Watching Michelle Obama last night, I was struck by her “studied naturalism.”
That is, her speech had a conversational quality, and there were even a few semi-comical, completely informal-sounding stutters or disfluencies.
All of which, I’m willing to bet, were planned. The speech bore the unmistakable thumbprint of Michael Sheehan. It would be easier to make a list of the major political (especially Democratic) addresses Sheehan hasn’t coached somebody through. And one of his specialties is getting the speaker to sound human when the speaker’s natural instincts are telling him or her to stay fixed on the teleprompter and read the fracking lines.
My further guess is that the First Lady is not naturally folksy, but she’s smart, charismatic and attractive. That gives Sheehan plenty to work with. His specialty is turning you into a more personable version of who you are, as opposed to a completely different person. So last night, he got her to sound like what seemed, plausibly, like Michelle Obama talking to some friends at the town pool.
Unless I’m wrong about all of this. I don’t have any inside dope. But I’m not wrong.
UPDATE: Elizabeth Warren, it would seem, is getting comparable help.
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Unlike Ann Romney, she had the enormous benefit of seeming plausible. I could not watch A.R.’s mugging and preening and lying. Who in his or her right mind believes the young Romneys ate dinner off an ironing board? Anyone who has EVER used an ironing board knows it’s the wrong height and a truly ludicrous choice. A tray in one’s lap makes sense, but I guess it doesn’t make a folksy story for the supposedly gullible to lap up.
Jane, you have a good point. On the other hand, i had the habit (when hungry and short of time) in the 1970s of eating a slice of pizza with one hand and drinking a can of beer from the other other while I driving down the street steering my car with my knees.
I feel so odd about my vote this year: I am conflicted, undecided, and seemingly… alone. I guess I would have hoped for more company at this point:(
It’s lonely in the middle sinkhole.
Jenni, could I buy your vote?
Jennifer: just do a bit of real research from unbiased sources. Colin McEnroe would not be considered unbiased. It’s not about who looks the best or gives the best speech, it’s about who really has a legit track record of results that have proven to be positive. Don’t believe the hype surrounding the president and his wife. They look great on TV, sound great all the time, but take away the teleprompters and all the staged events and what is there? A lot of unfullfilled promises and more pie-in-the-sky talk. If you’ve had enough of that, then you know what to do. If you enjoy that and think it does something to benefit the country, then you know what to do. It shouldn’t be difficult. It’s about results. If you don’t deliver, you usually don’t get to keep your job, especially if you are an at-will employee. The C-in-C is at-will for a four-year period.
Great speech by the First Lady. Michelle stayed on point addressing many of the common complaints about the BA administration’s shortcomings and preference for entitlements over hard work. Not a trace of racist tinged crapola.
Now the speech writers will need to address the Godless Platform in the President’s speech.
Trying to figure out Democratic party theology has never been easy. Is it atheism, Islam, New Age globalism, or some weird mishmash of all of the above?
Thankfully, the Democratic National Convention has answered all of our questions. On Wednesday, the All Mighty was inserted back into the party platform to a chorus of loud boos.
So there is a God. And Democrats hate Him.
Delighted to help clear that up.
We’ll hear all about God tonight as Barrack reaches out to the Moderate Democrats and Independent Voters….
They will save the “War on Women” and all the sexist and racist crap for the campaign trail when the mental defectives are out in force with their bull horns yelling about intolerance and bigotry and Islamophobia and homophobia and sexism and racism… all while alienating the moderates and pushing them towards Romney
“… the mental defectives are out in force with their bull horns yelling about intolerance and bigotry and Islamophobia and homophobia and sexism and racism…”
Because as we all know, these things don’t really exist EXCEPT for in the minds of mental defectives.
Love the “war on women” stance they’ve been taking for months and then they have Clinton give his big speech. Funny, but I seem to remember the ex president being one of the biggest misogynists and a history of problems with women, on top of that, wasn’t he impeached and also disbarred as a lawyer? Of course, no one mentioned this in the media.
Using larger-than-life equipment (a cigar) endeared Clinton to feminists and lesbians. Someone who provides sexual satisfaction vie proxy and uses soft but firm tools put the Democratic base in heat. Still does.
Oh please. Sounds like a big ol’ wet dream for SOMEbody, and it’s unlikely that SOMEbody would be feminists and/or lesbians.
Thumbs up!…Clinton ..some role model…I hear Monika Lewinsky has a new book coming out
Stella, be nice and just enjoy the next 4 years. It will go by quick enough then you may look forward to 8 years of Hillary. And by then, another new generation Kennedy will be ready to assume the post.
We have a new definition for Low-Information Voters: “Honey Boo Boo”.
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Or as it being called by some pundits: “Trailer Park Showdown.”
Good post. I really like MO. But I thought those pauses, stammers, dropped g’s, etc., were cringeworthy.
I also disliked the frequently-used phrase “you see” — it always seemed to precede some perhaps-little-known heartwarming episode of winning-against-the-odds, say.
With Obama complaining that Mitt Romney is “new” to foreign policy and that Romney’s positions are “extreme,” mainstream America might need to redefine the word chutzpah. Traditionally defined as stunning audacity, such as murdering one’s parents and then pleading for clemency on the grounds of being an orphan, chutzpah will now have to be defined as spending one’s career on the left-wing fringes of society and then questioning the qualifications of anyone with real-world experience.
In the 2008 campaign, Obama’s closest claim to foreign policy experience was that he had spent part of his childhood in another country. That was tantamount to claiming the right to practice medicine on the grounds that one was treated by a pediatrician in childhood. One suspects that, even now, Romney knows enough not to bow to the heads of foreign states, and that alone validates his foreign policy credentials against those of Obama.
The more stunning charge coming out of the Obama campaign, however, is that the positions of Romney and the Republicans are extremist. This charge comes from the man who openly acknowledges seeking out Marxist professors in college, whose earliest political associates included people like William Ayers, who spent twenty years in a church run by Jeremiah Wright, and who rammed a massive health care takeover down the throats of the American people even though nobody knew what was in the bill.
But even Obama’s chutzpah knows no bounds. A major theme of Obama’s campaign has been that our financial crisis is the result of the failure of free enterprise, that we’ve tried the market approach favored by the Republicans and that it has not worked. In reality, it is easy enough to point to failed stimulus packages, cronyism, high unemployment, and alarming debt as real-world evidence that it is Obama’s approach that has failed. But there is also a case to be made that it was the approach favored by Obama that caused the crisis in the first place.
The financial crisis that came to a head in 2008 was triggered largely by the collapse of the mortgage market, and the collapse of the mortgage market was set in motion by the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. The CRA pressured banks to make mortgage loans based on political criteria rather than economic criteria, and the result of political meddling in these business decisions was an artificial housing bubble that burst in 2008.
And whose view of government gave us the CRA? Enacted under Jimmy Carter, the CRA epitomized the idea of central political control of economic decisions. Liberal politicians like Bill Clinton reaped the benefits of the artificial housing bubble, and banks and shareholders were forced to carry the risks. And when the house of cards collapsed, big government stepped in again to bail out banks that were sinking because of big-government policies. It is these policies that Obama has supported since his days as a community organizer. The reality is that it is Obama’s way that has been tried and has failed.
The problem with Obama’s chutzpah, however, is that it is succeeding politically even as his policies are failing economically. After the Democrats in Charlotte hammered the Republicans for being extremist and uncooperative, the Romney campaign started making bipartisan noises. Over the weekend, Romney talked about the parts of ObamaCare that he likes, such as protections for people with pre-existing conditions, and talked of compromises on taxes.
The conventional thinking is that Romney has to counter the Democrats’ accusation of inflexibility in order to appeal to moderates, but the conventional thinking is dangerously wrong. Damaging leftist policies such as the CRA could not do their damage without Republican concessions. The long-established pattern in American politics is that the left makes a bold policy advance, and the right resists at first. But then the left starts attacking the character of the opposition rather than debating the issue. The left accuses the Republicans of creating gridlock, of not caring about the poor, of denying Grandma her medicine, and then the Republicans compromise. With every compromise, government gains ground, and freedom loses.
If Romney falls into the trap of trying to prove to moderates that he is not who the Democrats say he is, he will let the left avoid responsibility for the ruin they have made of our economy. Republicans have tried for too long to win the political middle by appeasing the left, and it is appeasing the left — not free enterprise — that contributed to the mess we are in.
The way to reach moderates is to educate them. Instead of going on the defensive, Romney should make Obama and the Democrats defend the record that they cannot defend. The real extremists are the people who think they have a right to money that someone else has earned, not the people who think they have a right to keep what they have worked for.
The real extremists are the liberals who pushed the economy off a cliff and now have the chutzpah to insist that they should lead the rescue effort.
Obama ran for president four years ago in the guise of Martin Luther King, the man of reconciliation and peace. He has governed like his hero Malcolm X, the celebrated radical of Obama’s crowd. That’s why Attorney General Holder is now running the most biased Justice Department since Jim Crow. That’s why the Obama’s acceptance speech had to be moved to a smaller venue.
This time the candidate can’t be MLK anymore, and his chances depend on making you believe he is inevitable again. That’s the media mission for the next eight weeks. If you don’t show up, they can win. You are now the target of a campaign of 24/7 demoralization.
The polls are over-sampling O voters and under-sampling Romney votes. All they have is somebody’s word on the phone that they intend to vote for Obama. They use math models to decide whom to believe. Like global warming, you can play a lot of games with math models.
If you tamper with likely voter samples you can prove anything. The media have gotten away with that for years and years, using engineered samples disguised as facts. You start with the answer you want and cherry pick the facts that support your conclusion. It’s Sex, Lies and Democrats.
Obama’s amazing mud-slinging is aimed at the ignorant middle, the gullible who can be made to believe anything. They may well decide this election.
“Wouldn’t it be nice to kill all the Republicans?” said a nice liberal lady at a Labor Day barbecue. When I asked her about that she laughed it off. But she said it with a big smile, as if that’s the funny joke in her crowd. That’s rage, lady. It’s not a joke.
A young, educated biracial man had a couple of beers at a party and started to curse Ethiopian cab drivers. I couldn’t believe it. Then I remembered other liberals who showed flashes of racial anger, including the white kid who told me four years ago that he voted for Obama “because Hillary was too white.” Racism is racism even when it’s flipped around.
If you invert anti-black racism into anti-white racism all the white Democrats are going to feel strange. At some point they might realize that slavery went out in 1865. Cognitive dissonance rears its ugly head. People in a self-suspecting culture start to have all the feelings they are told not they have.
After almost four years of Obama, rage is now all the rage, and I suspect it has penetrated the party culture, along with alcohol, sex, dope and late-night rage comedians. Television now tells kids that aggressive ridicule is supposed to be funny, and millions get their “news” there. Male gender roles are under constant attack by the gay lobby, and heterosexual men and women are confused and secretly very angry. The phrase “that’s so gay” has entered the pop culture, and nobody can tell if it’s a joke or an insult. Still they aren’t allowed to talk freely about love, race, and money. When the left conquered the media we became a Fear Society even without the benefit of a thought police.
People start believing they are racists, and expressions of self-hatred become accepted in black and white popular culture. Rap stars kill other rappers in shoot-outs and the media rarely condemn them. Young celebrities die of “heart attacks” after years of cocaine abuse. Jesse Jackson Jr is supposed to be suffering from bipolar disorder, but chances are that it’s made worse by a self-destructive culture.
Americans are not more at peace today, four years into this glorified presidency. We are the most surveyed, manipulated and focus-grouped society in history. We never get tired of studying our own navels. But instead of self-knowledge we just get more paranoid about our sins, real and imagined.
As individuals, none of us can do much to stop the rot. What we can do is to get out and vote in November. We can anticipate a media assault on our values and our optimism in the coming months. then, when a little window opens up in the minds of the brainwashed we can tell a little bit of the truth. The left isn’t trying to be polite. They are nasty and they revel in it. Just zing them when that little window opens up.
It’s a tiny price to pay when your country is at stake.
When did Cynical Susan become an expert/spokesperson for feminists and lesbians? Is there any topic that she does not feel the need to comment on here at Mother Courant?
I cannot thank you enough for what you have written. I agree with all of it. Too much garbage has been put to the public by the Dems and our Emperor in invisibble clothes! Unfortunately we have too many simple minded people who listen to the lies and do not question them. Being a fool or a sheep has no age limits either…they exist in the young, the old and the in between. Hopefully we can still find enough people to over come the puppets. Once again thanks and keep on with the good words..Rocky
@Dr Tim Dingo: give it a break. Stop slobbering on someone else blog. Drop your brief stink load and get out of the way.
Are you by chance, “johngaltwhereareyou” from the anonymous comments? You sound like that libertariantard.
Well said, Jimmy Boggs!
If this yammering “essayist” Daughtry wants to pontificate at length, let him start his own blog and get off Colin’s!
“The emperor has no clothes!” That was the cry of a small child in the Hans Christian Andersen tale as the emperor made his way past, entirely unclothed, while no one had the nerve to speak up.
That’s pretty much the situation today. With the recent exception of Maureen Dowd’s scathing critique of Obama’s convention acceptance speech (“My fellow citizens, you were the change…We were the change?”), there hasn’t been much media criticism of the president. Liberal commentators continue to gloss over the mistakes of the most partisan and inept administration in our history.
There is a great deal that is embarrassing about this administration, just as there was about the emperor in Andersen’s tale, even when he had his clothes on. Because he had no real interest in governing — he was all for show — the emperor was easily swayed by charlatans. Because he was arrogant, he refused to accept criticism. And because he was by nature immoderate and extreme, he engaged in foolish and excessive spending. More than anything, he cared about his appearance, and all his efforts went into propping up his approval ratings.
No one around the emperor spoke up, even when he made the most outlandish mistakes. They were all afraid of this haughty ruler, afraid of being charged with disloyalty or of seeming old-fashioned. After all, the emperor’s new clothes were the product of an entirely new technology that no one understood but everyone was supposed to believe in — a bit like solar, wind, and biofuel today. It was not politically correct to suggest that there might actually be nothing there.
Like the emperor of yore, Obama continues to parade around in his magical clothes, isolated from reality by left-wing advisers and shielded from criticism by a weak and acquiescent media. Not many in the Washington press corps are going to point out that, figuratively speaking, the president isn’t wearing any clothes. His promises to create 5 million green energy jobs have come to nothing, as has his pledge to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term, but who in the national media is pointing that out? Certainly nobody in the mainstream media covering the Democratic Party convention last week in Charlotte.
Even so, everyone in America knows that the last four years have been a bust. Obama’s health care reform bill is wildly unpopular. His attacks on American business are a disgrace. American families are earning $4,000 less than they were four years ago. And Obama, who plays the race card at every turn, is the most racially divisive figure in American politics since George Wallace. So why isn’t anyone pointing it out?
The answer is right there in the Andersen tale. The two swindlers manage to convince the emperor’s court that those who cannot see the invisible cloth they are weaving are either unfit for their office or stupid. Fearing that they actually are unfit or stupid, one adviser after another heaps praise on the swindlers’ workmanship. Fearing that he is unfit or stupid, the emperor also falls for the ruse. No one wants to admit that he is unfit for office and that things are just not working.
No one in the liberal press wants to be the first to speak out, because he will automatically be accused of being unfit and stupid, and disloyal to boot. Everyone recalls the treatment of ABC news anchor Charles Gibson when, in a June 2008 televised debate between Obama and Hillary Clinton, he had the nerve to ask candidate Obama a probing question. His question pointed out that raising capital gains taxes historically results in lower, not higher, revenues for government. So why would Obama want to raise capital gains taxes? Answer: “Well, Charlie, what I said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for the purpose of fairness.”
That lame and illogical answer should have sounded a warning that something was amiss. Right then and there, the media should have pointed out that Obama was so far to the left that he would demand higher taxes on the rich even if doing so imperiled the economy. They should have recognized that Obama’s view of reality had not evolved beyond that of a teenaged radical encountering Karl Marx for the first time. And they, the media, should have had the integrity to point out how truly childish Obama’s travesty of sixties activism actually is. Instead, they closed ranks against Charles Gibson. And Gibson (“Mr. Look Down Your Glasses”) performed the required ablution with his shamefully condescending interview with Sarah Palin.
So as one disaster follows another — the implosion of “green energy jobs,” the Fast and Furious scandal, the “you didn’t build that” speech — it becomes clear that Obama really is just what he seemed: a radical leftist who is incapable of governing because of his unwillingness to compromise. Asked about job-creation in the private sector, the president responds that everything is “just fine.” Well, four years of 8%-plus unemployment is not “just fine.” Not unless you’re living in the same fantasyland as Andersen’s emperor.
Like that foolish monarch with his “new clothes,” Obama continues to parade around like everything is just fine. Gas prices have doubled since Obama took office, but that’s just fine. There is five trillion in new debt, but that’s just fine. ObamaCare has been shoved down the throat of a public that doesn’t want it, but that’s just fine. Don’t you just adore my new clothes?
On the day of the Great Procession, Andersen’s emperor marches through the streets under a royal canopy, haughty and proud of his superior taste in attire, assured that he is fit to continue governing and wearing absolutely nothing. Once again, every observer fears that he may be unfit or stupid, so no one dares to say a word. Not until a small child sees the emperor in the buff and points it out.
“But he has nothing on at all!” cries the child. At first everyone balks, not wanting to admit the evidence of his own senses. “But he has nothing on at all!” cries the child again, unwilling to be silenced. So, finally, everyone looks with his own eyes, and soon everyone realizes that it is true. Despite all his talk of “smart” governance, this arrogant and foolish leader really understood nothing of how to govern. He has spent enormous sums of taxpayer money on an “investment” that came to nothing, and now, quite literally, he has nothing to show for it.
The day of reckoning is approaching when the American people will recognize that Obama, too, has spent lavishly and has nothing to show for it. Perhaps the voice of Maureen Dowd will begin to wake them up. Probably it will require others. But sooner or later, the public will realize that this president’s efforts have come to naught. And after that, the emperor’s reign will come to an ignominious end.
I hope it is here…the debate proved something…and it will become more evident as we get closer to election day…keep on prognosticating…it will not be the blind leading the blind, but the knowledgeable leading the open-minded and independent!
Are these bloviating/pontificating hijacks de rigueur on this blog now? If so, that’s a shame.
So, let me get this straight:
It is September 11, 2012. An Al Qaeda sponsored mob is marching, running, screaming towards the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. Supposedly they are angry about an e-mail cartoon about the Islamic figure, Mohammed. It is known right away that the organizers of the march are the same entity that did the mass murder of Americans on 9.11.01.
The Embassy issues an apology for an American using his free speech rights about a matter of deep concern. They attempt to appease the mob. It doesn’t work. The mobs acts violently and disrespectfully towards the U.S. Embassy. They are al Qaeda. This is what they do.
No comment or almost none from Mr. Obama.
Then an al Qaeda mob attacks the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, Libya, burns it, kills the U.S. Ambassador and three other heroic American diplomats. Again, in a classic al Qaeda move, it is all timed perfectly to infuriate the USA. It isn’t spontaneous. It was 9/11, for Pete’s sake.
No comment from Mr. Obama except terse condolences.
Then along comes Governor Romney, who rightly says, “Hey, why are we appeasing an al Qaeda mob? Why aren’t we calling these guys the vicious killers that they are? Why are we back in this apology to bad guys mode?”
Then, and only then, the Obama White House goes into hyper drive. It turns out that the real problem is not al Qaeda. No, and it’s not Mr. Obama’s appeasement. No, the real threat to America is (wait for it), Mitt Romney. Yes!!! According to White House uber-pal, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Romney is working with the terrorists against the U.S. government by calling for criticism of the al Qaeda!
Yes, Romney is the enemy for pointing out that Mr. Obama is ass kissing the terrorists!
This is terrifying. The media line up to get their marching orders from the Obama Ministry of Truth and suddenly it’s Gospel: the problem is not al Qaeda. It is Romney. With a “more in sorrow than in anger…” look and tone, Mr. Obama pities Romney’s naïveté.
This is disgusting. It is nauseating. This is what happens when you have a one-party media. The lie becomes the truth. George Orwell saw it coming. In 1984, his MiniTrue had up its mission.
Who controls the present, controls the past.
Who controls the past controls the future.
It has happened. The MSM and the White House have outlawed truth. Some of us old ones can remember when it was legal and the media worked to keep it alive. Now, like the firemen in Fahrenheit 451, the MSM press exists to obliterate truth — not to preserve it.
Meanwhile, Mr. Netanyahu begs the U.S. to do something to protect it and the world from the Iranian bomb. Mr. Obama bobs and weaves to avoid contact with reality and responsibility. No one even mentions that if we had allowed Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush to build ABM defense, the whole world would be a safer place, and we race towards war or an Islamic control of our expression or both, and the master politician gets ready for his turn on Letterman.
God help us.
Thanks for answering my inquiry and quelling my insomnia at once. Good night, sir.
Just think how exhausting it is to find and copy and paste all those essays! Setting a good example for his students, no doubt.
He’s a teacher??
President Obama is headed to defeat in November, and it won’t be close. Forget about the polls, and forget about the cadre of delusional Democrats who can’t stop telling us how great and successful the last three and a half years have been. Slick Willy can shill all he likes, but seriously, he’s preaching to the choir, because the only ones believing his shtick are bought and paid for sycophants, crony capitalists, and members of the mainstream media.
Can you think of a single person who didn’t vote for Barack Obama in 2008 but will vote for him this time around? Yet it is easy to find former minions admitting to the dissolution of their belief in the primacy of the “one.” These people will not vote for him again — and they are legion.
Pols like Bill Clinton say what they have to say, and election polls are often designed to say what the designers want them to say. But Americans, ever the social creatures they are, remembering the hopes and dreams they had for a better world in 2008 — and the hopes and dreams they have today for a better tomorrow — are reluctant to tell someone taking a poll that they don’t like Barack Obama. It doesn’t matter how well a case can be made against the man’s disastrous and disgraceful leadership; guilt can often preclude telling a stranger they plan to vote against the black guy — especially today, when all opposition to the president is framed as racist.
Yet, at some point, that curtain closes in the voting booth, and a decision has to be made as to which candidate is better for voters, their children, and the future of America.
When watching the news or any of the president’s campaign speeches, it is easy to get the message that Barack Obama is way ahead and can’t lose. His successes are portrayed as many and significant, although he needs another term because much still needs to be done. After all, the Republicans have stymied his every selfless effort these last three and a half years, and “we can’t go back.”
He did his best, and there was nothing more he could have done to improve what was an unprecedented (everything with Barack is unprecedented) decline in economic activity. Didn’t Obama call the downturn the “great recession?” The misery the nation feels now is an illusion — or else, they tell us, it is simply the “new normal.”
But usually in mainstream media world, all is well — and Americans should pay no attention to the price of gasoline, or the unavailability of financing for mortgages or business investment, or the price of groceries and the dearth of jobs. Who needs a job when they have Barack Obama?
The media, Obama, and his adulators have become the “check is in the mail” bloc. Things are better; we just haven’t noticed.
Yet there are no real accomplishments, which would be bad enough if it stopped there, but in actuality, everything is much worse since many trusted the “one” in 2008 to solve all the ills of the nation and humanity. All he has done during his tenure is torture the economy into submission with poor decisions, bad legislation, overregulation, and threats of onerous taxation.
It’s been said that nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of Americans, but it is also true that no one ever got rich continually assuming that Americans were idiots. You see, just when a demigod like Barack is convinced he has demagogued his way into the hearts and minds of the electorate, the nation wakes up, and a deafening “thud” can be heard as he falls back down to earth.
Seniors see the true danger to Medicare comes from ObamaCare, a legislative nightmare. Obamacare strips $716 billion from Medicare, and as a result, seniors in states like Florida will make their voices heard this Election Day.
Workers and commuters see the price of gasoline as a function of Barack’s desire to be the one who breaks America’s dependency on fossil fuels. Yet like everything Obama does, he seeks to do it backwards. Because he can’t make alternative energy cheap enough to overwhelm fossil fuels as the main source of energy in America, he chooses to make fossil fuels so expensive that his green energy dreams seem cheap by comparison. Gasoline at $4 a gallon and necessarily skyrocketing electric bills are the “new normal.” Didn’t you know?
If people’s lives have to be destroyed to usher in this new era, then, so be it. They should be grateful that the destruction of their hopes and dreams is in service of the greater Barack Obama good. History books will not remember the individual whose life was ruined today, but they will certainly remember Obama as the man who saved humanity from what might have happened in a hundred years. And isn’t that what’s important?
Small business understands that Obama built this. They understand this so well that there are trillions of dollars sitting on the sidelines awaiting his departure next January. They may have supported him in 2008, but does anyone think business owners, long demonized by Barack and minions, are going to vote for Mr. Obama again? No, they will run kicking and screaming to the polls to vote for anyone but the man who has destroyed their incomes and futures, and those of their children.
States with a culture of coal mining are also running away from Barack. After all, miners have families, and killing King Coal has not only hurt the interests of America and Americans, but slain the future of an industry long important to the nation’s prosperity. Who needs cheap energy anyway?
The United Coal Miners Union sat out the Democrat National Convention. Although they didn’t jump ship, they weren’t about to support the moron killing coal jobs while making electricity more expensive and ceding energy independence in the process. I suspect that Obama will get few miner votes this election.
I believe that the administration’s war on coal and the slow realization that the EPA’s future plan for war on fracking have already won Ohio and Pennsylvania for Mitt Romney, despite what the polls say. A union member working in the fossil fuel industry is never going to admit to supporting a Republican, yet he still wants to feed his family and send his kids to college…and maybe someday even retire. Four more years of Barack, and he won’t even have a job.
At the Democrat National Convention, John Kerry said Americans should “ask Osama bin Laden if he’s better off now than he was four years ago.”
The answer would be “no,” just as it is for most Americans, because Obama is killing us. Bin Laden at least has the luxury of being dead; the job is finished.
For us, Obama needs another 4 years.
On November 6, 2012, Americans will flock to the polls to ensure that Barack Obama does not get another term to finish the job he started, and the empty chair will lose in a landslide.
Y_E_S! finally some intelligent people are speaking Up!
Barack Obama is not a real president, though he does play one on TV. So what is he? It’s my contention that the bizarre creature currently residing in the White House is an attractive spokesmodel for our destruction, sponsored by America’s mortal foes.
The time for politely mincing words is over. After the Democrats booed God and Jerusalem at their national convention; after Obama refused to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Israel faces nuclear destruction; after Obama enthroned the Muslim Brotherhood throughout the Middle East and then apologized for America when our embassies were fatally attacked there on 9/11 — well, really, what’s the point of making nice?
Forget calling Obama “incompetent.” This tiresome meme presupposes that Obama wants to do what’s right for America but doesn’t know how. Does anyone honestly believe that anymore?
Yes, he’s incompetent, in that he’s a fairly unimpressive bloke with no skills, imagination, or ability to learn, who couldn’t run a third-rate laundromat.
But so what? His sponsors didn’t install him for his competence. They installed him so that he could strut on the runways of the world, showing off his fashionable skin color and perfectly creased pants, while babbling whatever useful venom they put on his teleprompter.
As the body of America’s Libyan ambassador was dragged through the streets and three other American embassy workers lay dead, we learned that Obama attended only 38% of his intelligence briefings in 2012. In fact, he didn’t attend a single intelligence briefing in the week preceding 9/11. So ask yourself: would the outcome be any different if he had?
Of course not. Does L’Oréal spokesmodel Beyoncé attend board meetings in which the location of new factories or other nitty-gritty corporate business is decided? Why should she? Her job is to go out there and look good and sell the brand.
And thus our Spokesmodel-in-Chief, who found no opening in his schedule to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu, somehow made the time to appear on the 9/11 radio show of “The Pimp with a Limp,” fly to Las Vegas, and clown around with David Letterman. Next up is a fundraiser at the 40/40 Club in Manhattan with fellow spokesmodel Beyoncé, and a whirlwind of similar brand-promoting frippery, as the world burns.
If you haven’t figured out the nature of the brand that Obama is promoting, the Democrats helpfully informed us in their opening convention video: “Thegovernment is the only thing we all belong to.” We all belong to the government, and the government is Obama — so we all belong to Obama, that exciting celebrity with the big smile who loves to give us free stuff. And now that we’ve been docilely collectivized, our celebrity friend, “President Obama,” can deliver us into submission at the hands of those who despise us.
And thus, “President Obama” will have “more flexibility” to surrender to the Russians, whose warships he displayed at his convention, after his election. And when rabid Islamists storm American embassies, and sodomize and murder an American ambassador, the reaction of “President Obama’s” White House is to abjectly apologize to the protestors for America’s right to free speech. Meanwhile, “President Obama” weakens and undermines America’s military, leaving us ever more vulnerable in an increasingly chaotic world.
Who is this “President Obama” who puts such an appealing face on our destruction? Just a few weeks before the election, we still don’t really know. Two gripping documentaries, 2016 and Dreams From My Real Father, portray different aspects of his background, exposing the America-hating fervor of his various mentors.
A blockbuster hit, 2016 examines the anti-colonial politics of his purported father, the Harvard-educated Kenyan governmental economist, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. With its glossy production values brought to you by Schindler’s List producer Gerald Molen, 2016 takes us on a fast-paced tour of Obama Sr.’s worldview, in which villainous America and the West must be humbled for deliberately ravaging the third world. Along the way, we meet freedom-hating influences on “President Obama,” including terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers, leading Israel-basher Professor Edward Said, and card-carrying Communist agitator Frank Marshall Davis.
It’s Frank Marshall Davis who takes center stage in Joel Gilbert’s fascinating documentary, Dreams From My Real Father. Gilbert contends that Davis was Obama’s biological father and deploys some compelling physical and circumstantial evidence to make his point. Even Obama’s pre-presidential nose job can’t mask the physical resemblance of the two men, and Frank Marshall Davis’s side job as a pornographer allowed him access to Obama’s teen mother, as Gilbert’s photo cache dismayingly proves.
But whoever spawned “President Obama,” the end result is the empty, angry Spokesmodel-in-Chief, whose sponsors now hold our fate in their hands. While Obama preens and prances around the country, the real workers continue their destruction of our national security and economy, strangling us with a $16-trillion debt and another threatened downgrade. The Spokesmodel saw no need to attend any job council meetings as 23 million Americans suffered without work; those jobs could be destroyed without any personal input from him.
Now the Spokesmodel’s contract is up for renewal, and like all successful celebrities, he’s demanding we pay a higher price for his services. If he wins, many Americans may be forced to pay the ultimate price.
Note: I am Cynical Susan’s smarter, older, wiser, Republican cousin.
Actually younger, if I remember correctly. And if by smarter you mean willing to put the time in to finding articles that you agree with and posting them here, well, whatever.
Don’t care if she is younger, older,guy or girl…but notably wiser because of her searching and questioning…not just a lamb following!!!
Radical Muslims have invaded Libya, Yemen, and as you are reading this…Germany! Funny to this cynical person how quiet the mainstream media is regarding the religion of peace…SHHHHHHH! If it’s not written about or spoken about it’s probably not happening. No wonder the sheeple voted for Obama back in 2008. Let’s keep making up stories about the war on women, and Romney’s taxes…unfreaking real!
Would that mainstream media include NPR? Because there are reports at the beginning of every talk-show-hour, as well as in-depth reporting on the news shows.
Why would anyone think that “more is more” in trying to make a point in writing on a blog? Honestly, people, I have no problem reading 1000 pages of a good book, but this is a BLOG. Make a quick point and get out. Listen to the replies. Respond.
Heck! you don’t even reply to one another. I don’t get it. You are not being heard this way. I read 4 words, maximum: I hate to say that; it sounds cruel and standoffish. But your approach is backfiring. I’m sorry.
Cynical Susan. Long time no talk. And you are correct. The Courant Conservative Kooks need to go somewhere so here they are.
Signed; Jimmy Boggs
@I Really: Don’t try to figure out the insecurity complex of your common garden variety conservative – especially from blue Connecticut. They need medicine or better, an indefinite stretch at the funny farm.
Lots of people need meds. Can at least one person in this constellation be kind, gracious, or civil? I don’t want to bash anyone, Bill. I just don’t understand how these monologue writers hope to be heard. I suppose that they are just trying to clog the blogs so that earnest readers get sick of it an leave the blog itself. THAT, however, is not happening. To be quite frank,any thoughts I have about Colin McEnroe are not flattering to him; i diasgree with him on just about everything and think he is rude, but the hijackers give me the impetus I need to stick around. They really bother me, and turn me leftward from my new moderate stance. I guess, in my case, that their efforts have backfired.
Correction: I do not disagree with the host of this blog on most things. But I do find him ill-mannered.
I can be civil but I can also show my canines. The canines resulted from my days on the annonyamous posts the Courant once allowed but terminated recently. But it was fun while it lasted. So many crazy charactors most of them being ultra conservatives. I and a retired propellor held them at bay in our daily skirmishes.
This blog is much tamer then where I used to go. Still people vent more much more then they wou
D face to face. I think we show aggression here because it is indeed only cyber land. We put a person behind the wheel of a car and they get aggressive. Talk face to face and they are pussy cats.
Speaking of cats, I had better get my cat who I am watching in my back yard (I don’t let them out unsupervised) before I she runs.
On topic, I simply don’t read any stuff here if it is too long. I doubt if many others do so their exersize becomes mote.
Oh, and I also need meds. Can’t get to sleep without my ambiance, LOL.
Ambiance – darn IPad…
opps; “professor” not “propellor” IPad has its down side.
” I just don’t understand how these monologue writers hope to be heard.”
I haven’t searched out EVERY essay posted, but I’ve sought out several, and they’re original to other sources and just cut and pasted here.
Susan who? Do you mean the anti-American, Catholic-bashing, liberal feminist who took a buyout? That Susan? Since when do liberals take a buyout? I thought only Republicans do that.
The modern state of feminism is best experienced when reading Katha Pollitt’s review of Naomi Wolf’s autobiography at The Nation.
http://tinyurl.com/926bhue
THe only thing missing is the de-mythologizing of the War on Women as the War for Personal Absolution and Acceptance for having had an abortion.
Traditional Feminism is crippled when the excuse for an abortion becomes “I refused to take my free birth control or use Plan B and wanted to have a Second Term abortion just for the hell of it. It’s all about women’s health isn’t it? I am a cool, cutting edge feminist exercising my choice to have an abortion on the cusp of viability.”
“Traditional Feminism is crippled when the excuse for an abortion becomes “I refused to take my free birth control or use Plan B and wanted to have a Second Term abortion just for the hell of it.”
Do you know a lot of women who want to have a second term abortion for the hell of it? Really?
I know plenty who want to lobby for it under Women’s Health and the War on Women. That’s what disgusts me. Are you proposing serious limits on Second Term abortion? On First Term?
Technology is going to change this argument. The excuses for abortion are becoming less acceptable. When reversible sterilization is finally a reality what’s the excuse then? Because I wanted one and its my body!
The fact is progressive women can no longer discuss the moral dimension of abortion. They’ve had theirs and can’t revisit the subject dispassionately.
We are a civilized people. We spay our dogs.
“We are a civilized people. We spay our dogs.”
And “we” treat our slaves and women well, too. Really we do.
Congratulations Cynical. You’ve won yourself 3 choruses of Yoko’s ‘Women is the Negro of The World’. Yes inded.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asf4InKVo8k
Even arch-progressive Melissa Harris Perry today ran with the topic “The Death of Men”. Video available on her web site. Of course it turned into a 1970s era weenie roast but hey its MSNBC and MHP. Not a post-feminist show.
Ah Janey, how simple your world is. And despite your name change, how much you once sought the attention of said Susan (not me). She can and does speak for herself, but I believe you’re wrong in describing her as anti-American OR Catholic-bashing (unless being angered about abuse of children is Catholic-bashing). And before you call me a sycophant, let me remind you that she’s a friend, thus not the subject of any sycophancy. You’re just pissed off (ooooo, shocking) that she shut you off her blog.
@Richard:
Your above post is a walk-off home run against the feminista, liberal, BS. Is it November 6th yet?
Cynical Susan in case you forgot…this is Colin McEnroe’s blog not Susan Campbell’s now defunct old one. It is rude of you to hide behind your tired old pen name. Your slavish defense of a former Courant writer is bordering on obsession Cynical. How wonderfully easy it must be for you to hide behind your pseudonym. For all we know…Cynical Susan could be Susan Campbell…but I suspect not, at least SC has the cajones to use her actual first and last name…you?
It’s great catching up with you Cynical Susan…how’s that Arab Spring and all of that Hope and Change BS working out? See you at the polls on November 6th.
Right, Sybil. Carry on.
10,000.00 bucks says you eat crow on November 7.
how ’bout it, paizano? oh alright coward, I’ll give ya 10 to 1 odds. cash to be held in escrow at a bank of your choosing.
@Richard,
Only the histrionic Cynical Susan can put “slaves” and “women” in the same sentence. Richard you totally exposed her and leftist friends. They know that the 2006-present liberal gravy train is coming to a halt come November sixth. Can you smell the liberal desperation in the fall air?
That would be the one-named Richard to whom you refer?
Why don’t you address the issues in the comments directed to you?
@Cynical Susan: Todd comes out when his meds run low – which seems more often these days. Todd, I have $10,000.00 that says Obama wins.
Put your money where your mouth is or shudup, ding bat.
Let’s meet here on November 7.
OMG, just when I don’t think you can be any funnier Richard you pull out the Yoko you tube. Yoko is to music what Obama is to statesmanship.
Richard, good stuff. Cynical and Jimmy making cracks at people with psychological disorders. I guess we can now add white males, Catholics, tea party members, and people who suffer from mental disorders as groups who enjoy no PC liberal love from the leftists.
Just give the left enough time and they’ll never, ever, disappoint!
@Todd; 10,000.00 bucks. yes or no.
“Cynical and Jimmy making cracks at people with psychological disorders”
Where on this blog have I done that?
Ah yes, another unrelated essay stolen from “The American “Thinker”"
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/09/what_obama_thinks_of_americans.html