Nailed It
February 26th, 2010 - 6:05 pm
I think one of the great explanations for the mess the Obama administration is in — the whole cowbell dynamic — is that he, his advisers, and many of his fans in the press cannot fully grasp or appreciate the fact that he is not as charming to everyone else as he is to them (or himself). Hence, they think that the more he talks, the more persuasive he will be. Every president faces a similar problem which is why, until Obama, every White House tried to economize the deployment of the president’s political capital. The Obama White House strategy is almost the rhetorical version of its Keynesianism, the more you spend, the bigger the payoff.
I got nothin’ to add. Just bow in the presence of the master.
And thus…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4royOLtvmQ
Plus the Dream Team is so shallow that it had no plan B. They figured do Cap and Trade and government health care by August ’09 and then coast onwards from there. They fell flat on their faces.
In the event of such a failure? They got nothin’. Now it’s the flailing, the slapstick and the buffoonery. Come one, come all. Much popcorn will be sold. It’s a great show. $35K a ticket for every man, woman and child in the country, but a great show.
“More cowbell!”
Indeed. lol
The Republican elected officials did not mention perhaps the number one argument against national health care: none of them will ever use it! The same, of course, is also true of President Obama. Unfortunately, everyone in Washington, DC, prefers to downplay this awkward fact. It might prompt the voters to look at their other benefits.
Everytime I see BO speaking on TV I get shivers up and down my spine, he literally makes the hair on my head stand up in fear. It is something about the way that he handles himself, his demeanor, his presentation . . . I see not a leader . . . but a fanatic. He has proven over and over that he will not listen to the opposition . . . I fear that he views them as competition . . . given the power this demagogue would remove this opposition . . . and change to the very foundations our government. This is the CHANGE I fear he is creating. His obsession with the take over of the medical services industry . . . it is but the beginning . . . without control of our health he will not be able to control our life styles, if we lose this battle for our health we will get . . . Cap & Trade and that gives him life style control . . . He has to be stopped and the governmental processes of the United State must be saved . . . Listen to the Bells of Freedom . . . they are tolling, tolling, tolling.
I’m just waiting for SNL to start parodying Dear Liar. “Doing sex to me” was a start, but they should do more.
While Jonah is partly right (nobody loves Obama as much as Obama loves Obama), the real problem is that Obama is a machine politician who thinks like a machine politician–government as spoils system.
Obama thinks he was elected to serve his supporters, not the whole country, supporters and opponents alike. Since he has no obligation to people who didn’t vote for him, his critics not only can, but actually should be ignored. Problem is, that only works when your supporters are in the majority. Once they fall below that level, you’re doomed.
And I don’t see Obama rescuing himself from this problem because it would req
sorry, I don’t recall hitting “send”, but it sent. As I was saying…
And I don’t see Obama rescuing himself from this problem because it would require fundamentally rethinking his conception of elective government and he’s just not smart enough or flexible enough. He’s a machine politician to the bone.