Let us pause here to note the irony of a guy with a Harvard Law sheepskin on the wall handing his White House china coffee mug to an aide on Air Force One and calling someone "out of touch with the middle class".
However, this class warfare stuff, painting yourself as a regular champion of the little guy, is right in the wheelhouse of Obama's base, as can be witnessed by some of the icons in their party shrine:
 |
| Childhood home of Navy vet and handicapped activist Frank Roosevelt |
 |
| Fishing cottage of bartender and steel mill worker Joe Kennedy |
Personally, I think it looks like he's flailing, here. This is not the smooth machine from four years ago; this is a guy reduced to running on a campaign of "Well... he's a poopie-head!" The major media outlets are running with it, but mechanically, without the tingle-in-the-leg enthusiasm from '08. Y'know, Barry might actually lose this one.
We lose either way.
ReplyDeleteCIII
"We lose either way."
ReplyDeleteSo what are you going to do about that today? (And by that, I mean concrete actions taken to improve the state of the nation, not "buy another case of MRE's.")
Anyway, did this read like a Romney campaign ad to you?
I'm stuck on this trolley ride to hell and I'm damned well going to describe the scenery.
I'm going to do what I should have done decades ago, and research the local GOP structures and attempt to infiltrate them.
ReplyDeleteIt'd never work with the Dems.
Voter ID laws are under full frontal assault by the media, almost as many resources as they sent against Sarah Palin.
ReplyDeleteThe Dims know their candidate is slipping, so the traditional standby of fake/dead/multiple votes is still running strong to ensure a repeat for 2012.
"Obama '12: less likely to invade Iran."
ReplyDeleteLewis,
ReplyDeleteYeah, but how much less?
Any pictures of Obama's Childhood home in Hawaii? Something tells me he wasn't living in a 2 room Efficiency in Pearl City.
ReplyDelete"Mitt Romney is out of touch with the middle class."
ReplyDeleteAnd Michelle Obama is not?
FDR was Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Wilson. He never served in uniform.
ReplyDeleteAnd I will, as always vote against any incumbent and for any Libertarian. Although, if Ron Paul can pull off a brokered convention, and win the nomination, I would vote for him. Gary Johnson doesn't have the experience that Paul does.
Don,
ReplyDelete"FDR was Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Wilson. He never served in uniform."
...and Joe Kennedy never actually worked in a steel mill. ;)
And now Teh Won's "100 percent committed to raising taxes" on those ee-ville rich bastids making over $250,000 a year.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I wanna see what Congress-critters vote for THAT in an election year. Besides the Usual Suspects of course.
Tam:
ReplyDeleteTrue, every time a Democrat runs on the "kept us out of war" thing . . . .
I know it's early days yet, but it's still astonishing to me to see them neck in neck in this horse race.
ReplyDeleteI mean Mitt is "meh" but compared to whatsisname, the President, I'm appalled it's even close.
I ought to watch the news more often and get out of my echo-cup. Maybe that'll provide some clues to me.
Rickn8or: I figure they'll raise taxes on people making more than $250k a year, and then hyperinflate the money supply so badly that people working at Burger King make $250k a week.
ReplyDeleteLOL w/BubbleheadLes (lived in a 3-room no-airconditioned apartment in Aiea for a while. Doubt Obummer even knows how to spell "Aiea", much less find it on a map. Or pronounce it.)
ReplyDeleteVoting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil. I hear good things about Ron Paul, dunno what his stance on gun control is though. I find it hard to wrap my braincell around all this political stuff...for some reason, my braincell refuses to touch it. Fear of infection, I guess.
...nobody's buying "Hope & Change" anymore
ReplyDeleteThat'll happen when people actually get to see what you can do and you are completely inept. Hope & Change worked because everyone who voted for him didn't have a clue as to what he was all about and he had no trail of actual work.
Never in my life have I seen someone who has taken so much from the public and done so little in return.
I keep waiting to hear that Obama won the Nobel Prize for Economics (to Paul Krugman's chagrin).
ReplyDeleteAnd, Chris?
"We lose either way."
Massachusetts may well have hamstrung their health care, but they aren't packed with Chicago thugs nor are they leading the way to economic ruin and unemployment. Gov. Rommey's trail through Massachusetts history sure seems to me, to be headed in a different direction that where Obama wants us to go. That, and "birds of a feather flock together" pretty much define why I want Obama out of the White House. Even if I am not eager to begin fixing Romney's mistakes, errors, and egregious wrong-headedness.
Obama's record begins with ACORN, and continues through a Chicago machine selling Senate seats (who actually believes they sold Obama's Senate seat, but Obama didn't have to buy it the first time around?), and isolation in the US Senate as complete as his depressed withdrawal in college. Obama never intended the economy to work again -- why do you think he cancelled "extended" two year unemployment benefits -- two and a half years ago? He needs those job losses off the government statistics to show an improved jobless report statistic, for the campaign.
The pirate or the playboy? I am ready to give the playboy a try. At least we might get some useful work out of him.
YMMV
Yeah, but how much less?
ReplyDeleteGood question. I would guess Obama is more bothered by body bags than Romney, but no different in his enthusiasm for cyber-war or personally selecting drone targets. Then again Romney might prefer even more direct control, and demand a Presidential joy-stick be installed in the Oval Office.
Domestic policy-wise I lean Romney, but with about the same confidence I have tossing a penny in a fountain.
I also don't think that Romney has the pure contempt of the Constitution & rule of law that Obama has both expressed and exhibited.
ReplyDeletePerlhaqr:
ReplyDeleteThe Republicans are easy to infiltrate.
Just show up at your local county precinct meeting, and get involved.
People who actually get off their asses are so rare that you will be goat-roped into a committee position if you keep showing up, and don't run away fast enough.
The challenger can win by campaigning against the incumbent. (Sometimes, such as in 2008, he can even do so when the incumbent isn't actually on the ballot.) But the only incumbent that the converse has ever worked for was LBJ. Obama has never, in his entire history (in electoral politics or anywhere else either) had to justify his own record to anybody. But the president of the United States can't get reelected any other way.
ReplyDeleteCheck out Obama's modest Windy City digs: http://www.zillow.com/blog/2008-09-17/barack-obamas-chicago-house/
ReplyDeleteRealio, trulio,
Google street view: https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=5046+s+greenwood+ave+chicago+map&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x880e29427d521b93:0x889ebca074742e07,5046+S+Greenwood+Ave,+Chicago,+IL+60615&gl=us&ei=Z2L7T_iVHcWe2wXFqe3oBg&ved=0CAgQ8gEwAA
Truly, a man of the people
Hmmm, I, too, was going to point out that FDR was not really a Navy vet, but I was going to acknowledge that it was big-lie-ish.
ReplyDelete@RabidAlien: Aiea. Somewhere between Schofield Barracks and Ft Schafter. Wasted the taxpayers money traveling between th two one TDY. It was years before HH6 convinced me to visit Hawaii for fun... And, as for I hear good things about Ron Paul, dunno what his stance on gun control is though Seriously? Ron Paul is solid on gun rights.
Ron Paul is solid on Constitutional rights.
100% Paultard here.
ReplyDeleteSave us Ob-gyn Paul, you're our only hope. I'd trust him with guns.