O. explaining to celebs at the Streisand fund-raiser:

“The reason I’m calm … is I’ve got confidence in the American people,” he said. “I really think they want to see us do better.”

Oh no.  They want to see us do worse.

Off cuff remark, crafted for effect.  He elides.  What he means is:

He thinks people think the nation will do better if he’s in charge. 

Typical political shorthand, but it does get tedious for the non-believers.

Someone else with a bead on Cocky Locky:

she thinks Democratic nominee Barack Obama is arrogant and has a problem connecting with average Americans.

That’s Lynn Forester de Rothschild, big Hillary fund-raiser (and hot, hot entrepreneur who married well), jumping ship while the jumping is good.

Well that’s it, isn’t it?  He’s got this arch demeanor, stiffness most of the time — though not when he’s dancing with Generes in, frankly, a vulgar manner — and grossly roundabout speaking manner.

Go, Lynn F. deR., and bring all your in-laws with you!

Another who hit nail on head — for unofficial “Clinton Democrats: We will not be silenced” — said it well just the other day:

Believe it or not, the first time I laid eyes on Senator Obama in a debate and watched his ‘body English’: the up-tilt of his head, looking down the nose, leaning away from his audience, the you-come-to-me-I-don’t-go-to-you-demeanor, his halting speech, one thing rang in my ears loud and clear: His arrogance would be his undoing.

Cocky Locky (will) teach you dancing in a hurry and will befuddle, alienate, and/or lead you down a primrose path of managed life in America — if you don’t watch out!

More bully-boy tactics from the gang with hope to believe in, etc.  Is this any way for a Messiah to behave?

David Freddoso attempted to appear on Milt Rosenberg’s WGN radio show last night, and just as when Stanley Kurtz tried to talk on the same show, the Barack Obama campaign organized a disruption of the show. The campaign sent out an e-mail to supporters in the area sliming Freddoso as an “extreme” hate monger, a “smear merchant”, and attempted to silence him despite Rosenberg having an Obama surrogate on the show:

Details from Chi Trib:

Chicago radio station WGN-AM is again coming under attack from the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama for offering airtime to a controversial author. It is the second time in recent weeks the station has been the target of an “Obama Action Wire” alert to supporters of the Illinois Democrat.

Monday night’s target was David Freddoso, who the campaign said was scheduled to be on the station from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Chicago time.

. . . saying O’s supporters’ help was “urgently needed,” lest the guest’s “baseless lies don’t gain credibility.”  Not the first time, either.

The Tribune-owned station was flooded with calls and e-mails about an hour before an Aug. 27 interview with Stanley Kurtz, a conservative writer who examined Obama’s ties to former 1960s radical William Ayers.

A WGN producer said Monday night’s response was about the same as when Kurtz was on the station.

Same yahoos, hurling shit from trees, as in Gulliver’s Travels.

NY Times did Sarah Palin, enemies-only, so she looks bad even with her 86% approval rating in Alaska, says John of Power Line.  It’s easy.  Just make it an enemies-only interview list. 

If the Times wanted to test that proposition, they could send a team of reporters to Chicago to search out and interview people who don’t like Barack Obama. Somehow, though, I don’t think that’s on their agenda.

Neither do I. 

John’s sidekick Paul says it would be harder in Chi, because O. has gone along to get along.

You don’t make many enemies by voting “present.”

The local dailies have been trying, of course — heh, heh.

Wondering as I was about slips of the tongue by the Big O., faithfully recorded on the Worldwide Web but not so faithfully in Chicago’s Sun-Times and Chi Trib, I googled “Obama gaffes” and found a bonanza.

The first of them was, you guessed it, a blog called “Obama’s Gaffes: How Many More Gaffes Until We Can Call Him Stupid!”  The proprietor starts with an apology (and a misspelling):

I don’t post as often as I used to, becuase [sic] my job is done, after 14 months of following and documenting Obama words. I am confident that people finally have figured out what Obama is all about. A gaffe galore candidate along with a VP who is worse than he is with gaffes. I guess likes attracts like! Enjoy the the best of Obama’s gaffes.

He has videos, like this of O. using his middle finger to show Hillary what’s up. 

On the lipstick business, he offers this from Times of London:

“The character question it raises is not that he is a sexist or that he lacks courtesy. It is that he folds under pressure. Obama has looked amazingly uncomfortable under the pressure that Palin has put him under. He relies on his cool – it is a core part of his appeal. So he looks bad when he loses it. During the Hillary contest he rarely came under any pressure from the media. When he did he reacted badly.”

Getting a little less exuberant than this blogger, but no less telling, we find Michelle Malkin at National Review Online, with “Barack Gaffes: the Obama machine,” which opens with this staple of anti-media data:

All it takes is one gaffe to taint a Republican for life. The political establishment never let Dan Quayle live down his fateful misspelling of “potatoe.” The New York Times distorted and misreported the first President Bush’s questions about new scanner technology at a grocers’ convention to brand him permanently as out of touch.

She lists:

* the 10,000 killed by tornado in Kansas.  No, 12 people.

* the 57 U.S. states.  No, 50.

* Arkansas is nearer Kentucky (than his state, Illinois) — given as why Hillary led him in Kentucky.

* thanking Sioux City for the welcome.  He was in Sioux Falls.

* His parents conceived him in response to the Selma bridge crossing in 1965.  He was born in 1961.

* We use translators in Iraq that could be used in Afghanistan.  Different languages.

* Said he’s not familiar with Hanford OR nuclear waste disposal site.  Voted on how to deal with it.

* Cited nonexistent Life Mag article he read at age nine, about black man scarred by trying to whiten his skin.

* Said one day Iran posed no serious threat, next day that he had “made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”

Ask yourselves, ladies and gentlemen, are mainstreamers in the tank for this guy or not, that he hasn’t become the stuff of editorials, not to mention comic skits?

This old man, he’s not cool:

McCain “can’t send an email?” [says Obama ad]  That’s true, actually, as Jonah Goldberg explains:

The reason he doesn’t send email is that he can’t use a keyboard because of the relentless beatings he received from the Viet Cong in service to our country. From the Boston Globe (March 4, 2000):

McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain’s severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes.

Friends marvel at McCain’s encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He’s an avid fan – Ted Williams is his hero – but he can’t raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball.

From the man who says it’s time to make government cool again.

Actually, McC knows a lot about computers, Power Line further explains:

This excerpt from a 2000 Forbes article about McCain’s pioneering web-based campaign is noteworthy:

In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate’s savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email.

His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. “She’s a whiz on the keyboard, and I’m so laborious,” McCain admits.

Forget Sarah.  Is O. ready to be president?

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Later:  In the spirit of Nyaa, nyaa, when read B. wrote:

something stinks.  right now, as i write you, my elbows are touching my waist.  my forrearms are on a small slant upwards as i type on my laptop on the kitchen table.  my shouldders are as far down as anyone’s shoulders go.  so jonah is lying and stretching as he usually does.  john mccain is simply an old fart who doesn’t want to know or try out anything the least bit new… bottom line, your shoulders do NOT ever have to go up at all to send an email.. and i am insulted that they are trying to say otherwise as my shoulders are as down and immobile as any human being’s as i write this email to you.  –b

I responded:

This one got you, I see.  Jonah does not lie here, nor does he usually.  Read his Liberal Fascism (HG Wells’s phrase meant to put a smiling face on f.).  If McC is an old fart, what am I, older than he?  And why is he “savviest” on technology?  You have not worn his shoes, so shut up.  He does not wave at crowds, have you noticed?  So shut up. 

Clever, eh?