Anatomy of a Disastrous Debate Performance
Yet perhaps the reason for Obama’s reluctance to face questions and counter-argument was not just that Obama is not very good at it and resents doing his homework (“a drag”), and not just that his economic and foreign policy records are dismal and would be hard to defend under scrutiny, but largely that he has had scant need to work on debating or sharpening his analytical skills — given the investment of the media and popular culture in his success.
An often distracted and diffident Obama has astutely understood that his own fortunes were in some strange way a referendum on the liberal sensibilities of legions of neurotic but influential elites. That realization had excused him from much of the mundane worries of other politicians — almost as if problematic things like polls, government statistics, laws surrounding lay-off notices, or controversies (from Fast and Furious to the Libya consulate disaster) would all be properly adjusted by others more interested in his success than he in his own.
How else could he be so recklessly careless in his effusive praise of the odious racist Rev. Wright, or so patently insincere in his demagogic and racialist rants before largely African-American audiences? How else could he simultaneously demonize the Bush anti-terrorism protocols while embracing or expanding nearly all of them, or so clearly provide his own arguments (e.g., deficit will be cut in half, if he hasn’t solved the problem, he would be a one-term president, etc.?) against himself?
Does all this mean that Obama cannot bounce back a bit in the next two debates? Not really.
Expectations have changed after the greatest audience in the history of presidential debates saw a veritable empty suit — or empty chair — on stage, without a helpful media follow-up question, or a “make no mistake about it” refrain to be had. Over 60 million now expect little at all from their president in the debate, so Obama will benefit from dismal expectations by just showing up as the incumbent and being addressed as “Mr. President.” The pressure on Romney to be even more impressive mounts. The realization that another rant by a liberal commentator could cement the reputation of Obama as an incompetent and add to the image of a hopelessly inept president will temper post-debate media anger. The moderator cannot afford to be laissez-faire in the fashion of Jim Lehrer, and will prove far more partisan. The media pressure to discount the importance of the debates themselves will increase.
But despite all that, the nation has now seen that the conservative critique of Barack Obama — fluff without substance — was frighteningly accurate.
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Help spread this, it is a problem for Obama and his pals.
As Obama’s cover story comes down, the curtain goes up on the USAO’s cover-up of J.J., Jr.’s role in the Blago story
http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/10/05/as-obamas-cover-story-comes-down-the-curtain-goes-up-on-the-usaos-cover-up-of-j-j-jr-s-role-in-the-blago-story/
Does this mean we can waterboard those involved?
Otherwise, they walk. All of them..to live it up on pensions/healthcare plans we are obligated to fund, till their deaths.
Being “tarnished” used to keep the snakes from returning to public life. Today even a criminal record is no hindrance.
Now they get to be Treasury Sec, or professors in elite schools, or practicing lawyers.
No payback means we haven’t won back the country. Not even close. Define and prosecute treason or be prepared to go through this every 2-4 years, forever.
Can there be any question the Left has intentionally caused great damage to US?
BTW, that Thompson, IL prison facility lays fallow, awaiting residents. And we’ve already purchased it.
Surely the perps of Fast & Furious need new living quarters.
Televise the trials.
I see 2 factors at work here:
1) This is the first time in his life that Obama has actually been called to account for anything. To “show his work”, so to speak. (The fact that a man like this would attain the position he has speaks volumes about our decline and will give a future day Gibbon a treasure trove for his analysis of our Fall).
2) Obama can’t defend his policies – not honestly at least – because they are indefensible in any country that values freedom and liberty. The entire modern day Democrat Party is the Socialist/Progressive/Communist/…whatever Totalitarian label you want to call it/Statist Party in everything but name. Its very existence is based on lies and deceit and camoflauge of their true intentions – made possible by the state run media. Their continued success lies in having dumbed down the American people – through their control of education – into thinking that since they aren’t wearing jackboots and goose-stepping they can’t be communists.
I’ve long said that when their brand of totalitarianism finally got here it would be wearing Nikes and a smiley face t-shirt. I hope there are enough of my fellow citizens left that understand that and vote accordingly this November.
LGoPs: You are exactly right about the Democrat Party, which bills itself on some documents, The Socialist Democrat Party of the United States. Not many voters understand the difference between the names: if it is Fascist the government owns the banks and infrastructure and citizens own the businesses; if it is Socialist, the government owns the banks, infrastructure, and the largest businesses; and if it is Communist, the government owns everything and keeps the citizens oppressed. As a man in Eastern Europe remarked the day their communist government fell, “The government pretended to pay us and we pretended to work.”
Note that they believe raising taxes is the cure for everything that happens. If it is in conflict with their agenda higher taxes will prevent the opposing side having enough funds to mount a challenge. Higher taxes take away money for food for families and the men can’t fight with empty stomachs. They make changes slowly, each time taking away a liberty the people won’t notice until it is too late. They talk about fairness, but are never fair in business. They brainwash kids in school, training them to spy on their parents and report to the teachers.
What makes this whole mess such a nightmare is being unable to understand how Americans could be so easily attracted to their sales pitches? My former boss in a company I worked for 17 years, was a communist and on vacations went to China. I asked him how he could join them considering capitalism made him a VP in the company? His reply was, “Under communism, little people like him had a better chance of rising to the top as a leader.” Nonsense! Uneducated middle managers in small companies have even less chance of rising to important positions.
Think carefully, there isn’t much time left, and your vote could be the one that puts all of us in FEMA death camps. (Google FEMA death camp locations.)
You are so stupid and bigoted that you do not know – or care – that your opponents are called the “Democratic” Party. However, I will give you something back – your party should be called “Republinazi,” which name fits them perfectly.
Ron, they are the Democrat Party. There is nothing “Democratic” about that collection of leftist Marxist losers now in charge.
When the modern democrat party begins to love America more than they hate Republican, then just maybe they will return to the party of my grandfather, my father, and myself.
Sorry, but the official name of the party is “Democratic” – when are you going to change the name of your party to “Republinazi,” which would be more accurate?
If you want to track the demise of the JFK generation of the Democrat party, look at the Green Party platform. Note by note there is little difference between the two. Especially in liberal bastions like California, Massachusetts and New York, unions drive most of the votes. And many of the unions are headed by those who see government run businesses as a cash cow that will reward their leaders with more access to power. California and the East Coast liberals latched onto domestic production as evil and tagged basic labor as distasteful as if some other type of work would take its place. All in all the current crop of Democrat power brokers are far more interested in consolidating power than in representing any view their constituents hold.
If members of the Republican party are called “Republicans” then if it’s now the “Democratic” party, why aren’t members of that party called “Democratics”?
Why? I’ll tell you why. Because there isn’t anything straightforward or honest anymore about these modern-day “Democratics”. Everything is worded to have subliminal meaning and as Hillary Clinton once said, “Perception is Everything”.
What was one the party of Truman and Stevenson and JFK and the party of the working man, is now the party of aging 60′s anti-war protestors and younger Yuppie leftist psuedo-intellectual elites who look at working men and women as rednecks and tea-baggers this new “Democratic” party’s hypocracy absolutely knows no bounds.
re: deedeemao
“If members of the Republican party are called “Republicans” then if it’s now the “Democratic” party, why aren’t members of that party called “Democratics”?”
Oh, I’ve been calling them “Democratics” for years. It really annoys them. :D
The NAZIs were the party formed by Adolf Hitler called Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. Abbreviated NSDAP which Germans of that day pronounced as NAZI. Translated to English = National Socialist German Workers Party.
The Nazis were socialists. They were the “workers” party. They loved labor unions so much that the NSDAP was just a big labor union. Todays labor unions are run the same way as the NAZI party. The NAZIs were exactly the same as the Democrat party (which gave birth to the KKK, the NEA and the SEIU).
The Republicans have nothing in common with the NAZI.
The claim that the Republicans are NAZIs is a ‘Big Lie’. The Big Lie is the natural born love child that resulted from the union of the Democrat and the NAZI parties.
Nice try..but if you knew anything about history the Nazi’s were big government … really big government…. so they were much more aligned with the Democrats….
Ways in which the Republicans and Nazis are similar: racist, homophobic, misogynist, militaristic, expansionist, interventionist, anti-science, propagandistic, anti-intellectual, anti-immigrant, xenophobic, pro-big business, anti-union, anti-socialist, proponents of the “big lie,” etc., etc.
Two can play at this game
Ways in which the Democrats and Nazis are similar: supposedly “anti-socialist” while implementing Fabian socialist policies, meme-based sloganeering instead of actual argument, radical social change instead of gradual transition, simplistic “progressive vs. regressive” view of history, demonize bankers, favor government planning over the spontaneous free market, want to restrict gun rights, tolerance only extends to people who agree with them, etc. etc.
Lies in Ron’s statement: Republicans are racist, misogynist, interventionist, anti-science, propagandistic, anti-intellectual, anti-immigrant, xenophobic, pro-big business, proponents of the “big lie”
The others are debatable, so I’ll give them to you.
Nazis are only right wing for a European definition of “right wing” that doesn’t apply in classically liberal America. Don’t be so quick to assume the high ground.
Never forget that the “holy trinity” of the leftists is race, gender, and class. This is the lens through which these mindless drones will rationalize anything. It’s scary how foolish and profoundly cynical the left has become.
We get the leaders we deserve….and deserve the leaders we get.
You are right. The National Socialist Party of Nazi Germany was a totalitarian government. Every totalitarian government is a left-wing organization.
Ron says:
“Ways in which the Republicans and Nazis are similar: racist, homophobic, misogynist, militaristic, expansionist, interventionist, anti-science, propagandistic, anti-intellectual, anti-immigrant, xenophobic, pro-big business, anti-union, anti-socialist, proponents of the “big lie,” etc., etc.”
For the rest of you, here is what Ron means:
Racist – We have the temerity to criticize the policies of a black man. Guess we hate white folks to as we were and are highly critical of Carter, Bush 1, Bush 2 and Clinton.
Homophobic – We believe that the term “gay marriage” is an oxymoron. By definition, marriage is between a man and a woman. Further, the VAST majority of all of humanity that ever lived is also homophobic because none of them embraced the silly notion of gay marriage either.
Misogynist – We believe women are precious and deserve a special place in society as the mother’s to the future. We believe that women should have equal rights to men. We believe that if equally qualified, women should have an equal chance at attaining a job. Yep, pretty much all women haters on this side of the aisle.
Militaristic – We believe that the first responsibility of the government is to defend our great nation, as outlined in the Constitution. We believe in peace through strength, we believe that weakness is provocative. We believe some things are worth fighting for, and yes, dying for. But most of all, we believe that it is the military that protects our constitutional rights from all threats foreign.
Expansionist – Yep, we added the 51st through the 57th states that Obama famously visited by attacking and killing those in control and taking their land from them.
Interventionist – Yes, this one is at least partly true. We believe that if you want our help, it comes with conditions. We believe some leaders are just too damn dangerous to leave in place as they are a threat to all humanity, not just the US of A.
Anti-science – We don’t bow done and lick the boots of the gods of global-warming and materialistic-evolutionists.
Propagandistic – Yep, we tell you what we believe without sugar coating it. Some liberals just can’t stand that there are people out there with divergent opinions and so they have to label them in some unflattering way. Strike that, nearly all democrats feel that way.
Anti-intellectual – We think for ourselves and don’t rely on received knowledge from professors with worthless pedigrees who pontificate on a real world they literally have never had a connection with.
Anti-immigrant – We have no problem with those who come here legally, only those who do not. Starting out life in America shouldn’t start with breaking the law. Liberals love to conflate the two types of immigrants in to one lump rather than calling them what they are – immigrants and law breakers.
Xenophobic – Yep, we hate them Mexicans by god! – moron!
Pro-big business – We only care about the big business that employ roughly 30% of the work force and care nothing of the other businesses that vastly out number big business and employ the other 70% of us – Government workers not with standing. Of course we must realize that there is some magical, arbitrary number past which you graduate from being a small business to a mid-sized business and on to a Big-Business, who all would agree, are heartless, godless zombies interested in nothing but screwing the little guy!
Anti-union – The only really true thing Ron posted. Union leadership are full of thugs who care not a whit about those they claim to represent and large percentages of those they represent have no choice in the matter. Unions are anti-progress and inflationary and do little more than attempt at all turns to exploit those with deep pockets for self gain.
Anti-socialist – Okay, Ron is simply one of the most ill-informed dudes to ever earn the PHD he claims to hold. We are like the Nazi’s because we are anti-socialist because the Nazi’s were all about freedom and liberty and free-markets and ??????? What a dolt
Proponents of the “big lie” – What does that even mean? Oh, I bet I know, the big lie that the US is a Constitutional Republic and the Constitution is the SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND and our government went off track many years ago and we have strayed so far from what our founding fathers intended that they simply would not recognize our country as it is today. I’ll bet that’s the BIG LIE we all believe in.
There you have it, Ron digested to easily consumable meme’s
Temper,temper.The democratic party is the party of the KKK of which the late senator Byrd was a member.As for bigotry or racism this was the credo of one of the party’s governor.On this particular subject just remember Lyndon Johnson and all the problems he had with the Southern Democrats.Also don’t forget that Obama is a pathological liar.
Ron should read history. President Woodrow Wilson, a democrat, was a complete racist. He re-segregated the Washington bureaucracy. He wouldn’t allow blacks in the military. He believed in Margaret Sanger’s views that blacks and other undesirable humans should be limited through sterilization and abortion. Hitler’s eugenicists republished Sanger [planned parenthood founder] and Wilson. The KKK were all democrats. So much for racism. Ron’s other charges could be similarly refuted, but who has time to argue with ignorance?
And, let’s not forget that many unions use racist policies to keep out blacks. The Philadelphia Electricians and Carpenters unions come to mind. And as far as the old fairy tale that Republicans support “big business”, consider Obama’s close ties to G.E. and G.M., big green, big labor – all big businesses.
Just remember, Ron, all those good ole’ boys running the segregated south were Democrats: George Wallace, Ross Barnett, Bull Connor. Yep, it’s a proud history, wouldn’t you agree? That’s why I’m always surprised to hear the “Racist” label thrown at Republicans. If it weren’t for Republicans working with Johnson in ’64 the Voting Rights Act may very well have gone down to defeat – due to those “democratic” Democrats.
Ron is an internet troll. Don’t get hooked.
Negative. That is the Democrat party. Othwerwise you would be the party of the Democratics. Sounds like a band from the 50′s. Should we start calling you Democratics. Senetar Jones, the Democratic.
Single first name= douchebag troll.
Media Matters very own MO.
The first thing I learned at PJ, lo’ these many years: single first name=media matters. I have never known it to be wrong.
I can’t remember if it was Eon or Buck O’Fama, but this has been a troll “tell” for indeed, Eons.
They have no imagination, thus the first name only. They employ no actual arguments, as they have none. They parrot the current lib spin, y’know. ‘Ole Romney disabled the Greatest Orator since Lincoln by “LYING” to him. (Indeed “Orator” is not equivalent to “Fellator”; there lies the confusion, I’m afraid.)
One would think Obama, immured to “LYING” at an early age, since it’s what he does best, would be better armed to deal with such. In fact, it’s ALL he does. If he were denied lying and golfing, he might possibly just disappear, with a “poof”. That Romney might have “lied” to him (a highly debatable point, given that Romney is an ACTUAL Saint, and has proven it way beyond what the Catholic Church would normally require, while Ostupidhead is a charter member of the Choom Squad, the only verifiable point in his entire life’s history) is neither here nor there. If one is President and has no BS meter, of what use is he to man nor beast?
At this point in this pathetic contest between competence and stupidity; between ability and sloth; between honesty and sheer lies, one would think they would just give up.
Oh! I forgot!
They are liberals and have completely forgotten why they have any ideas at all. It’s certainly not to think for themselves, the stupid parrots!
Hey, hey, ho, ho, stupid shit has got to go!
The stupid, retarded, infantile, idiotic… parrots.
In fact, if you drop all dems from the voter roles, I propose we replace them with actual parrots.
They’re not nearly as stupid.
Your intelligence is truly dazzling – LOL. Did you graduate from elementary school? I doubt it.
So Ron, reduced to personal attacks so soon. Sorry everyone is making this hard on you by producing facts. Please return to your handler and ask for more training.
There is nothing in Ron’s ravings from here on down that wouldn’t have been solved by a 3 post limit. If you can’t get your point across in 3 posts, you are wasting space and time.
Hey, Ron…
You fit the classic description called NASTY LIBERAL–you come in here, call people names, belittle and denigrate their character, say things that aren’t true, and believe you’re real smart and informed.
Well, guess what? YOU AREN’T SMART, RON. So grow up and learn some manners.
Nasty Lib!
Stupid comment. Name calling is the last refuge of a loser.
Ron, apparently you are unaware that the term NAZI refers to the National Socialist Party of Germany, as much leftists as the communists. Nothing conservative about them at all.
Sorry Ron, it was the Socialists of Germany who were the Nazis, so once again, totalitarianism falls soundly upon the leftists. What JimbobNC said is true – though technically they call themselves the Socialist Democrat Party of America – and they have been inexorably bound to the Democrat party of America since 1947. Why 1947, you may ask – well, it seems the United States took in a shi*tload of Nazis after WWII and we gave them jobs in science and government. They were highly skilled and connected people and as it turns out, they kinda liked being Nazis and thought that Socialism deserved a permanent home in America. Progressives are Communists and Socialist Democrats are essentially Nazis. Natural enemies on their own, but happy to join forces against a free democratic republic with a functional constitution. So that’s history Ron. It also explains why the Muslim Botherhood has been infiltrating our government and military lately – they recognize kindred spirits when they see them. Read some Marx, Ron. Read some Lenin. Not everyone in this world is blind to our fake administration.
And read some Friedrich Hayek, Ron, as in “The Road to Serfdom,” which is a blueprint for how far-left groups, be they socialists, fascists, or communists, take down a country.
Typical Gliberal self-delusion…You do something assinine and you want me to do something assinine so that i can be an ass…like you already are?
Why on earth shoud I call my party Republinazi/ Just because you want it so?
I will call my party Republicangel and you can call yours Democrathick1 Agreed?
The debate made a prophet out of Clint Eastwood.
Yours truly always understood that the Radical-in-Chief was a Poser-in-Chief. In fact, the tell tale signs were everywhere, but many closed their eyes, in deference to his (mocha, exotic) color and background.
Sheesh.
Now, color non-intimidated sorts stubborn, but when a man can barely hold his own without a teleprompter, it hardly inspires confidence in anything that he says or does. Moreover, since everything about The One is hidden, why is it a stretch to conclude, his ‘smartness’ is also made up out of whole cloth?
Now you see it…now you don’t.
Besides, when juxtaposed against a real sharpie, the oh so smart poser becomes that much paler in comparison. Black and white..night and day…and everything in between.
If anything, voting for a leader on the basis of his skin color is an exercise in futility and stupidity, it never bears fruit – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/20/americans-hope-to-change-the-occupant-of-the-white-house-an-anti-american-potus-runs-an-un-american-campaign-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
“voting for a leader on the basis of his skin color is an exercise in futility and stupidity,”
Well, yeah. A lot of us realized that back in ’71 when Affirmative Action came in. Pretending that the inadequate can make the grade while ignoring glaring deficiencies was a prescription for disaster down the line. The proponents of the policy promised that no unqualified people would be given a pass. They lied. Once the alleged protections were enshrined in law, there was no doubt that the unqualified would not only be admitted, they would be promoted until their incompetence outed them, and by then, the allegations of ‘racism’ would be invoked to stymie any efforts to remove them.
Dick Morris had a mantra in 2008 that went something like “The Democrats have nominated someone who can’t possibly win and the Republicans have nominated someone who can’t possibly lose.” Obama’s victory was the Lib/Dem/Progs # 2 wet dream of the 20th Century (universal health care being their #1). Okay. They got what they wanted in Obama. Now that he’s wrecked the country, it’s time to return the governance to grown-ups. It’s probably too early to expect the well-deserved death of affirmative action programs. As you say, selecting for job competence on the basis of race is sheer madness.
Well, that last has been #3 on their wet-dream list at least since JFK.
And it is also why they are only now pulling back a bit from The One. In their worldview, he was the charismatic leader who was going to finally make us confront our sins. And in doing so, he (and they) would offer us absolution if we did our part- that is, become Europeanized, become socialist, turn in our guns, close our churches, and swear fealty to them forever.
What they didn’t anticipate was that their Messiah, who in one pundit’s words, has “seen himself battering down stone walls to get to the top when he’s really been pushing on open doors”, would be so inept, so conceited, and frankly so downright obnoxious that he would both blow every plan he tried to put into effect, and alienate people who would otherwise have given him at least lukewarm support, as much from fears of being called “racist” if they didn’t if nothing else.
He has done a first-class job of wrecking things, which was all part of the progressives’ grand plan. It isn’t enough that we become good little proletarians, we must also suffer to expiate past sins. How ironic that a bunch who pride themselves on their agnosticism believe we should all act like good churchgoers, with them in the pulpit raining damnation on our heads.
The problem is that they neglected to consider that we might notice that their planned destruction was not an accident, or the result of the actions of all those nasty “reactionaries”, but rather their own, intentional doing.
And that it was unnecessary. We probably could have ended up as they wanted us, in a decade or so, if they’d been willing to wait a little longer. But they were both impatient, and also wanted to hurt us just because doing so felt good.
“Doing what feels good” has been the downfall of the Left over and over again, whether it’s drugs, high taxes, or hailing violent criminals as “front-line soldiers in our war against your repressive society”. The fact that they apparently just can’t resist the urge to do it whenever they are in power is why the downfall of a leftist movement tends to resemble a circular firing squad every time.
And Obama, who is (let’s face it) a seething mass of unfocused hatreds, was just as eager to play Grand Inquisitor as the rest of them were.
Now his supporters have a choice. They can either go to the mat for him again, and try to ram him back into the Oval Office by using every dirty trick they know, or they can pull the plug and let him fall on his own. Which they decide on depends on how close they perceive themselves to being to their Holy Grail- a socialist America with them in eternal command.
If they think that they’re just about there, they’ll pull out all the stops. If not, they’ll pull back, let him go down, and start grooming their next Messiah. Assuming they can find anyone wiling to play the part, that is. (It shouldn’t be hard, the “community” seems suffused with people who hold themselves in much higher regard than reality would seem to justify.)
Whatever they decide, they’d better do it soon. The election is less than month away, and they aren’t going to get a “do-over” this season.
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A seething mass of unfocused hatreds. That is the absolute BEST definition of Obama I have ever seen or heard. Perfectly said.
I like your writing but aren’t you forgetting something. For most of his supporters the fact Obama is a obvious disaster is unimportant. Either they will make excuses for his failures or more likely, simply not recognize or care about the threat to their freedom, security and prosperity he poses. If he were recognized for what he is like you, Dr. Hanson, and me do, his poll numbers would be in signal digits.
Knowing that Obama is a fake and the media is corrupt is easy, how to sense of an electorate that denies the obvious is hard.
This bum could still win.
Bob From Virginia….
…..perhaps you may remember Marion Barry as Mayor of the District of Columbia. Even after that ugly photo of him “doing” cocaine, or whatever it was, his loyal constituency gleefully elects him to whatever District committee he’s yearning for in order to maintain his being on the District payroll. They simply couldn’t care less about his actual working at something constructive….he remains “their” congenial “mess” and “their” appointee still stickin’ it to th’ Man.
Recently, Marion Barry was investigated for tax evasion, can’t remember here how that one worked out, but my point is that he remains in a taxpayer supported position….still.
I tell this here to point out that the danger to America in this election is that the 53% who put B. Hussein Obama in the White House couldn’t care less about his subsequent performance as President….he’s still their Black Man who was actually elected.
This should be ‘effing’ scary……but I read Roger Kimball eagerly for reassurance when he has an article pressing the point that it’ll be a definite “win” for Romney…..so Victor Davis Hanson’s article here is a pleasure to read for its analysis.
This District of Columbia native, born and raised here has never, ever, experienced such personal loathing for a sitting President as I have now for this Obama chameleon…..and my first vote goes back to Dwight Eisenhower while on active duty with our USAF, so I’ve lived through a few……this one, however, being a whole new nadir.
Agreed, though The One lost the 2012 elections back in 2009. We are experiencing a fairly unique variation on a pattern that has repeated itself throughout history. One clique of elites conspiring to seize power from another clique of elites. Usually the challengers are driven by some impetus: newly acquired wealth or military prestige, new technology, or new sets of ideas and beliefs, generational shifts or other political crises… Sometimes these transitions work out for the better.
There are two fairly unique aspects to the current situation however: 1) The challenging clique is not rooted in a single nation state or ethnos, rather it is trans-national and based on a quasi religious political dogma; a kind of mutated Leninist-Marxism, combined with state capitalism and global instruments designed to absorb the wealth and power of the nations of the world. It’s creed is pseudo-religious environmentalism, tribalism, and the reduction of the individual to a mindless unit of consumption and production. Ultimately their aim is to control the “commanding heights” of the world economy – food production and distribution, energy, heavy industry, communications, finance, medical services… Even the language and concepts we use to discuss politics and morality. So it is accurate to say we are facing a looming, global totalitarian threat. It will take decades to fully evolve, but the process is well underway.
2 ) The great obstacle in its path, the U.S. of A., though already largely over-run by elites, still produces the largest self-reliant, individualist, entrepreneurial, freedom loving population on Earth. So the 21st century will be defined in large part by the outcome of this battle between free individuals and a world-scale abomination unlike anything mankind has known. The Republicans are largely rooted in petroleum and the “old economy”. The challenging elite’s power base is largely rooted in modern finance, the computer and dot.com sectors, the regulatory bureaucracies, academia, many of the unions, the media and a myriad non-profit and non-governmental organizations. But they are using the executive power they gained when they installed The One to drink the old elite’s milkshake.
Therefore the line is drawn. It’s not that we are all knee-jerk Republicans now, but it is the imperfect weapon we will mold to resist the clique of nihilists which has over-run the Democrats. Our biggest edge is that we are combating ideological opponents. Ideologues have a lot of passion, and that can take them a long way, but when they get close to power the real world collides with their belief system. This causes them to respond erratically and make mistake after mistake because they don’t know how to account for the discrepancies. You saw that in the debate the other night; The One had no idea how to deal with a real, living person with sounder ideas. Romney can think out of the box, Obama can’t, hence the teleprompters.
After we crush them in November, our task will be to follow the lead that Romney has taken: expose and discredit the belief system. You have seen how easy it is to do (and despite a no-doubt stronger showing by Obama next time, it will just get easier because most Americans now see the fraud for who he really is, even erstwhile supporters!) This will cause confusion and panic in their ranks and then we can isolate and target their multiple power nexus at the time and in the manner of our choosing.
Excellent analysis of the mega-stakes, Gylippus.
On the smaller side of activities, during the Romney administration we must not allow the media to Bork Romney the way they Borked Bush: unopposed. Romney’s team and the conservatives who prefer ‘Americanism’ (see above definitions for Socialism, Fascism, Communism) must fight back at unfair smears and attacks against the Republicans. If you remember, Bush 43 took the high road and never contradicted the press coverage at any time. Thus the media prepared the Obama election.
Never Again! If we do not win, then America and the whole globe will certainly lose.
Agreed 100% Clark.
Excellent post.
To add to that, it’s not just that Romney can think outside the box and Obama can’t. Romney has principles to guide his actions, and Obama doesn’t.
When you Israelis stop stealing another people’s country and ruling them like Nazis we can listen to what you have to say. “Jews-only roads” – does that remind anyone of the Warsaw ghetto?
WTF are you yammering about? I don’t remember anyone mentioning “those damn JOOOOS!” Slack jaw,yokel!
Well, I am a yokel with an IQ of 140, a BA magna cum laude from UT Austin, Phi Beta Kappa, Woodrow Wilson National Fellow. MA from Yale, NDEA Title IV Fellow – how smart are you and where did you go to school?
Never has the fallacy of intelligence (vs wisdom) and credentialism been better illustrated…….
Being intelligent never stopped anyone from being a damned fool.
Wow! That was truely childish and pathetic – I’m actually embarassed for you!
I am extremely impressed with your academic creditials and honoria! Have you ever actually produced anything of useful value to mankind? For some reason I kind of doubt it.
What was the punch line of that famous New Yorker cartoon showing a canine pressing a keyboard? Oh yeah, it was
“On the internet no one knows you’re a dog!”
A BA in *what*, skippy?
Your first mistake was saying how smart you think you are–when indeed you aren’t, Ron.
Anything associated with Woodrow Wilson, the worst president before Carter, should be stricken from your resume`. He was a horrible man and a blight on the presidency.
(I have 5 university diplomas, so your “education” has just been check mated.)
So? You’ve pretty much proven you’ve likely never done anything useful with it to gain actual experience.
“It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
That resume and “intelligence quotient” you tout so proudly identifies you more surely than any comment you’ve made here – you are a brainwashed liberal-worldview-ideologue with a secret desire to either be proven wrong (desperately seeking reality) or sites like this one are where you come to browbeat those you consider beneath you with your dazzling intellect to provide yourself with some pitiable form of emotional gratification.
Whichever the reason behind your presence here and the unlovely rants you’ve treated us to, please know that while we may find you irritating, we genuinely feel sorry for those like yourself. You truly believe all the garbage you spew. Sad.
Ron…Why do I feel you are, perhaps, inflating your credentials…Could it be that your leader refuses to disclose his???
Your evaluation of your brilliance is negated by the words you have spoken here. Analogy to Obama’s failure when, for the first time, he engaged in a real debate.
tee hee….yer funny.
Congratulations on earning some nameless degree that is most likely not at all valuable to a productive society. You can earn any degree you want and be proud of it, but don’t think for a single second that your “intelligence” increased because of it. That’s pure naivety, and I pity you for making such a large error.
Ron, and all that “learning” produced a warped, indoctinated and imbalanced human being. What you “know” does not work.
That, and you are Vile, Vapid, and Venomous – typical prog.
Think LESS, Emote MORE, that is Progressive.
Thank you for illustrating a favorite saying of my late father: “Some people are educated beyond their intelligence.”
Go buy yourself a world history book you raging antisemite– I’d say thousands of years living in and populating Israel isnt stealing anyone else’s land.
Sorry, I am a Yale-trained historian and I know that there were almost no Jews left in Palestine before the Zionists arrived- maybe it is YOU who should start reading some history. Israelis = Nazis.
Ron, you are one sick puppy.
Ron is one of those guys you hope to God you never get stuck next to on a plane flight.
You mangy excuse for an educated human, BJ was probably the only thing you performed well and didn’t get a diploma for it,Clinton could have used you ,with such talent who knows how far,or how high you would have gotten.
Well I guess you’ve succeeded in diverting many people’s comments toward your hysterical rants, rather than the important points in Professor Hanson’s writings. You are a hateful, little sort of man, the type one would find featured in one of those old Twilight Zone episodes. And to boot, you are an unapologetic hater of Jews. May I suggest you click your heels three times, close your eyes and make three wishes.
BTW, my husband is Jewish and he also hates the Israelis – I can’t be anti-Semitic if I have spent 46 years sucking Jewish cock.
Ron is an internet troll. Don’t get hooked.
Ron sounds like she was born too late. Missed all the fun in 1942 Warsaw.
Hey, good folks —
Don’t waste your time. Anyone who argues with a fool ^is^ a fool.
IOW, you’re gay and you’re indebted to liberals for letting you marry your partner.
See? When you talked about your husband, most folks here naively assumed you were a woman.
I hope you’re not that Ron Savage character, because he’s certifiably insane.
where’s the banning stick???
Just imagine: if Biden does better than expected, Clint Eastwood’s characterization as “the intellect of the Democratic Party” …will ALSO turn out to be right.
And if Obama is even slightly sub-par in the next debate, there will be a lot more covers like this out there.
Clint’s speech did seem a bit rambling at the time, but he is a deservedly famous actor and director. Every day, it becomes more and more apparent that he really knew what he was doing up there.
I didn’t feel lucky back then. I guess I should have.
That debate may have been the first time in his life that Obama encountered a genuine non-racist.
Actually, I suspect that debate was the first time in his life The One was in a genuine debate.
Yes, I saw his conversations with the adoring news media that pretty much ignored John McCain’s presence, not to mention anything like the actual issues, in 2008. A tongue-bath from Jim Lehrer, Tom Brokaw, and/or Bob Schieffer, plus the constant swooning of the MSM in Greek chorus mode, do not count.
The primary difference this time around was that The One had to talk about actual issues, or at least try to. He not only failed, he seemed mortally offended at even having to show up. Platonic philosopher-kings do not explain themselves to the Great Unwashed, as a rule, and that is precisely how He perceives Himself. (Except when He is convinced He is Zeus himself.)
The “gotcha” questions were intended to gut Romney. The reason it backfired was because the questioner (Lehrer) and those who wrote the questions assumed that The One would have a script of stock, pat answers He could read off. That might have worked, if He had had His trusty teleprompter in front of Him. And if He had had the instant feedback from the crowd (cheers, applause, swooning) He is accustomed to.
The fact that it didn’t is telling. Without a teleprompter, He couldn’t answer coherently. And with the crowd being prohibited from cheering, applauding, and generally showing Him they are ready to bear His children, He couldn’t focus. He couldn’t even work from the notes He had on the lectern. He shuffled them like cards, but could not read from them effectively.
In short, this is a man who is incapable of delivering the equivalent of a college lecture without full audio-visual help and instant feedback from the audience to tell him how he’s doing.
Now imagine him in a high-level meeting with anybody. From Congressional leaders, to business leaders, to union leaders, to his Cabinet… to foreign heads of state, especially ones who don’t like us.
This probably goes a long way toward an explanation of the disaster our foreign policy, industrial policy, energy policy, and every other policy has been since January of 2009.
His instinct seems to be to give people who dislike us what they want, on the grounds that they will like us more as a result. Conversely, anyone who likes us is automatically to be mistrusted, and subjected to the full brunt of his opprobium. He can apparently do both without thinking, purely by a knee-jerk reaction.
But when he needs to be able to explain or articulate an actual reason for his actions, or policies, he needs constant, real-time coaching, plus an enthusiastic crowd to get him engaged. When neither one is present, he wanders, becomes petulant, and sulks.
Ultimately, in such a situation, I’d expect him to turn on his opponent and essentially throw a tantrum. He came close at least twice during the debate; he does so routinely in dealing with Congressional leaders he perceives as “the enemy”. Which is basically anyone other than the Democratic clique’ around Pelosi and Reid.
Exactly none of the above are useful attributes in a head of state. This alone should be considered good cause to not re-elect him.
In fact, if it had been known to the electorate in 2008, it is doubtful he would ever have been President to begin with. The American electorate may be overly romantic at times, but as a rule it recognizes incompetence when it sees it.
That is, unless that incompetence is simply not shown to it by those whose job it is to report the news. As it is- not as they would wish it were.
Using dishonesty to shield incompetence is quite common. That does not change the fact that it is never a good idea.
clear ether
eon
I suspect that’s because he was unfamiliar with the contents. He’d been coached, and he had his cheat sheets, but that’s not the same as knowing the material.
He was simply playing out of his league.
Waaay out of his league.
And that’s not saying that Romney is brilliant, either.
at least this time, Obama supporters will NOT be threatening newstands in Brooklyn to remove The New Yorker as they did with the July 18, 2008 cover, altho I suppose the campaign can not, at this late date, ban The New Yorker’s writers from the campaign trailas happened in 2008.
And, fwiw, I like to think that David Denby, the first to defend Eastwood’s empty chair at the RNC, made sure that Remnick or Hertzberg could not stop THIS cover.
I am now going to renew my subscription.
and, that 60 million audience did not include anyone who watched on PBS or C-Span.
My own eyebrows were raised high as I saw that cover on …..gasp!….th’ Noo Yawkuh. A big surprise….just like that high-fivin’ one earlier after the election. I ran right out and bought a copy to laminate the cover…..I’d better hustle out now for this one which’ll no doubt be a collectors’ item.
It’s actually July 21, 2008.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/covers/slideshow_blittcovers#slide=1
I think Romney will wipe the floor with him again. It’s the classic case of someone who has worked hard and accomplished much opposed to someone who has worked little, accomplished little and had everything handed to him. It’s like Romney bringing a gun to a knife fight. A few days of debate prep cannot counteract a lifetime of real world experience outside of academia and government.
Actually, I think Obama brought a knife to a gunfight. Or, perhaps, a fingernail file.
Maybe it was plastic. Maybe one of those collected at the that fundraiser where even though everyone paid a lot of money to be/eat with the Pres., they collected the silverware before he came out to speak to them. Let’s hope they either finished, could eat it with their fingers, or got a doggie bag.
(Not sure I should have used the term doggie bag at an Obama event where food was included!)
Yeah. Little Prince Jugears brought a plastic spoon to a gunfight.
Or maybe he brought a straw with some spitballs to a gunfight.
a spork
a slurpee to a knife fight?
Obama brought his smirk.
Maybe Obama was “Ferengi Quark” while Romney was “Captain Kirk”… ;)
Or else he brought a limp weenie to a cockfight.
Just wait till debate 2, the moderator will be asking the questions. Here’s the Rommney questions, “what are you hiding not releasing all you tax return?” Or How do you justify raising taxes 5 trllion? here’s the Obama question, “Mr President what’s your Opinion on the 5 Trilion tax increase your opponent is supporting?
Axelrod et al; will DEMAND IT or ELSE! We can’t let them get away with it…
Romney can reply that his tax return has been vetted by the ultimate authority, that is, the IRS. Then he can ask, “Mr. President, your followers often call you the smartest guy in the room. Why don’t you release you Columbia transcript? And, for that matter, explain your Connecticut social security number. And how did you get into Pakistan when that was on the State Department list, and what did you do there, other than chom?”
I hope so and Romney does in general do well in standing up for his point of view and doesnt let his opponent or the moderator bully him. But the moderator is a known liberal – Candy Crowley of CNN — and the town hall style debate is having Gallup populate the audience and pick their questions— given that they are in the midst of a lawsuit with Holder and the DOJ that is a bit concerning and could be a factor….especially since their polling for Obama improved markedly shortly after the lawsuit story broke…. could be coincidence.. but how often in Obama’s administration is that the case?
VDH is the only reason I know of NOT to nuke California.
I certainly hope the Romney campaign is working hard on a counter-strategy for the extremely biased “moderators” we can expect from here out. I’m less concerned about The One himself. He can go into attack dog mode, sure. But he’ll still be going live, un-promptered, and there’s a good chance the steel balls will come out.
“VDH is the only reason I know of NOT to nuke California.”
Reason 2: Fallout tends to blow across state borders.
Reason 3: the vast majority of California is full of wonderful people and it is an incredibly beautiful state. And, as with many “blue” states, large chunks of it are full of staunch conservatives.
Reason 4: it’s too much fun to try and find the most ridiculous thing you can get a Texan and a Californian arguing over. You can start off with something like “in Ohio we’ve got great swimming pools,” and then they naturally have to prove how the swimming pools in Texas / Cali are far better.
Double points if you unleash this inane debate on a hapless coworker, and then sneak off.
“I certainly hope the Romney campaign is working hard on a counter-strategy for the extremely biased “moderators” we can expect from here out”
Given how well prepared Mitt was, I think that it is a safe assumption that he will be prepared for more hostile moderators.
Deep rumor has it that the Romney camp has something (career-ending info) on each of the next debate moderators, and they’ve let them know it. He didn’t get to be a top businessman by being stupid.
An effective reply to a moderator who is not moderating might be “If I’m going to debate both you and Mr Obama you’ll have to stand up here.”
Russ — that’s great, I hope the Romney team sees it!
The leftist moderators and the Coward in Chief should think twice before getting aggressive in the next debates: Romney can keep his cool, and he could even use their aggressiveness to build a success greater than in the first debate.
The fact is, they have no facts.
And that makes the conversation pretty steep for them.
I thought the critique by Jack Dunphy was spot-on. Quoting his wife who was an investment banker at one time (I paraphrase): Mitt Romney made his living walking into boardrooms and confronting people who sounded like they knew what they were talking about. Is it any wonder Obama looked so hapless? This isn’t the first time Mitt has flushed out a phony. And he did it with panache. I don’t see much hope Obama will improve. He’s clearly punching outside his weight class. Another pounding like the last one and he’s finished.
“Mitt Romney made his living walking into boardrooms and confronting people who sounded like they knew what they were talking about.”
Trenchant and perspicacious. Obama has been to many people, especially in the media, a fellow who sounded like he knew what he was talking about. Maybe they couldn’t follow his desultory discourse and assumed he was talking over their heads. A bright person is one who can explain complex things in simple terms, not vice-versa. Obama never knew what he was talking about.
Hi Buck, no one ever informed Barack 0bama that excuses are no substitute for performance. Shift the blame, grab the credit does not work in Coporate America. It seems to have worked in WDC and it need to stop.
There is no evidence whatsoever that obama can learn and adapt. He hasn’t for his entire life, no matter the last four years. He’s an adept liar when not challenged, and reads others words well enough, but where is the evidence that he can think on his feet or that he has EVER done the work necessary to succeed for the rest of humanity.
Romney, on the other hand, is a veritable paragon of effort and learning. He gave away his inheritance, fought for his wife, bounced back from political losses to the Swimmer and in 2008, and emerged hardened and more capable. I don’t like his political meanderings, but even they can be explained as his tactics to adapt his posititions just enough to win real elections, as opposed to obama’s chicago-way destructions of his opponents. The stories now of Romney’s preparation for the first debate are well-known. He may have a golden spoon, but unlike the Liar, he has never depended on it, choosing to out-work and out-think his opponents instead. The first debate wasn’t a stroke of luck, it was the stroke of a lifetime of continuous effort.
There will be thousands of leftists with heads down for the next two weeks scheming to give their hero an affirmative action edge in the next debate, and no doubt they will come up with plenty of tricks, including planting probably the entire list of questions for the town hall debate. But the moment will come when Mr. Affirmative Action has to again directly face Mr. Competance and Hard Work…and it’s going to be another slaughter. The snide bravodo when Romney bully is safely miles away will once again disappear, and of course, a 30 to 50 IQ point advantage will also work in Romney’s favor.
It’s up to Biden now …
Yes, let us pray Biden is able to pull off a strong Republican victory in next week’s debate.
good one!
If Biden outperforms Obama, it will be a sad day for the Democratic campaign. At the rate they’re going, I bet many Democrats wish it was constitutional for them to nominate Bill Clinton again, he’d probably do better against Romney than Barry O is.
Constitutionally, the electors can vote for just about anyone they want to. Recall in 1960 Barry Goldwater got some votes.
The collaborators in the press were equally inept. With Ryan’s takedown coming up and the next major nefarious allegations of this bunch about to break, there is no light at the end of Kenyan tunnel.
http://i1185.photobucket.com/albums/z349/nhthinker/obama-chair2.gif
Before our eyes, Obama managed to morph into Eastwood’s chair.
Rape, pillage, burn, enslave. When that’s all you got, it’s gonna eventually become pretty clear.
Rape burn enslave pillage. That does not sound like a lightweight to me.
It’s the philosophy of the average demagogue. Even or especially those who are ineffectual at it in the real world.
Just because someone isn’t really Attila the Hun, doesn’t necessarily mean that they realize they aren’t. Having the desire to sack or engage in general chevauchee* does not automatically lend the ability to do so.
Those who dream of “burning down the house” where our civilization is concerned don’t understand that the rest of us might object in terms more concrete than words. They believe that they can use the law to carry out outrages and excesses on everything they hate, and everyone else will simply lie down and take it.
Nihilists always assume they are tougher than those they seek to destroy. They are rarely correct in that assumption.
cheers
eon
I want a President that can stand up for himself, his record, his policies and AMERICA. Obama did not.
What I did NOT hear in the debate was what Obama is going to do with his next term and his “flexibility” He already goes around Congress so that is no deterrent. He refused to help other Democrats with their elections so that is no deterrent. What is he going to do? What plans? How does he expect to accomplish them?
The one example that Mitt used and he is getting excoriated for it. Media expect him to propose other examples of loophole and program cuts. Those loopholes and program cuts need to be negotiated with congress and that is what plans to do. Should Mitt show his hand like Obama did by releasing his timeline for leaving Afghanistan?
Big Bird is worth over 400M and certainly could share his wealth with the other programs. Remember 1/100 = a penny that adds up to a dollar. I believe that government has a place in starting programs like PBS but eventually they should become self reliant. Just as with green energy, we should support research but not the merchandizing of the product.
Did Mitt really lie? 3 to 1 Economics say Romney’s plan over Obama’s current is better for the economy. At least 5 plans have said that Romney’s plan will work to the 1 plan that the President mentioned. The same plan that has since rescinded it.
Since the debate, Obama, his surrogates and supporters have been using demagoguery of Mitt the person not the policies and framework that he is proposing. The attack on Mitt personally just don’t stand up to his life. If Obama attacked Mitts policy and framework, he can’t use his own record as proof.
One has to assume that Obama’s camp already has the list of questions for the next debate in hand, and are preparing their empty suit for those questions. One also has to assume that the ‘moderators’ in the next debate are implicitly or explicitly coordinating with Empty Chair’s handlers to maximize his impact. Finally, it is safe to expect an EXPLOSION of positive media for Empty Chair after the second debate, regardless of his performance (Mister October, the Comeback Kid, He’s Rediscovered His Mojo, Hope And Change Lives Again, etc etc…).
Everyone – just be prepared. Hope for the best, but plan for the worst.
p.s. I expect the moderators to harangue Romney on every point with continual contradictions and disparaging his facts while The Empty Chair gets a pass; I also expect that Empty Chair will talk for much more than Four minutes more than Romney, and will utterly dominate the airtime with help from the moderators.
Romney needs to hire Gingrich to coach him with regards to handling the ‘moderators’.
Excellent advice! The next debate will be far nastier and more personal that Debate #1. Obama will try to attack (and it won’t be subtle) Romney’s personal character and GOP “nastiness.” Romney must be prepared for this and prepared to answer in a controlled anc clever manner. Nobody does the steely putdown like Gingrich.
Romney will make mincemeat of Empty Chair – Again. It’s a flaw in EC’s personality that cannot be overcome no matter how much coaching he receives.
Very good piece. I have written similar analyses over at my blog and have noted that I also think Obama’s poor performance is at lartly due to the fact that he is a coward. He dared not confront Romney. He is used to having others smear and slander his opponents, but he doesn’t have to stand a few feet away from them and take the full brunt of their counter-attack.
Hammer hits nail: Obama is very clearly a coward. And a blowhard, and a man of very very limited intelligence. A narcissist thru and thru.
Zero’s speeches after the debate bring to mind the “The Ocean Called…” episode of Seinfeld, where George came up with responses after he was called out for eating all the shrimp.
Funny. Jason Alexander is a Zero supporter.
Figures.
There was a Seinfeld episode where Costanza faced an encounter with work colleagues and he couldn’t come up with a clever line. He spend subsequent days trying to come up with what he *should* have said, then looked for an opportunity to unload that belated zinger. Just like Obama on Thursday throwing out lines he had the opportunity to use Wednesday.
Obama has variously suggested he’s the next incarnation of Lincoln, FDR, Kennedy, or Reagan. But he’s really just … George Costanza!
L’esprit de l’escalier or L’esprit d’escalier (literally, staircase wit) is a French term used in English that describes the predicament of thinking of the right comeback too late.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier
Obama’s re-characterization of his debates with Romney while on the post-debate campaign trail probably should be called L’esprit d’escalier ala teleprompter. (I don’t speak French, so perhaps we should consult Obama’s crackerjack debate coach, John Kerry for the right translation.)
Obama’s puppet masters are afraid he will blow the whistle on them. That’s how Obama gets away with all the crap he does: huge parties, lots of golf, expensive vacations and God knows what else and all on our dime. “They” are being exposed anyway, all of them and they will never be able to crawl back under their rocks ever again.
Obama’s not a real man but he is a real thug and he gives the middle finger to his masters occasionally. That’s the difference 60 million+ saw in the 1st debate. Romney has substance and truth on his side and Obama can’t stand the “light” it makes him nervous. News flash for Obama: the light is going to get brighter and you can’t hide.
Meanwhile, while Obama is stumping the rest of his organization is F.U.B.A.R.ing everything under the sun: Hillary and her state dept., wow. Holder and his “justice” dept., Holy Sh_t! EPA “handcuffs”, Homeland Security “Gay Pride?”, HHS “death panels are for real”.
Nobody could make this stuff up but it is real or rather surreal.
And now has come the opportunity to shine the light on it all if we want it bad enough. It’s time to stand for the truth if you care.
Romney can’t make it all go away but he can help us and we can help him. The old passive way of life is gone, like our retirement saving’s, for this generation. Now we must fight until the end so that the next generation can survive and live in peace.
Maybe Victor can live in peace on his farm one day soon. All it will take is a little law and order in the light of day.
Californians, what’s it gonna take to pull you heads out of your butts? 10 dollar gas, no gas or both? Sacramento is on the map and it’s in your state, that’s where you go and rattle the gates. Watch the rats scurry and the cockroaches run when the people finally have had enough.
There was an article in last week’s LA Times that the denizens of South Central LA are upset because they were promised “a parade” when the Challenger shuttle is moved from LAX to its new museum home. Now they’re being told that not only will LAPD be closing “their” streets to allow the shuttle to trundle through, but that also no one will be allowed to walk or stand on “their streets”, either. I guess there might be terrorism issues. So no parade for these folks who (mostly) didn’t pay any taxes towards the space program (very high unemployment rates, always and forever) and who (mostly) certainly are not educated enough to be rocket scientists to build or fly the thing. So the shuttle is “raaacist”. But that’s OK; Obama is back in town today scrounging for money, so streets where the rich people are will be closed, too.
After the brutal Univision interview and F&F exposé Obama gave the owner’s wife a cushy job at the UN. Univision is going to play ball now with the administration.
Yeah, I saw that news piece. Probably just a coincidence. NOT.
Thank you Dr.Hanson for the latest in your series of commentary that pulls back the curtain and reveals that The Great O is nothing more than a carny barker in the political circus of today. I have a gut feeling that this President does not want a second term. This job he was groomed for has real work involved. He is more of a movie type President, one who is scripted and given what to say, he just has to deliver his lines and it’s on to the next scene. The irony is that Romney is the one straight out of Hollywood central casting. If Mitt had a herioc military history, ala John Kennedy, he would be the ideal American President. Obama wants out, Michelle most definitly wants out. President Pinnochio wants to party but the puppet-masters won’t cut the strings. O and M want to jet off to Hawaii to their 35 million dollar estate and become the media darlings of the talk show and the college lecture circuit. Then he can play act at President while the real one works at it.
Where is our resident left-wing troll, “Cynical Wonder”?
He seems to have disappeared the night of the Obama-Romney debates:
https://www.google.com/#q=%22cynical+wonder%22&hl=en&tbo=1&prmd=imvns&source=lnt&tbs=sbd:1,qdr:w&sa=X&ei=0MpxUKudCqrj0gGitIHADw&ved=0CBsQpwUoAw&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=c9983aef4eaabb75&biw=988&bih=565
Maybe the cognitive dissonance finally got to him.
He still has vodka left.
I would love to know what Michelle said to him right after the debacle and since then. Somehow I think it wasn’t warm and caring a lot.
Michelle to Obama after the debate, in the presidential limousine, and away from television cameras and microphones:
“Honey. Although it is our anniversary tonight, you be sleeping on the couch tonight.”
Romney has actually been out in the world and understands facts. Obama has been raised in a hermetically sealed environment and only understands pious platitudes. The real quesiton Debate #1 raised is that Obama might not be all that smart. I mean he ACTS smart and we’re been told by countless pundits that he IS smart (“the smartest guy ever to be president”) but the evidence is thin on the ground. He certainly doesn’t seem to have ever had a serious one-on-one conversation with someone who disagrees with him.
Obama got to be Editor of the Harvard Law Review yet couldn’t get one of his own articles published. That’s almost unheard of in the world of law review writing. Being Editor of the Harvard Law Review practically guarantees publication. He received a generous advance to write a book on voting rights yet produced a self-serving and self-advertising “autobiography” full of the aforementioned windy platitudes which served no purpose except to push every progressive hot-button on the switchboard. Research and footnoting were therefore not exactly a priority.
We have heard how self-sacrificing Obama is because “he could have made a fortune on Wall Streets.” Instead he eschewed this option to concentrate on “community organizing.” Coould it have been because he realized that working for a top-flight law firm is really HARD WORK! You have to produce billable hours and be able to research and write exquisitely constructed briefs and appeals. Most importantly you have to be able to think on your feet in court. Maybe this sort of activity isn’t in his arsenal despite his Harvard pedigree.
Finally thee is the matter of those darn transcripts. Yes, yes – I know Romney hasn’t released all hsi tax returns. These are, in their way. more important thatn Romney’s tax returns. We all know Romney is rich. However Obama has been sold to us as “the smartest guy ever to be president.” If he had been a straight-A student or received academic honors at Columbia or Harvard I am sure we would know it by now. Instead all we have are crickets chirping from that direction. It’s all very puzzling. If Mitt does as well in Debate #2 as he did last week (and that’s a big if) then we might start seeing that sealed tube Mr. Obama lives in start to crack.
No, The Newspaper was never editor of the Harvard Law Review, he was president. The president is basically responsible for making sure that there’s plenty of choom at the parties.
For once in his life, The Newspaper held a job that he was qualified for. The problem is, he doesn’t know the difference between the presidency of the HLR and the presidency of the USA.
Thanks for the clarification. I was on the law review at my law school and all we had was an editor-in-chief and about ten staff members. I imagine the bureaucracy at a place like Harvard Law grows like well-financed kudzu.
I would still have to assume that even the “president” of the Harvard Law Review would have a leg-up on getting his articles published. However undeserved, we would expect that holding one of the prestigious posts at the Harvard Law School would cause law review editors at other schools to look favorably at submitted manuscripts. Did Obama even try to get an article published?
In a propaganda factory like Hahvud, there has to be special places for tokens and affirmative action stars, so there are both jobs and positions, just like in Democrat governments. Comrade Obama had the ceremonial position of President, the guy you never heard of but who went out to make a Helluva lot of money in a big law firm had the job of being editor.
” … we’re [sic] been told by countless pundits that he IS smart (‘the smartest guy ever to be president’) but the evidence is thin on the ground.”
This is the biggest hoax that’s ever been perpetrated on the American people: A gaggle of Leftist fraudsters foisting a mixed-race, aka black, foundling, with next to no experience in government let alone the business world, to the office of President of the United States, aided and abetted by the left-leaning, consensus media, for whom he sent tingles up their legs and impressed them by the creases in his pants.
Sometimes I have to pinch myself to take in the fact that the most powerful and free nation in the history of the world — and, up to now, a nation that has benefited the whole world by their generosity and can-do — is being run (into the ground) by a mystery man who needs a teleprompter to speak in public because he knows zip about the real world or how to run a lemonade stand let alone the most powerful government in the world.
That this could happen so effortlessly is an indication of just how topsy-turvy this world has become.
Kyrie eleison. ‘Prayer time.
Very well said.
Well said, everything else about the man and the country is commentary.
Not taking anything away from your solid analysis. Only I wish to note that the Republicans nominated Senator McCain: needless to say, a spectacularly poor choice.
For reasons we all know 2008 was a guaranteed losing election for the Republicans. I look at the nomination of McCain similar to the old joke where a call for volunteers went out and everyone but McCain stepped back quickly.
Duly noted!
John McCain…..who would still have been better than Obama. I thought Romney would have stood a better chance than McCain, because he was younger and better looking to counter Obama’s cliched “preaching” about the “failures of the Bush administration”, etc. And……who says that Obama would have won, if not for the financial crisis?
Finally there is one who has the same thoughts I had regarding the Obamas’ joining the “public serving” side.
I’m glad to see VDH take the same appraoch I did on my blog yesterday. Obama was not on drugs or suffering from altitude sickness, he was the same Obama we had seen many times before. Obama is a declaimer, not a debater. Give him a speechwriter and a TelePrompTer and he’ll rabble rouse with the best of them. Speaking improvisationally, he gaffe prone (“You didn’t build that”) and literally gets lost in his sentences. This is evident in his press conferences in which he filibusters the compliant White House press corps in order to run out the clock from even the puff ball questions he gets asked. He has a supply of talking points and he repeats them during his public appearances. His comfort zone is limited to those talking points and he will not get beyond them. His debate demeanor is amused contempt, an expression he showed during the debate with Romney.
There’a a danger in over-analysis. Mr. Hanson asks why Obama didn’t make the effort to be prepared for the first debate. Let’s back up a little. Would an even moderately bright person prepare stringently? Yes, because at that level of intelligence it would be clear to him that he wouldn’t be able to float in front of an adoring press, he would have an opponent who might question and refute his statements. Pretty elementary, yes? Well, that’s assuming a certain level of intelligence. I put it to you and to Mr. Hanson that in Obama we are dealing with a not very bright person, which is to say a person, their number is legion, who doesn’t think if this that or if this then, doesn’t really anticipate at all, just walks into lions’ dens because he’s The One. He’s stupid, gang. Simple as that.
BINGO!
(Occam’s Razor)
Does a history of smoking marijuana and using cocaine correlate with the inability to think clearly?
Drug use could possibly dull one’s intellect, but I will relate a slice of my life and where I stand in regards to conservatism.
I am a child of the 70′s. For three years I smoked dope almost every day before school. Probably dropped acid 50-60 times too. After three years of this – I quit.
When I view the debates, as a 55 year old conservative, I marvel at the missed opportunities. I was kicking the ottoman all over the place in 2008 as McCain was simply not even close to being up to the task. Bless his heart, he was thoroughly and utterly pathetic. OTOH, I had but one small quibble with Romney in the entire debate, that being his failure to rebut Obama’s ’4.5 million jobs created’ claim. That was a missed opportunity that I have emailed the campaign about. I hope they read their emails.
Just so you know, the response is to remind the viewers that the U3 rate was 7.8 when Obama took office and at the end of his first 2 years it was over 9%. Since the Republican takeover of the House that rate has improved somewhat. So, when Obama says how much better things could have been had there not been Republican obstructionism, this rebuttal shows that it only got better when Republicans became a factor.
Anyway, I came up with that despite having personally consumed all manner of mind-altering substances in my teens.
Looking forward to Thursday. Romney and Ryan are sharp as tacks. They will make us proud.
Obama has no interest in issues, no interest in policies or programs. He has managed to rise in life by personal manipulation; that is, he appeals in his ‘personhood’ to the emotions of others. Not to their intellect but to their emotions. So, there’s his race, which he makes full use of, and his megawatt smile and jokes, and his narratives about himself, most of which are pure fiction – and thus, the sealed records.
Obama is intellectually empty; his knowledge of history, economics, political theory etc is shallow to non-existent. He becomes restless and even angry when expected to discuss issues or situations with others. Note that he has missed the majority of his intelligence briefings; he prefers to read through the summaries on his own rather than question and discuss them. Note that he doesn’t attend the analysis and discussions of the development of policies and programs, leaving that to others such as Jarrett, Pelosi, Reid etc.
This rejection of intellectual interaction, this refusal to sit through an analysis of an issue or policy is a basic pattern of his life. When he was president of the Harvard Law Review he did no editing, attended no meetings, wrote no articles. As a lecturer he mentored no students, did no research, wrote no articles. As a community organizer, he simply ordered the activitist to go out and do the work. As a member of Senate, he voted present most of the time.
Obama’s method of interacting with the world is not intellectual; he’s not interested in policies and theories or facts or data. His method of interaction is to control people, to mesmerize them into his control, purely by his emotional manipulation of them.
Obama needs to interact with people emotionally. This is NOT the same as empathy; indeed it is the opposite. Obama doesn’t ‘feel’ with people; he doesn’t consider people equal to him and therefore, has no ability to share their world. His clinical narcissism renders him incapable of putting himself on an equal footing with others. Obama needs to reduce people into a hapless state of emotional adulation of him, into a mindless adoration of him as a messiah. He achieves this by focusing on their emotions: pity, adulation, adoration.
There is no way that Obama could enter into a debate, a one-on-one discussion of real-world issues with Romney. But, Obama will do better in the next debate for it doesn’t seem to be set up as a debate but as a Town Hall. So, we have the adoring audience, who will ask Obama a question – which he will ‘answer’ with his empty rhetoric. The questioner will presumably NOT be able to enter into a discussion with Obama, will not be able to question the fallacies and misinformation in that answer…That’s the format that Obama likes. It’s one-way, no accountability for his answers, no follow-up questions, just Him preaching from the pulpit.
What I’m hoping is that, within the answer to the next question Mitt Romney’s asked, he’ll tackle the lies and misinformation fed to the audience in Zero’s last answer.
Romney has to seize the day and pluck the narrative from both Obama and whatever lame-a**, media moderator they sic on him. They’ll be trying to do Oblahblah’s work for him by pitching him soft balls and lobbing hard balls at Romney. Romney’s got to hit the hard balls right out of the ball park. It’s not a forgone conclusion that Romney’s going to strike out when they pitch him the hard balls; he needs to use them to his advantage.
Outstanding analysis sir!
I believe that ETAB is a her not a sir!
And, yes, a succinct analysis, comme toujours/como siempre.
The last sentence, “just Him preaching from the pulpit” is perfect. Twenty years in Rev. Wright’s church had to rub-off on Him. Imagine ‘Preacher to the World’ and I think you have Obama. The Middle East is just another bump in the road. Four more years and we’ll see the beauty that is Obama, worldwide. As an added bonus, if you order now, you’ll get two lowered oceans and some flexibility.
I’m so sick of watching the Democrat Shopping Channel, something’s wrong with my remote- I keep clicking Reality but nothing changes. I can’t even DVR my way out of all the crap their selling. It’s either got to be a new set of AAA batteries or America needs a slap upside-the-head. My dad used to hit the TV to fix it once in a while. Speaking of triple A…
Is it just me, or is November looking more and more like Christmas? I haven’t been this anxious since I was eight years old. But, nobody’s put any lights outside at a time when an event such as this is about to take place. Freedom is either born (again) or it is snuffed out (aborted/Fluked).
The exact formulation of the most perilous question Romney must send to the voters is : ” SHALL WE TOLERATE FOUR MORE YEARS LIKE THE FOUR LAST ONES ?
Philippe, I don’t think so! A lot of voters won’t be able to process the words “shall” and “tolerate”. I kid you not!
Maybe Romney should just stick to Reagan’s “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”
We can be sure, the Democrats will have a large number of their people in the crowd for the purpose of asking questions that Obama can answer from his canned cycle response. Look for an number of questions to be about the “Rich” and “Women” Issues, “Minority” Issues, “Net Sum Gain” Thinking.
American Voter is dumb as a rock, easly fooled.
Obama WILL call Mitt Romney a liar, either directly or obliquely, this time around – it is obvious that The Won’s masters will order it so.
Romney needs plenty of ammo on that to fire back with both barrels, and then to sustain the fire. Fortunately, such ammo is not hard to find. (Start with Benghazi and work backwards.)
Romney will be going up against Mr Obama, coached this time to get vicious and person, and the Moderator who will challenge Romney aggressively with so-called “fact checks”. It will be epic TV.
If my memory serves me well, I don’t recall either Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro or any other of those characters in the Pantheon of Communism lose an “election” (let alone, power) due to “debate performance.”
The “neo-communism” of the type espoused by the current occupant of the WH, and his handlers, might be of the “soft” variety, but it isn’t soft enough to let details such as those pointed out by Victor Hanson derail their plans for at least the next four years.
At least I don’t expect so.
I recently read that Obama relishes personally okaying which terrorists from a list of terrorists gets obliterated by drone bombs in the Middle East.
If Obama had the power of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, or other such men, I am fairly certain he would relish using it to dispatch millions who expressed the slightest opposition to him.
If Obama had the power of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, or other such men, I am fairly certain he would relish using it to dispatch millions who expressed the slightest opposition to him.
Yes. Perhaps even thee and me.
His irritation at his critics was obvious early on.
He has tried to conceal that, realizing that we’re (not yet) subject to the vicious suppression available to the people you mention.
He has those powers, but in this “soft communism” mode he and his handlers simply choose not to exercise them.
He certainly acts AS IF he has those powers. His iconic Mussolini-like stand and stare:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=obama%27s+mussolini&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-701&tab=organic&ri=3
speak volumes, nevermind his policies and exercise of executive power during his “presidency.”
There seems to be performance issues with Obama, I wonder if Michelle feels the same. Like they say, “Once you’ve had black you can’t go back, you just become a liberal hack for the Democrat pack.” I defer to Sharpton, Jackson, Maxine Waters, and others plus the Black Caucus and the entire NAACP to prove my point. BTW, I’m black and they can take these blacks back because even though they look like us, they are one of them, the white Democrat racist party. You know, the one who started the Civil War, who segregated the South, who fought MLK and the Civil Rights Act, who addicted us to welfare, who fight for abortion rights which has killed two generations of black babies, yeah yo’ that party.If ya’ll knew the real history ya’ll would’nt be so stupid and easily led like the sheep you are, you’d be wolves, black wolves staking out your own territory instead of existing on the political plantation your white liberal massers give you.
Does all this mean that Obama cannot bounce back a bit in the next two debates? Not really.
I disagree with the conclusion. The carefully fabricated illusion has been blown to smithereens. Low expectations and biased moderators won’t help him, even if he’s 100% improved. Who adores the mediocre? He will look like what he is: a small man standing next to Romney.
Agreed! The October 15th New Yorker cover with Mitt and an empty chair and Ramirez’s (as usual) brilliant cartoon–Mitt with 50s-era, shabby, baby high chair–made my week: well, besides the debate! I’ve actually printed out and framed both cartoons. SMILE ;-)
I was going to place these little gems front and centre at our Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. However, as we have some ignorant to ideological lefties coming, I’ve placed my new “artwork” in a slightly less prominent spot.
Go, Mitt!
You’re having Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow?
My guess is that lookout, like me, is Canadian.
Canadian Thanksgiving is tomorrow, probably because our harvest is earlier than the one in the U.S. You’re a little further south.
What!?!? Isn’t Canada part of the 57 states!??!?
BINGO again! Happy Thanksgiving, kjh.
(alfondso, I’m “just” Canadian–and even I know there aren’t 57 states!)
This is what happens when an electorate votes for President like they’re voting for the winner of Dancing With The Stars. The internet is there with all the information available at one’s fingertips. Yet, they let themselves get bamboozled by the slick talking, mochoa colored, exotic O’Bama. I know Juan McLame was a terrible candidate, but shees would most Americans recognize a communist anymore? What does redistribute the wealth mean if not Marxism, Communism, or statism?
This is what happens when an electorate votes for President like they’re voting for the winner of Dancing With The Stars. The internet is there with all the information available at one’s fingertips…
What I think is a hoot is the fact that so many of us think that we live in this super-advanced information age, with all the knowledge of the ages at our finger-tips and yet, we are really no more capable of independent thought than was any medieval mob rampaging through the streets. I often think of the crowd in Monty Python’s Holy Grail, clammoring to burn the witch and think that many of us are no different in the way we’re herded and led about by the nose by the mass media. I’m looking at the 52% and whatever the hell the percentage this November will be.
“A television in the hands of an intelligent man is more powerful than clairvoyance in the hands of a moron” – “Gulf”, Heinlein
“The moderator cannot afford to be laissez-faire in the fashion of Jim Lehrer, and will prove far more partisan. The media pressure to discount the importance of the debates themselves will increase.”
This!
two things are needed for an actual, rather than just a rhetorical, victory:
1. deflation of the obama balloon on intrade; and
2. romney proposes something authentically practical and substantial.
Leftists are manipulating intrade for their guy.
Why are you Republinazis so fond of conspiracy theories? Part of your paranoid delusions, no doubt. You will all be very unhappy campers on Nov. 7.
Soros is no conspiracy theory. 180 Billion in untrackable campaign donations is no conspiracty theory. Voter fraud is no conspiracy theory. Biased polls are no conspiracy theory. Burying the torture and death of a US ambassador is no conspiracy theory. obama winning his backbencher senate race by illegally exposing the divorce records of his democratic as well as republican opponents is no conspiracy theory. Him hiding the records of his entire life (school, legislative, employment, visa, draft board, birth, medical, etc.,etc.,etc.) is no conspiracy theory.
And there is no question that leftists have infiltratd the media, the school, the unions and the bureaucracies.
why would they stop there?
OF COURSE they are using Soros / marxist / goatherder money to manipulate anything they can to give the marxist Liar an edge. It’s written down in the Alinsky playbook.
It’s not a theory. It’s common sense.
The left can’t win on ideas and loses in a landslide on policy. There never run honest campaign.
I think intrade has less relevance now. 4 years ago it was a fairly new concept. Now that it’s perceived to be a predictor, Soros will buy any result he wants.
Obama didn’t do his job, Lehrer didn’t do his job and as a team they didn’t do their jobs.
The Obama/Media complex fell down and could not get up. But we may be missing the reason, by a mile.
The sainted Eleanor Roosevelt wanted FDR to be a dictator. The most important woman in Obama’s life wants the same thing. Valerie Jarrett.
Obama doesn’t answer charges, he issues commands. He doesn’t obey laws, he overrides them. He doesn’t produce budgets, he prints money. He doesn’t salute the flag, he replaces it. He doesn’t debate, he casts pearls before swine.
As dictator, he needs nothing more than our abject groveling for his benevolence. We don’t need facts, evidence, truth. We merely need to kneel and accept. This is all such a bother. Let the little people handle the briefings, meet with leaders, provide protection for our borders and embassies.
And, if they don’t…the littler people should not be heard to complain.
So, yawn…he will allow himself to be trotted out at the Town Hall charade and the Media better do their jobs, the Chicago Mob should pack the audience and rig the outcome. It’s all such a bore. For a dictator.
Yes, at least part of Obama’s ennui/weltschmerz at the first debate was likely attributable to his view that even being there was beneath him.
True, Obama bears all the hallmarks of a petty despot. But I don’t think he is the real power in this administration. He is just the front man. People like Valerie Jarret and David Axelrod call the shots. His army of czars and think-tanks are busy collating strategies for stealing our money, undermining the Constitution, expanding government power etc. He does the sales pitch and then just signs of the dotted line.
Yes, Obama’s debate appearance is like Elmer Gantry having to beg for monies; it’s the cost of Darth Vader Lordship.
And Obama will, if re-elected, make Republicans pay for forcing His Lordship to grovel. Perhaps His Immanence will by fiat ban assault rifles? (Take that, Fast and Furious truthers!) And ban concealed carry licenses? (That would infuriate conservatives!) By fiat, force us into smart-car death-traps by requiring impossibly high vehicle miles per gallon? (Oops, hasn’t our Lord done this already?) Make empty chairs a hate crime? Make Clint Eastwood ambassador to Afghanistan? Give a DNC enemy’s hate list to the Muslim Brotherhood? Name the next USN aircraft carrier Bo? Send his daughters to the space station? Inflate the dollar? Double the price of gas? Make the press his lap dog? Talk down to us? Start a “Drive 55, stay alive!” campaign? Create millions of subsidized manufacturing jobs producing WIN (Whip Inflation Now) buttons? Take up fiddling?
Never mind… is history repeating itself?
Why should he need to do that which has already happened of its own accord?
If it hadn’t, he probably wouldn’t be in the Oval Office now. In fact, he probably wouldn’t have survived the primary vs. The Hill.
Although I’m sure it was a hellish comedown for her to realize that there could even be a Democrat the press adored more than it did herself.
cheers
eon
His debate reminded me of an old fairy tale entitled, The Emperor’s new clothes. An Emperor duped to buy non existent clothes and goes out there naked all the time, but the public and close adviser’s are afraid to tell him. The Emperor has finally found out he is wearing no clothes, sadly he didn’t seem surprised at all. It was almost like a relief, a guilty criminal tired of being on the run. To bad the America and the rest of the world have to suffer for a government that has printed money like crazy, grown the deficit, and made it impossible for companies to compete. But not like the fairy tale, the advisers and media are willing accomplices. What do they really expect to gain? If America is destroyed from within will they come out unscathed? Do they not have families, are they all as sick and demented as George Soros a Nazi collaborator? God bless the USA, please!
He doesn’t debate, he casts pearls before swine.
I think this arrogance, i.e., downplaying debates – or not even having them – increasingly exemplifies the Democrat Party and its authoritarian nature. Here in California, Sen Dianne Feinstein arrogantly refuses to debate her Republican challenger, Elisabeth Emken. This outrages me and is grounds enough, in my mind, for losing her seat. “Who the f**k died and left you king” is what I’d like to hurl at ‘lil Miz Entitled’. But the same sheep who re-elected Jerry Brown in ’10 still surround me and couldn’t be bothered to care.
The only thing sadder than a free people being marched off into serfdom, is a people who can’t even be bothered to care. And that is what I sense here. Either that, or the Democrats in California have figured out a way to rig the system and outright steal elections. Why would it be a surprise if Stalinists, (aka Democrat politicians) would follow Stalin’s dictums, i.e., “it’s not who votes that counts but who counts the votes, that counts.” California has long been a trail-blazer for many of the crazy ideas that infect us. Why not this? Certainly not because they’d be restrained by archaic concepts such as honor or integrity.
And it’s spreading. Ever hear of the Secretary of States Project?
Just saying.
Ever hear of the Secretary of States Project?
Yes. At least insofar as George Soros/Soros organizations working sub rosa to get socialist friendly secretaries of state elected in individual states. SOS’s have a lot of say in districting/re-districting/gerrymandering among other powers.
A dimension of the democrats’ stealth jihad, along with moves like removing the ban on convicted felons voting and all the yelling and screaming about requiring voter ID.
Fearing they can’t win legitimately, cheating is far and wide.
When you recall all the liberal angst four years ago over the New Yorker cover portraying the Obama’s as sixties radicals wearing Afros, the current cover of the AWOL president says it all when it comes to bubble bursting. I suppose the only deflationary improvement the New Yorker could make would have been a Mad Magazine’s Alfred E Neuman in black face cover, smirking with the caption, “What me worry?”
Of course ‘bam is frustrated.
By now Napoleon had already crowned himself Emperor, and Hitler had restored German prosperity and destroyed all political opposition.
Yet ‘bam has to suffer the indignity of debating a mere businessman in order to keep his job.
This is an outrage, and he doesn’t like it at all.
Couldn’t Obama send in a Surrogate to debate Romney? Maybe someone like Van Jones or even Valery Jarrett. This debating stuff is beneath him. A nation worthy of him will elect him in any event.
All that you say about Obama and his debate performance rings true. But, maybe there’s a single reason he mailed it in.
He knows he’s going to win.
I hate to be a negative nabob. However, lest we get lost in all the details in analyzing all things Obama, it’s probably true that the latest job report of an “official”7.8% unemployment rate pretty much guarantees he’ll win.
Don’t forget—most people are average, so it’s only the big NEWS that enters their thick skulls. I also hate to say this, but 90% of the black vote and over 50% of the women vote going for The One implies SOMETHING, eh?
I’m girding my “loins”, so to speak, preparing for four more WORSE years, after BHO wins. Intrade still has him at 64%, and my reliable financial advisor, using his in depth economic models, believes Obama WILL win.
It’s so sad!
I watched part of the Ohio State verses Nebraska football game, from Columbus, Ohio. Just think—there were 100,000 fans, and probably over half of them are going to vote for Barrack!
So many people so deeply ensconced in their pitiful “tailgate partying” lives, that they are simply blindly about to jump from the frying pan into the fire.
Oh well, let the women and black votes prevail, once more.
THIS TIME, it won’t be pretty, though.
Hubris begets nemesis, as you always remind us.
Next time,….Obama will gain prestige simply by being on stage with Romney.
as if a Bill Maher, Michael Moore, Andrew Sullivan, or Chris Matthews had been personally betrayed, sold out, or even played for suckers
They are suckers, each driven by a boatload of pathologies buried beneath the denial, all now uncomfortably aware that years of fawning over a charlatan does not lead to a free lunch, credibility or respect. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.
The better question is why it took so long. Yes, it’s instructive though not surprising that Romney’s featherweight verbal skills and weather-vane opportunism are more than a match for an empty chair. But it’s far too convenient and easy to blame all on the MSM and our neurotic elites. The shortcomings of Romney and his campaign/RNC handlers are painfully visible. So…the election will turn on which side screws up least from here on out, and the effect on turnout.
We-the-peasants must keep on shouting for Romney however forced our enthusiasm. It really isn’t complex.
Davis is one of those old paid hacks whom the super-rich retire to “think tanks” such as the Hoover Institution. He is the kind of commentator who, if Obama walked on water, would complain that he did not turn water into wine. There is no point in reading or listening to someone whose favors are bought and paid for, if you get my meaning.
Huh? What rock did you crawl out from under?
Ron is angry because he was born too late and missed all the fun and excitement of Warsaw 1942. But it’s not too late, Ron! There’s another 6 million all set up for Holocaust 2.0 sitting on a spit of land off the Mediterranean coast. Go get ‘em!
Ron is an internet troll. Don’t get hooked.
Obama’s debate performance summed up in less than one minute. Absolutely hilarious. Linked at American Thinker (originally posted at I Own the World). The title of the video is: “Uh”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=819q62ZMYVk&feature=player_embedded
Actually, “Davis” is one of those millions of us not bought and paid for, that simply note when told Obama walks on water, have observed that when Obama placed in water, he sinks like a lead weight.
I readily admit Obama capable of turning water into whine, no doubt; you as testament to this truth.
You obviously know nothing about Davis’ background, but I however do. He is something that rhymes with “bore” but starts with “wh.”
Actually, I feel I know quite about VDH as do most members of PJMedia as we just read a synopsis if VDH’s life story, his sterling credentials, and his array of accomplishments that would be envied by most. I would call him one of my two or three favorite columnists around the globe.
But speaking of whores, you sound like you don’t know much about Obama’s abysmal record, as you read an apologist for utter failure. That would make you something that rhymes with lack but starts with “h.”
Better to be a well credentialed and paid whore, than a clueless and unpaid whore is my motto. :wink:
You pays your money, and you takes your choice. You will be weeping and gnashing your teeth (if you have any teeth left) on Nov. 7.
Coming from an Obama hack and whore who genuflected in front of Styrofoam columns and peed in his pants over the “profundity” of Yes We Can! with a promise of stopping the rising seas, I can’t say I put a whole lot of faith in your foresight, Ron.
Your last name wouldn’t happen to be Biden, would it?
The thing is, it’s not just his content that was lacking, it was his manner, and he even did look physically distracted, unwell.
Why should he panic now? He outdebated Hillary. He outdebated McCain. He’s going for his second term, it’s all house money now.
What the left mourns is that he didn’t pour on invective, insult, lies and fantasies on his own behalf, just as they all do on his behalf every day. Perhaps he will do for himself at the next opportunity. Perhaps he will just wave it off, say, “No mas!”, and walk away. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
I never thought very highly about Obama. Not now, not back in 2007/2008. For those of us who never drank the Obama KoolAid it was incompressible to hear all those accolades and platitudes about his “alleged” oratorical skills and “superior” intellect. I have emails circa 2008 to prove what I am saying. I was called racist and idiot for not “seeing” how great Obama was. For sometime I even asked myself if there was something wrong with me that I couldn’t “get” what everybody was getting about this guy. Now the emperor has no cloths and I say to everybody: it took you guys 4/5 years to finally see what was obvious to anybody who exercised his/her brain, namely, that Obama is what he has always been: an empty suit.
Why can’t the opposing party just give credit where credit is due? Romney gave one of the best political debate performances I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t necessarily mean he’s right, and it doesn’t mean you MUST vote for him. It only means he performed better in the debate.
Many Democrats are refusing to give Romney any credit, suggesting that his statements were lies, and he caught Obama off guard by doing a 360 and redefining his platform. If this is the case, then Obama should easily be able to benefit from this by pointing out those lies. Perhaps Obama was too unprepared to do this during the debate? Fine. Then he can run campaign ads juxtaposing Romney’s alleged self-contradictions.
If it is true that Romney is merely “shaking the Etch-a-Sketch” every time he speaks to a new audience, then he is placing himself in great political peril, considering that all of his speeches are being videotaped.
So let’s see the contradictions!?
Obama is a liberal Democrat. Think Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern. Biden is a labor Democrat. Think JFK, Lyndon Johnson, and Bill Clinton. Biden will bake Ryan (who is a fruitloop, think Barry Goldwater) a cake.
This was a crude attempt at parody? Right? It depends what the word is, is?
However, Biden does have the uncanny ability to lie with such ease. Agree with you that he shares that commonality with JFK, Johnson, and our former serial philanderer and possible rapist for President.
OK, Republinazis. These are the latest predictions from Nate Silver of 538, who correctly predicted 50 states 4 years ago. Chances of winning the electoral college: Obama 78.4%, Robmey 21.6%. Read these numbers and weep.
how’d nate do in 2010?
Perhaps the first signal that Obama was in trouble was during, of all things, that Spanish-speaking Univision interview where Obama was actually grilled harder than the Washington press corps. If the mainstream media wasn’t embarrassed that they were made fools of by a foreign-speaking news network, I don’t know what would embarrass them. But Obama seemed shocked that people were actually asking him tough questions and expecting (go figure) actual answers. Evidently Romney didn’t get the memo to be nice to Obama and ask him puff questions. Hope Romney can keep it up for the next debate.
“Repubinazis?”
Gee, that’s smart. Bottom line–you’re incredibly rude for even starting like that. Then you try a little later to moderate your rudeness by saying: “bbbbbutt I was for Hillary…”
Nate Silver, if you look carefully at his site, you will find that he gives OH, FL, VA and CO to Obama right now. All four are trending Romney or already are in Romney’s column by recent polls. Romney wins all four and he wins the election. All are traditional Repub turf, having voted R in 5 of the last 7 presidential elections.
70 million people didn’t tune in to the debate to see Barack Obama. They tuned in to see if Romney was a reasonable alternative. Guess what? He is.
Maybe you can start on your Hillary for 2016 campaign now.
You Republinazis will feel like fools on Nov. 7.
But of course, dear; your commie party counts the vote when necessary.
IOW, Ron,
you’re gay and you’re indebted to liberals for letting you marry your partner.
See? When you talked about your Jewish husband, most folks here naively assumed you were a woman. (Even though even left-wing wives would never talk about sucking their husband’s penis on a blog like this. You hear that kind of talk only from gay men.)
I hope you’re not that Ron Savage character, because he’s certifiably insane.
Actually, my husband and I voted for Hillary in the California primary and we still think she would have made a better President – so much for your idea that I worship Obama. However, Obama at least has some morals which is more than anyone can say about Robmey.
Your husband? Oh, okay. The feminine side. I understand how you floated in here now. I only have one more question, Ron.
Is Romney part of the vast, right wing conspiracy?
Yes Robmey is. Fitting that you are from Texas, the anus of the universe.
Something tells me anus would be the one thing you’re definitely more qualified to exPOUND upon than me, sweetie. I cede your point.
Don’t get it? Ron is a HE. He is a man “married” to another man, so the idea that he would vote for anybody other than a pro gay marriage is impossible. He in fact is the poster example of liberal thought: my way or you are racist/bigot/homophone, etc. It’s a waste of time to argue with somebody without a brain, sorry.
Ron is a troll. A funny troll, but a troll.
You got your BA from the anus of the universe?
“voted for Hillary in the California primary”
A Democrat from California? Say no more, Ron…..we know all we need to know about you.
Now that takes real intelligence – to dismiss and categorize someone on the basis of their residence and political party – is your IQ a higher number than your age? I doubt it.
Gee Ron….what a snappy putdown. I’m devastated. To your point, weak as it is… it is actually quite fitting to categorize people based on their political affiliation and where they choose to live. Ever hear of Northeastern Liberal?
Anywho, thanks for playing the grownup game, you can go to bed now…I hear high school starts early out on the Left Coast.
Ron, this is what you wrote below, “How much are your houses worth, neo-Nazis?”. Typical troll. I hope reality punches you in the face.
But, you just did that to someone who was from Texas … do as I say but not as I do? You libs wouldn’t have any standards if you didn’t have double standards. Stay classy!
You need to check out HillBuzz …
http://hillbuzz.org/
You have two clear choices this election. If you are a government leech vote for the welfare president. If you are a hard working American who needs a job vote for the job creators.
Everything Obama claims about Romney’s past including his time at Bain Capital is a fairy tale designed to propagandize the public into thinking he’s something he’s not.
Obama has no record to run on in 2012, so once again he relies on racism, polarizing tactics and lies to keep the focus off of his record. Smart voters will not fall for his lies.
Dear Mr President. Please run on all the wonderful things you have done for our economy. Run on Obamacare. Run on the fact you are taking 700 billion dollars from medicare to fund Obamacare, Run on 15% unemployment. Run on the failed 800 billion dollar stimulus, Run on 47 million people on food stamps, Run on bankrupt government funded green companies, Run on a 5 trillion dollar debt. Run on the failure to close the borders. Run on the National Security leaks coming from your administration, Run on $4.00 a gallon gas.Run on Fast and Furious, Run on the dead ambassador in Libya.
Where are the snow jobs of yesteryear?
Melting away under the hot spotlight of a real man-to-man debate, with an impartial moderator who didn’t trump up tendentious questions in order to create gotcha’s.
Here, Obama, I’ll offer you this great comeback for your next debate: “Well, the jerk store called, and they’re running out of you!”
You’re welcome.
Check out insidepolling.com to see what current polling data would look like re-weighted to 2004, 2008 and 2010 actual exit polls of party identification along with some averages and democrat+% and republican+% models. We are not trying to predict a winner but rather running scenario analysis that allows the user to reach their own conclusions and review a model consistent with their world view.
Inside, try running the clock back to 1960 for fun. Plug the Kennedy-Nixon state voting results into todays electoral college map for a big surprise.
tom
You guys are crack ups. Probably not a millionaire amongst you. Yet you support a man who rails at the 47%. Don’t you KNOW who the 47% are? I know you think he was talking about welfare recipients. HE WASN’T. He was talking about anybody who does not WRITE A CHECK TO THE IRS on April 15th because of things like the home mortgage deduction,etc. Only 8% of the population receives welfare from the Federal Govt. Romney is mad because he has to pay taxes above and beyond and you guys either get a refund or break even. He wasn’t talking to steelworkers when they caught him on tape.
Why are libs so incredibly bad at math?
One in six are living in poverty. One in two are living at or near poverty. 47MM get food stamps. How many damn people do you think live in this country, freeloader?
Anyone who votes for Obama is certifiable. The man is pursuing policies that whether or not he realizes it, will destroy the country. I was manning the Republican booth at a festival yesterday, and a guy in his 20′s made the comment that anyone who supports Obama clearly can’t do math. Sadly it seems that a lot of the country is more interested in what they can wring out of the public purse via the Democrats than in whether or not the country survives. And THAT is what Romney was referring to in the video that the media made such a big deal out of. And we all know it. But for some reason, it’s supposedly wrong to say it. Well folks the Democrats are selling dependancy like the neighborhood drug dealer sells cocaine, and they both deserve to come to the same end.
Sadly, you are the type of person the rich has counted on to stay rich all throughout history. The rich unfairly exaggerate the American dream from being as it really is, which is “everyone HAS A CHANCE to become rich in this country” to the exaggeration “everyone WILL BECOME rich in this country if they just try.” They then COUNT on people like you, ww40, to vote against your own economic interests and vote for people like Romney who believe that the American worker should be abandoned and replaced by workers in South America and Asia who will work for so much cheaper.
ChyrenB, if the “rich” [what a scary word] have such control over us poor working people, do they accomplish this through the TV networks, or the NYT and Wash.Post? Or maybe through the college and university teachers?
Oh no, those are liberal bastions. How do these clever rich guys control our minds? I’ve got it, through ESP.
Oh, dont-cha-know (as Sarah Palin says) that when Romney says he plans to cut the tax rates for everyone and make it up by getting rid of credits and deductions that the figures WON’T BALANCE UNLESS you get rid of the home mortgage deduction?
Oddly, I don’t fear a Commie bastid like Barry nearly as much as I fear the constituency who voted his slimey arse into office.
Oh, the homophobia and racism you all exhibit is soooooo intelligent – LOL. So where do all you neo-Nazis come from? I’ll bet it really bothers you idiots that I live where the future is being created – in Silicon Valley. My house is 30 minutes or less from Apple, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, etc. In my neighborhood, houses start at $2 million. How much are your houses worth, neo-Nazis? Not only are we Democrats smarter and better educated than you neo-Nazis – the great unwashed, as you are – we are also richer. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it. I am retired now, but I am working 30 hours a week to re-elect our wonderful president, Mr. Barack Obama. I love it that he sticks in your craw. I am going to be so happy on Nov. 7, and you Neanderthals are going to be so sad. I have a bottle of nice champagne saved for the moment the election is called. You neo-Nazis will be eating crow instead.
▲lolz. Not biting▲
Is starting to get a little obvious, isn’t it? Not that I doubt he really can suck a grapefruit through a garden hose – still reads like an Obama rube to me.
I think Ron is the pasty-faced, red-headed stepchild troll that everyone ends up making a catchy meme out of.
4chan/WE ARE ANONYMOUS/giggles/troll-stomp-off
*tee hee*
Idiot lefty, does your mother know you’re down there in the basement typing with one hand and doing that to yourself?
Soooo predictible. From what you say, you are not very far from the Hoover Institution either, you know, that candle in the light in that that ocean of ideological obscurity that is Silicon Valley.
Here is some food for thought to you. In Santa Clara County, 2008, 44 % of its residents voted in favor of Prop 8 even though Obama got 70% of the vote. So, if you are going to tell that 25% of people who voted for Obama but who are against gay marriage that they should get away from Silicon Valley, the Bay Area will not go very far. Or, if you are going to tell that 44% who voted in favor of Prop 8 that they are not welcome in the Valley, good luck with that as well. My point is, people are more hypocritical with the issue of gay marriage than they are willing to admit.
The Valley could not function if you were to get rid of all conservatives who live here (yes, I do live here as well, and yes, I do live in a high income neighborhood and yes I am highly educated with credentials from Stanford). In fact Victor Davis Hanson is probably more educated and learned than you will eve be.
You leftists are a cancer for society. Thankfully, because you support the culture of death (abortion, marriage between adults who cannot reproduce, euthanasia, etc) you are headed for extinction as your European pals are. In 100 years there will not be many of you left :D.
Fernando – You sound like an illegal alien to me – I’m going to report you to the INS.
It’s not how you feel. It’s how you look! And you rook mahvelous, Fernando. Ignore the troll or just make fun of him…he ain’t worth the expended gray matter.
Don’t worry, I deal with morons like this everyday, Silicon Valley is full of them. One of the things one learns after attending, and graduating from, a place like Stanford (where I met people from every Ivy League/top school of your choice) is that having expert knowledge in an academic or technical area doesn’t make you more knowledgeable on areas outside that expertise. And it goes without saying that it doesn’t make you a better person either. William Buckley famously said “I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University”; boy he was right! I second that thought and I would replace “faculty of Harvard University” with “Silicon Valley technocrats”. Silicon Valley people are great at creating technology and wealth, but outside that they are no better than the average person. Take Steve Jobs for instance, he is on record supporting school vouchers and criticizing Obama’s economic policies. Yet the moron was a staunch Obama supporter. It’s one example, out of many, of ideology clouding critical thinking. Or take that 44 % of people in Santa Clara county who supported Prop 8, you don’t hear from them voicing their support publicly.
Bring it on!!! BTW, clueless leftists, the INS doesn’t exist anymore. Now it’s the USCIS, moron. I guess it must make you uncomfortable to know that almost half the people you meet in your every day life disapproves of your marriage, even though they tell you otherwise. You’ll die and your idiocy will die with you.
I don’t agree with you on your economic positions but MAKE SURE you vote against two initiatives on the Calif. Ballot. One, Prop. 34, will abolish the death penalty because they claim it will save money. I retired as an appellate prosecutor and had a perfect 6-0 record upholding death penalty verdicts in front of the Calif. Supreme Court. The second initiative, Prop. 36, will require the third “strike” to be a violent felony in order to put the guy away for good. Problem is that sometimes they catch violent predators committing non-violent offenses and if this initiative passes, they will not be put away forever but left on the street to commit that future violent felony, perhaps the murder of a child. Right now the judge and D.A. already have discretion when would be third strike is a now homeless guy stealing a pie from a restaurant. But the problem with both liberals and right wingers is that they trust rules and not people and sometimes you’ve got to trust people.
ChyrenB – Thanks for your bigoted advice – I will make sure my husband and I vote FOR 34 and 36 – you just got two votes against your position – I am very grateful to you, idiot. Thanks the gods that you are retired and can’t do any more damage. Please also die soon and thereby raise the average IQ.
Your mother is a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
You may have money Ron, but you are obviously empty inside. You spend your time bragging and slinging crude insults, do you somehow think you or your views will be taken seriously? Is this how a balanced, mature individual behaves? You are a child Ron. Thanks to you and your kind for consistently showing the world what Obama supporters are really like.
Oh, I am writhing in agony at your reply – LOL.
Ron’s song! His husband knows this to be da troof.
Barack Obama, la, la, la. The man who wasn’t there.
Perhaps this might explain braindead moonbat RON’s fascination with the USURPER. Birds of a feather and all that. Frank Marshall Davis was Bisexual as well as a Communist Pornographer so maybe the USURPER’s Commie grandfather had more skeletons in the cupboard apart from pimping out his daughter and putting a young Barry HUSSEIN Soetero Kardashian into his disgusting hands. Might also explain Barry’s many Homosexual dalliances in later life and the Homo Erotic poem he wrote to ‘Pops’ (was Pops Marshall or Grandad who knows – maybe both)
Tuhrd-in-chief, then, now and always! Completely worthless, incoherent and a racist bigot at core!!!
Okay, let’s all acknowledge that Romney did quite well and Obama quite poorly. Their performances probably will be closer next two times, with Romney ending up with somewhat better debate performances. But Obama remains ahead in the polls, and the bounces the two of them get from the debates probably will dissipate before election day.
Just as he is a weak debater, Obama is a weak candidate, yet he still is favored to win. How can that be? It isn’t enough to blame the media. It’s more sensible to blame Republican primary voters, who voted for a man who in any other year would be considered a weak candidate himself (and not much of a conservative to boot).
Presume the polls prove accurate and Obama wins. Will the GOP learn anything from defeat? Will it clean house, starting at the top of the party? Or will it keep thinking that it’s enough to offer up a man of few principles to defeat a man of bad principles (instead of putting forward a man of strong [and consistent] principles)?
Yes, Romney did well in the debate, but altogether too much emphasis is being placed on his performance and too little on his substance, the lack of which very well may permit the re-election of a man who should have been defeated easily.
Finally, someone on this site who says something intelligent. Thank you, Karl.
Aww. The troll just busted a Keebler troll nut. The rippin’ and a tearin’!
What credentials do you have that make you think you can say he is a man of few principles? Jerk.
The other loser in the debate was the media who supported Obama all through the 2008 campaign and during his incumbency. Some of the farthest left among them turned on the O like a bunch of jackals fighting over the last rib bone.
I think Mitt Romney showed admirable restraint. Remember when he brought up the subject of Spain’s economy? He said, in effect, we don’t want to end up like Spain. He COULD have zinged with “I’ve heard Spain is a nice place for a vacation, but … ”
I was yelling at my screen early in the debate for Mitt to look at the camera, instead of Obama. But I was wrong. Addressing the O directly was the best thing he could have done. I am convinced it helped put the O back on his heels, because I don’t think he is used to being addressed directly and in the challenging way that Romney did. Kudos.
Headline today, Biden taking 6 days off from campaigning to prepare for his debate with Ryan. That can only be good, to subtract that many days from those remaining. I can’t wait for Ryan to mop the floor with him.
Finally, there are really 3 participants in these debates. The two candidates and the media. We have to discount much of what the media says, even when we agree with what they’re saying. Let your own eyes, ears, and gut decide.
Delia dear, did you graduate from high school? Your sophomoric insults are not really that wonderful. Maybe you should go back to school – I think 7th grade would be about right for you. The more boldface a person uses, the smaller the brain.
Funny how the more moronic and adolescent and obnoxious and snarky internet trolls are, if you get them talking about politics, they’re almost always far Left Liberal Democrats.
And the more emotionally immature and feeble-brained they are, the further to the Left and more filled with hate they are.
Just sayin’….
Dear? Really? Followed by lackluster Internetz bluster. Btw, dumbass, ALL links are ‘bold’ by default. This is me being purposely bold—> LOL!
Damn. You must be really lonely, old man. Is your husband neglecting you again? *wee tear 4U*
1 L4U6H 47 y0U, |20n.
How could any woman vote Republican? Do you really want the government to control your body? If you were a victim of rape or incest, would you really want the government to force you to carry the fetus to term? How could any woman support the Republicans and still claim to be a proponent of individual rights and liberties? Have you no shame?
One doesn’t need a high school diploma to know that the INS doesn’t exist anymore, idiot. Tell me, how does it feel to know that 44% of the people you meet everyday disapproves of your “marriage” (in between quotes because no matter what the law says, your think is really crap), even though the hypocrites tell you otherwise. You’ll die (maybe of AIDS), and your idiocy will go with you.
Most (as in pretty much ALL) abortions aren’t performed because of ‘rape’.
Look up Margaret Sanger if you want to know why abortion became so mainstream.
Good point Delia. That’s another example of liberal tactics that defy intelligence. They always take one example and exaggerate it out of proportion to ram through their propaganda. Another example is the idiocy known as DREAM Act. I am a naturalized American citizen. I came to the US legally and waited in the line patiently for 9 years before I earned my right to call you guys my fellow Americans. Along the way I met many highly qualified immigrants of Chinese and Indian origin that had to wait many years (even 10 in some cases) just to have a greencard (add 5 more to gain access to US citizenship). These are hard working, high income, tax paying people. You’d think that if liberals were truly worried about having the best and brightest immigrants stay in the US they would make a priority getting these guys an easy path to immigrant (aka green card) status. There are many proposals on the table, none of which has gone anywhere. Instead, you see them promoting the DREAM Act, whose average beneficiary is going to be some illegal Mexican who’s more likely to end up in welfare than to graduate from even a state school. They’ll cherry pick that Mexican who went to Yale, who very likely got admitted through affirmative action, to try everybody make believe that these illegal Mexicans are going to create the next Google or be working hard at research labs. Last time that I took a trip to a Stanford lab, I saw many immigrants of the Indian/Chinese variety, zero Mexicans. You can even do the test yourself. Try to go to a public library over the weekends and count how many Mexicans you see studying hard. You won’t see many. Still, liberals don’t let the truth get in they way of their ideology and will call you all kind of names when you debunk their lies.
Fernando – I am so glad we have wonderful (and gorgeous) Latinos like Julian and Joaquin Castro to counteract Nazis like you – please go back to whatever hellhole you came from – we have enough native-born Nazis – we don’t need you. BTW, my mother’s family has been in America since 1660 and my husband is a Mayflower descendant (1620) – go back, wetback.
Julian Castro is the poster example of Mexican losers I am talking about. The guy got into Stanford through affirmative action (he is on record saying that). So if anything, we don’t need any more sucker Castros but a lot more productive immigrants like me, or the aforementioned Chinese and Indian, who work in high tech. Castro majored in one of those softies majors in which you get A’s just by showing up in class. Intellectually, he is a nobody.
Thanks God, in America it doesn’t matter where you came from, it only matters where you are going. When the best you can say to defend your American citizenship is that you have Mayflower pedigree is that you don’t deserve your American citizenship. Period. Unlike you, I had to work very hard to get my American citizenship. You moron, got it by chance and instead of being grateful to this country, you are working hard to help another moron who wants to destroy America continue to live in the white house. Pathetic. If it were up to me, leeches like you would be deported to make room for productive and hardworking people.
Moron, please repeat to yourself 100 times: the INS doesn’t exist anymore, now it’s called USCIS.
Shut up, Ron.
Whenever I think about braindead Left Wing moonbat Liberals the name RON immediately springs to mind. Wonder why that is.
Because I find it insulting that every Democrat assumes that I, as a woman, am just a walking vagina and uterus and have only one issue that I vote on every election that pertains only to those two bits of my anatomy. Obviously, whether or not the taxpayers pay for my birthcontrol every month does me no good if I am out of work and living in a carboard box under an overpass because of I cannot make ends meet due to the other policies of the Democrat party. Somehow, I’d rather have a prospering economy, a job because of that so I can pay for food, clothing, shelter and my other bills. Maybe next election I’ll have the leisure to start worrying about who is or is not trying to “subjugate” my lady parts.
I hope you are raped have and are forced by the government to carry your rapist’s child to term.
What a nasty turd you are!
Fernando – I’m still going to report you to the INS – you are not smart enough to be an American citizen.
Delia – How pathetic you are. You should have a sex-change operation because you are a truly deplorable woman who wants the government to own her body. I would feel sorry for you, but you are beyond contempt.
*yawn…streeeeeeetch* You have grown tiresome. G’night, ‘dear’ trolly McTrollerson.
Fernando, you made heart-felt and succinct points. THANK YOU and I’m glad you are a part of America.
God bless the USA.
XOXO to all,
Delia out for the night…
Delia – what a pathetic excuse for a woman you are.
At least she is a woman, not a fake feminine like you! Ron, be careful, a bunch of us are going to create a lobby to ask that unproductive scum like yourself is stripped of their citizenship and deported to Australia, where you can have sex with as many effeminate morons you want to whom you can spread your HIV/Syphilis/Gonorrhea. Is it hard to keep up with your AZT?
Thanks Delia,
I think that we should all lobby to have unproductive, hating natural born Americans, like this moron, stripped from their citizenship and deported to Australia, as the British use to do with their scum.
What a lot of us saw last Wednesday could arguably go down in history as the best acting performance ever accomplished. Welcome to Hollywood, Mitt Romney! You definitely made the cut. I believe an Oscar is deserving from this performance. Oh wait a minute, just wait a minute, Mitt Romney is not auditioning for a movie role, he’s auditioning to be the President of the United States. What was I thinking? How could I possibly get the two different scenerios all mixed up?
I think the president was also shocked at what he was seeing right before him that night, just utterly shocked. He must have thought to himself, “Are we competing for a movie role? I thought we were debating for the highest office of the land? Why did nobody clue me in on this? Am I suppose to outdo him on acting now?”
Thanks, Rob – a breath of fresh air in this stagnant swamp.
Then get the hell out of this “stagnant swamp,” Ron.
You’re making it smell 10 times worse.
Obama is a Black Racist
Obama is HIDING all documents on his schooling and College entrance qualifications, results and writings and his Law, Community Organizing, and Senate career
Obama is HIDING all his Passport information
Obama is a Muslim
Obama is Anti Semitic
Obama hates Israel
Obama is Anti Capitalist
Obama is a Socialist/Communist
Obama is not a Natural Born Citizen
Obama is a proven Bar Faced Liar
Obama’s real father is the subject of much fully deserved suspicion and debate
Obama is a USURPER
What more do you need to know about this Unqualified, Incompetent, Lazy, Inefficient man.
A++++++
Pragmatist – Please resume taking your medications or the men in the white coats will come get you and take you back to the asylum – wait, please don’t take your medications – you really need to be locked up before you harm others or yourself (which I don’t really care about – feel free to off yourself and thereby raise the average IQ).
Just because you have to take your antiretroviral drugs to keep your HIV viruses under control, it doesn’t mean we all have to take drugs. Do you now that antiretroviral drugs cause brain/neurological damage? Have you checked with your psychiatrist if you need to supplement your AZT with an antipsychotic?
Dear stupid Fernando, I am sorry, but I am, and have always been, HIV negative. Sorry if that disappoints you. However, please feel free to contract a fatal disease yourself, since you wish one on me.
You know, and I can bring the actual citation if you want, that amongst all high risk individuals, gay males are those more likely to live in denial about their own HIV status? Given how in denial you live with respect to the Valley (like ignoring those 44% who disapprove of your marriage) or current events (it’s been a while since the INS ceased to exist), maybe you are just delusional, lying to yourself everyday about your true HIV status.
Fernando, so sorry to disappoint a Nazi like you, but I am 67 years old and in a monogamous relationship – I am not likely to contract HIV, and my tests have always been negative – why does this concern you? Do you want to have sex with me? I would not be willing unless you are very cute and very hung, but you almost certainly are neither.
Do you know that because gay males cannot reproduce they are more likely to cheat on their sexual partners than male heterosexuals. This might come to a surprise to you, ie that gay males cannot reproduce, but that’s a reality. So I wouldn’t be so sure that your “husband” is not cheating on you. Actually, I am pretty sure he is :DDD.
Also several studies attest that gay males are more likely to suffer from mental illness than the general population, so you might be in need of seeing a psychiatrist regardless. It is very obvious from your interventions here that your brain doesn’t function correctly.
Pragmatist, as I have replied to you in posts from other threads, you never ceases to amaze me that you are a far right wingnut basket case. You need professional help and you clearly need it fast. When was the last time that you took your meds? It’s way too far overdue that you also have not seen a psychiatrist. I hope things will turn out well for you once the treatment is put in place. Best of luck to you.
To be attacked by such rabid left wing homosexuals as Rob and Ron with such vitriol and ‘scratch your eyes out’ feminine illogical bitchiness is in fact a badge of honour for me. A UK Politician once made a great put down to similar bitchy attack when he said “Being attacked by you is like being savaged by a Dead Sheep’.
Rob and Ron are PJM’s Dead Sheep.
What everyone should note is that RON and his very very close little bum boy buddy ROB have not offered even one word nor one piece of evidence to counter all the claims made against ODUMBO on here. Instead they resort to the typical Left wing moonbat scumbag Alinsky tactics of attack the messenger.
Sorry to burst that tiny bubble inside the peanut-sized brain of a deranged far right wingnut basket case such as yourself but I am neither a homosexual, a boy, nor do I know Ron personally. I am also not a bigot towards gays, lesbians, blacks, hispanics, asians, native Americans, and the disabled. What I have a major problem with is bigotry towards all of the things that I have just mentioned. This bigotry seems to come from a group of deranged psychopaths known as the Tea Party. A group that found it’s way to the highest levels of our government.
I was once a Republican but watching my own base completely accept these deranged psychopaths into the party destroyed any feelings that I have left towards this party. I remembered the great times during the Reagan era when compassionate conservatism earned this party not only the great respect of this country but also the great respect of the entire world. Now, the Republican Party is nothing but a complete cesspool. So many of my friends are also sharing my views and witnessing all of the same things that I am seeing and are moving towards the left.
What totally disgusts some of us is the notion that America has completely lost our freedom under this president and that he’s out to completely destroy this country. As a white man, I can honestly say that I have not lost any of my freedoms. The only freedom that I believe these deranged psychopaths think that they have lost is the freedom to live under a white president.
Pipe down, Ron.
I’m wondering if Barack Obama is going to actually make much change to his debate performance or prep. The first thing he started doing after getting thumped was spread the story that he didn’t actually debate the “real” Mitt Romney. In other words, he started creating a literal strawman. One wonders if he’ll tell the lie often enough to believe it himself. After all, he’s so brilliant that he couldn’t really have gotten beaten that easily … right?
If he lets himself buy the big lie he’s busy telling everyone else, he might get caught just as badly the second time around.
Delia is 100% correct:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8977zALdnkc
Abortion is genocide.
It is a real pity they did not abort an idiot like you – how about a retroactive abortion? Please off yourself and thereby raise the average IQ.
As I said, you should come to terms with your HIV diagnosis and start your treatment ASAP. The brain damage HIV is causing to your brain is evident for everybody to see. BTW, I am not joking, we are going to lobby to have you and your gay husband deported to Australia. There they just defeated a gay marriage bill, but I am sure they don’t care to admit two more morons to their territory (they have been doing that for sometime). We need to get rid of scum like you (and the Castros BTW) urgently!
Ron,
Please read the article “Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy on HIV-Related Brain Injury” by Richard Price. Your HIV meds might be the reason you are sounding so confused here.
I am sorry to disappoint you Fernando Hitler, but I am HIV negative and have never taken anti-HIV drugs – how about you? I’ll bet you are a closet homosexual – so sorry for your pain and self-hatred. You seem to know an awful lot about HIV – are you positive? If so, please die soon.
Not that it comes as a surprise, namely, that sooner or later every gay nut who is unable to articulate rational arguments will accuse the opponent of being a closeted. Boy, with that logic, every person who disapproves of murder is a closeted serial killer who harbors ambitions to become the next Zodiac killer. Nonsense.
Regarding how much I know about HIV/gays, I know a lot about many things. I told you, I am not like one of those loser Castros, I am a highly intellectual and highly intelligent individual with a wealth of interests.
You are 67, so you are pretty much done in terms of contributing to society (in case you ever did save the taxes you paid). You should do your country a favor and self deport yourself to Australia and leave us alone!!!
Personally? I think Ron has syphilis. The truth immunity is strong with this one. He probably believes the earth revolves around his tiny testicles. So sad when that happens.
Oh Carrie – what a frightening name – so sorry to disappoint you but I am and have always been STD-free. How about you, are you a Republinazi kept woman with multiple diseases?
I feel so sorry for you Fernando – there is nothing like the self-hatred of a closeted homosexual – you really need to get help soon – I can send you my picture if you want to get off to it – I am actually pretty cute for my age and my husband of 46 years is very handsome. A threesome?
I am as closeted homosexual as you are a closeted social conservative opposed to gay marriage, all things gay and abortion. You get the idea. Your idiotic nonsense, is just that, nonsense. Now that you said that your “husband” is 45 years old, it’s even more sure that he is cheating on you old man. Here is my prediction to you. Either you or him will die of AIDS or AIDS related complications. The statistics are stacked against you, especially in the Bay Area.
It is obvious that you are homosexual Fernando – I feel sorry for you. My husband – we are legally married – is 69 years old and is totally committed to me, and I to him. I am sorry that you cannot know such love. When are you going to admit to yourself that you crave dick?
Apparently Fernando your English isn’t so good – like other wetbacks – I did not say that my husband is 46, I said that we have been together for 46 years – I’ll bet you are jealous of our love and commitment to each other. I feel sorry for your lonely, closeted life. You need help – I know you really need a penis in your mouth or up your butt – why don’t you admit it to yourself?
My English is probably better than yours :D. Everybody makes mistakes.
Look, this obsession that you gay nuts have to identify everybody that criticizes you as “closeted” homosexual is just that, an obsession and a very stupid tactic. I am an unapologetic heterosexual and that’s probably what disturbs scum like you, that we have self confidence. Gays suffer from mental illness disproportionately (until very recently homosexuality itself was considered a mental illness). You are a prime example of that :D. Your accusation just shows that you gay nuts are all equally brainwashed and stupid because you all resort to the same idiotic tactics when your nonsense is debunked.
I stand by my prediction, either you or your anus filler will die of AIDS or AIDS complications. And the day that happens will be a good day for America. The statistics are on my side :D.
Why is PJ Media allowing the filth that is spewing from Ron to be posted? I’m surprised that his comments haven’t been taken down. Disgusting stuff.
Meh. Give him enough freedom-of-speech-rope to hang himself with. His sheer nastiness and idiocy are a prime representation of the scum that the Leftists truly are. I bet mister “I’m not a bigot” Ronny boi made fun of Sarah Palin’s down syndrome child.
I agree with Delia, the stupidity and nonsense he spews is the best evidence that American liberalism is a brain disease. As in any fair proceedings, relevant evidence should not be suppressed :D.
I have a different take on why Obama performed so poorly in the debate. His behavior was sulking and petulant, like teen-ager who’s been told he can’t go to Florida on the spring break, or the high school quarterback who has been told to lay off the grandstanding and improve his ground game.. The Axelrod team is well aware of the dangers his self-adoration creates and, almost certainly, instructed him to back off the campaign style that he loves and prides himself on, and give a more measured and Presidential tone. He believes they are wrong; that his spell-bing gospel style is what has made him the great leader he is. When the whole team of handlers insisted, he just went into a pout “Okay. They want me to be wimpy – I’ll give them wimpy. I’ll show them!”
So he showed them! The odds are that, the next time out, they’ll just let him do it Sinatra style and he’ll revert to spell-binding, and really blow it.
I think our pest is a fifth grader. Good at cutting and pasting words common among the almost educated (like those from Yale and Harvard), but not much more than that in developing cogent arguments.
So far so good in NC:
NORTH CAROLINA Absentee ballot requests as of Saturday
Party……………Ballot Requests
Dem…………….34,335 (26.9%)
Rep……………..66,356 (52.0%)
Unaf/other…….26,898 (21.1%)
Total…………..127,589
NORTH CAROLINA Absentee ballot returns as of Saturday
Party……………Ballot Returns
Dem………………8,125 (23.7% of requested absentee ballots)
Rep……………..15,603 (23.5% of requested absentee ballots)
Unaf/other………5,308 (19.9% of requested absentee ballots)
Total…………….29,087 (22.8% of requested absentee ballots)
Like I said before if Reps get their behinds out of the couch and go to VOTE, Romney should be fine on the election day.
Are the American voting public moronic enough to re-elect the USURPER for a second term. Well in the case of Pinky and Perky ooops! I mean Rob and Ron yes they are. But think about all it the information we know about the USURPER was readily available BEFORE he was first elected. So why should 2012 be any different.
To all those wondering how the Obamination still rates 40-47% support. Sit down and just think about it a little. There are 13% of the population who voted for him because he looked the same as them I refer of course to BLACKS of whom 96% RACISTLY voted for him and that same 96% support him still and will continue to do so no matter what just because he has the same colour skin as them even though he has absolutely nothing whatsoever in common with the average African-American except perhaps racist Affirmative Action. Its what RACISTS do. Then there are the 20-30% of Americans who are dyed in the wool brainwashed left wing Islamophile PC, MC moonbats. Who also are incapable of change or logic or common sense. Add to that the 10% who are congenitally stupid and who will vote whichever way the Lame Stream EneMedia or their favourite CELEBRITY tells them.
So you see the Obamination is SURE of between 43-53% Left wing moonbat, moronic and RACIST support no matter what he does . He and the corrupt DEMS are going ‘hell for leather’ for the nailed on moonbat voters ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT AMNESTY will bring them as INSURANCE too. You have been warned.
I’m aghast, befuddled, bemused and overtly betwixt at the sham of the scam of the travesty that this Dr. Hanson written article represents to any fair minded American.
Clearly, Dr. Hanson is trying to pile on the poor President.
Sir, the President has one bad night and you seem to be ready to relegate him to the trash heap of debate history.
Isn’t that a smidgen unfair?
I mean, it’s like my mom used to say, “you eat one human finger and, for the rest of your life, you’re labeled a cannibal.
Or to put it another way.
It’s like, for example, a man who has one isolated case of erectile dysfunction.
It’s like, say a wife isn’t near as understanding as Michelle Obama. If people (like the mainstream press and Obama’s staff) insist on making a ton of excuses for one bad performance; make a big thing about it; then Obama’s going to undoubtedly manifest performance anxiety the next time a big debate pops up.
A husband with an outlier case of PA (performance anxiety) simply needs a wife like Michelle to prop him up; tell him what an upstanding man she married, and that being limp as a wet noodle will not cause her to have erotic thoughts about running her fingers through Mitt Romney’s wonderful head of hair. Not to mention his way with words.
One bad debate performance does not a lost election make, Dr. Hanson.
Surely, a President as learned, intelligent and visionary as Barack Obama is no buffoon. Could not the lackluster performance have been caused by, say a bit of bad beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese or a fragment of underdone potato?
All of this reminds me of the newswoman who, on air, about 10 months ago, started speaking gibberish. Everybody was assuming the poor, pretty blond woman had suffered a stroke. It was a grand stroke of media stupidity.
While the mainstream media was telling the world the lady had a stroke, I correctly and instantly diagnosed her problem: a migraine headache. Matter of fact, three weeks later the media and medical professionals gathered their senses and figured it out.
They finally realized she suffered a classic migraine. For any leftists unwashed in here, migraine headache symptoms include numbness, inability to tell time, inability to see, pain on one side of the head, mental confusion and inability to speak. Furthermore, migraines usually last about 2 hours, the approximate length of Obama’s election losing debate performance. But I’m not ready to blame bad Mr. Migraine for Obama’s mindless, potentially election losing performance.
I call it election losing for this simple reason. Obama’s handlers are inadvertently turning B. Hussein into one quivering bowl of debate performance anxiety flavored jello.
The writing’s on the teleprompter. Next time Michelle picks him up from his Lazy Boy after the girls are in bed, and carries him into the bedroom for some cuddling and more, Obama’s going to freeze up like a Compaq Computer. Or to put it another way, he’s going to have a meltdown. Need I go into detail? I think not. Like Michelle, it’s not pretty.
A pretty pickle Obama’s gotten himself in. (I still sometimes hear Oliver talking to me when I write). Back to the problem.
A town hall venue won’t save Obama. The dye is cast. Performance anxiety is now part and parcel of Obama; as if a hacker unleashed a Conficker worm into his little boy belly.
Barack Obama’s handlers are turning Obama into nervous Nelly; they obviously aren’t the most learned men; they’re mostly good at making up political lies to deflect blame from the President. They’re good at cooking everything from job numbers to political polls. But they probably don’t know the Conficker worm from Adam. Which crawls behind the backbone and leaves a long yellow streak.
If it weren’t so critical, it would almost be laughable.
In one week the anointed one has become tallest tree in a forest of nervousness, fear, self loathing and impotence.
Until the master debater was given the whipping of his debate life, Obama could fool half of America into voting for him. Now three fourths of America simply think he’s the fool who piled lie after lie on an unsuspecting trust public. No, Obama, we no longer believe a tiny youtube video caused the Middle East to explode. The blame goes right to Mr. Big Ears himself. Of course, the ensuing coverup is one of the most disgraceful in history.
At a point in time, Obama believed America would swallow even his biggest lie; even a lie about such a critical world event as the massacres in the Middle East.
But the layers of the Obama onion have been peeled back, only to reveal a pathological liar, a fake, a braggart, a domestic terrorist in almost every sense of the word. I believe that this irritating Marxist mole hates almost every American value in almost every way.
Some idiot called me delusional for saying Obama was going to lose by 150 electoral votes. I think that’s a conservative estimate. I’m talking landslide. The silent majority will speak volumes.
Whereupon Obama’s handlers will come out again with scads of limp excuses. And they’ll be pardons doled out by the cell block full. In truth, Barack Obama is a limp excuse for a President. The limpest one we ever had.
What a round about way to come to my own reality; that I agree with every word Dr. Hanson in his supremely eloquent way wrote.
Until the master debater was given the whipping of his debate life, Obama could fool half of America into voting for him.
I don’t think it was Obama per se but a group including the media who pulled the biggest scam on the world, let alone America.
When even Dershowitz is for Obama then one can only assume that that the US is riven with pseudo intelligence.
” I, for one, have experienced no such remorse. I have gotten from President Obama pretty much what I expected when I voted for him: a pragmatic, centrist liberal who has managed–with some necessary compromises
Can one believe that this is from a thinking person given all that has occured?
is the consummate deluded jew who has ultimately come to despise his own people.
even so, he has crossed swords with the j street jews, to his credit, but he is just as bad as they are in his own way.
he will vote for obama, just as all j street jews will, and obama despises jews just as much as them and then some.
if obama wins, not only will israel be in grave danger, but jews all over the world.
We should not ignore Left Wing, Islamophile, moonbat Academia’s role in churning out hundreds of thousands of brainwashed students and graduates like Odumbo and Jarrett , Rob and Ron, Pinky and Perky etc for decades now. Left unchecked this will self perpetuate Left Wing moonbattery in the General Populace for generations. Academia needs to be purged of these ‘Fifth Column” Communist propagandists to protect our youth and out future.
Colorado is not far from the border. And Obama is banking on the Hispanics. Yet, in Vaquero country, there is a saying, in a stand-off, mano e mano,it’s a sign of weakness if one avoids eye-contact.
At the debate in Denver, it could be said of Obama
Cuanda llega el hombre a hombre, Obama bajo los ojos como una mujer
I watched the DEBATE the other night between President Romney and ex-president obama, and the outcome was clear. I am no longer so worried about this election and the fate of America. I think we are in good hands with President Romney……phew!
That said, we still have to get out everyone we know and make sure they vote for President Romney!….We simply cannot leave ANYTHING to chance…..no STONE can be UNTURNED…. no VOTER can be LEFT UNCHALLENGED as to what is at stake…. no NON-VOTER who can be persuaded to vote for President Romney CAN BE LEFT to his own APATHY!
With that CRUCIAL NOTE said, it has been simply JAW DROPPING to witness the overwhelming forces in the media which have been arrayed against President Romney these past many, many months. The propaganda effort to continue the reign of what can only fairly be called, this imposter of a former president obama, has been, simply jaw dropping to someone who was raised as an American, and who grew up expecting there to be a free, truth seeking press!
As just one example, we have seen with our own eyes the pretzel like twisting of the Libyan disaster story by the former obama administration into something entirely different from what the real story is. Further, and worse, we have witnessed the apt named, ‘lap dog” media, join in with the former administration’s propaganda effort to turn this story of disaster and tragic, unnecessary deaths of remarkable, superlative Americans into a pretend scenario which has been preposterous from the day we first learned of this totally avoidable tragedy of incompetence by the former obama administration.
Under ordinary conditions where a free press operated, this story of disaster in Libya would have been enough to topple the former obama administration. But, we no longer have the traditional free press we used to have in America. Gone are the days when a free press scrambled over anything in it’s path to get to the truth. Now, we have Pravda…..the only news that is fit to print is the manufactured news the leftist administration wants to see printed.
The DEBATE last night was so one sided, such a command performance of President Romney, that the former president obama was finally… FINALLY ….. shown for what it is only fair and accurate to describe him as…. the imposter.
Ironically, surely the lap dog, leftist media was a significant contributor to the former president obama’s demise, as for the past near four years, they have shielded this man from the arrows of any incoming criticisms what-so-ever. And, former president obama, never had to meet, head on, any challenge, any criticism, whether it be from a foreign leader, or from domestic critics. He never had to endure their challenges head on, he only had to ignore their disdain from behind his back (We can only imagine how former president obama has been chuckled over behind the walls of the Kremlin).
Effectively, last night the WHOLE American people saw what some have known since 2008….that the petulant, self-absorbed, churlish Emperor has no clothes !….. And, now, all the kings horses, and all the kings men (and all the kings panderers and courtiers in the leftist media) will never be able to put Humpty Dumpty together again!
The false narrative building up former president obama into something he is not, something he never was, is over. And, better, the false narrative depicting President Romney as something he is not, he never was, is also over, never to be able to be revived.
The media and the propagandists (same thing, really) in the former obama administration worked 24/7 for 365 days to cloak President Romney in a false narrative, to hide from the American public just what a stellar man President Romney truly is. And, the ONE thing you CAN give credit to the former obama administration for is this…. they are relentless and ruthless propagandists. But, they are only EFFECTIVE propagandists when they TOTALLY MONOPOLIZE the information getting out to the bulk of the American public.
Last night, that monopoly over information, that monopoly of propaganda controlled by the former obama administration and their twin, the main stream media, was BROKEN…… Going forward, the joint monopoly the media and the former obama administration has wielded against President Romney is no longer operational…..the false narrative they have dished out to gullible Americans has been swept away, and most Americans will now be openly receptive to hear who President Romney really is…..the stellar leader America so desperately needs at this time of one of the greatest crisis America has ever faced.
And, at the same time, the citizens have seen former president obama for who he truly is, the emperor who has been shielded by everyone around him for the past four years, the emperor whose total failure on virtually all fronts has been hidden, whose failures have been shoved under the rug, away from the light of the truth.
Last night, solely through what only can be described as his heroic efforts, President Romney SMASHED the monopoly over information which the propagandists in the former obama administration and their slavering allies in the leftist, main stream media held in a death grip.
We may not be singing “Ding dong the witch is dead”…yet…. but it is coming….it is coming.
What total failures has this president commit? Please elaborate clearly in details, Dan?
Has he ended the misguided Iraq War? Check.
Has he captured or killed Osama Bin Laden? Check.
Has he saved the auto industry? Check.
Has the auto industry made the largest profits in over a decade? Check.
Has he added jobs for the last 30+ consecutive months? Check.
Has Wall Street rebounded and is thriving? Check.
Has the Dow Jones doubled since 2008? Check.
Has the Nasdaq doubled since 2008? Check.
Has the national unemployment rate gone below 8%? Check.
Has bank lending stopped freezing since 2008? Check.
Has banks stopped closing across the country since 2008? Check.
Has women started getting equal pay for equal work? Check.
What I believe that most of the far right thinks is his biggest failure is the failure to be a white president.
Responding in any detail to you mindless lefties gets very boring, very quickly, so I will just deal with one of your points and I will do so by asking you some questions in turn. Chances are negative that it will cause you to reconsider anything, but I have a few minutes to kill this morning so here goes…
“Has he ended the misguided war in Iraq? Check.”
By abandoning Iraq, Obama has in fact created a “Shi’ite Crescent”, as King Abdullah of Jordan has called it. To be fair, my sense is that unless a very large U.S. Presence remained for years, this is the direction Iraq was bound to move in anyways. I supported removing Saddaam Hussein, but the notion of building a stable democracy right next door to fanatic Iran always seemed dubious to me, unless we were prepared for long term occupation and ultimately, taking out the Iranian regime.
Iraq is now essentially a power vacuum that is being filled by Iran. So tell me, do you think the world is better off with Iran essentially in control of Iraq and its oil resources? What kind of threats to your way of life do you think this could represent? What would you propose for addressing the problem?
Iraq is a power vacuum because we invaded a country that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. The simplest clue that the Bush Administration missed out on was the fact that Saddam Hussein was a Sunni Muslim and Osama Bin Laden was a Shiite Muslim. Even though they share the same religion, there are variations of the Koran that they have completely different views on. This contrast in the beliefs of the same religion has caused decades upon decades of wars between them before they even turned their attention on America.
Now, as far as Iran is concerned, while Saddam Hussein was alive, he kept Iran at bay by imposing his power within that region. Iran did not dare to even speak of nuclear energy when Saddam was still alive because they had so much casualties fighting against Saddam’s army during the Iran-Iraq War that lasted between September 1980 to August 1988. The total casualties that Iran lost was in upwards to 720,000 soldiers and militia, twice the casualties of Iraq. By the Bush Administration taking Saddam Hussein out of the equation, who had absolutely no connection to 9/11, it left a complete power vaccuum for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to fill.
Good grief Rob, Osama was a Wahabbist, a particularly nasty branch of Sunnism. And the main contention between the Sunni and Shi’a is not interpretations of the Koran but rather the proper succession to the Prophet after his death. Your credibility just fell to zero on these matters.
As I said in my first response, the power vacuum in Iraq IS a problem, but much like Obama at the debate, you failed to address my question: what should we do about it?
Good grief is right, Gylippus!
My goodness. As you say, Osama bin Laden was a Saudi Arabian and a Sunni – a Wahabbi Sunni. Iranians are Shiites. There are not two different versions of the Koran. Sunnis and Shiites disagree on the succession from Mohamed, one follows Mohamed’s father in law and the other that man’s son, Ali.
Profound ignorance.
About what Iraq had to do with 9/11 the answer is nothing directly. The problem is that Saddam had 16 UNSC Chapter 7 resolutions passed against him (all authorizing the use of force, which is what Ch 7 resolutions are) for abusing his requirements under the NPT to allow the IAEA inspectors into Iraq
Wow, I am totally impressed. You two actually caught my purposeful error. Did you know why I purposely did that? I did it for the same reasons that we went into Iraq because only a small group of people in the country could have caught that purposeful error. We were completely duped by the Bush Administration to go into that war but hardly anybody in the country caught that. Did my demonstration prove a point that all you have to do is change one minor fact and keep pushing it to the public and you can dupe an entire country? If you can fool the majority by just changing one minor fact or narrative, the handful of the few that catches it can no longer shift or change the momentum of your course.
To this day, did we gather one single evidence of WMDs? Did we find one shred of evidence to link Saddam Hussein to Osama Bin Laden? Were we completely duped by the Bush Administration just by changing a few minor facts? Were the small group of people in this country that caught it able to shift or stop that momentum from taking course? The Iraq War was inevitable because George “Dupe-ya” Bush got one over all of us.
Case in point -
Why do you think a percentage of Americans think that Obama is a Muslim?
Why do you think a percentage of Americans think that Obama is not born here?
Why do you think a percentage of Americans think that Obama is out to destroy this country?
Why do you think a percentage of Americans think that Obama has taken away all of our freedoms?
Why do you think a percentage of Americans think that Obama is anti America?
Like I said, if you can fool the majority by just changing one minor fact or narrative and keep pushing it to the public, the handful of the few that catches it can no longer shift or change the momentum of your course or agenda.
Forget it Rob. You are brain dead and always will be.
So Gylippus, which candidate do you think, this late in the game, is changing that one minor fact or narrative and is pushing it to the public? Which candidate is changing his platform completely and is pushing it to the public?
Like I said, if you can fool the majority by just changing one minor fact or narrative and keep pushing it to the public, the handful of the few that catches it can no longer shift or change the momentum of your course or agenda.
Wait and see
Gylippus, my last and final point is, one candidate HAS completely changed the facts and changed his narrative and is pushing it to the people, this late in the game. If America is that unintelligent and we fall for it, we will repeat 2003 all over again when we were fooled to go into Iraq.
Would you like to know my last and final prediction? I want to be the first to make this prediction for all of America to see. My last prediction is that, if America falls for this NEW narrative that was completely reinvented recently at last Wednesday’s debate, this is what America will look like within this decade -
1) We will add $5 trillion in tax cuts plus $2 trillion in military spending, that the Pentagon said we do not need, without a comprehensive plan that the majority agrees with to pay for this. The end result is that the national deficit will surpass $20 trillion, the middle class will foot the bill, or inflation will just skyrocket.
2) We will invade Syria and Iran and start 2 wars all over again. This will be like deja vu for the American public all over again. These 2 wars will last much longer than the previous Afghanistan and Iraq War solely because Iran is China and Russia’s closest ally so Iran will most likely be getting indirect military support from China and Russia. It will be our second Vietnam all over again.
So for all the readers that catches this post, PLEASE MARK MY WORDS!!!!!
Thanks for parroting today’s idiotic talking points Rob. Now run along, mommy’s calling.
So Gylippus, I guess we all can believe that cutting Big Bird from children will pay for a $5 trillion tax cut? Wow, I did not know that Big Bird makes this huge an amount of salary. Big Bird is completely putting Donald Trump to shame. Move over Donald, here comes the $5 trillion Big Bird!!!!!
Other than Bin Laden was killed under Obama’s travesty of a term, virtually everything you reported there was a serious of half truths, distortions, outrageous exaggerations, or outright lies.
That was a fine line of bullet points. A shame 90% of them were 100% pure baloney.
Oh Tex, I take it that you haven’t seen the numbers on Wall Street lately or ever. I’m sure numbers make a guy such as yourself very dizzy. But however you want to twist or spin reality, as ex President Clinton always said, “The numbers just don’t lie.”
Fact checking seems to elude individuals such as yourself and I have always found that fascinating and also mind boggling at the same time.
Well, if we’re going to use the numbers on Wall Street, then using your rules, the greatest President of them all was George Bush II, three years into his second term.
The all time high on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) as of April 7th, 2008.
But I’m sure a lib like you understands “feelings” a whole lot better than you understand math.
LOL! your using the Clinton line “numbers don’t lie” Are you freaking kidding me? I laughed so hard that coffee shot out my nose. The full quote is,”numbers don’t lie, but people can lie about the numbers and other stuff, now excuse me, I gotta go lie down cuss I gotta a throbbing headache, someone call Monica for me.”
Women don’t even get equal pay in the Obama White House. LOL
And I guess Sally knows because Sally physically works in the White House. I actually like this talking point, it’s simple…….sorry, I meant simpleminded.
I know you think the President has done a good job and the economic and international standing of this country couldn’t be better had there been another president. Romney’s been the governor of MA, he turned around the Olympics, and he’s been a successful businessman who’s given more charity than you can conceive. That’s why we like him.
I understand your point, Ron, but not all of us are giving to charities for the same reasons. I make a good earning myself and have total freedom in my business, which is why I am able to do this in the middle of my day. I give to charities and that is because I truly want to help those out there that are suffering right now, not to use it as a complete tax write off. You see where I’m going with this? Different people are giving to charities for different reasons with different agendas in mind.
Also, I do business in the good ole U.S.A. and pay 35% in corporate taxes. I don’t keep offshore accounts to avoid U.S. corporate taxes indefinitely. I am a true patriot and I bank on America, not against it.
The ease with how you spin the falsehoods continues to amaze. Non sequitur.
You don’t pay 35%, as you’re no corporation. But if you want to use your line, Romney’s money was already taxed at 35%, then another 15% for capital gains. Smart businessmen with money are perfectly legal and perfectly sound to remove their holdings away from the tentacles of Barack Obama and his jackboot thugs buying a vote.
Tex, so you are saying Mitt Romney pays 35% on corporate taxes on all of his offshore accounts in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands? I didn’t know that you can pay U.S. corporate taxes while your accounts are sitting offshore. In the U.S. tax code, that is just impossible. The U.S. cannot charge corporate taxes on all foreign profits as long as they are kept in offshore accounts. I guess in your reality, things work differently, right?
True, they made Obama even more vulnerable by shielding him, his handlers are to blame.
The debate offers an important lesson on how to dismantle the leftist media – which is an absolute requirement if we are to restore the Republic. All it takes is for someone to stand up, at the right time and in the right place, and tell the truth. You could see how the truth terrified Obama, and caused him to wither away. Most non-ideologues sense when something is amiss or they are being deceived, even if they can’t put their finger on what it is. When someone openly confronts the deceiver obvious, irefutable facts, suddenly everything falls into place. I strongly feel that after Romney is elected we should push for a Congressional enquiry into the conduct of the media these last 5 or six years. Identify specific cases of cover-up and calumni and expose them to the general public – shame the perps and hopefully, discredit their networks. I believe that in many instances the case for treason can be made as well.
Once people realize that the emperor has no clothes, they start to notice many other things they were blinded to as well. Politicians will be reluctant to take on the media, it will be up to us to do so.
“I believe that in many instances the case for treason can be made as well.”
Outside of NPR and PBS, the rest of media are private syndicates and under no legal obligation to present anything representing “fairness” to the public or valid information. They sell a product for mass consumption. If the public does not agree with it, they shouldn’t buy it. If private media companies voluntaritly become political propaganda organs, then stop supporting them.
How much longer do you think NYT is going to be in business?
It seems to me there are clear instances in recent years of elements of the media willingly aiding and abetting our enemies, and deliberately working to sabotage American security.
“His real and only political interests (and skills) are in”…digging up dirt on his opponents, winning at any cost and moving on immediately to the next office up the political ladder.
FIFY
And every Hispanic who watched the debate, this might be the take for many of them
Romney miró a los ojos de Obama … y sabia
Never mind the post-debate rationalisings and pre-next-debate plans … about the first debate …
Obama lo sabía … y sabía Romney … y Obama sabía que Romney sabía
Just define “sabia” for me, I got the rest!
Sabia = knew
Obama knew and Romney knew and Obama knew that Romney knew
Yes, both Obama and Romney knew that there was another Romney on the stage but Romney could not see it because nobody gave him a mirror.
VDH is the best political commentator of this generation.
George Costanza Obama
http://predicthistunpredictpast.blogspot.com/2012/10/george-costanza-obama.html
Actually, it’s long overdue for Slick Willie to be called on his faux boasts too, Rob. Let me lay a little something on you to demonstrate how our serial philanderer former President likes to spin reality:
From the Dim Convention: Clinton did a truly done a remarkable job of convincing the lemming likes you that there doesn’t exist a man on earth that could have done a better job – even Clinton himself! Remember that, Rob?
Only problem is, 30 years ago it already happened. The recession of 81/82 was every bit as deep as our “Second Depression”, accompanied by a prime interest rate of 15+%, a far higher unemployment than anything Obama encountered, gas shortages, a middle east in disarray, etc…
I hate to burst your bubble, Rob. But Slick is a smarter version of Barack Obama, an inheritor of serendipity of the late 90s, has a much greater ego, but the same penchant for spinning fabrications. Slick is the consummate liar.
Tex, if you had followed all of my posts, then you would’ve known that I was a Reagan loyalist. You would’ve also known that I walked away from the party because the ideology of compassionate conservatism championed by Reagan was second to none, but we are now faced with the infestation of a far right ideology, perpetrated by the Tea Party, that I no longer recognize anymore. As I had previously stated, what Reagan did not only earned the entire country’s respect but the respect of the whole entire civilized world. Now, the Republican Tea Party is nothing but a cesspool.
With that said, as much as I admired Reagan, the truth must be told. Reagan did not inherit 2 simultaneous wars, a Wall Street on the verge of collapse, an auto industry on the brink of bankruptcy, a housing market on the edge of a cliff, and a financial industry on the verge of life support. What we have to understand as compassionate human beings is that, we must recognize the truth when it is brought right before our eyes to clearly see and we clearly saw all of that in 2008. It was not a mirage but reality that could not be ignored.
Rob, you know nothing of the Tea Party OR Reagan.
Mark, what I can tell you is that Reagan is probably rolling over in his grave right now. If Reagan was still alive today, he would be completely flabbergasted by the ideology of the Republican Tea Party. Noticed that I have merged them together? It’s reality now.
Rob uses Reagan like a Scout’s Merit Badge to give himself credibilty, I suspect he was nothing more than a tadpole in his daddy’s sack when Reagan was President. I was there trying to raise a family as a contruction worker when housing was at a near standstill, when interest rates for homes topped 14%, when banks would’nt loan, when businesses were closing, when gasoline was being rationed in lines a block long, when Russia was Really Russia, when Americans were being held hostage for almost a year and threatened daily. Don’t give me this crap about Obama being given the worst and most terrible event in the course of human history to deal with. HE WANTED THE JOB AND SAID HOW HE WAS GOING TO FIX IT! He came, He conquered and then He crashed, come Nov. 6, We The People(along with the Tea Party, NRA, Veterans and present military, businesses and taxpayers of all colors) will kick him to the curb of history and begin the clean-up and the come-back of America. Put that in your bong and smoke it Rob, it might clear your vapid head.
Scrolling through the comments, Rob again, going on about ‘compassion.’
Just who’s left anymore not already on an ever-growing list of those demanding ‘compassion,’ usually to the detriment of the realists in America who have been forced to bow before it’s altar and pay it’s penance?
After decades of cleaning up messes over failed legislative novelties disguised as ‘compassion,’ ‘tolerance,’ ‘diversity,’ ‘affirmation,’ ‘progress,’ ‘open-mindedness,’ perhaps Rob should stop expecting others to cow-tow to his particular ‘rainbows and unicorns for all’ worldview, and take his chances alongside the rest of us great unwashed: forced to deal with realities of life as they are, not as we wish.
“Ron” is a troll paid to come here and derail PJM’s thoughtful comment threads. Do not feed the trolls.
An on the mark evaluation of the debate. One can’t forget this is BO’s first Real” job and he has been either directed by others or fawned over so much he believes his own press. I so hope and pray MR keeps practicing and wins the next two debates in as decisive a manner. Our Country needs that if we are to remain the United Sates of America as we all know and love it.
It might be his “first real job”, but few first jobs come with the perks, power and support of all the cronies he has around him, and has relied on throughout this first term to tell him what to say.
To me, this helps explain his failure in the recent debate. Despite the preparation and advice he undoubtably received, in the end, he was out there in the spotlights, on his own. All those watching the debate got to see he was not up to the task of debating the domestic economy. And I’d add, the visual images showed it, more so than simply listening on radio.
It seems in every presidential election the press reminds us that there will be an “October Surprise.” This was it. Not what his supporters in the media wanted, but certainly a surprise for them, although it shouldn’t have been one, not if they had been diligent from the outset of his campaign instead of being cheerleaders.
He also has had to be careful about saying what he really thinks. To say the constitution is fundamentally flawed in that it is “a charter of negative rights [that] only tells what the government… can’t do to you… not… do for you” is an argument that would lose to the American public if that radio interview hadn’t been so studiously ignored by a media eager to live their Woodstuck dreams.
“There’s room at the top they’re telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill”
JOHN LENNON, WORKING CLASS HERO
What impressed me the most about Romney in this debate was not his knowledge of the facts. It was how respectful he was of Obama.
I suspect Romney was listening to Obama’s answers and thinking: “My God, this guy is even dumber than I thought”. Yet, he was never anything but exceedingly pleasant. I think Romney’s talent to ‘smile as he killed’ is what won him the debate.
I haven’t heard anything of ‘The Wimp Factor’ recently.
Obama the Educated. The Harvard Scholar, the Law Review Editor par excellence. The Great Orator.
This is his myth, and it is fervently believed by many in this country. I dare say, by almost all who get their news from the MSM, those who think CNN is the REAL “fair and balanced” network and NPR the paragon of objectivity.
I recall reading that Obama actually wrote a paper (or perhaps a Law Review article?) that is extant, and said paper demolishes that myth, in that it demonstrates an abysmally inadequate command of logic, reason, and the English language.
Does anyone know of that paper or article, and can you provide a source or a link?
No need to post this, it’s to the powers that be at this website. What is the rule of time about posting? I see it nowhere. What time frame must one expire before one can respond to the Left troll’s crap? Given the Left trolls are free to post over and over again or are they your’s to gin up respond? Just a thought to make you rethink your rule and to alert everyone else if you dare post this. Beware conservatives, your responses are being censored by those claiming to be one of you.
The whole scenario is almost laughable if it was not so pathetic and a reflection on what this country has become. This guy is a front man for an arab/russian operation to get a muslim into the white house to destroy the country and loot our treasury. Where do you think all that stimulous and green money went?
Obama’s problem is that in order to move up each level to make the operation successful, his lies have to change. When hes in school trying to get into a better school or a law review type thing, its hip to be born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia. Once he gets that position, the next one up requires a different lie so when he finally gets to the last leg ie President, hes now born in Hawaii. Its the story of his whole life from getting a fake ss number, faking being a christian, to finally faking being a natural born citizen or even citizen for that matter. Show me his Indonesian adoption records and his repatriation at age 18 or whenever and I might believe hes american. Until then, hes a foreign usurper, lies about his bc notwithstanding.
Hes been promised who knows what but all his lies are so obvious he may end up being a patsy that needs to be eliminated by those who put him in power or enable him. Hes basically an idiot with a false diversified resume thats going to appeal to anyone who does not think as an american. Its the perfect cover and the spies who created this operation should be given the UNs highest medal for brilliance. If Romney was not such a stuffed shirt, he would have wiped the floor even more with Obama in that debate. Obama did mostly his own damage just by showing up without a teleprompter. Romney was never challenged and sounded like a dad at a mormon picnic. Big deal.
Instead of the debate performance analysis, I am reminded that an analysis needs to be done as to who allowed this guy to even run and once he was in, who has enabled him and who refuses to defend the Constitution by calling for an investigation into his background. This has nothing to do with race.
I know the truth will come out and I pray this guy is in Gitmo as a foreign spy and all those in government who enabled him and ignored his crimes imprisoned for high treason.
All that being said…VDH please do an analysis of the electoral college and we will see that if Romney loses one state that is considered a toss up right now, Obama gets reelected. If you dont think things are in place for him to steal this election too when it is close, and it will always be close as our populations background and integrity moves to that of europe, then you are blind.
He could burn the US flag on the white house steps while saying the morning islam call to worship while having sex with his gay lover snorting cocaine as he talks to Vladimir Putin about destroying our nukes while Kim Kardashian pees on him and he still would have 45% approval rating.
In 20 years it wont matter as Lil Wayne or some other cretin will be our President elected legitimately by our population of leeches and success haters.
The Democratic Party is fast tracking Obama into becoming the most hated man in America.
The left has nothing left at this point.
It’s dropped reason, logic, compassion, and it now reduced to shouting stuff like, “YOU SHOULD BE RAPED!” and, “YOU’RE A NAZI!” (Oh yeah, Ron & Rob, that’s a real good way to convince people to support your causes, and show us how much better you are then those narsty Republicans!)
It’s reduced to shouting insults, hoping to bully us into submission. Won’t work. (And, if anyone’s actually moderating this thing, I hope they took note of the threat against Delia?) The Left has nothing left, but trying to make people afraid of them, and badger them into submission, like a schoolyard bully.
Ron & Rob are emblematic of the Left’s failure, and emptiness.
The assumption is that Obama’s grades got him to head the Harvard Law Review.
The NYT article shows that an essay can get you that position instead of good grades.
A ‘tip of the hat’ to Corlyss.