Well, it’s been a fun Sunday dropping comments that inevitably produce inchoate rage in Obamacrats, via articles around the internet. Sadly, I have to finish my last round of grading for the summer semester, but maybe readers would like to help induce panic in Obamacrats? Every little bit helps, you know. Here’s what I’ve been reading.
Romney vows 12 million new jobs in first term:
“That’s what happens in a normal process when you come out the recession we’ve had. You should see that kind of job creation. We should be seeing two-, three-, four hundred thousand jobs per month to gain much of what’s been lost that’s what normally happens after a recession,” Romney said in an interview with Gloria Borger in Indiana that aired Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“But under this president we have not seen that kind of pattern,” Romney said. “We’ve been bumping along with barely enough jobs to hold the unemployment rate about the same, above 8 percent, 42 months like that.”
Barack Obama Runs On Empty And Toward Defeat:
The social experiment that was Barack Obama’s election and presidency is over. Way over.
As one who was born in the heart of Boston and worked the political world of Washington for 20 years, I know quite a few Democrats. Some are family, and many are close friends. Most voted for Obama in 2008. None at this point is inclined to vote for him in 2012.
Why? Because they view him as an abject failure across the board and have decided to put the welfare of their families and themselves before the empty rhetoric of the Obama campaign before it’s too late.
The Two-Dimensional Barack Obama:
Watching the Olympics from Southern California, where I live, I saw my first ad on behalf of Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. Titled “The Choice,” it is a rubber-mallet contrast spot, with the president speaking directly to the camera.
What I took away from it was how, in just four years, Obama’s famously cool demeanor now comes across as flat — just like the U.S. economy. That is not a coincidence, but it explains why his message seems so hollow.
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Most disquieting, even to some of Obama’s 2008 supporters, has been just how ordinary a politician he’s become. Far from the passionate, lofty rhetoric and mesmerizing oratory of four years ago, his words have become thoroughly two-dimensional.
Bill Clinton Becomes Touchstone in 2012 Presidential Campaign:
In a new ad that is a highlight reel of Romney’s business career and his success with the 2002 Olympics, Clinton’s remark of some weeks ago—saying Romney had a “sterling business career”—remains on the screen throughout. Romney is trying to appeal to white working-class Democrats skeptical of Obama who voted for Hillary Clinton in the primaries.
Btw, we’re up to 168 likes on the Romney Democrats FB page in just three short weeks. 🙂
The Crawdad Hole 
One of the biggest ironies of this campaign is it was Mitt Romney that made Obama start giving Bill the credit he deserves.
I am done grading!!!!! Woohoo! I’m off for the next two weeks. So happy about that!
Just flagged another idiot on RD. He left a snotty comment, but check out his page, disturbing to say the least.
Romney Democrats that is 😉
I saw it, and offered my standard reasonable refutation. Thanks for flagging it. BTW, that Van Jones video you found was spot on! Hope you post it here.
Why is there no link to R.D. on the sidebar?
Just fixed that. Refresh and look left. 😀
does it seem like a really strange campaign by the backtrack bunch??
to the business owners “you didn’t build that”
to the religious leaders ” don’t care about your beliefs just pay for the insurance”
To the military ” just get out there and fight but your vote won’t count”
to those who have a job ” just pay more taxes to carry those who do not want to work”
to those who do not have a job ” you are not going to find a job anytime soon I am to busy to meet the jobs counsel
to those who worry about our standing in the world, give me 4 more years and I can enable our enemies and insult our allies just a little bit more
To union members ” just give me your money but I am going to hold a convention in a right to work state
To non-union members ” your taxes will go to inflate and protect union no show jobs”
But I want your vote
Has Sarah been blamed for the Sikh Temple shooting yet ? 6 dead, so sad 😦
I am one of likes on R.D. 🙂
And share them on my page too. 🙂
You are awesome and foxy, lady! 😀
Well there goes a lazy, peaceful Sunday. http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/reports-of-people-shot-at-sikh-temple-in-oak-creek-qc6cgc0-165059506.html
WTF?
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/08/four-dead-20-injured-in-wisconsin-sikh-temple-shooting-video/
live coverage
http://livewire.wisn.com/Event/Oak_Creek_Temple_Shooting
That’s really sad.
Also, there are so many hate filled people trying to pin this on Christians, the right, Republicans, that comments are being shut down all over the internet.
It’s really irritating how people want to politicize every tragedy before the facts are even known.
My first guess would be a member of the Sikh community. Most killings take place within the killer’s social/ethnic/age group.
I guessed wrong:
BTW – There is a large Sikh community here in Merced County. They own farms and several small businesses, including my favorite liquor store.
This so sad.those people were not hurting anyone.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/08/horray-gop-chairman-reince-priebus-calls-harry-reid-a-dirty-liar-video/
reince priebus calls harry reid a dirty liar
I think dirty old liars everywhere should get together and protest being compared to Harry Reid.
Dirty Harry.
In his dreams. Elmer Fudd’s evil twin is more like it. 🙂
*Swoon* I’m in love.
I disagree with this argument:
Older people tend to be slower at adopting new technologies. Not because we are slower but because young people have no established patterns like we do. They naturally accept the latest technologies – everything is new to them anyway. They don’t have to change. My mom still uses email as her primary means of online communication. She uses Facebook but she doesn’t use Twitter at all.
Older people tend to be more conservative as well.
There is also the “Everybody I know” effect. If you hang out in bars chances are you can say “Everybody I know drinks.”
Notice how the author skipped right over Sarah Palin’s phenomenal use of social media to completely bypass the rabid press.
That was so terribly unfair of her to do, wasn’t it?
Yes.
Rulebreaker!Gamechanger!The second article is outstanding, although calling Obamamania a social experiment is far too kind.
Just anecdotally, not one of the Dems I know among family, friends & aquaintences is planning to vote for BO. If they are, they’re too embarrassed to admit it. Even former BOTs can’t stand him. It’s either write in, 3rd party or stay home altogether. Unfortunately, I’m the only one who’s willing to consider Romney, but since neither AZ, CT or CA are swing states, it shouldn’t really matter.
Nobody is talking about Mount Rushmore these days.
I am, but only if there is a huge ant pile to shovel over him! 👿
People keep saying they about “firm” states, completely forgetting about the elections that were map-changers, like 1980 and 1984, for example. Even 1996 to some extent, as parts of the midwest started to shift. People have got to get out of such thinking, letting the press decide for them what’s feasible and what’s not. How can we break through to those folks, CJ? Folks like your relatives?
I wish I knew Lola. I only told a handful of family that I was voting for McCain, and I’m still catching hell for that. I think the tribal tendency for multigenerational Dems, especially back east, can only be broken if they’ve suffered a personal negative impact from Obama’s policies.
There’s only so far I can go with them before they turn on me. Srsly.
That’s what caller id is for! 👿