Topic: The O'BamaVoter® "Regrets And Sniffles" Thread

[AlanS]

I've been thinking for a while now that it would behoove us to get behind a clear choice early, and for my money that choice is Bachmann. There's a number of things I want to nip in the bud early: Romney and the Rovian constellation in orbit around him, and also this coquettish "will he / won't he" messaging from Rick Perry. Michele has the goods, and more balls than the rest of those Ruling Class eunuchs combined. She has momentum right now, and I'd like to for once employ the technique of "fait accompli" for our own purpose.

Sounds like a plan except with the election so far off, we don't know who'll have the momentum by new years.

[charlesoakwood]

I like all of them Michele, Herman, Rick, and Sarah; they should go cartel on the establishment and each get a big piece of the pie. 



mixed metaphors included

[IronDioPriest]

I wish Santorum would catch hold. I really, really like that guy, and he seems presidential to me.

[Libertas]

 

[trapeze]

Okay... back to the regret and angst over BO.

This time it comes from across the pond in the online pages of Der Speigel:

All that remains of the great hopes Americans and the world had pinned on Obama, inspired by his stirring campaign speeches about change and renewal, is a battlefield of unsatisfactory and contradictory compromises. Obama, who just turned 50 and was once a symbol of youthful change, suddenly seems old and worn out, as gray as his hair has become.

His decline in popularity has also destroyed the hope that Obama could bring new momentum to America and the world. With the debt-ceiling debate, the right-wing Tea Party movement has taken both Congress and Obama's presidency hostage. It is no longer the president who determines the issues and sets the tone of the debate, but a small, radicalized group of unashamedly amateur politicians who have declared the government to be their enemy. As the Tea Party gains stature, Obama loses credibility. Musician Harry Belafonte, once an ardent Obama supporter, has talked of his disappointment with the president. "He has only listened to the voices that shout the loudest, and it's all those reckless right-wing forces," Belafonte told CNN. "It's almost criminal."

This is a big two part article called, "How Obama Disappointed The World" (Part 2 is called "Losing Respect Worldwide")

Hoo! Hoo! Ha! Ha!

Lots of angst but also unintentionally funny stuff like this paragraph:

Obama has always managed to win over Americans with big words. He used big words to raise expectations and establish a mood of change in the 2008 presidential election campaign, when he inspired the country with his slogan "Yes, we can."

Apparently the Germans think that the "big words" for Americans consist entirely of single syllables.

Enjoy.

[IronDioPriest]

Obama has always managed to win over Americans with big words. He used big words to raise expectations and establish a mood of change in the 2008 presidential election campaign, when he inspired the country with his slogan "Yes, we can."

That's as awesome as the three interlocking gears graphic.

[trapeze]

Der Spiegel is on a roll with this short interview with iconic race baiter, shakedown artist and opportunist extraordinaire, Jesse Jackson:

SPIEGEL: Is it true that even among African-Americans Obama's standing has suffered?

Jackson: We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work. We are number one in foreclosure, number one in short life expectancy, in loan default. Big banks steered their toxic products toward minorities and Congress did not oversee them properly because it is basically corrupted by all the money it is raising on Wall Street. So there is a lot of pain here in our community and this pain must be addressed.

SPIEGEL: And you don't feel the President is doing that?

Jackson: Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities. In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

He can't quite bring himself to say it but you can sense the undercurrent of bitterness and crushing disappointment. This is clearly a man who thought that his ship had finally come in. And now it turns out that the ship sank in the harbor before it even set sail and all of the passengers are standing knee deep in swamp water with their hands out, wondering where their share of O'Bama's stash is.

[trapeze]

From the loony bin that is the PuffHo, some twit going by the name of Cenk Uygur whines thusly:

After yet another unconditional surrender in the debt ceiling talks, he's hit his tipping point. Just go talk to any group of liberals in the country and see if half of them aren't incredibly pissed off at him. I do it all the time and their whispers of discontent has grown into a cacophony.

Finally, nearly every progressive commentator is talking about his profound weakness, if it even is that and not something worse (some have started to question whether he even wants to win on progressive issues or if he is fundamentally conservative).

That last line, of course, betrays the lack of mental functionality of the writer. But the regret and angst (and, even anger) are on full display throughout this ridiculously self-absorbed and self-indulgent column.

[trapeze]

Okay, a palate cleanser: The "O'Bama Is, In Fact, A Pretty Dim Bulb" article from the WSJ:

Socrates taught that wisdom begins in the recognition of how little we know. Mr. Obama is perpetually intent on telling us how much he knows. Aristotle wrote that the type of intelligence most needed in politics is prudence, which in turn requires experience. Mr. Obama came to office with no experience. Plutarch warned that flattery "makes itself an obstacle and pestilence to great houses and great affairs." Today's White House, more so than any in memory, is stuffed with flatterers.

We all know it. He's stupid. This article does a great job of explaining why.

[Libertas]

JJ is still on the reconstruction kick eh?  More proof that he is displaced in time and space...

That WSJ editorial is awesome.  Didn't someone link that in another thread?  Anyway, it can't be cited enough.  That entire editorial needs to be put into a YouTube production, maybe one of them Xtranormal productions, and every jacksass that voted for this POS should be strapped in a chair with their eyes taped open and made to watch it over and over again!  Maybe then half of that brain-dead group could regain some consciousness and self respect!

[trapeze]

...every jacksass that voted for this POS should be strapped in a chair with their eyes taped open and made to watch it over and over again!  Maybe then half of that brain-dead group could regain some consciousness and self respect!

Ummm....

O'BamaVoters®

...so, fat chance.

[Libertas]

...every jacksass that voted for this POS should be strapped in a chair with their eyes taped open and made to watch it over and over again!  Maybe then half of that brain-dead group could regain some consciousness and self respect!

Ummm....

O'BamaVoters®

...so, fat chance.

Yeah, that's what I get for trying to be helpful!

 

[IronDioPriest]

Well worth watching. This Leftist screed isn't notable for his blame of Republicans. But it is definitely noteworthy for it's extreme disgust with the Democrats and Obama.

THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES! Ratigan Spells-It-Out! PAY ATTENTION OBAMA!!!

[charlesoakwood]

Sí, se puede

[Dan]

Belafonte needs to have his brain aerated. Criminal? As opposed to what the tiny, vociferous minority has been doing to this country is just a-ok to him.

I hope their heads explode.

[Libertas]

Belafonte needs to have his brain aerated. Criminal? As opposed to what the tiny, vociferous minority has been doing to this country is just a-ok to him.

I hope their heads explode.

 

[Predator Don]

Just for the sake of how much fun it would be to watch....I believe a covert campaign should be excuted to flood hillary with e mails to "save our country" and run for Prez.

I love others eating thier own.

[Libertas]

Just for the sake of how much fun it would be to watch....I believe a covert campaign should be excuted to flood hillary with e mails to "save our country" and run for Prez.

I love others eating thier own.

Ooohhh!  I like that idea!

 

Operation Chaos - Part Duh

[Pandora]

...every jacksass that voted for this POS should be strapped in a chair with their eyes taped open and made to watch it over and over again!  Maybe then half of that brain-dead group could regain some consciousness and self respect!

Ummm....

O'BamaVoters®

...so, fat chance.

Fat chance, indeed.  Talked to the ObamaVoter neighbor last night; he "still likes Obama".

I thought MY head was going to explode.

[Dan]

Neighbor, eh? Won't have to far to go to deliver retribution then.