Posted on 09/04/2012 6:20:40 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Why did the Obama campaign fumble the "are Americans better off than four years ago" question?
Why has President Obama been unable to put the "you didn't build that" charge to rest?
And why has the campaign struggled to come up with a coherent response to the Republican convention? (Calling it a pack of lies doesn't count.)
It's hard to avoid the conclusion that, as Democrats begin their convention here in Charlotte, the Obama campaign is not hitting on all cylinders. The question is why a campaign that was so successful in 2008 is sputtering today.
Here's a theory: Barack Obama has never in his life run against a sharp, determined and aggressive Republican opponent. Facing Mitt Romney, who is all three, is a new experience for the president.
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“...why a campaign that was so successful in 2008 is sputtering today.”
Don’t worry. The MSM will pickup the slack to make sense where there is non, to put meaning where there is none, to reinvent the statistics where the statistics are so damning, etc.
GOP & RNC are finally waking up and smelling the coffee. You can’t play nice with these people. They lie & lie & lie. Michael Steele was a joke. Reince Priebus is doing a much more effective job at the RNC.
Squish him like a bug.
I expect much of the nation realizes how serious it is we replace Obamugabe....this is another reason his snake oil isn’t selling.
I kind of agree with Byron, but up to point. Certainly this is not the same as the wishy washy McCain campaign that “suspended” his campaign when the stock market crashed and played nice the whole...lest they get call rascist by Obama. However, they still have the occasional tepid response.
Actually it isn’t. The RNC ran some killer ads mocking 0 as “The One” in Aug 2008. They were doing real damage to 0 poll numbers then McCain and his clowns told the RNC to knock it off because they want “to run a positive campaign”.
“The question is why a campaign that was so successful in 2008 is sputtering today.”
Answer is very simple. Obama had no past history or previous record to run on. He could be manipulated whichever way the democrats and the media wanted, like a fresh wad of malleable clay dough.
Oh yeah, Romney/Ryan has made missteps but the think I have observed is they get better and better as the campaign goes on. The 0 camp on the other hand seems utterly incompetent. Having to send 0 to Louisiana after Romney went was a pretty stunning display of incompetence.
He won't learn to deal with it (imo). You can't fix narcissism let alone fix it in 2 months.
Did McCain ever put 0’bama on the defensive? Ever?
Most bugs are decidedly dark, if not black. Your comment, therefore, is RACIST!
Incredibly, the polls suggest Obama has an excellent chance of being re-elected so I wouldn’t exactly say it was sputtering.
When all else fails,they’ll play the race card in a big way. That will fail too.
I give credit for Reince for the overall tone of the RNC, but the one time I saw him on one of the talk shows, he was a stuttering apology-laden idiot. Keep him in the back room where he can do good.
How are you doing? Still in the DC area?
How good do they have to be when the media pro's sand off the rough edges?
The fact is that the corrupt MSM pulled out all the stops to augment and enhance Obama in 2008. They advocated for Obama in the inverse manner they sought to rip Bush every single day. Obama was never - ever - the subject of critical media review. There was nary an ill word ever uttered in the corrupt MSM about Obama. Even when people tried to raise any opposition — such as, lack of experience, no clear historic background, past campaigns issues, Jeremiah Wright, early childhood, etc. — the corrupt MSM puposefully suppressed this information, or ridiculed such information as nothing more than an attempt for unseemly partisan advantage by racists. This, coupled with the fact that John McCain probably actually voted for Obama himself, having said himself just 8 days before the election that we have nothing to fear from an Obama presidency and you can see what type of opposition McCain provided.
The corrupt MSM facilitated Obama’s hagiography. They desperately wanted Obama. That's why Obama had this oft-repeated "brilliant" campaign in 2008.
Doing well. Yes currently still in the DC area. How are you?
Here's a clue: When the snake oil salesman comes to town the second time, people don't buy his line of "Good for what ails you" BS any more.
The G.O.D. factor is wearing off.
Obama is no longer entirely untouchable.
The Obama ring of protection has become a little bit worn.
Just a little bit.
But it has opened him up to some questioning and criticism that was unthinkable just a year or two ago.
For the first time he and his henchmen are being asked a few direct serious questions and they are shocked to be challenged and put on the spot.
They weren’t prepared for such direct questions in place of the usual softballs and are upset that anyone, other than FOX, would have the temerity to directly question Obama or suggest that his policies have failed.
They have been visiblt shaken by being put on the spot and it is obvious that they are offended and outright indignant that Obama is being subjected to questioning and criticism as if he was just a normal, mortal human being.
Good point. That was imcompetent, but its been a staple of this adminstration. Results matter and 4 years its clear they have made it worse.
He usually does pretty good but then I usually watch him on Fox. The only time I saw him otherwise do poorly was with Chris Matthews but Matthews was a blathering idiot on his race card agenda and poor Reince took the brunt of that attack and even the others on the set were in SHOCK I think, even Brokaw. Matthews was unhinged more than usual that day.
Going to Chicago a lot this past year. In fact, on the plane now.
We just got a new project in AZ and I may end up there for a while which would be fine with me.
Brilliant poster, Travis McGee. Effective. I’d like to see this everywhere.
I watched the economic melt down that followed the real estate fall off in 08 unfold with many questions. We still don’t know all the mechanizations in play that September.
We need to keep our eyes open.
There is no defense against mockery and ridicule,
especially when any effective defense would expose concepts that they have to keep hidden.
Let us remember how the MSM operated last time around - through the ‘Jornolist’ conspiracy. No double similar back channels are operational now....
I just found it and passed it along. But whoever created it is VERY talented.
Well, then, he needs to rehearse dealing with rabid, spittle-flying, wildly-gesticulating, insane liberals.
Well, then, he needs to rehearse dealing with rabid, spittle-flying, wildly-gesticulating, insane liberals.
Good Lord...I keep staring at that picture and laughing until I’m crying—especially when I get to Biden as the “The Brainless Man”. Whoever created that thing is brilliant!
The simple fact is that McCain never wanted to be President, he just wanted to be the center of attention awhile.
My empty chair is still in the front yard.
May leave it there until Romney beats his butt.
That's almost exactly what I told my wife yesterday. I don't know why the RNC can't find a true conservative motivational leader. This guy absolutely puts me to sleep when he's on the tube.
Ergo, I am you.
Where do you work and is your wife cute, for when I pod-capture you and take over your life?
It has been reported in numerous political races that the support of the media establishment, local, state, national or international, adds 3 to 5 percent to a candidates final numbers. And that is DOWN from what it was when I was growing up.
The Emperor is an “artificial construct” made by and supported by the media. When it gets down to Republican/Conservative vetting standards used by the media establishment the Emperor isn't even an empty suit.
IMHO, I think this election cycle, 2012, is the first election cycle in the history of the Republic that the media establishment has not been able to hide the faults and failures of their preselected candidate. What it is coming down to is; The established media must make a hard decision - continued blind support of their preselected candidate or their own survival. United opposition by Republicans/Conservatives is only a minor issue.
by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show:
Well there’s gonna be a freakers ball
Tonight at the freakers hall
And you know, you’re invited one and all
Come on babies grease your lips
Grab your hats and swing your hips
Don’t forget to bring your whips
We’re going to the freakers ball
Blow your whistle and bang your gong
Roll up something to take along
It feels so good it must be wrong
We’re freakin at the freakers ball
Where all the fags and the dykes they’re boogyin’ together
The leather freaks are dressed in all kinds of leather
The greatest of the sadists and the masochists too
Screaming “Please hit me, and I’ll hit you”
The FBI are dancing with the junkies
All the straights, are swinging with the funkies
Across the floor and up the wall
We’re freakin at the freakers ball
Yall, we’re freakin at the freakers ball
Everybody’s kissing each other
Brother with sister, son with mother
Smear my body up with butter
Take me to the freakers ball
Pass that roach please and pour the wine
I’ll kiss yours if you’ll kiss mine
I’m gonna boogie till i go blind
We’re freakin at the freakers ball
White ones, black ones, yellow ones, red ones
Necrophiliacs looking for dead ones
The greatest of the sadist and the masochists too
Screaming “Please hit me, and I’ll hit you”
Everybody’s ballin’ in batches
Pyromaniacs striking matches
I’m gonna itch me where it scratches
Freaking at the freakers ball
I think Mitt will skewer him in the debates.
It is way past time to keep landing punches until "the One" has a meltdown and takes his media sycophants with him.
Libtards need to be returned to their bubble worlds of academia, media and entertainment. For these fantasy worlds are the only places where their cockamamie theories work.
And the press will say Mitt was mean-spirited towards a sitting President.
You are probably right but the public will see that the Emperor has no clothes. I think Mitt will do what McCain did not and show Obama for what he is just a very mediocre person who if he was white would never have gotten elected in the first place.
They expected Michael Steele to be able to stand up to Obama without being called a racist. What they forgot is that black Republicans have black friends and relatives who they will irreversibly alienate if they attack "The One".
This was my main concern about a Herman Cain candidacy -- whether he and his family could survive the kind of vitriol that they would get from their non-Republican black friends and relatives.
Byron York beside himself. Boohoo.
If you saw Carly Fiorna (R) on the weekend you saw how Newt had to beat her stupid DNC talking points into the ground. Instead of nailing the Rats on their extremist positions Newt had to totally counter her stupid comments about Akin and abortion.
The RNC needs to kick Karl Rove to the curb and get Newt and John Sununu onto every talk show between now and the election nailing Ubama to the wall! Those two men know how to counter and confront the propagandist media.
The RNC had better figure out a strategy to expose the media every time they enter the room to conduct an interview. Every one of the DNC talking points can be counter-punched!
For instance when Romney's tax records are brought up BY A MEDIA person and asked why is this still an issue... the response from an "R" team member should be: "the reason the tax records are still an issue is because instead of being a journalist you grabbed your DNC talking points off from the fax machine and you are discussing it. What's your next question Andrea?"
“The question is why a campaign that was so successful in 2008 is sputtering today.”
Here’s another theory: during his four years in office, Obama has now established a record of deliberate economic destruction so broad and so deep that the leftist media (i.e., the alphabet networks and the bird-cage-liner press) can no longer cover everything up for him, particularly since the leftist media itself is in its last dying throes since the big Internet meteorite slammed into Earth.
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