A Child wearing an adult's clothes

Posted at 12:43pm on Jul. 10, 2008 Video from Obama's Unity Gaffe.

Normally I'd just update, but this is prime stuff.

By Moe Lane

Via AoSHQ, via Ed Morrissey, watch this video from the gaffe I mentioned earlier. Remember, this is for a event specifically designed for Unity:


Contra Ed, I'll call the MSNBC coverage a wash: fawning introduction, yes, but they were also kind of mean in their commentary while watching the clip in question. Not that I blame them for not resisting temptation: that was such a dumb error to make. We expect a certain professionalism from our professional politicians, yes?

Moe Lane

PS: Given that Obama is telling his people that fundraising efforts are going a "little slow" right now, and that Clinton's campaign debt needs to go away, just why is he being so sloppy?

Actually, the real question there is whether anybody knows the answer to that.

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Posted at 10:14am on Jul. 10, 2008 Yeah. He's *Really* into this entire Unity thing.

It shows.

By Moe Lane

Call me nuts, but when you throw together an event explicitly designed to try to convince your supporters to give money to retire a former opponent's debt - isn't it a good idea to not forget to put that request in your actual speech?

Apparently not:

Obama briefly forgets to urge help for Clinton
By BETH FOUHY – 11 hours ago

NEW YORK - It was all part of a careful arrangement: Democrat Barack Obama would get fundraising help from his erstwhile rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in exchange for his help retiring about $10 million of her campaign debt.

But Obama momentarily forgot his part of the deal at a major New York fundraiser Wednesday night, forcing him to retake the stage after he had concluded the event and said goodnight to the audience.

The Illinois senator spoke to about 1,000 donors in a Manhattan ballroom, all of whom had paid at least $1,000 to attend. Many were Clinton supporters until she dropped out of the race last month.

Read on.

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Posted at 10:57am on Jun. 20, 2008 Hey, Senator Obama! I know that you're busy in Chicago ducking the FISA thing...

...you *will* make a statement opposing it though, right?

By Moe Lane

Anyway, we need you to do some cleanup. Amanda Carpenter over at Town Hall noticed - as is her wont, clever person that she is - that there's a couple of bills that you co-sponsored: S. 1285 (the "Fair Elections Now Act") and S. 436 (the "Presidential Funding Act of 2007"). Seeing as you aren't actually an advocate for that sort of thing anymore, it's well past time that you remove your name from those two bills. Just for the principle of the thing, you understand.

Principle.

P-R-I-N-C... oh, never bloody mind.

Moe Lane

PS: Fair's fair: I suppose it's possible that these were just two more bills that you sidled your way onto and then promptly forgot about. As is your wont.

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Posted at 6:32pm on Jun. 17, 2008 Allahpundit asks why Obama is beginning the walkback/sacrificial process on Gitmo.

I presume that it's a rhetorical question.

By Moe Lane

After all, Allahpundit's a smart guy; and besides the answer to why this little time bomb was slipped into the narrative...

And that is that we don’t have to treat these folks as US citizens. We don’t have to treat them in the same way that we would treat a criminal suspect in the U.S., but we should abide by the Geneva conventions. We should at least follow through on the same principals we followed though when dealing with Nazis during Nuremburg[*], that is not only the right thing to do but it also actually will strengthen our ability over the long term to fight terrorism."

...is fairly obvious:

13. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that non-citizens suspected of terrorism who are being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be allowed to challenge their detentions in the U.S. civilian court system. (Supporters of this ruling say it provides detainees with basic constitutional rights.) (Critics of the ruling say only special military tribunals should be allowed, because hearings in open court could compromise terrorism investigations.) What's your view - do you think these detainees should or should not be able to challenge their detentions in the civilian court system?

Should 34
Should not 61
No opinion 6
6/15/08

So, really, all that's left is the decision of which Obama staffer will regrettably need to be sacrificed in order to expiate Obama's dishonor. I imagine that health care for that campaign is deceptively easy to come by; after all, it's not like anybody lasts long enough to collect...

Moe Lane

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Posted at 2:36am on Jun. 15, 2008 Geez, Senator Obama. Are the May/June fundraising numbers *THAT* bad?

You usually don't start flinging around the raw meat to the acolytes like this.

By Moe Lane

Anyway, that's what I'm guessing, based on this report by Captain Ed. I seem to remember somebody around here noting something to the effect that the prerequisite for having a fight is to have both parties actually show up: presumably, this includes gun-fights. That should scupper the Senator's plans nicely.

I'd comment further, except that as a Republican I'm not actually permitted to make use of metaphors involving firearms when talking about my opponents. Such is life.

Moe Lane

PS: To be fair, while The Untouchables was a generally bad film, I can see why Obama would try to evoke Sean Connery, and Connery's character did call his strategy "The Chicago Way." Perhaps we should substitute "He's in the car" for "Obama threw him under the bus..."

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Posted at 12:43pm on Jun. 10, 2008 Thrown Under the Bus Watch: Eric Holder & Jim Johnson.

My, that was quick.

By Moe Lane

This would almost be painful to watch (Via Jake Tapper, who gets extra points for uttering "my stars" in response.):


Almost. Fortunately, I'm laughing too hard at the sight of watching someone who is supposed to be the second incarnation of Demosthenes fumbling his way through an explanation of how you can get somebody to do your VP pick for you while still not having them actually work for you.

Media figures, please take note from Sunlen Miller's example: Senator Barack Obama is fun when he's flailing about.

Moe Lane

PS: Semi-transcript (grabbed from Tapper) after the fold.

PPS: See also our own Kevin Holtsberry, over at Stop Him Now. I hope that you haven't thrown out all the old stationary yet, Kevin.

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Posted at 8:02pm on Jun. 6, 2008 Hi! I have a message for an Abraham Henderson, of Honolulu, HI.

The one who lives on Piikoi Street.

By Moe Lane

Yes, good... (looking at clock, subtracting time zones) yup, still afternoon... good afternoon, sir. Excuse me for bothering you, but I just wished to note two things that I thought that I should bring to your attention.

First off, did you know that the US Navy successfully tested an antimissile system off your coast recently?

Military shoots down missile in test off Hawaii
By AUDREY McAVOY – 1 day ago

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. military intercepted a ballistic missile Thursday in the first such sea-based test since a Navy cruiser shot down an errant satellite earlier this year.

The military fired the target, a Scud-like missile with a range of a few hundred miles, from a decommissioned amphibious assault ship near Hawaii's island of Kauai.

The USS Lake Erie, based at Pearl Harbor, fired two interceptor missiles that shot down the target in its final seconds of flight about 12 miles above the Pacific Ocean.

The target was shot down about 100 miles northwest of Kauai in its final seconds of flight, about five minutes after it was fired.

The test showed Navy ships are capable of shooting down short-range targets in their last phase of flight using modified missiles the service already has, the military said.

Yes, this is very exciting news, particularly since we've advanced enough along the research process to use off-the-shelf gear. The weblog Perfunction (via AoSHQ) has more details, including a very interesting video of the event:

I can imagine how this might relieve you, given that you live so close to Pearl, and all - and considering that you live on a piece of real estate that's within range of a North Korean missile.

Moe Lane

PS: What was the other thing? Oh, right.


In any battle between the progressive group Caucus4Priorities and yourself for Barack Obama's regard, you lose.

Enjoy your weekend, Mr. Henderson.

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Posted at 9:20am on Apr. 8, 2008 Whom the Gods would destroy, They first make anosmic.

It means "Loss of sense of smell."

By Moe Lane

It's an unfortunate side-effect of succumbing to the delusion that your own, personal excrement no longer stinks. Meet the latest sufferer:

Obama: No Need For Foreign Policy Help From V.P.

Last night at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Barack Obama took a question on what he's looking for in a running mate. "I would like somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I'm not as expert on," he said, and then he was off and running. "I think a lot of people assume that might be some sort of military thing to make me look more Commander-in-Chief-like. Ironically, this is an area--foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Senator Clinton or Senator McCain."

[snip]

"I traveled to Pakistan when I was in college--I knew what Sunni and Shia was [sic] before I joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. . . ."

Have you started going to those committee meetings, Senator? - Or is the campaign trail still causing you to neglect your job? Yes, your actual, boring job: the one that the people of Illinois elected you to do. I understand that it's much more exciting to be worshiped like unto a god on the campaign trail; and I'm no political virgin. The three candidates left are going to be all slacking off their responsibilities.

But I really do think that the candidate who never got started on his responsibilities in the first place should spare us the lectures on how he'd be better at fulfilling them. If he's so good at it, why didn't he do it from the start? Contrary to popular belief, we weren't actually paying the man $169,300 a year just to wait patiently in the Senate chamber for the 2008 election; there was this charming, naive thought that he might actually do some real work, for a change. And I'm not talking about things like this, either. These sorts of things should be the primary focus of your life; not, as CQ Politics so nicely put it, what you do to kill time.

On the other hand, I suppose that those comments at the fund-raiser might have just been made to reassure his congregation. In which case: carry on, Barack. Carry on.

Moe Lane

PS: The Weekly Standard and Ace (h/t) didn't buy any of this, of course; but what's interesting is that even HuffPo thought that this approached cockiness. When even the pet Lefties notice... heh.

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Posted at 10:12am on Apr. 4, 2008 I would say that the airplanes smashed into the Capitol somewhere around 3:12 of that.

Very illustrative of the man, don't you think?

By Moe Lane

Let's do some role-playing.

The national security adviser calls the president at three in the morning and tells you a couple of commercial jets have been hijackacked by al Qaeda and are headed toward the Capitol, Matthews asked Obama at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. “What do you do?’’

Me, most of the people reading this, and indeed, most Democrats:

(interrupting) You order those planes shot down, Chris. You immediately order them shot down, and then you go on television to the American people to take responsibility for giving that order, and then you go over to Homeland Security with a meat-ax and fix whatever it was that caused that failure. Because that's all part of the job of the President of the United States of America.

And, frankly, that was a damfool question to even ask me.

Senator Barack Obama:

(Link and video via The Campaign Spot)

I'd be more annoyed that he didn't actually answer the question, except that I no more expected him to do so than I expect to see a real, live unicorn on my way to the bank this morning.

Moe Lane

PS: Any bets on how many progressives are just going to pretend that they didn't hear him talk about how nobody could have predicted 9/11?

Yeah, yeah, I know: even they didn't believe it at the time, either. Still.

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Posted at 6:48pm on Apr. 3, 2008 NATO: [Looking eastwards] Um, actually, missile defense sounds like a dandy notion.

Must be a code phrase, or something.

By Moe Lane

How else to explain this departure from Accepted Reality?

NATO to endorse U.S. missile shield: U.S. official

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - NATO leaders meeting in Bucharest...

I'm sorry, but there are times, even today, where I just have to stop for a second and recognize the implications of phrases like that. The monster of my childhood is dead. We killed it. And we broke it first, before we killed it.

Right. Moving on:

NATO leaders meeting in Bucharest were set to endorse a planned U.S. missile shield for Europe on Thursday, a senior U.S. official told reporters.

The final summit statement would "recognize the substantive contribution to the protection of the allies" from the missile defense system to be deployed in the Czech Republic and Poland, the official told reporters.

Why them, by the way? Because the Czechs and the Poles know that, no matter what happens, we are never, ever, ever going to install a Governor-General in either Prague or Warsaw. This makes us a refreshing change of pace, in their point of view, from mostly every other hegemon in history - not to mention most of their neighbors.

(pause)

Why, of course - like Hot Air - I'm going to remind people of Senator Obama's oopsie along these lines:


After all, it's not my fault that the Democrats are seriously considering nominating a natsec illiterate for the Presidency.

Moe Lane

PS: Anyone feel like betting that Obama won't be equally regretting the second half of that video before too much longer, too?

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