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Oh Mama, I Love Obama [by Melissa]

Betsy talks about the crush everyone has on Barack (Hussein) Obama here and here. I get it, he appeals to everyone mostly because no one knows anything about him. He’s the cute new kid: girls dig him, guys want to be him. Betsy says:

Great, voters like the candidate they know the least about. Once they find out more about a candidate, he starts looking like all the other politicians we’ve learned to dislike. This goes with George Will’s recommendation that Obama run now before people get used to him and are no longer infatuated.

Of course, that would mean that the media would have to actually examine Obama’s positions and past votes instead of just writing articles about how popular he is. Can they keep up just writing worshipful articles without any real substance for almost two years? Sure, they can. But, history shows that the media eventually gets over their infatuation and then starts turning on the object of their affections. Will Obama’s race, go looks and soothing bromides be enough to keep the media and electorate in a full swoon through November, 2008?

I don’t know, Betsy, the media has yet to lose their lust for Hillary and it’s been years of her manipulating and toying with them like a hungry cat who owns a pet mouse that will eventually be dinner. They don’t mind being eaten–as long as it’s by her. Wow, that sounds really bad.  Actually, it’s kind of apt. I’ve lost count of how many simultaneous O’s the press and Hillary have had. You’d think they would all get exhausted. Gotta give ‘em all credit for stamina.

The only problem for Obama is that eventually the press will divide their sweet ministrations. Obama and Hillary will duke it out for love and adulation. The press will either internally combust by denying the laws of physics and trying to get two stars to occupy the same space or they will choose one super, duper star.

Who will it be? Oh, who will it be? It’s all so exciting!!!! I feel like I’m voting for Prom Queen, I mean King. I mean non-gender-specific really great human. The Anchoress thinks it will go like this:

And to those of you who say “she can’t win…”

Of COURSE she can win.  She always could win.  She wouldn’t be in the race if she didn’t know she can (or perhaps will) win. 

We will now be treated to two years of a besotted press doing nothing but covering for her while demonizing the real or perceived “anti-Clintites” and tossing her softballs, spiking the stories that might hurt her, playing up what helps. You know, exactly the opposite of how they treat Bush! <img decoding=” class=”wp-smiley” />

Honestly. I am surprised that anyone is surprised. And yes, yes, yes…she can win. Note all the Dems who have already decided they won’t be running…and it’s not even horse-heads-in-beds season, yet.

And don’t say “Barack Obama” to me.  He’ll be allowed to be her veep.

I tend to agree with her. From a tactical perspective, I think Obama might be pulling a Dean and end up peaking too soon. The perfect Veep.

31 Replies to “Oh Mama, I Love Obama [by Melissa]”

  1. guinsPen says:
    December 15, 2006 at 9:05 am

    Barack Ferengi Obama

  2. Pablo says:
    December 15, 2006 at 9:13 am

    Speaking of Ferengi (sorta), if Jack Ryan wasn’t a freakazoid, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

  3. actus says:
    December 15, 2006 at 9:16 am

    Barack (Hussein) Obama

    People may crush Obama, but we luvs you!

  4. MayBee says:
    December 15, 2006 at 9:50 am

    I disagree that the big crush on Obama is based mostly on knowing nothing about him.  He is charming.  He is.  He has interesting things to say.  He has a sense of humor.  He is different.  He is the anti-Kerry.

    Hillary can win, of course she can, although it will end up the way the Bush election did- with a huge number of people hating her the day she takes office.  Will she have oranges chucked at her limosine on her first inaguration?  She probably should have run two years ag, when the choice could have been between 2 potentially hated candidates.

    But don’t you distinctly not picture the puppet-heads and naked people taking to the streets for an Obama inaguration?

  5. maggie katzen says:
    December 15, 2006 at 9:55 am

    I disagree that the big crush on Obama is based mostly on knowing nothing about him.  He is charming.  He is.  He has interesting things to say.  He has a sense of humor.  He is different.  He is the anti-Kerry.

    yeah, I heard a caller on the radio say that Obama was appealing because liberal as he was, he wasn’t an angry liberal.

  6. Melissa says:
    December 15, 2006 at 10:02 am

    Maggie,

    Obama’s only been in the public sphere for two years. Give him time.

    Evidently he got after Maureen Dowd for making fun of his ears:

    “I just want to put you on notice,” he said.

    I’m sure it was all joke-joke and in good fun. Maybe he can keep it together until being elected President.

    He is charming and can speak. He just seems to be another John Edwards–charming and not much there.

  7. actus says:
    December 15, 2006 at 10:03 am

    yeah, I heard a caller on the radio say that Obama was appealing because liberal as he was, he wasn’t an angry liberal.

    Did the caller add that he was ‘articulate’?

  8. maggie katzen says:
    December 15, 2006 at 10:12 am

    Did the caller add that he was ‘articulate’?

    oh probably, it is Dallas after all.

    ;P

  9. Melissa says:
    December 15, 2006 at 10:41 am

    Maggie,

    The only way Obama isn’t Kerry is that he’s not a pretentious snob–don’t get me wrong, that’s a huge improvement. Their politics are identical.

    So the form is more palatable but the substance is the same.

  10. Lost Dog says:
    December 15, 2006 at 11:17 am

    Electing Osama Obama (thanks to the “Swimmer” for the name), would be like giving your first grader a drivers license. Cute, but not the most intelligent thing to do.

  11. MayBee says:
    December 15, 2006 at 11:19 am

    But Kerry, had he not been Kerry, might have been electable.  His politics, I mean, are not unelectable.  He was dull, he had a Vietnam problem, he was often indecisive, he had a bombastic wife.  He just recently came in last in a likeable politicians poll.

    Part of Kerry’s problem was substance, but part of it was that people just didn’t want him to be president.

  12. Alan Furman says:
    December 15, 2006 at 12:45 pm

    Having everyone constantly mentioning your middle name must be tough for B. Hussein Obama.  But how can the rest of know for sure that he really is an apostate?

    A modest proposal: send him to Saudi Arabia. If he ends up getting his head severed, case closed.  After all, they’re the experts.

  13. CraigC says:
    December 15, 2006 at 1:25 pm

    I don’t know why people keep saying that Hilary! can win.  She has consistently had negatives in the 40% range, and that’s death for any politician.  If she’s nominated, you’ll see a surge to the polls by Clinton-haters like you wouldn’t believe.

    Then again, I would’ve bet my mortgage that Billy Jeff was going to lose….

  14. McGehee says:
    December 15, 2006 at 5:21 pm

    She has consistently had negatives in the 40% range

    I’ve been seeing a lot of news pieces describing how a lot of Democrats, in New York as well as out, don’t want her to be their party’s nominee in ‘08.

    Time will tell whether that amounts to anything, but I’ve been saying for two years now that her opportunity, such as it was, came and went in ‘04. And of course it wasn’t a very good opportunity or she would have grabbed it, coiled herself around it, squeezed the life out of it and swallowed it whole.

  15. BJTexs says:
    December 15, 2006 at 5:38 pm

    I have a a very Liberal good friend with all the credentials (vietnam era military service, anti war, progressive ideals, etc.) who wrote me recently to say that he thinks Hillary is a “virus.”

    Well, this intriqued me!

    His reasoning reflects much of what drives conservative opposition; he finds her to be insincere, manipulative and, ultimately, all about herself. He’s a former journalist and current online writer and is just amazed at the pass she gets from the MSM (other than Chris Matthews.)

    On the other hand, he’d like Obama and McCain to run on the same ticket so he and I have some real fights.

    I have a sense that there are people within the Democratic party who have had enough of the Clintons and are appalled at the concept of Hillary running both the country and the party. While she has doggedly tried to run the center rail she has managed to alienate the far left (who, for the most part, can’t stand her) while moderates are supportive but wary.

    I have told my friend that his love for Obama is based solely on the warm, fuzzy feeling that the good Senator’s speeches give him. I’m done with being taken in by reasonable speech. Show me, please!

    VOTING RECORD!!!

  16. B Moe says:
    December 15, 2006 at 5:47 pm

    A modest proposal: send him to Saudi Arabia. If he ends up getting his head severed, case closed.  After all, they’re the experts.

    Isn’t it interesting that the people who think diplomacy is the way to solve the problems of the middle-east also think a converted Muslem is just the man to do it?

  17. actus says:
    December 15, 2006 at 6:20 pm

    Having everyone constantly mentioning your middle name must be tough for B. Hussein Obama.  But how can the rest of know for sure that he really is an apostate?

    I’m sure we can count on some jingoistic asshole on TV or the radio to sort it all out for us.

  18. B Moe says:
    December 15, 2006 at 6:38 pm

    I’m sure we can count on some jingoistic asshole on TV or the radio to sort it all out for us.

    Al-Jazeera, maybe?

  19. actus says:
    December 15, 2006 at 6:39 pm

    Al-Jazeera, maybe?

    We don’t get the english channel here. Too bad. Not Even Al-Hurrah in english.

  20. BJTexs says:
    December 15, 2006 at 6:49 pm

    I’m sure we can count on some jingoistic asshole on TV or the radio to sort it all out for us.

    Congrats, actus, you made me smile with that one.

    I can’t think of a more irrelevant topic that the good Senator’s middle name. However, some knucklehead will make it an issue or at least a standing joke.

    Something to look forward to … not!

    Voting Record!

  21. BJTexs says:
    December 15, 2006 at 7:11 pm

    For me, this is the money quote from George Will:

    The nation, which so far is oblivious to his orthodoxy, might not mind it if it is dispensed by someone with Obama’s “Can’t we all just get along?” manner. Ronald Reagan, after all, demonstrated the importance of congeniality to the selling of conservatism.

    My new slogan for Obama: Trust, But Verify

  22. B Moe says:
    December 15, 2006 at 7:16 pm

    I can’t think of a more irrelevant topic that the good Senator’s middle name.

    Domestically, I agree.  I don’t like at all the demogoguery of using his name to imply nefarious motive.  I do think it is significant that a party advocating diplomacy thinks someone considered a capital criminal by the other side would be a good negotiator.

  23. Melissa says:
    December 15, 2006 at 8:24 pm

    Why am I tired with this election already?

  24. SweepTheLegJohnny says:
    December 15, 2006 at 8:58 pm

    His reasoning reflects much of what drives conservative opposition; he finds her to be insincere, manipulative and, ultimately, all about herself.

    I had this picture of Hillary shaking hands with a marine and according to the caption he is throwing the coercion hand sign.  I wish I could find a link to it.  I have always wondered if that caption was true.  Maybe he was just crossing his fingers in hopes of not getting some of slick willys cooties.  I thouhgt some of you military types might know of the picture of which I speak and also possess the nessesary blog aptitude to link to it for all to see……

  25. BJTexs says:
    December 15, 2006 at 9:12 pm

    Melissa;

    Weren’t we tired of the last two elections 2 years before the actual dates?

    Think about it: I happen to like and admire George Bush but I recognized his limitations. Ultimately, there was no freakin’ way I was going to vote for the Goron so, reluctantly, I cast my vote for Bush. George’s inability to pull away from the Goron (who, let’s remember, squandered an 11 point lead in the last 30 days by running one of the worst campaigns in political history) was telling. The Goron should have been a marginalized candidate in the Mondale/Dukakis mold due to his extreme views on so many things and his taint from the scandal of the Clinton years (remember the monks?) Bush was just not an inspiring, charismatic personality but there was a genuine quality to him that some people found endearing.

    It seems that we are increasingly called upon to make the “lesser of two evils” choice, “Pardon me, sir, will you be having the rat tartar or the slug stew?” We’re all tired of that. Dem’s are looking for a new Clinton and Rep’s are looking for a new Reagan. We, as conservatives, don’t have anyone yet on the horizon who fits the bill. Maybe, in the coming months, we’ll get fired up about Rudy or Romney or Steele or someone else that we haven’t yet considered. In the meantime, Dems are peeing all over themselves about Obama which should pull the sheet over Kerry, Edwards, Feingold and others (except for Kucinich who is poll immune.)

    Again, I’ll be less concerned with what they say than with what they have done. That might make Rudy the early favorite…

  26. Melissa says:
    December 15, 2006 at 9:39 pm

    BJ,

    Even if we found a new Reagan, I don’t see Republicans peeing themselves if only because we don’t have the press to beat the relentless happy drum when something good happens for us.

    In fact, I can’t think of anything good that has happened for Republicans ever–except in retrospect. As much as I’m tired of the Clintons and now Obama, I’m tired of the press.

  27. BJTexs says:
    December 16, 2006 at 12:12 am

    There, there, Melissa. Take off your shoes, sit back with a cup of hot herbal tea and turn on Fox News.

    There … don’t you feel better?

  28. maggie katzen says:
    December 16, 2006 at 1:32 am

    oh BJT, if only you knew how often I yell at FNC. damned balance!

  29. BJTexs says:
    December 16, 2006 at 2:29 am

    Yea. Melissa, FoxNews is not immune. I remember during the opening of the Iraq war that they were breathless with anticipation every time a unit found some pesticide barrels. It didn’t speak well for their “balance.” I don’t need a cheerleader, just someone who will give me a broader perspective.

    So kick off your shoees, drink the tea and keep reading PW, I guess…

  30. BJTexs says:
    December 16, 2006 at 2:30 am

    um….  Maggies. and Melissa … confused …

  31. maggie katzen says:
    December 16, 2006 at 3:20 am

    um….  Maggies. and Melissa … confused …

    ha ha ha! it worked!

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