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Have no fear! I heard he was going to be on SNL!
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps...#pluckcommentsSeptember 13, 2008
The Democrats are in a panic. In a presidential race that is impossible to lose, they are behind.
Sarah Palin is not just a problem for Barack Obama. She is also a symptom of what ails him.
Before Palin, Obama was the ultimate celebrity candidate. Obama's meteoric rise was based not on issues but on narrative, on eloquence, on charisma.
The unease at the Denver convention, the feeling of buyer's remorse, was the Democrats' realization that the arc of Obama's celebrity had peaked — and had now entered a period of its steepest decline. That Palin could so instantly steal the celebrity spotlight is a reflection of that decline.
It was inevitable. Obama had managed to stay aloft for four full years. But no one can levitate forever.
Five speeches map Obama's trajectory.
Obama burst into celebrityhood with his brilliant and moving 2004 Democratic convention speech (#1). It turned an obscure state senator into a national figure and legitimate presidential candidate.
His next and highest moment (#2) was the night of his Iowa caucus victory when he gave an equally stirring speech of the highest tones that dazzled a national audience just tuning in.
The problem is that Obama began believing in his own magical powers.
Which gave the Obama campaign a cult-like tinge. With every primary and every repe ion of the high-flown, self-referential rhetoric, the campaign's insubstantiality became clear. By the time it was repeated yet again on the night of the last primary (#3), the tropes were tired and flat.
To top himself, Obama had to reach. Hence his triumphal declaration that history would note that night, his victory, his ascension, as "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."
Clang. But Obama heard only the cheers of the invited crowd. Not yet seeing how the pseudo-messianism was wearing thin, he did Berlin (#4) and finally jumped the shark. That grandiloquent proclamation of universalist puffery popped the bubble. The grandiosity had become bizarre.
Finally, the Obama people understood. Which is why the next data point (#5) is so different. Obama's Denver acceptance speech was deliberately pedestrian, State-of-the-Union-ish, programmatic and only briefly lyrical.
The problem, however, was that Obama had announced the Invesco Field setting for the speech during the pre-Berlin flush of hubris. They were stuck with the Greek columns, the circus atmosphere, the rock star fireworks farewell. The incongruity between text and context was apparent. Obama was trying to make himself ordinary — and serious — but could hardly remember how.
One star fades, another is born. The next morning McCain picks Sarah Palin, and a new celebrity is launched.
But her job is easier. She only has to remain airborne for seven more weeks
Have no fear! I heard he was going to be on SNL!
But darn if President Bush didn't ruin it by creating Hurricane Ike and sending it crashing into his home state of Texas - a hurricane that was worse than Katrina!Have no fear! I heard he was going to be on SNL!
Poor Obama couldn't quite justify going on SNL when hundreds of thousands were without power and many thousands without homes. I bet he's somewhere stamping his feet and saying darn, darn, darn.
Last I checked there were 7 weeks left. But go ahead and count your chickens before the eggs hatch.
Obama's ground game is the best in our history. The GOTV effort will be enormous. The fact remains that pollsters are only using data from those with LANDLINES which doesn't represent a significant chunk of voters in the under 30 age group who only have CELLPHONES.
Keep thinking you have this in the bag Republicans. I want it that way. This will ensure every single Democrat comes out to vote this year.
He should have waited till 2012
More hackwork from Krautie. He's been carrying so much water for the GOP for so long that he might as well take his act to Fox.
Not to mention all the dead folks the Daley machine will have rise up from their graves to vote for the cog Obama
Fox News Sunday. Nothing like a little partisan hackery to get the blood boiling before Football!
The dude looks like he's been dead for 40 years.
Being handicapped will do that.
Good old classy democrats.
"all the dead folks the Daley machine"
FL and OH Repug state authorities are disenfranchising 100s of 1000s, then there will be armies of Repug lawyers at often-moved voting points to challenge voters, plus the intentionally compromisable electronic voting machines.
A HUGE lie is that the Repug slime of windspread voter fraud is without any basis in fact, even after 7 years of dubya's politicized US attorneys trying to prosecute massive voter fraud, while the Repugs themselves pull out every stop to disenfranchise voters on the low-end.
The problem with Obama is that his record doesn't match his words. He's an hardcore partisan, who never fought corruption in Chicago, who never authored a major law, with no national security experience, who requested federal money to his wife's employer and had lots of ill-advised allegiances during his life and political career.
How can one trust this guy?
If you ever watched him on FOX you would know he is one of the most down the middle guys on there.
Fox News Sunday. Nothing like a little partisan hackery to get the blood boiling before Football!
he's black.
Racist.
Down the middle for FAUX is just to the left of Bushcanan
She only has to remain airborne for seven more weeks
Ah, too bad she was only able to do it for about one week....
Only if you don't vote for him.
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