Nasty Article about Obama from the Town Hall

ChossidMom

Wed, Jul 30 2008, 2:35 pm

New Slogans For Barack Obama
Ben Shapiro
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Barack Obama's messianic tour of Europe is over. And, like J3sus, he has risen again -- in the polls. According to Gallup's daily tracking poll, Obama is now up 8 percent among registered voters. According to Rasmussen, his lead is a whopping three points. (According to USA Today/Gallup, John McCain actually leads Obama among likely voters by 4 percent. But God knows that Yoshke' poll numbers are always vacillating, too.)

Obama has it all. All except for one thing: a new slogan. Hope and change are all well and good, but they seem tired. After a year and a half, hope and change begin to wear thin, despite the Holy One's profound enunciation of those shallow incantations.

And so I, a humble member of a planet dedicated to the glory and power of Barack Obama, offer the following suggestions:

When Experience, Knowledge and Honor Just Aren't Good Enough. Vote Obama.

Hope. Change. And All That Other BS. Vote Obama.

More Experience Than a Fifth Grader. Vote Obama.

Standing Up For the Power of Horse Manure. Vote Obama.

Talking Big. Doing Nothing. Vote Obama.

This Election Is All About You. Voting for Me. Vote Obama.

Sure, I Remember Voting In the Senate That One Time. Vote Obama.

Kim Jung Il, Hamas and Fidel Castro Can't Be Wrong. Vote Obama.

Pass the Arugula. Vote Obama.

You Say Corrupt Land Deal. I Say Creative Financing. Potaytoe, Potahtoe. Vote Obama.

Like Black People? Vote Obama.

The Man With The Iraq Plan. Yeah, The Plan That Didn't Work. So What, Racist? Vote Obama.

Flag Pins Are Stupid. But I'm Not Unpatriotic. You Racist. Vote Obama.

Don't Like My Pastor? Shut Up, Racist. Still Don't Like Him? I Guess I Don't, Either. Vote Obama.

Watch the Oceans Recede. Watch the World Make Peace. And Watch As I Saw This Woman In Half! Vote Obama.

Fooling All of the People All of the Time. Vote Obama.

Cut Military Funding. Dictators Are Nice. Vote Obama.

Yes We Can. Or Rather, I Can. Vote Obama.

Barack Obama will not adopt any of these slogans any time soon, I admit. But here's the irony -- he could adopt such slogans and still win the election. That's because his followers do not hear a word he says. They watch him wave his arms; they scream and cheer as he fist-bumps his wife; they keel over in the aisles when he coughs, and jump up and down when he sneezes. He's part Neville Chamberlain, part Rolling Stones. His devotees are all moonstruck teenyboppers.

Back in March, Obama spoke in Wisconsin. "People question if words matter," he thundered. "Words do matter. Words challenge us to reach higher. Words are a catalyst for change and words motivate us to chase our dreams." Obama was wrong. When it comes to his campaign, words don't matter in the slightest. Obama could perform mime, and his followers would applaud wildly. All that matters is the Obama persona. And that persona doesn't rely on words, ideas or policies. It relies on stupidity. And where his followers are concerned, stupidity is in no short supply.

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soldat

Wed, Jul 30 2008, 3:10 pm

there's a lawn sign in my neighberhood where they make obama look like a rock star. I can't stand it.

Ben Shapiro is one of the youngest columnists ever, I think he's like 23.

ChossidMom

Wed, Jul 30 2008, 3:15 pm

But he sure writes well! I think he just got married, btw. I believe I read that in one of his articles (maybe in the Jerusalem Post).

HindaRochel

Wed, Jul 30 2008, 3:18 pm

Chossid Mom either you are being facetious or you haven't been checking out political blogs.
You should see what they've been saying about Mccain.
This is basically a nothing.
Politics is a bitter game and I wish it would rise higher, but it probably won't. Winner take all and truth doesn't matter, and who the heck cares what someone really does as long as what they say can be said in three sentences or less and it sounds pretty. Honor the sound bite. The USA is headed for the toilet and I think McCain can slow the descent, my personal feeling, but it is going down. I know, doomsday and all. But I do think the Moshiach is close and I hope I am right, because what I fear, well it can happen there.

Like GR my vote is for the Moshiach now.

freidasima

Wed, Jul 30 2008, 3:20 pm

My father a"h used to say that when the only answer that Yidden have is "G-d will help" (He used to say it in yiddish), we are in gehokte zurris...

Same goes when our only vote is for Moshiach...

HindaRochel

Wed, Jul 30 2008, 3:22 pm

I think that is the shape we are in. Pessimistic maybe, but from where I sit, that's what I see.

ChossidMom

Wed, Jul 30 2008, 3:23 pm

I wasn't being facetious embarrassed

I'm not that politically well informed. I never registered, this time around. So, noone will be getting my vote in November. Also, I'm too busy hanging out on Imamother and don't get to read political blogs...

I'm willing to vote for Moshiach, though Very Happy

gryp

Wed, Jul 30 2008, 3:26 pm

Quote:

The USA is headed for the toilet and I think McCain can slow the descent, my personal feeling, but it is going down. I know, doomsday and all. But I do think the Moshiach is close and I hope I am right, because what I fear, well it can happen there.

Like GR my vote is for the Moshiach now.

I'm giving you a thumbs-up, HindaRochel. Compress

supermom

Mon, Aug 04 2008, 3:14 am

My thumbs are up to hinda rochel too.

HindaRochel

Mon, Aug 04 2008, 3:20 am

ChossidMom wrote:

I wasn't being facetious embarrassed

Believe me, that article isn't nasty.
Politics are a nasty business, and has always been a nasty business. You should see the things that have and are being said about McCain.

Ugh. Always makes you want to take a bath; which is not good at this point 8)

HooRYou

Mon, Aug 04 2008, 3:36 am

You all got it right.

Voting for Moshiach!!! no one else can do the job!

mama-star

Mon, Aug 25 2008, 11:52 pm

ha ha! I just found this thread and wanted to add, I know a chossid who cast his last vote sometime in the 70's. he wrote in the lubavitcher rebbe for president.