Posted by
Furious on Friday, September 05, 2008 12:14:00 PM
From “The Nation” magazine…
Just an observation… Isn’t this guy a little thin skinned? What would he do if someone really insulted him? Cry? Wet his pants? File a lawsuit? Call the NY Times editorial board?
Speaking of the Republican convention speakers, a clearly riled Obama said, "They haven't talked about the fact that I was a civil rights lawyer; they haven't talked about the fact that I taught constitutional law; they haven't talked about my work in the state legislature, in the United States Senate. They're talking about the three years of work that I did right out of college as if... I'm making the leap from two or three years out of college into the presidency."
Ok. Obama says he was a “civil rights lawyer”. He says he taught constitutional law. He “worked” in the Illinois legislature and now works the U.S. senate. And he complains about how his critics make the “leap” from his community organizer days to his campaign for President.
Maybe we are making the leap because that’s about all the guy has in his resume. Perhaps if Obama could hang his hat on any accomplishment it would help. He doesn’t do so because there is nothing there. Maybe if he could point out a few of his successes; perhaps someone he helped could testify how Obama helped him get a job or how his organization actually created employment. He claims he helped laid off steel workers. Why have none backed him up in this claim? Where are all these people he aided with his selfless, non-partisan, community aid programs?
These rhetorical questions are self-evident. The man is a fraud. Nothing more and nothing less.
Just tell us what, exactly what you have accomplished! No one gives a damn what you wanted to do.
Obama acknowledged that his campaign had focused attention on his experience as a community organizer. But he said, "I would argue that doing work in the community to try and create jobs, to bring people together, to rejuvenate communities that have fallen on hard times, to set up job-training programs in areas that have been hard hit when the steel plants closed, that that's relevant only in understanding where I'm coming from, who I believe in, who I'm fighting for and why I'm in this race.
If this guy is claiming that he will do for America what he has done for Chicago, then for God’s sake give us some examples of what he actually did! You just can’t claim something with absolutely no corroboration. Well, I guess you can if you have Hollywood, the media, academia, the government burocracy, and most of the progressive world behind you. Leftist ideology means never having to say you’re sorry.
"And the question I have for them is? Why would that kind of work be ridiculous? Who are they fighting for? Who are they advocating for?
And the question I have for you, Barack is…if you are not just fighting for yourself, then let’s hear from those you claim you fought for. All I hear in the background is the sound of chirping crickets.
"Maybe that's the problem," Obama concluded. "Maybe that's part of why they are out of touch and don't get it because they haven't spent much time working for those kind of folks."
Let’s see. He says he is in touch, not the Republicans. Isn’t it Obama and his friends who routinely snicker at rural America? Isn’t it Obama who equates pregnancy with punishment or some kind of disease? Isn’t it Obama and the left who laugh at NASCAR and hunting and the south and Bibles and religion?
Who are “…those kind of folks”, by the way? Black folks? Sounds like a not so veiled accusation that we conservatives are simply racists. That charge is really getting old but seems to work, since blacks still vote progressive 90% of the time.
His religion is his ideology. And his arguments for his power grab border on the ridiculous. I guess he must have slept through the logic lessons in law school because the man never comes close to presenting any kind of case for himself.
Except, of course his parroting…the as yet, indefinable buzzwords of hope, change, and reform. Sadly, for half of us-that may be enough. God help us.