Comments on: If you can stomach the speeches tonight…

By: parker

parker — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:52:19 +0000

I was listening to the local public radio station while concocting dinner. 2 pundits on all things considered were discussing BHO’s acceptance speech, and despite their efforts to find something positive, there was a definite lack of enthusiasm. And, although they did not come right out and say it, as far as they were concerned Clinton stole the convention from Obama.

Under the surface there appears to be a bit of nostalgia on the left for the days of Clinton and disappointment for the debacle of BHO. I hope we see more and more of these efforts to explain away the failings of the BHO presidency. They sow doubt and despondency. Anti-BHO enthusiasm far out weighs the enthusiasm for BHO on the part of blue collar democrats and independents. This trend will grow in the weeks ahead.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:04:16 +0000

Many of the usual suspects in the pro-Obama media are in full-spin mode to explain that it was a "more subdued" speech because Obama wanted to focus on "policy." As Krauthammer noted last night, though, there's still no word on what those policy prescriptions might be.

By: Ed Bonderenka

Ed Bonderenka — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:46:30 +0000

When I saw the Biden testimonial video before his speech (I was surfing and couldn’t avoid it) I was reminded of an SNL skit, it seems so unattached to reality.

By: ErisGuy

ErisGuy — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:07:22 +0000

“spine of steel”

So Obama is Stalin’s spine?!

By: rafinlay

rafinlay — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:00:41 +0000

It occurs to me that Biden’s speech must have needed to have Obama’s stamp of approval Maybe Obama wrote it. After all, he is a better speechwriter than his speechwriters.

By: Lizzy

Lizzy — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:40:21 +0000

I tried to watch Biden and Obama, but in both cases, I was talking back to the TV and my kid was looking at me funny.
One thing I did notice as they tried to link American grit and tenacity over the past 4 years to sticking with Obama. They mentioned that the tough times hadn’t brought the American people down, they persevered, blah, blah, blah. I don’t think I’ve ever heard Obama mention Americans unless he was referring to a specific victim group he is or plans to assist (“I know a lot of you are out of work…”), or singling out a group to demonize them. If nothing else, last week’s RNC celebration of small business owners and American values seems to have affected Obama’s message.

By: PCachu

PCachu — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:39:01 +0000

“This man has ~~courage~~ pettiness in his soul, ~~compassion~~ contempt in his heart, and ~~a spine of steel~~ skin of the finest tissue.” There, Joe. I fixed it for you. You're welcome.

By: Lorenz Gude

Lorenz Gude — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:34:21 +0000

Say what you like about Bill, as President he tried to respond to the conservative critique of mid century liberalism delivered by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan recognizing you can’t keep growing government indefinitely. What we saw in the first two years of Obama, Pelosi, Reid was a regression to before that conservative critique. Like it never happened. Essentially the Democratic party has become a reactionary party. Which leaves us with our conservative party as the only source of progressive leadership. This reversal of form is what you expect in times of fundamental change – many of the standard labels and routine ways of thinking stop describing reality. The Tea Party brings reform and new vigor to the Republican establishment despite being demonized and marginalized by the MSM. But OWS fizzles, unlike the anti war movement. So the Democratic pols beat the tub with the same old slogans and somehow manage to get tangled up with God and anti Semitism. I watched former Republican governor Crist try to use Reagan’s line that his party had left him. Pathetic. What actually happened was that Marco Rubio beat him twice. Once as a Republican and once as an independent. Rubio, by contrast at the Republican convention, was able to bring God up effortlessly and with conviction several times in his introduction of Romney. And Christie’s Keynote, without mentioning Obama, showed how real leadership can tame deficits even in a state with a hostile legislature. I don’t know if Romney can close the deal. but the opportunity is certainly there.

By: NeoConScum

NeoConScum — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:08:12 +0000

“Give me a friggin break.” Me too, N-Neocon!!

I slept through Biden, Kerry and The Anointed One. Slept the sleep that only a confident, Evil Neocon Romney supporter can sleep. Lordy(sorry Dems), the doofus actually said The Boy King has “a spine of steel..”??

How’bout: “Barack has post-modern diversity in his soul, compassion in his testicular concavity and moral cowardice in his spine.” Yep, I like it.

By: Roman

Roman — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:08:24 +0000

Someone once said: “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bulls$@t.”
True…true…