Source: http://www.rudistettner.com/2008/09/whining-arrogance-barack-obama.html
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Barack Obama expresses his real feelings among close friends. At a $38,800.00 a plate cozy little dinner at Bon Jovi's mansion in New Jersey, Obama defiantly declared that "We're not going to be bullied, we're not going to be smeared, we're not going to be lied about," further declaring that. "I don't believe in coming in second."
Obama has achieved a dizzying fluency in a twenty first century dialect of Orwellian Newspeak. In the Obamian reality warp, it is impossible to speak anything against the "Great One. (Obama)"
Following are definitions in the Obamian-English dictionary. Should Obama win the election, it will be a required language from Kindergarten through college.
bully Function: verb 1. To oppose politically. 2) to best your opponent in a debate
smear: Function: verb,noun 1) To make a statement that hurts the feelings of or impacts negatively upon one's political opponent's electoral prospects 2) a statement that hurts the feelings of or impacts negatively upon one's political opponent's electoral prospects.
lie: Function: verb,noun, ( a more emphatic form of smear)1) To make a true statement that hurts the feelings of or impacts negatively upon one's political opponent's electoral prospects 2) a true statement that hurts the feelings of or impacts negatively upon one's political opponent's electoral prospects.
When speaking of a Democrat, standard dictionary definitions apply. ie; I am campaigning against John McCain. When speaking of a Republican, one reverts to Obamian Newspeak. ie; John McCain is bullying Obama.
Even tenses are confused in the Obamian dialect. In standard language, one believes in an event in the past or in a prophetic revelation of the future. Barack Obama's future lies not in his own hands, but those of the voters. With the downward trajectory of Democratic poll numbers, an Obama victory seems highly debatable. If an Obama defeat indeed occurs then Obama's statement , "I don't believe in coming in second." could be seen as a negation of his stated belief in "the future". This might seriously undermine his credibility with voters.
Given the introduction of an additional language by the Democratic Presidential campaign, it might be a good idea to run Obama's campaign commercials with standard English subtitles. Anyone with a multicultural world view would welcome such a change in the terms of public discourse.
Unfortunately for the Democrats, the only thing that matters in a political contest is one's past record. McCain and Palin have their prior record. Biden have their baggage as well. The record is there to be googled. The McCain campaign will let the facts speak for themselves in plain common English. And if Obama doesn't like it, he can take a page from Bon Jovi and "Have a nice day."
Obama: I Don't Believe in Coming in Second
Source: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/obama-i-dont-believe-in-coming-in-second/
September 6, 2008, 9:41 am By Jeff Zeleny
MIDDLETOWN, N.J. – For Senator Barack Obama, the television image of his day on Friday took place on the floor of a glass manufacturing plant in the small Pennsylvania town of Duryea. But by nightfall, he was a world away from that scene, as he arrived here for a pair of high-dollar fund-raisers.
The singer Jon Bon Jovi and a nearby neighbor hosted back-to-back events for Mr. Obama. While his message was largely the same – criticizing Republicans for their convention message – he steeled his supporters for a tough battle ahead in the final 60 days of the campaign.
“I hope you guys are up for a fight. I hope you guys are game because I haven’t been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife – I didn’t put up for that stuff just to come in second,” he said. “I don’t believe in coming in second. The American people can’t afford for us to come in second.”
As he stood beneath a tent on the expansive Bon Jovi compound, which resembled an Italian villa, Mr. Obama criticized the message of the Republican convention. He even suggested that his rival was running a negative race – perhaps more so than Mr. McCain would like, but offered no evidence to bolster his point.
“I think some of you saw this week the strategy of the other side,” Mr. Obama said. “A strategy that I’d be willing to venture that if you asked John McCain, ‘Is this the kind of campaign he intended, he might have said no.”
Neither the images nor the words from his evening will ever appear on television.
The campaign of Mr. Obama, like many other candidates including Mr. McCain, almost never allows cameras inside fund-raising events. The images advisers prefer to see on the evening news and cable television are of Mr. Obama wearing shirtsleeves and safety goggles, not shaking hands with Mr. Bon Jovi and a few hundred other top contributors at riverside mansions.
To a crowd of already committed supporters, who paid either $2,300 or $30,800 to attend, he spent more time talking about his opponents than his own message. He did not mention the names of either vice presidential running-mate – even his own – as he warned his contributors for a blistering two months to come.
“For the next 60 days,” Mr. Obama said, “their assignment is going to be to see if they can snuff out that spirit in this campaign and to knock me down more than one peg.”
The evening was awash in politics, with no singing from the suit-and-tie wearing Mr. Bon Jovi. He did, however, deliver a few remarks as he introduced Mr. Obama.
“You don’t have to be 72 to have experience,” he said, referring to the age of Mr. McCain. “It’s the end of an era and the beginning of a new one. This 21st century man has an aura of hope wrapped around him.”
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