Posted on 10/30/2008 8:38:46 AM PDT by andrew roman
Last night’s well-edited, technically proficient, dreary prime-time Barack Obama infomercial probably could be expanded into a five disc DVD set, complete with bonus interviews featuring more downtrodden Americans, detailed liner notes, transcripts of old law lectures, his personal revisions to the Constitution, and “never-before” seen footage of Mr. Obama healing the sick, raising the dead, feeding the hungry and personally redistributing wealth door-to-door.
“Self indulgent” is far too mild a phrase to describe Obama’s thirty minute excursion into his super-ego – as I continue to hear Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” playing in my head – so I’ll just say it was somewhere between disturbing and an intestinal blockage.
The United States is a heartless hell hole and moral garbage dump, if you were to subscribe to the Obama portrayal. It is a nation crumbling, losing its very soul, filled with a subjugated and exploited citizenry denied their slices of the American dream. In Obama-speak, despair and disillusionment linger like grim death over a nation desperately in need of rescue from the metastasizing cancers of free markets, rugged individualism and unfettered opportunity. Morph all of that with the oppressive policies of an eight-year long George W. Bush regime and you’ve got the makings of an irresolute, frightened country in need of real change.
And those were the high points.
The program itself was a technical laxative - complete with soft focusing, inspirational music, amber waves of wafting grain, and slices of heartbreak from struggling Americans. It was sulkily tiresome.
At the risk of a cold-hearted bastard label, let me assert (for the record) that I do not attack those who are genuinely having a hard time getting by. That isn't my point. To deny that there are Americans struggling is to deny reality. Indeed, there have always segments of the population who have struggled at any given time in this nation’s history. These days, I am among them, believe me.
But the Obama “brother-can-you-spare-a-dime” approach was more than a bit too much. About ten minutes into the program I started receiving hate mail from my stomach, begging me to give it a break. Twenty minutes in, I was looking for something to settle it down – like pop rocks or hydrochloric acid.
Frankly, the only thing missing last night in Obama’s “Let Me Save You” pre-World Series "America Sucks" showcase were images of bread lines and men holding “Will Work for Food” signs across their chests.
The program was depressing. It was meant to be. And it won’t make a damn bit of difference in the outcome of the election.
If only Barack Obama were President during the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe ... He could have stood on top of the crumbling levees himself, with the slashing wind and rains battering him, holding back the mighty floods with one hand and lifting people onto hovering helicopters with the other.
Messiahs do things like that.
The infomercial or your piano playing? :p
Not having television is a blessing, no Obama, none of the time.
Speaking of beer, the 0bamainfomercial made me sleep well. I played a drinking game with some of his well-known catchphrases. I had plenty during the program, but at the end, the rules forced me to down the whole drink with his “change the world” line. What an ego this man has.
Sorry for the tortured syntax... You know how you sometimes write a sentence three times, and then cobble together pieces of all three versions?
After a few minutes I started feeling Wheezie.
He's saving that for the Inauguration.
Thanks to my Fauxbama-induced gag reflex, I missed Geoff Jenkins’ lead-off double last night. Thanks, Hussein.
I watched it with the same morbid curiousity with which the tongue probes a festering tooth.
Just out of curiosity, what were the ratings?
“An insipid, dolorous hologram of abnegation and defeatism”
Um.....RIGHT ON! (bigcat32 feverishly looks for Funk and Wagnalls)
I call it a pile of crap.
Early reports have it at 17.8/29, or roughly 17.8 million viewers. He had somewhere around 38 million during his convention speech.
Twenty minutes in, I was looking for something to settle it down – like pop rocks or hydrochloric acid.
I think I love you.
Very Good ...I didnt watch but I figured someone else would do a good job covering this. Im busy with a project ....”1-800-call-a-Messiah”
I lasted less than 5 minutes, before the giant sucking sound of his ego was too much to bear.
Anyone has the ratings # for it?
Oh, dear. I hope you feel okay today. Have lots of water and a lunch with garlic and protein!
A quote on No Quarter panning the infomercial.
“Obama is the feeling you get when you have had too much cake and ice cream and just want to hurl.”
LOL!
The speech, or your piano playing? :)
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