Isn’t this priceless? A picture truly worth a thousand words… neatly sums up all the grievance-mongering, entitlement mentality, victim status clamoring, and now, the reaction to last nights debate.
[Image source: MichelleMalkin.com]
These so-called Presidential primary campaign “debates” have been so predictably sanitized and uninformative that I’ve never wasted my time watching them. Given the reports from last night’s event in Pittsburgh, I’m almost (almost) sorry I missed it.
Sounds like the Dems are in an outraged snit that their candidates were subjected to the type of hardball questioning that is supposed to be reserved for the Republicans. How dare they! Not only were they asked substantive questions, the moderators declined to let them tap dance away with the usual boilerplate non-answers.
Wasn’t it utterly shameless how the moderators tried to sidetrack the debate with attempts to nit pick about minutiae like associations with an unrepentant American terrorist, or a twenty-year membership… make that “mentorship”… under a racist minister. We’re supposed to get questions like “Mrs. Clinton, do you prefer pearls or diamonds?” (so reminiscent of the question posed to candidate Bill all those many years ago- “Mr. Clinton, do you wear boxers or briefs?”)
Lord have mercy.
I heard one clip of Obama engaging in the Dem’s now standard practice of creating their prefered reality by the simple act of asserting that it is so. Lather- Rinse- Repeat… endlessly… and folks will swear it must be true. Said he, “Our foreign policy is in shambles”. Really? How so? Because the world doesn’t respect us anymore! Really? Let’s see if I can get these in the right order; first, Germany elects a pro-American prime minister, then France elects a pro-American prime minister, this week Italy elected a pro-American prime minister, and then today the British prime minister- a Labour Party man, mind you, not a Conservative- declares that “the world owes George Bush a huge debt of gratitude” for his actions against terrorism.
Some shambles.
UPDATE: Listened to NPR (can’t help myself) and heard that Obama had dismissed the need for another debate prior to the N. Carolina primary. Said he, “I can probably quote all of her campaign lines, and she can probably quote all of mine”.
So can we all, Senator, so can we all. Nevertheless, he whined to crowds after last night’s debate:
“Last night I think we set a new record because it took us 45 minutes before we even started talking about a single issue that matters to the American people,” Obama told the North Carolina crowd. “Forty-five minutes before we heard [everything we've already heard before] about health care, 45 minutes before we heard [the same irresponsible drivel] about Iraq, 45 minutes before we heard [the same jaw-jaw-jaw] about jobs, 45 minutes before we heard [the same old same old] about gas prices.”
All together now, 1…2…3…”Waaaaaaah!”
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