Posted on 11/04/2012 12:19:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
So Sandy arrived right in the last act, smashing and thrashing, killing and ripping. Has this latest tempestuous eruption, following the storms Beryl, Florence, Joyce and Nadine, been the deus ex machina — or the deus ex Atlantic — to settle one of America’s most extraordinary and bitterly fought presidential elections?
It won Obama a gold-plated endorsement from one of America’s most popular Republicans, the New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who fears that climate change is to blame; and an embrace from another admired Republican governor, Chris Christie of New Jersey.
But will the Sandy Effect really sway votes in swing states thousands of miles away? Obama has not had a good campaign. His hugs and his rousing words after the hurricane were one thing, but his low-energy, stumbling performance in the first presidential debate left supporters aghast and Mitt Romney’s team suddenly emboldened.
It has been a savage campaign, and for good reason. America’s culture wars have never been angrier. The country remains mired in debt — $16 trillion, up $6 trillion under Obama — of which $1.4 trillion is owned by America’s new existential rival, China. The US Treasury says that the legal debt ceiling will be hit by the end of the year.
Jobs have been exported in huge numbers. The middle classes have been getting poorer for years. Only the super-rich have experienced a rise in real incomes...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Within the article, the race card is played.
It furnished a test to Barack in which he largely failed to live up to his savior image to those who were up close and personal to it. It could be the wedge that helped turn New York state red. Not that Mitt could fundamentally do a lot better, but he wouldn’t raise unrealistic expectations.
Bloomberg is neither popular nor a Republican.
My grand pappy used to say that you could-
“hope in one hand and sh!t in the other and see which one
fills up faster”
Now after four years of Barry we have no hope and big piles of
sh!t everywhere.
Bloomberg is neither popular nor a Republican.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
And Obama never had any “can-do” heroism. An “air”, perhaps,
but it was clearly a scam to anyone with a hint of analytical objectivity.
Coming down off Obamas Hopium sucks..
If Priebus had a pair, he would’ve kicked out this self-proclaimed Republican off the party.
Bloomberg's a Republican?
Since when?
He ran as one at the beginning, IIRC.
I find that you are right: after a lifetime as a Democrat, Bloomberg became a Republican hoping to siphon off some of the popularity that had accrued to Rudi Giuliani, but when convenient, he dropped his Republican affiliation like a Sophomore drops a Saturday morning class. He toyed with bringing his nanny-state loving, global-warming-smarmed personality to the Presidential race as a Republican, but that notion was drowned in bitter tears after the unwashed rejected the jackass out of hand.
What’s interesting to Marr’s review of our presidential election finals in UK’s Telegraph is the references to the two Republican politicians.
Bloomberg is hardly considered “popular” or even being a “republican” in the lowest case with Republicans particularly in the conservative wing. Both Bloomberg and Christi are being ridiculed or even excoriated because of their catering to the disaster known as Sandybama.
But it demonstrates the influence our media has overseas on others when they offer their evaluation and report on the American scene. They’re beginning to learn when using such publications as the New York Times or most of the major news outlets as references they’re getting a skewed outlook and eventually will hopefully discard using them as such.
This was a very interesting read.
After reading it in full (and allowing for his “moderate” beliefs and misunderstanding of America and Americans) I believe this man is sincere in his assessment. When taken together, this isn’t at all good for Obama.
Barack Hussein Obama was never “can-do” - he was and is only “can-talk.” His whole life has been a preparation in ‘talking’.
Unfortunately, no one ever gave him the inspiration and work ethic to do anything about the talk except blame someone else when the outcome (certain) is bad.
He rolled into office on a wave euphoria founded in liberal ideology (hope, change, feelings) and misplaced white guilt, and he will be rolled out of office in a Tsunami of voter rejection Tuesday.
With him, he takes the tattered remains of what some used to call ‘beyond race’ and relegates that dream to some point far down the line, if ever.
Although this is rather damning of Obamugabe, Europeans still don’t get it. I did find this funny:
“...although the President is formidably intelligent, he may over-rely on it... He is an extremely solitary man. He is the most introverted president we have seen in the United States for decades... Barack Obama sits alone in his presidential study, up in the White House, for hours at night, writing and thinking and looking at memos and processing.”
Yeah, right. My guess is, he’s of very average intelligence. Instead of reading memo’s and writing, he is more likely spending “quality time” with Reggie Love.
I believe Bloomy ran as an independent last time. No longer a Republican.
It continues to amaze and confound me how such an amazing proportion of American citizens could not see right through this little snake. And many still can't.
Right. The “intellectual” Obama is another fantasy.
It shows how far Britain is mired in delusion that the Telegraph is what passes for that country’s most conservative newspaper.
***Within the article, the race card is played.***
Typical British biased liberal press. My sweet, naive Brit sister finally understands how she has been brainwashed by the BBC and UK’s newspaper pablum.
When BO was ‘elected’ and I didn’t share her admiration - she accused me of being a ‘racist’!!!!!! Her eyes are finally open.
“When taken together, this isn’t at all good for Obama”
True words, CW.
This “journalist” with the built-in misunderstanding both of America (a center right nation, in trouble because of bad, overgrowing government) AND Obama (an anti-American rabble rousing flim flam man) TRIED to understand it, tried to “get it”, but as they all do, HE FAILED.
But at the same time, he reflects the truth that even HIS kind of people see more of the real Obama and less of the fake presentation we got and to an extent, are still getting.
And that’s not good for Obama.
Americans are sick and tired of media wondering “how will this affect Obama”.
So it’s a double-edged, journalistic “sword” the writer is wielding.
But a worthy read from across the pond.
The “Mother Country” never understood us when we tossed them out and broke FREE in a monumental REVOLUTION all those years ago.
And they still don’t.
Many Americans will be (are) going to the polls (or sitting this one out) saying, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
He makes a point of quoting someone in the story who says Obama is failing because Americans don't like the color of this man. But they can't make this a logical argument or paint America and Americans with that smear because it is obviously a lie.
Obama is being rejected for his European socialism, love and push for big-government, his anti-American positions, his loathing of our allies and love of our enemies. He's been repeatedly exposed as the Racist in Chief not the Commander in Chief.
“unprecedented level of disrespect for this president” ...
He was clear from the beginning that he wanted to fundamentally re-make America. I found that repugnant.
Well, they do talk about the “unprecedented level of disrespect for this president”.
This coming from those who gave massive disrespect for President Bush.
Only when speaking to his people. When in front of mixed audiences (i.e., white independents) he was more general and gave no outward clear - only nebulous feelgoodisms.
Yeah, he quotes someone playing the race card, but nowhere and no way does he - nor can he - back up that angle.
Obama hasn’t delivered the goods, he’s delivered the “bads”, if I might make a play on words, and at the same time is so ideologically driven to turn us into something - as Paul Ryan repeatedly reminds - “we were never meant to be”.
Meanwhile, the nation is DROWNING in Obama rhetoric. Which is no longer uplifting or inspiring but is divisive, low-brow, silly drivel said to cheering sychophants used as political props.
Embarrasing the entire nation. And outraging it!
This is the insult added to the injury of these past 4 years.
But the article shows that even people who don’t get it, see that Obama is nothing like what he portrayed himself to be in 2008.
That’s certainly TRUE, and I’ll take it.
Many others knew all he had about him WAS 'air'.
Bloomingidiotberg started out running as a Republican, “evolved” into an “Independent” and is in the pupae stage of becoming a hard left commie. And folks say people can’t change....
Indeed. How in the world can an adult man who had never done ANYTHING in his life be considered “can-do”? It flabbergasts me to think people can be so stupid.
Romney has a true record of accomplishment.
It was inevitable since it was all air to start with. He'd never accomplished anything on his on. Some day the American Left will wake up and realize they elected Al Sharpton. Sadly, some won't be bothered by it.
It was inevitable since it was all air to start with. He'd never accomplished anything on his on. Some day the American Left will wake up and realize they elected Al Sharpton. Sadly, some won't be bothered by it.
(From Citizens United, of the famous Citizens United Supreme Court case that got Obama so steamed.)
Yep. I believe the quote was: “We live in the greatest country in the history of the world, help me change that”
I’m so glad she finally came around to see the folly and lies.
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