Like You Didn't See This Coming?

Michael Moore has come out and endorsed Obama in the elections. Wow. Consider me floored.

I couldn't see that one coming like a hurricane (or a 300 pound Jabba the Hutt look-a-like).

Moore informed everyone, like we actually care what he thinks about politics, in a 1,100 word manifesto that touched on why he dislikes Hillary Clinton and what makes Obama his guy.

Obama's experience isn't what does it for Moore. Actually, Moore points out that Obama doesn't have any. Of course, when Moore spews, he has to throw in his jabs at the Bush Administration, even as Bush isn't running again. The anti-Bush zealots are so conditioned to hate Bush that they're going to go running around like headless chickens come January 2009.

Lamenting the lack of a valid primary in his home state of Michigan, Moore writes that Obama's experience and voting record isn't as important as his "basic decency" and ability to inspire.

"What we are witnessing is not just a candidate but a profound, massive public movement for change," Moore writes. "My endorsement is more for Obama The Movement than it is for Obama the candidate."

The 54-year-old Oscar-winning filmmaker was hardly as kind to Clinton.

"Over the past two months, the actions and words of Hillary Clinton have gone from being merely disappointing to downright disgusting," he writes, saying that she has tried to "smear" Obama — "Like you were nuts. Like you were a bigot stoking the fires of stupidity."

Most of Moore's ire is directed at the Bush administration "and the permanent, irreversible damage it has done to our people and to this world."

"I, like the majority of Americans, have been pummeled senseless for eight long years," he writes. "That's why I will join millions of citizens and stagger into the voting booth come November, like a boxer in the 12th round, all bloodied and bruised with one eye swollen shut, looking for the only thing that matters — that big 'D' on the ballot."

Moore says he is disappointed with the Democratic Party, too, for failing to end the war despite public outcry and for "do(ing) the bidding of the corporate elite in this country. Any endorsement of a Democrat must be done with this acknowledgment ..."

The fact is that Michigan lost its delegates because the state chose to move its primary forward and the DNC chose to strip it of its delegates.

They have no one to blame but themselves. Hillary is doing what she thinks is best to win her the nomination and that means going after Obama for his lack of a record, lack of accomplishments, and that hope and change are nothing but empty slogans. The media seems to miss this salient fact on a daily basis. Obama hasn't accomplished anything other than getting elected as a first term US senator from Illinois by a quirk of local politics and a sex scandal.

Obama's soaring rhetoric doesn't stand any intellectual rigor, and while it is appealing to talk of hope and change, most of the country wouldn't like the change Obama's pushing, which is a leftist/socialist mix of failed policies that would make the economy worse, punish business and investment, and engages in class warfare.

In other words, Obama is the perfect candidate for Moore.