My Thoughts on the Obama Candidacy

I just left this comment over at metafilter, but I think it is poignant enough that I need to awaken this old dog and put it here, too. This is in response to the current kerfluffel about Obama's preacher being as crazy as a shit house rat.

We should be so lucky that this slows this candidacy to give folks a chance to think about his steaming heap of empty rhetoric. I say it is long past due that the media takes a critical look at Obama rather than offering to brush his teeth and turn down his bedding. "What? this isn't 1,000 count Egyptian cotton, let me get some for you. I've had some in my knapsack just waiting for you to need them, Mr. Obama, sir. Oh, forgive me, you can't understand me while I'm fellating you?" You can tell alot about a person by the company they keep. What's the real difference between that guy and one of those foaming at the mouth fundamentalists that liberals are so quick to take pot shots at?

Obama is an egomaniac. Bush is an egomaniac. Obama does not have the experience to be president. Bush did not have the experience to be president. Obama = a Bush who can string more than two words together.

Obama will not listen to you. All he wants is your money and your vote. You will not have any input in his government. That is not change, it is more of the same. He is a snake-oil salesman. He has never done anything significant, nor has he been part of anything significant.

His blow-hard short-sighted empty-pants style of governance will get us into more trouble than you could ever imagine. Our system is designed so that any one individual does not have the power to change anything.

There are two possibilities of ways he can change things: he would make change by doing nothing, or he could make change by becoming a tyrant. The middle ground is where our system is designed to operate. Bush has proven that there is no room for a tyrant. Does anyone really want to go from a little Mussolini to a little Hugo Chavez? I suppose that's change of some sort. But tyranny of the left-wing is still tyranny. I'll choose freedom every time.

No one person has all the answers. The American President needs to be able to sit down with all the stakeholders in a given situation and learn from them all. Obama and Bush are the same because they both think they have all the answers. Hell, senile old Nader is the same way.

I pray to Ganesh that I am not forced to make that choice. I saw what's happening here once on a Simpsons episode. Man, I hate democracy. Where have all the technocrats gone?

Have you wondered for one minute why Karl Rove seems so interested in Obama's campaign? Think about it. There's a reason. It's not because Karl Rove likes you and me.

Obama is so caught up in his own bullshit that he has thrown the wishes of the majority of his party, and possibly the majority of Americans out the window. What is wrong with a Clinton-Obama ticket? The right response would have been something along the lines of "If that's what the people want, then I'll be happy to get on board. For now, though, I'm running for President." The dope was roped again. We cant' afford to have him act that way as the leader of the free world.