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1. John Kelly:

So true but not quite far enough.

What we have here is something as strange as a bunch of Ivy League interns suddenly running a large corporations. They are so cool and full of themselves they mistake winging it for strategy and bullying and double talk for tactics.

Obama who loves playing Hamlet is totally under Rahm’s Chicago tough guy spell and lets him run things in his name. Rahm is a jewish kid playing Cardinal Wolsey or Richleau to Obama as the King.

It is becoming pretty clear that both of them are way over their heads.

Lets hope Bismark was right, “God only protects children, drunks and the United States of America.”

Aug 19, 2009 - 9:40 am 2. chrisa798:

Good post and good first comment there, John Kelly — the analogy is apt. I think a big part of Obama’s problem with remaining on message is that his “message” conflicts with his message, i.e. part of Reagan’s effectiveness was that he passioantely believed in what he was saying. Obama can’t do that.

Let Obama run with his hard-left true feelings (as opposed to analysis), and he’d probably be just fine as a communicator, but done as a politician.

Was Bismark familiar with Catch-22?

Aug 19, 2009 - 11:29 am 3. John:

A lot of the problem is the Obama people never thought they would really need to do adversarial public relations. From the 2004 DNC convention onward, the Obama people had received fawning media coverage for just about everything Barack did, to the point that whenever anything negative was reported, it was spun 99 percent of the time as being hostile attacks from Fox News or right-wing talk radio.

They could do PR spin, because they were only being challenged by the usual suspects, whom the Democrats had been able to stigmatize with the moderate swing voters over the past six years. What they weren’t prepared for were questions by those same swing voters — many of them seniors — about Obamacare, along with growing doubts about other things already approved, like the stimulus package. They’ve never had to spin that before, which is why you saw the White House and many Democrats reaching for the Fox News/right-wing radio talking points and trying to extrapolate that out to the angry people at the Town Hall meetings. That’s all they had in their playbook, and having lived his entire political career until now in the highly liberal Democratic stronghold of Chicago, the president has never had to argue a controversial issue against strong opposition with his constituents (and when he has faced controversial issues involving people outside his district, he’s just voted ‘present’ and passed the buck elsewhere. But no matter how much he wants to let House and Senate Democrats do the dirty work on the health care bill for him, in the end he and his staff have got to defend it against attacks from moderates, and they just don’t know how).

Aug 19, 2009 - 12:06 pm 4. David Thomson:

The ineptness of Barack Obama’s leadership style was obvious during the election campaign. It was not excellently crafted and managed. At best, Obama’s people did a decent job. He had the MSM and the cultural elites, however, on his side—and that made all the difference. Unfortunately, his poll numbers are nowhere near as low as they should be. White race guilt is widespread and countless people still get teary eyes because of the “historical significance” of Obama’s election. Sadly, we are not out of the woods yet. The country remains in great danger. I will feel a lot better when the president’s Rasmussen daily tracking numbers drop below 45%.

Aug 19, 2009 - 12:35 pm 5. Barry Dauphin:

The main problem isn’t the message, it’s the product. They’re trying to put lipstick on a death panel, to coin a phrase.

Aug 19, 2009 - 12:37 pm 6. Minerva:

When the Postal Service can’t deliver, it returns. I can see would-be patients of Obamedicine being left at the curb.

Aug 19, 2009 - 1:56 pm 7. zhombre:

The Improv Administration from Chicago: the Daley Machine meets Second City.

And to David Thomson: don’t worry. You won’t have to wait long.

Aug 19, 2009 - 2:57 pm 8. Alex bensky:

You must be mistaken, Roger. All these guys went to Ivy League schools and are ipso facto smarter than the rest of us.

I am not a big fan of George W. Bush but I have noticed that despite being subjected to really vile invective he did not to my recollection lash out at his critics.

Obama–the man whose hubris caused him to give as a gift to the Queen a IPod with his speeches loaded–seems to be astonished that anyone could oppose him. Anyone who does must have evil motives.

Aug 19, 2009 - 3:52 pm 9. ConservativeWanderer:

John… in reply to:

They’ve never had to spin that before, which is why you saw the White House and many Democrats reaching for the Fox News/right-wing radio talking points and trying to extrapolate that out to the angry people at the Town Hall meetings. That’s all they had in their playbook, and having lived his entire political career until now in the highly liberal Democratic stronghold of Chicago, the president has never had to argue a controversial issue against strong opposition with his constituents (and when he has faced controversial issues involving people outside his district, he’s just voted ‘present’ and passed the buck elsewhere.

A lot of it was also probably also what psychologists call “projection.” Essentially, since the primary–if not the only–way the lefties know to get that kind of crowd to show up at one of their protests is to “astroturf” them, they automatically assumed that was what was going on at the town halls.

Pelosi, Reid, et al have very little experience in the real world, having lived in the lefty bubble for far too long, and it is showing in their reaction to the town halls.

Aug 19, 2009 - 4:36 pm 10. myna:

Obama is over-rated orator. He cannot stay on message because he does not believe everything he said. Who cares what he says mentally challenge americans are mesmerize.

Aug 19, 2009 - 6:43 pm 11. Sally:

Obama IS the message. That’s what we were told. His entire candidacy was built on that concept and it never mattered what he said during the campaign, when he goofed or backtracked or outright lied. It didn’t matter because he was selling himself, not his ideas or his programs. Barack Obama is supposed to be The One because he is Barack Obama. That’s all.

And that’s why he’s out there now in these town halls, trying to get people to buy into the same fantasy again, that it doesn’t matter what Obama does, it only matters that he’s the one doing it. He seriously overestimates his personal charm and our willingness to suspend disbelief indefinitely. We’ve already seen this magic show. He needs to come up with new material, something that doesn’t involve spending trillions of dollars we don’t have.

Aug 19, 2009 - 8:41 pm 12. Gary Rosen:

What a great comment, Sally. I don’t think ideology is entirely irrelevant to Obama – he obviously has very left-wing instincts and that is disturbing. But he is the emptiest suit ever.

Aug 19, 2009 - 11:42 pm 13. Pajamas Media » Obama and His Public Relations Nitwits:

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Aug 20, 2009 - 1:13 am 14. Peter:

It does not help them much that Obama can not say, hello, beautiful day, isn’t it? Without a teleprompter. Notice how uncomfortable he usually looks? It’s because he has his handler’s arms jammed way up his backside so they can work the strings.

Aug 20, 2009 - 1:13 am 15. vivo:

Everybody having fun today?

Keep on blogging without my disruptive comments.

Relax, have a nice day!

Aug 20, 2009 - 2:50 am 16. Beatlejuice:

Personally, I think Joe the Plumber could do a better job than Bambi in ANY field, domestic or foreign.

Aug 20, 2009 - 2:59 am 17. PAR65:

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
Abraham Lincoln

The latter is becoming the norm.

Aug 20, 2009 - 3:14 am 18. Ken Besig:

Team Obama besides being inexperienced, uninformed, and immature, simply has too much power because it is a one party government. While the Democratic Congress and Senate sit quietly in Obama’s pocket, even the media doesn’t challenge Obamathink no matter how silly, disconnected, or misguided it is.
This, and Obama’s policies are the result of a one party government and nothing will improve until the next election and the voters take back America from the Left.

Aug 20, 2009 - 3:19 am 19. Ed Wallis:

The author: “The hallmark of good public relations is to stay on message. Everyone knows that. But in order to do that you have to have a message. Some people seem to think his message is “socialism.” Maybe some days. I don’t even think he’s that consistent.”

SIMPLE MATH:

Alinsky politics + Michael Jackson naivete = Obama

Even a marionette who can wax eloqient from a (teleprompted) script
remains a marionette.

Aug 20, 2009 - 3:20 am 20. Conservative1:

Its all part of the plan.

-Joker-

Aug 20, 2009 - 3:25 am 21. LeighB:

When I think of this president’s PR team I often think of Beavis and Butthead. Most often, I think of B&B sitting on their couch, watching the MSM make googoo eyes over “Dreamboat Barry”, listening to their man-crush love talk and calling it like they see it, “Oo, Beavis, that Chris has a thing for Barry. Whatsthatabout?” Or, “Butthead, the President just said the post office should take over health care. Pass me another beer. Buurrpp.”

But seriously, I’m glad they’re inept and that the PR skills are on par with the message–bad. Really, really bad. You know it, you know.

Aug 20, 2009 - 3:50 am 22. Click, Click, BOOM! « Mark Epstein:

[...] Roger Simon opines that the Obamites are running a public relations nightmare that is even worse than the Bush administration’s inability to get its message across to Americans: From the terminally charisma-challenged Robert Gibbs as Press Secretary to the loudmouth bullying Rahm Emanuel, this crew makes you cringe. You’d think with the media and Hollywood so heavily behind them, they’d be on easy street. But the healthcare debate has revealed Team Obama to be less ready for prime time than a television used car salesman. [...]

Aug 20, 2009 - 4:06 am 23. no fear Obama:

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Aug 20, 2009 - 4:16 am 24. Myno:

The one place that folks get to vote BEFORE the next election is in the market of free ideas. From what I hear, Fox News and RW Blogs are reaping quite a fallout from folks abandoning the MSM. The AARP presumed it could do whatevertheheck it wanted on health care, and has been losing members at a prodigious rate. If this translates into real votes in 2010, it’s gonna be a head-snappin’ backlash at the polls.

Aug 20, 2009 - 4:25 am 25. misterZ:

Mega Ditto on the empty suit comments. To add to them, the same disparate groups that got Obama elected (blacks, gays, greens, goons – union, commies, etc), which otherwise had very little in common, seem to be finding it much more difficult to unite behind specific policies, now that the campaign is over, and the business of actually running a government is at hand.

Aug 20, 2009 - 4:39 am 26. Ed Wallis:

HEY “myno” #18…

the ASA certainly has a funny/brilliant thought: send them your torn-up AARP card and get a 2nd year of membership free…heh!

http://www.americanseniors.org/Pages/home.aspx?Images=/images/index_new.gif

Aug 20, 2009 - 4:46 am 27. bibio44:

‘Some people seem to think his message is “socialism.”’

And some people think Pajamas Media isn’t part of the Loony Right.

Amazing what some people think.

Aug 20, 2009 - 5:08 am 28. DaveG:

Let’s hope he’s really just an incompetent boob and nothing more. If that’s it, Thank You Jesus, Universe, Krishna, Buddha, Thor and any other one who may be waiting for their props. Thank You that he’s not really the sinister socialist wannabe dictator that we were afraid he may be. The jury is still out on that one.

One thing I just realized about the health care debate. Why is it if we are anti-health care “reform” we are presumed to be that because we are “anti-Obama” the two are interchangeable. Yet, nobody is ever told the only reason the support the silly ideas for health care “reform” is for one reason only…they are pro-Obama.

They don’t care about real reform, they just want Obama to win and get his little way, like he has in everything in life. They know he’s never read the bill and probably doesn’t even have any real understanding of it, yet it must pass to please The Great One.

Aug 20, 2009 - 5:15 am 29. Jack’s Newswatch » Blog Archive » Public relations nitwits:

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Aug 20, 2009 - 5:15 am 30. clear mind:

Barry’s brain-trust has never had to operate in the light of day. They always pulled the strings and had the message delivered by others with no spotlight on them. No that the messenger has to be in the spotlight and answer questions before the cameras, we see the breakdown of a cagey approach. Axelrod always operated in the background and Rahm only sat in the assassins chair with no publicity. Now that their roles and words are constantly in the public eye you see what despicable people they are. Throw anyone under the bus, including Barry, and they could care less. If the message fails, kill the messenger, then claim a new message was their intent. Back-stabbing, dirty dealing, corrupt Chicago-brand politics exposes them as the crooked slobs thatthey really are. I’m sure their mothers are ashamed!

Aug 20, 2009 - 5:30 am 31. Gymnast:

Even the dearly departed Billy Mays would not be able the sell the snake oil that the Obama Administration is pushing. Not even if he doubled the offer and through in the shipping and handling for nothing. The American people are not buying Obama’s economic deconstructionism and attempt to implement Socialism in it’s place.

Aug 20, 2009 - 6:02 am 32. syn:

Perhaps Tinsel Town should pull out the plastic-fantastic Greek columns they use to prop up the intolerant, stiff, manipulative, lying BS artist.

Hollywood created this PR nightmare, they can lie in their own self-created misery.

And, after America pulls their collective head out of Jon Stewart’s anal cavity, then perhaps they might be able to see through their crap-stained eyes all creepy things from cool Obamawood comes this way.

Aug 20, 2009 - 6:09 am 33. Bruce:

Which, ultimately, is what terrifies me about our first post-modernist president. Facts, logic, and basic math seem to all be completely irrelevant. It’s how well the argument is made, rather than how good the argument is, that matters. Deconstructionism’s chickens have come to America to roost. Meaning is only what He decides, there is no such thing as a “logical argument,” the only people who should be allowed a voice are those who have been sent to save those “victimized” by society.
Public relations? You mean that what comes out of this administration is not so self-evidently “truth” to you that you are not filled with awe at the administration’s wisdom? You are clearly nothing more than a malcontent. This is evident by your lack of compassion for all of those you have “victimized.” After all, look at your own unwillingness to have your wealth redistributed.
It’s your wealth, you say? Unless you got it by “standing up for the victims,” you must have acquired it by taking advantage of “victims.” You therefore deserve to have it taken away by those “standing up for victims,” and redistributed. Fairly, of course. And those “standing up for the victims” deserve their cut, because, after all, they are the ones doing all the work. This doesn’t make sense, you say? But who are you to say? You’re not a victim! You’re not one of those He’s come to save! You’re one of those He’s come to save them from! Therefore, whatever you think and say must be motivated by a desire to oppress, you must be using lies to convince yourself of your “rightness”, you are afraid of the truth that will set all of those you have oppressed free.
Someday, with proper thought-retraining, you will understand all of this.

Aug 20, 2009 - 6:16 am 34. Cybergeezer:

The new Axis of Evil; Emanuel, Pelosi, Reid.

Aug 20, 2009 - 6:23 am 35. AThinkingPerson:

After watching Obama for months now I’m starting to wonder if he is even the one in charge. Sure he can read a pretty convincing speech but when talking off the cuff, the real Obama emerges and he loses that winning luster quickly.

I sense that he is merely a puppet, a figure head of sorts that was maleable enough to be put out in the spotlight and allow people behind the scenes (Pelosi, Rahm, Reid) to pull the strings.

Anyone else notice how all of the legislation the Dems want passed always comes out of Committees and not the White House? Who is really behind all of these bills? When asked Obama has confessed he’s not even aware of what is even IN the legislation.

Aug 20, 2009 - 6:46 am 36. Pelaut:

Not a chance of a “velvet American Revolution” in 2010 or 2012 or much, much later.

The mouth-breathing, gum-chewing American voter-drones, stamped out by inferior schools and indoctrinated by anti-American media, stand neck deep in the sixth decade of Doublethinking, knee deep into the third generation of Newspeakers, and they just annointed Big Brother President of the Union.

The only rescuer in sight? The Nelson Rockefeller Country Club Yalie GOP!

The NRCCYGOP hides paralyzed in the wings, just like both Georgie Porgies, they don’t raise a pinky to rebut the non-stop slanderous, even libelous, attacks by the Bolshis.

They’ll bring us another 70-year scourge of collectivism costing another 100+ million lives. Lay the horror that’s coming at the feet of the NRCCYGOP.

Escape, though difficult, remains the only patriotic option.

Aug 20, 2009 - 7:00 am 37. johnlee:

Looks like somebody has Obama Derangement Syndrome.

Aug 20, 2009 - 7:07 am 38. Moho:

I think it would be illuminating to know what was so bad about Bush’s PR program. Any of you bobble-heads nodding ascent to the article may opine. That promises to be funny.

Aug 20, 2009 - 7:10 am 39. ~Paules:

I’m with Sally. Obama thinks America will swallow whatever he has to offer because, after all, it’s Barack Obama dishing it out. Unfortunately, too many Americans are so personally invested in his cult of personality, they fail to see the empty suit behind the teleprompter.

Aug 20, 2009 - 7:16 am 40. Harvard Yard Conservative:

The only message Obama has to offer is: ME! For that message, and that message, alone, Obama is always “on message”.

Look up “narcissistic personality disorder” if you want to understand Obama.

Aug 20, 2009 - 7:16 am 41. SenatorMark4:

It is interesting to see an administration that can’t stay on message without TOTUS. Before the election I was saying that I couldn’t be scared of puppets but I was wrong. I think all of us are starting to fear a government that won’t listen to us and calls us names. Of course, the Republicans are totally worthless. They stand for nothing but ‘Hope and Change into power again’ with no policy. Simple things, like Freedom of Speech, have changed the world once. Other simple things, like changing our perspective and forcing our employee payroll clerk, the U.S. Government, to file IRS Form 1099-gov for all the money they redistribute would help quickly.

Aug 20, 2009 - 7:21 am 42. tanstaafl:

Speaking of cringing, the POTUS yesterday chatted online with some “faith based” folks and made an appeal with a rather fantastical allusion…

“It ended with him bemoaning those who bear “false witness” against his plans —”

That was bad enough, in and of itself. But the article goes on to point out that the President then proceeded to bear a little “false witness” himself

Flying blind, deaf & dumb

Aug 20, 2009 - 7:22 am 43. deguello:

Obama’s manifest incompetence demonstrates that he was artificially elevated out of his intellectual and political depth by affirmative action. The President,who thinks, Austrian is a language,that there are 56 states,and that makes negative comments about the post office, while asking us to turn health care over to the same folks that run it,is clearly demonstrating spectacular inepitude.He is,in fact, a teleprompter dependent boob.Deprived of its use he makes W look like an intellectual! Some change!

Aug 20, 2009 - 7:23 am 44. texexpatriate:

The incompetence of the Obama administration is unsurprising to me. He has appointed a passel of radical socialists to help him, and few genuinely bright and competent people can find radical socialism a rational political alternative. So what Obama has is an administration of people who can’t think rationally and are essentially uninformed true believers.

Aug 20, 2009 - 7:26 am 45. AThinkingPerson:

tanstaafl: I was thinking about this today also. Funny how The One now fancies himself God isn’t it? A pox on those that “bear false witness” against the great, all-powerfull Obama.

I’m embarrassed for our country that our own President will stoop this low to get support for his legislation. What does it say about this bill if he now has to use guilt to sway his sheeple?

Aug 20, 2009 - 7:29 am 46. Brian King:

Holding up the Post Office as an example of why private health care plans have nothing to worry about is really setting the bar low. Why would we intentionally create such a bureaucracy? I’m sure Gibbs would say that misconceptions about how the Post Office works is why it is losing money…

Aug 20, 2009 - 7:32 am 47. tanstaafl:

…all of the legislation the Dems want passed always comes out of Committees and not the White House? Who is really behind all of these bills?

There is a recent story that the US has committed $2 billion to offshore drilling, off of Brazil ! And that George Soros is a major holder in the company that would undertake that drilling.

Also, recently, the convoluted relationship between Obama’s inside circle (most notably David Axelrod) and payments to PR firms (specifically one in Chicago) working diligently to try to make this administration’s agenda palatable.

It’s tough to keep up with all the stuff coming up daily, but definitely the stench of fishes in Denmark is getting very strong.

Fishy stuff, you know.

Aug 20, 2009 - 7:46 am 48. tanstaafl:

… Who is really behind all of these bills?

All the convoluted legislation (the stuff that many Congress people don’t read and likely wouldn’t understand if they did read it (John Conyers said that), the bills whose nearly incomprehensible 1000+ pages of verbiage is justified as language required for legalistic protection, aka butt covering…)…is likely actually written by staffers.

Nancy Pelosi reportedly closeted herself (good place for her) and wrote the Porkulus near singlehandedly, with just some whipping boys & girls, “staffers”, to do the leg work.

For the record, I don’t know much of anything on specifics of the stories I referenced above, but the insider trading phenomenon (a variation thereof) and the Obama admin. are definitely becoming allied in my imagination.

Aug 20, 2009 - 8:19 am 49. George S.:

28. tanstaafl:

… Who is really behind all of these bills?

I think the telepromter wrote it.

You bring up an excellent point. Obviously the congressional members didn’t since they took them long time to find out whats in it. I would venture to say it was the special intrests of the democrats and a lot of whitehouse involvement.

they have not been straight with the public since day one ..so I have no reason to expect they will be now or in the future.

Aug 20, 2009 - 8:28 am 50. Paul -Indiana:

The approval ratings for Teleprompter barbie are not as low as they will be. None of them are White House caliber.

Aug 20, 2009 - 9:01 am 51. Jack Lifton:

Roger,

I think that more poeple need to think about the fact that the man now in the Presidency has no experience as an executive, a governor, or a leader at all. His training is “on the job” and his mistakes and mis-steps are very expenisve to each and every one of us. In a pariliamentary system of the British type now enjoyed by so many anglosphere countries the disaffection of the so-called “blue dogs” would ahve the “leader” looking at a vote of no confidence. This proves that it is not the British or Canadian health care system (both operating, apparently unbeknownst to Obama, at a level unacceptable to almost all Americans) that we need to emualtep; it is their parliamentary system of government in which I think this president would have been another “Joe Clark.”

Aug 20, 2009 - 9:16 am 52. Moho:

You’re a bit of a coward aren’t you?

Aug 20, 2009 - 9:40 am 53. Moogie:

The conflicts of interest abound in this administration. But it does no good to call them on these conflicts, because they are convinced that there is nothing wrong in that.

Leftism is a paradox unto itself. Where else do you find self-righteous airbags lecturing us about driving cars while they jet all over the world?

Leftism: Trust that the American people are competent enough to vote (well, perhaps only competent enough to vote for the liberal party); but do not trust that they can make their own decisions about health care.

Leftism: Call Operation Pink “patriotic dissenters.” Call Tea Partiers “tea baggers” and “anti-American.”

Here are a couple of sites where others have done the legwork for us, regarding networks and the connections between the “players”

Muckety
Discover the Networks

Aug 20, 2009 - 9:41 am 54. Moogie:

I mean “Code Pink” not “Operation Pink.” Time for another cup of coffee.

Aug 20, 2009 - 10:04 am 55. Will Bank:

43. deguello:“Obama’s manifest incompetence demonstrates that he was artificially elevated out of his intellectual and political depth by affirmative action. “

Why do you hate black people?

Aug 20, 2009 - 10:53 am 56. clear mind:

Watch the media closely… how many articles do you see about the Republicans being in disarray?

Lots!

But, you don’t see any about the disarray in the Democrats as they desperately hold on for dear life. They haven’t read HR 3200, and if they had, they might ask to strike the provisions for bike trails. It is such a pathetic piece of poliglot. Just goes to show you when writing is left to staffers who don’t have to vote, you can throw everything into the bill as a joke and it becomes law.

Yes, we need term limits as legislators were not intended to be life-time jobs by the founders. Well, it’s the staffers who move from legislative-shop to legislative-shop and accumulate their retirement pay who are as much the issue as lifers in Congress.

Aug 20, 2009 - 10:53 am 57. Raoul Ortega:

Comparing our Community-Organizer-in-Chief to Joe Clark is an insult to Joe Clark.

But we can hope He does to the Dems what Joe Clark did to Canada’s Progressive Conservative Party, can’t we?

Aug 20, 2009 - 11:45 am 58. Moho:

Raoul, what an interesting way to spell your name. Can I ask what language or tradition it descends from?

Aug 20, 2009 - 12:13 pm 59. Max Power:

57. Raoul

I agree that the comparison is an insult to Joe Clark.

Mr. Clark may have been niave but not ill-intentioned like I think the POTUS is.

Mr. Clark believed in the decency of his fellow man and that we all had common goals and dreams. Sadly he learn that many people have no problem sacrificing principal for power. Something he should have known to get as far as he did.

Aug 20, 2009 - 12:42 pm 60. Roderick Reilly:

The ineptness starts from the top:

Latest pronouncement from President Obama:

‘We are God’s partners in matters of life and death’. . .

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0809/We_are_Gods_partners_in_matters_of_life_and_death.html?showall

Now THAT will reassure everyone scared about “death panels.”

Aug 20, 2009 - 1:03 pm 61. Roderick Reilly:

When Bush and Cheney gave us the DHS and the clumsily-named “Patriot Act,” I don’t recall them crowing about “never letting a crisis go to waste.”

The last White House team were much better poker players than the current crop of bozos.

Aug 20, 2009 - 1:06 pm 62. Jim Baker:

Moho is a troll. Do not feed him.

Aug 20, 2009 - 1:48 pm 63. karlinsync:

Obama is a bully and a lier. The unions, ACORN, Soros, and the purple shirts think they can steamroller their agenda over independent voters by Chicago style politics. The greater good see the corruption, lies and corrupt MSN for what it is and the sleeping giant has awakened! Their 15 minutes of fame is over!

Aug 20, 2009 - 2:00 pm 64. BrainTrust:

David Axelrod is running the show … the man behind the empty suit and the telepromptor. Now that it is coming out that he is all about stealing the country’s treasure to line his own pockets the slide down the slippery slope has begun. With Axelrod gone, Obama would be wordless. And a liability to his controllers. Act II will be interesting.

Aug 20, 2009 - 3:20 pm 65. Moho:

As I said, somewhat of a coward.

Aug 20, 2009 - 8:53 pm 66. Wil:

I, for one, am very comforted that Obama and his team are so disorganized, irrational, and weak. There is no doubt that Obama wants to force our country to closely resemble Communist China, as quickly as possible. Nationalizing the healthcare industry is merely the latest item on his lengthy checklist of major American systems that he wants to devastate. It would be that much harder to stop him if he and his people were actually sharp.

Aug 20, 2009 - 11:58 pm 67. deguello:

#55 WILL BANKS:How’s this for a non sequitur?WHY DO HATE PUPPIES?Do you seriously think a white kid with Obama’s pathetic CV,could ever hope to get into Yale.Why do you support anti white racism?Why do you think that hating someone’s politics/policies is somehow equivalent to racism?

Aug 21, 2009 - 12:02 pm 68. Oakley:

This Obama bunch loves to use ridicule, but can’t take it when they are ridiculed.

They’re all a bunch of Ivy league sissies underneath their tough facade.

Aug 21, 2009 - 9:24 pm 69. mbabbitt:

I too am beginning to believe that Obama is not a thinking committed socialist or whatever but just a two dimensional bore without an original thought in his head. What runs him — besides the adoration of those around him — is an endless loop of anti-American diatribes his church and his leftist friends and professors fed him throughout his life; but he seems to never have really owned the thinking behind them. He just repeats the propaganda he’s been trained in. But try to get him to really defend his positions, you get the sense there’s no there there, just a fine smooth talk that only make sense if there’s a teleprompted message around. And even then the message is plastic and inauthentic.

Aug 21, 2009 - 10:43 pm 70. Marc Malone:

Watch Obama when he is trying to sell people on something. He leans to the right, and tilts (rotates) his head even more to the right. Watch it closely. Now think dog. Hear the whine of said dog. He assumes the position. He bares his neck. The more the controversy, the more he does this.

Every time I see it, I am revulsed.

Aug 22, 2009 - 12:40 am 71. John Becker:

Moho, what is your real name? Moderators, may we please have his IP address?

Aug 22, 2009 - 10:17 am 72. Silence Do Good:

Special status through out life. Targeted by special interest groups for college and law school. Groomed by the sewer of Chicago politics. Adored by a fawning MSM desparate for a “cool, black liberal.” Never vetted by any contolling legal entity. Luckily runs against Grand Pa.

And now the deception is plain for all to see.

Aug 23, 2009 - 4:06 pm 73. GED:

It’s difficult to stay on message even when the message is an honest one and your support team doesn’t have to respond with a tap dance to each and every question with a lie. But, when the message itself is a lie….hell it would be almost impossible to stay on point and not seem as confused and disingenuous as Obama and the dems currently do. The old adage one lie leads to another applies. Although they did, with the medias help, get away with it in the election.

Aug 24, 2009 - 12:42 am

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