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| h/t Eric Allie |
Read related » Reader's point: Obama ran on compromiseAlthough many critics, as well as supporters, have expressed amazement (even shock) at The Obama's performance during His presser yesterday, in which His putative purpose was to persuade people that His agreed-upon bargain with Republican legislators was deserving of Congressional passage, I was amazed that there were people left to amaze. What exactly can account for such gullibility among the American electorate, which stubbornly clings not to guns and religion but to well-orchestrated promotional fantasy?
[This related article is recommended in its entirety.]
“It is not simply that Obama's performance was perceived (not just by me, but by mainstream news reporters and pundits on both sides of the aisle) as angry and defensive. It is that it represents a repudiation of the essence of the Obama 2008 message: "we are not a collection of Red States and Blue States, we are the United States of America." Obama in 2008 sold many independents and moderate Republicans on the prospect of elevating the tone of politics, reaching across the aisle and discarding the partisan animus that the Clintons, the Bushes and their die-hard opponents had engaged in for so many years. The president's public rail against the "sanctimonious" left, the "hostage takers" on the right, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal is the antithesis of the image of an above-the-fray president. It's true that Obama had already undermined that image to a large extent. He had a long list of individuals, phenomena and groups that he went after -- Fox News, the Chamber of Commerce, the 24/7 news cycle, Rush Limbaugh, John Boehner, Wall Street, and on and on. He and his bare-knuckles Chicago political advisors soon reverted to form -- attack, attack, attack -- when the administration encountered opppostion and criticism. But in the Tuesday press conference, as [a reader and commenter] put it, "Obama has brought blame to a new art form." Or to put it differently, he lost his temper and control in front of the press and the entire country.”
— Jennifer Rubin | December 8, 2010 (washingtonpost.com)
This guy assembled a competent team of hucksters and ran a well-oiled presidential campaign of lies, half-truths and misdirection when the electorate desperately sought the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And He ran this campaign like a champ. You just have to give Him that; it was brilliantly run. But those of us whose longings had not reached the level of worship, saw it for what it was — slick well-groomed unadulterated horseshit. Nevertheless, He won the election because the majority just couldn't resist what He claimed He was selling.
After almost two years in office, however, having shed all pretense of governing-competence, and shedding His masquerade as the personification of coolness, can people still be amazed that He is nothing more than a shyster with very thin skin, albeit nicely groomed? What does it take to finally admit that a shovel is a shovel?
Would it become more palatable to frame it as "a rose is a rose"?
Post 1,505 A Well-Orchestrated Promotional Fantasy
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