Webloggin » It’s that black guy who’s running for president!

Bullshit. That’s about as close of a description one gets when reading the LA Times article on Barack Obama’s trailing poll numbers as compared to lead candidate Hillary Clinton. The whole article is a contrived piece of crap. The LA Times effort is much more about the media’s failed attempt to push Obama over the top than it is about Obama’s inability to do that himself.

I’m going to do a little experiment. I see that Captain’s Quarters and Bookworm have written about the LA Times article. I will write mine in its entirety before I see what other people have to say and then see if they agree with me that the LA Times article is nothing more than another attempt to revitalize the campaign for whatever reason. In fact I believe this to be another calculated attempt to scrounge up Obama points in preparation for the obvious Hillary-Obama minority ticket. You have to see this one coming from a mile away.

I read “Polls don’t reflect Obama’s star power” with a skeptical eye for a number of reasons. This article provides a first hand glimpse into those who created Obama’s star power. From day one it was a figment of the mainstream media imagination; and it continues to be.

Who can believe the following exchange as reported by the Times? (all emphasis mine)

Carol Cook, an account manager for John Deere, walked out of her front door and almost fell off her porch when she saw the commotion. “Who is that?” Cook called across the street to her neighbor Dixie Edwards.

“It’s that black guy who’s running for president!” Edwards called back, prompting Cook to race over to shake his hand.

Everywhere he goes, Obama gets a Hutton Street-style welcome.

Crowds coo, strain to shake his hand, get his autograph, take his picture. In town meetings, supporters testify with religious fervor. At a Des Moines forum on global climate change, high school physics teacher Bill Cox lobbed the ultimate love bomb: “You remind me of John Kennedy,” Cox said. “Are you going to be the person to . . . lead us to true energy independence?”

“I am the man,” Obama replied confidently, prompting an ovation.

What a juvenile piece of literary junk. I don’t believe it. There is no way that Dixie Edwards said “It’s that black guy who’s running for president!”. It strains credibility. The LA Times must be trying real hard to remind the voters that the rich Senator from Chicago’s ritzy Hyde Park neighborhood is a black man. Please.

Likewise the cooing crowd and infantile John Kennedy line are both creations of the media. Especially the John Kennedy line. Who can forget the Biography Channel Kennedy-Obama love letter?

Why on earth would Obama remind anybody of John Kennedy? Kennedy is regarded as a war hero from WWII, Obama is more in line with the anti-war crowd. Kennedy was a catholic, Obama is reportedly a Christian that was raised as a Catholic although he attended a Muslim school for 2 years. Obama wears faith on his sleeve, as do all Democrats nowadays, but it should be noted that Barack Obama attends the United Church of Christ. This is a very liberal form of theology.

According to the Washington Times, the only sin that the senator’s pastor in Chicago seems to denounce is that of being an American. Which makes sense since the “Kennedy Like” Senator refuses to wear a U.S. flag lapel pin and even fails to salute the flag during the National Anthem. How Kennedy like is that?

Obama may or may not share the views of his pastor but one thing is for sure, the Obama-Kennedy comparison is a load of baloney. Perhaps that’s why the senator’s numbers are trailing.

The Times report is relentless in its drive to mislead readers in myths. For instance when the LA Times says “Obama Girl’s unrequited urges turned him into a YouTube sensation”, you are reading a lie. It turned her into a YouTube sensation. Obama was already well represented there; and now that star is starting to fade.

Make no mistake about all of what you read concerning Obama. The media is setting him up to bee Hillary’s running mate. Someone who may temper her rough edges, add another minority to the Democrat ticket and supposedly represent even more change than the hardened Senator from New York.

Now I’m going to check out what other bloggers have to say… Be right back.

Ok,

Both Ed over at Captain’s Quarters and Bookworm at Bookworm Room get it.

They headline the piece, “Polls don’t reflect Obama’s star power”, a self-contradicting statement, since popularity forms both star power and poll standing. It speaks to both a misrepresentation of Obama’s attraction from the very beginning and the media narrative that has tried mightily to keep interest in a Democratic primary that was long ago a foregone conclusion - Ed Morrisey at Heading Right

The secret behind the oxymoron in the title, and the oxymoronic thinking in the whole article is right here, in paragraph 9:

No candidate in recent memory has swept onto the national political scene with greater fanfare. Obama has been on magazine covers and talk shows. Oprah Winfrey endorsed him, and Obama Girl’s unrequited urges turned him into a YouTube sensation. He has raised nearly as much money as Clinton, and in Iowa, at least, has advertised twice as much (4,244 TV spots versus 2,192, according to the Nielsen Co.)

It’s not the people who love Obama, it’s the members of the media who love Obama. They’ve been trying to make him a star, and are frustrated that the public is resisting. Again, because the article used the “star” concept, which is a Hollywood construct, let’s give a Hollywood analogy. - Bookworm

Exactly right Bookie, and they won’t stop trying. This is the new narrative. Now the media mavens will scratch their heads trying to figure out what can be done to revitalize the campaign. Expect more bones to be thrown Mr. Obama’s way before his nod for the top post is finished.