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Posted on 11/15/2010 12:27:13 AM PST by Rashputin
Actually, You Do Have a Messaging Problem, When Your Message Is Sheer Arrogance
Marshall McLuhan was right: when it comes to Barack Obama, the medium really is the message. November 14, 2010 - by Jeff Durstewitz
The latest attempt at rationalization from our friends on the left is that their devastating electoral rebuke is the result of “bad messaging.” In other words, BHO, the man who evoked hosannas as the most eloquent and effective communicator since FDR, if not Lincoln (if not Jesus Christ and/or Julius Caesar), was a victim of his own unfortunate tongue-tiedness. If only he could have gotten out his message of hope and change, his dwindling admirers lament, we could have kept marching toward the New Jerusalem of social justice and universal entitlement.
The subtext of such remarks, of course, is that we, the lumpen bozos, are too dense to appreciate the brilliance and moral superiority of the vanguard elite who bring us, out of the goodness of their hearts, “progressive” policies. Leaving that problematic idea aside for a moment, it should be noted that the Democrats have actually begun to get a glimmer of a hint of a clue when they say they have a messaging problem. That’s because you really do have a problem when the main thing you communicate is arrogance.
The latest proof of this is soon-to-be-ex-Speaker Pelosi’s act of noblesse oblige: She’s determined to keep leading (and pushing) the congressional Democrats off a cliff, thus helping preserve (to the Republicans’ glee) a constant reminder of the three amigos of the Dempocalypse: Obama, Pelosi, and Reid. How to explain such a comically bone-headed move? Simple: It’s the very essence of arrogance.
It’s the same arrogance that withheld what we wanted (a growth-friendly government) while giving us what we didn’t want — a “stimulus” that mainly transferred money to unionized public workers (and thus back to the Democrats themselves via the dues siphon), a “cap-and-tax” bill, and a government takeover of Detroit, student loans, and health care. And that congratulated itself at every turn. And the same arrogance that sees us as small-minded wretches who can’t understand all this beneficence. Such overweening arrogance is a byproduct of delusion.
And Pelosi actually does see herself as an avatar of progressive enlightenment. For our own good, mind you, she’s determined to drag us, kicking and screaming, toward cradle-to-grave bliss. As she no doubt firmly believes, the work of improving benighted humanity must continue, and she’s just the one to do it. Could there be a better example of deluded arrogance?
Well, how about Barack “The Shining One” Obama? When he said, “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” wasn’t he really saying, “I’m the one you’ve been waiting for”? He sold himself as the messiah not only of a weary United States but of a world weary of the United States back in ’08, when so many voters seemed to be guzzling Kool-Aid. And now, his delusions of grandeur having fallen around his ears, he has the epic gall to tell us that we’re the problem! If only we could have put aside our petty fears and focused on his sheer epoch-making magnitude, he’d still have both houses of Congress. (And a virtual lock on creating a more radical federal judiciary to boot.) If there were a Richter scale for self-regard, he’d drive the cursor off the chart.
Compounding their arrogance is the fact that the Democrats have largely become the party of people fundamentally ashamed, in some sense, of being Americans. Affluent tri-coastal Obama-Pelosi liberals, with their high IQs, advanced degrees, and jobs that often seem, at least to them, to owe nothing to the grubby world of commerce, manufacturing, and marketing, are desperate to create an America that won’t embarrass the Harvard faculty. Of course, that would imply that they don’t think very much of the country most Americans are actually quite fond of, a stance that could be expected to have harsh repercussions in a democracy. But they see that as our problem, not theirs.
Just as the ancient Croesus is still associated with unimaginable wealth and Pyrrhus with unaffordable victory, so may Obama be associated, down the ages, with unfathomable arrogance.
Jeff Durstewitz is the co-author, with Ruth Williams, of the Bantam memoir "Younger Than That Now — A Shared Passage From the Sixties." He lives in Saratoga Springs, NY.
The democrat party MUST be destroyed as a national party. Not degraded, reduced, made into a permanent minority, but utterly destroyed to the degree that only a few maniacs in MA and CA even dare call themselves democrat any longer. As a nation, we are paying for not having destroyed the democrat party completley after the Civil War they started in an attempt to retain their ownership of others. Not doing so has allowed them to finally achieve their goal of owning all of us rather than only those they purchased from Muslim slave traders.
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Well said Rash.
The chickens are coming home to roost for these arrogant fools. They’re destroying themselves and it would be fun to watch if it wasn’t so costly to each and every one of us.
Amazingly well said!
Here we go AGAIN. Blaming everything on the South is becoming as tiresome as blaming Bush for everything bad. Or trying to destroy Governor Palin.
Silly. Only Republicans can be arrogant.
Less government=better outcome. Liberate the economy and it will take off.
The wealthy elite of the South was democrat and they controlled the Southern media lock, stock, and barrel. The fact that they could misrepresent the issues to the degree that so many fought so valiantly on behalf of a deliberately misrepresented cause is one of the great unlearned lessons of the Civil War. Given the fact that only the presence of the Internet may have saved us from a similar sad fate 150 years later, I don't see it as being a Southern or Norther issue at all. It is an issue of a wealthy democrat elite dedicated to their own ends, ends that include control of if not outright ownership of everyone not a part of their elite.
The FACT that the elite in the south controlled the economic fate of the vast majority of white Southerners nearly as much as they did the fate of their slaves serves to show exactly what sort of society the demorat fascists have always wanted and have never abandoned their struggle to retain. If you see that as a slander of or blaming of the South, so be it, but as a Southerner myself I resent your insinuation and suggest you do a great deal of reading prior to insulting others rather than questioning them.
here is the only message we need to know about this administration:
ATLANTA, Nov. 13, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The United States Supreme Court will soon issue a landmark decision on the validity of the Constitution.
The Supreme Court will consider three petitions filed by William M. Windsor, a retired Atlanta, Georgia grandfather.
The decision should be rendered by the end of the year.
** Unless The Supreme Court acts, federal judges will be free to void the Constitution. **
The Questions Presented to The Supreme Court by Grandfather Windsor are:
Will The Supreme Court declare that the Constitution and its amendments may be voided by federal judges?
Should federal judges be stopped from committing illegal and corrupt acts to obstruct justice and inflict bias on litigants?
Will The Supreme Court be afraid to disclose the corruption in the federal courts? ...
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=xprnw.20101113.CL01025
“The democrat party MUST be destroyed as a national party. Not degraded, reduced, made into a permanent minority, but utterly destroyed”
In the past whenever this sentiment was expressed, my reaction was to agree but look at it as hyperbole.
Not any more. Your argument to destroy them, is unfortunately, the only logical course. Unless they are destroyed, they will continue to destroy our country.
Good Lord! Is that what you think he said? You need to reread his post. The blame was placed on democrat ideology, not on the South.
Yes, the RATs were evil, are evil and will always be evil. However, little is ever mentioned of the North RATs part in starting the war.
John Brown wanted to invade the South and free all the slaves. Troops led by Robert E. Lee had to quell his attempted insurrection. THAT was treason.
McClellan and the Northern RATs worked against Lincoln and secretly negotiated for peace with the Confederacy. THAT was Treason.
I have read “The South Was Right” by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy and “The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War” by H. W. Crocker III. The blame, it seems, was not the South after all.
Now move on.
Moving on...
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