They’re exhausted of defending him
I’ve got a new piece up at RightNetwork. Please take a look, and comment if you so desire.
And while you’re there, this trailer looks interesting.
The New Neo
A blog about political change, among other things
I’ve got a new piece up at RightNetwork. Please take a look, and comment if you so desire.
And while you’re there, this trailer looks interesting.
As one wit put it, the people voting for Obama were high on hopium.
Here is the link;
http://socyberty.com/issues/white-house-insider-part-2-quotthe-president-needs-to-grow-up-quot/
I must have posted a comment to the wrong post. Anyway someone called White House Insider gave an interview describing the inner workings of the White House. The second in the series is linked above. Here is the first:
http://patdollard.com/2010/09/white-house-insider-on-obama-%E2%80%9Cthe-president-is-losing-it%E2%80%9D/
Liberals don’t want to talk about Obama because they know they were snookered by his BS. All the signs were there to indicate Obama was an empty suit, and they chose to ignore it. For people who think they are smarter than other people, it is very embarrassing.
I do not feel a bit sorry for these folks. I felt the same way after I voted for Jimmy Carter, but I learned from my mistake. I have doubts that very many of these people will learn from theirs. They will fall for the next con man selling non specific hope and change.
I found his little chuckle appalling. It’s a gesture that fits Shelby Steele’s bargainer profile, a way to temporarily deflect criticism while he thinks how to spin it away from him. It probably works among his social set and among his adorers, but I bet there are many like me who would like to punch him when he grins. There is something so condescending about it.
expat,
I agree. Noticed the same thing. He laughed at her – one of the peons who doesn’t really know like he knows!
He’s a jackass. he’s a m*&^er ^%$#er.
Period.
He is nothing more than that, and he is an incredibly dangerous person just because of that.
he could do anything.
It’s a crying shame you had to reveal your real name, though.
Bard: I’ve written a number of pieces for the Weekly Standard under my real name. So it’s nothing new.
Hmmm…reminds me of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade…
Grail Knight:But choose wisely, for while the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you.
[they] chose poorly.
Bard, I suspect J.Kaufman is not Neo Neocon’s real name.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/glenn-foden/2010/09/22/i-have-scream
I have said it before and will probably say it again. Whoever the Republican is that runs for president should play that Obama speech where he was talking about (paraphrase) “…this is the day we will look back and say the oceans stopped rising..” Put the whole Audacity of Hope in their face. Totally demoralize them.
Or rather I should say- a finishing blow to what they are experiencing now.
I think a good question is: What does it say about “the left,” including some of the moderate left “liberals”, that they were so eager to embrace this barely experienced, smooth-talking confidence man with the airy vague speeches about “hope?”
Of course, Im aware that those with a strong ideological mindset… those who are strngly ideologically leftist… supported him because he was one of their own: a leftist “community organizer,” the son of a leftsist anti-colonialist, who attends a radical church and supported the leftist New Party before seeking elective office.
But what about the everyday, run of the mill liberal… the center left types… what does it say about them that they were so eager to buy this bill of goods? What does it say about this weakness for pie-in-the-sky solutions that some glib talk about “hope” and the day “the oceans stop rising” hooked them in so easily? And the fact that they have such a hard time putting into concrete language their present disappointment with Obama? Is this not, in some way, due to a certain disconnect from hard cold reality, and the inevitable choices that reality entails?
Following up on my above post . .
Just as I was done writing it, I checked out this article from Robin of Berkely which probes the same questions, and gives ome answers.
You know…I have listened to her statement several times, and have wondered…she says she’s one of those in the middle class. She indicates that they are financially comfortable – or they wouldn’t be sending their kids to private schools. Then she says that “you said there would be changes for the middle class…” She understands that major changes take time to occur, but she expected _some_ changes by now…and I have to wonder…exactly what changes for the middle class did she expect?
I understand some of the quotes we heard from economically marginal people “Obama will pay for my housing” – that kind of stuff – but what do you think _this_ lady expected to change? It has really puzzled me…
suek,
That’s a very interesting question.
Good point, suek. It seems to escape her notice that Obama and the Democrats’ policies are systematically destroying the middle class.