A big chunk of the Latino and black city vote.

What the hell does that mean??!?!?

So who are the rubes? It’s not the gay marriage supporters or the gay marriage opponents. It’s anyone who thinks that the key to their issue is winning Obama’s support and solidarity. In reality, they gays will have marriage and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell will be repealed when the gay rights community advances the issue far enough that it’s politically expedient for Obama to ride the wave.

If Obama is true to his word, and says what he believes then why is he not getting the Miss American treatment? I think most are correct to presume that he is a politician and needs to lie to maintain support in weak constituencies.

But why then does that not make Obama a lying hypocrite? The left had very little tolerance for the perceived “mendacity” of the Bush adminstration, but is cozy with this calculated hypocrisy.

They are so brain washed that they believe Obama will only lie to those of us on the right.

Honor among thieves exists in their world view.

Q. How does Barack Obama change a light bulb?

A. He holds the bulb and lets the universe revolve around him.

Besides, Obama is a closet mustlim. That Christian church thing? Just a ruse to fool the rubes.

See how easy that was?

Of course, he’s lying. Politicians are supposed to lie. If they don’t lie how can they get elected? Politics–city, county, state, national, international–is brutal contest conducted in public. Opponents must be lulled, and gulled, before, during, and after elections. Politics isn’t science, it’s manipulation for the purpose of punishing one’s enemies and rewarding one’s friends. Imagine the cost if opponents had to be placated with graft. Lies are the best tools a politician has: cheap and effective.

Looking at the last three months, especially the Chrysler thing, I wonder if they even think it matters very much what they do with it once they get it. I’m not kidding.

Excerpt:

You will pick the best one or two positions that work at election time. If the gnats ask why you flip-flopped, reply that you have always supported the policy that would be best for your state or country. They can look up the details on your website.

The smartest members of the public may be put off by this approach. So few that you can ignore them. Most people will remember that you agreed with them at some time, and will assume from your vagueness that you altered your opinion a bit only to get some more votes, which is true.

Remember and apply the tested technique for keeping two girlfriends. Tell each one that you love her, but that you must keep the other relationship for now, distantly, because you share business interests, and a breakup would cost a lot of money.

I do think when the left seems to project on the right a bigotry they may reveal more about their own vision. Of course, seeing groups rather than individuals/whole gets them into such problems. A pro-Kerry person in my family turned to me in some anger when I complained that it was inappropriate to throw at Cheney a position that Edwards claimed must be Cheney’s daughter’s. He said that why should the Republicans get all the bigot votes. Since I have respect for this relative, I assume this is not a completely alien position to the left. Of course, it ignores the fact that many have a principled (and not anti-gay) position against gay marriage, many of whom are strongly for civil unions. (That a gay thinker like Lee Harris has that position might make some pause.) And, secondly, the thinking that people would not vote for Cheney because he has a gay daughter. Such thinking seems to me to undermine their positions, let alone denigrate rather than discuss their opponent’s.