Whine, Baby, Whine

Amazing. Check out Double-M's roundup of the weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth in the leftist blogosphere about the "unfair" questioning of Tweedledum and Tweedledee last night. They claim to want to hear about the issues, not gossip and innuendo! Putting aside the obvious responses to that, the reality is there just isn't much difference between the two, not enough to debate about. They are pro-abortion, pro-gay lobby, anti-military, pro big government power hungry hacks, both of 'em. Neither has any foreign policy experience, heck, neither has much experience whatsoever. Hillary is in her second term of her only elected office, and Obama has been a U.S. Senator for three years, period. Neither is qualified in the least for the most important job in the world. God help us if either is elected in November. Say what you will, but McCain is far better than either of them.

JASmius adds: Back up the truck....

J-Ger on Obamaloo/Obalamo/Little Barack Horn:

[Hillary] tore into Obama on all of his weak spots. Relentlessly. For the most part, she avoided looking nasty while she did it. She focused on the ‘cling’ comment in the context of not understanding the role of religion in people's lives. She repeated what Wright actually said the Sunday after 9/11, and probably introduced Wright’s blaming of America to a lot of people who had only heard Wright’s sermons through a media filter. She twisted the knife when she noted that people don’t choose their families, but they choose their pastor. When Obama tried to downplay his relationship to William Ayers, she brought up the Woods Foundation.

After about forty-five minutes, David Axelrod probably should have thrown in the towel and stopped the fight.

Obama got a little better as the night wore on, but the damage was done. He looked terrible tonight. He said he disowned Wright – contradicting his speech line about being no more able to disown Wright than his own grandmother — then backed away and said he only disowned his comments. When Hillary brought up Wright’s 9/11 comments, he merely lamented that some of his comments had been “objectionable.” He never quite explained why he stopped wearing the American flag pin, and he kept digging in deeper on William Ayers. He dismissed the question, then described Ayers as an “English professor.” He completely downplayed Ayers’ terrorist past, and said they didn’t exchange ideas “on a regular basis.” Then he compared his relationship to Ayers to his relationship with Senator Tom Coburn! Way to chase away the last of the Obamacans, Senator.

The Empress even mentioned the Hamas column in Obama's church's bulletin.

More from Geraghty:

Ensign Ed on the policy portion of the Obabacle:

By the time Gibson got around to the issues, Obama looked lost and upset. It got worse when Gibson asked about capital-gains tax rates, which Obama has pledged to raise. When Gibson repeatedly pointed out that decreasing the rates actually increased the revenues, Obama simply couldn’t come up with an answer, stammering while trying to change the subject. On guns, both Hillary and Obama stumbled through tortured explanations of how they support a Constitutional right for individuals to own guns while backing gun bans like the one in DC.

Here are clips of BO's Bittergate, Ayers, and Uncle Jerry belly-flops:

Link: sevenload.com

Link: sevenload.com

Oh, heck, while we're at it, let's toss in his American flag pin flip-flop and his capital gains tax disaster:

Whew!  And to think Hillary's version of this in Philadelphia last October was limited to her five-flip-flops-in-three-minutes performance on Eliot "John" Spitzer's drivers licenses for illegals scheme.  Which, come to think of it, also came after she had been actually challenged by the moderators and, at the time, fellow Donk hopefuls for the first time.  That timing may have been a decided blessing in disguise.

Particularly given that Obamanation - never known for its stoicism or self-control - is pissed:

My favorite nutter blither?:

Below is the history of how we saw the Okie-Dokie coming a mile away and how a network Subverted Democracy. President Barack should pull their Broadcasting License.

Well.  Big cracks open in the planet's surface, huge rocks fall from the sky, ABC's debate moderators actually asked False Messiah a few tough, topical questions, and that equates to "subverting democracy"?  Does that give them the slightest inkling of how they've been subverting democracy the past seven years themselves? (Notice the absence of quotes).  Do the Kos-hack poster not realize the uproarious irony of his/her/its very next sentence?

Team Hussein's whining didn't come in much higher on the subtlety scale:

Did you see the debate last night?

If you did, you saw more gotcha politics and distractions than questions about the pressing issues affecting our country.

In fact, it took more than forty-five minutes before Barack was asked about the economy, health care, or foreign policy.

Regrettably, Senator Clinton seemed all too comfortable with that type of debate. She's running a 100% negative campaign in Pennsylvania, taking every opportunity to make personal and discredited attacks against Senator Obama.

You can send a message that politics doesn't have to be played this way.

In other words, like politics has ALWAYS been played, which is to say, you don't step into the arena unless you're prepared to take some hits.  And that's precisely what Obamanation objects to: their guy is supposed to be exempt.  He's not supposed to be challenged.  He's not supposed to have to earn the presidency.  Really, he's not supposed to even have to go to the bother of standing for election.  He's the Dali Obama.  He's their GOD.  You don't blaspheme THEIR god, even though they endlessly blaspheme the Genuine Article.  "Democracy" to them is Barack Hussein Obama installed immediately as president for life so he can begin "curing" Middle America of its backwards flirtation with "guns" and "religion" and "patriotism" and assimilate it en masse into his Collective.  "Tyranny" to them is any other outcome.  Anybody who is not with them is a heretic and an infidel, and deserves a life sentence in the Alaska Gulag at best.

Up until a month ago, that's exactly how the Enemy Media treated BO.  They fed those imperious expectations, gave him the coronational processional treatment that was supposed to go to Mrs. Clinton, and when the wheels started coming off the Wright Talk Express, and corrosive rhetorical lugnuts started flying everywhere like PR shrapnel, and Bar-ACK started floundering like the rookie he is, and it got too overpowering to ignore - plus, after all, they still have Hillary to go back to - well, I guess Gibson and Stephi decided the time had come to start hedging their bets.  You can bet that the Donk superdelegates will be arriving at the same conclusion.

We are reminded once again of why debates matter: you can't help yourself in them, no matter how much wonkery you churn out; you can only hurt yourself, either directly through gaffes, or indirectly through feeding your opponent for a memorable zinger.  Those are the "real" moments when the talking points are pushed aside and the candidate's true self emerges.

Last night Barack Obama was set up for the kill before he even set foot on that stage.  He may have had some help from the moderators and the Empress, but BO destroyed himself all by his lonesome.  And his crazoid backers can't handle it.

I wish I could say I hated to say "I told you so," but I don't.  I've been saying it for months: Barack Obama is a rank amateur who has never had a tough race in his short political career and expected to be handed the keys to the White House on an engraved silver platter - just like Hillary.  Any other election cycle he would have been; but this is Hillary Clinton's time, by Gaia, and, with apologies to "Nature Boy" Ric Flair's gimmick, she's the dirtiest player in the game.

They're not called La Clinton Nostra for nothing.  Obama never did, and does not, stand a chance.

Which leads to my other long-held, ultimate "See, I told you so": Mrs. Clinton will need the nutters back in her camp, and BO is young enough to run again in 2016.  The simplest way of meeting both needs is to put Our Mr. Hussein on the ticket as Hillary's #2.

Four months from now, center stage at the Pepsi Center in Denver, you'll see the formal birth of Rodbama '08.  The entire Donk base, and a large swath of "independents," will swoon in orgasmic ecstasy.

And then the REAL subversion of democracy will resume.