The American Spectator : Grading the Teacher's Pet

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Grading the Teacher’s Pet

By Green Lantern on 8.15.11 @ 6:08AM

A campaign primer for a winning party.

Here’s a winning formula for any Republican that wants to go after President Obama in the general election. Call him the “teacher’s pet.” It gets to the heart of everything Americans don’t like about Obama and all his glaring weaknesses.

First and foremost, he is a pure product of academia. There’s nothing of the real world about him. He’s done nothing but sit in law school classes, conduct seminars, and gossip about what’s going on out there beyond the campus gates. Every opinion he expresses about the world resonates of some discussion in the faculty lounge. The comment that rural Americans live frustrating lives that make them cling to their guns and religion — where else do you hear that kind of remark except on college campuses? That’s why Obama has no idea of how to deal with opponents such as Michele Bachman and Rick Perry. Where do these people come from? They didn’t attend Ivy League colleges. They’ve never been to a session sponsored by Aspen Institute. Who are they? It’s like Katie Couric sitting in the studio the morning of George Bush, Jr.’s re-election in 2004 and asking, “Who are these voters?”

Second, “teacher’s pet” suggests what everybody knows about Obama — that he’s been coddled every step of the way in his climb up the academic ladder. He was never felt to feel like he might fail. That’s why he’s so bewildered finding himself facing failure. Where are all those people who always told me what a wonderful job I was doing? John F. Kennedy had the same privileged background but he understood that everything wasn’t all going to be roses. When he failed in the first years as President he had the nerve to go on television and confess what a difficult and lonely job it was. Can you imagine Obama doing the same thing? With him it’s always someone else’s fault. The first three years were George Bush’s fault. Now it’s all the Tea Party’s fault. He’s never emerged out of that nirvana where everything he did won praise.

I’ve felt all along that if a truly formidable candidate like Rick Perry got into the race, he was going to make Obama seem like a little boy. Now it’s going to happen. “Teacher’s pet” sums up the difference between them.

TIM PAWLENTY HAS BECOME living proof of the veracity of President Reagan’s 11th commandment — “never speak ill of another Republican.” By going after Michele Bachmann instead of sticking to his own record, Pawlenty has proved there’s nothing worse for the party as a whole than watching one Republican try to win the Presidency by trashing another.

What better spectacle for the Democrats than the way Pawlenty went after Bachmann in the campaign. All they have to do except is pick up his lines once the primaries are over. It works for both parties. It is generally acknowledged that Teddy Kennedy’s attempt to unseat Jimmy Carter in the 1980 primaries paved the way for Carter’s loss in the general election. It’s bad for Democrats but particularly bad for Republicans, since they are never going to be a natural majority.

A few weeks ago, a Democratic leader was fretting about the turnout of the party’s base in 2012 and described it as “single women, young people, blacks and Hispanics.” Those are large constituencies lost to Republicans. As long as single women want to be dependent on the government, as long as there are young people being educated in American colleges, as long as African-Americans continue to vote 90 percent for the same candidates and as long as Chuck Schumer continues to push for voter registration booths greeting illegal immigrants at the Mexican border, the Democrats will have a solid core of constituents. Add to them the millions of public employees who see the Democrats as benign bosses and you’ve got yourself a near majority of the electorate.

The Republican core is much more fragile. All those Tea Party fanatics out there are basically small business people who have gotten sick of the federal government intruding in their lives. That’s a naturally limited minority. The Democrats represent government while the Republicans represent commerce and people involved in commerce will always be outnumbered by people looking for a handout from the government. Even if commerce supplies us with our daily bread, there will always be more buyers of bread than there are bakers. And if we decide to set the price of bread by majority vote — which is basically what Democrats want — then we end up with the kind of economy we have now, which only makes people dissatisfied with the system. Republicans have to stand together and say; “We know what’s wrong with the system. Choose any one of us but either way you’ve going to get less government.” That’s the only way to win.

So it’s not disappointing to see Pawlenty drop out of the race, even though he seemed like a promising candidate at the start. That soricidal attempt on Bachmann was exactly the wrong way to go.

WHILE PRESIDENT OBAMA is blaming George Bush and the Tea Party for the economy he has created, he ought to take a look at one Republican he professes to admire, Ronald Reagan. The huge losses on the stock market last week only highlighted what remains the worst single day in market history — October 19, 1987, when the market lost 22.6 percent of its value in one day, almost twice the second-worst loss of 12.8 percent on “Black Friday,” October 28, 1929. (Seven days later, October 26, 1987, also stands as the eighth largest loss in history at 8.0 percent.) If ever there was a market collapse that seemed to signal a depression, this was it.

So what did Reagan do? Absolutely nothing. “Some people are talking panic,” he calmly noted in his diary. “Chm. of stock exchange very upset.” But Reagan made not the slightest move to “rescue” the economy with government spending. The New York Times shouted itself hoarse urging Reagan to follow the Keynesian rules with a grand “stimulus,” but the President wasn’t fazed. He expressed confidence the market would bounce back without government help and it did. Except for a brief recession in real estate, the economy kept stamping out jobs so that by the 1988 election all Michael Dukakis had going for him was dropping the Pledge of Allegiance.

Just think of what our economy would be like now if Obama had Reagan’s wisdom? Score another downgrade for the teacher’s pet.

About the Author

Green Lantern is the pen-name of an East Coast writer.

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jothepro| 8.15.11 @ 6:30AM

Obama is doing exactly what he was taught.

Alan Brooks| 8.15.11 @ 8:39PM

I still say THANK GOD McCain wasn't elected in '08.

Alan Brooks| 8.15.11 @ 8:42PM

... and if you run another Bushclone-type, I will be his archenemy whether he wins the presidency or not.

axbucxdu| 8.15.11 @ 9:55PM

Attack of the Bushclone, eh? I'll be his archenemy so he doesn't win the presidency.

Von| 8.16.11 @ 9:52PM

All you ever do is talk about McCain. In case you didn't notice, this article isn't about McCain and he's not running for president. Get some new material, you sound like a broken record. Obviously you have no job because you are the first to post on every article on here, therefore a good little democrat who loves obama and his handouts.

Sonny Butterbuns| 8.15.11 @ 7:07AM

Democrats will run someone other than Obama next year.

Intelligent Design| 8.15.11 @ 7:28AM

If they had any brains they would, but the don't and won't.

Maddox| 8.15.11 @ 9:04AM

I agree, they are like mind-numbed robots, following the same mantra and Marxist politicians over and over and over. They refuse to change because in so doing they would have to admit they were wrong. These people will never do that and they will never admit they were not intelligent enough to make their policies work.

Stan Redmond| 8.15.11 @ 2:56PM

It's not that what THEY do is wrong. All the Marxist, Socialist, and Communist theories work perfectly. It's all us bible clingin' hayseeds bein' too dang dumb to work as perfect variables in their utopian formulae.

Patrick| 8.15.11 @ 3:34PM

And nevermind that they cheat their own system to its death. No, can't acknowledge that.

In the end, their utopian dreams fail because humans are intrinsically more complex and difficult than what they envision humans to be.

Conservative View| 8.15.11 @ 9:06AM

I'm going to side with Jothepro on this one. Yes, I think the Democrats are thinking seriously of putting someone else out there. I suspect it will be Hillary. She is (so I am told) stepping down from her position in State.

I think Obama is scared to death of that very thing, that there will be a contested convention. I think he is doing all these fund raisers to drain the well so Hillary won't have any money to run.

But, we shall see. Intelligent Design may well be right. The Democrats have been short on brains of late.

Conservative View| 8.15.11 @ 9:10AM

I meant Sonny, not Joe.

Opppssseeeee, my bad. Sorry Sonny and Joe.

idalily| 8.15.11 @ 11:15PM

I think if the Dems primary Obama with Hillary, it will backfire. Blacks will stay home. Hillary will still have to own up to her own participation in the disaster that is Obama foreign policy.

Dick Nome| 8.15.11 @ 11:19AM

Why would they. The Marxists and Radical left who run the Democrat Party have the guy they want. Obama.

Cincinnatius| 8.15.11 @ 7:23PM

Amen! Soros and his minions groomed this bummer for years, spending untold millions (billions?) to grease the skids. Soros is now pulling the puppet's stings. He is the one that put the kabash on Bill and Hill's big return to the White House, I suspect by letting them know that he had and would release all the dirt that they collectively had amassed. No one thinks they would have allowed Obozo a pass on all of his past issues, from birth certificate to terrorist buddies because they didn't know it do you? Soros runs this show and Obozo will run again. Question is: Can Soros buy another election? Probably.

Harry the Horrible| 8.15.11 @ 12:25PM

Obama better be vetting his Secret Service agents carefully and be very careful as to what venues he attends.
Obama, alive, is a major liability for the Democrats, but, "martyred," he would be an invincible asset to them.

Quiche Lorraine| 8.19.11 @ 3:41AM

WOW, never even thought.....God Save the Queen!

Ab Initio| 8.15.11 @ 7:16AM

"Teacher's Pet" also ropes him into the Teacher's Union which is wedded to this failing student to the tune millions of dollars and blood sacrifice.

Intelligent Design| 8.15.11 @ 7:32AM

Obama would have flunked Professor Kingsfield's class. Critical thinking skills are no longer so important in the classroom, having been replaced by a requirement of having the correct social biases.

Prester John| 8.15.11 @ 7:47AM

Although I am no great fan of JFK, it is worth remembering he was almost killed in the service of his country.

That is something that will never happen to BHO.

chuck| 8.15.11 @ 8:04AM

What the Obamas of this world refuse to acknowledge is when you kill the bakers, everyone goes hungry.

martin j smith| 8.15.11 @ 8:17AM

Here is my take: Obama was an actor and he was presented to us via the MSM, Wall Street, Big Business including Banking & of course the USAuto Industry and let us not forget Big Pharma and Big Medicine. He hyas taught how to use props such as the teleprompter--but not at all taught how to talk to people.
Was he simply a convenient "figure head for the above forces in the US and abroad --and lest I forget Obama was also the product of an INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST MOVEMENT AS WELL--RECALL " CITIZENS OF THE WORLD...SPEECH IN BERLIN SUMMER OF 08.

HOW DO YOU BEAT OBAMA ? You do not follow the playbook of the Mainline Republican Party. You stress in every way his failed and destructive policies AND his unwillingness to work with business--especially small business. He will make deals on a crony capitalist way. You go PUBLIC multiple times to the people the utter destruction that will befall us should Obama be re-elected. You lay out a POSITIVE message that UNIFIES the AMERICAN PEOPLE. You CONTRAST YOUR MESSAGE with CLASS WARFARE and show how this and other man made divisions are breaking down our nation. Uou spend lots of money on adds and you travel the entire nation East and West North and South.
You do not allow the Media or Obama or his cronies get away with anything !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is how you win an election especially this one. Otherwise I thinkl the Republican Party is TOAST.

Wayne | 8.15.11 @ 11:17AM

I think you got it. Bring down Obama, and you bring down the Democratic Party, the government unions, planned parenthood, the mainstream media, environmentalism and all the last 100 years of progressivism rooted in anti-industrial revolution of the 19th century.

Imagine how the economy would soar, if we were to shake free these chains.

Stan Redmond| 8.15.11 @ 3:01PM

They would burn buildings and smash cars. Once the recipient class was out of rocks and torches the country would recover quite quickly. It will be a painful mess and I wouldn't want to be in any of the liberal bastions like Detroit and Watts, when the freebies are taken away. And I especially wouldn't want to be around any state capitols when government union workers start getting the axe.

POST American| 8.15.11 @ 8:26AM

------'90's Show' Calm-pace--n--see OP --ALERT!--

Of course the MOST winning strategy is to
REAL-EYES the issue ---IS-----the Globalist
RED China sellout and TREASON OP.

To REAL-EYES what the REAL--IT---HE
is ---really is KEY.

Finally, ALWAYS remember kiddies ---we're the ITs!

Heggblade Marguleos| 8.15.11 @ 11:20PM

It's...Monthy Python's Flying Circus.

Timothy L. Pennell| 8.15.11 @ 8:34AM

"All he has known is Academia. All he has done is sit in Law School Classes, and gossiping about what's going on out there, beyond the Campus Gates."
That doesn't sound so bad. That doesn't sound like it would make a man TURN on his own Country. What are we missing, here? I mean, Bill Clinton did the same Law School Classroom b.s. But I never looked in to his eyes and felt HATRED FOR THIS COUNTRY, coming from him. I do, with Obama.
Why do so many people, try as hard as they can, to IGNORE this man's UPBRINGING? To IGNORE his Formative Years?
I know that I've written this a THOUSAND TIMES before. But it needs to be DRILLED in to everyone's subconscious.
He was BORN in Hawaii (no comment) to an ATHEIST/COMMUNIST Mother and a MUSLIM/MARXIST Father. His Maternal Grandparents were COMMUNISTS. He was taken to Indonesia, after his Father abandoned him and his Mother (Typical Black Man) and she married another Muslim, where he was raised in the Muslim Schools and MOSQUES, until the age of 11. He even knelt on his very own Prayer Rug, facing Mecca, and Prayed to a God of MURDER, 5 times a day.
His 1st Mentor was a COMMUNIST - Frank Marshall Davis. His 2nd Mentor was a White Hating/Jew Hating/America Hating MARXIST. He "Sought out the Marxist Professors when I got to School". He went to White Hater/Jew Hater/ America Hater, Gaddafi Lover LOUIS FARRAKHAN Rallies. He hung out with TERRORISTS: William Ayers, Bernadine Dorhn, and Khalid Rashidi. He keeps HIS LIFE locked in a Vault, in Hawaii. Transparency is for THEE, and not for ME.
So, you see. It was NOT the Classroom or the Study Hall. It's not his Haughty Demeanor, that repulses us from the SIGHT of his face, and the SOUND of his Voice.
It's his LIFETIME immersion in HATE for this Country, for US, that fuels his actions, and our CONTEMPT.
This Muslim Boy, raised in backward Country, by people who HATE US, wants to "Fundamentally Transform" our home. Our way of life. Yet, everybody know, that, if you want to TRANSFORM something, in to something ELSE? You have to TEAR DOWN what is already there.
How do you feel?
Like our Country is being Transformed?
Or TORN DOWN?

(And, please, don't give me any of the Typical Black Man B.S. It's a play on what Scumbag said about HIS OWN GRANDMOTHER, Calling her a Typical WHITE PERSON)
You should KNOW this.

PAUL| 8.15.11 @ 10:21AM

Timmothy,

My favorite quote from the affirmative action superstar:

"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."

What the hell is a structural feminist? I have visions of Hillary at Yale, a lesbian socialist with hairy legs and arm pits, mad at men because daddy did not give her enough attention.

Occam's Tool| 8.15.11 @ 1:24PM

Timothy,

as usual, correct. The problem I have with Romney invloves Obamacare (major) and borders (minor). The problem I have with Perry involves Borders (Major) and Sharia (moderate---better than Obama). The problem I have with Paul is that on foreign policy and drug policy he is unspeakable. 70% of my Native American patients, who are 50% of my patients, arrive to my hospital high on MJ or with recent MJ use. Paul is stupid both on medical and foreign policy grounds.

The problem I have with Michele is that she doesn't play enough BTO. I can live with that. Get 'em, Tigress!

Timothy L. Pennell| 8.15.11 @ 4:01PM

Ron Paul is a SIDESHOW. Nothing more.

davelnaf| 8.15.11 @ 8:35AM

Yes, Democrats have their dependable constituencies; but I’m not at all convinced that they represent a majority of voters, although it sometimes seems so from the volume of noise these people generate on any given day. And, yes, millions of these people will vote again for the O for reasons other than his job performance, but if the world were rational would we have still have need for the military or even the police? We have need for both long into the foreseeable future, just as we have for the real America that showed up again last November. They, along with the police and the military, are the true dependable majority that keeps this country on an even keel, if not free. And they will show up again next year to continue the fight and win this war.

TrueBlue| 8.15.11 @ 12:03PM

It's a majority, but thankfully many of them don't leave their homes to vote. That's why so many states, like Washington, are pushing and passing laws to make all ballots mail-in only. Also makes it easier to commit voter fraud, and there's no ID check involved.

SpiralArchitect| 8.15.11 @ 12:11PM

Never forget to rule out the dead, they are overwhelmingly liberal voters.

Mattled| 8.15.11 @ 9:23AM

It is the MEDIA that fuels this man. Cut off the fuel supply and he withers.

When is someone going to start a one/one media campaign against the media? David Gregory's pathetic performance against Bachmann Sunday-----do you really believe he would ever grill a Democrat like that? Call them out by name-----otherwise we lose in 2012. They have every knife, gun and gotcha ready for ANY Republican. Any on Obama's 90, 100 or more gaffes and missteps?

How about these?

William Ayers (Weatherman Underground bomber, unrepentant domestic terrorist)

Frank Davis (Member Communist Party USA, early mentor to Obama)

Jeremiah Wright (Black Liberation militant, racist, and Pastor)

Tony Rezko (Corrupt Financier, ties to Terror Financing)

Louis Farrakhan (Nation of Islam Leader, racist, anti-American)

Raila Ordinga (Fundamental Islamic Candidate, Kenya, Obama's Cousin)

Daniel Ortega (Marxist Sandinista Leader. Nicarauga)

Raul Castro (Hard-line Communist Leader, Cuba)

Communist Party Illinois (US Communist Political Party)

Socialist Party USA (Marxist Socialist Political Party)

The New Black Panther Party (Black Militant Organization, anti-American
and racist)

Hamas Terrorist Organization (Islamic Terrorist Organisation)

More than 80 attorneys for Guantanamo detainees -- who have been offering
free-of-charge legal services. Not surprising that lawyers for Muslim
terrorists would support Obama.

The Communist Party USA

The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism

Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim congressman

Sam Graham-Felsen, (Obama campaign's official blogger) He spent time in
France taking part in labor riots, has written for a socialist
magazine, hung a communist flag in his home, and was a fan of Marx
while at Harvard.

Kwame Kilpatrick

MoveOn.org George Soros' (slumlord undergoing trial) son, Jonathan
Soros, an attorney and financier,recently promoted to deputy manager
of Soros Fund Management, is personally involved with MoveOn.org's
activities.

Muslim Americans for Obama '08

The Muslim American Society

Obama Supporters for Marijuana Law Reform

Obama Youth "Obama Youth" had as its logo the Islamic crescent and
stars (until word got out on the net and they had to clean it up.)

President Daniel Ortega ... who stated, "It's not to say that there is
already a revolution under way in the U.S. ... but yes, they are
laying the foundations for a revolutionary change."

Project Islamic H. O. P. E ... who displayed Obama as their banner boy
until word got out and they had to clean that up. Baraq Hussein Obama
is no longer there on the site.

Rev. Al Sharpton ... obviously supports Obama, but obviously advised
to keep it quiet.

Shepard Fairey, Official artist of the Obama posters ... remarkable
resemblance to Marxist posters

Tony Rezko ... Obama said that he estimated Rezko raised about $50,000 to
$60,000 for his political career. Obama has collected at least
$168,308 from Rezko and his circle.

Malaak Shabazz, Daughter of Malcom X

The Socialist Party USA

George Soros billionaire - Jew hater

russel| 8.15.11 @ 10:32AM

I'm with this . The MSM is the propogandist arm of the socialist party . Since so many voters are ignorant and lazy , that arm has a powerful sway . Even Fox news radio is liberal . Heck , McCain was chosen by them to be our candidate in so many words . Rush spells it out neatly : our next candidate has to be his OWN media coverage because they sure as __ won't be .

A. C. Santore| 8.15.11 @ 9:37AM

Reagan, two comments:

The first time Pawlenty attacked Bachmann, my immediate reaction was "the veracity of President Reagan's 11th commandment -- 'never speak ill of another Republican.'" It was, as the author wrote, political suicide.

Reagan's non-interference in the stock market never-ending peregrinations was the perfect response in a free country where people are allowed to fail while trying to succeed - a concept foreign to the Proto-dictator and his minions of the theoretical.

fmm| 8.15.11 @ 9:45AM

I have seen this guy sitting in the cushy chair being smug, pretending to know what is going on, enjoying his unearned place of favor but could not come up with the right turn of phrase. Thanks for the identification - teacher's pet is perfect.

The Astonishing FartMan | 8.15.11 @ 10:36AM

Yes, he is The Teacher's Pet, articulate, bright, clean, etc., i.e., a guy who somehow always got off without ever having to do his homework. So the question is, how long can he get by with the excuse that a dog (named Dubya) ate it?

PolishKnight| 8.15.11 @ 11:09AM

"A Democratic leader was fretting about the turnout of the party's base in 2012 and described it as "single women, young people, blacks and Hispanics." Those are large constituencies lost to Republicans."

It's unPC to say so (on either side), but the author decided to open the can of worms continuing:

"Add to them the millions of public employees who see the Democrats as benign bosses and you've got yourself a near majority of the electorate."

Indeed, the left which has claimed to want to represent the disenfranchised and go after the "rich" are actually a big bunch of cronies who are out to engage in old-fashioned race and gender scapegoating of a minority (white males) by pandering to a majority they built from various special interest groups. No surprise there.

A few things to observe: The single women vote is buttressed by the liberal women who are double dipping and marrying professional men who overlook their hypocrisy. I have plenty of relatives who are ultra conservative with liberal feminist wives who quit their hobby jobs when it suits them.

Next, the Republican electorate is fragile because the Republicans themselves tend to take their own electorate for granted while trying to beg for scraps votes from mostly feminist constituencies. When a Republican agrees with the latest jobs plan to get single women more jobs, the women vote for Obama anyway while the whites and/or men (and their loyal spouses) stay at home. That's what happened to McMaverick or McLoser or as he goes by, McCain.

The primary base of Republicans isn't the ultra wealthy that the Republicans have sworn to protect from tax increases. They're working and middle class white guys and their families and then, in order of association, men in general, married women, two parent families, etc. Here's some tips:

1) Kill the marriage penalty, forever. This terrifies feminists and leftists because it would effectively provide a government tax subsidy for SAH parents (namely women) and two parent families overall and most of them would be traditional.

2) Kill racist/sexist hiring preferences and contracts. Leftists have been getting away with this Jim Crow hypocrisy for years and not getting called on it.

Those two factors, alone, would remove a strong incentive for non-whites and women to be democrats in addition to bringing more whites and men back to the polls. Also, it would set in motion a demographic shift as middle and working class women would leave the workplace to marry and have children.

While they're at it, Republicans should be calling for so-called family court reform, ending VAWA (note that minority men are being railroaded into jail as violent women can beat up fathers, call the police, and then get him hauled away by default), and IMBRA.

Occam's Tool| 8.15.11 @ 1:27PM

By the way, I'm a State employee. I voted Republican all the way in the 2010 elections, and I will be doing it again in the 2012 elections. If Paul is the Candidate, I will be writing in Bachmann, but otherwise it's a straight shot no matter what. (Turnabout is fair play. Paul didn't support his fellow Republicans in '08. And last I checked, Obama didn't say nukes for Iran would be a good idea. Moving to Australia would be a good choice with a Paul-Obama race.)

RCV| 8.15.11 @ 2:04PM

Is there a Ruth's Chris in Sydney you'll be treating me at?

PolishKnight| 8.15.11 @ 2:51PM

OC, there's lots of reasons why I disagree with Ron Paul as well, but what specifically makes him so awful that it's worth buying a ticket out of the country (keeping in mind that him holding a position is different than him actually implementing it.)

For example, GW's opposition to legalized abortion. It's a largely moot point since even if Roe V Wade was overturned, abortion would be legal in many states and available to women who can afford a $100 Spirit Air plane ticket.

So a lot of RP's radical libertarian agenda is not an issue one way or the other.

Wayne | 8.15.11 @ 11:11AM

Yeah, but don't call him a brown nose or you will be called a racist.

michael| 8.15.11 @ 11:34AM

Democrats cannot run Hillary or anyone but Obama, because they have already announced that anyone who opposes Obama is a "racist".

RCV| 8.15.11 @ 1:20PM

Yes, I think adoption of the "Teacher's Pet" slogan would be consistent with the general junior-high tone of the GOP campaign.

Occam's Tool| 8.15.11 @ 1:28PM

Hey, RCV, "if it does not fit, you must acquit." Whatever works. See you in Minneapolis, Winter/Spring 2013 if you want, or we'll send the gift certificate via Ken.

RCV| 8.15.11 @ 1:51PM

Sorry, Occam, but I will not accept Ken as a go-between on anything.

Occam's Tool| 8.15.11 @ 1:29PM

That is, RCV, you'll be sending the gift certificate. Other than Paul, any of the Republican candidates will wash away Obama.

RCV| 8.15.11 @ 1:52PM

Looking forward to it, my friend!

RCV| 8.15.11 @ 4:29PM

Rather then send it, Occam, I look forward to meeting you sometime in October or November 2012 at 920 2nd Avenue in Minneapolis. We'll pick the day, and the reservation will be under "RCV". And you'll be picking up the check.

Kingofthenet| 8.15.11 @ 1:37PM

I LOVE it, you guys are getting so self confident, well let me tell you the ONLY way Michelle or Ricky get's into the White House before 2016 is on a guided tour...

The night of the Election, you may feel a slight sting. That's pride messing with you. The Hell with pride. Pride only hurts, it never helps.

idalily| 8.15.11 @ 11:19PM

Oooh, I'm so scared. My pride's going to be stung. Oooh.

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Pat| 8.15.11 @ 3:43PM

The other day, the mainstream media reported on a recent opinion poll which found 17% of Americans rejected the federal government, both its authority over them and its ability to govern. “This is very disturbing” was the conclusion the media’s article attempted to convey. But Conservatives might have concluded with: “What, only 17% of Americans are completely fed up?”. What this poll tabulates is how many remaining Americans love to take a whipping and how easily we’re manipulated by America’s political elite. And ‘Teacher’s Pet’ – c’mon, give us a break here – Obama has real accomplishments, certainly a major reason 17% of Americans now reject our federal government.

And “Teacher’s Pet” or not, Obama’s real accomplishments include the largest amount of taxpayer wealth in American history redistributed to his friends and allies within the Democratic Party – for a supposedly lightweight politician, Obama has more than demonstrated his “street smarts”. Take the $500 million Detroit Light Rail project for example. This project is a perfect example of Obama Magic at work. The Department of Transportation is giving Detroit, no strings attached, $25 million in seed money to get the ball rolling. Private investors and municipal bonds will provide additional funds raising the total commitment to $125 million – which then makes the project eligible for “matching” federal funds under one of Obama’s Stimulus Programs – approximately half a billion dollars is needed in total – you do the math and consider how much it will cost you, the American taxpayer, to fund a project which will actually benefit you not in the slightest. And all thanks to Obama and his carefree ways – along with your hard earned money.

Does America desperately need a taxpayer funded $500 million project to build a light rail system through some of the worst urban slums within this country? Definitely not, but Obama’s extremely loyal political base in Detroit and Southeastern Michigan insist we need it. Delicious opportunities for graft, bribes and patronage jobs for friends and family members abound with federally funded projects of this nature and Detroit certainly knows how to beg money from the Democrats. All of this “opportunity” made possible only through Obama’s support.

And Americans are actually content to provide more of their personal wealth, to collectively accumulate even more in federal debt and to tacitly support irrational income redistribution schemes so Democratic politicians in Detroit can line their pockets? Only 17% of Americans are fed up with our federal government at this point – it’s hard to imagine how much more we taxpayers can be swindled and still pledge our continuing allegiance to a hopelessly corrupt governmental system.

cicero| 8.15.11 @ 5:29PM

The Republican Party needs to articulate a point by point platform, setting forth for all to see, where they are proposing to take the country if given the reins. Then, they can find a candidate who is willing to abide by the platform. It seems that in recent years, we have been in the habit of looking for a savior to lead us into the promised land, rather than a leader who is willing to go where we have told him we are willing to go.
I believe that there is something that can best described, in a free society, as the "collective wisdom of the people". The articulation of this is the purpose of political parties. We seem to have turned our electoral process into a form of entertainment, a sporting event.
The stakes are too high to just guess, and hope we were right. That got us "hope and change". Are we really, as a society, really that silly?

David| 8.15.11 @ 7:03PM

Witness all of the "flash mobs" in all of the usual dysfunctional cities across America right now.

If Bam Bam is not re-elected, we are going to see much, much worse. The left does not like to lose. Blacks will not stand for the first black prez being turned out after one term. THe riots will be fueled by a MSM and dems and every leftist in America who will insist the repubs stole the election from their man.

It is not going to be pretty. Like the LA riots after the Rodney King verdict, we will see black congressperson after black congressperson LIVE ON C-SPAN in the well of the House saying America is getting its just deserts. They will sound just like the racist Jew hater Jeremiah Wright. They will inflame.

White people and Asians arm yourselves because you and your families will not be safe. There may be substantial number of Hispanics joining them, too. Leftist Blacks cannot be reasoned with - just watch how almost every one of them talks over and shouts over and insists on 10 times the talking time of the person with whom they argue.

POST American| 8.16.11 @ 11:51PM

--------------------BOTTOM LINE----------------------

---------REAL----EYES we're DEE-ling with
TREE----SON.

Rob| 9.11.11 @ 9:48AM

"The Democrats represent government while the Republicans represent commerce and people involved in commerce."

Here is this in "real world" terms:

The Democrats represent government while the Republicans represent corporations.

So, just imagine what is said in all of those board rooms (instead of faculty lounges). Just imagine all of the back room deals for pro-corporate legislation in lew of large campaign donations for their "corporate pets." Just imagine living in the "real world" where the executive's pay is more than 1,100 times higher than the average worker's (factual data). Just imagine living in the "real world" where a "corporate pet's " political party is anti-education (because they prefer an uneducated populace because their corporate masters can pay less and an uneducated citizen is more likely to buy into the "corporate pet's " propagated political agendas without questioning). Just imagine living in the "real world" in fifty years if the majority of the United States public only had a secondary education. What would the United States' world standing be like? What would the gap between executive's salaries and the average worker's pay be then? Who would really be in control of the United States? The voters or the corporations?
In communist nations, the governments control the corporations and strictly control and allow very little post secondary education. Here in the United States, certain " corporate pets" political entities want the corporations to control the government. Very fine line of difference between the two. A line that is often smudged together. I prefer a nation that is a democracy, educated and representative of the entire population's will. Not what some corporate board (where only board members have a vote) has decided for me. That is the "real world," and the "corporate pets" know and fear it.

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