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.
Mope You Can Believe In
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LOVE IT - Comeon Mac, do an ad with this “Mope you can believe in”. Describe how you see America differently.
Did Obama take into account the number of people who attend church on Wednesday nights? I was wondering the same thing last night, and I’ll bet he didn’t. Fine with me. Let him throw his campaign money down the rathole.
Are you suggesting it isn’t a national tragedy if someone loses their job? Are you suggesting American autoworkers don’t have a right to lifetime employment with high wages and enormous benefits, regardless of the company’s profit?
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They are just libtards....
Dems are the party of clowns...
I didn’t watch the infomercial, but on this morning’s Don Wade and Roma show people were more interested in the background music than what Obambi had to say.
BTW, the concensus was the music was from the movie “Rudy.”
One item stuck out that O’bambi said last night....that was to remind us that we are our brother’s and sister’s keepers...
What about that Aunt in Boston, Barak?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119023/posts
Obama’s Kenyan aunt found in a Boston slum...
I see him as a sort of messiah- the Anti-Christ.
Just be glad Aunt Esther wasn’t there to chime in and tell her tales of woe about the difficulty and unfairness of having to pay back student loans, or having to shell out $10,000 a year for her daughters’ extracurricular activities.
http://www.michelleobamasuicidewatch.blogspot.com/
I got as far as the opening scene in Rachel Ray’s kitchen where some wacko had removed all the working appliances and in their place had spirited all the trappings of the Oval Office - the soft hum of the stage fan drawing the eye to the backdrop where the late Autumn leaves stirred blurly beyond...
You missed it because you are just a bitter American clinging to your religion and choir practice. </sarcasm>
Cordially,
NO WAY could I stomach watching him babble on and on and on. His appearance is silly . . . more like a joke and the words that come out of his mouth are lined with lies and gibberish that only he and his left of the left cronies understand the REAL meaning of. No . . . couldn’t watch it.
Interesting though . . . I overheard coworkers discussing watching him last night. The dem that decided NOT to vote dem this year is now having second thoughts. He was “right on” according to her. She now has second thoughts about voting for McCain/Palin. So . . . I would say he may have done what he set out to do. Convince a few his way. God help us all if he pulls this off.
Those people would not vote for him anyway would they??
Yeah, but I couldn’t cling to my gun. I had to put it under my chair so I could hold the music.
That pretty much summed it up for me.
Btw, that link you provided is a pissah and bear repeating - Thanks!
http://www.michelleobamasuicidewatch.blogspot.com/
I like him. I’d like see the Naked Archaeologist, The Dog Whisperer and What Not to Wear to some sort of combined super show, a ninety minute special.
...and all the credit goes to the liberals' sincere efforts to make our world such a better place. /s
Some idiot, possibly Olby, then again it might have been O’Reilly said he was going to get 40 million viewers.
Just another testament to the colossal ego of Obama. The mere fact that Obama lacks any kind of clear judgement on these stupid, over-the-top campaign tactics proves to me just how weak, egotistical and insipid a man he truly is - Obama takes the bait every time. LOL.
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