The Equivocator: What Performance by Barack Obama on ABC Says About His Presidency

"The graves of Americans surround the globe as a testimony to...." "The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, tempered in war, hardened by a long and bitter peace, and unwilling to watch the slow erosion of....." "Now the trumpet sounds again, this time not a call to arms, though arms we need, but a long, twilight struggle, day in and day out, against the common enemies of man: hunger, ignorance, tyranny, and war itself."

In 2008 we (a.) learned (b.) did not learn that a certain percentage of Americans know that by heart as said in January, 1961 by President Kennedy. But President Kennedy would not word it the same way now. He also said humanity has the means to wipe itself out for the first time. In his first debate he said that, due to the Soviets, the question was "can freedom be maintained, under the most severe threat that it has ever known? I think it can be." So between the summer debate and January 20, assuming President Kennedy to have been capable of changing his inaugural speech at the last minute, he decided that humanity wiping itself out was a more important theme than the Soviets putting the kabosh on freedom.

So here are some facts now. No campaign workers were ever thanked by the current great man in a public speech recorded in newsprint as of any length. No recognizable visit to a regular campaign office took place in any state after he had won there. All victory nights were based on the next primary goal and what the great man said the campaign was for. Nothing was ever done for underage and young adult daughter campaign workers to help them after the win (as it went to the next state, long before a role they'd have in the fall). Any nationally recognized matter was directly stated by the great man as his adult priority, directly after daughters had been making phone calls, without any acknowledgement of that.

So daughters ("Hello, I'm calling for....and his effort to bring change to our country....yes, he has said that he favors a 19 point 275% oil depletion allowance, gradated over a two to three year period, oh excuse me, my cheerleading coach is on the other line on my cell phone.") only experienced working to make him the candidate who would be president. Eight reasons he'd automatically win in the fall: Women don't want back alley abortions. Environmentalists. Unions. Blacks. The intellectual Democrats. Semi-intellectuals on the economy. A young voting set experiencing deterioration for a very long four years. Can you believe "war" hasn't been named yet?

Note he lost Missouri. As President Kennedy might note, the inaugural speech is not in the Constitution. So, he had won the presidency around April 10. The superdelegates slid his way within three weeks of Super Tuesday, clearly. Ohio was not a collapse, Pennsylvania was a six week wait. So he's been the president for over nine months. And now his volunteers in Iowa are to listen?

Seven-Eleven Erbes handle spices!

Yes, it takes real courage to pave the way for the first black president and the only important black in 2008.

The cowards are the ones who, unlike this great man, did not upon winning each and every crucial primary or caucus con-clude in two or three sentences, "It's time to move on to the next." The cowards are the Americans who upon such crucial wins for the great man remained in those states, thinking about the underage daughters who had manned the phone banks. States that ran from Iowa and New Hampshire in and out of the seaboard south, then to hopeless states like Tennessee and New Jersey and of course California, where campaign offices toiled. It takes a great man to summarize that effort in two or three sentences about the goals of his own campaign, stating it to proceed now to the next contests. Imagine if Wisconsin had not tipped 58% for the great man. This was after the string of wins following Super Tuesday, wins in Maryland, Virginia, it's a murky period. But that momentum was very much in question as February continued to drag, with the Ohio primary ahead.

And of course the know the history from Ohio to the end, so what if Wisconsin had not tipped 58% for the great man? What if the socially eccentric, liberal college, somewhat black state with its crazy Harley riders and football fans had not pulled the levers for the great man, at that point?

But fortunately, not only did Wisconsin continue the drive for the great man, but the great man himself once again stepped up to the occasion. "Thank you, Wisconsin," the great man said, "and now let's continue on to Ohio." Now, a coward would have asked about what was taking place in the buildings used to make the phone calls from.

That's why cowards do not deserve to be on the front of special magazine editions, to be shown exercising, or to be allowed to have only female family members. Cowards of the type who remain in states where daughters made the phone calls, cowards of the type who in their cowardly and predictable way fail to stand for the Afghanistan mission, cowards who will never answer the call of the church bell to identify themselves as Christian with family first, cowards who will never have 90,000 women and daughters flock to big city open spaces to hear them, cowards who will never buy $l00,000,000 of television time, can never claim to care about the economy, and thus about Americans. For the cowards of 2008 will never get that the brave handle what is not thrust upon them.

I HAVE A PLAN....

Since so many liberals, including, of course Ms. Erbe, are soooo deeply concerned regarding detainees, Guantanamo, interrogations, etc.. I think an "Adopt A Terrorist Program" is in order. That's right Bonnie! Now you can bring a terrorist home and take care of him. As you know, they are friendly and harmless. They're very easy to care for. Just remember, to wear a veil, become Muslim, pray to Allah 3 times a day, don't talk back, be totally submissive and of course, don't fry up any pork for him. If you don't break any of his rules the chance are good that he won't shoot you.

See how easy it is to make a difference? Should I put you down for 1 or 2?

Speaking of "ambivalence personified"

This article personifies and defines it perfectly. In describing Obama's presidency when he isn't yet president, this author has him wrong whether his policies (yet to be determined and implemented) succeed in lifting the economy to unbelievable heights, or on the other hand don't--he is not only proclaimed a failure in advance, but even compared to Cheney of all people!

Bonnie Erbe "has mastered the art of equivocation" even before prsident elect Obama has entered the White House as she noted.