RBO News & Views: The Man in the Mirror Edition

Laughing my head off as I cross post this from RBO.

The Image Presidency: J.R. Dunn at American Thinker has RBO’s favorite post of the day:

Anyone who thinks I’m rushing the advent of the messianic presidency is invited to take a closer look at recent media coverage. Obama has declared himself president in all but name. He has gone so far as to call for his policies to be put in place even before being inaugurated. The mass media, from Time magazine to barely-hanging-on fish wrappers like the Detroit Free Press have declared the current incumbent to be irrelevant, the “lamest of lame ducks”, in the words of Joe Klein. Numerous suggestions have been made that he either be run out of Washington or forced to resign to make way for the Obamiate. The rest of the world is shouting hosannas to the new age of Barack well before the kickoff date. [...]

… the upcoming Obama administration … is to be a ritual presidency. Plenty of pomp, plenty of ceremony, plenty of rhetoric, and very little else. Problems that possess any form of glamour will get as many words thrown at them as O can pull together. Problems that no human being in history has dared contemplate will be given serious consideration by the messiah-elect — on the rhetorical level. But problems that have to be handled, have to be confronted in one way or another, problems that at the same time present a possibility of failure — such as terrorists mowing down Americans on distant shores — will not even be so much as acknowledged, not by the president, his administration, his party, or the media. In the same sense as occurred with the campaign, this will be an image presidency, [...] because [Obama] does not have much choice. Simply put, he cannot provide what he promised during the campaign.

Social revolution is what the true believers, Obama’s core, were voting for. The middle class was voting for some vague sense of security, but the core — the sandal-wearers, the ACORN staffers, the Jeremiah Wright congregation, and every last student of Ayers and Dohrn over the past twenty years — are looking forward to some unimaginable combination of Woodstock, the October Revolution, the Book of Revelations, and the Barnum & Bailey Circus. A new world in which there are no Republicans, guns, Bibles, or Israelis, in which planning and collectivization work, in which there is such a thing as cheap, effective, and universal health care, in which Al Queda simply want to be good neighbors, in which their own varicose veins, incipient arthritis, and extra ten pounds around the middle have simply gone away, and in which Jerry Garcia never died.

That, purely and simply, is what they voted for. That’s what they want, and they will be satisfied with nothing less. So the question of the day is: can Obama provide this? I have my doubts. In fact, I will put my reputation on the line to state that no given combination of Jehovah, George Washington, the Maharishi, and the Good Witch of the West would be able to bring it to life. And Obama, furthermore, is well aware of this, which is why his staff has taken pains to “temper expectations.”

The New Eden is on hold, and the true believers are going to have to live with that. They are not going to like it.

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Cheetoland welcomes Hillary Clinton: Joseph Cannon at Cannonfire has a post today that is a must read — all of it — but here’s a teaser:

Now consider the case of Markos Moulitsas, king of the PsychObot Hillary-haters. This is what he is publishing now: “Welcome Secretary Clinton: Obama’s Promises to Be Kept”, a headline that really does convey a Pravda-like odor. … Earth to Kossack: Obama is a LIAR. … Daily Kos is a refuge for liars.

A few days ago, Rich Noyes at NewsBusters poked MSM square in the eye by pointing out what hypocrites they are, as well, about Sen. Clinton’s nomination:

Yet today, as President-elect Barack Obama named Hillary Clinton to the top foreign policy post in his administration, none of the three broadcast networks chose to disrupt the moment by reminding anyone of Obama’s argument of a few months ago that, when it came to foreign policy, Clinton is an inexperienced phony.

Case in point follows:

Obama “Fight the Smears” Campaign to Expand: Steve Gilbert at Sweetness & Light writes that two Obama camp sources report:

Obama is planning to create an even more aggressive stance once he is in office.

The plan includes “punishment” to networks and other news sources that “get too close”, or investigate news that the Obama people determine are “off limits”. News organizations that violate these off limits areas will be subjected to interview “blackouts”. [...]

However, the greater question still will be how he will do this? We already know that his supporters have run the gamut of threatening prosecution – as was the case in Missouri – all the way to peeking into the background of an ordinary citizen – such as Joe the Plumber.

All because he had the audicity to ask a question.

And just in case you don’t think saying the right things sucking up to the President Select isn’t important a required survival skill, Alexander Bolton at The Hill reports Sen. Joe Lieberman is now praising Obama.

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Obamese: Grail Guardian at Insight Analytical provides a public service post in “How To Communicate with an Obot: The **OFFICIAL** English to Obamese Dictionary”. This one is really going to come in handy — until up becomes down — again. “We’ve now got the WORM (What Obama Really Meant) and numerous other examples.” Be sure to list some of your own faves in the comment sections here or at IA. The possibilities are endless.

Assault & battery — Caucus

Terrorist — Just a guy in my neighborhood

Radical Preacher — A guy at church I never listened to

Plumber — Threat to National Security

Palestinians — Internet campaign workers