Despicable Incoherence

Even when he's being the vilest character assassin, Barack Hussein Obama just can't avoid making himself look like a boob.  Behold, for your hypertension gooser of the day, this Spanish language Obama add that manages, in one thirty second spot, to (1) smear Rush Limbaugh as anti-Hispanic, (2) smear George W. Bush as anti-Hispanic, (3) assert that Limbaugh, Bush, and John McCain are on the same anti-Hispanic/anti-Mexican/anti-illegal immigration page, and, ergo, (3) smear John McCain:

Just in case any of you are non-cosmopolitanly monolingual like myself and, um , Barry, here's the transcript:

“They want us to forget the insults we’ve put up with, the intolerance,” the television ad’s announcer says in Spanish as a picture of Rush Limbaugh appears onscreen with quotes of him saying, “Mexicans are stupid and unqualified” and “Shut your mouth or get out.”

“They made us feel marginalized in a country we love so much,” the ad continues. “John McCain and his Republican friends have two faces. One that says lies just to get our vote and another, even worse, that continues the failed policies of George Bush that put special interests ahead of working families.”

The companion radio ad uses the same script as above and then continues:

“Don’t forget that John McCain abandoned us rather than confront the leaders of the Republican Party. Many of us were born here, and others came to work and achieve a better life for their families — not to commit crimes or drain the system like many of John McCain’s friends claim. Let’s not be fooled by political tricks from John McCain and the Republicans. Vote so they respect us. Vote for a change.”

Vote for lies, IOW.  The shamnesty fights of the previous two years were about ILLEGAL immigration, not Hispanics who were born here, which makes them automatic U.S. citizens.  The scope of this race-baiting charge is dishonestly and insultingly broad.  So is the charge that McCain "abandoned" illegals; if my memory serves, Sailor nearly combusted his presidential ambitions by angrily, bitterly, and profanely "confronting" the leaders of his party, as well as two-thirds of the American public, alongside a handful of his RINO cronies, the Bush Administration, and Ted Kennedy and a whole lotta Democrats.  An act of politicide of which to this day he has never truly repented.  Why Lucifer would want to try to heal the biggest lingering breach between McCain and the "border security first" GOP base defies comprehension.

But the link of Maverick to Limbaugh on illegal immigration is roaringly risible, as ABC's Jake Tapper painstakingly details:

Limbaugh opposed McCain on that issue. Vociferously. And in a larger sense, it’s unfair to link McCain to Limbaugh on a host of issues since Limbaugh, as any even occasional listener of his knows, doesn’t particularly care for McCain.

Second, the quotes of Limbaugh’s are out of context.

Railing against NAFTA in 1993, Limbaugh said, "If you are unskilled and uneducated, your job is going south. Skilled workers, educated people are going to do fine 'cause those are the kinds of jobs NAFTA is going to create. If we are going to start rewarding no skills and stupid people, I'm serious, let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do -- let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work."...

The second quote is totally unfair. In 2006, Limbaugh was mocking Mexican law, and he wrote:

“Everybody's making immigration proposals these days. Let me add mine to the mix. Call it The Limbaugh Laws:

“First: If you immigrate to our country, you have to speak the native language. You have to be a professional or an investor; no unskilled workers allowed. Also, there will be no special bilingual programs in the schools with the Limbaugh Laws. No special ballots for elections. No government business will be conducted in your language. Foreigners will not have the right to vote or hold political office.

“If you're in our country, you cannot be a burden to taxpayers. You are not entitled to welfare, food stamps, or other government goodies. You can come if you invest here: an amount equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage. If not, stay home. But if you want to buy land, it'll be restricted. No waterfront, for instance. As a foreigner, you must relinquish individual rights to the property.

“And another thing: You don't have the right to protest. You're allowed no demonstrations, no foreign flag waving, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our President or his policies. You're a foreigner: Shut your mouth or get out! And if you come here illegally, you're going to jail.

“You think the Limbaugh Laws are harsh? Well, every one of the laws I just mentioned are actual laws of Mexico today! That' how the Mexican government handles immigrants to their country. Yet Mexicans come here illegally and protest in our streets!

“How do you say ‘double standard’ in Spanish? How about: ‘No mas!’”

Tapper wasn't the only Enemy Media drone who dredged up enough modicum of shame and professionalism to blow the whistle.  Would you believe he was joined by....MSNBC?:

The big problem with this ad: McCain and Limbaugh don’t agree on the issue of comprehensive immigration reform. It’s a pretty low blow, particularly since McCain did see his campaign nearly die because of his support for [illegal] immigration and the attacks he was receiving on the right from Limbaugh and other talk radio conservatives.

But let's let one of False Messiah's victims put in his own innimitable two cents of rebuttal, shall we?:

Mr. Obama’s campaign is now trafficking in prejudice of its own making. And in doing so, it is playing with political dynamite. What kind of potential president would let his campaign knowingly extract two incomplete, out-of-context lines from two radio parodies and build a framework of hate around them in order to exploit racial tensions? The segregationists of the 1950s and 1960s were famous for such vile fear-mongering. …

Much of the media that is uninterested in Mr. Obama’s connections to unrepentant 1970s Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers and Reverend Jeremiah Wright have so far gone along with the attempt to tie me to Mr. McCain. But Mr. McCain and I have not agreed on how to address illegal immigration. While I am heartened by his willingness to start by securing the borders, it is no secret that we have fundamental differences on illegal immigration.

And more to the point, these sound bites are a deception, and Mr. Obama knows it. The first sound bite was extracted from a 1993 humorous monologue poking fun at the arguments against the North American Free Trade Agreement. …

The malignant aspect of this is that Mr. Obama and his advisers know exactly what they are doing. They had to listen to both monologues or read the transcripts. They then had to pick the particular excerpts they used in order to create a commercial of distortions. Their hoped-for result is to inflame racial tensions. In doing this, Mr. Obama and his advisers have demonstrated a pernicious contempt for American society.

We’ve made much racial progress in this country. Any candidate who employs the tactics of the old segregationists is unworthy of the presidency.  [Emphases added]

These are not just distortions; they're lies.  And not just any lies, but vicious, hateful, racist lies.  And not just vicious, hateful, racist lies, but vicious, hateful, racist lies designed to serve a sinister, totalitarianesque purpose: to bully and intimidate any opposition to Barack Hussein Obama into cowed silence, both now and after he takes office.

Still don't think so?  Let me quote this Ensign Ed passage just for its plethora of links documenting how intrinsic waving the bloody shirt of race has been to BO's campaign:

Ever since winning the nomination, Obama and his campaign surrogates (and the media) have accused Republicans of racism for their opposition to The One.  It has been a constant theme for Team Obama, even though they cannot produce a single shred of evidence in support of this smear campaign.

Jenber and I amiably predicted this back in the spring on Hard Starboard Radio when the Rodbama wars were still raging.  How could it be otherwise from a left-wing, African-American Democrat who had discipled for twenty years under the racist, Ameriphobic "pastor" from Trinity "United" "Church"?  Heck, how could it be otherwise for ANY black Donk?  Using race as nuclear artillery was always going to be the ace-in-the-hole of the first black Democrat presidential nominee; the Dems simply found a "brother" who was extraordinarily well trained at it.

If you're still not convinced - or in jeopardy of being cowed - take a gander at J-Ger's compendium of Obama surrogates and media groupies from just this past week:

CNN's Jack Cafferty:

The differences between Barack Obama and John McCain couldn't be more well-defined. Obama wants to change Washington. McCain is a part of Washington and a part of the Bush legacy. Yet the polls remain close. Doesn't make sense…unless it's race.

The Youngstown Vindicator:

“Race — that’s the only reason people in the Valley won’t vote for him,” said state Representative Thomas Letson of Warren, D-64th, about Barack Obama, his party’s presidential nominee. “There are 1,000 reasons to vote for Obama and one reason why you won’t — race.”

“Staunch Republicans” who make up 35% to 40% of the population would never vote for a Democrat regardless of race, Letson said.

It is the independents, the “swing voters” and Democrats who are or will support Republican John McCain who are the “racists,” Letson and state Representative Robert F. Hagan of Youngstown, D-60th, said.

Dick Meyer, NPR:

Similarly, many people felt McCain's famous ad that called Obama a celebrity like Paris Hilton was subliminally racist, subtly playing on racist impulses that fear black men with white women, or that preyed on the idea that black men succeed only in celebrity arenas like sports and music.

Obama surrogate, Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius:

"I think the notion that, 'By the way, have any of you noticed that Barack Obama is part African-American?' That may be a factor. All of the code language, all that doesn't show up in polls, and that may be a factor for some people."

I sometimes wonder, during the heated throws of a campaign like this, whether I'm getting too cynical, too reflexively and even instinctively prone to think the worst of the other side.  It's a bad habit that is deceptively easy to fall into, and as a self-styled but amateur political analyst, I do want to keep a cool and clear enough head to deliver my thinking and conclusions with the objective bark on rather than coming across as a mindless cheerleader.

But in this campaign we have a Democrat ticket and party about which it is becoming impossible not to think the worst.  They're the ones making this election into a left-wing jihad; they're the ones screaming bloody murder at Barry's GOP opponent actually contesting the election, denouncing Senator McCain as a "liar" for criticizing his thinner than his running mate's rug yet unAmericanly radical record; they're the ones whining about the "right wing smear machine" while their media allies try to completely destroy Sarah Palin and her family, and they themselves put out this rancid piece of trash lying about McCain's immigration stance and smearing him and by extension pretty much the entire Republican party as not just anti-Hispanic but anti-black for trying to deny The Bread of Death the presidency.  And they're the ones who are using villification to thug their way to power, after which they can use that power to crush any and all domestic opposition.

Too harsh?  Do you really think the media that hasn't lifted a finger to peak under the Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, and William Ayers tarpaulins or the Democrat Congress that, as superdelegates, denied Hillary Rodham Clinton her coronation will lift a finger to prevent an Obama reign of terror?

UPDATE: Quite an education Darth Queeg has gotten in this campaign about who his "good, close, personal friends" really are, and who they're not.  A lesson that they may finally be ready to start putting to use:

Don’t be shocked if you see the McCain campaign pull the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright out of mothballs in new attacks against one-time parishioner, Barack Obama.

McCain advisers say that they see “attack by association” as fair game now, arguing that Obama’s campaign has been using that technique to go after McCain. In particular, the Obama campaign has hammered McCain on the stump and in TV ads on the number of one-time lobbyists working for his campaign. (The McCain campaign is also angry about a Spanish-language TV ad that ties McCain to Rush Limbaugh on immigration, without ever saying that McCain took on Limbaugh and others to fight for comprehensive immigration reform.)

“They played it one way, we played it another way,” said one of McCain’s top advisers, Mark Salter. “Now we’re both going to play it the same way.” [...]

Asked whether to expect attacks involved Wright, campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb said: “We’ve seen all throughout the (Democratic) primary this guy has a lot of associations that are very problematic.”

After which Obamanation will self-righeously denounce this potential "play" as the "latest example of McCain's racism."  To which I say, "BRING...IT...ON!"

Seems like eons ago that Maverick was saying, "I have been committed to running a respectful campaign based upon an honest debate about the great issues confronting America today.  I expect all state parties to do so as well.  The television advertisement you are planning to air degrades our civics and distracts us from the very real differences we have with the Democrats."  Heck, it seems like eons ago that I was referring to Maverick as "Benedict McCain."  Thus does confronting the end of America as we have known it for 232 years make strange bedfellows of us all.

UPDATE II: Here's a nice and lighter exit counterpoint: