Posted on 08/02/2012 8:35:49 AM PDT by kingattax
Three months and $131 million in spending haven't moved the president's poll numbers.
'If you've got a business—you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
Despite President Obama's effort to walk back these remarks, the damage they've caused to him remains. And that's because what he said in Roanoke, Va., on July 13 came across as a true expression of his worldview.
The president's vivid words did not come out of nowhere. While pushing for higher taxes on upper-income people, Mr. Obama often refers to the wealthy as "fortunate" (such as at a Democratic National Committee event last September) and "incredibly blessed" (at a campaign event on July 23). Translation: Successful people don't really deserve to keep what they earn.
"You didn't build that" is not Mr. Obama's only recent problematic statement. In a June 8 news conference, he said "The private sector is doing fine. Where we're seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government." And in Oakland, Calif., on July 24, he told donors that on the economy, "We tried our plan and it worked!" These comments make voters wince
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Obama’s version of “Restaurant Impossible” or “Kitchen Nightmares” would be to hire more government bureaucrats to turn those restaurants around.
This is the underpinning of Marxist thought. You can’t possibly justify your thief without proclaiming the one you steal from as not owning what you stole.
I would think that throwing money into the ad machine has diminishing returns after a certain point. When people hear the message, and they don’t like it, no amount of additional advertising is going to help...in fact it will have the opposite affect of reminding folks why they don’t like the message in the first place.
Money (spent on ads) != Votes.
This is the underpinning of Marxist thought. You can’t possibly justify your theft without proclaiming the one you steal from as not owning what you stole.
Based on 35 years in the ad biz, I can assure you that no amount of ad expenditures can make people buy a product that a.) they've already tried and b.) didn't like.
Agreed.
“All Property is Theft” is the cry of a thief.
Yes, Monorprise nailed it.
That's because NOBODY is working!
Well said, Bend!
Did you read the internals of the poll? It was incredible. 42% of the “independants” in the poll were actually registered Democrats.
They should just go ahead and pull the numbers straight out their a$$ instead of going to the trouble of hiring Quinnipiac to diddle the numbers per their samples and questions.
Well perhaps it bares a little bit of explication in that we Americans have a natural sense of right & wrong, as well as property rights.
The Socialist agenda has always been depended upon their ability to undermined and bypass that sense of justice to be replaced with their own which is instead based upon their own jealous envy.
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You know I wish the left have not been so successful and so unopposed over the last 50 years redefining the concept of Justice.
We won’t get anywhere with such a bumper sticker so long as we don’t correctly define the word & concept of Justice. Attacking their perverted and antithetical definition of “social justice” might be just the thing to get us started undermining the very foundation of modern liberalism.
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High time we take the word back.
Besides, the left can’t very well be seen as attacking “justice”!
It also highlights the nasty tone in which he said it. Unlike those phony mr. Nice guy ads he’s running during the Olympics. He’s a nasty piece of work. So desperate he’s running on bill clinton’s record 15 Years later.
Perhaps appealing to the public on that concept of justice with the words of Thomas Jefferson:
“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”
Or perhaps simply the imagery of slaves working for the bread of the lazy with the phrase: “Social justice” for some is injustice for others.
Never underestimate the power of images, they strike at the very heart of people, and for far too long this has been a power liberals have had the advantage in harnessing. We need our own Graphic attest creating images to educate our people.
I read (or heard) that his handlers are putting obomo back on Mr. Teleprompter. Too many screw-ups when he does his own talking.
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