April 03, 2008
It Also Gets Dark At Night
I don't see why Jane Fonda's endorsement of Barack Obama qualifies as being newsworthy:
Jane Fonda, the actress and ardent anti-Vietnam War advocate who visited North Vietnam during those hostilities, has endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president.Actress and anti-war advocate Jane Fonda at a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft battery in June 1972 singing an anti-war song with soldiers during her visit to North Vietnam in the Vietnam war has just endorsed Democrat Barack Obama of Illinois for president
There were no formal ceremonies for the endorsement. In fact, the Obama campaign may just be learning about the actress's approval now as word spreads like lit gunpowder via the Internet.
Fonda was eating out last night and exited the restaurant, ignoring as celebrities often do the assembled press contingent.
But a video camera was rolling as she approached the street and someone, perhaps just trying to get her to turn around for a picture, shouted out at her back, "Who are you going to vote for?"
There was a moment of silence. Then, the actress did turn around toward the cameras, paused and with a smile said simply, "Obama!" Then she got into a car and drove away.
A radical anti-war activist has decided to vote for a radical anti-war candidate. Why, exactly is this newsworthy?
If Fonda had blurted out "McCain!"— as her candidate of choice, a man who was being brutally beaten by the North Vietnamese as Fonda was doing photo ops for them on anti-aircraft guns being used against McCain's fellow aviators—that would be news.
If Obama's terrorist friend Bill Ayers renounced his involvement in bombings of the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and his group's attempting bombing of a soldiers dance at Fort Dix (the plan went awry when his girlfriend blew herself up by accident, instead of the U.S. Army soldiers and their civilian dates that they were targeting), and then shouted out that he would support McCain after targeting servicemen with bombs throughout the time McCain was being tortured, that would be news.
If Rev. Jeremiah Wright, emerged from his million-dollar mansion to "God D__m Barack" instead of America, or to even simply apologize for exposing his congregation to bigotry and conspiracy theorizing, that would be news.
But none of those things happened.
An aging actress who wanted America to lose one war has announced her support for a candidate who wants America to lose it's current conflict.
It is sad. It is predictable. But it isn't news.
Obama is already on thin ice and this endorsement just crystallizes a lot of people's thoughts about the man. If you think Hillary hate is rampant, you ain't seen nothing like the seething hate many feel toward Fonda. When Obama's true loyalties are already in question, having an enemy collaborator endorse does not inspire. Those of us who were in Vietnam or had loved ones in combat there when Fonda was getting off on that anti-aircraft gun, will never forget or forgive. So when you get the endorsement of the most hated woman in America, it is news, news that should be shouted from the rooftops.
Posted by: Sara at April 3, 2008 02:40 PMThat speaks the same for Jeremiah Wright, why are the pro-war communist neocons such as yourself getting uppity over a negro acting uppity? That wasn't news.
Posted by: I see Yankee But no Confederate at April 3, 2008 03:33 PM^^^^^^My dear troll:
Obama's race matters nothing to us conservatives and libertarians. The fact he is wowed by the rantings of a racebaiting nut who's theology is Marxism with god added, thereby making him the communist, and is more liberal than even a socialist who runs as a Democrat, concerns us. The leftists seem involved over the fact he is an Actual African American (Daddy is from Kenya, Momma from USA). And 75% of his supporters simply give Change and his oratory skills as reason for supporting him. Pol Pot was change for Cambodia. Was it good change?
I am heartened, quite frankly, by this faddish quirk that causes Lefties to denounce "Commies". Only a metaphysical level of ignorance and stupidity could conspire to produce such a witless burp but more importantly we now have a point of agreement Left to Right that Communism IS BAD. Of course anyone who cares to know knows the Marxist roots of Barack's Liberation Theology as well as a baroque family of similar perversities that infest the minds of our Left leaning citizens. This tick demonstrates the utter ignorance of these mutts of the intellectual (forgive the expression) foundation of their own positions. As a wise man said, to be ignorant of what happened before your birth is to remain forever a child. Any political contest is like playing darts with a blind man WHO DOES NOT KNOW HE IS BLIND; mildly hazardous but the outcome is inevitable. The hilarity just keeps a-buildin'!
Posted by: megapotamus at April 3, 2008 04:48 PMThe only reason the lefties are denouncing "Commies" is because their focus group results indicated that was a good way to win votes.
Government by weather-vane, brought to you by the Democratic Party.
Posted by: C-C-G at April 3, 2008 10:38 PMI'm kinda wondering what the Messiah could do, or have happen, that would worsen his general election situation. Fonda endorsement: check. Lack of life/work/executive experience: check. Goofy and infantile positions on national security matters: check. Strong association with race-baiting anti-American pro-fascist conspiracy-whacked lunatics: check. Generally mindless lefty voting record: check. Hilariously clumsy dishonesty and disengenuousness on anything he's busted on: check. Borrowed trouble on gun-control issues via position on concealed-carry: check. Repugnant, ignorant, arrogant, obnoxious spouse: check. And the list goes on.
McCain is largely a train-wreck of a candidate, on both substance and personal matters. Yet he looms like some Reaganesque one-man juggernaut against Obama, who's a thoroughly unimpressive and uninteresting twink.
McCain will likely be the worst presidential candidate ever to win more than 40 states in the general election.
I read that Hanoi Jane found Jesus, via her limo driver, after she and Ted were divorced. I did not read that she found a brain, a heart, or a soul. Jesus doesn't have much to work with there, but He does Know what to do with a bad example.
Posted by: twolaneflash at April 4, 2008 10:27 AMWell, Ice Cold, perhaps this will do it.
I'm about ready to go Moby on the moonbat sites, posting refernces to that, Tony McPeak and to Pelosi and Reid's 2006 campaign mendacity over a soundtrack of "Won't Get Fooled Again." Oh, and with a Vote Nader tagline.
YYYYEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Posted by: Pablo at April 4, 2008 10:29 AM
