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GREENFIELD: TRUMP VS OBAMA
The Sultan Knish blog ^ | Monday, March 20, 2017 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 03/21/2017 6:13:30 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell

Monday, March 20, 2017

Trump vs. Obama

Posted by Daniel Greenfield

Obama is a coward.

Trump will call someone a name while Obama will anonymously source a smear through three levels of staffers, political allies and reporters. Trump called CNN “Fake News” on camera. Obama sourced Operation Rushbo, targeting Rush Limbaugh, through a variety of White House people and left-wing allies. Trump will boot reporters he doesn’t like. Obama authorized secretly hacking the emails of a FOX News reporter. Trump had an openly hostile conversation with the Prime Minister of Australia. When Obama wanted to call Netanyahu “chickens__t”, he did it by having one of his people anonymously plant it with a reliable media sycophant, The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, before later having a spokesman disavow it. Poultry ordure doesn’t smell any worse than that.

But Obama is very careful to launch dirty attacks without getting any on his hands. The insults are anonymously sourced. The retaliation comes out of the bowels of the bureaucracy. And he only finds out about it from the media. That allows him to retain what he cares about most: his popularity.

Obama and his people like to think that their dishonesty is a superpower. They pat themselves on the back for stabbing everyone else in theirs. Sometimes their smugness over how well they use the media to lie and smear gets out of control. Like the time Obama’s Goebbels, Ben Rhodes, boasted to the New York Times about how easy it was to fool everyone about the deal to protect Iran’s nuclear program.

After Trump won, it was business as usual.

Obama put on his best imitation of decency while his people went on preparing to undermine Trump at every turn by smearing him, wiretapping him and doing everything possible, legally and illegally, to bring him down. It was the same phony act that he had pulled for eight years, bemoaning the lack of bipartisanship while ruling unilaterally as a dictator, destroying the Constitution while hectoring us about our values, denouncing racism while organizing race riots, complaining about the echo chamber while constructing one and lecturing us on civility while smearing anyone who disagreed.

Trump’s killer instinct lies in understanding that hypocrisy conceals weakness. That is what powered him through the primaries and then through an election. His instinct is to grapple directly with a target. That is also the source of his popularity. Meanwhile the source of Obama’s popularity is his hollow likability. He’s likable only because he is almost always too cowardly to say what he really thinks.

Americans have seen the real Trump: because he is, in his own way, always real. Obama is always unreal. When Trump and Obama have appeared together, Obama seemed less real. He is a brand wrapped in all sorts of images that have nothing to do with who he really is.

Trump has always understood that Obama’s bravado was hollow. Obama boasted that he would have defeated Trump. Then he went on to try to do that with attacks from behind the scenes routed through government loyalists and media operatives while pretending that he had nothing to do with any of it.

But Obama and his people had learned nothing from how Trump had won the election. When Trump is attacked, his response is to go directly for the attacker, no matter what the argument is or how it’s sourced. Trump doesn’t get bogged down in debates or befuddled by media echo chambers that are so totally enveloping that they resemble reality. He just smashes past them to the source of the smear.

That is exactly what he did by calling out Obama’s eavesdropping. He bypassed all the layers that Obama had put in place to insulate himself from involvement in the attack, the media echo chamber, the staffers who handed information to the media and the government loyalists who provided the information to the staffers, to strike at the wizard behind the curtain.

And, in doing so, he made a mockery of Obama’s bravado.

When Obama boasted that he could have beaten Trump, he meant that he could have done so using the same tactics that worked so well against McCain and Romney. Like most of the media, he had failed to understand that these tactics don’t work against Trump because he is a moving target. Trump created his own brand. Unlike most presidential candidates, he doesn’t need consultants, and unlike most Republicans, he isn’t worried at all about likability. That’s why he won an election and still has majority support for his policies, including the most controversial ones, despite poor likability.

Obama is obsessed with being liked. In the media space, effective messaging depends on likability. But Trump upended the same formula that had ruled presidential politics since Nixon vs. Kennedy. Instead he casually tosses likability aside to grapple with opponents, rivals and enemies. Trump won this election by forcing opponent after opponent to either fight him on his own terms or back away.

This includes the media, which has tried to grapple directly with him, with disastrous results.

The Obama machine, a massive propaganda matrix that alternates between lying and gaslighting, is not built to handle Trump. And Obama isn’t built to handle Trump either. Obama’s hipster transgressiveness made him seem cool when up against Romney or McCain, but everything Trump does embodies real transgressiveness. The machine is built on limiting the freedom of action of Republicans by intimidating them with political correctness and potential smears. But Trump doesn’t care about any of that.

Trump is willing to throw everything into an attack. Obama’s people build complicated traps that he walks through without thinking twice. Obama plays chess. Trump overturns the board.

Obama’s strategy was to create so much chaos that the White House wouldn’t be able to get anything done. Instead it would ricochet from scandal to scandal. Similar tactics had proven quite effective in the second terms of Reagan and Bush. But Trump thrives on chaos. Many of his supporters want him to be a disrupter. Chaos translates to effectiveness. The more noise he makes, the more he’s changing things.

President Trump has made it clear that in response to these attacks, he will directly challenge Obama. And that breaks down Obama’s entire plan of using proxies to do his dirty work while he gives inspiring speeches. Trump will not let Obama get away with attacking him and then hiding behind phony idealism. And he intends to make the Obama machine into the issue in these attacks.

Obama’s plan involved a gradual emergence to deliver more sanctimonious lectures about “who we are”. It did not involve getting directly into a fight with Trump. But, as his other opponents discovered, Trump doesn’t give you a choice.

The favorite quote of Clinton’s damage control man Chris Lehane came from Mike Tyson. “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Obama’s people like to think that this is what they’ve done to Republicans, Iran Deal opponents, police officers and even President Trump. But Trump is showing them what the expression really means.

Obama had a plan. Then Trump punched him in the mouth.

The plan to entangle key Trump people in scandals hit a roadblock. Instead the wiretapping accusations have become the issue. And Obama’s people have been forced to come out and offer cautious denials.

And Obama and his dirty tricks have been dragged out from behind the curtain.

Trump and Obama are two very different men. Their personalities, as much as their politics, will define this conflict. The media routinely accuses Trump of having totalitarian instincts. But the true totalitarians are men like Obama those who hypocritically use the machinery of government to go after their opponents while pretending to be virtuous. President Trump has always fought his fights directly.

And the battle for America has only begun.


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KEYWORDS: greenfield; sultanknish

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1 posted on 03/21/2017 6:13:30 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
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Because sometimes the truth needs to be repeated.

2 posted on 03/21/2017 6:15:42 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The Left has the temperament of a squealing pig.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Excellent!


3 posted on 03/21/2017 6:18:55 AM PDT by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: All

One BIG BIG difference is that Trump made his money by earning it-—building things, employing thousands of people, paying huge amounts in taxes.

Obama banked zillions by looting and pillaging......US agencies, the US Treasury, etc. There’s so many tax dollars Obama has to keep track of; I fear his puny brain might snap:

<><> The Iran-Nuclear Agreement’s secret billions and pallets of cash and gold;

<><> $2 billion funding to half-brother Malik’s organization-—the Muslim Brotherhood;

<><> $50 million to Malik/Barack’s tax-exempt foundation in the form of a grant to Kenya;

<><> the hundreds of millions in foreign aid to his homeland, Kenya;

<><> the $90 million US tax dollars Obama gave to wealthy oil-rich Muslim African Muslim countries;

<><> the billions missing from the Obamacare PR scam;

<><> the billions missing from the State Dept;

<><> the $73 million US tax dollars Michele “gave” Qatar “to teach Muslim girls.”

<><> the 100 million dollars Obama gave Michele for Morocco “to teach Muslim girls” (to be held by, and doled out by, the Obama Foundation).

<><> the $7 billion Obama gave to “upgrade power” in Africa.

That’s just for starters....doesn’t count in the billions in penalties Obama and Holder made banks pay that La Raza and other lefties pocketed.

Can you say kickback?


4 posted on 03/21/2017 6:20:35 AM PDT by Liz ( w W)
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To: Louis Foxwell

“Shillman Journalism Fellow”

Those three words don’t look right together. :)


5 posted on 03/21/2017 6:21:28 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Liz

Obama is a super slug without an ounce of scruples in his puny body.


6 posted on 03/21/2017 6:26:04 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: Bitsy
His only interest as prez was tapping into the US Treasury....and gaming asst agencies. Read on.

"Don't worry, Mr President, the Dept of the Treasury is under your control."

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OBAMA GAVE RHAM EMANUEL TWO KEY JOBS Soon as they occupied the WH, Obama placed his COS Rahm Emanuel in control of the US Dept of the Treasury (oversees the IRS).

PAUSE TO REFLECT First-term Obama had tight control of Treasury; Obama calculatedly placed his then-COS Rahm Emanuel in a dual role.......in the WH and at Treasury. Obama had a stranglehold on Treasury via COS Rahm Emanuel's dual role

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THE SMOKING GUN---WSJ REPORT--On Jan 20, 2009 Timothy Geithner was appointed Obama's Secy of the Treasury. But within three weeks, the Obama White House tightened its grip on Treasury. Obama put his COS, Rahm Emanuel, in charge of Treasury---Rahm Emanuel's dual role was an unusual move.

When he got to Treasury, WH COS Rahm Emanuel was so involved in the inner workings that the phrase "Rahm wants it" had become an unofficial mantra among subservient govt staffers, prostrate in obeisance, scurrying to accede to Rahm's wishes, according to Treasury government officials. Reported by WSJ / 05/31/09

More here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113406528875137.html

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Pres Trump needs to suggest AG Sessions make an inquiry to the US Dept of the Treasury and be sure to ask what RAHM AND Obama were doing in the US Treasury after Obama got elected.

Treasury prolly HAS a huge Rahm/Obama paper trail. One can get awfully rich awfully fast knowing the Fed's Treasury moves in advance.

But the Iran connection could prove to be even more interesting considering the hundreds of millions Obama secretly gave to Iran.

7 posted on 03/21/2017 6:31:41 AM PDT by Liz ( w W)
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ITEM--OBAMA AND RAHM EMANUEL KNOW PLENTY ABOUT THIS

FOURTEEN TRILLION DOLLARS Behind The Real Size of the Obama Bailout; the secret programs that make up the $14 trillion federal bailout of Wall Street
SOURCE motherjones.com --- Mon Dec. 21, 2009 12:23 PM PST

The price tag for the Wall Street bailout is popularly put at $700 billion—---the actual size of TARP--the Troubled Assets Relief Program.

But TARP is just the best known program in an array of more than 30 overseen by Treasury Department and Federal Reserve that have paid out or put aside untraceable money to bail out financial firms and inject money into the markets.

PAUSE TO REFLECT First-term Obama had tight control of the US Treasury; Obama calculatedly placed his then-COS Rahm Emanuel in a dual role.......in the WH and at Treasury. Obama had a stranglehold on Treasury via COS Rahm Emanuel's dual role.

To get a sense of the size of the real $14 trillion bailout, see MJ chart at web site. A guide to the pieces of the puzzle includes massive untraceable Treasury Department bailout programs.

Money Market Mutual Fund: In September 2008, the Treasury controlled by Obama/Emanuel announced that it would insure the holdings of publicly offered money market mutual funds. According to the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), these guarantees could have potentially cost the federal government more than $3 trillion [PDF].

Public-Private Investment Fund: This joint Treasury-Federal Reserve program bought toxic assets from banks and brokerages—as much as $5 billion of assets per firm. According to SIGTARP, the government's potential exposure from the PPIF is between $500 million and $1 trillion [PDF].

TARP: As part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Treasury controlled by Obama/Emanuel made loans to or investments more than 750 banks and financial institutions. $650 billion has been paid out (not including HAMP; see below). As of December 21, 2009, $117.5 billion of that has been repaid.

Government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) stock purchase: The Treasury controlled by Obama/Emanuel bought $200 million in preferred stock from Fannie Mae and another $200 million from Freddie Mac [PDF] to show that they "will remain viable entities critical to the functioning of the housing and mortgage markets."

GSE mortgage-backed securities purchase: Under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, the Treasury controlled by Obama/Emanuel may buy mortgage-backed securities from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. According to SIGTARP, these purchases could cost as much as $314 billion ---SNIP---

LONG READ---go to web site to read more and checkout the shocking financial charts.

SOURCE http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/12/behind-real-size-bailout

8 posted on 03/21/2017 6:37:02 AM PDT by Liz ( w W)
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To: Bitsy

Bottom line is that Obama is a bully and a coward. The fact that he even exists is an affront to humanity. As someone said, “hell is empty, all the devils are here”.


9 posted on 03/21/2017 6:49:32 AM PDT by Russ
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To: Russ

Agreed. 100%


10 posted on 03/21/2017 7:03:34 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Often courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says "I'll try again tomorrow." TSM)
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To: Louis Foxwell

AND, once again, Dan hits it out of the park.

Thank you, Louis, for your faithfulness and diligence in sharing these excellent essays with us.


11 posted on 03/21/2017 8:13:41 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Russ

He will get to know Satan better one day if he isn’t careful.


12 posted on 03/21/2017 8:17:50 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: Monkey Face

Greenfield is among the absolute BEST!


13 posted on 03/21/2017 9:04:41 AM PDT by RArtfulogerDodger
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To: RArtfulogerDodger

I have to agree with that, also! I really look forward to his posts because I know he will have at least one truth to convey. Usually, it’s many more.


14 posted on 03/21/2017 10:19:29 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Often courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says "I'll try again tomorrow." TSM)
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To: Louis Foxwell; Liz
Obama and his people like to think that their dishonesty is a superpower. They pat themselves on the back for stabbing everyone else in theirs. Sometimes their smugness over how well they use the media to lie and smear gets out of control. Like the time Obama’s Goebbels, Ben Rhodes, boasted to the New York Times about how easy it was to fool everyone about the deal to protect Iran’s nuclear program.

You'll like this one Liz...

15 posted on 03/21/2017 11:57:45 AM PDT by GOPJ (Access to Heath Insurance is NOT access to 'health-care' unless you're middle class or above.)
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To: GOPJ

.......evil is a power.....but not for good.......


16 posted on 03/21/2017 1:25:00 PM PDT by Liz ( w W)
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