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WHEN BARACK PROMISED CHANGE, DID THAT MEAN HE CHANGED?

By Lionel

Progressives are in a vociferous snit. Barack Obama has not even uttered the word “progressive” and is now advocating (gulp) . . . wait, you’d better sit down first . . . federally funding religious-based initiatives and charities to encourage more involvement in government programs. Oh, my. These groups, Barry swears, won’t proselytize, mind you, but will just help out making the community the epicenter of his efforts to fortify this great land. Right. Evangelicals not proselytizing. Riiiggghhht.

It gets worse, my progressive brethren. Bam recently lamented the Supreme Court’s prohibition against the death penalty in child rape cases and heralded everybody’s favorite SCOTUS originalist Scalia in his majority opinion creating (hardly an originalist notion), that’s right, creating a right to possess firearms. This is the same Obama who apparently is either flip-flopping or (my preferred nuance) evolving on granting telecom immunity in new FISA legislation so as to permit retroactive review of past transgressions. (Don’t ask me what that means.) And let’s not forget throwing Reverend Wright, his spiritual guru and avuncular pal, under the bus and then backing up repeatedly over his twisted and contorted proverbial corpse. And, oh yes, his retreat from accepting public financing. Bam, we hardly knew ye.

And, while we’re on the subject of repudiation, don’t think for a moment that Wes Clark’s off the hook with his McCain comments about his dearth of commander-in-chiefness merely because he was shot down in Vietnam, captured and tortured daily for over five years. Remember, Wright was ditched when perceived wrong. Clark’s a (pardon the bad military pun) loose cannon. You won’t be hearing anything from General Wesley from now on. Trust me. He’ll be gone (or silenced, at least) faster than you can say “Samantha Power.”

This is the campaign of “isn’t.” McCain isn’t a conservative (so the conservatives claim) and he isn’t a progressive or a liberal or consistent for that matter. And Barry isn’t your cookie-cutter, prototypical progressive (or anti-regressive as I prefer). He isn’t a liberal or a radical or a Muslim or . . . whatever you think he promised not to be.

But here’s the kicker: What did Barack promise exactly? He only mentioned change initially. But I warned also initially that a vague, open-ended promise of change was not enough. I wanted specifics.

I wanted not change, but improvement. And it’ll, I submit, happen. Si se puede.

Obama in ’08.

HOW DARE YOU SAY THIS...

In case you have forgotten, there are rules to follow regarding the Obamessiah. Don't make me report you to the Obama Though Police:

With Obama we started out, we couldn't talk about his big ears 'cause that made him nervous, and when he gets nervous he can't read the teleprompter.

We've gone from that to this: Not only can we not mention his ears...

We can't talk about his mother.

We can't talk about his father.

We can't talk about his grandmother unless he does, and brings her up as a "typical white person."

We can't talk about his wife,
(If by "my wife" he means the shrill, dumb, trash-talking, bitter American hating female race hustler he might live with on his days off.)

We can't talk about his preacher (If by "my preacher" he means that blustering, conniving, ranting, spuming America-hating American-made millionaire that's spent decades ripping off the poor and credulous people of his parish.)

We can't talk about his terrorist friends, (If by "terrorists" you mean any of the bomb-making, baby-killing, homicidal religious maniacs in Gaza, Lebanon, or Iran with 'legitimate grievances.'")

We can't talk about his voting record (If by "voting record" you mean a record so vacant of actual positions, actual yes or no votes, that it would be a discussion that takes less time to sum up than this sentence takes to read.)

We can't talk about his religion, (If by his religion you mean a set of "theological" assumptions and rhetorical crapola that only the dead would think had the least thing to do with Christianity, and a lot to do with personal enrichment and power.).

We can't talk about appeasement because only Obama knows how to talk to troublemakers which is why crime in his home-base around Chicago is now nonexistent.

We can't talk about color; we can't talk about lack of color, because in the realm of the rainbow there is no color, only the clear blinding light of his innate radiance.

We can't talk about race because, well, really Obama has no race except when he does, and that's not for us to say, only Obama, only late at night, and only when meeting with white people, black people, or muslims privately at which time, like the Grand Chameleon, Obama assumes whatever race best suits his needs.

We can't talk about the bombers and mobsters who are his friends. They might still hold a mortgage and they certainly hold his markers. Besides Bill Ayers feels he still "hasn't done enough" and may have a bomb with your home address on it.

We can't talk about his schooling because he's proved "too cool for school."

We can't talk about his name, "Hussein."

"What did you say?"

"I said, we can't say 'Hussai.....'" BLAM!

We can't talk about his lack of experience in everything except a cult of personality that fits in better with the Politburo than with the Congress.

We can't talk about his income. Or his wife's income. Or their joint income. Or what might be left over in their campaign coffers when his fleecing of the rich, the white, the young, and the guilty is complete.

We can't talk about his flag pin and sing, "First there is no mountain, than there is a mountain, then there...."

We can't talk about his ignorance of American geography because he's tired.

We can't talk about his ignorance of recent American history because he's weary.

Above all, we can't say that he is a liberal, but it is still okay to say, for at least 48 hours more, that he's like JFK with a tan and stick-out ears. (Strike that last thing about the ears because, remember....)

It started out we just couldn't talk about his ears.

Now we can't say anything about him.

So just shut up.