Polls show that Obama has lost almost all moderate Republicans and a majority of independents, and is losing conservative Democrats. In response, he gives a strange pep-rally talk — part inspiration, part rebuke — to the Black Caucus, delivered in a style as if the audience were not upscale but impoverished circa 1960, and he were a messianic civil-rights leader battling “them.” Earlier he lamented to members of the National Council of La Raza that he could not, by fiat, grant their open borders wishes (only do nearly as much, by stopping enforcement of federal immigration laws unless the violators are felons). In remarks aimed at the gay constituency, he rebuked the Republican field on the grounds that, at a debate, the crowd, not an individual, supposedly jeered a gay solder and those on the podium supposedly bore in silence that supposedly collective boo. There is no need to cite the ongoing presidential slurs against the wealthy, in which those making over $200,000 have mysteriously become lumped in with corporate-jet owners.
For the next year, we are going to see a lot of this them/us rhetoric, as each group is revved up to get out the vote in record numbers, thereby cobbling together a bare majority. Targeting enemies of the people, who otherwise apparently would be doing great without such oppression, is Richard Nixon’s strategy in reverse, but will be characterized by even greater polarization. The new venom, I guess, still beats the now tired “Bush’s fault,” or running on 9.1 percent unemployment, $5 trillion in new debt, a sluggish GDP, high gas and food prices, record annual deficits, credit downrating, a moribund housing market, nearly 50 million on food stamps, Solyndra, and Fast and Furious.
Call it "Barry's Magical Agitation Tour." This tour will spread much sound and fury throughout the republic ... and give rise to the dodo as the new Democrat Party mascot.
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I'm saying it here and now because I will, also, be saying it later:
The post-election riots and everything stemming from them - the damage, the crime, the cracked skulls, the sob stories - will be the fault of President Barrack Hussein Obama.
He is owning it with pride, now. Will the weasel have what it takes to own it, later, when it is real?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAnd it will work with a substantial amount of petty little victim groups who would rather see the United States ruined fiscally and economically than vote for a Republican who won't pander to them.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYou fail to make anything resembling a case for voting for a Republican who believes in socialized medicine.
Obama's second term will not be Republican.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThat's not really my job is it? AFAIK, the one thing all Republicans agree on is repealing ObamaCare.
As of yet, I don't have a horse in this race. I don't like any of the viable contenders enough to support them, and I don't dislike any of the candidates enough to rule them out.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI have ruled out Newt.
Wow. That's going out on limb. :D
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMikeB will be arriving soon so that he can call Dr. Hanson a racist.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"supposedly jeered a gay solder and those on the podium supposedly bore in silence that supposedly collective boo."
"supposedly" professor?
sorry, the video is here:
it's more than an individual.
and the candidates do nothing after members of the crowd boo an active duty member of the military who happens to be stationed in Iraq.
anyone watching the tape can see clearly what happened.
This was no mere Joe Wilson shouting "you lie" during the SOTU incident.
And again, if Obama tailoring his speech to fit the crowd is so wrong, where were your complaints when Bush the Younger--he of Philips Andover, Yale, and Harvard --spent countless years droppin' his g's, saying "Newk-u-lar" instead of "nuclear," etc???
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNope. I just listened again. It sounds clearly like two, maybe three or four guys booing. That's it.
And I don't recall Bush ever changing his speaking style for an audience. He always dropped his g's and always said "nucular". Same as Jimmy Carter.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"...where were your complaints when Bush the Younger--he of Philips Andover, Yale, and Harvard --spent countless years droppin' his g's, saying "Newk-u-lar" instead of "nuclear," etc???"
What complaints? He always spoke that way, because that's the way he speaks. It is not an affectation when you do it 100% of the time.
If you have a link to video of George speaking like FDR, by all means post it.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseA couple of people booed, Santorum says he didn't hear them (although he later apologized, unnecessarily), and you people need to grow up in oh so many ways.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseTheir defense of the soldier is inspiring, inasmuch as they spent much of the last decade encouraging and embolding the soldier's jihadists enemies!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseObama's class warfare rhetoric is beginning to pay off with mass demonstrations and calls for murdering "the rich"
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI haven't seen anyone make the connection between President Obama scolding the Republican debaters for non denouncing the crowd at their debate, while he himself refused to rebuke the Teamsters Union leader James Hoffa, who said union members were ready to "take these sons of b****es out".
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePlease, you can go deeper than Jr. Hoffa's remark -
Try Andre Carson and the Repubs want to see us hang
Try Maxine Waters and the Teaparty can go straight to hell -
There are so many more I would wear out my fingers typing!
There were two, maybe three, who elected to make azzes out of themselves.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI am hopeful that it will be far more than a "bare majority" voting to end our national nightmare. Also, he may hope to gain votes with this demagoguery, but I think all he will succeed in doing is killing more jobs.
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