Posted on 10/02/2009 10:01:57 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
Another reminder that interests trump charm or likability in world affairs.
The International Olympic Committee can be a fickle bunch, so there's no humiliation in Chicago's failure yesterday to win its bid for the 2016 summer games. The Windy City gave a good effort, losing out in the first elimination round to Tokyo, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro, which eventually won the nod.
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The “One” is crashing and burning much sooner than I thought he would.
Sheesh! Come on, WSJ, “I I I me me me” made the Obama presentations pathetic.
It's nice to see that the world has already shown Lord Zero that they're the dirtbags we've needed to treat them as, when they deserve it.
I don’t get it. He has neither charm nor likability. It’s not like these are his ‘secret weapons’ In a battle of wits and leadership....he went unarmed.
I have read today that he has been nicknamed ‘No Drama, Obama’ for his famously even temperament’. I can’t imagine who gave him that name other than, perhaps, the writer of the article I was reading. But he is a thin skinned drama queen - it’s all about him. He has snapped at reporters who dare interrupt him while eating a waffle, snarled, turned on his heel, glared etc over minor issues, virtually burped the phrase “I won” when statesmanship was called for, called a reporter ‘sweetie’, sneered at those who are ‘wee weed up’ when he was annoyed - I never saw Bush carry on the way ‘sensitive way’ that Obama does but NO ONE gave Bush a nickname lauding his even temperament.
I have again read of his usual soaring rhetoric...again...I got nothin’. His rhetoric is fuzzy and soft focus and dreamy and promises the impossible - by that isn’t soaring rhetoric - it’s empty promises not even delivered well or persuasively. But Reagan delivered soaring rhetoric when eulogizing the astronauts who died with a well delivered quote about “slipping the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God”.And journalists do not pepper articles about the Reagan administration with comments about his soaring rhetoric.
I remember the day I read a post that suggested that a famous actress (Julia Roberts) must have had a clause written into her contract that would require every movie she was in to imply, in at least one scene, that she was a head turning ‘stunner’ of a beautiful woman. The writer gave a few examples - the one I remember was Matt Damon (Ocean’s 11) getting all misty eyed waiting for the ‘best part of his day’ which was the moment he ‘got’ to watch Julia Roberts arrive- walking down a flight of stairs. The ‘moment’ arrived and we are ‘treated’ to a swan like entrance of a head turning stunner. The author pointed out - she isn’t a memorable head turning stunner. At first I thought he was wrong but I began to see his point - she is famous and pretty but there seems to be a formal effort to train the public to think that all activity stops whenever this unbelievably beautiful woman walks into the room (in Hollywood? In Casinos? On planet earth) - it’s a fabricated legend and it is possibly specified in her contract in order for the legend building effort to stay on message throughout her career.
And now I am watching the same technique - the ‘training’ of people to consider him charming - even his critics - when in fact he isn’t. He isn’t a great orator, he isn’t a policy wonk, he isn’t even tempered but even his critics, at times, say “well he can do soaring rhetoric but...” or “he can be persuasive but...” To which I say - he can’t.do.anything.people.say.he.can. Except pose. He CAN do that. He can pose. Like Barbie.
THe short version of my monster post above (wish I could move this ahead of it) is that Obama is not persuasive or charming - he was the public option would have sailed on through. He is devious and manipulative and these skills require alot of staging that he has to control (Totus etc)in order for it to succeed and the campaign permitted that sort of magic show and the presidency does not.
All the world’s a stage and no one likes a spotlight hog. Our narcissist-in-chief still thinks it’s all about him.
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Obama would have done well to watch the movie “Patton” right after his inauguration ...
“For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph - a tumultuous parade.
In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments.
The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him.
Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses.
A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.”
I’ve never liked Julia Roberts. There was always something about her that didn’t sit well with me. Granted she’s certainly not ugly, at least on the outside, but this so called sex symbol never translated for me.
...”hey guys, you could have access to lot's of interns”...
“That question is the proper focus of an editorial in the Wall Street Journal. About half the people in Chicago who oppose the welcoming the Olympics to their own city. They oppose it because of the outrageous corruption and their government with which Barack Obama has been so intimately associated. That is the proper subject for an editorial in the nation’s leading newspaper of finance and news. But the editorial could find not a word to spare on this subject.”
The IOC had to also be very aware of the corruption and crime in Chicago and Illinois. I’m sure they thought the Obamas’ quick stop at their meeting was just nothing more than window dressing. The Obamas never mentioned what could be done in Chicago to accommodate an Olympics (infrastructure, lodging, access to venues, suppression of the flagrant criminal elements, etc.). ....They didn’t have time to mention those things, because they only talked about themselves... as usual.
That also included Michelle’s gaffe about sitting on her father’s lap and cheering on Carl Lewis in the Olympics. DUH! She was 19-20 years old when Lewis was in the 1984 Olympics!! ..........The Obama handlers are so lame and never research factual data but just tell the Obamas what to say and the clueless duo does what they are told.
Buh-Bye Obamas! You’ve both embarassed the US enough!
“Yep, remember how the world was going to love us again once we got rid of Bush and elected the black JFK?”
Exactly,
I saw that sentence and thought boy is that b.s.
Yo ozero, how do ya like them apples ya marxist punk?
good analysis of The One
Very interesting observations in your comparison of Bambi and Julia Roberts, the artificially manufactured "stunner."
I think you're right, all he can do is stand around with his head stuck up in the air and have his myth-makers go to work. They are telling us that we shouldn't believe our lying eyes and what we are really seeing in his mechanical face is greatness, what we are really hearing in his stumbling, nasal delivery is the greatest orator since Demosthenes, what we are finding in his half-baked, outdated radical leftism is the principles of a saint, etc. And if they just keep telling us this, and the press and the rest of the world sign the contract and agree to keep on telling us this, too - why then, it must be so.
I never would have imagined that I would consider a defeat for the USA as a great day for America and a great day for me personally.
Now...here’s a question that’s come to mind.
On Rush Limbaugh’s show, he has surmised that the ONLY reason Obama went to Copenhagen is that Mayor Daley (aka ‘Kingpin of the Chicago Crime Syndicate’) had dirt on Obama and held it over his head to get him to “get the Olympics”.
Since Obama has now failed miserably to bring Daley his Olympics...do you supposed the “dirt” will be made public as punishment?
It’s an interesting thought...especially since a LOT of people would love to use said ‘dirt’ to bring him down.
Thoughts?
“Which brings us back to our initial question, why is the Wall Street Journal carrying water for the president?”
American “journalists” are poodle-walking, purse-swinging wimps. In the 1970s, I knew a writer for a major newspaper who landed at Normandy with the 82nd Airborne. He was tough, intelligent, had a wicked sense of humor and wasn’t afraid to take on crooked pols.
He’s long retired and took with him all the star qualities of what made a good reporter. I’m hoping our current crop of young vets can pick up where he left off.
True. What is going to happen with Valerie Jarrett’s slum now?
It is pretty telling when the corrupt IOC doesn’t want to be associated with an even more corrupt Chicago politics and the Obamas.
Or could it be that that the IOC knows that by 2016 this country will be so effed by Obama that there might not be much of a country to host the Olympics?
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