Posted on 04/21/2011 1:31:08 PM PDT by library user
The outlines of President Obama’s political strategy are clear—to unleash, virtually on a daily basis, a series of dishonest and libelous attacks on Republicans while also coming across as likable, reasonable, a man who hovers above the political mud, a president ever in search of common ground.
Obama’s budget speech last week contained both elements. On the one hand, he portrayed the GOP vision as Hobbesian—crumbling roads and collapsing bridges, the elderly and children with autism and Down’s Syndrome left to fend for themselves. Having leveled those charges, Obama spoke at the end of his speech about the need to “come together,” insisting that we need to “bridge our differences” and “find common ground.”
As a political approach, this qualifies as bipolar. Obama’s slashing rhetoric is at war with his post-partisan, conciliatory, and civil image. The two are irreconcilable. And because they are, the two-direction course that Obama is pursuing can only reveal his extraordinary fraudulence. Obama has been president since January 2009; he has proven himself to be at his core prickly, arrogant, ideological, and prone to thuggish tactics. It isn’t pretty and it isn’t impressive, and for the sake of our politics, one can only hope it isn’t the path to reelection.
Long past time to dump this bale of Chicago sewer slime into the Potomac.
Obama is also going after the youth vote, because they can be convinced they have no future if they venture from the Progressive path.
Obama does want us all to come together and kiss his Kenyan buttocks. That is his idea of coming together.
I pray we will survive the next two years under this total fool's ,so called leadership, If he gets elected for 4 more we are goners for sure. He has had a great run in terms of recreation for his wife, himself, and his kids, They have seen the world and most Golf courses in it,they have practically worn out Air Force One and other government planes flying them around. They haven’ bothered to go and see for themselves any destruction caused by Fires ,Floods or, Tornadoes, but his people still blame Bush for Katrina. I don't think it is Obama that is bi-polar , it is his supporters and Democrats.
The outlines of President Obama’s political strategy are clear—to unleash, virtually on a daily basis, a series of dishonest and libelous attacks on Republicans while also coming across as likable, reasonable, a man who hovers above the political mud, a president ever in search of common ground.
This is the exact same strategy Lyndon Johnson employed against the Republicans in 1964, and which he implemented even as John F. Kennedy's body lay cooling in the Capitol Rotunda. Butter would not have melted, nor dry ice sublimated, in the execrable Johnson's mouth.
His whole strategy was visibly, ostentatiously to "rise above" politics, and to be seen as widely as possible "doing the People's business" while simultaneously his political operatives -- equivalents of today's moonbat 'RatRoots -- smeared, slimed, spied on, and provided "negative advance" (constant, noisy counterdemonstrations) targeting Republican nominee Barry Goldwater.
Johnson had a "Five O'Clock Group" that he met with daily, which is where he signed off on every sort of dirty-trick political scam imaginable. FBI wiretaps in Goldwater's campaign plane, phony demonstrations, counterdemonstrations, scummy flyers, and of course the infamous "hydrogen bomb obliterates little girl" TV ad, which aired only once -- on a Saturday night, at exactly 8PM CDT, when just about every TV in America would be tuned in.
Moonbat columnist Molly Ivins once revealed the price of her soul by describing LBJ. "He was a miserable human being," she wrote, "but he was so good on the issues!"
Note: LBJ won in a landslide, and the result was .... The Hundred Days of left-wing perversion and liberal entrenchment in American politics and daily life. Rotten schools, race riots, Stalinists taking over the 'Rat Party -- you name it, it all goes back to the Johnson campaign.
Copy that.... I was told the other day I should "just give him time to prove himself." Dems are living in the twilight zone...
Well.....I hope those issues are fire-proof...cuz he's burnin' right now.
“I was told the other day I should “just give him time to prove himself.” Dems are living in the twilight zone...”
The Dems’ standard of living (with the exception of public school teachers’) is falling as fast as anyone else’s. Whatever they say to you (at this point just to save face), they’ll be voting for another change in 2012.
Most I've spoken to are in complete denial and are dye-in-the-wool Dems. Makesyacrazy...
“Most I’ve spoken to are in complete denial and are dye-in-the-wool Dems. Makesyacrazy...”
I know several dyed-in-the-wool Dems, and only the dykiest most man-hating one pretends there is nothing wrong. The rest openly acknowledge they are hurting financially, and Obama is not the solution. Of course they don’t blame him, but they’d rather he focused on fixing the economy instead of the nonsense he preaches. I don’t believe they will be voting for him in 2012; they were already unhappy that he took out Hillary.
He says BOTH SIDES of EVERYTHING!!
As our FRiend just posted, other people's experience will differ, but so far I'm seeing a lot of PDS and sneering, raucous laughter among lower-income 'Rat voters in my own little world. They're desperate, but they still blow snot on anyone not named Barack, and they'll eat ground glass before they admit they were taken. I think they can be had by Hillary, though.
One Tejana insisted, against my better knowledge, that Tina Fey's line about seeing Russia from Sarah's house was actually spoken by Sarah herself. That lie is precious to her.
The Dems’ standard of living (with the exception of public school teachers’) is falling as fast as anyone else’s>>>>>>>>>
Trump can get these Democrat votes better than any other possible Republican candidate
“Trump can get these Democrat votes better than any other possible Republican candidate”
I’m not so sure of that, and what he would give up from the right would have to be compensated for. Five years ago I would have dismissed Trump as a sideshow, but after this incompetent, inexperienced dope we have now, I think Trump could win. If he was the Republican candidate, and Obama was the Dem candidate, I would vote for Trump without a doubt. In the primaries, I doubt I’d vote for Donald. though
At this point I will vote for Trump in any election primaries or general. He is the best bet to evict Obama from the White House. Maybe Trump will blow up and maybe he won’t even run. But at this point it is Trump all the way to get Obama out out out.
Prime objective>>>> Get Obama out
I agree with deposing the Sultan as the prime objective, but I think Trump has a lot in his closet that will sink his candidacy a week before the election.
I think we've entered the Twilight Zone. No getting around it. :)
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