Posted on 10/23/2010 11:26:11 AM PDT by Justaham
IN LAS VEGAS Barack Obama remembers how good it used to be to be Barack Obama. He only wishes everyone else would remember, too.
"I understand how some of you might think back to election night or inauguration night when Beyonce was singing and Bono," the president told a crowd of 10,000 in Seattle on Thursday. "And you were saying, boy, that was exciting, that was fun, that was a big party. And now it just seems like we're working all the time and folks are arguing and everybody is mad. All these pundits are on TV. And this is just kind of discouraging."
Obama journeyed west this week on a final five-state scramble before the midterm elections in search of money for his party and votes for endangered Democratic candidates. His voice hoarse from a brewing head cold, he has gone from Oregon to Washington to California to Nevada. On Saturday, he finishes his tour in Minnesota. His speeches have been filled with Obama-esque word pictures, and his tone has been relentlessly upbeat. He has revived many of his lines from 2008.
Yes, "Yes We Can!" is back. And Obama is still "Fired Up!"
Yet if his speeches before the friendliest of faces are a reflection of his mood, the president is also retracing his steps in hopes of finding something he has lost: the adoration of the American people.
His public approval ratings have dropped 18 points since Inauguration Day, and in his exhortations to the crowds, a bit of weariness and an unmistakable note of nostalgia seeps in at the edges.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Ten thousand people . Says the in house paper .
elected by some counts- and the Dems insist he was certified eligible long before the campaign(no specifics) He talks much
about the rich republicans he sees his opponents wanting to help but he himself flies all over the country at taxpayer expense to campaigning for his communist buddies.And there is enough ignorant folks will vote for him because they are a skeered of those evil rebublicans.
If there was ever something perfectly fitting the punchline “Help, I’ve fallen and can’t get up”, it’s Obama’s popularity now. And deservedly so.
Tired cliches and vague empty rhetoric won’t save you and more, Bammy. Your 2-year frat-boy party is about to end.
That's about as far as I got. The writing about the clown is becoming pathetic. He is so obviously a failure even the dolts at the WaPo recognize it.
Rallies at college campus with thousand that don’t work or pay taxes and live off their parents.
Yeah. It’s okay to support Baraq when you don’t have to pay taxes.
I don’t recall any president doing this much campaigning in a midterm election before. He forgets he is the President of all Americans, Republicans included.
Ah, projection. Nicely done, Mr. President. You really are a tool.
Comments on this article at the WaPo skew heavily and angrily against Obama. Some are very creative:
IntruderintheDust wrote:
I was hanging this morning out down in Yoknapatawpha County with Chick Mallison, Lucas Beauchamp, and Bill Faulkner, when we came across wdsouplane’s comment.
I should first advise y’all that we’d been hitting the Jim Beam pretty good before and after reading the WaPo online. And Lucas, actually, was asleep on a nearby couch.
Chick....well, you know how imaginative that dude can be. He figured wdsoulplane must’ve landed from some planet, a place like in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse Five”, and gotten confused about the present and the past.
“Why else,” began Chick, hiccoughing, “would such a moron not be aware of what a destructive dweeb Barry O has become?”
Chick and I both looked over at Bill, who’s a lot smarter than the both of us.
“Well,” we asked Bill simultaneously. “What do you think?”
Bill was chomping on his ice cubes. “Huh?” is all he replied.
Then Lucas broke wind, and his inner turbulence woke him up.
“You three can just shut up,” he said, settling back on the couch, “and chat about idiots some other place and time.”
So we did.
I wish NBC would offer Obambi his own game show to host, and a country club membership, and then he could just quit the presidency, realize his highest potential, and enjoy life—and leave us alone!
I think of him more as Schlepprock from the Pebbles and Bam-Bam Show, or the dude on the Gulliver’s Travels cartoon who was always going “We’re doomed! We’ll never make it!”
LOL That picture of Teresa was the first thing I thought of when I saw the picture of Obama.
Maybe they are twins separated at birth; they are both African. ;)
Eeyorbama!
well
at least he is not talking about how much unemployment dropped or bending the health care costs.
the rats are in serious trouble
if i didn’t hate them so much i would be concerned.
I hope the DemonRat National Committee is picking up the tab so that it bankrupts it.
But why do I have this nagging feeling that you and I are paying for his partisan peregrinations around the country?
How do we find out?
Leni
Results matter. And his results over the last 2 years in nothing less than Epic Fail.
As we know, adoration is extremely important to a narcissist--even a Marxist/Muslim sympathizing narcissist.
Is the “Summer of Recovery” over yet?
Do the Millions of unemployed Americans and millions of folks on food stamps feel “recovered”?
Are they celebrating as Obama fly’s around lying to the American public, as he frantically tries to hang on to power?
Perhaps the “Summer of Recovery” really begins on November 2nd.
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