"Larry King's marriage, Ed McMahon's mortgage, and Barack Obama's campaign..."
If you haven't read Nicholas Johnson's outstanding, detailed, and very lengthy blog post "Change We Can No Longer Believe In" published this morning, do it now.
Why, it was just two months ago when I was ragging on Johnson for being uncritical towards Obama. Johnson replied to that one, and he had his reasons why Obama wasn't included, mostly because Obama (at the time) didn't take any money from PACs.
Now that Obama has rejected public financing of his presidential campaign, that's got to sting for Johnson. It renders his entire "Golden Rules & Revolutions" eight-part series incomplete, although I suppose "Change We Can No Longer Believe In" can now be considered part IX, the epilogue.
I hate to say "I Told You So" because I didn't.
But in a way I did.
Really now. Are any politicians different?
After all, when you see Ed Fallon is begging for cash......
I'm just sayin'....... BE SKEPTICAL, regardless of party affiliation, otherwise, as Johnson says:
But he has marketed himself as something more than that, something better than a conventional politician or manipulative "Pied Piper." So his every change in position, his every abandoned campaign promise, further alienates the supporters who are both disappointed and understandably surprised -- and when his behavior is repeated, ultimately discouraged, disaffected, distant and depressed.
Can you imagine Barack Obama flip flopping on the War in Iraq? Wouldn't that be the ultimate betrayal for some?
Well, it already happened back in 2004:
And then there's this:
And then there's his advisers:
Do you really think Obama is going to get the troops wholly out of Iraq?
Seriously, think about it.
You anti-war types are being played.
If Obama is going to flip flop on all these issues and throw long-time friends and advisers under the bus, why wouldn't he do it with what he's promised you regarding the War In Iraq?
What's Obama's big claim to fame? Oh, he was against the war from the beginning...... unlike John Kerry, who was for the war before he was against it.
Gee, if the Democrats could have just smoothed that little wrinkle out by having anti-war Howard Dean as the candidate in 2004.
Today, Howard Dean has his stand-in puppet. It's Barack Obama.
And if you vote against Barack Obama, you're a racist.
Well, Democrats have two months. And a backup plan. I guess it won't seem like Hillary "stole it at the convention" if Obama continues to tank.
2 comments:
Haha! I'm not sure what to laugh at more! "Hunter Thompson" (disgrace to the actual Hunter T) still sold on the Muslim thing, though I'm sure Hunter was right there with those bashing him for ditching his church and having a radical pastor, or if your "flip flop" argument is more laughable!
So, I guess the majority of the public are flip floppers on the war then? After all, most of us bought into the argument that it was necessary and justified, only to realize we were duped, and now we all know it was a bad idea.
Is THAT a flip flopper? Yes, guilty as charged!
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