Obamapologia – - n. – - Explanations for why Barack Obama is not as popular as the mainstream liberal press believes he should be; excuses made to explain away Obama’s gaffes, missteps, and shortcomings, focusing on anything but his left-wing voting record and crypto-socialist agenda; synonym: Obamedia merde.
We knew this was coming: now that the darling of the mainstream press has fallen in public esteem, his media support group is looking for reasons for Obama’s slide which have little or nothing to do with the realities of the 2008 Presidential campaign. This Obamapologia will be hitting the blogs and Web sites regularly for a while.
So far, the most ridiculous assertion I’ve read is that Obama is actually “winning” because McCain should be 20 points ahead in the polls. Aaahh-hahahahahahaha! Now, that one is a genuine knee-slapper.
So much for the comic relief.
Obamapologist E. J. Dionne chalks it up to the racial thing in The Unavoidable Issue. So does Bob Herbert, as reported by Laer Pearce. Well, sure, it’s unavoidable, since Obama and his campaigners keep bringing it up. Another writer posits that the difficulty is “Jockey Syndrome,” white resentment for black success, in a piece with the ironic title, Obama’s Racial Catch-22; the title implying a situation where Obama can’t win no matter what he does. Merde. I submit that it would help a lot if Obama and his folks quit trying to use race as a bludgeon.
At the next level of the nonsensical is an article with the title, Obama’s crime? Acting too presidential. The writer laments, “So apparently the verdict is in: Sen. Barack Obama [is] too confident to govern,” and then complains, “It all would be quite funny if many people didn’t seem to be inhaling this multimedia stink bomb as if it were fragrant truth.” After all, aren’t all politicians narcissistic types who have their own versions of the Presidential seal? Well, actually, no.
But it gets worse.
Worse, in the form of David Brooks whose screed, “Where’s The Landslide?”, was published today by the NY Times. And what excuse does Brooks have for Obama’s lagging voter appeal? “Obama has been a sojourner,” he writes, and “there is a sense that because of his unique background and temperament, Obama lives apart.”
Oh. My. God.
And here I thought it was his socialist political agenda and repeated lack of candor. Didn’t realize that, all along, I was a bigoted sojournerist.
Finally, if you’re really into Obamapologetics, visit Huffpost and read Alex Castellanos’ piece about Obama’s “molten core.” Truly, this is well-written, premeditated caca. According to this writer, Obama “has been called distant, aloof and somewhat unapproachable, perhaps because we cannot approach what he does not have, a solid core. His soul seems to be molten and made up of dreams, which is at once breathtakingly inspiring and forbiddingly indeterminate. When this young man with the flowing, passionate core . . . .” I can’t go on. One more word and I might hurt myself.
Obamapologia does not, of course, include any form of introspection, or of objective and dispassionate analysis; if it did, Barack’s apologists might have to admit that their anointed one is falling in public esteem because voters are coming to know him for who he is, are learning where he stands on the issues, and are deciding that it is not in their best interests, or the best interest of our country, to put him in charge.
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August 6, 2008 at 12:33 am
Fantastic analysis, not mention the ace wordsmithery in the introduction. The press has truly reached a new low with the media. He seems to bring out the worst in them.
August 6, 2008 at 12:34 am
Oops, meant to type “new low with OBAMA”, not “media”.
August 6, 2008 at 6:10 am
I was feeling a sort of benevolence towards Obama out of gratitude for his having stopped Hillary, but his 26 June statement on the Heller decision used it up. The statement starts with his ringing cheer for the right of hunters and sportsmen to keep and bear arms (picture us bitter fools all saying “Yeah, yeah!”), but then he gets down to his brass tacks and touts the ability of local communities to make their own gun laws – liberals’ favorite stealth tactic for eviscerating the 2nd amendment. A gun-grabbing politician is a fool, but one who uses such language is a piece of merde.
August 6, 2008 at 7:21 am
fredshelm – thanks for the positive feedback! Perhaps we do well to remember that public approval ratings are down in record low territory not only for Bush and Congress, but also for the press – - Jay
August 6, 2008 at 7:23 am
redmanrt – - Obama certainly appears to have a lot of code-words in what he says. He tries to stay ambiguous – - that let’s his fans read what they want into his statements – - so it’s necessary to break the code, as in his Heller case reaction – - Jay
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August 6, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Jay, I don’t think the code misleads many of his followers, but it fooled dozens and dozens of commentators who unanimously wrote of Obama flip-flopping on the DC gun ban issue. Me it smacked in the face the first time I read it. Even one cursory reading of the statement shows that it is essentially consistent with his perfect voting record in favor of gun-control. It is also a blueprint for the policy he would implement if elected.
August 6, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Here is Obama’s statement in full. It is a perfect illustration of how dangerous Obama is, and it bears study. There is also an outright lie in it. See if you can find it:
“I have always believed that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to bear arms, but I also identify with the need for crime-ravaged communities to save their children from the violence that plagues our streets through common-sense, effective safety measures. The Supreme Court has now endorsed that view, and while it ruled that the D.C. gun ban went too far, Justice Scalia himself acknowledged that this right is not absolute and subject to reasonable regulations enacted by local communities to keep their streets safe. Today’s ruling, the first clear statement on this issue in 127 years, will provide much-needed guidance to local jurisdictions across the country.
“As president, I will uphold the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun-owners, hunters, and sportsmen. I know that what works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne. We can work together to enact common-sense laws, like closing the gun show loophole and improving our background check system, so that guns do not fall into the hands of terrorists or criminals. Today’s decision reinforces that if we act responsibly, we can both protect the constitutional right to bear arms and keep our communities and our children safe.”
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