Obama Excuses - Is the Third Story the Charm? -UPDATED-

Chicago Sun Times Washington Bureau Chief Lynn Sweet had a report in the wee hours of this morning that completes the Obama Excuse Hat-Trick, now the Obama people are blaming the military for his failure to visit the troops at the Rammstein and Landstuhl military bases. Flying Debris posted on this story last night.

The Sun Times story is ridiculous, this is now the third story that the Obama people have come up with to excuse the fact that our Senator could not bother to spend any more of his precious time visiting any more soldiers. This is despite the fact that the soldiers were injured serving the United States. The military said that they were expecting Senator Obama to visit but that his campaign canceled:

1:42 p.m.: SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned that Obama has cancelled a planned short visit to the Rammstein and Landstuhl US military bases in the southwest German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The visits were planned for Friday. "Barack Obama will not be coming to us," a spokesperson for the US military hospital in Landstuhl announced. "I don't know why." Shortly before the same spokeswoman had announced a planned visit by Obama.


This unseemly revelation by, ahem, the foreign press caused some scrambling in the Obama camp. First the Obama people called it a scheduling conflict, then the Obama campaign said that military would only allow members of the Senate and some of their Senate staffers on the bases. That story was accompanied with reports that one or more campaign staffer(s) had a fit over those restrictions and thus Obama did not go, that story would start to point the finger at lobbyist and Obama campaign advisor David Axelrod. Now the Obama campaign has a third story, that the military would not allow them to go to the bases.

Occams's Razor would tell any observer with an intellect that if the military had forbade Senator Obama from visiting the troops that the Obama campaign would have been out in front of the entire story, they would have broken the story with vigor instead of reacting to it with a litany of excuses that would embarrass a teenager. Instead of visiting the troops as he had promised Senator Obama hung out at the gym in the Berlin Ritz Carlton and now his minions are blaming the troops.

Update: The gist of this post was originally left in the "comment" section of Ms. Sweet's linked Sun Times article. They have posted 5 comments but they will not post my comment. They are in the bag for Obama. Unfortunately Ms. Sweet often writes about Obama in the manner of a Tiger Beat feature article. After looking at the past few years of Sweet's Obama columns I am waiting for the following - "OMG he is the cutest savior ever!!!!!!!"

Michelle Obama - Folks Love the Shell Game

In this morning's coverage of Sen Barack Obama (D-IL), candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination, the Chicago Sun Times' Lynn Sweet reported on the candidate's wife Michelle's taped MSNBC appearance. The interview was scheduled to run this morning so I guess that the Sweet piece was good PR. Check out this great piece by the Backyard Conservative about Sweet's fawning over a criminal that Flying Debris discussed here. The interview was done by Mika Brzezinski, the son of a famously ineffective US National Security Adviser, the Carter Administration's Zbigniew Brzezinski. Those Dems love to keep it in the family.

The interview sounds very strange, Ms. Sweet has reported that Ms. Obama said of African-Americans acceptance of her husband, that they will "wake up and get it." Ms. Obama also brought up an argument that many Obama supporters raise, she was quoted as saying that blacks have a "natural fear of the possibility", that there is "always that doubt in the minds of people of color". In other words it is not reasonable for black people to not want to vote for Barack Obama, rather those people must have some deep seated psychological-racial problem. That deep seated problem is something she called "that fear."

At this time Sen. Obama is pushing his plan to raise taxes on taxpayers who Barack has deemed wealthy and able to pay. As Flying Debris pointed out in Obama on Social Security: What The? the Obama plans to dramatically raise taxes on people who are either investing in future jobs in America or trying to get to the level where they can invest more in the future of America. Combining her support of raising the FICA taxes for Social Security and her somewhat demeaning insistence that blacks will "get it" Ms. Obama is stating that black people and all Americans should be happy to settle for a 1.23% return on their life's savings. For African-American males born after 1959 the return is negative. Ms. Obama is also stating that those people should not be able to pass the accumulated wealth of a life's work on to another generation. Ms. Obama and her husband, Senator Barack Obama believe that when you die that the accumulated wealth of your life's effort should be inherited and spent by the federal government.

Social Security does the following: the federal government taxes you through FICA "retirement deductions", that money is immediately spent on whatever congress can dream up, when you retire the federal government will tax someone else to pay you back. If the Obamas get their way the economy would be slower than it otherwise would be during your working life due to the fact that more money that was once invested in creating jobs will henceforth be taxed and spent on often economically frivolous congressional desires. The only way that the Social Security System can ultimately pay off, as it is currently set up, is for the US economy to grow enough through increased productivity to produce enough high paying jobs to pay off people currently paying into the system. That cannot be done by increasing the tax burden on those who provide the capital that produces jobs. If we cannot produce those jobs that allow the next generations to pay off the chits that we are taking out today then they will see us as having played the shell game that we are playing. They may very well point to an empty shell, shrug their shoulders and get off of the train.

Update: Bumped