Comments on: Cillizza: “Obama got elected on competence. Now people are starting to wonder.”

By: IGotBupkis, "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses."

IGotBupkis, "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses." — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 16:03:29 +0000

}}} But on the surface, Obama resembled the actors more than the presidents, and it impressed an electorate that favors role play over reality. I think you are correct. The hilarious part is that he played one even better than the actor who WAS one. He is not a REAL PotUS, at all, but he does play one on TV...

By: FOAF

FOAF — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 11:38:13 +0000

I stand by my point. Obama is superficially a “clean articulate black man” as described by the man who is now his vice-President. But without his media stooges he would have been punctured before he ever got off the ground. As for succeeding in Illinois without the media, well the poor dear only had the Chicago political machine finagling for him.

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 04:58:01 +0000

Don Carlos: “I guess you all feel better for your latest anti-Obama vents. But whatcha gonna do? He’s flushing you/me/us down the toilet and all we do is complain and persuade ourselves we’re smarter. We seem to have the same flaws as liberals. Except, of course, we’re losing, and have been for 100 years.”

Yep.

What needs to be done is an insurgent, competitive, proper, first, always, and non-stop Marxist-method activist popular-political social movement by the people of the Right, led by expert, dynamic activists.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:44:43 +0000

Matt_SE

He didn’t have MSM help in becoming an Illinois senator, that was all him and his political machine (and a good deal of backstabbing).

As the Chicago Tribune pushed for- and got – the release of sealed divorce records of Obama opponents, I would beg to differ with you. Especially when for one of the sealed records, a Trib reporter wrote that David Axelrod pushed for the release.

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:18:49 +0000

I guess you all feel better for your latest anti-Obama vents. But whatcha gonna do? He’s flushing you/me/us down the toilet and all we do is complain and persuade ourselves we’re smarter. We seem to have the same flaws as liberals. Except, of course, we’re losing, and have been for 100 years.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:17:17 +0000

Sometimes I feel like these media polls are self-fulfilling prophesies.

That is what they are. Polls are propaganda devices designed to mold and control public opinion. This is the opposite of what popular cliques think, which is that polls are a reflection of popular sentiments. Not always the case.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:11:14 +0000

There is no contradiction between the two, especially if people are swayed by appearances and rather shallow themselves.

Often the people can’t tell the difference because they themselves are incompetent and poorly varnished. Thus even if the proven quality were presented to them, they would throw it away like trash. Thus they select inferior leaders over better ones and call it American quality.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:08:39 +0000

Otiose, that’s the sign of zombie virus infection there.

A lot of them look like humans and legally people will claim they are humans, but there’s no there there.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:57:31 +0000

I know. Expansion, not correction.

By: T

Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:29:51 +0000

Eric,

Although my example was political (welfare state) I meant the concept of the real fray to be broader as implied in my citing of the Inquisition.

You are right to point that out however, that message should not be subliminal since politics is downstream of culture.