It Just Continues

My, oh my, the sickening race pimp is but the drizzling bleep atop Barack Hussein Obama's rancid campaign sundae.

Oh, we'll come back to Uncle Jeremiah's crazy lamentations.  But there's so much of this PR concoction to dig into, it's difficult to know where to start.

The US flag pin plate is still spinning:

Barack Obama on his refusal to wear a flag pin, now:

Obama then referred to the time last October, when a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, TV reporter asked him why he didn’t wear a flag pin.

“Then I was asked about this in Iowa,” Obama said. “And somebody said ‘Why don’t you wear a flag pin?’ I said, well, sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. I said, although I will say that sometimes I notice that they’re people who wear flag pins but they don’t always act patriotic. And I was specifically referring to politicians, not individuals who wear flag pins, but politicians who you see wearing flag pins and then vote against funding for veterans, saying we can’t afford it.”

Barack Obama on his refusal to wear a flag pin, then:

(What Obama said last October was: “You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq War, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest. Instead, I’m going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testimony to my patriotism.”)

Obama then proceeds, in a magnificent example of hypocritical chutzpah, to call bloggers who accurately reported his words liars.

Obama continued, saying “so I make this comment. suddenly a bunch of these, you know, TV commentators and bloggers (say) ‘Obama is disrespecting people who wear flag pins.’ Well, that’s just not true. Also, another way of saying it is, it’s a lie.”

The man digs a hole, gets caught digging the hole, denies digging the hole, says we should all be digging holes but only will once he brings us together and taxes the rich to provide us all with the shovels to dig them with, condemns you for falsely accusing him of digging a hole, then tries to clobber you with his shovel.

Obama claims to be a unifier who can bring us all together to get things done.  What he really is is John Kerry after spending too long in the tanning booth:

His final gaffe — and one that may make a few Republican commercials — came when Wallace challenged Obama to come up with real examples of bipartisanship and compromise on tough issues. He claimed he would have supported the partial-birth abortion ban if Congress had included an exception to protect the mother’s health, which would have been used as a dodge around the ban in every instance. Other than a single vote on tort reform, he could come up with no example of a time when he bucked Democratic leadership.

The most hilarious point came when Obama tried to claim credit for bipartisanship on the John Roberts confirmation vote — not because he supported Roberts. He voted against Roberts. However, Obama wanted credit for defending the few Democrats who did support Roberts on Daily Kos, and taking the venom of Kos’ readership for his defense.

That’s bipartisanship — standing up to the Kos Kiddies?

John Kerry voted for an Iraq war appropriation before he voted against it; Barack Obama opposed and supported Chief Justice Roberts' confirmation at the same time.  Now that's what I call multi-tasking.  No, sir, can't accuse ol' BO of being a serial flip-flopper; he's far too confused for that.  His personal philosophy appears to be chaos theory - by his own self-promotion.

Or he could just be a really bad liar, or a guy who's long since believed his sychophants' worshipful praise and isn't used to having to actively put himself over to people who aren't programmed to feel tingles up their dingles at his very presence, and thus can't understand how pathetic he sounds to them.

That's why such people need their cringing bootlickers - and their sugardaddies:

After an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2000, Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama faced serious financial pressure: numerous debts, limited cash and a law practice he had neglected for a year. Help arrived in early 2001 from a significant new legal client — a longtime political supporter.

Chicago entrepreneur Robert Blackwell Jr. paid Obama an $8,000-a-month retainer to give legal advice to his growing technology firm, Electronic Knowledge Interchange. It allowed Obama to supplement his $58,000 part-time state Senate salary for over a year with regular payments from Blackwell’s firm that eventually totaled $112,000.

A few months after receiving his final payment from EKI, Obama sent a request on state Senate letterhead urging Illinois officials to provide a $50,000 tourism promotion grant to another Blackwell company, Killerspin.

Killerspin specializes in table tennis, running tournaments nationwide and selling its own line of equipment and apparel and DVD recordings of the competitions. With support from Obama, other state officials and an Obama aide who went to work part time for Killerspin, the company eventually obtained $320,000 in state grants between 2002 and 2004 to subsidize its tournaments.

Obama’s staff said the senator advocated only for the first year’s grant — which ended up being $20,000, not $50,000. The day after Obama wrote his letter urging the awarding of the state funds, Obama’s U.S. Senate campaign received a $1,000 donation from Blackwell.

And just imagine - this one wasn't named Rezko.  A "new kind of politics"?  Or the old Dibiasinomics?

Leavened with a generous dollop of Clintonomics, of course:

Actually, I take that back - Clintonomics was an across-the-board tax rate increase against an economic upturn that kept growth sluggish until the GOP Congress finally forced Sick Willie to sign a capgains tax cut in 1997, re-igniting the longer-term Reagan boom.  Obamanomics would be akin to the Bush41 tax hike three years before, which was imposed in the midst of an economic DOWNturn that bludgeoned the economy into an outright recession.  It would kill the golden goose of the past five years, diminish federal revenues, explode the federal deficit, spiral up the national debt, vastly swell the number of Americans dependent upon federal assistance.....

Ah, behold the method to His Holiness' madness.  Because "fairness" is his overarching ethic, and it can only rain on the just and the unjust when the rainmakers aren't punished for precipitating.  Good thing for him that he's one of the latter, even if he's clueless about the whole topic.

Remember Bill Ayers, the unrepentant Weathermen terrorist and current Uncle Hugo acolyte?  It would seem that Ba-ROCK actually worked for him, in addition to with him, not so long ago.  That's another one of Bar-ROCK's selective amnesia manifestations, and appears to be growing larger all the time:

Larry Johnson...has a fascinating piece on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge which leads us to believe that Obama has been repeatedly misrepresenting and misunderestimating the extent of his relationship with Ayers:

In 1995, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was created to raise funds to help reform the Chicago public schools. One of the architects of the Challenge was none other than Professor Bill Ayers. Ayers co-wrote the initial grant proposal and proudly lists himself on his own website as the co-founder of the Challenge.

And who was the Chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Fund in its early years and involved with until 2003?  That would be Barack Obama.  That is a cozier relationship between these two than we have formerly been led to believe.

Hmmm; why would False Messiah want to keep that cozy relationship mum?  I can't imagine, can you?

This lefty can:

It is pretty curious that Obama called Ayers an English professor at the ABC debate when he knew from their work together at Annenberg that he was an Education Professor. Did he not want to be further connected to Ayers so he changed the name of his field from Education to English? Or did he really forget?....

The relevant point here is that Obama seems to be minimizing his legitimate ties to Ayers for some reason. He’s spoken about being on the Annenberg Challenge Board and lists it on his resume, but he didn’t mention it at the debate — or that Ayers was intimately involved in it.

Understand that Jeralyn Merritt is miffed at her god's tortured self-distancing from another of her idols - and isn't buying it for for nanosecond.

It does reveal that Obama isn't not entirely blind to the effect that his radical associations will have on the bulk of the 2008 electorate.  Or at least belatedly so after the Wright Stuff splattered across front pages, picture tubes, and the blogosphere last month and the Divine One was caught more flat-footed than if Mr. Bill caught him and his opponent on the back of a flatbed truck using his personal astroturf.

Well, you know that they say: in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king:

“We’re going to need to see who is going to be the strongest candidate against Senator McCain. And I believe that is Senator Obama with his emphasis on change and bringing people together, a fresh voice internationally, somebody that is able, in my judgment..to bring…. at least I just got back from Latin America, from Venezuela, where he has enormous support, where people really want to see a change in American foreign policy and they see Obama as that agent of change.“

That was New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, ladies and gentlemen, who probably isn't aware that he not only proved why his presidential bid went nowhere with his stint thus far as an Obamalyte, but has put his own job in enormous jeopardy when his re-election bid rolls around by being the disciple, as Ensign Ed notes, who reeled in the Hugo Chavez endorsement.

Naturally, Ba-ROCK enjoys "enormous support" from the Chaveznistas; they recognize a fellow Marxist-Leninist wannabe dictator when they see one.  How helpful of Governor Richardson to broadcast that to the entire American people.

Overstated?  Overwrought?  "McCarthyistic"?  Or is a man not still to be judged by the company he keeps?  Or the sort of woman he marries and lets speak for him?  Do Michelle Obama's words from just last Friday in Indiana speak to "hope" or "unity" or "change," or to prototypical left-wing anger, rage, victimology, excuse-making, wacko conspiracism, and yes, bitterness?

And her husband is going to "force" us out of all the pathologies she - and by reasonable implication, he - imagine US to have?  For what - our own "good", as defined by THEM?

Yet for all of the above, for all the convoluted, cough & gag-inducing obliviousness, the contrived naivete and even phonier virtuosity, and the Trent Lott-like, gradually-escalating "repudiations," it still will not matter a whit in the fall, because in the end, seven-eighths of the Democrat vote plus half or so of Independents will far surpass John Sith McCain's 30-40% GOP turnout and the other half of the squishy center.

But Barack Obama will never make it to the fall.  And now that conclusion, at which I arrived over seven years ago, actually, is finally beginning to dawn on my more famous cybercolleagues.

Double H:

As Scott Johnson notes, the Obama campaign is sinking fast.  Unless Senator Obama moves quickly and decisively to completely repudiate Reverend Wright, his fall campaign will be doomed.  (And even a complete repudiation of Wright may not save the nomination if Hillary Clinton stays to her own course and begins to talk about Michelle Obama's vision of America for the rest of the primary season.) [emphasis added]

Or simply bankrolls Rev'rund Wright's "impromptu" world tour with the usual six degrees of separation.

The aforelinked Brother Trunk:

In his widely lauded Philadelphia speech, Barack Obama declared of Reverend Jeremiah Wright: “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.” It wasn't quiite up to George McGovern's expression of "1,000%" support for Thomas Eagleton as his running mate after revelations of his shock therapy, but it left Obama and Wright closely joined. Something about the revelation of Eagleton's shock therapy made his ultimate dumping by McGovern inevitable. Something about Wright's frank racism, among other things, now calls for some further response by Obama.

It's too late for Barack Obama to have his own Sister Souljah moment with Reverend Jeremiah Wright. After Wright's performances before the NAACP in Detroit and before the National Press Club in Washington, however, it may be time for Obama's own Thomas Eagleton moment.

I.e. Obama making a complete and permanent break with Wright.  But as the Trunk goes on to inadvertently demonstrate, it's too late for that as well:

Wright's racism casts a backward light on Obama's original attaction to Wright. It is a racism that cannot withstand scrutiny and it is one that Obama will have to renounce in less complacent terms than the ones to which he has confined himself so far....Obama could resign his membership in Wright's church, even though Obama now emphasizes that Wright is only the church's retired pastor. Or he could forthrightly denounce Wright.

Who would take it seriously?  Unlike George McGovern and Thomas Eagleton, Obama can't disassociate himself from Wright so easily, for the same reasons we've enumerated time and again: he sat in Trinity United for over two decades and in-took a steady diet of his "spiritual mentor's" philosophical poison without so much as a batted eyelash or a facial tic.  He would be doing what he should have done half a lifetime ago for blatantly phony political expediency.  That would be almost as bad as simply staying the Wright course - worse, even, since BO will never escape the Wright fallout for the remainder of the campaign either way.

J-Ger:

The Obama campaign is off the rails....

again, we're left with that question... presuming Obama strongly disagrees with all of Wright's statements in these areas... how did he end up selecting this pastor? This church? (I know we get the story in Obama's autobiography. But did Obama once agree with all of the crazy conspiracy theories? Does he still agree, late at night, when the microphones and television cameras are far away?)

Obama is saying he should be president, instead of two much more experienced rivals, because of his superior judgment. But what kind of judgment is needed to select Wright as a surrogate father figure?

A rather pertinent - and inescapably disastrous - question for False Messiah, dontcha think?

Yes, I thought the Donk primaries would be a sustained Hillary Hallelulja tour.  So did everybody else.  But when Barack Hussein Obama came out of nowhere to make an epic fight of this erstwhile perfunction, most everybody else fled to the Obaman tall grass.  All, it seemed, except me and my vivid memories of what ruthless SOBs the Clintons and their minions were in their '90s heyday and still are to this day.  If the Empress couldn't float above her small fry "competition," she would fight as dirty as it took to take them out, no matter what the collateral damage.

I'll let the Anchoress say, "He told you so":

Hillary could use Wright to sabotage Obama, and then - with the party roiling - set herself up as the candidate of “unity” by offering the badly injured Obama the veep spot. Which would be profoundly ironic - she’d have taken the party to the brink of destruction in order to steal the “unifier” tag from Obama. This is almost a thing of beauty in its perverse way - if it can be pulled off.

If it can’t, well…we always knew that if the Clintons couldn’t control the party any longer, they would destroy it. [emphasis added]

It can and it will.  In the words of Agent Smith, "It is inevitable."

UPDATE: Toothache-inducing sacrcasm, thy name is Ace.