According to Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (no wonder we don’t believe the Dems will cut spending when they can’t even get their names down to normal lengths), the economy has begun to turn around. Maybe that’s the Democrats new strategy: Make current conditions the new normal. “No, this is what an awesome economy looks like; this is exactly how things were like in the 80s. If you remember differently, then you’re wrong.”
How exactly are they supposed to argue for Obama with an economy the worst it’s been since the Great Depression? “As you can see from all the trillions Obama has pointlessly spent, he’s trying really hard… at least when he’s not preoccupied with things unrelated to jobs like health care.” George W. Bush talked about the “soft bigotry of low expectations” — right now that’s seeming like Obama’s only real campaign strategy.
Obama: This is not the economy you are seeing.
Libs/MSM: This is not the economy we are seeing.
Obama: This is an awsome economy.
Libs/MSM: This is an awsome economy.
Obama: You will now vote for me.
Libs/MSM: We will now vote for you.
The campaign slogans from the Obama camp should be interesting:
* Obama 2012: He could have been worse
* Obama 2012: He’s starting to get the hang of it
* Obama 2012: There’s still hope he’ll change
@DamnCat, you’re a lot closer to the heart of the matter with your slogan #1, than you think. Liberals I talk to are really convinced that things would have been somehow worse if someone else had been elected. Obama asked them to create an imaginary world where things are horrible, and then compare his reality to that, and the idiots have done it. It’s unbelievable that anyone would seriously compare his presidency to a horribly bad imaginary world, rather than to past historical data.
At least FDR stopped short of attempting to paint Pearl Harbor or Kasserine Pass as anything but the unmitigated disasters they were.
These are the same people who claim the economy was terrible under Reagan.
These are the same people who claim that we dropped nukes on Japan for no reason.
These are the same people who claim Clinton was the greatest president the nation ever had.
These are the same people who claim Sarah Palin is insane and stupid, but Nancy Pelosi is sane and intelligent.
These are the same people who claim that there will be more hurricanes as a result of “global warming,” then when there are actually less hurricanes they say that is proof of “global warming.”
These are the same people who claim that George W Bush not releasing his medical records (much like Clinton) was a travesty, but Hussein Obama not releasing ANY of his records is as it should be.
These are the same people who claim that George W Bush’s invasion of Iraq, complete with UN resolutions and congress’s approval, was illegal, but Obama’s invasion of Libya without consent of congress is fine.
These are the same people that say a congressman who’s foot goes under the wall of the men’s room stall is a pervert that needs to resign, but spend days attempting to prove that a congressman who sends pictures of his weiner to girls online is a good congressman.
Are you really surprised?
MarkoMancuso:
U.S. responded to the Kasserine Pass debacle by putting Patton in charge. And Patton used Rommel’s own tactics against him (“Rommel you magnificant bastard I read your book!”)
We’re not going to have to read Obama’s book, are we?
This is your economy. (Picture of healthy American industry.)
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This is your economy on Obama.
(Burn, splatter, smoke, engines stop, banks fail, business fold, jobs leave, derelicts everywhere begging for food, Obamavilles under freeway overpasses in every city…)
Patton wouldn’t last 5 minutes in today’s military. A) Chicks in the military. Are you kidding me? Patton would take one look out over the audience and would whip out his pearl handled pistols and start shooting!!!
B) Gays in the Military – Patton would reload his pearl handled pistols and would continue shooting and would leave one last round in the chamber for himself, which he would then gladly use! I don’t see a “stomping their bastard guts out and using their guts to oil our tank tracks” speech in today’s army…
Ivory. Pearl is for pimps.
Yeah, ussjimmycarter, Patton would reload those IVORY handled pistols and shoot you for saying they were pearl handled…
These are the same people who have, with a straight face, compared Obama, the blatant communist who wants to confiscate “rich people’s (rich = people with a job) “wealth”
(wealth = money they worked for) to JFK who started the Vietnam War to fight communism and lowered taxes because “a rising tide lifts all boats”.
These are the same people who will tell you Bush was “stupid” but Obama is really really smart….but they can’t give you an example of either.
A rising Marxist sinks all boat…except his of course.
These are the same people who think that “1984” is a How-To book.
Son of Bob, I am totally stealing your words. Like jonny cat kerry, I may claim them for my own! Bwahahahaha
marxists should be required to wear helmets. They obviously are soft in the head department.
Did doobie shultz’s mother drop her on her head when she was not aborted? Oh wait, only American women are supposed to abort their babies, not marxists. How else would you have barry osama?
Aw, Debs, and I used to have so much faith in your pronouncements. Careful observers will notice the qualities that got her the DNC position. Who else could stay on talking points so well in the face of overwhelming reality?
@Marko and Basil: Yup, the Kasserine Pass was a huge defeat; however, I think it would have been a miracle for any general to pull a rabbit out of that hat. Granted that the US general, whose name gladly escapes me, was a moron and didn’t even grasp the concept of high ground; however, the Gerries were hardened troops who out numbered and out gunned us, especially in tanks.
I could be crazy. That was just a minor part of Marko’s post above. I will seek counseling. Either that, or I’ll run for Congress.
Burmashave:
MG (later LG) Fredendall wasn’t the best, to be sure. However, he did have some success prior. He got moved into a training slot for the rest of the war. I don’t understand why someone not qualified to do is qualified to train, but the Army isn’t the only place that does that.
“derelicts everywhere begging for food” – me
I was in Seattle today and saw more beggars than ever and on street corners where I’ve never seen anyone begging before. Sign of things to come, I think.
And President Obama jokes about not creating as many “shovel-ready jobs.”
I know where I’d like to put my shovel(s).
I think their election plan involves busloads of vagrants given signs and taught to chant;
“Show me what recovery looks like! THIS IS WHAT RECOVERY LOOKS LIKE!” ,
until Republicans give up.
By Wasserman-Schultz standards, that was such an awesome success in Wisconsin.
Um, is it ok to break the CAPS LOCK insanity rule
to illustrate someone else’s insanity?
Basil, the Peter Principle bows to no general! Sterling examples from our own past include the likes of Albert Sidney Johnston, John Bell Hood, Ambrose Burnside, and Lloyd Fredendall. There is also the Braxton Bragg/Barack Obama Principle. It applies to leaders who attain equal levels of incompetence at all positions.
saw more beggars than ever and on street corners where I’ve never seen anyone begging before
First of all, they aren’t “beggars” you raaaaacist redneck! They are simply people who have fallen through the cracks thanks to you and your backwards bible thumping and racist racism! They are just trying to feed their families and how are they supposed to do that when people like you refuse to give them money?? What do you expect them to do, work??? That’s slavery!
I pass a team of………pan handlers… every day ( I think that’s what they call themselves) no exaggeration, they’re each at least 250 lbs and you get one guess what their sign says…… I’d take a picture but I’m afraid she’d attack me and sit on me. She looks like she could flip my van over with one hand.
There’s another one who stands at the end of a highway and he has been there every bleeping day since at least 2007. He sure as s^$t ain’t “homeless” and there’s nothing more annoying than seeing people give him money when they have to see him there every day. They work in shifts and rotate around this giant intersection thing, same people 7 days a week. In the back ground: One of those orange Obama is wonderful and creating jobs etc signs…how appropriate.
… only American women are supposed to abort their babies, not marxists. How else would you have barry osama?
Yeah but…Is there any doubt that had abortion been legal in 1961, Barry would have gone where Margaret Sanger wanted him to go?
These are the same people who claim history is whatever they say it is.
“Today, organizations and individuals which oppose abortion and, sometimes, birth control, have charged Sanger with eugenicism and racism. Sanger’s supporters consider the charges exaggerated or false.”
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
On blacks, immigrants and indigents:
“…human weeds,’ ‘reckless breeders,’ ‘spawning… human beings who never should have been born.” Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people.
On the purpose of birth control:
The purpose in promoting birth control was “to create a race of thoroughbreds,” she wrote in the Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2)
So what if she wrote it in a book, she was ….misquoted.
No doubt Sanger got along well with the ideas expressed by George Bernard Shaw, and put into practice by Adolph Hitler and his merry band of SS: http://saynsumthn.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/george-bernard-shaw-hitler-and-margaret-sanger/
I’m almost glad I can’t afford to travel anymore. I live in Texas where some 38% of all jobs have been “created” since Obammy took over. Yet I see empty businesses all over, homes that have been for sale for two years, along with more for sale times every time I go out.
If the “Vibrant Texas Economy” looks like this, the rest of the country must look like the poor side of Dogpatch. With Me-Chelle as Mammy Yokum.