Obama Feels Your Pain — Film at 11
Via The Hill earlier this month:
President Obama told a small crowd in Fairfax, Va., … that he would stand in the hot sun with them and “feel their pain.”
What, did he forget sunscreen? Was his umbrella still being repaired?
He was meeting with a Fairfax family for a backyard discussion on the economy in an effort to improve voter perceptions about his empathy with ordinary people.
I see. Rather than standing on a grand podium surrounded by Corinthian columns, he decided that the best way to reach out to the commoners was to have a “backyard discussion” about the economy and prove that he’s really one of us. Like the infamous “feeler-in-chief” of the 1990s, Bill Clinton — oh, sorry, that sounds worse than it was supposed to — Obama now claims to “feel your pain” shortly after he returned from hitting the links with politician pals in Martha’s Vineyard and just before two big galas and a reception at the White House.
It’s interesting to note that Barry didn’t make his little “feel your pain” speech in someone’s backyard in Reno, located in the state which has the dubious status of being the most economically stressed in the nation: “1 in 4.5 Nevadans in July was either unemployed, owned a home in some stage of foreclosure or had filed for bankruptcy.” And Reno’s housing market is currently being described as an “American nightmare.” I guess it’s more comfortable to feel the pain of a city where unemployment is at 5.7 percent rather than a city in a state where unemployment is at a whopping 14.2 percent.
One also has to wonder if Barry feels guilty for his comments about wasteful spending that specifically targeted Las Vegas.
Nah. I doubt it. Barry probably worries more about his own hurt feelings when criticized by his opponents, like his latest whinge about being talked about “like a dog,” than he worries about making disparaging public comments about various states.
It would have been nice if our president decided to try to “feel our pain” during the early days of his administration when, according to the New York Times, the economy was already “spiraling down at an accelerating pace.” But instead, he chose to spend his time blaming Bush and the GOP (even as recently as August of this year) — forgetting that the Democrats have held both houses of Congress since 2006.
And yet….when polled he still retains a HIGH favorability rating. That means the majority of the country still likes him PERSONALLY. WHY????? How do people separate what he does in office and how devastating it has been for Americans and not realize what he says and does are inseparable????? How do you still like someone who is inflicting misery with the flick of his finger day in and day out for almost two years? What’s to like? His dog? His outerwear? The jaunty cap he wears when Teeing off? His big smile? The White House bacchanals? Can’t they sense this is a man in deep cover, who is acting the part of President rather than inhabiting the position, emotionally, spiritually, intellectually? It reminds me of all those news stories about neighbors being interviewed when someone on their block was discovered with a basement stuffed with rotting corpses: but he was soooo nice!!!! What the hell does it take to convince the majority of Americans that it makes no sense to separate the MAN from his actions and that it might be a great possibility that the misery he has inflicted in just because he is…miserable human being???
It is truly a mystery how people can still like – even worship – someone who is doing them great harm but there is precedent for it. Stalin was surely one of the most vicious people who ever lived yet when he died, in 1953, great numbers of Soviet citizens shed tears or even wailed in anguish at his passing even though he had presided over one of the most brutal regimes that has ever existed on this earth. It is well-known truism among all former Soviet citizens that not a single family in the Soviet Union was spared from Stalin’s viciousness: EVERY family (including Stalin’s!) had at least one member executed outright or sent to the Gulag where only one in seven people returned alive. Yet the Party and the captive media succeeded in convincing everyone that Stalin was indispensible to the Soviet Union.
In 1941, when the Germans attacked the Soviet Union, Stalin retreated to his dacha and had not been seen for nearly two weeks. Finally, the Politburo got into their limos and drove over to see him. Several witnesses report that Stalin greeted them with trepidation. He honestly thought that they were coming to arrest him and probably have him shot over his non-aggression pact with Hitler. Reasonable people could argue that this pact enabled Hitler to make the attack on the Soviet Union. Much to his surprise, the Politburo were there not to arrest him but to beg him to lead the country in this war against Hitler! But the Politburo itself, composed by this time entirely of Stalin’s hand-picked yes men – he had had the rest killed during the 1930s – couldn’t conceive of how to go on without Stalin at the helm, knew he was the only chance they had to win the war.
I expect that the continuing support for Obama is just a weaker version of the way Stalin was viewed in the Soviet Union. And, of course, some of it is just old-fashioned respect: the idea that you automatically respect the President of the United States just because of his title.
“It is truly a mystery how people can still like – even worship – someone who is doing them great harm but there is precedent for it.” . . . Reagan.
I’m not sure that those polls showing Obama’s personal likability are all that trustworthy. We have to remember that vast swathes of the media, academia, and entertainment threw their wholehearted “progressive” little hearts behind his candidacy. To admit now that they were dupes to a slick-talking con man is to admit they’re capable of being duped by a slick-talking con man. Their massive egos simply won’t permit it.
Like all good socialist leaders, Obama could care less about your “pain.” The only thing that matters is the state and we all must make “sacrifices” for the state, unless it’s his family don’t ch’ya know, then you can go to Spain or Martha’s Vineyard and live it up. This is scary, because the guy acts and sounds like the old Marxist community leaders that put people like Lenin into power. Everything can be justified so long as it serves the state. Any amount of spending, any amount of laws that restrict free speech, anything can be justified as long as the state obtains more power so that it can run even more of your lives. Because, after all you silly people, the government knows best and really needs to “teach” you what’s best for you and your family.
It has been 30 years since the end of the Carter administration, the last big-spending liberal in office. Clinton spent a lot on social-welfare projects, but he had a much better economy to soften the blow, so most Americans didn’t know how much freedom they were losing. But Obama is Carter on steroids and it’s easy to see why Americans are so afraid now of losing what little freedoms they have left.
November. Hopefully, we can put an end to this madness in November. At least with Congress out of his grip we will neuter this socialist dog and start putting this country back on the road to fiscal solvency.
Clinton spent a lot on social-welfare projects, …..
George W. Bush spent a lot on such projects as well (Funding for AIDS (no President, including President Obama, has given more) No Child Left Behind, etc….),but no one will ever give him credit.
Actually I think Clinton spent more time on Monica…
Calling that arrogant usurper a dog is a direct insult to all dogs of the world. I know my dogs have more honesty, integrity, compassion and intelligence than that evil, corrupt, digsuting squatter in our white house.
Indeed, Judy. Dogs aren’t capable of insincerity. They hide neither their desires, nor their emotions, nor their pleasures, nor their pains. You always know where you stand with a dog. Not so with Barack Hussein Obama.
Mary McCarthy once said of Stalinist playwright Lillian Hellman, “Every word she says is a lie, including ‘a,” ‘an,’ and ‘the.’” That fabulous denigration should be applied to Obama, who deserves it just as much.
Contact your state representatives and make a “change” to have President Obama impeached.
It’s called autism. (I do not meant that as an insult to Obama nor as an offense to anyone affected by the challenge)
It was all words with Clinton, too, who used his presidency and politics to become extremely wealthy. Not many of us middle-class Americans can afford a wedding for our daughters that cost over 2 million dollars.
Obama is actually worse, with his elite vacations (spent about 48 hours on the struggling Gulf Coast) and his wife’s royalty vacation with about forty of her “closest friends”. Slimy, self-serving sociopaths!
I believe that Obamas supporters still are behind him for the very reason they voted for him. They know nothing of American politics, American economics and American history.