son? He’s eight years older and has always been politically and current events driven. But she asked her best friend, a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, a “history” major.
Nope, her girlfriend had never heard of Bishop Tutu.
We are graduating class after class of uninformed and disengaged students. We can point fingers in all directions, but test scores and comparisons with our foreign counterparts tell a chilling truth. We’re not keeping up with the global community.
Democracy depends on an informed and actively engaged population. And if we’re not? We get what we earn.
And if the youth vote drives this election? We’re screwed. Big time.
My hope is that the young will have been out so late partying the night before the election, so sure that barky will win, that they will all stay home.
I am in academia but considering how my equals have been going goo goo blindly for Obama I wonder who’s fault it is students lack such critical thinking, curiosity and worldwide culture.
Young people are addicted to gadgets and pop culture and the educators seem to accomodate their teaching to that so that students stay “entertained” and “amused”
as if this is the key to their paying attention and learning.
Considering Obama’s work for Ayres at the CAC and Woods Fund and their ideology; things will only get worse on the Education front.
Being in academia, how do you feel about Sarah. After all, she’s the ticket drag here
Except that we think Obama is the ticket drag on your side.
Palin has values!
Obama is a baby killer and terrorist symapthizer.
Obama also wishes defeat for America.
Obama’s also a Marxist and Saul Alinsky follower.
Take your sexist crap somewhere else wimpy man
I believe the lady was probably taught about Desmond Tutu but can’t for the life of her remember. Why? Is the teaching methods. Children can’t pay attention anymore and are totally distracted by hundreds of things, including attractively decorated reading pages in their books. They are not required to memorize anything, answer questions straight through, and any kind of retentive engagement. Most students will forget what they studied within a week to 10 days after they have ‘gone over the material.’
This is the type of education Obama and Ayers have pushing. All ideology and zero facts.
Maybe Sarah will peel off some of his Teflon with her appearance on SNL this evening. Can’t wait to see her!
Right on topic: media bias - by the numbers:
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/media-bias-by-the-numbers-mccains-8-ads-vs-obamas-1342/
Pat R:
Brilliant post; I lobve teh cartoon and what you write resonates so much with me and my friends that I feel
I actually know your friends.
It’s really bizarre. I leave in a multiple colleges area and was today in a town where one most prestigious women colleges in the nation is. As I sat in very crowded and busy cafe many of these college girls (ahem women) were working hard with their laptops adorned all over by Obama08 decals and chatting with their girlfriends. It was hard not to hear them and even harder to bite my tongue and control myself from turning around and asking: why do you support him so “enthusiastically”?
But then I thought… I know what they will answer…
Same as your Friend #4… So why bother?
It’s insane..I have never ever seen anything quite like this either. But Obama is a very sophisticated and canning populist and that, my friend, is hard to counter. Impossible I would say with the daily brainwashing the MSM propagandists do on his behalf.
Yes, it is the first time I have experienced a rift with people who I have everything else in common with. Very bizarre.
Pat R:
Brilliant post; I love the cartoon and what you write resonates so much with me and my friends that I feel
I actually know your friends.
It’s really bizarre. I leave in a multiple colleges area and was today in a town where one most prestigious women colleges in the nation is. As I sat in very crowded and busy cafe many of these college girls (ahem women) were working hard with their laptops adorned all over by Obama08 decals and chatting with their girlfriends. It was hard not to hear them and even harder to bite my tongue and control myself from turning around and asking: why do you support him so “enthusiastically”?
But then I thought… I know what they will answer…
Same as your Friend #4… So why bother?
It’s insane..I have never ever seen anything quite like this either. But Obama is a very sophisticated and canning populist and that, my friend, is hard to counter. Impossible I would say with the daily brainwashing the MSM propagandists do on his behalf.
Teflon. What creates the Teflon effect is answering the charges within the first 12 hours and disseminating the response quickly and widely. The stories that are sticking are those that continue to morph and cannot be answered in 12 hours. ACORN, JOE THE PLUMBER which continues to morph and add sides to the story. These stories are not going away that easy.
He’s the first viable black person for President that’s why he’s teflon!
I cast my vote today. For President. For a Republican. Never thought that would happen. I tried to vote for the Democrat as usual. But, I have serious questions and for some reason the press is afraid to ask him and/or Sen. Obama deflects and noone questions him.
I spent my youth in a country that was not a Democracy. I know the difference. Something is not right in this election and it is very troubling that the press is pretending that there is nothing going on.
Joe the Plumber was the last straw. A private citizen asks a question. The politician answers. Some do not like the politician’s answer and criticize it. The press and Obama supporters go after the guy and expose his private life - his tax records, his divorce papers, every job and residence etc.. The politician and his VP candidate mock the private citizen.
The politician could have just explained his answer in more depth or defended his answer.
This is a serious event. The consequences of giving Sen. Obama the executive power with a Dem majority Senate and Congress are limitless. There will be no checks and balances. Sen. Obama has very little experience to judge. His associates are long and deep and shady.
I saw this quote that sums it up well.
“Stifling political dissent through government intimidation and a media masquerading as a free press is a sign that our country is about to be radically altered. Bill Dupray”
I already escaped one country where this was the norm. I will never forget.
Democracy is a blessing. We must do all to ensure and protect our freedoms.
I cast my vote today. For President. For a Republican.
I have done my part.
Thank you joao, for your service to this country by voting…
Joao… Seeing your name, I’m guessing you grew up in Brazil or Portugal. About your vote, may I say…
Obrigado!
My parents were Brazilian, and I have visited several times. I spent my youth in Cuba. Though Brazil had military rule when I was young, my relatives there never needed to flee. There were restrictions - press and speech among them, it was bearable. Well, one cousin that was involved in fighting the military government fled to London, and returned 10 years later.
Honestly, what is going on in this election? Have many Americans no understanding of what Democracy is? Why people all over the world are fighting and dying for the right to vote and for free speech and press?
Are people just so complacent that they do not think that they can lose rights? The guarantees depend on vigilance.
I suppose when you don’t appreciate something it is easier to lose.
The loss of a free press is a tragedy of enormous consequence.
The press passed bias and went straight to propaganda months ago. Yet, so few have noticed.
It hasn’t gone by all Americans, Joao. But you’re right, the vast number of Americans seem to buy into the spoonfed info that’s being spewed. I can tell you honestly, that this election made the scales fall from my eyes.
I thought we had a free press. I remember as a teenager reading how the Soviet Union was feeding its citizens with all kinds of disinformation and thinking: thank God, I live in a free society, where the public is exposed to the good, the bad and ugly and we [in the West] have the opportunity to make a fully informed decision. Maybe I was naive in that, but certainly it was more true then than it is now.
Information, as wide and broad as it has been made on the net and altenative sources, is restricted in the main stream media. Our press is in the tank, entranced and beyond biased in this election. Not everyone surfs the web or does research on their own. Reading has become the past time of the few. Traditional newspapers are failing. The American Idol image and celebrity mania has taken sway in this country–to our absolute peril.
And you are so right. Freedom and basic human rights depend on constant vigilance. I fear that my countrymen have forgotten that. I fear that we will be reminded in a very rude and shocking way.
Say a prayer for us. We need it, now more than ever.
Honestly, we Americans have never had anything different than virtually complete freedom. So, no I don’t think many Americans realize the path we are going down here. I, for one, recognize the Obama policies and the current incarnation of the Democratic Party as being extraordinarily dangerous for our country. It is frankly terrifying that at least half the country is not fighting them tooth and nail.
congrats.
Thank you Joao
Patriotic Americans must come to the realization that leftist blacks control major media, and must be challenged. For example, all members of the Congressional Black Caucus were harshly critical of those Federal regulators who were opposed to the lax financial practices of Fannie and Freddy, but there has not been one voice rising in opposition to their tawdry behavior. Until whites can criticize blacks w/o being labeled reflexively as racist, there will not be Racial Equality in America. What we have now is freedom of speech for leftist blacks, while whites are treated as second class citizens. And the trend lines are disconcerting.
Well, I think people use techniques that work. Plain and simple. When using the race card doesn’t work anymore, then it will stop being used. People are just going to have to wise up and not be manipulated by it. Of course this will have to be on a large scale, and I don’t think it’s going to happen any time soon. My dad was a government employee that had hiring/firing responsibilities. He said that it was so incredibly hard to fire a black person with cause, that some of his counterparts wouldn’t even attempt it. He was not one that would ever allow himself to be manipulated, but he did have to have 10 x more documentation on wrongdoing, eyewitnesses, and would without fail end up in court with the NAACP on his ass. And I’ll just state for the record…my dad is nowhere near a racist, and I was taught by both parents to treat everyone equally.
I was reading an article on the Newsweek website yesterday and it was completely full of posts on how racist McCain and his supporters are. I have been watching this entire election very, VERY closely, and I have not seen one single incident of racism, or so-called “code language” or anything of the sort. The only place race is mentioned is by Obama and his supporters. I’m quite frankly sick of the race card, and I think it is being overused so much now on a national scale, that it will go a long way to reducing its effectiveness.
Just heard on Tampa news
A Doctor in Tampa had a nobama sticker on his car and it was vandalized and keyed with KKK and racist scratched all over the car.
Now I ask everyone…do you think the MSM will report this?
Where I live in Seattle I see only a few Obama bumper stickers mainly on Subaru wagons.
Hardly no McCain bumper stickers at all…
There is a fear factor that Obama thugs will damage cars.
That’s why I know there is a silent majority that will go out and vote and stop this hostile takeover of our country.
You heard about the woman in NYC who was standing on a corner with a McCain sign and an Obama supporter grabbed it from her, broke it in half and hit her in the face with it.
Many people in this town have known me as a strong democrat all these years..
I have noticed in the past year beginning with my support of Hillary that some of these folks have walked away from me.
Now with my support of McCain I have all new friends.
I will not stand for defeat and Marxism for America.
I hold my head up high and make no apologies!!
I’ll stand with you, Seattle Moss.
I’ll be damned before I apologize for being an American. I’d be spitting on my entire family for that, back to my great, great grandfather who fought at Gettysburg.
So, let the defeatists, the socialists, the Marxists, the I’m one with the unicorn believers beware!
I’m an American and I’ll take a minute to bow my head for the National Anthem and repeat the Pledge of Alligience.
And if you don’t like it? Well, the hell with you.
Hey Seattle,
I changed my name again, the doctors car just had a small sign in the back window, They scratched huge KKK on the trunk and racist on the side.
That’s probably why in some areas you won’t see many McCain signs.
I have been afraid to put a McCain sticker on my car too. I live in a gated community but I’m afraid if I go somewhere not so friendly something might happen to my car.
I like your new name!
Thanks for the heads up
I live in NE Seattle, and would never put a McCain sticker on my car. I’ve seen some Obama stickers, but not nearly as many as Kerry-Edwards in 2004. Leftists are out of control. They need to be crushed. It’s a darn shame that Bush had no idea how to challenge them. Eight years of a President with no fight in him is INTOLERABLE.
That’s why I wouldn’t put one on mine. This are now different times from 22 months ago when Obama entered the campaign. Obama has changed America.
I really think Obama is getting flushed this time.
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z229/andy58-in-nh/FR/flush.jpg
Priceless!
As I said over the past couple days Joe is the GOP’s Cindy Sheehan.
I think the comprarison to Cindy Sheehan is on the mark. Instead of politely stating that Cindy’s loss could not dictate foreign policy, the Republican smear machine went after her.
Now the media smear machine can’t resist trying to smear Joe the Plumber. Joe could turn this election, yet.
Thanks for stating why my theory has merit.
Great cartoon!
Sarah palin on SNL
She did well and at least they made fun of their own bias against her. Steven Baldwin reference, too cute.
Photographic evidence Obama reviewed one of Ayers books : http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=64
Disappointing opening skit on SNL…they didn’t put Sarah and Tina together, except in passing. Hopefully, they will have Sarah on again later in the show.
wasn’t that lame? The writers were scared I think.
He’s Teflon man because Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi and George Soros made the media go away for him.
Obama is sure of a victory that he is already planning his cabinet:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4968993.ece
He should plan his medicine cabinet. When he loses he will be prescribed medications for his massive nervous breakdown.
Actually both campaigns are setting up transition teams. Thats the way its done. No time to wait until after November 4.
Pat well done!
Spide-man is feeling unwanted.
PS. I had the same conversation tonight…I am starting to feel like “Unk” and the followers of the Church of God the Apathetic.
I was even told Ayers didn’t kill anyone. I asked this person if they knew why Ayers did not serve time and publiclly admitted to these crimes.
The person said no. Yet there was no way I was not going to make ANY inroads no matter how I held back the strong naseua at hearing someone take such a caviler attitude regarding Ayers…
It frakkin defies the boundries of the know universe.
When I ask similar questions about the underlying basis for support for BO, citing information uncovered in my own endless investigations, I often hear, ‘If this was true, it would be all over the news.’
HRC knew facts that would have been fatal to BO’s success but, being a fellow Democrat, she withheld much of this information during the debates, when she could have bypassed the press’ refusal to air these facts by going directly to the people. As for BO’s role in the fraud perpetrated at the caucuses, apparently, most of the voters in the country remain uninvolved in the process until late in the general election.
So, BO’s early supporters did not know how bad he was because the press did not vet him. And HRC did not expose him. Supporters who came along later on had no idea how bad he was because they figured if he was so bad then, surely, the press would have been on top of this and he would not be the Democratic nominee.
Then there are people who know every bad thing about him and support him, anyway.
I hate to say it, but if BO becomes POTUS, I will blame Hillary. My support for her is holding on by a thread anyway!
The media wants 4 years of blabbing about the first African American President.
That’s what they want. They could have had the first Woman President — but they dropped their masks and showed us what sexist, immature idiots they are who fear losing their cojones in thepresence of a smart, strong woman.
The people should keep turning away from cable news and let their ratings plummet — then they’ll lose sponsors and money.
We the people can vote with our wallets.
If Powell comes out and endorses Obama tomorrow that will shift all the momentum back into O’s camp. The press will make that the headline heading into Monday and Tuesday.
Of course Powell will endorse him.
What are the odds Powell is not in the 95% of AA voters who will vote for The One.
Here’s the thing — 3 years ago I was talking about drafting Colin Powell for President.
I love that man. His life story is inspiring and amazing.
The Content and gravitas of Colin Powell’s character is EONS beyond Obama.
Obama is simply in the right place (after 8 years of Bush) at the right time (21st Century), and had a lot of people (the anti-Clinton left wing of the DNC) playing dirty in the primary to carry him over the finish.
I laugh when Obama people say with a straight face, “If Obama was a white man, he’d be 20 points ahead in the polls.”
I reply, “If Obama was a white man with the same exact thin resume, Hillary would have won the primary because 95% of AA voters would never vote for a white version of the lightweight known as Obama.”
It is typical Obama strategy - bring out something (”major policy speech!!”) or someone (”huge endorsement!!”) that would divert attention away from his troubles. They did it every single time during the primaries. If he lost a state, there was an endorsement waiting in the wings that evening. Remember Judas Richardson endorsed him when the Hon’ God Damn Wright controversy was in full swing. This time Joe the plumber has caught him by his b***s, so they figured its time to drag Colin Powell into the MTP studio….
he may be using powell too early. Who will he have left in these next couple of weeks with all the arsenal finally (I hope) unloaded against Obarfy.
Your cartoon illustrates your point well. So many questions but not as many answers.
Very descriptive cartoon. It seems the more people try to associate him with his past “friends”, the more people say that is all irrelevant The anointed one has done no wrong and can do no wrong. You’re just being mean-spirited and racist to keep picking on him.
I think the core answer to the question is actually rather simple.
The type of charisma Obama presents - arising out of narcissistic personality disorder - is powerful. He’s constructing a kind of psychological “merging” (in his use of language, etc.), which taps into people’s desire to be part of something larger than oneself. Folks want to keep believing in that - so negative information doesn’t stick.
I just came back a few months ago from traveling in Cambodia. It was a powerful experience - hearing and reading about the Khmer Rouge genocide. Even at the point when they were about to be executed, people couldn’t face the truth about Pol Pot (aka Saloth Sar). They kept thinking there must be some mistake. Someone as good and kind and humble and honest as Saloth Sar couldn’t possibly be responsible for the atrocities (and their impending execution). Someone else must have made an error.
To quote from a book about Pol Pot - “He was remembered as calm, self-assured, smooth featured, honest, and persuasive, even hypnotic when speaking to small groups.” When people met him, they commented on the elegance of his gestures and how inspiring he was. People who knew him from prior to the genocide asked “who replaced the delightful Saloth Sar with the execrable Pol Pot” (Pol Pot was the name he took as leader of the Khmer Rouge government).
It seems clear to me (from looking into this quite a lot) that Saloth Sar had narcissistic personality disorder.
I want to be very very clear (I repeat - Very Very Clear) that I’m not saying that Obama is a horrible person directly akin to Pol Pot. Many people with narcissistic personality disorder are relatively benign (though never entirely benign). But I think the charisma - and potential problems when given power - arise from similar psychological structures.
The majority of American voters are manipulated by the media more than candidate in my opinion. The number that believe Obama is more honest and trustworthy than McCain is 45% or so. The number that still implicitly trust the major news outlets to air stories ultimately in their economic self-interest — crucial to the survival of corporate America we know it — likely reaches 90% or higher.
I agree that media bias (favoring Obama) is definitely helping to shape opinion.
But the percentage of people who trust the media is actually somewhat low.
E.g. some poll results on this question:
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS160770+08-Jan-2008+PRN20080108
http://www.bloggernews.net/114362
http://people-press.org/report/348/internet-news-audience-highly-critical-of-news-organizations
With Pol Pot, people who had personal contact with him often were the most sold - and had the hardest time facing the reality of what he actually was about(i.e. faith in Pol Pot it wasn’t merely a matter of people buying into Khmer Rouge propaganda). Students who studied with him typically ended up adoring him.
Most people I think have the general perception that the media selectively filters information in a way that slants towards Obama. It hasn’t crossed the line for them, though, from favorable journalism to outright propaganda.
If three weeks from the election, there was a candidate whose was covering up an extensive Socialist/Communist agenda and background, Average Citizen would still be startled at the whitewashing by corporate America. 0r even more unforgivable, one whose potentially ineligiblity to be president under the Constitution had never been exposed.
I’m not saying Obama doesn’t have potential totalitarian aspects to his personality. But at this point, virtually any negative coverage could tip the momentum to McCain and I still feel there was enough open minds out there for the media to be a decisive factor. If they believe their own polls that it is in the bag for him anyway, maybe an honest ‘vetting’ will finally commence.
The problem with Obama is that there is so much ‘wrong’ about him, that it becomes unbelievable. In that sense he’s the perfect American Presidential candidate: he can’t be pinned down by a scandal because he’s (practically) all scandal. Not everybody keeps count, it’s just a ‘here we go again’ experience to many people.
That’s also the problem with how to oppose Obama: there are so many things to go at, it’s hard to chose which one to ‘pursue’ with costly ads etc. Persoanlly I think it was wrong to call ‘Wright’ off limits, as it’s the most clear and undeniable relationship. Besides, an ad like clip BO’s “some of you may remember 9/11″ - footage - how did BO’s cronies react? - Ayers flagphoto/didn’t bomb enough -Wright/back to roost - “some of you may remember 9/11″ - Some? All do”" isn’t that hard to make.
BTW: don’t let fellow Europeans guilt-trip you Americans on the ‘racist’ thing. There haven’t even been Secretaries of State from ‘ethinic minorities’ in practically all European countries (on top of my head only France’s right-wing Sarkozy recently appointed one), and you’ve already had Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice (both Republicans btw). For example Britain hasn’t had a single e.g. Pakistani, Jamaican or Kenyan Secretary of State and Germany has yet to have a single one of e.g. Turkish descent, even though those groups have been part of the respective societies for a long time, (much) longer than the Civil Rights Acts have been in place.
Doesn’t this sound like a repeat of why Bush won a second term?
“there are so many things to go at, it’s hard to chose which one to ‘pursue’ with costly ads etc” He just happens to talk better than Bush and is black.
The only people for whom the Teflon works are Obamaniacs. The rest of us have known for months about his bad baggage, but not enough of us are taking polls, and the pollsters are over-weighting the results with people who will still say they are Dems. Bobo is gonna slide right outta that slippery frying pan into the fire come Nov. 4.
its funny how stupid the obama machine is. they claim to be for the middle class, yet they tear into JOE THE PLUMBER. it wasnt joes fault he asked a question, it was obamas response. and joe has to deal with the bullshit from the bullshitter.
I just read that he raised 150 million in September. Where is the money coming from? Colin Powell endorsed him? That should be the kiss of death, but it won’t be. He said that color had nothing to do with his endorsement. HAHA! It has everything to do with it. Called him transformational? Yeah, he will transform our country into a ghetto.
Yes!
http://www.pennypresslv.com/Obama%27s_Use_of_Hidden_Hypnosis_techniques_in_His_Speeches.pdf
Someone posted this link on here, I found it and read the whole pdf. This could be the very reason nothing sticks. I have had experience with hypnosis before. It is real, it is a fact. For anyone that knows anything about hypnosis this is a must read. For those (like me) who try to avoid Obama speaking after hearing him a few times, it is also a must.
How many people on here actually listen to Obama give a speech? I have heard parts and now I use my mute button. I used to listen to GWBush, just to yell at the screen, but I don’t listen to Obama… maybe we are trying to protect ourselves.
The underlying reason Obama is even barely holding his own is party affiliation (and I don’t mean Socialist…). Too many whites are not in love with him but haven’t been given a sufficient basis to support a vote McCain out of protest. At least that’s as the polls go…
Great cartoon. None of these things are sticking to him now but the problem is these negative things are all there is to Obama. He has no accomplishments and no skill other than speaking words that others have written for him to say. It is a sad day for the Democratic party. Our party is the one who is bamboozled. Shame on the DNC. Thank you for the excellent and spot-on cartoon.
I think the problem with this idea is that none of these issues are very important. That’s why they haven’t stuck. It has nothing to do with him, and everything to do with there’s just not much real dirt on him - not compared to people like McCain & Palin who have actually both been found guilty of ethics violations (keating 5 & troopergate.)
Baseless guilt by association attacks are pretty weak compared to that.
My impression is that most people are not rational and tend to act out of unconscious emotion rather than reason, which is why people with charm and charisma can get away with a lot of things.
It is not for nothing that as a rule, conartists are very likable and charming people.
My impression is that most people are not rational and tend to act out of unconscious emotion rather than reason, which is why people with charm and charisma can get away with a lot of things.
It is not for nothing that as a rule, conartists are very likable and charming people.