Pathetic, Really
I will not bother to recount or critique Obama’s acceptance speech last night, I’ll leave that up to friends Hugh Hewitt and Jim Geraghty. “Been there, done that,” seems to the the sentiment amongst all but the unthinking die-hards. Leaves me wondering if Obama has figured out he is in over his head and really does not want to do it again.
I will make one comment. Check out this observation from WaPo blogger Robert P. Jones:
Obama made his entrance to the national stage with a speech at the 2004 Democratic national convention that was full of religious language, such as traditional biblical allusions (“It is that fundamental belief — I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sisters’ keeper — that makes this country work”) and references to contemporary Christian music (“we worship an awesome God in the blue states”). This speech was also remarkable because it broke through at a time when the “values voters” movement was on the rise and Democrats were being lambasted for being perceived as unfriendly to religion.
Check the test of the speech from last night. You will find no such rhetoric. Is it any wonder they had to work so hard to correct the “oversight” concerning the inclusion of “God” in the platform? CNN is trying to help them out of the fiasco, but as John Hinderaker says:
The Democrats, bluntly put, have become the party of those who don’t go to church.
Which leaves David French wondering, “Wither the Pro-Obama Evangelical?”
War, poverty, unemployment, and abortion? That wasn’t supposed to be the deal. Expect to see Mitt Romney’s share of the evangelical vote match or exceed President Bush’s in 2004.
He’s right – at least for those whose faith is deep and not merely convenient. I think Kathryn Jean Lopez summed it up best in a single sentence yesterday:
If this administration didn’t treat religious liberty as something government grants rather than robustly protects, I wouldn’t be so worried . . .
That does; however, describe the point where this all stops being pathetic and starts being scary. They really do act that way, which is of course the kind of attitude that leads to extra-constitutional power grabs and legislative action rammed down the throat of a clearly disagreeing public. But in light of Obama’s “mail it in” approach to his speech last night, I wonder if they are out of energy for such shenanigans? I wonder if the sheer weight of fighting against the will of the populace has not simply worn them out? Ruling as king is a lot harder than serving as president.
But on the bright side, if you’re a Dem, you can most certainly rely on the home-brewers vote:
One of the oldest political cliches states that people vote for the person they would most like to have a beer with – and Mr Obama’s rival in the November election, Mitt Romney, a Mormon, does not drink.
That officially hits the books as the longest reach for a Mormon shot in the history of Romney seeking national office. BTW, I’ve had a conversation with Mitt Romney with a drink in my hand – I’d say it’s about the same as having a conversation without a drink in my hand – either way, a pleasant experience.
And back to pathetic, yesterday Glenn Beck dedicated his online TV show to discussing Mormonism:
He ultimately decided to take on the issue after growing frustrated with the “intentional vilification and political grandstanding” he sees being aimed at his faith, and the attention being given to “jaded ex-members brought on as experts to speak about what they never truly understood.”
Uh-huh, or maybe the money flow from on-line broadcasting just ain’t what he expected and the topic is really, really hot. When was the last time you saw press articles on what the topic of Beck’s show was going to be? Smells like a plug push to me.
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coltakashi on 07 Sep 2012 at 7:32 am #
The assertion “I will be my brother’s keeper” as a phrase representing love for neighbor is certainly part of our modern language, but the only place the phrase “brother’s keeper” appoears in the King James Version is in Cain’s sarcastic reply to God’s rhetorical question asking where Abel was. God did not, in that conversation, tell Cain that he WAS his brother’s “keeper”, or shepherd. There are commandments in Leviticus and in the gospels to love our neighbors, illustrated by the Parable.of the Good Samaritan. But the only places that speak of being a.shepherd.to others are.instructions, or.indictments, of leaders responsible for the spiritual guidance of others. There is no command that we are chartered to control our brothers the way a shepherd controls.his flock. But Obama.means that phrase.in precisely that way, that he is going to take charge of our lives in a material sense and set bounds on us for our own good, including telling us to embrace and pay for contraception and accept gay marriage as equal in every sense to normal marriage.
The compassion of the Bible does not include coercion, either in taking resources from others or giving it to those who lack. But Obama has coercion as his principal means of “keeping” us.
coltakashi on 07 Sep 2012 at 7:45 am #
As a retired military officer I am not impressed by the bragging Obama’s team has done about his military prowess. He took nearly a year to decide about the surge.in Afghanistan, and his unwillingness to keep forward bases.in Iraq will make it harder in the future to project US.military power as a threat that does not have to be used. Bragging about giving the thumbs up to killing Osama bin Laden was a decision even Homer Simpson could have made. There was no risk to Obama, even political risk.
The Vietnam adventure was a bad idea that was poorly executed by an ambivalent LBJ. The Democrats acted like it was all the fault of the armed forces rather than of the civilians who give.orders to the military. They kept up their anti-military rhetoric until they were in command and could use the armed forces to support their own purposes. Iran has no fear that Obama would ever do anything violent to stop them from deploying nuclear weapons, and once they are in place, Obama could not dare to attack Iran on any pretext.
Rockgod28 on 07 Sep 2012 at 6:02 pm #
I read the speech.
Team Obama is trying to blame the focus groups now, which they pay huge amounts of money to, for the “pathetic” speech President Obama gave as he accepted the nomination of his party.
It is always someone else’s fault, someone or something for Team Obama or specifically Barack Obama to point to as the failure.
He had two years of complete control and concentrated power the federal government ever had in the history of this nation. A blank check and complete power. And he blew it!!!
He was right when he met with Republican leadership in 2009. He won. Everything.
And yet he lied, cheated and deceived the American people. Barack Obama walked all over everyone, even people in his own party and still by November 2010 lost everything.
Recently before tossing the focus groups under his campaign bus, he tossed under his family. He blamed them for being a priority in his life instead of doing what he swore to do before millions of Americans. (Which he and Justice Roberts messed up a few times).
Barack Obama has always been pathetic and lucky.
There comes a time where your luck runs out. It ran out in 2010 and that luck will not be coming back. All the people who put him into office have been mostly revealed by the new media.
ACORN, Bill Ayres, Jones, Jerret, and others of his inner circle are all exposed for the world to see. Now he has a record which he can’t defend and an opponent that has has a history of fighting against bad luck.
For example: Todd Akin. Totally tripped up the momentum of the party. Everything was going great in the polls and in the race. Then he revealed an untested and unproven politically incorrect theory of one of the most raw emotional subjects next to murder to not just women only, but all Americans.
It was a major set back. The Republicans tried to reason with the man, but he would not listen or care about the cause of the Promise of America. Just his own skin in the game.
It is very bad luck and one that could harm the presidential run and the whole Republican Party.
Bad luck.
So Romney poked a stick in Obama’s eye.
It was a light small joke about Mitt Romney’s birthplace and mentioning something that is in the consciousness of the American people. We would get the joke.
Mr. Barack “thin-skinned” Obama can’t take a joke and the media palace guards would not let him be turned into a laughing stock, a punchline.
So they called Mr. Romney a “birther” and Todd Akin was out of the news cycle just like that in an instant.
Obama took the jab and instead of continuing to strike where Mitt Romney was vulnerable could not let the joke slide.
All the preperation and build up of the Democratic National Convention was sabotaged by one small joke to the President’s ego. (I could say how large his ego is, but why praise the man on the trait he so admires in himself.)
The RNC was a huge success. The up and coming star from San Antonio plagerized from the Republican convention and Team Obama could only react.
That is all Team Obama is good at. Reacting. Countermeasures to any measure the GOP makes, never action.
Team Romney outlines a plan, Team Obama reacts to it. Team Romney makes TV ads and asks America “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”
Team Obama racts to it by saying first saying “No, but … [fill in who ot what to blame.]”
Team Romney has Team Obama clawing the walls and painting the room in their own blood right now.
The DNC was a flop, Bill Clinton stole the spotlight, and the President’s speech failed in its message to the American people from President Obama, “Give me more time?”
More time to what? More of the same?
Exactly!
That is exactly what he told the faithful in attendance. Expect more of the same thing he has been doing the last four years.
“Its a long hard road. If I win suddenly the Republicans will lose everything, don’t let them undo what has been accomplished. Just four more years and everything we have fought for will become a reality.”
That was his plea last night because there is only one person he can’t expose or throw under the bus to blame for his failures: himself.
He can’t do it. Bush’s fault has run dry, its republican congress makes him a whiner, and blamjng the weather ir foreign countries makes him what we all know he is, pathetic.
At the DNC he has fractured his base about God and Jerusalem instead of uniting them. They will not forget that insult right to their faces.
Team Obama will wait until after the first debate to go nuclear.
When the writing is on the wall they will go nuts and ravage everyone. The desperation will become visible from mid-October until election day.
Constant attacks, negative ads and any attempt to disqualify Romney will be used. It wo’t work.
Mitt Romney’s pick of VP was similar to Obama in an opposite way. The VP is your guarentee to prevent “certain angles” from being considered. If Barack Obama is gone, Joe Biden is President. It is unthinkable to anyone to let that happen.
On the Republican side Paul Ryan is the Lefts worst nightmare come true. If Romney were gone to “solve” their problem a Paul Ryan presidency terrifies them in a similar fashion Biden concerns us, well everybody really.
All the bases are covered. This month is the real race before the debates.
I am sure Team Romney is ready with more than just the first few ads to the battleground states. As I said President Obama’s luck has run out.
Skill combined with luck and good character wins everytime in politics. Good thing Mitt Romney was and Paul Ryan have lots of that.
ROMNEY/RYAN! 2012!
JLF9999 on 08 Sep 2012 at 7:20 am #
“Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.” Ecclesiastes 8:11. That is the story of the Democrat Party and the mainstream media. We sidestep the obvious because we fear what the MSM will do to us. But we cannot escape the plain and clear facts that evil rests among the media and that party which to which the media bows and owes allegiance.
JLF9999 on 08 Sep 2012 at 7:54 am #
If one thinks the end justifies the means (Debby Wasserman-Shultz) and no one holds these purveyors of lies accountable (the mainstream media, particularly NBC, the NYT et al) then it may be that we can see the destruction of our nation happening before our eyes. I believe God has sent us an ordinary man whose life has been the polar opposite of the current crop of American leadership in the White House. Is he the last man Providence will send us? I certainly do not know. But if we can’t see him for what he is, then maybe that is the case.
THIS? Is How Obama Intends To Win The Election | Article VI Blog | John Schroeder on 13 Sep 2012 at 3:42 pm #
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