Posted on 10/30/2008 8:38:46 AM PDT by andrew roman
Last night’s well-edited, technically proficient, dreary prime-time Barack Obama infomercial probably could be expanded into a five disc DVD set, complete with bonus interviews featuring more downtrodden Americans, detailed liner notes, transcripts of old law lectures, his personal revisions to the Constitution, and “never-before” seen footage of Mr. Obama healing the sick, raising the dead, feeding the hungry and personally redistributing wealth door-to-door.
“Self indulgent” is far too mild a phrase to describe Obama’s thirty minute excursion into his super-ego – as I continue to hear Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” playing in my head – so I’ll just say it was somewhere between disturbing and an intestinal blockage.
The United States is a heartless hell hole and moral garbage dump, if you were to subscribe to the Obama portrayal. It is a nation crumbling, losing its very soul, filled with a subjugated and exploited citizenry denied their slices of the American dream. In Obama-speak, despair and disillusionment linger like grim death over a nation desperately in need of rescue from the metastasizing cancers of free markets, rugged individualism and unfettered opportunity. Morph all of that with the oppressive policies of an eight-year long George W. Bush regime and you’ve got the makings of an irresolute, frightened country in need of real change.
And those were the high points.
The program itself was a technical laxative - complete with soft focusing, inspirational music, amber waves of wafting grain, and slices of heartbreak from struggling Americans. It was sulkily tiresome.
At the risk of a cold-hearted bastard label, let me assert (for the record) that I do not attack those who are genuinely having a hard time getting by. That isn't my point. To deny that there are Americans struggling is to deny reality. Indeed, there have always segments of the population who have struggled at any given time in this nation’s history. These days, I am among them, believe me.
But the Obama “brother-can-you-spare-a-dime” approach was more than a bit too much. About ten minutes into the program I started receiving hate mail from my stomach, begging me to give it a break. Twenty minutes in, I was looking for something to settle it down – like pop rocks or hydrochloric acid.
Frankly, the only thing missing last night in Obama’s “Let Me Save You” pre-World Series "America Sucks" showcase were images of bread lines and men holding “Will Work for Food” signs across their chests.
The program was depressing. It was meant to be. And it won’t make a damn bit of difference in the outcome of the election.
If only Barack Obama were President during the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe ... He could have stood on top of the crumbling levees himself, with the slashing wind and rains battering him, holding back the mighty floods with one hand and lifting people onto hovering helicopters with the other.
Messiahs do things like that.
LOL!!!!!!
I saved myself the aggravation of watching the Obama Ego Stroking Tour, and practiced my piano instead. I have no doubt it was every bit as bad as it was said to be here.
This “Pre-Inaugural Address” will figure large in the list of Blunders That Cost Obama The Election...
BTW, 18 Million Democrats voted for Hillary Clinton in the Primaries. Are they all racists?
Oh dang. I missed it. Was it PG rated? I’ll wait for the DVD release this spring. ;o)
I am babydubya1981 and I wholeheartedly approve this review.
A phrase that I never expected to see in print.
“BTW, 18 Million Democrats voted for Hillary Clinton in the Primaries. Are they all racists?”
Not only that, but are all of them planning to vote for Obama???????
In case you missed the crap fest, here’s a good summary.
I was kind of suprised that he didn't open it with Copelands "Fanfare For The Common Man".
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Truly one long, bitter mope-fest. Mope You Can Believe In. The most derogatory kiss of spite to America in my lifetime. The Wellstoning of America. This is how the boss sounds the day before the pink slips are passed out. An exchange of bureaucratic platitudes in two hundred and thirteen foot high letters. An insipid, dolorous hologram of abnegation and defeatism.
LOL. This article hits the nail on the head on every point.
Anyone can cobble together some anecdotes from people who’ve been screwed out of their pension, are financially struggling because of medical problems, or facing foreclosure because they lost their job. But the Obama infomercial presented this as if it’s the norm - something that’s happening to all Americans. And it’s all Bush’s fault!
The last paragraph is dead on also. I’ve gotten the impression for months now that Obama really, seriously sees himself as some sort of messiah, and he’s having that notion reinforced by millions of starry eyed adherents.
Too bad Obama didn’t trot out his aunt in Boston or his brother in Kenya to show examples of how hard life is without help.
The ratings sucked. It ran up against absolutely nothing and he drew less than half of his convention speech viewers. The freefall begins.
This reminds me of what Hugo Chavez and Castro do for their lemmings.
Give long diatribes on TV.
Well, keep practicing and perhaps your playing won't be that bad in a few months time. Meanwhile, please stop saying gridlock's piano playing is bad, fellow FReepers.
Contrast that to the night of McCain's nomination speech were it was a very positive, “aint America Great” event.
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.Sorry, couldn't resist it! :)
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