Obama Caught In Perfect Storm Of Events

A series of events are coming together to create, perhaps not a perfect storm, but certainly in-climate weather for Barack Obama given that he hoped to capture lightening in a bottle with a rhetorical whirlwind Thursday night at Invesco Stadium.

The first wave was Hillary Clinton, who endorsed an agenda last night in Denver which included at least slight personal praise for John McCain, yet yielded no such thing for Barack Obama. The second big wave to crash into him is coming tomorrow with Hillary's, even if sometimes inappropriately engorged, lessor half.

Then after two nights of Clinton convention domination, Obama will still not have Thursday evening entirely to himself. While the speech will certainly dominate political coverage it isn't really news. And as we saw with Obama's Veep circus, the media will be forced to speculate, spy and continuously ask who is John McCain going to be rolling out as Veep come Friday afternoon.

DENVER — John McCain is planning to rollout his vice-presidential nominee in three battleground states this weekend, with large-scale rallies planned for Ohio, Pennsylvania and Missouri, according to aides and advisers.

The GOP nominee-in-waiting will move to immediately change the campaign conversation from Barack Obama’s football stadium acceptance speech Thursday to the new Republican ticket, to be revealed at a noontime Friday rally in a Dayton, Ohio, basketball arena. McCain and his running mate will then travel by bus to Pennsylvania, where they’ll hold an outdoor event at a minor league baseball stadium in Washington County, just southwest of Pittsburgh. On Sunday, the duo will head to suburban St. Louis for another event to be held at a minor league baseball stadium, this one in O’Fallon, Mo.

If I might slip my metaphor here, one almost senses John McCain and, to some extent, the Clintons are playing Chess while Obama is left to play Checkers - jumping up on to a podium so some number of Democrats can crown him king, thereby feeding into the very celebrity meme McCain has been beating him up with for weeks.

I wonder how much the Obama camp would give to have scheduled the event inside, assuming there's enough humility and experience in the lot to think clearly these stormy days?

And to think, this was his big chance to shine. All that's needed now is a cloud burst Thursday night, which, if nothing else, would at least hide the tears generated as a result.

Comments

[Terry Gain]

Obama is about to find out that the American people aren't impressed with his Msster Rogers defense of his close association with William Ayers, unrepentant terrorist and punk rich kid.

[wolfwalker]

I would've said that Snobama is playing checkers while the Bitch Queen and McCain are both playing Go, which is a considerably higher-intellectual-level game even than chess. Otherwise, a good analysis.

And this business of Snobama using a mock Greek temple as the stage for his acceptance speech illustrates his Olympian narcissism better than anything he's done yet. Some other blog had some photos posted of the stage under construction -- it looked like a float for the Rose Bowl Parade or the stage for a Super Bowl halftime show. Does he think he's competing on American Idol or something?

[Spartan112]

McCain playing chess? Isn't that a bit elitist?

What I find telling in this is that Obama will be speaking at a 70k seat stadium while McCain will be touring minor league ballparks. Will he be throwing out the first pitch or singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" as well?

[JustOneMan]

The morons will pack the stadium to hear Bruce Springshit and Bon Blowme sing their stupid songs and sell t-shirts....followed by Barry reading a speach, written by some liberal moronic white guy, from a teleprompter....

Ill take the minor league baseball game...the tickets are cheaper and they have fireworks om thursday nite!

JOM

[Dan Riehl]

"What I find telling in this"

Sparto - and what I find telling is that America is more likely to elect the guy at the hometown ball park than Obawon's main event. All your observation does is reinforce my point. You really need to get over this hero worship of the Big 0. He's done nothing to earn it but give a speech.

[seekeronos]

"--- I would've said that Snobama is playing checkers while the Bitch Queen and McCain are both playing Go, which is a considerably higher-intellectual-level game even than chess. Otherwise, a good analysis. ---"

Or Taikyoku-Shogi. Heh... maybe that is given even the Shrill One and the Wrinkled Ancient too much credit?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taikyoku_shogi

[seekeronos]

"--- Sparto - and what I find telling is that America is more likely to elect the guy at the hometown ball park than Obawon's main event ---"

What is interesting in this also is that it affirms my thesis that Americans, generally speaking, do not like to elect eggheads.

And school Football will almost always get much more attention, funding, and status than the Debate Team.

Obama is an egghead. An intellectual. A socialist/populist who tries to convince the everymen of America that their thinking is flawed, that they need only leave the thinking to him (and the other party elites), and often comes across as elitist (BitterCling and Arugula-gate, for example).

People don't like to be reminded by eggheads of how much better than them the eggheads are; Brainy Smurf was usually lob-tossed out of the Mushroom Village for his arrogant eggheadedness.

McCain, though deeply flawed, is a bit of a jock, an everyman, an honest Joe who has suffered through some bad times and good times, and who by taking advantage of opportunities given him, has made something of himself.

[chris]

Good news for Terry Gain.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080827/D92QJ8GO0.html

Now even he can be all that he can be!

[wolfwalker]

Nah, I think Go is a better one to use, because it provides a better analogy to the electoral battlefield, with the players vying for votes.

Then again, considering how rapidly the McCain crowd has been responding to the Snob's gaffes with those precisely-aimed and very effective counterstrokes, maybe they're actually performing kenjutsu kata.

[Richard Peter Wiener III]

---What I find telling in this is that Obama will be speaking at a 70k seat stadium---

Obama might just find himself talking to more seats than people and the seats that are filled will be holding how many of those evil corporate executives?

At least Obama will have that magnificent Grecian backdrop to further advance his idea of being a "world citizen".

Will there also be midgets dancing around a small replica of Stonehenge?

[Jake]

"Obama is an egghead. An intellectual."

No, he is not an intellectual. Chris is an intellectual compared to Obama.

[chris]

Thank you for your kind words! Let's see...

Obama=UofC + Harvard. Old Man=Daddygotmeintoannapolis+bottomoftheclass+lousypilot.

[Horowitz]

Let's see:

Obama = half brother living in a hut on $12 per year+"community organizer"+wrote two autobiographies by the time he was forty five+whined about not being able to find arugula in Iowa

McCain = combat pilot+adopted a girl from Bangladesh+has two sons in military serving in Iraq/Afghanistan

[Tyro]

Obama is an egghead.

Wait a sec-- I thought he was a Paris Hilton/Britney Spears-type empty celebrity.

It's so hard to keep track of the talking-points-of-the-day. Do you guys receive a fax from The Party's Ministry of Truth that fills you in on what the changing story is? Is there any way I can get added to the list?

[Beth from Oregon]

Speaking of the Ministry of Truth, we have this little gem on the highly damaging Ayers ad:

Obama general counsel Bob Bauer today sent a second, sharper letter to the Justice Department, directly attacking the Dallas billionaire funding a harsh attack ad, Harold Simmons.

“We reiterate our request that the Department of Justice fulfill its commitment to take prompt action to investigate and to prosecute the American issues Project, and we further request that the Department of Justice investigate and prosecute Howard (sic) Simmons for a knowing and willful violation of the individual aggregate contribution limits,” he wrote.

He called the group’s activities “patently illegal.”

[Fred Beloit]

You know what they say in the movie business. "They liked it once, they'll love it twice."

"I heard a rumor that Obie's posse is frantically searching Hollywood to try to find 21 of those 30-ft long bugles that they used to use for Roman emperor movies. The bugles are needed for the Obie coronation as candidate. They are advertising in the LAT for muscular males to play the instruments. The only two requirements for the job are: "(1) Lip pursing is a must. (2) You must be able to lift and hold the damn things."

Posted by: Fred Beloit | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 12:02 PM"

[Horowitz]

Not only that, the Obama campaign has bought a large number of props from the movie "300, specifically the gigantic throne chair of Xerxes and it's various accouterments.

Obama was overhead asking for volunteers to carry him and his new throne into the stadium.

[Fred Beloit]

We anticipate a pulsating, puffed up, panorama of political patronizing at this modest coronation party. I envision a long rectangular table placed parallel to the front of the Dems' parthenon of plagiarism. Obama will be seated in the center. He will be facing front, as will his key disciples. A feast will be served. Y'all know the rest of the story.

[Kevin T. Keith]

Hillary's . . . sometimes inappropriately engorged, lessor half

You actually rate and evalute other men's erections, spurred, obviously, by your unresolved obsession with sex that you regarded as "inappropriate" and took place 13 years ago.

The one desperate wish among liberals since the rise of the Taliban right wing has been that some day the adults would be back in charge. That need becomes ever greater even as that day comes ever closer.

[IslamoLlama]

Hahaha! I had to see this post personally just to confirm it actually existed. Jesus Christ, Dan. Your freshman year high school English teacher called. She says you just retroactively failed her course.

Wasn't Fred or TK or Seek bitching about how much poetry sucked just a few months back? No freak'n wonder. If this is the garbage I was subjected to on a more regular basis, I'd hate anything more advanced than My Pet Goat too.

[Jake]

I don't know, Fred. They could put an old barn to the left of the Roman columns with a coupla cowboys on top who will shout out the infamous lines of "Blazing Saddles", and Madeline Kahn could shriek "The Star-Spangled Negro" in that post-orgasmic operatic-profundo. That might appeal to some rednecks.

Better, Obama could rise from the floor as Clint Eastwood and we could hear that eerie music real loud... you know, that played just before Clint flicked away his little cigar, drew his Colt .45 and shot a bunch of Mexicans.

Or he could ride in on a camel for some instant peace-making detente with the A-Rabs. Michelle could walk behind him in dark robes carrying his water.

[seekeronos]

"--- Not only that, the Obama campaign has bought a large number of props from the movie "300, specifically the gigantic throne chair of Xerxes and it's various accouterments.

Obama was overhead asking for volunteers to carry him and his new throne into the stadium. ----"

And to add insult to injury, Hillary's staffers were asked if they could play the part of the human step-stools as Xerxes-Obama steps down from the portable throne chair to greet all the assembled peasants and proles.

[seekeronos]

"--- Or he could ride in on a camel for some instant peace-making detente with the A-Rabs. Michelle could walk behind him in dark robes carrying his water. ---"

Or followed by Joe Biden with a $200M check to Ahmadinejad to keep him from nuking us:

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/08/23/bidens-foreign-policy-chops/

Referrencing this article from 22 Oct. 2001:

http://www.tnr.com/columnists/story.html?id=ba9b09bb-ed01-4582-b6ec-444834c9df73&k=93697 (2nd paragraph from bottom)

[wolfwalker]

Chris wrote:

Old Man=Daddygotmeintoannapolis+bottomoftheclass+lousypilot.

Hey Chris, I know you've never landed-on an aircraft carrier, but have you ever seen a video of an arrested landing-on? Ever read a description of it? Lousy pilots do not make successful carrier aviators. If they're lucky they wash out during training. If they aren't, they die in a crash. McCain didn't wash out and didn't die, therefore he was a good pilot. McCain's ability to fly off a carrier successfully should end any argument over whether or not he deserved to be in the Navy.

[Fred Beloit]

Moe writes: "Wasn't Fred or TK or Seek bitching about how much poetry sucked just a few months back? No freak'n wonder. If this is the garbage I was subjected to on a more regular basis, I'd hate anything more advanced than My Pet Goat too."
I guess Moe wishes for a better personal library that what poor little me can provide for Moe here. But I happen to know he already has an extensive library.

A very short sampler of Moe's books:
--The Codpiece of the Law, by Paulo Litvok, translated from the French by Charles Boyer de Signac, Paris Books
--Intransigence, Intolerance, and Infamy, A History of the Democraticic Party, by Al Smith, Long Ago Press
--Fat Chance, A Book of Strict Diets, by Bob Chris, Stamford Publishing
--Bacon to Chew, Poetry to Chew Over, Anthology, II vols, edited by Ali al-Alibaba, UAE Press
--Mavericks and Merkins, a Verse Treatise for the Awfully Curious, by Bob Dylan, Out of Tune Books
--How to Make a Lot of Trouble and Little Else, for Dummies, a How-to Book for Internet Users, by Luke Legaleagle, esq, Harvard University Press

[MA]

Weather forcast for Denver:
Thursday: Sunny skies. High around 80F. Winds NE at 10 to 15 mph.
Thursday night: A mostly clear sky. Low 56F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.

Damn, Maybe we could all do a raindance.

[seekeronos]

"--- I guess Moe wishes for a better personal library that what poor little me can provide for Moe here. But I happen to know he already has an extensive library. ---"

Let's not forget that most noteworthy volume by Grunthos the Flatulent, Poetmaster of the Azgoths of Kria: "My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles".

Although in some solar systems, reading that sort of thing is punishable by being locked in a closet full of Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts of Traal, without even a towel.

[forked tongue]

Seriously? The dunce who wrote this post thinks "inclement" is spelled "in-climate"?

[IslamoLlama]

"-- Seriously? The dunce who wrote this post thinks "inclement" is spelled "in-climate"? --"

No. Dan is just really, really bad at puns.

[a concerned citizen]

Yeah, and he thinks that lightning is spelled "lightening".

No adult citizen of the United States should have such a poor grasp of the fundamentals of grammar and spelling. It must make finding honest work difficult, and because of that (and only that), I feel for Dan. The global economy has clearly left him behind, and it's kind of sad, if fascinating -- before the internet, people had no place to showcase their brave daily struggle against their own educational and intellectual shortcomings.

Now, those of you who have a problem with Obama's backdrop would be advised to take a look at Bush's from 2004 when he accepted the nomination.

Those of you who think Mile High Stadium will be half empty tonight ought to put your money where your mouth is. Let's make a gentleman's bet, since I can tell you are all gentlemen from your grace, erudition and charm, and surely you know what you're talking about.

If the stadium is half-empty, I will read McCain's entire platform and all his policy documents with the most open mind I can muster. If the place is packed full, with thousands of people standing outside, you have to do the same thing with Obama's. Deal?

[Fred Beloit]

By Mr. citizen: "If the place is packed full, with thousands of people standing outside, you have to do the same thing with Obama's. Deal?"

Mr citizen, ah, no. He's for change and hope, yes we can, change you can believe in. That's all I need to know.

(1)I like things the way they are, at least 90%. (2)No you can't. (3)I don't believe in change for its own sake, therefore how could I believe in it. (4)As for hope, hope is for lazy dreamers who want the government to take care of them.

If you fall for all that socialistic nonsense, your a sap.

[Fred Beloit]

oops oops oops. "...you're a sap." Thank you.