Barack Obama's Butterfly Effect

I find it funny when Obama speaks wrong there are excuses made for it, but if McCain mis-speaks he is called old , losing his mind!

But the problem is Obama is not mis-speaking he is flopping!!

Obama FlipFlop Obama makes a good tune!!

What religion was Obama before he converted to Christianity, anybody know?

everywhere b.o. travels a basketball game breaks out. his advisors must be some obscure round ball team. i guess that's safer than letting him say anything unscripted, he can't dribble and watch his blackberry at the same time. who knows, maybe this will keep him from being DISTRACTED with IRAQ, even after our heros' are kicking ass there. GOD BLESS THE U.S. TROOPS.

When a Republican makes a verbal gaffe, its called a gaffe! When Obama does it the DBM writes a hilarious essay about the butterfly effect. This is pretty simple--unscripted, Obama is as verbally skilled as Bush. He is a gaffe machine, probably because of his inexperience (I love the one about the 57 states). Dump the bias Jake and call it like it is!

"True, but that is a cumulative effect, not a butterfly effect. The cumulative effect is arithmetic: 1 + 1 + 1 = Lose. A butterfly effect is 1 to the power log of the world press = self-destruct.
... I'm hard pressed to remember when a candidate has needed this much protection."

NO candidate has ever needed so much "protection"/press assistance/rewrites/explanations.

So: HAS he self-destructed yet? Or is there MORE to come?

Meanwhile, let's hope the press is as concerned about "racism" relative to Cynthia McKinney's campaign as it was with Barky's.

"John Insane McCain ain't no Douglas MacArthur or George Patton."

I dunno: give him a cigarette holder and a pearl-handled revolver and he'd be close -- closed than Barry/Barack is to JFK, anyway.

McCain won't be the Republican nominee: sickness or something will intervene -- then, according to who's the Democratic nominee (August), the Republicans will nominate (September) accordingly.

@belle: True, but that is a cumulative effect, not a butterfly effect. The cumulative effect is arithmetic: 1 + 1 + 1 = Lose. A butterfly effect is 1 to the power log of the world press = self-destruct.

He won't be allowed to mess up with the three anchors on the plane. Do note however that his campaign has a long history of suppressing his past mistakes (eg, The Surge Won't Work), scrubbing his language (removing the references on his web page), and denying access to unfriendlies.

I'm hard pressed to remember when a candidate has needed this much protection. JFK used to sneak out to the ice cream shop with his kids. Obama lives in a steel fishbowl.

The press filters his statements. They won't allow McCain to self-destruct. As with every gaffe made so far, it will be spun to his advantage by contextualizing it."

At a certain point, the confused crusader's "gaffes" add up to something more than verbal slips, jet lag, anti-alzheimers medication, dyslexia, etc.

With "we were distracted by Obama", critical mass may be here. WhatEVER Sean Hannity and the boys at FOX do.

As for butterflies, John Insane McCain ain't no Douglas MacArthur or George Patton.

"The press filters his statements. They won't allow Obama to self-destruct. As with every gaffe made so far, it will be spun to his advantage by contextualizing it."

At a certain point, the confused crusader's "gaffes" add up to something more than verbal slips, jet lag, anti-smoking medication, dyslexia, etc.

With "we were distracted by Iraq", critical mass may be here. WhatEVER Jonathan Alter and the boys at MSNBC do.

As for butterflies, Barry/Barack ain't no Cassius Clay/Muhammed Ali.

Hmm... Complexity/chaos theory ...

The metaphor is right but second order and third order systems dampen feedback so the butterfly actually can't create hurricanes or even local storms. (This isn't from Bradbury, BTW. See Edward Lorenz.)

In unfiltered systems, the effects of such feedback are unpredictable. A typical result is to tear the system apart (reduce to chaos) much as pointing a microphone into the amplifier rips apart the speakers right after ripping apart your eardrums.

The press filters his statements. They won't allow Obama to self-destruct. As with every gaffe made so far, it will be spun to his advantage by contextualizing it.

Context is the reason butterflies haven't destroyed the planet so far.

"He will be elected and reelected, and like, South American dictators..."
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Not if he's not NOMINATED, he won't -- at least not in the DEMOCRATIC Party, where his "post-partisan" hokum is waaay out of place.

And his mideast pouffery's been QUITE zany . . .

He will be elected and reelected, and like, South American dictators, he will hand pick his successor, who will do exactly what he is told until he has enough power of his own.

Or, he is already preparing us for the fact that he will be unsuccessful, and is not promising to do what he claims in two terms. Maybe he will use the "don't change horses in midstream" argument and suggest that we do away with the two-term limit so he can continue to lead us to victory.

"clean up this foreign policy mess"

Did the humble one "clean up" anything in Chicago? Nooo. Did he "clean up" anything in the US Senate (other than change his nuclear cleanup bill to Exelon specifications)? Nooo.

He's a charlatan with a big smile, a mob-arranged mansion, and a lot of money raised under false pretenses.

If the Democratic "leadership" installs this fraud as the nominee, the Dems are done.

Hussein already considered himself to be President. For 8 to 10 years he says. But this is the guy who said we have 57 states. Remember when the media made such fun of Dan Quayle because he added an E to potato? This doofus can say anything but thats ok.
He is a DEMOCRAT don't you know?

RW

How about the comment that we are losing in Afghanistan? I am sure that is what the troops there need to hear from a guy who wants to be President. Also, that is just what the doctor ordered for the families of those who have given the ultimate sacrifice in that conflict. Obama is a disgrace.

Ah and so it goes..OBAMA is so easy to distract! DISTRACTED, OBAMA's OFTEN USED WORD. All that guy has is words, hope and the ability to change his mind often!

"Is Obama planning on using the job of president as a stepping stone for ruler of the universe?"

Kind of like using the Illinois senate seat as a stepping-stone to the US Senate, which he's used only as a platform for running a "post-partisan" campaign for the DEMOCRATIC nomination.

Meanwhile, he still talks with his mouth full of food, slouches with Karzai, and says "me and Michelle".

To put the Butterfly metaphor into perspective, Obama is a chrysalis and his handlers exposed Obama to soon and Obama will die from lack of maturation.

Obama needed at least another 10 years in his chrysalis...

No butterfly perior for you Obama.

On the other hand, we have H.R. Clinton a true phoenix and she is in the process of rising again...

See you in Denver

Going back to the "57 states" gaffe, are we? I'm not about to read through ALL of these posts, but I would like to respond to that.

Bowing to the conspiracy theorists, there are indeed 57 ISLAMIC STATES worldwide.

Maybe those rumors of Obama secretly bein a Muslim aren't that far off, after all.

Whaddya think, eh?

Meneither123-

So your criteria is that a guy just has to LOOK the part?

Is that a serious comment? A serious and informed citizeny is crucial.

"Stay tune for the august suprise"

Whatever it takes to keep this "post-partisan" fraud from buying the Democratic nomination.

"We were distracted by Iraq", opines the corporate construct who based his whole candidacy on having given a (pre-written) speech about Iraq while in the state Senate.