"We can go in two directions, one is for less opportunity and less fairness...I am going to lay out a blueprint...homegrown and alternative energy sources...getting people the skills they need...a return to American values...how we do it... "
POTUS Obama presents the fog of the campaign early in order to give time for his team to build an alternative narrative that argues that a vote for the GOP is a vote for plutocracy. This implies that a vote for Obama is a vote for democracy. Simple, goofy, paint-by-numbers rhetoric. The general rules say that the incumbent gets to name the game. The game is Pirates of the GOP. Can the GOP nominee Mitt Romney present American capitalism in some fashion other than as piracy? Unlikely to the satisfaction of the referees (TV). There is something fun about this game. Obama is the Federal collective from Heaven, protecting the needy civilians, the self-named 99%. The GOP is the feudal pirate ship from Hades, raiding the shoreline at the bidding of the 1%. What's the solution to this cartoon contest? (Whisper: the Q2 GDP has the final vote.)
DOES HE REALLY THINK HE CAN FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME?
1) "I'm not done writing my [State of the Union] address"
If he wrote his own speeches he wouldn't need a teleprompter. In one of Clinton's State of Union address, the teleprompter went out and he was able to continue w/o it because, I suspect he wrote it or edited it heavily.
2) "There may be a few late nights between now and [when I finish writing my State of the Union address"
Hehe. Good one.
3) "Rebuilding an economy where hard work pays off."
What he really said is: I hope I don't throw my shoulder out patting myself on the back.
4) "[Rebuilding an economy...] where responsibility is rewarded"
When has our Blameshifter-in-Chief actually taken responsibility for anything?
5) "[Rebuilding an economy...] where everyone plays by the same set of rules."
The rule is: Think not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you."
6) "This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class?
Really. When have you ever cared about the middle class except election time?
7) "I'm gonna lay out a blueprint for an economy that's built to last."
If you know how to lay out a blueprint, why didn't you already do it?
8) "American energy fueled by homegrown and alternative energy sources."
What the hell is 'homegrown' energy sources? Corn? Switch grass? BS?
9) "A return to American values."
Would that be Marxism or Leninism?
10) "People are gathering all across the country to watch the speech together ... You can find an event near you by going to BarackObama.com"
WOW!!! A campaign speech about a campaign speech. This guy doesn't have a gag reflex, but I do.
A NEW ARGUMENT FOR CAP & TRADE:
Cosmology.
"RUSSIA IS NO LONGER AN ADVERSARY OF THE UNITED STATES."
William Cohen, former Sec of Defense on Fox Business News
William Cohen is the Jimmy Carter of the Republican Party - congressman who served with distinction only to go into policy-dementia when he left the House. Yes, I know he was a Senator. His bequests are Collins and Snowe, leaders together with McCain of the RINO division.
Thanks. I won't listen to the original. Your interpretation will do. I just can't listen to the usual lachrymose BS. I find this whole presidency is one extended cringe worthy moment. Wake me up when it's over. I am working on getting into JB's head space - sitting in an armchair laughing at this joke of an administration - All of them- senators, congressman and all the operatives involved. POTUS is a sly fox, don't think he can't fool enough voters, and media personnel to sign on the dotted line. He reminds me of Putin quite frankly-all puffery on the surface, but underneath- a viper.
Ok Excuse me but aren't we heading in the direction of less opportunity and less fairness now? Thw laugh line of his ad was where he said and I'm paraphrasing, "people are going to gather to watch the state of the union address so they can talk about it".
Special message to my friends who were coming over to watch today's Pats, Ravens game. "It;s cancelled! I'll save the beer and Chili for the POTUS State of the Union Address. Dare I say. See you next Tuesday.
JB - post State of the Union, how about getting a historian on the air to compare the POTUS economic recovery program with Huey Long's "Share the Wealth" program. POTUS, with his "We Can't Wait" mantra seems to be channeling a lot of past populists who have a solid authoritarian core underneath that smiling populist exterior. I keep seeing more and more parallels between now and the early 1930s. Another topic for discussion would be the lack of religious conscience objections, at least for religious sponsored health plans and health care facilities, to the HHS OBamacare birth control mandates. As the Catholic Council of Bishops is purported to have commented - "great, now we have another 12 months to figure out how to violate our consciences." For some reason the phrase "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer" keeps popping into my head.
Whenever I hear Huey Long mentioned, I think of the elderly woman interviewed on a PBS probgram about his murder. Without batting an eye, she observed that a regular activity for Sunday afternoons after church was for friends to "get together and discuss ways we could kill him." Redistributionists have always had only a limited following. Sooner or later, voters catch on exactly whose wealth is going to get redistributed. Americans all harbor a private expectation that one day they will be in the 1%. They want the laws to support them when they get there, not the people who didn't earn their own way in.
"William Cohen is the Jimmy Carter of the Republican Party"
Cohen, in defending Obama's drastic cuts in the military budget, sounded as though he was angling for a WH appointment.
'Watermelon' = green on the outside, red in the middle. Here's an example last night from Nancy Ellen Abrams:
"What are we going to do? Kill [all the refugees from coastal flooding] because our country over the last century or so has contributed so much to global warming.
http://podfuse-dl.andomedia.com/800185/podfuse-origin.andomedia.com/citadel_origin/pods/WABC/WABC-Batchelor/jbs_012112d.mp3
FLORIDA IS JUST LIKE AMERICA, Except:
The north of Florida is like the south
The east coast of Florida is like the left coast
The west coast of Florida is like the midwest
And the southern part of Florida is like the north
"I'm gonna lay out a blueprint for an economy that's built to last."
'Blueprint' is a odd choice of words, considering it's the title of a book about how the Dems took over Colorado:
http://www.amazon.com/Blueprint-Democrats-Colorado-Republicans-Everywhere/dp/1936218003
This review is from: The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado (and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care) (Paperback)
Across the country, Republicans are excited about their electoral prospects this November and poised, it would seem for a comeback. But, at least in Colorado, that may not be a forgone conclusion, however strong the national political headwinds are blowing in the GOP's direction. The reason: the Democratic infrastructure built over the last seven years by a band of deep-pocketed progressives -- an infrastructure that, through creative and coordinated fundraising, messaging and get-out-the-vote operations, has, over three consecutive election cycles from 2004 to 2008, shattered the GOP's iron-clad grip on political power in what had long been a reliably red state. It's a stunning and well-crafted story from authors Rob Witwer, a former Republican state representative, and seasoned political reporter Adam Schrager, a story-teller second to none. The Blueprint takes you behind the scenes, inside the smoke-filled rooms at the pivotal moments, and up close with the major players. It's a politico's page-turner, an insider's account of how a few determined Democrats turned Colorado blue; and it comes just months ahead of this fall's midterm elections, sure to be a telling test of whether or not their "blueprint" will be strong enough to keep it that way.
Actually Florida is America, only upside down.
Corlyss D - You're so right about income redistribution. The following quote is from a 1997 Wall Street Journal article talking about George McGovern's tax plans.
"In his 1972 presidential campaign, Sen. George McGovern's proposal to impose a 100% tax on any inheritance over $500,000 (about $2.6 million today) got a hostile reception from voters, most of whom were unlikely to ever be affected by it. According to the less-than-respectful assessment from a McGovern advisor, the problem was that 'it would wipe out the dream factor — every slob in the street thinks that if he hits the lottery big, he may be able to leave half a million to his family.' "
I did a little reading about McGovern and learned his father was a Wesleyan minister. IMHO, there are more social justice, Protestant progressives doing more harm to the U.S. political system than almost anyone else. Through a combination of covetousness and trying to earn their salvation through works, they are determined to force their utopian view of the world on everyone else no matter the cost. As an example, I recommend Ken Burns' recent documentary on Prohibition. When you combine people like Jim Wallis of Sojourners and the POTUS crowd, you get a witches brew of arrogant progressives who believe if only they can run the world, everything will be so much better. The problem is that they are partially right; things will be better for them and their cronies, but worse for the majority of us.
January 23, 2012
Dear President Obama,
So I hear you’re poll testing ideas for the State of The Union . . . well if you had a lick of sense you’d take my “Impenetrable American Spirit” speech and rework it a bit, but I’m not holding my breath, and neither are the American people. If your party wants Mitt Romney so badly to run for the Presidency, what not nominate him to be the head of your party? For crying out loud, it’s like some “passive-aggressive-don’t hurt-me-but-I-want-you” thing that all of you got going on over there in the Democratic Party, I’m wondering if instead of the blow up doll of you, I should send one of Mr. Romney’s over to “media doesn’t matter” so they can soothe themselves amongst all of this electoral tumult. One has to wonder why, if Democrats want Romney so badly, why don’t they just nominate him? Could it be that the “establishment ivy league types” just want to fool the “stupid” Americans one more time? You know what. We are tired of being taken for a ride. The basic fact is this. If Romney can’t Beat Gingrich in a primary, most of them that are open and completely corruptible, how is Romney going to beat you on November 6, 2012?
For the life of me I can’t see why Americans do not deserve a clear choice between modern liberalism and conservatism. I think they do. As I write this Mr. Gingrich is being assailed for being tossed as Speaker of The House of Representatives, his personal life has been dragged through the mud, his financial life too. Mr. Romney has had this political abuse too. When his taxes come out they will become fodder for even more abuse. Regardless my prior point stands, and as a conservative my feeling is if you give America a choice between those two ideas, Americans will choose the government that most closely comports with their own beliefs. Margret Thatcher once said that “the facts of life are conservative.” The Iron Lady was dead on. As far as either of our likely candidates, would you and they like to go line by line as for who has the most dirt? Mr. Obama should we start with Bill Ayers or just stick with your Presidency and the solar panel money laundering thing or do you want to go right for “Fast and Furious” and the guy who is now promised to take the 5th? Note to self, when a guy from the government takes the 5th we know that something is terribly wrong.
So Florida begins. If Mr. Gingrich is smart he will remind those prospective voters that America will keep it’s financial promises. Americans have a thing about promises, call it a fetish, we keep our word, because if we don’t our children will pay a dear price for our failure. In order to do that we must grow our economy, we must use rocket fuel to get that done, both financial and the real kind. If we could get to the moon in the 60’s with a computer that could hold as much information as Paris Hilton’s brain and materials science as advanced as mylar, I’ve little doubt we could do a bit better now and awful lot faster. We just need a President to point the way and a NASA boss committed to get the job done what ever it takes. Do you want the children of America to look up at the moon and say when America was once a great nation we went to the moon? Or do you want them to say America IS a great nation, we went to the moon and we never left? I would rather the latter, and for the sake of this nation we must make that dream a reality.
There is a long road to November 6, 2012, but the nearer we get to that day, the closer we get to your defeat, no matter who our nominee is, and that will be a great relief to the American people.
Respectfully,
Joe Doakes
Connecting Obama with the OWS is a good thing. Yesterdays NYPost details the occupy crowd Urinating on crucifixes and stealing equipment and Baptism fonts from Churches that had taken them in.
OWS is a loose canon. A smart GOP will use this to identify OWS as radical bomb throwing leftists.
TV-MSM is the gatekeeper, how do you get past them?
December 20, 2011
Dear President Obama,
There are various points in a boys life that he takes the steps to becoming a man. Marriage. Deaths. Children. The death of children. The death of their parents. So on an and so forth. Some make the journey and some do not. Recently, I decided to make the trip to Florida from New York to visit my folks and my last remaining Grandmother. I chose to drive because I’ve had it with the unfriendly skies. I’m confident they will be friendly again when the airlines are put back in charge of securing their airplanes, but that day is not today, see Alec Baldwin among many, many, others. So there I am barreling down I95 and as I witness the businesses and free citizens deciding on all on their own what to do next. I’m amazed by it all. There is not a flipping thing wrong with this country and it citizens or it’s foundations. We manage our lives, we defend our families, we try to make our way through a nation that is never satisfied with what is so we create something new and better. A very American thing to do, and we do it, even with you as President. As I travelled through North Carolina to check in on a battle ship I saw cotton fields and the biggest piece of farm equipment built right here in the USA by John Deere right near a Kubota dealership that sells tractors made in Japan, a former enemy that we built battleships like the North Carolina to defeat. Americans fight and live for freedom were not into conquering countries we are into liberating them. As my ride continued I ended up in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Ever been there? My kind of place. I hit the local Hooters, because the food is good:) So there I am at the bar and I’m shooting the breeze with two soldiers from Fort Bragg. Two examples of the reason we won the war in Iraq. We won it because of the choices that these two men made. They freely chose to serve their country. They chose to give up vibrant and economically rewarding careers. They put themselves in harms way. When the bullets flew and the bombs went off they did what they had to do for the men, and these days women, to their left and their right. Every time I speak to someone in uniform one ethic alway’s shines through. “Whatever it takes.” I wonder if the enemies of freedom truly understand how mentally outgunned they are. Reagan was right. Our chief weapon in our arsenal is not bullets and bombs, it is that innate desire of every America to sacrifice themselves for freedom. Even the freedom of people who still hate us, Muslims. In generations passed we even stood up to free the French, the Germans, the Japanese, and the Russians living a cold dark life under a blanket of cold concrete sweating with evil.
All in I drove over 2,800 miles. Said my hellos, goodbyes, and did what I could to make peace with a little help from a few bended and friendly ears and the bottle. It is what it is, and there is no rhyme or reason for it. I’ve found a good life is about God, faith, family, and work. The pain is free and most available when you least need it. As you have been President something, far, far, more important has been going on, the American family has done some serious growing up. Burying the dead and dealing with the sick will do that to a nation or a boy. To me, a liberal is a child who refuses to grow up and accept their primary responsibilities in this life. Then they get into the government and then they apply those non-standards to every one else. What was it Reagan said? “If we lower our standards we lower the flag.” How high were those standards during the Occupy Wall Street protests? How high were they during Tea Party rallies? Which one would you let your daughters attend?
I’m not into BS. Neither is America. Or Iowans for that matter. That is why Ron Paul is so popular and New Gingrich is rhetorically threatening to put judges into jail. Politics is a dirty game. It is supposed to be. It’s what we do instead of harming one another. Our words are our weapons our ideas are our guns. We shoot best when we speak the truth. Nursing homes are full of truth. One thing they are not full of is love. They need more of that. I wonder if those people knew that when they were voting for a government benefit to relieve their family of that responsibility what the cost would truly be in heartbreak and loneliness; Would they have voted for it? I’d have to say no. Any thinking man would say no. Any man who understands how caustic a federal government with a credit card has been to the human condition would have to say no.
On November 6, 2012 the American people are going to say no to you. Like they did in 2010. The open question is will that be worth all of this aggravation?
Be a shame if it wasn’t.
Respectfully,
Joe Doakes
It's not a blueprint for every state. The reviewer exaggerates Colorado's Republican committedness to make the book seem more significant. It has swung both ways over time. In that what happened was partly engineered by a gay dot.com billionaire who moved to Colorado specifically to underwrite a political revolution after the state referendum banned gay marriage, it can't happen everywhere. That Colorado is a swing state tells you there's a base there to make it switch back.
I've mentioned here before that the California dystopia causes its citizens to flee to the near west only to recreate the dystopia they left. It's very alarming to those of us in the near west. I wish we could put up egal barriers against Californians. They should be made to stay there and clean up the mess they created or suffere. That goes for their businesses too.
"I wish we could put up legal barriers against Californians."
This is how Californians felt about everybody else who moved to their golden state and made parts unbearably crowded.
I remember many years ago a CA tee shirt saying on the front: "Welcome to California"
On the back: "Now get the f@#k out."
I think what's happening in CA now is similar to what's been true of the Northeast for a long time: i.e. House prices in both places are high compared to wherever they're moving. This allows a comfortable retirement -- be it in Florida, Nevada or Utah.
On a flight back east, I once had a conversation with a woman who had her main home in Denver, where I was changing planes. Surprisingly, she told me she liked living in Palm Desert "because you can go 50 MPH wherever you drive."