The Seven Major Cracks in the Façade

Posted on September 18, 2008
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The SF Gate home of the San Francisco Chronicle featured the following article Victor Davis Hanson in today’s edition:

Saint Obama comes down to earth

Many of the things that Barack Obama did to soar past Hillary Clinton during the primaries are now causing him problems as the general-election race tightens.

Obama once ran successfully as a novel outside critic of Washington. He posed as a politically correct critic of discrimination of all sorts. As an idealist tired of the old Washington doublespeak, Obama mesmerized thousands with sermons against incumbent dinosaurs.

Obama’s own sense of sainthood was only strengthened when he wowed swarms in front of European monuments, and stepped out on a Democratic National Convention stage replete with Greek columns.

He is a great speaker, his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic Convention was superbly delivered, certainly sounded like a breath of fresh air, a true classic!

But the loftier the moral expectations Obama created, the more the disappointment grew when they couldn’t possibly be met.

Take Obama’s signature “hope and change” mantra. It was a natural rallying cry. Either a Bush or Clinton has been in the White House for the last 20 years. Voters were unhappy with the current president – and yet apparently didn’t want another Clinton. Meanwhile, the economy has been rocky, and much of the American public has grown tired of our involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Obama’s change was aimed against long tenure in Washington – or so he hammered away at Hillary Clinton for nearly a year. But then suddenly he picked as his vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, the consummate Washington insider. That attempt at balance was understandable, but it only seemed to legitimize opposition charges that Obama himself valued long D.C. experience – and was no less calculating than any other politician.

The higher he climbed the more he excited the imagination, the higher the expectations of him became the more he was scrutinized. Under the microscope he did not hold up! Choosing Biden as his running mate not only gave the lie to his lofty stand against long tenure in Washington which he’d so successfully used to defeat Hillary, but it only served to highlight his own woeful lack of experience.

Thus, the first major crack in the façade of sainthood he so carefully built up…

Next Obama attacked outsider Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin for her own unfamiliarity with national government. Fair enough. But again, that tactic still bothered voters: Wasn’t the Alaskan governor a fresh – and welcome – face just like first-term Sen. Obama? And wasn’t Biden a stale old-timer in Washington – and if so, as suspect as veteran John McCain? And, come to think of it, wouldn’t it have been better to have the experienced candidate at the top of the ticket, balanced by the outsider at the bottom, rather than vice versa?

Thus, the second major crack in the façade of sainthood he so carefully built up…

Suddenly we are hearing constantly about sex and age in this campaign – and that also deflates St. Obama, who promised not just to be the better choice, but the better person. He once ran as a post-racial candidate, until Obama’s past associates like the racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright cast doubt on that.

Thus, the third major crack in the façade of sainthood he so carefully built up…

And why was Gov. Palin characterized by Obama as a mere small-town mayor – and by Biden as a “lieutenant governor,” as well as “good looking” and, given her positions, “a step backward” for women?

The pro-Obama media don’t help, sneering about what Palin wears, whether she spends enough time with her kids, and the minutiae of her husbands past conduct. The public certainly never hears about Biden’s grooming, the amount of time he spent with his children when they were young, or his spouse’s private life.

Is what’s good for goose, suddenly too dangerous for the gander? Does all this not put the lie to the Obamunists’ battle cry for total equality of both genders? Why the double standards?!?!? Weren’t we told that only Republicans displayed such despicable attitudes?

Thus, the fourth major crack in the façade of sainthood he so carefully built up…

Now a trailing Obama wants to get tougher and go more negative – in part by raising doubts about McCain’s age. Obama’s clumsy reference to putting “lipstick on a pig” raised, rightly or wrongly, charges of sexism, and in the same manner his reference to a stinky “old fish” was connected with John McCain – who, Obama earlier scoffed, was “losing his bearings.”

Obama ran ads claiming – with careful wording – that McCain “lost track” and “couldn’t remember” how many houses he has and that he’s out of touch because he has never learned to use e-mail and the Internet (forget that injuries as a prisoner of war make keyboard use difficult for him).

Such thoughtless attacks are sure to gain him the votes of senior Americans… Don’t you think so, gentle reader?

Thus, the fifth major crack in the façade of sainthood he so carefully built up…

Like it or not, the perception is growing that Team Obama is focusing on Palin as a clueless hockey mom from way up north and on McCain as an old fogy. But that emphasis on sex and age doesn’t become a moralist, especially given Obama’s own siren warnings that his opponents might resort to racial attacks against him.

The more he or his campaign talk, the more his blinded, emotionally infected supporters attack Palin the worse he looks, the more vulnerable he becomes.

Thus, the sixth major crack in the façade of sainthood he so carefully built up…

Then there were Obama’s once-lofty progressive principles. Yet no Northern Democratic liberal like Obama has won the presidency in a half-century. So everyone knew that Obama sooner or later had to move to the center in the general election to win over independents.

For the hope-and-change candidate, those natural readjustments now appear insincere and opportunistic – especially given that he had to move so far from the left to get to the middle. On campaign-finance reform, FISA, NAFTA, abortion, capital punishment, guns, Iran, Iraq, the surge and drilling offshore, Obama has fudged on his earlier positions in the normal way of savvy pragmatists – but not in a manner befitting angelic idealists.

He once stood for progressive ideas, or so he had us believe. He has now backed far, far away, from most of his early pronouncements. Which is the real Barack Hussein Obama? Is it his early self, or the current quasi middle-of-the-roader who is backtracking fast from the very positions that made him so popular at first? Who is this alum of the Chicago School of Corrupt Politics? Who is this candidate who has faltered so much, has voted “present” far too many times in his 143 days in Congress? Who is this man who yesterday refused to talk about his vote on the government’s bailout of AIG, lest it hurt him if the voter dislike his actions? His meteoric rise defied and excited the imagination, but his record, his pronouncements, his tactics give the lie to his lofty words of the early days.

Victor Davis Hanson ends his article thus:

The new Obama probably will recover his temporary setback in the polls. But right now his problem is that disappointed independent voters are catching on that this saintly savior is all too human.

Given his choice of VP, he obviously does not stand for new, fresh ideas and against the Washington insiders grip on power…

He claims that we need a change from the old guard but he brutally attacks the new, fresh blood…

He once ran as a post-racial candidate, until Obama’s past associates like the racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright cast doubt on that. As he writes in his own books he obviously will not heal racial divides, he only plans to exploit them for his own gain! His supporters are claiming that anyone voting against him is merely a racist. Does that mean that the many blacks who will not vote for him, are discriminating against themselves?!?!?

When it comes to gender he applies the very same double standards as Washington’s Old Boys Club…

The candidate who would rise to higher levels and only discuss issues, has shown he is – like the entrenched members of the establishment – just another attack dog…

The more we hear of him the less appealing he becomes…

The independents are very disappointed and feel cheated… Thus… the seventh major crack in the façade of sainthood, he so carefully built up!

As the façade keeps on cracking, it falls apart and reveals it is no more than a badly, hastily hammered together, propped up Hollywood background in some epic movie set. As the façade falls apart, the two by fours holding it up fall on top of it as well causing further cracks. But… this epic movie set is not a set. In this case – it is the country itself!

Chaim

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