Larry McDonald often made that remark about the folks who surrounded him in Malfunction Junction.
Posted on 04/24/2009 6:50:52 AM PDT by Jbny
Unlike candidate Barack Obama, President Barack Obama has been unable to use mob anger to his advantage. The White House position on a comprehensive release of terrorist interrogation materials and on potential prosecution of Bush administration officials is incoherent and stultifying. Casting himself as restorer of national decency, Obama first denounced tough interrogations as a betrayal of American ideals. Yet he recommended “reflection, not retribution,” vowing to “move forward” and not prosecute interrogators because “nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past.” However, days later, he decided that laying blame for the past is actually up to the discretion of the attorney general it is therefore best the president not “pre-judge” the matter.
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Is it “up to the discretion of the attorney general” whether or not to ask him “QUO WARRANTO?” (”by what authority do you issue orders?”)
Up to this point, what Obama’s handlers have done well is not to stay too long on any one issue. Americans have zero attention span, so if they keep him moving, it’s hard for people to get upset.
He fails because he is trying to raise a mob on the cheap.
In the campaign, he used Rent-a-Mob.
He used Rent-a-Mob for the AIG guys.
“The brilliance of American political culture has been our unstinting faith in the empowerment of individual citizens. To flirt with an America that seeks redemption from a leader of crowds is to risk bringing the whole glorious experiment to an end. “
Brilliant last sentences of the story.
If the GOP had any sense, they would bog Obama down on an issue. It's like Patton said: "Hold him by the nose, and kick him in the pants".
But we let Obama set the agenda and the timetable and so far he's pretty much running the table.
In the last month Obama and his organization has gone full tilt in trying to create mob frenzy in America, as like most recently trying to prosecute Bush and Cheney, his agenda as some are speculation is to covertly create some type of “right wing” action that can be used to initiate a restrictive police state and martial laws.
Almost every day we hear about something that is posted here at FR, something to make your blood a degree hotter, day by day they want America to boil over, to give them a legal(in their definition) to counter it publicly and to advertise it politically as terrorism.
Soo PRIZE! Soo PRIZE! Soo PRIZE!
The boy prez found a way to vote “PRESENT” yet again.
He is using this situation as a distraction to the real problems of the Administration. I would hope we don’t get side tracked as they want.
Larry McDonald often made that remark about the folks who surrounded him in Malfunction Junction.
I agree. At the same time, it keeps the possible targets off balance, because he moves so fast that they never know when it might be their turn.
I have nothing to back this up, but I wonder if the Freddie Mac exec who killed himself was afraid that he was going to be subjected to the AIG executive treatment. It doesn't sound as if he was doing anything illegal (unlike Franklin Raines, who was stealing) and in fact was just following the policies set down for his company by the government. But the way Bambi distracts the attention of the public from the activities of the government is to launch a drive-by style of personal attack on some convenient victim, and I bet this guy was afraid his time had come.
Angry mob? Obama (ptui!) ain’t seen nothing yet!
The other talent Obama has displayed is to nearly always follow his handlers’ instructions to “shut up”. This is interpreted as thoughtful, cool wisdom. I was amazed at how he got away with not saying ANYTHING in September during the bank crisis. You’ll notice the one time he got in a bit of trouble was when Joe the Plumber asked him a question and he actually answered it. (the handlers cut him off from real people after that). This time instead of staying quiet he went ahead and said that his administration would not prosecute the CIA. BIG mistake on our Dear Leader’s part.
“Obama has been unable to use mob anger to his advantage.”
Because all the angry mobs have been right wingers, aka Tea Parties.
Bookmark that.
Some FReeper said he saw a sign that said “we left our guns at home... this time”.
The angry mobs will be after him and they will not be Right Wingers.
Wait until unemployment benefits begin to run out in the cities devastated by the layoffs. Those people who voted him in office will turn against him. There is no way he can make enough “government” jobs to squelch this.
The train wreck is coming. WWhhhhhhhhhooooooo!
Still think Obama was ignoring the Tea Parties?
In order for Obama to succeed with his agenda, the opposition is required to be demoralized. Doesn’t look that way to me!
Ain’t this country great??
And if Eric Holder decides not to go forward with these interrogations, Zero can tell his fan clubs that it wasn’t his decision. What a WHIMP!
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