Can Obama Stay Above the Fray?

Seizing money from an entire industry and redistributing it to others signals the death knell:

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith
From spiritual faith to great courage
From courage to liberty
From liberty to abundance
From abundance to complacency
From complacency to apathy
From apathy to dependence
From dependence back again into bondage."

This memorable quotation is from Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1742-1813). Scottish jurist and historian, he was widely known in his time and was professor of Universal History at Edinburgh University in the late 18th century. The Framers based the Federalist Papers on Limited (federal) governance to thwart this decay cycle.
He was, at the time, writing of the fall of the Athenian Republic. When a society bases its political power on a majority vote, it is inevitable that those wishing to have power will seek to satisfy the needs of those who will provide it (vote) by transferring wealth. This leads to ever increasing public spending fueled by the self-interest of producers. With each increment in the common realm, more people are brought into the class of those receiving benefits . . . these people will take their benefits into account, desire to maintain or increase their level of benefits, vote for those who will support them, and thus, the level of spending will ever increase. The needs of the voters will eventually exceed the treasury???s ability, so fiscally unsound policies will be undertaken.

EgObama is no Messiah who is above the fray. Nice thoughts, but the man has been in the middle of the mudslinging for months. Ask Hillary's supporters. If he thinks he's worthy to lead, he's going to have to take the same hits as Clinton and Bush have before him. If it is too much for EgObama's ego, he should go back to relaxing in his million dollar home, while us "common folk" go to our shacks in Bitterville.

The McCain campaign is "defining" their opponent 3-4 months before the election. Too inexperienced, more celebrity than substance, etc.

The Obama campaign has spent a lot of time and money for a submliminal racial campaign that is probably not coming, at least from any reputable sources.

Obama's campaign blundered on Wednesday by including a response (Obama's "I don't look like the Presidents dollar bill quote) to AN ATTACK THAT DIDN"T EXIST.

Obama's campaign changed their speech and the sun came up the next morning.

I am a Republican. We don't want black people to be offended, we want them to be Republicans!!! We are the party of Abraham Lincoln.

McCain was justified in his response. It was an unfair comment by the Obama campaign, but it has received enough attention.

Wow, Eleanor, planning to have any sense of objectivity here? Geez. I am predicting here and now that the Invesco Center stadium trick is going to backfire on Mr. Obama. The Berlin worship-fest is a prelude - the American people don't want their President to be a rock star in a sold out show. They expect more.

Eleanor, you're seriously having issues again. Get your head out of Barry's butt, and wake up. This country is not going to stand for electing a far-left Marxist, tax-raising, elitist snob. And, by the way, yes he did play the race card. His campaign manager admitted as much today. And on national TV, his campaign was not able to come up with a SINGLE instance of McCain ever invoking race, or the Republicans. They wisely stayed away from this issue. But since Barry brought it up numerious times, at least they are defending themselves. Why can't Barry talk about his policies, and his "solutions" for the country. Oh, sorry, because he has NONE.

An email is widely distributed telling that McCain wants to still reduce taxes while Obama want to increase them for EVERYBODY and especially painfully hurt low income retired people. Although it is false it takes a lot of votes from Obama. I've sent an email request to both McCain's and Obama???s campaign asking to tell me the truth. Neither responded - I believe all emails just do to trash automatically. I can believe that McCain's campaign did not respond deliberately but what about the Obama's one? Slightly intrigued I repeated this email to Obama's campaign - no response. So either they believe that they are above such "nonsense or just lazy. Pretty interesting.
And one more thing ??? it???s what the connection of politicians with ordinary Americans really is.

An email is widely distributed telling that McCain wants to still reduce taxes while Obama want to increase them for EVERYBODY and especially painfully hurt low income retired people. Although it is false it takes a lot of votes from Obama. I've sent an email request to both McCain's and Obama???s campaign asking to tell me the truth. Neither responded - I believe all emails just do to trash automatically. I can believe that McCain's campaign did not respond deliberately but what about the Obama's one? Slightly intrigued I repeated this email to Obama's campaign - no response. So either they believe that they are above such "nonsense or just lazy. Pretty interesting.
And one more thing ??? it???s what the connection of politicians with ordinary Americans really is.

Does Eleanor Cliff really understand what Zen means ? Obama is anyting but Zen-like. He rose from the dirtiest Chicago politics. All his so-called changes are the liberal policies of the past: more tax, more government handouts, class warfare, kowtow to the Europeans. He's the King with no clothes.
John Kerry could easily refute the Swiftboaters by authorizing the release of his war records, but he declined to do so. Actually the boaters challenged Kerry to take them to the court for libeling.
Poor Eleanor, she should shine Obama's shoes instead of being columnist. Empty head.

Comment: Time to fight back

Ignoring the "Rove like" character attacks is a mistake Obama must not make. He has been painted as inexperienced, a socialist, a secret Muslim with a hidden agenda, and an out of touch elitist who ignors our troops and only cares about his own personal power. These fear tactics are obviously about race no matter what the McCain camp says. "Fear the Black man" is the obvious McCain battle cry. No matter how outrageous the lies, it seems to be working if you look at the polls. Obama needs to fight fire with fire. McCain's constant middle-east blunders (still doesn't understand the difference between Sunni and Shiite or understand the real history of the surge) would make a great campaign commercial. Or the "I don't know much about the ecomomy" quote would be another way to exploit the old man's mental limitations. Unfortunately Mr. Obama has too much class to make these kinds of attack ads. I just hope it doesn't cost him the election.

Is this supposed to be a serious article? ZEN-LIKE CALM? And you are part of the Obama campaign how? Do you sit in on strategy sessions? Are you debriefed every day? Because Obama looked anything but Zen-like when the hecklers were going at him in Florida. Obama changed his cadence and suddenly he wasn't talking the same way. It was riotous. He also tried to ignore them and then he let the crowd save him and he still needed help. The racial dynamic is interesting as well. His behavior in the video reveals more about Obama and his capacity to be President than those staged photo ops. Watch the video and you'll see why Obama doesn't want to do Townhall meetings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_K-rC1AmCQ

Barack Obama talks about new politics while using old politics and always has; the media is so smitten with his patter that they don't really watch what he is and his campaign staff are doing.

There are plenty of people who do see what he is doing, but they dismissed rather than considered because then Obama fans would have to admit that they fell for the con and they believe that would make them look like fools. It is really not a problem once you realize he is just another politician; remember how upset you all got when Reverend Wright said he was a politician acting like a politician. Oh, my you couldn't even concieve of the possibility that Obama was "just a politician."
You've accepted that he is just a politician, now you need to accept that he acts like any other politician and uses the old politics as it suits his cause while being "disappointed" and hurt when other politicians resort to the old politics when he is working so hard to be so good- poor fellow.

I find it hysterical that people take Newsweek seriously. They are such a liberal news rag.