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further more

While Noonan’s recent article is good and in most ways accurate she missed another part of the story which is in the debate America and the world saw the chief empty suit without the huge mechanism of liberal spin – the MSM – being the mechanism that delivers, buffers and spins the arrogant and belligerent novice’s rhetoric and philosophy. Please note how the facilitator of the last two debates was a topic/subject matter churned and swirled by the MSM leading up to each debate as well as following the event. A planned disruption and scapegoat needed to be readied in the event that the president once again showed up as himself. The MSM was the overwhelming catalyst that swept this novice into the chief office of the US government – people need to not forget that as well as understand that.

Noonan’s article “When Americans Saw the Real Obama” is well worth reading.

Link to Krauthammer’s most recent article “Obama stoops, doesn’t conqueror” is a good commentary on the third debate.

At this moment I am not certain who is going to win the election. My gut wants to say Romney but the unethical immoral shenanigans that Obama/Democrats will deploy so as to not lose, alarm me. The threats of violence and rioting if he loses also makes me sick because that is NOT THE WAY civilized responsible people should behave. Remember how things played out when Gore lost to Bush? I think we will experience a collective/mass episode  of deja vu in a couple weeks.

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The Big Bird counterattack

Mr. Krauthammer’s article this week.

Located here
By , Published: October 11

No mystery about the trajectory of this race. It was static for months as President Obama held a marginal lead. Then came the conventions. The Republicans squandered Tampa; the Democrats got a 3- to 4-point bounce out of Charlotte.

And kept it. Until the first debate. In 90 minutes, Mitt Romney wiped out the bump — and maybe more.

Democrats are shellshocked and left searching for excuses. Start with scapegoats: the hapless John Kerry, Obama’s sparring partner in the practice debates, for going too soft on the boss; then the debate moderator for not exerting enough control.

The Obama campaign’s plea that the commander in chief could find no shelter under Jim Lehrer’s desk did not exactly bolster Obama’s standing. Moreover, the moderator’s job is not to control the flow of argument, but to simply enforce an even time split.

Lehrer did. In fact, Obama took more time than Romney — 41 / 2 minutes more — while actually speaking 500 fewer words. Romney knew what he thought and said it. Obama kept looking around hoping for the words to come to him. They didn’t.

After the scapegoats came the excuses.

●Obama had a bad night. He was off his game.

Nonsense. This is Obama’s game. Great at delivering telepromptered addresses to adoring Germans and swooning students. But he’s not very good on his feet.

His problem is that he doesn’t think so. He not only believes his own press, he believes his own mythology. He actually said (in 2007): “I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And . . . I’m a better political director than my political director.”

Obama is a man of considerable intelligence. But he’s not half as transcendently smart as he thinks he is.

He needs a servant in his chariot reminding him that he’s not an immortal. Of course, after the debate the entire Democratic Party told him he’s a dud. Wrong again. He’s neither lord nor commoner. He’s just an above-average politician who needs a very good night in one of the next two debates.

●He was weighed down by the burdens of office.

Ah yes, the burdens of office. Like going on “The View” while meeting with not a single foreign leader at the United Nations. Like flying to a Vegas campaign rally the day after a U.S. consulate is sacked and the ambassador murdered. Like rushing off to New York for a night with Jay-Z and Beyonce.

Rocky Mountain altitude is a better excuse than that. (Thank you, Al Gore.)

●Reductionism.

Stephanie Cutter and David Axelrod both said (amazing coincidence) that Romney won on “style points.”

So, the most charismatic politician since Pierre Elliot Trudeau was beaten by an android — on style? I concede that Obama’s reaction shots were awful. But he lost on radio too. And in print. Read the transcript. This wasn’t about appearances. Romney didn’t win on style. He won on an avalanche of substance, on a complete takedown of six months of Obama portraying Romney as enemy of the middle class, friend and footman of the rich.

That was the heart of the Obama campaign. After all, with crushing debt, chronically high unemployment and the worst economic recovery since World War II, Obama can’t run on stewardship. Nor on the future. He has no serious agenda. Nothing on entitlements, nothing on tax reform, nothing on debt, nothing on the fiscal cliff.

So when Romney completely deflated that six-month “kill Romney” strategy — by looking reasonable, responsible, authoritative in demonstrating how his policies would help the middle class by stimulating economic growth — what did Obama have left?

Big Bird. The stupidest ad in memory. Has any president ever run an ad so small and trivial? After an unprecedented shellacking in a debate about very large issues, this is his response?

The Middle East is ablaze, the country drowning in debt, the fiscal cliff looming — and Obama’s great pitch is that only he can save the $130 million enterprise that is the Sesame Workshop?

An inspiring second-term agenda: subsidies for Big Bird and free contraceptives for Sandra Fluke.

Obama has two debates to come up with something better. If he can’t, he will double down on his “Romney the menace” line. It might still work. But a word of advice: Your administration having prevaricated unceasingly.

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Romney can’t just be the “not Obama” ballot choice – and win

Unfortunately for Romney, Krauthammer is correct.

Whomever Romney is listening to and following their advice, needs to be fired. The strategy is ineffective. Duplicating the Republican party nomination strategy is a game-LOSER. Romney made it to the top of the Republican ticket not because of his lofty ideas on policy but because the contestants in the race were worse than him for various reasons. He can not expect to win (and won’t) by simply being the “not O” ballot selection.

And he needs think about the possibility of his first term. Now is when platform is defined and the crucial first 100 days are shaped. Going in as “not O” will not position him or his administration for hitting the ground successfully.

Mitt – replace the voices in your head. America is in desperate need of top quality leadership which requires innovative and game-changing strategy.

Going into the debate scares me. He is not prepared for this. He does not have the year of solid preparation, principles and ideas formed to enter the debate. He is going in unprepared which with the MSM spinning and shaping the actual debate and then their commentary on its results —– he is all ready circling the drain.

Mitt – wake up! Step up!

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2 cents

Mr. Krauthammer’s most recent column once again points out the non-sense that is O’s SOP in the Iran nuclear issue. As I see it either O has a diabolical motive or he really is ignorant. In either case if he was a manager of my business he would be fired. I don’t see a logical argument for him being retained.

He doesn’t represent me or my best interests or – more importantly – our nation’s best interest. By his own admission the white middle class he has written off which means he is targeting representation of the black (96% voted for him – but that is not racism), Hispanic, Asian and lower class white and upper class white/aka celebrities. MSM is trying to spin Romney’s recently released comments as he is class warrior but that is not what he said. I agree that he could have put it a little more elegantly but the essence of what he is saying is true. It is in a lot of ways no different that O’s comments last Oct/Nov.

Ladies and gentlemen, our country is really screwed up. I am serious. We have a serious problem in the way a lot, and maybe even the majority, think and expect. Politics has always been brutal, just read the books about our founding fathers and the early times that originally shaped our nation. Note – I wrote – originally. Because for just about all purposes we are not THAT nation any longer. We have a nation that is spiritually ignorant and morally absent. Our nation is one of “receiving and getting” and demanding even more “stuff” and “programs”. On the whole our society is dependent on the government (federal and state) for their livelihood. That is NOT the nation of the original intent. Redistribution of wealth (as O beliefs and wants to practice) was foreign to our ancestors.

We need systemic change to occur and for many people because of their level of dependency on the government it will be a VERY painful change but it still needs to occur. For most if not all addictions/dependency, abstaining is the best solution. It will also mean and necessitate the development of willpower/volition on many/most citizens. It will require daily decisions to do one’s best so as not to “slip” and embrace dependency once again.

 

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Spiritual reality

Krauthammer is again trying to get through the thick skulls of policy makers and citizens. His point is accurate. Again – what is involved in the Iran-Israel dynamic is ultimately a spiritual matter. Working solely from a secular POV is dangerous and wrong. His recent article shows half the spiritual component of the situation between these two countries. The other half of the formula is from the perspective of God and His prophecies that are yet to be fulfilled.

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Diagnosis and prescription

Krauthammer’s article this week is about the growing Iran nuclear issue and the current SOP followed by the CES and the other nations wearily looking on.

I agree with the fourth (added) option which is the president of the USA securing authorization to use the military against Iran if a well defined list of objectives are not met by the Iranian government. However the unfortunate truth of the matter is that our government has ceased to be a working government whose purpose is the well-being of the citizens of the country to that of partisan politicking full-time in hopes of life-long careers in so-called public/civil service. I will refocus the quote and focus of the Joker to repeat that “our national government is in dire need of an enema”. 

Because of the current state of our government, it is in my opinion that any attempt to work with Congress now will produce posing and grand-standing to puff up our current president and that simply can not be allowed to happen. To make him artificially appear a better man than he is – will not do! To last minute create a public persona of strength and values is hogwash and an insult to all the people who are actually ethically moral principle based people.  That man needs to flushed out of our nation’s policy making, removed from the captain’s wheel and ejected from the cockpit (violently if need be). Once that objective is secured THEN approaching Congress in meaningful, real talks to make the legitimate, legal and permanent line in the sand which to hold Iran’s leadership to can be identified and made. Only then will Israel believe that their nation and people’s existence is protected. 

So – let’s get things moving and get the CES out of office so we can begin the necessary CHANGE that our country desperately needs.

 

CES = chief empty suit = current president of the USA

 

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