Posted on 07/28/2012 11:08:26 AM PDT by parisa
“Says let us be clear then says something impenetrably foggy, hoping to intimidate.”
I don’t think so; I met some exchange students when I was in school, and one of them used “In fact...” at the start of many of his sentences. He heard an American say it, and thought that was how Americans speak (for EVERY sentence). Obama is merely parroting literate people, without knowing the proper context as to when it should be used.
Outstanding. A succinct, cogent delineation of the ‘real Obama’ that we all know - and want out of the White House as soon as possible.
As a post notes the site is not on the excerpt-only list, here is the balance of the editorial.
The truly revealing and disturbing idea is in the first paragraph, in which the president of the United States of America, the richest nation in the world, says he is always struck by people who think that individual smarts and hard work are responsible for success. The fools! Dont they know achievement is a function of lavish government contracts to education and construction unions? Cant they comprehend that innovation results from taxpayer-financed loan guarantees to companies owned by Democratic Party donors?
If the sentiments expressed in Roanoke really were as innocent and commonplace and pro-business as the Obama campaign and its apologists would have us believe, there would have been no need for the president to release an advertisement saying his words had been taken out of context; for his deputy campaign manager to record a three-minute video gushing over small business; for some peon on Jim Messinas 700-person staff to design a shoddy website rebutting Mitt Romneys Misleading Attack Ads. The media would have continued to engage in Jesuitical reading and interpretation of Romneys contract with Bain Capital, and in gnostic speculation about the contents of the former Massachusetts governors tax returns. The plan to negatively define, and thus destroy, Romney would be proceeding apace. Obama ruined the storyand not for the first time.
Obamas biggest blunder yet is how the incumbents most devoted Internet advocate described the moment when the first gay president spoke his mind to the raucous Virginia crowd. And indeed, there have been plenty of other blunders, stretching back many years. One could write a history of the Obamian Slip, telling the story of those instances when the president inadvertently disclosed his inner self, and diverted from the Axelrod message of hope and change and unity.
A rough timeline might look something like this. On July 23, 2007, at the CNN-YouTube Democratic primary debate, then-senator Obama made his ludicrous and unrehearsed pledge to meet personally with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea in the first year of his administration. There was the stunning January 5, 2008, debate before the New Hampshire Primary, when Obama insulted the former First Lady and two-term New York senator Hillary Clinton by sneering she was likable enough. On April 6, 2008, he told a rather cartoonish audience at a San Francisco fundraiser that its not surprising he wasnt winning the votes of working-class whites in the Democratic Party, because years of betrayal by the political class had made them get bitter, they cling to their guns or religion or antipathy toward people who arent like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or uh, anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
The blunders do not stop. Obamas August 22, 2009, remark at a press conference that the Cambridge police had acted stupidly by arresting a disorderly Harvard professor created such controversy that the president hurriedly convened a slapdash beer summit that seemed like a parody of racial comity. The next January, while campaigning for Massachusetts attorney general Martha Coakley to replace the late Edward M. Kennedy in the U.S. Senate, Obama seemed obsessed with Republican state senator (and eventual victor) Scott Browns pickup truck, poking fun at it repeatedly during a last-minute campaign rally. A month later, at the health-care summit, Obama could not hide his contempt as John McCain explained why his constituents and a national majority opposed the presidents proposal for a health-care overhaul. When McCain finished, Obama dismissed him by sniping that The elections over, as though the four-term senator had no legitimate grounds for opposition.
Obamas impromptu rhetoric is laced with the arch, dry, and bitter humor of the liberal bourgeois who write our newspapers and magazines and books and Comedy Central news shows. This is the cynical and snarky voice that informs comments such as Youre likeable enough and the elections over and, at the June 13, 2011, meeting of the presidents jobs council, Shovel ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected.
The critical detachment with which the president sees himself, his office, and his country is also apparent. He thought he could confide to Dmitri Medvedev that a second term would give him more flexibility to negotiate away Americas missile defenses, nuclear arsenal, and interest in democracy and human rights within the Russian near-abroad. A hot mic spoiled it for him. Obama thought he was stating the obvious when he said The private sector is doing fine in his June 8 press conference. Anemic private sector job creation, minimal GDP growth, stagnant wages and incomes, weakening manufacturing, record-low yields on U.S. Treasuries, and the longest sustained period of over 8 percent unemployment since the Great Depression all suggest otherwise.
Since 2007, Obama has been able to maintain a façade of positivity, nationalism, and mainstream goodwill, even as he harbors ideas, attitudes, and reflexes peculiar to a highly educated and overly compensated legal, corporate, and cultural elite. But the foundation of his appeal is eroding. The negative campaign against Romney accelerated the process. Obamas favorability ratings are down. Democratic enthusiasm is down. The Roanoke speechYou didnt get there on your own; There are a lot of smart people out there; You didnt build that; Somebody else made that happenmay come to be seen as the juncture when the president sundered the connection he forged with America in the summer of 2004.
Who will be blamed for demolishing such a dazzling countenance? Obama alone. Nobody else made that happen.
His 2012 campaign is turning into a disaster because he's running as a bitter, angry black man.
An angry marxist mulatto.
Obama is running as a bitter, angry white man.
It figures you wouldn't notice.
“His 2012 campaign is turning into a disaster because he’s running as a bitter, angry black man.
Obama is running as a bitter, angry white man.”
I have started to question which half of him is racist.
I'll take 'Both' for a $1000, Alex.
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