Hey, Barack, Hillary Only Suspended Her Campaign
By Frank Salvato
August 1, 2008
In the turbulent wake left by Barack Obama's world tour - his campaign to be loved by all, less a significant percentage of the American people - it seems something has slipped the minds of David Axelrod and David Plouffe; Hillary Clinton didn't quit her campaign, she suspended it. This becomes increasingly significant as more Americans - more Democrats, Progressive-Leftists and especially Democrat superdelegates - realize that Barack Obama is less about substance and more about marketing; more about "flash."
In light of the shameful snubbing (web site) Barack Obama inflicted upon the wounded US military personnel at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, it is painfully clear that he is not the candidate of "change." If anything he is this election cycle's version of the status quo; a hybrid of inflated rhetoric and Madison Avenue glitz. He offers hollow bumper-sticker catchphrase solutions ("yes we can," "hope," and "change") to political, social and ideological problems he is ill-equipped to address professionally. This is the typical trade-craft of a political operative possessing an extremely limited political resume.
Those not blinded by the "bright, shiny thing" - the distractions of the hollow rhetoric and media marketing - understand that Obama is a political creation of the Chicago Democrat Machine; the Chicago Daley Machine. He is a slickly choreographed media tool meant to reinvent the image of the Democrat Party for the 21st Century. The first clue to this reality is the fact that his main campaign handler (some would say "puppet master") is David Axelrod, (web site) a longtime strategist for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, who fancies himself a "strategist in urban politics." More recently, proof of the Chicago connection can be seen in the fact that the DNC moved a major portion of its operations to Chicago. (web site)
Truth be told, an investigative reporter for a junior high school newspaper could divine the fact that while Obama's marketing team has successfully packaged the candidacy of Barack Obama as the "secular second-coming," he is, truthfully, just another product - another political operative - of the Chicago political machine. Even for the dead who routinely vote in Chicago this comes as no surprise. But there is something taking everyone by surprise - even the dead in Chicago: Barack Obama is starting to buy into the facade created by his marketing gurus.
Former Bush political genius, Karl Rove, was perhaps the first strategist to recognize Obama's Achilles heel: vanity. Obama's arrogance grew as he rose through the primary field to square off against Hillary Clinton - and then as he assumed (the operative word for this article) the mantle of Democrat nominee for president. At first his arrogance came off as confidence, as good self-esteem, a quality that attracted the Liberal electorate. But as his arrogance grew, as his adoring masses nurtured his politically naïve belief that one politician, one elected official, can singularly change the everyday working of inside-the-beltway politics, that arrogance and misplaced confidence started to feed the beast of ego.
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