Comments on: Video: Arrogance?

By: rockbend

rockbend — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:25:01 +0000

The entire system pushes toward mediocre candidates. Every candidate for President has to have his or her entire life bared for all to see. It’s hard to allow that, even with so great a prize. I’m sure the best candidates opt out, and the good candidates who step in (FDT for example) get hammered by not just the MSM but by the new arbiter of who is fit, the blogosphere.

Buford Gooch on June 23, 2008 at 11:31 AM

IIRC:
The first 4-5 weeks of the primaries, Romney had more delegates than any other Republican, yet all we heard from the NYT and the rest of the media was “Republican front-runner John McCain…”.

They built him up until he edged out the others and then launched stories on Adulterer-gate, Temper-gate, and Senile-gate.

By: Chakra Hammer

Chakra Hammer — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:22:39 +0000

I wonder if Obama had that seal made up as a belt buckle. :}

By: misterpeasea

misterpeasea — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:12:06 +0000

I love the way McCain apologists defend McCain: Shut up and vote for him, you crybaby jerks, or The End Of The World’ll be YOUR FAULT!

Again, why will it be better to have stupid and costly policies like amnesty and huge global warming taxes blamed on McCain and the Republicans instead of Bambi and the Democrats? Why will it be better to have the Dems increase their seats in the mid-term elections?

By: Terrye

Terrye — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:45:29 +0000

I do not think McCain is a lousy candidate. He is the most popular Republican in America right now. I realize that the sore loser cry baby contingent of the Republican party can not stand to admit it, but McCain was enough of a candidate to win the nomination without their help. In fact I can remember when a lot of people were saying he was a goner. But somehow or other he hang in there and carried the day.

As for Obama, he is getting way to big for his britches. The man is starting to believe his own hype. That sort of thing can wear thin really fast.

By: Harry Schell

Harry Schell — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:29:48 +0000

Barry is ignorant, unsophisticated and thinks his Hyde Park groupies really represent intelligensia. Their arrogance is his, as is their hubris.

The more light poured on Barry and his tried and failed nostrums the better. Between that and his ineptitude with flip-flops and campaign management, McCain can win this. I am not so thrilled about that, but it beats having a REAL idiot in the WH.

By: roninacreage

roninacreage — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:58:50 +0000

McCain is running such a pathetic campaign, i’m beginning to think Bob Shrum is running it.

By: Typhonsentra

Typhonsentra — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:49:12 +0000

Todd’s a good analyst overall, he was pretty on the ball with calculating the delegate math during the primary, far better than the experts they had on Fox and CNN.

By: Queeter

Queeter — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:15:05 +0000

The saddest part of it all is that he can probably fill stadiums full of people who are happy to be there cheering on all of the emptiness. Really sad.

By: NTWR

NTWR — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:04:04 +0000

Bordering.

By: NTWR

NTWR — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:03:41 +0000

Big hat, no cattle.

The audacity of the Messiah is bording on Sociopathic at this point. Does he even remember what ~~his handlers had him say~~ he says?

By: Gilda

Gilda — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:40:42 +0000

An arrogant man with no track record to justify the hubris looks a lot more like an empty suit — who needs pseudo-Great Seals to shore up his ego.

Heh. Excellent. I took the liberty of remaking the Great Seal of Obama. I may make a few more of these before the election's over...

By: ronsfi

ronsfi — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:39:17 +0000

I hate to say it but McCain is a lousy candidate but BO is a walking disaster. How dare the Donks try to foist this shit sack on us!

By: rockmom

rockmom — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:19:03 +0000

Obama may end up wishing the Democratic nomination process had gone on longer. Now it’s open season on him instead of Hillary. Although he has some media people still in the tank, it’s easy to see a growing sense among responsible journalists that “hey, we have a job to do here and it is to find out who the hell this guy is before the people vote for or against him.”

I think they have a sense that the ultimate “fail” for them will be to cheerlead this guy into the White House and then have another disastrous presidency. Most of them genuinely like and respect John McCain and won’t feel much of a loss if he actually wins the election because they know he is capable of doing the job and he isn’t a “right wing nut”.

A lot of reporters felt somewhat hoodwinked by George W. Bush in 2000; they fell into the trap of writing the easy story about Al Gore’s prevarications about inventing the Internet and such, and really did not delve too much into just who is this George W. Bush. They wrote too many stories about the campaign and the tactics and Karl Rove and Al Gore’s wardrobe, and they are sorry as hell about it. A lot of them see Barack Obama as maybe even an emptier suit than George W. was in 2000.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:10:30 +0000

Obama is easy to mock, has many weaknesses,much baggage…and is still a formidable opponent. Not because of him, but the Dem politico machine he’s fronting for. He is relatively inexperienced, but the ones running the show are pros. Don’t underestimate the Dems desire to reclaim the White House. They came close the last two times, and they will keep pushing
until either they win or they are so greatly defeated that they have to change their politics. They’ve done that before, when the Dems went from favoring Segregation to becoming the alleged Civil Rights party. They had to do a 180 turn or become obsolete.

By: fogw

fogw — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:08:14 +0000

Since Obambi only wants to talk about himself and not the issues, can we start making fun of his gigantic ears?

Obambi: “I don’t wike dat.”

By: Ernest

Ernest — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:06:35 +0000

6-23-08 9:00 Pacific standard time

On HOT AIR SITE

8 pictures of Obama
3 Pictures of McCain

Who’s our candidate? Sorry, I’m old and get confused easily.

By: petefrt

petefrt — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:05:51 +0000

Obama can make a strong first impression. But he doesn’t wear well, as much because of the elitist arrogance as the gaffes and reversals. Rather than growing on you, he grates on you.

By: Steve Z

Steve Z — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:02:56 +0000

On his Great Seal of the ObamaNation, Barry O replaced “One from Many” by “Truly We Can”. Then he says that “we can’t drill our way out of the energy crisis before 2030″.

We can’t? McCain should be all over this: Yes We Can!

By: tarpon

tarpon — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:53:03 +0000

Comrade Obama’s word is no good, jis signature is no good, which leads to his character is no good. He is also arrogant. OK, add that to the list.

By: WastelandMan

WastelandMan — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:52:28 +0000

wise_man on June 23, 2008 at 11:48 AM

Whew! Me too brother!
As Much as I like the idea of the apocalypse coming I would like a bit more time to prepare for it!

-Wasteland Man.

By: wise_man

wise_man — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:48:31 +0000

ok.. so you support McCain, thats very sweet of you :) WastelandMan on June 23, 2008 at 11:41 AM

Actually, I don't want Obama to be the next president.

By: d1carter

d1carter — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:42:47 +0000

Arrogance…definitely.

By: WastelandMan

WastelandMan — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:41:24 +0000

wise_man on June 23, 2008 at 11:38 AM

ok.. so you support McCain, thats very sweet of you :)

but can ya tell me that Jake-The-Goose was lying?

-Wasteland Man.

P.S. McCain does Suck as a candidate IMHO.

By: benrand

benrand — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:41:04 +0000

A strident leftist friends with domestic terrorists arrogant?

I mean, we haven’t seen ANY arrogance from Barry have we? Naaah.

He would just like us to be a whole lot dumber.

By: old trooper

old trooper — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:39:32 +0000

McCain needs to agressively question Obama on every issue.
If he doesn’t take the kid gloves off, we will be stuck with a racist/marxist agenda, a truly broken economy and an Activist Judiciary that will set this Nation back 200 years.

Obama is a phony and it should not be that difficult to defeat him if McCain gets serious about his candidacy.
If McCain does not step up, We are in for some pretty grim consequences here.