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"Obama's latest ad: The Promised Prince"

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Anonymous Fidelo said...

Yikes! "Country I Love" sounds like the title of a new Toby Keith CD. I guess the Obama campaign is betting on people believing whatever they see on television.

Perhaps it's to McCain's advantage that he doesn't have several hundred million dollars to throw away -- spares him the temptation to produce TV ads that attempt to establish his street cred.

6/20/08, 4:17 PM

Anonymous Crispin said...

Steve, are you familiar with the Amy Macdonald song, Poison Prince?

6/20/08, 4:55 PM

Anonymous SKT said...

Good critique. A brutal and damning indictment of Obama, and a well deserved one.

6/20/08, 7:12 PM

Blogger American Goy said...

You know, here's what I figure.

The powers that be noticed (hard not to) that 'W' bush is a complete boob, a step above a village idiot.

He has really damaged the reputation and perception of the USA around the world.

This image needs repairing, and the best PR specialists in the world are on the case.

It was between a woman and a black man - and whoever won, the perceptions of America would be changed just by the virtue of a woman or a black man becoming president.

... Meanwhile, the policies of America will stay the same.

Every time Obama opens his mouth, the 'same old, same old' politics spew out. AIPAC is a great example - his speech at AIPAC was beyond pandering - it was pandering taken to the extreme extreme.

But that is just one example (and one I bring up because that is the focus of my blog). But lately there have been many others - FISA anyone?

Watch the apologists spin it and explain it that "gee, you need to say this BS just to get elected but once elected, THEN...".

Yeah, and I got a bridge in Brooklyn for yah - cheap!


Here's my theory - after 'W' bush, Americans are enamored with a politician who can speak eloquently and in complete, proper English sentences.

Look how far we have fallen - before, we used to say "Don't listen to the politician - look at his actions!".

Or, simpler, "bulls**t walks, money walks".

And now, we are all gaga over a guy because he is a great speaker.

....

Sigh...

Americans - that is the MINIMUM we should demand of our president.

6/20/08, 7:45 PM

Anonymous Peter said...

Sorry for changing the subject, but you should do a piece on the "pregnancy pact" among high school girls in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Seventeen girls at Gloucester High have gotten pregnant this year, most of them 15-year-old sophomores, and as far as can be determined they've done so intentionally. It also seems as if a 25-year-old homeless man "serviced" most of the girls.

No word about the race of the girls, though the school is 95% white.

6/20/08, 9:47 PM

Blogger J. said...

If Obama"s books are boring, why is Steve Sailer so obsessed with them?

6/20/08, 9:49 PM

Anonymous Paul K. said...

I don't know if anyone else is as compulsive about following the links as I am. The link at "low-rent newsletter sweatshop" is worth pursuing. It further reinforces the impression of Obama as a complete phony.

Some weeks ago Steve blogged about how an artist is only considered great if he has a "story." That seems to be the same case in presidential politics. People want soap opera. The Obama narrative managed to beat the Hillary narrative, though just barely. Will the McCain narrative beat the Obama narrative? At this point, who really cares? It appears that from now on it's going to be impossible to get a normal, competent person elected to the presidency. Gotta be high-concept!

6/20/08, 11:05 PM

Anonymous dearieme said...

Oh no! Pajama is a politician! Will he march out of the mountains of Wales flying the Dragon Banner? Only metaphorically.

6/20/08, 11:36 PM

Anonymous Cabrolet said...

Excellent piece of writing here, Steve Sailer. Amazing stuff. Obama's candidacy is a sham. The entire Obama phenomenon is stagecraft taking to an unprecedented level.

Check out candidate Obama standing behind the brand new and highly Orwellian Obama Seal (Presidential Seal re-engineered) in the photo at Drudge tonight. It's very disturbing. Drudge is leaving the photo up for a reason: the photo is off-the-charts "cult of personality". The E Pluribus Unum has also been reworked.....what a huge mistake by team Obama.

But I am sorry to read that you, Steve, feel Obama has "superlative verbal skills". The fact is that - when Obama is not reading from a teleprompter - his verbal dexterity is chock full of awkward uh's and ah's, and an eruption of non sequiturs and bogus, nonsensical conclusions flow from his mind. Live debate is not Obama's strong suit.

The great shame here is that conservatives - or anybody opposing the radical left - have no one but Sen. John McCain to oppose this weakling Obama. This past week Obama got his assed kicked on the oil drilling issue. Obama is Jimmy Carter redux, but even more self-absorbed.

6/20/08, 11:59 PM

Blogger Danindc said...

If Obama"s books are boring, why is Steve Sailer so obsessed with them?

C'mon "J"...if that is your real name- Steve writes about Obama because he may be the next President....if you're going to be the trolling contrarian (which is fine btw) you have to come up with something better than that, don't you? Maybe not.

Obama is a fascinating dude that I think has a 35% chance to pull one over on the public and get elected. can you imagine this guy beating a POW/war hero/protypical president....aside from the details it's fairly amazing/disturbing....I know my Grandpappy is rolling over in his urn (he wanted cremation-we protested, he was adamant)...fairly funny link to prospective first ladies

http://www.rumproast.com/index.php/site/comments/a_late_night_quiz_at_no_quarter/

We'll see what happens

6/21/08, 12:04 AM

Anonymous rightsaidfred said...

Sometimes we're asked, "do you want the truth, or a lie that gives you hope?" I guess in Obama we're getting the lie.

6/21/08, 4:19 AM

Blogger Concerned said...

For the most part, I agree w/"American Goy." This is a total fix. But I disagree that previous presidents were all that superior. Most of them weren't that much, except for the first few.

6/21/08, 4:57 AM

Blogger KingM said...

All of this is true, yet I still think his background is more common than any of these people:

George HW Bush
Ross Perot
George W. Bush
Al Gore
John Kerry
Hillary Clinton
John McCain

Prior to elective office, only Bill Clinton and Bob Dole came from an environment that was more typically American than these people's experiences. The rest of them were rich, related to famous people/politicians, etc.

6/21/08, 5:37 AM

Anonymous Martin said...

"KingM said...

All of this is true, yet I still think his background is more common than any of these people:

George HW Bush
Ross Perot
George W. Bush
Al Gore
John Kerry
Hillary Clinton
John McCain

Prior to elective office, only Bill Clinton and Bob Dole came from an environment that was more typically American than these people's experiences. The rest of them were rich, related to famous people/politicians, etc."

Huh? By the time anyone runs for president they - almost by definition - come from an unrepresentative situation (governor, senator, etc.). When he ran for Presdient, Bill Clinton had been a life-long denizen of government and habituee of state-granted power almost all his adult life. Bob Dole, the same.

Now if your talking about upbringing and family background, that's another matter. Then, yes, Bill Clinton and Bob Dole were fairly normal. So were Hillary Clinton and Ross Perot, whose fathers were a suburban Chicago businessman, and a Texas cotton broker, respectively.

Obama's upbringly is most emphatically not typical - left-wing perpetual-grad-student, absentee american mother, socialist neer-do-well absentee (and not just absentee, but absentee-for-life, complete AWOL) Kenyan father; raised in Hawaii and Indonesia. Educated at Harvard. Worked as a professional Race-Mau-Mauer in the Chicago ghetto. Yeah, just like Beaver Cleaver.

6/21/08, 11:27 AM

Blogger kurt said...

I saw this ad. I have to admit that it is quite brilliant and that, if it was his idea, that he is a brilliant guy. Not brilliant that his policy ideas are good, but brilliant in the sense that he is able to go about getting what he wants.

In other words, he is a brilliant politician.

6/21/08, 11:40 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

iSteve:

Thanks for reading BHO's books so I don't need to.

J -- lighten up brother! Your saviour is ahead in the pools. Enjoy! It may not last (though I expect it will) which will keep iSteve busy for 4 to 8 years. ;)

6/21/08, 7:28 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Housekeeping:
Please add "Baroque O'Blarney" as one of the tags to this piece. I think Barry DOES have a sense of humour.

6/21/08, 7:32 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

@ carbrolet:

Finally, someone else has noticed Obama's prodigious use of "ahh", "uhh", "umm" in non-rehearsed discourse. His speeches are very effective and brilliantly crafted, from a literary standpoint. But the language of his interviews and debates pale in comparison. (I'm about to talk out of my ass, but oh well.) I think this may be a result of spending so much time as a "community organizer" a.k.a. socialist for inner city blacks and member of his black separatist church. He could not employ his Ivy League speech patterns with these people, for fear of alienating them and also due to them simply not comprehending what he's saying. Thus, his speech became a conglomerate of urban Ebonics slang and the language of the academic elite. Now, as a candidate, he no longer needs to appeal specifically to blacks (they'll vote for him no matter what). He must speak the language of politicians, which is polished and not unlike that spoken at Columbia and Harvard Law. Occasionally, he'll slip, like in one debate, he used the phrase "my brotha" or the fist bump he gave Michelle a few weeks ago. I also heard him on a rap radio station and his speech was much more relaxed and overlayed with a fake blackccent, not unlike that of Alicia Keys.

Anyone else notice this?

6/21/08, 7:43 PM

Anonymous Martin said...

"kurt said...

.....Not brilliant that his policy ideas are good, but brilliant in the sense that he is able to go about getting what he wants."

i.e., a capable sociopath.

6/21/08, 8:10 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Really well written... This one ought to leave a welt.

Bill Grant

6/22/08, 12:56 AM

Blogger The young fogey said...

Spot on!

I guess the Obama campaign is betting on people believing whatever they see on television.

What's scary is the campaign people are probably right about that.

6/23/08, 9:06 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

1983 would have been just after Wall Street shed its 70s "rainbow coalition" hiring for strict WASP/Jew (high merit or legacy) polo prestige. I think Michael Lewis made this point in liar's poker. Obama would have been viewed reflexively as an affirmative action baby with a non-qualifying name. Steve, you've proved it; Obama is less than meets the eye. But Bobby Jindal convinces me once and for all that a hispanic looking second generation can rise to the top and contribute.

6/23/08, 12:08 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"In other words, he is a brilliant politician."

are you kidding? He doesn't write his own speeches or ads. I doubt he even contributes thought, considering how empty his words are when he's on his own.
Many of the people running the show are ex-Clinton campaigners, and speechwriters (one is a young white guy whose name begins with an "F" but damned if I can remember it. I've been googling. Anyway, O is not brilliant. He's intelligent enough, and as we've seen in the last 8 years, that's more than it takes. Anyway, he won't be running much. The Brzezinski machine, almost the same one that did the Carter administration, wants this extraordinarily compromised individual in office (I won't go into details as they always get deleted.) The embarassingly fawning press--well, what do you expect, all owned by a couple of owned people--writes nothing but fairy tales about him. Camelot my butt. He's half black and seems to identify as African. Let him get them get theirown fairy tales. Camelot belongs to those Europeans to whom he owes so much and acknowledges so little. Leave freakin' Camelot alone. He is no King Arthur and that Mrs. O is no Gwenevere.
That theme might make good non-pc cartoons though.

6/25/08, 5:50 AM

Blogger Ben said...

You have done a great job of attacking Obama's mom. However, she is not running for president.

7/3/08, 11:08 AM

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