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POTUS Clearing Wreckage

Out with the Old.  
POTUS in New Jersey on a steamy day with Governor Jon Corzine, making a boilerplate speech that is heavy on blaming the old ways and crushingly heavier on the radiant future of clean energy and clean jobs and clean healthcare and clean education and clean financial regulations.  The speech lacks the verisimilitude of a POTUS dealing with the one element that signifies between elections, Congress.

POTUS is in campaign mode. Why? Who is voting for his agenda? New Jersey is voting for Corzine’s performance, and that means it is voting on one of those state governments from the bad old days before POTUS. Out with the old includes out with Corzine. Maybe it does not come to the White House that Corzine was elected in the first run because he was a famous Goldman, Sachs boss. Also, in this video, POTUS leans very hard into bloviating. Not very cooling. The shouting tells me that negotiations in Congress are on a rocky road:

“Once we clear away the wreckage….investing in the clean energy jobs of the future… controlling healthcare costs that are driving our nation into debt… we’re gonna get healthcare reform done… financial regulation reform done… thank ya, God Bless ya, God bless ya…”

White House Politburo.
My source tells me that the Poliburo that runs the Administration is ready and eager to make any deal to get a healthcare bill, to trade anything away including the word “health.”  They want something that they can add to POTUS slight resume.  First he is elected POTUS then he must go looking to collect credits that can get him elected POTUS.  Congress can smell how much the White House wants the deal.  Politburo will take a total partisan vote, Democrats over Republicans.  The blinking that you hear is the Democrats who know how vulnerable their marginal members are to next year when the price tag climbs, jobs do not recover, and the Obama administration is stuck with sour polling.  Only way for the small midterm electorate to express frustration is to vote out the 49 Dem members of the House who won in McCain-voting districts.  Now you can guess why POTUS is shouting about the wreckage.  It could be a  vision of wreckage to come.

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Comment by Andy | 2009-07-20 22:08:22

My source tells me that the Poliburo that runs the Administration is ready and eager to make any deal to get a healthcare bill, to trade anything away including the word “health.” They want something that they can add to POTUS slight resume. First he is elected POTUS then he must go looking to collect credits that can get him elected POTUS.

(emphasis mine).

EXACTLY !! Right on.

Comment by Texas Playwright | 2009-07-21 00:48:24

EXACTLY and Right On again!

Comment by foxyladi14 | 2009-07-21 18:05:36

ditto………

 
 

Comment by Peggy Sue | 2009-07-21 19:08:42

I think you’re exactly right, Andy. This whole hulabaloo has less to do with “us,” the American public than it does with maximizing Obama’s [and by extension the Democratic Party's] profile.

It’s disgusting, this grand rush to push a bill, any bill. We all need to remember the “rush” to pass the Stim bill, how the world as we knew it would come to an end if the monies were not made available and how jobs, jobs, jobs depended on passage.

And how did that work out???

Badly.

 
 

Comment by IndieDogg | 2009-07-20 22:24:31

A bit like the fellow who returns to the crime scene wearing plastic glasses, with the fake nose and mustache and offers to help the cops clean up the “wreckage.” Until one of them says, “Hey, aren’t you the guy we saw running away a minute ago?”

The criminal feigns innocence, and says, much as POTUS, “Who me? I had nothing to do with it, I swear.”

The only wreckage we need to clean up is coming from these power-drunk fools trying to drive the White House like a bulldozer through the heart of America.

 

Comment by insanelysane | 2009-07-20 22:24:36

It is all he knows.

How big of a step is it from community organizing to politicking? Not a whole lot. This man has not ever held a real job. A real job , where you actually build up a stack of accomplishments and DELIVER.
Obama does not deliver.

All talk.

 

Comment by tminu | 2009-07-20 22:57:18

WE DO NOT WANT THE HEALTHCARE CRAP THEY’VE THROWN TOGETHER ANYWAY

WE WANT INSURANCE REFORM, NOT HEALTHCARE REFORM

 

Comment by JayD | 2009-07-20 23:01:02

“POTUS is in campaign mode. Why?”

Because that is what he has done his entire career. He’s a campaigner. Unfortunately he is not a producer and it shows. His only product is himself. What else is he going to do as POTUS? There’s nowhere else for him to go but into campaign mode. I actually feel somewhat sorry for him because his desperation is going to intensify as he moves further and further into his presidency.

Comment by Chicago Joe | 2009-07-21 10:31:14

Bingo. This post and the above comments are right on. See, he never has DONE ANYTHING. He only had to pose long enough to look good superficially, and then had the excuse of campaigning for the next thing to absolve him from anything but the barest level of competence. This is the first time his feet have been held to the fire. Barry has always been a searcher, a climber, an aspirant. He has never been an operations guy. And other than his campaign (ran by Axelrod even though BHO gets the credit), he has never run anything.

He reminds me of the campus salesman selling “waterless pots” that I had to buy right now before the price went up as they were the best thing since sliced bread. Has anyone heard of waterless cooking pots since then? Glad I saved my money.

 
 

Comment by TeakWoodKite | 2009-07-20 23:02:23

“Once we clear away the wreckage” ???

Now I must ask ,WHO RIGHTS THIS CRAP?

If you are one of those millions of unfortunate Americans that are feeling some degree of being “wrecked”, (in BO speak, Iron my shirt) ie had a house but now you don’t, had a job but now you don’t, had health-care but now you won’t,, ya think that is a positive thing to say that conveys full of hope and change?

It comes across as extremely disconcerting to be considered as so much jobless homeless healthfulness “wreckage”.

Now I will never look at BO again without associating the word “wreckage” with him. Tone deaf and no clue what he says.

Comment by jwrjr | 2009-07-21 01:12:00

It is ironic that Ozero talks about clearing away wreckage when he has caused so much of it.

 
 

Comment by Disgusted | 2009-07-20 23:04:08

He lies best when in campaign mode.

Comment by Texas Playwright | 2009-07-21 00:52:16

Second time I agree with you today, Disgusted.

 
 

Comment by Docelder | 2009-07-20 23:07:00

It occurs to me that Palin recently resigned to compete with the man whose only job is to campaign for socialist and communist politics into perpetuity. Nobody but Barack could do this instead of his job and get away with it.

Comment by nyc | 2009-07-20 23:27:37

 

Comment by tminu | 2009-07-21 01:57:30

He forever works on getting the next job while on the job…

Comment by tzada | 2009-07-21 17:01:18

Yea and he wants to be king of the world or a messiah, whichever job comes open first

 
 
 

Comment by nyc | 2009-07-20 23:26:44

What an idiot this guy is. I absolutely cannot stand him. “Economeh”? please stop!!

 

Comment by Retired | 2009-07-20 23:34:05

If Obama ruins the American economy, or really just keeps it where it is at, the sleeping giant of the American people will crush the Obama and his party in 2010. They know they they only have until August to transform America into socialist Europe. If they fail, and if the stimulus package doesn’t turn the economy around, they are finished. They will not be able to blame Bush forever, indeed, “Bush’s fault” is being rejected by even more Americans than “racism.” Those dogs just won’t hunt anymore.

Comment by TeakWoodKite | 2009-07-21 00:40:09

“Those dogs just won’t hunt anymore.”

Pat?

 

Comment by tminu | 2009-07-21 02:00:48

If? It’s past tense now.

 

Comment by tzada | 2009-07-21 17:17:04

But they have the ACORN in charge of the Census to fall back on. I wish someone would check on what the Census can legally ask and if a private organization can be put in charge of taking it.

 
 

Comment by Jack | 2009-07-20 23:36:30

He is following Bush Jr.’s strategy.

Demand rapid passage of something amazingly complex and problematic for all sides, like imigration and social security reform.

If not immediately gained, demand again.

Still waiting, go out on a tour of speeches and “town halls” to urge public pressure on congresspeople,

which in turn assures defeat because avoiding the public’s attention to the specifics was the reason behind the fast passage strategy in the first place.

Comment by jwrjr | 2009-07-21 01:18:53

When any salesman says “you gotta buy this right now, you know he doesn’t want you to get a good look at what he is selling. Too bad Ozero has nothing to sell but rancid smoke and warped mirrors. (Apologies to honest salesmen for comparing Ozero to them.)

Comment by Jack | 2009-07-21 17:27:34

Today’s headline:

“URGENT: House Panel Cancels Tuesday Healthcare Meeting; Will be lobbied by Obama at White House”

Yes, Bush did that too with his immigration reform. As things looked bad for him, he had show meetings at the White House with reps. As if his mere presence would convince them. I bet too, like Bush, these meetings are not to talk specifics, which are very complex, but an opportunity to say, again, “I want a bill.” “Washington must work.” “give me a bill.”

Obama is following Bush strategy closely, although the “town hall” element is lesser.

 

Comment by Jack | 2009-07-21 19:13:59

Another one was the super-town hall, a Bush prime-time speech to the country with the intended purpose to incite the public to rise up and rain phone calls and emails on congresspeople in support of the vague plans.

It think Obama’s stab at this is tomorrow.

Bush’s experience was ill. His “Jobs Americans won’t do” is not something to say directly to AMericans, but to snarky elitists.

 

Comment by Jac | 2009-07-21 19:14:41

Another one was the super-town hall, a Bush prime-time speech to the country with the intended purpose to incite the public to rise up and rain phone calls and emails on congresspeople in support of the vague plans.

It think Obama’s stab at this is tomorrow.

Bush’s experience was ill. His “Jobs Americans won’t do” is not something to say directly to AMericans, but to snarky elitists.

 
 
 

Comment by I'm a Linda too | 2009-07-21 00:16:16

Great post John,

POTUS is in campaign mode. Why? ” Because that’s all he knows how to do. Get in their face, argue with them, deamean the other side and blame them.

He has no brains to accomplish and he’s too keyed up to take his time, as evidence clearly shows. He’s the front man and lets his “I want to bring the Corporations at my policy making table” do the nitty gritty policy stuff.

Green jobs…excuse me while I wipe my screen from laughter and spraying it. He doesn’t even have “Green Jobs” in his newly hyped Energy plan. His energy plan mainly consists of Cap and Trade, or Cap and Tax and allowing the permits to be sold on Wall Street to drive up our energy to skies the limit prices.

in the words of Ace Ventura…..La HOO ZER.

Comment by arky | 2009-07-21 01:22:47

 
 

Comment by Seattle Moss | 2009-07-21 00:39:11

I know John’s excellent analysis of Sarah Palin
Palin is going to surprise!

I got news for Palin haters

6 MORE DAYS!!

Citizen Palin will be unleashed

http://citizenpalin4president.blogspot.com/2009/07/six-days-to-citizen-palin.html

Comment by tzada | 2009-07-21 17:26:41

She is already unleashed. :)

Sarah Palin to feds: Thanks, but Alaska can rule itself

Palin to feds: Alaska is sovereign state
Constitutional rights reasserted in growing resistance to Washington
Posted: July 20, 2009
11:08 pm Eastern

By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

Gov. Sarah Palin has signed a joint resolution declaring Alaska’s sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution – and now 36 other states have introduced similar resolutions as part of a growing resistance to the federal government.

Just weeks before she plans to step down from her position as Alaska governor, Palin signed House Joint Resolution 27, sponsored by state Rep. Mike Kelly on July 10, according to a Tenth Amendment Center report. The resolution “claims sovereignty for the state under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States.”

Alaska’s House passed HJR 27 by a vote of 37-0, and the Senate passed it by a vote of 40-0.

http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.gx=0&.rand=djf6hrl975ndr

Let us take our country back, one state at a time.

Comment by foxyladi14 | 2009-07-21 18:11:36

untill we get all 57 of them..lol.acording to bo.

Comment by Seattle Moss | 2009-07-21 18:29:39

Sarah has that confidence I’m looking for..

Sarah has seen the treatment given Hillary and herself and will respond with the same fire.

Sarah will be the one to expose the liberal Marxist’s and will lead the charge to take our country back.
You can’t silence a movement and Sarah speaks for this movement.

I also like that swagger!

Bring back the unabashed, unashamed, unapologetic, America….

Hey Haters
5 Days and counting!

Comment by Docelder | 2009-07-21 18:53:43

Hey Seattle, Palin has shown more integrity by stepping aside than most politicians would ever have. Palin is one of the people, she doesn’t need to pretend to be real because she is real. The manufactured “brand” politicians from the top down are feeling something warm trickle down their pants legs and filling their shoe even as we speak. I for one can’t wait to see what might become of this. I would like nothing more than for freedom to be reaffirmed. Freedom wasn’t a mistake, taking it for granted was the mistake.

Comment by Seattle Moss | 2009-07-21 19:00:13

Citizen Palin…

An attack on her character
An attack on her family
An attack on her values

Is an attack on me and my family…

If they continue with the attacks after becoming a private citizen then I believe that we have the right to character assassinate and expose all the family members of those attacking her and me.

We can start with Frank Rich!

 
 
 
 
 
 

Comment by HARP | 2009-07-21 00:41:43

Sounds like the crowd didn`t get that tingly feeling. What a dork.

 

Comment by wbboei | 2009-07-21 01:32:57

Like many of you I have been wrestling with the question of who Obama is, what the real agenda is, and how we stop him. It is a work in progress, but I am pretty sure we have figured it out-finally. Before we can say what he is, we need to be clear what he is not, and the record is replete with evidence on that subject. Here is part of what I wrote on that subject this weekend, which is generally in line with the thrust of the posted article:
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I. OBAMA IS A FACADE . .

A. HE PRETENDS TO BE A LIBERAL. That is what he told us in the campaign, and many people took him at his word. But if he is a liberal, then how does he account for: His reversal on wire tapping (FISA)? His flip flop on public financing of elections? His plan to regulate the internet? His checkered history of supporting big business interests when they were harming his constituents (Rezko, Excelon, etc)? His surreal promise to create a standing army within the United States equal in size to our military? Question: Is that what a “liberal” does?

B. HE PROMISED TO PROVIDE TRANSPARENCY. Indeed, it is a good thing for people to know what their government is doing, within certain parameters, especially when it affects their lives. But if he really believes in transparency, then how does he explain: His abuse of signing statements? His planted questions to the press? His serial threats and bribery of super delegates, state party organizations and now Congress itself? His refusal to disclose the names of business lobbyist and GE people who visit the White House on a daily basis? His private party with lapdog reporters on July 4 which he forbade them to discuss? Question: is that what “transparency” is about?

C. HE PROMISED TO END GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY. During the campaign, he claimed that he opposed the Iraq War from the beginning, even though he voted for every funding measure once he became a Senator. What’s more he made certain commitments to bring the boys home. But if he is opposed to gunboat diplomacy, then how does he justify: His failure to do withdraw the troops as promised? His unlimited commitment to wider war in Afghanistan? His betrayal of useful idiots like Move-On funded by Soros whose staunch opposition to war lapsed the moment their man was in the White House. Obviously, we do not want Iraq to become a petrie dish for terrorism, or the Taliban to control the nuclear weapons in Pakistan. But he promised withdrawal notwithstanding what the Generals said. When President Bush broke his word, i.e. read my lips, no new taxes it cost him the next election. Question: Should voters expect a President to abide by his campaign promises, absent new evidence? If he repudiates them in masse, should they continue to trust him? Can a democracy survive if there is no political accountability?

D. HE CLAIMS TO SUPPORT PRIVATE ENTERPRISE. That is a sensible thing to say. After all, business in general– and small business in particular, is the engine that produces jobs and wealth in this country. By contrast, government control over the means of production creates an economy of perverse incentives which cannot compete in a global marketplace. But if Obama supports private enterprise, then how can he justify: His predatory tax program on small business? His protection of unions over investors? His takeover of a major car company with a failing business model? His precipitous firing of its experienced CEO and selection of a 31 year old to replace him? His pressuring solvent banks to accept TARP funds? His surrender of our financial sovereignty when he agreed to subject American companies that have a material effect on global commerce to the jurisdiction of a committee of twenty international bankers, above our Treasury and SEC? Question: are those the actions of someone who supports “private enterprise”? Or are they indicative of an entirely different economic model, namely state capitalism?

E. HE CLAIMS TO SUPPORT THE RULE OF LAW. We are told that he was a Senior Lecturer in Constitutional Law, so how could it be otherwise? But if he supports the rule of law, then how can he defend: His exoneration of the Mayor of Sacramento who embezzled stimulus monies—and was allowed to keep the spoils? His termination of the Inspector General who blew the whistle on this corruption? His failure to prosecute members of the New Black Panther Party who threatened and coerced voters with words and weapons at a polling place to vote for him? His refusal through the DNC he controls to investigate 2000 cases of election fraud and voter intimidation in the primary as documented by Dr. Lynette Long? His reliance upon ACORN during the campaign, his massive public funding of that corrupt organization, his planned use of it to conduct the census despite its thuggish tactics, and widespread violations of election laws? His strange comment that he will retain power 14 years from now, contrary to the two term limit imposed by the Constitution? Question: Is that what you would expect from someone who supports the “rule of law”?

F. HE CLAIMS TO UNDERSTAND THE ECONOMY. That is fascinating proposition, since in his entire life he has never run so much as a hot dog stand. But if it is true, then how does he explain: His erroneous predictions on the economy of a v-shaped recovery which was at odds with what Wall Street predicted, and upon which his massive spending programs are based? His use of stimulus monies taken from taxpayers to provide a political slush fund rather than to create jobs and support small business? His ultimate intention to raise taxes on everyone—not just the so called wealthy—as he defines them? His push for universal health coverage and cap& trade program which will cost the country trillions at a time we can least afford it and to reward one company in particular, General Electric—rather than taxpayers? The wrecklesss printing of money to cover our debts at a time when key nations are backing away from the dollar? His fiscal irresponsibility which places all of us at the mercy of nations like China? Question: is there an end-game here? Does he plan to drive the country into insolvency to liquidate government guarantees which are unsustainable? Does he intend to repay those obligations with inflated dollars? How will he solve the liquidity crisis? Does he intend to sell us to China? Does he have any idea what he is doing? Does he care?

G. HE CLAIMS TO UNDERSTAND FOREIGN AFFAIRS: That is a fascinating proposition as well. With a straight face, he tells us that he is an expert on foreign policy because he lived in a Kenyan village with his grandmother when he was a child. Amazing. But if he has profound judgment in foreign affairs, then how does he explain: His failure to comprehend Russia’s goal which is to reassert hegemony over Eastern Europe? His apparent willingness to limit deployment of our strategic missile defense system in deference to Kremlin wishes? His apparent willingness to entertain a quid pro quo which would curtail our submarine and long range bomber forces in exchange for an agreement to destroy aging cold war nukes and a cheap headline? His on again off again war with the CIA? His failure to appreciate America’s strategic interest in regime change in Iran, which is a mortal threat to our ally Israel and the State Sponsor of terrorism? His refusal to speak out on behalf of the democratic uprising in that country as other nations did, and all past presidents would? His leap to the side of Chavez on coup in Honduras? His efforts to undermine his own Secretary of State for purely political reasons? The damage he has done to the prestige of this country by violating the time honored political doctrine that politics stops at the water’s edge? His love bouquets to radical regimes, wavering support for our allies and blatant favoritism toward the non-western world? Question: Is this what we should expect from the presumed Leader of the Free World? If not then to whose drum is he marching?

G. HE PROMISED GOOD GOVERNMENT: We can all drink to that. Good government requires a sound management structure and hiring honest qualified people. But if he believes in good government, then how does he explain: his failure to staff key positions in a timely manner? The high number of appointees who have been forced to decline his invitation or withdraw due to scandal? His widespread appointment of political hacks to cabinet, sub cabinet and ambassador positions, which has drawn criticism from State Department veterans, and rebuke from our key Asian ally Japan? His installment of 33 Czars who oversee all aspects of government and business, operate above the cabinet level, and report only to him? His failure to answer the institutional objections expressed by Senator Byrd (D-WVA), the senior member of his own party, and President Pro Tem of the Senate who called this an evasion of congressional oversight? Is this not in fact an ungovernable bureaucratic structure? Question: How can anyone justify this miasma as “good government”– in the American sense of the term? Is this what big media calls “masterful”?

H. IN SUM, OBAMA IS A FACADE: Time and again his words do not conform to his actions. Granted, there could be innocent explanations for these anomalies–if there were only one or two of them. Moreover, the complexities, competing demands and temptations of political life require any politician to be flexible–up to a point. Desperate times require desperate measures– subject to Constitution. And, we can hardly expect a politician to keep every promise he makes—so long as he is fundamentally consistent. Those are fine observations. But none of them can quite account for Mr. Obama. Why not? Because, the more you examine the record as a whole, the more you realize that the image of him that big media portrays is fraudulent. He is not the political savior that so many people believed he was. He is not loyal to his constituents as history shows. And he not the reconciliation of the races others hoped for. Rather, he is a malleable individual with a missing past who has become a global celebrity through a 24/7 publicity blitz of self serving images, saccharine interviews, amen pundits and suppression of contrary evidence by a complicit press. But behind this benign façade and that incessant grin lurks a brutal political machine which destroys opponents and crushes dissent.

Comment by Nicole | 2009-07-22 00:41:36

That was beautiful! You need to publish that somewhere. Like the front page of USA Today! Ha!
I feel smarter after having read your words, Wbboei. You laid out the whole, complete truth of Obama’s “mirage”..

I would just add to one key point.

Obama deliberately engaged in unprecedented campaign financing fraud while claiming to be receiving historic grassroots support. (I wrote a big long post about this, and then it got erased, so I’m just gonna summarize what I know)

On his way to raising nearly a billion in contributions, Obama deliberately turned off the security checks for contributions made through his website during the presidential campaign. It’s amazing how much money you can raise from “small donors” when they don’t have to provide: a valid name, address, expiration date on the credit card, or three-digit security code.

I personally donated $5 to his campaign in the name of Dora the Explorer just to see for myself. I tried the same thing on McCain’s site, and it wouldn’t let the transaction go through because the address given (Dora’s Jungle) didn’t match the one on file with my credit card. Imagine that!

If you talk to people who know technology, it becomes obvious that this was not just a “mistake” as Obama’s campaign claimed. Someone who knew what they were doing deliberately went into the e-commerce function and turned off the security features. They didn’t even ask for the expiration date on credit cards they were running! I don’t even know how VISA or Mastercard allowed this to happen!

All I know is, suppose I am Osama bin Laden, or anybody, George Soros. And I know that the identities of people who contribute $200 (or whatever it is) do not have to be reported to the FEC. I can contribute millions of dollars, in small increments!

In fact, we know Obama took foreign contributions, and pretended it was all a mistake, and gave small amounts back.

His campaign even engaged in outright financial fraud when somebody used “made up” credit card numbers to donate thousands of dollars to his campaign. Problem is the made-up numbers actually belonged to real people, who were billed. As I said earlier, it’s amazing what you can do when you don’t have to provide an expiration date, name or address for a credit card.

Anyway, what this all amounts to is a high-tech hijacking of our democracy, abetted by media sychophants who focused on the “historic” wonder of his candidacy while ignoring Bill Clinton’s warning that what Obama truly represents is “Chicago thug politics” at its best.

Comment by Docelder | 2009-07-22 00:57:37

They didn’t even ask for the expiration date on credit cards they were running! I don’t even know how VISA or Mastercard allowed this to happen

It would only be an issue if the charges were contested and reversed. A legitimate site would have needed this to protect it’s charges. But, if you weren’t worried about contested charges but mostly wanted a way to funnel unverified contributions… then this would work for that. The whole process was gamed from start to finish… from the caucuses to the donations to the media fix. It is our nations greatest disgrace.

Comment by Nicole | 2009-07-22 01:34:38

And people think Nixon was bad.

When will the “Woodward and Bernstein” of the 21st Century bring down Obama and expose him?

Maybe this latest ethics charge against Palin can be traced to Obama’s people???

One thing I do know for sure: Chairman Obama will not be brought down by traditional media.

My bet is if this stuff ever sees the light of day it will be through citizen journalists on the Net.

Comment by Mia | 2009-07-22 10:09:09

Do not worry. They will “regulate” the Internet. That will be the end of citizen journalists.

Comment by oowawa | 2009-07-22 10:53:36

Maybe they can just “spam filter” it into submission. Preliminary target phrases: “The One, O-Fraud O-Butthead, O-hyphenated anything, Goldman Sachs anywhere near anything beginning with capital O,” etc.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Comment by rose | 2009-07-21 01:44:30

My question is WHO would be inspired by obama ,his voice irritated me before, but now that hes yelling more, it irritates me more. Soon he is going to be using his voice that he used at the NAACP event he was just at. Notice his way of speaking there? His preacher voice{wright} you know that also rminds me of another grippe about him ,remeber when they made a big deal about Hillary speaking in one of the southern states and mocked her tone of voice? Everything comes back doesn’t it?

Comment by Docelder | 2009-07-21 11:16:26

his voice irritated me before

Same here, I find it hard to try to listen to him because of that infernal start stop cadence. His Neuro Linguistic Programming techniques don’t work with me and his using them just irritates. This is why the people it works on are mystified and the ones it doesn’t become irritated without knowing why. It isn’t the messenger, it’s the message.

Comment by TeakWoodKite | 2009-07-21 11:35:32

Great point Docelder.

Comment by Docelder | 2009-07-21 12:31:02

Thanks, there is a ton of writing on this subject and I have no desire to perpetuate the technique only to expose people so that they might guard themselves from it. When used by professionals in a clinical setting this has the potential for good. Conversely, it also has the potential for abuse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_model

Comment by Docelder | 2009-07-21 13:38:02

I meant to add one thing, then I am done with this one. Though this may seem far fetched it also explains the teleprompter at events such as a rodeo arena. Does anybody think this guy is so daft that he can’t remember the points he wants to cover in even a short speech? No, not at all. Then why the teleprompter? Maybe the content of the speech itself isn’t as important as the other elements… i.e. the noun shifting or the cadence timing and the subtlety of the inferred suggestion. He also refers to himself in third person in speeches, which he does a lot. The point is, it would take a team just to craft these speeches and nobody could remember when to shift the nouns etc. Therefore, this also would explain the teleprompter and why he seems unable to deliver without it. This is why the teleprompter is there as opposed to note cards. It isn’t the words, but what’s inferred between them.

Comment by oowawa | 2009-07-21 14:05:53

He also refers to himself in third person in speeches, which he does a lot

Oowawa concurs. He has noticed that also.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Comment by Hot Librarian | 2009-07-21 03:20:04

Could it be this….

USA Census released the numbers for 208 voting at 131.1 million which is 63.6 % of eligible voters. This was an increase of 5 million on 2004.

However population has increased & more than 5 million have entered eligible age. Plus the % in 04 was 63.8%.

Therefore the turnout was not at all historically high. Many older white males declined to vote in 08.

So with his weakening approval ratings -he knows that his fans may not be enough to outweigh the ‘older white males’ who just might turn up next time or in 2010.

Comment by Northwest rain | 2009-07-21 06:34:27

0zero is also wildly unpopular — the 3rd most unpopular prez since WWII.

Narcissists don’t like to be unpopular.

Comment by foxyladi14 | 2009-07-21 18:22:12

it hurts their little feelings awwwwwwwww,,

 
 
 

Comment by Hank | 2009-07-21 11:05:03

He sounds like Rev. Wright…Nothing but B.S. coming out of his mouth. Someone needs to clean his mouth with soap, the voters will take care of the legislators backing him up.

 

Comment by Cat in NJ | 2009-07-21 11:57:13

Just returned from a few days in Wildwood, NJ, a beach resort/community that is usually thriving this time of year. Nearly every motel had VACANCY signs lit, restaurants all half empty, even the boardwalk was quiet. We were saddened to think how these businesses, most of them run for years by hard-working Americans, will have the remaining life taxed out of them if O’s health care plan comes to fruition. How I hope the wise commenters here are correct in translating O’s tone in this speech as panic and a sign of impeding failure. And no, I will not be voting for Corzine again.

 

Comment by Docelder | 2009-07-21 16:36:11

Obama is proving to be Bush like yet again.

President Barack Obama has irked close allies in Congress by declaring he has the right to ignore legislation on constitutional grounds after having criticized George W. Bush for doing the same.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99J1IPO0&show_article=1

 

Comment by tzada | 2009-07-21 16:56:00

Blue Dog Dem: Cap-and-trade “worst piece of legislation” he’s seen

The cap-and-trade climate bill before Congress is the “worst piece of legislation” in recent years, one centrist Democratic lawmaker said Monday.

“The cap and trade bill is really the worst piece of legislation I’ve seen since I’ve been there,” Rep. Dan Boren (D-Okla.) told the Tulsa Metro Chamber of Commerce. “It raises energy prices on businesses, raises electric bills on families, and it even raises gasoline prices in the middle of a recession. And, it makes America less competitive in the global economy.”

Boren was one of 44 House Democrats to vote against the American Clean Energy and Security Act, crafted by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), in a razor-thin vote last month.

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/21/blue-

dog-dem-cap-and-trade-worst-piece-of-legislation-hes-seen/

Comment by Docelder | 2009-07-21 17:52:25

Then there is this Harvard study. Hey, it’s Harvard so we know it is factual. Carbon capture doubles electric bills. Or, we could just leave the CO2 alone, filter the real pollutants like sulphates and nitrates out of the coal exhaust and let the plants take advantage of any nominal extra CO2. But that kind of kills the carbon exchange idea.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13074

 
 

Comment by tzada | 2009-07-21 17:11:18

Jobs? What Jobs? We Don’t Need not Stinkin’ Jobs!

House Republicans have been on the House floor (turn on CSPAN!) for the past two hours, making one minute speeches — all asking “Where are the jobs?
Hysterical because Democrats simply have no answer. Hoyer just misquoted Congressman Mike Pence’s record, saying he voted against health care reform in 1993 — even though Mr. Pence wasn’t elected to Congress until 2000. These Republican messages obviously have Mr. Hoyer a little flustered. Check out CSPAN — and GOP.gov later for coverage.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/07/jobs-what-jobs-we-dont-need-not-stinkin-jobs.html

Where Are the Jobs? 2010 can’t come fast enough for desperate Americans.

Comment by candymarl | 2009-07-21 17:45:12

What? You want people to have jobs? You are sooo 20th century.

We must now volunteer to work for the government in any capacity they wish.

Winston? Winston? Is that you?

 
 

Comment by foxyladi14 | 2009-07-21 18:27:07

the fleecing of America is progressing just fine according to bo.s plan

 

Comment by rickrickrick | 2009-07-22 01:35:49

Clear the wreckage. What a great reference to the Idiot Govenor of New Jersey who while traveling at a speed in excess of 80 MPH didn’t wear a seatbelt. Should government pay for health care for idiots who speed and don’t wear seatbelts? Oh well, Corzine will loose in the next election.

 

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