Yale’s just announced its 2010 class of World Fellows, its pallid imitation of the Rhodes. Two biographies caught my eye:
Lumumba Di-Aping (Sudan)
Deputy Permanent Representative, Sudan Mission to United Nations. A diplomat and chief negotiator on financial and economic affairs, Di-Aping represented developing countries as Chairman of the Group of 77 and China at the recent Copenhagen climate change conference.
and
May Tony Akl (Lebanon)
Foreign Press Secretary, Office of MP Michel Aoun. Akl advises former Prime Minister Aoun, who heads the Free Patriotic Movement and the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc. She is a founding member of the Free Patriotic Movement.
So who do we have? We have a representative of the criminal and genocidal Sudanese regime who made headlines earlier in the year when he claimed that the Copenhagen climate-change agreement was “a solution based on values that funneled six million people in Europe into furnaces.” And we have the press secretary for the former Lebanese PM and party allied with Hezbollah.
Great choices, Yale, great choices.
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Eh…I dunno. A retched month for Barry, the McCain campaign on a roll for a month and McCain himself at his absolute best, events conspiring to latters benefit and its…a dead still a dead heet (albeit moving in the right direction)? Hardly a propicious cirucumstance to even begin thinking of relief. Now if Barry and Mac replicate there performances of Saturday last in at least two of the debates….
…that’s wretched…
I love this country. We are finally vetting the candidates for President. Obama gave chills up Chris Matthew’s leg. The press was not free, but a slave to their bias and secular messianism. We were subjected to a rock-star show for 7 to 8 months. Finally, after one Q and A session from a mega church leader, the show is over, and we can see 2 individuals; their views on life and policy. McCain wins overwhelmingly, and the tide turns. American democracy is still a meritocracy, amen.
Once again, Jennifer, you’re spot on.
Jennifer, I love your pithy summary of Obama’s campaign strategy.
Really, how do you sit on a lead that no longer exists? It’s gotta be panic time on O-Force One these days. I would say “all hands on deck time,” but that would imply they actually know what they’re doing.
Jolly Good News Jennifer! Keep it coming.
McCain needs to chose Romney. He is ready to go (indeed, he is doing what he would do as VP right now, this morning on Bennett’s show, and last night on HH’s show). A McCain-Romney tag team will have Obama’s pathetic people running in so many directions at once that a landslide may set in. Neither Pawlenty nor anyone else is a turn-key, excellent advocate on Day One. Please, Senator McCain, go for Mitt Romney. PLEASE.
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The Democrats may try harder now to induce an economic recession in support of their ace in the hole, another blame-the-rich campaign. Although, oddly, many rich corporate types support the Democrats!
While Ms. Rubin’s obsession with Senator Obama is reaching stalker proportions (she never posts about anything else except Obama), and while it’s hilarious to hear Obama referred to as The One given the fact that the MSM favors McCain over Obama and the fact that the Obama cult does not compare to the Messianic cult conservatives have created around Bush, it is obvious that the McCain campaign is doing better than Obama’s at the moment. This has little enough to do with Georgia, unless you don’t realize that McCain’s hysterical hissy-fit reaction to Georgia is not shared by normal people, but about narratives.
The McCain campaign tried out several anti-Obama narratives that didn’t stick, before finally drawing blood with the “celebrity” narrative. And once conservatives hit on a narrative, like “Al Gore is a liar” or “John Kerry isn’t really a war hero,” the MSM will dutifully repeat it even when it makes no sense.
The Obama campaign has not tried to test out anti-McCain narratives and when they did hit on one that seemed to work – the fact that McCain’s war service doesn’t qualify him to be president, or that McCain wants an eternal occupation of Iraq – they run screaming from it. In part this is because of the MSM’s pro-McCain bias (so that the MSM will constantly screech about McCain’s “100 years” comment being taken out of context), but Democrats need to learn that they have to ignore the MSM.
Since I have no particular faith in Sen. Obama (or Sen. Clinton for that matter), I expect this to be like 2000: a Democratic year overall, but a very close race for President where the result will not be known until well after the polls close. I have no idea who’s going to win. But elections are decided by how one plays the media, and if the McCain campaign continues to play the MSM, while the Obama campaign still doesn’t understand that the MSM hates him as much as it hated Gore, Kerry and Clinton, the Democrats will lose and rightly so.
None of that has anything to do with Georgia, of course, nor with McCain’s desire for defeat in Iraq (since he wants America to stay in Iraq, which is the only way America can be defeated), but then, Bush didn’t win on the issues in 2000 or 2004, and Clinton didn’t win on the issues in 1996. That’s politics.
Speaking of the stadium already being booked; what’s the campaign’s plan for the acceptance speech? The success of the “Celebrity” ad should give them pause about having a big, splashy, event but the stadium is booked. Is there any chance that Obama won’t get carried away by the moment and not reinforce McCain’s narrative?
To quote the Magic 8-Ball™; “Outlook Not So Good”.
while the Obama campaign still doesn’t understand that the MSM hates him as much as it hated Gore, Kerry and Clinton, the Democrats will lose and rightly so.
TB thank you for your first hand reporting from Bizzaro World. The voters in Bizzarro World have not been this well informed since Bizzaro Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen were reporting for the Bizarro Daily planet.
Is there any chance that Obama won’t get carried away by the moment and not reinforce McCain’s narrative?
Not a chance. He will likely feed the entire invesco crowd on a fish and a loaf of bread, and, to show that he is better than John Edwards, he will Lazarus style, revive Christopher Reeve.*
* during the 2004 election, John Edwards made a campaign promise that if he were elected, quadraplegic actor, Christopher Reeve, would walk again. Reeve died soon thereafter, without ever walking again.
TB:
Yes, keep beating the drum on the McCain “100 years in Iraq” until you’re blue in the face. After all, its a real closer with those whose age outnumbers their IQ. Wait, The One already has their vote tied up, so no net gain.
TB I think your depression shows. Presidency is too much to handle for Barry. This is above his pay grade.
Q:
Is there any chance that Obama won’t get carried away by the moment and not reinforce McCain’s narrative?
A1:
Not a chance. He will likely feed the entire invesco crowd on a fish and a loaf of bread, and, to show that he is better than John Edwards, he will Lazarus style, revive Christopher Reeve.
A2:
The loaves and fishes will be an encore. The main act will be to flood the Invesco infield by changing the course of the South Platte River, then commanding it to recede. This will strand all the fishes for the barbecue.
TB I think your depression shows. Presidency is too much to handle for Barry. This is above his pay grade.
Who’s depressed? I’ve been through this routine already in 2000 and 4, so by now it’s not surprising enough to be depressing.
It is amusing to see conservatives who worshipped Bush as the Messiah (and still do) robotically repeating the notion that “Barry” is the Messiah, but since conservatives constantly accuse others of what they do themselves, that’s not surprising either. I liked both Gore and Kerry better than Obama or Sen. Clinton, so I was more depressed to see them lose.
The election will, as always, be decided by the MSM, and since liberal bias is a myth and anti-Democratic MSM bias has been amply documented, there’s always a presumption that the MSM will swing the election by portraying the Democrat as the Evil Out-Of-Touch elitist and the Republican as the Salt Of the Earth Regular Guy. That’s just what the MSM does, but it’s inevitable by now.
I don’t know that Obama will lose (I certainly don’t think Hillary would have done any better, since the MSM hates her more than even the average Democrat), but since the Democrats have no excuse at this point for not understanding the importance of messaging and playing the MSM, I won’t be depressed if he loses, since it’ll be totally his own fault.
On the other hand, he might win – I thought the Republicans would hold the house in 2006, so what do I know – allowing us to have four years of hilarious conspiracy theories in comments here: “Barry the Secret Spanish Speaking Muslim Who Doesn’t Want To Force Women To Have Babies!” But then, we’re still getting crazy conspiracy theories about Kerry years after he lost (no conservative comments section is complete without several people claiming that Kerry wasn’t really a war hero) so maybe I’ll get that fun whether Obama wins or not.
John Kerry certainly could have diffused the “crazy cospiracy theory” that he was in fact not a war hero by releasing his military records to the media, but he chose not to. This created suspicion in people’s minds about someone who would lie about and trash his fellow soldiers and then not reveal his own military history.
Try to spin it as an MSM conspiracy if you want — though that is untrue as well as sadly laughable — but people want candidates to
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People want candidates to show up and answer questions and release records. They expect candidates to do this because they want to know someone’s real record, not the spin they are attempting to put on their record.
And if a candidate wants to get elected, they’ve got to do this or it creates suspicion. It’s not stalking, it’s not paranoia, it’s not right-wing conspiracy mongering, it’s not Bush-worship and it’s not the MSM’s purported hatred of leftists. It’s politics.
And if you want to win elections, you have to play politics.
TB,
After the failed “messiah, save the world” plan by the Democrats, you attempt to paint conservatives as the people who worshipped their leader, Bush.
No one is buying it. Obama is not changing the ocean levels, giving jobs to people, or making the world love us. The One didn’t fly. It is so sad to see you thrust this failed strategy onto conservatives.
No one cares about any conspiracy theory. Here are the facts, without distortion. Obama has no experience, no vision, and no logic on his voting record, esp. abortion. That is very simple. Our country is right of center, and when you run a candidate as a man of faith, who has voted against a baby that survived an abortion, people see right through it.
If you want to start blaming the MSM, conspiracy theories, or Republicans, go right ahead. However, some self-introspection on why liberals lose would be better for the Democratic Party.
Bob Miller, that’s because the business owners don’t pay personal income tax, they own all their toys through their companies. So the whole tax the rich scheme is simply impossible through traditional income tax, because the rich don’t have income, they have control. Increasing tax does nothing more than squeeze out the upper middle class, it does nothing to tax the ultra rich it is supposedly targeting. The elite democraps know this, but their base unfortunately does not (or care). Rob from the rich and give to the poor is an Obamanation to productivity, and further feeds into the ruthlessly flawed entitlement mentality. The more successful you are, the more you are punished? WTF… Fairtax anyone?