Gaffe-Master B-O

Hey look, everybody, Barackalacka-Ding-Dong Obama-mama has another logo!

This one's purpose is ostensibly to cultivate the allegiance of Pennsylvania rednecks whom he accused of "bitterly clinging to their religion and their guns" back in the spring by giving McCain hell for voting against a blatantly protectionist bill that would have forced - Talking Points Memo's term, not mine - the U.S. government to purchase American-made motorcycles.

Now I will admit that I have a fondness for logos....

....and Lucifer's core logo is kinda nifty as far as it goes, but smearing it all over the PR landscape in one, er, incarnation after another like he was a [GASP] corporation beggars the self-parody threshold Team Hussein passed with their [ahem] abortive faux presidential seal.

Besides, as with the seal, St. Barry may have infringed a couple of trademarks in the process.  In which case, of course, it will not have been the logo he thought he knew.

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AP calls this one a near-miss, but I say it counts as the biggest Obama gaffe yet:

He would not have nominated Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court because he wasn't experienced enough at the time.  That's what Obama started to say, and everybody knows what he meant by what he DID go on to say about Thomas not being "a strong enough jurist or legal thinker."  The equivalent of what he almost said and what he quickly substituted applies to his presidential candidacy in, um, spades.

That gaffe would have been replayed daily for the next two and a half months.  A disaster narrowly averted?  Well, perhaps; but throwing in the racial slur of the white Antonin Scalia being "brilliant" while his (half)-fellow African-American Justice Thomas is a moron isn't a bad consolation prize.

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There's really no end to False Messiah's verbal incontinence, but we'll wrap up this edition with two hilarious recent examples.

Team Hussein's conclusion: Russia invaded Georgia because of John Sith McCain's perspicacity vis-a-vie Vladimir Putin, and his refusal to retreat from his long-time warnings about the direction in which the Czar's neoimperialism has been taking the Russian Federation made the crisis worse.  What was REALLY needed was "quiet diplomacy," like Barack Obama's initial drawing of moral equivalence between aggressor and victim, followed by Barack Obama's reflexive multilateralist instinct to take the crisis to the UN Security Council, on which Russia, of course, has a veto, followed by Barack Obama's giving up and following Senator McCain's lead.  The latter of which another of the Chosen One's hundreds of foreign policy tutors touted in a different interview, which I guess means that BO's Three Hundred are completely confused about their boss' complete confusion.

And then cometh the greatest howler yet, even more than the aforementioned inexperience boner:

BRODY: Let me ask you a little about some of these ads that John McCain has been running not just on television, but on the web. Let’s face it, let’s call a spade a spade, there has been some Messianic references, there’s been some antichrist stuff going on, the celebrity, they’re trying to pigeonhole you a certain way. Do you believe this is being done on purpose?

OBAMA: Well of course it’s being done on purpose. They’re not spending a whole bunch of money to make me out as a good guy. They’re engaging in the kind of politics that I think we’ve become accustomed to which is you try to tear your opponents down and you engage in sort of slash and burn tactics. And very personal sort of personal character attacks. And one of the challenges for us in this campaign is how do you make sure those attacks are answered quickly and forcefully, but also truthfully and that we don’t fall into that same kind of tactic.

No slash & burn for Barry, no sir!  That demurral is foolishly brazen enough, but the suggestion that it is Team Sith that came up with the messianic meme and accompanying imagery ought to have His Eminence hauled away by the men in the white coats and butterfly nets.  Or was it truly Darth Queeg, using some heretofore undiscovered nuance of the Dark Side of the Force, that some how Charlie McCarthyized Barry into saying this:

Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.

Or the speech in which he made mention (paraphrased) of "a light shining down from above" and a "voice telling you" that "you must vote for Barack".  Or the avalanche of deified artwork depicting the Chicago Cherubim in decidedly non-mortal settings.

I've been following American politics for almost thirty years, and never have I seen a candidate display so much arrogance with so little to justify it.  The man is a cipher, a tabula rasa on which the twenty-first century American version of the Communist Manifesto has been stenciled, leavened by a puerile sense of entitlement that he gets to make all the rules without being subject to them.  He really believes he gets to say anything he wants and deny saying it if he gets called on it, as well as smearing McCain with comments he never uttered and see him crucified for them anyway.

The only other conclusion I could possibly draw is that BO is trying to lower public expectations of his candidacy and election chances.  But that would credit him with a degree of humility, prudence, and ability to see how he comes across to others that has not once been in public evidence.

Barack Obama is his own evil, but his hopeless misperception of it as virtue renders him incapable of confronting it.  He is the court jester that thinks himself Prime Minister, the fool that is the butt of his own joke.  And even if it costs him the election, he'll never know it.

Which makes it all the funnier to the rest of us, even if it is becoming akin to laughing at Special Olympics kids trying to run the hundred meter hurdles.