Posted on 09/27/2011 11:32:29 PM PDT by Smokeyblue
Spin, baby, spin. Throughout his frenetic jobs tour across the West this week, President Obama tried to seize the narrative. Republicans, he told champagne-sipping, tea party-trashing Hollywood moguls and tech titans, are intolerant bigots, know-nothings and thugs. They've made his hair "grayer" and left him "all dinged up."
But who's battering whom? Since Day One, Obama has been the Chicago bully in victim's clothing. The mask is wearing thin.
On Tuesday, Detroit News reporter Daniel Howes reported that White House officials leaned on Ford Motor Company to yank a popular TV and Internet ad critical of competitors who took federal bailout money. According to Howes, "Ford pulled the ad after individuals inside the White House" questioned the firm's CEO Alan Mulally (who had earlier supported the bailout despite his company's refusal to participate). Howes concluded: "You're not allowed, in Obama's America, to disparage the Auto bailout, or -- indirectly -- Obama. Especially during the election cycle."
Both Ford and the White House officially deny any political pressure received or applied. But White House press flack Dan Pfeiffer refused to answer when I asked him whether anyone at the White House had ever contacted anyone at Ford to complain about the bailout ad. Ford's social media director told me he personally "had no knowledge" of any contacts. While he disputed the gist of Howes' report, the Ford official would not call for a correction or retraction.
Chris McDaniel, the real-life Ford customer who starred in the offending ad, told BigGovernment.com editor Larry O'Connor that he was exasperated when he heard about the Ford fiasco: "Now we have the federal government butting their nose into this TV ad. Another example of them getting involved in things they have no business getting involved in. Where is the free speech of American citizens?"
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Obama is an angry, little faggot who knows he isn’t up to the task of having “Obama’s America.”
Rush spotlighted this commercial last week.
The regime couldn’t let him get by with that...
Since I’ve followed politics, 0bama has to be the most overtly partisan president I’ve ever seen. Maybe even the most overtly partisan politician all together.
I’ve never seen a president so repeatedly call out the other party by name. You never saw Bill Clinton use the word “Republican” so many times in speeches when using the ‘bully pulpit’. I don’t recall either president Bush calling out Democrats like that. It cheapens the Presidency, IMO, which is something this little joke of a man has done at every turn since he took office. Whomever gets elected next is going to have a lot of work to do just to rehab and recover the prestige of the office after this punk leaves....
Great to see a post on FR that bashes Obama and calls him out. As opposed to the bash everyone but Obama threads.
the homo’s, black, latinos and our own court systems have been bullying us all for years.
obama’s admin bought GM and look at that bullying he did, look at how many dealer ships were closed because they didn’t donate to his campaign, same recently with guitar conpanies
Early on , several cabinet officials sent thug letters to Republican state officials that if they didn’t shut up about “stimulus funds,” their states would not get any.
Can’t even find it on the net now. Apparently it’s been banned. Has “Net Neutrality” kicked in already?
Nobody’s told Google yet, which just found me several copies as well as a video.
Well ... one of my big fears is that a Republican will be elected and will seek a "new tone" in Washington. They might bend over backwards to treat the Democrats with respect. They might refrain from ever criticizing any of Obama's initiatives. They might engage in "power sharing" even if the GOP holds a solid majority of power.
All of these terrible things could be done in the name of "rehab and recover the prestige of the office". We've seen such things before. They do not work and they fritter away huge amounts of Republican political capital.
Obama knows his voters. He is playing to them, not to the Conservatives.
Well, that only works so long. Like a bad song they play again and again on the radio, people tune it out and move on.
It's time this nation moves on beyond obama. Personally I think he needs to volunteer to step down. It'd be the only positive thing he's done since he took office.
Here's a gratuitous bash for ya.
Romney is a p.o.s.
Can't say that he actually qualifies as a republican candidate though.
I make it a point to not bash any republican candidate on these threads, with the obvious exception of the mittster.
That's true enough but we do manage to tell the truth about them on these threads and you can bet your bottom dollar that if the liberals could, they would shut us up by shutting this site down.
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