Operation Alinsky

What should we expect from President Barak Obama now that he is President?

Look no further than the 1971 revolutionary and community organizer Saul Alinsky's training manuals that so captured Barak Obama's attention as a neighborhood organizer. Alinsky's modus operandi, as a socialist, was to:

• co-opt the language of the masses
• affirm the masses of their plight
• promises the masses change they can believe in is forthcoming
• deliver to the masses new plans for their life

Alinsky said, " The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away"

Alinsky continues:

"Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families"

Barak Obama actually taught the Alinsky methods and tactics dozens of times to local Chicago neighborhoods just as Alinsky had himself organized the now famous "Back of the Yards" Chicago neighborhood.

How well has Senator Obama now President Obama employed the tactics in "organizing for mass power"?

Using the strategies above, the masses were to be infiltrated and won over. Standing firmly on principle is by far the most damaging of ideas to Alinsky. President Obama was tutored well. He has masked true intentions with fairy tale words that promise undefined change. What a perfect model for winning votes and not alienating the public?

How crafty will President Obama be in the days to come?

First, he must co-opt the language of Republicans. "Tax cuts", "unity", "economic growth", "creating jobs", etc...may be the heart of the Republican economic message. But now, Alinsky's disciple, will employ these words and phrases to insidiously comandeer Republicans.

The goal is to re-define the meaning of conservative language. Tax cuts will now mean providing welfare checks to people who didn't make any money. Economic growth means "economic justice"- taking from wealth creaters and giving to unproductive citizens. Creating 4 million jobs means fabricating government mandated jobs by paying $216,000 per job picking for picking up litter, refurbishing government windows, creating new windmills, etc...

Secondly, Senator Obama will affirm the plight of the masses. Operation Alinsky always requires embracing your enemy, not confronting your enemy. We will affirm all. We will receive all. We will accept; not reject. The Alinsky disciple will follow the revolutionary model befriending and embracing all citizens. The goal is to unify the sheep who feel lost in the American pligth. The fateful night that Senator Obama was thrust onto the American stage in 2004, the Senator raptured Americans into unity by saying, "We are not divided as red states and blue states. We are the United States....we are not Republicans and Democrats....we are Americans."

The tingly words of "change you can believe in" will spearhead the promised social revolution in America. Alinsky promised the model would work. President Obama promises to work the model.

Americans would never buy the Alinsky message if the message was spelled out clearly: social revolution, wealth redistribution, tearing down the system of power, etc....But the Alinsky model goes undected before the masses and media in speech after speech. The code words that rile average Americans into action duping them into the frenzy of voting for social revolution is nothing short of masterful manipulation.

If the messenger is charismatic enough, the masses will hang on each of his words as he embraces their frustrations (food on the table, help with kids, programs to lighten the burden). He will affirm their struggle for "economic justice", "social justice", and righting the wrongs that have placed us in dire circumstances. He will tell them that they have been victimized and that they need help. The messenger will win their trust to overtake the unnamed Goliaths in the capitalist system that have exploited the people. The Alinsky disciple stirs up the beckoning cry of the masses to march, join, unify in a romantic revolution against the oppressors of average Americans trying to feed their families. The Alinsky disciple must make sure that the masses see him sybolically as their pure sacrificial messsenger who is destined by fate to embrace the people's struggle for independence against the constraints and shackles of those who are holding them back.

Even of Republicans, President Elect Obama has affirmed and quoted their all-time hero, Ronald Reagan in talking about the America we live in. How confusing? President Obama has received, accepted, embraced, listened, empathized, and befriended bigwig conservative columnists like George Will, Larry Kudlow, Peggy Noonan, and Nina Easton. How confusing? The goal is to little by little, tear the opposition's defenses down. Two hours at dinner secluded in George Will's home, the effervescent President-elect listened and pretended to learn what social and economic conservatives wanted. Will not a couple of hours listening to Republicans soften the print articles, news columns, and television interviews that were bound to be lobbed against him?

President Obama will embrace even the political enemy with calm assurance, poise, and a smile seeking their partnership to forward his agenda. There will be no rantings. There will be no vindictive retributions in the public eye. This is not the way of Alinsky- or is it?

Third, promise the masses what they want to hear. "Change that you can believe in" is apparently lofty enough to win hearts and minds. About 200,000 Berliners fell in love with the rapture of Obama. Alinsky's methods always means telling the people that they are in trouble; but that hope is on the way. You tell the masses that they need help. And in Senator Obama's case, "Government is the only solution" to their problems. With him, they have a promise of hope. "We will lead again!"

Fourthly, once in power, deliver to the masses the new plans for their lives. The people aren't wise enough to decide what is good for them. They neeed "their brother's keeper" who will make sure from Washington that they have food, leisure time, transportation, health care, mandated jobs, government funded pensions, etc...Alinsky's disciple, who organized them, will make sure that government will do its part from cradle to grave caring for the people that should be caring for themselves. Who else could do this except the on who organized them, promises them hope, and identifies with their pain?

It was the revolutionary, Alinsky, who believed that "an intermediate end for radicals should be democracy because of its relative ease to work within to achieve other ends of social justice.

Democracy is not good enough in the grand scheme of social revolution. It is merely a stepping stone to more utopian days when citizens don't have to worry about elections and democracy.

The Bolsheviks promised bread for the Russian masses and an end to war upon storming the Kremlin and taking power. We got the Soviets. Mao promised "The Great Leap Forward" in 1957 with collectivist policies that starved 20 million Chinese citizens. William Pitt, Prime Minister of England in 1796, promised England's poor the keys to the treasury for easing the plight of poverty resulting in the creation of even more poverty. Post WWII Europe's turn toward socialist policies floundered for forty years until Margaret Thatcher unleashed economic incentives with the rest of Europe following suit. The result were the citizens creating unparalleled wealth.

Will President Obama's "Government is the only solution" and "America is in trouble" work? He may have mesmerized the masses and won the White House with Alinsky's methods, but there is going to be an awful mess when the citizens awake from the hypnosis of "change that you can believe in."

Even so, because of Senator Obama's masterful oratory and wordsmith savvy, he awed crowds with his incantations and vocabulary blinding the many about the realities of his federal economic plans for America.

President Obama will begin re-shaping America through a slight of hand proposition. The economy needs stimulus. So why not designate specific funds toward newly formed government programs? Will these government mandated programs be eliminated upon their one time designation? It won't be likely.

President Obama's incremental approach will be "death by a thousand cuts", not a bazooka. A little money for this program and that program to stimulate the populous multiplied hundreds of times over will show government to be "the Great Leviathan".

Wall Street Tycoons & Sunday School

It was Rudyard Kipling who wrote, "What a web we weave when we first practice to deceive".

And so the story goes...the 2008 Tronch I, Bailout Nation, Stimulus Plan I, 2009 Tronch II, Stimulus Plan II, New Deal III, etc...are but symptoms of a serial pandemic spreading through Wall Street.

Politicians are scrambling to solve problems of transparency and integrity disguised as economic problems. Consider stalwart Wall Street firms Lehman and Bear Stearns. They promised nothing was wrong. Both ended bankrupt and were bought for pennies on the dollar. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae promised that they had no financial woes. The government rescued both. AIG appeared strong and untouchable. The government bought them out for 85 bilion dollars. Thane's Merrill Lynch promised only one trip to the discount window for money and that Merrill was through its most difficult economic patch. Merrill then begged to be bought out; Bank of America came to the rescue with the Treasury Secretary's explicit promise to back all of the toxic assets no matter how many there were. Pandit promised Citigroup was getting through the worst of its problems. Tronch I and Treasury rescue packages have left the stock bleeding under five dollars and the company fighting for its survival.

Now Apple Computer, under the cloud of suspicion concerning Steve Jobs' health, promised Jobs was in fine health. Then Apple confirms suspicions that Jobs was taking a leave of absence for six months for health reasons.

Who can blame investors from fleeing the scene and producing a 40% drop in equity prices during 2008 matching the worst year since 1931? With financial statements useless, CEO's and government officials playing the charlatans, and the prospects of success in the markets being turned into a gambling parlor, Americans are left holding the financial losses to the tune of billions of dollars.

What excactly is the problem? Its not losses, bankruptcies, or over-leveraged financial institutions. The problem is integrity and character. The day that a man's word is not as "good as gold", has arrived.

Cheating, lying, deceiving, and half-truths are ground-zero for America's 2008 Wall Street financial implosion and economic recession that is underway. When truth is discarded, the financial statements become useless. When truth is hidden, banks won't lend and people won't borrow. No one can conduct business fairly.

What is the solution? Bust the entire bunch of financial charlatans that cooked the books and lied in public about the material affairs of their public companies. Jail time, accountability, and swift accountability are partial solutions addressing those swindlers who have destroyed the 401K's, pension plans, and retirements of millions of Americans. Enron and Worldcom were not the only bad apples in the barrel. The entire Wall Street and financial system has men who continue to peddle half-baked truths about their companies.

The solution, however, is not only to swiftly house white collar crooks in pin-stripe suits. Americans must re-learn the timeless truths and great lessons of honesty, integrity, and character in their personal lives.

Bruner and Carr who wrote of J.P. Morgan's steely nerves in saving America's banking system during the Panic of 1907, record Mr. Morgan's famous verbal exchange during a Congressional inquiry:

Untermyer: Is not commercial credit based primarily upon money or property?
Morgan: No, sir. The first thing is character.
Untermyer: Before money or property?
Morgan: Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it ... a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom.

J.P. Morgan, the great banker, knew that without good character there could be no good commerce. Sunday School may seem a bit archaic and aloof a solution for our sophisticated modern day financiers. But the difference between a street thief and a pin-stripe suit college graduate swindler is the amount of money that is stolen. Both are thieves. Both have the effect of destroying the America we love.

Harvard and Yale graduates may have a ticket to success. But success crumbles easily when character is not built upon the timeless of values of Sunday sermons where conscience, love, hope, and faith train us toward honesty and integrity. Today's financial leaders need no more motivation or incentives to succeed. They already make millions.

They need Sunday School and a re-learning of the 10 Commandments that makes one right with his soul before handling the public's trust and their money.

Do Any Of Them Know What To Do...???

It was Alan Greenspan, the Maestro who led America as the most powerful man on the globe, who said in the twilight of his days before Congress, that his forty year understanding of economics was faulty. Need anything else be said?

Do President Elect Obama's financial advisors including Warren Buffet, Robert Reuben, and Paul Volcker have any greater clarity concerning the great American economy? What about Bernanke or Paulson?

Earily so, the answer is no. The omnicscient masters of economics remain muted about the exact solution for deep recession or depression type scenarios.

No unfolding economy is so frightening to a central banker or politician than an economy slipping into deflation or depression. Peope stop spending. They hoarde. Prices decline swiftly. Employers cut hours, jobs, and shut down factories.

In the 1930's, this meant breadlines, Hoover Hotels, and selling eggs to make ends meat. In 2009, this means Blockbuster, McDonalds, and used cars instead of cinemas, Ruth's Steakhouse, and brand new sports cars.

Listenting to Warren Buffet's "economic Pearl Harbor" comments and Paul Krugman's doom and gloom rhetoric, one might think the "Great Mother of all Recessions" is upon us. Is America in such deep trouble that President Elect Obama should ominously report that "government is the only solution" and that failure to pass his 1 trillion dollar stimulus plan is akin to destroying the American economy?

Let it be said clearly. Bad public policy of the 1930's of hiking taxes, errecting tariffs, and contracting access to credit were the death knell of economic recovery for 12 years. Every conceivable big government program that could be invented was employed. FDR said, "Do something. And when you have done that something, if it works, do it some more. And if it does not work, then do something else."

On second thought instead of just doing something, doing something right such as employing capital friendly policies would have been far more effective than relying on the gimcrack populist policies to pull people out of recession in the 1930's? Had Morgenthau or FDR not strong-armed capitalists, business owners, entreprenuers, with excesssive government regulation including wage and price controls, capital and labor would have readjusted more efficiently and effectively to recession than with centralized planning of the 1930's. Even Morgenthau lamented years later that enormous spending and government expansion simply didn't work.

So what have we learned today? Maybe not very much. Secretary Paulson said, "We have to do something."

Six-hundred dollars to each American in 2007 to rev up the economy...A $350 billion housing plan to save housing....Bear Stearns bailout in March 2008...Citigroup, AIG, TARP I, TARP II to follow in 2008....TALF....Stiumulus I of 2009 in the amount of $789 billion, Stimulus II on the horizon...auto companies, insurance companies, etc...bailed out of insolvency.

Bail outs have wiffed. Markets have tanked. Confidence is waning. Obama's "Change that you can believe in" rhetoric is fast becoming fizzled soda.

President Obama, Geithner, and Summers promised that help was on its way. More spending, massive government invervention, greater regulation, and increased legislation was their intention. Such medicine which they offer as a cure will be worse than the disease of 2009's recession.

To what is President Obama beholden? Is it economic recovery for all citizens? Or is the President so entranced by the social re-engineering experiment to equalize outcomes in America, that nothing shall stand in his way?

Indeed, the beguiling of the people has taken root. The "Shining City Upon a Hill" which has endured the wacky ages of FDR and LBJ, shall once again require the citizens to reclaim their liberty when the damage is done.

"I Am Not Herbert Hoover!"

"I am not Herbert Hoover", claimed President Bush in an interview less than 60 days until Air Force One takes him back to Texas.

Hoover from 1928 to 1932 oversaw the crash, depression, and largest destruction of wealth in American history. Historians don't ponder the details of Hoover's actions very much. Many believed Hoover to be one who did little but stand by and watch the building burn down. But quite the opposite occurred.

Thomas Dilorenzo in "How Capitalism Saved America", illuminates the detailed programs, massive government spending, and intervention that Hoover implemented to stablize the economy. Hoover "orchestrated massive interventions-high-wage policies, tax and spending increases, protectionism, government credit rationing...his hyperinterventinism destroyed the economy's prospects for the kinds of adjustments that needed to take place."

What was the result? "He turned a recession turned into The Great Depression." (Dilorenzo, Thomas p. 178)

Hoover doesn't get the blame for the banks that lacked the imaginative course of making more capital available. Perhaps this ranks has the single greatest error of the age that tossed thousands of banks into bankruptcy. But Hoover's hyperinterventionism and his signing of the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 eviscerated 83% of foreign trade and destroyed the American economic engine.

How does President Bush's term compare to the Hoover years? Deroy Murdock of National Review Online describes "comrade Bush" as a centralized planner who destroyed limited-government policies.

"Bush’s eight-year-long spending spree, his signature on at least 69,341 earmarks, his barely touched veto pen, his $783 billion Medicare drug entitlement, and his massive financial bailout (so far: $3.35 trillion in actual outlays and $13.35 trillion in total guarantees and commitments) apparently are not enough."

Strewn acorss the yard of American economics in 2008 are the bones of Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and AIG. The $700 billion TARP, Paulson's purchase of bank preferred stock, purchase of non-performing mortgages, and moratorium on home foreclosures have been Bush's answer to stock market declines of 40%. City, county, and state officials booked their tickets for one-on-one POW WOW sessions with Senators, Congressmen, and the President pandering for fedreal dollars. Now the Big 3, facing bankruptcy, have trotted up to Washington with hands out pleading bailout money. President Bush has responded with 17 billion dollars.

Does this sound like government invervention similar to Hoover's? FDR's backers gleefully proclaimed how wonderful Hoover's administration set forth the agenda for governmet solutions as FDR was taking office. More of the same was expected. FDR was going to "do something" and not sit back. Hoover, the "golden boy", who engineered the feeding of Bolsheviks in their times of distress during Harding's Presidency, was bent on re-organizing and socially engineering capital and labor to his own likings as President. He did it.

The early 1970's saw President Nixon with Hoover & FDR type policies. He froze wages prices on a huge number of goods. He eliminated the gold standard. Nixon was free to spend America's surpluses into deficits to get re-elected. New social programs were Nixon's ideas to get re-elected. Hoover would have loved Nixon.

Did not President George Bush, who claims to be a free-market guy, not employ similar strategies? Bush gave Americans health care prescription, No Child Left behind, and forced trillions of dollars of bailout money down the throats of specified financial institutions. In addition, even when the Senate voted against funding the auto bailouts, President Bush handed the auto makers 17 billion dollars anyway.

President Bush can claim "I am not Herbert Hoover". But the facts speak a different story. Government intervention is what the Bush administration has been about. In Foreign policy and domestic policy American government has attempted to be the solution for the people under the Bush Presidency.

The "Golden Boy" of 1928 has been reincarnated in GW Bush. The only question remains: Will Obama Obama willingly play FDR?

President Elect's Chief of Staff Says What?

Rahm Emanuel, upon seeing Senator Obama's election night victory, reportedly drove a knife stake into a table. A list of Obama enemies were listed one by one in slow diction as if they were being prepared to pay for not falling in line with Senator Obama's campaign.
Paul Begala described Emanuel as a cross between a hemroid and hurting tooth. Sounds lovely, right?
Known as Rahmbo for his tough non-diplomatic take-no-prisoner approach in politics, he is a partisan. And now he has been chosen Chief of Staff to President Elect Obama.
What does this mean? Anyone wanting to see the President will schedule through Mr. Emanuel. He has earned his stripes. He is tough. He has no love lost for Republicans.
The Obama campaign seemed to have a thin skin for opposition to his campaign. The Washington Post and Dallas Morning News were thrown off of his campaign plane for coming out formally and supporting Senator McCain. Free speech may not be so free around the Obama regime?
Will a Republican ever had chance to set foot in the White House for debate with Senator Obama? Probably not. Outside opinions may need to tread lightly if ever they hope to conference in the next four years with Washington's newest Messiah.
Rahm Emanuel has a long memory. He has a list of out-of-favor characters that are on it.
Trained in the Clinton White House, he has learned the lessons of cold-calculated decisions. He has learned to be black and white about friends and enemies. There is no in between.
Will Republicans see the inside of the White House? Only when they grovel pitifully to see the President. Will Hillary's people appear in the White House? Not unless Emmanuel sees the desperate need for that meeting to take place.
Senator Obama has promised to unify the nation. If Rahmbo Emmanuel is any indication, that promise will exempt all politicians that fought against "Change that we can believe in" during the primaries and general election.

President Elect Obama's 1st News Conference?

Standing at a Chicago lecturn 65 hours as President Elect with the august company of serious financial leaders of American finance, President Elect Obama set forth an agenda for America. Having won 300 plus electoral votes and nearly having a super-majority on his side, the economic downturn was his first priority. His is a mandate to fix an ailing economy.

The auto industry has its hand out for 50 billion dollars. GM and Ford may be going under. And President Obama said "no way". Too many jobs will be lost. Governor Granholm, who has precided over an emabarassing Michigan economy and was re-elected, was standing behind Obama. No doubt she was lobbying hard for money to float America's carmakers on the back's of American taxpayers.

Weren't state governments flush with cash 3 years ago. Instead of sending the money back to the people or paying down state debts, what did the bunches of states do? They expanded. They created. They sought more power. They hired bureacrats, secretaries, new department heads, new plannners, etc....Today these states are at the edge. Nearly unable to borrow money, they are begging President Bush and soon to be President Obama for a handout.
California is asking the federal government for a bailout. New Jersey has its hands out as well. President Elect Obama and Robert Reich appear sympathetic. And more states will be lining up at bar for drinks from the federal government.

The economy has lost 1.2 million jobs in 2008. About 240,000 jobs have been lost in the last 90 days. Unemployment is at a 14 year high at 6.5%. President Bush has failed the economic test of free markets. About 2 trillion dollars has been earmarked to tackle the credit crisis. AIG got 85 billion dollars. Their executives got spa treatments and kingly retreats with the money.

Stimulus packages in the amount of billions of dollars went to taxpayers. Home mortgage bailout I was procured in September of 2007. Home Bailout II is being considered by Sheila Bexar's FDIC and Treasury Secretary. And with $700 billion bailout package to buy preferrred stock of financial institutions and plug holes for companies teetering on bankruptcy, the economic crisis continues to worsen. And what about the Federal Reserve? The Federal Reserve guaranteed every money market account in existence.

Such is the unfair predicament President Elect Obama is thrust into. On this Friday, it was expected that President Elect Obama was going to appoint a Treasury Secretary. He didn't. He said he will be operating at a pace of deliberate haste with an emphaisis on both words.

Retail, autos, real estate, finance sectors, and state governments are suffering. Even New York City's finest police officers are having 1000 of their best being given their pink slips, while the city adds 200 extra meter readers for additional revenues to the city.

The cadre of finance genius' standing behind Obama are impressive. Volker, Summers, Reubin, etc...then you have Robert Reich, former labor secretary for President Clinton. These guys have been through the war of recession, Mexican bailouts, and 21% inflation before. You would think such characters surrounding Obama would give each American pause to not worry.

History probably will be no guide to these fellows. President Hoover expanded government's role from 1929 to 1932 to unprecedented levels after the stock market crash. FDR thanked him and said enough had not been done. Smoot-Hawley Tariff that destroyed 83% of global trade wasn't enough damage. FDR proceeded from 1933 to 1945 to New Deal America into an extended Depression with Tennesse Valley, WPA, AAA, and other over-arching regulation and unparalleled American government intervention in the private marketplace.

Will this be the blueprint for President Elect Obama's plan? When asked if he was going to hike taxes on those earning 250K in 2009, he evaded the question. He stated that "we are going to grow the economy bottom up by creating new jobs."

President Bush's team focused on relieving the credit crisis. Obama is focusing directly on creating jobs and growing the economy "bottom up" by government hands. It will be government that creates the jobs; not the private sector.

Did we get specifics on his plans? No. But reading between the lines tells us a few things:

• the rich will pay higher taxes
• the federal government will go on a hiring spree with infrastructure projects
• money will be handed to average and poor Americans from the federal government
• states will receive relief from the federal government
• more stimulus packages...and more...and more until the economy is fixed

Meynard Keynes, the economist, would be proud. Spend as much as you can creating deficits until the citizens feel free to spend money themselves. So re-arming the American consumer is goal number one. Friedman would choke. Von Hayek would suggest a reading of his "Road To Serfdom" once again.

But history can help only when leaders listen. What President Elect Obama has inherited is a $10 trillion bowl of pits from an unwise President and Congress. Over-spending and over-borrowing by all has been the problem. And apparently more of the same is supposed to strengthen America.

Let's hope it doesn't take 12 years of depression and a world war to get America back to her days of prosperity?

Say Anything But That Senator Biden!

"Foot in mouth" syndrome was bound to raise its ugly head in the 2008 elections. It does for every politician. But some elected officials, like Senator Joe Biden, are far too generously obliging a hungry public for statements bordering on stupidity.


On this occasion, Senator Biden decided to honor Senator Clinton. It was a campaign stump speech. Microphone in hand much like a hand grenade, does much damage if held too long. Enter Joe Biden. The proverbial know-it-all whose loquacious ramblings are his marqee signature, did it again.


A day after telling reporters that voting Governor Palin into office would be a step back for women in America, Senator Biden frantically re-assessed his statements. He over-compensated telling Obama supporters, the following day, that Hillary Clinton is exceedingly qualified to be President, Vice President, or anything else Washington has to offer. "


In fact, she is probably "more qualified than me," continued Senator Biden.


One wonders at what point Senator Biden began to sweat and lose confidence about his position on Senator Obama's ticket. Rudy Juliani called it, days before at the Republican Convention, rivetting America with a penetrating line about Senator Biden:

"Senator Biden better make sure he gets his Vice Presidential appointment in writing."

The crowd roared. Yet, the world listened. And apparently, Senator Biden listened all too well.

Days later, the Senator is amazingly at a rally flogging himself in contrast to the Hillary factor that could have elevated the Obama ticket.


Facts don't go unnoticed. The Obama-Biden ticket has been getting shellacked by "Hurricane" Sarah Palin for thirteen unrelenting days. Gallup, Fox, and Rasmussen polls have pivoted from Obama being up 3 to 5 points to McCain being up 3 to 5 points since the Palin choice. And the normally pugnacious and feisty Joe Biden is at a loss for words.

Except that he admits Hillary is more qualified that him to be Barak Obama's partner to take the White House.


So why is Senator Joe Biden cathartically confessing on national TV his lack of confidence before all of America sixty days before the election?


He's a liberal. Liberals can't help themselves. That's the short answer. Liberals have to find a way to project blame as times get difficult for themselves. Preparing for defeat instead of gearing up for victory is vintage American liberalism.

In addition, Super Nova Sarah has single-handedly sucked the emotions and energy from the high-flying Obama campaign. Senator Biden, even before Sarah Palin entered the race, saw the cracks in Obama-Biden. Biden's first clue had to be the national polls. Embarassingly, Biden handed Obama the "Biden dip" of two points instead of the traditionally expected "Biden bump" when Senator Biden was chosen to be Obama's running mate. Politicians, the caliber of Biden's, are aware of their polling numbers for sure.


Obama's judicious plan to amalgamate experience with his fresh-face charisma, at first exhibited a chimerra of safety. But with 9,000 vote tally toward his own anemic presidential campaign, Senator Biden, the sage, began to feel the heat in the kitchen. First, how was he to explain the dumping of Hillary and her 18 million voters for himself?


Secondly, how was Senator Biden going to eclipse Alaska's shooting star, Sarah Palin? Neither Senator Biden nor his sagacious advisers, have a clue as how to handle Sarah Palin. Nor can the Biden or Obama camp state with a straight face that the dumping of Hillary overboard with her 18 million energized voters was highly intelligent.


Out of his league, Senator Biden, apparently recognizes what Americans have known already. The Senator should not have been Senator Obama's choice for Vice President. The lady with 18 million votes was far more attractive a partner.


The Obama race has turned a bit night-marish. And Biden is now forced to concoct excuses, explanations, and reasons for the difficulties the campaign faces. Joe Biden is certainly a first rate liberal. Look at how Biden responds to adversity. He conjures up excuses instead of fighting through failure.


Don't blame me. I didn't choose myself for this position. Senator Obama's judgment, not mine, should be questioned. Hillary unequivocally is the better candidate. She would have been my choice for sure. If anything, I should be her Vice President and Obama should wait until his turn.


How propitious a moment that Senator Biden prop his imaginary feet upon America's imaginary couch confessing to us all of his own redoubt as a central cast player in Senator Obama's bid for power. Is there any dog in America that has the ability to roll over and play dead as easily as Biden?


The scandal here is not that Senator Biden thinks he is not the most qualified individual for the job of vice president. Hillary knows he is not. Democrats are not motivated by Biden. And Joe Biden isn't sure either about the choice. But the real foopah is Senator Biden's cogent apology for being the dud candidate forced to acquire the mantle of VP. Rule #1 or #23 in high stake politics is don't let them see you sweat.


Obama must be wondering how he will win in November with "foot in mouth" Biden. Maybe Juliani is right. Biden ought to get his VP nomination in writing. Even Biden believes Hillary would make a better VP than himself.

Could that be the reason that Senator Obama entreated Senator Hillary Clinton this past week to a two hour lunch?