Our phoney god-king gave a demagogue filled State of the Union Address last night. Rather than offer a positive vision and calling for national unity, he demonized his opponents and lied. His biggest lie was that al-Qaeda is defeated and smashed, despite the fact they have seized much of Syria and recently took over a major air base in Northern Syria. The American Pharaoh then called for more government control over people’s lives. There was no new ideas in Obama’s speech, it was all Progressive talking points. That said, the media is claiming it was a historic speech and one for the ages!
Kirsten Powers is a Moderate Liberal. Although I disagree with her on some issues, she’s not far Left and actually can be reasoned with. She’s a liberal out of naivete, not maliciousness like Obama or Charles Johnson. Recently Kirsten Powers has not been towing the Progressive talking pints. She’s called out the media for Obama worship and has criticizes the demagoguery of the regime. Now she picks apart the god-king’s SOTU address last night as nothing but the same old 1960′s Leftist cliches.
If the State of the Union address Tuesday night is any indication, it appears President Obama’s chief speechwriter has been replaced by a cliché-generator circa 1960. His erstwhile oratory was a melee of cringe-inducing lines ripped straight from a sit-in.
The commander in chief waxed about children being important for our future and how we should be a country where “if you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead.” Which we are for the most part, anyway. Also, isn’t there a rule about how many times you can use the same line in a speech? Doesn’t basic etiquette and decency prevent us from ever hearing this again: “A tax code that ensures billionaires with high-powered accountants can’t pay a lower rate than their hard-working secretaries.” Yes, we know: Warren Buffett is your friend and his secretary pays a higher tax rate that he does. Is this really the only way to demonstrate the tax code needs to be reformed?
The president has only a few opportunities to speak to the nation, and he blew this one. It was so hackish, so devoid of any theme or purpose, that it makes one wonder whether part of Obama just wants to see how bad he can be before his cultists in the news media can see it.
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Contrary to the claims of both sides, Obama is not a liberal visionary with deep desires to institute a progressive agenda. If he is, he’s a miserable failure.
Kirsten Powers is spot on about Obaama’s speech and the fact he is a failure! He was neither innovative nor creative. Instead it was the same old demagogue nonsense that his adoring media loves to claim as awesome.
In a just world Obama would be a laughing stock, but we do not live in a just world. Thanks to the Media-Entertainment Industrial complex, Obama has been turned into a man-god who the majority of Americans adore despite his failures. I salute Powers for being one of the few Liberals who see through this charade. If there were more Democrats like Powers, this nation would be better off.
God she is lovely!
Obama is one big 1960′s cliche. I suspect that he signs off on his his notes to Michelle with a big “Power to the People!”.
@ Speranza:
Ans she signs hers with “Down With The Man!”
She should have written “Stuttering Clusterfuck Of A Miserable Failure!”
@ AZOlddog:
I wonder if he takes that personally? Obama is “the Man” now.
Kirsten Powers is one of just a few reasonable, common-sense libs out there. She’s actually more conservative than a bunch of RINOs I could name.
Kirsten Powers says the right things sometimes. I’m glad that she can see through some of the BS, but she is still a liberal. She was smart enough to not become the permanent Wiener girl, that shows there’s some hope for her.
@ Tanker:
She’s a Liberal out of naivete.
That said, she has been attacking the media for their Obama fawning.
Rodan wrote:
You may believe that, but I find it hard to believe mainly because she is on the national stage and has access to too much information to maintain the naivete.
That said, I welcome any help, even on a small scale.
On a lighter note: Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone! I’m going to work and cope today…but tomorrow? Mental Health Day off!
@ Tanker:
The media needs to be called out.
Macker wrote:
Bah humbug!
@ Rodan:
She’s not a liberal, she’s a DLC Democrat. She worked for Bill Clinton, and was heavily invested in Hillary’s campaign in 2008. After Hillary lost, she became a PUMA, and has stayed that way ever since.
Good morning. When Obama talked about the decline of
Al Queda it reminded me of Baghad Bob saying that there are
no Americans in the City.
While he was saying that, US troops were heard outside of
the studio taunting him.
huckfunn wrote:
I agree.
Providing you have or you can find a job “to work hard” in this miserable economy which was created by YOU, Mr. President.
theoutsider wrote:
A DLC Democrat is a Liberal. Liberals are Center-Left. Progressives like you and Obama are Leftists. So I distinguish the 2.
@ RIX:
Al-Qaeda in declines? Iran, Assad and Hizballah will beg to differ!
@ Rodan:
Not to mention Libya. I guess he’s still not noticing that al Qaeda in Libya assassinated our Ambassador on the anniversary of 9-11. Little things like that escape his attention…
A team of political scientists and neuroscientists has shown that liberals and conservatives use different parts of the brain when they make risky decisions, and these regions can be used to predict which political party a person prefers
theoutsider wrote:
You have to map your ideas onto a two-bit quantization of the political spectrum.
Rodan wrote:
I woder what the count was on demonstrable lies
during the SOTU speech.
@ Iron Fist:
Yeah, Like Hillary said What difference does it make.
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That said, it looks like Hillary is a planning for 2016.
This makes 2016 even more difficult. OFA and the Clintons.
Obama has proved that another way to get ahead is to race
pimp & smear your opponents.
@ RIX:
About 70% of it.
And all of the worn out cliches.
Iron Fist wrote:
He is “the Man,” but—not being a “man” himself—will never acknowledge it.
@ RIX:
@ Rodan:
Least watched SOTU since 2000, which would include all 8 of the Bush years.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/obamas-5th-state-of-the-union-speech-is-his-least-watched-with-335-million-viewers/2013/02/13/255e1198-763c-11e2-b102-948929030e64_story.html
Wonder how many of those 33 million viewers were trapped in waiting room and airports stuck with CNN.
Iron Fist wrote:
A Servant When He Reigneth
—Rudyard Kipling
“For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear. For a servant when he reigneth, and a fool when he is filled with meat; for an odious woman when she is married, and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.” –—Prov. 30: 21-22-23.
Three things make earth unquiet
And four she cannot brook
The godly Agur counted them
And put them in a book—
Those Four Tremendous Curses
With which mankind is cursed;
But a Servant when He Reigneth
Old Agur entered first.
An Handmaid that is Mistress
We need not call upon.
A Fool when he is full of Meat
Will fall asleep anon.
An Odious Woman Married
May bear a babe and mend;
But a Servant when He Reigneth
Is Confusion to the end.
His feet are swift to tumult,
His hands are slow to toil,
His ears are deaf to reason,
His lips are loud in broil.
He knows no use for power
Except to show his might.
He gives no heed to judgment
Unless it prove him right.
Because he served a master
Before his Kingship came,
And hid in all disaster
Behind his master’s name,
So, when his Folly opens
The unnecessary hells,
A Servant when He Reigneth
Throws the blame on some one else.
His vows are lightly spoken,
His faith is hard to bind,
His trust is easy broken,
He fears his fellow-kind.
The nearest mob will move him
To break the pledge he gave—
Oh, a Servant when he Reigneth
Is more than ever slave!
Rodan wrote:
If she is a Hillary puma, that makes her a progressive lefty not center-left by Hillary’s own words!
@ Carolina Girl:
Yeah or like me watched it for laughs.
@ Tanker:
Kristen Powers is not Leftists at all. I have read her columns. She’s Center-Left.
@ Rodan:
My commute is in high gear whenever Oblahblah takes to the airwaves it seems -- 9:00 p.m Eastern -- so unless I get stuck with the bus with the satellite TV, I have the complete pleasure of missing it. Although talk radio will always play the Pinocchio moments for me the next day. Which I can thankfully fast forward through on my iPhone.
@ Carolina Girl:
The SOTU was probably so low because it was so prdictible.
Obama is easy to predict.
Carolina Girl wrote:
I like the name Oblahblah
@ Carolina Girl:
You didn’t miss much. The media is fawning over the speech,calling it historic. Meanwhile, the Leftists and some Conservatives are obsessed with Rubio drinking water.
@ Guggi:
I wish I could take credit for it -- someone over at Weasel Zippers used it and I did inform them I would be appropriating it. Full disclosure.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
The wisdom of Kipling never seems to be out of place, or time.
@ RIX:
Hard-Left tropes, blame the Republicans for all the bad, focus on jobs like a laser (he’s been supposed to pivot to jobs for four years now), and so forth. He doesn’t have an original thought in his head.
@ Rodan:
Oh, I expected that. Every speech he makes is on a par with the Gettysburg Address (I notice they never compare it to the speech at the Brandenburg Gate). Mark Levin said it was Castro or Chavez like -- I tend to think he has the more accurate assessment.
Meanwhile, they’re trying to make Rubio’s taking a damn drink a game changer. Seriously? They’ve underestimated Rubio if they think they’ll cower him with something as silly as this. I would point out Rubio said more in 15 minutes than Oblahblah said in an hour -- and he walked the highwire without a
netteleprompter.BTW Guggs -- how the hell are ya?
Rodan wrote:
Let’s see which is the bigger scandal, Fast & Furious, Benghazi, or
Rubio reaching for water?
The water incident of course, the MSM is so nuanced./
Iron Fist wrote:
Oh, you step to the left once
And then once again
Then you tell people you’ll
Raise the taxes on them
You stamp on the right
And you blame them for all
Then you roll around the floor
Like an old golf ball
Oh, your figure starts to wiggle
And you waffle a bit
And that’s how you dance
The Obama Job Pivot
Carolina Girl wrote:
Small issue, but Rubio did use a teleprompter! Pre-written speech!
Tanker wrote:
Nothing innately wrong with using a teleprompter. Having to use one when you’re talking to sixth graders, as Obama does, is a bit much however.
@ Carolina Girl
Obama speech was the most Marxist I have heard.
@ Tanker:
Well, I’m dashed -- I’m so used to his being so fluid without one! I didn’t see one in evidence in the film I’d seen -- it must have been in front of him, then.
@ Rodan:
Say goodbye to teen entry level jobs at $9 an hour -- San Francisco has a $10 minimum wage -- guess how many kids have after school jobs at Mickey D’s around HERE!?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Buzz- have you ever seen the photo of him shielding his eyes so he could see the TOTUS? That and there’s one where the Sun hit it at just the right angle and obscured his face. Perfect.
@ Tanker:
My beef was he drank Poland Spring! He should have drank Fiji!
@ Carolina Girl:
Rubio had just finished an 18 minute Spanish response. Then had to do the regular one. he should have drank water between responses. This is much ado about
I’d rather see Rubio drinking water than see him drinking Kool-Aid.
@ Carolina Girl:
Charles was claiming that 9 bucks an hour gets you out of poverty!
Carolina Girl wrote:
I’ve seen the one where TOTUS is obscuring his head, which pretty much says it all.
Rodan wrote:
It buys a lot of Cheetos, if you can hoist your gelid bulk out of the Barcalounger.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Dude is really ignorant!
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I agree not a problem with me. I was just trying to correct the impression that he didn’t use one. FNC showed him practicing with it earlier that day. That’s why it looked so awkward when he reaching for the water, he was trying not to loss his place on the teleprompter!
Sorry for the OT, but a ray of hope for those of you who are worried about your ammo stocks. I was down at the local Gander Mountain about 10 minutes before opening today, because Thursday morning is when they get their resupply. The truck had come but hadn’t been unloaded, so me and maybe 8 others stood around waiting and looking at the guns, with maybe another 5 or so following close behind us. Then they started bring in unsorted boxes of ammo. First two boxes, no luck. But in the third I found a 1000 round pack of Winchester M-22 .22 LR; 40 gr, copper-plated solids. Bingo! I briefly thought about standing my ground and fighting like a crazed Black Friday shopper over anything else that might come off the truck, but there were other nice people there hoping for a share, so I took my prize, paid up and left.
The moral of the story is that if you have a local Gander Mountain, ask one of the nice folks in the gun department when their resupply truck comes, and be there that morning. They’re having their annual sale, and they are supplying their stores with that sales stuff and as when they can. But it usually goes the day they get it.
Added to what I already have, now I can feel comfortable holding a family range day once the weather warms up a bit. That .22 LR always goes fast.
Rodan wrote:
///only the elite drink bottled water. Us po-folk just drink our water straight from the well!
Proggie Sumo!
Imagine: a full-weekend event with all your favorites!
Jerrold Nadler
Ed Schultz
Chris Christie
Michael Moore
Charles Johnson
Who else should participate in this event? It would be…immense.
@ Tanker:
He really could have impressed me had he drank a Mojito!
Tanker wrote:
Um, no she wasn’t. HE dumped HER. She was quite open about it. She’s now married to an Egyptian Copt which I suspect is one of the reasons she never bought into the Arab Spring BS
@ Rodan:
Oh, so he’s an economics expert now? Uh, dumbass? That comes down to $1,560 a month. I’m sure that gets CHUCK out of poverty, since I believe his current income is something like $60 a week from Google ads.
And Obama Claus just keeps on giving: (from Weasel Zippers)
I’ll assume the USDA discrimination happened on BUSH’s watch, right?
@ Carolina Girl:
He claims it would make the economy boom!
@ Carolina Girl:
Discrimination is being denied a loan because you have a shitty credit rating. Kind of like the CRA for the USDA, no doubt. Get your free ObamaBucks! That is what the 51% voted for.
@ Iron Fist:
Oh, so it’s Obama’s version of Pigford.
@ Rodan:
It’s sure helped San Francisco. Boarded up storefronts are great for the real estate market.
That’s true. His thoughts are the residue of his Marxist professors
and mentors.
Pollster Warns GOP Not to Count on Six-Year Itch
Dems will take back the House in 2014 since Republicans are stubborn.
@ Carolina Girl:
That’s exactly what the Left wants.
@ Rodan:
Yeah, those damned principles get in the way of good politics. We need to try to outbid the Democrats, then. If you think Fiscal Conservatism sells, you haven’t been paying attention.
@ Iron Fist:
Keep dismissing parts of the country and blocks of voters. That’s really a winning formula.Not everyone who voted for Obama did so for free stuff. But if it makes Republicans feel better to explain their loss, then hey whatever floats your boat.
Republicans will get it one day, until then enjoy losing elections.
Attack the expense accounts.
Is that a free market chicken you are eating there Mr. Reporter?
Is that a tea party waffle you are eating there Mr. Obama?
How much did you pay for it? Did you tip? Do you ever do the dishes? Why are you eating steak and wine when we abound with global warming homelessness?
Iron Fist wrote:
It’s all about winning elections, principles, values, and morals be damned. For me, I don’t wish to become them, so I’m learning even those supposedly on my side just want me to STFU and STFD, but they don’t have purity test..oh no!
lobo91 wrote:
Hmmm, he hasn’t been deported yet? Damn!
New Thread.
@ Rodan:
Of course not. Plenty of them did so for the usual reasons: Racism, devotion to abortion, wanting to see America torn down, hatred of traditional values, etc. The Free Shit Army just helped put them over the top.
If that’s what we have to embrace in order to “win,” I’ll pass.
RIX wrote:
They probably can’t find a country that would take him.
lobo91 wrote:
If that is what we have to do, is it really a WIN?
How long before somebody like Oliver Stone gets
his hands on a script about Dorner?
You know that Hollywood will pay a homage to him.
lobo91 wrote:
He would fail the entry annoyance test.
@ Tanker:
Not in my book, but what do I know? I don’t even like rap music, so I’m obviously irrelevant.
lobo91 wrote:
It’s like, we will get rid of those that we agree with 85% for those we agree with 40%. I really don’t get it. They can have the republican party for all I care. I’m not one of them any longer anyway.
@ Tanker:
We’ll get rid of the reliable votes that we have to pander to those who wouldn’t vote for us if their lives depended on it. How’s that for a plan? Like I said yesterday, what we need to be doing isn’t pandering. We need to be emulating the successful State-level GOP that is winning elections. They aren’t doing that by pretending to be hip for hipsters. They are doing t be enuncating principles and, most importantly, standing up for those principles on a State-by-State basis.
@ Iron Fist:
Looks like they’re starting the retraining young:
Anyone think they do that in other countries (except maybe the UK, which is even further down the path to cultural self-destruction than we are)?
Iron Fist wrote:
My frustration even with those here asking us to do it, is they don’t recognize that they have a much harder purity test for us than what we have for the CINOs.
@ lobo91:
Yeah, I’m sure we can count on them having Easter celebrations in Riyad this year, right? Because cultural diversity is a core value of Islam…
@ 86 lobo91: That leaves only Mayday that that administration wants to indoctrinate kids with. She should be petitioned to leave her job. A lot of teacher like this. Diversity terrified. Makes them not competent to be around kids. They are as bad as pedophiles.