In 2008, sitting in front of Bill O’Reilly, Barack Obama may only remember unrepentant Weather Underground domestic terrorist Bill Ayers as “some guy I know.” But in a newly unearthed video (below) shot during his failed House of Representatives bid in 2000, Obama cited his association with the man who bombed the Capitol and Pentagon and still doesn’t feel he did enough as one of his primary qualifications for the office.

In 2000, as now, few people believed Obama’s experience qualified him for the job he was seeking.  He wound up losing badly in the primary that year.  That’s correct, in his home town and among voters in his own party, he was deemed too inexperienced and unqualified to serve in the US House of Representatives just 8 years ago.

He was asked about his thin resume and short stint in the Illinois State Senate during an interview with a Chicago television station.

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Um, Barack, I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

“If we’re going to ask questions about, you know, who has been promulgating negative ads that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand, I think I win that contest pretty handily,” Obama said.

Maybe it’s time for the McCain campaign to run ads questioning whether we really want a President who can’t use a dictionary or thesaurus.  They seem much easier to manage than computers and email.

Barack Obama famously played the “race card” back in June, using his sage predictive abilities to warn of an upcoming Republican scare campaign based on his race.

They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. ‘He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?’

Barack the Magnificent’s crystal ball (or was it a Magic 8 Ball, probably more appropriate) must have been a little hazy.  It isn’t the mysterious “they” repeatedly using Obama’s race as an issue in the election. He obviously meant  “we.”

[Joe Biden, campaigning in North Carolina] particularly singled out the meaning of electing someone who is black.

“That will be a transformative event in American politics and internationally,” Biden said. “That all by itself will be significant.”

Identity politics.  If that’s the way they’re going with this, it will be very good for Republicans.  There’s no demographic victory for them on that basis in this election.

James Pethokoukis of US News and World Report makes a pretty compelling analogy between the Barack Obama campaign and other market bubbles like the tech bubble in the 1990s.  He determines that the Obama bubble has burst.

The brief article is worth the read, and the points are so rapid-fire and dead-on that it’s impossible to excerpt.  Here’s the thesis.

The evidence? Here goes: 1) The final 10 national polls in June had Barack Obama up by an average of 7 percentage points. The past eight polls this month have John McCain up by a bit more than 2 points, according to RealClearPolitics. 2) Right around the same time that Obama’s polling lead was entering landslide territory in June, his odds of victory over at the Intrade betting markets were hovering at a sky-high 70 percent. Today, Obama’s chances are right around 50-50 vs. McCain. 3) And now, according to a New York Times story yesterday, the deluge of donations has started drying up: “Pushing a fundraiser later this month, a finance staff member sent a sharply worded note last week to Illinois members of its national finance committee, calling their recent efforts ‘extremely anemic.’”

Speculative bubbles have come in many different varieties: flowers, railway shares, Florida property, Beanie Babies, comic books, technology stocks, exurb McMansions. Does Candidate Obama qualify? Well, the candidate does sound a bit like a lot of the hot Internet companies back in the late 1990s. Not much of a track record. Lots of media hype. Parabolic ascent. And now a stomach-dropping decline.

A brief review of the Presidential campaign so far finds that Barack Obama often uses sexist and misogynistic tactics, some subtle and some not, and passive-agressive actions and words against his opponents.

Obama’s personality combination — absolutely zero impulse control and thinking he’s so much smarter than everyone else that we won’t understand his compulsive subtle digs — is making September a very uncomfortable month for the former front-runner.

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An angry and belligerent Barack Obama assailed those who dare to be outraged at his attack on Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a “Pig in Lipstick” and Senator John McCain as an “Old Fish” and the news media who dared to report the gaffe.

“Spare me the phony outrage,” said Obama.

Obama made the comments yesterday in front of a crowd of supporters in Lebanon, VA.

“You can put lipstick on a pig,” he said as the crowd cheered. “It’s still a pig.”

“You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still gonna stink.”

Apparently, the Obamessiah’s  own “phony outrage” regarding questions about his patriotism that never happened, accusations that he’s a closet Muslim that only he seems to be forwarding, or the use of the term “Community Organizer” are still fair game.

Barack Obama thinks he’s the smartest guy in any room. He thought he was going to slip these snide, offensive allusions past most of us with only a few in the intelligentsia taking notice.  It angers “The One” that we commoners caught his subtext in much the same way he was angered that we were accidentally made privy to the “bitter clingers” comments he made in front of an elite San Francisco crowd in the spring.

Sorry, Barack.  We’re not buying it.  You knew what you were saying, and we knew what you were saying, and it wasn’t the only “lipstick” reference made on behalf of your campaign yesterday.  You thought we weren’t going to catch it.  We caught it.

Sarah Palin:
“I love those hockey moms.  You know, they say, what’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.”

Barack Obama:
“You can put lipstick on a pig,” he said as the crowd cheered. “It’s still a pig.”

Politico reports:

The crowd apparently took the “lipstick” line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: “lipstick.”

UPDATE: Now that I’ve seen the video, I can say with 100% certainty that the Palin=Pig allusion was exactly what he was going for and that he knew exactly what he was doing.  You can see it in his face and the body language of the hand covering the face. The crowd knew it, too.

ANOTHER UPDATE: The Obama Zombies are claiming that this is just an innocent old phrase and not a reference to Governor Palin at all.  Easy to do when just focusing on the “pig” part, not so easy to do when you factor in the next line.

“You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still gonna stink.”

Obama was clearly referencing McCain (”old fish”) and Palin (”pig in lipstick”) so get over yourselves and take the heat.

Video Below.

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Rattled, panicked and pacing, Barack Obama ingratiates himself to the residents of New Philadelphia, OH by referring to their town as New Pennsylvania.

Video Below.

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In a Michigan speech yesterday, Barack Obama (”the guy running for President,” not “Barack the bomb thrower”) doubled down on demanding that rights traditionally reserved for US citizens be granted to terrorists captured while battling and killing US forces.

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