Obanoxious - "I will win, don't worry about that"

A confident Barack Obama raised an extraordinary $7.8 million Sunday at three California fundraisers, most of it in large checks to a Democratic Party committee.

"I will win. Don't worry about that," he said to the crowd of about 1,300 at his third event of the evening, according to the pool report.

He was warmly received by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who called him "a leader that God has blessed us with at this time."

Obama echoed some of the themes he discussed when he described Pennsylvanians as "bitter" and stoked controversy three months ago, but did so much more adroitly.

"Now, you want to win. And saying it doesn't make it so," he told the crowd. "It would be nice to think that after eight years of economic disaster, after eight years of bungled foreign policy, of being engaged in a war that should never have been authorized and should never have been waged, that cost us a trillion dollars and thousands of lives, that people would say, let's toss the bums out. Toss the bums out, we're starting from scratch, we're starting over. This is not working."

"So I understand why a lot of folks are saying, this should just happen. Why are we having to run all these television commercials? Why do we have to raise all this money? Just read the papers. These are the knuckleheads who have been in charge. Throw 'em out. But American politics aren't that simple," he said.

"The fact of the matter is, at a certain point, when government has not been serving the people for this long, people get cynical. They tune out. And they start saying to themselves, a plague on both your houses. They are willing to consume negative information more frequently than positive information, for good reason. They've seen how promises haven't been kept," he said.

NRO from his autobiography:

WHAT DOES HE LIKE ABOUT AMERICA?
Candidate Obama claims that "throughout my life, I have always taken my deep and abiding love for this country as a given." He tells us his "heart swells with pride at the sight of our flag." In Dreams, his heart swells at many things but sight of the flag certainly isn't one of them. There he presents a warts-only history of the U.S., a story of evil and suffering. U.S. society is a "racial caste system" where "color and money" determine where you end up in life. He tells us of white children's stoning black children, Jim Crow, and heatless Harlem housing projects. He describes "Japanese families interned behind barbed wire; young Russian Jews cutting patterns in Lower East Side sweatshops; dust-bowl farmers loading up their trucks with the remains of shattered lives."

Obama says the Hawaiian islands, where he grew up, are beautiful, but quickly reminds us that behind the beauty lurks the "ugly conquest of the native Hawaiians . . . crippling disease brought by missionaries . . . the indenturing system that kept Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino immigrants stooped sunup to sunset in [the
fields]."

Candidate Obama proudly tells audiences that his white grandparents were raised in the American heartland. But in Dreams he describes this heartland as the "landlocked center of the country, a place where decency and endurance and the pioneer spirit were joined at the hip with conformity and suspicion and the potential for unblinking cruelty."

Candidate Obama fondly tells audiences that one of his earliest memories is of sitting on his grandfather's shoulders proudly watching the Apollo astronauts return to Hawaii after their splashdown in the Pacific. But in Dreams, even this event is an occasion
for outrage, as Obama asks: "How could America send men into space and still keep its black citizens in bondage?"

And he expects us to think he never heard a mean word from Jeremiah Wright?

Perhaps we should play that back for the 680,000 union casualties responsible for the million plus casualties as a result of the effort which become one to free the slaves. I am profoundly unhappy that we found ourselves permitting slavery in 1789, but we expunged that sin with an ocean of blood 140 years ago.I find it amusing that so many complain (just see the polls) that the jews make too much of the Holocaust after 60 years, but that a presidential nominee errant imagines that HERE, black citizens are in bondage a century and a half later after an effort, then an almost lily white effort to free them, and finally in the 50's an 60's a joint effort to ensure equal opportunity culminating in an attempt by a largely white govt to rectify that former wrong by making them more than equal.

This nation, when a wrong has come to light has by and large been compelled by its own people thru forcing govt to be responsible to them, to rectify it, whether that be slavery, Abu Ghreib, the excesses of Dole and United Fruit, or plain old greed. It is a hallmark of pleasure that human weakness is combatted by the cynical system set up in 1789, not a condemnation of those men and what they created.

DISGRACEFUL, MR. OBAMA.