Posted on 10/28/2012 7:21:26 PM PDT by smoothsailing
October 28, 2012
Rude, insulting language about Romney (“bullsh****r) from the president. Vulgar sexual innuendo, aimed at seducing young women to vote for him. The vice president asking a bereaved parent about the size of his murdered son’s testicles. It’s quite a spectacle. We’re a fractious people, and our politics have always been full of colorful language, but I can’t recall the current depth of vulgarity. The “politics of personal destruction” have gotten uglier. Does it mean anything? Should we try to understand it?
First, it bespeaks a coarsening of public language. No surprise there (Romney’s gentlemanlyness is more surprising, in fact); for a long time our movies and television have abandoned the rules that banned certain words and phrases. Still, until recently, our political leaders have avoided such vulgarities, at least in their public rhetoric. No more, at least at the highest level of the current Democrat Party.
Second, it shows the shrinking vocabulary of our political life. There are plenty of usable and powerful synonyms of “buls*****r,” but a graduate of Harvard Law School didn’t have any of them on the tip of his tongue. Or perhaps he just preferred the vulgarity.
Third, it is yet another step in the erasure of the line that once divided public and private. We always knew that there was (sometimes) a big difference between public image and private behavior. No man (except maybe Sir Winston) is a hero to his valet, etc. etc. But still, there were proprieties, rules for public decorum, and those who fell from grace in public were criticized and excoriated for falling. No more, at least so far as I can see among the Democrat faithful.
To be sure, there’s a difference between the two parties. When male Republican candidates make disgusting and ridiculous statements about rape, the faithful turn on them, properly so IMHO, but neither Obama nor Biden has come in for punishment for their use of obscenities and vulgarities.
So the rules for proper decorum are out the window, and the former arbiters of good taste are on board, ratifying the changes by their silence. It’s a shame, but there you have it.
But the arbiters–the intellectuals, the elite punditocracy et. al.–can’t dictate standards to the rest of us, even though they often delude themselves into believing they can. The politicians who indulge in the new nastiness clearly believe it’s fine with us, because they think their elitist friends dictate standards to the rest of us. I think they’re wrong. When only EIGHT PERCENT of Americans have a positive view of the media, it tells you something, after all. And when I read about the sudden 7 percent drop in Obama’s approval ratings in three days, I suspect it has something to do with bulls*****r and losing-your-virginity-is-like-voting-for-Barack ads, and Biden’s disgusting remarks [1] to a bereaved father.
It’s a continuation of a process that began with the first debate, in which Obama tip-toed out from behind the curtain on the central stage of Oz, and showed us who he really is. Not a great leader, certainly not a messianic figure. Indeed, as we now see, he’s a bum. It’s a shock to lots of Americans, who previously were willing to grant that the president had his faults but was basically a good man, a nice guy, and a cultured gentleman. He showed them he was none of those things.
I think that was a real shock to a meaningful chunk of the electorate, and it would not have been nearly so potent if it had come from a book or an oped. Its power comes from the fact that Obama showed it himself.
It shouldn’t have been hard to foresee the consequences of his self-revelation. So why did he do it? He’s certainly capable of dissimulation. The One who won the presidency four years ago did not present himself this way. He and his acolytes very carefully portrayed him as a transcendent figure, a new kind of leader, the incarnation of elegance and brilliance. And that succeeded. So what’s up?
I think he’s cracking, and the inner nastiness and vulgarity are on display. He’s losing, and he’s angry, and he can no longer sustain the pretense of elegance and coolness.
Nobody ever said he was disciplined, did they?
Moreover, he is the victim of his own myth, the “I have a special gift” legend that is the core doctrine of his powerful narcissism. He thinks he is so charismatic, and so wonderful, that if we see him in all his splendor, we will love him as he so loves himself.
I think that’s false, and I think the shifts in the polls–people suddenly like Romney, people suddenly turning away from Obama–demonstrate that. We’ll see for sure on the 6th of November.
This is blowing up in Barack’s face. If I were an adviser to the Democrats I would suggest they try their darnedest to clean up their public talk. Mitt, may God bless his soul even to the uttermost (with what that implies, I am not agreeing with mormon theology here), is a clean talking fellow, a boy scout. I wish he’d walk the walk as good as the talk... the result of letting open gayness into the Boy Scouts will be to coarsen it with sexualized innuendo, among many worse things.
Why Is Obama So Nasty and Vulgar?
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Because they are Liberal Fascists, who do not have to be accountable for their conduct because it is done to defend and establish their Utopia.The end therefore justifies the means.
The spread of jihadism and Islamofascism throughout Egypt , Libya, and now into Mali and Nigeria, and the expansion of Sharia law by “freedom fighters” who also kill American soldiers is “just a bump in the road.” You bet they are vulgar.
They must begone at all costs.
You sure summed that up well. 100% on the money.
Biden can turn to a grieving father and ask him the size of his son's balls and the MSM doesn't care. The MSM doesn't care about the death of an ambassador - they sit knowing eventually THEIR PRESIDENT will give them an excuse for them to pass on to their faithful idiots readers...
If Ryan asked a grieving father about the size of his dead son's balls - the filthy hypocrites at the New York Times would find their outrage... the little crappy sh*ts of the New York Times would sit up and notice... In ten years the press has gone from being mildly respected to being booed ... thanks New York Times. Thanks Washington Post...
Perhaps it’s because he has ALWAYS had”The Table Laid For Him”??????????????????????????????????????????????????
Honor ? From BATH-HOUSE BARRY ?? He never had any to begin with. . . .
Obama was surprised with the Romney he met at the first debate. It wasn’t the Romney the media and his teleprompter led him to expect. Similarly, the Obama we are now seeing is the Obama the media has been hiding from us, the one we did expect.
Obama was surprised with the Romney he met at the first debate. It wasn’t the Romney the media and his teleprompter led him to expect. Similarly, the Obama we are now seeing is the Obama the media has been hiding from us, the one we did expect.
Why is a pig fat? Because it's a pig.
It isn't "because" anything. It's who he is. Don't make excuses for him. He was born nasty and vulgar and will die the same way.
Why does poop smell bad? Because it's poop.
Luke 6:45 “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh”
I can be coarse, but I am able to control it largely. If I am in a civilized forum, I can find other words in the english language to convey the same precise meaning.
I blame the public crudeness, bully behavior, and general rudeness on the internet.
I started noticing it soon after people discovered that they could post anything (almost) they wanted to on the web. And then katie-bar-the-door. They were off and running. The “stupids” of the world finally found someone they could yell at. A dream come true for them. Remember, “on the internet, no one knows you’re a dog.”
No, in the last week before election Obama is going for rallying his base Dem lib voters to get out their vote for him and given up on converting those in the middle. He figures that he has all of those who he can convert and no more are coming before the election. This is a strategic decision.
That is why he did that ad with that MTV loser equating losing her virginity to O for voting for him because 'he is the right guy'.
He is counting on Rs not being able to effectively use this liberal shift of his against him before the election.
Why Is Obama So Nasty and Vulgar?
He has always been that way. He’s taken the mask off and is showing his true self. And the o-bots like this “new” obama better than they did the 2008 version.
Obama is evil, bad to the bone.
Because the Gerbil got stuck
Don't think so -- it's sprayed-on. He's a hothouse product of Punahou School and Occidental College, Columbia and Harvard Law. There isn't an ounce of tough in him. That's why military people don't like him -- they can smell the custard and the rot.
Someone said something about Hillary being such a bitch. Said she was suburban-Chicago tough, not downtown-Chicago tough like Obama's thugs, Axelgrease and Plouffe and Mayor Daley's boys.
Bobby Rush derided Obama back in the day and sent him packing -- he knew what Obama was, a "tan man" in a three-piece, a Harvard girlyman with an Oreo culture.
“Why Is Obama So Nasty and Vulgar”?
Because he is a creep. That’s all I see.
He is a punk.
You are exactly right, SaraJ. Some of us have seen it from the start.
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