I had been working on a post about the vetting obsession that seems to be going on these days with President Obama but then I read this. Paul Waldman seems to have stolen my thunder. Oh well. It's everything I wanted to say and more.
So on the right, the desperate search for the appropriate "vetting" material continues. For instance, the late Andrew Breitbart's constellation of web properties continues in its founder's spirit, breathlessly promoting one "revelation" about Obama's pre-political life after another. Obama was friendly with a Harvard Law School professor with strong views on race! In 1991, Obama's literary agency mistakenly said in a promotional brochure that he was born in Kenya! There is so much to be learned that breitbart.com has created a whole series entitled "The Vetting."
Sadly, this is all true. I don't get it.The president has been pretty forthcoming about his past both in his books and interviews. There have been thousands of stories about folks like Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers and the president's college years and birth certificate. Why?
The mistake that so many conservatives make is in believing that in some (or all) of these details of his life lies the key to Obama's undoing. If only we can find the radical mentor, the girlfriend holding on to a decades-old secret, or the revealing document, then Obama will be unmasked, his true horrifying self revealed at last for all to see. Then the scales will fall from the voters' eyes and they'll boot him from the office he never deserved to occupy in the first place.
This is so incredibly odd. The latest polls show the race is pretty tight in the swing states and the election is 5 months off. People are unhappy about unemployment and uncertain about the economy. Certainly, they can win on that, right? Are they that insecure about Mitt Romney?
In my view, they don't want to beat him that way. They have to personally destroy him because that is what the right has become today. They did the same thing with Bill Clinton (now, of course, they love him in typical juvenile emotional fashion and will likely be the same way with President Obama someday) and many other Democrats. Funny, the same thing is done to me in comments on a regular basis:)
I guess they don't know any other way.
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why did he pay the law firm perkins coie $1.3 million since Jan 2007 to seal all his records? The LA times sure does seem to care about horses Ann Romney used to own.
"It's everything I wanted to say and more."
It's always someone else that says what you wanted to say. When you try to invent a coherent thought, you seem to end up tangled in complexities you didn't understand in the first place.
So why are you smarter than everyone else again?
So why are you smarter than everyone else again?
Who said I was smarter than everyone else?
why did he pay the law firm perkins coie $1.3 million since Jan 2007 to seal all his records?
Ah, you got suckered by WND, didn't you? This will clear it all up
http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/2011/04/obamas-legal-fees/
Here's another link that torpedoes all the various silliness.
http://www.factcheck.org/2010/01/clueless-columbo/
So M - what do you suppose the reason is for the Dem primaries where Obama is losing 30 to 40% of the Dem vote? Why no love?
In West Virginia and Kentucky? Yeah, I'm not worried about those states.
So what is the story? Open primaries being pranked? Or is there really that much dissatisfaction with the Prez in his party?
It really doesn't matter to me as those states have no hope of going for the president in the general.
I think there's a lot of dissatisfaction in those states and a general lack of enthusiasm. And people don't really care about primaries, do they? What was the voter turnout?
I didn't ask if it mattered to you - I know it doesn't. You are Obama's number 1 fanboy - no question. I asked about what it meant to your party at large.
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