DANIEL GREENFIELD: SPEECH! SPEECH! WEEKLY ROUNDUP PART 1
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SPEECH, SPEECH
After a petty showdown with Republicans and a temper tantrum, Hussein the First has agreed to move that speech which no one particularly cared about anyway to another day. There’s nothing that O can say that will convince the country that sunny skies are ahead. With 80 percent of Americans saying that the country is in a recession, the Summer of Recovery propaganda. All that leaves is more useless proposals and the old blame game.
Three years ago columnists fainted at his feet every time his mouth imitated the teleprompter, today even they have to admit that the magic is gone. In a wholly negative campaign, his best bet would be to avoid the limelight and let his pet poodle press do his dirty work for him. The less people remember that he’s around, the less likely they are to blame him.
It’s a smart strategy, but O’s ego would never let him bend that far. Instead he has begun delivering speeches like Castro, with much less to say. And the more the public sees him making the rounds, the more they associate him with the disastrous situation.
All Obama can offer is more programs that will waste money without creating more jobs, while warning about the irresponsible Republicans and their crazy tax cutting ways. And we’ve heard it all before. All the pomp and circumstance of the office reduced to a petty nose thumbing, while millions remain out of work.
Speeches about economic proposals don’t matter when you have zero credibility on the economy. Last election, the Dems and the pet poodle press could pitch Obama as the bring young thing with an Ivy League Degree who was going to turn things around with new media and green jobs. Today that brings bitter laughter from people who know better.
Obama’s only real shot at credibility is to admit his mistakes and claim that he learned from them– and it’s the one thing that he’s least likely to do. Instead he and his staffers give in to paranoia and petty tantrums.
“It is a big deal that the House said ‘no’ to the president from our end,” a White House source with intimate knowledge of what took place between the House and the president told me Thursday. “This confirms what we all know: They will do anything in the House to muck us up.”
Next thing you know, Obama will have to get his own bunker.
REPORT, REPORT
Some of you may have heard about the Center for American Soros Progress report which showed that organizations which investigate Islam are funded by money, not sunshine and bunnies. Here’s my more in depth piece on the subject at Front Page Magazine,
The Center for American Progress’ campaign for donor transparency, however, stops at its own doors. While its own budget is many times that of the organizations that its report targets — the CAP’s policy is to keep the identities of its own donors secret.
The CAP report attempts to suppress dialogue on Islamic terrorism with the charge of Islamophobia, but the center itself is part of a conservaphobia and Israelphobia network. An industry that pays quite well, as its annual budgets in the tens of millions show.
Where does the money for the Center for American Progress come from? From shady billionaires, like Herb and Marion Sandler, listed by Time Magazine (together) as one of the 25 people to blame for the financial crisis, and George Soros, convicted in France of insider trading.
Of course we know that CAP is the real Fear Inc, but their report did have a slight Jewish problem. As I explored in my follow up article, The Center for American Progress’s Jewish Conspiracy Theory
According to the Center for American Progress, the reason that nearly half of all Americans have a negative view of Islam is because of three and a half Jews and an Irishman. If such an allegation were being made by a Saudi cleric or an Egyptian newspaper, we could laugh it off along with the aphrodisiac gum, the GPS shark and other regional conspiracy theories about the Jews. But that’s not the case here.
Time Magazine described the Center for American Progress as the most influential outside group in the Obama Administration. Run by Clinton’s former Chief of Staff, and funded by shady billionaires, the growing influence of the shadowy organization on the Democratic Party has troubled even the mainstream media.
“It is difficult to overstate the influence in Obamaland of CAP,” Time wrote. It is even more difficult to overstate its influence on the media, which relies on talking points created by the Center and its blog, ThinkProgress.
REAGAN DEMOCRATS
The Turner vs Weprin race for Weiner’s old seat is bringing the Reagan Democrats question back with a vengeance. The poll numbers certainly stack up that way.
In NY-9 much comes down to the Jewish working class vote, which is generally neglected by both parties who usually only see the movers and shakers. The Obamanoids who thought that they could bring in J Street and dismiss the Jewish community as a bunch of out of touch fogeys made a mistake that they will pay for electorally. But it’s not likely to be too significant, outside of Florida.
Turner vs Weprin remains up in the air, but if Turner wins it would be stunning, especially as he’s not a very good candidate. But neither is Weprin, who has inherited some family grudges and is completely out of his depth on national issues.
There’s no question though that having the Democratic party divert its attention from national issues for a race in what should be a safe district, only to have their candidate awkwardly disassociate himself from Obama has to be humiliating.
Will I eventually support Obama on his reelection? Probably. Do I disagree with him on his Israel policy? Absolutely. I will probably not refuse to endorse him because I think I will be more effective by supporting him but at the same time being very strongly against him on some of his policies
Not to mention Weprin making the argument that he can be a more effective advocate against Obama’s policies as a Democrat has to be a head scratcher.
None of this is good news for Democrats, not because a single district loss will be too devastating, but because when safe districts are in play, then things are really bad.
It’s doubtful that things would have gotten this bad under a more experienced administration, but the technocracy of social media has left behind a large electorate that doesn’t fit into the neat slots for activists.
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