The msm marveled at what was his supposed proficiency with technology in using the web, twitter to marshalling his resources to maximum effect as supposed electioneering genius.
But now, even that has proven to be another myth about him come undone. Zero, you truly are Zero.
I think they’re just plain stupid and arrogant. It’s a lethal combination.
And maybe Axlelrod and Jarret as well.
I don’t think that’s the case. They lost so much ground in early October, they have spent the entire month just trying to get their base back on board. This election always favored the challenger, and their strategy in September to create an aura of inevitability crumbed into a million pieces when the oppositions ads went on tv in October and the debate destroyed their entire strategy. They spent hundreds of millions to damage Romney, and face-to-face, Romney destroyed every one of their arguments.
Remember when it was “Bush Lied and People Died” Now it’s “People died and Obama Lied”
This is about the Ben-Smithiest Ben-Smither of them all, Ben Smith.
His formula is to take any scandal that is damaging to Obama or Democraps, find a so-called ‘expert’ to deny it was a scandal, and then cite that ‘expert’ as proof that it is not a scandal.
Then any time the scandal is mentioned they automatically say it has been disproven by ‘experts’.
Self-manufactured proof. QED.
That is a very astute observation. Obama's going for zingers and losing touch with what is supposed to be his message.
His team is so Web-savvy they’ve forgotten how to campaign….
Well, "web-savvy" in that they know how to turn a computer on and get the Interwebs, but it looks like they didn't know much more than that. They didn't know how to integrate the web with other media to put a larger strategy together.
Two points made on Red Eye about the Lena Dunham ad. First, in 2008 young Obama supporters made their own truly "viral" web videos and put them on Youtube. This time the campaign gave its stamp of approval to what was pretty clearly inferior work.
Second, people who watch Lena's show watch it to hate her and the other characters for being such stereotypical Manhattan artsy slackers. I haven't seen the show, but I came away with that impression from seeing her films.
That he is indeed absolutely zero. No skills to speak of. none. nada. His once considered brilliant oratorical skills have gone by the wayside as it became apparent that without his teleprompter, he was nothing more than a mumbling, stuttering, disconnected animatronic puppet.
Historically that is what oratory is, delivering a pre-written speech, or oration. It might have included speaking from carefully prepared notes. Speaking wholly off the cuff doesn't really qualify as "oratory" or "oratorical" and may not have played much of a role in 18th or 19th century politics. We don't know how well the orators of the past would have performed in a more intimate medium like television.
Beyond that, 30% or 40% of the country is going to hate any candidate and love his opponent or overrate the performance of one and underrate the performance of the other. The truth is somewhere in the middle, and the voters in the middle decide the election.
I have stopped referring to this guy as 0bama, or Zero, except for substituting “ZeroCare” for “obamaCare”.
He has been worse than zero, and has clearly taken us in a negative direction.
Therefore, I now normally refer to him as -bama.
Though that started out by my mistyping the “0”, I realized how aptly “-” fit there instead.