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The Greatest Pitchman is Running This Country
The Aspen Times ^ | 07/21/09 | Addison Gardner

Posted on 07/21/2009 5:40:46 AM PDT by Titmouse

Billy Mays wasn't the world's greatest pitchman.

That title belongs to Barack Obama, the president whose sales spiel bounces Billy like a coconut on a Waikiki wave.

Like Mays, Obama operates from a script — neither of these hucksters ever mined his own material — but Billy taped his infomercials in a studio: If the “Mighty Putty” didn't hold up the garden hose, the stage crew added a rivet.

Obama does “hard sell,” live, and maintains his head-swiveling metronome, unless the teleprompter stops scrolling, or — as it did last week — explodes into a million fragments at the foot of his jet-powered podium.

No president has spent more time in production of set piece messaging. No president has spent more time on the road, in network studios (or importing network studios into the White House), or less time behind his desk during his first six months in office. No president has been so “in-your-face,” from dawn ‘till dusk — on the radio, on the boob-tube, on the newsstand, or on your laptop.

Clickety clack, now back to Barack.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: budget; climate; obama; pelosi
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This is the president who campaigned as a moderate, promised to unite us, promised a "transparent administration," and said he'd end the old partisan divisiveness that resulted in congressional gridlock.

Instead, he's abdicated his leadership role, letting Nancy Pelosi craft all the nation's legislation, stiff-arming Republicans out of the way, ignoring the input of moderate Democrats, and dragging the country toward European socialism.

This "post-racial" president is proving to be just another elitist liberal, with the same condescending, paternalistic views of the African American community.

1 posted on 07/21/2009 5:40:46 AM PDT by Titmouse
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No president has spent more time in production of set piece messaging. No president has spent more time on the road, in network studios (or importing network studios into the White House), or less time behind his desk during his first six months in office. No president has been so “in-your-face,” from dawn ‘till dusk — on the radio, on the boob-tube, on the newsstand, or on your laptop.

I'm worried he's going to turn up in the bathroom while I'm doing my morning shave.

2 posted on 07/21/2009 5:43:17 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Titmouse

Brother Love’s travelling salvation show.


3 posted on 07/21/2009 5:43:21 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Titmouse

He was not that good. Hope and change only won because McCain was completely void of anything. McCain ran on being a Maverick....oh yeah, what the heck does that mean?


4 posted on 07/21/2009 5:44:45 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: Rummyfan
I'm worried he's going to turn up in the bathroom while I'm doing my morning shave.

If you're lucky you will see him when you lift the lid.

5 posted on 07/21/2009 5:45:08 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Barak Obama: Pontificator in Chief and Poster Child for the Peter Principle)
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To: Titmouse

“There’s a sucker born every minute”

52% happen to be born at the same time.


6 posted on 07/21/2009 5:46:15 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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"Let me be clear."
"Make no mistake."
"This is not about me."
"We must act now."

And when off the 'prompter...
"Uh"
"Y'no"
"aaaaaand"
"Um"
And sometimes the truth flops out like Joe the Plumber exchange where he desires to "spread the wealth around".

7 posted on 07/21/2009 5:46:44 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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What gets me is, if Barry O’bama had been a white Irishman with his qualifications and beliefs, he would have been laughed off the stage on day 1 of trying to run for president. Oh, and he would have been required to prove where he was born when he applied to run for state office in Illinois. Black trumps all requirements.


8 posted on 07/21/2009 5:46:55 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 (Forget going Galt. Its time to go Braveheart.)
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To: Always Right

Axelrod was able to steer Patrick to the MA governorship on the same platform—and Patrick is an idiot, as MA voters have come to realize.


9 posted on 07/21/2009 5:47:21 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Instead, he's abdicated his leadership role, letting Nancy Pelosi craft all the nation's legislation,

That's what the WH propaganda machine would like you to believe. The truth is that Obama is driving this radical, socialist agenda, not Nancy Pelosi. Obama is the most left wing President ever to occupy the Oval Office. He has been deeply influenced by Alinsky, Ayers, Farrakhan, Frank Marshall Davis, et. al. Make no mistake about it, Obama and his handlers are driving this train.

10 posted on 07/21/2009 5:48:45 AM PDT by kabar
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head-swiveling metronome

LOVE the decription! Perfect!

11 posted on 07/21/2009 5:49:18 AM PDT by Citizen Soldier (Just got up from Bedroomshire)
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To: Titmouse

12 posted on 07/21/2009 5:59:34 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: 9YearLurker

So that means Patrick is going to have his ass handed to him in the next election, right? Don’t count on it.


13 posted on 07/21/2009 5:59:57 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Are you in a union job? I'm sorry to hear that.)
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How did Zero even get elected?

1) He got a complete pass from the Lame Stream Media, who glossed over his nearly nonexistent record of “accomplishments, shady associates, and obvious-lies about his agenda.

2) They were so enamored of the notion that a “black man” had a chance to finally win the presidency, that they “skipped” the important stuff. This includes 98% of black Americans.

3) The GOP ran the WORST possible candidate in RINO-extraordinare amnesty-loving, campaign-finance-”reforming” Juan McLame. Hell, even Bob Dole was a better candidate.

So, what are we left with?

The choice between armed revolution and socialist slavery-lite. Some choice!


14 posted on 07/21/2009 6:00:59 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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Excellent remark, but dump the “lite”. He’s sending us down the road to full-blown socialist slavery. Nothing “lite” about it.


15 posted on 07/21/2009 6:08:33 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Titmouse

Things are bad when you would trust Billy Mays more than the President of the United States.

Rest in peace, Billy. I miss that booming voice and those sales pitches.


16 posted on 07/21/2009 6:12:24 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Sig Sauer P220

Precisely..


17 posted on 07/21/2009 6:18:36 AM PDT by hot4plasma
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To: fatnotlazy

Billy was a freak of nature. Nobody could be that happy (but he was), 24/7. I will miss him, too.


18 posted on 07/21/2009 6:19:38 AM PDT by Titmouse
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To: Titmouse

Billy Mays sold stuff that works.

Obama — well, not so much.


19 posted on 07/21/2009 6:20:04 AM PDT by Maceman
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Must be a typo in the title - surely “running” was meant as “ruining”.


20 posted on 07/21/2009 6:20:45 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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