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Another Perspective
Big Talker
President Obama had better hope he’s a Great Communicator.
Most of the brainstorms that came out of John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign would, meteorologically speaking, barely qualify as drizzles. On one point, however, the McCain brain trust hit the nail squarely on the head: Barack Obama talks a much bigger game than he plays, with results commensurate with what one might expect of a graduate of the Britney Spears School of Statesmanship.
The latest issue on which the president has become a babbling brook is the British Petroleum oil spill, a grave ecological disaster that threatens to leave an unsightly slick all over his administration as well. A CNN/Opinion Dynamic poll found that 59 percent of the American people now disapprove of his handling of the crisis. According to Gallup, Obama’s overall approval rating is at an all-time low, having dipped below 50 percent.
Now the president cannot make the problem disappear by waving a magic wand, even if he can cause his approval ratings to vanish by wagging his lips. And in a sense this is unfair: anyone who has high expectations for what the federal government can accomplish when faced with an intractable problem obviously stopped paying attention long before Obama began gracing us with his orations.
Alas, he who lives by hope and change is always at risk of dying by it as well. Obama’s problem is twofold: Even in the era of the permanent campaign, there is a time to govern. Yet Obama’s adeptness on the stump is not matched with any comparable managerial prowess. But his second, bigger problem is that the things he has actually done do not appear to be deliver the promised results.
Obama is not always all talk and no action, especially when those actions can be undertaken by maxing out the national credit cards. He has blessed us with a nearly $800 billion stimulus package that doesn’t stimulate private-sector job creation and a $1 trillion health care bill that his own regulators say will jeopardize the existing coverage of 51 percent of American workers.
For his next act, we will see the first broad-based tax increases of his administration, including the 2011 expiration of the Bush tax cuts. Unless you are a Census worker, it is a far cry from a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage. Taxpayers will be paying for all this new spending long after their children have been punished with children.
Let’s give credit where it’s due: When a less honey-tongued commander-in-chief presided over a debt-addled banking system, high unemployment, abysmal job creation, a mess on the Gulf Coast, rising health care costs, and two foreign wars that don’t seem much closer to being won in any meaningful sense, his approval ratings were far lower than Obama’s 46 percent.
So clearly, good speechmaking skills count must count for something. If only George W. Bush had taken a few Dale Carnegie courses in public speaking. The Republican Party might still have some influence in Washington right now.
In order for things to improve, Obama must hope he can be like a different Republican president — Ronald Reagan. They didn’t call him the Great Communicator for nothing; he also was a gifted speaker. Though Reagan himself doubted this, perhaps it is possible to replicate this feat without communicating great things.
Eighteen months into his presidency, Reagan didn’t look like he was in much better shape than Obama. The 1982 midterm elections went at least as poorly for his party as it appears the 2010 races are going to go for the Democrats. In 1984, Reagan won 49 states, losing the 50th by less than one vote per precinct. Obama can hope his big-priced decisions are vindicated over time. And he can count on the Republicans having their share of Walter Mondale-caliber candidates to run against him in 2012.
But right now, the current occupant of the Oval Office more closely resembles Jimmy Carter borrowing Reagan’s teleprompter. But the Obama enthusiasts are presumably not worried. After all, Reagan was a celebrity when he became president too.
About the Author
W. James Antle, III, author of the new book Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?, is editor of the Daily Caller News Foundation and a senior editor of The American Spectator. You can follow him on Twitter @jimantle.
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moron| 6.18.10 @ 6:51AM
Bush speeches were very good. Take away the teleprompter and Obama is Alvin Greene. Compare that. The only thing wrong with the Bush speeches were the radical left wing MSM analysis repeated over and over. The same MSM that annointed Obama a Messiah---because be carried half and half pigment.
ENOUGH ROPE| 6.18.10 @ 12:38PM
OBAMA, THE SMILING COBRA
Stuart Koehl| 6.19.10 @ 5:51PM
Give it a rest, jackass.
serfer62 | 6.20.10 @ 3:00PM
I liked Pres. Bush's speeches and I learned new words too.
No the MFM attacked the man endlesslyand it was that, not his speeches...
Kitty| 6.18.10 @ 7:10AM
"honey-tongued "? Oh, puh-leeeze, Obama is not a good speaker. Hell, he's not even a decent teleprompter reader.
rkmedes| 6.18.10 @ 10:00AM
At best he is an idiot savant of oratory and a dullard in everything else.
Noh watcher| 6.18.10 @ 3:37PM
But he is the beloved Chairman Nobomba, worshipped by the left-tainted media.
chets1girl| 6.20.10 @ 8:59AM
AMEN....what she said!
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 6.18.10 @ 7:12AM
Obama's chances of squirming out of the impending disasters he's created are slim to none. He's no Regan because Obama hates America, hates whites and hates corporate America.
The only thing he loves is big government and although government workers vote it's not likely they will tip the scales in his direction in 2012.
In fact, by 2012 it's highly likely we will have unemployment of 12% followed with the likely scenario of other economic dominoes falling.
The only thing Obama has to look forward to is that his legacy will be one of confusion as the health care bill is challenged through the courts.
Other then the Lily Ledbetter law which has forced corporations to move another million jobs overseas, his legacy is oil stained beaches, a corrupt terrorist loving justice department and trillion dollar deficits.
Ret. Marine| 6.18.10 @ 7:29AM
He does not write his own speeches, he has a czar for this purpose. Now I may not be the brightest bulb on this here line but, I do know this, he is not the president, george soros is, he just there for the perks and happens to be the tongue for the elite progressive wing of the demonrat party, that's all. I wish everyone would tell us what they "really" call a disaster in the executive office. I have my own opinion, he's nothing short of a "traitor to the Constitution and a sorry azzed excuss for a human being." I will not make any excusses for this, nor will I back down from this statement. It's not how I "feel" it is what he conveys to us all daily. He also makes it a point to remind us of his imcompetence.
Alan Brooks| 6.19.10 @ 4:28PM
Go ahead, you hairshirts, continue to botch post Cold War conservative possibilities as you have for two decades.
It's your funeral.
Alan Brooks| 6.20.10 @ 9:35PM
You need political ritalin; you still haven't learned about running 2nd rate candidates, and then you think "Duh, how did Obama get to be president" DUH.
You didn't learn anything from '92 and '96?
T. Poole| 6.19.10 @ 6:13PM
Well said Retired Marine, well said
Melvin| 6.18.10 @ 7:35AM
The man is a drone period. A different post on American Spectator I posted, A person teaches a dog to fetch, and the dog does a great job at fetching, and that is the only trick that he is taught, and the owner calls him an extremely smart dog.
But if put you put the dog behind a steering wheel of a vehicle and tell him to go to the store, the dog will just sit there and look at you, and the owner still calls him smart.
Obama can only do one thing(Community Organizer), anything beyond that he is just going to sit behind the steering wheel and look at you . Meanwhile his advisors still tell us that he is smart.
Ned| 6.18.10 @ 11:02AM
I'm 100% with you and Ret. Marine, right up to the part about "Obama can only do one thing." Not to quibble, but exactly what miracles did this loser (or any other "organizer") EVER accomplish? He acquired some college degrees that somebody else paid for? BFD.
Chicago is still a sewer, filled with people with an unwarranted sense of entitlement, and an under developed sense of responsibility for themselves. Barry Obozo just played along.
Melvin| 6.18.10 @ 1:54PM
Hmm, well he did get behind the steering wheel. Dosen't that count? Kind of, sort of, maybe, just a wee bit?
Jim Hlavac | 6.19.10 @ 12:09PM
That a poodle might jump near to a steering wheel doesn't mean he knows what it is, or how to operate it. Nor know anything else that that he might get a doggie biscuit for being smart enough to jump. It might also just be that the seat is warm and cozy. Still, no cognizance of the situation he, the poodle, is in.
TennesseeVolunteer| 6.18.10 @ 7:40AM
One more article that says that "if he would just say the right thing, then all would be well". bull. He lies and misleads every day. real leaders like Reagan do not do that.
This administrations goal is not to lead, it is to build power. They can't, and won't, tell the truth.
New leadership, smaller government. We, in middle America, will not rest until our leadership understands their job is to enforce laws already written, not come up with new laws that are to replace the same law we already have (like Immigration)!
I am very frustrated with some of the writers on conservative websites who act as if this administration is just making honest mistakes. The time to give them that kind of cover is long over.
More Ned | 6.18.10 @ 11:04AM
"honest mistakes"? Not hardly.
chets1girl| 6.20.10 @ 9:04AM
I, too, tire of people seeming to give King O & his cronies the benefit of the doubt. They are doing the right thing....according to them and their long-held agenda. But, we know that this agenda means the downfall of America as we know it. People, we are fighting for the soul of America and we had better win! Alas, the enemy is within.
Alan Brooks| 6.20.10 @ 9:38PM
"real leaders like Reagan do not do that."
Aye, Reagan. But you left out the Bushes-- the only Republicans to become president since Reagan left office-- not too proud of 'em, are you?
Jeff Lee| 6.18.10 @ 7:44AM
Obama is all wee-weed up about the oil spill. In fact, he's so upset that he's appointing a Special Blue Ribbon Panel to determine whose ass to kick.
Stuart Koehl| 6.19.10 @ 5:52PM
Is that different from the Pabst Blue Ribbon Panel that resolved the Henry Louis Gates crisis?
saleboter| 6.18.10 @ 7:52AM
He compared himself to Roanald Regan? I knew Ronald Regan and you sir are no Ronald Regan!
Bob K.| 6.18.10 @ 8:14AM
He governs domestically by finger pointing, assigning blame and threats, and his foreign policy is based on servility and apology.
Louis Jenkins| 6.18.10 @ 8:20AM
The Pretender n Chief better learn how to communicate without a teleprompter. Without it he's a dead fish. If I have a choice between watching re-runs of Andy of Mayberry and the One, I'll choose Andy any day of the week. Bush had his Waterloo so to speak in New Orleans, now a scant 200 miles away Obummer is having his peice of pie. Only this peice is going to be re-gurgitated time and again. Poetic justice.
Tim*| 6.18.10 @ 8:26AM
The Black Bore blathers on , and on , and on .......
Rebecca| 6.18.10 @ 8:29AM
He has never been a good communicator, but an entertainer. Everybody gets that the things that go wrong are George Bush's fault. Affirmative action leads to the inevitable conclusion that anything that goes wrong is someone elses' fault. He uses passive voice a lot, suggesting his speechwriters are of the fiction bent, not technical.
Curly Smith| 6.18.10 @ 8:41AM
There are two big differences between Reagan in 1982 and Obama in 2010. First, the press was on a mission to destroy Reagan and they're now on a mission to save Obama. Second, and more importantly, Reagan's message was inspirational while Obama's is strident and hectoring.
However, Obama is helped greatly by the National Republican Party's refusal to engage in an ideological debate. The average uninformed voter is left with "Obama" or "Not Obama". The average voter merely knows that the GOP presided over a massive increase in government and has said "the era of Reagan is over". For most average voters the era of Reagan was very good and most average voters don't want it to be over. But with the GOP on the sidelines nobody really knows what "Not Obama" looks like.
Granny Jan| 6.18.10 @ 9:09AM
I thought it was about time to give Obama the Letterman treatment as Bush used to get. I'm sure many people and even the RNC will be making videos similar to this one:
Great Moments in Presidential Speaking
JP| 6.18.10 @ 9:14AM
For the life of me, I cannot remember a single speech Obama has given (since 2004) that can be considered a memorable one. Phrases like, "We are the change we've been waiting for" conjure up images of junior high school pep rallies. Or how about his now infamous speech promising to lower ocean levels and healing the earth? In an earilier age, the Press would have crucified him for uttering such absurdities (just think of what Menckin would have wrote).
His so-called verbal skills were manufactured by a sychophant Press, who wanted him to succeed more than he did. Unlike the Gipper or even Boy Clinton, Obama does not do well off the teleprompter. Even W himself did well when speaking off the cuff.
DonDuke | 6.18.10 @ 9:17AM
When Chairman Obama speaks, he speaks down. He is a snooty, self-possessed, Narcissistic far left wing operative. Have you noticed that the word "intellect" never seems to be in the same sentence with his name?
Old Soldier| 6.18.10 @ 9:59AM
Obama's problem is that the general population is learning to listen to his words instead of his style - what most Spectator readers were doing all along. Now that he is in charge, Obama’s words and deeds are diverging at an alarming rate.
Obama’s other problem – he is a community activist and radical legislator. Unfortunately, as President he is supposed to be the Commander-in-Chief and our top Law Enforcement Officer – roles for which he is totally ill-suited. People are getting antsy as he advocates legislation instead of taking executive actions.
T. Poole| 6.19.10 @ 6:19PM
You left out "racist". God help the next Black or Brown American who tries to run for POTUS downstream.
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.18.10 @ 11:25AM
Ladies and gentlemen,
I for one, am thankful to God that Mr. Obama is a weak, inept man.
Yes, I believe he is at heart a communist agitator, with a sizeable dollop of Islamism thrown in, but think about this for a moment.
If Ronald Reagan had been secretly committed to driving our country off the cliff into the abyss, he would have accomplished it in less than a year.
This weak inept man is also not very good at lying and misdirecting. He has shown us his cards, and his deepest motives. (He has always telegraphed his punches as he timidly ooches ever closer to the "showdown" with the American patriots...of every stripe.)
Folks,
A would-be dictator has to be willing to take ............personal.........life and death risks at some point. I don't think this man has the stomach for it.
Finally then,
We have a CHANCE to salvage our country...if WE have the stomach for it.
He has taken the "gradualist" approach as opposed to the Bolshevik "All out assault" approach, but as his backers see we patriots swelling in numbers and commitment, that could change...over night. Be yee a boy-scout...and "be prepared".
God bless America
Cabermon| 6.18.10 @ 6:05PM
Spot on, Ken.
And I keep telling myself "Without President Jimmy Carter there would have been no President Ronald Reagan."
2010 can be our Midway, and 2010 our Enola Gay.
Sheila| 6.18.10 @ 1:31PM
Sorry, "Moron," but it's moronic to lay all the blame for Dear Leader's elevation a the feet of the MSM. They (and he) are merely the symptoms. The vaunted and saintly "American public" with its equally moronic universal franchise is the problem - and there's no curing that. Decline and fall.
Grzmlyk| 6.18.10 @ 1:57PM
Sheila, you are right on the money.
As a body politic, we have gotten the congress and the president and the judiciary we deserve, which is a searing indictment of human nature.
As Alexander Tytler noted over 200 years ago, representative republics inevitably collapse into abject bondage due to fiscal profligacy brought about by the people insisting on looting the public treasury in a never-ending quest for ever-more goodies.
The die is cast; the events that will lead to our collapse have already taken place. We are over the cliff and just waiting to land.
The question is, can we put the pieces back together afterward, or will we lie supine as Islam turns this continent into a caliphate?
Marc Jeric| 6.19.10 @ 8:00PM
Your writeup is the closest to the truth. Abu Hussein al-Nairobi, our Community Organizer-in-Chief, is rapidly communizing America. Massive nationalizations have already occurred, with mor in the making (global warming scam). This Muslim is a revolutionary marxist, executing his program step by step. With 47% voting for him no matter what (they pay no taxes and are mostly on the dole already) plus the coming amnesty for 20 million Mexican Indians, he will have permanent majority; after 2016 he will proclaim himself President for life.
Michael L. Hauschild| 6.18.10 @ 4:24PM
Communication? Balderdash! All anyone needs to know about this is what's printed on the front of a Sarah Palin 2012 bumper sticker.
Sheila| 6.18.10 @ 5:25PM
Grzmylk, thanks for the comment. I agree that the events that will lead to our collapse have already taken place; although others here consider that a "whine and recline" mentality, I consider it facing reality, not endorsing surrender. Personally, I don't think we'll be able to pick up the pieces in my lifetime - and probably not in my kids' lifetimes either (which is extremely depressing when I really think about it). Some days (like today) I am moved to comment; most others I scan articles and comment threads and am underwhelmed. All this happy talk about "taking our country back" and "just wait until November" and the "tea party patriots." Personally, I believe that with unlimited immigration and massive nonwhite birth rates (already a majority of births are nonwhite), we have already lost our country - we have surrendered to population replacement. Additionally, anyone who thinks we will have a free and fair election (were they ever?) in November needs to look at South Carolina and Alvin Greene - talk about a trial run. I have laid a bet with my husband that Obama will never willingly leave office (my spouse has a bit more faith in people than I do). Finally, the tea party people are like most others in the mainstream right - desperate to prove their racial bona fides and demonstrate that conservatism is a genuine multicultural value system. Over at American Thinker David Rosenthal crows about the GOP here in Texas kicking out all those white, Christian, country-club Republicans (he admits in a comment he doesn't really know where they all stood on big government or taxes, but insists they're guilty as charged on all other counts). I cannot speak as to the pros and cons of those who won or lost as all I know about them is what I have read (and I only endorse opinions I have formed and verified firsthand), but Rosenthal's celebration of this wonderful, all-new GOP which will appeal to more minority voters and young people and independents is nauseating - and nauseatingly familiar. Linda Chavez, anyone? Colin Powell, anyone? Since I'm a Christian/HBDer and a white nationalist of Jewish extraction, I don't really fit in any of the standard categories and I don't really care to - I'm an independent thinker and find the rah-rah republicans as tiresome as the trolls here. Although I respect quite a bit of what Ken (Old Texican) posts, I still stand by what I have written: decline and fall.
Curly Smith| 6.19.10 @ 8:21AM
I don't know that I'm quite as pessimistic but...
The problem isn't really November, those results will take care of themselves. The problem is what happens after the November elections. If you think back to the Carter Years, you'll recall that Reagan had a plan for ending the Malaise. You'll also recall that during his terms Reagan constantly referred to the plan. If you fast-forward to 1994, you'll recall the "Contract With America" that outlined what the GOP would do if we granted them control of Congress. The Contract was successful because we could remember past the useless George H.W. "Read My Lip, Voodoo Economics" Bush to the Era of Reagan. We understood the necessity of Conservative Government.
I agree with your concerns about the "happy talk". Recent history has shown us what the GOP will do if left to its own devices. The GOP needs an over-arching blueprint that tells them, and us, how they will behave if we grant them power in November (and we're going to grant them power). If recent history is any guide then the spring of 2011 will bring bi-partisan deal after bi-partisan deal and all of the hopeful energy and "happy talk" will turn to rage. The media likes to call the Tea Partiers racist because they oppose Obama's agenda but the Tea Parties have their roots in opposition to GOP proliferate spending and massive government expansion. If the GOP returns to it's old form then it will cease to exist as a major party by July of 2011.
In addition to what Grzmlyk said above about representative republics, we're seeing a real world example of the Iron Law Of Oligarchy play out. The Law says "In any organization the permanent officials will gradually obtain such influence that its day-to-day program will increasingly reflect their interests rather than its own stated philosophy. The GOP desperately needs a plan to save them from themselves because the proles aren't going to cut them any slack this time around.
Phil| 6.21.10 @ 3:44AM
Well at least you have the courage to say that you are the racist that you are. Great job!
neo-libertarian| 6.18.10 @ 6:28PM
Shelia,
Do not despair; it is always darkest before the dawn. The best possible preparation for an oncoming battle is a certain measure of foreboding. Only a fool underestimates the opposition. Pause for a moment and realize what we have going for us; we are secure in the love of our families, we are armed with the knowledge (none better than you) of what we are battling for, and we are allied (though not in complete lockstep) with many the ilk of the Old Texan and the Retired Marine. With people such as you to inspire, enlighten, and inform I really think our chances of overcoming this “hope and change” debacle are quite good.
chuck| 6.19.10 @ 8:28AM
Neo-,
Like you, I have faith that in the end the American people will rally around a new-birth of freedom. I think Churchill said it best, and i'm paraphrasing here, "you can always count on the American people to do the right thing, usually after exhausting every other possibility first".
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.18.10 @ 7:25PM
Sheila,
I have pasted my post from another thread here. I certainly did not mean to disparage your thoughts and fears, but rather to encourage you.
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.18.10 @ 4:11PM
Sheila,
...and other doomsters, Decline and fall my butt!
I for one refuse...to "recline and whine"!
God bless America
Sheila,
A quite small group of men founded this country. Many of them lost everything including their families and lives in the process. Guess what?
They were as frightened as you are....with good reason.
Now, obviously I don't know where you hail from, or if you are a single lady...or have a "Woody Allen" wuss for a husband.
Question: (not to answer here of course, but in your own mind.) Do you have a rifle or shotgun in your closet, (smile), or under your bed? Do you have a hundred shells for same?
If you do not, then you are a lamb for the slaughter. You are simply another lamb for slaughtering....do you taste good?
Now,
Even if I am painting yet another big red target on my hiney, I just have to share some things with you, and with the hundreds of thousands of folks who drop in here day to day...(smile), and who are SMART enough to keep their mouths shut...and their powder dry.
First, there are several dozen million men in this country just like me. I shan't decline and fall. I must be "put down", and that has proven difficult for the evil guys over a long life on the sharp end.
...My cousin is a world renowned economist. He wrote his doctoral dissertation ...heh...many years ago...on the advent of gun-powder and the political-economic consequences therefrom.
Bottom line, any "peasant" could kill any king...or any "knight"...with the twitch of a not very well trained finger.
His thesis was that OOPs, its a game-changer for subsequent history.
He was right.
As you may have surmised...I am a Texan. (smile)
I keep a six-gun under a sheet of paper on my credenza......for the SOLE purpose of allowing me to get to my rifle.
Having posted here so openly about it...the evil guys MUST try to kill me. They will probably succeed. (sigh). but.....
That will put dozens of millions of fine men on alert. (Good trade-off).
I am a Christian like you as well, and I do not fear death. What does break my heart is the totally unnecessary crud our country must be pushed through.
Like most folks, I will wait until after the November elections to play my "hole-card". I will be content if we can get a majority in the HOUSE, to stop all this communist, (pardon the shorthand), bullcorn.
I have a pretty good feeling about that. See, I recall that half...HALF...of the voters in the country did not even vote in 2008.
Please think about that for a moment.
((I can just hear Sarah Palin walking into John McDoofus' oval office from day to day saying something like..."John...that was the dumbest decision I have seen in 4? years....Get your act together!"))
Heh.
So Sheila, "woman up!"
There truly are not many "willing to die" communists in our country. We shoot a few thousand...or even a few hundred...and the rest of them go hide under moma's bed...with purpleguy and his ilk.
They are TERRIFIED of dying. I am not.
...I just am deeply saddened for it to come to that, as are most of our good men and women.
Our "military" will stand down. some "Generals REMF" will be shot....if it comes to that, but the troops will NOT shoot Americans who share the same thoughts and prayers that the troops have.
(Do you know the term REMFs? That stands for REAR ETCHELON MOTHER- F---ERS.)
Some of them will be "fragged" if necessary.
OK.
If November comes...and the communists win, then there is only one solution!
From that day forward... the only people who get to vote are TAX-PAYERS. IE: If one derives more money from the gubmint than one pays in...NO VOTE!
That includes SEIU, school teachers...etc.
Screw the rest of the world. Tell China... "suckers!"
..."heh, watcha' gonna do about it?"
Decline and fall my worst zit!
Keep your shotgun handy.
God bless America
chuck| 6.19.10 @ 8:44AM
Ken,
God bless you, Sir. Like you, I am ready, but hoping that it won't be necessary.
Too many people are willing to live on their kness, begging for scraps from the taskmasters, aka, the Imperial Federal Government. It truly saddens me, because most people will never know what they are truly capable of achieving, and the sheer joy of being able to stand back at the end of a long haul and see what you have accomplished.
For those of us who have busted our asses to get where we are, we are not going to willing give it up. Failure today means another stab it at tomorrow, and the next day, until we finally succeed. It's what sets us apart from these lazy, sorry-assed, MFers, like purpleguy, Toddard, and the liberals in this country. They've never worked for what they want, instead they use government to steal it from the producers. We, on the other hand, worked our asses off to get it, and are willing to fight like hell to keep it!
God bless you, Ken, and all my fellow patriots here.
Yosemeti Sam| 6.19.10 @ 12:45AM
" ... Yet Obama's adeptness on the stump ...."
Adeptness?
Let's call a spade a spade: BHO was/is 'adept'
on any 'stump' while in or having sought the Presidency; because the Left Back Stream Media aka Public Enemy Number 1 were/are purely partisan; IOW, calculatingly journalistically inept - hands always raised, signalling no harm intended for what 'got/gets by them'; really folks, really; all the pertinent contextual background history of a calculating multi-groomed Leftist
was/is just too speculative to peruse; as in the EVIL of closet babies; as in from that empathetic 'platform' BHO has rocketed to stardom per PEN1 journalistic blight.
The LBSM PEN1 simply could not/would not espy Wright from wrong in BHOs' sinister structural ideological foundations: IOW, BHO and PEN1 are infernal fraternal odious soulmates! Look around at America - how many boots are upon you? Laser focused boots, that is.
The LBSM PEN1 slobbered, tingled, proned etc before this 'thriller' from Hawaii; an exemplar moon-walker!
Se Brute PEN1 - how many pieces of silver for facilitating the shot-gunning of the Constitution of the United States of America?
BHO can talk the talk - but olde Jesse ( the would-be nut-cutter) and Al, like the shadow
know, espy what's up with him; he can't walk the walk.
Waterloo - in November!
(Parenthetically, um, about that Mao Zoo Dung White House Christmas tree ornament?)
TennesseeVolunteer| 6.19.10 @ 1:03AM
To Ken, Sheila....Patriots All!
I have often marveled at how wonderful the Patriots of this country are. We wait our turn quietly..to vote to stop the greatest danger to our Republic since WWII. I don't worry about the future because I KNOW there are tens of millions of Patriots in America who will do their talking with one ballot at the ballot box.
Ken, of course, has revealed what many of those millions also understand, that if our country is too far gone because of unseen tragedies that are planned and in waiting, the obvious outcome of the 2010 and 2012 elections may just be altered.
We Patriots know our duty. The next step of insurrection will not be violent but determined in so many ways that the rocket scientists in the White House and at Soros World will not be able to combat them. We will not be the ones to turn toforce, they will.
And then, Ken, the Patriots will stand in numbers that will defy the imagination of the the elite Left.
You see, we are , at heart, a peaceful people. We go to work, to school, to Church, coach our kids teams, sing in the choir, hunt, play softball, fish, join the Armed Services and don't marry people of the same sex!
The libs are so wrapped up in their own words they don't know where meat comes from and couldn't grow a crop if their life depended on it. We will leave them to the states that aren't worth saving and turn the rest into a Garden of Eden. We don't need them, they need us. In fact, for the longest time, we just put up with them because we were busy doing our work while they plotted and planned how to cheat us out of our earnings and possessions.
We are a peaceful people and we will vote. But if they try to cheat us any more. we will go our own way. It will be as peaceful as they want it to be.
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.19.10 @ 1:03PM
Tennessee Vol.
Thank you for rounding out my post.
Sheila
The shotgun is for home defense. a 4/10 pump gun is my recommendation. 3 inch shells number 2 shot or number 4 shot in a pinch.
If things should break down where you live and the looters come by...well looters and rioters are terrified of shotguns and a 4/10 doesn't kick a woman too hard.
PS: take the "plug" out of the magazine. That way the gun will hold 5 shots instead of three. The gun-store guy will do it for you if you ask him....or at least he will show you how.
You truly do need a shooting class if you haven't shot a shotgun before. Keep in mind that the pattern only spreads about one inch per meter of distance from target.
T. Poole| 6.19.10 @ 6:38PM
Ken, Volunteer and all, Although I don' disagree at all with what you said I would suggest caution. Obama is loomking for an excuser to declare a "National Emergency" in Oct/Nov. so he can nullify any elections. In 1967 I laid down my rifle and said no more, but a couple weeks ago I went out and bought a new one. It rests in its box, next to my 9MM. Neither of which I wan t to use, but on the other hand I wont stand for Martial law. Don't fold them,hold them but keep them close, advertising only gives him an excuse.
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.20.10 @ 1:15PM
T Poole,
thank you for your concern. I have been posting my best thoughts here for almost two years now. I am sure those posts are on some communist's, (pardon the shorthand), documents file.
If you have been here for a while, you will have noted that I believe our best approach, if the communists manage to win etc. in November, will be a national sit-down strike, and a deferral of income...thus taxes....and starve 'em out.
If Islam wants to stick their nose in to hurt us, we simply shoot them.
(That won't be difficult in most southern States and some mid-west States. Most responsible husbands and fathers are already carrying shoulder arms in our cars and trucks to help our local police forces in an event.)
Our local peace-officers are overwhelmingly on our side, along with our military...Colonels down.
I personally carry a spare T-shirt with me with an American flag on it to help police identify me as an American in an Islamic terror event I get caught in.
In a breakdown of food and fuel delivery...I am concerned about looters and rioters. Depending upon one's personal geographic situation, one really does only have two choices that I can think of.
1. either hunker down at home and defend it until the looters kill each other off or move on down the road. (Don't show lights or cook food, as starving people can literally smell it a mile away.
2. Evacuate to the country or a National forest etc.
with as many emergency supplies as possible...IF you can beat the herd.
Robert Fahl| 6.19.10 @ 5:26AM
Rather than a Great Communicator, I think Obama will be more remembered as THE GREAT WINDBAG
Ken | 6.19.10 @ 8:00AM
I do not like defeatist; they are so given up , we can not sit idle and let this guy take us down the tubes. If we give up he has won , now what has he won well a country that could be run by a 12 year old . but we have more to us than we get credit for , I say most people stayed at home and let the chips fall where they may , this time I do not believe that will happen . We must figth for it and stand solid in our convictions and vote someone in that will abide by our laws. I knew he was no good when I heard he was from Chicago. Lets remember that he did not win by a land slide by any means and his approval numbers are tumbling down ward on a daily basis. I am sure the American people will vindicate them selves this November and also in 2012. No giving up and no quitting .
Oldefarte| 6.19.10 @ 12:35PM
In Chicage Wayese, he's a.....WINDBAG!!!!
R. Justin| 6.20.10 @ 9:34PM
Let's give credit where it's due: When a less honey-tongued commander-in-chief presided over a debt-addled banking system, high unemployment, abysmal job creation, a mess on the Gulf Coast, rising health care costs, and two foreign wars that don't seem much closer to being won in any meaningful sense, his approval ratings were far lower than Obama's 46 percent. (bold mine)
This is the stupidest thing I have read today, if not all week. Bush didn't "preside" over two disastrous wars, he started them. That Obama has continued them is a shame, but the plague is on the house of Bush for this, at least.
Oh, and then the usual bullsh*t about The Great Reagan®. Give it up. Obama is arguably closer to Reagan than Bush was, but that's not necessarily to his credit. The whole game is rigged, and this sort of argument only proves that the author is buying into it.
breffnian| 6.20.10 @ 11:22PM
He started them? Did you ever hear of 9/11? Or do you not believe that the murder of 3,000 Americans by terrorists aided by a foreign country is a legitimate casus belli? And we were de facto at war with Iraq since 1990. Hussein never disarmed verifiably as he was instructed to or face the direst consequences. And the situation in Iraq has improved so much that Joe Biden is now trying to claim credit for it! I believe that Iraq was becoming a net positive for Republicans in late 2008 and the the financial crisis handed the election to Obama.
Mike Gabel| 6.21.10 @ 1:31PM
In October 2008, a friend asked me what I thought of Obama. I said, "In Texas, I believe they say "all hat, no cattle"".
That was my first impression of Obama and it is my current impression of him.
I never dreamed, however, how un-American, dangerous and destructive he would be.
So, it is a time like this one where America shows its greatness and its ability to recover. Obama had his chance to speak. Now, We The People will speak.
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I liked Pres. Bush's speeches and I learned new words too.
No the MFM attacked the man endlesslyand it was that, not his speeches.