Thursday, February 21, 2008

Are we finally going to get a reality check on Obama?

I've been saying it from the beginning - makings of a charismatic leader; Presidential material...some day; incredible orator; a good man with promise in politics...but not ready, not seasoned, not experienced and not capable of being the leader of the USA...yet. But some of my friends even, seem to be drinking the Cool-aid. People who I have long respected losing all sense of scrutiny or reality and following this "movement" blindly...without pause...without the tough questions. And something that is REALLY driving me crazy. Why does no one mention that Obama has two different "accents" if you will, when he speaks? One is when he has a rather large black audience and the other when he doesn't? He draws out his vowels and drops ends of words and sounds like a preacher with one audience and then in other crowds he sounds like an elitist from Illinois. I'll tell you why...no one wants to be perceived as a racist. But that has nothing to do with race - if he were John Edwards and did the same thing, I would be all over that too. Jesse Jackson never put on one voice for one group and another voice for someone else. And by the way, Jesse is the type of senior statesman I could rally behind. But sorry folks, Obama isn't convincing me in the least. Indeed I begin to look more and more seriously at John McCain as this momentum keeps swinging with Obama.

I hope that it is changing tho. I hope it is not too late for Hillary. I hope the facade is beginning to wear thin. It looks like the media is finally coming to their senses at least:

From the AFP written by Jintendra Joshi
Some Obama supporters fret already that his campaign has the trappings of a messianic cult, as thousands upon thousands pack auditoriums to bask in his uplifting oratory.
"Obamaphilia has gotten creepy," Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein wrote. "The best we Obamaphiles can do is to refrain from embarrassing ourselves."
In an article headlined "The Obama Delusion," Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson said the senator "seems to have hypnotized much of the media and the public with his eloquence and the symbolism of his life story."
"The result is a mass delusion that Obama is forthrightly engaging the nation's major problems when, so far, he isn't."

Come back to reality folks...please...

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