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The Current Crisis
Obama in High Seas
Even his dog is in over its head.
WASHINGTON — It has been a very rough patch for Our President, and I do believe it is going to get rougher still. Do not be surprised, as the month goes on and August runs into September, that his campaign budget becomes tighter. President Barack Obama is spending more money than he is raising. It will get worse. A president who mismanages the federal budget the way Obama does cannot be expected to manage his campaign budget much better. Lavish spending, it turns out, is a way of life for the community organizer who became our 44th president. Lavish spending on Campaign 2012 will be looked back on and seen as one of the campaign’s greatest weaknesses. He can spend the money, but my guess is he will not be able to raise it.
Yet this week he had other headaches too. This week Politico finally reported the dissension and backbiting within the campaign that have been rumored for weeks. You will be hearing a lot about this in the weeks ahead. The magical team that David Axelrod and David Plouffe put together in 2008 is falling apart.
At The American Spectator we reported years ago that this team was in reality the greenest pack of greenhorns ever assembled to take over a White House. For over three years the mainstream media have covered for the Obama galoots. It is a perfect example of the Taranto Principle by which the mainstream media’s biased reporting only encourages Liberal excess. Well, now Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett and all the rest of Obama’s minor figures who aspired to be major players are at each other’s throats. It will fall to the President to gather them up and lead them to one more term in the White House. Except that as Ron Suskind demonstrated in his excellent book, Confidence Men, Obama does not lead. He cannot. He just walked out on another meeting.
But there is more. Niall Ferguson dominated the cover of Newsweek to tabulate the carnage that is our economy. Also he added up the foreign policy failures of the administration. It does not look good. Ferguson rather rudely asked Obama to “Hit the Road, Barack.” Finally, the President reported that his dog Bo is overweight and will be going on a diet.
So with all this drear Our President hastily called a press conference the other day. He has not held one in months. He attempted to say that his charges that Mitt Romney has been responsible for at least one death and is a tax cheat were not outside the “bounds” of presidential discourse. “If you look at the overall trajectory of our campaign,” he said, “and the ads that I’ve approved and are produced by my campaign, you’ll see that we point out sharp differences between the candidates but we don’t go out of bounds.” Actually, if Romney is responsible for all the misdeeds Obama has laid to him, he should not be running for president. He should be behind bars.
Lately in Washington the scurrilous tone of Obama’s campaign has even made the mainstream media uneasy. They again launch into their false theater about how “both sides do it and oh woe is us.” They cite the Obama campaign’s claims about the dead woman and Romney’s taxes. They mention Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s deputy campaign manager, who charged Romney with a “felony” for the way he exited his business connection with Bain Capital. Then they bring in their examples of the Republicans’ excesses. Inevitably they go back to 2004 and the charges that Senator John Kerry, then the Democratic candidate for president, had his war record mangled by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and other Republican apparatchiks. Though wait! The Swift Boat Veterans spoke the truth. They even relied on taped Congressional hearings before which Kerry charged his fellow combatants with war crimes. His problem was his record in Vietnam, not the Swift Boat Veterans’ allegations. The mainstream media also trot out an allegation about Romney claiming that the Obama Administration is “gutting” welfare. Two Republicans, they say, were among the governors who asked for some sort of waiver on welfare. The Republicans deny it. It is all pretty thin gruel.
Let us come to the point. Obama is reaching out to his very own special constituency. It is composed of those who believe that the Republicans would put up as their candidate for the presidency a person who in his business life would engage in fraud, tax evasion, even murder. Mr. Obama is casting his net for the moron vote. I do not believe that there are enough morons out there to reelect him.
About the Author
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. He is the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: the Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery.
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Appleby| 8.23.12 @ 6:59AM
Never underestimate the number of morons in the room. Fortunately, most of them will be too busy in the basement at a Lord of the Rings Marathon to bother anybody on election day.
Dai Alanye | 8.23.12 @ 10:20AM
Lord of the Rings is all about duty and honor. What's wrong with that, other than too many elves?
If it's not for you, try Jack Vamce's Lyonesse trilogy. The only marathon is the time required to read it.
Occam's Tool| 8.23.12 @ 11:05AM
Appbleby: Read the chapter "The Scouring of the Shire." Good, Conservative stuff.
Appleby| 8.23.12 @ 11:08AM
I have been a fan of LOTR since I first read it in 1965. Just looking for something very long and time consuming to use as an example. Substitute "Star Wars" or "Porky's" if you like.
TLP| 8.23.12 @ 7:38PM
I like - Crapping on a Cop Car, and Having Sex with Sandra Fluke.
JamesDrouin| 8.23.12 @ 7:36PM
THE example of the term "irony":
B. Hussein Obama, who claims to be "the smartest person in any room he's in" being in the same room with these people.
spike59| 8.24.12 @ 5:45AM
his claim speaks VOLUMES about the dullards with whom he associates
LindaF | 8.23.12 @ 7:39AM
I'm not as sure as you that sufficient morons aren't available - but, I AM sure that they all vote Democratic.
MK48| 8.23.12 @ 11:42AM
No Worry...........check out "Hacking Democracy" a HBO documentary.
If you're worried already about the dangers of paperless voting, this documrntary will blow your mind.
Just like in 66 when we were getting depth charged by our own......the OD said hang on it's going to get worse............
Stormzeye| 8.23.12 @ 8:51AM
Those who receive government hand-outs and vote Democrat to simply to preserve their benefits are not necessarily morons. All we can hope for is that the Tea Party is better at getting out the vote than the public service workers unions.
Dr. Emilio Lizardo| 8.23.12 @ 9:04AM
Unfortunately, Emmett, the one thing that this country has in surplus is morons. There are morons a-plenty, a veritable republic and commonwealth of Morons. And the moron vote for BHO is trolling is aided and abetted by a lapdog media,Hollywood and the entertainment industry in general, "minorities" of every stripe- including the Jews who should know better. The cast above is doing nothing but appealing to the swarms of morons that populate this country through fear-mongering, demagoguery and diversions and will ensure the re-election of BHO.
Pecos Pete| 8.23.12 @ 9:05AM
There were enough morons around to elect King O in the first place. Hopefully, by now, they are too fat and sassy to worry about reelecting him.
Nancy in NC| 8.23.12 @ 9:11AM
Perhaps they (the morons) will vote on Nov 2 as suggested by M. Obama. Or is that the day suggested for voter fraud? But in NC they will be able to vote on Nov 2 and a number of days before and after, possibly even on Sunday.
This extended voting period and one-stop voting is perpetuated voter fraud throughout the country.
I wish I shared your confidence, Emmett, but I certainly pray you are right.
Bill8472| 8.23.12 @ 9:35AM
Why is the CBO saying that the Obama budget is going to save more money than the Republican plan that involves cutting back?
The only way I can make sense out of that claim is that a household that has gone deeply into debt by misusing credit cards and lines of credit, once it insists on living on a cash basis, will suffer because they're no longer using credit, while they could enjoy life a bit more -until the final moment of truth arrives- if they continued to deepen their debt by continuing to misuse the credit cards, but that's about as much as I can get out of it.
No doubt it's some sort of economist thingie that goes over my simple little head.
Thom| 8.23.12 @ 5:44PM
Bill, the Pennsylvania railroad reported a “profit” every year right to the moment it crashed and burned. The Accounting industry created a special ratio after that to detect what the Pennsy was doing to show a profit while losing money for years and going broke all of a sudden. The government bailed them out and the remints of that and other failed NorthEast Railroads became ConRail. Think Government Railroad here. That’s part of the answer you see in the conflict with the CBO numbers. If you knew what was underneath those numbers you would understand the smoke and mirror nature of it. Eventually your gut feelings come true….just as it did for the Pennsy.
RAM| 8.23.12 @ 10:06AM
If 2008 did not show the power of morons, what does?
Von Mises Jr| 8.23.12 @ 10:06AM
We haven't heard Carville call Romney an alien yet. I'll bet he sells cigarettes to little school kids.
Actually, I think even James is embarrassed.
chuck| 8.23.12 @ 11:12AM
If not, he certainly should be.
I think that most Democrat voters, deep down, know that "the One" has been a dismal failure who is destroying the country. Whether they will cast their next vote to stop, or continue, the destruction is a different matter.
JMM | 8.23.12 @ 10:12AM
Mr Tyrell is correct BHO will receive at least 98% of the moron vote. Unfortunately Mr Tyrell is not correct that there are not enough morons to re-elect BHO. As proof I refer you to the last Presidential election.
Kwan| 8.23.12 @ 10:33AM
The 2010 mid-term elections indicated a decline in the moron population, which is probably why a panicked Obama and Holder are opening our southern border in a desperate effort to import morons from Mexico, to fraudulently vote in the 2012 Presidential election. Why do you think Holder is against voter identification.
Mike G| 8.23.12 @ 10:36AM
"I do not believe that there are enough morons out there to reelect him."
Think about how ignorant the average person is. Now realize that 50% of the population is even more ignorant. That's a lot of morons.
Gary B| 8.23.12 @ 10:44AM
No kidding. And, it makes me shutter to know a lot of uninformed people will wait until the last two weeks and cast their vote in response to bumper sticker slogans. That's why it's so important to bring a gun to a gun fight and put our own sound bites out there.
MK48| 8.23.12 @ 11:46AM
PS.........don't tell applebag that..............she hates mormons............ahh.... I mean morons.
Gary B| 8.23.12 @ 10:42AM
"now Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett and all the rest of Obama's minor figures who aspired to be major players are at each other's throats." and Obama "just walked out on another meeting."
Now, we're cooking with gas. Their worst fear - an awakened Sleeping Giant - is being realized and they're in a three-alarm panic. To us, of course, it's entertainment.
fmm| 8.23.12 @ 10:59AM
Your last paragraph is one of the best examples of democratic transferrence I have seen.
Occam's Tool| 8.23.12 @ 11:09AM
Bob:
suggest soonest reading "The Marching Morons" by CM Kornbluth. Suggest underestimating poprob morons considerably. Review "Take it and Stick it" and current gameshows.
Nonetheless, believe the South will yet again be our salvation.
Who Knows?| 8.23.12 @ 11:16AM
The Mormon vote will beat the moron vote.
Houdini| 8.23.12 @ 11:40AM
Quiet folks, we don't want to wake the morons. Let's let them sleep till say the 8th of Nov.
cuban pete| 8.23.12 @ 3:59PM
I hope so but Michelle told them to go to the polls on Nov. 2nd.
Perhaps they'll try to vote on Nov.2nd.,the polls won't be open so they will go back to sleep until the 8th.
Stick| 8.23.12 @ 5:19PM
No, her comments will be used to extend voting from 2 Nov through the 6th. Otherwise her comments would normally be understood to suppress the vote through dirty racist tricks and require a lawsuit by Holder. She is after all part of the ruling class - well sort of.
supremecourtlegislator| 8.23.12 @ 12:21PM
Barack Obama is a person who can really build up an appetite by walking his dog.
davelnaf| 8.23.12 @ 12:33PM
"Actually, if Romney is responsible for all the misdeeds Obama has laid to him, he should not be running for president. He should be behind bars."
Get it; used to make a point. But a little bit of 'not to mention everything that Obama has been accused of' would be a nice touch.
Grzmlyk| 8.23.12 @ 12:44PM
Ah, Emmett Tyrrell, always the optimist, whistling past the graveyard. I envy him.
The truth, sadly, is that it is not JUST morons who are shilling for the corrupt, morally vacuous tribalism that is the offspring of the marriage of the ultimate welfare state with crony capitalism.
If it were just morons, I'd say we have a fighting chance. But I believe we are up against three distinct groups:
1) The fools - clearly the largest group which includes the morons, the callow, the naive, the guilty rich, the diehard utopians, the morally shallow and hopelessly vain. Think your average college student. Think Cher. Think every university professor, except maybe a dozen, from sea to shining sea.
2) The crooks: Those who exploit the fools. Think Barney Frank, David Corzine, the SEIU. Every bureaucrat within the Beltway. Goldman Sachs.
3) The pawns: Those who are coddled by the fools and human shields for the crooks. The very benighted and ignorant whom Democrat party pretends to care about who are really just so much cannon fodder.
Grzmlyk| 8.23.12 @ 12:45PM
(meant to say "four distinct groups." Math was never my thing.
Grzmlyk| 8.23.12 @ 12:44PM
(continued)
4) The vandals: Those angry miscreants who believe that destruction is preferable to creation. Those who would tear down the people and institutions against whom they hold grudges. Think OWS. Think Sean Penn. Think Van Jones.
Of course these mutants are free to move among the categories, and may hold more than one position (Michael Moore, for example, is big enough to be a crook, a fool and a vandal all at once).
I believe the people in the aforementioned categories number somewhere around 250 million. Because we have such an effective indoctrination system now (i.e., education/pop culture/science/politics), there is simply not enough of the oxygen of freedom left to sustain life.
Controse| 8.23.12 @ 1:10PM
Conservatives the election is ours. All we have to do is convince the moron cohort that Google will be coming out shortly with a new hassle-free voter service. Much like Google Earth gathering data for maps vehicles will be methodically traversing those maps collecting brainwaves. Those brainwaves will be translated into intentions to vote for Obama, or whoever he is. Those intentions will be forwarded to the election authorities for proper recording. No need to leave your mom's basement to register your vote. Just think about how happy you are with Obama, or whoever he is, all the time since you'll never know when the brainwave wagon with be driving by.
Third Army| 8.23.12 @ 1:23PM
I disagree -- there are plenty of morons out there to re-elect him. I live in California and morons are running the shop here.
We're doomed.
Grzmlyk| 8.23.12 @ 1:31PM
Look on the bright side, Third Army: Even if Obama's not reelected, Romney will NEVER do what needs to be done to keep this ship from sinking.
Don't you feel cheered up now? Neither do I.
Buck Ofama| 8.23.12 @ 1:37PM
>Lavish spending, it turns out, is a way of life for the community organizer who became our 44th president.
This is typical behavior of low classNiggers, such as rap stars and community organizers. They have no substance, so they rely on ostentatious displays, no different from strutting wild animals.
HBealeJr| 8.23.12 @ 1:46PM
Mr. Tyrrell,
I pray you are correct. However, the public dole has never been greater. A large segment of our population is one the couch, supersized cola in hand, watching cable and happy with their government paid mortgage, monthly stipend, cell phone, linkcard.
I fear we have reached the Roman "Bread and Circuses" stage. And the barbarians are gathering at the gate.
Drunken Sailor| 8.23.12 @ 2:19PM
Don't know what everyone is worried about. Obama is toast. Even Michelle is leading the moron vote in the wrong direction.
Michelle Obama: 'Get to the Polls on November the 2'
http://www.weeklystandard.com/.....50573.html
For you visiting fence sitters this years election is Nov 6th.
Peter McGrath| 8.23.12 @ 3:53PM
Grzmlyk's negative (yet always amusing) prognostications aside, I do feel optimistic about the future. I'm starting to get the same feeling I had at about this time back in '94, when the rumblings of the great silent majority were mostly unnoticed by MSM Libs.
11/6/12 will be a historic shellacking for the Left, the likes of which have not been seen in the past 100 years.
The assumption - from many dour contributors here - is that the so-called great unwashed masses of couch potatoes really do enjoy their indolent, given-up-finding-work, lifestyle. I disagree. Millions out of work, or those who have accepted work below their station, desperately want their bottom line to improve. They abhor unemployment "benefits" and accept "disability" or other hand-outs only as a short term fix to put food on the table. In short, they want the economy to improve so their lives will improve. Millions of these folks are wrongly assumed to be part of Obama's base. To the contrary, these folks have figured it out: Obama couldn't fix a broken toilet, let alone a broken economy. They'll vote for the other guy.
As for Mitt's tendency toward moderate-ism, the new Congress will push him to the right, big time, as it finally takes a wrecking ball to the edifice of bloated Federal spending.
Simon Templar| 8.26.12 @ 9:04AM
Peter, I sincerely hope you are correct and appreciate your optimism.
I think both you and Grzmlyk, in fact, are correct in your assessments. We are living in a nation that does contain these types of people as well as a large segment of those you have described.
This is really up to us. It has come to my attention, for example, that some 17 million of evangelical Christians did not vote in the last election. Huge segments of this society need to be wakened up, organized, and brought into this process. The advantage and the power of the Left is in its control of the media and the educational systems, all of which we must wrestle back or create new if we will ever have a decent chance at winning this long term. This seems to escape many conservatives as they can not seem to think outside of box of old and stale conventional political thinking. The Left continues to reinvent itself as it controls the mechanism of reinvention.
They are not afraid of losing this election and have accomplished a large piece of their agenda in the last four years. It has always been incremental change for American leftist progressives. The question is do we have the courage, brains, and fortitude to really make the necessary changes to expose and set this agenda significantly back?
Thom| 8.23.12 @ 6:07PM
The problems with morons is that is a condition of birth and it never changes in fact…..
Fools, political ignorants, committed Marxists and the sloth class that propels these other groups into positions of power is what we are talking about here. The first two classes of people might have second thoughts after three plus years of misery loves company but the latter two have nowhere to go. People generally won’t vote against their own self-interests and the latter two groups’ only self-interest is to keep the gravy flowing from other people’s money. It is hard to see King O getting less than say 45% of the vote given his base of nonwhite, non-Christian voters. Stealing is core politics to Democrats along with lying. For a significant number of the “morons” to vote against the King would require them to face an ugly truth about what they stand for. Tough call there for a political movement dedicated to stealing and lying about it day in and day out…..
Anyone But Obama| 8.23.12 @ 7:58PM
Has Obozo's dog been see lately? I haven't seen any pics of it. Do you think that he ate it?
Americanpatriot| 8.23.12 @ 9:06PM
Very good article full of factual statements which is hard to find. Obama is an amateur and I don't think there are going to be enough dead votes or felons, remember the felon who ran against him in West Virginia who garnered almost 45% of the democrat vote in the primary, pets, vacant lots, illegals to pull this race off for him. Pribus the republican chairman gets it and I think he is going to be checking on vote fraud in alot of states this time. McCain heard about it but decided not to do anything. This is a huge election and I cannot wait to vote this fraud out of the WH. Perhaps, Jarrett, Axelrod and Obama are at each others throats because they know the American people are going to find out his birth certificate, which we know is a fake, maybe he was a foreign student and got scholorships for foreign students, possibly took money from the stimulus and gave it to his donors to launder thru companies. If I were them I too would be quaking in my shoes. Chicago politics may work well in Chicago but they do not go over with the rest of middle America. The truth will out as they say. I think we are going to find out a great deal after he leaves office. The media needs to never again receive any kind offunding from taxpayers again either. Obama has been giving the liberal media money to run ads for him that come from taxpayers.
James Madison| 8.25.12 @ 12:49AM
Hmm. There certainly were enough morons in 2008. Can a moron improve his IQ? Let's hope so.
Ken (Old Texican)| 8.25.12 @ 9:37AM
Dear Friends (excerpted from a letter to our stockholders)
It has been way too long since I fired of an e-mail blast to all of you. With the elections coming up I decided to kill two birds with one stone. Those of you who still have faith in us stay in touch in one fashion or another and are aware of our status. We are making a living and putting a little cash aside month to month.
Unless you are residing on Fiji, each of you are aware at least to some degree about the devastation across the entire medical world and associated insurance issues.
In summary:
>40 % of our patient families have lost their job with associated group insurance.
>Our demographic (young adults 25 to 35) sit right in the middle of those labor statistics that give you chills each time you note them.
>Sadly, most young families have curtailed their plans for children due to the uncertainties and down right income shortages. In many cases, out of pure desperation, many young families have resorted to abortion, though it kills their souls.
(I talk to these young people day to day)
>I must tell you, the young parents who DO call to discuss it…I have the utmost admiration for.
>The Wall Street Journal noted today that The US has experienced fewer births this last year than since World War Two.
Ken (Old Texican)| 8.25.12 @ 9:42AM
Continued:
>30 % of our medical doctors are trying to figure out how to retire should Obamacare go into effect
>The entire health insurance industry is in a panic.
SO
Whatever your political views, I am humbly begging you to turn out on election day for Romney/Ryan.
Also, please get your brother in law off his dead arse to vote Romney as well.
Also anyone else you can drag to the polls.
Folks, Obama’s re-election will do our country irreparable harm. We will not recover from it in our life times. Pick your nightmare. I have three and four that haunt me; fiscal, judicial, Islam, and a Martial law attempt as things fall apart.
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Folks, If twenty to thirty percent of our most successful doctors “retire” we are all in a heap of trouble.
The truth be known, we “makers” are already outnumbered by the folks on the government dole. Fortunately, many of them will be too lazy to vote. We gotta’ show up in droves though…..unlike 2008.
I truly believe…
If we can excuse Obama at the polls in November, we can turn this thing around in six months. Otherwise, your next investments should be in wheat and dried beans, (with lots of seasonings).
Also pack in a LOT of .22 shells. I have, and I also have THREE pellet guns for silently shooting birds for dinner. If Isound a little paranoid…you betcha….. five days without food stamps and Houston begins to starve.
God bless
Old Texican