Myth for President
Yesterday, October 14, was my birthday. Ironically, given the entire basis for my blog, yesterday was the day the Boston Globe published its editorial endorsing Sen. Barack Obama for President of the United States of America.
The endorsement was 947 words long and it did not list one accomplishment of the man who would be President.
I give you super-clipped excerpts just so you can get a sense of the flowery, over-the-top, literary intercourse: “With great enthusiasm, the Globe endorses Senator Barack Obama for president. The charismatic Democrat . . . Americans' hopes . . . rally the public together . . . Obama shows great faith in the possibility of persuasion overseas and in the ingenuity of the American economy . . . Obama has assembled an impressive economic team . . . promote social equity . . . formidable political gifts . . . a nimble mind, an ever more impressive grasp of policy detail, and an ability to listen to contradictory viewpoints . . . the way Obama has run his campaign has been a marvel of sound management: He laid down principles, put the right people in positions of authority, and spent money strategically. And he has shown a remarkable steadiness . . . Barack Obama is the one to lead the way.”
My letter to the editor:
Editor,
In reading your endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for President, it became quite clear that you were endorsing someone you wish Sen. Obama to be but someone who Sen. Obama is clearly not (Obama for President, editorial, October 14). You first lied to yourself then you lied to us.
To suggest Sen. Obama is somehow opposed to President Bush’s surveillance of suspected terrorists here in the United States is folly. Sen. Obama, after threatening to filibuster the extension of FISA, voted with President Bush.
You praise Sen. Obama for “asking Americans to take responsibility for the Nation’s problems now” without offering a single example of when he has done so. How things could have been different for "future generations" if the Boston Globe appreciated this trait in a President when President Bush asked the American people and Congress to address Social Security and Immigration reform. It was Congress, of which Sen. Obama is a member, who elected to pass on addressing these problems.
The liberal media’s lack of interest in learning anything about a man poised to be President is astonishing.
That the Boston Globe endorsed Sen. Obama without noting a single one of his accomplishments (because he has none!) is editorial malpractice.
It was a smoke and mirrors editorial appreciating a smoke and mirrors candidate.
God help us. (End of letter.)
Yesterday, October 14, was my birthday. Ironically, given the entire basis for my blog, yesterday was the day the Boston Globe published its editorial endorsing Sen. Barack Obama for President of the United States of America.
The endorsement was 947 words long and it did not list one accomplishment of the man who would be President.
I give you super-clipped excerpts just so you can get a sense of the flowery, over-the-top, literary intercourse: “With great enthusiasm, the Globe endorses Senator Barack Obama for president. The charismatic Democrat . . . Americans' hopes . . . rally the public together . . . Obama shows great faith in the possibility of persuasion overseas and in the ingenuity of the American economy . . . Obama has assembled an impressive economic team . . . promote social equity . . . formidable political gifts . . . a nimble mind, an ever more impressive grasp of policy detail, and an ability to listen to contradictory viewpoints . . . the way Obama has run his campaign has been a marvel of sound management: He laid down principles, put the right people in positions of authority, and spent money strategically. And he has shown a remarkable steadiness . . . Barack Obama is the one to lead the way.”
My letter to the editor:
Editor,
In reading your endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for President, it became quite clear that you were endorsing someone you wish Sen. Obama to be but someone who Sen. Obama is clearly not (Obama for President, editorial, October 14). You first lied to yourself then you lied to us.
To suggest Sen. Obama is somehow opposed to President Bush’s surveillance of suspected terrorists here in the United States is folly. Sen. Obama, after threatening to filibuster the extension of FISA, voted with President Bush.
You praise Sen. Obama for “asking Americans to take responsibility for the Nation’s problems now” without offering a single example of when he has done so. How things could have been different for "future generations" if the Boston Globe appreciated this trait in a President when President Bush asked the American people and Congress to address Social Security and Immigration reform. It was Congress, of which Sen. Obama is a member, who elected to pass on addressing these problems.
The liberal media’s lack of interest in learning anything about a man poised to be President is astonishing.
That the Boston Globe endorsed Sen. Obama without noting a single one of his accomplishments (because he has none!) is editorial malpractice.
It was a smoke and mirrors editorial appreciating a smoke and mirrors candidate.
God help us. (End of letter.)
posted by Zack at 7:07 PM
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