Seldom (ever?) has an administration been so reliant upon a fawning media and the uncritical love of the perveyers of pop culture. This is a critical vulnerability should the tables be turned. The Geoffrey campaign as a steady unrefutable drumbeat could lead to deep cracks in the armour around the Obama psyche. In the age of youtube Obama’s own words contrasted against themselves delivered in his typical manner could really do something.

My view is that Obama is thin skinned and that weakness should be exploited. He may be tough in the sense he is ruthless and not constrained by morality or consistancy, the end justifies the means. But I don’t think he is tough in the sense of being able to roll with the punches, of being able to absorb punishment. I don’t see him having the fortitude to stand up to a barrage of ridicule and abuse anything at all similar to what Bush shrugged off as a matter of course.

Would Obama have much defense against being portrayed as latter day Al Gore, internet inventer and all around laughing stock? Maybe laughter and ridicule can provoke his Waterloo.

The Geoffrey plan well executed deprives Obama of his chief political tool, his silver tongue. If the concensus shifts the more he talks the weaker his position.

With VAT, as I understand it a product you buy is levied as it is being manufactured with a tax on the elements that go into its production. This of course is passed onto the consumer in a higher ticket price. And of course you are taxed on that ticket price and so therefore are paying tax on taxes.

Obama should consider a VAT on Electricity. It would go perfect with Cap and Trade.

He says he lowered taxes for millions of Americans. We should be thanking him.

So far the only thing he appears to have done right is channeling money to Afghanistan to specific projects rather than a general pool. Everything else from what I can see has been wrong or partially wrong.
He deserves an award for his actions from Iran.

Is all this stuff real, or a new television show?

In many ways, I actually think this is a very exciting time in our history. For the first time, at least in my lifetime, we’re seeing Americans not only realize that something is very wrong, that our very identity, our values, and our freedoms are seriously threatened, but they are becoming proactive and realizing that they “are not alone” (am I really quoting Glenn Beck?!). We’re realizing the “power of the people” is a reality, and was very much intended to be so by the founding forefathers.

I was born in late 50’s and remember the 60’s as a blur of protests and rebellion and black and white clips of Viet Nam flashing behind Walter Cronkite. It was about revolution and violence and mayhem were not uncommon. Today’s protests are about preservation — of the country most of us grew up in where democracy and individual freedoms are paramount. To me, the Tea Parties and the record number of people becoming active evidence the realization that it is necessary to take personal responsibiity. If we don’t speak out and take action against the frighteningly real threats of socialism, the nanny state, and the redistribution of wealth, who will? If it takes four years of Barack Obama and far Left trying to wreak havoc on America to awaken the sleeping giant, it may be a relatively small price to pay (metaphorically, not literally) in the long run.

These days, one thing I thank the Lord for regularly is Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes. I shudder to think where we’d all be without Fox and The Wall Street Journal to counter the manipulation and duplicity of the liberal MSM.

I’ll admit that I am swayed more by reasoned debate than the average apathetic voter. Fortunately, I’m not suggesting reasoned debate. I’m suggesting non-confrontational, perhaps I’m too stupid to get it, so please explain it to me ads…

As in, he said this, now he says this, huh? He couldn’t (sarc) have been lying, so how do we square this circle?

One ad surely won’t change a thing. A campaign however, a bombardment of rhetorical questions is quite another. The goal is NOT to convince the brain dead, the goal is to raise distrust by pointing out, through implication, that he’s not trustworthy. Then, they’ll attach the label of liar to Obama because while most people are intellectually lazy, they’re not stupid.

Will that convince a majority of liberals? Of course not, but then for many, nothing would, including if Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, Moses, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Karl Marx all suddenly appeared, decrying the liberal agenda.

Fortunately we don’t need a majority of liberal Democrats, we need a majority of independents in Nov.

We already have that, we just need to maintain the momentum. Which given the influx of stimulus dollars waiting to be injected into the economy this summer is critical for us to maintain.

I’m not suggesting this as a panacea, I’m suggesting it should be employed as one of many tools.