Obama the Person will be revealed soon enough.
     We've caught him in a couple of lies, actually one lie and one stupidity, the lie of the CYA variety, regarding Emanual and Blagojevich. Unlike many of you, to date, we've not hung around his neck the lies of his staff, especially during the campaign, even the "I approve of this message" lies.
     We're holding our powder for a reason, and suggest you do so as well.

     Before the election there were two opposite views of Obama the man, in terms of the depth of his mind and soul. One is that he is just an empty suit, truly the perfect "magic negro" who can wipe away all (liberal) white fear about being caught in a rest room stall or back alley with him. A black Gatsby, in tux and martini, ankles crossed, laid back against the wall, watching all the wannabes trying to pick up girls at the dance, knowing his will be waiting in the Cord when he wants her; a smooth talking shill, a dancing marionette, dressed, dangled and choreographed by as yet unknown and unseen handlers.
     The other early view, based on his writings as well as video interviews with small distribution (Thanks, mainstream media, for keeping this stuff away from the public...for your sake I hope this guy turns out to be Stalin, and you're the first to be cattle-carred off to the Gulag), of deep, but disturbing views on the Constitution and the entire American view of liberty. A genuine Marxist zealot, with a bone to pick. Coupled with several murky relationships inside the radical Muslim world, this view is entirely opposite from the first view, with really no way to square them. Only time will tell.
      You can understand our hesitancy, then.
      Now, post election, with the Blagojevich affair, a third image emerges, of Obama as just another anointed five-fingered Barry from the Chicago crime families sent off to Washington to pillage the treasury for his clients, instead of the pillaging Reid, Pelosi, Schumer, the CBC, et al have been doing for their clients.
      The ham-fisted way in which Obama has handled the Blago Affair...it's almost as if he wants the entire Illinois Democrat Party and the Senate majority leader crucified on the altar of public opinion...makes us wonder if this isn't in fact just going to be Clinton Redux.  
      OK, the New Clinton Minstrels.

       So, a word of advice, sort of. Just a day or so after the election, Rush Limbaugh (who still has the fire in his belly) took a position we agree with completely, announcing that he would make no personal attacks on Obama. We agree for the same pragmatic reasons Mr Limbaugh laid out. Most importantly, they do no good. They are like water off a duck's back. After all, considering the names the rank-and-file of Leftdom had called Bush for 8 years, they expect the same, in kind. It will be a badge of honor for them to be painted with the same kindergarten watercolors by their counterparts on the Right.
      It was our hope there wouldn't be any counterparts on the Right. But.....
      (For those of you who may be confused, we make the distinction between members of the general public, even people like Limbaugh and official members of say, the GOP. We would like to see name-calling raised to high art among that crowd. We would like to see envelopes pushed. That causes people to sit up take notice. But when I do it, or a scat-caller named Gunny, also on TownHall, it's just ho-hum. It sets conservatism back,)
      As you know, we're ambivalent about well-chosen curse words and names.  But scat talk is most often used in lieu of a cogent thought, where it is also least effective. You know what I mean, "Obama is a c**k s**king sumbitch. Why? Well, just because he is, that's why. And how do I know this? I know it down deep in my gut, that's how!"
      Whew, I'm convinced, where do I go to sign up with the "Don't Tread on Me" League? Unfurl the banners. I'm in. Seriously, how many times have you read that sort of tripe on left-wing blogs about Bush, Cheney, Karl Rove?
      We're a little too understaffed here to go after conservatives-posing-as-bawl babies, and have already picked fights with a host of conservatives for exactly the opposite reason, an unwllingness to pick fights with Lefties. We conservatives own them on substance (facts), philosophy, and quite frankly intelligence. Why blow it by taking leave of your senses and throwing an old fashioned Scarlett O'Hara foot stomping teat fit?
      And we're absolutely arse-holes about facts. I cannot abide to see any person purporting to be conservative misspeak, whether out of ignorance, stupidity, laziness, or just plain lying. When you see one, PLEASE, give him/her a little test just to make sure he isn't really a plant from the enemy camp. ...wenn ies wir eine stormtruppen waddlen...quaken...es ist eine fascistche. You get my drift?
       Fergodsakes, don't be like them. I'm not a Marine, but was Army and I do know you can never win a fight when angry. The idea is to make the other side angry. See where I'm headed, Sarge? Good research can be absolutely destroyed by ad hominum screeds.
       (If you are one who just has to get that venom out, I suggest Glumbert.com videos. That site is no-holds-barred with the language, and usually in real-time. Find a guy named Canuck, who has a bunch of tagalongs. And have at it. Or you can go to the Indianapolis Colts Cry-Hotline.)
  
       For us, Obama is still just a word, not a person right now. Until shown otherwise, by his actions after January 21st, we plan to take Obama at his word, namely that he is on the dark side of the moon when it comes the Constitution and human liberty. We are very wary. But enough with the name-calling based on what you know he is, or what you know he will do, for right now, you don't know Richard....even if it turns out later you're right.
Bernard Chumm