Posted on 11/01/2010 1:11:46 AM PDT by Scanian
One can only shake the head in wonder at why Barack Obama, the brilliant-beyond-brilliant presidential candidate, has flopped so badly in the same type of campaign-stump venues he enchanted with fairy dust a mere two years ago.
Perhaps, as he opined himself in The Audacity of Hope, the throngs loved him in '08 because he was a "blank slate" upon whom voters cast their own pictures. Now that he has an actual record of governance, his audiences are no longer fodder for easy bamboozling. In '08, the people saw what they wanted to see; reality bites back in 2010.
Or perhaps Obama's current flop is the natural result of overexposure through constant in-your-face public appearances, even on entertainment television, so that his once-exceptional aura has hit the trash-bin of history. Familiarity breeds contempt; force-fed familiarity breeds a national demand for barf bags.
However, anyone who knows even a smidgen of Alinsky-style community organizing philosophy sees our community organizer in chief as exactly what he was trained to be. Both off the stump and on it, the community organizer is not a doer, but a talker. The community organizer is condescending and arrogant, but he is so far above the station and education of those he is sent in to organize that he gets away with his arrogance.
The community organizer is hired by outsiders to infiltrate a town considered by others ripe for organizing. The organizer's first priority is to ingratiate himself with the community insiders. To this end, he is instructed to employ manipulative tools, such as adopting the locals' dialects and particular phraseology. He is taught to adapt purposely and sell himself as one of them. The organizer's job is always one of deception -- from start to finish. Deceit is the organizer's middle name.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Go here and see it all in a nut shell from two young people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W57aBMYKvU&feature=fvw
That would be fine with me.
I point out the Laffer curve because it demonstrates that there is such a thing as an optimum rate which creates optimum revenue. Too high punishes success and stifles initiative. The Obama Regime definitely comes down on that side of the curve due to its insistence on “fairness” and “social justice,” effects on the overall economy be damned.
I am sure that I have heard Art Laffer himself express support for a flat tax. The most important thing is to create a tax policy that doesn’t hold back initiative.
Excellent post.
Bingo!
The American voters have at last taken a good long look at the man behind the blank slate. It is no mystery why he tried to hide his real character (or lack thereof). As Kyle-Ann so aptly describes him, he is a deceiver, a snake oil salesman, a fake.
The question is though...what happens next?
Being a pathological narcissist is no laughing matter. He has shown no inclination to accept responsibility for his actions or to face up to the truth. All narcissists sooner or later have a collision with reality. But in Obama’s confrontation with reality, he continues to cling to his messianic rectitude...and lays the blame squarely at the feet of reality and the American voters.
My guess is that now that his narcissist supply is dwindling—and he is still refusing to be humbled—he will turn ugly. What America is about to see is not the delivery of delicious comeuppance...but the transformation of a pathological narcissist into a sociopathic monster.
If the Teapublicans brought the articles to the floor, how do you think the surviving RATs would vote?
Very true but no one will be willing to go the distance. Remember George Bushs' warning that the WOT would last for a generation? Watch. The first time someone does something Freepers disagree with it will be off with their heads! I give it 6 monthes and everybody will be ready to vote the new bums out.
Six months? Wrong.... It will begin Wednesday
The pompous pontificating sanctimonious selfrightousists will begin harping on their narrow focused views immediately
So true,
The ninny actually thought it would help him to go the celeb route.
No way. It just succeeded in moving up his “sell by” date.” And nobody’s buying anyway.
I hope not.
The MSM will make him a martyr, and there's no way it would get enough votes in the Congress.
Gridlock him for two years and defeat him in 012.
Thanks for that link to the YouTube video.
Two talented guys.
Pithy Creative and Fun
Despite not having any background or record of success, we elected the guy. So now he has had a record of nothing but Epic Fail. 2 years these people have had a the helm and they have turned America into a dump.
Agreed. There was a a place where Obama was quoted as saying that high taxes on the “rich” were necessary as a point of “principle” even if they result in lower total tax revenues. That kind of thinking boggles the mind.
Yes, Laffer has recommended flat taxes many times. He is a hero of mine when he does that on the Kudlow Report, Fox, etc. The Laffer “curve”, however, is a separate issue and is a distraction I don’t like. It puts the emphasis on maximizing government revenue. I shudder when I think of somebody looking at that curve and saying, “Look ! Even the conservative Art Laffer thinks everybody should pay 19% income tax !”
Yep. I’m sure a large team of accountants in three countries make a good living legally avoiding taxes this way. But it is not a “productive” living, now is it ? It does demonstrate the effort businesses will go to in attempting to preserve their income for their investors rather than hand it over to governments. If they were unable to do this, Google would have to charge their advertisers more money for ad space. In the end, that money has to come from their customers.
The FairTax proponents (of which I am not one) have done a lot of research on the tax compliance costs in America. They peg it as $600B/yr. So almost 5% of the US GDP is just flushed down the toilet in unproductive make-work. And that doesn’t count the money the government spends or lobbyists spend trying to influence tax policy. I’d much rather see that $600B/yr invested in building up businesses, and I’d rather not pay the taxes that pay the IRS to chase that money.
Even the media is starting to see something isn’t right with him
He’s been acting loose as a goose.
I think he’s starting to come apart at the seams...pressure is getting to him and he’s not up to the challenge.
I agree with you...I also agree that the people making a fat living from the tax laws——accountants and lawyers-—seem to be an insurmountable obstacle.
My interest is paying down the national debt with the higher revenue-—not to dream up new spending programs. (which of course would be the big danger in making such a tax policy work. As I recall, Tip O’Neill agreed to cut taxes with RR but only if Tip were allowed to have the spending legislation he wanted. RR gets criticized for that but what do you do when Dems control the House and you want to end a recession?)
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