I meant to post this yesterday.... At
the Examiner, we join the chorus blasting Barack Obama for
breaking his word on campaign financing. (I happen to think we did
it in particularly strong and effective language, but that may just
be conceit.) But I will personally go one step further than the
Examiner editorial. The editorial ended thusly: just another politician talking out of both sides of his
mouth. I think it has been amply demonstrated, so much so
tht it needed no repeating, that Obama doesn't just talk out of
both sides of his mouth. Instead, he knowingly and repeatedly tells
untruths and breaks his word. So he's really, to put it more
strongly, "just another lying politician."
With that in mind, even though it is likely to become too much
of a mouthful, I make this pledge, at least until further public
notice: From now on, I will never write Obama's whole name
on first reference in any blog post without writing out my new
middle name for him, that name being Just-Another-Lying-Politician,
or, better, "Justanotherlyingpolitician." It will read like this,
for example: "In yet another example of his arrogance and cynicism,
today Sen. Barack Justanotherlyingpolitician Obama said...."
Now, why would I give him a new middle name? Because Obama has
made it so clear that he considers it to be out of line to mention
his real middle name, Hussein. I, for one, never intended to use
his real middle name, much less to use it as a form of smear to
cast doubt on his Americanness, or whatever. I saw the Louisiana
Democrats try that with Piyush Jindal, now Gov. Bobby Jindal, and
it sickened me. Nevertheless, after other recent remarks by Obama,
it becomes clear that his complaints about the misuse of his middle
name are actually part of a strategy at fomenting a backlash
against supposed racism and dirty pool by the right. It's part of a
pattern of deliberately injecting race or religion or ethnicity
into the campaign while blaming the other side for doing so. Hence,
on Friday, with no particular examples to point to, Obama had the
temerity to say that Republicans would try to smear him by saying,
"Did I mention he is black?"
As Bill Clinton, of all people once noted (in different words),
Obama himself plays the race card by accusing his opponents of
doing so. (In Clinton's case, the first "race card" he was accused
of playing was actually a perfectly innocent Clinton remark, but I
wholeheartedly believe that afterwards Clinton himself did
deliberately try to use the race card to his own advantage. But
that's beside the point.) So, to rile up black voters along with
liberal whites, Obama claims, falsely, to be the victim of
deliberate Republican racism. Same thing with his
over-protestations about use of his middle name. Well, if he
doesn't like his middle name, he can have the new one I am giving
him.
So, I hope this lengthy explanation makes sense. The point is
not what Obama's middle name is, it's what his character is. And
his character is that of just another lying politician.
topics:
Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Religion
