by Teh Nutroots | The right wing megaphones are rushing to broadcast to their audience of gulls that Barack Obama isn't delivering the message of hope that America is longing for. Voters, they holler, want someone who will give them a positive upbeat message, no matter how dire the situation Bush has willed on us.
Funny how their previous scorn for Obama's message of Hope and Change goes out the window when he focuses for a few seconds on the current stark reality (or as I put it, The Judgment on the Bush Regime that is About to Come).
At Hot Air (snerk!) Ed Morissey writes:
When presidential candidates answer questions from children about why they want the job, most will give an answer that uplifts the child and the candidate. Not Barack Obama. At a campaign stop in Elkhart, Indiana, a seven-year-old girl asked the Democrat why he wants to be President — and he told her that America has gone downhill..Everyone feels that we can improve ourselves, but we don’t usually cast it in terms of the country no longer being what it once was.
Once again, Obama got off the teleprompter and put his foot directly in his mouth. He’s not selling Hope, he’s selling Despair, and himself as the snake oil that will cure us of all our ills..
Then he quotes Rush Limbaugh and posts a video showing him saying what Morissey says he says. People who quote Rush Limbaugh are not people who are interested in reason, reasoning, or in being reasoned with. Go to Hot Air (snk!) and see it for yourself if you want to know how outraged, saddened, flabbergasted, etc. etc. is Limbaugh by the downbeat Obamas.
Brad at Sadly, No!
Now, if you guys want to run your presidential campaign on the premise that the Bush years have kicked unequivocally large amounts of ass, then be my guest. But judging from public sentiment, this notion has no basis in, you know, reality.
Memeorandum has some hilariously overcharged responses from right-wingers who don't believe in Hope or Change, but also object to reality.
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So Obama (and his minions) think America sucks, and he wants to bring it back to what it was? First off, how is that looking to the future, using the failed Democrat ideas from the past? Second, when is he talking about? After all, in the last 25 years Obama graduated from Columbia, Harvard Law, spent time as a lawyer, lectured at the University of Chicago Law school, was elected to the Illinois state senate, was elected to the U.S. Senate, and is running for President. Does the U.S. suck for Obama because his poll numbers are dropping, and he got caught being a sleazy Chicago politician by his unwarranted playing of the race card against McCain? When were the good times to Obama, two weeks ago?
Morrissey is right; Obama is selling Despair.
Posted by: SteveIL | August 07, 2008 at 08:12 PM
Failed "Democratic ideas?" Ha ahahahahaha
Yes, Bush has truly brought us into the light.
Posted by: teh nutroots | August 07, 2008 at 09:58 PM
PS. So how's the Kool-Aid taste today? Fine?
Posted by: teh nutroots | August 07, 2008 at 10:00 PM
"PS. So how's the Kool-Aid taste today? Fine?"
You tell me.
Posted by: SteveIL | August 07, 2008 at 10:21 PM