I am SOOO glad those conventions are over.
Yes, I managed to suffer through another night of paeans and virtual hymns of praise for Barack Obama, the man who apparently can do anything (as long as you ignore the last four years). Obama was lauded, praised, and credited with killing Bin Laden, saving GM, protecting the environment, killing Bin Laden, supporting unions, …and killing Bin Laden. Absent was any mention of the sputtering economy or the shrinking job market, save the occasional plea to have faith that (have no fear) he’ll really get it fixed in four additional years.
But Obama’s speech fell flat. Worse, it was re-treads of every speech he’s given over the past four years. He acted and sounded tired; goodness knows I was after listening to it.
In a way, the erstwhile President Xerxes now reminds you of a Walter-Mitty-meets-Willy-Loman type, broken-down and pitiable, convinced of his immense talents in areas where he’s much worse than hapless.
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Case in point: the August jobs numbers, which just came out this morning. If you hear anything about this report at all, you’ll probably hear it framed as a huge win for Obama’s policies. Well, it’s a result for his policies all right, but I don’t think “win” is the appropriate word.
From James Pethokoukis at American Enterprise Institute:
This was not the employment report either American workers or the Obama campaign were hoping for. A huge miss. It shows the U.S. labor market remains in a deep depression, generating few jobs and little or no income growth.
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While the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1% from 8.3% in July, it was due to a big drop in the labor force participation rate (the share of Americans with a job or looking for one). If fewer Americans hadn’t given up looking for work, the unemployment rate would have risen.
Here’s the chart that James includes with his post:
Oooof.
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I won’t even try to parse and breakdown the laundry list of prevarications that President Obama rattled off in his address. We’ve heard almost every word before, back when his TelePrompter was loaded with far better speeches. Now, it’s a bit like watching the drunk best-man at a wedding stumble through his toast: you just want it to be over, for your sake and his.
It’s apparent to anyone with functioning eyes that we’re going down the wrong path, and based on last night’s lecture, Obama undoubtedly isn’t going to change. It’s up to us to turn things around come November. I don’t much care if you voted for Obama last time or not; he’s done less than nothing to warrant a second shot at the biggest job on the planet.
It can’t be stated any better than this:
“When someone isn’t doing the job, we’ve got to let him go.”
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UPDATE: Remember when I said that Obama’s speech was full of fibs, lies, etc.,..?
Looks like President Pander has set a new “Statement Expiration Date” RECORD for himself this time: “Surprise!! HHS pilot program to send 2 million poor seniors into …Voucher Programs“.
And the truly sad thing? I’m not even a little surprised.
Of course it fell flat, it was an empty chair bloviating how wonderful he is compared to the evil Republicans. As pathetic hateful and destructive as Obama himself is. He must go.
Hear, hear, RP.
The evening was literally (to use Biden’s oft-used word from last night) painful. It was worse than simply by-the-numbers: it was a re-run of pap that wasn’t even good the FIRST time around.
I have my calendar marking off the days ’til we oust him. 60 days and counting!!!!
http://www.7is7.com/otto/countdsamp.html
As I do! And I have no fear he’ll be tossed on the garbage heap of socialist history. I only wish our politically bigoted media could be thrown out with him.
Blogs and Twitter are already doing the job, slowly but surely. Newspaper subscription rate, along with network viewership rates, are down.
Every year.
It’s not as if people are just deciding they DON’T want to know what’s going on. Quite the contrary: in order to find out the truth, they’re realizing they have to go elsewhere to find it.
Keep up the great work, RP.
BTW: Nice job on your post on Cardinal Dolan’s address, too.
http://rightpunditry.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/cardinal-dolan-prays-at-the-abortion-palooza-democrat-convention-to-hords-of-abortion-lovers/
One of the things that really irritates me is this: “I saved GM” crap that they put out there. Did you, sir? Did your REALLY save GM? And, what was the cost to the investors at GM? AND, to the American TAXPAYER?
Please, elaborate on those points…………..I’m WAITING!
You (Obama) SCREWED the investors, breaking DECADES of accepted law and basically told them “here’s your 20 cents on the dollar, now TRY to sue me.”, and gave the company over to your union cronies.
Then you had the President of GM LIE on a commercial about “paying back the loan.” Yeah, they paid THAT loan back……WITH……..another loan.
The American taxpayer will be hit with BILLIONS of dollars for your crone-laden bailout. But to the folks in your audience….50% or more that DON’T pay taxes, I guess it’s no big deal.
I hear you, bro.
Dealerships closed and bond holders got shafted. And all with a multi, multi-billion dollar tax-payer funded loan. Exactly HOW is that saving anything, except Obama’s cronies?
No need to answer: it’s a rhetorical question.
I’ve got something on the GM fiasco that I haven’t had time for yet, but I’ll try to put it together soon. Like you, this subject REALLY gets under my skin….