You Spin Me Right Round…
The last couple of days have brought us more spin on stories we already know. SO the theme for this post must be the ’8o’s dance classic:
Monday we looked at an LATimes review of a forthcoming book on Mormonism. Well, USNews took a look at the book too:
Mansfield spends much of the book explaining why Mormons have achieved the “stunning level of influence” they have today. In many ways, he writes, Mormons’ success in adulthood is tied to the two-year mission expected of them when they are young.
“Stunning level of influence?!” – Sounds ominous does it not. On Friday we looked at the LATimes Doyle McManus contention that the Mormon issue is dead. McManus tried to double down on Monday. One is tempted to think the success or failure of this book will be a measure of the McManus thesis; however, given how incredibly conspiratorial the book sounds from its promotion I am not sure that will be true. I do not think most people will buy the “Mormons are out to take over the world” line; they will need something a bit more subtle.
USAToday reports on a new poll out of BYU:
Despite their excitement about Romney, many Mormons remain wary of the media, according to the Key Research/BYU survey.
More than two-thirds of Utah Mormons said the Romney’s nomination will bring bad and good publicity for the LDS church. An identical percentage (68 percent) said they do not trust the media to cover the church fairly.
Sometimes its nice to have data like this, but did we really need a poll to tell us that? Frankly, can the press be trusted to report on any religion, even any conservative thought?
If you consider irony funny (and I usually do, but in this instance it’s a bit scary) consider this from Jim Geraghty on Monday:
Over at the New York Times, Charles Blow, the columnist who wrote to Mitt Romney, “stick that in your magic underwear” laments the Republican party’s culture of “bullying.”
I am tempted to make a physics joke about “spinning” off an axis, but it would be too nerdy.
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Rockgod28 on 27 Jun 2012 at 9:00 am #
“Obama is going Soviet”
This is a phrase that is catching on and describes Barack Obama and Team Obama perfectly. The phrase came from PJMEDIA from the pjtatler. Rush read the article and used it on his radio program.
Soviet is defined during the revolution as a committee of workers or peasants.
A lot of people have called Barack Obama a socialist, but it is clear to me that he just isn’t a socialist or communist, he is a Soviet. There is no better definition to ‘community organizer’ than the word Soviet.
The only reason Barack Obama is not considered a Soviet is because of the first part of the definition which is you have to be Russian. However if you take away the geographic and racial aspect of the definition of the word that is exactly what Barack Obama is: a Soviet.
He grew up a Soviet all his life. He trained himself to be a Soviet which during the ‘revolution’ period was defined as a community organizer.
Now Barack Obama is the Supreme Soviet. He has attained the highest government office and is by definition the Supreme Soviet.
As a soviet every action of Barack Obama makes sense. His centralized investment planning, punishment of states like Arizona and his governing style are all linked to the Soviet way of governance.
The most revealing clue that Barack Obama is a Soviet is the way he treats religion. The Catholic Church has felt the brunt of his attacks.
All the signs and evidence of this soviet President is in front of us. OWS was supposed to be the transformative change America was supposed to experience. It was a dream come true to the Supreme Soviet to see the peasants rising up.
But they didn’t. You see there are a few problems in the way of the glorious revolution.
First the people. Like the Tea Party showed the representitives of the people were voted out of office.
Second two branches of government that check the executive branch.
Third his own ineptitude and foolish governing style.
There is obviously more, but now, today, it has all caught up to him.
This is the last day President Obama will experience being the Supreme Soviet. He will learn the United States is not Soviet.
His enforcer is going to be held in contempt. His party will begin to flee from him in droves. It is too late in the game to change to a different candidate for the Democrats. All they will be able to do is damage control. Fight the local fights, but a national campaign is out the question since they don’t have enough money.
The Obama campaign has pretty much come out and said they lost already. There is no vision, no plan and no way for them to win. Healthcare reform and green technology investment was the plan. It still is the plan for Obama’s second term.
It is a bad plan which is why the Democrats have lost. The only question now is how bad did they lose. We will have a hint tomorrow how bad the loss really is for the Left.
The contempt vote on Holder with Democrats siding with Republicans will open a flood gate away from the President on the mandate ruling.
Here is the interesting part. Suppose the court rules to overturn the whole law. I guarantee the strategy will be to the Republicans and Mitt Romney “So what’s your plan?”
As Team Romney’s discipline has been on the economy there will be no plan discussed until the Democrats and Obama reveal their plan. Which they won’t. The old media will obsess over that Mitt Romney should talk about what plan he has for the American people. Again a distraction from talking about the economy.
Distract Team Romney; not going to happen. Today is the last real day of the Presidency of Barack Obama. Everyday after he will be on defense as his administration falls to pieces around him.
On election day as Barack Obama sees the electoral college map gleaming red and Mitt Romney with over 300 points he will know his time as Supreme Soviet will be done when Americans believe in America again.
Go Mitt! Romney for President! 2012!
Phelps on 27 Jun 2012 at 11:09 am #
Gee, it’s “stunning” that a social group that promotes morality, personal responsibility, education, and hard work has “influence”?
It’s only stunning if you still think that the greatness of America from 1700-1950 was a fluke.
GottaZoom on 27 Jun 2012 at 1:03 pm #
Politicians and political junkies do spin because they don’t want to admit a weakness and therefore won’t compromise. They’ll complain about the other side not compromising, but ultimately they don’t want to give up on their core ideology either.
Even in losses, liberals or whatever they might be labeled are about making things work the way that gives them control of the outcome. They are anti personal responsibility and accepting consequences of personal actions.
Just as some conservatives will continue to work for implementing consequences on personal actions regardless of the vitriol fired their way. At their extremes, these are simply incompatible mindsets. It has always been so.