[Cincinatus' Wife]

“I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. . . . He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. . . . So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. . . . He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.” Valerie Jarrett

[trebb]

“I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. . . . He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. . . . So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. . . . He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.” Valerie Jarrett

Either a really sick concubine-at-heart, ...or...she understands that it's a lot easier to control the puppet if you praise him highly and often.

[pke]

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

[Truth29]

"But Earnest did note that previous crises — like the flood of unaccompanied minors across the southern border that dominated attention earlier this summer — were examples of where the administration had worked hard to solve a problem, only to see attention divert elsewhere."

Solution? Does he mean hiding them and transporting them and their diseases all over the country, often not even notifying the states and towns until they show up? Does he mean putting them in public schools without health screenings and inoculations required of legal residents? What accomplishments. I am sure they would love to run on the kids sickened and killed by EV68.

[bert]

Meanwhile, height challenged women continue to wear high heels in an attempt to be equal

[DouglasKC]

Jamal Simmons, a veteran Democratic aide, said politicians never “get to choose what the public thinks is important so they must hit the balls that come their way.”
“What makes this cycle seem especially dominated by errant issues is the lack of policy proposals or substantive messages about agendas coming from either side,” he argued. “In campaigns about nothing, election debates tend to be dominated by anything."
There’s also been a shift in media, with even the 24-hour news cycle appearing dated in the era of the internet and social media.
“Part of what’s going on is the way the media works,” Zelizer said. “It’s not necessarily that there’s more issues, it’s the quick attention span media cycle where we move from one crisis to another.”

In other words Democrats (and Republicans) are lamenting the fact that REAL news can't be managed anymore. The birth of news sources outside of the lame stream press means that political parties can no longer use the media to "craft" a narrative. In other words, the parties are finding it increasingly difficult to manipulate the minds and hearts of Americans to get their votes and continue their empowerment and cash flow. And they don't like it.

[RFEngineer]

“The short-attention span generation has birthed the shiny-object election.”

Nonsense. The media narrative got so threadbare over time that even they couldn’t defend it anymore.

The reality of incompetence cannot be covered up. The media still fails to report on it in detail and with anything resembling enthusiasm for the truth, but people of all stripes know the truth about obama: He’s the exact opposite of “smart, perceptive, and capable”

[randita]

Geez...who knew that being POTUS meant you had to deal with pesky crises all the time? You mean, it’s not just playing golf and attending state dinners?

[Paradox]

“The short-attention span generation has birthed the shiny-object election.”

Barak Obama was the ultimate "shiny object".

[FlipWilson]

Watching CNN this morning (was forced to watch, actually because it was on at my gym) they assure me that the dens have the arsenate sewn up.

[cardinal4]

That post from valjar is a real hurl-o-rama..

[cport]

Every time there is a major issue — or as were now referring to everything, crisis — it seems to reverberate on Obama,” said Democratic strategist Peter Fenn. “It plays into what was already a sour political mood and compounds it.” Crisis management has forced the White House to name new czars, fire political appointees and drop bombs, even as Republicans point to missteps as signs of Obama’s weak leadership and the government’s lack of competency

Surely, this isn't an example of the GOP conservatives actually learning to use the media and using the enemy's tactics (dumocrats arrogance and hubris in revealing war strategy, ie never let a crisis go to waste, no wonder they can't prosecute an effective real war) to mollify the opposition. I love how all these crises are exacerbated by their own directly and easily linked previous policies. And still the GOPe want to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. They haven't figured out what the American public has because the GOPe is still smarting from the 2012 election; that Obummer, his cohorts, and their policies are vulnerable, .