I recently likened him to a bubble, like the Internet of Housing bubble, about to burst. The king has no clothes, and once it’s pointed out he won’t be able to withstand the ridicule. Shrinkage will occur.

If anything, the focus should be on the “just words” reference.

Yes, but Obama diverted attention from the actual substance of the criticism masking the real crux of the issue with “just words”. Irony is a funny thing, ain’t it?

And here are the fruits of the closer look at Obama, already growing:

“In a telephone interview on Sunday, Mr. Patrick said that he and Mr. Obama first talked about the attacks from their respective rivals last summer, when Mrs. Clinton was raising questions about Mr. Obama’s experience, and that they discussed them again last week,” the Times’ Jeff Zeleny wrote. “Patrick said he told Mr. Obama that he should respond to the criticism, and he shared language from his campaign with Mr. Obama’s speechwriters.”

But Obama was quoted using Patrick’s language before the Summer of 2007.

“‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men are created equal.’ Those are just words,” Obama was quoted as saying in a March 19, 2007 New Republic story. ” ‘I have a dream.’ Just words.”

So….the claim that Patrick an Obama “first” discussed this last Summer does not make sense.

And this:

Patrick in June 2006, at the Massachusetts Democratic party convention: “I am not asking anybody to take a chance on me. I am asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations.”

Obama one year later, as quoted in USA Today: “I am not asking anyone to take a chance on me. I am asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations.”

Anyone notice that the “just words” speech was actually better delivered by Patrick? Could it be that Deval 2.0 isn’t really an upgrade?

“Because of a special provision campaign finance laws, the Soroses were able to give a collective $60,000 to Obama during his primary challenge. Obama faced millionaire Blair Hull, which allowed donors to give more than typically allowed.”

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‘Because of a special provision campaign finance laws, the Soroses were able to give a collective $60,000 to Obama during his primary challenge. Obama faced millionaire Blair Hull, which allowed donors to give more than typically allowed.”

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A sad state of affairs when someone is claiming to rise above and be his own man, be authentic, when he even has the same intonations down as the governor’s speeches. I used to think I would be happy to vote for whomever the democratic nominee is, but I can’t make that promise. Obama will sink immediately. At least Hillary has the balls to stand up and fight.

Any time you have a crowd that size, the room temperature goes up,

The thing is Steve, some of these venues are out in the open air. And what’s strange, is how it seems to follow a certain pattern….woman in the front row, and Obama’s reaction comes across almost scripted, by how similar his words and responses are to one another. It’s possible there’s nothing funny going on here; but I think it’s suspect. If anyone can point out that this is COMMON to ALL campaigns, regardless of who the speaker is, I’d be curious to know. If it’s mostly happening at Obama events, then the man either is a charlatan, or he’s got the messiah mojo/rock star effect on his masses. Which brings us back to having accurately pegged his movement as a kind of religious revival and Rapture.

Curt, any chance of putting up the Medved audio of the first part of the 2nd hour, before the first commercial break? Medved strung together and isolated Obama’s response from several venues.

picked up all over the blogosphere and mainstream media, including: New York Times, The Swamp, Weekly Standard, Taylor Marsh, Confederate Yankee, MSNBC, Don Surber, Flopping Aces, et. al. This episode by itself not that meaningful. Problem being – this…

I think Obama has a very well-crafted image, and may be nothing more than a house of cards.