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HALLI CASSER-JAYNE - bio
RED, WHITE 'N TRUE
BING-O IS HIS NAME
Posted, July 2, 2008,  12:01 p.m. est

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I warned you all.

He was too good to be true.

But all you wounded political puppies out there feeling so pooped upon by Tush and his gang of Neocons fell for the man with the chocolate dog bone. With a knick-knack patty whack give the dog the bone, there was a farmer had a dog and Bing-O was his name – O-Bama is now your candidate, and he’s showing his true colors.

It’s sort of like you thought you bought a black dress but when you got home and tried it on, you found out it was Am I Blue.

Arianna Huffington, who it’s Greek to me why anyone listens to her as she leans to the left, leans to the right; stands up, sits down, fight, fight, fights is beside herself over her candidate’s move to the center since becoming the Democrack-up Party’s presumptive nominee.

Her headline on her post, “Memo to Obama: Moving to the Middle is for Losers” was sheer music to my ears. The women who did nothing but sing Obama’s praises during the primaries, seems stunned by Obama’s move to the center.

Here’s the song she’s singing now: “The Obama brand has always been about inspiration, a new kind of politics, the audacity of hope, and "change we can believe in." I like that brand. More importantly, voters -- especially unlikely voters -- like that brand.

“Pulling it off the shelf and replacing it with a political product geared to pleasing America's vacillating swing voters -- the ones who will be most susceptible to the fear-mongering avalanche that has already begun -- would be a fatal blunder.”

Mrs. Huffington seems to express surprise, if not shock that Barack Obama was not exactly the man she thought him to be.

This is bitchy I know but: The former Mrs. Huffington has a history of not exactly making great choices when it comes to men (you can research this one yourself), or she is great at making deals with the devils (you can research this one yourself, too).

The point is that the litter of puppies who post on her website, her Heinz57 collection of Obama dogs, might have thought about this before they followed Huffington and her little dog Toto down the Yellow Brick Road in supporting her handpicked candidate.

Anyhow, Huffington says Obama's move to the center is tactical. But suppose BO's move isn't tactical but ideological. Suppose it was his campaigning to the left and pandering to the left in the primary that was tactical and that actually he is a moderate. It's hard to know because Barack Obama is the most UNKNOWN candidate to run for the office of president ever.

But back to Obama's you-know-what-move-ment...of course Huffington isn’t the only one who Fooled Around and Fell in Love with Obama. Over at the liberal blog DailyKos there was Mutiny on the Bounty when some of the diarists felt so dogged by the rabid Obama wing of the website they walked out. But the head of the pack, Kos himself, seems to have gotten over his Puppy Love for Obama, and announced on his website that he wouldn’t be making his $2500 contribution to Obama.

“… There is a line between "moving to the center" and stabbing your allies in the back out of fear of being criticized. And, of late, he's [Barack Obama] been doing a lot of unnecessary stabbing, betraying his claims of being a new kind of politician,” Kos quipped in his post explaining his decision to withhold his campaign contribution. You could almost hear the Big Dog singing, “You Dawg, you lied, and you’ll be sorry.”

OK, it’s a dog eat dog world out there. And in the real world, not the dream world all those Obamamots placed their hopes on, politicians do what they have to in order to get elected, so that they can do what they want to in order to get reelected, and well, that’s the doggone truth.

Rolling Stone’s editor and publisher, Jann S. Wenner, conducted an interview with Obama on June 12.

When Mr. Wenner asked how Mr. Obama might respond to harsh attacks from Republicans, suggesting that Democrats have “cowered” in the past, Mr. Obama replied, “Yeah, I don’t do cowering.”

Of course, Barack Obama doesn’t do cowering. He ain’t no dog. He’s just your run-of-the-puppy-mill, doggone politician.

And b-i-n-g-OBAMA is his name.

Woof! Woof!





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