Backtracks, Waffles And The Development Of Personality

Oh, wow. Did he really say that this qualifies Barack Obama to be President of the United States?

Obama’s run for the job, his “life experiences” as Allah puts it, qualifies him? So, one asks, has Obama shed blood in the service of his country? Had his bones broken?

What absolute twaddle.

Obama has done a 180 on the surge as Allah notes and has abandoned all of the posturing that his party has done since 2006. He’s outright rejected the core beliefs of the hard left that has supported him and engineered his elevation to the nomination. In other words, he betrayed their support.

As opposed to having one’s bones broken in service to one’s country? His “personality development” looks an awful lot like opportunism, hubris and blind ego.

Life experiences? You be the judge.

Here, Have An Exploding Cigar

The American public has seen through the vicious media attacks on Sarah Palin as an attempt to help Barack Obama and to hurt Palin. This news from The Rasmussen Report is only the tip of the iceberg, however. While 42% of independents see Barack Obama qualified to be President, almost as many see Palin just as qualified for that job. And she’s not running for that office.

Over half of U.S. voters (51%) think reporters are trying to hurt Sarah Palin with their news coverage, and 24% say those stories make them more likely to vote for Republican presidential candidate John McCain in November.

Thirty-nine percent (39%) also believe the GOP vice presidential nominee has better experience to be president of the United States than Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

But 49% give Obama the edge on experience, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey – taken before Palin’s historic speech Wednesday night to the Republican National Convention.

While Republicans and Democrats predictably favor their party’s candidate by overwhelming margins, the experience gap among voters unaffiliated with either party is even narrower than the national totals. Forty-two percent (42%) say Obama has better experience to be president, but 37% say Palin does.

This is really bad news for Obama and even worse news for his pals in the media. You really have to read the rest of the results about the media bias to see how bad the news is for them.

This is the beginning of the backlash I predicted. It will not get better for the media or for Obama anytime soon. Palin did a spectacular job last night and I suspect these numbers are going to change - for the worse - for the media and for Obama himself.

Alarmingly Strong

No, it wasn’t just me, folks. Some honest people on the left are suddenly very, very afraid of Sarah Palin.

John Hinderaker notes the Associated Press response to Palin’s speech:

The Associated Press, a solidly Democratic institution, can’t deny that Sarah Palin socked it to the Dems tonight, as they headline: “Palin delivers star-turning performance at RNC.” The AP begins: “Sarah Palin delivered.” From there, they go on to do all they can to mitigate the basic point, describing Palin as “embattled,” and a “novice” who “lacked the soaring oratory skills of Obama.”

Which raises an interesting point: I really don’t believe the Republicans are smart enough to pull this off, but how can it be bad that our Vice-Presidential candidate is constantly being compared to the Dems’ Presidential candidate? More on this later.

The AP still holds out hope: “One speech does not a campaign make. … Even as she spoke, airplanes in Alaska were unloading reporters and political operatives sent to pore through her personal and public life.” It’s interesting, isn’t it? Where are the planeloads of “reporters and political operatives” poring through Barack Obama’s “personal and public life?” Those poor newspapers and other media organizations have been strapped for resources for so long that they just haven’t been able to look into Obama’s career and associations. Now, thankfully, planeloads of reporters have become available. Maybe when they’re done investigating Sarah Palin’s daughter’s boyfriend, do you think they will turn their attention to the Democrats’ nominee for President of the United States?

That was just a rhetorical question, of course. After all, news organizations have to have priorities!

I suspect the AP and other media allies of the Obama campaign are savvy enough to realize they have a real problem in Sarah Palin. People are going to like her. I can’t find a video link yet, but I’ll try to post one if it becomes available.