the latest obama meme

[.Morticia.]

as soon as the people are tired of some particular piece of rubbish journalism there is more provided

gives them little time to reflect on the facts

U.S. Stung By Latest Undercover Sting
Exposing the truth about Barack Obama's presidency
A. Barton Hinkle | March 15, 2011




The nation was left reeling yesterday by the revelation that the presidential election of 2008 was a hoax. The shocking announcement came when White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters that Barack Obama has been working in secret with conservative provocateur James O'Keefe since 2007.

The long-running hoax is the most elaborate yet in a series of recent sting operations by primarily right-of-center gadflies that have embarrassed organizations including ACORN, Planned Parenthood, and National Public Radio.

Those stunts, as well as the prank call to Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin that was captured on tape last month, proved to be sources of personal or institutional embarrassment. Historians warned yesterday that the latest caper may inspire a sense of national shame.

Origins of a hoax

Carney said the scam entailed pulling together demographic, social, cultural, and policy characteristics to create the most exaggerated Democratic candidate possible without stepping over the line into caricature.

"By combining empty, touchy-feely slogans like 'hope' and 'change' with far-left-wing policy planks and presenting them in the person of a racial minority from a major Midwest city with an Ivy League background, we thought we might be able to make a good showing in Iowa and New Hampshire, maybe even capture the Democratic nomination," Carney told reporters. "But the entire country? No. We never, ever for even a second imagined the American people would elect someone who had served only half a term in the U.S. Senate to be the leader of the entire free world."

Obama won the presidency with 52.9 percent of the popular vote, defeating Republican nominee John McCain, who received 45.7 percent.

"All you guys in the press were so giddy about it," Carney continued, "we couldn't really just announce that the whole thing was a big fat joke, you know? I mean, how would that look?"

Contacted by phone, O'Keefe said he, too, was surprised the hoax had lasted as long as it did.

"I thought people would catch on in the early days, like with the clinging-to-guns stuff," said O'Keefe, referring to an incident at a San Francisco fundraiser in which candidate Obama said small-town Americans "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them."

O'Keefe said he also expected the ruse would be unmasked when Obama said that "under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket," and again when Obama claimed, "I've now been in 57 (U.S.) states," with "one left to go."

"We modeled the 57-states gaffe on Dan Quayle's 'potatoe' mistake," said O'Keefe, referring to a 1992 incident at a Trenton, N.J., elementary school in which then-Vice President Dan Quayle added an "e" to "potato." "We figured Obama would become a national laughingstock like Quayle, (but we) underestimated the tendency of the press and the public to forgive mistakes by people they like."

Worldwide deceit

Victims of the fabrication stretch around the globe. "President" Obama has held numerous meetings with foreign heads of state, among them Chinese President Hu Jintao, leaders of NATO and the G8, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee also was taken in, awarding Obama the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2009—only months after he had taken office and just weeks before he announced an escalation of the war in Afghanistan.

and more blah here .... http://reason.com/archives/2011/03/15/u ... undercover

[Geoff]

The onion does it better!

I do like this bit, though:

...may inspire a sense of national shame.

As if the merkins didn't have enough people doing that!

[hadespussercats]

Since when is Obama far-left, policy-wise?

This shit is tiresome.

[sandinista]

Since when is Obama far-left, policy-wise?

This shit is tiresome.

Far left? obama isn't leftist in any sense of the word.

[Ian]

Since when is Obama far-left, policy-wise?

This shit is tiresome.

Far left? obama isn't leftist in any sense of the word.

I agree. It's because too many people don't know the difference between a liberal and a leftist. And recently, Obama's credentials as a liberal are a little dubious.

[JOZeldenrust]

Since when is Obama far-left, policy-wise?

This shit is tiresome.

Far left? obama isn't leftist in any sense of the word.

I agree. It's because too many people don't know the difference between a liberal and a leftist. And recently, Obama's credentials as a liberal are a little dubious.

Both are relative terms, and relative to some elements in the American political landscape, Obama is both a liberal and a leftist, but then again if you go comparing things to the Tea Party, even Donald Rumsfeld is a liberal leftist.

Personally I'd like American policy to be quite a lot more leftist then it is now. I think Obama is about as liberal as I would like him to be, but he's not nearly effective enough in his liberal policies: I believe he wants to close down Gitmo, trouble is he's not getting it done.