Barack’s Lucky Charms

Ken McCracken • June 24, 2008

Oh, not just no, but hell, no! The Baraminator carries good luck charms with him?

WASHINGTON – Barack Obama trounced Hillary Rodham Clinton with the help of the Monkey King, an American eagle and a poker chip.
Obama, campaigning in New Mexico, revealed to a group of voters in a cafe the pocket full of charms that he carries with him. He said he keeps a “lucky poker chip” given to him by a voter, and an American eagle pin that was given to him by a Native American woman, saying they remind him of the people he meets along the campaign trail.

So, the American eagle pin he keeps with him at all times. The American flag pin only comes out in red states?

Obama has also carried a small gold statue of the Monkey King, revered in India because Hindus believe monkeys are descendants of the monkey god, Hanuman.

We’ve had one dim President (Carter), do we really need a superstitious President to round out the set?
BTW, in all that twenty years with Jeremiah God Damn America Wright, did he ever get around to the part about “graven images“?
Hat tip LGF
Cross Posted at Proof Positive

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http://Array Mickey

The American flag pin only comes out in red states?

This isn’t lucky for liberals.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

superstitious naval aviator

I’d like to see the full context of this to see if this was said in jest. (Of course, you provided no link!)
Sometimes people use self effacing humor to make a point. I would guess this could be one of those times.

Also, I’d like to see any totems or charms he carries in his pocket, if you have any evidence of those…
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

BTW, Hairy: Is that a rabbit’s foot in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Hairy: Barack should keep his monkey in his pocket if he wants to retain his credibility. We report, you decide!
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

What will this tell of his ability to negotiate with other countries?

‘Tis luck to catch a leprechaun!
Lestat

Certainly wouldn’t want a superstitious president:

Superstition ain’t the way
By: Steve Benen on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 10:00 AM – PDT

I’ve heard a lot about how superstitious John McCain is, but I’m a little surprised that he’d tell the building that houses his campaign offices to redo their elevator labels like this. (via Mark Kleiman)

For the lowdown on McCain’s economic plan, we turn to Doug Holtz-Eakin, the bearded, balding former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, now McCain’s chief economic advisor. We meet at campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va., in a conference room on the M floor — M for McCain. (M is one above 12. The whole floor was renamed and relabeled by the campaign, right down to the buttons on the elevators. McCain is superstitious, his spokeswoman explained; it’s a fighter-pilot thing. But isn’t M the 13th letter in the … ? Never mind.)

I’m not sure if it’s a “fighter-pilot thing,” so much as it’s a bizarre thing.

Consider what we’ve learned about McCain’s superstitions:

* McCain believes it’s bad luck for someone to hand him a salt shaker.

* McCain believes it’s bad luck to throw a hat onto a bed.

* McCain regularly carries 31 cents in lucky change in his pocket.

* McCain carries a lucky feather, a lucky compass, a lucky penny, a lucky nickel, a lucky quarter, and a laminated four-leaf clover.

* McCain believes it’s bad luck to pick up a coin if it isn’t heads up.

* McCain’s been known to have an aide carry his lucky pen at all times.

And now he’s having the elevator labels changed in his campaign’s building. I have no idea how the typical person responds to this, but I find it kind of odd.

Hat Tip Crooks and Liars
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

BTW, Hairy: Is that a rabbit’s foot in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
http://massbackwards.blogspot.com/ Bruce

I thought monkeys were racist.
Hawk

Reagan would receive luck charms in the mail and would have his staff set some aside every week so he could carry them with him.
http://www.thedailyslant.com/ Hairy Polemic

There is a difference between criticizing someone for doing something stupid and doing so because you just don’t like them. One undermines your credibility.

It really matters to you that Obama believes in luck? Hell, Bush believes in some Jew named Jesus (Yeshua actually) who raised the dead and walked on water (equally stupid in my opinion), but I still like Bush. My two cents.

Find something better to criticize Obama on, he doesn’t make it very difficult.
http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/ Chief RZ

This guy is out of touch with reality. Signing a pledge, then reneging a few months later! What will this tell of his ability to negotiate with other countries?
http://www.thedailyslant.com/ Hairy Polemic

…a bit of both.
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

McCain:

“Thank you, Wisconsin, for bringing us to the point where even a superstitious naval aviator can claim with confidence and humility that I will be our party’s nominee,” he told a cheering crowd in Columbus, Ohio.

Huckabee:

A few weeks ago at Liberty University (founder: the late J. Falwell), a student asked him what accounted for his rocketing poll numbers. “There’s only one explanation for it, and it’s not a human one,” he said. “It’s the same power that helped a little boy with two fish and five loaves feed a crowd of five thousand people–and that’s the only way that our campaign could be doing what it’s doing.”

and
Einstein:

“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.

“No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this,”
WOOFX

The Monkey King is the hero of a Chinese 16th century novel.

MONKEY: The infamous irrepressible Monkey King, Trickster God, and Great Sage Equal Of Heaven.

He gobbled up LAO-ZI’s Longevity Pills, stuffed his face with the precious Peaches of Immortality, gatecrashed official parties and made insulting gestures to all and sundry. Finally he left Heaven in disgust, claiming it wasn’t good enough for him

The Great Stone Monkey

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