I have no doubt that Obama’s more left-wing in his heart than he is in his speeches and public priorities. But my basic point is that Obama doesn’t realize that his electoral success was a function of the media age we are in. He fit the part. He said the right words. He was an anti-George W. Bush when lots of people desperately wanted an anti-George W. Bush. He was black, cool, and eggheady in just the right way. Voting for Obama made lots of people feel good about themselves — which is a terrible reason to vote for anybody. Media elites and average Americans alike were seduced because they wanted to be seduced.
They — starting with Obama himself — believed the hype. And he still does.
He’s like modern-day Johnny Bravo lip-synching an auto-tuned song about “keeping it real” and he thinks he’s actually keeping it real. He goes around talking about how much he hates talking points and sound-bites, how much he loathes cynicism and ideology. And yet, he does all this in talking points and sound-bites packed like verbal clown cars with ideology and cynicism.
It’s good – Putting the O in Johnny Bravo
The parallels to the winner of the liberal party y chromosome lottery is frightening.
I like a good sunday morning spent visiting garage sales in established neighborhoods, seeing the things people thought had value some years past.
There are going to be a lot of those old B. Hussien “Greatest Hits” albums from ’08 – 2012 popping up soon enough, if they’re not too embarrassed to have just thrown them out.
The man has demonstrated what any astute observer could have easily seen in 2008, had they wanted to look: the man is an empty suit, a front man, a logo, for a party whose ethical compass was spinning out of control and remains so. They won’t get their bearings again for a generation, if ever. The DNC ordered up a prop, checked off the boxes for “black enough, white enough”, egghead enough, glib enough, to deflect any targetable biases, and that’s what they got. He, robot.
The problem of course, was the the puppet masters were never smart enough to know how to top up the empty suit with enough foreign policy smarts, enough economic smarts, enough of a spine to hide the inherent liberal yellow streak, and so, after 6 years, the world’s greatest nation is a noisy second cousin to real power, currently being propped up economically by the Saudis OPEC stance and Chinese investment, while ordinary Americans who still believe in the American dream and the ideals of their constitution are left to wonder what the hell has happened to their country. Liberalism is a disease that will kill many more Americans than Ebola. It already has.
“average Americans alike were seduced ”
Its the half of Americans that are below average that made the difference.
As many here did notice that in 2008, we were quickly labelled racist and bigot by the fools that were deceived. That, of course, was part of the ‘producers’ plan.
Thanks Kate…
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Great piece. However: Fremdschäm can be rational. But, Fremdschämen for a cretin like AliBama (or the Hildabeast, Kerry, or Weiner) requires more generosity of spirit than is healthy. Backpfeifengesicht, not so much.
Skip, what the puppet masters failed to realize is that not even they could get through the wall erected by obumbles narcissism. Lefties are shallow on empathy.
What I also liked about the article is the slap down it gave the conspiracy theorist’s, they, just like the puppet masters “don’t get it”, and we have a few of those fools in here.
Who really cares? Or . . . . at this point . . . . what difference does it make? The ‘Murricans voted him into office. Twice. Now they have to live with those results. People make choices in their lives . . . . . . and then they must live with them.
The same choices will be available to Canadians in a year’s time. Canadians will have to live with them.
Remember how all the MSM and liberal/socialist elites mocked, laughed and called Clint Eastwood a senile old coot when he did his empty chair bit? Heard anyone still talking about that lately? No, now all those liberals/socialists are realizing they were taken for a ride and paid for the gas, lodgings…everything.
Obama referred to his secret “supporters” who didn’t get out to vote. This time.
He’s right about that but wrong about why. Many of these folk are embarrassed that they got caught up in the hype in electing the schmuk and have burried their heads in the sand praying others will forget how stupid they were.
Back in 08 I suggested that Barry was a Chauncy Gardner. Some disagreed because Chauncy was a simpleton and Barry wasn’t.
But the point was, he was chosen because – He fitted the suit. Thanks Jonah.
If you want insight into Obama’s unspoken political ideology, go no further than his mentors – say Bill Ayers – who did , and still does, envisage a violent overthrow of the republic and establishment of police state collectivism – Ayers taped conversations with the Weather underground council (captured by an FBI infiltrator) revealed this American communist revolution plan to execute 20-30 million ideological enemies and inter 150 million dissenters in “re-education camps”.
No doubt in my mind Obama has mimicked this ideal by setting the military/police/IRS and other enforcement agencies against republican/constitutionalist Americans and his ideological opponents – Hillary will pull the trigger on the plan and realize a full fascist-collectivist state. Obama also has attempted to racially divide the nation setting race against race for political purposes.
America is now entering th most dangerous 2 years it has ever faced since the civil war – they have a congress and people opposed to a POTUS ho is determined to act on his agenda unilaterally – dangerous indeed – the simmering political cauldron which revolts are made of.
The current Washington regime is both sociopath and lawless, and it is one of the great ironies of our era that scum like this is not impeached and tried for treason – every second this is delayed is a second closer to a more violent public political reaction.
Occam, did you read the linked article. If you did you appear to either disagree, or you failed to understand it. No, obumbles will not go the Ayers route, he is a man of words only and incapables of follow through action, and that is why every policy he has tried to enact has failed.
“No, obumbles will not go the Ayers route, he is a man of words only and incapables of follow through action,….”
Hopefully but the likes of Jarrett, Moochelle, Perez, and Holder….are a whole other species.
Obama didn’t go the Ayers route.
And Ayers himself abandoned the Ayers route preferring instead the cultural marxist route of eating America alive by poisoning public schooling.
Obama went the Cloward-Piven route. Collapse the system. That’s what smart Marxists attempt now.
Capturing and commanding the means of production is, um, passé because it is popularly understood to have been a bitter failure.
I see NME666 is still playing the ET toady with his reference to “fools here” who saw more than a personality disorder. Saw a marxist born and bred and mentored by a convicted commie paedophile.
If he fails to destroy the republic it would not do to therefore conclude that he wasn’t a marxist.
Occam is most certainly right in referring to Obama’s ideology. I still cannot get over ET’s refusal to see a hard core ideologue in Obama. Obama is without question the most ideological president in modern times.
What Occam, sasquatch, and Me No Dhimmi said.
You can also add Ayers, van Jones, and most likely many others hiding in the underbrush that will continue to work toward fundamentally changing the US into a Venezuela type government. Their dummy Marxist front man did not work out too well, but they got their foot in the door, corrupted even more of the citizenry with free handouts, and most certainly will try again.
As some of you may remember, when Obama was first elected President, I opined that the junkyard dog just caught the Oldsmobile.