Posted on 01/25/2011 10:39:18 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Could the contrast have been more stark?
President Obama was, to borrow John Podhoretz's phrase, "pitch perfect" in his speech at the Memorial "service" in Tucson, Arizona. He focused on those whose lives were cut short, those whose lives were shattered, what we might learn from this searing atrocity and why it's important that we do so. The President rose to the moment with dignity and grace.
Sarah Palin, on the other hand, chose to respond to the atrocity by proclaiming that she was the victim of a "blood libel," attacked by evil meanies on the television set, when there was no evidence that her actions had anything to do with the actions of the loon who committed the atrocity. Factually true enough, I would say. But who cares? And why bother even mentioning it? It couldn't be less important. It couldn't be more self-absorbed.
All presidents and all presidential candidates (announced and unannounced) live in what Richard Ben Cramer called "the bubble." It's an hermetically sealed environment which allows very few "outsiders" in and goes to great lengths to keep the number of "insiders" to a minimum. This is why such great emphasis is placed on the people around the President (who they are, what they think, what their skill sets are, etc) by the political community as a whole (including political journalists and opinion makers). The insiders "protect" the president from the hundreds and thousands of bothersome people who are clamoring to give him their ideas. The insiders control what the president reads, what he sees, who he sees. They make sure that very few people get inside the bubble for very good reason(s) and for reasons that are sometimes not so pure.....
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You go, Doc, you go!!!
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The FOX news panel praised Obama’s speech that night. It was sickening.
See who the author of this article is and read my post #4.
The Amerikan Publik is too fickle to know any better. Just what Obama says is what drives publik opinion. It's painfully true. It will take several months of complete economic failure and inflation related increases to change what image the publik has of Obama. The MSM will see to it.
Didn’t watch them. In fact, I watch them less and less.
LLS
I have never really understood (or believed) that people change their opinions as quickly as the polls change. I would love to see polls that actually polled the same people over and over. Does anyone do that?
I’m not sold on Palin, but I sincerely hope that W was the last Bush we ever have to deal with again.
Quick, let’s pull out those “Miss Me Yet?” signs again.
No More Bush—Ever.
“Sarah Palin, on the other hand, chose to respond to the atrocity by proclaiming that she was the victim of a “blood libel,” attacked by evil meanies on the television set, when there was no evidence that her actions had anything to do with the actions of the loon who committed the atrocity. Factually true enough, I would say. But who cares? And why bother even mentioning it? It couldn’t be less important. It couldn’t be more self-absorbed. “
What a friggin’ idiot. “Who cares?” Yeah. Why would anyone possibly CARE that they’re being accused of being responsible for someone murdering a bunch of innocent people?
Either way, saying this kind of insanity in a major publication, from "a respected republican" gives the media big lie that somehow this was Palin's fault greater viability.
Despicable. The Bush circle is not helping itself in any way here.
Check the comments below the article, one major dork is claiming it's her fault, a fair amount of people are saying how dumb it is, even those who don't want her to become president.
I clicked "like" or "dislike" in the first dozen comments. FReep the comments!!
O spoke under the false flag of civility.
He turned the memorial into a political rally including campaign Tshirts.
Oh yes, pitch perfect. He was pitchman for himself.
And then rabid commentators make comments unjustly linking her to the shootings.
Next, Palin responds that those attempts to link her are detestable.
And Palin is somehow the one who deserves criticism?
I am starting to think that America will never turn away from the communist lie... I fear we are done with.
LLS
More evidence that the whole Bush crowd is far, far more comfortable with Obama and his leftist agenda than with Palin and the Tea Party folks. Damn. Worse than I even imagined.
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