Webloggin » If This Keeps Up, I May Be the One Hiding Vomit in the Closet

What a treat this morning to see the Shining One, Barack Obama, interviewed this morning by yet another Bright Light, the Oprah. I’m surprised that my tv didn’t explode with so much brilliance bombarding it. And how fitting it was that the promo for tomorrow’s Oprah show immediately following the first segment featured a woman who is a secret bulimic. Money quote from Oprah to the woman’s husband: “Did you know that she was hiding vomit in the closet?” I know exactly how this babe feels because I was close to vomiting myself, and I wasn’t sure if I was going to make it to the closet. Clearly, I was completely out of step with the audience, who greeted every banal remark and every lame attempt at humor from Obama with hysterically enthusiastic applause. Even Oprah herself demonstrated that the most hackneyed phrases regain new life when uttered by the Divine One. “You called it—I’ve never heard this phrase before—the coarsening of the culture.” Oprah, Girl—as you would say–you have got to get out more. One of my training partners has been using that phrase for at least a dozen years, and I don’t think it originated with her. Somehow, though, when BO says something, it’s brand new, at least to the passel of swooning syncophants surrounding him, including the Syncophant Supreme, Ms. Winfrey herself.

Obama’s great talent is the ability to cloak his socialist leanings and plans(“health care is a right,” “when we start talking about family values we start focusing very narrowly on things like abortion or gay marriage, but what we don’t spend enough time talking about is are mothers and fathers getting paid enough so they can support their kids and send them to college”) in a warm and fuzzy mask of perfect reasonableness and non-partisanship. In this regard, he runs laps around his Illinois colleague, Sen. Dick “Eddie Haskell” Durbin, who no matter how he tries, still comes off as a bug-eyed, fleshy-faced phony. Obama is a cool, smooth deceiver, the ultimate salesman, able to say inconsistent, or even false, things and yet convince many listeners that his is absolutely sincere. He represents the triumph of image over ideas. As such, he is the perfect democrat politician, with an ability to twist and distort the truth unseen since Bill Clinton. He is the walking embodiment of the most important arrow in the liberal quiver, the one without which they’d be lucky to break double digits in any election, stealth.

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