Posted on 09/23/2010 6:59:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
President Obama's CNBC "townhall" was a disaster for the White House message machine, so much so you have to wonder if the president isn't suggesting that Robert Gibbs leave along with Rahm and Larry.
Lost among the coverage given to the "I'm exhausted" exchange between the president and Velma Hart was a stunner from the president that went this way:
"The rhetoric and the politicizing of so many decisions that are out there has to be toned down. We've got to get back to working together. And this is part of my job as leader. It's not just a matter of implementing good policies, but also setting a better tone so that everybody feels like we can start cooperating again instead of going at loggerheads all the time."
Coming from President "I Won, You Lost" just as Harry Reid ginned up his re-election campaign by bringing before the Senate for certain defeat the so-called "Dream Act," the so called "Disclose Act," and an attempt to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" months before the Pentagon's review of that proposed repeal is completed or circulated for comment is too much even for cynics to accept as garden variety White House hypocrisy. President Obama used his enormous majorities to jam through a wildly wasteful "stimulus" and the wildly unpopular Obamacare, but now that he is on the brink of losing those majorities, he wants a new era of cooperation.
Except in the Senate. Or the House. Or when he is off stage and demanding of his generals a slow walk to defeat in Afghanistan and calculating that we could absorb another major terrorist attack, if Bob Woodward is to be believed.
The training wheels have come off, and not even the combined effort of all the Beltway media to keep the president on his bike and moving forward is working. The economic policy "team" is scattering like a too-popular-too-soon boy band after a second album, and the White House's "enforcer" Rahm wants out to run the efficient-and-thoughtful-by-comparison city bureaucracy of Chicago.
And we aren't even at the halfway point of the term yet.
This isn't a rerun of the Clinton knock-down and recovery. Clinton never swerved so far to the left, didn't actually burden the economy with Hillary-care and, while he raised taxes, he also got his policy in place and left it there, providing predictability at the start of the dot-com boom.
By contrast, Obama has thrown massive uncertainty on to every employer's balance sheet and has loosed the EPA to try and regulate carbon emissions on every manufacturer in the land. Even if there was a magical second dot-com boom ahead, the president has already spent all the tax revenues it would generate.
The mismanagement of everything is now being detailed in the first wave of insider books, and the rudely-exiled insiders are now sources-in-waiting for when their successors come up short. Even the dutiful MSNBCers cannot be expected to stay on board a quickly sinking ship much longer.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee hopes to divert attention from the chaos that is the Obama Administration with ads charging GOP candidates with secret plots to destroy Social Security. This is the political equivalent of showing Reefer Madness to 9th graders in 2010. Is there a single voter who believes such nonsense for even a minute or is it just the product of a weariness so profound that not even paid operatives can be expected to try and find something from the past 22 months worth selling to the public as an achievement.
Really, there is nothing to run on? Nothing at all?
No, there isn't. The deep gloom that has settled on the country is only in part economic. Hard times have come and gone before, but in the modern networked age never has so obviously a clueless set of leaders been so completely and obviously inept, tone deaf and at the same time inarticulate. President Bush wasn't a great communicator, but he limited the damage he did to his own case by not conducting townhalls built around calls for civility while the brass knuckles were still on the fist.
The anti-Obama tsunami seems to be growing, and in unexpected places like New York and West Virginia. The Congress adds fuel to the fire every time it meets, and the president is now on notice that even hand-picked audiences cannot avoid embarrassing him. His cheerleaders want him off the teleprompter until they hear him off the teleprompter.
And his back-up act is Joe Biden.
Somewhere some Democrats have to be talking about Hillary. A party, and a country, can only take so much.
Translation: People need to STFU and drink my socialist Koolaid and learn to like it!
Anybody else getting exhausted from listening to the “exhausted women” all the time? She’s everywhere in the “media”.
"Let me be clear:" Hypocrisy, thy name is Obama.
He created the “loggerheads” and now wants everyone to “start cooperating”? The community organizer is delusional beyond belief.
The Kenyan could at least show a grain of wisdom by keeping his mouth mostly shut.
It is too late to rehabilitate his image as far as policy.
He has made it crystal clear who and what he is.
Gretchen asked this morning on F&F if a Dem op has gotten to her because she has ‘toned down’ her criticism of Duh One.
Don't be fooled when Obama has people resign or they resign. Those that have his mindset will remain on the payroll and still be calling the shots. Van Jones is still there - they have the same mindset. You just don't SEE them in PUBLIC or hear from them. It's a shell game. Only those that have Obama Communist, third world mind set will stay permanently if not in the OPEN, it will be in the closet with power.
I guess we can start Robert Gibbs "Curly". Rahm strikes me as a Mo
Wait a minute, yesterday all the posters were saying the MSM was covering this up?
Let him stutter and stammer as he tries to cover up his Communistic views. The wheels are coming off the stroller. He ALWAYS slips up at some point. If his teleprompter isn't around it's all the more amusing. Anyone he campaigns with loses!
My, my what a change since the days of the styrofoam pillars.
You first, ZerO.
The skinny little girly boy has sucker punched us over and over and now he expects us to be civil and get along. Well guess what; we are going to clean his clock.
It is hard to sell and repackage Communism. Obama is like the salesman in the old Dagwood and Blondie funnies. Dagwood could never get the guy to stop.
POST OF THE MONTH!!
GREAT JOB!!!
Obama couldn't lead starving people to a free buffet. The man reeks of divisiveness, class warfare, and no clue about how to solve a real-world problem. Who else but an empty-head narcissist would write their own autobiography before age 40 when you've accomplished nothing. (Actually, it appears William Ayers wrote it...surprise, surprise!) While rule by the elite class, as in Plato's Republic, may not be the answer, more and more I think there should be a current events test before you're allowed to vote. If not for guile and stupidity, one is hard pressed to understand how people who can fog a mirror would elect such a piece of fluff. (Dead people in Lake County, Indiana, somehow still vote...often twice.)
Obama stutters and stammers and has the “hood” lilt in hs voice because if he spoke the truth in the open of what he is about, he’d be shunned even more. He can’t speak from the heart ... so the stuttering and stammering and “hood” talk will continue. Geesh and I disctincly remember the liberal media bowled over about his “oratory skills for a black”. LOL! Try listening to someone like Clawrence Thomas or Alan Keyes - they are impressive regardless of their color.
I can’t figure out what “meaningful change” this woman is exhausted from waiting for. If she still supports POTUS then what did she want???
She is obviously intelligent and articulate and I am completely unable to understand what it is she expected him to do that he hasn’t done.
Usually POTUS is a lame duck in the second four years of his Presidency but this Jamock (the Messiah) is a lame duck in his first four years.
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