Scoop’s Views

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), a Democratic presidential hopeful longing for the Democratic National Committee’s blessing as its candidate for the 2008 ticket, is outspending Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) at a rate of $3 for ever $1 Clinton is spending on advertising.

A lot can be said about such spending. When I commercials on the local channels are airing Obama commercials are on at least three times each hour, it’s enough to make a person sick, and “consumer advocates” complain about cereal and junk food ads aimed at children. When the mailman brings my mail, at three out of six days a week for the past almost three weeks now, there are at least two Barack Obama glossy, four-color junk mail. Yes, there’s something to be said of the feelings of “desperation” his campaign must be feeling to spend money in a way the senator from Illinois says he would curtail as president. Right.

Obama is spending millions of dollars each week on commercials, leave-me-alone recorded phone calls; full-color glossy 8½”x11″ campaign mailers that are filling landfills — and causing my shredder to work overtime; and all of his defensive spending about his comments how small town Pennsylvanians have reacted to job losses, factory closings, and other issues. Barack Obama, who says he is a Christian, says people run to religion basically when things were desperate, along with developing racist attitudes and a love of shotguns and rifles.

Perhaps Barack Obama — who is seeming more and more to be the missing Looney Tunes character — ought take a little time getting to know people in a state — especially the small towns — before in Pennsylvania — before casting such as stereotype. Many people in Pennsylvania have long family histories of hunting and fishing. They also have long family histories of being church-goers, such as being long-standing members at the local Catholic church, the local Baptist church, and many other Christian churches throughout the state. In some areas, Mosques have cropped up, but they are more recent additions to the church scene throughout the state than churches with tall steeples in most communities throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Obama is spending money left-and-right in his attempts to woo the voters in Pennsylvania. He’s running commercials that are seemingly accurate, but some of the truths — the realities — at the fringes of the ad are in question. Did the “pharmaceutical industry” really put wording in legislation that Medicare cannot negotiate for lower prices with manufacturers of medications? No.

It was politicians, just like Barack Obama — a senator — put together the wording, and later, after being approved by a committee, was sent to the Senate and House, for approval. If the wording bothered Sen. Barack Obama, why did the senator from Illinois not make a motion to change or delete the wording? It’s a common practice, as is another common practice of adding bills that alter other legislation onto “popular” bills being brought for vote. Barack Obama has had time to change the Medicare language about price negotiations he’s ranting about.

Because Obama’s not been in Washington performing his full-time job, you know, the $169,300 a year job he was elected to do, yet the one he’s skipped for much of the past year or so, and will continue to skip for much of the rest of this year. Oh yeah, skipping his job as senator to run for president is like having a forged note from “mom” to give to the teacher. All three senators — Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama — are all guilty of this charge, and all three ought give back their senate salary, in full, and resign their Senate seats.

If all three were truly committed to demonstrating their faith and confidence to serve as president, and wanting to show their determination, but also that they are not taking anything from the taxpayers that they ought not take, they’d resign their Senate seats and hit the campaign trail as “former senator presidential candidate” only, not as a “Senator from the state of …” attached to their names.

Yes, it’s legal under current law for the three senators to basically abandon their jobs to seek election to office of the President of the United States, sadly. It’s legal for them to collect the full salary, as well as all benefits afforded as U.S. Senators. In the meantime, though, they are all skipping votes that “don’t matter” to their campaigns, or ones they conveniently wish to ignore.

When a U.S. Army General testify before a Senate committee, and guess what? Like a flock of filthy birds, all three fly back to Washington and sit in their seats squawking over their accomplishments, their foresight, and other such garbage. For example, Obama wants to always remind everyone that he voted “against the war in Iraq” — yet he forgets it is not a war, as there is no declaration of war, and then, when the issue of renewing the PATRIOT Act, Barack Obama said he was opposed to it and would not vote for the  PATRIOT Act, yet when it came time to vote, he voted for it. Yeah, that’s real commitment.

Aside from his voting record, Obama’s track record with introducing legislation that ever gets adopted is another issue of someone less than accomplished in Washington. Reviewing his history of bills introduced to the Senate, the majority of “approved” items includes resolutions honoring various people, such as the life of “Percy Lavon Julian, a pioneer in the field of organic chemistry and the first and only African-American chemist to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences” or a resolution “that a commemorative postage stamp should be issued honoring Rosa Louise McCauley Parks.” Again, all landmark legislation that ought be long remembered for how many people it helped.

Another example of Obama’s “change,” it seems, is the way he is ever-so-insightful, such as “not voting for the war in Iraq.” I’d love to see office notes he made about the real reasons he didn’t vote to give approval for any military action against Iraq — and I’m betting it had to do with wanting more time for a diplomatic solution — he also is wishy-washy on current events.

If you look at his comments about whether President George W. Bush should attend or sit out the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in China, mostly as a silent protest about issues involving Tibet, Obama didn’t say anything. Well, he never said anything until his opponents, Hillary Clinton and John McCain both weighed in on the issue, but also even some folks counted among his supporters who demanded to know his view on the issue.

When Obama finally made a comment about the non-issue issue, it was one of those famous political responses, much as you’d expect from any two-faced attorney: a non-answer answer, meaning he gave an answer, but there was nothing definitive about it. He said:

“I’m of two minds about this. On the one hand, I think that what’s happened in Tibet, China’s support of the Sudanese government in Darfur, is a real problem. I’m hesitant to make the Olympics a site of political protest because I think it’s partly about bringing the world together.”

Obama says he’d launch a nuclear war against Iran

Ah, yes … stick in the middle, but commit to nothing. That’s the safe way out of things in the political arena. It’s also the way cowards deal with handling issues in life. If all of this — going back over the term of his U.S. Senate career — is an example of how Barack Obama would bring “change” as president, thanks but no thanks.

Although this is the same guy who “voted no” to the “war with Iraq,” he has also said that he would not rule out a nuclear first strike against Iran. Excuse me? What did I miss? The Barack Obama who is marketing himself in ads is a politician of compassion, supposedly. Uniformed generals in today’s U.S. Armed Forces aren’t looking to push buttons for nuclear options, but this “senator from Illinois,” Barack Obama, says he would have no second thoughts about starting World War III as president?

He’s already using tactics of desperation in his campaign by ramping up his mailings to at least one flier almost every day of the week for people in the City of Philadelphia. He has “volunteers” (people he’s somehow brainwashed with ideas that he represents “change” — ask the slumlords he represented in Chicago about “change”) calling to tell me about the candidate, Barack Obama, who cares so much about me. Really?

If Barack Obama cares about me, David Jackson, then why isn’t Barack Obama personally calling David Jackson? Because Barack Obama doesn’t gave a crap about David Jackson. Barack Obama cares about Barack Obama.

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