Obama’s Jobs Speech: The Audacity of Weakness

National Review Online ^ | 9/5/11 | Michael Barone

[Nachum]

I can’t remember a more stunning rebuke of a president by a congressional leader than House speaker John Boehner’s refusal to agree to Pres. Barack Obama’s demand — er, request — that he summon a joint session of Congress to hear the president’s latest speech on the economy at 8 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, September 7.

Obama’s request was regarded as a clever move by some wiseguys in the Left blogosphere, because that was the exact time of a long-scheduled Republican presidential candidates’ debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Take that, you guys!

[Nachum]

President "wanker"

[brivette]

that’s putting it mildly...

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Was the title of his ghost-written book misset? I think the title of that book should be “The Audacity of a Dope”!

[pieceofthepuzzle]

The best response to the empty rhetoric of Obama’s upcoming jobs speech is to respond preemptively. The Republican talking points for the week should be to predict what he will say, and preemptively negate and ridicule those predicted comments. It isn't difficult to do, as Obama is a fervent ideologue and his comments will come right out of the tired old leftist playbook. Even if this allows him to change his speech to avoid being ‘predictable’, it will paint him into a corner. This should always be the approach - always aggressively controlling the debate and keeping the left on the defensive.

[Wolfstar]

“blustering, opportunistic, craven and hopelessly ineffective all at once.”

Yep, that's Obama in a nutshell.

[upchuck]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2773844/posts

[onevoter]

You have to love that, even James Carville said that, given the option of having to choose between the Republican debate and Obama’s job speech, he “would choose to watch the Republican debate even though he isn’t a Republican.” Even the Dem faithful have grown tired of Obama’s constant need to be in front of the cameras only to hash over the same old ideas.

[Jeff Chandler]

scheduling the speech at 7 p.m. EDT to avoid overlap with the first game of the National Football League season.

This hilarious for these reasons:

1. Obama's team, like Presidents Clinton's team before them, are too disorganized to begin on time and too arrogant to care.
2. The Democrats will respond to every Obama utterance like a room full of chimps fighting over a banana — wild, long-lasting applause, a hoopin' and a hollarin' like a bunch of Kansas City faggots.
3. Obama's speechifying, once thought to be mesmerizing to the gullible masses, has become old news and is now so boring that it's just annoying.
4. Therefore the campaign speech will run long, perhaps pre-empting or delaying the ball game.
5. The great unwashed boobery will resent this narcissistic twerp for wasting their time, (except for Boobama's Melanin Buddies.)

[Jeff Chandler]

This should always be the approach - always aggressively controlling the debate and keeping the left on the defensive.

Um ... you are talking about Republicans, aren't you?

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“Um ... you are talking about Republicans, aren’t you?”

Two things. First, most politicians, irrespective of stripe, are motivated by the desire to be ‘important’. Plain and simple. This is a conflict of interest for ‘small government’ politicians since success in diminishing the role of government diminishes their own importance. It takes a truly principled non-narcissistic person to put principle above self, and we unfortunately appear to have a deficiency in these people.

Second, I truly believe that more than a few ‘Republicans’ work for the leftist ideologues, and are essentially planted where they can do harm from within. I know this sounds over the top, but if I were a zealous ideologue I would definitely have this approach in my playbook.

Remember when Kruschev said “We will bury you without firing a shot.”? He had something in mind. Not everything ‘just happens’.