This Column Should End O'bama's Chance Of Re-election - Selling Hopium To The Media and The Masses!

[Backlighting]

The "moochers" make up a large voting block. I doubt they will support a candidate (Romney) who advocates less handouts.

[Selene]

Adam,

Any comment on this analysis: http://www.thedailyb...-landslide.html

I have a co-worker who is pretty sharp, not an obama supporter, but believes obama wins by a landslide as well. I don't know what to say. I don't think the majority is a bunch of fools but perhaps the deck is stacked...

Mikee:

Essentially, it reflects why Newsweek will be a five (5) page handout within the next year.

This "political analyst" also explained that the job numbers were good for the marxist in the White House, see his August 3rd column here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/03/jobs-numbers-good-for-obama.html

I believe he is inhaling the recent skewered poll that projects O'bama ahead in Pennsylvania. I want to make sure of which poll he is referring to before I rip his premises and argument apart.

He clearly has, as Joe "the Plagiarist" Biden remarked, the President's big stick up his intellectual ass.

More on his analysis later.

Adam

[Reidy]

You can be confident that if Obama carries all the states Tomasky says he will, he'll win. You can be more confident of this in turn if the judge rules against the Pennsylvania voter-id law or at least stays it until after the election. You can also be confident that Obama will win if the polls Tomasky cites don't change in the next three months and if they turn out to have been accurate.

Otherwise, we'll just have to wait and see.

[caroljane]

Romney is not doing himself much good with his '"look at me I'm a statesman" Grand Tour. I suppose it looked like a good idea on paper-- look up some old pals, take in the Olympics,make some safe foreign policy statements-- but he seems to havemade a fool of himself (or is it just the biased reporting of the foreign press ?

[Selene]

Romney is not doing himself much good with his '"look at me I'm a statesman" Grand Tour. I suppose it looked like a good idea on paper-- look up some old pals, take in the Olympics,make some safe foreign policy statements-- but he seems to havemade a fool of himself (or is it just the biased reporting of the foreign press ?

How has he made a fool of himself. Carol?

[caroljane]

Romney is not doing himself much good with his '"look at me I'm a statesman" Grand Tour. I suppose it looked like a good idea on paper-- look up some old pals, take in the Olympics,make some safe foreign policy statements-- but he seems to havemade a fool of himself (or is it just the biased reporting of the foreign press ?

How has he made a fool of himself. Carol?

Let me count the ways...criticizing his Brit Olympic hosts, in order to remind the folks back home what a great job he did in making Atlanta the tackiest Olympics ever; congratulating the Israelis on having a superior culture to the Palestinians (which reminds me of a similar statement Ayn Rand made, but I'm sorry, it was a foolish move); patronizing the Poles... and the most foolish thing of all, refusing to answer media questions when he is on a media tour.

No doubt there were well-thought-out strategic political reasons for everything... but do you really think he has been sensible, Adam?

[Selene]

Fascinating how incorrect you can be when you want to be Carol...

First, his Olympics was in Utah.

Second, the British Press and most objective British reports from the British government confirmed precisely the problems that Romney identified.

And I cannot stand Romney.

Third, the specific point that Romney made about the cultural differences between the Palestinians and the Israeli's related to the discrepancy in per capita income and the linkage to women not being "formally" educated, formally involved in business and formally being equal before the law which leads to a higher relative potential income.

"[Mitt] Romney was said to have made a tremendous faux pas when he said that the difference between the Palestinians and the Israelis is a matter of culture," alluding to historian David Landes's book, "The Wealth and Poverty of Nations."

"Mostly David discusses their social cooping up of women as a factor in Arab poverty, backwardness, et cetera," Mr. Peretz explains. "Now, this would be, if you were talking generally, a very acceptable and progressive critique." Indeed, "one of the reasons that you have economic backwardness is that women do not work and women do not get education."

That Mr. Romney should have to go on the defensive over his remarks, Mr. Peretz thinks, has to do with the fact that "the magazines and the websites that are popular among the liberal, semi-intelligent, semi-intellectual readership of America have their own ideological blinders."

Fourth, specifically where and how did he "patronize" the Poles? Nice alliteration, but did I miss something?

Finally, when O'bama refuses to answer the few questions that the non-fawning press shouts out at him, you say nothing. However, when the fawning O'bama press is enlisted in shouting questions at Romney to force a response that can then be turned into a "gaff," you condemn him and his campaign.

A content analysis of the "press" coverage of Romney's trip was 86+% negative by the alleged free and inquiring press.

Have you not realized that the "press" is an arm of the O'bama state. You would never tolerate it being that way for Reagan, Bush, or, Nixon.

It is truly sad.

Adam

[Selene]

Adam,

Any comment on this analysis: http://www.thedailyb...-landslide.html

I have a co-worker who is pretty sharp, not an obama supporter, but believes obama wins by a landslide as well. I don't know what to say. I don't think the majority is a bunch of fools but perhaps the deck is stacked...

Mikee:

Essentially, it reflects why Newsweek will be a five (5) page handout within the next year.

This "political analyst" also explained that the job numbers were good for the marxist in the White House, see his August 3rd column here: http://www.thedailyb...-for-obama.html

I believe he is inhaling the recent skewered poll that projects O'bama ahead in Pennsylvania. I want to make sure of which poll he is referring to before I rip his premises and argument apart.

He clearly has, as Joe "the Plagiarist" Biden remarked, the President's big stick up his intellectual ass.

More on his analysis later.

Adam

Mikee:

"The Obama Administration and the media conspired on Friday to spin the unemployment figures for July and hide just how bad the economy remains.

There were 163,000 nonfarm jobs added in July, up from June. The media and White House touted this as a sign of great improvement in the economy.

What they didn’t mention is that July also saw the civilian noninstitutional population**** grow by 199,000. Also, 150,000 people left the civilian labor force, and the number of people employed decreased by 195,000 while those considered officially unemployed increased by 45,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

That all was reflected in the fact that the unemployment rate rose 0.1 percent to 8.3 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

But what do they know?

Nothing, according to the White House, which quibbled that the actual jobless rate was “only” 8.254 percent, not 8.3.

According to Alan Krueger, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, writing on the White House website, “The household survey showed that the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.3% in July (or, more precisely, the rate rose from 8.217% in June to 8.254% in July).”

Krueger insisted that was “essentially unchanged,” despite the pesky mathematical increase.

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and other Republicans had a different take on the uptick. “Today’s increase in the unemployment rate is a hammer blow to struggling middle-class families,” Romney said.

His words ring true in more ways than one. The flat number the White House and BLS reported is called the “U-3″ statistic, and it only counts those recently unemployed who are currently looking for a job.

But there are many people who have either given up hope of getting a job or who are underemployed, working part time instead of full time. Those numbers are reflected in the BLS’s “U-6″ category, the total unemployed, which for July rose to 15 percent from 14.9 percent.

So while the Associated Press touted the job growth as “the fastest pace since February” and the White House proclaimed 4.5 million jobs added in 29 months, the facts remained that the U.S. is still mired in the longest period of above-8 percent unemployment since World War II, 42 straight months.

The Associated Press some months ago had predicted below-8 percent unemployment in time to give Obama a re-election boost. At this point, his administration will need to do some heavy manipulation of numbers to get there.

Read more: http://godfatherpolitics.com/6465/jobs-spin-hides-continuing-downfall-of-american-economy/#ixzz22da2NSUs

****For the LAUS model-based areas, BLS obtains estimates of the

civilian noninstitutional population ages 16 and older, which is the universe for labor force data, from the Census Bureau. These population estimates are used to adjust labor force level (that is, number-of-person) measures to be consistent with the Census Bureau’s most up-to-date information on the distribution of population across states. Labor force level measures for all LAUS areas are controlled to the Census Bureau’s statewide estimates of civilian noninstitutional population ages 16 and older through a process of additivity. (See the page on LAUS estimation methodology, and particularly the section on substate labor market areas, for more on additivity.) These Census Bureau population data also allow BLS to calculate labor force participation rates and employment-population ratios for the LAUS model-based areas. http://www.bls.gov/lau/rdscnp16.htm

[caroljane]

Adam, I was incorrect about Utah (but not about the Atlanta Os tackiness!). but I was correct that in pointing out the London preparation problems , Romney was trying to remind US voters of his own superior organizational skills, and he was indeed offending his hosts in so doing. Especially if he was right about the problems, he was foolish to point them out.

Again, in Israel, it was unwise of him to publicly contrast the two cultures , however correct his information was; Again, he was sending a message to the American Jewish vote, and brought down the scorn of the foreign press. Would-be statesmen are supposed to impress the foreign press.

I never said he was uninformed (even calling Jerusalem the capital of Israel was probably deliberate), just diplomatically inept.

[Selene]

Carol:

I am no diplomat and if being "diplomatic" means not telling the truth when you chose to speak, then we should not be diplomatic.

However, your position is at least one that can be argued properly.

Just retract the "fool" judgment and understand that he chose to be direct and clear even if some toes were stepped on.

Reagan was quite clear, "evil empire" - it worked.

Walking out of Reykjavik when the Soviets thought that he would pander to their bluff - it worked.

Going to Berlin and demanding, in one of the great pro-freedom speeches in the last half century - "Mr. Gorbachev...open this gate...tear down this wall!" - it worked.

By the way, what was the Polish patronizing?

Adam

[caroljane]

Carol:

I am no diplomat and if being "diplomatic" means not telling the truth when you chose to speak, then we should not be diplomatic.

However, your position is at least one that can be argued properly.

Just retract the "fool" judgment and understand that he chose to be direct and clear even if some toes were stepped on.

Reagan was quite clear, "evil empire" - it worked.

Walking out of Reykjavik when the Soviets thought that he would pander to their bluff - it worked.

Going to Berlin and demanding, in one of the great pro-freedom speeches in the last half century - "Mr. Gorbachev...open this gate...tear down this wall!" - it worked.

By the way, what was the Polish patronizing?

Adam

My impression was, he patted them on the head for becoming good little capitalists , praising Solidarity for defying the Communists despite his anti-unionism , and putting them in their place as his allies against the Great Satan of socialism,

You have said you can't stand Romney, but I feel some sympathy for the guy. He seems willing to say just about anything to get elected. and if elected he might well do a decent job, even become the Reagan Redux he is trying to project. But as a campaigner it is about optics, and I must agree with Baal's inimitable characterization on his new thread. I don't know what a kopf is exactly, but it just sounds right.

[Mikee]

In 2008 one of my friends asked me "What's wrong with Obama". So I went to Obama's website. Page after page of issues and the promise of "change". Try as hard as I might I could find no description of any action Obama might take, just "change". Zero specifics. The contrast with Mitt Romneys' website is striking. Mitt Romney by comparison is completely transparent. I happily support Mitt Romney in this election.

Adam, thank you for your replies and the links.

[Brant Gaede]

Today--can't stand Obama.

Tomorrow--if elected--can't stand Romney.

Day after tomorrow--country is still going to hell grinding down into the greatest, world-wide depression ever.

--Brant

since Obama didn't stop, but accelerated the Bush-era post-9/11 Orwellian assault on peace and civil liberties, he's just worthless, so throw him out

[caroljane]

Brant, I thought I was a pretty thorough fatalist, but you have got me beat.

[Mikee]

Brant,

When you find yourself knee deep in a swamp, the way out is through the swamp.

[caroljane]

Brant,

When you find yourself knee deep in a swamp, the way out is through the swamp.

Brant,

When you find yourself knee deep in a swamp, the way out is through the swamp.

But there's no way out!

- Brant, from the jaws of a gator

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Mike,

To add to your comment, I think it was Winston Churchill who said something like if you are going through hell, keep going. That's pretty good advice and it applies here in a cockeyed sort of way.

Michael

[syrakusos]

... I am sorry, but I missed the part where the article spoils President Obama's chances for re-election. Are you claiming in that tens of millions of uncommitted voters have read this and made up their minds now on the basis of its assertions?

[Selene]

Michael:

Essentially, yes.

I believe that this major fuck up with the four (4) little words, off teleprompter, spoken by this incompetent piece of garbage, in Virginia, on Friday the 13th in July of 2012, will reverberate with the gatekeepers, myself being one of them, and that will be the key margin that will result in a landslide repudiation of his failed agenda.

This statement is so clearly ignorant and runs completely counter to what all of us understand that it takes to build a business, that it is fatal at a very basic level.

Adam

[Backlighting]

http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu114/loveej/Political/0CrybabyBO.jpg

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Adam,

I read on The Blaze that Obama (and previously the wannabe Cherokee woman Warren) got that "frame" (you didn't build that) from George Lakoff in his 2004 book, Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives.

The backfire that is blowing up in their faces is what happens when power-mongers let a boneheaded zealot do their thinking for them, even if the zealot is a neuroscientist.

At first folks thought the "frame" might be from Lakoff's The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic since it just came out, but after digging, The Blaze people found it in the Elephant book above.

Michael

[Selene]

So, where do I send the "thank you" card to George Lakoff with the dead flowers?

[Brant Gaede]

Brant, I thought I was a pretty thorough fatalist, but you have got me beat.

Ah, but I didn't address the post-depression.

--Brant

One guy hits you with a bat and the next guy with a bar doesn't mean you won't/can't survive and prosper

[Brant Gaede]

Brant, I thought I was a pretty thorough fatalist, but you have got me beat.

Throwing out Obama is not fatalist if you also throw out nationalism.

--Brant

being fatalistic about Romney is not fatalism, only common sense and not seeking salvation through Big Men

[Selene]

This meme just keeps reverberating through the media membranes...

http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/hysterical-msnbc-host-goes-nuts-on-air/