Posts with the tag 'Deval Patrick'
My opposition to a young, charismatic African American candidate who campaigned on hope and change was dubbed by that candidate’s supporters as racism.
The candidate I’m referring to is not Barack Obama, it’s Deval Patrick. The parallels betwen the two candidates campaigns are uncanny… even the reactions by their supporters are virtually identical, as Kimberly recounts that her opposition to John McCain was immediately dubbed as being a form of racism.
Just yesterday, I was stopped in the parking lot by a couple of liberals because of my McCain-Palin bumper sticker. One said, “You’re a racist because you’re voting for McCain!” I replied, “No, I’m a Republican and I’m voting for the Republican candidate. I wouldn’t vote for Obama if he was white.” That stopped them in their tracks. Of course, it also gave me a wonderful opportunity to talk with them about Obama and McCain.
Make no mistake about it… Recent stories about the role of racism in the campaign are merely a preemptive strike to explain why Obama will lose in November, as well as an attempt by the media to invoke white guilt amongst undecided voters so that they will vote for Obama to “prove” they aren’t racists.
This attempt by the media to make a vote for Obama a vote against racism is hardly a new thing. When Deval Patrick was campaigning for the Democratic nomination for governor in Massachusetts, the Boston Globe, in their endorsement of Patrick, said,
Patrick doesn’t often explicitly address his race in the campaign. But his positive reception [...] has been a good sign that this state can move beyond its reputation as old, cold, and closed.
Deval Patrick, despite his warm rhetoric on the campaign trail about change and hope, has become perhaps the most incompetent governors of Massachusetts since Mike Dukakis (who has also been playing the race card for Obama) and the jury is still out on who will ultimately prove to be the worst.
It’s worth noting that despite Deval Patrick’s overwhelming victory in 2006, his approval ratings are down the toilet, and he’s abandoned many campaign promises, like property tax relief.
Deval Patrick is a prime example that a well-given speech is no substitute for genuine leadership. It was no suprise to me that Hillary defeated Obama in Massachusetts, despite Deval’s endorsement. The Democrat voters of Massachusetts were already duped once — they weren’t about to fall for it again.
Barack Obama would be a horrible president regardless of whether he is black, white, male or female. he is the most inexperienced and unqualified presidential candidates for a major party in history. But his image won over the left-wing base of the party, and he’s the candidate the party as whole has to offer in November. I am very confident the people of America won’t be fooled the same way so many in Massachusetts were back in 2006.
This election shouldn’t be about race. It should about who is ready to lead. The answer to that one is clearly John McCain.
Tags: Deval Patrick
September 23rd, 2008
I know, hard to believe that a liberal can fail, especially one who spoke of hope and change in his election campaign…but it does seem to be the case:
BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick has lately addressed doting crowds around the country as a surrogate for Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, his friend and fellow gifted orator. Last month, Mr. Obama even acknowledged borrowing language from Mr. Patrick’s stump speeches, casting a flattering light on a novice politician barely known outside Massachusetts.
But there is no such glow at home for Mr. Patrick, the first Democrat to lead his state in 16 years and the nation’s second elected black governor.
Mr. Patrick, who easily won office in 2006 after dazzling voters with a message of hope and change, suffered a nasty defeat last week at the hands of the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, which quashed his proposal to increase revenues by allowing three resort casinos in the state. None of the governor’s major policy proposals have cleared the Legislature, in fact, and he and Salvatore DiMasi, the speaker of the House, have taken to trading barbs publicly.
Mr. Patrick is faring better than a year ago, when he was under siege for spending more than $10,000 on drapes for his State House office and upgrading his state car from a Ford Crown Victoria to a Cadillac. (He later agreed to reimburse the state for the drapes and part of the car lease.) By his third month in office, Mr. Patrick had announced that his wife was being treated for depression, and by his fourth, he had overhauled his staff.
But even now, governing is not coming easily for Mr. Patrick, 51, a former civil rights lawyer and corporate executive who came to Massachusetts on a prep school scholarship in the ’70s.
So why has he struggled for traction in a heavily Democratic state with a Legislature that should be on his side?
He blames Speaker DiMasi, a veteran of Beacon Hill who embraces old-school ways of doing business and holds far more sway than the governor over his members. Mr. Patrick believes his casino bill could have passed if Mr. DiMasi, who said gambling would be a scourge on the state, had not pressured lawmakers to oppose it.
Why casinos? ‘Cause you’ve got a liberal in charge - and that means if there’s a budget shortfall (which there is in Massachusetts), then the only thing a liberal can think of is how to increase revenues…never a thought to how to cut spending or better run the government. Its also rather typical of a liberal that he’s blaming someone else for his defeat - it isn’t that Mr. Liberal Hope and Change had a bone-headed idea, its that Someone Else failed to deliver the goods. DiMasi might be a lot of things and, sure, he was clearly opposed to the idea of casinos (as should everyone - really, leave casinos to the professionals in Las Vegas…everyone else always seems to make a hash of it, and you can never get “Vegas” anywhere other than Vegas), but its not like he can actually order everyone around - might it be that a majority of the Legislature just decided that casinos weren’t a good idea? Well, you’ll never get a Liberal Hope and Changer to admit that…liberals never make mistakes, you see?
Poor Massachusetts - saddled with an uber-liberal Governor, a Democrat controlled legislature…and Ted Kennedy at the top fo the nauseating heap! I’ll bet they’re starting to regret their choice in 2006…
Tags: Deval Patrick, Loser Watch, Massachusetts
March 27th, 2008
Byron York over at The Corner notes that Obama’s use of my governor’s campaign rhetoric is more than just an isolated incident… there’s actually a pattern of “lifting” phrases verbatim without attribution.
The debate will continue about how important this is, but as a Massachusetts resident and voter, who experienced Deval Patrick’s empty rhetoric and saw first hand how people were fooled by it, I think this is a very big deal. Despite Deval Patrick’s rhetoric about hope in 2006, he has since become one of the most ineffective and incompetent governors Massachusetts has ever seen. Even some of his most ardent supporters from the campaign have questioned his so-called leadership as governor.
So, along comes Barack Obama, who isn’t simply regurgitating the same themes Deval Patrick used, but phrases word for word… Let’s be honest about Barack Obama’s support… it’s not because of support for specific policies, or because of any leadership abilities… his support is largely superficial, and is a result of his powerful speech giving talent and rhetoric. Now people are learning that even his rhetoric is unoriginal… or more accurately: stolen.
Obama supporters can pretend this isn’t a big deal, but had this not come out than Obama would continue to use Deval Patrick’s words without attribution. I knew from the beginning of Obama’s presidential campaign that Deval’s gubernatorial campaign would be used as a model… a microcosm of sorts for Obama’s national campaign… and it definitely has been. Without a doubt.
Even though Deval Patrick, who has endorsed Obama, has defended Obama’s use of his words without attribution, that doesn’t make this situation any less significant, or the actual stealing of the words any less fraudulent.
What Deval Patrick lacked in leadership he compensated for in rhetoric and his speaking ability. Barack Obama is attempting to pull the same scam on the American people, but what he’s doing is worse because he was using someone else’s words and would have continued had the origins not been revealed. Obama knew where the words came from. His speeches are scripted. He knew he was using someone else’s words. He knew he wasn’t crediting the source. Obama is a fraud. He defended the effectiveness of his words by plagiarizing Deval’s.
The sad thing is that so many on the left won’t care.
Tags: Deval Patrick
February 19th, 2008
In 2003, the Supreme Judicial Court imposed gay marriage in my state… and now our governor, Deval Patrick (Obama-lite to you), wants to impose allowing illegal immigrants to get the in-state tuition rates for state colleges and universities … without going through the legislature.
Tags: border security, Deval Patrick, Massachusetts
January 10th, 2008
