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The Obama Watch
Romancing the Stone
Obama’s outreach to independent voters who hate big government but like the idea of a black president.
Oh, for the good old days — when Barack Obama was forced to defend his policies; when he couldn’t stop himself from lashing out at his political opponents. Today he is happy to float above the fray — ignoring any and all criticism and, indeed, openly borrowing from the vocabulary of his critics as he espouses a new-found love of liberty, free enterprise, and Western civilization.
If there is one thing our president cannot abide, it is being lectured to by someone else. What sweet release, then, to jet over to Europe, escaping the need for being on the receiving end of a second lecture from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who addressed the U.S. Congress on Tuesday. Just a few days before that, Netanyahu had publicly taken Obama to task in the Oval Office, telling the president that his plan for a return to Israel’s 1967 borders was a “non-starter.” This was said with his eyes fixed on the president and the cameras rolling.
Netanyahu’s address to the joint session of Congress was a rousing success — with no fewer than 56 standing ovations. By contrast, Obama’s address to the British Houses of Parliament a day later was a pallid affair, with only a smattering of polite applause for what the Telegraph described as “a series of orotund banalities.”
But no matter from the president’s perspective. His important task now is to try to persuade a majority of the independent voters in the U.S. who supported him in 2008 that he is, after all, the “post-partisan politician” that he promised to be when he was running in the Democratic primary against Hillary Clinton.
That is something, apparently, that many Americans still want to believe.
Shelby Steele made several telling observations along this line in an op-ed (“Obama’s Unspoken Re-Election Edge”) in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal. He wrote:
There have really always been two Barack Obamas: the mortal man and the cultural icon. If the actual man is distinctly ordinary, even a little flat and humorless, the cultural icon is quite extraordinary. The problem for Republicans is that they must run against both the man and the myth…
What gives Mr. Obama a cultural charisma that most Republicans cannot have? First, he represents a truly inspiring American exceptionalism: He is the first black in the entire history of Western civilization to lead a Western nation — and the most powerful nation in the world at that…
He literally validates the American democratic experience, if not the broader Enlightenment that gave birth to it.
To put all that in a cruder way, Steele’s observations recall George W. Bush’s line about the “soft bigotry of low expectations.” If Steele is right, many voters — along with most of Obama’s Republican political rivals for the presidency — are restrained by political correctness from harsher and more telling criticism of his mediocre or worse track record as a president.
Certainly, in the 18 months remaining before the next general election, it will not be hard for Obama to project a far better image to independent voters than he did in the first two years of his presidency, when he committed himself to an epic and disastrous increase in federal spending and U.S. indebtedness. He is therefore to blame for the weakest recovery from any recession since the end of World War II. To add insult to injury, he ineptly embarked upon an “apology” tour of foreign nations that seemed to be squarely aimed at doing everything possible to placate, or appease, long-standing U.S. enemies, while offending many of our staunchest allies — beginning with Britain and Israel.
Barack Obama no longer has to run against George W. Bush to pick up some or all brownie points that he lost with independent voters during his first two years in office. All he has to do is to run against the Barack Obama of 2009/2010 — sounding, by contrast, a bit more like George W., or even Ronald Reagan.
Obama’s recent address at Westminster was filled with commonplace utterances that were only remarkable because he said them — no doubt partly with the intent of providing some comfort food to independent voters back in the U.S. The speech included the following elements:
• Endless repetition of importance of the so-called “special relationship” between the U.S. and Britain — which seemed to count for nothing back in the midst of the BP oil spill, less than 12 months ago.
• Repeated references to the notion that the “longing for human liberty is universal” — which Obama and others on the left scoffed at during his two years in office… describing it as another one of George W.’s deluded ideas which failed to take account of the diversity of human cultures.
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Andrew B. Wilson, a frequent contributor to The American Spectator, writes from St. Louis.
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Mimi| 5.27.11 @ 6:54AM
If like he says, he NOW believes in Liberty and the free market principles of ADAM SMITH....How could anyone believe that! We will never in a million years T
Just one thing.... we trusted once...but NEVER again!
rust
SonOfSam| 5.27.11 @ 8:39AM
Spot on Mimi! To all those voters who cast a ballot for Obama to prove that they're not racist, could you PLEASE this time around vote him out to prove that you're not complete idiots?
PS While I might see some truth to this article, I think that 7 dollar a gallon gasoline, 12% unemployment and 20% inflation will cut a lot of ties. That's my prediction for the fall of 2012 -- you heard it here first
da monk| 5.27.11 @ 8:50AM
SonOfSam (gee Sam's my fathers name too) Inspite of your prediction of $7 per gallon gas. I don't think the President controls gas prices. What he can do for your predicted 12% unemployment and 20% inflation depends on how he can convince recalcitrant Conservatives in Congress to work with him.
SonOfSam| 5.27.11 @ 9:22AM
hey there da monk,
"We are the ones we have been waiting for"
"change you can believe in"
"hope and change"
When you promise people that they will all win the golden lottery ticket, and what they actually get is foreclosed homes, rampant inflation, sky high gasoline, food stamps and unemployment , you can bet yer sweet ass they will blame someone. Obama is the one they will blame, and rightly so.
He has allowed the Fed to pursue an insane monetary policy of simply creating money out of thin air, thus turning the dollar into confetti. THIS WILL ALWAYS LEAD TO INFLATION. It has every time in history, from Diocletian in the Roman Empire to Weimar Germany to Jimmy Carter to now.
He has spent almost a trillion dollars to supposedly "stimulate" the economy. If he had used this money to actually fix bridges and repave roads, it might have been SOMETHING. As it is, here we are two years later, and it accomplished NOTHING. "3 million jobs saved or created"? Where the f**ck are these jobs, in Narnia? I know plumbers and electricians who haven't worked in months. But boy oh boy, we've got bucketloads of new government paper pushers in cushy Washington jobs though, don't we!
As far as the President being able to do something about the price of gas, its called
START DRILLING
This ridiculous empty suit of a President claims that we can't possibly lower gas prices by producing more of our own oil, but then he goes to OPEC asking them to boost production so as to -- you guessed it -- lower the price of gasoline. If it works for foreign producers, it will work with us, AND create jobs in the process.
As far as those "recalcitrant conservatives in Congress" -- dude, sit down before you hurt yourself. This President had HUGE majorities in Congress for two full years, and he accomplished not a damn thing except to make things ten times worse than they were when he started. So now you and other bed wetting finger pointing crybabies are going to blame the GOP for Obama's bungling incompetence? Get real, and grow up.
Idiot
DRed| 5.27.11 @ 10:29AM
Inflation is at 3%.
PolishKnight| 5.27.11 @ 11:45AM
What crack from Obama's pipe are you smoking? 3%? Maybe per month!
Gas prices alone have driven inflation into the stratosphere. I love the trick they tried to pull by pricing 4 lb sugar bags the same as previously 5 in the hopes consumers wouldn't be outraged.
Perhaps the only way that the consumer price index can be fooled into going down is due to the housing bubble collapse.
SonOfSam| 5.27.11 @ 11:45AM
yeah sure it is, as long as its "core" inflation and we leave out the price of food and energy. Just like unemployment is "only" 9%, as long as we get to leave out all the people working part time, forced into early retirement or have given up looking.
wake up and smell the coffee...while you can still afford to do so
Kurt in S.L.C.| 5.27.11 @ 7:43PM
SofS, I own a little drive-thru coffee kiosk.With 4 dollar gas, a lot of my former customers are already there.
Warrior | 5.27.11 @ 3:07PM
If you use the standards that were in place in 1980, it is 10% and rising.
russel| 5.27.11 @ 11:10AM
SOS , I'm as angry too . Those retard fence-sitting ' moderate or independent ' jerks gave us what we have now . It deosn't matter in the least what the idiot in chief says to get re-elected when the wallet is empty . I just hope the stradlers will be so bruised and scraped by election time , that they'll see it the same way .
PolishKnight| 5.27.11 @ 11:46AM
Actually, those fence sitting jerks gave us McCain. Then there weren't enough of them to get McCain elected.
SonOfSam| 5.27.11 @ 11:52AM
Russell, don't call them names...they were taken in by a slick con man, and they are our fellow Americans deserving of our sympathy. As for having to wait until election time for them to be sufficiently bruised and scraped, that my friend has already happened. Every ObamaNazi in the White House is in panic mode right now, because they know they've screwed the pooch, big time. States like Virginia and North Carolina which they thought they had shifted permanently into the "Blue" column have gone back deep dyed Redstate. Meanwhile, they are being forced to divert resources into traditionally blue states like Jersey and Pennsylvania.
On a more personal note, my 20 something daughter is hopping mad at the TelePrompter in Chief, and so are her friends. They voted for hope and change, and now all they've got are student loans and rejected job apps
Teaghan| 5.27.11 @ 11:47AM
Those of us who work, will vote with our purses. Those who live off of us who work will vote with their "feelings" and the need to support "the first African American president" or Irish president. I can't keep up with what he is pretending to be, week to week.
I'm beginning to agree with Neal Boortz, that those who don't add monetarily to the system don't vote. And I mean those who are able to work. Not retirees, handicapped, or children. Ya have to be able to read as well.
beebop| 5.27.11 @ 9:59PM
... and write ... English, please.
SpiralArchitect| 5.27.11 @ 12:59PM
For a cereal killer you sure are funny.
Where the f**ck are these jobs, in Narnia?
The Jesus alagory childrens story makes the line even that much better, thx. I needed a good laugh during these troublesome times.
Forget not only people ON unemployment count as the unemployeed for Gov stats. The Gov's UI numbers are all askew. most places can readily add 25% and the areas with greater UI could easly go 50-75% higher.
Wehn peoples claims end, they no longer count as unemployeed - the Gov uses these numbers to add to 'new jobs' - always think about what you read, esp. from the Gov.
SonOfSam| 5.27.11 @ 1:39PM
Exactly! What the hell ever happened to that old liberal canard, "Question Authority"? Does that all stop whenever an uber-lib is stenching up the White House?
canuckistani| 5.27.11 @ 2:22PM
I love the selective amnesia when so called cons make shots at BHO.
The highest prices we had the pump was, get ready, on RR's and Junior's watches. The highest inflation rates were during Nixon Carter Bush 41 and get ready, Junior's watch in the period after Opec grew a spine.
Where were the remedies then? Answer: they did not exist.
The bubble burst on Junior's watch and his daddy's. Clinton ushered in 20M new jobs and a budget surplus that would have wiped out the debt within a generation. Junior saw the housing market implode (the real source of capital for ALL markets) and the G had to step in and save the house from burning to the ground.
From -750K per month, BHO has been the steward of 15 months of job growth, historically low interest rates and moderated inflation.
If the GOP was in charge in 2009/10, would we have another $500 tax payback that was absorbed into the ether, or a more robust plan to stabilize critical pillars of our economy just as BHO has done? I'm hoping the latter, but the flat-earthers here grow nostalgic for a barter economy.
It is unfortunate when facts get in the way of banging your fist on the table.
I did not vote for BHO, but his performance on the economy has been satisfactory, and far better than any "solutions" the GOP have conjured up for a generation. We were bleeding out, the wound has been stanched, and now it's time for the capital markets to wake up.
beebop| 5.28.11 @ 7:15AM
While I personally agree with most of your analysis, all they need to do is get the votes of the 47% on foodstamps and other social programs, plus the unions. That's it. While we all think that food stamps and welfare are the safety net, many of those who receive those benefits see them as their RIGHT. When you have a group that thinks that government handouts are the best to which they can aspire? The slope is to slippery to imagine.
His Scotland Yard nickname of Chalaque is spot on and those idiots at CBS (covering barry's **it) who think they can deny this away aren't bargaining on a world media not controlled by the lefties. That should be what WE call him .... And. Having been designated the "too clever for his own good" tourist he is, Barry then proved it with his date in the visitor log and speaking through the playing of the British Anthem. He and the missus simply reminded the Brits of what an Ugly American looks like!
Anita| 5.27.11 @ 9:38AM
The Dems touted Bush's presidency as being defined by $4 gas. This marxist in office skates way too easily for my taste. God Bless Bibi. May Israel live long, stay free and be supported completely by our next president.
Anyone other than Obama for 2012. Well, except for the ass Joe Biden.
Occam's Tool| 5.27.11 @ 12:43PM
Palin apparently MAY be running---see Geraghty on same in Nat Review. She would be fine. Folks, we actually have a lot of good people---Bachmann (Turner Overdrive), Palin, West, Bolton, Ryan, DeMint, Cain. One of them has to run a solid campaign.
But Barack is toast against any one of the ones I've named---in debate, in ploicy, on the record. (HLS graduates more than 60% of its people in the Obama era Cum Laude of above---give me a break.)
RCV| 5.27.11 @ 6:50PM
Occam - If what you're looking for is "a solid campaign", i.e. one that would make conservatives feel good, running anyone on your list might work. There is no question in my mind that every one of them would be crushed by Obama at the polls. So I'd enjoy the campaign, too.
Palin might do well in rousing speeches before a tea party audience, but on a policy debate she'd be humiliated, utterly humiliated. She knows little about the world, about policy issues, and evidences little intellectual curiosity about such matters and little ability to grasp them. She also has about the highest public perception negatives of any candidate considering a run, which is why she consistently polls more than 20% behind O'bama. And unlike West or Cain, who might be expected to have low numbers because they're largely unknown, Palin has high public recognition. The more people get to know her, the lower her numbers go.
Todd S| 5.28.11 @ 3:34PM
Palin will not be the nominee and it is doubtful if she will even run. The strongest conservative candidates have yet to throw their hat in the ring, those 2 being Rick Perry and Paul Ryan. I see either one of those being the nominee with perhaps Bachmann as the VP. Bachmann is stronger than Palin in my book and has no fear without some of the baggage.
If you think Obama has a foreign policy advantage after the mess he is making in the ME, you need to stop drinking the kool aid. The reception Netanyahu received in Congress after he put Obama in his place should tell you that he is very weak on foreign policy. Btw, I noticed you had nothing to say about Obama sitting in the pews of the rabid anti-Semite Rev Wright's Church for 20 years, not quite as easy to brush off as his buddy Bill Ayers is it?
John Navratil| 5.28.11 @ 4:35PM
Todd S,
Rick Perry's best attribute is that the Bush's don't support him. He has been making the right noises lately, but is, in my opinion, a weak sister. He isn't immune from the lure of power and isn't solid about anything. He'd be better that what we have, but he seems more hat than cattle to me. (I've lived in Houston since '73)
Todd S| 5.28.11 @ 5:20PM
John,
Not from Texas so I don't know as much about Rick Perry as you. I do know that he is not from the "compassionate conservative" camp of the Bush's and that he is not afraid of Obama or the liberal press. Texas seems to have done quite well under his leadership. Whatever his weaknesses may be, he is surely better than the likes of Romney and Huntsman. I am Mormon as well but they cannot be trusted to support conservatism.
My preferred ticket is Paul Ryan and Michelle Bachmann but we don't know if Ryan will run though I sure hope so. We know that the Democrat's intend to demagogue the medicaid issue in 2012 but I believe Ryan can articulate the need for reform on entitlements effectively and that more people are waking up to the danger we are in. I tend to believe that Ryan doesn't really want to be president being a somewhat normal person but I think he feels a responsibility to prevent the financial destruction of America and that he is the best person for conservatives to rally around to prevent it.
vitadMD| 5.30.11 @ 11:48PM
...on policy debate... If you had been following Gov. Palin six months prior to the 2008 election and throughout the past two years, you would know that she is actually a policy wonk. The fact that you expect her to be humiliated means you haven't read a thing she's written. If you don't realize that Gov. Palin has been running, then you really don't know her well at all.
NJK| 5.31.11 @ 9:44PM
The one who is going to be humiliated is Hussein. He is going to get his clock cleaned in 2012. I hope people show up and boo him the way his supporters did President Bush. And by the way, the Tea Party is regular Americans of which I am one. If Sarah Palin runs she wins in a landslide. How is Mr. Soetoro going to debate her without The TOTUS?
SpiralArchitect| 5.27.11 @ 11:59AM
The POTUS sure can control the price of gas.
Here is a quote fro Steven Chu a few months back( note that this is happeneing now ):
http://www.syracuse.com/news/i.....el_in.html
NJK| 5.31.11 @ 9:41PM
You are joking? He has shut down drilling, shut down mining for coal, wants to raises taxes on businesses, and you believe he has no control on gas prices or unemployment? No one is going to hire with this maniac in the White House. Get Conservatives in Congress to work with him? For what? He had a $787 billion dollar "Stimulus bill" that he said would create "Shovel ready" jobs, only to later say, "There are no shovel ready jobs." He's nothing but a liar. He ran for office, providing no documents, no true bc, no college records(Yet we're supposed to believe this um uh uh um man is brilliant.) Once he gets into office he loots the treasury calling it a stimulus bill but gives the money to groups like the NEA and you want Conservatives in Congress to work with him? I would work with him by telling him to go to hell. He needs to work with others. That isn't likely to happen because he's a textbook sociopath. He has no conscience. He destroys. The Conservatives are going to help him do it. You're ignorant beyond belief.
Alan Brooks| 5.27.11 @ 8:20PM
I like Obama better than Nixon, Ford, both Bushes.
So that leaves only Ike and Reagan-- only two in the 66 years since WWII!
John Navratil| 5.28.11 @ 4:37PM
Chacun à son goût. See you at the polls.
Alan Brooks| 5.30.11 @ 7:07PM
I also love any black man who will dominate me, muslims are the best.
Alan Brooks| 5.30.11 @ 7:50PM
Clint/Tim*, you are thinking of your dad the colonel!
Hobart Graham| 5.27.11 @ 7:02AM
The best thing Obama can do for America is to pave the way for, some time in the future, a black Presiudent to be elected on genuine merit: Obama is a phoney but if he gets through the next 18 months without actually destroying the United States - if he proves himself no worse than Carter, say - this may prove a long-term benefit. Let's look forward to a good black president.
Maddox| 5.27.11 @ 7:36AM
The best thing he can do for American is resign. That includes black Americans, white Americans, other races of America, and future possible black presidents.
Teaghan| 5.27.11 @ 11:48AM
Let's write a letter of resignation and have that AutoPen sign it while he's partying his way across Europe.
SonOfSam| 5.27.11 @ 8:44AM
Its a long shot, but I think if it came down to a contest between Obama and Herman Cain, we could see the difference between an empty suit who reads from a TelePrompter and a solid performer who's actually produced real JOBS. In other words, a pampered overgrown child vs an actual MAN
SpiralArchitect| 5.27.11 @ 12:03PM
Cain was in control of the KC Fed Reserve Bank.
As things look now I will vote for Cain over Obummer w/o hesitation.
beebop| 5.27.11 @ 10:04PM
While I respect and agree with any number of Cain's policies, lack of foreign policy is an issue with me. As is Romnyecare. Equal opportunity independent.
Phil Sukalewski| 5.28.11 @ 9:32AM
U.S. foreign policy is simple for any conservative, especially Herman Cain:
Do what is in the best interest of the U.S.A.
da monk| 5.27.11 @ 8:51AM
What about the White part of him?
Drunken Sailor| 5.27.11 @ 10:12AM
Hey Monk, why not do as the liberals like you profess to do and not see any color of him. Radical, I know.
SpiralArchitect| 5.27.11 @ 12:04PM
Be certain it will emerge when it can be a benefit to him.
canuckistani| 5.27.11 @ 2:26PM
And can you name a prospective good white president that's not dead or not a bearded marxist?
Shamus| 5.27.11 @ 7:17AM
Obama is an affirmative action hire.
canuckistani| 5.27.11 @ 2:27PM
and what was Junior?
beebop| 5.27.11 @ 10:05PM
Are your referring to John QUINCY Adams? Please. Let's stay current, shall we?
alice moore| 5.27.11 @ 7:48AM
In most elections people will vote with their pocketbooks/wallets. The same will be true in 2012.
A Republican candidate only need say, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" This will resonate with many voters.
martin j smith| 5.27.11 @ 7:51AM
We are not 2008 when we had GWB to hate. Now we have Obama as President and he has a record.
I have always wondered about the terms Moderates" and " Independents" and who really are. If these people voted for Obama because he is Black and that feels good--then THEY TOO ARE RACISTS in my view. They along with the whole Socialist crowd plu8s Obama himself.
Republicans must throw down the gauntlet --criticize Obama on his policies --their failure--and call the Socialists, MSM the LIARS AND RACISTS THAT THEY ARE. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This must be done to save us from ourselves.
John Navratil| 5.27.11 @ 8:26AM
Recapitulating a few points from Messrs. Wilson and Steele:
Obama's speech is "a series of orotund banalities."
Obama can run against himself by sounding "more like George W., or even Ronald Reagan".
Obama "is no longer joined by leg irons to someone who is almost universally despised outside of the hard or loony left".
The problem for Republicans is that they must run against both the man and the myth.
Aren't Republicans uniquely positioned to offer minorities a liberation from both dependency and militancy?
Both authors have taken something of a dim view of the prospects and challenges facing the Republican Party in defeating Obama - by the way, doesn't NY-26 illustrate the challenges facing those agitating for a third party. I don't find the view so dim.
Clearly, the power of the incumbency held by a personally popular President is formidable. I have to remind myself of that as I hold the man in such low esteem, I cannot imagine any sentient being voting for him. The Obama-2012 bumper sticker in the voc-ed school parking lot I pass reminds me daily that my view is not universally shared.
However, both the man and the myth are relatively easy targets. The man is the politician full of promises broken - no new taxes on those earning under $250,000, unemployment under 8% if we spend this money, card-check (fortunately, stalled), etc. The myth is the hope and change and waters receding, world healing, new overtures in the Middle East and the famous reset button. This is the rock star who just put out a dismal album.
The true liberal (like the true conservatives in the past) is being abandoned by the man is search of the middle. Does that sound like the Republican party of the last several cycles? It should. Unfortunately for Republicans, the math rewards abandoning a smaller left wing in search of a larger middle than it does for abandoning a larger conservative base. This is sound political strategy for the Dems and you might hear some muted screams from the Kunich and Pelosi voters, but they will not be amplified. Fortunately, a lot of independants will need to be willing to take a second glass of Kool-Aid.
With some carping here and there, this is the year for conservatives. The ground has shifted when you have Democrats actually supporting budget cuts, and not just operating budgets, but entitlements. An enthusiastic base remains important, as it drives the message.
As in all elections, the independant is the key to winning. Staying on the newly rediscovered Republican principle of actually limiting government, this should not be difficult. The Dems are on the ropes. Keep them there. Expect more ads throwing Grandma off the cliff and other cornered-rat behaviour. Counter with American exceptionalism and tout the fact that we (particularly Republicans) are the most generous people in the world and Grandma needn't worry.
It's a long way until election day, but I, personally, am as enthusiastic as I have ever been about the prospects for the conservative.
Bob Grant| 5.27.11 @ 11:14AM
As am I. It's called the wrath of the middle class; of ALL races and genders.
Phil Sukalewski| 5.28.11 @ 9:40AM
Nice points (although a bit long). I'll quibble a bit with your comment that "As in all elections, the independant is the key to winning."
Obama has caused a huge surge in the # of Americans who identify themselves as Conservatives or as Republicans. More importantly, the # of people paying attention (especially to more than just the headlines) to politics is way up. All of this is good for Conservatives and makes it harder for the lying Libs to get away with their BS.
John Navratil| 5.28.11 @ 4:42PM
Phil Sukalewski,
True, but everyone identifying as conservative (40%, if I recall correctly) isn't enough. It still take the middle and the Big O. is chasing that as hard as he can. Look forward to his claiming to part the waters.
PS - Sorry about the length abovc - I thought so too.
JFGalt| 5.27.11 @ 7:59AM
OBAMA! will be re-elected because the ideologues will not admit that they were wrong. The majority that voted for him before will vote for him again because they cannot conceive that they voted for the wrong guy before. It's the Country Do or Die mentality for liberals where right or wrong he tells them what they want to hear and they follow whether he actually does anything that he had promised. The Jews will still support him even if he openly pushes for Israel's destruction. If you thought he was arrogant after his first election then buddy you ain't seen nothing yet. He'll believe that he has a mandate from every human on earth. When will people realize what door they opened with this guy.
SonOfSam| 5.27.11 @ 8:49AM
Gotta disagree with you JF. I know it might seem anecdotal, but my 24 year old college graduated daughter is FURIOUS with that "prick in the White House", and apparently she is not alone. She's racked up huge student loans -- as have many of her friends -- to find that there's no damned jobs out there. She voted for Obama -- as did every one of her friends without exception-- only to find out that she's been had. She's not sure she could vote for a Republican, but she damned sure won't vote for Obama ever again. She tells me that her friends feel exactly the same way.
They were promised a golden lottery ticket, and instead they've got unemployment and food stamps.
da monk| 5.27.11 @ 8:59AM
So who will she vote for? Not making a decision is in reality not making a decision and she, as everyone else if the want the same or change will have to make a decision. She's in a no win fight
SonOfSam| 5.27.11 @ 9:39AM
hey da monk,
It might be easier for you since your mommie will help you to vote, but my daughter and her friends are struggling with real world issues. So are the 20 something minority students I help with GED tutoring on the weekend, virtually none of whom plans on voting ever again. Ditto for all the independent voters who quite honestly didn't heed any of my warnings about the TelePrompter in Chief, and who are all having some serious buyers remorse: they're not voting for him either.
Obama will not win when the black vote stays home, independents back the GOP and the youth vote tells him to go f*ck himself
Your boy is going down in flames. Your smug stupidass comments won't save him
TrueBlue| 5.27.11 @ 12:23PM
If you don't vote, you have no right to complain about what results. Hope they realize if they don't vote, and he gets re-elected because enough foolish people do vote for him a second time, they would be more responsible for it than the rest of us.
Not voting is far worse IMO, it means you don't care about the liberty afforded you by every man and woman that has died for this country. It is the responsibility, not just the right, of every person with the ability to vote to do so.
Gretchen| 5.29.11 @ 7:54PM
If you don't vote you can't kvetch!
sablegsd| 5.30.11 @ 6:52PM
I disagree. We are free to vote or not in this country.
And other than local issues, your vote doesn't mean squat. How does that electoral college work again?
Occam's Tool| 5.27.11 @ 12:46PM
No. She can STAY HOME, too. Poor turnout, the good guys win. Motivated large turnout, the good guys win. The left hook of high gas prices and the right uppercut of high unemployment are going to put Obummer down for the count!
SpiralArchitect| 5.27.11 @ 1:49PM
Obummer will go the remorse & forgiveness route. People are gullable. He could redily be the POTUS for a long long time.
With all of these GOP off shoots - Palin, Paul etc the split of a only mediocre candidate to run seperately could reasure Obummers tennure.
A split in the vote would incinerate any shot the Non-Obummers have to remove the 1/2 white trash in the WH.
John Bolton wrote a swell piece about the national defense not long ago - could not recover a link.
PolishKnight| 5.27.11 @ 11:50AM
Youth is wasted on the young, eh?
They really believed that Obama had tiger blood or something and then he would magically produce a Swedish utopia for them.
I'm reminded of when I was 13 and we made posters for a science fair. I proposed using bicycles to solve the energy crisis. I proudly gave my poster to the teacher and was heartbroken when I found it hours later in the trash.
That moment obviously was a big deal in my life because it reminds me of how young and naive and foolish I could be. At least a year later, I realized he was right to put it in the trash. It WAS trash. But it was at least obvious trash he could recognize.
These kids and many adults don't see the obvious. I at least grew up.
SonOfSam| 5.27.11 @ 12:00PM
PolishKnight, we were ALL young once; then we had that defining moment where we realized that we had been sold a line of bullshit, usually by self-described "progressives". I guess I was lucky in that my moment came when I was in the sixth grade. For two years straight, I had been told by my teachers that the world was going into another Ice Age. I was STOKED, because in my grade school mind, if the glaciers were coming back, the wooly mammoths and saber toothed tigers couldn't be far behind. (Hell, I was a boy, I had a real thing for "caveman days"). When I learned that the Earth WASN'T cooling, I went absolutely bullshit.
It was on that day that I became a conservative. I've been doubting "liberal" authorities ever since.
Occam's Tool| 5.27.11 @ 12:47PM
SonOF Sam:
my buddy in Indiana was being taught that ice CONTRACTS when it freezes in grade school.
Remember what spectrum of the college classes teachers come from.
RCV| 5.27.11 @ 6:52PM
That only happens when it freezes in grade school. All other places, it expands.
PolishKnight| 5.27.11 @ 10:46PM
My moment was different SonOfSam. It wasn't just about me realizing I was sold a load of BS but also a humbling experience that I could make up my own. So people here and elsewhere may be confused when they think I'm not sticking to a straight party line. I realize that maturation is a process. It converts cool aid drinking leftists living in their parents' basements into mature adults with families. That is, if they grow up in time.
beebop| 5.27.11 @ 10:10PM
She won't vote. And that is exactly what we need, to be honest. Unless of course illegal immigrants get their golden parachute and if that is the case, kids like your daughter should be INFURIATED that illegals go to the front of the line/pay in state tuition and receive other benefits she does notl
PolishKnight| 5.27.11 @ 10:43PM
There's a group of self-hating white males out there who called themselves "angry white males" and got lots of leftist press coverage over how "angry" they were that there were, well, other men angry about affirmative action. They were cushy public servants with tenure, union protection, etc. so they thought the rest of the white males should stop whining.
It's funny also that they accuse me of being "selfish" and not partaking of the cool aid and then I remind them that... most democrat voters are of the entitlement kind. If elections were solely based upon white voters, that would be the end of the leftist revolution in the states. If they felt it was ok for the various special interest groups in the left to demand goodies for their vote, why couldn't I get some of that gravy?
So I think that's the only reason so many of them engage us at times. They know they needn't bother selling the "utopia" to the bread-and-circuses crowd. They've already been bought. They are frustrated that as they become an ever shrinking member of an elite that they will get their wish and it won't be Sweden.
John Navratil| 5.27.11 @ 9:08AM
JFGalt,
Thank God for secret ballot. You can, figuratively, wear an Obama hat into the booth and vote for who you like. Of course, if no one every changed their minds, Hillary would be President.
Jobe| 5.27.11 @ 8:19AM
It is unfair to call obama's "achievements" mediocre. If only they were, the country would not be in such horrible shape. He has done NOTHING to benefit the citizens of America, and he is fortunate that so many voters are so poorly informed (thanks to his minions in the "mainstream" media), that they will pull the lever again for this cipher. These people are playing Russian roulette, and that next lever pull is the hammer resting on the final chamber.
da monk| 5.27.11 @ 9:06AM
Jobe: If the main stream media is prejudiced toward liberal ideas....where do you place un-mainstream media? Unprejudiced?
SonOfSam| 5.27.11 @ 9:42AM
its called fair and balanced, dumbass. But you wouldn't know that since your mommie took away the remote when she caught you watching the "goats gone wild" special on pay per view
Nunya| 5.27.11 @ 1:07PM
LOL! Very funny, SOS. :-)
SonOfSam| 5.27.11 @ 1:45PM
Thank you, nunya. I promise to hold a principled debate with any lib coming onto this forum, provided that they don't start by insulting all of us. When they start out with the personal attacks, they forfeit any right to fair treatment, and they will get stomped like a narc at a biker rally
canuckistani| 5.27.11 @ 2:46PM
SoS, it is fine to be principled when discussing academic situations, but BHO's reaction to the market calamities have been nearly universally accepted as prudent and needed.
There will always be "burn the house down" economists that will say anything for a buck, but the Fed and Treasury reactions were necessary, as were the bailouts, that interestingly enough, have proven to be inspired.
It surprised me, too.
There is a chance we are witnessing a lost generation being flung into the workplace, but the alternative was a lost economy for generations more.
I ask you save your venom for real issues we are facing: staggering debt at the local level - with gut-wrenching cuts to basic services, deep structural trade imbalances with Asia, 2M war veterans needing jobs, care and pensions, and a drum-beat march towards dismantling the social safety net that millions of middle-class folk have come to rely on as the private sector bled those benefits away in the name of global competitiveness and shareholder value.
People do vote with their wallets, and it only exposes the GOP further when they resort to ageism, classism and veiled social-engineering that their "solutions" are not a path to prosperity but really a cynical devolution of the America we want and need.
beebop| 5.27.11 @ 10:15PM
You can't fix willfully stupid.
Clint| 5.30.11 @ 9:08AM
Obama is The Economic Peter Principle Poster Boy.
"Despite recent signs of job growth, Americans are taking a more negative view of the national economy. The proportion rating economic conditions as “poor” has risen from 42% in February to 53% currently. Equally important, the public’s economic outlook has dimmed: 54% now say it will be a long time before the economy recovers, up 12 points from February. And there has been a rise in the percentage that expects their personal finances to get worse over the next year – from 26% in December to 33% currently."
Clint| 5.30.11 @ 8:56AM
"Whites of all income groups disapprove of Obama, and he is particularly unliked by the white middle class, or those earning $30,000 to $75,000 annually. Among them, 59 percent disapprove of his performance. Fifty-six percent of whites earning $75,000 or more annually don’t like Obama, and 47 percent earning under $30,000 annually disapprove.
As age groups go, 57 percent of whites older than 50 years disapprove of Obama, along with 51 percent of those between 18 and 49."
RCV| 5.30.11 @ 3:48PM
Gee, Clint, that means in the fantasy all-white world you live in, your guys might win!
John Navratil| 5.27.11 @ 10:10AM
da monk,
You create a black and white fallacy.
Obviously, there can be a "main stream" liberal media without a conservative media (Pravda, Izvestia (sp?)). That there exist other media doesn't make them either liberal or conservative (Field and Stream). Ideologically biased media may well be unprejudiced if they are receptive to opposing idea, even if they are ultimately dismissed. And clearly there are bigoted publications on the Right. I'd be pleased if you could point to a "mainstream" example.
Now, do you argue that the MSM are or are not "in the tank" for Obama? What about MTV, sit-coms, late-night, live mic at the "improv". The saturation that Jobe alludes to is complete. It panders to a "group think" mentality.
canuckistani| 5.27.11 @ 2:54PM
I suggest it goes both ways. The MSM was co-opted before and during Iraq, with the DoD allowing MSM reporters inside the battles. Without that complicity, how long before the public would begin to question the war?
The MSM needs a story, they need ratings and they need revenue. The GOP is an easy target because they are taking positions that they cannot defend with facts, and given the guilt they felt about abetting Junior for all those years, they will not be fooled easily.
The financial markets have recouped their losses from 2008/2009. Ad rates are nearly back to where they were, and local media relies upon contested elections to drive their bottom lines. If being leftist generates more revenue, then they will do it.
With the apparent ratings declines of righties like Rush, Beck and Levin this year, you may see even more investment in progressive echo chambers.
John Navratil| 5.27.11 @ 5:24PM
canuckistani,
You simply must move to a lower floor. That thin air is getting to you.
The MSM co-opted by the military? The GOP is in the news because the are an easy target - creating indensible position because they have not facts? MSM feels guilty for abetting Junior for all these years? Yet they now will not be fooled easily?
You remind me of Nancy Pelosi. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.... Actually the both of you remind me of a five year old for whom the truth is what you want it to be.
skip| 5.27.11 @ 9:34PM
John you are beautiful.
Canuckistani reminds you of Pelosi.
Not only does that say it all, it is as kindly and gently as possible one can put reality and truth to someone so clueless about the issues.
Dee See| 5.27.11 @ 8:39AM
---With what we NOW are learning about Obama's
actual past, esp lately from Jerome Corsi, is
anyone out there buying the set up that there's
ANY opposition going on at all?
It's continuity of agenda, destruction of sovereignty,
and polishing off that Globalist RED China TREASON op
----for one and all.
BTW ----grab those condos in Singapore while
they last before 'EUGENICS friendly' management
kicks in here at home.
AgentRose| 5.27.11 @ 9:40AM
If you want the best historically documented book on Obama's upbringing and background it is Aaron Klein's "The Manchurian President."
Give it to every INDEPENDENT you know. Let them make their own conclusions!
canuckistani| 5.27.11 @ 3:01PM
McCain: tortured Vietnam POW and member of Keating 5. Meets Cindy in a bar. Gets nomination.
Junior: thrice bankrupted, boozer, likely coke-addict. Born on third base and thought he hit a triple. Gets elected, twice.
Clinton: single mother, philanderer, from a zero state. Gets elected, twice.
What's next?
Newtie: married his teacher, dumped his sick second wife. Impeached Clinton while banging another woman.
Romney: Mormon. Master flip-flopper, son of a Mexican national.
Shall I go on?
I trust the people and I trust the nomination process.
If Hillary couldn't beat this guy with dirt digging, then no one will.
W| 5.28.11 @ 5:25PM
Canuk, what is wrong with being a Mormon?
da monk| 5.27.11 @ 9:04AM
DeeSee: Have you read Corsi bio? Better you do so before you quote him. He's a serial conspirarcy theorist. i.e. U.S helped Iran develop it's atomic industry
SpiralArchitect| 5.27.11 @ 1:57PM
Strange things do happen.
Where do you think the US acquired it's massive amounts of titainium for the early spy planes of the '50s used to spy on Russia ? - hint: hammer & sickle
Strange things do occure.
Look how many follow whole heartedly as lemmings to the Great Obummer. What is known about him & his past - virtually nothing yet he is POTUS!
JimP| 5.27.11 @ 9:06AM
Who and where are these independent voters enslaved to political correctness? I read Steele's column the other day and I thought the whole thing was bunk that he produced to meet a deadline. He had no ideas of merit to write about so he produced a 'garbage' column just to meet his obligation. Actually Steele's column sounded like he was referring to Noonan, Brooks, Parker, Frum et al. They of shifting political identification. Are we to believe there actually is a significant number of independent voters so wracked with white guilt that voting for Obama in '08 wasn't enough penance, so they must vote for him again even if it means their and/or the country's demise? I don't believe it. I've been around too long and seen to many wrong and just plain bogus perdictions and analyses.
Anthony| 5.27.11 @ 9:08AM
Allright you moderates, it's time to get over your swoon that America elected its first black president.
It's time to wake up and get back to reality. This guy is destroying America minute by minute.
Sister Sarah is on the move. Contribute now, and watch the only R (other than Bachmann) with the guts, the determination, the ideas, and the smarts to disassemble the Muslim Marxist president.
diviz| 5.27.11 @ 9:54AM
That's it, sweet talk those moderates. If real republicans call them scum often enough surely they'll come around.
Occam's Tool| 5.27.11 @ 12:49PM
I call no one scum who will pull the (R) lever and donate to the campaign either money or time.
canuckistani| 5.27.11 @ 3:04PM
Has BHO quit from anything yet? No? then he has work to catch up to Sister Sarah.
Drunken Sailor| 5.27.11 @ 4:06PM
Gotta start something before you can quit it. He is still voting present and getting Nancy and Harry to do the lifting.
Jordan| 5.27.11 @ 9:13AM
"The theme: Barack Obama believes in government; we believe in you."
I kid you not, but Thaddeus McCotter basically said this at CPAC 2010 and continues to in a lot of his speeches, or something close to it. McCotter knows how to beat Obama and guide the GOP with a very clear vision. The only darkspot against him is his support of the auto bailout (even if it only happened because the bank liquification process utterly failed which is why he voted against the bank bailout) although he does represent Michigan so he was obviously doing what was best for his constituents.
SpiralArchitect| 5.27.11 @ 1:59PM
The theme is good, but far too deep for the shallow masses to understand.
AgentRose| 5.27.11 @ 9:28AM
The trip to the UK was nothing more than a re-election campaign stop. Why was the UK all the way to the Queen INDULGING this?
SpiralArchitect| 5.27.11 @ 2:27PM
Monarchy, no political power - needs to be ammused?
AgentRose| 5.27.11 @ 9:37AM
1. Obama has now been vetted. He WAS NEVER vetted in 2008.
2.Gas prices have gone from $1.93 to 4.36 on his watch; when President Bush was in charge
gas was $2.30 per gal.; oil production was up 20%.
3. Obamacare.
4. Hundreds of Waivers for Obamacare issued—UNEQUAL justice under the law
5. His Wisconsin friends—demonstrating and creating chaos when some of them belonged in school teaching –(“we care for the students”)--or other institutions.
6. Pigford settlement—a fraud.
7. Letting the Black Panthers off the hook from the Philadelphia show in 2008.
8. Canceling and “playing politics” with oil permits.
9. The U.S. is about to lose its AAA rating and S&P has cut its outlook to negative.
10. The value of the dollar has declined.
11. Food stamps 1 in 7.
12. Unemployment now at 9% (Bloomberg 5/6/11) (remember Biden promised 200,000-500,000 new jobs per month!! back in 2010; New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly climbed to 424,000 last “June will be the 762nd month since January 1948, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began calculating the unemployment rate. And June will be the 68th month since 1948 with the rate at 8 percent or higher — the 29th such month under Obama. So 43 percent of the most severe unemployment in the past 63 years has occurred in the last 21 / 2 years. No postwar president has sought reelection with 8 percent unemployment.” 13. Inflation in many sectors including food; famously expressed by someone at a Federal Reserve show and tell, “I can’t eat an I-Pad.”
14. Cash for Clunkers. 15. The phony “stimulus”—failed $850 billion
16. How many times has Union Thug Trumka visited the White House?
17. Contempt of court for the oil permits in the Gulf and Obamacare.
18. The seizure of GM and Chrysler, transferring bondholder wealth to unions—otherwise known as seizure of private property; as noted by Todd Zywicki, “Of the two proceedings, Chrysler's was clearly the more egregious. In the years leading up to the economic crisis, Chrysler had been unable to acquire routine financing and so had been forced to turn to so-called secured debt in order to fund its operations. Secured debt takes first priority in payment; it is also typically preserved during bankruptcy under what is referred to as the "absolute priority" rule — since the lender of secured debt offers a loan to a troubled borrower only because he is guaranteed first repayment when the loan is up. In the Chrysler case, however, creditors who held the company's secured bonds were steamrolled into accepting 29 cents on the dollar for their loans. Meanwhile, the underfunded pension plans of the United Auto Workers — unsecured creditors, but possessed of better political connections — received more than 40 cents on the dollar.” (for more go to: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.c.....-takeover/
19. The shutdown of Shell’s Arctic oil exploration by EPA (a regulatory KGB)
20. Dodd-Frank.
21. Hostility toward Israel and his anti-semitism; Obama’s policies against Israel would leave Israel unable to defend her borders.
22. His push for unconstitutional restrictions on free speech via the FCC.
23. The NLRB’s fight against Boeing.
24. Multiple Czars with NO oversite.
25. Failure to resume full water deliveries to California’s central valley because of the DELTA SMELT. Can we shout that out each time the unemployment numbers come up? What has this alone done to unemployment in California?
26. Attempts to try the terrorists in civilian New York City trials.
27. Takeover of the student loan program.
28. Attack on Arizona for exercising state’s exercise of legislative authority on citizen identification rules.
29. Failure to secure the southern border (Al Queda now has a group located in Mexico)
30. The war on Libya.
31. His latest attack on free speech via the regulation to disclose contributions with government contractors. Even Mitch McConnell has called this “Gangster Politics” (see Strassel WSJ 5/6/11)
32. His general loathing of Americans.
33. Fort Hood –the shooter is still getting paid $6,000 per month; has not been tried;
34. The proposed new gas mileage tax!
35. His utter hypocrisy when, e.g. with Osama when he totally voted AGAINST the war, Guantanamo, renditions, etc etc etc
36. Driving up health care costs for everyone—even before Obamacare
37. "Bailing out" his billionaire friends in the financial markets, at GE, etc.
38. Breaking campaign promise of transparency.
39. Humiliating millions of Americans traveling through airports with sexual harassment tactics
40. Inciting racism through ignorant comments and the “Beer Summit”
41. Eased the restrictions on stem cell research. The feeble-minded half-wits in the state of Cali passed a bond measure that has devoted $3 billion dollars to this research...result? NOTHING! So this is an announcement that we are going to waste more billions on NOTHING just to show those stupid Christians what we think about their concern for so-called 'human lives'
42. $14.6 Trillion in debt AND GROWING!
43. $1.5 Trillion in NEW debt from 2012 budget AND GROWING!
44. GDP 1.5% growth –wait it’s up to 1.8%
45. Revealing information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week.
46. His absolute disdain for the American people; DON’T FORGET:
"They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
AND NOW THIS: "Maybe they'll need a moat," Obama said mockingly to laughter from the crowd. "Maybe they'll want alligators in the moat."
47. ARRA The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act analyzed by Conley and Dupor:
“Our benchmark results suggest that the ARRA created/saved approximately 450 thousand state and local government jobs and destroyed/forestalled roughly one million private sector jobs. State and local government jobs were saved because ARRA funds were largely used to offset state revenue shortfalls and Medicaid increases rather than boost private sector employment. The majority of destroyed/forestalled jobs were in growth industries including health, education, professional and business services.” (see Powerline May 16)
48. Bowing to Saudi king. Greeting called "most unbecoming for president of the United States".
49. Sided with Mexico's president over border issues.
In asking anew for an immigration overhaul, Obama showed solidarity with his guest of honor, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who called Arizona's law discriminatory and warned Mexico would reject any effort to "criminalize migration."
50, Sided with Mexico's Calderone over Calderone's lecture to the US Senate. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and several other Republican senators Thursday criticized remarks by Mexican President Filipe Calderon, who told a joint session of Congress that the recently passed Arizona immigration law amounts to racial profiling and called on lawmakers to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
51. Gave $2 billion dollars of U.S. taxpayers’ money to Brazil. Is it a coincidence that Obama backer George Soros repositioned himself in Petrobras to get dividends just a few days before Obama committed $2 billion in loans and guarantees for Petrobras’ offshore operations?
52. Housing market still under water -unsold/
53. Sent his ACORN friends and the Connecticut Working Families Party to Wilton Conn to foment rage at AIG’s former location and at the executives’ homes (http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/21/setting-the-mobs-loose/
54. Refusal to tackle entitlements. Actually, this is practically a paint-by-numbers primer on the Democratic strategy on entitlement reform. Step 1: Declare that the Republican plan will kill people. Step 2: Denounce demagoguery. Step 3: Offer no plans of your own. Step 4: Feign offense when challenged on strategy. And finally, Step 5: Walk off in a huff without doing anything. The “walking off” part of Step 5 is actually optional; I call it Fleebagger Style, but Democrats should feel free to do nothing while staying in place, kind of like Harry Reid does in the Senate. (hot air)
AgentRose| 5.27.11 @ 9:42AM
CAN SOMEONE TRANSLATE THE ABOVE INTO SPANISH?
SonOfSam| 5.27.11 @ 9:50AM
1. Obama ahora se ha revisado. Lo NUNCA revisaron en 2008. los precios 2.Gas han ido a partir del $1.93 a 4.36 en su reloj; cuando presidente Bush era responsable el gas era $2.30 por el galón. ; la producción petrolífera estaba encima del 20%. 3. Obamacare. 4. Centenares de renuncias para la justicia publicar-DESIGUAL de Obamacare bajo ley 5. Su Wisconsin amigo-que demuestra y que crea caos cuando algunas de ellas pertenecieron en la enseñanza de la escuela - (“nosotros cuida para los estudiantes ")--u otras instituciones. 6. Fraude del establecimiento-uno de Pigford. 7. Dejando las panteras negras del gancho de la Philadelphia demuestran en 2008. 8. Cancelación y “jugar de política” con los permisos del aceite. 9. Los E.E.U.U. están a punto de perder su grado y S& del AAA; P ha cortado su perspectiva a la negativa. 10. El valor del dólar ha disminuido. 11. Bonos de racionamiento 1 en 7. 12. ¡Desempleo ahora en el 9% (Bloomberg 5/6/11) (recuerde que Biden prometió 200.000-500.000 nuevos trabajos por mes!! mueva hacia atrás en 2010; Las nuevas demandas de los E.E.U.U. para los subsidios de desempleo ascendentes inesperado 424.000 al último “junio serán el 762o mes desde el enero de 1948, cuando la oficina de estadísticas de trabajo comenzó a calcular el indice de desempleo. Y junio será el 68.o mes desde 1948 con la tarifa en el 8 por ciento o más arriba - el 29no tal mes debajo de Obama. El tan 43 por ciento del desempleo más severo de los últimos 63 años ha ocurrido en los 21 pasados/2 años. NinguÌn presidente de la posguerra ha buscado la reelección con el 8 por ciento de desempleo.” 13. Inflación en muchos sectores incluyendo el alimento; expresado famoso por alguien en una demostración de la reserva federal y diga, “no puedo comer un Yo-Cojín.” 14. Efectivo para los Clunkers. 15. El “estímulo falso” - fallado $850 mil millones 16. ¿Cuántas veces el gamberro Trumka de la unión ha visitado la casa blanca? 17. El desacato al tribunal para el aceite permite en el golfo y el Obamacare. 18. El asimiento de GM y de Chrysler, abundancia de transferencia del obligacionista unión-si no a conocido como asimiento de la propiedad privada; según lo observado por Todd Zywicki, “de los dos procedimientos, Chrysler' s era claramente el más notorio. En los años que conducían a la crisis económica, Chrysler había no podido adquirir el financiamiento rutinario y así que había sido forzado para dar vuelta a la deuda asegurada supuesta para financiar sus operaciones. La deuda asegurada toma la primera prioridad en el pago; también se preserva típicamente durante bancarrota debajo de qué se refiere como el " priority" absoluto; regla - puesto que el prestamista de la deuda asegurada ofrece un préstamo a un prestatario preocupado solamente porque él es primer reembolso garantizado cuando el préstamo está para arriba. En la caja de Chrysler, sin embargo, acreedores que sostuvieron el company' los enlaces asegurados de s steamrolled en aceptar 29 centavos en el dólar para sus préstamos. Mientras tanto, los planes de jubilación insuficientemente financiados de United Auto Workers - los acreedores sin garantía, pero poseído de mejores conexiones políticas - recibieron más de 40 centavos en el dólar.” (para más vaya: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.c.....-takeover/ 19. La parada de la exploración petrolífera ártica de Shell por EPA (un KGB regulador) 20. Dodd-Frank. 21. Hostilidad hacia Israel y su antisemitismo; Las políticas de Obama contra Israel saldrían de Israel incapaz de defender sus fronteras. 22. El suyo empuja para las restricciones inconstitucionales en discurso libre vía la FCC. 23. La lucha Del NLRB contra Boeing. 24. Zares múltiples sin oversite. 25. Falta de reasumir entregas completas del agua a Central Valley de California debido a el EPERLANO del DELTA. ¿Podemos gritar eso hacia fuera cada vez que suben los números del desempleo? ¿Qué tiene este solamente hecho al desempleo en California? 26. Tentativas de intentar a los terroristas en los ensayos civiles de New York City. 27. Toma de posesión del programa del préstamo del estudiante. 28. El ataque contra Arizona para ejercitar el ejercicio del estado de la autoridad legislativa en la identificación del ciudadano gobierna. 29. Falta de asegurar la frontera meridional (el Al Queda ahora tiene un grupo situado en México) 30. La guerra en Libia. 31. El suyo el último ataque contra discurso libre vía la regulación para divulgar contribuciones con los contratistas de gobierno. Incluso Mitch Mcconnell ha llamado esta “política del gángster” (véase Strassel WSJ 5/6/11) 32. Su repugnancia general de americanos. 33. Fort Hood - el tirador todavía está consiguiendo $6.000 pagados por mes; no se ha intentado; 34. ¡El nuevo impuesto propuesto del kilometraje de gas! 35. Su hipocresía completa cuando, e.g. con Osama cuando él votó totalmente CONTRA la guerra, la Guantánamo, las interpretaciones, el etc etc etc 36. La conducción encima de cuidado médico cuesta para cada uno-uniforme antes de Obamacare 37. " Afianzar el out" sus amigos del multimillonario en los mercados financieros, en GE, el etc. 38. Fractura de la promesa de la campaña de la transparencia. 39. Millones de humillación de americanos que viajan a través de aeropuertos con táctica del acoso sexual 40. Racismo de la incitación a través de los comentarios ignorantes y de la “cumbre de la cerveza” 41. Facilitó las restricciones en la investigación de la célula de vástago. ¿Los mitad-ingenios débiles mentalmente en el estado de Cali pasaron una medida en enlace que ha dedicado los dólares $3 mil millones a este resultado de la investigación…? ¡NADA! Esto es tan un aviso que vamos a perder más mil millones en NADA apenas demostrar a esos cristianos estúpidos lo que pensamos en su preocupación por ' supuesto; lives' humano; 42. $14.6 ¡Trillón en deuda Y EL CRECIMIENTO! 43. $1.5 ¡Trillón en NUEVA deuda a partir del presupuesto el 2012 Y del CRECIMIENTO! 44. El crecimiento 1.5% - espera del GDP es hasta 1.8% 45. La información que revela sobre cada misil del tridente los E.E.U.U. provee a Gran Bretaña como parte de un reparto del control de armamento firmado por presidente Barack Obama la semana próxima. 46. Su desdén absoluto para la gente americana; NO OLVIDE: " Consiguen amargos, se aferran en los armas o religión o antipatía en la gente que aren' t como ellos o el sentimiento del anti-inmigrante o el sentimiento del anti-trade como manera de explicar su frustrations." Y AHORA ESTO: " Quizá they' necesidad del ll una fosa, " Obama dijo burlonamente a la risa de la muchedumbre. " Quizá they' el ll quiere cocodrilos en el moat." 47. ARRA el acto americano de la recuperación y de la reinversión analizado por Conley y Dupor: “Nuestros resultados de prueba patrón sugieren que el ARRA creara/ahorrado aproximadamente 450 mil trabajos del estado y del gobierno local y destruido/previno áspero un millón trabajos del sector privado. Los trabajos del estado y del gobierno local fueron ahorrados porque los fondos de ARRA fueron utilizados en gran parte para compensar déficits de rédito del estado y Medicaid aumenta algo que el empleo de sector privado. La mayoría de trabajos destruidos/prevenidos estaba en industrias de crecimiento incluyendo salud, la educación, el profesional y los servicios a empresas.” (véase la línea eléctrica el 16 de mayo) 48. El arquear al rey del saudí. Saludo del " llamado; el más que sienta mal para el " del Presidente de los Estados Unidos;. 49. Echado a un lado con Mexico' presidente de s sobre ediciones de frontera. En pedir de nuevo un reacondicionamiento de la inmigración, Obama demostró solidaridad con su huésped del honor, presidente mexicano Felipe Calderon, que llamó Arizona' México discriminatorio y advertido de la ley de s rechazaría cualquier esfuerzo al " criminalice migration." 50, echado a un lado con Mexico' s Calderone sobre Calderone' conferencia de s al senado de los E.E.U.U. Sen. Juan McCain (R-Ariz.) y varios otros senadores republicanos jueves criticaron observaciones por presidente mexicano Felipe Calderon, que dijo una sesión común del congreso que la ley recientemente aprobada de la inmigración de Arizona asciende al perfilado racial e invitó a legisladores a pasar reforma comprensiva de la inmigración. 51. Dio los dólares $2 mil millones de dinero de los pagadores de impuestos de los E.E.U.U. al Brasil. ¿Es una coincidencia que el soporte George Soros colocó de nuevo sí mismo de Obama en Petrobras para conseguir los dividendos apenas a algunos días antes de que Obama confiara $2 mil millones en préstamos y garantías para las operaciones costa afuera de Petrobras? 52. Todavía mercado inmobiliario debajo del agua - invendida 53. Envió sus amigos de la BELLOTA y a las familias trabajadoras de Connecticut partido a las conec de Wilton para fomentar rabia en la localización anterior de AIG y en los hogares de los ejecutivos (http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/21/setting-the-mobs-loose/ 54. Denegación para abordar los derechos. Realmente, esto es prácticamente una cartilla de los pintura-por-números en la estrategia Democratic en reforma del derecho. Paso 1: Declare que el plan republicano matará a gente. Paso 2: Denunci la demagogia. Paso 3: No ofrezca ninguÌn plan sus los propios. Paso 4: Finja la ofensa cuando está desafiado en estrategia. Y finalmente, paso 5: Caminata apagado en una rabieta sin hacer cualquier cosa. El “caminar” de la parte del paso 5 es realmente opcional; Lo llamo estilo de Fleebagger, pero Democrats deben sentir libres de no hacer nada mientras que permanecen en el lugar, un poco como Harry Reid hacen en el senado. (aire caliente)
Bob Grant| 5.27.11 @ 11:19AM
At American Spectator, ask and you shall receive. And in a timely manner - 12 minutes. Very impressive Son of Sam.
SonOfSam| 5.27.11 @ 12:01PM
semper fi
do or die
gung ho gung ho gung ho
Bob Grant| 5.27.11 @ 12:29PM
I'm short changing you. That would be 8 minutes. Even more impressive.
Al Adab| 5.27.11 @ 12:33PM
OK guys. How about Arabic? :)
Drunken Sailor| 5.27.11 @ 12:59PM
Courtesy of Bing Translator
Bing translated it but I couldn't post it here. This will translate it for you though
http://www.microsofttranslator.....S&to=ar-SA
Occam's Tool| 5.27.11 @ 12:51PM
Wow!
W| 5.27.11 @ 3:02PM
Can you translate this to simple easy words for liberals/democrats to understand?
RCV| 5.28.11 @ 2:18PM
Right-wing BS.
W| 5.28.11 @ 3:26PM
R,
Please explain how defense lawyers, representing insurance companies fighting to not pay claims of injured persons, or to pay them as little as possible, favor the left wing democrats policies of having the government now "take care" of those same persons from cradle to grave welfare programs?
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 5.30.11 @ 1:02PM
I don't bother with silly right-wing male cow excrement as I the great RCV post
"The strength of the tea party, in contrast, is in those economically depressed red states where the education level is low, and where people believe the birthism and other right wing nonsense"
and
"I abhor sanctimonious conservatism of the tea party brand, an ideology wholly lacking in intelligence or a shred of real Christian love and compassion. Every policy it espouses is dangerous, damaging, and detrimental to this country and it's future. It will have a lifespan much like its intellectual forebearer, Know-Nothingism"
on these and other right-wing male cow excrement matters.
VBMax| 5.27.11 @ 11:25AM
Thanks for reminding me. How about:
55) Appointing 2 wholly unqualified anti-constitutional, anti-American judges to the Supreme Court.
56) Appointing a pervert (Jennings) as "Safe Schools Czar" to undermine our kids.
57) Giving aid and comfort to the Mullahs in Iran when the Iranian people needed our support.
58) Supporting the anti-democratic president of Honduras who was trying to make himself into another Chavez.
59) Supports the Islamofascists megamosque on top of ground zero.
60) Refuses to release any of the important documents about his past so that the Anerican people can know who he is.
There's more but who's got the time.
Teaghan| 5.27.11 @ 11:55AM
Damn Rose! That was great! Now, if we can hand those out at polling places as the sheeple file in to pull the lever for this usurper.
DRed| 5.27.11 @ 12:13PM
In July of '08, when President Bush was in charge, gas was more expensive than it is now. The EIB loan to Brazil was approved before any Obama appointees joined the bank. In any event, the president doesn't control who the bank lends money to (it's an independent agency). Where do you get your 'facts' from?
Michael Tomlinson| 5.27.11 @ 12:55PM
DRed I know for Democrats a lie is more important than the truth, but for conservatives and Republicans we deal in facts not talking points.
In January 2009 gas prices were $1.83 under Obama they are $3.44 or 84% increase. Here are some more straight facts Corn, No.2 yellow, was $3.56 when President Bush left office under Obama it is $6.33 or a 78.1% increase. That's why this year has had the single largest food price increase in over 20 years.
The unemployment rate for blacks as President Bush was leaving office was 12.6% under Obama it is 15.8% or a 25.4% increase. When Bush left office the unemployment rate, non-farm, overall was 7.6% under Obama 9.4% or a 23.7% increase. Number of long-term unemployed under President Bush 2,600,000, but thanks to Obama and Democrats it is now 6,400,000 or 146.2% increase.
Real median household income under President Bush was $50,112 under the failed policies of Obama it is now $49,777 or a -0.7% decrease.
The poverty rate has increased 8.3% under Obama. People living in poverty under President Bush 39,800,000 under Obama it is now 43,600,000 or a 9.5% increase.
The nationa debt when President Bush left office in trillions of dollars was $10..627 under Obama it is now $14..052 or a 32.2%. In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our entire nation's history. Over 27 times as fast.
All of this misery and pain has been caused by Barack Obama and the Democrat party in 2 years. Think how bad it will be if this incompetent failure were to serve 4 more years.
Sources: (1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. Of Labor; (7) FHFA; (8) Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC; (13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury
DRed| 5.27.11 @ 1:18PM
See people, it's not that hard to find actual things to criticize Obama for.
When George W. Bush took office, the unemployment rate was 4.2%. When he left office, it was 7.8%. That's an 85% increase. Maybe that's something for Obama to run on. "Still not as bad as the Republicans"
Michael Tomlinson| 5.27.11 @ 1:26PM
Weak try DRed what you forget is for most of President Bush's Presidency it was 4-5% and Obama is now in the White House and running for reelection and he will have to defend a record that has made everything worse.
You really can't defend Obama can you? He is such a incompetent failure. Did you see how he made an ass of himself at the state dinner with the British Queen? If he wasn't so dangerous you could almost feel sorry for such a jackass -- almost.
DRed| 5.27.11 @ 1:39PM
I think Obama's done a decent job. He took over in the middle of the worst financial crisis this country has faced since the great depression. Obama's certainly done a better job than McCain would have, which is why I don't regret voting for him.
Michael Tomlinson| 5.27.11 @ 1:52PM
What a rousing defense of Obama’s record. He made things worse than when he took office, but “he’s done a decent job.” My dog would make a better President than Obama. It is obvious you cannot defend Obama’s record and this is what Republicans must and will hammer him with.
Everything he’s touched has gone to hell.
What a pitiful defense that he’s done a better job than McCain would have done. How do you know? You don’t it is just dribble. It is like saying he’s done a better job than Hillary Clinton would have done.
You may not regret voting for him, but more and more Americans and even the world regret that this totally incompetent neophyte occupies the White House. That’s why only 42% of Americans think he deserves reelection and that’s with the afterglow of Osama bin Laden’s death.
DRed| 5.27.11 @ 2:02PM
I'm not trying to give you a rousing defense of Obama's record. Are you one of those conservatives who believes all liberals think Obama is the messiah?
As for everything he's touched going to hell, well, that's jibber-jabber. The economy was going to hell in a handbasket when Obama took over. Now it's muddling along. Which isn't great, but it's a hell of a lot better than it was doing when he took over. Osama has gone to hell-I'll give you that one.
Drunken Sailor| 5.27.11 @ 2:16PM
What a platform to run on
"Hey, it could be worse"
Minuteman| 5.30.11 @ 7:39PM
"Everything he’s touched has gone to hell"
Not true. He produced his birth certificate. Let's see your dog do that.
skip| 5.27.11 @ 1:53PM
Obama is doing such a decent job, solving the problems the nation is facing, due to the financial crisis, caused by his political party, his revised budget proposal just received zero votes for, versus ninety seven votes against, in the senate.
You are delusional.
DRed| 5.27.11 @ 2:05PM
The democrats caused the financial crisis?
skip| 5.27.11 @ 2:24PM
You are delusional.
I knew you would ignore every point, except that one, even though you've been severely spanked on it here at AmSpec before, not just by me.
Carter is inaugurated in 1977, and immediately enacts C.R.A.; Clinton is inaugurated, and begins extortion of financial institutions, by threatening bankrupting rating downgrades if mortgage quotas are not met; G.W. Bush is inaugurated, and warns of impending financial crisis each of his eight years in office, due to democratic C.R.A. policies, including 17 public warnings his last year alone, each time on the receiving end of vicious class warfare rhetoric from democrats, primarily from house financial services committee chairman Frank.
You are delusional.
This week:
Obama revised budget senate votes for:
zero (0)
Obama revised budget senate votes against:
ninety seven (97)
You are delusional.
DRed| 5.27.11 @ 2:58PM
"Research indicates only 6% of high-cost loans—a proxy for subprime loans—had any connection to
the law. Loans made by CRA-regulated lenders in the neighborhoods in which they were required to lend were half as likely to default as similar loans made in the same neighborhoods by independent mortgage originators not subject to the law."
So, skippy, 6% of sub-prime loans had any connection to the CRA, and those loans defaulted at significantly lower rates. But it's all Jimmy Carter's fault. And you say I'm the delusional one.
Nunya| 5.27.11 @ 2:26PM
Yes. If you look into the history of WHY housing collapsed, you will see the Mr. "Jimmuh" Carter was the impetus for the plan. It was largely ignored until Slick Willie was elected, and the ultimate end result was the housing bubble and collapse. W at least tried to reign in Fannie and Freddie, and was told it was the "virtual lynching" of the thief that was in charge, Mr. Reins--a man who absconded with millions and cooked the books to maximize his bonuses. (If he'd been CEO of a public corporation, he'd be in jail. Unfortunately, with his cronies in Congress he got away with millions.) After that, W started the ridiculous spending with TARP, but Obozo took spending to a level never seen before with the bailouts of Wall Street, GM, and Chrysler. He continues to spend money like there's no tomorrow and wants to even expand what he's done. He's spent more money than any President ever.
Look into the causes of the housing collapse, and you'll find that yes, Democraps were the direct cause.
SpiralArchitect| 5.27.11 @ 2:50PM
No previous POTUS has any bearing on what Obummer has or has not done.
You FAIL as does Obummer.
DRed| 5.27.11 @ 3:04PM
The vast majority of the sub-prime loans were issued by financial institutions not covered by the CRA. The investment banks that securitized those mortgages had nothing to do with the CRA. The ratings agencies who rated those securities had nothing to do with the CRA. The adjustable rate mortgages that failed so spectacularly had nothing to do with the CRA (incidentally, the law permitting adjustable rate mortgages was signed by St. Ronnie). Nothing in the CRA required investment banks to buy massive amounts of mortgage backed securities. So what are you talking about?
Michael Tomlinson| 5.28.11 @ 3:45AM
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, run by Democrats Franklin Delano Raines (who originally headed Obama's VP search) and Jamie Gorelick (whose actions led to 9/11), led to the financial crisis. Had the Democrats (Barney Frank and Chris Dodd) not blocked the reforms President Bush called for the recession would not have happened or been very mild.
Now we have Obama making it worse. After 2 years it is time to quit whining about Bush and accept that Obama is the problem.
DRed| 5.28.11 @ 1:13PM
Explain how Fannie and Freddie caused the financial crisis.
Skippy| 5.30.11 @ 8:36PM
Yes.
Now go back to your room and read the printed version of AmSpec.
The article is there in black and white.
Controse| 5.30.11 @ 12:15AM
A liberal, let's call him/her DRed gets a call from his next door neighbor: "DRed your house is on fire!" DRed replies "It is a little warm here in the kitchen but I just toasted a bagel. So thanks but I'm sure I'll be alright" and hangs up. Moral of the story. Presenting facts to a liberal that run counter to their received wisdom in order to let a little light of reason shine under that liberal shroud keeping them safe from the real world is like trying to raise the sea level by taking a piss in San Francisco Bay.
Steve A| 5.27.11 @ 2:58PM
Hey Dred, What are the #s in relation to which party controlls Congress??
DRed| 5.27.11 @ 3:06PM
I'm not sure I understand your question, Steve.
skip| 5.27.11 @ 3:19PM
You are delusional.
'Research indicates only 6%...'
'The vast majority of sub-prime loans...'
Sources such as Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddox, Barney Frank, and Barry Hussein are indicative of severe delusion.
You are delusional.
DRed| 5.27.11 @ 3:27PM
Always keeping me on my toes, skippy. I got that from the FCIC report on the financial crisis. How delusional of me!
skip| 5.27.11 @ 3:48PM
You are delusional.
The objectivity of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission of the Stanford Law School is beyond question.
Sheesh.
The Wall Street Journal criticized their dangerous conclusions.
You are delusional.
DRed| 5.27.11 @ 3:58PM
Stanford just hosts the report on the web. You very clearly have no idea what you're talking about, Skippy.
skip| 5.27.11 @ 4:19PM
You are delusional.
I provided you with a glorious opportunity to provide us with the background on the FCIC, and yet you did not.
Gee, I wonder why.
You are delusional.
TrueBlue| 5.27.11 @ 12:33PM
You forgot to mention that the entire Healthcare bill is illegal in that it is the federal government requiring, with penalty of fines, that American citizens purchase a product they may or may not want. Nothing in the Constitution gives the federal government that power, yay for the Judicial branch sitting on their hands (with the exception of a few states).
Occam's Tool| 5.27.11 @ 12:50PM
Awesome, Agent Rose!
Pecos Pete| 5.27.11 @ 1:02PM
Rose, please add King O's gun control efforts to your list and the failure to support inspector generals at various agencies and the refusal of various agency personnel to appear before congress and, oh well, the list is endless.
Nunya| 5.27.11 @ 1:15PM
Outstanding post, Agent!! VERY well done.
canuckistani| 5.27.11 @ 3:25PM
Junior:
1) Iraq
2) Patriot Act
3) Rendition
4) Torture
5) Market implosion
6) Largest government in history
7) Squandered surplus
8) KISSED and held hands with King Fat Bastard of Saudi Arabia - tongue too?
9) Katrina
oh and
10) Could not kill OBL.
Daddy:
1) Read my lips
2) China MFN
3) Saddam alive
GOP congress:
1) Impeached Clinton over a BJ while cheating on their own wives
2) Cut taxes without spending cuts
3) New drug entitlement without revenues
4) Funded two wars without bonds or taxes
5) Enacted Patriot Acts 1 and 2
6) Voted to end Medicare aka political suicide
Facts hurt.
Nick| 5.27.11 @ 4:19PM
Canuckistani,
'Facts hurt."
Yes, they do. Too bad your screed is riddled with errors, to be charitable. Lies, to be accurate.
Junior #5: 2000-01 Market Implosion (Bubba 'the pervert' Clinton's dot.com bubble followed by 9/11 attacks, 2 wars) which was fixed by tax cuts and a business friendly administration, but, ended by housing bubble caused mostly by liberals' pressure (from Dodd and Frank) to give minorities (who couldn't afford them) mortgages.
Junior #6: If his was the "[l]argest government in history," what is O'Bama's? The largest squared?
Junior #7: There never was a true surplus. It was the budget caps that were squandered by the GOP.
Junior#9: Hurricanes are not a federal issue. Plus, the media lied about what was happening. There were no rapes and murders in the Superdome. And, to show that I'm fair and balanced, Fox News pushed these lies, thanks to Sheppy Smith and Jerry Rivers.
Daddy #2: China got MFN under Bubba 'the pervert' and the GOP Congress, not Bush 41. Unless, you meant that 41 pushed MFN for China?
GOP Congress #2: Not true. There were spending cuts, along with reductions in the growth of spending. Just not enough to make a difference. But, far, far less spending occurred than if stinking bleeding heart liberal democrats had been in charge, as has been proven over the past two years.
Projected National Debt by the end of 2016:
Twenty TRILLION Dollars!!!!
Pete| 5.27.11 @ 9:37AM
Unfortunately, they have created the mindset that "With Obama, we don't have to work, with Republicans, we do."
Michael L. Hauschild| 5.27.11 @ 10:01AM
Quite frankly Steele is looking for a pig in a poke, those “minorities” (blacks are the only solid voting bloc he has left) have simply given up. They have given up on raising their children (the state must feed, cloth, and nurture most of them); they have given up on marriage and the nuclear family (an overwhelming percentage of births are illegitimate); they have given up on searching for jobs (government welfare itself and employers who do not want to hire the entitlement mentality are culpable); and lastly they have been convinced that something is “owed to them.” Their biggest frustration must be that even in nearly total political unity they are irrelevant; they are either ignored completely or taken for granted. They are both the victims and the perpetrators of their misery. They will not “move” under conservative persuasion, quite frankly they define immobility.
As for the “witch” (poor choice of words by the way, see “slut”) Pelosi is still there, she suffers the same beltway malady as the rest of her cohorts, the recorded sound bite. Obama, as you suggest, cannot hide nor can he “coast.” That is a myth perpetrated by the establishment incumbents and the pundits such as you who actually think the boat is too big to rock. You are looking at the Republican field with beltway blinders; the “also rans” and loser alphabet backed buffoon brigade is failing to achieve traction because they, like yourself and those you quote fail to grasp the significance of an aroused electorate. It has not dawned on you that the “Tea Party” is not a third party or “wing,” it is a movement of American citizens with a Constitutional role in the destiny of saving our nation.
The Ryan’s, the Bachmann’s and the Palin’s are not simply complaining about an unfair party system, they (especially Palin) are about to tell you what to do and how to go about it. I will wager that ninety five percent of the Tea Party supporters do not read the WP, the NYT, or any of the alphabet propaganda rags.
There is a Red, White, and Blue bus coming, it may or may not have a candidate on it but I will assure you of this; the voice emanating from it will be heard and it will ring.
SpiralArchitect| 5.27.11 @ 2:58PM
Overlord Clinton agrees to a small arms treaty.
Nice to have such guardianship on our side.
martin j smith| 5.27.11 @ 10:06AM
Lets us see how people feel on the eve of the 2012 election: Inflation runnning you down, high prices for fuels getting you angry, food and clothing an housing costs skyrocketing ? How about your job prospects ? The cost of college education out of proportion to their worth ?
Not to mention our lack of security. By the way as an aside: For those who beiieve that Jewish voters will support Obama's polcies for the destruction of the State if Israe please explain why Democrats along with Repubs gave Netenyahu as his speech to Congree many many standing ovations ? Answer--They are afraid of lsong the Jewish vote !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And, here is an anecdotal bit of info: I recently went to a family gathering and the Grand Dad --a hot shot lawyer was complaining that he helped in the Obama campaign of 2008 and now is dismayed by his speech requiring Israel to negotiate at the 1967 borders. Now going to help him now he said. He is not alone. No unless Obama does some very convincing lying he will lose a large percentage of Jewish voters--and by now he is not trusted--and why should he be ?
Occam's Tool| 5.27.11 @ 12:52PM
Gosh, I hope you're right, Martin. I know that I hear very little from my Liberal friends.
SpiralArchitect| 5.27.11 @ 2:59PM
He will retain voters with his appeasement and appologetic tones & further diversionary actions.
Obummer will continue to redirect the focus from him to others.
David T| 5.27.11 @ 10:23AM
Mr. Wilson--Thank you
This is one of the two or three best articles about Obama that I've read this year. I've sent the link to all my friends and printed a copy to hang in my office as a reminder how bad this man really is.
Al Adab| 5.27.11 @ 11:03AM
If having a "black President" trumps policy, experience, competance and other considerations, is that not a racist criteria? Besides, I thought he was half-black or even less. Do we really think it matters?
Bob Grant| 5.27.11 @ 11:27AM
Eh. Don't you know. Some days he's black, other days he's Paddy O'bama. Some days he's Christian, other days he's agnostic or atheistic by slamming Christianity at some college speech. Some days he's a socialist, other days he's singing the praises of Adam Smith....you get the picture.
It would be epically funny if I had the pleasure of watching this trainwreck as an outsider but unfortunately I have no other country to escape to; no homeland to flee when the going gets rough.
Al Adab| 5.27.11 @ 12:31PM
Bob:
I can't wait for the computer generated campaign ad showing his face morph into a series of other politicos most of whom he campaigned against. Barack McCain, Barack Palin, Barack Bush, Barack Gingrich, etc. Maybe with a whole line of bill collecters looking for Barack Obama while he ducks them. I'd contribute money to that ad.
Bob Grant| 5.27.11 @ 1:08PM
That's too clever for the republican party to adopt. I think they should re-release the ad titled: Mourning in America released last year during the fall elections. It was spun from Reagan's great Morning in America 1984 campaign ad. I'm sure it's still on You Tube. A perfect depiction of what the mood of the country will be next year.
Al Adab| 5.27.11 @ 1:34PM
I did see it, Bob and your take is dead on. Why can the GOP never learn to play hardball, ridicule the opposition into submission and gain the upper hand. Too gentlemanly?
Bob Grant| 5.27.11 @ 8:40PM
It makes you wonder. Conspiracy? Too Alex Jonsey? ...I dunno.
They all seem to be in bed with one another.
PolishKnight| 5.27.11 @ 12:06PM
I have friends who went to his inauguration. They were like a bunch of hippies going to Woodstock. It's useful to understand what was going through their minds if we seek to oppose and undermine them.
The biggest tool in the USA leftist toolbox is white guilt and race/gender preferences. They've largely given up on trying to win elections via their idealistic dogma. It's all about bashing white males and nobody is more enthusiastic about this than white leftists. They love the idea of throwing the unbelievers under the bus in order to get a Swedish utopia.
That's insane, isn't it?
So when Obama won the election, they probably thought, legitimately, that with a senate and congressional majority, he could just sign off on making the USA into Sweden, that would be the end of the culture war, and then the Soviet and Chicago system they had used to get to this point would magically disappear because as we all know, the Blagojovech's of their party are nothing if not honest.
They're disappointed that two things are apparent:
1) Obama doesn't have the political will, economic ability or honesty to enact their utopia. This is obvious to us but they are barely able to see it now.
2) This is endgame for them. Checkmate. Yet... the game goes on. Welcome to eternal war! War is peace! Freedom is slavery!
John II| 5.27.11 @ 12:10PM
Well, it's reassuring to know that the degenerate Brits can still turn a phrase. As to the Professor, one may now say with confidence that, whoever he really is, Barack Obama is truly representative of his political class: an orotund banality.
Michael Tomlinson| 5.27.11 @ 12:30PM
The Republican candidate must stay on point – under Obama unemployment has been 9-10%, 25 million Americans are underemployed, 5 million jobs were obliterated, energy prices have gone up 32%, in 2 years gas prices went up 55%, food prices have had their highest increase in over 20 years, he wants to give the Brazilian oil industry $50 billion of American taxpayer's money, he wants to give the neo-fundamentalist Muslim gov't of Egypt a billion dollars, he gave $34.4 million in bonuses to the 6 failed Democrats running Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into the ground while American wages are stagnant, he added $4 trillion dollars to the national debt in 2 years and wants to add $2 trillion more this year, Obamacare is causing more doctors and hospitals to reject Medicare patients imperiling the lives of seniors , he went to war in Libya at the urging of the UN and Arab League and refuses to enact the War Powers Act of 1973 and consult with Congress, his bailing out the auto industry/auto workers union has cost taxpayers $80 billion, he has outsourced tens of thousands of high paying American jobs to foreign countries, American workers have been forced to go to foreign countries to find work, American doctors are now going to Canada to practice medicine (in 2007 it was the other way around), his policies are destroying homeownership and the largest investment of working families, home foreclosures are at an all time high . . . Stay focused and stay on message.
Our candidate must focus on Obama’s record of incompetence contrasted with their record of competence in gov’t and/or business. To offset the racial issue if Herman Cain is not the nominee he would make a splendid Vice Presidential candidate. He will eviscerate the racist Democrat playbook and emasculate Biden in the debates.
Competence, stability, leadership, competence, leadership, hardworking, dependable, steady, decent, a listener and doer, reliable, selfless, concerned, strong, principled, open-minded, but not gullible, competence, competence, competence . . . should be words used to describe the differences between our candidate and Obama.
Finally, we need to remind people we are electing a President and not a symbol. That the actions of Barack Obama have real and detrimental effects on the lives of real people and as long as he is in office things will stay bad or only get worse. In affect we must demonize him with the truth as he and Democrats seek to demonize us with lies.
Nunya| 5.27.11 @ 2:52PM
Spot on! Well done!
Pelligrino| 5.28.11 @ 5:12AM
Mr. Tomlinson, you are quite correct. The list of incredible material that any candidate opposing Obama has to use is L - O - N - G. So MANY topics!
So many ills that our nation now embraces in its spiral demise.
One coud simply just survey mid-twenty year olds graduates who are 1) living at home with their parents (and who don't wish this as their lot), 2) have to stand and compete with hundreds for low paying jobs, 3) see no perspectives for their 4-8 year horizons, and 4) are saddled with $tens of thousands in student loan debt.
Realistically -- for so many -- they cannot pay this off in the next 10 - 14 years. Maybe ever -- if they don't find paying jobs.
Just survey them for ample talking points that impact every American.
Get the kids with upwards of $115,000 student loan debt to do the talking. They entered school 4-5 years ago when graduates were being swept up by headhunters.
Now?
(And if these "kids" aged 22 - 35 aren't working, whose paying into all the Great Society Entitlement Programs?)
It can just be cold, hard, everyday Main Street facts. No vitriol or high blood pressure anti-Obama talks are necessary. Facts alone are all that is necessary to end Obama and send him swiftly to the ash heap of history.
Michael Tomlinson| 5.28.11 @ 9:30AM
Pelligrino we need to stay on message and hammer the facts sprinkling our message with the stories of real people like so many of us who are suffering under Obama.
I'd encourage the GOP to focus on people who have lost good jobs since Obama has been President, seniors whose homes are underwater, doctors who cannot afford to take new Medicare patients, young people who cannot get jobs or are working at Obama's hamburger flipper jobs, etc..
John II| 5.29.11 @ 1:33AM
Or grandparents whose personal contact with their grandkids is severely restricted by the transmutation of abstract figures (the Obama-dominated California is costing California an average of three thousand tax-paying out-of-state refugees per day) into personal losses (one of my sons and his family are fleeing to Kansas this very moment: my son is a small businessman, the real bete-noire of the Obamanation: the Obamamaniacs can't STAND that kind of independence from state interference--and California is now an Obama-class statist arrangement).
And who cares? Probably not even the normal bloggers on TAS. Nobody cares. Only conservatives know that nobody cares except specifically. Only liberals believe that everybody should care generally.
And they believe it as a cheap substitute for real care, even as they make life miserable for so many.
Either Professor Obama and most of what he represents goes off to the wilderness of lefty self-abuse in 2012, or the American experiment is over--and the shitty little tyrants of history have won.
Pelligrino| 5.29.11 @ 2:07AM
Obviously John II, you care. I care also. And I'd say 24,000,000 other hard working, well-informed, serious thinking Americans also care.
We just have to individually and collectively get off our duffs.
Yes, the American experiment could be over in less than 4-5 years. Irreplaceably over.
That is not hyperbole.
However, if you need any proof of how what America did better (not perfect, but decidedly better) than the rest of the world...
look no further than congregations that will gather tomorrow in churches across our land.
Presently in my church we have people from 46 different nations represented. A lot! Yes, this church makes it a point of outreach to those newly arrived here or just second or third generation.
My point: To a man or woman, each of my fellow congregants from these other nations (all born abroad) will tell you -- hands down -- they came here because AMERICA IS BETTER.
IT IS THE DREAMLAND. It is the place to offer their children the best hopes and opportunities for the future.
Even they recognize that the currrent paths of mega government, Leviathan everywhere, regulation to the hilt, socialism already here now, yes they recognize ALL THIS too well.
Let's use their voices too. They have come from the former communist lands of the USSR or its satellites in the former Warsaw Pact. They have come here from Vietnam, Burma, South Korea, China, and Taiwan. And, yes, they are here in droves from Latin and South America.
Let's use their voices and testimonies. Certainly many of the churchgoers I know could be articulate on this.
John II| 5.30.11 @ 12:02AM
Well, as John Paul II was fond of saying: we shall see what we shall see. Nice response, Pellie.
I have always been certain that if 60 percent of the voters always knew exactly what the hell they were voting for, the denizens of Obamanation would never get more than 30 percent of the vote. (And don't ask about that weirdly unpredictable 10 percent: they gave us the degenerate Clintons in 1992.)
And now back to "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), in which the incomparable Jimmy Stewart crosses swords with the Roosevelt machine.
SpiralArchitect| 5.27.11 @ 12:41PM
This could well prove a poignant reminder as to the folly of man when Obummer remains in the White House after 2112.
PolishKnight| 5.27.11 @ 1:08PM
This could very well happen. I was surprised when Bob Dole was chosen as the GOP candidate for the 1996 election (which is a decision so awful, that even I barely remember him running.) He was a solid backscratcher in the Senate having gotten to where he is by being a blueblood country club member and hanging out with Democrat cronies. Then we got GW Bush.
One almost has to admire the left in that they send up a variety of candidates. They started out with good 'ol fashioned liberals in the 70's and 80's (remember Walter Mondale?) and then Slick Willy hit the horizon. Then we got Al Bore. Then we got a sleazy draft dodger. Then Obama. All sleazeoids granted, but at least they were interesting in their own way.
Pelligrino| 5.28.11 @ 5:26AM
PolishKnight, I'm not fully disagreeing with you. Just...a tad bewildered. You want "interesting?" in your elected leaders?
I don't.
I want pure dull, boring, plain vanilla wonks, who love fixing things and DESPISE cameras, press conferences, media hype, fashion hairdos, state dinners, useless speeches, empty gestures, and wasted time.
Heck, I'd love a cubicle kind of guy who is a brainiac with solid American, conservative, family, and faith principles.
Maybe someone who actually pens his own speeches and keeps them to less than four minutes?
And then only gives about 16 of these per year.
Why is everyone so interested in the hype and glitz and daily press briefings and daily drivel? Oh, that's it, you want a show?
I want the MSM 24/7 network news dweebs and People Magazine types bored out of their skulls because the new POTUS is just gleefully axing away at every piece of government everywhere, lowering taxes, closing places like the Dept. of Education, Dept. of Energy, EPA, telling states to stop whining to him about federal funding, etc.
You get the picture.
If he or she is short, shy, a bit rotund, utterly untelegenic, a bit clumsy, and a poor joke teller...who cares?
Real doers in life don't seek limelight.
Al Adab| 5.27.11 @ 2:23PM
2112? President for life?
skip| 5.27.11 @ 3:25PM
We are referring to the 'anointed one', the 'messiah', the one who 'lowers' the rising level of the oceans, and who brought the nation out of 'the worst' financial crisis since the great depression, after all, oh ye of little faith.
Doofus| 5.27.11 @ 3:11PM
If this is in fact is the President's strategy (speechify like Ronald Reagan despite ruling like a bannana republic dictator), he may have some problems. Unemployment could very well top 9.5% by Nov 2012; inflation is anyone's bet (7-11%?), and a stock market heading south. And there had better be no serious diplomatic or national security crisis.
The President lost the Middle 2 years ago. He will probably not get them back. If the GOP throws up a Mitt or Pawlenty, however, the race could be a toss-up. It all depends what conservatives do. They may very well say, "A pox on both your houses."
Nick| 5.27.11 @ 3:44PM
Doofus,
Well put. In fact, if Wall Street and Big Business were the huge evil conspiracy that the left believes they are, they would lay off hundreds of thousands next summer and crash the market in October of 2012.
Who knows......maybe they will.
Using my Dr. Evil voice: "MmmmBwaahhaahahahahahhah!!!!"
alice moore| 5.27.11 @ 10:32PM
As a conservative I will vote for Daffy Duck over the Current Occupant.
ALL of the current Republican Candidates are better.
I'd love to vote for someone. I'll vote in the Primaries to bring that about. However, come Election Day 2012 I will crawl on broken glass to vote for Obama's opponent.
Pelligrino| 5.28.11 @ 5:33AM
Alice, I'm with you. While you're crawling over that broken glass to get your ballot cast November 3, 2012, I'll be crawlin' over hot coals if need be.
And the beauty of it: MILLIONS of other Americans will be doing likewise to end this Obaminaton.
Theo Prinse| 5.27.11 @ 3:54PM
"He is the first black in the entire history of Western civilization to lead a Western nation …" into oblivion bwahahaha like in Hitler Germany !
Mike | 5.27.11 @ 9:41PM
"Patriots"
Please send a dollar to AmSpec so the embarrassing, begging pop-up stops. We don't want the AmSpec staff to have to go out in the current job market and get a real job.
By the way, given the tax cuts since Bush (and continued under Obama) where are the jobs?
beebop| 5.28.11 @ 8:32AM
Given that the Stimulus was to keep us under 8%, where are THOSE jobs?
Dee See| 5.28.11 @ 2:50AM
Sensing FAKE OUT operators in this blog
spot. BEWARE.
It's the RED China TREASON and EUGENICS
op -----ALLLLLLL else is calculated DIS-----traction.
ALLLLLLLL of it.
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Pelligrino| 5.28.11 @ 5:46AM
I am curious and would appreciate other forum readers' feedback on this issue:
Why are no Demoncrats deciding to oppose Obama and challenge him in the upcoming 2012 primaries?
Remember: Prior to Reagan rightfully trouncing Carter in 1980, Carter had faced Ted Kennedy in springtime primaries of that year. This was maybe the only good thing Ted ever did in his life; he offered the first public broadsides that softened things up for the Gipper's ultimate slam dunk.
So...Russ Feingold? Evan Bayh of Indiana? Hillary, round 2?
Sure, they stink too. All pure rubbish. Their purpose is not necessarily to defeat Obama and win the Demon's nomination. Their purpose is to put him on the ropes for a solid 11 months before people decide November 2012.
C'mon, people. Use a play right out of the Lefties' Playbook. Launch a Dem "sucker" to take some hits in a series of Feb./March primaries. Gets the White House occupant to be on the ropes first week of January. Any sitting president then looks mightily wearied, punched, and bloodied by the time the late summer party conventions occur.
So what Demoncrats are going to step up to oppose Obama? And, please, all these folks have massive egos. They aren't Obama acolytes. (Feingold could rightfully say that his 2010 loss was directly due to Obummerbacklash)
Michael Tomlinson| 5.28.11 @ 9:35AM
No one will challenge Obama he's doing exactly what the left want. Let's not forget the Democrats have described the record unemployment under Obama as the new normal.
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voted against carter| 5.28.11 @ 4:30PM
HEY STUPID LIBRATARDS,.. You know who you are,.. AND so do WE,... go back to HUFF PO.
You are an idiot. STOP proving it with every statement you make.
why are you here??
Q?
Why do libratard TROLLS hang out at conservative sites and toss bombs????
I do NOT go read any HUFF PO crap.
I know everything they post is libratard drivel.
I do not go to ANY libratard sites and toss bombs.
Why would I ?
Am I going to change their minds???
NO. What would be the point?
Stupid will STAY stupid.
I care NOT as long as Stupid leaves me the heck alone.
Which unfortunately IT won't with things like obamacare etc.
So we as conservative will change thing through the election process.
Which brings me back to my Question. Why are you libratards here???
Are you trying to change my mind on an issue???
NOT going to happen.
OR are you JUST trying to SHUT UP opposing view points????
VBMax| 5.28.11 @ 8:09PM
voted against carter:
They are here just to cause trouble. I never engage them in dialogue. It would be best if everyone would just ignore them.
Dee See| 5.29.11 @ 6:35AM
Jerome Corsi seems to have seen thru
the CFR vetted Obama set up ---his dubious
paternity, and Ann Dunham's CIA operative
status.
We'll hold to that steak dinner wager that he
is, IN FACT, of some establishment bloodline
through Dunham.
We have a hunch its the RED China set up artist
himself ---Averell Harriman.
Notice the utterly seamless sellout continuity
of agenda at work since Bush Sr..
Obama's the ram to knock us thru the wickets
into debt serf POST America --and Rockefeller/Gates EUGENICS realism and
final degradation.
You really got to check out those RIIA/CFR
inner agendas.
ALAN WATT has the goods on 'em----------------
REALLY
Intelligent Design| 5.29.11 @ 11:22AM
Governor Rick Perry of Texas is going to run and kick Obama out of the White House in 2012. Perry has the right stuff.
della street| 5.29.11 @ 11:35AM
If believing in a myth is incurable, many of us would still be putting cookies out for Santa.
The Republican message should include affirming adulthood and taking responsibility for one's life.
It won't change the minds of the dependent class, but it sure would be a rallying cry for the larger population that is just plain fed up.
Oldefarte| 5.29.11 @ 1:37PM
The mere mention of his possible re-election should drive all sane/intellectual individuals toward the cliffs. Any of the present [or possible late entrants] would be highly preferable to him. If anyone does not by now have a sense of his welfarecare, his non-stimulus, his Chicago Way corruptive form of political harrassment, his embarrassing social gaffes [ie returning Churchill's bust to Great Britian, stupidly toasting through the band's playing GOD SAVE THE QUEEN] etc, then they are literally and figuratively stupid. It could possibly be claimed that, prior to November of 2008, that a substantial number of ignorant voters were completely unaware of his historical personae and political background, but not now. He's entirely out of his political closet, and may the Almighty help anyone who is stupid enough to know who/what he truly is, and then to still vote for him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 5.29.11 @ 1:42PM
PS: The idea also that any Republican candidate would now pull a McCain/Hillary, political-correctness-101 type debate/contest strategy against him would/should amount to immediate disapproval from the voters. He should be entirely confronted in a campaign/debates as to who/what he is, to what his policies have been and why, and to completely expose him for the truth of him as a person and a politician!!!!!!!
Jeamar37| 5.29.11 @ 9:09PM
Several ? lately, which I have asked myself many times, on why Jews continue to vote for Democrats. One of the best answers I've read is in the 5/27/11 article in Frontpagemag.com. I'll admit the source is pro-Israel, pro-Jewish, etc. and perhaps, for some, radical but if you want an interesting point-of-view, you may find it here.
Ramage| 5.30.11 @ 11:58AM
Jews who vote for Dems are twits. Dumber than dumb. Their lousy pro Democrat candidate voting habits are a big reason why our Northeast part of the nation sucks. The once nice New England, now home of the rude, crude, secular stuck-up schools, unaffordable living, overtaxation, corrupt police, land of pure atheists.
Richard Baker| 5.29.11 @ 10:12PM
The Kenyan is the same kind of black that Tiger is. As an Army kid in the '50s and '60, many of the children I knew like them were common throughout the quarters areas my Father and us occupied. The families in these quarters had Thai, Vietnamese, Korean, Filipino, and other war brides in abundance. I dislike the President for his ideas and actions and not because of his mix.
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IB WRIGHT| 5.30.11 @ 1:11AM
Anyone claiming to be independent that voted for Obummer is a liar. It's impossible. They will vote for him again no matter what they claim. No one can be independent and vote for this radical, phony clown. They are cowards and liars (typical liberals) to even pretend to be independent, then vote for Obummer or any of the pukes in the dimwit party.
RCV| 5.30.11 @ 3:39PM
Since 53% of the electorate aren't Democrats, LOTS of independents and even some Republicans voted for Obama. And given your attitude toward them, it's little wonder you lost in 2008 and will lose again in 2012.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 5.31.11 @ 2:44PM
I don't bother with silly irony of posting an idiotic comment of an idiotic guarantee that the dithering idiot liar in chief will win reelection on responding to a post about radical phony clowns cowards pukes dimwits and other tautologies of liberal liars that describe me to a tee matters.
RCV| 5.31.11 @ 6:54PM
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Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 5.31.11 @ 8:21PM
I don't bother with silly reality of every reader being able to discern for themselves whether my very own posts show me to be pathetic and show me to be despicable and show me to be unintelligent and show me to be dishonest on matters including Christianity and the Constitution on ignoring the dozens and dozens and dozens of reader comments saying exactly that but only pathetically despicably unintelligently and dishonestly whining about my posts quoted back to me through Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus matters.
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Wayne | 5.30.11 @ 2:13AM
Why do we insist on calling Obama black? He is biracial.
PolishKnight| 5.30.11 @ 11:54AM
Good question Wayne.
The answer is that leftists claim that they're allowed to use racist thinking when it benefits them since they're anti-racist and the rules don't apply to them. Under the old Jim Crow style laws, bi-racial blacks were considered simply "black." Therefore, under the new, reverse Jim Crow style laws, interracial men are entitled to special privileges as "black."
As revealed in his autobiography, Obama's seething racism against whites isn't due to the minor discrimination he may have encountered as a bi-racial black but rather the race card he learned to play from an early age. Even as a small child, he heard his white grandfather accuse his grandmother of racism against blacks to try to win an argument. During the early 1970's, racial preferences for middle and upper class blacks were beginning to kick in the regions Obama lived in. The more racism against blacks he could find, real or imaginary, the more he could cash in. On the other hand, his white ancestry was probably held against him by fellow blacks and rightly so since he was cashing in from both sides.
Yes, Obama was the son of a single mother like most blacks in the states due to feminism and welfare programs that drove black fathers out of the home but he was the son of a WHITE single mother and therefore could benefit from the safe middle and working class white neighborhoods with mostly 2 parent homes.
As a president, the Obama administration and PC leftists in general are faced with a huge challenge: What to do when you get what you wish for? Leftist whites have viewed blacks and other minorities as electoral ballast to win elections with white guys, and even gals, such as the Clintons, Kerry, Biden, etc. in charge. As another poster pointed out above, the naive college dupes who cheered on Obama in 2008 are probably starting to realize: "Hey, this isn't going to do anything for me, is it?"
As Warren Beatty pointed out in his film "Bulworth", the leftist politician including Obama knows that the black vote will never go Republican but the worst the black vote may do is stay home hence Obama trying to energize his base. The benefits Obama drew from in the early 70's and throughout his career, white guilt and reverse discrimination, are now shared with a host of other democrat special interest groups making them largely useless. But like an alcoholic whose hit bottom, it's all they have.
post*tenebras*lux| 5.30.11 @ 9:48AM
I. Am. Sick. Of. Hearing. About. The. Independents. This. And. The. Independents. That. I. Am. Sick. Of. Independents. And. I. Am. One. Go. Figure.
DaveS| 5.30.11 @ 12:35PM
Put the track record up there, in simple terms, for all to see. And then trust the people to make the decision. 2010 proved that people won't be fooled again.
GotFreedom| 5.31.11 @ 11:52AM
He's not "black"; he's mulatto (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mulatto)
Unless of course, his parents aren't who he claims they are???
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