Obama in the Heartland: ‘Don’t Worry, We’ll Be Flyover Country Again Soon Enough’
Our schools can’t even pay their bills, nor can they afford to keep vital services and teaching positions for next year. Who knows when their budgets will turn to black again? While you’re in town, why don’t you stop and talk with some of the teachers — or the parents of some of the students, particularly the special needs students — who will be affected by these problems? I’m sure they’d like a word with you.
Your stimulus has yet to stimulate anything other than several million tea party members. Congratulations on bringing them out of relative slumber, by the way.
On a related topic, I’m sure at some point over the next few days you’ll publicly pat yourself on the back for your hard, hard work on health care. Don’t forget to personally thank Congressman Phil Hare for his support. Give him a shout out from your podium. He’s firmly in your corner. In case you missed it, he got your talking points memo on health care loud and clear. Earlier this month, he told us he doesn’t worry about the Constitution when it comes to stuff like your health care proposal. He just blindly supports your proposals without looking at stuff like the Constitution or the opinions of his constituents. When you see him at your visits to the region this week, you might want to personally express your gratitude to him for single-handedly awaking tea partiers in the region and getting them involved in the process of both defeating your policies and his reelection bid. Give him the ol’ Chicago-style political handshake that lets him know how much he’s helped your cause.
From the looks of your schedule, you’re going to have a busy couple of days and will visit a lot of different spots while you’re here. Probably not a bad idea. If you’re on the run, it’ll be harder to serve you that subpoena for the Blagojevich trial, right? Ah, but I digress.
Let me share with you one more point before I go. You’ve nearly been in office two years now. Man up, Mr. President. No longer can you claim this is “something I inherited” and “something we’re trying to fix.” No more of this “we were dealt a bad hand” stuff, Mr. President. Suck it up and take responsibility. Remember, at least for some time this week you’re visiting the land of Harry Truman. The buck stops here, Mr. President. Read this clearly: It doesn’t matter what hand you were “dealt.” It’s your hand now. When poker players lose, the dealer doesn’t pay the price. This is all yours. If you don’t like it, take your chips and go home.
I’m never against elected officials coming to the tri-states to really hear what the heart and soul of America is thinking. It’s when they come to simply get photo ops, gather cheap political currency, and have no plans of listening whatsoever that it infuriates me. If you’re coming to really find out what ideas we have to fix your mess, that’s great. Enjoy your stay. If you’re coming to just use us as props in campaign photos, please stay in the plane.
[Reprinted from QuincyNews.org.]
Yes photo opps.
Alas, this is a missive to the impervious. Obama isn’t coming to hear the laments of the people. He’s coming to gather votes from among the committed. It remains to be seen if the committed votes outweigh the votes of those who see the reality.
He should have taken his “middle class vacation” on a border ranch within sight of Mexico.
If you look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidential_trips_made_by_Barack_Obama
you can see that just in 2010 Obama has been to Ohio (twice), Colorado, Nevada, North Carolina (twice), West Virginia last week and Iowa as recently as March 25. Don’t know how you define the heartland but it’s not like he ignores it.
After a year and half of hard work taking down a once great nation it must feel good to be back in campaign mode again.
Anyone Else in 2012.
“We’ve not seen you in the tri-states since you were trying to outdistance Mrs. Clinton’s pantsuits blah blah blah”
Incorrect.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/us/politics/26obama.html?ref=politics
Several powerful cartoons on what is happening to Liberty in this country at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/category/liberty/
Another humorous one on the job creation “myth” at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/reality-vs-fantasy/ Check it out–I think it will make you laugh!
I think the DC pols and their immediate families should all come and live in “flyover country” for a couple of weeks, doing the jobs we do–or, in lots of cases, looking for jobs. Give each of them two weeks’ NET salary or NET unemployment (equivalent to the median in whatever town they are assigned to). From that, they’ll need to pay the rent, buy food, fill their gas tanks, etc. They will clock in each day and work the full shift, or beat the pavement looking for jobs. There will be no TV cameras. No staff of gofers. No press conferences. No power lunches. No twittering or blogging. Just LIVING the way we do.
That would change their minds big time. We’d then have a majority of non-Democrats in government, and without even having an election!
I guess it has been a long month for you.
[http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/obama-heads-to-iowa-to-pitch-health-care/]
If this article is sincere, it assumes Obama has anything but sheer contempt for this country and its citizens. He doesn’t give a flaming rip about how many people are suffering or out of work. He has a nation to destroy. He has socialism to impose at every turn before he and his cronies are turned out on their (in his case large) ears. What is he thinking? if it is not obvious by now, I’m not sure what it will take to make it so. His mask is off. The moderate nice guy of the campaign is now a bully, a movement Marxist mowing through the Constitution and the private sector as deliberately as he can, while lecturing, finger wagging, insulting, hectoring and ridiculing anyone and everyone who doesn’t just shut up and fall in line/ There is no hope of him ever changing, is there is no reason to appeal to some (still? really?) imagined moderation, reason or good wishes for anything recognizable in this country. He has come to destroy, and destroy he will.
the only thing that matters now is voting as many of his supporters in either party out of office and turning him into the lamest of ducks next year. Of course, he will cast a torrent of “executive orders” and lord knows what even then, but that is when the people need to turn out in vast numbers. he, and the entire rage-driven, pathological Marxist Let need to be exposed for what and who they really are, and soundly rejected. Appeals to their “better angels” will fall on deaf, hardened ears.
I really think Obama and his supporters are sincere. They really think they are making this great country greater, by helping the little guy. However, by meddling in the economy, with crony capitalism, and not letting the natural laws to take place unfettered, it’s causing far more damage than intended. I think the left operates on intuition, and they can’t see that many things are counter-intuitive. Some examples: Gun control causes more, not less crime. Minimum wage laws cause more, not less unemployment. Higher taxes create more, not less, debt. There are many more examples. Our Founding Fathers understood this and wrote the Constitution accordingly. Too bad it is being dismantled piece by piece.
Astroturfing the prairies, BHO is.
Re Truman and “the buck stops here”:
Compare and contrast…
The One’s weekend visit to West Virginia was a high point in the history of both Wonderland “logic” and hypocrisy. He was busy gushing over how much he loved coal miners, how important coal mining was, etc., and was pouring on the honey with a dump truck.
And, I’m sure, desperately hoping nobody remembered this quote from the campaign;
“If anyone tries to operate a coal-fire powerplant, we will bankrupt them.”
Maybe he wants coal mined for use as medicine. That is, after all, what ancient civilizations used it for before they realized it would burn. This would be in keeping with the Paleolithic, neo-Luddite mindset of the “green” fanatics he spends so much time genuflecting to.
Obama is not merely a “practiced” liar- he is a compulsive one. In fact, he seems to be so compulsive that he is unable to remember to tell the same lie, the same way, twice in a row.
Either that, or he believes the rest of us are so stupid that we don’t remember his previous prevarications. (In view of his massive narcissism and colossal ego, this is entirely possible.)
He’s going to get a very rude awakening in November. The question is, is he too wrapped up in his own fantasy world to notice?
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Living as he does in the bubble, Obama thinks he is welcome wherever he goes. The union stooges and Kool-Aid drinkers they find to fill the audiences and offer the cheers that are like heroin to him contribute to this disconnect from reality. If you don’t want to see a good many more years of him, you better hope the Republicans come up with a candidate better than the last warmed-up version of Bob Dole we got. It shouldn’t matter how much it’s “his turn” to run after all the years of reaching across the aisle to befriend the Teddy Kennedys on the other side.
I’ve been making a concerted effort of connect with the participants on this site. Thing is, though, the discussion here seems to be 100% thought free. You simply swap slogans that everybody here buys into already as if the sheer repetition of a manichean narrative about evil liberals and good Americans made it true. You don’t argue to conclusions, you argue from them. Comment threads on any highly ideologically site tend to be closed in like that, but it’s extreme here. No doubt I’m not the one to fill the bill, but you badly need somebody you are willing to talk with who doesn’t agree with every article of your political faith.
Jim
Kudos for trying to understand the other side of the political spectrum. Really. Yet, just because you don’t agree with an opinion does not make it “thought-free.” It just means you do not agree with their thought, or reasoning, process.
Stick with me here. At a basic level, their/our slogans run against your slogans. Perhaps a conservative blogger venting frustration is not the place for you to find connection or understanding with conservativism.
Try starting with Prof Haidt over at TED: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html
Then have a look at prior liberal/Obama voters, like neo-neocon.com or althouse. Or maybe check out http://www.theatlantic.com/megan-mcardle. Even visit my own humble blog for a very simple take on things.
Don’t just peek here and say, “yep, they are still puppy-eating nonthinking evil big-corp boot-licking Rushbots.”
Huh. I’m disconcertingly good at insulting my own side . . .
I appreciate your civility, but I am already very familiar with the people you recommend. I’m not new to these debates. Fifty years ago I was a conservative myself and a reader of the National Review. My complaint is not that conservatives in general have no ideas or arguments, but that they aren’t in evidence on this site and, more seriously, have pretty much dried up lately even among putatively serious people. I can tell the difference between an opinion that isn’t argued for and one I simply disagree with, which is why that I’m also good at insulting my own side who surely do the same thing much of the time.
Dear Mr. Harrison, I believe you might be correct. This site is obviously for those who wish to comment on the article they have just read and yes, it does reflect the cynicism of those you believe should justify their own personal beliefs. Why should they. This is a space that serves as a pressure valve for many, a place where some can feel connected to the ous.tide world and most importantly where many conservatives can meet in comfort and express their personal thoughts about a governing body that they feel no longer represents them but actively opposes them. So butt out, loosen up and give them some slack. If you want something a little different perhaps you show peek into my blog where I have announced my candidacy for the 2012 presidential election (write in of course.)
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