Deliver Us From Evil
Drudge is running a countdown to a video that will show ‘another’ Barack Obama. Probably a black radical Barack Obama. The contents of the video are as yet unknown, apart from hints, but Mark Halperin of Time is already calling it a ‘freakshow’. Here are some of his Tweets.
EP:”What does Drudge have?” Reporter:”No idea.” EP:”Make some calls.Twitter says it is BIG.” Reporter: “I’ve asked around.” Etc #freakshow
“@THEREAL_Evan: @MarkHalperin Is there a point at which those who criticize the #freakshow become complicit in its existence/continuance?”no
Look away. #freakshow pic.twitter.com/vmOvwpUq
Somewhere Phil Singer and Mark Penn are fascinated and repulsed.
The video may take on racial overtones both as a result of its probable content and the commentary that is sure to swirl around it. Those who have criticized Mitt Romney for being “too nice a guy” to win may be about to witness what happens when someone decides to go after the Democrats in their sanctuary.
If the video is sufficiently inflammatory, no matter if the provocation comes from an historical Obama, Romney will almost certainly be called on to distance himself from the video or denounce it.
The demands write themselves. “I call upon Governor Romney to make it clear that the politics of destruction has no place in American politics.” If he hesitates even slightly the headlines will soon proclaim ‘Romney campaign in trouble for refusing to denounce hate video’.
There are better than even odds that Romney will do exactly that: denounce the video that though unseen by Mark Halperin he has already judged to be a ‘freakshow’. Republicans are good at apologizing for hearing things said by someone else. They are used to crawling on their bellies over broken glass.
In any situation where one must give way, the GOP gives way. This was the unwritten agreement. The danger is to believe that this agreement is stable; that it will be thus forever.
What the liberals are really doing is daring Romney to cross the Rubicon; to go where they have gone; to act as they have acted; to adopt the same code of conduct they have themselves long adopted; to behave with the same disregard for public comity that they have exhibited.
One day it won’t work. It won’t work because the press and Barack himself destabilized the old order when they decided to award themselves a permanent majority and turn the Fourth Estate into a branch of the Presidential campaign. And when something is destabilized the old rules stop applying.
Unless they abate their taunts; unless they realize that their politically correct sanctuary is only protected by custom, then one day the fatal stream will be traversed with incalculable results. Probably not by Romney– at least not intentionally — but one day by the accident of unforeseen events. The hidden cost of using marked cards for too long in a game is that sooner or later everyone notices.
If Halperin wants to know where the freakshow is located he can look in the mirror. But it’s not too late to start playing fair, civility is still attainable, but the minutes are ticking by. This time 2,000 years ago the ghosts made their appearance on the bank of the real Rubicon.
Now on the marge of Rubicon, he saw, In face most sorrowful and ghostly guise, His trembling country’s image; huge it seemed Through mists of night obscure; and hoary hair Streamed from the lofty front with turrets crowned: Torn were her locks and naked were her arms. Then thus, with broken sighs the Vision spake: “What seek ye, men of Rome? and whither hence Bear ye my standards? If by right ye come, My citizens, stay here; these are the bounds; No further dare.” But Caesar’s hair was stiff With horror as he gazed, and ghastly dread Restrained his footsteps on the further bank….
“Here,” spake he, “peace, here broken laws be left; Farewell to treaties. Fortune, lead me on; War is our judge, and in the fates our trust.”
That were a fatal stream to cross. Perhaps the rising acrimony may be enough, as a near-death experience is sometimes enough, to avert the political system from its headlong stampede to to the cliff. But it takes two to keep the Red Lines from being transgressed. It takes two to effect restraint. I would bet on Romney to swerve. In Obama’s case, there is not a chance.
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Just watched some of the clips. I can’t say this shows me “another” Obama, but then again I pay attention and the black nationalist, white-hating Obama is hardly new to me. But for many, this may be quite a shock. Still, it will do little to dissuade the true believing white Liberal. Nothing, nothing ever, will do that. It might make just enough difference with the wavering “centrists” however, by convincing them that what they’ve always suspected is true.
The funniest part is his voice. He “blacks” it up so much that he sounds almost drunk and slurring.
I assume the big media outlets will do everything they can to ignore it. But I have to say, the Daily Caller timed it great, right on the eve of the debates. The famously thin-skinned Obama may get rattled by it. Let’s hope so, anyway.
PS – The video server at the Daily Caller seems to be overloaded and failing. Either lots and lots of people trying to watch, or a rapidly deployed denial of service attack going on. Or both.
“I call upon Governor Romney to make it clear that the politics of destruction has no place in American politics.”
To which the appropriate reply is Matthew 7:5.
Et tu Reid?
I hope today’s the day it starts not working.
Romney needs to think. What is the cost to others, to America and the world, if he does exercise restraint? Four years ago McCain exercised restraint. He said in a debate that Obama was fit to be President. He ate the sandwich and for four years we have seen the cost. Sometimes you do have to eat it for the greater good. Because he really did love and believe in America Richard Nixon swallowed the Chicago Way fraud that got Jack Kennedy elected. You can argue that bad as Kennedy was he also did believe and love America, even if he had the wrong answers and wrong associates. You can argue that Nixon made the right decision at the time.
Barack Obama is no Jack Kennedy. The Democrats are no longer the liberal inclusive party of patriotic labor they were before 1972. They are no longer the party of Lyndon Johnson and Jack Kennedy, of Hubert Humphrey and Scoop Jackson, of George Meany and Paddy Moynihan. The risks are greater now.
I hear that Obama says on the video that Blacks need to be trained on how to get up and hold down a job. To bad that Obama despises the armed forces that have always been the path to inclusion advancement and employability for those from marginalized or dysfunctional backgrounds. To bad that Obama himself is so bad at modeling those skills ethics and behaviors that lead to success in the job market.
Four years ago Obama managed to talk his way out of being a 20 year disciple of Jeremiah Wright’s lessons in bigotry. Can he talk his way out of this? Romney should reel him in like a hooked fish.
They already moved the story down.
Replaced it with the all-seeing, one-eyed eagle we all know and love…
The Rubicon was not as wide
As the chasm of his mind
A babbling brook from side to side
Its margins flower lined
To Romney though the little brook
Is one he must not cross
The same default line McCain took
The same that leads to loss
To Democrats the gentle stream
Is not a sharp divide
Between civility and scream
Their hatefulness to hide
And so it’s clear that Romney must
If mantle he would don
With honest words and people’s trust
Cross o’er the Rubicon
To grasp how f#cked up the USA is, or more precisely, how f#cked up the black community is, listen to the “negro dialect” (Harry Reid’s term, not mine) Obama feigns during the speech. Blacks take no offense at being spoken to in this fashion as long as the locution is delivered by one of their bosses. A few months ago Hillary launched into the exact same “negro dialect” (Harry Reid’s term, not mine), actually it was even more atrocious than Obama’s simulacrum, and nary a peep from blackdom… crickets.
Just imagine if tomorrow during the debate, Romney launches into this “negro dialect” (Harry Reid’s term, not mine) while addressing black poverty and the staggering 50% unemployment rate among black youth under their beloved boss Obama… Blacks would burn this nation down in racist frenzy.
-Morton Doodslag
Personally I’m really excited about Golden Dawn.
“Will there be fire?”
“Yes, and the fire rises……”
A politician who acts with self-restraint in order to preserve the system, by definition, respects the system.
President Obama is a red-diaper baby. He was taught from birth to have nothing but contempt for the system. He’ll happily accept power within the system, and just as happily grab for power if the system collapses.
“What the liberals are really doing is daring Romney to cross the Rubicon”
He need not cross the Rubicon. All Mr. Romney has to say is: “The only repudiation that must be done is by Mr. Obama for his comments in 2007.”
I doubt anything in Obama’s speech would come as a surprise to any Belmonter or anybody else who tried to understand who the man Obama really is. In fact I found the thing to be a rather dull, predictable, and even derivative litany. He said nothing then that wandered very far from what was commonplace parlor chatter among the Left at the time. The only novelty was his attempt to deliver it in black American folk style. But liberals are always doing this sort of thing (Pockestchan, Neeekarrragwaah, laTEENos). He was much better and far more authentic sounding than when Hillary went to that black church and put on airs.
The average Joe really should spend more time around leftists and hear the things they say. A big problem is that they hear criticism of the left and take it with a grain of salt, factoring in bias given the source. Times like this come along and reinforce the notion that a lot of that stuff that’s been said about Obama really is true. He did hang out extensively with terrorists and radical black power preachers. He does have a quite pedigreed background in radicalism. He is a socialist theorist dedicated to redistribution, class warfare politics, racial division, and Alinsky tactics.
He is quite unlike any American president who’s come before him.
c @ 11: He is quite unlike any American president who’s come before him.
Other than Woodrow Wilson, maybe FDR, and if I knew more about nineteenth century presidents we might add another couple, I suspect.
The game matrix is like this:
D win lose
R
win gridlock partial
lose complete gridlock
You can never completely defeat the left. They’ve arranged it so that their complete defeat can only be purchased at the cost of burning down the house. Hence, the logical thing to do is to let them win and live in an ever-declining part of the house, but still preserve the house.
If you have two players running a zero sum game, then it’s all or nothing for each side. Most conservatives don’t see it that way. But the way the game is structured a cooperative, Pareto optimal outcome is difficult to achieve.
One solution to this is to transform the Left. It’s a problem analogous to reforming Islam. You have to encourage both to mutate to the norm. Virulent pathogens cannot exist in their most deadly forms because they kill the host. Over time they usually move to milder forms in order to survive. Analogously, the Left and Islam have to internalize the idea that they will get further by respecting others.
In practice unions have to moderate their expectations or have no pension at all. Similarly, the Left has to self-limit their hunger for “free stuff” or they’ll kill the goose. All the incentives are there to evolve to the norm. But somehow they are not acting in their own self-interest.
The policies of Barack Obama have been devastating to the black community. The public school system has wiped out the future of everyone trapped in it — in large part the Black Community. Why don’t they respond to the natural incentives to act in their own interest.
Because like insurgents in Algiers or elsewhere, they are under the fascist grip of their exploitative elite. They are under the thumb of their bosses, who live large. There are now splits in the big tent. There are some black conservatives and more than a few Hispanic conservatives. But it has not yet reached a critical mass.
The only people who can throw off the Jesse Jacksons, the Al Sharptons and the Barack Obama are black rebels themselves. Romney can win the election by crossing the Rubicon. But his fundamental problem is that he ain’t one of them. And liberation has to come from within.
I’m a critic of Wilson and FDR, but I would not put them in the same category of Obama. Even given the imperiousness of those two men, they did get bipartisan consensus for all their major legislation. And they did insist on producing federal budgets. They understood the importance of the Constitutional framework. Wilson was a hot critic of the Constitution prior to his presidency, and was surprised to find himself re-evaluating that position during his terms.
And they understood the concept of consent of the governed. Wilson’s and FDR’s presidencies were both about aggressively tackling the problems of the day. I disagree with their means and with their over-reliance on big government solutions, but at least they did act vigorously to attack the problems of the day. Obama was swept into office in the wake of a Great Depression style event. What has he done about it? Does anybody know? FDR had fireside chats and an alphabet soup of solutions he kept furiously throwing onto the wall hoping something would stick. Obama comes on TV to show us his March Madness picks. Then he goes golfing.
FDR fretted about government unions, and dangers of demagogues like Huey Long and Father Coughlin. Wilson insisted on Senate approval of his grand post Great War frameworks. Both led the nation through world wars, and would stand amazed at Obama’s foreign policy retreats and vacuums in the wake of the 20th century.
I doubt either would know what to make of Obama.
Government needs to teach blacks how to show up for the job and how to act right when they get there? Must be talking about himself.
I’m sure President Romney’s “Black American’s Punctuality and Workplace Behavior Initiative” will be well received by the liberal community.
An mp4 version of the whole speech is up at Live Leak.
I guess the response to the video is coming in:
“Obama’s Wright Ties Highlighted Again” — NYT blogs
“Obama video: October surprise or old news?” — ABC
“Video of Obama Talk to Black Clergy Injects Race Into Campaign” — Businessweek
“Hannity, Carlson Desperately Attempt To Manufacture “Racially Charged …” — Media Matters
“Drudge-Hyped Obama Video Turns Out To Be Publicly Covered 2007 Speech” — TPM
“Conservative media release old video of Obama in failed ‘explosive’ exclusive” — Guardian
“Hannity Digs Up Another Obama ‘Race’ Video” — News Hounds
“Drudge, Daily Caller Hype Old Obama Speech, Trolling Entire Political World” — Huffington Post
By tomorrow it will have moved to phase 2. “We call on Governor Romney to reject the politics of personal destruction. We are appalled at the loss of civility in public life. Unless Governor Romney rejects this transparent attempt to divide our nation he will have a lot of explaining to do.”
Of course the core problem is that the press airbrushed the original speech. They reported a ‘verbatim’ transcript that was anything but verbatim. Maybe the game all along has been to run two signals channels. One internal and another ‘for public consumption’. Say different things to different audiences, like a salesman playing a mark.
And the likelihood is that this dual track messaging has been happening across the board — with the LGBT people, the OWS crowd, the crony crowd and even in international relations. In one sense, it is unjust to blame Obama for the ‘deception’. This was bigger than him. They all had an understanding that they were going to take in the rubes.
From a rational point of view nobody — not even the Left — should trust him any further than they could toss a Crown Vic. As I said before, somehow they are not acting in their own best interests. They are about to be victims of the old Marxist paradox: any revolution built on a foundation of lies will prove to be exactly that.
Like Arafat with one speech in English and a different truer one in Arabic. The twain are never supposed to meet in public.
To deal with Obama what is needed here is a trouble shooter. Romney appears to be a good fixer. Big difference and a fixer probably isn’t up to the task at hand.
Romney should keep it positive and keep hitting on the Economy and the incompetence in both the State Department and Banking, Romney needs to confront 0bama’s gross dereliction of duty to the Consulate security and why Hildabeast has not been fired for the four embassy deaths, Romney needs to ask 0bama “Who exactly told him it was a movie that lead to these deaths”, Romney needs to ask if Eric Holder will be surrendered to Mexican Authorities for the numerous murders, including the direct tie in to 16 teenagers been slaughtered by those very weapons at a single party, Romney needs to question why the Big Bankers are making Big Profits from the new QE pumping when they are still throwing people out of their homes in record numbers, Romney needs to ask why more Jobs were created in Sweden, China and other countries with his stimulus money than there were “Shovel Ready” jobs created here in the US. Romney needs to ask Why 0bama can tell Big Corporations to Break the Law and that 0bama will make sure tax payers pay for these Big Corporations legal fees and settlement that will arise from 0bama telling those Big Corporations to break the Law… Romney needs to use the “Buzz” words against 0bama that they (0bama) has worked very hard to demonize him (Romney) and other Republicans with. Romney need to ask 0bama which one is present at the Debate, the 20 year Jeremiah Wright disciple shown in the tape or the Rich Hawaiian pampered College kid who won’t show anyone his school grades or records and creates people from thin air in his books.
I predict tonight that because 0bama has been portrayed as the underdog (“not a good” debater) that unless Romney gets 0bama to lose his cool and does not do a better job than everyone’s dreams, 0bama will be pronounced as the winner.
Wretchard @13
“Why Nations Fail” explores these ideas in detail. The authors point out when elites develop extractive economic institutions and policies (e.g. public sector unions, affirmative action policies for housing, schooling and healthcare), in fact they are acting in their own self-interest but not in the long-term interest of those whom they lead. Even though the outcome for each and every economy which has extractive economic institutions is poverty and ruin, the elites do quite well for surprisingly long periods of time. Occasionally, they end up on the chopping block but often just abscond with the loot when chaos breaks out.
Overthrowing extractive institutions and returning to or developing inclusive institutions, requires a coalition of groups each of which realizes that with the decline of liberty (rule by fiat), private property rights (GM bondholders), the rule of law (countless examples), their own futures are in jeopardy. These coalitions, such as that which engineered the Glorious Revolution in England in 1688, aren’t necessarily comprised of soul mates or soul brothers. The Constitution with its checks and balances reflects the knowledge gained by the framers from that revolution. It is a case of hanging together instead of separately.
As the authors show, once inclusive institutions develop, a virtuous circle works to keep them in place because each of the constituents of the coalition realizes that the creative destruction of unworkable institutions and policies is the long term key to wealth and opportunity. Of course, each group has its own pet policies and institutions which it does not want touched, but over time each is forced to make concessions for the sake of the greater good. They are careful, however, to point out that nothing is set in stone.
I cannot, for the life of me, understand what was supposed to be so shocking about this video. It is the same old Obama talking about the same old stuff he always talks about. Even the accent is barely distinguishable from his usual line. He always “blacks it up” a bit he wants to sound important. I don’t even think it’s a conscious choice for him anymore, just something he imbibed from the culture. We have Hollywood to thank for that. The viewing public has been conditioned by decades of movies to accept that a speech delivered in a “negro dialect” possesses some special solemnity of utterance. This is true as well for a stereotyped Native American accent (deep, gravelly tub-thumping…da-tonka, da-tonka). In a similar vein, the standard “anchorwoman’s voice” is supposed to convince us in a subliminal manner that the information being reported is trustworthy and factual. Liberal women often use the anchorwoman’s voice when making their arguments, as a way of asserting dominance over the audience. Have you ever noticed that most college-aged girls sound like that nowadays?
In any case, I completely missed the big build-up to the release of this video, so I’m not sure how big the hype leading into it really was; but if the video was supposed to be anything like as big as some (as evidenced by their prior commentary) were led to believe, then the actual unveiling can only be described as anticlimactic at best, and this makes me angry. I hate it when Republicans and their over-solicitous friends use arguments and techniques that end up making us look ridiculous. This is not “another” Obama. I think it is transparently obvious to one and all that this is precisely the same Obama; the one whom we’ve gotten to know, albeit subliminally, for the last six years. Liberals are not going to care; they want to vote for the black radical. But perhaps the video will disrupt Wretchard’s second information channel and sway a few of the undecideds who haven’t been paying attention.
So what should Romney do? To be perfectly honest, I think it would be a tactical mistake for either campaign to even acknowledge this thing at all. The politicians could restore some sense of integrity to the American political process by scoffing at such news-media melodramas. They ought to put the pundits back in their place by letting them know that they are unperturbed, that they (the pundits) are not important enough to play with the Big Dogs, and that they ought to confine themsleves to traffic and weather, or meet with Our displeasure. It would be the right thing to do for the country, and correspondingly I think it would be the right stance to take for whichever campaign adopts it. The public will receive the message; they will know who the real adult in the room is by watching who doesn’t react to this crap.
Therefore, if Obama calls upon Romney to denounce the video, it will be a ruthlessly cynical measure which will backfire on him. If neither side reacts at all, the pundits will have been dealt a defeat. Either way, Romney wins by doing nothing.
Matt,
Mister “nice guy” did McCain no favors. If we weren’t trying to save the country, your approach might be sufficient. How about “manning up” to the task, which is what most conservatives are pleading for.
What if Romney says: “That video contains the most divisive, bigoted and racist remarks I’ve ever heard from a candidate for the Presidency. It’s just disgusting coming from any American.”
You are not understanding what I said, Geoffgo. I am not counselling a “Mr. Nice Guy” approach. I am counselling a “Mr. Tough Guy” approach. If you’ve ever been raised in an abusive family, or grew up in a rough neighborhood, or been incarcerated, you know that the toughest and most dangerous guys in the room are the ones who don’t have to talk. This is about beating down news-media sensationalism and reducing the role they are able to play in the political process—by ignoring them.
On the issues, however, it’s a different story. Romney ought to rip Obama to shreds in the debates. That’s where the manning up needs to occur. But when it comes to getting dragged into playing an agitprop game against the Democrats, it’s best to just not give a damn and show it up for the pettiness it is.
Unfortunately, the approach you had in mind is not going to do Romney any favors, not this time around. As I said before, everybody already knows that this is the “real” Obama, and the people who plan on voting for him are all for it. There is no residue of civility left to appeal to. Romney will have to create that for himself by ignoring the purveyors of incivility, namely the media.
I’m agreeing with Matt (in both his posts). Quin Hillyer over at The American Spectator says he reviewed it and details only two possible quasi-sorta-kinda-important bits of nastiness that Obama ejaculated in his pretend ‘Hood dialect. (Though Jeffery Lord in the same mag seems to take the opposite tack–so, whatever.)
It IS stupid for Drudge and Hannity to go out on a limb with this. Talk about it, sure–make out it’s a text proving Jesus had a wife and you end up looking as stupid as that Harvard Ho prof who tried to peddle her bit of papyrus forgery.
Matt’s also channeling the Romney campaign team’s basic strategy when he (Matt) writes, “Either way, Romney wins by doing nothing.”
Rombo strikes me as the last man on this world or any other to “cross a Rubicon”, in any event. But if asked to repudiate “the politics of destruction” he could simply say, “I’ve never accused the president of being a felon or murdering a man’s wife or not paying his taxes. So go ask him and his friends to do some repudiating.”
Right, I know. I won’t hold my breath.
An Préachán
After seeing it, I can conclude is 0bama is a race baiter on par with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. 0bama’s race baiting tirade is only slightly more alluring that his older counter parts.
Race baiting used to work. I am not so sure this time around. He instigates back men against white men – an age old trick. In the final analysis, 0bama is a rote race baiter and nothing else.
Matt’s right, G. There’s only one way out of the alternative universe that obama and his ilk have dragged us into, and that is to emphasize and promote reality.
It seems to me that too many, including many here, have yet to grasp the severity of the psychopathology that is upon us. There just is no comparison, Josh, between Wilson/FDR and this “man”. Many American politicians have been captured by bad ideas, but this is the first time the presidency has been occupied by someone who has been completely subsumed by the culture of death.
He and those who subscribe to his world view are encapsulated, like cysts, in a world that does not comport with our country and our aspirations. How many of us really think that preventing and ending life, destroying the family, and imposing our religion on everyone else is a good idea?
That’s how far gone the Obamas and their supporters are. They are doomed to fighting harder and harder against the forces of nature that reject their notions of what is good and right.
The reason we are wringing our hands is that we sense that, if the culture at large becomes infected in this way, we are doomed as well.
I happen to think that we are not and that all Romney needs to do is comport himself with reality and conventional morality to win. Even if he doesn’t, I think that the Obamas and American liberalism as we now know it will soon look like a bad dream to most of us.
The Obamas, sad to say, and about 25% of our countrymen will likely continue to be crippled by their psychopathology. We need to not worry about changing or saving them, because we can’t.
Adopting the dialect of your audience is a normal instinct, not anything machiavellian.
There’s some name for it in linguistics.
Maybe the game all along has been to run two signals channels. One internal and another ‘for public consumption’. Say different things to different audiences, like a salesman playing a mark.”
“clinging to their guns and religion” was the real left speaking, but it wasn’t supposed to ever leave the room. OOPS!
If I understand Wretchard correctly @ 13, all this stupidity & lack of common sense, must get much worse befor improving..To create order, first comes disorder…The unions must consume or destroy what gives them jobs, the free cheese crowd must consume the hand that provides the free cheese..In other words, we have not gone deep enough into the pit yet..Rommey winning is only a band-aid on a running sore, the pus will still fester..
My nature is usually positive thinking, but the above is truth..
I guess we need a Pinochet or Franco, in order to avoid a Stalin or Mao.
“I call upon Governor Romney to make it clear that the politics of destruction has no place in American politics.” If he hesitates even slightly the headlines will soon proclaim ‘Romney campaign in trouble for refusing to denounce hate video’.”
The destruction of American Marxism is a good thing, and will require a prominent place in American politics.
There were plenty of “hate videos” directed against Nazi Germany during WWII; no American would have denounced them as “hate videos” because hatred of Nazism was good – hatred of evil was good. By the same token, hatred of American Marxism is good.
Come to think of it, Drudge ran a compilation of winking politicians last week… again with the one-eye symbolism…
I agree with Matt.
The main issues for Romney is this debate should be:
A. Obama’s disastrous economic poliicies.
B. Obama’s vast corruption.
C. Obama’s attempts to destroy our Constitutional rights.
This video is a sideshow, and should not divert Romney’s focus. There’s more than enough damning issues for Romney to talk about in ten debates before he should get to this race baiting bit. That is for others to do. To talk about it would lessen the damning effect of the other more important issues- that is if Romney does in fact talk in reality. A dubious proposition so far.
There are more than 11 million Americans that should be employed right now if only Obama had maintained the same employment rate he had when he took office. Male employment is at it’s lowest point – ever. The national debt/ to GDP ratio is now the worst ever, worse than after WWII and we were cutting deficits after the war, not increasing them like we will next year. Over 75% of our T-Bills are now financed by Fed funny money, and there is no end in sight to the fake money printing.
And that’s just for starters on the economy. Romney has to emphasize that in the face of all this economy ruin, Obama really has no plan, particularly no plan to help the private sector. For an employer in the private sector to want to hire a new employee, he or she must believe that there will be profit from that move.
Obama at every turn, has made hiring new employees far less profitable rather than more. He has destroyed capital formation, created a situation where it is more advantageous for Banks not to loan to business, created onerous and nearly impossible new regulations by the truckload, raised taxes, raised health care costs and created great uncertainty about the future. In short, Obama is at war with the private sector and seeks to wipe out those private firms he cannot control. It’s hard to see how he could have done worse.
_Why Nations Fail_ is quickly summarized in an econtalk.org podcast.
It’s much quicker and more interesting than the book.
Matt: I cannot, for the life of me, understand what was supposed to be so shocking about this video. It is the same old Obama talking about the same old stuff he always talks about.
Of course it’s not surprising to those who know Obama and his type. But the vast majority of gullible white Americans haven’t the slightest idea about any of it. They really think he’s a “nice guy” with a fashionable wife and two nice daughters. He’s every white person’s special black friend.
White people in general don’t know a thing about black nationalism or how incredibly radical the black Leftist sub-culture is. So this will be a shock to many people if they listen to it, which is not very likely.
As others have said, white Leftists will love this stuff because they speak the same language, but they’re voting for Obama anyway. This could create a ripple among those dreaded “independents,” that vast group of voters that seemingly can’t make up their mind until they step into the voting booth. It might make them just queasy enough about Obama to pull the lever for Romney, though they’d probably keep that a secret from their friends.
What will be interesting to watch is what happens with the MSM if it is a landslide election for the Republicans and they take control of all three branches of the US government. Oh the excuses, the paybacks, the mockery,buy popcorn stock.
Supernatural events are keeping 0bama in power, the hand of God has been removed from this land, only the blind and willful do not see the rampant evil that emanates from our Federal Government, the deception will only become even more grandiose as the truth becomes even more Feared than the lie is even today. Strong men will quake in their sandals and cry out in fear of the coming truth, reality will collapse upon us like a mountain crushing us all.
Romney’s response?
Pretty simple one…..
“I trust in the American’ people’s ability to watch the video and draw the right conclusions. Next question?”
Barack Obama’s race baiting videos deserve some airing.
Of all the Barack Obama video out there, this is probably the most significant clip to a majority of Americans…
We need to remind voters of this. Mitt Romney needs to do that tonight.
There’s nothing new in this video. Smug, puffed up Obama faking the emotion du jour in a speech filled with misinformation and lies about how much federal assistance was given to New Orleans. You can see the same us-against-them stuff any day when a fat cat union leader bellows about the oppression and exploitation of the union brothers and sisters by evil corporations.
This is the wrong target for attacks on Obama. The hype leading up to it and the blathering after its release simply diminish the credibility of future justified attacks on Obama.
Attacks on the Administration’s corruption, disregard for its own Federal laws, incompetence in foreign policy and economics, and non-stop lying would resonate with the electorate. Republicans please attack Obama on these four fronts:
The Obama administration is corrupt,
The Obama administration is outside the law,
The Obama administration is destroying the American economy and its status as a world power,
The Obama administration has turned lying to Americans into a major government policy.
The real event will be the release of 0bama’s other hidden video, supposedly 0bama heaps loads of accolades on his Muslim sponsor and friend (the reason he is continues to praise Islam/Muslims)! 0bama is the summation of Black hatred of Euro colonialism, Progressive/Liberal/Marxist loathing of Christians and the inherited belief that Islam is really the Religion of Peace (0bama is Secular mix of Marxist Progressive). 0bama believes Christianity was the evil spread by the Whiteman’s slavery, I doubt there are many that 0bama really opens up too since his days at Harvard.
History tells everything there is too know, whether it’s a country or individual their History of “Actions” speaks the truth about their intentions.
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rhhardin @ 28 I think the phrase you’re looking for is “register shifting.” What surprised me most was how bad Obama was at it. He was successful to some degree in adopting the cadences of the sanctified church and to a much smaller degree in adopting the accent of his audience and to no degree at all in adopting the phrasing/lexicon of his audience. He tried mightily in spots, but looked like he couldn’t ever bring himself to commit fully to the act–as when any performer is not quite comfortable with a role.
It’s all a racist dog whistle, isn’t that supposed to be the bottom line?
Meaning on the Romney side, while of course the truth of the matter is it’s even moreso on the Democratic side.
Because like insurgents in Algiers or elsewhere, they are under the fascist grip of their exploitative elite.
Yes, but push it back one more level, why ARE they under the fascist grip of their exploitative (exploitive?) elite? And then turn that around, what would it take to have them instead demand, create, and commit to a democratic and more constructive politic?
And again, you can blame the people, or you can blame the candidates, or both. I blame the elite – the choice of available candidates, sucks. There might even be a proto-rule for Hari Seldon’s psychohistory here – when the quality of candidates sucks, vest more power in the leader, prefer the shiek, the king, the alpha. Maybe the people are doing the best they can with what they are offered.
When it comes right down to it, I don’t know that Romney has mastered or displays the benchmarks of American democracy, any better than does Obama. Adverting to business experience is NOT an appeal to democratic (small d) traditions. And running a passive campaign does NOT show Romney as an alpha.
If Romney wants to win the debate tonight, he needs to quote extensively from American history, then pull out a baseball bat and go over and break Obama’s knees. Somehow I doubt he’s going to do either.
And soon, le deluge.
#41-Agreed-Nothing new here for BC commenters and informed conservatives. For us it isn’t even confirmatory-we needed no further evidence since we saw through this nightmare the moment he spoke at the 2004 speech convention.
The libs aren’t affected-you can’t remove from one’s brain something that was illogically inserted. There are though, apparently 5-10% of likely voters whom it may affect. The fact that these tumbleweeds are still “undecided” is another issue, but this tape might erase any residual white guilt they might possess.
O/T – Sorry if this was addressed earlier, but I’m on the move today. What did Obama mean in his recently revealed 2007 speech when he said words to the effect: “They didn’t take the bullet out”?
38. CharlesWhite
Supernatural events are keeping 0bama in power, the hand of God has been removed from this land, only the blind and willful do not see the rampant evil that emanates from our Federal Government, the deception will only become even more grandiose as the truth becomes even more Feared than the lie is even today. Strong men will quake in their sandals and cry out in fear of the coming truth, reality will collapse upon us like a mountain crushing us all.
Charles, I’d love your take on Romans 13 considering what you wrote above. I think many Christians are sensing a terrific conundrum. Some of them are not. Context is everything.
#23
What if Romney says: “That video contains the most divisive, bigoted and racist remarks I’ve ever heard from a candidate for the Presidency. It’s just disgusting coming from any American.”
Oh that’ll work alright. It worked so well with the Benghazi criticism Romney levelled at Obama, didn’t it? That Romney was right about the latter and would bem about the former matters little against the onslaught of the virtual state media organs.
Matt at #24 is asking Romney to be smart about this.
all of these theories about rommney needs to do must be coming from people who have never seen or heard rommney. did no one watch his convention speech? why would you expect anything better than what we have already seen of this gigantic dud of a “leader”? his only plan is to coast into the white house, and that isn’t going to work because the gop is a busted brand; even a good portion of the gop base hates their own party. hopefully the loss of this election will cause the gop to implode and let a new party begin.
Something like:
“I’m sure that video is a mischaracterization of President Obama’s beliefs, because I know he doesn’t stand for racism.”
cjm : GOP is a busted brand-
Pretty damn true. But, under the category of pigs flying, mega RINO Lindsay Graham called the Obama Defense Contract switcheroo maneuver a “mini coup”, from Ace:
“Graham is deeply concerned about the move, and about the lack of attention it is receiving — within and without Congress. The manouvre is “incredibly disturbing,” he told me. How disturbing? “It is exhibit A in the march toward an imperial presidency.” The “statute is clear,” Graham continued, “the WARN Act is the law of the land.” Here, “we have a White House saying, ‘we don’t care what the law we signed says.’” The OMB analysis — which holds that as the law might change, there is no need for businesses to comply with it — is “absurd on its face,” the senator told me, and the Department of Labor’s advisory opinion “a political move.” It is “patently illegal for the federal government to absorb the financial cost of a private company for not following the law. Never have we put the taxpayer on the hook for a private company failing to follow the law.”
Graham wondered aloud, “why are Democrats are not upset about the precedent? This has implications beyond this election cycle.” What implications?, I queried. “Imagine if a Republican president said that, because his proposed tax cuts were likely to become law, there was no need for the existing rates to be paid.” What we have here, I suggested, is the government instructing people to violate the law, and offering to mitigate the consequences. “Yes,” Graham agreed. “It’s crazy legal analysis. We are in danger of being no longer a rule of law nation. It’s a mini-coup.”
If only Romney would show similar cajones tonight, he would wipe the floor with Buraq.
48. Sgian Dubh
re:38. CharlesWhite
Supernatural events are keeping 0bama in power, the hand of God has been removed from this land, only the blind and willful do not see the rampant evil that emanates from our Federal Government, the deception will only become even more grandiose as the truth becomes even more Feared than the lie is even today. Strong men will quake in their sandals and cry out in fear of the coming truth, reality will collapse upon us like a mountain crushing us all.
Charles, I’d love your take on Romans 13 considering what you wrote above. I think many Christians are sensing a terrific conundrum. Some of them are not. Context is everything.
As you note, SD, context is everything, but the far more relevant context is the applicability of Ephesians 6:12 to making the determination as to whether the “authorities” of Romans 13 have forfeited their legitimacy, or as Subotai terms it, the Mandate of Heaven. You might indeed enjoy an erudite, but distracting and ultimately irrelevant discussion of the role of submission to authority a la Romans 13, but events are outpacing such luxuries. Conundrums, whether sensed or not, are going to be resolved by those events, and by force.