I’ve been knocked flat by a cold and haven’t done much more than skim the news, but I can’t pass on this item noted by Allahpundit at Hot Air: Byron York traces the path of deception followed by the Obama…

Obama has made a campaign on the basis of character. Even apart from his continuing ties to people like Tony Rezko, William Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn, the NAFTA Dance shows the character of his campaign as less than stellar.

Ed

Nice close, Ed. Let me translate for the less eloquent readers here, in my own special style: Obama is a douche.

He thinks people are stupid, like most Democrats. I hope he’s wrong.

Asher on March 4, 2008 at 9:54 AM

I ‘hope’ so, too, Asher…
But I fear he is right. Watching the focus groups of undecided voters has been rather traumatic for me. Still no one knows anything about him, but they love him. Even as recently as last night, all I was hearing was an overwhelming majority of swooners talking about his youthfulness, how well he gives a speech, his sincerity, how good he looks….
What gets to me even more is that hundreds of people are making complete fools of themselves over him on national television. My husband keeps telling me this is American Idol/Survivor mentality. They don’t know any better. Americans have been dumbed down to this.
I guess my almost complete lack of experience with pop culture since high school leaves me unable to understand a majority of my fellow countrymen.
I’m floored, I tell ya.

Has he told Malaki not to worry, that its only campaign rhetoric and Obambi knows he can’t pull the troops out but he also knows winning can only come from saying he will?

And if Goolsbee met with Canadian officials to give them a heads-up, wouldn’t he have done the same with some Mexican officials?

Where are the investigative journalists?

In Barry’s back pocket. That’s where.

Obama’s certitude and “courage” when he says that he WILL cut funding for “future weapons systems” and “failed missile defense systems” concerns me much more.

I can just hear the McCain camp taking notes waiting to hit him in the general.

Larraby on March 4, 2008 at 10:01 AM

Good points, all. How exactly do you “opt out” of a treaty? Forget the resulting diplomatic fallout between Canada and Mexico, what about the rest of the countries in the world we have treaties with? It would signal that our word isn’t worth dirt anymore. It also sets a dangerous precedent: if we can “opt out” of a treaty, the other party can, too.

It also shows him to have a lot less courage than he assigns to himself, refusing either to stand up to the protectionists in his party or the Canadians and Mexicans.

He also made his response to the 3 A.M ad about courage – the courage to be opposed to the Iraq War before it started, which of course required no courage at all since he was not a U.S. Senator at the time:

“It’s 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep,” the narrator says. “But there’s a phone ringing in the White House. Something’s happening in the world. When that call gets answered, shouldn’t the president be the one — the only one — who had judgment and courage to oppose the Iraq war from the start. Who understood the real threat to America was al-Qaeda, in Afghanistan, not Iraq. Who led the effort to secure loose nuclear weapons around the globe.

“In a dangerous world, it’s judgment that matters,” the announcer concludes.

That would be racist.

“The Hustle“, maybe?

Obama has made a campaign on the basis of character. Even apart from his continuing ties to people like Tony Rezko, William Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn, the NAFTA Dance shows the character of his campaign as less than stellar.

He has made the campaign about judgment too – that was his response to Hillary’s who do you want to answer the phone at 3 A.Mad.

What specifically are the conditions for such a move?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Paging Senator Clinton…