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August 10, 2008

'Are the Democrats and the American People About to be Mugged by a Con Artist?'

Daniel J. Kelley at The Chicago Daily Observer writes that watching Obama's flailing efforts to reinvent and market himself reminds him of a film adaptation of a stage play that he saw at the Lake Theater in Oak Park more than a decade ago. In "Six Degrees of Separation," a charming black street hustler inveigles his way into the luxury high rise of a wealthy New York art dealer and his wife: Six Degrees of Barack Obama.

... Obama is flat lining in the polls. This is not supposed to be happening. Conventional wisdom held that 2008 was supposed to be a Democratic year. How can this sudden reversal of fortune be explained?

Rank and file, blue collar workers seem to be resistant to Obama's
oratorical charms. Some voters find his angry and scary wife to be the political equivalent of the obnoxious reality television personality Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth.

Watch for the former Michelle Robinson to undergo an extreme makeover in the weeks leading up to the convention. More important, however, are the nagging questions that continue to be asked about Obama's background and his career experience. Is he qualified to lead this great nation through trying times? Who exactly is this guy and where did he come from?

The Obama campaign is now plagued by his best selling autobiographical books. These exercises in mixing fact, fancy and unadulterated fiction would be problematic if simply available in print to opposition researchers, but, adding to Obama's woes is the fact that he opted to record audio versions of the same two volumes. Americans can now listen to the presumptive nominee celebrating his enthusiastic drug use, delivering inflammatory rhetoric and reciting a string of racial slurs and profanities in his own voice.

Watching Obama's flailing efforts to reinvent and market himself, reminded me of an enjoyable film adaptation of a stage play that I saw at the Lake Theater in Oak Park more than a decade ago. In "Six Degrees of Separation," a charming black street hustler inveigles his way into the luxury high rise of a wealthy New York art dealer and his wife. He gained entry by claiming to be acquainted with their adult children who were in his class at Harvard. He sought the assistance of his friends' parents because he had been mugged and stabbed in nearby Central Park. As the criminal had made off with all of his money, credit cards and personal identification, he asked the couple to shelter him until morning when he could safely check into the exclusive Sherry Netherlands Hotel. He explained that his wealthy father would arrive in the city tomorrow and he made plans to meet his son at the hotel. After bandaging his superficial wound, the stranger and his hosts ended up sharing a meal together.

In short order, the two sophisticated white liberals are delighted by the highly articulate young man, who claims to be the son of the celebrated film actor and director, Sidney Poiter. Another dinner guest is a mining executive from South Africa. This guilt ridden individual has remained on in Johannesburg in order to help educate and train his former employees. He asserts that it is his historical duty to help raise political consciousness among the laboring masses in post apartheid South Africa so that someday the blacks will be able to stage a successful revolution and kill him and other whites in the process. Naturally enough, this naïve character is equally impressed with "Paul Poiter" and is eager to learn more about his thesis interpreting the J. D. Salinger novel, The Catcher in the Rye. Regrettably, the manuscript is unavailable (not unlike Obama's undocumented legal scholarship) since the literate mugger stole the only typewritten copy during the robbery.

Early the next morning, the art dealer and his wife learn that their house guest is merely an accomplished con artist.

As Kelley goes on to remind us in his piece, if the truth be told, we know more about this trickster's true origins then we do of Barack Obama. And if we were able to identify the six persons in closest proximity to Barack Obama in order to better understand him, wouldn't they be William Ayers, Rod Blagojevich, Emil Jones, Tony Rezko, Todd Stroger and Jeremiah Wright?

And indeed, as Kelley also points out in his piece, if you're seeking genuine political change and desired reform, why on earth would you look to the Cook County Democratic Machine to deliver a knight in shining armor?

Summing it all up, given Obama's circle of friends and associates, obscure history, dubious paternity, childhood and religious upbringing, his angry and downright scary as hell wife, and his literary exercises in mixing fact, fancy and unadulterated fiction - Americans would have to be just plain nuts to vote for the guy.

On the other hand, we do have the folks on the left of center who fall under the above-mentioned subpopulation, and of course, the naive liberal fools and not-yet-wised-up youth who have fallen for his con.

Related video (HT - Ace) - Barack Roll.