Posted on 05/27/2012 9:50:51 AM PDT by pabianice
The president, for all his cool, has a mean streak—just ask Hillary Clinton—and this week he turned it on Mitt Romney, writes Lloyd Grove.
Never mind “cow pie of distortion”—President Obama’s earthy attack on Mitt Romney that dominated the headlines Thursday night from his barn-burner at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Obama
President Obama speaks at a campaign event at the Iowa state fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday (Nati Harnik / AP Photo)
The psychological heart of Obama’s campaign speech was “prairie fire of debt,” the phrase that set up his scatological punch line.
“I know Gov. Romney came to Des Moines last week,” the shirt-sleeved, sweating Obama told a crowd of fervent supporters. “Warned about a ‘prairie fire of debt.’ That’s what he said. ‘Prairie fire.’ But he left out some facts. You know, his speech was more like a cow pie of distortion.”
Taken at face value, the president was simply quoting his Republican opponent to buttress his argument that Romney’s economic proposals were nothing but a throwback to George W. Bush’s disastrous policies that produced financial meltdown and a near-depression.
But there was something darker and sharper lurking just below the surface, in Obama’s facial expressions, body language, and mocking tone of voice: Not to put too fine a point on it, but the president has a mean streak.
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Amen.....plus he’s a BULLY with a mean streak.....a Bully CHILD.
Think of Willard and Barry in HS.
I MUCH prefer an alpha-male bully, preppie, over a pussy mozlim bi-stoner to lead this country.
It reminds me of the 60’s Generation’s mass tantrums against working Americans, but instead of campus riots, it’s Barry Obama, product of privilege, losing it from the POTUS podium. Radicalism last gasp for a while, we hope.
Obama wouldn’t know a cow pie if he ate a slice.
The whole liberal ideological edifice is crumbling.
The individual mandate will be declared unconstitutional.
He's now alienated women and Catholic constituencies.
Jews are reconsidering.
Hispanics have seen this before.
Blacks are embarrassed and secretly want him off the stage.
Unions are blowing their money on Wisconsin.
Democrats will lose the Senate.
Landslide coming.....
Don't hold your breath on that Sun, when it comes to Ozippy, the suit model becomes so spineless, he could pour himself back into a cider jug.
I agree
Personally, I’m hoping for is a full-fledged public meltdown. Seeing him led off in a straitjacket would make my millennium.
I hear ya!
If Romney can lie, or exaggerate, when it comes to Republican candidates, he can easily find enough TRUTH to fight Obama with, if he has the guts.
Is there anything we can do to help reach that point sooner?
As Rush says, he’s not cool. He’s cold.
He is hard core. As this article states, when his demeanor changes to this state, his facial expressions, his biting words. Pure anger.
I am hopeful that the term “Prairie Fire” of debt is a code for what Romney is willing to throw against Zero. “Prairie Fire” was the title on one of Bill Ayers books. In this book Ayers described how he and some other Weather Underground leaders met with the Chinese government communist officials and discussed their plan for a communist overthrow of the US government. He wrote that the Chinese warned them that some US citizens would not go along and they may need to “eliminate” 25 million if they were to be successful. Ayers wrote that none of the Weather Underground even batted an eye. I would like to see Romney do a reading from Prairie Fire on primetime entitled “dreams from 0bamas pals”.
The anti-Christ has a mean streak. Who’d’a thunk.
Yes, quite right! Mr dumb0 leave that bitchy act to your pet wookie!
“Obama Has a Mean Streak and He Turned It on Romney This Week”
That’s an understatement....his buddies are known terrorists,Bill Ayers & Berrnadette Dorn, he sat listening to Re. Wright’s diatribe for 20 years, he’s appointed commies to federal jobs,is a devotee of Sol Alinsky......so you can bet your bippy he has a mean streak....Chi town thug style.
Well said!
It’s not a mean streak he’s just a common run of the mill @$$hole who thinks he is better than everyone else.Really he is the lowest trash around and that is what makes him such an @$$hole.
Then too, the press all over the country went wild in condemning Bush for his nastiness and incivility - so far nothing from today's media on Obama's nastiness......
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