Can anti-affirmative action sentiment be far behind?
But Barack Obama has an opportunity here to make these new rules, as they pertain to him, lasting. And so does the progressive blogosphere. I have long stated that Obama is a Media Darling, and indeed it is one of the main reasons I tepidly support him for the nomination. Here are some of the rules that Obama and progressives should look to enforce through to the General Election:
1. Rezko is a nonissue and bringing it up is a slimy personal attack on Obama. This one has the virtue of being true. Let’s get that enforceable against John McCain and the other Republicans.
2. Discussions of experience and youth are, at the least, vaguely racist, and a personal attack. When a candidate touts experience or points to Obama’s lack of it, they are expressly arguing for a return to the past as opposed to looking to the future. It means they are opposed to change. Indeed, it expressly means for Republicans that they want to continue the policies of the Bush Administration. For Republicans, this also has the virtue of largely being true. The GOP field is indeed basically arguing for a continuation of Bush policies in most areas – tax cuts permanent, continuatio of the Iraq Debacle, less government regulation, etc.
3. What Obama Meant. Any review of Obama statements or past votes is subject to an explanation by Obama of what he REALLY meant. Any criticism of Obama’s statements which do not take into account Obama’s clarifications and explanations of what he REALLY meant are unfair personal attacks and the attacker is a “liar” who will say and do anything to get elected.
4. Obama’s attacks are always fair and merited. Any suggestion otherwise is, at the least, vaguely racist.
Can we get these rules enforced in the Media in a General Election? Let’s hope so if Obama is the nominee.ÂÂ
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Shit, was that YOUR ox? I’m sorry.
The Jordan Rules comes to politics.
Senator Obama got several Clinton-administration drones removed from CNN during the primaries. Anyone care to bet they won’t be back during the general election to criticize and attack Republicans?
So when Obama is asked about his pastor’s sermon on “Get Whitey” we’re supposed to accept the explanation that he meant former Cards manager Whitey Herzog?
Press Enforcement: The New Progressive Ideal! To fight exposing your candidate to an Unpleasant Truth.
Actually, they have merely shifted the Rules they used to apply to the Clintons to their New Hero, Sen. Obama.
That entire post is priceless and to top it off, it was written by (a) Big Tent Democrat. I hope this primary season never ends…
And the mask hits the floor and shatters, never to be worn again:
No doubt the compliant Dems that populate the media will acquiesce. That had to be parody. Had to be. No way would they believe that. Any talk about experience is vaguely racist, because of the changeyness.
“Discussions of experience and youth are, at the least, vaguely racist, and a personal attack.”
Holy moley.
I’m going to take that sentence out and press it between the pages of a book; possibly something in Sontag or McKuen.
The whole thing is… so … so breathlessly, intrinsically self-contradicting and gormless on its face that I don’t think it would get past the ethics filter on your typical ten year old male child.
Yah, that ten year old male child that thinks hitting toads with a baseball bat is cool. He’d look up from reading that and say “That’s just not right….!”
+1: if this season could go on forever.
We may well all end up serfs in Aldous Huxley’s worst nightmare but the trip would be almost worth it if the story spins out the way its’s going now.
I love the word gormless. We call our house Glengormless.
jdm and tmj – The Dem primary is quite possibly some of the most entertaining fare available. if only Silky could hang in there until the convention. I am going to start praying that the Dems do not have a candidate selected prior to their convention. Watching the try to operate within their own minefield of identity politics is priceless.
Let’s get these new Obama rules enforced for the General Election.
5. Any use of “pin someone’s ears back” is right out.
Don’t they read the shit they write?
I screw up tense and dangle participles right, left, and center. I could benefit from a colonectomy; see?
But I don’t forget founding (or should it be foundational?) principles. I try not to contradict my core beliefs based on moment to moment expediency…
But honestly, this post is the distillation of exactly what I know and expect from these people.
They exhibit the couth and maturity of a sugar-buzzed six year old sitting in the back of a station wagon on a cross country trip. So frenetically anxious to get to where they are going (before they pee their pants) they forget, or worse, don’t care, what is supposed to happen when they finally arrive.
BTW, “…. YOUR Ox?” is priceless.
Discussions of experience and youth are, at the least, vaguely racist,
Increasingly, the leftosphere resembles Raymond in the movie Rain Man, except without the compassion and the freakish mathematical ability. Let me clarify that… they lack the mathematical ability. They got freakish in spades, however.
These idiots are beyond parody … they’re doing it themselves.
Shorter Left: Absolutely no negative pieces on Obamachrist from our pet MSM.
also wondering
…Obama can not be criticized period now … Let’s get these new Obama rules enforced for the General Election.
maybe SEK can chime in how this isn’t nascent fascism because, by golly, the enforcers aren’t going to be wearing brownshirts or have an army of thugs behind it.
I for one, welcome our future President where criticism is verboten as “racist”…….
(I’m also wary of McCain for similar reasons. “How dare you go against him? Don’t you know he was a POW?”)
Remember all, it is the Rethuglikkkans who wish to crush dissent, and stifle debate.
So, do I have this right? Any mention of Obama’s name, except in mentioning how wonderful he is, is racist?
That’s what those poor dear Clintons and their supporters are saying.
You mean that for ONE SINGLE PERSON, intentionalism rules, but for the rest of us, well, the receiver determines the content of the message?
I guess the only open question is whether their views of leadership are more like elitism, monarchism, or the Führerprinzip. Because it sure as hell doesn’t bear any relation to anything that emphasizes equality.
Comment by Dan Collins on 1/27 @ 10:16 am #
The Jordan Rules comes to politics.
As a Utah Jazz fan I always found that rule offensive.
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I think what “Big Tent” misses out on is that those are the EXACT tactics they will utilize should Barry become the nominee, and not hesitate for a moment. You could very easily make a list that of similar rules that will be in effect for Hillary, should she prevail, and they will not hesitate for a moment in doing so. That they are struggling to work within they maze of political correctness that they constructed is their own doing, another point lost on them.
Monarchism…nope. Not for Obama. Hillary, though, I could see wearing a crown and sashaying around.
Ambiguity Alert! Do remember that the “Jordan Rules” were originally developed by the Detroit Pistons and referred to the team defense needed to play him. Later they took on the “preferential treatment for Mike” meaning.
All very topical since I have long thought that Gatorade’s “Be Like Mike” campaign was a cultural watershed which clearly foreshadowed Obama.
Hmmmmm. Well that’s an interesting take, Tom. Thanks for the reminder about the Pistons; I’d forgotten that.
I never knew that the Jordan Rules morphed. I only knew them as Chuck Daly’s Pistons means of guarding MJ in his early years in the NBA.
Live –
DON’T GO THERE, MAN….DON’T DO IT…
Let’s just not open old wounds with the Jazz, okay?
Jordan’s five step advantage over Malone and the boys ended my (admittedly cursory) interest in the NBA. I didn’t go to all that many games up in Salt Lake… but after watching the NBA championship decided out of the NBA board of directors I figured they could get by without any of my money.
I didn’t even have to wait around for the gangster era to drive me away.
I could never figure out why vastly skilled atheletes like Jordan get preferential calls anyway. Shaq could practically play like a linebacker and get called rarely, but if anyone touched him there was a whistle. These guys are good enough they don’t need the help, but that’s how the NBA works.
Jordan’s jumper over Bryon Russell, faked him so bad Russell fell down, was a thing of beauty, a sight to behold.
If the Los Suns were wearing their uniforms to celebrate Cinco De Mayo, I would be all for it. `