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Friday, August 29, 2008
Thaddeus McCotter :: Townhall.com Columnist
Obama Live in Denver: The Song Remains the Same
by Thaddeus McCotter
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Like every other over-hyped liberal pop phenom of the past forty years who covered their party’s stale classics, Obama! Live! (In Denver!) proves this nominee and his Democrats’ song remains the same.
 
Promising to change everything but his party’s moribund ideology, Grammy Award winner Barack Obama’s pyrotechnic licks couldn’t sweeten his song’s sour chorus of leftist tripe:  namely, America is going down the dumper; Republicans are holding the plunger; and, to save you from yourself, Americans need a nanny state.
 
Underscoring this theme with a dissonant recitation of everything you’re allegedly incapable of achieving without a bureaucrat for a life coach, in the ditty (Short) Change, Obama’s opus emphasizes government rewards not government reforms; and, thereby, defines change as making the federal government more expensive, more expansive and more intrusive upon Americans – for your own good, of course.
 
Shifting his tenor into a minor key on the track Yes, We Can (Except in Iraq), in foreign affairs Obama! Live! (In Denver!) conflates popularity with purpose; and emphasizes his “new” national insecurity calculus in the ballad How does it play in Paris? In sync with this riff, Obama assails the Bush administration’s over-arching strategy of expanding liberty; and, proffers an ad hoc, politically palatable pragmatism – the very approach that endangered us in the first place.  Such a harmony of irrationality suits a morally relative party denying the fact that, for an individual or a nation, true moral leaders are often unpopular.  
 
Sure, other sundry hypocrisies abound – notably on Disown Your Own Failure,  where Obama claims to be running against a Washington run by the “Done Nothing, Don’t Care” Democrat Congress in which he serves.  Yet why further dwell upon this dirge of a disc?  We’ve heard this Pied Piper of False Hope and Empty Promise’s gloomy tune for decades.  
 
As for the gig’s atmospherics, Obama! Live! (In Denver!)’s piqued performance brings tears to the eyes of all who bank their hope in government spending not Americans’ resilience; and in peace through sop not peace through strength.  It also brings tears to the eyes of all who believe our America is, must, and will remain the greatest nation on earth because of her sovereign, resplendent citizens.
 
Obama!  Live! (In Denver!) will sell well in its neo-left niche.  But this repackaged liberal classic won’t play with those who know political muzak when they hear it; and who never buy a limp disc for its cover.
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A life-long resident of southeast Michigan, U.S. Representative Thaddeus McCotter was first elected to Congress in 2002 to represent the citizens of Western Oakland and Western Wayne Counties.

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Reply # 1
Date: Aug 30, 2008 - 8:24 PM EST
The Teary Eyes Masses
In Denver, they want a father figure to take away all their pain; make life a picnic. Want daddy to make all the tough decisions for them. Perform miracles; make the French love America.

Yes, times are tough; just as they were in 1930 Germany and those people looked for a Fuerer and found one.

Hope America is not fooled like Germany was.
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Reply # 2
Date: Aug 30, 2008 - 6:21 PM EST
I noticed
such a difference in the crowd at Obama's rallies, and McCain's.
Obama's crowd chants "Obama" or "Yes we can."

McCain's crowds chant "USA USA" Big difference, because of totally different thinking.
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