Posted on 09/25/2011 5:01:10 AM PDT by IbJensen
This month, amid much controversy, Team Obama launched AttackWatch.com, a new website ostensibly designed to compile and refute all arguments against President Obama’s policies and actions in preparation for the 2012 campaign. Little did they know that instead of helping to launch campaigns against Obama’s critics, provide counter-arguments for statists, and generally support the president, the site would backfire, and Obama himself would realize he actually does suck.
AttackWatch, not really sinister, just designed to look that way.
“After reading all the complaints about me, compiled all together like that, I realized, I am a s**tty president after all,” said Obama. “The logic of the arguments, the reasoning, were just too plain-as-the-nose-on-my-face to ignore.” Obama went on to remark, “I had no idea I sucked so bad. That’s why I just kept doing the same stuff! I thought socialism was working. Everybody was saying it was working.”
"Oh s*it! I really do suck!"
AttackWatch.com submissions include criticisms of the president’s foreign policy of appeasement, the high unemployment rate, ObamaCare, inflation, the long, drawn-out recession, the anti-business nature of his administration, the nationalization of business, the crony capitalism, and much, much, much, much, much, much, much more.
Political pundits across the nation are calling it a severely damaging miscalculation by campaign strategists to provide a giant collage of arguments against Obama, and especially, to let him see it. An MSNBC reporter stated anonymously today, “The problem is, the voices against Obama are unfortunately based on the facts of reality. They use sound logic and reason when they decry the president’s policies, actions, and even his core ideology. I had to stop reading it. It’s incredibly hard to evade reality when you’re reading that site. Even for us journalists.”
Because you're good enough, smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like you!!
Top White House aides are reportedly scrambling to convince the president that he is mistaken and that he’s actually a good president. White House insiders say AttackWatch.com has been blocked on his computer and BlackBerry, as well as all conservative blogs and the Ayn Rand Institute web site. Further, he has been sequestered by his advisors in what is being called a “re-programming” effort. To quote one insider, “They have taken the president into a room with all his friends and advisors, and several members of the press, and they are all just repeating over and over to him how good he is and how he’s a great president. Once in a while they all just clap, you know, give him a spontaneous standing ovation. Everybody loves a standing O’! They’re telling him he is on the right track, that all this trouble is the fault of capitalism, Bush, the Tea Party, or Vladamir Putin. (No one likes that guy.) It’s dicey, but they think they can bring him back around.”
Yay! You're great Obama! Yes you can! Yes you can!
It remains to be seen what sort of president will emerge from the re-programming. Will we get another speech saying that we should tax the wealthy and spend it on construction jobs or will we get a decidedly different, humbled president, who looks back on his first few years in office with a shudder? No one can yet say.
When asked to comment on these developments, Republican front-runner Rick Perry said glibly, “I would never, ever allow all the solid arguments against my ideas and actions to be put in one place where anyone, including, or dare I say especially, me, could see them. That he did allow that just shows how Obama is not fit to lead this country. What a dummy!”
You did see my post that the article also includes a disclaimer that it’s SATIRE? The poster of the article neglected to include that tidbit of information.
Who could possibly tell?
I thought it was for real until I came to this:
“..... I had to stop reading it. It’s incredibly hard to evade reality when you’re reading that site. Even for us journalists.”
“Even for us journalists”?....Very good! :-)
Satire is truth stretched a little bit!
In my opinion, the Brown Shirt website AttackWatch would have been a favorite of Hitler and Goebbel’s.
You did see my post that the article also includes a disclaimer that it’s SATIRE? The poster of the article neglected to include that tidbit of information.
Sorry, CB. I didn't, however, this isn't far-fetched! I'm pinging the list because our Resident, B.0. for Bending 0ver, is still a narcissist child who needs constant adulation, even if this is satire.
CB, thanks for the correction.
Thanks for the ping!
LOL No kidding, but if people don’t realize it’s satire and make comments about it in other threads their credibility goes into the crapper.
In the bazaro world we live in today it’s getting more difficult to tell which is which. We need to be really careful with satire any more because I have seen too many making comments based on articles which were satire not realizing. Makes them not look credible.
Lol.. I caught that by the second sentence... NO WAY would he realize the reality (real life... ya know, that people actually DON’T like him ;^)
Thanks, bitt.
That Sinclair fellow didn't write this?
Oh.
Satire.
nevermind....
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
“…you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments.”
- Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals
Rule #5......Learn it, use it, live it, breathe it because the other side has it down to a science.
It almost seemed unnecessary to write about the fifth rule because this President and his Administration have used it ad nauseum to the point where a discussion of this tactic almost seemed superfluous, but I will at least hit a few high points, and then move on to the rest of the tactics.
If you want to understand the role that ridicule plays in the Alinsky method, and particularly in the way in which the Obama Administration uses Alinsky, you need look no further than Sarah Palin. From the moment that she was introduced as John McCain’s running mate the Alinsky machine within Obama’s campaign flew into action at full speed to find ways to mock, denigrate, and ridicule her. Obama’s campaign dispatched a slew of vultures to descend on Alaska in an effort to dig dirt, stir trouble, and uncover any malcontent who might have the tiniest bit of salacious information on the Governor.
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