Obama, Paris, Britney, and Brangelina
My syndicated column this week riffs on the Brangelina-fication of the Obamas post I did the other day. Read the column here; original post here.
Looks like the McCain camp was on the same wavelength. The McCain camp and I on the same page for once? Yes, it’s true! They released an ad called “Celeb” mocking Obama as the biggest, emptiest celebrity in the world and taking on Obama’s opposition to offshore drilling:
Good stuff.
Well, except for the part about McCain’s own weak, flip-flop-flippy record on drilling.
Sigh.
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Allahpundit on the “Celeb” ad: “Surprisingly savvy.”
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Well MM, I don’t mind a flip flop if the latest stance is the right one. Honestly, McAmnesty needs to flip flop on immigration. He might be worth voting for if he would call on strong enforcement of our immigration laws.
Quite a 5 card draw.
And then there was this. Idiot take one step forward and then 50 back. McJoke.
Sure, John Ansell, a flip flop on immigration would be nice. But would you believe him?
Among my problems with McCain is that he’s been trying for so long that I decided he was a wanker a decade ago, no longer remember precisely why, and nothing he’s done since has changed my mind. How can he possibly get on my good side when I can’t even remember why I don’t like him?
It is a sad day in America that people are so blind to just how vacuous Obama and his campaign are.
He’s more empty than a Twinkies wrapper at fat camp.
Celebrities — Ask Me If I Really Care
Yes, with his own press core you would think that someone would have snapped a picture when he was smoking.
We got nothing over the Romans..
well,, HD TV and wireless, OK…
and Jenny Craig.
Celebs are human too yaknow
(don’t tell the celebs that)
Perhaps, just like Britney, or Lohan, obummer wil end up being a flash in the pan. When the newsworthiness dries up, hopefully, he will to. Can it happen by November?
Dear Michelle,
If I were to harness the combined mental power of the people you listed, I’d be able to toast bread — lightly.
Signed,
Alex P. Keaton
*out*
Obama Smoking? Scroll down, Sambo and you’ll see a lot of pictures on Newt’s Wally blog.
Some good ones of Soros too.
When you have lemons, make lemonade. Obama is far more popular than McCain, so the McCain campaign criticizes Obama for being the more successful politician. McCain also blames Obama for high gas prices and complains that Obama refuses to take symbolic steps that dirty our country without making much difference on gas prices.
John McCain, the politician who acts like one!
Thanks John, I’ll have to wait till I get home to look though. I hope theres a good one I can use to make a poster out of for when I attend my first Obama rally.
Well at least you’re not totally stupid. You know it will make a difference.
So says the adolescent geezer. You really are a bore.
Years ago, there was an old tale in the Marine Corps about a lieutenant who inspected his Marines and told the
“Gunny” that they smelled bad. The lieutenant suggested that they change their underwear. The Gunny responded,
“Aye, aye, sir, I’ll see to it immediately”. He went into the tent and said, “The lieutenant thinks you guys smell bad,
and wants you to change your underwear. Smith, you change with Jones, McCarthy, you change with Witkowskie,
Brown, you change with Schultz. Get to it”.
The moral: A candidate may promise change in Washington but don’t count on things smelling any better.
Might want to go look up the word deranged again…
Yeah, because drilling in the north slope for the last 30 years in Alaska has been so “dirty” so far that no inhabitable life will ever exist there for centuries to come. And increasing the supply of a product certainly won’t decrease the price, I mean it’s not like it’s simple economics or anything. /sarc
Obama is the one that doesn’t mind gas prices being so high. He just wanted to see it go up more gradually, instead of so quickly. Oh. And, he wants government to intervene on industry more. Can’t leave out the nanny state aspect of it.
The idea of positioning the candidate as a celebrity goes back to the Clinton campaign of 1992. Before then, it would have been considered below the dignity of a presidential contender to go on MTV or a late night chat show that typically hosts entertainers. Then Bubba surrounded himself with the beautiful people to the point where he thought he was one of them and they thought they were cool Washington insiders.
The same thing is happening with Obama now, just with a different generation. The man is all sizzle and no steak.
Michelle, Your column referred to Brad and Angelina’s daughter Shiloh. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have a daughter named Shiloh. I think that is who you are referring to.
John McCain has been running great ads, mocking the hype around Obama and concentrating on the Dems’ nonsolutions to the energy crisis.
To me, he is running a good campaign so far, which is why the polls are turning around.
Americans, to a certain extent, fall for hype but then almost always rebel against it when it becomes ridiculous. And Barack Hussein Obama is a ridiculous figure. Mocking the MSM is also effective, and McCain has been doing that, which I like. It is something President Bush never did, unfortunately.
I wish the McCain campaign would also start exposing Barack Hussein Obama’s past communist connections.
Finally looks like McCain has grown some balls. Now if we can just get more ads like this one.
Popularity makes you a successful politician? Somebody better tell GW, he’s gotta be our most successful politician yet! Yay!
Without a strong conservative leadership, which the Repubs are sorely lacking, I’m afraid we’re screwed in ‘08 and beyond.
Well, McAmnesty was in SF yesterday, “praising Gore and Pelosi”, so whatev…..
It seems there is nothing he won’t do to go out of his way to pander to the left and, insodoing, to insult conservatives.
Oh, and Marc, the Cruise kid’s name is, “Suri”. Shiloh is Brangelina’s.
A good read on Mccain!
As a woman who spent two years as a voice major at the Chicago Academy for the Arts in the 1980’s(I think I received 30 seconds of “fame”)and who’s a high-functional autistic, I’m totally unimpressed by celebrity.
I couldn’t care less.
That Obama is a shyster Marxist politician with a wife who still thinks that she suffered “discrimination”…THAT I care about.
A good read on Mccain!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080730/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_town_meeting_2
Successful politician? Most definitely. Successful legislator? Not so much.
I wouldn’t be too excited to hold Obama up as a “successful politician,” since most of his supporters love that he’s supposedly NOT one.
starlightwoman said (#22):
It takes courage to throw off those shackles of truth. McCain has the strength of character to hurl lies at Obama the way monkeys hurl ****.
I don’t think you should use “Obama” and “monkeys” in the same sentence, especially that close together. Someone might call you a racist or something.
Most of us know that you are infatuated with Obama but your casual reader from DU, Kos, HuffiPo, etc. that passes through here might not know who you are.
Jus’ sayin’.
lgm said:
Easy with the slavery and anthropological lingo there, my liberal bro. You don’t want to be getting a call from the ‘Justice Brothers.’
As of 13:55, MSNBC is criticizing the ad as wrong. Gee, isn’t that a surprise…
I sent Bill Hobbs my idea on the “Your brain on Obama” PSA I mentioned on some other thread a few days ago. He e-mailed back and said he likes it. I’m hoping to see video of it in the coming days.
Now, now… you need to save that kind of talk for your biography
We’ll cut and paste every one of your posts on the history of this blog and send it to you so you can fit it into your book as supporting evidence 
Oops! I am not quite in the loop on the Brangelina-Tomkat kids. Thought I knew it all!
Tom Cruise’s spawn of Xenu is named Suri. As far as I know, she doesn’t have fringe on top.
If McCain had the slightest bit of political savvy, he’d go to ANWR, see that it’s a wasteland and then make this statement:
“I have been opposed to drilling here because I was of the belief that it would be the same as drilling in the Grand Canyon or the Everglades, both national treasures that attract legions of tourists to visit. However, while the Grand Canyon hosts and average of five million visitors per year, last year the ANWR had only 880 visitors, an average of less than 2-1/2 people per day. There are no roads or resorts or attractions to visit.
As much as I share the desire of many to preserve as much of our wilderness in their pristine state, there are other concerns we have as a nation. Our economy is experiencing a slowdown and the cost of energy is hurting American families on a daily basis. They feel it when they pump gas, buy an airline ticket, buy groceries, or even order a pizza. The cost of energy is soaring due to the basic forces of supply and demand and as a global economy competes for limited resources, the price goes up.
While we must endeavor to develop new, clean alternatives to petroleum and dirty coal, we need to also expand our current supplies because the transition to the energies of the future won’t occur overnight and energy is needed now. It makes no sense to send $700 billion a year overseas to countries, many of whom do not like the United States, when we have untapped resources right here in America. It would be like living on a farm, but going to the supermarket for food and complaining about the prices.
Drilling in ANWR would only affect an area of about 2000 acres – the size of Dulles Airport in Washington D.C. It would create an estimated minimum of 250,000 well-paying jobs for American workers with the possibility of three times that. Polls show that 75% of Alaskans support drilling. Since they live here, they obviously are interested in protecting their environment and if they believe drilling can be done in an environmentally-sound manner, who are we in the Lower 48 states to tell them they are wrong?
My opponent and the Democrats have repeatedly blocked sensible proposals that would enhance our national security and provide relief to our citizens’ wallets and pocketbooks. They say that no benefits would come from drilling for a decade, but in the past few week we’ve seen the price of a barrel of oil fall $25 just because President Bush rescinded the Executive Order blocking offshore drilling. Not one more drop of oil has actually been produced, but the market has already responded, bringing a small measure of relief to American families. Imagine how much more the price will come down when we actually bring our natural resources to market.
It’s easy to be stubborn and do nothing rather than have to admit you were originally wrong. Just as I stood up to demand a change in the course of the Iraq War, supporting the surge that has brought us to within victory’s grasp; the surge my opponent refused to support and to this day refuses to acknowledge worked; I am now standing up to what I believed, but now I know was incorrect. My opponents will portray this change as a flip-flop or a cave-in to special interests like Big Oil. Neither could be farther from the truth, but I don’t care what insults they launch at me because I know this change will help America’s families, her economy, and her all-important national security.
While I have made a life delivering Straight Talk®, I have also heard the straight talk of you, the American people. You want us to tap our resources and be less reliant on uncertain foreign energy supplies. I have heard the people and I have visited ANWR and now I believe that to not extract the benefits or our God-given resources from our own lands would be a dereliction of duty that I could not bear to let occur to the land that I love so dearly and have acted as a humble servant to my whole life.
Thank you, and God bless America.”
But he’s not smart; he’s not savvy; he’s “freaked out about global warming”; and he’s in thrall to the Treason Media’s environmental extremism and antipathy to capitalism.
That speech and those actions would turn the tide for McCain and the Stupid Party. People would rally to their colors because they’d finally be acting in the interests of the people and nation and not their own timid self-interests.
That’s why we’re sooooooooooooo screwed.
lgm
Modern drilling has a minimal impact on the environment. Again, I understand your point and agree that we need to oversee and protect open spaces whether 5 ofr 5 million people visit but to ban drilling completely is irrational and only increases our reliance on foreign oil sources.
Much better.
To work with your analogy though….really, if thats the case, then McCain is just throwing back what Obama has been feeding the public since he started campaigning.
That seems fair to me then. Let the poo-flinging continue!
If only we could see him do something like that. But, alas…
The only thing Obamessiah want’s to drill is the same thing all Dimocraps want to drill.
Dirk, you just wrote a great McCain speech! You should post it as a comment on his site.
Why? To only have it ignored?
It was a good speech. But, I don’t foresee anything like that coming out of McCain’s mouth, while standing in ANWR or anywhere else.
What, Edwards’ mistress?
No thanks, she’s definitely a Monet.
There you all go again. Picking on smokers. Just like the liberals you berate for ‘knowing what is best for you’, we just happen to be one of the last groups you can pick on. As Jim White used to say on KMOX radio, ‘Save me from the good people.’
I smoke in private, my house, my car, outdoors, not around you – so get a life and move on.
-lgm
Fixed it for ya.
And I don’t know how a math teacher can justify calling 4 or 5% margin between the candidates as Obama being “far more popular”. Hell, some polls show as little as 2% difference. Perhaps you were referring to how they are treated by the media.
mom2jack, if Team McCain is so bereft of ideas and sound thinking that they need a pseudonymous Internet poster to hand them a clue, then we’re in even bigger trouble than initially thought.
Sadly, McCain is a believer in ManBearPig and speaks the shibboleths of that fraudulent religion. Just as it would be anathema for us to renounce our personal faiths, McCain will not renounce his faith in man-made global warming and the passel of liberal canards that comprise the Catechism of these environment extremists and anti-capitalists.
For a sample of what passes for “deep Republican thought” (a double oxymoron, with the emphasis on the “moron” part) about energy policies, try to stay awake while reading this blather from the RNC Chairman, Robert M. Duncan. I think it’s about how Obama doesn’t have an energy policy and McCain does, but it’s so vaporous and busy with avoiding the fact that McCain is a ManBearPigist, it means little and will result in nothing.
My girlfriend was reading the paper a few weeks ago and saw a chart detailing the respective policy positions of Obama and McCain and remarked upon how similar they were on so many things. I told her that was the problem with this election. Instead of a clear choice between opposing viewpoints – liberal vs. conservative – we have a moderate liberal facing an extreme radical socialist, but the socialist looks really good on TV and is blessed with fawning airbrushed coverage by a fellow traveling Treason Media.
Just as in 2006, we’re going to be told that the lessons of the electoral results mean the opposite of what they really did:
* If Obama loses, it will because of the seething racism of bitter, angry, threatened white people. Our shame will be apparent to the world and we will decline even further in their view.
* If McCain loses, it will be because the public has rejected the religious extremism and cruel conservatism he stood for. Only by moving far, far, FAR to the left will they possibly be considered moderate enough to be trusted with a bit of power.
When that’s the way the deck is stacked, to expect McCain to be brave and buck his constituents in the Treason Media – and for that media to not distort and misrepresent what he says and does – is a hope that is much too high for even the hardiest rubber tree plant-moving ant to have.
Nice post Michelle. My take on the ad is online- http://shotsonthehouse.com/?p=306
Nobody was picking on smokers. I was making the point that we have not seen in the MSM pictures of Obama doing it…because it would make him look bad in the eye’s of libtards. But of course we see the MSM displaying PR types of pics that are along the line of what the Obama campain would show.
Dirk Bellig #39 – Very impressive speech. I wish you were McCain’s speechwriter. Well done!
Sounds like it doesn’t matter what Obama does or says, folks on the right will always have a problem with him. They had a problem with Rosa Parks when she sat in the front of the bus, they had a problem with MLK when he marched, they had a problem with those little black girls who integrated a grade school, they still have a problem with Nelson Mandela – so, there’s no need to debate – we are just the personification of the same fight that’s been occurring for years.
LGM
Considering that liberals and their OPEC allies are blaming the speculators, an immediate move to drill will immediately bring down gas prices.
LGM, I think you just want there to be high gas prices just so people will stop driving.
It would have worked in 1940, but either people drive, or they don’t work. They don’t work, that means no money for the government and it can’t fund the precious liberal NGO’s.
Think about it, LGM.
I can’t find the link to a great political cartoon because Cox and Forkum have stopped their political cartoons. Too bad, this was one of their best. It describes the democrats’ energy policy perfectly.
There are four donkeys in suits holding signs. They read, in order –
“No drilling in ANWR.”
“No nuclear power.”
“No new oil refineries.”
“Bush has no energy policy.”
The socialists want what socialism does best; have everyone equally share misery. Except for the socialist elites…
Mathman:
Sniff. Sniff. Here’s a tissue for you to wet.
Anyway… Obummer, using lobbyists, promising anything (and then with the utmost expediency changing his mind) to get elected, saying derogatory things to blue collar Americans, hanging around a anti-American preacher for 20 years isn’t a typical politician?
Actually, Obummer’s “popularity” is slim to none (if you think a 6 point lead under 50% is awesome). With zombie supporters like yourself saying he’s handsome, and groovy and that’s what counts for president he should be creaming McCain. Oh, that’s right he hasn’t sealed the deal.
Your love affair with Obummer though, is a little disturbing. You really do need to get a room. If you don’t think this dope won’t sell you and your precious little liberal family down the river for his own personal amusement, perhaps he’ll let you sacrifice yourself for his new world order.
Does anybody have a photoshop for this? Blind Mule? Anyone?
We have that one up on the bulletin board at my job, John. Even given Cox & Forkum’s normally fantastic wit, that one is a gem.
That’s right to the point, Emjem24!
If Obama is such a “sure thing,” as the MSM and LGM want us to believe, then why is he unable to break the fifty percent approval thresh-hold and shake McCain by putting significant distance between his poll numbers and McCain’s?
Obama’s oppressive popularity is the biggest media over-hype (read: exaggeration) since global warming.