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February 11, 2010

Re: Obama and 'snow jobs'

Topics: Political News and commentaries

George Neumayr, writes on Obama's latest "snow job(s)":

[...] Obama cast himself as a victim of the American people's "frustration" rather than a cause of it. He suggested that his sagging poll numbers reflect an amorphous moodiness, not discontent with his policies.

[...] Frustrated Americans clinging to their God and guns may not grasp the complexity of these avant-garde arguments. But in time, if they listen carefully enough to Obama's words, they will come around and see that a Justice Department run by the ACLU and a military infiltrated by ACT UP will keep them safe. (emphasis mine)

[...] He said the American people have "every right" to be frustrated. But not with him. What was meant to sound self-effacing quickly became self-justifying. And insulting: he is in effect accusing the American people of unjustly taking their anger out on him.
First, White House aides implied that the frustration of the American people was due to dimness: Obama's arguments are too complex and nuanced for their appreciation. Now the line is that pollsters are catching them at a bad time.

[...] No claim is too fanciful for the Obama administration not to try and float at least once: whether it is saying that "green jobs" will save the economy, abolishing Don't Ask, Don't Tell will strengthen the military, or giving a jury trial to the 9/11 mastermind will boost American morale. (emphasis mine)

Let's just say it and see what happens, appears to be the attitude. The backlash on the last claim was strong enough that the White House withdrew it, but this week they tried a new tack: those who question Mirandizing terrorists are "serving the goals of Al Qaeda," said John Brennan. The Obama administration would rather not waste time on these "critics."

As Obama said in his DNC speech, Democrats "speak to the hopes of the American people instead of their fears." To parents more worried about feeding their children than making them fat, Democrats offer the hope of a campaign against childhood obesity; to out-of-work coal miners, they offer wind farm jobs of the future; to rattled Americans still reeling from a botched bombing over Detroit, they offer a more progressive military. And while Obama may have cost thousands of Americans their jobs by sending anti-business signals for a year, the unemployed can draw inspiration from (t)his "phenomenal" one.Take the time to read it all ...

Fortunately, we "frustrated Americans clinging to 'our' God and guns are indeed grasping the 'complexity' of Mr. Obama's avant-garde arguments," have already begun to figure out that the "phenomenal one" is not so phenomenal and is taking America down the drain into unrecoverable debt, less secure from terrorist attack, and less freedom - and 2010 and 2012 are just around the corner.

Posted by Richard at February 11, 2010 11:38 AM

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