Video: Obamamania strikes the Tonight Show
posted at 2:56 pm on December 2, 2006 by Allahpundit
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The low point: his take on the war, in which he repeats the idiotic Democratic talking point about there being insufficient “pressure” on an Iraqi government that lives in perpetual fear of assassination and civil war. The left wants out no matter the consequences to Iraq, but that sounds callous so they frame it in terms of tough love. It’s a fig leaf for abandoning the country to its fate.
The high point: his shrewd assessment of his own popularity. Spot on.
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This guy will so eat Hillary’s Lunch..the scariest thing…..I donthate him. But give me time. I’ll work on it.
DarianCounts on December 2, 2006 at 3:10 PM
I must admit, his stance on changing the tone of politics is appealing.
Dr. Gecko on December 2, 2006 at 3:13 PM
This guy will flop once people start drilling him on the issues. His experience is zero and I’m curious about his views on the war on terror. His father is muslim.
darwin on December 2, 2006 at 3:21 PM
The guy is a complete lightweight. And the woo-hoo approval by the Tonight Show audience ought to tell you something.
Jeff on December 2, 2006 at 3:34 PM
For Iraq he sees “bad options and worse options”. In other words, he’s given up and like the rest of his party, he has no ideas at all. Just more ’shouldn’t have invaded Iraq in the first place’. I’m so tired of hearing that. The point is made – loud and clear. Instead of looking for a way to simply cut-and-run as fast as we can from Iraq because ‘we shouldn’t have gone there in the first place’, isn’t there a better option for us, the people and government of Iraq, and the world at large? If the world looks to the U.S. for leadership, they will apparently not find a trace of it in Obama.
thedecider on December 2, 2006 at 3:35 PM
Sing along now:
Obama bama fofama
banana mana fofama
fe fi fo fama
OBAMA!
JammieWearingFool on December 2, 2006 at 3:51 PM
O BROTHER!….LMAO
hillbillyjim on December 2, 2006 at 4:03 PM
Who is this guy? I have to ask myself that every time, I think I’ll be asking myself that 11,000 times in the next two years. The media just keeps rolling along, they seem more empowered and confident again. This is their guy, and the drooling masses are taking the bait. If mass media can convince the drooling masses that (insert talentless actor/musician here) is the hottest thing on the planet, can they do it with Obama?
Other Democrat Senators must be seething. They have no choice now, but to put on a fake smile and suck up to Obama. He’s got the media, he’s got the moonbats, the only question is, who will his running mate be?
I’m sitting here trying to picture the unthinkable; Obama vs. McCain in 2008. Two media
whoresdarlings going head to head in the most transparent race ever.I know 2008 is a long way off, but these two will spend the most time in front of a camera over the next couple of years. Gah…
reaganaut on December 2, 2006 at 4:10 PM
Living in Illinois I have noticed over the past two years something that I haven’t seen pointed out by anyone and perhaps Allahpundit or someone at Hotair could look into.
When he is in front of a black audience he does not speak the way he does anywhere else. He is like Jeckyl and Hyde, you sometimes can’t even recognize him as the same person.
As an aside, on the night he won the election his wife introduced him as, “My baby’s daddy,” and not one news report about what a strange thing that was to say.
Anyway, if anyone can find video of him speaking at a black gathering in the past few weeks – I saw it on local news but just can remember where it was but I recall wondering who that man was.
DKK
LifeTrek on December 2, 2006 at 4:38 PM
Obama-ma
(Barack-a-rack-a)
Obama-ma
(Barack-a-rack)
Obama-ma
(Barack-a-rack-a
a-rack-a
a-rack-a
a-rack-a
a-rack-rack-rack-rack-rack)
Seriously, there’s no there there as of yet (not that that stopped people like Warren Harding).
So why don’t we have fun with his euphonious name?
Obama-ma
meep on December 2, 2006 at 4:45 PM
As I said a week or so ago and will say again ( Fire for Effect ), Obama-Osama is provably corrupt from his Illinois politics days, and won’t last long once his soon-to-multiply enemies dig up and expose the Dirt.
He’s another Carol Mosely Braun, only in office because of yet another Total Illinois Repbulican Party Screw-up.
Janos Hunyadi on December 2, 2006 at 4:49 PM
If he runs in “08”, and the Repubs put up a real loser who has a last minute breakdown…. Would you vote for Osama I mean Obama, sit it out, anybody but Obama, or other?
Suppose he won by a huge landside (90%) or better… Would we finally get past the race issue? To make this palpable to the right, the Repubs take back both the House and Senate in a big way (which would neutralize his leftist twistings to a fair degree).
To quote that great and wholly misunderstood American Rodney what’s-his-name; “Can’t we all just get along?”
RalphyBoy on December 2, 2006 at 4:55 PM
Never sit it out, that’s how we got Nancy and her boys on the hill. Anyone except a democrat. At least a republican loser stands a chance of having a crack staff.
darwin on December 2, 2006 at 5:33 PM
I’ve asked myself many times what anyone sees in either Barak Obama or John Edwards. Two of the emptiest suits in politics today…
canvas on December 2, 2006 at 5:55 PM
We know that’s false. Turnout was incredibly high this past election.
Nonfactor on December 2, 2006 at 6:45 PM
Yawn…
The media’s hard-on for Obama is above and beyond ridiculous. I remember reading in an article in Newsweek many, many years ago after the media kept saying that Mario Cuomo was going to run for President. In a rare insightful and self-examining comment by the media, Newsweek talked about how many times the media reports something because they so WANT it to happen, whether or not it actually could.
And this is the situation with Obama. He’s crazy if he falls for all the fawning and decides to run. And if he does decide to run, there’s just no way he’s going to get the nomination.
Right now, he’s just the flavor of the month…an empty vassal for everyone to project their good feelings on the guy.
asc85 on December 2, 2006 at 6:54 PM
i really would rather he didn’t say we have only bad options and worse options. I want a leader with a positive vision. Reagan, I think, tried always to be positive. Obama does seem like a decent guy so far, though. We shall see.
mikeyboss on December 2, 2006 at 8:20 PM
Hey JammieWearingFool, I’m not going to let you get away with that. I thought of that a long time ago when Teddy “Make It A Double” Kennedy screwed up his name. After all, that song is from my era.Title
The Name Game
Artist(band)
Shirley Ellis
Album
zzz N/A
The name game!
Shirley!
Shirley, Shirley bo Birley Bonana fanna fo Firley
Fee fy mo Mirley, Shirley!
Lincoln!
Lincoln, Lincoln bo Bincoln Bonana fanna fo Fincoln
Fee fy mo Mincoln, Lincoln!
Come on everybody!
I say now let’s play a game
I betcha I can make a rhyme out of anybody’s name
The first letter of the name, I treat it like it wasn’t there
But a B or an F or an M will appear
And then I say bo add a B then I say the name and Bonana fanna and a
fo
And then I say the name again with an F very plain
and a fee fy and a mo
And then I say the name again with an M this time
and there isn’t any name that I can’t rhyme
Arnold!
Arnold, Arnold bo Barnold Bonana fanna fo Farnold
Fee fy mo Marnold Arnold!
But if the first two letters are ever the same,
I drop them both and say the name like
Bob, Bob drop the B’s Bo ob
For Fred, Fred drop the F’s Fo red
For Mary, Mary drop the M’s Mo ary
That’s the only rule that is contrary.
Okay? Now say Bo: Bo
Now Tony with a B: Bony
Then Bonana fanna fo: bonana fanna fo
Then you say the name again with an F very plain: Fony
Then a fee fy and a mo: fee fy mo
Then you say the name again with an M this time: Mony
And there isn’t any name that you can’t rhyme
Every body do Tony!
Pretty good, let’s do Billy!
Very good, let’s do Marsha!
A little trick with Nick!
The name game
Jeff on December 2, 2006 at 9:19 PM
Uh…Doc? How, exactly, has Obama’s fringe left vote against John Roberts for SCOTUS “chang[ed] the tone of politics”? And remember — Obama was editor of the Harvard Law Review, and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Jaibones on December 2, 2006 at 11:16 PM
Never underestimate the power of “star power.” And he has it. Hillary is sweating him, but not too much. Money and fame is still on her side and she has traveled the safe moderate road as Senator.
She will ask him to VP probably.
A duo made in hell.
Rightwingsparkle on December 2, 2006 at 11:23 PM
Some people have way too much time on their hands.
iNeXuS on December 2, 2006 at 11:48 PM
Sorry, but who frickin’ cares? Survival is the issue that trumps everything at this point. Can’t argue about anything if we’re dead in a nuclear blast.
jaleach on December 3, 2006 at 1:06 AM
jaleach, you could have accomplished the same by doing this:
Entelechy on December 3, 2006 at 1:10 AM
sorry jaleach, I meant to address iNeXuS
Entelechy on December 3, 2006 at 1:11 AM
So Allah, what happened to my post? Is it hung up somewhere?
thedecider on December 3, 2006 at 3:37 AM
This is the same setup as in CT… Lamont was the “anything but Lieberman” campaign and Oboma is the “anything but Hillary” version. Oboma will beat the b!tch in the primaries and loose the Election in 2008. Well that’s if the Clinton machine doesn’t clean house first!
Bob on December 3, 2006 at 5:30 AM
Must have been tutored by our first black president.
Did you ever hear Clinton speak in a black church? The guy sounded like Farrakhan. Gore played the same game, with his Tennessee twang thickening before a black audience.
Bunch of phoney pretenders. Sad thing is, their audiences lap it up.
fogw on December 3, 2006 at 9:29 AM
The primaries will be damned interesting. Imagine how fun it’s going to be watching Kerry, Edwards, Clinton and Obama go at each other. Geez….talk about the politics of personal destructon. It’ll be a bloodbath.
BacaDog on December 3, 2006 at 12:49 PM
Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow…uggghhhh
tomas on December 3, 2006 at 5:09 PM
I’d like to mention that Deval Patrick (D), Governor-Elect for MA was endorsed by his good friend, Barack Obama.
From the Boston Herald October 2005:
Obama and Patrick met in the mid-1990s, introduced by then-White House counsel Abner Mikva of Illinois. Patrick contributed to Obama’s state and national campaigns. -Last week, Obama returned the favor. Big time. A charismatic, biracial speaker who brought down the house at last year’s Democratic National Convention in Boston, Obama praised Patrick at a Sunday fund-raiser that included some of Chicago’s political and business elite. As Patrick later joked, “You know your campaign’s on fire when Barack Obama is your warmup act.
I think you’ll be hearing Patrick’s and Obama’s names in the same breath in the next couple of years.
kiakjones on December 3, 2006 at 6:08 PM
Hillary decided the Kid has had enough headlines…
Entelechy on December 4, 2006 at 1:39 AM
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