'Syria Envy'? Activists Divided on Usefulness of an Obama PR Blitz (Liberal Activists Angry)

Yahoo News ^ | September 13, 2013 | Oliver Knox

[lbryce]

President Barack Obama just waged an unprecedented three-week PR campaign to sell Americans and Congress on the need to go to war — six television interviews in one night, a prime-time speech to the nation, and White House outreach to 93 senators and 375 representatives.

It’s enough to make those on the left looking for his help on issues such as gun violence, climate change, racial profiling, immigration and jobs wonder whether their causes rate this kind of White House commitment. Is there an intensity gap?

“I raised this issue to the president the other day,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., told Yahoo News in a telephone interview.

Sanders, who for years has been calling for Washington to get its act together and take steps to boost job creation, said he prodded Obama when the president made a rare trip to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to make his Syria case to senators.

“It’s one thing to give a speech which most people know really is not going to translate into terribly strong action,” Sanders said. “Intensity is the key issue. Is he prepared to fight?”

[lbryce]

Is there an intensity gap? No! Emphatically no, you abject brain-dead morons! it's very plain to see the president not having the mental resources to deal with the real problems that plague America directs himself towards war in Syria precisely to avoid having to deal with any of them. And now, his liberal supporters are beside themselves in the manner in which Obama's priorities seem out of whack with the world.

The liberals are wondering why the president hasn't reacted to their own pet issues with the same intensity as he has towards going to war with Syria.

You've got to be mind-boggled at how utterly clueless they are. The inability in which they don't see the forest for the trees defies rationale. Why doesn't it penetrate their cinder-blocked head that his intensity towards making war is precisely to avoid dealing with such mundane things, as jobs, the economy, all the liberal issues on their agenda. His brain has petered out from it all.

[God luvs America]

“They've dug themselves into an anti-Obama position, and if he were to say the sky is blue, they would disagree,” agreed Eliseo Medina, secretary-treasury of the potent SEIU union and head of its immigration reform campaign."

ironic statement from the obama disciples at the SEIU who believe this failure walks on water...of course now some of them (unions) are seeing what a disaster obummercare will be for them and are changing their tune....

[ExTexasRedhead]

This is from their PR campaign, ya think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-sdO6pwVHQ

Should work for OBayMe and Linda Graham, ya think?

[colorado tanker]

I’m happy to see Zero waste his time losing at chess to Putin. It keeps his mind off new ideas to destroy the American economy.

[NonValueAdded]

Given the outcome of this latest “blitz,” do those other causes really want Øbama to turn his attention to their cause?

[henkster]

First of all, Sanders is not “I-Vt.” He is an avowed socialist, and only one member of the Senate rated farther to the left than him. That was Sen. Barack 0bama, “C-IL”

The other point is that 0bama cannot focus on any one issue for more than a few days. He makes senseless speeches like it’s some great pronouncement, and then moves on to the next shiny thing. But that’s what you get from an intellectual lightweight with a drug-addled brain.

[lbryce]

Very interesting comment of which I haven’t seen offered up until this very moment. While the negative impact on cognitive abilities of marijuana use is open to debate as both a political as well as medical issue, I’ve known people having used marijuana to overwhelming addiction become afflicted with various physical, mental impairment. Taking into consideration the president’s considerable marijuana habit, I have no doubt it has indeed degraded whatever mental capabilities he’s had from Kenyan birth.

[Pit1]

Bernie said he probed him. That says it all.