Posted on 01/20/2010 4:44:50 PM PST by Merciful_Friend
You have to wonder. President Barack Obama talked to George Stephanopoulos this morning, in his first interview since the victory of Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts. If President Bush, in the wake of a dramatic electoral setback, had done an interview in which he came across in a state of such deluded denial, there would have been calls for him to be removed on the grounds of being mentally unfit for office. (And I don't mean just from liberals, but also likely from the liberals' pet conservatives like David Brooks and Peggy Noonan).
President Obama's sober analysis of why Scott Brown was elected in one of the most liberal states in the nation is here:
Here's my assessment of not just the vote in Massachusetts, but the mood around the country: the same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office. People are angry and they are frustrated. Not just because of what's happened in the last year or two years, but what's happened over the last eight years.
Understand? A vote for Republican Scott Brown was more of a vote against Bush, Cheney and Denis Hastert than it was a vote against Obama, Pelosi and Reid. And despite the fact that it was motivated by the very same feelings on the part of the voters that "swept" Obama into office, they ignored his own personal entreaties to vote for Martha Coakley; she being the candidate who ran on a platform of supporting everything that Obama planned to do!
This is a level of self-serving delusion that is very nearly deranged.
He then goes on to be merely disingenuous:
(Excerpt) Read more at rightwingbob.com ...
Right wing Bob is right on target.
Newspeak
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
Right out of the “global warming causes global cooling” playbook. Nice.
Yes.
So the voters were so mad at the republicans for the past eight years that they passed over a democrat and voted for another republican.
An infectious mental disease? Something in the water, maybe?
And Stephi took that opportunity to remind Obama that the Demoncrats have been running Congress for three years now. Right?
I’d say that, like me, BHO had a tough time sleeping last night because of a recurring noise.
I learned this morning that the noise was Teddy... spinning in his brass-handled Oldsmobile.
Health care isn't brought up while asking for your vote.
Its something after the election to jam down your throat.
Funny that his main pitch in Mass. over the weekend was that a vote for the Republican is a vote for more Bush/Cheney.
Seems as though they want Bush back by that logic.
I'd say bring back Cheney (and his daughter (and wife)).
Makes perfect sense to me.
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