What Happened to Obama?
In four simple words: Above My Pay Grade!
Many thought that his totally empty resume would derail “The One”. It didn’t.
Surely Rev. Wright? Nope.
Terrorists William Ayers for sure? Nope.
“Finally proud of my country”? Nope.
“Clinging to guns and religion”? Nope.
I was beginning to think that a true Teflon man was walking among us.
Then something totally unsuspected happened at the Saddleback Civil Forum.
Pastor:
NOW, LET’S DEAL WITH ABORTION. 40 MILLION
ABORTIONS SINCE ROE V. WADE. YOU KNOW, AS A PASTOR I
HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS ALL OF THE TIME. ALL OF THE
PAIN AND ALL OF THE CONFLICTS. I KNOW THIS IS A VERY
COMPLEX ISSUE. 40 MILLION ABORTIONS. AT WHAT POINT
DOES A BABY GET HUMAN RIGHTS IN YOUR VIEW?Obama:
WELL, I THINK THAT WHETHER YOU ARE LOOKING AT
IT FROM A THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OR A SCIENTIFIC
PERSPECTIVE, ANSWERING THAT QUESTION WITH SPECIFICITY,
YOU KNOW, IS ABOVE MY PAY GRADE.
Above my pay grade? What pay grade are you running for dumb ass?
Truthfully, all of the above probably had something to do with a 15 point swing but it is interesting to watch a guaranteed winner collapse (other than the NY Mets).
I think he is so damaged right now that he will get desperate and pick Hillary for VP (if Michelle will let him). If he does, he can keep it close. If he doesn’t, he will be beaten like a rented mule. And the Clintons will make sure of that.
Hillary of course has absolutely no idea what are “supporters” are emailing about. Via HotAir:
Hillary Clinton’s supporters will not go quietly, it seems. According to a Scripps-Howard report this morning, unnamed backers of Hillary have begun a “massive” e-mail campaign insisting that she won more votes and is the only electable candidate in 2008. Perhaps, in consideration of the polling free-fall Barack Obama has experienced this summer, they may have a point (via TMV):
How about this for a career decision? Pick her and be rightly perceived as pathetically weak, don’t pick her and be proven so? Tough call for Barry and the pathetic people who have drank the kool aide.
This is all assuming McCain doesn’t do something equally as stupid.
Category: Politics
AMEN to what you said about the absolute stupidity and the potential stupidity of both. What a mess we have on our hands.
Above his pay grade? Golly jeez oh wow! What stupid statement for ANYONE running for President of our nation.
Would not knowing how many homes you own qualify as “equally stupid”?Or is Mac just an idiot?
RE: richard wheeler Says:
August 21st, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Would not knowing how many homes you own qualify as “equally stupid”?Or is Mac just an idiot?
McCain DOES know how many houses he owns: he owns none.
Mrs. McCain owns 7 homes however; most are investments.
So to answer your questions, Dick: no and no.
Obama however, DOES qualify as an idiot. A lying, spineless idiot.
Whether McCain owns one or ten homes is not in the same neighborhood as someone who got his only home through a sweetheart deal with a convicted felon.
Attacking McCain on homes when his personal home guy is about to be sentenced is close to insane.
No Richard. Mac is being cautious, realizing that if he were to overlook some small bungalow somewhere, you and the MSM would be all over him as a “calculatign liar” for missing a small shack. Perhaps even a large pup tent would suffice. In this day of gotcha journalsim, Mac is at risk if he even answers an innocuous greeting such as “How are you doing today, senator?”
LOL @ Richard Wheeler! Yeah baby, get all spooled up in that. Americans are going to be sooooooo upset that McCain, a war hero who scored a young blond Budweiser heiress. LOL
Please, Americans admire McCain for that, especially men, especially when they think no one is looking. And guess when no one is looking? When you are in the voting booth.
Who do you really think Americans would relate to more closely…….McCain or the guy who lets his half brother live in a mud hut on a dollar a week?
COB6 is exactly right “Above my pay grade.” First and foremost because it’s a dodge. I know because I use it all the time. Secondly and don’t discount this, because it’s a commonly used military term so it sounds strange coming out of Obama’s mouth. It’s a dodge and it’s fake.
No one likes a faker. You can disagree with McCain, I have myself on many occassions……but he is as real as it gets.
But apparently it wasn’t above his pay grade when he was in the Illinois Senate. This guy knows he cannot say anything that he truly believes because only 25% of the kooks in this country will vote for him.
Yeah Maggie me and the boys really admire Mac for dumping his wife and kids.All the houses in the heiress’ name.Thats a cool dodge as well.Mac,break out your abacus and give us a straight count.
COB6 As I recall your negative attacks on McCain making him your “Oxygen Thief” twice far surpassed any of my questioning posts.
The only person who has an opinion that counts on the divorce is Carol McCain and she’s not out here beefing.
For the record Carol McCain is quoted as attributing the divorce to “John turning 40 and wanting to be 25 again”.Ross Perot who helped pay for partially crippling injuries she sustained in 1969 auto accident said “he threw her over for a poster girl from Arizona with big money and the rest is history”
A lot of POW’s from the Nam ended up in a divorce, not just McCain.