and 0bama takes another one in the...........HA ha!!!
paulycy
Posted on 09/25/2010 1:17:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A woman named Velma Hart spoke at a town hall directly to President Barack Obama and gave the entire country the ultimate teachable moment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnMMo8lVG5M
What makes Ms. Hart so powerful is that she is probably the first and only person who cannot be destroyed for criticizing Barack Obama.
Think back to Joe the Plumber. He was a guy named Joe Wurzelbacher just living his life. He asked a question that resulted in one of the only slips in an otherwise well run Obama campaign. Within hours, he was being investigated.
I met Joe the Plumber last week. I spoke with him at length. He really is that ordinary guy who enjoys a good beer and a Cincinnati Bengals game. That is not an act. He is as authentic as it gets.
Yet he is also a conservative and a proud Christian. For these and no other reasons…let me say this real slowly so everyone can understand why he needed to be taken down…for these and only these reasons…the left had to vilify him.
Anybody who has ever been a threat to Barack Obama has been ripped to shreds. John McCain is no longer a threat. The media criticism of him has disappeared. Sarah Palin has the Obama White House terrified. She is a religious Christian and a conservative woman. The left has to destroy her.
Christine O’Donnell is the next woman that the left is going to rip to shreds. She is a conservative woman and an evangelical. That is all it takes.
The left will claim it will be because of issues swirling around her, but much of that is stuff the left simply falsified. So the left makes up rumors, enough people believe it, and then those rumors are cited as evidence. To paraphrase that biblical song, may the circle of logic be unbroken, by and by lord, by and by.
(Christine O’Donnell is also gorgeous. Hot women are despised. It is called jealousy.)
(Mark Levin pointed out that Christine O’Donnell never joined the Klan or drove a car off of a bridge. The obsession with her background is because she is an evangelical conservative.)
Yet Velma Hart will not be demonized. She will be treated as the most sincere woman on Earth.
Personally, I find her very sincere, and am not in any way criticizing the positive narrative of her. I am just pointing out why nobody on the left will dare to deviate form this narrative.
She is a black woman who voted for President Obama.
In other words, her criticism of him is automatically seen as constructive and not destructive.
When I explain why I think President Obama is not getting the job done, I can be dismissed as a partisan hack.
Velma Hart will not suffer that indignity.
Nor should she.
None of us should.
Ms. Hart made it very clear that she was honored to be in his presence, and that she still supports him. This is important because it only reinforces her credibility.
She is bright, successful, accomplished. With all respect to Linda Carter, Wonder Woman might be black.
Ms. Hart is a financial CFO for a military organization.
If one wants to really strain hard to find anything to take issue with (and I don’t), one could say that she is really not middle class. She has kids in private school, so she is most likely upper middle class. Nevertheless, that is semantics. She is not “the wealthy.”
What she basically asked President Obama was the same question 25 years ago that Walter Mondale asked Gary (no relation to Velma) Hart and Clara Peller made famous in Wendy’s commercials?
Where’s the beef?
A couple of weeks ago I pointed out why Barack Obama is failing. He demonizes his political opponents, and is incredibly pompous in dismissing dissenting opinions. He refuses to change course and focus on the economy.
There are people out there who reflexively criticize him. I am not in that camp, and refuse to be that person. I gave him the benefit of the doubt.
(Go back and read every column I have ever written. It will verify my statements and increase my blog traffic.)
Velma Hart wants to see results. She does not see them. This led her to make the ultimate statement.
“I’m tired of defending you.”
So how did Mr. Obama get to this point?
He refused to focus on what got him elected. He won the White House for all intents and purposes the day in September that Lehman Brothers burned. After that, it was over.
He was hired to focus on the economy.
He focused on healthcare first. This was a blunder. It does not make him a bad person. It just makes him tone deaf.
I have repeatedly said that Barack Obama only cares about three issues: Healthcare, education, and the environment/energy.
Everything else is a distraction to him.
The Arab-Israeli conflict is a distraction from building a green economy.
Afghanistan is a distraction from education.
Fixing the economy is not as important as healthcare.
Mr. Obama has stated that by improving healthcare, this will fix the economy.
I don’t see it. I don’t see the jobs coming back.
Yet Mr. Obama’s main problem is his perceived lack of passion for anything not involving his three issues.
He genuinely cares about remaking the healthcare system and building a green society.
He does not care about anything else. He truly believes that if we all shut up and agree with him, we will all be better off.
He wants us to be patient, but he set the bar so incredibly high while bashing his predecessor with reckless abandon.
In the very same event with Velma Hart, President Obama said, “I am concerned about the next generation while others are concerned about the next election.”
This tactic of attacking the motives of those who disagree goes against his false post-partisan rhetoric.
He talks about teachable moments, but that is his way of saying that he should lecture us and we should shut up and obediently nod our heads in agreement and learn from the esteemed academic professor.
Velma Hart is not buying it. She made it clear that she did not think he answered her question.
Velma Hart wants Barack Obama to succeed.
The way for Barack Obama to succeed is to listen to Velma Hart.
He should completely rearrange his priorities. He should only focus on two issues: National Security and the economy.
Everything else should be put on the back burner.
Every day that he gives speeches about a green society is a day that he is not speaking about the economy.
His time is finite. He needs to accept that the voters never shared some of is more liberal priorities.
The fate of the American Dream that every generation before mine has experienced is on the verge of slipping away.
Even if one accepts that the president is quietly behind the scenes working on the economy (as his entire team quits and runs for the hills), that is not good enough.
Perceptions matter. My perception is he does not care. He does not get passionate about the economy in the same way that he does when discussing his three pet issues.
Velma Hart delivered in a much more eloquent manner the same message I have been hammering for months to the President.
Stop blaming the prior administration. Listen to the people. Stop talking so much. Just deliver the d@mn results.
It has been almost two years. Enough with the excuses.
I still believe Barack Obama could be a successful leader if this Velma Hart teachable moment leads to him listening to his citizens instead of condescendingly lecturing us.
Whatever one thought of Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, they governed on the issues they ran on. People knew exactly what they were getting. Those issues were in sync with the voters.
Both of those men emotionally connected with people. Barack Obama is the second coming of Michael Dukakis, a cold, clinical technocrat devoid of empathy and emotion.
Mr. Obama intoned to Ms. Hart that “we are moving in the right direction.”
No. We are not. This is the disconnect.
Barack Obama is out of touch with ordinary Americans. His future success will be determined by whether he gives Velma Hart and the rest of us more worn out platitudes or concrete results.
Why would she be destroyed? She will most likely continue to support 0bama even if she is critical of him.
Velma the Bummer!
Because she is 1. Black, 2. a woman, and 3. a Federal employee.
What struck me about Velma Hart is, that she, despite being a member of the only workforce to have received a substantial increase in compensation during the Obama Recession, was still complaining about how she wasn't getting "enough" from the government.
Her and the guy who asked Obama about the American Dream both said they'd vote for him again. They deserve what they get.
Yes, Yes. poor Velma and her kids in private school, whining that they didnt get a hand out.
This is key. This is why he is pushing his three pet projects so hard. Those three projects will allow almost total control of the people by government. He is not only passionate about this, he is obsessed. This is why Barak Hussein Obama was put in the WH. To get these things done and allow government takeover of the country. This is scary stuff.
It all depends on how you define that word "succeed."
"Succeed" for Barack Obama is to tear this country apart, all the while appearing to be Superman saving everyone.
"Succeed" for Velma Hart is for him to truly save this country, which he is totally incapable of doing and has no intention of doing.
Barack Obama is concerned with one thing and one thing only: Barack Obama. This is a ‘’teachable moment’’? For crying out loud anyone with half a brain could have seen this Marxist mountebank for what he was: As spectacular a failure and an incompetent, thin-skinned and arrogant a boob as ever came down the pike. He wouldn’t have lasted five minutes among real Marxists and communists but this is America and the Democrat Party is the next best thing. It took almost two years and the damage done so far to see this? If unemployment were half of what is now and the economy in not too bad shape no one would have ever heard of Mrs. Velma Hart. Mrs. Hart would be feeling just fine. I’d like to ask Mrs. Hart if she felt this way under George Bush. She certainly wasn’t eating ‘’pork-and-beans’’ then, was she? So what made her vote for President Hopey Changey? If it takes the electorate this long or longer to spot the next phoney, we’re in deep trouble.
Tragically, conservative/Libertarians/Americans, get what she voted for also. Spelling/syntax police on the scene?
and 0bama takes another one in the...........HA ha!!! paulycy
That wouldn't bother me so much if we didn't get what they deserved in the process.
Because these are the primary vehicles for redistribution of wealth.
P.S. I would add taxes and financial regulation to the list.
Obastard is so ideologically driven that he refuses to accept that socialism and government run health care has ALWAYS failed.
But he also sees health care as a way to control the people; eat the right foods, drive government approved cars, make sure you don’t have any guns in the house, etc, etc, or you will lose your government health care and it will be illegal to get it anywhere else if you could afford it.
And he sees cap and tax as a way to redistribute America’s wealth to the turd world countries as if giving the money to tin pot dictators would somehow make the lives of the peasants there better.
Michelle Obama Says Click Off Cartoons and Go Out and Play [Jawohl, mein Herr Frau Fuhrer!]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2595960/posts
If 0bama suddenly pivots to focus on national security and the economy, it will only prove the fraud that he is. He didn’t bother to become president to do what we want and need. He has a disastrous agenda, and time’s a-wasting.
To me, the dignified and courageous Velma Hart is emblematic of traditional democrats who do not know and cannot see that the game has changed. I wish they’d sit down and read what 0bama himself has promised to do to us once elected. He’s working on that as hard as he can. It’s up to the Velmas, the Independents and the rest of us to stop him.
I would claim that neither Obama nor Ms. Hart are teachable. Obama simply won’t listen and Hart refuses to believe that her support of Obama was a mistake.
Yes it does.
The Federal government has no business getting anywhere near "healthcare".
Doing anything at all with "healthcare" makes him an evil person.
I stopped reading right there. One cannot be both "bright" & "...honored to be in his presence, and that she still supports him." That is the essential contradiction:
She's "honored" because he's black like her.
She "still supports him" because he's black like her.
She & 97% of the American Black Population voted for him because he's black.
So, don't hand me this nonsense about her being "bright". That is about as true as O-bomb-O being "bright": I see absolutely no concrete evidence to confirm that hypothesis.
MLK's "I have a dream" speech is just so old-school these days with the hip-hop thug culture.
What struck me about Velma Hart is, that she, despite being a member of the only workforce to have received a substantial increase in compensation during the Obama Recession, was still complaining about how she wasn’t getting “enough” from the government.
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Just once, I’d like someone to corner one of these people, and ask them if they care about all the people who will lose businesses, jobs, and homes because taxes had to go up for their “raise”.
Juuuust once.
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