This hot chick, Hanna Giles just nixed 50% of all election fraud for 2010. We owe her and James O'Keefe bigtime!
Posted on 10/22/2009 8:43:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The president has learned it's easier to burn bridges than build them.
And despite having been elected in part to unify all Americans and put an end to partisan division, the administration is intent on lighting as many fires as it can. In doing so, Obama is essentially creating a liberal version of Richard Nixon's "Enemies List."
We knew the White House would consider Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly as enemies. Taking on an entire cable news outlet (and its viewers), insurance companies, and the United States Chamber of Commerce, however—and to launch these attacks proactively—is another, riskier matter. As a Politico story headlined "Obama Strategy: Marginalize Critics" notes, "Obama's most important advisers miss few opportunities for public and highly partisan shots at his most influential critics."
Which is why we're told later in the story, regarding Obama administration attacks on Fox News, "The White House has cooperated gladly with stories explaining why it is on the warpath with the network." It's an interesting use of the word "gladly." It lets the reader know that not only does the White House want these attacks, but it wants to make certain you know, too, that the Fox News Channel is Public Enemy #1.
Analyzing how the White House has created straw-man enemies, Michael Barone goes further. To critics, Barone wrote in yesterday's Washington Examiner, Obama "has responded with classic Chicago brass knuckles. We'll see how far this kind of thuggery gets him."
As unemployment and deficits rise, legislative priorities languish, and the stimulus money doesn't, er, stimulate the economy, the White House not only needs other topics to distract voters, it needs scapegoats. And it's easiest just to blame someone else. "Why, Barack Obama is the great unifier, nothing can be his fault! Obama inherited all of this! It must be Rush's fault! Republicans are to blame! No, wait, the Chamber of Commerce did it! No, Fox News, too! Did you see what Sean Hannity said last night?"
Blaming others, especially the media, rarely works. At campaign rallies in 1992, President George H.W. Bush prominently held up bumperstickers that read "Annoy the media—re-elect Bush." It didn't work. Annoying the media may be a worthwhile by-product of Republican efforts, but it's not a message that conveys anything—especially to Independents and dissatisfied voters. Nor did anyone in the 1990s who called CNN the "Clinton News Network" change the mind of a single voter.
Similarly, as we begin to look to the 2010 mid-term elections, voters want real answers and real solutions from the man we elected to change how Washington does business. And, these bullying tactics are becoming a narrative that threatens a critical part of Obama's appeal: likeability and sincerity.
The White House should ask itself: "If I'm an independent voter unhappy with Obama's performance so far, am I more likely to blame a news network, TV and radio hosts, a business trade association, or the president himself?" Then act accordingly.
There could be some truth in that statement, if it’s only Biden or Gibbs. :)
the sands is fast running out in the hourglass and smart DEMS know that 0Bama’s futile & reckless attacks will only cost them even MORE comes 2010 elections :-)
B. Hussein 0bama, President for life.
Zero and his cohorts are nervous, very nervous, that Fox News or Rush or Beck or whomever will expose the truth behind the tyranny unfolding. All Liberals/Socialists fear exposure. We The People will be screaming from the rooftops for impeachment and demanding resignations when the truth comes out.
Your comment is dead-on.
I’m anxiously looking forward to reading what Camille Paglia, who is both a big Lib AND a big fan of Rush Limbaugh, will have to say about this. She is bright and fair, but even those on the left who are neither are starting to see the attack on Fox is even stupider than their previous shot at Rush.
What should be apparent even to the most ardent Obama supporter is the fact that it didn’t work the first time, yet here Obama is, doing the same stupid thing all over again. Proving your point that the smartest guy in the room, “Mister Perfect”, is driven by power and narcissism.
He must be confident ACORN and SEIU will carry the day in 2010 and 2012.
Bill O'Reilly? His lips are superglued to bambi's arse for crying out loud!
Heh...the minions are sending up distress flares to master....please stop it...
LMAO.....ego will trump the warnings even from his own minions...
Funny you should mention her, I just went over to Drudge to see if she had anything new, but no luck.
It seems that more media are finally waking up to the true Obama.
What makes you think there will be elections in 2010 & 2012?!
This hot chick, Hanna Giles just nixed 50% of all election fraud for 2010. We owe her and James O'Keefe bigtime!
Ted Baxter should retire, give his slot to Glenn Beck, and bring in another good conservative to fill Beck’s. Any ideas?
This...man has never built anything in his life.
Camille Paglia is a fabulously direct and clear thinker whose words are sabre-like.
Though she too-often tends to an odd PC-ish position, she is more typically a robust critic interested in the TRUTH.
So refreshingly rare on the left, but there she is ...
Dobbs is not really a conservative, but he is fairly reasonable and has brass balls, he would do.
vaudine
We sure do — SEIU is even pulling away from ACORN. They may be thugs but are way too lazy to do voter registration. This cleaning the voter lists should be a lot easier because ACORN won’t be paid to add the names back on the list.
Some of the Dems elected by ACORN voter fraud are going to be going to the end of the Unemployment line in 2010.
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