Posted on 10/05/2012 7:53:22 AM PDT by Paladins Prayer
Watching the debate on Wednesday, I truly can't imagine Barack Obama having come off as the more likeable candidate. Continuously glancing downwards, perhaps looking for inspiration (I glance upwards, myself), and often displaying an angry countenance, he seemed stiff, detached, and petulant. In contrast, Mitt Romney appeared energetic, nimble-minded, affable, engaged, and engaging. It was the Mind vs. the Unkind.
...Well, what we like is determined by emotion or taste, which generally has little acquaintance with reason. A person may like tobacco more than vegetables or chocolate more than exercise, but few would call them wiser choices. In the same vein, I never would have chosen the charmer if he had been running for office against the curmudgeon. For this is where we must lead with our heads, not our hearts -- where we must resist the urge to kowtow to our likes and not eat, smoke, or vote ourselves to death.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I want the guy that says it like it is even if it’s hard to hear, is a good friend of Bibi, and will admit he is wrong if he is.
The reason Obama was looking down was because he was reading text from his blackberry. Yes, that’s right. His handlers were sending him messages during the debates. Isn’t that called cheating? Yet no one objected.
I'll take ANYTHING over the current arrogant dumba$$ we have now.
The OP’s blog doesn’t sound interesting enough to click on.
But I do like reply #2. :-)
I assume Obama is supposed to be the likeable guy, but to the millions who have grown to know him and loathe him, he is not the least bit likeable. Romney was easily the most likeable in the debate. Of course, I liked him better than the Obamanation before the debate.
My friend, American Thinker is probably the best conservative site on the Internet. It’s anything but uninteresting.
We sure don’t have “Mr. Nice Guy” as President now.
In fact it is entirely fair to question whether we even HAVE a President now. But the Current Occupant of the Oval Office fails any objective test of being “likable” by any standard. He is supercilious, arrogant, lazy, opinionated, narcissitic, and probably of limited mental capabilities.
And those are his good qualities.
Yeah...I snickered, myself.
Alice is known as “the nicest guy in rock” but make no mistake, while he’s smiling brightly into your face, he’s holding a switchblade behind his back and he is a scary-savvy business man with an iron spine.
While everybody is humming “No More Mr Nice Guy”, I’m humming “It’s the Little Things”...:)
You can burn my house, you can cut my hair
You can make me wrestle naked with a grizzly bear
You can poison my cat, baby I don’t care
But if you talk in the movies, I’ll kill you right there
It’s the little things, it’s just the little things
Aw, it’s the little things, it’s just the little things
Yeah, it’s the little things that drive me wild
I’m like a mad dog, I’m on a short leash
I’m on a tight rope, hanging by a thread
I’m on some thin ice, you push me too far
Welcome to my nightmare, no more Mr. Nice Guy
You can steal my car and drive it into the lake
You can stick me in the oven and put it on bake
You could throw a big brick through my window pane
But if I ever hear you ask me how I got my name
It’s the little things, it’s just the little things
Aw, it’s the little things, it’s just the little things
Yeah, it’s the little things that drive me wild
I’m like a mad dog, I’m on a short leash
I’m on a tight rope, hanging by a threadI’m on some thin ice, you push me too far
Welcome to my nightmare, no more Mr. Nice Guy
I’ve done it all, I mean I been everywhere
I’ve been beaten, I been stabbed
I been hung, I been buried alive
And I can deal with that but it’s the little things
I’ve done it all, I mean I been everywhere
I’ve been beaten, I been stabbed
I been hung, I been buried alive
And I can deal with that ‘cuz it’s the little things
It’s the little things, it’s just the little things
Yeah, it’s the little things, just the little things
Aw, just the little things that drive me wild
I’m like a mad dog, I’m on a short leash
I’m on a tight rope, hanging by a thread
I’m on some thin ice, you push me too far
I’m just a psychopathic, psychopathic
I’m like a mad dog, I’m on a short leash
I’m on a tight rope, hanging by a thread
I’m on some thin ice, you push me too far
Welcome to my nightmare, no more Mr. Nice Guy
It’s just the little things, aw, it’s the little things
It’s just the little things
[and bizarrely, I could see a bit of Alice in Romney that night...gleefully sadistically disemboweling 0 with such charming aplomb]
Heh.
I *almost* ‘shopped the eye makeup on Romney that night, just for giggles.
:)
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I think the author was implying that Obama gets his inspiration from somewhere other than his Blackberry...did you notice the contrast with "I glance upwards, myself?"
I laughed out loud when I read that line.
You're probably right about him cheating with the Blackberry, though. Not that it worked. Maybe he needs better handlers. After all, his poor performance can't possibly be his fault.
Maybe it is. But the excerpt was neither concise nor informative. I know you have to excerpt, but at least a real introduction and conclusion would be helpful.
As Clint noted, the Empty Chair improved by codetoad:
ROMNEY LOST THE DEBATE! OBAMA IS IN CONTROL!
It is past time to fire Barack and his empty chair and have both of them hit the road back to Chicago!
So hit the road Barack and take your empty chair and empty suit with you!
I’m sorry. I was under the impression that FR readers possessed a degree of sophistication. My mistake.
Indeed but someone like dirty Harry would be fine with me.
Do you feel lucky?.
Of course you do. It's just not who you think.
He tried being `snarky’ during the debates and it fell flat.
He’s a real tough guy when preening in front of his idiot fans and teleprompter, but when he has to face someone who doesn’t have to kowtow to him, like Romney, he folds like an empty lawn chair.
There, fixed it for you.
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