They may forget what you said,
but they will never forget
how you make them feel.
Carol Buchner
New JOTY Nominee
One piece of work, amateurish, immature, unpresidential, smirk-amatic, potty-mouthed, dismissive, interrupt-omatic, eye-rolling, arm-waving, evil-eye staring Barack Obama also joins joins his uncouth smiling, laughing running mate in my crowded tongue-in-cheek "award" for the following soundbite from Rolling Stone:
“We arrived at the Oval Office for our 45-minute interview … on the morning of October 11th. … As we left the Oval Office, executive editor Eric Bates told Obama that he had asked his six-year-old if there was anything she wanted him to say to the president. … [S]he said, ‘Tell him: You can do it.’ Obama grinned. … ‘You know, kids have good instincts,’ Obama offered. ‘They look at the other guy and say, “Well, that’s a bullshitter, I can tell.”’”Poor Barack. He can't help it. He was born without a bar of a soap in his mouth. No wonder Drudge has a link showing the gender gap (i.e., Obama leading among women) has closed.
I'm Done With Colin Powell
In life, I've learned to deal with the fact that even friends and family sharply disagree with me on issues or political candidates. Personally I honestly believe (I could pass a polygraph) that anyone who votes for the reelection of Obama must be mentally challenged: the Pied Piper of Failed Liberalism fools you once, shame on him; fools you twice, shame on you. If you still believe in progressive propaganda after decades of federal meddling have resulted in food stamp nation, failed inner cities and failed public school systems, rising poverty, declining household income and net worth, and believe a laundry list of excuses of a failed Presidency willing to do or say anything in a desperate attempt to remain in power, you have lost my respect for your judgment. When I heard The (Incompetent) One's rally cry "Four more years", It's like one of those anti-drug ads: 'This is your brain on drugs'.
Nevertheless I believe my relatives beyond my mom's immediate family in Massachusetts will probably still vote for The (Vacuous) One. Now I've gone out of the way to accommodate moderates in the GOP (including Giuliani, Pataki, the Maine senators, Scott Brown, etc.). Now when I heard Colin Powell declined to make an endorsement in May, my honest thought was that he wanted to maximize the impact of his endorsement by waiting until near the end of the campaign, that he was posturing to make his position look like it was deliberate; he had to wait until after the debates to maintain this disingenuous facade. I never believed for a second Powell was going to admit he had changed his mind about Obama, that his original decision was wrong..
Powell in the interim had come out in favor of "gay marriage" , just like Obama. It's one thing, Mr. Powell, to vote for your chosen candidate for any or no reasons, but here's a word to the wise: It's one thing to deliver an opinion based on your military and State Department experience, but you have have no expertise or background in economic or fiscal matters, and the last thing an expert would do is quote from Obama campaign talking points:
One of the most coveted endorsements remaining in the 2012 presidential race, Powell said Obama walked into a horrendous economic situation and has begun to turn it around.
“I think, generally, we’ve come out of the dive and we’re starting to gain altitude,” said Powell, who served as George W. Bush’s secretary of state. “It doesn’t mean all our problems are solved.”
While Powell, a Republican, said that he had the “utmost respect” for Romney, he charged that the former Massachusetts governor hasn’t outlined how he would pay for increased defense spending or for his proposed across-the-board tax cut.What hubris: no government can fix an economy: what fix? The recession ended in June 2009, and very little of the massive stimulus plan had been dispersed by then. Started to work? The lowest job and economic growth in decades, Many of the jobs in the much cited string were below labor force additions, never mind whittling down 23 million unemployed or underemployed. Obama's policies have added to employer cost burden and uncertainty of planning (e.g., the upcoming fiscal cliff)
Yes, Romney has: economic growth through broadening the tax base, capping some aggregate deductions for upper income, and increased tax revenues from improved personal and business incomes. There are multiple studies backing Romney, not to mention nearly 700 economists.
Let's see: even in terms of your expertise, I recently saw a Military Times poll showing nearly 2 of every 3 professional military support Romney not to mention 4 former Secretaries of State, including your successor
have endorsed. You have lost your credibility and my respect.
Obama's Latest Ad
The latest one I've seen is called "determination"-which is a retooled personally narrated version of the Morgan Freeman ad I debunked a few posts back.
There's just no quit in America and you're seeing that right now. Over five million new jobs, exports up forty one percent, home values rising, our auto industry back and our heroes are coming home.We're not there yet. But we've made real progress and the last thing we should do is turn back now.
Here's my plan for the next four years: Making education and training a national priority; building on our manufacturing boom; boosting American-made energy; reducing the deficits responsibly by cutting where we can, and asking the wealthy to pay a little more. And ending the war in Afghanistan, so we can do some nation-building here at home. That's the right path.
Let me respond to a few points:So read my plan, compare it to Governor Romney's and decide which is better for you. It's an honor to be your President and I'm asking for your vote. So together we can keep moving America forward.
- we lost 5 million just in 2008; we have the lowest labor force participation rate in decades., and official unemployment has dipped below 8.0 only one month, the highest average unemployment rate since the Depression despite massive federal spending, record low interest rates, and trillions injected into the economy by the Fed. Only a few months of job growth have surpassed the number just needed to accommodate new workers, never mind hiring record long-term unemployed.
- export growth has slowed because of a struggling global economy;much of our export growth has been due to China which since the Bush Administration has been letting the yuan appreciate against the dollar; Obama has done nothing to negotiate new trade deals beyond the 3 Bush negotiated
- home price improvement is both modest and reflects artificially low mortgage interest rates manipulated by the Fed
- Ford and foreign auto plants did not require crony unionist bailouts, Obama is still tens of billions in the red in Government Motors stock.
- the last thing we need is to sustain bad government intervention policies which have led to falling household income and net worth and an anemic jobless recovery
- no, I'm opposed to centralizing public education,or throwing more money at failing public school monopolies; we need real competition
- NO to government "investments" (spending--period)--no more special tax deal, e.g., manufacturing vs. the service sector
- Obama has done little to expand oil and gas development on federal lands
- Obama has never even proposed an aggregate year over year cut; his "cuts" have been statistically insignificant and often gimmicks (like trimming future increases)
- "pay a little more"--refers to crippling economic growth by hiking investment taxes and raising marginal rates. The private sector spends money better than the public sector
- Romney has also committed to a 2014 Afghanistan withdrawal date. No. Any savings from the Gulf region must be used to lower the unsustainable deficit--not be used as Obama's slush fund
Supremes//Four Tops, "River Deep, Mountain High". One of my favorite songs period. What male vocalist wouldn't dream of being Levi Stubbs for a day harmonizing with the greatest girl group of all time, the Supremes. I read on a Spector compilation George Harrison called the Ike and Tina Turner version a "perfect record" and I agree. In my rich fantasy life, I would sing this song with Joss Stone.
