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September 11, 2008
The Victim
Barack is in trouble. So says Mind Ray Magician Karl Rove. If Mr. Obama keeps attacking Mrs. Palin, he could suffer the fate of his Democratic predecessors. These assaults highlight his own tissue-thin résumé, waste precious time better spent reassuring voters he is up for the job, and diminish him -- not her.Good argument Barry. But it only works if you are up in the polls. Once you start free falling it works against you. A debate between Mr. Obama and Mrs. Palin over executive experience also isn't smart politics for Democrats. As Mr. Obama talks down Mrs. Palin's record, voters may start comparing backgrounds. He won't come off well.Yeah Barry. That is not going to look so good. Well Karl is on a roll so far. And then he makes a huge mistake in analysis. In Denver two weeks ago, Mr. Obama said, "If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from." That's what he's trying to do, only the object of his painting is Sarah Palin, not John McCain.Actually, Barry is painting himself as low class. A gutter snipe. Normally it is the VPs roll to be the attack dog in the campaign. It allows the top dog to be above the fray and look "Presidential". So why has Barry reversed the rolls? First Biden is not up to the task and second Barry ∅ is only qualified for the VP slot. Under Hillary. That would have been a tough ticket to beat. However, given his performance so far I think it is safe to say that strong women scare him. I think that gives a big insight into his personal weakness. In my post Midway For Obama I quoted Spengler of Asia Times on why Palin was an inspired choice. I think it is worth repeating: McCain's selection was a statement of strength. America's voters will forgive many things in a politician, including sexual misconduct, but they will not forgive weakness.The longer the campaign goes on the more evidence we find of Obama's insecurity when dealing with strong women. Obama's shtick works with people who see themselves as victims. It was little noticed but I did a review of McCain's acceptance speech which I called The Sermon. I didn't mention it then but I will say it now. That speech was the opening shot in the war on "The Victim Culture". Why did John McCain survive as a prisoner of war? Because with the help of other prisoners he refused to be a victim. Even when he failed he did not fall into self pity. And who is going to be the first major casualty of that war? Barry ∅. The champion of the victim. He is going to be a victim of his identification with the victims of the world. Every day he looks more and more like a master of self pity. A master of weakness. America is not interested in pity parties. It is not very attractive. At least not attractive enough to win Presidential Elections. Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 09.11.08 at 04:35 AM
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Why does Sara Palin matter so much? Because she is likely to become president, if elected. Frank · September 12, 2008 01:23 AM That's been repeatedly debunked, Moby. The "God's War" bit was a reference to a quote from Abe Lincoln to the effect that he would not presume to claim that God was on the side of the Union, but he did pray that the Union was on God's side. Cybrludite · September 12, 2008 03:40 AM Dear ∅bama Supporters, Keep up the good work! You have increased McCain/Palin's Electoral vote count by 20 today. What happens is that when you lie and get hysterical your candidates get branded as hysterical liars. Thank you. As of right now it is MP 272. ∅B at 266. Do you think you could move MP to 300 by tomorrow? If you do a really good job you can get that up to 350 for MP by the end of next week. We appreciate your efforts. M. Simon · September 12, 2008 04:45 AM Post a comment
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Linguistics observation: Obama's black-dialect "you been" is apparently not as offensive to progressives as George Bush's Texas accent. I understand why that is culturally, but it does undermine their language-purity argument when they complain about Bush saying "nukuler" - a pronunciation that PhD's working at Oak Ridge also use if they are from the South.
That African-American verb construction of "to be" does not derive from slave stupidity, by the way. It was a common construction of the immigrant Irish, Welsh, and rural Englanders that slaves would have had more contact with. London usage became the English standard, but it is not purer or better in any logically-defensible sense.
What speech-patterns people choose when they have more than one available, as we all have in America now, is a different matter.