PRIVATE CURRENCIES: AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Monday, February 6, 2012
The Circular Firing Squad and Obama's Rising Poll Numbers
According to Rasmussen, Obama's favorability ratings have risen to their highest level since June 9, 2011 when the president was still riding the wave of the Bin Laden killing. The trend started at roughly the time when the GOP presidential candidates all went negative. The eleventh commandment be damned.
Newt was the last to jump in the sewer but when he did take the plunge, he splashed as wildly as anyone else. So much for being the elder statesman, the team leader, the Speaker, blah blah blah. I understand Gingrich's frustration at the attacks directed against him in Iowa. But in going negative, the Newtster lost his mojo.
Gingrich should have doubled down on his attacks against Obama and his media toadies. Instead, he attacked Bain Capital, the best attributes of Mitt Romney and the best values of conservatism. He blamed his Nevada loss on Mormons and called Romney a liar. Dohhh.
Cooler heads need to intervene. Romney can the president. Newt can be Secretary of State. Paul can be Secretary of the Treasury (or chairman of the Fed) and Santorum can get his own show on Fox.
Oh, and thank goodness Mr. vulture capitalism went back to Texas. He was a fool. Glad we vetted that guy.
Get back on your game, guys. You all do well when you point out the flaws in the current administration and the cowardice of his butt boys in the media. Axelrod is playing for keeps and the stakes are high. Another $5T (not to mention the off book entitlements) in debt and America will probably go the way of the dodo bird.
Please guys, climb out of the sewer.
Newt was the last to jump in the sewer but when he did take the plunge, he splashed as wildly as anyone else. So much for being the elder statesman, the team leader, the Speaker, blah blah blah. I understand Gingrich's frustration at the attacks directed against him in Iowa. But in going negative, the Newtster lost his mojo.
Gingrich should have doubled down on his attacks against Obama and his media toadies. Instead, he attacked Bain Capital, the best attributes of Mitt Romney and the best values of conservatism. He blamed his Nevada loss on Mormons and called Romney a liar. Dohhh.
Cooler heads need to intervene. Romney can the president. Newt can be Secretary of State. Paul can be Secretary of the Treasury (or chairman of the Fed) and Santorum can get his own show on Fox.
Oh, and thank goodness Mr. vulture capitalism went back to Texas. He was a fool. Glad we vetted that guy.
Get back on your game, guys. You all do well when you point out the flaws in the current administration and the cowardice of his butt boys in the media. Axelrod is playing for keeps and the stakes are high. Another $5T (not to mention the off book entitlements) in debt and America will probably go the way of the dodo bird.
Please guys, climb out of the sewer.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
SUNDAY WORSHIP: Rosa Sat (So That a Sleazy Opportunist Could Advance His Own Selfish Agenda)
I hate to pop the bubble but Obama is the descendent of white slave owners and a Kenyan national. Kenya is in Eastern Africa, and unlike Western Africans, Kenyans were not sold as slaves in America. Western Africa is populated mostly with Nilots and Eastern Africans are mostly Bantu. The descendents of American slaves are about as genetically close to Kenyans as Portugese are to Russians. Culturally, they are even further apart.
OBAMA: ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE
OBAMA: ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Retro Thursday: The Infamous Zobgy Poll
Originally Posted May 1, 2009
This vid captures the highlights of the now infamous Zogby poll. The untold story is that the messenger, Zogby, was roundly skewered in the lefty blogosphere for conducting this poll. Possibly fearing a loss of business from Democrats, the Zogs distanced themselves from John Ziegler and "Media Malpractice." This action speaks louder than all the polls in history! "Shoot the Messenger" is a philosophy that is alive and well.
http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/12/03/jziegler_obama/
THE TRIUMPH OF IGNORANCE IN ALL OF ITS LUSTER AND SPLENDOR
This vid captures the highlights of the now infamous Zogby poll. The untold story is that the messenger, Zogby, was roundly skewered in the lefty blogosphere for conducting this poll. Possibly fearing a loss of business from Democrats, the Zogs distanced themselves from John Ziegler and "Media Malpractice." This action speaks louder than all the polls in history! "Shoot the Messenger" is a philosophy that is alive and well.
http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/12/03/jziegler_obama/
THE TRIUMPH OF IGNORANCE IN ALL OF ITS LUSTER AND SPLENDOR
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The Biggest Buffoon in The History of Planet Earth?
You are dealt a war hero and the governor of the state with the highest budget surplus in US history. Your opponent holds a community organizer and a nice guy with a touch of dementia. Is there any way you can lose?
If you are named Steve Schmidt, the answer is a resounding yes. Some people have suggested that Schmidt was a Dem operative. No one could be as stupid as Steven Schmidt. No one could misplay that hand so poorly. I argue the counterpoint: Steven Schmidt is an idiot.
Schmidt is credited with the bean bag strategy. That is, Republicans had to treat Obama with kid gloves because he was so damn popular and if one actually pointed out his flaws, they would generate a hostile backlash. Schmidt is believed to have anonymously provided the most malicious Palin quotes in the book "Game Change." He would go on to work for MSNBC (how fitting) and fingers again pointed in his direction when McCain's 2008 Romney dossier surfaced on the Internet.
Schmidt was a proponent of GOP secularism. He was leery of the religious right and was livid when McCain selected an out of the closet Christian as his running mate. Did Schmidt hit the iceberg on purpose? I doubt it. Is Schmidt the biggest fool in the history of Planet Earth? That might be a stretch. Is he the biggest fool in the history of American politics? I think so.
Success has a thousand fathers but failure is an orphan. No one is stepping up to accept responsibility for the 2008 election. But Schmidt was the captain of the ship. He is the daddy of this failure.
Steven Schmidt: Buffoon. Idiot. Underachiever. Loser. You have made a reputation for yourself, big guy.
If you are named Steve Schmidt, the answer is a resounding yes. Some people have suggested that Schmidt was a Dem operative. No one could be as stupid as Steven Schmidt. No one could misplay that hand so poorly. I argue the counterpoint: Steven Schmidt is an idiot.
Schmidt is credited with the bean bag strategy. That is, Republicans had to treat Obama with kid gloves because he was so damn popular and if one actually pointed out his flaws, they would generate a hostile backlash. Schmidt is believed to have anonymously provided the most malicious Palin quotes in the book "Game Change." He would go on to work for MSNBC (how fitting) and fingers again pointed in his direction when McCain's 2008 Romney dossier surfaced on the Internet.
Schmidt was a proponent of GOP secularism. He was leery of the religious right and was livid when McCain selected an out of the closet Christian as his running mate. Did Schmidt hit the iceberg on purpose? I doubt it. Is Schmidt the biggest fool in the history of Planet Earth? That might be a stretch. Is he the biggest fool in the history of American politics? I think so.
Success has a thousand fathers but failure is an orphan. No one is stepping up to accept responsibility for the 2008 election. But Schmidt was the captain of the ship. He is the daddy of this failure.
Steven Schmidt: Buffoon. Idiot. Underachiever. Loser. You have made a reputation for yourself, big guy.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Reflections On The Teleprompter, Part II
I am reposting something from last June. It is about Mitt Romney and his and his reliance on his teleprompter. Seven months later, Romney is still defined by his adaptive device. Every other GOP candidate (Perry possibly notwithstanding)can speak from the heart. I would include Huntsman in that group even if he had nothing to say.
Gingrich wins followers on a visceral level. He wins hearts as well as minds. Yes, the Speaker has a convoluted record (there should be a punctuation mark to distinguish understatement. Maybe an upside down exclamation point.) But the Speaker does project passion. Yes he does.
Unlike a lot of people, I like Mitt Romney. He will be remembered one of two ways: as a good man or a great man. More likely, the former. But I wish he would speak from the cuff and attack Obama and Pelosi and Reid's atrocious record. And I wish he would attack Obama's puppy dogs in the news media. We can dream, can't we?
While we are dreaming, Gingrich is going on the attack. If he lays off Romney and tears into the media industrial complex and their sissy boy puppet, he will win the nomination with Virginia tied behind his back. The party is his oyster.
Redux:
Monday, June 6, 2011
Is the Ability to Speak Extemporaneously a Gauge of One's Passion?
Rush Limbaugh prides himself on his ability to speak loudly, longly and lovingly without so much as a note card. He addressed the C-PAC crowd in 2009 naked except for his clothes. He attributes this skill to his unbridled passion.
Beck. Palin. Bachmann. Gingrich. They can wing it without a teleprompter even if Sarah might write notes on her hand. Rubio can also go a mile a minute without memory aids. The speakers we like and believe can speak off the cuff.
But maybe extemporaneous speech is just a freakish skill. Like whistling or rapping or rhyming. We don't usually think of these things when we measure a speaker's commitment. Is extemporaneous speaking just one more gimmick?
We have all been in a position where we knew what we thought but we just could not make our point. A universal experience. We were passionate about A, B, C and D but we could not make our point.We have all been there.
I have some sympathy for Walter Mondale, though I would never have voted for him. Fritz is Exhibit A of the politician who could not project his personality to an audience. Believe it or not, Mondale's private persona was warm and carefree. He liked to wear a silly hat and smoke a cigar and crack jokes as he manned his backyard grill. The consummate host. But put in the spotlight, Fritz became Walter and Reagan won by a landslide.
Obama is notably weak on anything impromptu. His reliance on the teleprompter is a national joke. But he is not the best speaker for us to gauge passion because he never really says anything. His speech is mostly void of content so how can we assess if he believes what he is saying? One has to actually say something before we can determine if a person believes what they say.
Which brings us to Mitt Romney. Three miles away from here, Romney announced that he was a 2012 candidate. He used a teleprompter to do so. Ding! Mitt the Flip. Romneycare. Mr. Ethanol. Mr. Farm Subsidy. Mr. Corporate Welfare. Our teleprompter is better than your teleprompter.
A lot has been made of Reagan's thespian background and his application to the political world. Point taken. Maybe he was the great communicator because of his polished skills. Then again, maybe he found public speaking easy because he really believed in what he said.
Whatever else can be said about Romney, I don't see his as the Anti-Obama. Nope. He might be the better of two choices but can he inspire? Can he get the apathetic or the independent or the undecided to vote for him? For that matter, can he inspire his own party to stand behind him?
Until we have that battle of the teleprompters, I will give a long look to any candidate who can speak from the heart. Cain. Bachmann. Even Newt deserves another chance. Hope and change is what we need. More importantly, we need a candidate who can speak those passions without reading them.
Gingrich wins followers on a visceral level. He wins hearts as well as minds. Yes, the Speaker has a convoluted record (there should be a punctuation mark to distinguish understatement. Maybe an upside down exclamation point.) But the Speaker does project passion. Yes he does.
Unlike a lot of people, I like Mitt Romney. He will be remembered one of two ways: as a good man or a great man. More likely, the former. But I wish he would speak from the cuff and attack Obama and Pelosi and Reid's atrocious record. And I wish he would attack Obama's puppy dogs in the news media. We can dream, can't we?
While we are dreaming, Gingrich is going on the attack. If he lays off Romney and tears into the media industrial complex and their sissy boy puppet, he will win the nomination with Virginia tied behind his back. The party is his oyster.
Redux:
Monday, June 6, 2011
Is the Ability to Speak Extemporaneously a Gauge of One's Passion?
Rush Limbaugh prides himself on his ability to speak loudly, longly and lovingly without so much as a note card. He addressed the C-PAC crowd in 2009 naked except for his clothes. He attributes this skill to his unbridled passion.
Beck. Palin. Bachmann. Gingrich. They can wing it without a teleprompter even if Sarah might write notes on her hand. Rubio can also go a mile a minute without memory aids. The speakers we like and believe can speak off the cuff.
But maybe extemporaneous speech is just a freakish skill. Like whistling or rapping or rhyming. We don't usually think of these things when we measure a speaker's commitment. Is extemporaneous speaking just one more gimmick?
We have all been in a position where we knew what we thought but we just could not make our point. A universal experience. We were passionate about A, B, C and D but we could not make our point.We have all been there.
I have some sympathy for Walter Mondale, though I would never have voted for him. Fritz is Exhibit A of the politician who could not project his personality to an audience. Believe it or not, Mondale's private persona was warm and carefree. He liked to wear a silly hat and smoke a cigar and crack jokes as he manned his backyard grill. The consummate host. But put in the spotlight, Fritz became Walter and Reagan won by a landslide.
Obama is notably weak on anything impromptu. His reliance on the teleprompter is a national joke. But he is not the best speaker for us to gauge passion because he never really says anything. His speech is mostly void of content so how can we assess if he believes what he is saying? One has to actually say something before we can determine if a person believes what they say.
Which brings us to Mitt Romney. Three miles away from here, Romney announced that he was a 2012 candidate. He used a teleprompter to do so. Ding! Mitt the Flip. Romneycare. Mr. Ethanol. Mr. Farm Subsidy. Mr. Corporate Welfare. Our teleprompter is better than your teleprompter.
A lot has been made of Reagan's thespian background and his application to the political world. Point taken. Maybe he was the great communicator because of his polished skills. Then again, maybe he found public speaking easy because he really believed in what he said.
Whatever else can be said about Romney, I don't see his as the Anti-Obama. Nope. He might be the better of two choices but can he inspire? Can he get the apathetic or the independent or the undecided to vote for him? For that matter, can he inspire his own party to stand behind him?
Until we have that battle of the teleprompters, I will give a long look to any candidate who can speak from the heart. Cain. Bachmann. Even Newt deserves another chance. Hope and change is what we need. More importantly, we need a candidate who can speak those passions without reading them.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
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