Late last night/early this morning I wrote:
That’s strange. Why just three years ago Obama was a Jedi master of politics, bringing people together the way he had done back in . . . uh . . . nowhere.
He wasn’t a policy wonk, he was a natural leader who inspired and uplifted. The policy wonk was Hillary, whose papers he copied off of.
Can you name one piece of public policy that Obama himself authored?
{{crickets}}
The reality is that Obama’s people skills are as deficient as his mastery of policy. His lack of resume was the only reason that he was able to get where he is. If he had stayed in the Senate or been made Vice President (as Hillary would likely have done) then people would have seen the truth.
Several hours later Lucienne Goldberg’s idiot son Jonah wrote:
It’s a sincere question: What have been the truly innovative, groundbreaking or even unconventional big public policy ideas to come out of this administration? Are there any? Because from where I sit, it simply looks like Obama takes existing, conventional, liberal ideas – some of them very, very old – off the liberal pantry shelf and hawks them like it’s new inventory. Where’s the evidence that Obama’s “mastery” over public policy has translated itself into creative approaches? Not in the stimulus from what I can tell. Maybe there’s something impressive to tout in ObamaCare, but Obama didn’t actually have much to do with the crafting of ObamaCare – a fact Wilson acknowledges. Was his genius to be found in shoveling cash into Solyndra and other embarrassing white elephants? Was he the guiding intellect behind a green jobs program that has produced dozens of jobs in places where it was supposed to create thousands?
And if he’s such a genius about public policy, why did it take him so long to discover that there’s no such thing as “shovel ready jobs”? You don’t have to be a Jedi Master of public policy to have known that.
I ain’t accusing anyone of plagiarism but if anyone says “great minds think alike” I’ll kill you show you my dick marry your daughter.
The Crawdad Hole 
Don’t feel bad. The Devil sometimes quotes scripture.
After Jonah wrote Liberal Fascism I coined the “Goldberg Principle”:
I call it the fuckwad principle. Hmm, come to think of it, that’s what I called my principal in high school too.
Okay, watching Faith Hill sing the intro to Sunday Night Football while wearing a black leather jumpsuit like Catwoman.
She’s aging like fine wine.
I thought you were supposed to be the darling of the right according to some proggers
Koolaid is a helluva drug.
If what they say is inconvenient or doesn’t fit their meme, call them provocative names that stop the conversation.
Nah, just say, “You are spouting rightwing/leftwing memes/talking points!!!!”
It’s an interchangeable debate shutter-downer, and works for either side. What it really means is “I can’t counter the point you just made.”
The problem with latching onto a rigid tribal ideology, left or right, is that you have to defend the whole kielbasa at all times. And neither left nor right ideology is wholly defensible in every single particular. People who think for themselves can pick and choose and observe effects in the real world: “Okay, that part works, but that part really doesn’t.” There isn’t the emotional investment that puts you in the situation of having to defend the indefensible, and thus resorting to yelling “TALKING POINTS!! ELEVENTY!!” at people.
I wonder how people would react if you said: “I’m a cafeteria leftist”
or “I’m a cafeteria rightist” or “I’m a cafeteria (whateverist)”.
Anyone need a job? 😛
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/gov/2618821815.html
Hmmm, that looks kind of astroturfy. I thought this was a grassroots movement?
We should get a bunch of out-of-state people to flood them with inquiries about the jobs. Heh.
Meanwhile, in places where protest are real.
It gets worse. From Al Jazeera blog, the Islamic extremists who had attacked the Christians protesting the burning of their church, are now attacking the Coptic hospital where the injured Christians were taken:
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/Egypt
Okay, Paul Krugman is now officially insane. I’m serious. He is so blinded by ideology that he literally has lost touch with reality.
Because there are a lot of things one can say about the OWS protests and the teaparty protests. There are similarities and differences. You can agree or disagree or say jury’s out on either. You can love or hate what they stand for, you can agree or disagree that they are justified in what they do.
But the one thing that no sane, objective person could possibly say, is that the OWS is much better behaved than the teaparties were.
Tea party arrests? Over 2 years of protest and and thousands of gatherings? Almost none. They had well over a million people in DC on 9/12, and had ZERO arrests. None. Nada.
Krugman is batshit crazy. Completely round the bend. I don’t give a shit what anyone thinks of either group – saying that OWS is more peaceable and better behaved is a flat out lie, or delusion.
Paul always sounds like a teenager when he shifts from economics to politics. He doesn’t like Obamanomics but he loves Obama the politician. He’s making Obama’s posture to Wall Street sound similar to Elizabeth Warren’s. That’s ridiculous. Obama is very tight with Wall Street, all Paul’s claims to the contrary aside. Warren got run out of DC by Obama/Geithner because she was putting too much heat on the banks. Paul conveniently ignores that.
He used to be more critical of Obama. He only started loving Obama after he got invited to that WH dinner.
🙄
Warning – don’t ever go to an Obama WH dinner.
I think they slip koolaid into the food there.