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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

NOBAMA!!, Nyet!!, if you are Vladimir Putin.

This today's from the Los Angeles Times token Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg on the "Presumptive Teleprompter President".

"The Obama campaign has for months pursued the odd strategy of having the junior senator from Illinois act as if he were already kinda-sorta president of the United States. In June, it tried sticking a quasi-presidential seal on his lectern. Then in July, he conducted what seemed like official state visits with foreign leaders and delivered something like a "prenaugural" address in Berlin, inviting comparisons to JFK and Reagan."
Now with Putin reverting back to his old Soviet KGB roots by unleashing an savage assault on a democratic nation, what sort of "Its 3:00 AM" response of leadership do we get from the "Presumptive Teleprompter President"?
"First, late Thursday evening, he gave a conventional written statement calling for calm, U.N. action and "restraint" from both sides -- followed an hour later by a slightly stronger condemnation of Russian aggression and a call for a cease-fire."
Did Jimmy Carter write this on the teleprompter for Obama in the hopes that Putin would call for a "bug out" from Georgian Territory??
Being the "Presumptive Teleprompter President", one can create daily acts of symbolism that plays well to the Tim Ruttens in the MSM and Obamanistas across the collectivist landscape.
But the cause of freedom and standing up for infant democracies such as Georgia is best not left to someone who's "main act of political substance" was organizing the collective neighborhoods of Chicago under the Daley/ACORN banner.
and this retrospective from Goldberg column.
This moment calls for more than playacting, yet Obama looks lost without a presidential script. Events in the Caucasus -- and, for that matter, in Beijing -- suggest that the times aren't so new after all. Two powerful antidemocratic foes are once again flexing their muscles at a moment when America seems weak and distracted. That is not a new challenge but a very old one.
Perhaps this is not a time for a novice spouting grand rhetoric about a new page in history, but for someone who's actually read the pages of some old, but still relevant, books. Perhaps this is not the time for playacting.
Perhaps it is not the time for body surfing?

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6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Have you noticed that whenever McBush is saying something important his eyes are foscused down reading it.

If it was just notes, he'd at least look up every once in a while.

It's as if someone wrote it all for him ... told him what to say. I prefer eye contact. People who form their own words and speak from their heart don't need to read from a script.

Maybe the Republicans should nominate one of the script writers instead.

August 12, 2008 10:16 AM  

Blogger don quixote said:

Jonah Godberg, oh yeah we should listen to him on going to war with Russia over Georgia. Yeah with what? After Bush and his right wing crew deconstructed the US Military turning it into a shining example of privatization (see Blackwater, KBR, among others making a fortune off of Bush's Iraq misadventures.
So now Goldberg is beating his chest like some Universal Avenger when he is nothing but another loud mouth chicken hawk who never served in the military himself but wants somebody elses kids to do it for him.
File Goldberg under the "Big Pussy" category. He should go hide under his mommy's (another right wing nut Lucien Goldberg), skirt.

As for Lucien Goldberg's kid; the rotten apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Jonah should consider doing op-eds for "The Mynamar Times."

August 12, 2008 11:28 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

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This is the idiot off of his teleprompter. Ya Bush mangles words, but he can speak on his own, without someone in a earpiece telling him what to say. Obama is a babe in the woods empty suit. Do you really want a 144 days of experience U.S. Senator, former community activist as president??? God help us all!!!!

August 12, 2008 12:22 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

How exactly would you like John McCain to make eye contact with you?

August 12, 2008 1:02 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

1:02

The same way Obama does. The same way Reagan and Kennedy did. Stop reading scripts. Get an idea in your head what you're going to say and communicate your ideas to me. Be sincere. Don't be a robotic product of others.

Hell, even Paris Hilton never lost eye contact during her Internet spot because she memorized all her lines. If Paris can do that much, McBush should be able to do it.

Or not.

August 12, 2008 4:58 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Mr. Media Critic.....NEWS FLASH.......Bush isn't running!!!!!Cant answer the Obamatron question can you? He is nothing without his teleprompter......but why answer the question....just attack Bush right? Nice distraction.

August 12, 2008 5:31 PM  

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