The crybaby brigade was out in full force late last week, making excuses for the presidential candidates while catering to the prejudices of America's two great (and hopelessly deluded) political tribes. It all started Wednesday night after Willard "unexpectedly" came out strong in his "debate" with President Hopey-Changey. Why oh why, many partisan Democrats were asking, didn't Obama come out swinging and put Governor 47%-er on the ropes early? This should have been like taking candy from a baby, but somehow Obama "blew it."
My favorite "explanation" for Obama's performance comes from George
You don't win a presidential debate by being a policy wonk. Obama violated all the basics of presidential debating. The best defense is a good offense. You have to set the terms of the debate and press those terms. Obama failed. Here are those basics:Lakoff continues on in this vein for a couple more paragraphs, but this was about all I could stand.
State your moral values. Contrast them with your opponent's.
Project empathy and enthusiasm. Connect.
Communicate clearly and simply. Be authentic. Say just what you believe.
Project trust.
Present an authentic view of yourself that the public can identify with and be proud of.
Obama did none of this. Instead he talked about policy details.
He needed to come on strong from the first sentence.
Democracy is based on citizens caring about and taking responsibility for both themselves as for the well-being of all. Government is the instrument that citizens use to guarantee protection and empowerment for all. We all, together, provide what is needed for a decent life. Individual accomplishment rests on what other Americans have provided and keep providing.
Building the economy requires public investment -- in public infrastructure, education, research, and much more.
Success is much more than money. It is your contribution to America as a whole -- whether it is teaching, raising children, providing food, healing the sick, making useful products, guaranteeing our rights and our safety, or running businesses that make life better. America needs us all. And we all depend on each other. Personal responsibility is necessary.
Notice what is missing from Lakoff's analysis of what Obama did wrong? Not once does Jackoff...er, sorry, Lakoff say that Obama needed to CLEARLY ARTICULATE HOW HIS POSITIONS ARE DIFFERENT FROM ROMNEY. And why didn't he do that? Because THERE IS NO FUCKING DIFFERENCE, which leaves sellout hack mouthpieces like Lakoff struggling with all of their might to convince their dimwitted readers that there is in fact a difference but it just wasn't clearly articulated.
Obama fumbled the debate for a very basic reason: he ain't got SHIT to say. He has a lead and he's trying to run out the clock. After all, what's Romney going to do, point out how President Sellout has broken nearly every one of his 2008 campaign promises and for four years has been treating his liberal and progressive base like the whiny little bitches that they are? Of course fucking not.
On the flip side, there was the conservative freak out on Friday when, despite the monthly jobs report from the Bureau of
So was the BLS report manipulated? Of COURSE it fucking was, just like every other monthly jobs report going back to three years ago when this "zombie recovery" started. But it isn't about trying to get Obama reelected, it's about trying to keep the fucking economy from resuming its collapse. Everything our fearless "leaders" have been doing since the fall or 2008, from the TARP law to QE3 has been a massive con job attempting to induce the average consumer idiot to keep spending. Jack Welch is smart enough to know that, which means he is either a liar or he's gone senile.
All in all, it was just another couple of excruciating days in Campaign Stupid. Thank your own personal deity that we only have about four more weeks of this bullshit to endure before it is mercifully all over.
Bonus: "I still cry...just like a baby"
So Welch complains that the Feds are conspiring to cover up a massive unemployment problem (he and his globalist cronies created through outsourcing and automation), and then suggests that that the government has been ineffective in cleaning up the mess (he personally played a large part in creating). And all served up to us by Fox (he bullhorn of the grunting mob of simpletons that believe the we'd all be better off living in a place with as much central government as Somalia). Whatever comes after ironic, that's what this is.
ReplyDelete"Communicate clearly and simply. Be authentic. Say just what you believe."
ReplyDeleteOh?
"I believe in whoring myself for ever greater globs of money & power," might not be the most career-enhancing move. So they lie.
Politicians are the same butt-licking, kill joy, social climbers we've all hated since the election for grade school president. (A position only slightly less beholden to behind the scenes power brokers than the one currently being contested by Obomney and Robama ...)