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Posted at 3:30pm on Jul. 7, 2008 Obama Will Sell Anything

"I Sell the Things You Need To Be. I'm the Smiling Face on Your TV"

By Mark I

The Obama campaign officially announced today that Sen. Obama will accept the Democratic presidential nomination in an open air event expected to draw 75,000 people. The campaign takes pains to point out that free tickets will be available for the torchlight rally acceptance speech, but...

If you make a donation of $5 or more between now and midnight on July 31st, you could be one of 10 supporters chosen to fly to Denver and spend two days and nights at the convention, meet Barack backstage, and watch his acceptance speech in person. Each of the ten supporters who are selected will be able to bring one guest to join them.

This guy will sell anything. So much for the new politics. Obama's campaign is more motivated by money and fundraising than any campaign in recent memory. One wonders if this will continue into an Obama presidency.

"For a donation of $25 dollars or more, you could be one of 10 lucky people to be flown to Washington D.C. to sit in on an exciting intelligence briefing in the White House Situation Room. Afterwards, you'll be given an exclusive tour of the Oval Office and get to listen in on a secure phone call between President Obama and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Your whirlwind day will conclude with a special de-briefing by the president and the opportunity to personally sign one letter of President Obama's signature to the official roll back of the Bush Tax Cuts."

I guess "fixing a broken public finance system" means "sell anything that isn't nailed down including my dignity and the dignity of the office in order to out raise my opponents" in Obamian.

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Posted at 9:15am on Jul. 7, 2008 The Baracklaration of Obamdependence

Principles are Oppressive

By Mark I

When in the Course of a presidential campaign it becomes necessary for one candidate to dissolve the political bands which have connected him with his previous positions and to assume for the electorate, the separate and equal station of general election candidate to which the Laws of Electoral Campaigning and Campaign Managers entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of average voters is unnecessary, lest that require that he should declare the causes which impel them to hold to principle.

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Posted at 3:30pm on Jul. 1, 2008 A New Kind of Sleaze

Clark was Put up to it

By Mark I

The Obama campaign officially says that Gen. Wesley Clark was not officially speaking for Obama when on CBS's Face the Nation this past Sunday, he denigrated Sen. John McCain's military experience. "I don't think that riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president, " Clark sniffed. Besides hinting that McCain was a substandard pilot-good ones do not get shot down-that remark necessarily discounts everything that came afterwards, McCain's five and a half years of voluntary confinement. Voluntary because the North Vietnamese, after learning that McCain was the son of a top U.S. Admiral, offered him early release, ahead of others who had been captured before McCain. McCain refused, not wanting to hand his captors a propaganda victory and undermine the morale of his co-prisoners. McCain never had to endure the debilitating torture, the beatings, the psychological torment, and the spirit-breaking confinement. He did it out of love of country and dedication to duty.

This is not to try and make McCain into a Christ-like figure, willingly suffering for the nation's sins. But it does illuminate just how egregious and despicable Clark's comments were. To boil McCain's entire military record down to the singular event of the loss of his plane while flying bombing missions over Hanoi, the most dangerous duty for an aviator in the Vietnam War, is so callous and dismissive that it had to have been intentional.

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Posted at 7:00pm on Jun. 22, 2008 Obama Might Just Blow It

This is Not the Moderate You are Looking For

By Mark I

The biggest danger to Sen. Barack Obama's campaign comes not from his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, nor from his former rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, but from Barack Obama himself. Obama has sold himself as a new kind of politician, even an anti-politician, a practitioner of a new kind of politics. The Achilles heel of this strategy is that Obama is not really that different from other politicians; and if he can be shown to be just like every other candidate, save for his eloquence, voters who invested in him on a personal level may begin to feel like they have been had.

The past week provided Obama with a few opportunities to show that he really is a different kind of candidate, indeed a different kind of Democrat, than the standard variety. But in each instance, he espoused the typical liberal position.

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Posted at 1:27am on Jan. 18, 2008 Senator Obama? A moment of your time? No?

That's fine: I'll just run the question by your supporters, then.

By Moe Lane

Now, I understand that Senator Obama is against setting up a nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain. This is, of course, his choice - but it would normally be seen as an argument against him, from the Right's point of view. The spent nuclear fuel has to go somewhere - and thankfully, we of the VRWC don't particularly have any need to cater to the superstitions of the hardcore anti-nuke religionists, so we don't go all weak-kneed at the thought of putting it all safely in one place. But just try getting a Democratic Presidential candidate to sign off on that, especially in Nevada!

Funny thing, though. There's this Big Nuke company called Exelon - based out of Chicago, which I've heard is a city in Illinois. I refer you to remarks made by Exelon CEO John Rowe in May of 2007. Mr Rowe - who, by the way, describes himself as someone who believes that the industry is "best served by cold-blooded analysis" - declares that "permanent disposal at Yucca Mountain or a similar facility remains a long-term imperative." IOW, Exelon and other Big Nuke companies are handling things in the short term, but something more permanent needs to be done.

And in what is apparently one of those interesting coincidences, our cold-blooded analyst Mr. Rowe - along with what looks to be most of the rest of Exelon's management - is a supporter of, of all people, Senator Barack Obama! At least $150,000 in this cycle. And, before you ask: John McCain was next, and he got $17,000.

Now, we all know that the government's pretty much locked into to Yucca Mountain at this point, which means that talk of alternates is just that: talk. I repeat: we all know, and in that I include both the Big Nuke people, and their beneficiaries. So, my question is this:

When I hear Senator Obama speaking about how he's opposed to the Nevada facility, I don't actually have to worry that he's telling the truth, right? It'd be a bit of a relief if he was instead just sensibly lying about it until after the election was over.

Moe

PS: Come now, let's have no hesitation in the answer, here. This has been known for some time.

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