The Big O

You may have thought he was running for President of the United States. Barack Obama's running for President of Earth. Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun Times, on hand Saturday in Springfield for his histrionic, uh historic announcement (along with media acolytes Chris Matthews and Howard Fineman) presaged his path in her column on his visit to yet another Continent, a mere prelude to his ultimate plans. He ended his speech calling for a "new birth of freedom on this earth!!!" And then he said "I love you!!!!"

Lynn Sweet after the speech says Obama is a "global narrative", a "story greater than himself".

Yes, the Big O is the Promise of the Planet.

No, Obama thankfully didn't use the word "planet", but Howard Fineman did---the "echo of Lincoln is global", his speech will have "very profound" impact on the "planet".

And Obama talked about the challenge of the millennium. Those
better angels of our nature weren't chorusing Hosanna stuck in this century, it was O-bama for the millennium.

It's "destiny", a call to rise above the "smallness of our politics". I guess Hillary is pretty short.

Yes, Obama's got the big picture. He's tall like Lincoln.

He comes as the candidate from corrupt Cook County, the favorite son of the Illinois business as usual machine. He's above all that. He just likes to get along.

Obama, man of destiny says "this campaign can't only be about ME. (emphasis not really just mine) It must be about us. It must be about what we can all do together." Why can't we all be liberals like him? Why can't we all just get along? You know, make a difference. Light candles. Strum a few chords together. Smoke the peace pipe. Turn a blind eye.

No worries, he majored in international relations.

You notice, though, his campaign colors are a little off. A shade pastel. He has some difficulty in holding high the true colors of our flag. He falls short in understanding the tough fight for freedom in the world, and America's special role as guardian, America's sacred trust as a beacon of hope.

Obama with his facile words undercuts our troops in Iraq and demeans our honorable effort there to usher in democracy. Already, he's showing his ignorance. He's always looking for a better war to fight, but never finding a cause worth fighting for.

But when Abraham Lincoln ran for election and the country faced civil war over the greatest injustice of the time, in his House Divided speech, given in Springfield, Illinois, he didn't urge that we turn our backs, he engaged:

Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends-those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work-who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud,and pampered enemy. Did we brave all them to falter now?-now, when that same enemy is wavering,dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail-if we stand firm, we shall not fail.

They called him Honest Abe, and we remember him today. Lincoln lost that election for the Senate, but persevered and ultimately prevailed as President. He chose to fight the battle against slavery and preserved the Union.

At the recent Democrat "Retreat" candidate Obama got up on stage and said, NY Times:

“There are those who don’t believe in talking about hope: they say, well, we want specifics, we want details, we want white papers, we want plans,” he said then. “We’ve had a lot of plans, Democrats. What we’ve had is a shortage of hope.”

But some Democrats were scornful. “That’s nonsense,” Mr. Hart said. “It posits that it’s either-or. Who’s saying you can’t talk about hope? I’m not talking about white papers: I’m talking about one big speech about ‘How I view the world.’ ”

There are those who ask why, there are those who ask why not... there are those who just are.

Obama offers a great hot air balloon of hOpe.

But as his other rival Edwards says "I haven't seen a plan from him. Have you all?"

The answer so far is nOpe.

...pop?


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UPDATE: Obama whines about the press. Protesting too much. He loves the MSM. They are his base.

UPDATE: Tom Bevan, RCP blog, "Obama: Lincoln in 1860 or Dean in 2004?"