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Obama Hubris Watch

Brainster

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Well, maybe this is becoming the new meme, the idea that Barack thinks he's already won.

The 5:20 TBA turned out to be his adoration session with lawmakers in the Cannon Caucus Room, where even committee chairmen arrived early, as if for the State of the Union. Capitol Police cleared the halls -- just as they do for the actual president. The Secret Service hustled him in through a side door -- just as they do for the actual president.

Inside, according to a witness, he told the House members, "This is the moment . . . that the world is waiting for," adding: "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."
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Remember Obama's personal presidential seal?



Or the announcement last week that he has started up a transition team? Or that when asked what he had learned from his trip to the Middle East, he said that he'd confirmed his earlier beliefs?

What does all this remind me of? The cocky rookie quarterback who lights up the league in September, and rides the pines in November.

I don't spend a lot of time pondering a belief in God, but at times it seems like the best evidence for his existence is what happens to those who demonstrate hubris and overconfidence. Let a team celebrate a victory in the eight inning or third quarter, and you can almost guarantee that there will be a comeback.
 
He apparently thinks there will be a Constitutional amendment allowing him 2 more years after his expected 2 terms are up...

 
Brainster said:
I don't spend a lot of time pondering a belief in God, but at times it seems like the best evidence for his existence is what happens to those who demonstrate hubris and overconfidence. Let a team celebrate a victory in the eight inning or third quarter, and you can almost guarantee that there will be a comeback.
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Meanwhile, John McCain's website modestly describes McCain as "the next President of the United States".

Either this is slightly hubristic, or it's true what they say about Republicans and elections ... or in politics talking a good game is part of the game.
 
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Nothing like the hubris of these toolbags.
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Get a life.

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Brainster said:
Or the announcement last week that he has started up a transition team?
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Yeah man, I mean how presumpteuous is that? Who in the right mind would start up a transition team before he's even ele-

Beginning in the spring of 1999, Governor Bush reorganized his staff, moving his then Chief of Staff Joe Albaugh into the campaign as director and Clay Johnson, III from Appointments Director to Chief of Staff. Governor Bush then charged Johnson to "develop a plan for what we should do after we win." A year later with the primary season behind him and the prospects of the general campaign settling in, Candidate Bush worried about their planning effort finding its way into the campaign coverage. Having thought through this problem for almost a year, Johnson responded by stressing the necessity of the task. "It has to happen," he recalls telling the Governor, "We just have to figure out the best way to spin it. It's irresponsible not to be doing this." Persuaded and committed to his earlier decision, Candidate Bush took Johnson's advice. Thus, the former Chiefs of Staff reached a second of their goals when, only a few days after the [June 2000, Washington] Forum [on the Role of the White House Chief of Staff] and bolstered by Johnson's own argument, the Bush for President senior campaign staff approved Clay Johnson's program, setting out eight goals for their presidential transition still five months in the future, if at all.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200807250012?f=h_latest
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Ronald Reagan was the second presidential candidate [after Carter] to begin to plan in a significant way for a possible takeover of the government before his nomination by his party. In November 1979, Edwin Meese asked Pendleton James to put together a plan for a personnel operation to prepare for a possible Reagan victory. In April 1980, he was asked to implement the plan, and he began operations near Washington. The leaks that had plagued the early Carter efforts did not occur, and the personnel operation was clearly subordinate to Meese, who was in charge of the transition from beginning to end and who also played a major role in the campaign.

http://books.google.com/books?id=HdErAAAAMAAJ&dq=&pgis=1
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Or that when asked what he had learned from his trip to the Middle East, he said that he'd confirmed his earlier beliefs?
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You're right about that, he sure is no flip-flopper.

But hey, keep up with these devastating "he's walking through the wrong door!" and "his seal looks too presidential!" attacks.
 
Dr Adequate said:
Meanwhile, John McCain's website modestly describes McCain as "the next President of the United States".

Either this is slightly hubristic, or it's true what they say about Republicans and elections ... or in politics talking a good game is part of the game.
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Dude, haven't you heard? McCain has already been elected.

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/Dept_of_fake_news_McCain_defeats_Clinton.html

Maybe McCain will be able to master those difficult internets skills the coming months to read about it for himself.
 
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Also, looks like the the Washington Post did something naughty:
The Washington Post has him telling House Democrats yesterday: "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions." But Politico is reporting that that wasn’t the entire quote. Per a Democratic source, "[The Post] left out the important first half of the sentence, which was along the lines of: ‘It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign, that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It’s about America. I have just become a symbol..."

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/30/1232899.aspx
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Sen. Barack Obama paid an upbeat visit to House Democrats, his first meeting with the full group of lawmakers whose fortunes are tightly tied to his this fall. “This is your moment,” he told them. The Democratic presidential candidate told the group that the positive response he received in Germany and the rest of Europe was “not about him,” said House Democratic Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina. Rather, Obama said he was a “symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.” Lawmakers gave that remark a standing ovation.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/07/29/obama-to-house-democrats-this-is-your-moment/
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Brainster said:
Well, maybe this is becoming the new meme, the idea that Barack thinks he's already won.



Remember Obama's personal presidential seal?

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Or the announcement last week that he has started up a transition team? Or that when asked what he had learned from his trip to the Middle East, he said that he'd confirmed his earlier beliefs?

What does all this remind me of? The cocky rookie quarterback who lights up the league in September, and rides the pines in November.

I don't spend a lot of time pondering a belief in God, but at times it seems like the best evidence for his existence is what happens to those who demonstrate hubris and overconfidence. Let a team celebrate a victory in the eight inning or third quarter, and you can almost guarantee that there will be a comeback.
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The best result for the November election is to have Obama up by ten percentage points going in and lose in a landslide to McCain. This would put Obama in his place.

The only problem with this is McCain would think he had some type of mandate and that the votes he received were actually for him and not against Obama.
 
Dr Adequate said:
Meanwhile, John McCain's website modestly describes McCain as "the next President of the United States".

Either this is slightly hubristic, or it's true what they say about Republicans and elections ... or in politics talking a good game is part of the game.
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Referring to your candidate as "The Next President" is SOP for both parties.
 
Wow, more substantive anti-Obama threads :rolleyes: .

I actually am slightly annoyed by the rule that politicians always have to be extremely optimistic. Like in a recent election a woman had polled at like 5% and said that she would still win it, and this was on election day.
 
Brainster said:
... What does all this remind me of? The cocky rookie quarterback who lights up the league in September, and rides the pines in November....
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And then there are those that go on to win championships, player of the year, hall of famers, etc. The best quarterbacks I can think of were probably very cocky about their prospects when they were rookies. Who really wants one that isn't? Confidence is not only a trait of a winner, it's also sexy. :)
 
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Tsukasa Buddha said:
Wow, more substantive anti-Obama threads :rolleyes: .

I actually am slightly annoyed by the rule that politicians always have to be extremely optimistic. Like in a recent election a woman had polled at like 5% and said that she would still win it, and this was on election day.
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I read an article just a bit ago about Michelle Obama being a huge fan of the Brady Bunch (for real!). She can name each episode just from the opening scenes (or something like this). But, enough of that ... wouldn't want to derail this substantive thread. :D
 
joobz said:
McCain can certainly be funny and witty.
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Funny, I agree with. You're not the first person to call him witty, but I just don't see it. Mark Twain was witty. Oscar Wilde was witty. Winston Churchill was witty. Benjamin Franklin was witty. Ronald Reagan was witty. P.J. O'Rourke is witty. Jon Stewart is witty. William Buckley was witty. Bob Dole is witty.

John McCain? Not witty. He can crack joke, sure, but can anyone honestly quote a John McCain "witticism"?
 
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