Posted by
Mike Silverman on Friday, August 08, 2008 8:42:09 AM
I have to wonder if Obama understands that as the candidate of one of the 2 largest political machines in the country his words actually have gravity on individual lives. I suspect he thinks its all a political show, Obama's Progressive Circus. I really think he doesn't see the danger of saying stupid things while being looked at as a possibly the next leader of the free world. Or, he doesn't care, as long as he wins. Tire inflation issue aside, this is a reckless trend. Someone has got to tell Obama that his words can prompt some people to alter thier behavior in dangerous ways. For someone in his position to be telling people to take specific actions , the real consequence of which he knows little or nothing about is a dangerous thing. But it does point out one very obvious thing, Obama is a standard bearing card carrying modern incarnation of the progressive-liberal. He approaches governance from the perspective that the country needs to be micro-managed, that every man woman and child needs to be instructed in the day to day process of simply living thier lives, such as being told to keep tires properly inflated. This is NOT THE JOB OF THE PRESIDENT!! FOR GOODNESS SAKE! People should be scared that a man in his position looks at such a topic as a vital set of information to give to the public. I was listening to Newt Gingrich on fox news radio this week saying that Cheneny is an icon of the past and should not be speaking at the Convention. I have to disagree with Newt. I think Newt is great with the drill here, drill now, movement, but he's become a somewhat tamped down Conservative. Ever since he began spouting his line about the era of Regan being over and needing to move on, I and probably a lot of other Movement Conservatives have had a problem with him. Dick Cheney is highly admired among Conservatives, he's an absolutely no nonsense hard-hitting pillar of Conservative values who epitomizes the phrase "straight talk" and could teach McCain a thing or two about how to take the fight to the Democrats withering under Pelosi's so-called leadership. We should love to have Cheney speak at the convention. Unfortunately, McCain has bought what the liberal Democrats are selling. Liberals have despised Cheney forever and have taken every opportunity to lie about him, lie about Haliburton, and to demonize this great man. It seems that McCain is allowing his Democrat opponents to set the tone of the convention and to determine who will speak there. McCain is being naive... in the sense of being a Democrat dupe... quite frankly... if he snubs Cheney. This will not sit well with Movement Conservatives, If this happens it's just another finger in the eye of the Conservative Movement that McCain can not really afford. If McCain had any political guts at all, any at all...he'd say "to hell with liberals and media who hate Cheney, he's speaking at the convention". That would show courage, it would show fire and defiance of the liberal press, and make Conservatives cheer the position. But , it's not likely to happen. McCain will continue to do the wrong thing and will dis the Bush administration at key events in order to play his sycohpant harp for the left leaning elitists.
- Mike Silverman