What Happened to Obama’s “Game”?

For someone who has been following the mess that is the Democrat primary, it’s incredible to think about how people once called Barack Obama charismatic. Today he seems to be nothing of the kind. He’s about as charismatic as B.O., appropriate given that those are his initials.

It’s a common occurrence with liberals. They are hailed as brilliant, charming, sexy, everything Americans everywhere could ever want in our candidate. Then people who don’t hate Republicans from dawn till dusk get a good look at them, and they find that not only is the Democrat du jour human, but in fact often embodies none of the qualities that have been ascribed to them. We’re still trying to get the “nuance” of John Kerry’s plan for Iraq.

In a way, Barack Obama has become a victim of the fawning press he had been (and still is) receiving for so long. If the truth had been told about him from the beginning, Hillary Clinton would be the nominee by now, and while Hillary is hardly known for her devotion to scruples, at least no one believes she is a messiah anyway, so she wouldn’t be crashing down to earth.

I remember having a discussion with a friend who loved Reagan but hates Bush, and she told me why she was voting for Obama over Hillary: “He’s got game”. Which I thought was not only funny, but true at the time. Everyone in the media was talking about what a great speaker he was. The same people who proclaimed Al Gore to be a man of staggering intellect. I never learn.

Take the teleprompter away from Obama and he’s not so spellbinding. He says that he’s campaigned in 57 states. That’s even beyond misspelling “potato”. He claimed that a tornado killed 10,000 people in Kansas, as opposed to 12. Best of all, he says Iran doesn’t pose a threat, because it’s a “tiny country”. Apparently geographical size is the key to a country having an imposing military, with perhaps Canada and Greenland being exceptions. Turns out this guy’s not very brainy.

He stated his refusal to disown his hateful preacher of 20 years and then disowned him just one month later. He doesn’t understand what the big deal is about his association with a known terrorist. He called people who don’t support him religious nutcase racists. This is a uniter?

In response to President Bush’s “appeaser” speech, indirectly regarding Jimmy Carter’s desire to give Hamas everything they need to destroy Israel, Obama went ballistic thinking it was directed at him. He claimed that this was exactly the kind of personal attack that was why this country was so divided.

This statement is nothing if not brazenly hypocritical. Has Barry listened to any of the nonstop bile coming from his own party for the last eight years? Apparently calling the president every possible euphemism for stupid or fascist in every imaginable book is not divisive, but criticizing Obama—which Bush wasn’t even doing—is precisely what is poisoning the nation’s soul.

If Obama can’t handle Republicans…or Fox News…he can’t handle Al-Qaeda. He needs to man the hell up.

And in keeping with his charismatic tradition, Obama and his supporters have now handed us a list of things we can’t say about him. We can’t talk about his middle name “Hussein”. We can’t call him a liberal. The latest is that we can’t talk about his wife now, even as she gets on the stump and trashes the very country where she and her husband (not to mention their devoutly anti-American pastor) are millionaires.

Unaware of how many states are in the union. Dangerously clueless on foreign policy. Elitist and snobbish about rural Christians. A crybaby who whines about “divisiveness” when the idiotic foreign policy of him and his peers is criticized, and who childishly demands that we play by his rules. Shut up and let him eat his waffle, bro.

That’s “charismatic” for a liberal.