Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Malaise, anyone?

President Obama is now railing at the “apathy” of Democratic voters.
"People need to shake off this lethargy. People need to buck up," Obama told Rolling Stone in an interview to be published Friday. The president told Democrats that making change happen is hard and "if people now want to take their ball and go home, that tells me folks weren't serious in the first place."

Yet in his attempt to light a fire under supporters, Obama comes across as fired up himself about how many backers fail to acknowledge the progress he sees. He said the glass-half-empty view among many progressive voters can be a debilitating force that distracts them from the real worry: Republicans. [emphasis mine]
Half-empty or half-full, Barry, even many Democrats have finally figured out that it’s still just a dribble glass.

Perhaps everybody’s feeling insufficiently bucked because of the high unemployment rate or the lack of real economic growth or the dawning awareness that your health-care plan is a costly disaster. Or maybe it’s the sky-high deficit and the uncontrolled spending. Or your Carter-like coddling of dictators. Or your racist Justice Department. Or your outrageous dog-in-the-manger attitude about border security (we, the feds, aren’t going to enforce immigration law, but you, Arizona, aren’t going to do it, either). Michelle’s spending sprees, the endless White House “galas”, the fancy vacations; it all adds up.

You have, though, in somewhat Bidenesque fashion, put your finger on a problem pertaining to the electorate at large: folks really weren’t serious when they elected you. Oh, many, if not most, must have thought they were, but in any objective sense, they couldn’t have been. A vote in favor of a junior senator who came up through the corrupt Chicago political machine, toting all the radical baggage of a lifetime of association with the likes of Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, having exactly zero administrative experience, and holding himself out as a kind of Jesus without the indignity and pain - and divisive dogma! - of the cross…No, whatever motivated them, it wasn’t seriousness. Perhaps, ironically, it was a “hope against hope”, a desperately-cherished wish for a political miracle that, deep down, they knew could not possibly come true, but which, next to the unlovely and banal reality of the McCain alternative, caused them to throw caution to the wind.

And now they find they’ve just been pissing into it and, like sane, mature adults, have decided to stop.

10 comments:

Minicapt said...

Time for!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIiMa2Fe-ZQ

Cheers

Minicapt said...

To be countered by!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtrJwLfNQPs

Cheers

JeffS said...

"Teenage Mutant Kung Fu Chickens"....now THEY would shake the apathy out of anyone! Heh!

Back on topic....

Paco, I just hope enough sane adults are making that decision. Because the ability to admit mistakes is a measure of maturity, not insanity. The victimhood meme runs deep in our country.

richard mcenroe said...

Wait 'til he puts on the sweater. You KNOW Obie has some butt-ugly isn't-that-my-grandma's-wallpaper sweaters...

richard mcenroe said...

Paco, you're being unfair to Obie and the Dems.

Everyone knows malaise goes great with stale baloney...

Mehaul said...

Obie being interviewed by predictable Rolling Stone is NOT CHANGE. OK Obie!!

richard mcenroe said...

So The Great and Powwerful Ob thinks people weren't serious when they voted for him?

Finally, after 20+ months, one sentence out of his mouth makes sense...

RebeccaH said...

The attitude seems to be, "Yeah, you got me elected to POTUS, but what have you done for me lately?"

This guy has no idea there's anyone alive outside of him.

bruce said...

The Precious Presidency.

'We just don't deserve him!'

bruce said...

Here is a very timely article which shows the type of Euro social state Obama wants to turn the US into, and starkly depicts the sheep mentality of Euro 'citizens':

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/8033238/Europes-austerity-anger-grows.html