Has He Lost His Mind?

Why is Krauthammer even published in this paper at all? He is blindly partisan and not interested in facts or analysis. He just throws rocks and makes stuff up. Seriously, the guy is a waste of space.

That's right Mr. Krauthammer - Obama is participating in a big event both parties throw every four years called a CONVENTION.

President Bush's last convention was held in Madison Square Garden, often referred to as the "most famous arena in the world," and home to the Knicks, Rangers, and concerts by the likes of Madonna, the Who, Pearl Jam, etc.

I think the Superbowl is stupid, but I still watch it. I watched the Democrats convention last time, expecting the same, and was surprised by a speech by a fella named Obama.

It does recall the boat ride to the last Demo convention ending in "reporting for duty".

Kurt,

In case you haven't noticed, WaPo has slowly become a neocon newspaper with it's beating the war drums for the Iraq invasion, uncritical news coverage and analysis of the Bush administration -- and in fact, being a cheerleader for the administration all too often, and running such god awful neocon columnists as Kathleen Parker and Krauthammer.

It's laughable that the wingnuts continue their screed that WaPo is a "librul" newspaper when, in fact, it is anything but "librul" anymore.

I agree with Charles Krauthammer. I find all this celebrity worship a little creepy--especially the image of Obama standing above thousands of cheering Germans in Berlin as they hail him...that's really scary on one level and really insulting on another.

How 'bout a mosh pit!? That would really piss off krauty....

Krauthammer is so predictable. He's getting even more pathetic than in the past. All partisanship, no substance. At least George Will has a modicum of substance.

Keep it up, Mr. Krauthammer,
Your transparently ad hominem attacks reveal just how empty your arguments are.

Mr Krauthammer is just envious.

One has to nod in agreement with Krauthammer. It's not hard to see, it's front and center stage. Indeed, the cult of celebrity [Hillary, Bill & Obama] continues at the Democratic National Convention this week. This is a critical time when Barack Obama should be underplaying the "leader as messiah" message and get down to the brass tacks of policy with a detailed plan for America's faltering economy. Now, we hear that Obama is to take stage in front of 80,000 screaming fans. Not a good sign. Americans are not Europeans. We don't need continued reassurance from lofty speeches with throngs of adoring adherents. At this point in the political season, Americans yearn to hear a well articulated and thought out plan for economic stimulation and recovery. An economic game plan we can sink our teeth into!

The WaPo is indeed liberal. Krauthammer is a token conservative. I guess you can call it partisan affirmative action. This article will vanish from this website within 2 hours just like his post earlier this week.

I'm sorry, but George Will no longer has a modicum of substance. Thirty years ago, certainly. He was entertaining, too. But as he aged he became shrill and empty. Far from the well-spoken, biting, pseudo-intellectual of old. Krauthammer on the other hand has always been a kind of op-ed hit man. But he's never pretended otherwise.

FYI - There will be many satellite stations all over the country watching and guess what you will also. So 75-80 thousand will be miniscule. If he is preceived to be an emperor, mesiah or any othe lofty title, it's because YOU gave it to him.

How dare he be confident? How dare he be 'uppity"? How dare he speak to crowds wanting to feel good about America after this 8 year nightmare? How dare he presume to speak in Berlin like the turkey necked Great Prevaricator, St. Ronald the Senile? Why doesn't he know his place? The mouth that scolds all unbelievers in neocon orthodoxy and roars approval for the incompetent, arrogant, power hungry pissant in office and each & every one of his policies is in high dungeon....AHHHHHHHHHH The Liberals are coming, The Liberals are coming.................WAHHHHHHHHHH

Please send Krauthammer and his racist views back to where he belong with his old racist cronies at Fox news.....lead by Uncle TOM Juan William and Karl(NAZI)Rove.

How benign. If the backdrop looks like anything, it looks like a cheap Greek Restaurant. How working class can that be?! And the food is delicious!

Speaking of Emperor, any Classics nyuck nyuck will tell you that talk of emperors began with Rome. Maybe Persia, but not Athens.

No, ancient Greece was a democracy.

Gosh though. I could really use a greek salad and several hunks of spanikopida.

hey Chuck, where was such "critical analysis" when we all got treated to Bush flying out to the carrier and giving a speach beneath the "Mission Accomplished" banner?

The one thing I like about that guy on HBO (Bill Maars?)is his statement that Americans are so guilable, stupid, and refuse to read, see, hear, or think critically. Democrats will raise taxes: G dub and the boys debted us into trillions.
Jobs overseas? one reason is the high cost of providing health care to their workers overa lifetime. Wages are not the biggest issue for small business, but the cost of healthcare, inflation, finding workers, and health care cost.The president is only one part of the legislative process!!! He/She is no more as in control, control votes, as the senate and house. ANYBODY is better than what we have just lived through. Obama is a good choice regardless of his inexperiance. Look what and where so called experiance has gotten us? So vote for him or not, but be critical in your thinking. ps. why do they even publish this guy (Krauthammer)?

nice one kraut. another riveting, substantial effort on your part. i suppose when the Virginia state GOP did the VERY SAME THING for their 2008 convention, it doesn't warrant a mention. IOKIYAR!

How many monuments in DC are patterned after classical Greek or Roman structures? If Krauthammer doesn't like the way columns and arches look, he should stay out of the US capitol.

Maybe Tucson Arizona is more to his liking.

Mr. Krauthammer's article need not be Party-oriented. It applies to both Parties. The Convention is just that - a Party party ending with a show business event and balloons coming down. And who's paying for the balloons? In these troubled times why are the Parties spending money for balloons? Let the employed talk to the people about the crises of unemployment and other problems, and then, only then, drop the balloons with cheers.

Why is Mr. Krauthammer such a hipocrite? I don't remember reading him critizing Bush when he headed to Madison Garden. His words are becoming meaningless like Mc Cain's constant POW comments. Sorry, I mean useless.

Mr. Krauthammer's article need not be Party-oriented. It applies to both Parties. The Convention is just that - a Party party ending with a show business event and balloons coming down. And who's paying for the balloons? In these troubled times why are the Parties spending money for balloons? Let the employed talk to the people about the crises of unemployment and other problems, and then, only then, drop the balloons with cheers.

Mr. Krauthammer's article need not be Party-oriented. It applies to both Parties. The Convention is just that - a Party party ending with a show business event and balloons coming down. And who's paying for the balloons? In these troubled times why are the Parties spending money for balloons? Let the employed talk to the people about the crises of unemployment and other problems, and then, only then, drop the balloons with cheers.

I haven't even read the article as necons are so boringly predictable. There's a plethora of other right wing nutter sights...why does The Post indulge these loonies?

As if Krauty would say the same thing about WcCain if he was able to muster up enough people to fill a stadium.

Since WcCain will be giving his speech at a Holiday Inn conference room in front of a few hundred people at best Krauty is a wee bit jealous is all.

Krauty is an ugly, jealous, tiny little man. Period.

Right on....

Obama is a charismatic,hollow, narcissistic megalomaniac with a messiah complex see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id1IKJGVkvg)

Do not let him near the levers of power !!!!

Krauty: a noun, a verb and "I hate Obama".

Does the headline above refer to the author?

Obama's Thur. night appearance should reflect humility and appreciation. But this is what really scares me....both McCain and Obama, when speaking, lack an appearance in their faces and eyes especially, that there is any real original thinking going on in their heads. Now Hillary shows otherwise. Yes, folks get tired and stuff, but, consistently, McCain and Obama both look like, yes the porch light in on, but not so bright.

Let’s see Ronny R. made nice speeches and talked to thousands and he was considered GOOD! Obama make speeches and talks to thousands but is considered BAD. I think that is what this joker is saying. Couldn’t be he is a right wing boot licker could it?

What an angry little man.

Someone should roll Krauthammer's wheelchair from the Jefferson Memorial's temple like structure straight into the tidal basin.

With him in it, of course.

Charles Krauthammer is a joke and a poor excuse for a political columnist.

I think Krauthammer soiled himself. It's the only way to explain that look on his face in his picture. Kraphammer is more like it.

i'll grant that the ancient Greeks did give us the terms to describe despotism (tyranny, draconian, and such), but they actually invented democracy, as noted in another post.

But even if you want to mistake the facade as a symbol of autocratic rule, it is simply dishonest to give the current administration a pass on its actual, deliberate, and documented design to disenfranchise the citizenry and its true representatives: Congress. What was the Framers' original intent in making the Legislative Article I and the Executive Article II of our esteemed Constitution?

Sen. Obama got paid to discourse on the Constitution at a top-flight institution; the market, in other words, has spoken, mendacious punditry aside.

Obama is indeed making a fool of himself playing greek god, period. See his poll ratings on Friday you will know. He did that in Berlin and with his infamous president seal logo. He has done it.

As usual the insights are on point. The emperor (Obama) has no clothes. His democratic primary competitors said Obama had no resume. His only claim to fame is writing two autobiographies. He gives good emotion laden speeches, but no nuts and bolts. I tend to be suspicious of any one who uses their spouse as a major supporter (convention speaker). Looks like thin support.

Mr Krauthammer,

If you want to find the emperor in this country look no further than guy currently sitting the White House.....

Krauthammer's schtick is using his psychiatry background to do fake armchair psychoanalysis of Democrats ("Has He Lost His Mind?"), just like Maureen Dowd's 0`+is dime-store gender stereotyping.

Please, put this guy out to pasture. He's a bitter old prune with no original thoughts.

Ooooooooooo, all you evil-sayers are going to be SO aggravated when Senator McCain is sworn in as the next President of the United States.

Now THAT'S something to look forward to.

I agree with Charles...too much glitter. And of course we know about 'all that glitters'!

Wasn't Ancient Greece a Democracy?

As if Krauty would say the same thing about WcCain if he was able to muster up enough people to fill a stadium.

Since WcCain will be giving his speech at a Holiday Inn conference room in front of a few hundred people at best Krauty is a wee bit jealous is all.

Krauty is an ugly, jealous, tiny little man. Period.

Posted by: Krauty is green w/ envy... | August 27, 2008 12:49 PM
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You may be right that McCain will be giving his speech in a Holiday Inn conference room or even worse at a street corner, but it is also true that he is leading Obama in the recent poll by Gallup.

now look what has happened to Pelosi's ego. It is now larger than God's Church.

I can't wait until November. The sounds of neocon and racist heads exploding will be joy to hear. You can already see the steam coming out of Krauty's ears.

I sort of enjoyed the republican mock up of the Obama slogan:

A mile high, an inch deep, NObama Biden 08!

Clever.

Wow. Maybe you should stop instigating and then the readers won't beat up on your sorry butt... Don't you get it? Americans are sick and tired of the pain of the past eight years, and ANYTHING is better than another Republican keeping the US on this Highway to Hell.

Wow. So many hostile posts about a rather insignificant piece by krauthammer. Never much liked him or his work, but this one didn't seem to warrant such defensiveness from those who worship at the temple of Obama. W has his non-thinking supporters, and Obama has his own. See, they have more in common than people want to admit!

Mr. Krauthamer I am nearly 75 years old and in my lifetime I have never seen or heard anyone more mean spirited than you..I can only pity you..ahansa

It must really suck to be Charles K.

The hypocrite here is Obama himself. The "Chosen One" believes he came on this earth to be THE MAN, THE LEADER OF NATIONS. He'll destroy everything American believes in. He was raised in Muslim nations among Islamic radicals, did cocaine, does not like white people. He's a damn sleeper

So, I guess that it would be more palatable for Mr. K for Obama to just accept the nomination via teleconference? We all know that the conventions are nothing more than shows these days. If you're going to go that route, you might as well do it big. I wonder if the guys who dreamed up having George W. Bush land a fighter jet and stand under the Mission Accomplished banner are helping to plan the Obama event?

People - it is an op-ed, where a writer is entitled to his opinion. Stop getting so upset. Wow do people get angry when a Post writer criticizes someone the readers generally like.

Man, if you could apply such stringent analysis to John McCain, he and his Bush Boys would be a non-starter.

Just think about it, both Bush and McCain were born into the privileged class. McCain, however, a man of privilege born to a warring class, doesn't mind milking being a POW for all he can get out of it. Never mind that his actions of the past eight years have led to the death and dismemberment of thousands of human beings. Never mind that his actions are part of the reason we are spending 10 billion plus a month in Iraq. His error filled judgments, experience, and actions are all okay and qualify him to be president because he managed to survive being captured? You support McCain but criticize the pageantry in celebration of the partial fruition of Dr. Martin Luther King's I have a Dream vision for America?

By the way, I think Dr. King was a man of true courage and an authentic hero. He was someone who tried to appeal to our better angels. While, I see McCain as a dealer of death and destruction.

Bitter, table for one!

WHEN has Obama referred to himself as the chosen one? The repetition of that phrase is nothing more than a GOP attempt to belittle Obama for his achievements. Perhaps it springs from some envy in the McCain camp that he can't attract a crowd to hear him fumble through a speech?

I think there will be a backlash against Obama when recieves his coronation in front of 75,000 people crowd lustily cheering. the Middle america will think that this guy is an elite.

A. Rhode:
For the benefit of those of us, less gifted with the talent of such profound, analytical thinking, and for thousands of Berliners, guilty of "creepy" worshipping, would you, please, care to elaborate on which level do you find the creepy worshipping "scary", and what is the other level,if you would, please,that insults you.

Uh ... who is Charles Krauthammer

CK-FOUR WORDS-OH MY EFFING GOD! IN ONE SENSE THOUGH, I LOVE IT, DON'T YOU? THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WILL BE SO AGHAST, IT WILL BANISH FOREVER THIS ANOMOLY BARACK OBAMA FOREVER -AND RELEGATE HIM AND HIS PLAGIARIST SIDEKICK TO THE POLITICAL CANDIDATE TRASH HEAP OF HISTORY WHERE HE SO JUSTLY BELONGS!

THANK YOU CK, FOR SHARING-I'll just go now and copy this onto all the blogs so they can be as aghast as I am!

KKKrauthammer is positively green with envy. it's drips out of every line his writes. i'm red with disgust with him and dicky cohen, neither one of them are credible but still, if they weren't polluting the net, we wouldn't have any propagandist to gleefully insult here at wapo. it is the ONLY news they report, so we'll keep at if you do. meanwhile, i hope the red dripping contempt shows. it's not personal though, we just cannot afford any more swiftboating or any more (R)'s in power. the fate of the world depends on our correct choice and it is O/Biden '08!

Not only is Krauthammer a partisan Republican hack, he's a partisan Republican hack with bad grammar. There's no such verb as "coronate." A monarch is "crowned" at a coronation, Charles. Duh!

"racist"? "Nazis"? Geez, lefties, can't you come up with anything original? The simple truth is that any presidential candidate making his acceptance speech on a set designed that way would and should be asked, "Is your ego a little out of control here?" Remember Nixon's palace guard uniforms? Silly . . . as is virtually every trapping surrounding The Annointed One.

Arrgh! All that creativity! That acknowledgment of the Greeks! That interest in history! Arrrgh!!

All Hail the Great Obama!

McCain in front of Hotel Hanoi would probably be more of a Krautian setting.

"I think there will be a backlash against Obama when recieves his coronation in front of 75,000 people crowd lustily cheering. the Middle america will think that this guy is an elite."

Oh sure. After all, Middle America is clueless and has never seen a political convention before.

Krauthammer translates to "Herb Hammer". I wonder what he's been smoking?

I'm a staunch Democrat, one who almost always disagrees with this author. However, I see no reason to insult him for his opinions. You Obamabots act like a bunch of spoiled third-graders, and make the rest of the Democrats look very bad.

The fact is that Obama does appear to be very arrogant. But you Obamabots can't for the life of you see clearly that some of his antics are indeed ridiculous. All you can do is insult anyone who disagrees with your point of view, rather than use reason to disagree in an adult manner.

Obama is hardly perfect. Who is? Why does he feel such a need to grandstand? Why do you people feel such a need to put other people down? Such vitriol will eventually bite you where the sun don't shine. Grow up, and then come back... when you can behave.

Well, at least he isn't wearing a flight suit with a few socks stuffed in the crotch and standing in front of a "Mission Accomplished" banner...

CK - are you jealous? What's the big deal? Why don't we judge people by what they say and do rather then from where they speak? Find something important to write about. You had made some good points in earlier columns, and even though I like Obama, they were points of view that had credence, and were different.

Now you bring up this tripe and you appear foolish.

I have it on good authority that Barack the Blessed will give both the invocation and the benediction as bookends to his speech accepting his elevation. This seems appropriate given his position as an Elysian dreamer. His acceptance speech will feature glittering rhetoric designed to hold his listeners in a web of absortion more trance-like than attentive. First aid will be available for those prone to fainting or wetting themselves. All 80,000 of his attendees will exit the stadium in unison at the conclusion of the elevation, marching as myrmidons behind this political pied piper, proving Chekov's observation that happy men are those who keep their eyes shut.

Please leave us alone.
We are tired of your NEOCON messes..

ISA

I stopped taking Mr. Krauthammer seriously a couple of years ago when he published a column recommending that the US torture prisoners in order to obtain information that might save American lives. People who advocate torture are not civilized human beings and do not deserve to be treated as such. In the kind of society Mr. Krauthammer would have, people like him who are crippled as a result of an accident (or birth) would simply be killed in order to preserve resources for the more valued members of society. He should thank God every day that most of us find his ideas repugnant.

Call the Waaaahmbulance, Krauthammer, you bitter old fool.

I find it amazing some people still read or listen to anyone who supported Bush TWICE. Obviously, judgement about leadership can't be seen as one of their strong points.

Napoleon never had to go up against Hillary Clinton!

(Another toxic rage tantrum from Krauthammer. I be he was the worlds most obnoxious little kid.)

Ancient Greece was a collection of city states with Athens being a proto democracy. That ended when Sparta conquered them. The Spartans were angry that the Athenians built public works with money that was contributed by all the city states to maintain a fleet used for common defense against the Persians.

See, things never change.

You can tell a lot about a political party by the remarks of those who 'defend' it and how they attack the opposition. Personal attacks against Charles Krauthammer really highlight what the Democrats stand for.

"Or maybe he'll just do a Napoleon and coronate himself."

Is that an opinion? A smear? Or an insult in bad taste?

BRAVO AS ALWAYS CHARLES.

HERE IS AMY GOODMAN OF DEMOCRACY NOW

A HARD WORK JOURNALIST DELIVERING THE TRUTH LIKE CHARLES DOES

OBAMA ROLLS OVER FOR MONEY

http://ia311205.us.archive.org/1/items/amy-goodman-column-20080724/Pod_ConventionsMoney_1-2.mp3

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/mccain%20bush%20hug%20twn.jpg

The ghost of politics past ought to visit Obama tonight and whisper ... "Remember the Wellstone memorial service." That backfired worse than a '46 pickup truck braking downhill.

Barak Obama's major skill is playing with mirrors, or what otherwise is known as BS artistry. He was good at it, but apparently it is no longer enough . We can hear that bubble bursting, Roman temples or not.

May be Obama should go in battle gear on board a US Naval Carrier with the slogan "WILL COMPLETE THE MISSION UNACCOMPLISHED BY EMPEROR GREGORIUS BUSH"! Really why waste newsprint on Krauthammer who refuses t come out of his ideological cocoon.

Why is Krauthammer given space in the prestigious paper? Is it to meet some ADA quota? He never has anything interesting to say...just infantile mockery. I have an 8 year-old nephew who can do that...and for less pay!

Krauthammer: "Emperor Obama?"

No, it's Krauthammer's man who isn't wearing any clothes.

A recent article came out suggesting liberals are the angriest and most unhappy segment of our society, until I read the comments here, I thought it was a joke.
The Obama choreograph is just so obvious, without all the productions there is nothing there. A possible foreshadowing of reality for those who believe, no matter how bad things seem now, there are things that are far worse.

The analogies are significant and the stadium appearance is a repeat of the Berlin mistake. We must remember that it is a part of the psychological make-up of dictators and demagogues to appear in grandiose settings in front of as many people as they can command under threat. Fidel Castro, Mugabe, and assorted African and Latin-American demagogues hypnotized their masses using stadiums. It is not fitting to an American democracy.

What, they couldn't find a miniature Stonehenge? Barack - he goes to eleven!

The whole phony backdrop at midfield will be a riot. I guess the McCain people won't even think of using the whole celebutard thing against Obama will they. The only thing better would be Obama on a bus tour after the convention, a reminder of all the people he has thrown under.

When is the little hammering kraut, the neo-con noodle head, that he forever seems doomed to be, ever going to get down to some actual conservative substance. This constant unvarnished pandering to the actual Republicans In Name Only (RINO's many of whom are nothing but former bigoted Southern Democrats simply wearing a Republican badge and should be booted from the GOP)is ultimately all to pathetic, when instead real Republicans ought to be doing some real problem solving. Back when that other Southern Democrat, Jimmy Carter, was mucking up America, Ronald Reagan asked the American people if they were better off now than they were four years ago. A lot of Americans are in the same negative predicament and this under a so-called Republican president, "the george". Why isn't a Republican focus on problem solving, real work (the kind that real Republican constituents do every day of the week), instead of these harangues on Obama. He may be construed as an idiot or not, but if we cannot win the American people with our fiscal deeds, then we as Republicans don't deserve to lead the country. If we can't "show the people the money", then why should they vote for Republicans? It is telling of the GOP's fiscal failure when you and the other RINO pundits in the GOP party have to resort to sliming the opposition instead of touting GOP successes in growing the economy to convince the American people of the righteousness of our economic policy. Get real Chuck!

Obama's an empty suit who's lost without a teleprompter. Why do you think he avoided the townhall style debates like the plague. On a side note, it's always amazing to watch the liberals/progressives start acting like adolescent school kids, ranting and raving and calling names every time their candidate's shone in an unfavorable light.

Wow. What a piercing, insightful, valuable commentary by the esteem'd Mr. Krauthammer. All that's missing is the closing "nyaah, nyaah nyaah nyaah nyaah."

Seriously, one would think that, if one has free access to an op-ed page on which to air one's musings, one might be a bit more substantive.

Obama will rise on the elevated podium, listen to the youth yelling "Heil,Heil" and feel the rush. Our founding fathers would turn over in their graves if they could see this mixture of hip-hop and Spike Lee which is now being called the Democratic "party". Or has it been renamed yet?

Krauthammer...you're a shrink, right? Why don't you write about what a senile old psychopathic warmongerer your boy McSame is.

Oh, I forgot...so are you.

Amazing that men (and I use the term loosely) with serious issues can actually get a job with the Washington Post - and a prominent job at that.

Makes you wonder what the criteria for employment are.

If this guy is on your staff, even as a equal opportunity commentator, you have chosen the wrong guy. His comments are less then correct, adequate or incisive.

The best he could do is help Corsi write books!

If Obama showed up in a '71 Pinto, spoke pearched atop a bolder and yelling through a megaphone old Chuck would find an angle of attack.

Give it a rest...hack.

Well, you're surely on your way to getting that Pulitzer now, Krauthammer!

Maybe one day we'll see that column on the perils of the imperial presidency, that thanks to the likes of Bush, Cheney, Addington, and their neocon minions in the press helped to create.

Till then, just keep focusing on the window-dressing. You're a hack.

What I have read in many of the comments is that if you don't express a liberal viewpoint, you should not be published. I love how the left pretends its for free speech until someone says something they disagree with.

The point about the whitehouse is a good one. The democrats just needed a basic campaign to win the white house, and they keep finding new ways to screw up more.

Coming from someone in a political party whose most popular mouth (Limbaugh) routinely refers to Ronald Reagan as "Ronaldus Magnus," and whose candidate for president routinely refers to the Russians wanting to restore their "empire," does this guy really have any room to be tossing around phrases like "emperor" when it comes to Obama....??

Charles K., your column just made my day. You say what I can't say as eloquently as you do.

What I have to say is that Obama/Axelrod are making a huge mistake if they don't let the roll call go on as the Conventions are supposed to - legitimately, and from beginning to end. Why?

Because everything they do to try to manipulate this election only drives another wedge between Obama and the American people. The American people don't like manipulation of their democratic voting system - and Obama has manipulated this primary all along -

Not letting the roll call vote go on will only add to the long list of reasons we don't trust Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., some of which are the fact he is so secretive about his ethnicity - he is 47.5% Arab - not eligible for the Affirmative Action scholarships he got to go to prestigious, elite schools and universities.

After he fraudulently used the system to get his education, he looks down from his self-annointed mountain top and chastizes and chides people who couldn't afford to go and who did not choose to "use the system."

Obama believes that poor, uneducated people are low i.q. minions. I have his Obama control freaks call people in W.V., etc. that. And Obama, himself, calls the main street and rural people "bitter" turning to God and guns when asked in S.F. why they weren't supporting him (Obama).

Obama has an answer for everything except why he is so disliked and so untrusted. I remind you that if this little narcisstic dicator gets in the White House - he will be the same dictator there that he is at the Convention - he has muzzled the media, according to Tom Brokaw, not to say anything negative, and he is stopping the roll call vote. Who is he to stop that vote, anyway?

The elitists in this country will rue the day that they turned Barack Obama loose on this country, and hi-jacked the Democratic Party, the American people, both black and white. Those people don't work for a living - they don't know the meaning of figuring out how to survive in this economy - they lay around on their chais lounges getting nice tans for the next t.v. opportunity they have. gw.

<<Obama's an empty suit who's lost without a teleprompter. Why do you think he avoided the townhall style debates like the plague. On a side note, it's always amazing to watch the liberals/progressives start acting like adolescent school kids, ranting and raving and calling names every time their candidate's shone in an unfavorable light.<<

it's "shown", not shone, you illiterate moron. How's that for name calling?

No one is better at name calling and innuendo than Republicans. Look in the mirror.

Worst. Article. Ever.

What about the Victory Banner?
How do you say "Mission Accomplished" in Latin?

Sounds like Krauthammer is fed up with the egocentrism.

To all of those who find fault with his view here, check the record. You will find that Krauty is almost always correct in his analyses!

Obama has based his campaign on image - not issues and solutions - and that rockstar image will continue.

His hubris is breathtaking!
This elaborate production tomorrow night for THE ONE is right up there with his failed "presidential seal" and his attempt to speak at the Brandenburg Gate.

PUMA
Dems for McCain!

The tough-talking 5'8" gigolo, McCain, has the "Napoleon" market cornered.

A.L.L. at 1:23 - Couldn't agree more.

Why aren't the "personal attacks" removed from this sorry site, as the guidelines say they will be? Have we lost all decorum and personal respect as we engage in political dialogue? This is gross.

Did not bother to read Krauthammer, why papers print garbage from lousy Americans like him I will never understand.

AND ALONG WITH CK HELPFULLY PROVIDING THE NECESSARY DETAILS ON SOMETHING SO UNBELIEVABLE THAT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC ARE GOING TO TURN AWAY FROM THIS ARROGANT JERK SPECTACLE IN ASTONISHMENT AND DISGUST, THERE IS THIS KEY OMEN FOR OBAMA BIN BIDEN'S FUTURE:

Gallup poll shows McCain nudging ahead of Obama

by The Times-Picayune
Tuesday August 26, 2008, 5:52 PM

Democrats worried that Barack Obama was not pulling away from John McCain in recent polls were a little shaken today when a Gallup daily tracking poll showed the Republican moving slightly ahead.

PRINCETON, NJ -- It's official: Barack Obama has received no bounce in voter support out of his selection of Sen. Joe Biden to be his vice presidential running mate.
Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Aug. 23-25, the first three-day period falling entirely after Obama's Saturday morning vice presidential announcement, shows 46% of national registered voters backing John McCain and 44% supporting Obama, not appreciably different from the previous week's standing for both candidates. This is the first time since Obama clinched the nomination in early June, though, that McCain has held any kind of advantage over Obama in Gallup Poll Daily tracking.

BUH-BYE BUH-BYE OBAMA BIN BIDEN!-SOON ENOUGH, YOU WILL BE RELEGATED TO THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN TRASH HEAP-AND IT COULDN'T HAPPEN TO A MORE ARROGANTLY DESERVING JERK THAN YOU OBAMA! BUH-BYE!

Wow the level of discourse in these posts are really 2nd grade. Vitriolic, insulting, dripping with poison. It's all about Mr. Krauthammer soiling himself, there is humor about his wheelchair, calls to push him off bridges. This is discourse?

So we shouldn't be excited about a presidential candidate? Is Krauthammer really saying we should be more excited about watching athletes throw balls and run around?
If 80,000 people were excited about McCain, the Repubs would be doing this too.

This is going to backfire on Obama...he's good looking, dresses well, speaks wonderfully (with the aid of a teleprompter) but he's a luftmensch...an air-man...all pretty talk, but listen to what he's saying...every dictator/terrorist/socialist in the world is hoping he'll be the President. The only thing concrete I've heard from him is that he'll unconditionally talk to sh*theads and he wants to steal from the wealthy in order to buy power from the poor...we are at the point in our democracy where the populace can vote itself additional benefits. That has historically meant that the experiment with democracy is about over. Bankruptcy followed by dictatorship are the most likely result. Kool-Aid anyone?

Poll: Obama gets convention bounce!!!!!
He's now TIED with McCain.
LOL

www.RasmussenReports.com

Dems for McCain - NO Hussein!

IT LOOKS LIKE THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL... you know Greek Architecture.

Washington has lost it.

LOOK OUT THE WINDOW CHARLIES. ALL THE BUILDINGS LOOK LIKE THAT IN DC.

"Or maybe he'll just do a Napoleon and coronate himself."

Is that an opinion? A smear? Or an insult in bad taste?

Actually, it's just bad English.
Queen Elizabeth was crowned in 1953.
Not "coronated".

Chuck, you really need to have someone surgically remove that stick out of your butt before you do yourself real damage.

Mr. Krauthammer's brain is as dead as his legs.

Aleks Rohde

So you are not voting for him because he is too popular? Seems Obama is either not enough of something or too much of something else. I dont think I have ever known of a presidential candidate loosing votes for being two popular or too smart until 08. Which leads me to believe its because he is too multiracial to be the real reason people will not support him.

The Krautmeister must have REALLY hated Bush's charade on the USS Lincoln in his flight suit, landing a plane that two other guys flew. No pomposity or theatrics in that, huh?????

Wow, never know of a candidate having to apologize for being liked around the globe. Thats a new one. Perhaps if he had been booed at each event Charles would be more favorable in his article. Not.

This doesn't even stand up against a third-rate gossip column.

>>>>So we shouldn't be excited about a presidential candidate?

You're missing the point!
Obama's elaborate stage feeds the narrative that he's an arrogant elitist.

This is no way to attract undecideds and Hillary supporters who are more interested in steak than the candy Obama offers.

PUMA

guadalcanal diary wrote:
"This is going to backfire on Obama...he's good looking, dresses well, speaks wonderfully (with the aid of a teleprompter) but he's a luftmensch...an air-man..."

Your man, on the other hand is not full of air, but something rather heavier, perhaps?

Isn't it our current President who was selected by God to pursue a Holy Crusade of spreading democracy and liberating all oppressed people who yearn to breath the free air of um...freedom?

Maybe I'm confused. I just got here.

Yes, Krauthammer's idiotic partisan musings offend and yes, these poisonous posts preclude serious discourse. Why else would we be here?

Given the imperial pretensions of the current occupant of the Oval Office, and his claque's governing theory of a Unitary executive, which is pretty much indistinguishable from Caligula or Caracalla's style of governing, this is pretty rich.
And Dr. K is nothing if not for the rich..

>>>>Which leads me to believe its because he is too multiracial to be the real reason people will not support him.

You want it to be about Obama's race - but actually it's his Empty Suit he's been wearing since he entered the prez race.

Obama/Britney08

Chuck just made my point from yesterday. If you want to predict what Krauthammer will write about next just consult the latest GOP talking points on its line of attack. The GOP wants to paint Obama as emperor-in-waiting and guess what Chuck writes about today.

And have you noticed another thing. Whenever a criticism of the conservative movement hits a little too close to the bone, conservatives immediately begin attacking liberals for exactly those things to which conservatives themselves are most prone. When conservatives get slammed by liberals for showing a little too much Aryan Super Race leg when they call Bush critics "traitors" and "terrorist abettors," conservatives immediately come out with books with titles like "Liberal Fascism." And now that Cheney has largely succeeded in presiding over the restoration of the Nixonian imperial presidency, want to guess why our friend Krauthammer has taken to calling Obama our next "Emperor."

Guadacanal said:

"every dictator/terrorist/socialist in the world is hoping he'll be the President."

Traveling around the world as I do, and talking to people, you have NO IDEA HOW TRUE THIS STATEMENT OF YOURS IS! REALLY! THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, THE WORLD'S NO# 1 EXPORTER OF TERRORISM BY PROXY IN THE WORLD, IS PRACTICALLY FAINTING WITH ANTICIPATION FOR BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA TO BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT! IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN-MARK MY WORLDS NOW! IT WILL BE A LANDSLIDE FOR MCCAIN/ROMNEY-AN ABSOLUTE LANDSLIDE!

Mafia John? How did McCain "earn" his money? By cheating on his first wife, dumping her and his kids and marrying (taking a marriage license while still married -- a crime against God and Women!) a 23-year-old bimbo whose father was a mobster whose business partner MURDERED a real journalist to prevent him from telling the story about Keating and McCain and his mafia in-laws' S&L looting. And if Kraut, Will, Dana, fred and these other fake "religious" people continue their hack work for McSleaze they must be mafia scum as well.

Someone should roll Krauthammer's wheelchair from the Jefferson Memorial's temple like structure straight into the tidal basin.

With him in it, of course.

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So very true!

Krauthammer is not so predictable. I thought he'd see at least a Roman amphitheater.

His question might then be "will Nobama wear a toga or short pants."

The Chinese would be hard to equal in their birdcage with the 2,008 drummers. Now that was frightening.

Will he be preceded by a Vexilloid of the Roman Empire. "The vexilloid of the Roman Empire was a red banner with the letters SPQR (the Senate and the Roman People)in gold surrounded by a gold wreath hung on a military standard topped by a Roman eagle or an image of the goddess Victoria made of silver or bronze.

JEALOUS MUCH?

Ha Ha - I love it!

Nobody gives a squirt about the lame Republican candidate, so you whine and cry and try desperately to make Obama's strengths into weaknesses.

Won't work! Go Obama!

Larry Craig should be forgiven for his transgression after all he thought it was his good buddy Charles Krauthammer in the other stall! Guess any body could make that mistake.

It is interesting how many of these posted blogs are emotional and nonsensical and full of hate.

We have two candidates which can do the job. Obama has no significant experience but has seemingly alot of potential but what he willa ctually do as President we do not know. McCain has alot of experience and a track record by which his future actions as President can be measured. John McCain is not George Bush ( as much as the progresives which are really the radical left ) and Barack Obama is not John Kennedy since he appears to have more ethics. The reality is that liberals and the radical left will vote for Obama and the conservatives will reluctantly vote for McCain. The winner will be the candidate who gets most of the Clinton voters, the blue collar, the evangelicals if they vote and moderate independents.

Someone should roll Krauthammer's wheelchair from the Jefferson Memorial's temple like structure straight into the tidal basin.

With him in it, of course.

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So very true!

Trust Me

"You're a financial planner and you want to invest my retirement savings in scratch tickets?"
"Trust me. I was a POW."

"You're a plumber and you're going to fix my clog with a stick of dynamite?"
"Trust me. I was a POW."

"You're a firefighter and you're going to put out the flames with gasoline?"
"Trust me. I was a POW."

"You're a jeweler and you're going to fix my Rolex with a hammer?"
"Trust me. I was a POW."

"You’re a nuclear physicist and you're giving out 'free samples' of enriched uranium to children?"
"Trust me. I was a POW."

"You're a surgeon and you're using a rusty hacksaw?"
"Trust me. I was a POW."

"You’re the Republican candidate for president and you want to fix the country's problems even though you don’t know much about the economy, you don’t know how to use the internet, you don’t know how many houses you own or what kind of car you drive, you admit you don’t think clearly when you’re tired, you make frequent gaffes on foreign policy, you think offshore drilling is a short-term solution to high gas prices, you support torture and keeping the Guantanamo prison open, you make rash decisions and statements from which you have to quickly backtrack, you have an explosive temper on a hair trigger, your idea of health care reform is 'wear more sunscreen,' you're for stem cell research except when it's done on stem cells because you consider them all American citizens, and you voted to support the policies of the worst president ever 100 percent of the time this year?"
"Trust me, my friends. I was a POW."

Yes, a POW who spent 3 years making anti-American prop for the Communists. And guess what? Those tapes are now in the hands of real journalists and we will shortly be seeing "Hero" McSleaze being a real "hero".

The only one who lost his mind is you Krauthammer, what are you smoking man ? weren't and your neocon buddies all past 7 years, get a life. ypou morron.

The Berlin event was not so well received in this country. Does Obama not listen to the people? The faux Greek columns are over the top. Is he trying to say that he has the wisdom of Aristotle?

Krauthammer is "projecting". There is some desperation here. Obviously, all the conservative pundits in WAPO (Kristol, Ponnuru, Krauthammer, Novak, Cohen) must be synchronizing their attacks. It is hilarious!!!! One day, the topic is Narcissicm. Next day, Messiah. 3rd day, Rock Star. 4th day Inexperienced. Guys, guys, guys. make up your mind. Is he ready, is he supernatural? anyway you see obama, it is all in your f*cking minds. Obama is a decent, hard working, highly intelligent man who will make a great president.

Why did McSleaze take a marriage license while still married? What woman in her right mind would vote for such a sleazebag?
Was he having prostitutes visiting that Arlington condo? His lobbyist lover certainly visited there. Ask the desk clerks.

rulo123

So you think he should cancel his appearance out of fear of being too popular? Never heard of popularity hurting a politician before. Have you? Only when a black man runs for president do we start hearing such ridiculous notions. Perhaps its because Obama does not fit the traditional stereotypes of black men so whites have to come up with these creative positions to take on Obama to avoid the obvious reasons they are uncomfortable with him. Let see his name makes him muslim, his church makes him racist, his education makes him elitist, and his multicultured multiracial upbringing makes him a radical and finally his popularity makes him cult like. If this isnt a clear message by some americans that anyone outside of White Men are not welcomed as leader or our country I dont know what is.

Emperor Bush had two Republicans reregister themselves as independents so that he could appoint them to the bipartisan Civil Rights Commision and thus control it. This administration has no shame. I'm waiting for McCain to denounce this. Nuf said.

Wasn't Ancient Greece a Democracy?

Posted by: yup | August 27, 2008 1:06 PM

No. It was a mess of city-states that vacillated between tyranny, oligarchy, and direct democracy (i.e. ruled by demogogues). There was a few generations of democratic rule here and there in Athens which was constantly be overthrown by the landowning upper-classes or being destroyed by rival city-states (SPARTA!) due to the stupidity of the easily-led masses.

Everybody is asking the question - 'why isn't Obama doing better since all generic factors are favoring the Dems?

1. We just don't know who he is and are put off by the media pop star sell (CK).
2. McCain is better liked than the media realizes (Leno).
3. There really is a large Hillary support segment out there that is waffling (Ohio).
4. America likes split government and doesn't want a three house one party government for fear of excessive programs and spending (me).
5. We really still are a downright mean and racist nation (Michelle).

PS 'Predictable' at 12:51, "I hate Obama" already has the verb and noun. But thanks for playing.

What drivel. I don't care "who" Barack Obama is or "who" John McCain is. Or "what" either of them says in their speeches this week or next. Or whether either of them is stark naked when he delivers the speech.

It's crap.

The government is run by 3000 top level appointees. These 3000 will be the same people we have now if John McCain is elected. Likewise, it will be a very different 3,000 if a Democrat is elected, REGARDLESS of who that Democrat is.

How stupid have people in this country become?

70% of the population disapproves of George Bush, meaning 30% approve. Yet 51% voted for him in 2004, meaning that 21% of the population are complete morons. Bush was perfectly clear about his policies and priorities and NOTHING he has done since 1/20/05 is surprising or unexpected.

80% of the people in this country think it's on the wrong track, meaning only 20% like the way things are going. Yet 46%, plan today to vote for McCain -- to keep this country on the same track. That means 26% are complete morons.

We have more morons now than we did 4 years ago.

It's because of the mindless emphasis on the superficial and meaningless. Like this column. Thank you Charles, for your contribution to the stupefaction of the public. You are a moron's moron.

Obama really likes a monumental venue for his speeches. In Berlin, he wanted to speak in front of the Brandenburg Gate, but was denied. It is consistent within his character to construct his own classical backdrop to add drama to his acceptance speech before a packed house at Invesco Field at Mile High.

Who is advising Obama? If Reuters is correct, and I pray they are wrong, what kind of after image will Obama rising into the "temple" leave?

I'm disgusted.

i'm betting that somone had the idea to do this at easter. but the timing was off.

LOL!!!...hysterical how angry the liberals get reading Krauthammer. Seriously, is he striking a nerve with you because there is some truth in it? What is it?

"People - it is an op-ed, where a writer is entitled to his opinion. Stop getting so upset. Wow do people get angry when a Post writer criticizes someone the readers generally like."

Posted by: John S. | August 27, 2008 1:13 PM

The problem people have with it is it's a petty nonsensical criticism based on K's nonexistent mind-reading powers.

A silly sneer.

But it's in the kraut's genes...it comes easily.

Still, for real showmanship and "sound and fury, signifying nothing", it's hard to beat George W Bush's appearance on the flight deck in fly boy costume, backed by a huge poster declaring "mission accomplished."

"I think there will be a backlash against Obama when recieves his coronation in front of 75,000 people crowd lustily cheering. the Middle america will think that this guy is an elite."

Posted by: discerner | August 27, 2008 1:15 PM

We certainly wouldn't want our country's leadership to come from the elite now would we?

Or maybe Obama will flip a switch, pulling back a curtain, to reveal Bush, Cheney, McCain and Krauthammer sexually engaged in a foursome....

A.L.L.

When you say he is grandstanding do you mean like showing his face at the democratic convention that he is to be nominated? he is running for president, Not playing basketball for team USA. I know you as a stark democrat has never demanded that from any other candidate yet obama for some reason has to humble himself to the point he does not even look presidential to make people comfortable with him. Is george bush humble? Is dick "go f#ck youself cheney humble? Is hillary clinton humble? Yet Obama is labeled arrogant for just showing up. I guess he just looks arrogant huh? How come when a black man is accomplished white people are quick to label him as uppity or arrogant. Mohammed Ali was arrogant. Obama is confident like you want your president to be. Dont ask him to humble himself like he is Kobe Bryant or someone like that. He is running for one of the most important jobs in the world, and he is not running for Pope.

Krauthammer didn't really try to draw some parallel between Obama a Napoleon, did he?

Wow...

As a licensed psychologist, I'm qualified to speculate that Krauthammer has column envy. He sure is obsessed with the venues Obama gives his speeches in, isn't he? Shorter Krauthammer: Democrats shouldn't be popular. Cults of Personality should be reserved for Republicans like Reagan or post-9-11/pre-Iraq George W.

Keep it coming --- we have been blinded by the "Light".

From one non-neo-con who appreciates the hints of psychoanalytic reference and savors the Krauthammer perspective!

You really have to admire Krauthammer's consistency: liberals -- all evil; conservatives -- all good; George W. Bush -- can't recall the fella.

Don't be so hard on Mr. Krauthammer, folks! He and his fellow Master of Opinion Bob Novak have served the current Administration well by mindlessly parroting whatever Bushie's talking points were. It's nice to see Mr. Krauthammer doing it for McCain as well. Well, "nice" might not be the right word. How about "consistent"?

Fortunately, we won't need their services after January, 2009.

Obama/Biden '08

OH Ladies, oh Gentlemen:

Be sympathetic. The kraut and his neocon
buddies are about to be thrown out in the cold

No power, except when netahnayoo gets elected, if he does.

But in America, doing their zionist things, they're not gonna have any juice. AND WHAT THEY HAVE DONE will be reversed, as much as possible. Except Iraq.

(We probably cannot hope for an indefinite sojourn to the Hague pokie, which would be
all too appropriate..for Wolfowitz and Perle, Kraut, et. al. And et.al.

but be little sympathetic while you laugh.

Uh...whats the point of this article? Sounds like someone is a little jealous.

Krauthammer needs to get out of Washington a little more. Since when is it a bad thing that Americans (i.e. Obama) are liked abroad? Better a gawdy Convention than a "Mission Accomplished" ceremony on an aircraft carrier.

What we have here is a wannabe boy-king: An inferiority complex confirmed by picking a fading adult as his VP, and all the lemmings chanting: "We will, we will....."

Ummm, John McCain has already given a speech looking back over his accomplishments during his first term. I'll take columns and production values any time compared to that hubris ...

Fox Noise.

I started reading these posts and gave up.

Please: Obama is neither the Devil nor the Messiah. Nor is McCain. The country will probably endure regardless of which of them is elected.

Get a grip, you folks!

Mr. Krauthammer,
That was a bit over the top. But, perhaps, I see your point: The DNC is more interested in the show than substance. (Other than his speeches and what I can find in Wikipedia, what has Obama ever done?) Perhaps the DNC is correct. It's the perception of the man that's important, not the substance.

Where's the Liberal Media we keep hearing so much about for all these years? It certainly isn't the WaPo. Fact free reporting seem to rule the day here.

Farewell Turdhammer, farewell!

Krauthammer has a point. A smart professional campaign at this point wants to downplay the whole "Messiah" thing and not seem arrogant so as not to turn off voters. Using an imperial or royal seeming backdrop like that is not a wise campaign move. This, however, is not a wisely run campaign, so it's unsurprising they would make a mistake like this.

It must be disheartening to see that people finally get that your emperor Bush had no clothes. How frightening it will be for you when they see that your newly anointed McCain has decided to borrow them. It makes you have to work so hard to dress up the sows ear doesn't it?

Does this headline refer to the subject of the piece or the author? From the accompanying photo and the article's content, I can only conclude that it is the latter.

I think that it was Nixon who aspired to be emporer. The idea of casting Obama in this role is make-believe. that is about the extent of the republican resoursces at this point.

Now Charles is another story: Is there a more bitter little half wit, self styled expert on everything from foreign policy to economics paid to comment? Charles is just a pathetic republican hack trying to save his own bacon.

"This seems appropriate given his position as an Elysian dreamer. His acceptance speech will feature glittering rhetoric designed to hold his listeners in a web of absortion more trance-like than attentive."

Posted by: Paul Bloustein | August 27, 2008 1:24 PM

Elysian dreamer? What does that even mean? Is he dead? Was he an ancient greek hero in another life? Your chronic misuse of overwrought verbiage dripping with partially comprehended terms and Rococo rhetorical flourishes reveals you to be self-aggrandizing
gasbag.

Shut up Charles.

Your anti-Obama comments are so stupid that I can't read most of them.

I also heard Obama and Michelle are going to fly into the stadium with jet-packs, do his act with trained bears, and sing a duet with Hannah Montana.

A lovely circus, but Obama is still an empty suit.

Does anyone take this jackass Kruthummer seriously anymore? I mean come on, no substance in his writings just dumb rhetoric. Time to retire sir.

A catchy headline, a 104 words quote, 96 words of vacuous ramblings about nothing. You call that a 'column'?

If this is the best you can do, then I understand why you resent Obama for his capacity to attract tens of thousands of educated people to his speeches.

"Has he lost his mind?"

Like Goebbels or Himmler asking whether Neville Chamberlain has lost his mind, isn't it?
Preferring peaceful means is obviously only for old women and young children today.
Chamberlain was mistaken about Hitler, but Obama knows he's dealing with ruthless killers.

Nevertheless, Krauthammer wants still more blood.
And only McCain can satisfy his craving now.

Seriously guys, this post is merely a continuation of the theme a great deal of people have commented on: the arrogance of Obama (usually written as audacity because of his book). This is not a claim made without support. Obama has displayed his arrogance routinely throughout the campaign.

1) His faux presidential seal he sported for a few days before Jon Stewart (an avid liberal) commented on the fact that he had not yet been elected and thus shouldn't be entitled to use a seal like that.

2)His effort to speak at Brandenburg Gate, a privilege reserved for people who actually had something to do with the Cold War...

3) His promise to unite America in a post-partisan future, when he has not once crossed the aisle on any meaningful issue.

4) His very campaign for the presidency is a pretension considering his complete lack of meaningful political experience and lack of accomplishment while holding any of the posts he assumed.

I realize I will inevitably be called a neocon bush-loving racist for saying this, but the theme of Obama and his pretensions is a theme which has merit.

You know Charles, as a Christian I have never had my faith so insulted by you and Rush Limbaugh. Because of you would lose your lofty post you have kept your rhetoric down but the unconstrained Rush Limbaugh continually referrers to Obama as the Messiah. He has even referred to Obama as my Messiah because I support him. This is blasphemy. My Messiah lived 2000 years ago and is Jesus Christ and to say Obama is my Messiah is so disrespectful of my and millions of American’s faith. A real Christian would never say a person who has professed his life to Christ (as Obama has) is the Messiah. I can tell you that I will never buy a product from a sponsor of Rush Limbaugh because has insulted my faith. No other Christian should listen to Obama or you.

How Dare A Conservative say anything about a Democrat acting like a Dictator( like all Kings, Emp etc are), when Bush has made himself a defacto Dictator through signing statements, and generally ignoring well established law.

Note one example is that a large number of Bush Critics have ended up on the no fly list, including Senator Kennedy

pgr88- Perhaps, but still the only intelligent choice...

AND ALONG WITH CK HELPFULLY PROVIDING THE NECESSARY DETAILS ON SOMETHING SO UNBELIEVABLE THAT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC ARE GOING TO TURN AWAY FROM THIS ARROGANT JERK SPECTACLE IN ASTONISHMENT AND DISGUST, THERE IS THIS KEY OMEN FOR OBAMA BIN BIDEN'S FUTURE:

Gallup poll shows McCain nudging ahead of Obama

by The Times-Picayune
Tuesday August 26, 2008, 5:52 PM

Democrats worried that Barack Obama was not pulling away from John McCain in recent polls were a little shaken today when a Gallup daily tracking poll showed the Republican moving slightly ahead.

PRINCETON, NJ -- It's official: Barack Obama has received no bounce in voter support out of his selection of Sen. Joe Biden to be his vice presidential running mate.
Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Aug. 23-25, the first three-day period falling entirely after Obama's Saturday morning vice presidential announcement, shows 46% of national registered voters backing John McCain and 44% supporting Obama, not appreciably different from the previous week's standing for both candidates. This is the first time since Obama clinched the nomination in early June, though, that McCain has held any kind of advantage over Obama in Gallup Poll Daily tracking.

BUH-BYE BUH-BYE OBAMA BIN BIDEN!-SOON ENOUGH, YOU WILL BE RELEGATED TO THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN TRASH HEAP-AND IT COULDN'T HAPPEN TO A MORE ARROGANTLY DESERVING JERK THAN YOU OBAMA! BUH-BYE!

It ain't a column. It's a blog entry and, not surprisingly, Krauthammer's musings draw a crowd.........and people think the WaPo should get rid of him. Eyeballs to advertisers, folks.

I think the Greek columns thing is so appropriate because they practiced infanticide too.

the post is liberal. how many conservative columnists are there anyway? charles, novak & will and none are really any good except for this one. ruth, meyerson, E.J., king, robinson, cohen (sellout), etc etc etc. And to all of you throwing around "neocon" with smug self satisfaction: no one's insulted and you're not original.

Yup you can count on Chuck to get those Republican talking points down pat. Just because McSame can't draw his relatives or fly's to an advent does not make it a crime to people to go see Obama. Wonder if Chuckie would feel the same if Big John could get more than 50 of the paid faithful from K street?

Thant's right Krauty, Obama will be the new Emporer and his first command will be to put you in charge of filling the hog troughs in Washington, Good luck with that.

Look ya'll - DC is Libral Libral Libral. The Washington Post is definitely a libral newspaper. Everyone knows it. Is it so horrible that somebody with a differnt viewpoint voice his/ her opinion? I thought being libral meant being open minded?! Clearly not!
The tides have changed - libral politics doesn't mean being open minded and accepting AT ALL. More and more it means being controlling & power hungry. Good for Mr. K for not being intimidated by the BOOMING VOICE OF LIBRERALISM that is rampant in this area! I applaud him for speaking his mind and giving us a different perspective.

I think most people in DC would say it looks like the Lincoln Memorial and not a Greek temple. Lincoln was also from Illinois, get it? And tomorrow is the anniversary of Dr. King's "I have a dream speech." Where was that delivered? I forget. Oh, the Lincoln Memorial.

rljmsilver, Mccain is not just equal to Bush he is a lot worse than Bush, did you see his Health care plan, or his Social security plan, did you see who was(still) his financial adviser:it's Phil Gram the man behind the Financial deregulation that created the subrime mess, the men who created the Enron loophole that caused the 4.00 a gallon. si is that the experience you want to bring us, no thanks.

After 7 years of the petty tyrant Bush and his imperial presidency, it it just partisan rubbish to try to paint senator Obama as imperial. If anything his large open rallys reflect an egalitarian approach.

I'm sick and tired of this double
standard the Rove-ites keep perpetrating.
They are still taking us all for complete idiots.
Kraut is part of the same subtle, but incidious propoganda machine that scared
the country into elected Bush 2x.
Enough already with the Obama-Envy.
Let McCain live up to his promise and match
the specifics that Obama will lay out very, very shortly ....

"...maybe he'll just do a Napoleon and coronate himself"?

Dear Krautauthor

Sir,

Maybe, just maybe, what you are really fearing about the Obama acceptance speech venue that it will not be 'Napoleon coronation' at all.
Rather, you actually fear it will turn out to be a success. An unbridled success evidenced by a popular expression of unrestrained political engagement. Surely this is what you really fear. You vapid 'scardie-cat'!

Day by day, week by week, Krauthammer destroys WaPo's credibility brick by brick.

What a partisan hack. When did they fire the journalists and replace them with game show hosts?

so funny that so many people complain about Krauthammer ... but also read his articles ... let's face it, he can make our blood boil ... why? ... because some of what he writes is too close to the truth!

Krauthammer's post is a little too mean-spirited by the point is valid. Obama is playing into the "celebrity" image by appearing in front of 80,000 screaming fans in a sports / concert stadium, standing in--of all things--the center of his own temple. I wonder if he will be lifted on stage, a la deus ex (political) machina?

Friends, have compassion. Charles Krauthammer is suffering from a new neo-con disease of the psyche that I have just discovered. I call it Obama-envy. I have written an article about this disease which will appear in the upcoming issue of "Bipolar Disorder and Sexual Malfunction". My article will feature an analysis of the disease and will feature naked pictures of Krauthammer (with a black bar across his eyes).

The victim of Obama-envy suffers an absolutely corrupting and almost completely debilitating (but not quite debilitating enough) fear of letting go of power and influence. He also hallucinates the object of his fear, Barack Obama, in many different guises: Christ, Napoleon, King Canute and others (this is all drawn from Krauthammer's op-ed pieces). Most irritating to those attempting to live with the victim is his need to write Op-Ed pieces that have the character of Tourette's syndrome.

I hope you will enjoy my article. Look for it at your local newsstands soon.

SO, OBAMABOTS-YOUR MESSIAH IS GOING TO DESCEND TO EARTH ON THURSDAY, SO HIS DISCIPLES CAN RAISE THEIR FACES TO HIM IN JOY AND WONDER, WITH OUTSTRETCHED ARMS, TO SEE IF THEY CAN TOUCH THE LOWER HEM OF HIS TROUSERS? WILL YOU BRING THE SICK TO HIM? WILL HE HEAL THEM, MAKE THEM GET UP AND WALK?

OR IS HE SOMETHING LIKE A ROMAN EMPEROR? APPEARING BETWEEN THE COLUMNS ON A CHARIOT?-OR, LIKE, BOTH MESSIAH AND EMPEROR?

JUST MAKE SURE THAT TELEPROMPTER IS WORKING!-OH, THAT'S RIGHT, WHEN HE WAS IN KANSAS CITY THE OTHER NIGHT, EVEN WITH THE TELEPROMPTER IN FRONT OF HIM TELLING HIM THAT HE WAS IN KANSAS CITY, THE DOPE SAID HE WAS IN ST. LOUIS! OOPS!

WOULDN'T IT BE INTERESTING IF HE DECIDED TO THROW IN THE TOWEL EARLY, TO SAVE THE DEM. PARTY FROM ANOTHER HUGE LOSS, AND TELL THE AMERICAN PUBLIC THAT HE JUST REALIZED THAT HE DIDN'T HAVE THE EXPERIENCE TO BE PRESIDENT, AND HE WAS GIVING THE NOMINATION TO HILLARY?

Interesting that Chuck has never once complained about Emperor George W. Bush!

Dr Krauthammer,
You are quite a brilliant man, but you are consumed with jealousy because another man, biracial at that, is adored by millions because he caused them to hope in the future, even after it was wrecked by Bush. Face your jealousy and realize that each has his own place. Learn to be constructive and not destructive.

The GOP used a mock Greek temple on the stage for the 2008 Virginia Republican Convention, but that's okay, right? Who can forget Former Sen. George Allen delivering the keynote address in front of the Greek columns...

Ah, the irony.

He scares you, doesn't he, Charles. Makes a liar out of you every time he speaks. What are you and your crony capitalist friends going to do?

No President of this Republic has been as Imperial as George W. Bush. No evidence against a suspected terrorist? No problem, I'll just declare him an "Enemy Combatant," ignore Habeus and let him rot. Pass a law? I'll just add a "signing statement" saying I will ignore it. I hope Mr. Obama will restore the Republic. I'm sick of Bush's Empire.

tniel and wardropper, I hate to inform you of this, but "coronate" is indeed a verb in the merriam-webster dictionary, and it has been used properly in this context. Once King Obama pays for a federally-run school system, his supporters will attain the education they need to communicate with the rest of society.

Since you think Obama is the Messiah, will you admit that Bush is Satan?

I'm sure John McCain will make up for it by accepting the nomination alone, in the desert, in sackcloth and ashes.

I think everyone should lay off of Obama's displays of grandiosity. He's having the time of his life with this campaign season. Let him enjoy it before it comes to an abrupt end. I don't want him to look him back and regret not having more fun. He may not have the chance to do it again.

hey SPRING RAIN, Change is soo Foreign to GOP and Mccain that anybody comming up with small change is compared to prophet(moses , MESSIAH, or Jesus) common you gues lost it big time, you guys destroyed America big time,

GO MCCAIN/ROMNEY! YOU'LL CRUSH, POSITIVELY CRUSH THOSE TWO NO-EXPERIENCE PLAGIARIST KNUCKLEHEADS OBAMA BIN BIDEN-MARK MY WORDS-IT WILL BE A LANDSLIDE FOR MCCAIN/ROMNEY-THEY HAVE THE NECESSARY LEADERSHIP, LEGISLATIVE, FOREIGN POLICY, POLITICAL AND MOST IMPORTANTLY IN THIS DIRE LOOKIING ECONOMY-A BRILLIANT MAN-MITT ROMNEY WITH VAST EXPERIENCE IN FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS AND CAPITAL MARKETS-MITT ROMNEY MAY WELL BE THE MOST QUALIFIED CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT SINCE BILL CLINTON-DEMS FOR MCAIN/ROMNEY!

Memo to Spring Rain:

You have clearly overdosed on the Rush messiah-aid today. Must be spiked with an extra large dose of hatred this afternoon.

Take a break and listen to some classic rock!

Sincerely,

Summer Breeze

How can the republicans accuse Obama of being the "Messiah" -- John McCain was around at the time of Jesus and would know what he looked like, right?

Just for the record, I must take credit
for the Obama-Envy phrase, having
submitted it at the beginning of the primary season.
Although I'm sure other observers have come
to invent it on their own as well since then since it is a syndrome that has become quite rampant amonth the Conservative 'Thinkers' in this country.
ronmbo

It's a shame to see someone with Krauthammer's obvious intelligence and wit being so p*ssywhipped by the Republican party. Usually a mind this fierce has some real cojones behind it and is not just the pliant lap dog of larger (and dumber) interests. Would be nice to see Kraut show some independence once in a while (besides his gas tax plug) and dedicate his brilliance to something worthwhile.
There's a kind of ugly cowardice in his writings (which I often enjoy, by the way- who else would have the appropriate cynicism to call the Georgian thing what it was?) which is more disappointing than anything. Someone like him could really make a difference and be a power player, but he is squandering his gufts in deference to a bullying, low brow party line.
Buck up, Chuck. You've got more in you than this.
D

This entire column is offensive. Does the WP
pay this guy or does he pay them to print this
garbage?

It would be a lot better up against the metal barn in Crawford.

When is this man ever going to write a really critical column of Bush, of Cheney, of Reagan even? He criticizes virtually everything that Hillary or Obama does while completely ignoring the fact that his candidate and president - McCain and Bush - may not dress imperially but act imperially. Does this guy really think that There was not a thing to criticize in the current administration even though almost one hundred per cent of all historians view this as a failed presidency? That most view the Iraq war as the worst foreign policy debacle in US history? That Bush is the torture president? And, most importantly, McCain has every intention of carrying that failed tradition on.

Charles should retire.

Memo to Summer Breeze:

You have clearly overdosed on, and have fainted dead away, due to the aftereffects of the drug known as Obama Messiah Syndrome. Must be spiked with an extra large dose of hatred for anything and anybody who doesn't fall down immediately and genuflect at the feet of Messiah Obama!

Take a break and listen to the experts-McCain and Mitt Romney, who will lead this country out of the wilderness and darkness that the Obama Messiah is surely leading you towards!

Sincerely,

Spring Rain

..."this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal"...

The Obamamessiah said this in his acceptance speech for the nomination.

Would anything surprise you after that?

Actually, the set at the stadium looks to me like it was modeled after the white house, similar to when he had his own presidential seal.

I wonder who has actually looked at either canidate's voting record. ...
The last vote that Obama voted in was on earlier in July:

That one is all good - extend the Social Security benefits and services and enhance them fore the low-income populace. (taxes go up though...)

You have to read a little bit further into this one but from what I glanced it looks like it makes consessions for the DAI and AG to: "jointly authorize the targeting (electronic surveillance) of persons located outside the United States in order to acquire foreign intelligence information"

These are just two recent examples of Obama's voting record. Apparently taxes will increase and the DAI & AG will be able to target individuals who are suspect....seems rather....hmmm, socialist to me?
Ya'll ready for Socialism??

emperor obama, huh?
How about Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Krauthammer? Has a good ring to it. Be advised I will NEVER buy this paper or patronize its sponsors until Herr Kraut is shown the door.

Hopefully these will post-

Obama Vote example #1:
On the Cloture Motion H.R. 6331 - Yea
A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend expiring provisions under the Medicare Program, to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, to enhance low-income benefit programs, and to maintain access to care in rural areas, including pharmacy access, and for other purposes.

Obama Vote example #2 - Yea
On Passage of the Bill H.R. 6304
A bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish a procedure for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence, and for other purposes.

hey Francisco, poeple like Krauthammer, Gerson,Tony Snow,Hanity, Limbaugh, and Oreily decalred War on the truth a long time ago, did any of them questioned Bush when he was forging evidence to go to war against Iraq ? no all of them rolled over and repeated the official line from Bush and Cheney, you'll think they are employed by state run media.

I miss Robert Novak. I never liked his political point of view, but at least he wrote things of substance. Ugghh, if Krauthammer is so partisan, why doesn't he actually help John McCain and write something that actually explains why someone should vote for McCain. All of Krauthammer's articles just pick-on Obama. Then again, I guess this is the McCain election strategy, the Republicans (including Krauthammer) know that Republican doctrine is a failure and that John McCain really doesn't have any interesting ideas, just the same old failed policies on the US' foreign policy, economic growth for no one (unless you make over $5 million a year), and increasing energy dependence abroad. Since McCain can't win on his own, he and Krauthammer can only hope to win by trying to fool Americans that Obama lacks substance, when in reality, McCain offers nothing but failure.

I love Charles Krauthammer - he has a great sense of the truth.

Obama would be wise to listen. The Republicans are going to have a good time with this one.

What is up with Obama having to have props to prove he is worthy? Need a little therapy do we????????????

Once again, selective investigations
by the right wing,
Have you inspected McCains record during the campaign, His presence and choices
leave much more to be desired,
But oh yes, we must tread lightly because
he was a POW before he left the 1st faithful wife.
You can dance around it, but the racism in this country is becoming less subtle.
Double standard once again,

OBAMABOTS ARE READY FOR MORE WAR-BECAUSE THE MESSIAH HAS PROMISED MORE WAR-REMEMBER THIS REMARK: "SURE I'D GO INTO PAKISTAN WITH US TROOPS AND GET BIN LADEN" PROMPTING THE PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN TO SAY THAT NO US TROOPS WOULD EVER BE ALLOWED ON PAKISTANI SOIL, AND GETTING THE PAKISTANIS EVEN MORE RILED AGAINST THE US THAN THEY ALREADY ARE!

OR, ER. HE SAID THAT ONE DAY, AND THEN HE GENUFLECTED OVERNIGHT AND TOOK IT BACK, JUST LIKE HE'S FLIP-FLOPPED LIKE FLIPPER DOING SOMERSAULTS IN THE POOL ON TROOP WITHDRAWALS IN IRAQ. GOD, WHAT A GOOFBALL, WHAT A CRAZY JOKESTER THE MESSIAH IS!

GREEK ARCHITECTURE,ROMAN ARCHITECTURE and OBAMA

For centuries the architecture of Greece and the Roman Republic has represented the highest ideals of civilization -- i.e. democracy. In fact the early Americans chose it for their Capital and the White House, nee the Executive Mansion.

After abandoning ancient architecture for decades, it's nice to see someone besides Andre Rieu using it for it's intended purpose -- to inspire and delight.
Charles Krauthammer, you are a boor and unimaginative when it comes to architectural symbolism.

“Or maybe he'll just do a Napoleon and coronate himself.”

Krauthammer has always seemed to me like some kind of posturing puppet pulling his own strings.

I'm still not convinced that the Cheney-Rove administration is sufficiently in touch with reality if not Realpolitik not to try something goofy like suspending the Constitution to defer an Obama-Biden inauguration indefinitely, like Laura Bush's poetry symposium on Whitman-Dickinson-Hughes in 2003, all in the national interest as an emergency measure for the country's safety, of course.

You can always tell Obama supporters on a blog - they are vile and satanic with their comments.

I especially like the reference to making fun of someone in a wheelchair.
I hope, whoever, you are that you don't someday know how it feels.

Thanks for the substance filled article, Krauthammer. All along, I've been telling folks that they should vote for the candidate who chooses the nicest settings in which to speak.

What are you, an interior decorator on the side or something?

Krauthammer had no problems with the imperial stylings of the Reagan administration, not to mention the current Bush-Cheney imperium. He's just bitter because he knows that neoconservative "achievements" will be swept away this fall with widespread Democratic victories.

The folly we should be discussing is McCain sending his wife to Georgia.

But Obama does want a coronation. Ego is boundless. Major Accomplishments (except making speeches) = none. Hillary was right.

Krauthammer is on the mark again. Notice how many liberals are so angry at the assessment.

This election season has shown many of us how complacent we have been about the media reports we received, and how apathetic we have been with our government leaders. Now that we can see the partisan propaganda we are fed under the guise of reporting, we know that we have to check facts for the rest of the story, or the real story, or even the other side of the story. I miss Paul Harvey...who used to say, and now for the rest of the story! It's unfortunate that we have to do that with what we read, or hear from the mass media. But, it's good that this dynamic election have awaken some of us from our slumber. However, the election turns out....people will be watching for future results, and I hope holding candidates accountable.

anonymous , how did like the Bush's socialism toward the Corporation how did you like bailling Bear stern, how do you like now that 177 banks in the brink of collapsing, did you take your money out od those banks or you are going to wait unit they close they doo like andymak

THE ONLY WAY I CAN GET ATTENTION IS TO YELL

I love how jlpillinois thinks he's taking the high ground while characterizing 50% of the US populace as "vile and satanic" Obama supporters.

I'd point out the irony, if he / she knew what that meant, but sadly...

"Why is Krauthammer even published in this paper at all? He is blindly partisan and not interested in facts or analysis. He just throws rocks and makes stuff up. Seriously, the guy is a waste of space."

As opposed to that worthless shill, Eugene Robinson?. The WAPO is blindly partisan, when Mccain ties Obama in every poll, nary a word. Get a grip.

Krauthammer like so many pundits, but especially conservative ones, are increasingly useless for analysis. All they talk about is essentially how candidates are covered in the media--a vicious cycle. I would love to see Krauthammer REALLY tackle objective economic, foreign, and environmental policy analysis. I don't think it would be possible.

Why are we told, "User reviews and comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site" when this DOES NOT happen?

Why are we told, "Additionally, entries that are unsigned ...will be removed" when this DOES NOT happen?

To whoever vets these posts, PLEASE DO YOUR JOB!!!

No matter what you think of Mr. Krauthammer or his opinions, personal attacks on him and his paralysis are uncalled for. There are some pretty sick people posting comments here.

SPRING RAIN...chill-out, its just a comment section on a website...take a deep breath go do something else for awhile, at this rate you are going to have a heart attack before seeing Obama win the election in November.

What a shame? Who is greater emperor that King George? He is worse that Red China.

Maybe the Post should change the name of this article to "Most Partisan," then it would begin to be more on target.

Mr. Krauthammer, Fox News is calling. They want their excessive political bias back. Maybe McCain can have you airlifted back to the station amid trumpets and fanfare? Oh wait, no one would be interested.

At the very least an intelligent and factual counterpoint always makes for a worthwhile read and discussion, sadly even that seems beyond you. Why do some many media talking points hinder on nuanced excerpts of whole statements? Talk about editorializing and distortion. Speech may be free - but I guess that means it doesn't have to be worthwhile?

Does hate and fear of progress in the right wing really run so deep?

It will be interesting to see what you have to say about McCain's indoctrination. My friends, did you know he's a Vietnam P.O.W.?

Alright, I'll try defining "irony" after all:

Irony: A guy calling himself "Down with liberal shills" decrying the Washington Post as being overly partisan - in a Krauthammer neocon column, no less.

I give you: Irony!

It is too too rich for Mr Krauthammer to opine what Mr. Obama might do and yet have not even be aware that he has blindly supported a president that has pursued his role as chief executive as an actual emperor.

Are the opinion writers at the Post devoid of any sort of self awareness?

THANK YOU, Democrats, for nominating the ONLY candidate who could (and will) lose in November.

Great job.

This will may Obama's Dukakis "tank" moment.

For a politician who is trying to brush off the title of "celebrity", Obama sure seems to be doing a great job of embracing "Celebrity". Maybe his plan is to have all the states change their voting laws to allow text messaging. Text 1 to vote for Obama and 2 for the loser dude.

ah symbolism......like staring into the clouds one can make anything represent their greatest fears, their best intentions or realize that they are a mass of gasses floating above our heads....

Your looking for things you want to look for and i appologize for anyone who has to read what you call news

The Obama supporters should think this through more; when it comes to chosing Presidents, the country is normally pretty turned off by idol worship. Look what happened after Berlin - that's when Obama started to slip. Obama and his supporters should actually be thanking Charles Krauthammer; forewarned is forearmed.

Ah, the kraphammer speaks words of advice to Obama - because he really CARES and wants the guy to do WELL...Nice to know...

Obama is a joke and everyone knows it, except the far-left. I still can't believe the far-left picked Obama over Hillary. That proves how stupid the far-left really is. Hillary would of easily beat McCain, Obama has no chance.

The Republicans can make anything an "issue". It is amazing.

The newly redesigned multimillion dollar Bush White House press briefing room features Greek columns as well.

The Clinton-era briefing room had no such columns.

Also, I agree that we should be discussing Cindy McCain's trip to Georgia. Talk about presumptuous!

Charles Krauthammer is the vilest columnist writing for any major newspaper in the country right now. He is hateful to the point of being ridiculous. I am yet to read 20 continuous bytes of commonsense from this individual. Do you know the only time he went against conservatives? When Mel Gibson’s stupid, Jesus movie came out. I wonder why.

What is so funny about this? I can’t stand Obama. But this lunatic columnist makes me wanna vote for him.

Lame.

yuppers. I am stunned that a major party presidential candidate is going to appear at a convention on a big stage with big props. this is surely the first time this has ever happened. obama clearly has imperialist/terrorist ambitions

Krauthammer asks is Obama crazy for speaking at a large stadium with a stage. My question would be is Krauthammer crazy? Why does he spill ink on this meaningless detail. The reason he chose the stadium is because a lot of people want to see him speak. This is in direct contrast to Mccain, who would find it hard to fill a rowboat.

It's so funny that day after day Obama is paraded in this paper as a golden boy. Nothing he ever does is wrong. All he does is get picked on by the mean old man McCain and others. Oh boo hoo. One out of a thousand articles for him, somebody actually tells the truth and you are calling this paper neocon. It is laughable......

Hey, does anybody remember Herbert Marcuse's concept of "repressive desublimation"? That's where you get to act out a piece of your desires without having them actually become consequential while nevertheless thinking you are truly free. Do you think that maybe this kind of comments page serves that purpose for Post readers?

"especially the image of Obama standing above thousands of cheering Germans in Berlin as they hail him"

Consider that if Obama's party had held power then Germany would still be divided...........

The left is ever foolish.

Maybe Obama's cult followers can march in circles like little automatons carrying torches.

Mr. Krauthammer,

You are so absolutely partisan that you are utterly predictable . . . and therefore a bore.

And the only sin for a writer is to be a bore.

Barry

Um, Angie - you are aware that Krauthammer is one of the leaders of the neocon movement, right? You do understand that you are reading a newspaper - and this is a Krauthammer column, right?

Guess not...

All you lefties say you hate Krauthammer, but you all read him.
Charles Krauthammer is smarter than you.

http://warskill.blogspot.com/
--Nietzsche is Dead

Why is everyone referring to the columns as greek - the columns are replicas of the columns in our national capital WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Lincoln Memorial

Obama: A noun, an uh, a verb, another uh.

Maybe Americans will come to their senses and NOT elect this pampered argula chomping prima donna.

Go Dr. K!

I laughed out loud at the Napoleon conquered the world but didn't feel the need to write an autobiography reference.

Tomorrow night Obama will cement his reputation as a gradiose, empty celebrity whose 15 minutes are rapidly waning.

The big stories of the week are not his charming wife who suddenly loves the country or his inspiring speech. It will be his attempt to suppress the free speech of those who disagree with him politically and his inexplicable relationship with an unrepentant domestic terrorist.

The comments posted by the right-wing loons are FUNNY. You know that Obama is going to win, you feel it in your gut, and it drives you crazy.

The poker term for this is a show. God Bless America :-)

Leah is right. Washington architecture, like that of Paris, is neoclassical, which is really more Roman.

http://warskill.blogspot.com/
--Nietzsche is Dead

This is too funny! I'm sure this will go over well in Ohio and PA. Who planned this debacle of a convention?

Well said, Mr. Krauthammer. Perhaps when Obama rises himself up to the podium, America will finally realize that the emperor has no clothes.

People, give me a break and give yourself one while you're at it. Mr Krauthammer has the right to his opinion and I, for one, fully agree with the point he makes in this piece. Why are most of you so rabid? If this article can elicit such fanatical behavior,how will you deal with the facts when the BIG LIE: Mr Obama's "misrepresentations" are exposed in a few weeks? Will there be riots?

With 80,000 far left kool-aid drinkers screaming, he might as well ride out through the columns in a white toga on a white uni-corn. Krauthammer nails it again

I don't understand the confusion and fuss over why Obama continues to be Obama?

This is his mantra. He needs this self-sense of importance to function correctly.

Large crowds, screaming adoring fans parroting his every word.

At this point he needs all the help he can get. Let him think that this is the ticket to get votes.

The rest of us non-believers will go in droves to vote the "other" ticket.

I wanted to see Hillary nominated so maybe I'm a little biased against obamma, but the more I hear about him, the more it scares me.

This may be the first time in 28 years that I vote for a republican--this may be an historic election.

Krauthammer is even better at being Novak than Novak ever was. Ready to release some top-secret intel next, Charlie? Or are your connections not as good as Novak's yet?

You're a partisan hack.

I hope he wears a laurel wreath, like Caesar. That would make for GREAT visuals!! He is, after all, the One.

Maybe there is still time to have Bill Ayers blow it up!? HAHAHAHAHA!

I love it that the liberals are in such DENIAL. Keep it up! Charles' point is completely legitimate. If you, the reader, were Obama's strategist, would you have him give his speech on this stage? And why? Obama has no resume. He thinks he can go from high school football straight to the NFL just by putting on a jersey. He is using a door to door salesmans approach to campaigning. I'm sure he is a smart guy, has a wife and cute kids. But that isn't going to get you in the White House. It was a huge mistake of his to run for President without paying his dues. Sure, he will get the Code Pink vote. But Middle America sees right through him.

I agree with Krauthammer that this temple to Obama is as absurd as that pathetic Obama presidential seal.

Sure to play really well in WV.

You know the libs are having a meltodown when they use the same vocab over and over

"Nazi,idiots,McSame"etc. etc.

The liberal meltdown continues, as Obama goes down in flames.

Ich Bin Ein Beginer!

Sounds like "Triumph of the Will". I hope there are those here old enough to remember the film and the significance of it.

After reading Dr. Krauthammer's manifestly accurate observations and then many of the screeds that follow, I am left to wonder: Is there any Kool-Aid left on America's supermarket shelves?

According to Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, USAF, Mr. Krauthammer was the journalist of choice when Douggie Feith and the neocons planted in the Pentagon wanted to spread false intelligence without going through the military. Instead of reporting to the military intelligence people they'd just leak bogus info to Charles and he'd "Get it out there" in Rovian terms. In other words Charles would print the B.S. before the military authorities, including Gen. Anthony Zinni head of CentCom. had a chance to tell Douggie where to stuff it. Seriously, this guy is a player not an unbiased observer. Discontinue.

Those aren't columns. Those are Fascii. Perfect for the Holy Roamin' Emperor.

Mr. Krauthammer is doing Obama a favor by saying this before his speech. There is still time to take it down.

Why do you think McCain's "Paris Hilton" ad was so successful? Because it portrayed Obama as a larger-than-life celebrity without the substance to back his celebrity up. The idea of that ad was to conjure up this image every time Obama was in front of a large, adoring crowd -- i.e. effectively turning a positive into a negative. And it clearly worked.

But, knowing this, what are Obama's people doing? They are putting him in front of something like 75,000 people with a grandiose temple backdrop.

If I were John McCain I would be salivating at the thought of such an unbelievably pompous setting. I'd be revving up that "Paris Hilton" ad to be shown just before and right after he was finished speaking.

Remember, this is the same Barack Obama who, until he was ridiculed into removing it, had been standing in front of podiums with a version of the presidential seal and his name on it, as if he'd already been elected. It is also the same Obama who had the American flag removed from the tail of his campaign plane and substituted with an Obama logo. And now this.

Do these people ever learn?

Attracting large groups of people is a bad thing?

I dont quite understand the constant hissy fits that the right-wing throws whenever people get together to see Obama give a speech.

Giving a speech in front of 20,000 at one sports arena (and many, many more on TV) is completely different than doing it in front of 80,000 in a different sports arena?

Seriously? You people sound stupid.

Come up with better complaints.

obamma is going to float down from the temple with the ten commandments, then lead us all to the promised land!

remember what happened to Icarus...funny, that was a meltdown too.

Hey Charles,

Awesome

Reality is whatever Obama tells the bots it is. No use arguing.

It's not so much neo-classical as "Triumph of the Will." Add some torchlight parades and strains of Wagner.

The the set up will make Obama look like some latter day Roman emperor, not a solid, efficient and display-averse consul under the republic. Its a good point, not an anti-Obama point. US Presidents and condidates aren't supposed to look like Nero.

Krauthammer is right on target.... Obama the messiah is going to get trounced in the electoral college.

Fascii. He will emerge from fascii. That makes him...

I really didn't think that Krauthammer's "column" could get lamer. I hereby stand corrected.

I used to at least credit Charles with above-average linguistic and analytic talents, but his rage and spitting anger with the Democratic party has eaten away at his wits like a disease. It’s sad.
As for mere-mortal worship, lest we forget the GOP’s cult of Reagan is a given. One point of consistency for the GOP and its minions is that everything they accuse others of is exactly what the GOP is doing. So if they accuse the Democratic party of being unpatriotic then they are really just saying “ok, we admit it, we really don’t care about injured vets. We would rather not pay taxes.” Everything they say they believe in, strong defense, small government, family values, is all so obviously what they know the Democratic party to support. The GOP’s other consistency is greed.
Imagine if our brave soldiers cried and moaned on the battle field about paying the ultimate price the way GOP rich fat cats cry about paying taxes.

I will repeat what others are asking, why is Charles still being published? I mean really, why?

Its too bad Leni Reifenstahl passed on a few years ago and isn't available to record Obama's self-love extravaganza.she was so good at that kind of thing

Was there a point to this article?

Obama...another goofball decision on a relatively meaningless issue. Scares the hell out of me as to what his judgement would be when faced with a real life/death decision as president.

For those who think the Wash Post is a right wing paper, you are also going to blame racism when O loses. But it will be his socialism that takes him down.

Krauthammer must have really hit a nerve with all these knee jerk liberals wanting to censor him from WaPo. His commentary is as sagacious and articulate as it was 20 years ago when he won the Pulitzer. He is not a bonafide conservative as supports abortion, opposes the death penalty, and has ridiculed intelligent design.
Obama's campaign is right now heading for a train wreck. His choice of VP and his latest messianic behavior are handing McCain the White House...

Barack Obama, come to earth to make Bill Clinton look modest.

What a silly piece. Shame on junk journalism! Washington post is now a piece of junk because of Krauthammer and his likes.

I dont care to read all of the comments here, but can anyone verify that the setup stated by Krauthammer is true? If it is even half true the man is more arrogant than I thought possible. It will be hilarious, who has charge of the fog machine. Can I have the job? This reminds me of Rocky IV with Ivan Drago coming in under the Soviet flag. I am not voting for Barack, so someone please please tell me its true. Greek columns? For real?

you are pathetic. talk to me about vomit-green background and let's spin something out of that first.

your analytical credibility is so far in the gutter, the chinese have not yet made the contraption to excavate it.

Full of Krapthammer is obviously jealous of Obama's success and popularity.

Obama can do no right, according to these ugly neocons and many right-wing gnombes in the media.
Soon, they'll find a way to criticize Obama for the way he breathes.

Kraut has more talent and wisdom on his pinky finger than all of the hate filled Bush hating libs on this website combined.

Who cares if the liberals are coming, they won't do anything when they get there. The Dem's liberal motto, Talk Big, Think small, Then do absolutley nothing at all!!
Except take 5 weeks vacation during an nationwide gasoline mess!! Reminds me of the joke about watching the two shadowy figures going at each other? The one guy said they had to be Democrats, The other said how can you tell? Democrats are always taking advantage of some one and it's usually another Democrat!! It doesn't matter what label you put on an empty bottle, it's still empty just like a liberal's head!!!

If a Democrat cured cancer, Krauthammer would find call him or her names and make fun of their lab wear.

Michael: The point was Obama will continue to feed his bloated ego with grandiose displays of bizarre imperial ritual, even if it will damage his campaign. Or that Krauthammer is a neo-con, if you are a functional illiterate. I'm guessing you will choose door number two.

Nice try, Krauty. You folks really are desperate this week.

Michelle Obama shows she's a great, mainstream American Monday night. Hillary delivers a forceful speech last night. You guys only focus on this kind of BS when you're worried. And you should be worried about this fall, you're gonna get routed.

People of sick of what you and your Bush-Cheney-McCain cronies have done to the country, and they're not gonna get suckered again by your silly taunts. But nice try, nonetheless. When President Obama is sworn in in January, maybe you should try your hand at psychiatry again. Better suited to your temperament and talents.

Ah, now that the 3rd Temple has been constructed all Disciples of The One (aka homeless of Denver with their spiffy new haircuts) can gather in adoration, waving palm fronds as He enters his Temple astride a donkey.

Yeah, I get it. All the Liberals were griping about The One entering Saddleback, because it's a church; but it's perfectly acceptable for him to build his own temple to speak at.

Obama's setting typifies the Liberal adoration of politicians- the Left is always seeking a Leader, someone to take them to the Promised Land and supply them with milk and honey!

It is always interesting to me that when Liberals find someone they believe is a potential Messiah, that person becomes worthy of One Name (Hillary, Bill, Barack, Teddy, etc.) Conservatives never seem to be afflicted by this need for expressing affinity and at the same time worship for their politicians.

So of course Obama will be annointed in a Temple. He is the newest Liberal god. We conservatives on the other hand are just looking for an experienced President with integrity and character, and both a first and a last name.

Barry Hussein's act is wearing thin fast. He's becoming the Pet Rock and New Coke of politics. BHO has dropped in the Rasmussen and Gallup tracking polls since he picked Biden and the convention began. This loser will be the first candidate in history to have a negative convention bounce. Heck, even Fritz and Titz got a convention bounce. Barry Hussein will be down double digits by the end of next week.

I think given Obama's use of pillars as a backdrop for a speech, I am definitely going to vote for McCain. Color me convinced!

JG: Laura Ingraham praised Ted Kennedy for being a brave cancer fighter. Being a paraplegic, I doubt Krauthammer would be different. You may be projecting your own guilt as to how you would react if a Republican were to cure cancer. Try a mirror.

K,
Good point. I don't think Obama gets it yet.
Mike

Wow
If WaPo is going neocon they sure have a lot of lib readers!
Personally I think Krauthammer is more thoughtful and intelligent than all the above commentators put together. His CV shows that.
But my main point would be this...is all this screeching vituperation a sign of fear, loathing, and desperation in the lib camp?
This convention looks like it was staged by a high school play director. Chaotic, no discipline, and no one in charge. I would think the stadium coronation is the least of BO's worries. He should be looking between his shoulder blades for a knife with the Clinton family crest on it.
JLK

It seems as if Charles has struck a nerve with the Obama supports. Instead of addressing the issue his supports would rather trash the WAPO and Krauthammer.

Notice that all the best VEEP candidates ran FROM Obama instead of WITH him? Strickland, Webb, Warner all said Nooooooooooo!

Krauthammer is right - Obama needs to downplay his nomination, not be even more grandiose than he has been. There are questions concerning his ego and judgment already, this will only heighten those fears. First the Obama Seal, then Berlin, and now this? Way over the top.

You get a sense of this from his background - his absent, alcoholic father had multiple wives/families, and died young; a stepfather that thwarted is education by enrolling him in a Muslim school; a mother who eventually surrendered his development to her parents; missed racial heritage - Barack is trying to overcome perceived deficiencies and abandonment by the one's from whom he sought approval - his mother and fathers. His biographical data is revealing. I found www.honestjohnwade.com an invaluable resource for insights into the candidates, their backgrounds, and short reviews on the major bios and books about Obama and McCain. Gave me a new, deeper perspective on this election. Excellent insight, Charles.

The comments are more over the top than Obama. We would all be better off if we came down to a level where we can talk to each other face to face as human beings.

Bryce, they aren't columns.

They are FASCII!

You have to love this. I knew he was The One, but I was under the impression that everyone thought he was the Messiah, not Zues! The Messaih is The God, but Zues is the God of Gods.

So, If Obama is Zues, then all the other dems can be Gods too! What a "Wonderful World This Would Be" if we can only accept the change that Zues has to offer:)

This, my friends is why I love politics. It is a true example of narcissism run wild.

For all the money blown for this big show of I am the "one" where is the charity he wants from taxpayers. His wife in Denver pushing the charity of those who attend and not B.H.O. himself???? little late to make them selves look good with the care packages to the service persons in Iraq. The vote should have been give the persons better equipment in the first place over in Iraq. This is only for votes to: Obama's...

obamma is going to sue Krauthammer and any newspaper, magazine, television station, radio station, or web site that mentions this article.

You fellas better stop bad mouthing obamma or you will be sued also!

Right on, Mr.K!

Everything about THE ONE is fantasy &
surreal!

And scary and dangerous!

I am so greatful that Barack has deigned to accept the Democrat nomination. We are all so lucky to have him walking among us!! He is the One we have been waiting for. Somewhere Leni Reifenstahl is smiling

I hate to brake it to you brainiacs, but at the top of the page it says "Quick takes by The Post's opinion writers." Key word there being OPINION. If someone is critical of Obama then they are branded as a racist or a Nazi. I think it was Mr. Obama's church that honored the anti-semite Louis Farrakhan and not Mr. Krauthammer's.

....both McCain and Obama, when speaking, lack an appearance in their faces and eyes especially, that there is any real original thinking going on in their heads. Now Hillary shows otherwise. Yes, folks get tired and stuff, but, consistently, McCain and Obama both look like, yes the porch light in on, but not so bright.

Posted by: Elizabeth
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Gee, I really hadn't seen it that way, Elizabeth; thanks for the observation. Um, can I still vote for Hillary? I can't? Darn! Well, then I'll just have to rely on the two remaining candidates' respective academic records to validate your concerns about their eyes. That makes the decision pretty easy, eh?

he's giving his speech on the 45th anniversary of the 'i have a dream' speech, the set looks like the Lincoln memorial - i'm not saying it's a great idea for a stage-set, btu why is everyone so fixated on calling it 'some greek temple'? have they never seen photos of our nation's capital? the whole city is greek architecture.

Krauthammer is brilliant and notices everything. Love his insights.

If Obama really wanted to relate to the lower middle class and those who still think he is an elitist....this is not the right way.

I am afraid this setting will backfire. Seeing him with a Greek background may equal to the picture of Dikakas riding in the tank.

It does actually remind of "triumph of the Will".Too bad Obama has to make do with Michael Moore instead of Frau Riefenstahl but they can always feature EJ Dionne along with Obama in the film and call is "Triumph of the Shill"

I've got a better idea. Why doesn't he rent an aircraft carrier and raise a huge banner gloating about a war.

"I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for Doodad."

What an embarrassment! This is a mistake. It makes him look very lightweight, not presidential or professional at all, and he needs to show some of that very badly.
The critics and parodies will be merciless.
Huge mistake.

You know, I really think its time for reputable papers like the WashingtonPost.com to restrict & screen unnecessarily angry, childish and inflammatory posted comments.

I don’t favor censorship and I get the whole “the-Internet-provides-the-ultimate-free-expression” thing, but most of what is written in reply to other peoples’ analysis and opinion has degenerated our national debate and discourse.

I doubt most posters would talk as they do in their posts if they were actually attributable to their statements, rather than hidden behind the internets wall of infinite bandwidth.

To all you moronic libs (which pretty much means ALL of you libs): Krauthammer is a brilliant political analyst. A neocon??? Gimme a break. Obama is so full of himself it's ridiculous, and he's going to pay. He is going down and will sorely regret his unbelievable arrogance. He and his whole campaign are a bunch of PHONIES. People are seeing that more and more. That's why he's sinking in the polls. Eat your heart out libs.

Instead of listening to a valid criticism that would help the Democrats here, most people simply attack the messenger. Is Krauthammer a conservative? Yes. He makes no bones about that, unlike 99% of the liberal media. Personally, I'd prefer all journalists tell us their party affiliation, it would make the whole lot of them much more honest.

Obama is making a MASSIVE mistake getting up there in anything that could be construed as the white house. It's presumptuous, arrogant, and turns a lot of middle of the road voters off. You don't get to be president because you say so, you have to earn that right to be president. Pretending to be president is insulting, and very very silly.

Rip: That was Bush. Oh I forgot. programmed Bot. Nice parrot.

Where else would you expect Narcissus to be speaking?

The comments that attempt to describe Obama as an empty suit without substance are obviously written by and for people who don't listen or read, because there's plenty in what Obama has said and written.

But what intrigues me are the attack lines based on claims that Obama lacks experience. I for one think we've had all the gray-haired senior officials and experienced corporate types that we could ever want in the George Bush White House. Trouble was we had a President who governed out of bias and ignorance, looked Putin in the eyes and saw his soul, that kind of thing. Bush, who I always thought knew how to campaign successfully, was an intellectual weakling who allowed Cheney, Rumsfeld and the neocons to walk all over him. We need that again? Better to have someone who can think, and excercise judgement, than someone who "has experience" but is guided by ideology and ignorance.

And yes, for a long time, Krauthammer has been a "partisan hack" who throws red meat to people who just want a president they think they can drink a beer with. I for one hope for something a bit better, in Presidents and columnists.

Caldwell Young

Paul: Neocon is what these little robots call anyone who doesn't agree with them. They have no knowledge of history before 2000. They're just bitter, clinging to their hope and change long after their leader has abandoned the charade.

Interesting how the liberals get upset when a conservative expresses an opinion. They just can't stand it! Anyone with a different opinion should be silenced. So intellectual!

CK gets paid for this stuff? Wow, how insightful and illuminating. Thanks Chuck!!

Krauthammer is published in this newspaper because it is actually a fair and balanced paper unlike the cable television show he appears on daily. While his right-wing blowhard colleagues on Fox love to talk about how the Post is a leftist publication, the very existence of George Will, Krauthammer and others prove how ridiculous this and most of their other claims are.

Is it really a greek temple or something to hold the tv screens...or if you have a sense of history a small recreation of the lincoln memorial? Otherwise its a stupid thing to have

Think about this

Obama already has the high brow educated votes

He is still trying to get the white rural vote which absolutely needs to win.How does he get that vote with something like this.
I am one of those that voted for Hillary...why did I vote for her..she got down on my level and talked to me ....not at me...mccain knows this also...if you want someone to vote for you ....get them to like you ..talk to them on their level..get to know them ...show you care about them..be funny ..crack jokes..get personal

Obama has not or can not do this..he is stiff and unapproachable..the only people that are impressed by his style are the young..the rock concert crowd..my ancestors have fought kings and monarchs and dictators for centuries..I certainly wont vote for someone who thinks he needs to be at a coronation.

Fake Presidential Seal.Fake White House.Fake candidate.Almost makes you yearn for the days of Lurch and Rielle Hunter's boyfriend

Heaven forbid Germans be enthusiastic about the possibility of America or Americans enthusiastic about their democracy. Whatever the occasional silliness of Obama's supporters or the occasional tackiness of his visuals, those sins pale in comparison to the perniciousness of the contempt Republicans seem to have for ordinary Americans who want something better for their children and for themselves. Heaven forbid ordinary people participate in political movement and support something they believe in. This nomination speech isn't about Obama; it's about the millions of people hoping that praying that someone will step up and put an end to this national nightmare. There's nothing more American than that and nothing more unpatriotic than showing contempt for those who would dedicate themselves to positive change in this country.

Another piece of fluff by the Washington Post's weakest link.

Yes, he has lost his mind! Quite some time ago... :(

As someone who thinks that Obama's entire campaign is an exercise in silly, immature narcissism, I am very happy with the venue he chose. Now the rest of the country will be just as irritated by him as I am.

I think Obama is afraid of the Clinton folks making a scene so he has moved it to the stadium to make sure this doesn't occur. All staged by msnbc and empty suit BO. Bill Gates must be pretty embarrassed right now.

I am fed up with Obama. The democratic establishment try to force feed us with Obama who won the primaries with the slightess of margin, I have to say with positive discrimination when some delegates switched sides, and it may not be work. At least they could have put Clinton on the ticket!

A good point, if a bit silly. Obama would be wise to cut back. I don't think a silly stage decision by political advisers means anything about Obama in the grand scheme of things, but it's one more silly thing for McCain to fling at Obama.

Hey Chuck.....did you see the staging plans for McCain's acceptance speech? McCain will be placed inside an authentic reproduction a tiger cage used to hold prisoners during the Viet Nam war.

McCain will "pace" around on his knees because he can't stand, just mumbling incoherently, kinda like his campaign stops.

When it's time to give his speech, he'll grab cage bars, shake them violently and scream at the top of lungs....."I WAS A PRISONER FOR 5-1/2 YEARS, THAT'S ENOUGH EXPERIENCE TO BE PRESIDENT".....enough said.

Sadly, it's the only thing he knows.

Chuck, go pound sand. Go Obama!!!

John McCain lived in a North Vietnam for five and a half years. I have it on good authority that he is a secret communist who worships Ho Chi Minh.

I do find it pathetic for one to write an autobiography without having done anything. Up until about 2008, Obama's life had been aboyut exciting as my own.

Right on Charles. Obama Mocks himself. He Should be on Saturday Night Live. Obama is an egotistical race baiter

Anyone notice this is a Reuters release? Krauthammer is not really adding that much - can't anyone handle a different opinion anymore? We will find out soon enough how this venue is perceived by the public.

Its clear that Krauthammer has hit a nerve! Noone is more incisive.

A bad idea to have a Greek temple as a backdrop. It reminds me of the black and white footage of Hitler rallies where he used neoclassical architecture to give him stature. It was horrible but people were awed. I hope they will be less awed now. Don't do it Obama. It makes you look silly, or worse, dangerous.

Do they pay all these Demonrat agents to sit at their computers every day and bash GOP talking heads.

And who are they defending? An illegal alien, Arab, descendent of the slave traders, who is nothing but a sleeper cell in the war on terrorism.

But liberalism is a mental disease and part of the culture of death. They would embrace the enemy as messiah and bow as the dhimmini that they are.

Faux columns for the faux candidate ...

Keep going, Charles. You're a nice respite from the Bolsheviks who normally write for this dying rag.

fe427so: Name an Obama legislative accomplishment.

Is it Obama that said he would like for the country to come together? Not this way and not this year. In fact I would not be the least bit surprised if my great grand children still don't see unity in this land that we call free.

Krauthammer is one of the smartest commentators out there-- I know lots of people who read lots of opinon, and this view is widely shared. The vitriol in the replies simply shows that Charles has, once again, hit the bullseye. Whether or not you buy into the celebrity argument, shouldn't Obama be savvy enough not to provide McCain with a slam dunk like this?

"An illegal alien, Arab, descendent of the slave traders, who is nothing but a sleeper cell in the war on terrorism."

HAHAHA! But the libs are the real crazy ones, right?

The level of spittle-flecked vitriolic name calling responses from the left is astonishing. I've seen some mad responses from those on the right, but never as extreme, bigoted and hateful, nor as prolific as these. How any rational American would want to be associated with people who express themselves like this escapes me. It reaffirms my personal abandonment of the left some years ago during the Carter administration.

All Hail the Messiah, Barry Hussein Osamba.Part-time law professor of no distinction, communtiny activist along side the racist Rev. Wright and terrorist Ayers, business partner of the convicted felon Rezko, state senator who supported infanticide against babies and US Senator without legislation or achievement to his name....All Hail the Chosen One and kneel to his greatness...

Mr Krauthammer:

As a rule I loathe your politics. This disgust is tempered somewhat by the fact that you can actually write, a skill that has evaporated almost entirely from American life.

That said, you need a refresher with Webster: "coronate" is never ever a verb. Indeed, there's no such word. Never was. The plain old Anglo Saxon "crown" should do for a replacement.

If you must churn out Neanderthal polemic at least have the decency to do so in proper English. George Will does.

Cordially,

Del Lawrence Beaudry

Mr. Krauthammer is only kidding himself if he somehow feels that Sen. McCain has a tighter grip on reality than Sen. Obama.

After all, what man in his right mind would, in his forties, marry into an organized crime family and then decide to run for President?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/us/politics/23mccain.html

But the truth is that Mr. Krauthammer, given his background, probably has a more than just a good idea that Sen. McCain is, perhaps understandably, mentally unstable.

The Kraut has him nailed. Obama is full of himself. He is long on style and short on substance. He is clothing with no emperor. He has enough natural gas to solve the energy problem.

Thanks Morgo.

Mark: "Lurch and Rielle's boyfriend"... hilarious. Libs: You should have nominated Hillary. Obama is deeply, deeply flawed. Elitist. Arrogant. Preachy. Connections to crooks and terrorists. Naive. Greenhorn. What a nominee you have, way to go!!! And by the way for you Bush haters, BUSH AIN'T RUNNING!! And McCain ain't no Bush. People won't buy that cheap trick.

fe427so: Name an Obama legislative accomplishment.

Posted by: Morgo | August 27, 2008 4:01 PM

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Don't care - he never voted for the war in Iraq and that trumps all your concerns.

So I guess the subtext here is that Obama is uppity. It's okay if white Republicans use neo-classical mock architecture for their conventions (2008 Virginia Republican Convention anyone?), but how dare a black Democrat do the same thing?

Take a lap, Krauthammer.

If you don't think accepting acclaim in a replica of a Greek temple isn't ELITIST, then you are so out of touch with Americans, it will take you the four years of John McCain's administration to understand what happened.

Hey, DNC - Albert Speer called. He asked that you stop stealing his designs.

What a wonderful choice of venue.President Biden and Barack America NEVER make mistakes.EVER

Obama is great, it says so in his autobiography!

<<Obama's an empty suit who's lost without a teleprompter. Why do you think he avoided the townhall style debates like the plague. On a side note, it's always amazing to watch the liberals/progressives start acting like adolescent school kids, ranting and raving and calling names every time their candidate's shone in an unfavorable light.<<

it's "shown", not shone, you illiterate moron. How's that for name calling?

No one is better at name calling and innuendo than Republicans. Look in the mirror.

Posted by: Anonymous | August 27, 2008 1:40 PM

UH, I'd remain "Anonymous" too, rushing to judgment and calling someone a moron. Had "Anonymous" taken the time to read and understand the blogger's comment, she/he would have realized that "SHONE" IS CORRECT. IT'S PAST TENSE FOR "SHINE."

AND, Obama's stage resembling a Greek temple is hilarious. Will he be wearing an AMERICAN flag pin on his lapel?

Hmm...creating a greek god stage for a rock star politician who's opponents attack him for being a messiah.

Obama's people have really lost it these past couple of weeks. What are they thinking?

Obama is a thug. I am crossing party lines and voting for McCain!

"Name an Obama legislative accomplishment."

Tightened ethics standards, a searchable online database of all government spending, relief and democracy in the Congo, nuclear nonproliferation

Obama is the gift that keeps on giving... Another Berlin type speech with Greek columns and the smell of weed in the air is just too good to be true.

I wonder if Obama is hearing the hammering on wooden stage like Cleavon LIttle did in "Blazing Saddles"... I dont think Obama is a Cleavon LIttle

Hey Hammer, It took you this long to figure out how insane Obama is?

All Hail the Messiah, Barry Hussein Osamba.Part-time law professor of no distinction, communtiny activist along side the racist Rev. Wright and terrorist Ayers, business partner of the convicted felon Rezko, state senator who supported infanticide against babies and US Senator without legislation or achievement to his name....All Hail the Chosen One and kneel to his greatness...

Posted by: Clemenza | August 27, 2008 4:02 PM

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What did McCain give you for this posting -a bottle of malt liquor in a paper bag?

Mr. K,

How dare you? The only insanity is the neocon one to which you pay homage daily. When you are sufficiently respected to be able to attract 75000 supporters, you can decorate the stage anyway you want.

Maggots: He was an Illinois State Senator. He couldn't vote on Iraq.
Any more brilliant observations, or just want to parrot what you hear on TV?

Nice to hear from the right-wingers on here - 8 years of torture, war, massive debts, environmental destruction, civil rights erosion, and relentless politicization of our government and polarization of our country - and you all plan on voting for McCain to get another 8 years of the same.

Pathetic...

Checkered.1: I suppose the Post folks read the comments on these pages as carefully as you do. Considering the balance, I'm sure they know their readership and their editorial content, which leaks so freely into their reporting, reflects that. Just because they're not as liberal as you'd like them to be...

Kurt: You're absolutely right. Charles should take Objectivity and Neutrality for Columnists 101 from Harold Meyerson, E.J. Dionne, Eugene Robinson and the rest of the left end of the stable, who seem perfectly content to do the DNC's strategy work for it.

At all reminds me of the litte story "The emperor wears no clothes" .... We'll watch the show, pretend that he said someting meaningful, and then, we will vote for McCain.

OBAMA TO FEED ANTICHRIST CONJECTURE

I have just seen the unbelievable photos of Obama's Temple at the Foorball Stadium where he will accept the Dem Nomination..

Since the news media are utter Pagans, they will not be aware of a belief by some Christians that the Book of Revelation (In the Bible) prohesies that the Antichrist will be known when he enters the Temple and declares himself God. The prophecy is also in the Old Testament in Daniel 9:24-27.

Now the Temple has to be in Jerusalem, not Denver,and Obama is quite frankly too STUPID to be the Antichrist, but the imagery is unbelievably divisive.

And African Americans, his core constituency, are some of the strongest Christians with detailed knowledge of Bible prophecy.

Why is Obama doing this idiocy? Has his keeper gone on vacation?

And not to leave out any religious groups, Jewish viewers may also have a problem,which they will never state, with mass meetings at night, outdoors, with lights on the Supreme Charasmatic Leader.

Especially when the Supreme Leader's middle name is Hussein who was raised by a Moslem mother...

fe427so: Name an Obama legislative accomplishment.

Posted by: Morgo | August 27, 2008 4:01 PM

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Don't care - he never voted for the war in Iraq and that trumps all your concerns.

Posted by: maggots | August 27, 2008 4:04 PM

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So true - he did successfully keep the Illinois Department of Public Works out of the war...

A lot of glamour, but still completely unqualified for the position.

You can't vote "present" in the Oval Office.

By the way, what part of McCain married into an organized crime family and is, therefore, obviously insane don't you people get?

Has anyone noticed the section is titled Post 'Partisans'? It's an opinion section people. And yes, the Post has a reputation as a liberal paper but maybe they don't want to fall into the trap of NYT & MSNBC where their news reporting is written off as being so biased it can't even be considered news. I think they're attempting to show independence and neutrality the way old fashioned people of integrity used to be....
Regarding Obama, I think much of his recent behaviors and presumptions could be compared to Bush's 'Mission Accomplished' landing on the air craft carrier. He's reading too much of his own press and needs to realize we want someone who has a unique opinion and doesn't just follow the complete leftist party line. It's not because he's black, it's because he sounds like McGovern and his hippie (aka moveon.org) supporters and is totally out of touch with working people. It's the economy stupid but he's out there with Pelosi saving the planet... I support conservation but I'm not planning to live in a cave.

I usually disagree with Chuck on almost everything but in this case I think he makes a very good point. The idea is beyond ridiculous! This kind of stuff is the reason that the Republicans have been able to point to the Democratic party and convince a majority of the country to vote Republican....not to mention the fact that Pelosi and Reid have been the face of the party.

I was wondering if the title was referring to Krauthammer. If so, then yes, he IS losing his mind!

I know this Obama convention speech set-up offends me greatly. I'll be glad when McCain speaks -- after all, I fully expect that John-Boy will give his speech from someone's garage with all the bikes and yard tools pushed to one side. Right?

Well, at least Obama doesn't turn the lights out on his way out of town like Bush did after his speech in Katrina-devastated New Orleans.

Have you noticed the volume of whiners going up since McCain passed the One in the Gallop poll.

Krauthammer sure did wake up the brownshirts this morning... must have struck a nerve - he does this on purpose. These people's posts do the One more damage with the Independent voters trying to make a decision than the Republican oppos ever dreamed.

Or maybe its McCain having coasted by Obama in the Gallop poll.

As for the set in Denver, it resembles Nuremberg. Ghastly.

McBush would only love to fill a stadium with his well wishers. He has to go to motorcycle rallies and put his wife into a "cycle doll selection pagent" in order to get a few votes.
Those that vote for McBush based upon lies and made up pseudo facts must be HS dropouts. No sign of intelligence here Scotty, beam me up!

Mr Krauthammer:

As a rule I love your politics. This admiration for you is paired with the fact that you can actually write, a skill that has evaporated almost entirely from American life.

With that said, I find that I need a refresher with Merriam-Webster: "coronate" is a word, and a verb, that I, in ALL my supreme ignorance, had never heard before! Indeed, as always, you are right! There IS such a word. Always was. The plain old Anglo Saxon "crown" is the only word I knew, because I'm such a dodohead, I couldn't think of the far more accurate "coronate" for a replacement.

I have learned that since I only churn out Neanderthal polemic at least in the future will try hard to have the decency to do so in proper English. Charles Krauthammer always does.

Again, forgive me for my idiocy.

Cordially,

Del Lawrence Beaudry

Posted by: Del Beaudry | August 27, 2008 4:03 PM

Obama is an illusion, mirrors and smoke.

To Kurt Overmeyer, et.al. who question why Krauthammer is published in the Post:

BECAUSE A NEWSPAPER AND ITS OPINION SECTION ARE ALL ABOUT FOSTERING INFORMED, CIVIL AND THOUGHTFUL DEBATE!

A paper's role, editorially on its op/ed pages, is to serve as a sounding board for the community at large, not to merely trumpet a single party line.

That's what Pravda was. That's not what the Post is.

And Krauthammer is a COLUMNIST, paid to have an opinion and express it and engage his readers. Whether you agree with him or not ... so what. He's doing exactly what he's being paid to do.

Who cares if the paper is liberal or conservative or whether Charles is a good columnist or not. The fact is, Obama's stage is hilariously and embarassingly stupid.

Tell you what chop1. I might not vote for McCain if the Democrats hadn't insisted on nominating Hannah Montana in drag

I agree with Shannon..is he nuts. What happened to the understated way in which our founding fathers ( and mothers) served this country. They were all about the business of governing and serving not creating a rock opera complete with a stage and sets. What has happened to our humility in this country. No wonder the Repubs call him "the one" when he comes up with crap like this. I too am worried about the future but if you screw up the present badly enough you won't get to the future to change it.

By the way Krauthammer, your writing is so pathetic and they pay you for this? God Bless America where even the stupid can survive....

Maybe he'll sacrifce a virgin or two.

C'mon, Charles: empty suits need love, too!

fe427so: Name an Obama legislative accomplishment.

Posted by: Morgo | August 27, 2008 4:01 PM

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Don't care - he never voted for the war in Iraq and that trumps all your concerns.

Posted by: maggots | August 27, 2008 4:04 PM

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QUOTE "he never voted for the war in Iraq..." UNQUOTE

HE WASN'T A U.S. SENATOR AT THE TIME OF THE VOTING.

jbh, A DEMOCRAT VOTING FOR MCCAIN

Morgo.....he had sex with your wife.

Well, we all know Krauthammer has you-know-what envy....very sad! But also quite humorous...

Obamaniacs, so, so, so thin-skinned.

Life is short. Appreciate the absurdities where you find them.

That stage thing, that is a joke, right? I heard someone in the office talking about it and I laughed my head off. They just stared at me like hurt puppies.

The Obama moonies will take down your name and make sure you don't ascend to heaven with them, or actually descend into their own brand of brainless hell.

"The stage, similar to structures used for rock concerts, has been set up at the 50-yard-line, the midpoint of Invesco Field, the stadium where the Denver Broncos' National Football League team plays."

EDITOR: DO YOUR JOB!

I am a democrat and if you want to look at reality Obama has slipped in the polls continually since the Berlin Speech by any measure that was a complete failure. He will lose this election if he does not start talking in more specifics. The rock star thing is obviously begining to bother people. JUST LOOK A THE POLLS WE ARE AT OUR OWN CONVENTION AND THE POLL NUMBERS CONTINUE TO SLIDE WHEN THROUGH HISTORY THAT NEVER HAPPENS. WE BETTER WAKE UP STOP DRINKING THE KOOL AID AND WAKE UP. I AM SORRY BUT I AGREE WITH HIM ON THIS.

I am so deeply saddened by articles like this and the supporting comments by people whose filters are so cynical. Taking issue with something as simple as a stage and making that support a world view in which no one could accomplish or aspire to a nobler purpose says so much more about the writer than the object of their criticism.

Barack Obama has conducted himself with dignity in the face of partisan attacks designed only to enrage. His accomplishments, dedication and commitment are clear. If you cannot see that Charles, it is your issue not his.

For the rest of us, who are able to hope. Who are tired of 8 years of an administration that exploits the worse in all of us and has exposed this country to ecomonic decay and world ridicule. Those of us who look at how McCain is conducting his campaign and say, enough. Obama '08

Krauthammer has made a journalistic career as a cheap shot artist, never more in evidence than in this piece.

If the Post owners wonder why their paper cannot get the same intellectual traction as the New York Times, despite some excellent reporting, they may do well to compare the quality of its "in house" conservatives with those of the "paper of record".

Hello? He's an opinion writer, so he's allowed to have a viewpoint -- which tends to be more insightful and accurate than most.

Half the people on this post, are rushing to Wikipedia asking "Napoleon who?"

Manchingo said: Obama is great, it says so in his autobiography!

Bravo!

Hey "Maggots": When you say that you "don't care" if Obama has any legislative accomplishments, you reveal a lot about the liberal mindset, and it's not pretty. By the way, have you libs noticed that Obama has dropped the constant CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE drumbeat? Funny, because he really is all about change. It's what he does best, change his opinions when it's convenient, change his message, whatever it takes to get your measly vote. EMPTY SUIT.

This is creepy stuff kinda like the Nuremberg rallies meets ebonics

Mr. Krauthammer is a hack...send him back to the ghetto of journalism that is Fox

Craphammer is such a smuck!!!

"jbh, A DEMOCRAT VOTING FOR MCCAIN"

Yes, umm, me too! PUMA all the way!

Of course if Obama was Jewish rather than Black Krauthammer would be thrilled at the Denver setup...Keauthammer can wait for next week to be thrilled when McCain picks Liebermann as his VP nominee.

It will look like Obama is accepting the nomination at the Buffet in an Olive Garden
and it won't matter at all. He is done

People think Bush is impervious, overconfident and full of himself, he has nothing on Obama who really does think he is the new messiah. And yet his resume is so thin.

I'm utterly unimpressed with the Greek Templ bit. I was hoping that Obama would flood the stadium floor with water and then enter, walking upon it. Barry's heart is in the right place but he simply has no imagination.

Hillary had it right about B.O., no experience, and Kraut is right about his pretensions. Americans don't like pomp. Anyone recall Nixon's blunder with the regal guard uniform fiasco? The Dems blow another election with the wrong candidate when they had the winning one in their hip pocket.

Barack Obama was so disgusted with the vote to authorize the President to use force in Iraq that he went ahead and got a VP who voted against it...wait, he didn't?

"Regarding Obama, I think much of his recent behaviors and presumptions could be compared to Bush's 'Mission Accomplished' landing on the air craft carrier."

Really?
What has Obama accomplished besides associating with terrorists and Nutsi Pelosi and killing living babies?

Now that the Iraq war is won, it is Mission Accomplished.

In 1992, Neil Kinnock looked a certainty as the next British prime minister. A few weeks prior to the election, the Labour party staged a rally where he and his outspoken wife Glynys appeared to be congratulating themselves, fist-in-the-air style, for winning power from Margaret Thatchers legacy Conservatives. The Brits looked at each other and said wait just a cotton-pickin' minute, and the election went solidly to the Conservatives.
Pride goeth before the fall.

Just for the record, my 1993 edition of the Shorter O.E.D. lists "Coronate" as a verb.

Look the press has long since been bought and sold. Some of them give the appearance of being liberal, on the surface of things, but then they spike the big stories, like that fact that ***McCain married into an organized crime family.*** Hello you Rs need to read up on your guy. Checkout the wikis on Jim Hensley and Kemper Marley.

The press should be reporting this and, for the most part, they aren't. What does that tell you?

I can stomach Republicans lying, cheating, and stealing. (Well, not really.) But this man cannot marry into an organized crime family and use it to win the Presidency.

I thought that some of you Repubs considered yourself Patriots?

"Have you noticed the volume of whiners going up since McCain passed the One in the Gallop poll."

Actually, Obama's back up again in that poll.

And what the hell is with this One/Messiah @^$%? I've never met a single person who holds that kind of opinion of him.

You buy that nonsensical crap hook, line and sinker, don't you.

GO MCCAIN/ROMNEY! YOU'LL CRUSH, POSITIVELY CRUSH THOSE TWO NO-EXPERIENCE PLAGIARIST KNUCKLEHEADS OBAMA BIN BIDEN-MARK MY WORDS-IT WILL BE A LANDSLIDE FOR MCCAIN/ROMNEY-THEY HAVE THE NECESSARY LEADERSHIP, LEGISLATIVE, FOREIGN POLICY, POLITICAL AND MOST IMPORTANTLY IN THIS DIRE LOOKIING ECONOMY-A BRILLIANT MAN-MITT ROMNEY WITH VAST EXPERIENCE IN FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS AND CAPITAL MARKETS-MITT ROMNEY MAY WELL BE THE MOST QUALIFIED CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT SINCE BILL CLINTON-DEMS FOR MCAIN/ROMNEY!

An ancient Greek temple is a great idea. Maybe Obama can also have an animal sacrifice and a magic show.

"Posted by: Morgo

"Don't care - he never voted for the war in Iraq and that trumps all your concerns."

Actually he was NOT even a member of the Senate when the voting was done. ALL he did was make a speech about the war, at an anti-war rally in front of a few hundred people in Chicago. That's his claim to fame.

That's what is wrong with Obama supporters. They know almost NOTHING about the man, but support him anyway. It's a very disturbing cult mentality.

Obama is just another American fad.

Just follow the herd, never examine anything for yourselves.

It's true, Krauthammer. And it's hilarious that Obama doesn't realize he's making a joke of himself with this pompous display. But this is also a metaphor for his campaign--plywood painted off-white to look like real columns.

I am Anti Obama (He is self centered egotistical nut and all he needs to get riled up is to mock him just like all his supporters).

I like the fact that WPost allows all the negative comments to stay. I have tried posting negative comments on CNN in the same vein as the obamabots here and not a single was allowed. I noticed the pattern of one negative allowed per 15-20 praises for Jack Cafferty.

Okay his articles are mildly entertaining but Krauthammer has officially jumped the shark with this article.

"O Bam A" "Thud" will be heard after Barrack loses in November. He will be spouting how Washington is broke while backstroking home here to Illinois awaiting the verdict of his pal Renzko.

I voted him to the senate but ended with a state still backrupt while Obama wins a Grammy for writing a novel? Have job descriptions changed that drastically?

Now we all must wait for his next novel due 9/8/08. When the call comes at 3 a.m. he will be doing spellcheck or worse yet asking for a cigarette and a light because he is clueless as to what it takes to lead a nation.

He won't be reading, "My Pet Goat." Is this the consolation prize?

Do not be fooled into putting him in the Oval Office. We in Illinois were duped.

I find it heartily ironic and schadenfreude rich that the same neo-cons who've been working so hard to create an imperial presidency are now so panicked that W's crown may well go to a Dem.

Sweet, but then these guys have never been strong at foreseeing unintended consequences have they?

Well Ed if Obama were Jewish he wouldn't have the nomination and he wouldnt be in the position to complain that white racists aren't supporting him to the 94% level that the black racists are

This is Obama's way of reassuring middle-class blue collar voters that he understands them.

David Jn put it exactly right: Obama is an illusion, mirrors, and smoke.

Music in foreign languages can also help, because after all, this is the kind of stuff that will help him connect with the voters in Ohio. I recommend loud Arabic music.

I guess some of the liberals that post here didn't catch that this is the section where they have partisan columnists, hence "PostPartisan". They may also not have noticed that there are a fair amount of liberal columnists out there too. The whole idea is to present different sides.

Krauthammer makes a good point and it's not partisan in this case. The whole entitlement theme didn't work too well for Senator Clinton. Plus, this reinforces the celebrity knock. This just plays right into the Republican campaign handbook.

Look the press has long since been bought and sold. Some of them give the appearance of being liberal, on the surface of things, but then they spike the big stories, like that fact that ***McCain married into an organized crime family.*** Hello you Rs need to read up on your guy. Checkout the wikis on Jim Hensley and Kemper Marley.
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You lose all cred when you cite wikipedia. ARe you 11?

If Reuters' report was correct, it is not a good thing for Obama. Yes, that way will energize Obama's loyal supporters. But his campain's goal is to attract the independents who have yet made up their minds. These people do not like to worship the President or the Presidential candidates. The Berlin speech has turned out to be a negative for Obama. Will the same thing happen to the Denver speech?

I have to say John McCain hit the nail on the head and I had a good laugh for the day with this one " you know why the dems are having their convention in mile high Denver don't you, Mount Olympus was booked" ya gotta admit that's funny!!!

Can't...stop...laughing...Someone posted the moronic statement that the Washington Post is a neoconservative newspaper! It has finally happened. Seinfeld's bizarro world has come to life! Who in their right mind would think the Daily Worker..er Washington Post is any kind of conservative paper? People are so wacky sometimes. As for Obama and the shrine to himself, have the Dems no humility or shame? Coronate him at the convention. Fine. We'll see what happens in November.

Gotta love the irony of Mr. Kraut Slimer talking about Obama this way when the neocon piece of garbage has been genuflecting to his "boy emperor" as Dubya has flushed the country down the toilet for 8 long, sad years.

Yeah, you tell us what's what Mr. Slimer. You sure are oozing with credibility. Or something.

Krauthammer is one of the smartest commentators and Barry Hussein Osamba was not even a part-time law professor - he was a part time law instructor - to be a law professor he needed a PhD of law not just a law degree

You liberal girls really are a bunch of hypocritical, self loathing fascists. Boo hoo, wa wa wa, tisk tisk on the Post for running Krauthammers articles. Hey moron, don't read them if you don't like them. Furthermore, if you want your read without opposing view points, move to Putin's new Soviet Union and bury your face in Pravda.

Enough with imperialistic presidents!

Obama is making a mockery of our Republic.

I recommend that he conduct an animal sacrifice in the Greek temple. Maybe also a New Age magic show. The blue collar voters in Ohio will totally connect with all that.

Apparently, after the speech, he's going to reenact a scene from "Clash of the Titans".

This is a very appropriate venue for the Obamessiah to give his acceptance speech and then ascend into heaven through the parted skies and sit at the left side of God the father almighty. OBAMA FOREVER!!!

Krauthammer is a dumb neo con hack! How'd he end up in a wheelchair did one of his bombs go off prematurely????

To Mr Overmeyer's frustration regarding Dr. Krauthammer's employment status with the Washington Post: Your phrase "waste of space" strikes me as unworthy of the Post as well. As a hired polemic, it's his job (as well as the other opinion columnists) to provoke the reaction you gave in your entry. Hence, the Post succeeded in garnering reader participation. Your few sentences lend me the impression you might not exactly be the steady Tiller. (Perhaps the liberal equivalent of a Limbaugh robot) In short, the opinion columnist staff is in no danger of being overrun by Strangelovian Neocons. When you wish to contribute your sentiments, do so as if your mother were proof reading your work. Regards,

OBAMA bin BIDEN = NERO (666) back after his fatal head wound? Comes in peace?

Writing in the Arab Times, Syrian liberal Nidal Na‘isa repeatedly called Obama an "apostate Muslim."

Ever wonder why Iranian president Achmadjihad is so confident we're going down with Israel?

Is he counting on Obama for it?

Given the economy and the popularity of the Bush administration Obama should have a double-digit lead at this point. Once again the prospects for the Democrats do not look good for November. If they can't win after 8 years of the present administration a lot of rethinking will need to be done.

Hey Elchip, you say you haven't met anyone who holds a messianic opinion of Obama? Of course you haven't, and won't unless you meet Obama himself. Obama is the One who holds that opinion of HIMSELF.

All hail the great Barack!!!

This article is as lame as Krauthammer's legs.

Obama will fill that stadium and McSame will fill his pants!

I hear that the field will be flooded and after the speech, B.O. will walk on water to greet his followers. Oh, and the big question is, does the stage face Mecca??

Breathtaking how ignorant the cool aid drinkers on the left can be. Mr. Krauthammer has more intelligence and insight than 3/4 of lefties combined. His point was the appearance of arrogance, which started in Europe and has steadily reduced the Chosen One's poll lead since. You all might as well enjoy your Denver party in front of 80,000 because you won't have an inauguration to celebrate with the current trend.

Probably the brainstorm of Obama's Chicago based RNC to make it look like Soldier Field

This is one of the rare times I've agreed with the crabby guy in the wheelchair.

Obama HAS gone over the top. He's not MADONNA--this is REAL, not a place for stage-sets or inappropriate use of flags as decorative devices.

The DNC Pepsi stage was bad enough--it looked like Bethlehem before the Birth of the Messiah...but this is asinine.

I can't believe that even the eighteen to twenty eight year old set are so stupid as to think this nonsense is "cool." It's not cool--it's SCARY that an adult would be so insecure as to NEED all these idiotic trappings to make himself seem important.

Simplicity is elegance, Barack. Surely your grandmother taught you that. Why didn't you listen?

Why is Krauthammer given a forum for his biased, narrow viewpoint? Predictable and pretentious, as always.

For greater authenticity Obama should scrap the Greek Temple and use a crack house as his backdrop

The nasty attacks that Mr. K is facing in the above comments are the rantings of the crazy left that seems to have taken over the Democratic party. He is just pointing out that the party continues to fall into the same elitist pit that they already seem to be drowning in. The Clinton's would never have made all these amaturish mistakes.

"Well, at least Obama doesn't turn the lights out on his way out of town like Bush did after his speech in Katrina-devastated New Orleans."

Posted by: Ted Frier | August 27, 2008 4:11 PM

Fred - you are braindead.

We just voted out of office Mrs Doubtfire aka Gov Blanco/gov Louisiana because she wouldn't mobilize the National Guard after Katrina. She said it wasn't necessary...!

Democrats are created through the following ways:

1. They are too dumb to run their own lives so they need Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Joe Biden to do it.

2. Even worse, they are too dumb to even figure out who to vote for without their overweight union boss telling them who to vote for.

3. They feel really strong about killing babies and they want to reserve the right to do it.

4. If you live in the ghetto, Barack Obama will bring the MTV cribs bus to your community

5. They somehow feel like we need the rest of the world to like us even though we should have nuked about 5 countries on September 12, 2001. It is important for Germany to like us, because God knows they never did anything bad throughout history. Well, maybe a couple of bad things.
Any American that walks around France should be showered with stinky French women for saving their **** twice.

what I can't believe is how upset you lib's, sp's, & dem's get when someone speaks the truth and makes you all look like complete sheep. look at BO, now he's trying to get the DOJ to silence someone for exercising the constitutional right to free speech. you guys are nuts and unhinged. take a break!!!!

To me the columns suggest polished civilization, learning, serious statesmanship, not delusions of grandeur. Obama can afford them, and the expenditure is good for the economy.

Right on, Sam. By the dems own admission, this election is more ripe for the picking for them than any since Watergate, given the weakened economy, Bush's unpopularity, Iraq, etc. And yet it is looking like they will somehow find a way lose even this one. Now that takes some serious talent. I'm impressed, dems.

The Republican ignorance here is refreshing. Blacks are not not racist for supporting Obama, they gave Gore 90% and Kerry 88% of their votes. That's what happens when one party supported civil rights and the other party supported Jim Crow.

Some of *you people* - and you know who you are - are just plain ignorant.

Democrats want for your kids to get and education and have health insurance. So that America can compete with China and India in the 21st century. And you think that the dem platform is *socialist*.

Some of you people are dumb and mean-spirited. But, you know what, character determines fate. And, unless you do some serious soul searching... Anyhow, good luck with your fear and hate, you'll see where it gets ya!

Charles you have referred to Senator Obama as being an emperor, you should know because you have supported one for the last eight years.George Bush started the war on lies without adequate troops and supplies to support them. He tortured enemy prisoners, when our torture was not adequate enough he renditioned them to other torture chambers, and who can forget the violation of the constituton by violating our rights to privace listening to private telephone conversation and checking the books that we read in the Library. If that is not the behavior of an emperor, what is.

"For greater authenticity Obama should scrap the Greek Temple and use a crack house as his backdrop"

Posted by: Vast Right wing Conspiracy | August 27, 2008 4:26 PM

Yo Vast - how do you know you are in the One's voting district in Chicago?

Follow the gunfire!

It's what's in his lapel. Or not. It's how the stage he speaks from is dressed. It's the foibles of his pastor. It's his next door neighbors in Chicago.

What it's not about is the fact that this country has got to get on a new course, or else continue its inexorable slide from greatness. Oh no. Republicans don't want to talk about that. So they talk about stage dressing at the convention. They gibe that his supporters are all senseless worshippers. As if voting for McCain made any sense at all.

If you really think that independent voters are influenced by this kind of idiot scrim, then post on. At least you won't be doing anything useful for the Republican cause.

What worries me are these commentators. I haven't seen so much 'ignorance' in one place since I last watched the democrats convention. You can expose them to logic and truth but they are obstinate in their ability to block out facts. All squishy emotion with an unhealthy dose of hatred masquerading as "bush derangement syndrome"....a real mental disorder.

I have to respectfully disagree with "What happened to the understated way in which our founding fathers ( and mothers) served this country. They were all about the business of governing and serving not creating a rock opera complete with a stage and sets." I have studied American Political history for some time now and I will tell you that we have always loved a spectacle, and that some of our founding fathers were masters at creating them. For example, George Washington would ride a carriage out on the trail and then jump out and ride his horse Nelson into towns to greet people. His version of tailhook landing I guess. The right has long celebrated Ronald Reagan as a politician that conveyed magnatism and celebrity to country's benefit. He was "The Great Communicator" is magnatism no longer important? I do not think that our so called post 9/11 world is incompatible with a President who is liked and respected. Also, if you want a case study in changing your mind, or altering your politics to win a race. See John McCain from 5 years ago. I'm not judging him, I respect leaders who change their mind and grow into their skin. But let's drop the hyperbole about Obama's inexperience and meteoric rise. John Kennedy, FDR, and Abe Lincoln were all criticized for lack of experience, it worked out well for us that we elected them.

"They feel really strong about killing babies and they want to reserve the right to do it."

Of course, the alternative is criminalizing abortion.

And if abortion is just the same as murder, I assume you support the death penalty for abortion doctors and life in prison for women who get abortions?

Just trying to make sure you're consistent.

McBush couldn't fill phone booth.

Wow, reading these comments make me cringe with embarrassment. Is this what passes for political discourse on the left these days? I have voted Democrat my entire life, but I have serious reservations about Obama. Most notably his ego-complex and inexperience.

Dr. Krauthammer - SO delighted to find that you have been blogging the convention for the WaPo. One column per week is not sufficient with so much going on. I started to read my way down the responses - incredible how many people contributed...but SUCH vitriole! Obviously, you have 'inspired' strong responses. PLEASE keep writing. I generally agree with you - not always, but most of the time - and I DO want to hear what you have to say.

they say that emperors and dictarors are well known for their height...definetely Obama is tall, Krauthammer is more probable a person with a napoleonic complex...just close your eyes a imagine Krauthammer with his hand inside his lapel...his grandiose complex is reflected in his partisan, non-factual articles...
cuban-american from Florida

People perish for lack of knowledge. Obama's speech comes on the Anniversary of MLK's "I Have A Dream." MLK gave the speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial which is situated between columns. That's the significance of the columns. Let's stop trying to make it more than it is. Besides, where else would they put all the millions of new and young voters who can't get into the convention center?

I see the stage at Invesco and think Dukakis sticking out of a tank...

The Greek columns are pretty lame. This looks too much like a Hollywood set and not enough like an American-style party convention. Obama's handlers are hurting him by allowing this kind of space to be inserted between him and ordinary people.

This is not Barack's idea!!!!

I think someone is deliberately trying to sabotage Barack!

This is a racist attempt within the democratic party to humiliate the black guy!!!!!!!!

Ah, the WaPo.

Always good for a nice spoonful of partisan swill.

What is the point of this column? Is a stage set important to our future? Maybe the media could focus on the issues.

And in the Opinion of Deep Blue : the Party supporting Jim Crow was not the Party of George Wallace, Lester Maddox,Orville Faubus or the Grand Kleagle himself, Robert Byrd.It was the GOP don't you know? You are the ignorant one and ignorance of that magnitude is never refreshing

With all the smoke and mirrors,all the favorable MSM coverage and the backing of the DNC, Obama is ready to proclaim himself King of America.

It appears to many of the American Voters CAN BE BOUGHT by a person that has NO JOB HISTORY that warrants consideration for ever remotely being qualified to LEAD a world power. He has not controlled major budgets, not made any tough decisions, and at his best he was a community organizer.

Nothing that would be valuable on a resume for a Vice-President of a major corporation and definitely nothing that would even get him in the door as a CEO or a MAJOR COMPANY. Unless it was something that he qualified for as being 'black' and connected.)

He and his campaign will spend in excess of 500 MILLIO9N DOLLARS to make him King of America. None of it HIS MONEY.

He has shown himself to be bright and a gifted speaker. But NOTHING other than his speeches and his HARVARD LAW DEGREE that warrants even being considered for the highest office in the land.

He is a product of the media, smoke and mirrors, the DNC and the best advertising that money can buy.

And he will be BUYING your vote,and becoming filthy rich on the backs of the American People.

Do your research and TRY to discover what makes the guy tick.. He is nothing more than a 'snake oil salesman' and he is selling himself as KING OF AMERICA.

I kept wondering when Obama was gonna have his "Dukakis in a tank" or "Kerry in a blue astronaut suit" moment. I think we now have. Honestly, if the Dems know what's good for them they will be already tearing this down.

"Wow, reading these comments make me cringe with embarrassment. Is this what passes for political discourse on the left these days?"

Because the CONSERVATIVE discourse -- calling Obama a secret Muslim terrorist antichrist Messiah -- is so much saner and more rational.

The level of spittle-flecked vitriolic name calling responses from the left is astonishing. I've seen some mad responses from those on the right, but never as extreme, bigoted and hateful, nor as prolific as these. How any rational American would want to be associated with people who express themselves like this escapes me. It reaffirms my personal abandonment of the left some years ago during the Carter administration.

Posted by: Carpenter | August 27, 2008 4:02 PM
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And of course, there's been absolutely nothing coming from the right but sweetness and innocence. Man, I sincerely hope you and your conservative lose SO badly. I will SO come on this board and rub it in your hypocritical faces...

Well, if it is done with healthy dose of self-mockery, it might be good for him. But if certain people (you know, old and middle aged working class) see it as self-agrandisation in mold of Emperor Nero, that will be campaign suicide...

Anybody interested in taking up a collection to buy Krauthammer a gift card for a high colonic?

If we wanted spectacle, we could watch a rerun of Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" or something.

Obama has already maxed out on the young liberal cult vote. We older folks are not impressed with his showmanship. There's a reason why cult followings are always made up primarily of young people: Young Communists, Hitler Youth, Star Trek Trekkies, and now Obama.

Unlike Obama's youthful cultists,
we've seen it all before.
And we're not impressed with it.

Krauthammer, sounds like a evident stretch to me, I'm just sayin.

If you said something positive from time to time about an individual who's truely American story engenders some admiration, in some part from most rational Americans weather or not they fully agree policy-wise, then we might consider your cheap 2 American cents as worth the second it would take to stoop down and pick em up.

But I guess you can't do that, so tell me this Kraugthy, what in heaven or you for? After you give the answer we know your're going to give, answer this WHY? What have you been looking at, because millions of Americans would love to have that reassurance that you and your cronies must have hidden somewhere, why else would you fight so vociferously the notion that you may be wrong, the lives of 75% of Americans over the last 25 years would renounce your claim that neo-conology has ever even worked for all Americans.

Businesses? did you say businesses? economy? your arguements are all smoke and mirrors, someone explain how my rationale is wrong, I need that to keep my sanity, here goes.

Consumer Spending consitutes 3/4 of the strenght of our economy. (Business must do well for America to do well, I get it)

Now, small business endearvors consitute over half of the U.S. workforce, many far from millionaires, I get that.

Now, most small businesses are started by middle class workers who save prudently and live responsibly with an eye towards their future goals. I get that , I'm one of these Americans.

Now you and the Rebublicans claim that if we support these small business, through tax policy, and trade policy, their growth will ensure market stability and growth. (right!)

now here's where you lose me it appears to me to as being outside the perview of Government to reward those who reach this point fastest with the added advantage of preferential policy, I was under the impression that free-market capitalism and competition was at the heart of what makes this country the best on planet earth.

But, I understand you perspective, however it happens to appear erily similar to Chinese Nationalism in a plutocratic and corporatist oil can. Open competition between individuals and the innovative and competitive spirit of the American people will prevail.

If small business (A) find it difficult to remain competitive in this changing market, then maybe they should step aside.

If we know the primary buttress, of our economy is small business, and that responsible middle class Americans start small businesses, then it seems completely rationale that we should make it as easy as possible for more middle class Americans to rise to the level of operating competive small businesses, sure those who got there first would like to CONSERVE there preferred treatment, but that just isn't the American way, you get treated in direct proportion to the sole vote that you can cast as a American, nothing more, that would be un-American.

This is what I hear from Sen. Obama, there are millions of working class Americans with the experience to operate successful small businesses, which will move the country forward economically, many Americans feel that they are amongst that group, which would like to contribute even more to the people of this great nation, but they are finding it difficult to live the life they was living just 15 years ago.

Small businesses don't dominate the Lobby in Washington, nor McCain's Campaign do they Krauthy.

Competition doesn't only apply to international trade, but our domestic economy as well, and in my opinion the lack of domestic competition will be the primary reason we fall behind expectations in the global economy.

Give it some thought people, I would rather be a liberal for American workers that a conservative for international money changers who could care less about any American workers.

thaat the rich five millionaire in the top .001% of our great nation.

pay you share, or buy a ticket, you can afford it.

Charles has written another insightful analysis. Middle class Americans have become a whinny bunch and most of them are voting for BHO. It's sooo bad, we need change WAWAWA.

Grow a spine and get up and improve your lot and quit blaming some worthless politician for your problems. When was the last time any politician solved any problem of note. We need to stop relying on this sorry bunch of ego manics, take charge of our own lives and help the others in our lives like our families and neighbors. Politicians may make you feel like your doing something but in reality your just stroking their egos and wiping your hands of the problems you face in your lives. Get over it and get to work helping yourselves and others close to you.

I find it very interesting that the overwhelming majority of comments at this "necon" newspaper are from liberal readers. I will say this for the post... I find the candidates voting history that they provide intersting. Obama's record is deplorable, but what can you expect from someone that has spent the majority of his time in Congress running for President?!? There's an article in the Chicago papers that shows how out of touch he is with his state (ie. the people he is currently supposed to represent but doesn't). When they asked IL's 2 U.S. Senators what they thought about current issues in IL, Sen Durbin gave answers on all topics... Obama was clueless and was quoted as "I'm not up to speed." Pretty much goes along with his answer from Saddleback = "above his pay grade."
Hillary was right.... he's all show, NO GAME.

Every time a liberal accuses conservatives of lying, racism, name calling, torture, causing war, supporting the rich (democrats are the party of the rich)...

I propose they be water-boarded, it's simply the moral and right thing to do. It would teach them to stop accusing everybody of doing what it is they are doing in fact.

Criminals like to accuse the victim of being the one who committed the crime. And we all know the Democrat party is the party of victims and criminals.

How monotonous! History repeat itself...

Not long ago there was an other brilliant young man, a charismatic orator. The people trusted him with the conduct of the country. Just a few years passed and we all now how Italy ended up under that leadership.

We should be proud of having among us this intelligent man. Let us give him a few years of additional training and maturity and we shall have a real superb leader.

Seems there's a good number of ranting liberals who just can't stand any criticism of their messiah on this post. It's easy to spot a liberal comment by the gutter talk they use and the complete lack of thoughtful analysis - just name calling. They are better called radicals who seem to enjoy being slobbering worshipping Obamaites - aka zombies.

"calling Obama a secret Muslim terrorist antichrist Messiah -- is so much saner and more rational." In Obama's case his religion is completely irrelevant.His Christian Church purveys as much hate as any Taliban sponsored Mosque

Hey, all Krauthammer did was say that, IN HIS OPINION, Obama's use of Greek-styled columns is a bad decision. And what do 90% of the responses here say - they call him names, say the GOP does it too, bring in McCain's background, etc, etc, but no one defends Obama's decision as a good one.

A few posts here basically said "he can do it if he wants to", which everyone would agree to, but that's not an explanation of why Greek columns are a good idea.

All the venting and hot emotion in your responses suggests that you actually see that Krauthammer has a point, but are mad at him for pointing it out.

"they say that emperors and dictarors are well known for their height...definetely Obama is tall."

Napoleon was rather short. Hitler and Stalin were not tall men. Who is this "they" you speak of?

Obamagasm: The Big O for President.
Feels so good at the moment. Then you realize you've been screwed.

Nader '08

I really don't understand the issue with partisan columnists. While I understand that the average Post reader only wants leftist opinion, I'd much rather see insight from an honest, openly declared partisan, than a so-called "objective" journalist who merely hides her proclivities.

Frankly, we are better served when we have partisan news outlets that are honest about thier editorial perspectives than we were in the days of the old media where only left leaning voices were heard.

I'd rather have a situation where we have left leaning organizations defending left leaning officials and questioning claims on the right, and the same occuring with right leaning organizations. If you choose, you can sample both and get a full picture if you choose.

Without both perspectives, you end up with a media that doesn't question certain politicians because they are "right on the issues."

My, how vicious you lefties are! Thought you were supposed to be all about tolerance, and Freedom of Speech. Thanks for giving proof that the WaPo is indeed a liberal paper...just looky at who's reading it!
And will one of you crybabies tell the rest of us what's been so "nightmarish" about the last 8 years. Try to be specific, too. We're bored with your cliches like "illegal war" and "trampled Constitution." Seriously, give me 1 concrete example of how your lives have been damaged by the Bush Administration. Hint: having to take off your Birkenstocks at the airport doesn't satisfy the criteria of "nightmare."

Hey Charles,
why don't you write an article about your guy, John Mcain.
Yes, I understand, there's nothing to write about!

"People perish for lack of knowledge. Obama's speech comes on the Anniversary of MLK's "I Have A Dream." MLK gave the speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial which is situated between columns. That's the significance of the columns. Let's stop trying to make it more than it is. Besides, where else would they put all the millions of new and young voters who can't get into the convention center?"

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Thanks, Pat

Krauthammer is an idiot who does not understand the history of our Democracy. It started in ancient Greece since you don't seem to remember. This is a historic moment for American. A moment where we can make the history that was meant to be made.

Another political personality rode to power on a WAVE OF A PERSONALITY CULT just like Obama is trying to do now. His name was Hitler (another community organizer with a thin resume and no genuine accomplishments). America has never seen a candidate like this since Huey Long. We are in for real trouble if the left-wing brownshirts win this election.

"Let us give him a few years of additional training and maturity..."

Time has run out. We are out of time. The course we are on leads straightway to the precipice. Unless the country changes course now, it will be much the worse for us, beginning with a complete collapse of confidence in the dollar.

I wish the pundits and columnists would all get together and fix the world.

Mark in Peoria,

Either you know that the Strom Thurmond's of the world switched from the democratic party to become dems because of the civil rights legislation or you are ignorant.

I'm guessing that you are not one of the ignorant Republicans but one of the evil or corrupt ones.

But the fact is that Republicans are so crooked that they are running a candidate who married into an organized crime family.

Good luck with that...

Obama is just another Chicago con man ...

You liberals will regret your vote on Nov 2nd for the rest of your lives ...

You are being conned by a slicker Al Sharpton ...

too bad you only represent 35% of the elctorate ... you can't really expect adult independent and republican voters to vote for this empty suit ... go ahead and "believe" in hope and change, but don't kid yourselves, the rest of America is starting to see what a complete lying phoney Mr. amd Mrs. Obama are.

Osamabama thinks he is a god.....only a complete fool would try to pull this off....Thank god the Democrats always figure out a way to blow it....Go Obama!!! Thanks for helping McCain win 08! yeah Baby!

It is amusing to see the libs get so wound up about a conservative columnist. The left make up 90% of the press hacks in this country. It looks like you could let us have a column every once in a while, without going off the deep end.

Barack Obama's father was Muslim and therefore, according to Islamic law, so is the candidate.

In spite of the Quranic verses explaining that there is no compulsion in religion, a Muslim child takes the religion of his or her father. … for Muslims around the world, non-American Muslims at any rate, they can only ever see Barack Hussein Obama as a Muslim." In addition, his school record from Indonesia lists him as a Muslim.

This denial of our history sets a very dangerous precedent for our future.

Obama is of the New Age Church of Oprah saying "there are millions of paths to heaven."

Obama has denied his Christian faith. Obama gave a speech saying that "America is not a Christian nation."

Like Nancy Pelosi, Obama believes the Catholic Church's stance on abortion for 2000 years is somehow now controversial, because they want it to be. Pelosi should be excommunicated, and well as Biden.

I'm sure that 85,000 people cheering wildly will compare well to the quadrennial Hypublicrit hatenanny.

Extremely well written piece.

Democrats for John McCain in 2008

Yikes, some of you lefties are just a little cranky! Hopefully, the Obama administration will provide free enemas for the vanguard of the proletariat...

Pompous Hussein Obama and his grand minions inspiring the all vacuous "change and hope" to his brain dead flock, high atop Mt. Olympus. No thanks.
McCain will get my vote.

The whole idea of this Greek Temple setting must be to draw attention away from what he says, which is nothing except "hope and change" which is getting pretty darn boring. The setting does highlight the guys amazing ego esp. considering his accomplishments wouldn't qualify him to run a Dairy Queen.

It's quite funny how your column is acting like a liberal beatle trap, if only ... !

People perish for lack of knowledge. Obama's speech comes on the Anniversary of MLK's "I Have A Dream." MLK gave the speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial which is situated between columns. That's the significance of the columns. Let's stop trying to make it more than it is. Besides, where else would they put all the millions of new and young voters who can't get into the convention center?

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Thanks, Pat

I agree with Krauthammer. I voted for Obama in the Calif primary, but now I'm having serious reservations. This guy has a Messiah complex - First, a presidential seal, even though he had yet to be even nominated, now a Greek Temple -- as if he were a Greek god -- for his nomination speech. No wonder he can't seem to attract votes from working class Dems. I think I might vote for Ralph Nader.

The problem with Obama's young supporters is that they don't understand how annoying they seem to the rest of us.

Every time Obama said, "WE are the ones we've been waiting for," the implied flip-side of that message is, "And the older generation should just be put out to pasture."

Well, Obama has now gotten the youth vote. Good for him. Let's see if he can get the votes of folks at my age. We're not turned on by gigantic extravaganzas with thousands of people. I've never been to a rock concert in my entire life either.

All the pomp and circumstance can't make up for the fact that the Obama campaign is arrogant, impetuous, immature, naive, and frankly, irritating. In short, they need to grow up.

Hey Brad M,If you think "W" is a good leader, you obviously wouldn't know a bad one if you saw it. Fact: your thinking is obviously in the minority in this country. 28% approval rating!

Great column by Krauthammer....Again this shows this elitist phony named Obama thinks he should be coronated, not elected. Obama was expecting a 15% jump between announcing Biden as his VP choice and his convention. Instead, McCain is tied or up in the polls, what a wonderful day!!!! Hopefully in November he will enter through the columns like the Roman Colisium, to be eaten by the Clintonites who truly did get screwed!!!

"I'm guessing that you are not one of the ignorant Republicans but one of the evil or corrupt ones." You are one of the glassy eyed left wing zealots that surfaces every four years and then is sent packing together with your candidate on the first Tuesday in November. No guessing required there

This board is hilarious - Obama supporters busting bloomer legs over a ridiculous article such as this - ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? OBAMA SUPPORTERS SOUND MORE DESPERATE AS EACH DAY PASSES. MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE HILLARY SHOWED YOU LAST NIGHT WHO THE REAL CANDIDATE SHOULD BE AND YA JUST CAN'T BRING YOURSELVES TO ADMIT IT. LMAO!!!!

Obama's problem isn't going to be giving a speech at the stadium with greek pillars, etc. I'm sure his speech will be eloquent and exiciting, yada yada yada. Hillary only scratched the surface when she pointed out he is all talk and very little substance. If she had hit him up with that earlier on instead of "playing nice", he would have been the one talking last night.
Fact is, the Republicans have no reason to hold back & have plenty of ammo - some of which just added by VP nominee Biden (and this time, it wasn't plagiarized).
I have a feeling if Obama tries to hard to get all the pomp & circumstance rolled into his speech, it will come back to haunt him in the same way the Germany speech has -> all rhetoric, that comes crashing down when taken to task.

Only in a the most ignorant enclaves of our American democracy could people think that the candidate who is more popular is somehow, therefore, wicked.

Do you people understand the concept of democracy? Popularity is a good thing. It is, collectively, the will of the people.

When there is education reform, and standards are enforced, your kids are going to kick your arses in dinnertime political debates. I know that some of you would probably respond by beating the the shyte out of them, so you need to take a good, hard think about what a future of health care and education and progress is going to do to your miserable worldview...

Hey, I can agree that celebrity worship of a politician is certainly not professional, or relevant to his abilities to lead. But since when can Mr. Krauthammer equate it with a dictator? What do they say? "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful."

You're more than welcome to not want to vote for Obama based on policy, or even personality. But don't hate the man for being popular, no matter how silly it may be.

As I recall, George Bush landed on a Navy vessel, in a fighter jet in full military gear with a massive banner reading "Mission Accomplished" behind it.

Doesn't that sound a little grandiouse too?

Chuckie K is a waste of space, just like the right-wing nutball liars who worship him.

Instead of slandering Obama, why not write something honest and worthy of discussion ?

By the way- if he were a practicing Muslim- does that mean he is not allowed to run for office ??

Emperor Obama? I think you have him confused with George W. Bush.
as far as the post of the person who said he sees nothing "nightmarish" about the last 8 years. You have to be in that top 2% who have done so well over the last 8 years. The other 98%? You could care less about them.

Jane Fairfax spammed commentary misses the point. Hitler used his personality cult to build enormous levels of support among young people too. Young people are sheep. Stupid, ahistorical and easily led. They follow any Pier Piper who promises green pastures. Obama is, metaphorically-at least- the personification of the demonic. So are all his supporters and enablers. It is time to begin planning the resistance to his intended dictatorship.

I..just..saw..pictures..of..Obamas's temple..and..I..can't..stop..laughing!!

SteveL: You are right. The posts demonstrate again that Obama's "demographic" is the first generation less educated than its parents

"Not long ago there was an other brilliant young man, a charismatic orator. The people trusted him with the conduct of the country. Just a few years passed and we all now how Italy ended up under that leadership."

More charming and kindhearted conservative discourse -- comparing Obama to Mussolini.

"In Obama's case his religion is completely irrelevant.His Christian Church purveys as much hate as any Taliban sponsored Mosque"

The same church received $1.5 million from Bush's office of Faith-Based Initiatives because it offers housing programs, employment programs, HIV and cancer programs, scholarships, drug abuse programs. A few crazy rants from its pastor over the course of a few decades doesn't mean it's all bad, nor does it mean that Obama shares those views.

After all, Bush's spiritual adviser (and the person who presided over the marriage of Jenna) has endorsed Obama. Doesn't mean Bush agrees.

Thank you, Mr. Krauthammer for the editorial. Spot on.

Look for 'hubris' in the dictionary and you will find a picture of Obama.

It may not be too familiar a phrase for many posters here, but remember:

"Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall."

I'm an Obama supporter but this is pure hubris and very dangerous. The defeat- from -the -jaws -of -victory fate of the UK Labour Party in the 1992 election was traced back by almost all commentators to Neil Kinnock's infamous "We're aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalright now" speech at his party's pre-election convention. Poncing around in front of a Greek Temple is not a wise move for a candidate who needs to do all he can to portray himself as being on the same wavelength as the common man.

Krauthammer is a god.

Krauthammer is the best columnist/commentator in the business today. He always as an interesting perspective; it's a tribute when so many people pick up on his analysis of a situation and run with it. He's spot-on again with this coronation riff.

TOP 10 WAYS TO TELL YOUR ELITIST NOMINEE HAS NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER

Repaints campaign airplane with "Air France One"

Affixes his presidential-seal-looking campaign seal to gate outside mansion his indicted corruption buddy helped him buy

Though his debate score was 0-in-22, claims he lost ABC news debate because Stephanopolous set him up

Though his debate score was 0-in-23, claims he lost at Saddleback because McCain cheated -- on questions about what the candidates beliefs were

Entire summer spent strategizing and positioning -- about whether to allow convention delegates to actually cast votes

Some convention concessions labelled "Typical White Food" sell beer and hot dogs instead of wine and crudites

The actual convention theme is "Yet more focus on Michelle and Barack Obama that a $300 million campaign and wall-to-wall media coverage haven't brought you thus far"

Bans Bruce Springsteen from coronation for refusal to declare he's no longer "The Boss" with Obama in the world

Nomination night "fist bump" knocks the other "historic candidate" off the stage

Nominee is crowned with laurel on a Parthenon stage in mile high sports coliseum from which he can gaze down on the mortals

Immediately after nomination starts work on his "historical fiction" presidential memoir with "composite characters"

-- AsperGirl

An attempt at a personality cult is manifest. More at my Blog http://kishorejets.typepad.com/us_election_2008_controve/

Has He Lost His Mind?
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When you find yours Krauthammer, let us know.

The Mission Accomplished banner was hung by the aircraft carrier's personnel on the event of their return from duty... as *their* mission, i.e. their deployment, was over and accomplished. It was NOT hung by Bush or his people. Mistakes like this (thinking Bush hung the banner to indicate he thought the fighting was over) is what happens when you live and breathe the liberals' talking points instead of using the brains you were theoretically born with to find things out on your own.

Hey, MD Man.
Still waiting for an example from your "nightmare."
Tough, isn't it!?!?
Oh, and thanks for the quote,"W is a good leader."
I didn't say it, but it's funny that you did.

Barrack Obama, a man always on the leading edge of narcissism, was about to give his body and soul to the American masses to become the president he loved.

Mark in Peoria,

Your boy is going down. Believe what you want- but here's a good conservative piece to give you a little perspective on this thing.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/cr_20080628_6561.php

The current polls are based on old turnout models. The 18-29 vote is going to be 25% of the electorate this year, vs 17% in 2k4. Black voters will be coming out 20-30% more. Obama has the largest field organization in modern political history, and he'll have a likely 3-1 spending advantage after the conventions. And Americans want change.

I understand that one of you nutjobs is more than likely going to get Obama, but I also understand that he is going to win.

"People perish for lack of knowledge. Obama's speech comes on the Anniversary of MLK's "I Have A Dream." MLK gave the speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial which is situated between columns. That's the significance of the columns. Let's stop trying to make it more than it is. Besides, where else would they put all the millions of new and young voters who can't get into the convention center?"

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Thanks, Pat

I'd love to see one rule set down and followed by both teams. No more involking Nazis, Dictatorships, Benito, Adolph, Joseph, or any of the other popular HUGE overstatements both sides like to partake in. I find it offensive but not because John or Barack can't take that sort of blow, but because it undermines what those awful regimes did in Europe so many years ago. Americans have never lived under a militaristic dictator, and never experienced the scale of what those leaders did to their countries. It is an insult to those who suffered in camps, fought for the resistance, and more importantly stormed the beaches to as FDR so elegantly stated "set free a suffering humanity." So please, I'm not asking as a righty or a lefty, stop using these examples to note differences in Healthcare plans. It's apples to elephants.

It can hardly be a coincidence that Obama chose the former seat of Hitler's reign to make his big international splash. Obama and his followers are dangerous and insane.

What strikes me is that no one in the American press has yet come up with a useful explanation for the Berlin turnout on the occassion of Obama's speech. What exactly does it mean? I do not expect much intellectual curiosity in that matter from Charles Krauthammer, but still: Give it a thought, for five minutes.

Does anyone have anything positive to say about John McCain?

With a name like Krauthammer, I'd expect this guy to be out there crushing Nazis.

Instead, we get this tripe. Sir, you have taken your God-given gift and you have squandered it.

For shame.

"Obama was expecting a 15% jump between announcing Biden as his VP choice and his convention."

Actually, McCain said that Obama should expect a 15% convention bounce. You know why he said that? Because that's the bounce Clinton got in '92 -- coincidentally, the bounce was half because Perot temporarily left the race at the same time as the convention. That way, no matter whether Obama gets a bounce or not, McCain can downplay it.

"Barack Obama's father was Muslim and therefore, according to Islamic law, so is the candidate."

Last I checked, our country doesn't follow Islamic law.

"Obama has denied his Christian faith. Obama gave a speech saying that "America is not a Christian nation.""

He said it's not JUST a Christian nation. Last I checked, there are quite a few people of other religions around here, too.

"nother political personality rode to power on a WAVE OF A PERSONALITY CULT just like Obama is trying to do now. His name was Hitler"

More love and level-headedness from the conservatives, huh.

Another flagrantly racist post by the GOP who hates blacks and uses every attempt possible to criticize Obama and try to make him look bad.

How dare they mock him for building a temple to himself.

Let's meet B. Hussein Obama's mentors:

1. Frank Marshall Davis, Communist Party Leader in Hawaii;
2. Rashid Khalidi, radical professor of Arab studies at Columbia University;
3. Jeremiah Wright, radical Black Liberation Theologist; and
4. Bill Ayers, terrorist who bombed the Capitol, Pentagon and NYC police station.

What kind of "changes" does Obama have in mind for America?

As a Obama supporter I am flabbergasted and almost without words. WTF kind of message is this supposed to send to America about change? This is just more fodder for the Republican spin machine and Obama you can kiss the White House goodbye with all that b.s. We aren't in Rome and you see what befell Rome because of their aloofness, isolationist, and their arrogance. Unfortunately, the same fate will befall you. Damn! Four more years of Republican terror all because one idiot couldn't leave his ego at home. I won't bother voting because neither candidate is qualified to lead this country

Barry Hussein Osamba needs to give his speech in German - the brown shirt kool aid drinkers will probably give him "Heil Obama's" during his speech since the stadium reminds me of Germany in the 1930's. German's after WWII said they did know - The koolaid drinkers will say after the damage to America has occurred they did not know

You people are crazy. This guy is 100% correct. The average american does not like this sort of grand standing. Maybe if he was already elected or actually accomplished something in his life. The republicans are going to tear him apart once this happens and it will hurt him just like the speech in Berlin did.
Obama's followers dont like this sort of analysis because it proves Obama's courting is so off base for the majority of America

Hey,Stepford Obamites, thecandypoem post above got it exactly right. The faux classical backdrop was the favorite decoration of the Third Reich and its Fuehrer; see the brilliant documentary propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will, to get the full flavor of what is called blind, mindless "leader worship." That was part of Krauthammer's point, which, of course, cut too deeply for Stepford Obamites to reply to, except with a growl.

I find all the critiques of Obama as a celebrity rather amusing, considering that the Republicans have deified Ronald Reagan. They claim that Obama is nothing but a good speaker clothed by an empty suit when the patron saint of conservatism was nothing more than a smile, a good speaker and an empty suit. Reagan was swept to power thanks to a cult of personality, and Obama will likely ride a similar wave--the only difference is the latter might accomplish some good things.

For a guy that you all hate, you sure read his stuff and comment on his site alot.

You all must have a secret crush on Krauthammer

admit it.

:-)

Hey Winona - I am reading a history of Churchill vs. Ghandi. Both, it seems, thought Mussolini was a good guy. You see-the purpose of historical awareness to identify present signals that portend future doom. Obama is giving off every indication that his Messiah complex is entirely out of hand. Indeed, it seem integral to keeping his Kool-Aid drinking fanatics revved-up and mesmerized. I used to fear Hillary-now I'd take her any day. obama is the real deal-a dangerous demagogue Napoleon wanna-be.

Okay, okay, give him a break. He can do the temple schtick. But if he wears a laurel wreath, or parades captives or sacrifices a goat, my suspicions will be confirmed.

Hail Obamanus Husseinius Self-Importantus

A Greek temple is perfect setting for this clown.

Elite. Foreign. Grandiose.

That's not a greek temple. If you look closely it is to resemble the white house and the blue carpet and the round area the Oval Office. He is going to try and make himself look presidential by having a white house backdrop and an oval office/well of the US House look to his speaking area.

From above it looks like the well of the House during the state of the union. From the ground it looks like he will be speaking outside the west wing in the White House.

This is one of the biggest mistakes in political history waiting to happen. He thinks it will make him presidential. Instead I think the vast majority of Americans watching at home will see a blindly arrogant, desperate man stretching wildly to close that gap that most of America believes he is not ready to be President.

He is going to try to do with a backdrop what Hillary could have done for him in one speech. Make him appear ready to be President by putting it in people's minds he is at the White House already.

this is going to be hilarious to watch. if the people fall for this then we are a nation of idiocracy plain and simple. I have faith the people will see it as desperation and arrogance combined to form the Hurricane of Defeat

"The Mission Accomplished banner was hung by the aircraft carrier's personnel on the event of their return from duty... as *their* mission, i.e. their deployment, was over and accomplished. It was NOT hung by Bush or his people. Mistakes like this (thinking Bush hung the banner to indicate he thought the fighting was over) is what happens when you live and breathe the liberals' talking points instead of using the brains you were theoretically born with to find things out on your own."

Actually, the White House admitted that they created and put up the banner.

http://www.time.com/time/columnist/printout/0,8816,536170,00.html

Mistakes like this is what happens when you live and breathe the conservatives' talking points instead of using the brains you were theoretically born with to find things out on your own.

Maybe this is the only stage available at this venue, I doubt Obama had it built to his design. Krauthammer, you are such a snark, I hope you have to write about President Obama.

Wow! I usually love Krauthammer's columns. They are usually just so correct. This one is brainless. So what if he sets up a greek temple?

It's good to see all of these folks slamming Krauthammer. The fact they can't see that he is correct is exactly why Obama will lose. One poster noted the Wellstone Memorial fiasco - the Dems couldn't see the folly of that either.

Poor Republicans. The only thing left is the Big Lie technique. Keep saying Obama is this or that, a muslim, a black nationalist, a narcissist, whatever. Maybe something will stick.

If it comes down to that, my impression is that John McCain is much more full of himself than is Obama. I get that idea because of his temper and the way he lashes out at others. And I don't even have to see how the stage he's going to speak on is dressed.

Wow, the liberal kool aid drinkers are really on this one!!! There is not ONE chance that Americans will elect this narcisistic man. A socialist. His ego ranks above Bill Clinton. The Messiah will crash to the ground even as McCain increases his lead DURING the convention. Speaking of wingnuts...where does the Democrat party get these members. They look like a group waiting to appear onstage at The Jerry Springer Show

Love Krauthammer. But if barry rises up out of the stage, it will be the height of idiocy! Stick a fork in him. Hes done.

There is a pathetic group of people on this site that jump on Krauthammer every time he writes something.

They shout "neocon" and other absurdities they never care to define, and hurl unsubstantiated attacks at a man who is simply expressing a critical point of view.

I suppose this is the change we've all been waiting for. The brownshirts have arrived in the form of Obama supporters.

Maybe that explains the rally Obama is staging in front of Greek columns... it seems evocative of Germany in the 1930's and it isn't wrong to call it out. That kind of authoritarian self-glorification simply isn't the American way.

MystWlker-While I certainly appreciate your enthusiastic ability to tell me very carefully where I live and question my "brain you were theoretically born with," I think your misunderstanding me.

I'm not saying Obama is not full of himself.

I'm not saying that worshipping him like a god is a good thing.

I AM saying that any person who implies that Obama is an egomaniac and, in fact, the only one, is simply being silly.

And hey, let's say your right and Bush's people had NOTHING to do with that stupid banner.

Let's not forget the whole "President landing on an Aircraft carrier to adoring military personnel and trying to deliver a rousing speech," thing.

Face it, all politicians like to make a big show of themselves, it's part of the game. Bigger than life, without flaw or imperfection. Let's not delude ourselves in thinking Obama is the only one here people.

Is Charles Krauthammer a real person?

Or a wax model?

Stevo, you obviously have your dumbocrap blinders on again. If you'd like to pretend Reagan wasn't the best President in decades, be my guest. Perhaps you'd like Jimmy Carter all over again?

I find the Republican critique of Obama kinda creepy.......

The Republlicans still have a resilient man-crush on Reagan.

and doesn't Chuck Krauty look like a Simpson's character?

Furthermore, and I'll play this out for those of you who don't have a sense for the big picture here, if someone 'gets' Obama and the post-mortem reveals that the nutjob was motivated by the Republican negative campaigning that demonized Obama, then you can be sure that not only is McCain's reputation going to hell but that the rules of these campaigns will be changed and you Republicans will then have to learn to campaign without your biggest weapons: fear and campaign hate-speech. What does it gain a party to make an unwinnable election close, if it loses its soul and its tactics?

This is almost as bad as the "Mission Accomplished" banner.

The Opinion section is named thusly for a reason. Wake up, you fools. Krauthammer is far more intelligent than anyone who's posted a reaction. If you don't see the bizarre messianic way Obama has been welcomed by the press, and for having done nothing to speak of, you're either delusional or from LA or Ny and have yet to step outside your little bubble.

If Krauthammer did a search on Google he would quickly find out that Republicans featured Greek columns on their stage at 2008 Virginia Republican convention. Our national debate is reaching new depths of stupidity thanks to Republican who don't have any record to run on. Why are we asking about how many jobs were created during Bush's tenure. Home ownership? National debt? Economy? List of failures by this Administration is too large to detail here.

If Kurt Overmeyer thinks Krauthammer - who by the way is considered one of the most respected real journalists anywhere, is a waste, I wonder what he thinks about Keith Overblown on MSNBC. Talk about a waste of life! Enjoy the only time in history where a candidate doesn't get a convention bounce. As his hammer and sickle agenda becomes more and more clear to the average American, watch the Obama worshippers start to scamper. The only question that remains - will MCcain have coat tails to thwart a few senate and house pickups. this is what you get when you nominate someone out of emotion and hysteria.... my God the guys is not only naieve but arrogant as well. You don't think people see that! You don't think people don't see the priveleged Nancy Pelosi acting condescendingly toward those who want to drill? Then she pretends she is a scholar on Catholic cannon. Absolute arrogance and power mongering.

Krauthammer is one sick puppy! The purpose of the outdoor acceptance speech is to make it available to ordinary people unlike the elitist Republicans who only talk to people that agree with them. To try to make it into something more is just plain wrong. The mechanics of how the stage works is really irrelvant. What we should be concerned about is what policies Obama will present. But, the neocons don't want to talk about that because all of their policies have failed. People like Krauthammer are responsible for the divisive politics which stop our government from functioning at all. Of course, that is what the neocons want because that way they can do whatever they want without worrying about the government enforcing the many rules that protect us from violation of our constitution and civil rights.

Hey steveo: Reagan was loved, not worshipped.
More importantly, Reagan was humble in the presence of his God. He recognized limits in what he could do. Accordingly, he accomplished more of lasting value than any President of the last 60 years.
Finally, Reagan had actually done something before running for President. He articulated a well thought-out political philosophy contrary to Obama's deliberately vague-all things to all people meanderings.
Obama is not fit to stand in Reagan's shadow.

Obama's bid for the Presidency appears well on it's way to becoming a Greek tragedy.

"That kind of authoritarian self-glorification simply isn't the American way."

You're right, self glorification isn't the American way at all.

Pass the Freedom Fries, please.

"Barry Hussein Osamba needs to give his speech in German - the brown shirt kool aid drinkers will probably give him "Heil Obama's" during his speech since the stadium reminds me of Germany in the 1930's."

More sane, level-headed commentary from the right.

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Let's meet B. Hussein Obama's mentors:

1. Frank Marshall Davis, Communist Party Leader in Hawaii;
2. Rashid Khalidi, radical professor of Arab studies at Columbia University;
3. Jeremiah Wright, radical Black Liberation Theologist; and
4. Bill Ayers, terrorist who bombed the Capitol, Pentagon and NYC police station.

What kind of "changes" does Obama have in mind for America?"

1. If you read Obama's first book, you'd notice that he goes on to repudiate Davis as a black power goofball stuck in the past.
2. He's a professor; the radical bit is a claim that he worked for the PLO, something he denies and has never been proven to have done.
3. I remarked on Wright above.
4. They live near each other. They happened to be on an anti-poverty board together. Obama was invited to his house by the person who preceded him in office as a fundraiser.

The Obamanation will enter his unholy temple
...and the mindless drones will bow down and worship at the alter of willful ignorance

Krauthammer is right

This "leader worship" that you dupes have embraced is both silly and disturbing.

I guess that's what happens when you reject God as America's only Sovereign, and embrace a false prophet in an empty suit instead.

Pathetic and blind liberals, when will you finally see the path of destruction upon which you tread? Only after it's too late?

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Remember, If God is America's ONLY Sovereign, then NOBODY can take your freedoms away.

...But If Man becomes America's Sovereign, then MAN will most certainly take your freedoms away.

Well done. The picture says it all. Touched them on the raw.

It's funny how so many people are angry that the wash. post has editorialists who are conservative. After domaninating editorial sections in so many papers, liberals are not used to seeing the other side expressed in a major newspaper. Bill Kristol gets the same reaction from New York Times readers. Now you liberals know how we feel to have to bite our tongue every time we read the liberal editorials and Bush bashing that we have to read on a daily basis.

Saint Reagan was a movie star before he got into politics.

Hmmm, that makes Saint Reagan a celebrity.

Doesn't the GOP hate celebrities?

Arkarter, good stuff. you made me laugh out loud in a quiet office. kudos

All this left wing hate will be even funnier when McCain wins or more correctly NObama loses. We will hear the whining about "not 4 more years" and his disciples will wonder, "how could this have happened?". Should have elected Hilliary and you would have had a good shot. Style over substance. Never to soon to start Hilliary for POTUS 2012!!

Mr Krauthammer,

The bitter hatred spewed at you by Obama's supporters only reinforces my belief that Obama is not who he pretends to be. Anyone who inspires this much childish hatred and lunacy in his supporters cannot call themselves a uniter.

Thank you for making the obamanauts blood boil. Keep up the good work.

Tomorrow Belongs to Me

I truly believe this stadium event in Denver will backfire. Millions of Americans will be watching and if there is the sort of screaming adulation that is expected many of them will wonder, "Why don't I get it?" and be turned off.

I have followed this campaign closely and Obama’s stump speech has not changed much since January. His rhetoric is the same and is full of empty promise that sounds and perhaps even feels good to some (Chris Matthews?). He got away with it before Reverend Wright appeared on the scene and he began to get defined by external sources. I suspect that by November his soaring speeches will sound tinny and even whiny.

He was haranguing us in Saint Paul the night he clinched, and the scene made me think of Leni Riefenstahl and "Triumph of the Will". Liberals (who the media are now calling “progressives” (isn’t it funny how the MSN gets these talking points down so quick?)) are the new Fascists and Obama appears to be their leader.

Another image comes to mind: from the movie Cabaret. There all the gullible Germans join in singing a rousing chorus of "Tomorrow Belongs to Me!". Another hopeful tune about "change" that accompanied Hitler's ascendancy and butchery. At the very end of the scene one old man turns away in disgust.

Now, perhaps, we must turn to another old man to save us from a charming demagogue.

Great insights Mr. Krauthammer. I see you got all the left-wingnuts in a tither.

"It's good to see all of these folks slamming Krauthammer. The fact they can't see that he is correct is exactly why Obama will lose."

Krauthammer is correct ... it's just kind of silly and goes to show that Republicans of late haven't resorted to much substance (i.e., this article) or when they have, it's almost entirely distorted.

Since he admires the Chinese and their theater of the Olympic opening, I wonder if he'll fly around giving his speech. He'll be able to swoop over to the ulta rich in the sky boxes who paid millions for the pleasure and give them a wink. The biggest plus would be, he can use a pre-recorded speech!!!! Just like the Chinese!!! Amazing what you can do in a dictatorship but we have Hollywood here!!! Can't wait for the fireworks after he descends and floats back into his secular temple!!!! We can all pray together.... And watch out for those fainting women in the upper deck!!!......

Obama voted against the surge. Then after the surge was successful, he said he would still vote against it. His judgement stinks and he cannot admit to his errors. He's far too arrogant to be a leader now or ever.

Obama supports partial-birth abortion and voted against the “Born Alive Infant Protection Act.” Now he says he wants limited abortions. Unbelievable!

Obama has a problem and that is a campaign that is short on substance, and he thinks that hard-knuckled Americans are going to be suckered with bread and circuses. Moving the venue from the Pepsi Center to Invesco field is an error, and making things appear even more grandious is in keeping with Obama's ego, but far out of step with an electorare that can easily see through the phoney facades in Beijing just as easily as it can see through Obama's phoniness and rhetoric. Obama is a just a typical politician, and rather than appealing for votes, he is appealing for a coronation--as Emprorer. The American people wil get exactly the kind of government they deserve--exactly what they allow themselves to be suckered into: Marxist wealth redistribution through the tax code and spending programs under an Obama regime. Krauthammer has a point, and it should not be lost upon a wary public.

reagan was a terrible president who happened to preside over a stronger economic period for the country than bush has. Bush has implemented all of reagan's policies to the letter and, what do you know, they've failed on a massive scale. But you want to go further into it, sure. Reagan built the mujaheddin in Afghanistan, then let the country rot on the vine after the Soviets left, which of course set the stage for the taliban. He gave saddam hussein weapons and supplies, including the ingredients for WMD, which was the ostensible "purpose" for going to Iraq under Bush. he backed countless counterinsurgency efforts in central and south america leading to the deaths of 10s of thousands of innocent people, all because those people had elected leftist governments POPULARLY. he cut taxes and raised spending, sending our national debt from 1 trillion in 1980 to 3.5 trillion in 1988. shall i go on? reagan was a FAILURE.

BOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!

New State polling!!!!!!!

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1836770,00.html

MCmac is going down!!!

Furthermore, and I'll play this out for those of you who don't have a sense for the big picture here, if someone 'gets' Obama and the post-mortem reveals that the nutjob was motivated by the Republican negative campaigning that demonized Obama, then you can be sure that not only is McCain's reputation going to hell but that the rules of these campaigns will be changed and you Republicans will then have to learn to campaign without your biggest weapons: fear and campaign hate-speech. What does it gain a party to make an unwinnable election close, if it loses its soul and its tactics?

Posted by: Deep Blue | August 27, 2008 5:06 PM

Deep Blue, Please note that the neocons lost their soul back in 2000 when Bush demonized McCain and again in 2004 when the Swift Boat nazis demonized Kerry. What they have not yet figured out is that when they create hatred, rather than engage in honest debate, they create their own problems. Bush is the most unpopular president in modern history. It is not just a matter of people not liking his policies but the fact that he is such a dispicable human being created by Karl Rove and Dick Cheney. I have to believe this country is better than people like Rove, Cheney, Bush, McCain and Krauthammer.

I just cannot wait until the morning of November 5th. The day after election day.

All of the GOP, rethugnicon, neocon idiots will be apoplectic at their loss of the White House AND both houses of Congress (one or more, will be beyond 60% Democratic). They will all be boo-hooing, blowing their noses in their neocon-cheerleader rag, the WaPo.

Why is he using a Football Stadium?
Why isnt he coming to the Convention Center like a normal person?

Woe unto those who critize The One! Keep up the good work Mr. Krauthammer. At least someone out there sees through the thin resume of this guy. As far as balanced reporting - if the Obamabots don't think their candidate has been pampered and praised without end by the media then they need to take a step back and have another look. All I ever here is criticism of anyone that says anything about their candidate. I don't hear rebuttals of what is said, just personal attacks and calling the person a racist or an idiot - that makes me wonder. Oh and as for the whole Bush-McCain thing? I'll take that duo over the liberal Obama-Biden ticket any day of the week!

The day after the election:

All the neocons at the AEI and at AIPAC and Heritage to boot -
Will all come out running - or they’ll slide down someone’s poop ‘chute’

They will join hands together and together they’ll sing
About how they lost - and the mud that they’ll sling

They’ll dole out the blame - to Davis and Magoo
They’ll hurl their hatred at the electorate too -

Elections aren’t about democracy they will say -
Elections are about neocons - getting their way!

Obama is losing it: arrogance, arrogance and narcisism... Too bad to be true. Feel so disapointed.

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Why is Krauthammer even published in this paper at all? He is blindly partisan and not interested in facts or analysis.
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What part didn't you get? The idea that it seems a bit odd for a politician to be nominated at midfield in a football stadium isn't that hard to understand. Although if it were me, I'd be quicker to give him a hard time about turning two days of the convention over to the Clintons.

"All of the GOP, rethugnicon, neocon idiots will be apoplectic at their loss of the White House AND both houses of Congress"

Predictions at this point are dangerous. There are going to be a lot of people with a lot of eggs on their faces.

"...But If Man becomes America's Sovereign, then MAN will most certainly take your freedoms away."

Are you saying we should abolish the Presidency? It is the Republicans who have made the president a sovereign. Now we have to decide who is the best sovereign. I'm sorry we're in this position, but folks who don't care whether their national constitution is honored sort of have to take what comes along.

McCain would make a rotten emperor. Too old and crotchety.

I agree with those who have said if Obama were a white man, he would not be criticized for being too popular and too confident. As Jon Stewart put it anyone who wants to be POTUS is "arrogant." That comes with the territory. Apparently, it is only a problem if you are black. Krauthammer and others like him are simply bitter, fearful closet racists. If you want to criticize Obama on the issues fine, if you disagree with his politics, make your point. Criticizing his confidence smacks of racism.

For those critical of Krauthammer's work, would you agree that should the Democrat Party lose this election, Krauthammer was more right than you are?

Obama is a egotistical moron who can't refute all the trash that is in his past. You Obamatons need to come out of your haze and wake up. He is a coward who can't face hard questioning. And if you really think he can deliver all he promises without bankrupting the working class with higher taxes you are just stupid. But then again most of you probably live of the government teat anyway..

Wow, I can see Obama is working hard to dispel the image of a Messiah and of a Second Coming. Will he have trumpets? Comedians will have a field day with this. Obama is slowly going from post-partisan sure thing to a laughingstock and a loser. When your opponent runs some very effective ads portraying you as out of touch and you lose your lead in the polls, you go out and build a Greek temple facade to speak from???

"Why is he using a Football Stadium?
Why isnt he coming to the Convention Center like a normal person?"

Kennedy did the same thing in '60. I guess that's why.

But it's going to backfire on Obama, unfortunately. More "celebrity" trash from McCain will ensue.

you know what, if the events of the past 8 years can't convince the repug they are wrong, what will?

Obama's claim that the past eight years have been an economic disaster, but he hasn't lived long enough to know a real economic disaster when he sees one. His massive tax hikes might just do it!

We had a good economy until the Democrats took over Congress in January 2007. From then on the economy went in the tank because Democrats wanted to cause a recession before the November 2008 election.

If you are hurting economically now, you can thank Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Chris Dodd. They can't wait for the depression if Obama gets in. Their answer is to throw more money at it, whether we have it or not, and expand government control for the new world order socialist state.

Why don't you right wing whack jobs join the military and get your sorry butts to Iraq? Put your skin into the game LOSERS!

Reagan was a plague on our history. Not only did he reverse Carter's energy independence initiatives, which would be fully developed by now, but he also illegally circumvented congress and sold arms to the theocrats in Iran, who had sworn to kill us, and then gave that money to crack cocaine manufacturers and dealers who then flooded our streets with drugs. Not only should Reagan have been impeached, he should have been strung, drawn and quartered as a traitor.

Why do neocons care where Obama gives his speech? It seems they may be jealous that McSame is unable to give an effective speech like his role model Bush.

"Reagan was a failure"

When I was a kid we had to do nuclear war drills in school. The Russians were expanding their reach all across the globe and 1/3 of the world's population lacked the most elementary liberty. Even though Russia is becomming authoritarian again, the average Russian is infinitely freer than under Communism. And what of the people of Eastern Europe. Lefties like you didn't care about the Gulag. They didn't care about shuttered, confiscated churches. Lefties liberate NO ONE. Reagan a failure? Tell that to the people of Poland, dunce.

Krauthammer is the EPITOME of snobbish and foppish elitism.

He reminds me of one of those French kings wearing a purple and gold tutu - maybe Louis XIVth - holding his nose in the air as if perpetually avoiding the "bad smell" of the people...then using his pinky-fingernail to daintily lift a pinch of snuff to his nose for a sniff.

Krauthammer...what an arrogant blowhard. Not to be taken seriously in the 21st century.

"Obama's claim that the past eight years have been an economic disaster, but he hasn't lived long enough to know a real economic disaster when he sees one. His massive tax hikes might just do it!"

You realize that in the past, taxes have been MUCH, MUCH, MUCH higher than what Obama wants to revert them to, and the economy was just fine?

Stevo, you obviously have history 101 on your class schedule this fall. Would you like to reminisce about Jimmy Carter? Reagan had to work his ass off to undo the disasterous state of affairs good Ole peanut man left behind. oh wait. maybe you'd like to return to double digit inflation, interest rates, unemployment.. and wear another sweater in the winter. Wise up you dope

KrautSlimer will be having a conniption fit on November 5th.

And I will be laughing - ah the joy. The joy.

This obsession with Obama and all things greek is obviously homoerotic in its nature. Come out of the closet Mr. neo-con!

Liberal = Whiner

God forbid if someone pokes fun at The Great and Mighty One.

Ground Control to Krauthammer - you must be right over the target because you are sure picking up a lot of flak.
I think they do protest a bit too much. Can't tell if they are hyper-sensitive or just a tiny bit nervous. BTW Pay no attention to the Obama - Ayers story coming to light this week. Just jump in the air, click you heels three times and shout - Yes We Can!

BOOM - right back at you. State polls - I laugh at TIME/CNN polls - they are NEVER even remotely close. Go with Gallup or Rasmussen - they have been dead on for the past 3 presidential elections. BTW in thos epolls - McCain is leading by 6 in Nevada, by 2 in New Mexico and 7 in Colorado. It's over !!!! P.S. Majority of registered republicans are on do not call lists .... something to consider when you hear all the NOBAMA folks talking about how their supported all have cel phones and can't be polled.