7 stories Barack Obama doesn't want told

Politico ^ | 11/30/09 | JOHN F. HARRIS

[kingattax]

Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline, voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their minds.

No one understands this better than Barack Obama and his team, who won the 2008 election in part because they were better storytellers than the opposition. The pro-Obama narrative featured an almost mystically talented young idealist who stood for change in a disciplined and thoughtful way. This easily outpowered the anti-Obama narrative, featuring an opportunistic Chicago pol with dubious relationships who was more liberal than he was letting on.

A year into his presidency, however, Obama’s gift for controlling his image shows signs of faltering. As Washington returns to work from the Thanksgiving holiday, there are several anti-Obama storylines gaining momentum.

The Obama White House argues that all of these storylines are inaccurate or unfair. In some cases these anti-Obama narratives are fanned by Republicans, in some cases by reporters and commentators.

But they all are serious threats to Obama, if they gain enough currency to become the dominant frame through which people interpret the president’s actions and motives.

[kingattax]

[BruCru]

ping

[P.O.E.]

He thinks he’s playing with Monopoly money
Too much Leonard Nimoy (Spock-ish)
That’s the Chicago Way
He’s a pushover
He sees America as another pleasant country on the U.N. roll call, somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe
President Pelosi
He’s in love with the man in the mirror

Check, Check and Septuple Check!

[two23]

The big story that he doesn’t want told is:
He and his anti-God marxists are fundamentally and systematically destroying America.

[maddog55]

[ClaudiusI]

Read the article, it's sickening. It's written by a disillusioned Obama sycophant.
It's several pages of battered-wife-esque rationalization of the Obama administration.

[madinmadtown]

I read the entire article and the Marxist angle was definitely missing, but for a lefty writer, it was a beginning of some disenchantment and clear-headed thinking which we should be welcoming, not disparaging.
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I was with someone who lived in Chicago for several years while Obama was there and they said that there are a lot of stories of Obama frequenting gay bars while he was there. I would guess that would make just another big story that Obama doesn't want told.

[TNCMAXQ]

Wow this was actually on the Yahoo front page too. Maybe the dimming of the luster is getting worse.

[WOBBLY BOB]

BTTT

[toddausauras]

My Dad in Florida, a HUGE Obama supporter (both my parents are) mentioned the gay lover thing yesterday on the phone with nervousness in his voice. He heard about it from tabloids but I was very surprised to hear him mention it. If my Dad mentions a story like this it’s really spreading because my father basically gets his news from CNN and that’s it. He didn’t know who Bill Ayers was until the election was pretty much over.

[madinmadtown]

Yahoo? Wow.

[Osage Orange]

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I was with someone who lived in Chicago for several years while Obama was there and they said that there are a lot of stories of Obama frequenting gay bars while he was there...

LOL!!

[Osage Orange]

Where is that?

[danamco]

Where is the BC and other sealed records???

[Reeses]

The Carter comparison storyline in the pipeline is going to do some serious damage. You can compare Obama's and Carter's approval ratings by clicking the comparison tab here: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/presidential-approval-tracker.htm

Obama has always tracked lower than Carter. It's very suspicious that Obama's recent ratings seem frozen at 50%. That hasn't happened for any other president. They must be global warming up the data.

[Red Boots]

It would be hugely unwelcome for Obama if the perception took root that he is comfortable with a relative decline in U.S. influence or position in the world.

Further proof that Washington, and Politco are way out of touch.

This perception has not only taken root, it's a giant tree in full-blown leaf !!!

[ODDITHER]

“If you are going to be known as a fighter, you might as well reap the benefits. But some of the same insider circles that are starting to view Obama as a bully are also starting to whisper that he’s a patsy.”

Every community organizer whose mentor is Alinksy, has the same problem. They are the school yard bully that pushes people around using threats, intimidation, ridicule and blackmail. All it takes to make them run and hide behind the skirts of their MSM, and special interest groups is one person standing up to them.

This President might for the short term have total control of his party and the corporations that he has bought, however everyone wants to think that they are making choices willingly and not because they have been threatened, harassed, blackmailed or intimidated. Once the public becomes aware that their vote was bought then you will see them throwing Obama and his chief of staff under the bus.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

bttt

[Chickensoup]

I spent time with two leftist friends. One is politically blind, the other seems to be frustrated and disgusted with Obama. It was a welcome surprise.

[P.O.E.]

Clinton tacked towards the middle, and was enough of a sociopathic liar to pull it off. I wonder if Obama’s string pullers will let him attempt to “triangulate”, or will he tack further left in desparation?

[CedarDave]

He didn’t know who Bill Ayers was until the election was pretty much over.

He would have if Sarah had her way. In her TV interviews she made the case for bringing up Obama's associations, which are legitimate for the voting populace to know, but was silenced by the McCain campaign.

[Stentor]

What’s up with the douches at the Politico. Starting the CYA?

[Fetid Facts]

"Economists and business leaders from across the ideological spectrum were urging the new president on last winter when he signed onto more than a trillion in stimulus spending and bank and auto bailouts during his first weeks in office. Many, though far from all, of these same people now agree that these actions helped avert an even worse possibly delay the worst of the financial catastrophe for some of the people who still have jobs."

[ASOC]

Yup - I quit reading 1/2 down page two. The author still LOVES bammy, but doesn’t understand why the prez is failing.

Idiots both.

[STARWISE]

~~~PING!

The fact that John Harris, former WashPost reporter,
would even be whispering such things .. though
nowhere near the core disastrous qualities of anti-
Americanism we all know so well about this cretin ..
shows the veneer may be starting to crack just a bit,
Chicago Way and all.

[shield]

He is only a front man and his handlers now appear to be rather stupid....so their front man looks and is stupid.

[two23]

..."but for a lefty writer, it was a beginning of some disenchantment and clear-headed thinking which we should be welcoming, not disparaging."

Good point!

[TEXOKIE]

bttt

[mojitojoe]

He’s in love with the man in the mirror No one becomes president without a fair share of what the French call amour propre. Does Obama have more than his share of self-regard? It’s a common theme of Washington buzz that Obama is over-exposed. He gives interviews on his sports obsessions to ESPN, cracks wise with Leno and Letterman, discusses his fitness with Men’s Health, discusses his marriage in a joint interview with first lady Michelle Obama for The New York Times. A photo the other day caught him leaving the White House clutching a copy of GQ featuring himself. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29993_Page4.html

[mojitojoe]

Great link. Thanks you. What is interesting is that it seems from day one he has not been a popular president. I think it will take a miracle for him to be re-elected. Republicans and Independents will crawl over broken glass in a burning building to vote this POS out.

[BP2]

A photo the other day caught him leaving the White House clutching a copy of GQ featuring himself. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29993_Page4.html

You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you
You're so vain, I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't You? Don't You?

[mojitojoe]

[mojitojoe]

[manc]

sadly many obama voters have no clue who Ayers is or the connection to the terrorist group for bozo.

[manc]

why does this writer say that it is groups growing against bozo?

It is not paid organised groups alone it is the normal guy on the street looking at him and saying what a complete idiot who has no leadership, no clue on the international stage and certainly is trying to get this country into a Marxists one

[Yaelle]

Are these photos photoshopped??? Any of them????

[toddausauras]

Criminal criminal media. I want to see their downfall in my lifetime.

[Yaelle]

There are far more than 7 stories he doesn’t want told.

I bet he doesn’t want told the story about how when a gay guy in a limo came to Chicago to cruise, the Muslim cabbie knew just who to hook him up with, a slim mocha pol who liked a drink and a little crack-smoking before enjoying a round of sex in the limo. And how the pol enjoyed himself so immensely he tracked the gay visitor down the next day at his hotel for a second round.

[uncitizen]

Is there any possibility that BarrytheFairy has ever served time in prison? Any rumors to that affect?

[mojitojoe]

3 I know are not. The one with the picture of him on the wall, I can’t say for sure. Someone else posted it on FR. The others are not and there are tons more like that. It’s called malignant narcissist.

[mojitojoe]

BarrytheFairy ________________ LOL LOL!

[uncitizen]

Whoa! That picture is very telling. Look at that smile on BtheF’s face. But ugh coulda done without seeing that guy in the brown shorts, and thank God the other black guy is partially blocked by BtheF.

Do you happen to know when and where this picture was taken? Just curious....

[mojitojoe]

Someone sent it to me in an email. I’m sure it’s photoshopped.

[Popman]

What’s he holding in his hand ?

[LucyT]

He’s in love with the man in the mirror.

. . . . Check out photos.

[uncitizen]

Ah darn!