The President and The Candidate came out on stage wearing top hats and tails and performed a fantastic version of 'Putting on the Ritz'. Obama can tap dance like his feet are on fire. The follow up number - 'Brother can you spare a dime?' was excellent as well.
Every four years the GOP goes along meekly as their candidate gets grilled in debates by a partisan Democratic party operative moonlighting as a moderator.
Tonight the moderator will be Jim Lehrer of PBS. It's a forgone conclusion that everything will be slanted from a leftist perspective.
Regardless of what is uttered publicly by the Republican nominee, he will adhere faithfully to the unspoken oath that's been in place for nearly a century. It goes something like this: For you, my exclusive source of votes, I will do nothing.
It's been broken only twice. First by Goldwater, who was immediately abandoned by his party's power people, then by Reagan whose administration was immediately hamstrung by his party's power people.
I laid in a bottle of Crown Royal Black for tonight's debate, vowing to take a shot every time I heard the words "investment" from Obama or "tax cuts" from Romney or anything about "improving education/schools/etc." from either.
At this rate, I may not make it to the halfway mark before collapsing into an inebriated stupor.
Thus far you're not missing much other than campaign boilerplate about jobs, economy, and so on, plus some pre-debate gushing about the Obama's wedding anniversary from both candidates.
Romney just said "tax cuts" three different times in rapid succession, so if you don't hear from again tonight, you'll know why...
I feel like I should apologize to O for keeping him from wherever it is he wants to be. He sure doesn't seem very interested in doing what he is doing.
Romney: "I love Big Bird," but still going to get rid of PBS. Loves Jim Lehrer, too. You literally saw the lightbulb go off in his head: "forgot this guy works for PBS".
*Groan*
At least he's stopped repeating "tax cut" over and over.
Zazooba said... Like he's trying to pull himself up to look over a wall.
I like that better than my kneading bread. Also, R's creepy smile is not working for him. Didn't anyone ee tell him during the primaries? More BS about putting more money into the education system until it succeeds in making silk purses from sows' ears. Jim Lehrer is 78--looks like 108. I like it that R told him he's going to cut the PBS subsidy.
It's difficult for Obama to do well in a debate because he is a stuttering, affirmative-action parasite who is also an emotionally-fragile, overgrown adolescent twit. On top this Obama is also a guy with a towering sense of self-esteem who has never accomplished anything at all. Everything he has has been given to him by White people. Only White cowards and fools are able to call Obama eloquent with a straight face when his delivery is such a weird combination of stuttering, smacking and a sort of stilted pseudo-intellectual ebonics. Obama sounds like a half-educated 12-year-old who has learned how to sound in order to impress adults.
The problem is that Romney won't attack Obama because Obama is Black and Romney is a cowardly White. Obama is an actual criminal, but Romney will be as cowardly as that inbecile McCain.
Romney seems too anxious, but he is clearly better on the details (his strength), but I'm not sure details will woo the electorate. Obama's bored bemusement won't win anyone, but it won't lose anyone, either.
Obama's details are rehearsed. Obvious when he strays off the script. "Quick, someone think for me."
Romney draws blood talking about unemployment and economic stagnation; talking about the $90 billion Obama devoted to green energy while complaining about the $2.8 billion oil tax credit; and talking about the $700 billion Obama took out of Medicare for Obamacare. On that last one, O had a tense smile on his face while R was talking.
They've got so much makeup on Obama that he practically looks like a white guy - and he's sporting some sort of a lip gloss [like the Fox News chicks wear] so as to cover up his purple lips.
I guess they're trying to shine him up so that he doesn't scare the Single White Womynz.
My first impression of Romney's performance was that it was nerdy, wonkish. It went over in Massachusetts, apparently, but may not in Red State America.
Luke Lea, anyone that is a real Red State American ain't votin' for Obama no matter what. And WILL vote for whoever is against him. Just like blacks aint' votin' for R no matter what. Hence your comment is a bit empty chamberish.
Obama just invoked Abraham Lincoln: sign of a politician in trouble, as I think JFK (?) said - I can't remember who exactly.
He's kinda stumbling over his words right now, which tells you a lot about how necessary that teleprompter is for him as a general rule. Here, his electronic crutch is gone.
So sick of pandering to the AARP Medicare crowd. Would love to see either Romney or Obama turn to the camera and say, "Hey geezers, pay for your own god-damned Viagra! And if you weren't destroying your bodies by popping so many f'ing pills maybe you wouldn't need so much f'ing healthcare!".
R did his impression of joaquin phoenix the rapper. O played bass. R looked at O & said "what you talkin' 'bout willis?" the crowd roared. R juggled 3 balls in the air. O set them ablaze. both drank from the same flask & said to the audience "your economy is not OUR economy! hope you enjoyed the minstrel show!" then they kissed like Al & Tipper Gore.
In telegenic terms - about 70% visual 30% aural - Romney just wiped the floor with Obama. In short, the debate telecast showed the stark contrast between a strong suit who leads from the front and an empty suit who expects to be allowed continue to get away with leading from behind.
During the post-debate handshakes, I am reasonably sure I saw Obama say to Romney: "You won". (There was no audio, so it is based on lip-reading). Romney laughed, and walked off to embrace his large family.
Romney: "I love Big Bird," but still going to get rid of PBS. Loves Jim Lehrer, too. You literally saw the lightbulb go off in his head: "forgot this guy works for PBS".
Yeah, that was hilarious. It was an odd talking point, do people really think PBS funding has much of anything to do with our trillion dollar deficit? In 2010, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was appropriated $420 million. That's what we what we spend in Afghanistan every single day.
I can't believe nobody mentioned the early Romney jab where he looked straight at Obama and said "I have 5 boys, so I'm used to having someone lie to me and keep up the lie to make me believe it" or something.
Right there, he was calling the black guy a 'boy'. It seemed to totally piss baby Barack off and throw him off his game.
Media Matters, Rachel Maddow etc. will probably have an extended freakout over the 'boy' comment.
The only way that could have been a more lopsided ass kicking would be if Mitt was a one legged man. Either Obama washed down some Ambien with Henny before he walked onstage, or the pundits like Steve who say that Obama's heart isn't really in the presidency have been right all along. I haven't seen Chris Matthews this apoplectic since the Clinton impeachment.
Consensus is Romney crushed it. Even Obama fans like Bill Maher and Andrew Sullivan have acknowledged that already. Network instapolls showing the same thing, and Obama contracts dropped 8.4% on InTrade during the debate.
@billmaher i can't believe i'm saying this, but Obama looks like he DOES need a teleprompter https://twitter.com/billmaher/statuses/253680489850892289
"It was an odd talking point, do people really think PBS funding has much of anything to do with our trillion dollar deficit?"
PBS has a lot to do with something that's at least as important.
When I was an impressionable teenager in a household without cable in the early 1990s, I watched PBS more than any other channel. Why? Because it had the smartest shows. One problem: PBS is unbelievably lefty. In those years I got a very strong impression, a subconscious feeling that high culture, intelligence and an adult (as opposed to a childish) outlook on life were inextricably linked to leftist politics. I now know that this is a lie. I will always hate PBS for having lied to me about this.
I watched roughly the first 40 minutes. It was very boring. I didn't think either one was winning. While they were arguing about taxes I had the feeling that they were probably both misrepresenting their their own and each other's proposals. They looked like two guys from rival cable companies making their sales pitches, throwing out meaningless numbers, one as untrustworthy as the other. Romney looks better, but everyone has always known this, and he's been trailing in the polls anyway. Now as I check Web coverage, everyone seems to be saying that Romney won. Perhaps this is because the media needs a story. Drama: the race tightens.
Romney said he never said things he said. "I have no plans to lower taxes on the rich. They're doing fine - they can pay high taxes." "The only objection I have to Obamacare is that it wasn't passed in a bipartisan manner, and it takes some money from other programs." (paraphrasing) He isn't going to send those DREAMers back, he isn't going to touch Social Security, he likes green energy, etc.
He simply Me Too'ed in a vigorous, energetic, glib manner with a lot of Reaganisms sprinkled in ("free enterprise," etc... which hasn't existed in America since ~1780).
It was basically a personality contest. Intelligent white suit, peppy and eagerly interrupting, looking good and lying his ass off - vs. a faded cigar-store Indian who can only come alive when hollering Ebonics in Rev. Wright's church.
I'm tellin' ya, on Nov. 6 I'm staying home and compacting my garbage.
I am noticing, however, that certain media outlets (e.g. The LA Times) are not saying Obama won, as one might expect these media to do no matter what. Instead, they are lavishing praise on the Rom-bot.
My prediction (repeated): the media will flip. Not for Romney, but against Obama, who went wrong on Israel. Obama lost the election when he didn't meet with Bibi.
The media will not run interference for Obama now. You are going to see a media flip-flop that makes Rom's backflips look like the quintessence of constancy. Mitt will win in a landslide to universal media acclaim or at least acquiescence.
The sort of people who were set to vote for Obama in spite of $4/gallon gas, the worst economy in decades, trillion dollar deficits, and so on are probably not going to change their minds based on some debate.
"The sort of people who were set to vote for Obama [....] are probably not going to change their minds based on some debate."
I can't imagine why they'd watch it. I didn't watch it, because I've known since 10 minutes into his first campaign that I'd never vote for Obama, and everything he's done since then has reinforced that. Why would I need to watch one of his fans from government-supported TV try to toss him softballs? By the same token, if you still see Obama as a racial healer, or as one of your own who will get you a bigger share of the pie, why would you bother to watch him debate some evil conservative white guy?
No, the media is not going to flip-flop. Let's not get carried away. Yes, they may be upset with Obama, thanks to the cognitive dissonance they're experiencing after watching their genius-hero get schooled by a guy they've been taught to think of as a drone who lives off the ingenuity and productivity of his workers. It'll take them a couple days to frame this within their worldview: Obama's huge brain just wasn't challenged enough to bother giving it his best; he's concentrating on important matters like whom to bomb next; Romney/Lehrer was mean/unfair. Once they've come up with an excuse that makes their world make sense again, they'll start predicting a better result next time. Unless Romney really wipes the floor with him next time, they'll declare Obama the winner, or at least a draw, no matter what happens, and say he's back on track to victory.
* Yeah, that was hilarious. It was an odd talking point, do people really think PBS funding has much of anything to do with our trillion dollar deficit? In 2010, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was appropriated $420 million. That's what we what we spend in Afghanistan every single day.
Point taken.
But, you must realise, those of us who wish for a (much) smaller government, get a tingle up our leg when any politician talks of actually cutting anything...no matter how irrelevant.
"Obama has the knack of making me feel like I'm being lectured to by a know-it-all teacher."
The teacher that sounds annoying, boring, but insanely smart when you have him for freshman social studies, but by the time you take AP Euro History with him in a couple of years, all you can see is an annoying, boring pseudo-intellectual who is full of shit regarding half of the topics he addresses? I flash back to that guy each time I listen to Obama talk.
I can't believe I got lured into watching this again. There was nothing new to be learned...again.
"But, you must realise, those of us who wish for a (much) smaller government, get a tingle up our leg when any politician talks of actually cutting anything...no matter how irrelevant."
Exactly. It's like when the Gingrich Congress repealed the 55mph federal speed limit. Was it really that important? No. Didn't most of the states just replace it with their own? Sure.
But it was a specific reduction, however small, in federal intrusion into our daily lives. One of the first such reductions in my lifetime, which made it pretty exciting. It almost felt like a real revolution there for a day or two.
Defunding PBS would be the same way. It wouldn't hurt it economically, because what it gets from the government is a small part of its budget, and a few Hollywood friends could make up the difference with what they spend on blow. PBS would continue, and might be even more leftist without the need to pretend to be fair. Defunding it would be awesome anyway, because it would be the government no longer doing something it used to do. That's all.
And if you can't cut an item like 5% of PBS's budget, is there any hope that you'll be able to cut anything else at all? You have to start somewhere.
The President and The Candidate came out on stage wearing top hats and tails and performed a fantastic version of 'Putting on the Ritz'. Obama can tap dance like his feet are on fire. The follow up number - 'Brother can you spare a dime?' was excellent as well.
ReplyDeleteI never watch debates. As a means of understanding the people in question, it's petty worthless.
ReplyDeleteEvery four years the GOP goes along meekly as their candidate gets grilled in debates by a partisan Democratic party operative moonlighting as a moderator.
ReplyDeleteTonight the moderator will be Jim Lehrer of PBS. It's a forgone conclusion that everything will be slanted from a leftist perspective.
Virgil Goode won the debate.
ReplyDeleteWhat, you are not going to watch the debate? What is more important?
ReplyDeleteRegardless of what is uttered publicly by the Republican nominee, he will adhere faithfully to the unspoken oath that's been in place for nearly a century. It goes something like this: For you, my exclusive source of votes, I will do nothing.
ReplyDeleteIt's been broken only twice. First by Goldwater, who was immediately abandoned by his party's power people, then by Reagan whose administration was immediately hamstrung by his party's power people.
Vote local.
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Obama went crazy, spoke in tongues, praised the 9-11 attacks and swore to naturalize the population of Mexico.
ReplyDeleteAfterwards the consensus opinion was that the debate was a draw, but would have no effect on the polls.
Romney just said how romantic it was that Obama was celebrating his wedding anniversary with him instead of Michelle. Gay.
ReplyDeletePlease God, make it stop!
ReplyDeleteEnergy independence!! Run! Run! He's an ignoramus.
ReplyDeleteGotta love R's hand gestures. Like he's trying to pull himself up to look over a wall.
ReplyDeleteI laid in a bottle of Crown Royal Black for tonight's debate, vowing to take a shot every time I heard the words "investment" from Obama or "tax cuts" from Romney or anything about "improving education/schools/etc." from either.
ReplyDeleteAt this rate, I may not make it to the halfway mark before collapsing into an inebriated stupor.
Thus far you're not missing much other than campaign boilerplate about jobs, economy, and so on, plus some pre-debate gushing about the Obama's wedding anniversary from both candidates.
Romney just said "tax cuts" three different times in rapid succession, so if you don't hear from again tonight, you'll know why...
Middle class, middle class, middle class, ZZZzzzzzzz.
ReplyDeleteJust strings of buzz words.
9:15 Romney has been working his hands up and down so much he looks like he's kneading bread dough. Did someone advise him to do this?
ReplyDeleteWhere did R get that dopey smile?
ReplyDeleteI feel like I should apologize to O for keeping him from wherever it is he wants to be. He sure doesn't seem very interested in doing what he is doing.
Brain-dead tax silliness.
ReplyDeleteIs this all R has?
Romney: "I love Big Bird," but still going to get rid of PBS. Loves Jim Lehrer, too. You literally saw the lightbulb go off in his head: "forgot this guy works for PBS".
ReplyDelete*Groan*
At least he's stopped repeating "tax cut" over and over.
Zazooba said... Like he's trying to pull himself up to look over a wall.
ReplyDeleteI like that better than my kneading bread. Also, R's creepy smile is not working for him. Didn't anyone ee tell him during the primaries? More BS about putting more money into the education system until it succeeds in making silk purses from sows' ears. Jim Lehrer is 78--looks like 108. I like it that R told him he's going to cut the PBS subsidy.
O sounds so phony whenever he switches to a personal anecdote. Now its his grandmother.
ReplyDeleteHope R pastes him on this.
R actually has facts, or sounds like it.
I would rather watch Real Housewives of Atlanta than this "debate".
ReplyDeleteHence, I will go back to reading Augustine's City of God tonight.
MDR
It's difficult for Obama to do well in a debate because he is a stuttering, affirmative-action parasite who is also an emotionally-fragile, overgrown adolescent twit. On top this Obama is also a guy with a towering sense of self-esteem who has never accomplished anything at all. Everything he has has been given to him by White people. Only White cowards and fools are able to call Obama eloquent with a straight face when his delivery is such a weird combination of stuttering, smacking and a sort of stilted pseudo-intellectual ebonics. Obama sounds like a half-educated 12-year-old who has learned how to sound in order to impress adults.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that Romney won't attack Obama because Obama is Black and Romney is a cowardly White. Obama is an actual criminal, but Romney will be as cowardly as that inbecile McCain.
Yeah this is crazy boring.
ReplyDeleteNot watching. Listening to snatches.
ReplyDeleteRomney seems too anxious, but he is clearly better on the details (his strength), but I'm not sure details will woo the electorate. Obama's bored bemusement won't win anyone, but it won't lose anyone, either.
Obama's details are rehearsed. Obvious when he strays off the script. "Quick, someone think for me."
Romney draws blood talking about unemployment and economic stagnation; talking about the $90 billion Obama devoted to green energy while complaining about the $2.8 billion oil tax credit; and talking about the $700 billion Obama took out of Medicare for Obamacare. On that last one, O had a tense smile on his face while R was talking.
ReplyDeleteThey've got so much makeup on Obama that he practically looks like a white guy - and he's sporting some sort of a lip gloss [like the Fox News chicks wear] so as to cover up his purple lips.
ReplyDeleteI guess they're trying to shine him up so that he doesn't scare the Single White Womynz.
Obama to Lerher: "I think I had five seconds till you interrupted me."
ReplyDeleteThat mask slipped a bit: Obama truly thinks he's a Philospher-King in a room full of idiots, and it shows.
My first impression of Romney's performance was that it was nerdy, wonkish. It went over in Massachusetts, apparently, but may not in Red State America.
ReplyDeleteLuke Lea, anyone that is a real Red State American ain't votin' for Obama no matter what. And WILL vote for whoever is against him. Just like blacks aint' votin' for R no matter what. Hence your comment is a bit empty chamberish.
ReplyDeleteMDR
Obama has the knack of making me feel like I'm being lectured to by a know-it-all teacher.
ReplyDeleteRomney's hand gestures look like some new form of Chinese martial arts.
Obama just invoked Abraham Lincoln: sign of a politician in trouble, as I think JFK (?) said - I can't remember who exactly.
ReplyDeleteHe's kinda stumbling over his words right now, which tells you a lot about how necessary that teleprompter is for him as a general rule. Here, his electronic crutch is gone.
So sick of pandering to the AARP Medicare crowd. Would love to see either Romney or Obama turn to the camera and say, "Hey geezers, pay for your own god-damned Viagra! And if you weren't destroying your bodies by popping so many f'ing pills maybe you wouldn't need so much f'ing healthcare!".
ReplyDeleteWhy does President Romney have to parry with this slick dude?
ReplyDeleteLehrer now shifting the talk to "specifics" about helping education, for both candidates. This one may put me down for the count.
ReplyDeleteHere is a Visual summary of the debate.
ReplyDeleteObama looks sallow, waxen. I think he is rotting from the inside.
ReplyDeleteThey've got so much makeup on Obama that he practically looks like a white guy
ReplyDeleteVery pale. Thought it was just my TV.
- and he's sporting some sort of a lip gloss [like the Fox News chicks wear] so as to cover up his purple lips.
That's to help him fellate Jim Lehrer after the show.
R did his impression of joaquin phoenix the rapper. O played bass. R looked at O & said "what you talkin' 'bout willis?" the crowd roared. R juggled 3 balls in the air. O set them ablaze. both drank from the same flask & said to the audience "your economy is not OUR economy! hope you enjoyed the minstrel show!" then they kissed like Al & Tipper Gore.
ReplyDeleteRomney won. Terrible debate.
ReplyDelete"Y'all two buddies yukked it up for 5 minutes after the debate.
ReplyDeleteIn telegenic terms - about 70% visual 30% aural - Romney just wiped the floor with Obama. In short, the debate telecast showed the stark contrast between a strong suit who leads from the front and an empty suit who expects to be allowed continue to get away with leading from behind.
ReplyDeleteDuring the post-debate handshakes, I am reasonably sure I saw Obama say to Romney: "You won". (There was no audio, so it is based on lip-reading). Romney laughed, and walked off to embrace his large family.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to Jim Lehrer's pupils? They look like the opening of the Holland tunnel.
ReplyDeleteSteve is right: Obama is bored stiff. He was probably thinking about his NFL picks half the time.
ReplyDeleteRomney: "I love Big Bird," but still going to get rid of PBS. Loves Jim Lehrer, too. You literally saw the lightbulb go off in his head: "forgot this guy works for PBS".
ReplyDeleteYeah, that was hilarious. It was an odd talking point, do people really think PBS funding has much of anything to do with our trillion dollar deficit? In 2010, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was appropriated $420 million. That's what we what we spend in Afghanistan every single day.
I can't believe nobody mentioned the early Romney jab where he looked straight at Obama and said "I have 5 boys, so I'm used to having someone lie to me and keep up the lie to make me believe it" or something.
ReplyDeleteRight there, he was calling the black guy a 'boy'. It seemed to totally piss baby Barack off and throw him off his game.
Media Matters, Rachel Maddow etc. will probably have an extended freakout over the 'boy' comment.
It's sooo racist, don't you know...
-E. Henry Thripshaw
The only way that could have been a more lopsided ass kicking would be if Mitt was a one legged man. Either Obama washed down some Ambien with Henny before he walked onstage, or the pundits like Steve who say that Obama's heart isn't really in the presidency have been right all along. I haven't seen Chris Matthews this apoplectic since the Clinton impeachment.
ReplyDeleteClimate change is off the agenda.
ReplyDeleteConsensus is Romney crushed it. Even Obama fans like Bill Maher and Andrew Sullivan have acknowledged that already. Network instapolls showing the same thing, and Obama contracts dropped 8.4% on InTrade during the debate.
ReplyDelete@billmaher
ReplyDeletei can't believe i'm saying this, but Obama looks like he DOES need a teleprompter
https://twitter.com/billmaher/statuses/253680489850892289
Bill Maher FTW
"It was an odd talking point, do people really think PBS funding has much of anything to do with our trillion dollar deficit?"
ReplyDeletePBS has a lot to do with something that's at least as important.
When I was an impressionable teenager in a household without cable in the early 1990s, I watched PBS more than any other channel. Why? Because it had the smartest shows. One problem: PBS is unbelievably lefty. In those years I got a very strong impression, a subconscious feeling that high culture, intelligence and an adult (as opposed to a childish) outlook on life were inextricably linked to leftist politics. I now know that this is a lie. I will always hate PBS for having lied to me about this.
I watched roughly the first 40 minutes. It was very boring. I didn't think either one was winning. While they were arguing about taxes I had the feeling that they were probably both misrepresenting their their own and each other's proposals. They looked like two guys from rival cable companies making their sales pitches, throwing out meaningless numbers, one as untrustworthy as the other. Romney looks better, but everyone has always known this, and he's been trailing in the polls anyway. Now as I check Web coverage, everyone seems to be saying that Romney won. Perhaps this is because the media needs a story. Drama: the race tightens.
ReplyDeleteRomney said he never said things he said. "I have no plans to lower taxes on the rich. They're doing fine - they can pay high taxes." "The only objection I have to Obamacare is that it wasn't passed in a bipartisan manner, and it takes some money from other programs." (paraphrasing) He isn't going to send those DREAMers back, he isn't going to touch Social Security, he likes green energy, etc.
ReplyDeleteHe simply Me Too'ed in a vigorous, energetic, glib manner with a lot of Reaganisms sprinkled in ("free enterprise," etc... which hasn't existed in America since ~1780).
It was basically a personality contest. Intelligent white suit, peppy and eagerly interrupting, looking good and lying his ass off - vs. a faded cigar-store Indian who can only come alive when hollering Ebonics in Rev. Wright's church.
I'm tellin' ya, on Nov. 6 I'm staying home and compacting my garbage.
I am noticing, however, that certain media outlets (e.g. The LA Times) are not saying Obama won, as one might expect these media to do no matter what. Instead, they are lavishing praise on the Rom-bot.
My prediction (repeated): the media will flip. Not for Romney, but against Obama, who went wrong on Israel. Obama lost the election when he didn't meet with Bibi.
The media will not run interference for Obama now. You are going to see a media flip-flop that makes Rom's backflips look like the quintessence of constancy. Mitt will win in a landslide to universal media acclaim or at least acquiescence.
I slept through the debate, but to see Chris Matthews detumescent must mean something.
ReplyDelete<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/10/03/chris_matthews_freaks_out_at_obama_after_debate_romney_was_winning.html>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/10/03/chris_matthews_freaks_out_at_obama_after_debate_romney_was_winning.html</a>
The sort of people who were set to vote for Obama in spite of $4/gallon gas, the worst economy in decades, trillion dollar deficits, and so on are probably not going to change their minds based on some debate.
ReplyDelete"The sort of people who were set to vote for Obama [....] are probably not going to change their minds based on some debate."
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine why they'd watch it. I didn't watch it, because I've known since 10 minutes into his first campaign that I'd never vote for Obama, and everything he's done since then has reinforced that. Why would I need to watch one of his fans from government-supported TV try to toss him softballs? By the same token, if you still see Obama as a racial healer, or as one of your own who will get you a bigger share of the pie, why would you bother to watch him debate some evil conservative white guy?
No, the media is not going to flip-flop. Let's not get carried away. Yes, they may be upset with Obama, thanks to the cognitive dissonance they're experiencing after watching their genius-hero get schooled by a guy they've been taught to think of as a drone who lives off the ingenuity and productivity of his workers. It'll take them a couple days to frame this within their worldview: Obama's huge brain just wasn't challenged enough to bother giving it his best; he's concentrating on important matters like whom to bomb next; Romney/Lehrer was mean/unfair. Once they've come up with an excuse that makes their world make sense again, they'll start predicting a better result next time. Unless Romney really wipes the floor with him next time, they'll declare Obama the winner, or at least a draw, no matter what happens, and say he's back on track to victory.
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ReplyDeleteYeah, that was hilarious. It was an odd talking point, do people really think PBS funding has much of anything to do with our trillion dollar deficit? In 2010, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was appropriated $420 million. That's what we what we spend in Afghanistan every single day.
Point taken.
But, you must realise, those of us who wish for a (much) smaller government, get a tingle up our leg when any politician talks of actually cutting anything...no matter how irrelevant.
"MDR"
ReplyDeleteMode de rire?
"Obama has the knack of making me feel like I'm being lectured to by a know-it-all teacher."
ReplyDeleteThe teacher that sounds annoying, boring, but insanely smart when you have him for freshman social studies, but by the time you take AP Euro History with him in a couple of years, all you can see is an annoying, boring pseudo-intellectual who is full of shit regarding half of the topics he addresses? I flash back to that guy each time I listen to Obama talk.
I can't believe I got lured into watching this again. There was nothing new to be learned...again.
"But, you must realise, those of us who wish for a (much) smaller government, get a tingle up our leg when any politician talks of actually cutting anything...no matter how irrelevant."
ReplyDeleteExactly. It's like when the Gingrich Congress repealed the 55mph federal speed limit. Was it really that important? No. Didn't most of the states just replace it with their own? Sure.
But it was a specific reduction, however small, in federal intrusion into our daily lives. One of the first such reductions in my lifetime, which made it pretty exciting. It almost felt like a real revolution there for a day or two.
Defunding PBS would be the same way. It wouldn't hurt it economically, because what it gets from the government is a small part of its budget, and a few Hollywood friends could make up the difference with what they spend on blow. PBS would continue, and might be even more leftist without the need to pretend to be fair. Defunding it would be awesome anyway, because it would be the government no longer doing something it used to do. That's all.
And if you can't cut an item like 5% of PBS's budget, is there any hope that you'll be able to cut anything else at all? You have to start somewhere.
the right is owned by the left. what arguments or even thoughts are allowed all are decided by the left.
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