The headline at der Spiegel says it all:
“Obama Refines Plans for Germany Trip.”
As we learned last week, when you refine plans, it is flip-flopping. Thanks mainstream media!
This is your Saturday open thread, and I will be back tomorrow.
by John Cole| 21 Comments
This post is in: Election 2008, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush
The headline at der Spiegel says it all:
“Obama Refines Plans for Germany Trip.”
As we learned last week, when you refine plans, it is flip-flopping. Thanks mainstream media!
This is your Saturday open thread, and I will be back tomorrow.
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justin
FLIP FLOPPERRRR!!!!!!!! SHAPEEE SHIFTERRRRRRRRRR!!!
WHO ARE YOU, BARACK???????
ThymeZone
I applaud the sentiment behind this. However, when the blogosphere descends to the level of MSM, which it pretty much has, it will need to elevate its game before it can stand in snarky criticism of MSM on these grounds.
We’ve watched MSM remain mostly silent as Mister Magoo has separated himself from almost every principled “position” he has ever taken as he goes after the presidency.
Blgoville has managed to turn into the Gotcha Machine on Obama, has taken this approach both on the right and the left.
We knew that MSM was useless, we have always known that. Who knew that the blogosphere was going to become just like them, only worse?
nightjar
Looks like panic has struck GooPerville. Karl Rove in a speech tries to maintain the party meme of Obama as a Abotion loving Latte Liberal. Pleads not to believe the dem candidate on his so called moderating to the middle.
I bet he does understand Obama using Rovian tactics against republicans. And for all the progressives currently prostrate on their fainting couches, Obama is playing to win, no not just win, but to destroy his opponent.
Yes, it’s triangulation, but against wingnuts, not his own party. And if you read closely his supposed flip-flop statements on the Supremes decision on guns and the death penalty for non-murders you will find he couches them in a Federalist framework, or states rights, and not necessarily his own beliefs. I say brilliant, and though others will disagree, they will get over it when he wins.
ThymeZone
You misspelled “others are far too stupid to get what a national election is really all about,” but, who’s quibbling?
The Democrats have failed pretty much since WWII to get a real majority (more than 50.4 percent) of popular votes in a national election (Johnson being the exception, AFAIK) while the GOP has been pretty adept at it. We scoff at Rovian politics, but the fact is, it is effective at keeping the base committed and getting the vote out. Those are things that are necessary to win at this level.
Libby Spencer
Quote of the day on this theme that I picked up in some comment section:
Things I learned this morning from NPR: Wesley Clark attacked John McCain’s military service; Swift Boat Veterans “changed” the perception of Kerry…
I have nothing to add to that.
nightjar
I leave the hyperbole to you TZ.
scarshapedstar
Hell, even I refine plans for a trip now and then. For example, should I listen to Porcupine Tree or Shpongle?
ThymeZone
Heh.
DannyNoonan
The MSM doesn’t do nuance. Neither does the Republican Party. Meanwhile the Dems can’t even get everyone in the room at the same time for an evening of cheese, grapes and Snapple to decide what nuance means. My party sucks.
Jody
A quicker way to say this would have been “Not since Johnson have the Dems been able to get a real majority,” etc.
More truthful, too.
Just sayin’.
The Other Steve
K.Lo’s House of Crazy.
scarshapedstar
He didn’t even make a very good kindergarten teacher.
ThymeZone
Uh, no, I think it’s more accurate (which I think means truthful, at least here in Arizona) to say that it has happened once since Truman.
That’s 15 presidential elections, with one really solid majority for Dems.
That tells the true story, which is that Dems suck at uniting behind presidential candidates, and then getting out the vote for their candidate.
Markos Moulitsas, who advanced this idea about a week or ten days ago, followed it closely with an announcement that he was withholding his personal campaing contributions from Barack Obama over the FISA issue.
Which just shows to go you, even the bright Dems can be completely asinine idiots at election time and figure out ways to shoot the party, and thereby the country, in the groin.
TCG
Checkout K-lo’s Kraziness at the Korner, here.
She seems to think that GWB would make a like totally awesome High School History Teacher in his post presidency.
It’d be a public service for Bush to get a hold of the younguns before they get all jaded and such.
She’s gotta be joking.
The Truffle
So does that mean John McCain will be opening his own refinery? *drum roll, cymbal crash*
TCG
Tyson
HomosexualGay had a bad day at the Olympic Trials.The American Family Association’s website has learned from its mistake and is reporting the headline straight this week.
Johnny Pez
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Sour Kraut
Shouldn’t that be flippenfloppen?
rz
I feel it necessary to defend German Media here. When Spiegel writes “Obama Refines Plans for Germany Trip” tehy want to say “Obama Refines Plans for Germany Trip”. There is no hidden meaning.
dslak
The joke isn’t on the German media; it’s on the US media. Of course the headline means just what it says. That’s the point.
Lindamc
In North Carolina, we don’t appreciate people who pretend to be something they are not —- Obama won the primaries based on his liberal agenda, but now he feels to win this election, he has to move to the center. So who is he? Once elected will he “flip flop” back to his original positions? Can we trust a person like this. I think not!! I stand in John McCain. Better a devil we know than one we don’t know. 143 days in the Senate? and he bases his creds for being the President on that??? Wake up, America!!