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by Ann Coulter
February 14, 2007
I've caught Obama fever! Obamamania, Obamarama,
Obama, Obama, Obama. (I just pray to God this is clean, renewable electricity I'm feeling.)
Only white guilt could
explain the insanely hyperbolic descriptions of Obama's "eloquence." His speeches are a run-on string of embarrassing, sophomoric
Hallmark bromides.
In announcing his candidacy last week, Obama confirmed that he believes in "the basic decency of
the American people." And let the chips fall where they may!
Obama forthrightly decried "a smallness of our politics"
— deftly slipping a sword into the sides of the smallness-in-politics advocates. (To his credit, he somehow avoided
saying, "My fellow Americans, size does matter.")
He took a strong stand against the anti-hope crowd, saying: "There
are those who don't believe in talking about hope." Take that, Hillary!
Most weirdly, he said: "I recognize there
is a certain presumptuousness in this — a certain audacity — to this announcement."
What is so audacious
about announcing that you're running for president? Any idiot can run for president. Dennis Kucinich is running for president.
Until he was imprisoned, Lyndon LaRouche used to run for president constantly. John Kerry ran for president. Today, all you
have to do is suggest a date by which U.S. forces in Iraq
should surrender, and you're officially a Democratic candidate for president.
Obama made his announcement surrounded
by hundreds of adoring Democratic voters. And those were just the reporters. There were about 400 more reporters at Obama's
announcement than Mitt Romney's, who, by the way, is more likely to be sworn in as our next president than B. Hussein Obama.
Obama has locked up the Hollywood money. Even Miss America has endorsed Obama. (John "Two Americas" Edwards is still hoping for the
other Miss America to endorse him.)
But Obama tells us he's brave for announcing that he's running for president.
And if life gives you lemons, make lemonade!
I don't want to say that Obama didn't say anything in his announcement,
but afterward, even Jesse Jackson was asking, "What did he say?" There was one refreshing aspect to Obama's announcement:
It was nice to see a man call a press conference this week to announce something other than he was the father of Anna Nicole
Smith's baby.
B. Hussein Obama's announcement also included this gem: "I know that I haven't spent a lot of time learning
the ways of Washington. But I've been there long enough
to know that the ways of Washington must change." As long
as Obama insists on using Hallmark card greetings in his speeches, he could at least get Jesse Jackson to help him with the
rhyming.
If Obama's biggest asset is his inexperience, then if by the slightest chance he were elected and were to
run for a second term, he will have to claim he didn't learn anything the first four years.
There was also this inspirational
nugget: "Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what's needed to be done. Today we are called once more,
and it is time for our generation to answer that call." Is this guy running for president or trying to get people to switch
to a new long-distance provider?
He said that "we learned to disagree without being disagreeable." (There goes Howard
Dean's endorsement.) This was an improvement on the first draft, which read, "It's nice to be important, but it's more important
to be nice."
This guy's like the ANWR of trite political aphorisms. There's no telling exactly how many he's sitting
on, but it could be in the billions.
Obama's famed eloquence reminds me of a book of platitudes I read about once
called "Life Lessons." The book contained such inspiring thoughts as:
"When was the last time you really looked at
the sea? Or smelled the morning? Touched a baby's hair? Really tasted and enjoyed food? Walked barefoot in the grass? Looked
in the blue sky?" (When was the last time you fantasized about dismembering the authors of a book of platitudes?)
I
can't wait for Obama's inaugural address when he reveals that he loves long walks in the rain, sunsets, and fresh-baked cookies
shaped like puppies.
Now you've gone too far Ann Coulter!
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