Subj : Re: Obama's "accomplishments" To : All From : not@he.re Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:20:06 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september ..org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-septemb er.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: dovetail Newsgroups: misc.survivalism,az.politics,ca.politics,dfw.politics Subject: Re: Obama's "accomplishments" Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:23:51 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 154 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 16:23:46 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="3fca6ecbb8e8021e60d190d1ba03e0ad"; logging-data="3326"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18IgoCZn1L5N19Ts9b2mha0NLWGeXEZKq8=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.6esrpre) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/10.0.6 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:VmDZHSkEB94X+fHqyoj3tBhwbAE= Xref: news.eternal-september.org misc.survivalism:21305 az.politics:2301 ca.politics:5352 dfw.politics:173 On 8/3/2012 9:34 AM, Harold@angels.not wrote: > On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:34:34 -0600, propinquity wrote: > >> On 8/2/2012 8:48 PM, azjohn wrote: >>> >>> A very impressive list that grows longer with each passing day during >>> his final year in office!!! >> >>> How is this "CHANGE" working out for you? >> > How is your criticizm working for you? Briliantly, and all Obama has to do is open his yap and feed me more ops: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443931404577551344018773450.html What's the difference between a calm and cool Barack Obama, and a rattled and worried Barack Obama? Four words, it turns out. "You didn't build that" is swelling to such heights that it has the president somewhere unprecedented: on defense. Mr. Obama has felt compelled—for the first time in this campaign—to cut an ad in which he directly responds to the criticisms of his now-infamous speech, complaining his opponents took his words "out of context." Related Video Columnist Kim Strassel on Scott Brown's new ad contrasting Elizabeth Warren and President Obama to Presidents Clinton, Reagan, Kennedy, and Johnson. Photo: Getty Images ... ...That ad follows two separate ones from his campaign attempting damage control. His campaign appearances are now about backpedaling and proclaiming his love for small business. And the Democratic National Committee produced its own panicked memo, which vowed to "turn the page" on Mr. Romney's "out of context . . . BS"—thereby acknowledging that Chicago has lost control of the message. The Obama campaign has elevated poll-testing and focus-grouping to near-clinical heights, and the results drive the president's every action: his policies, his campaign venues, his targeted demographics, his messaging. That Mr. Obama felt required—teeth-gritted—to address the "you didn't build that" meme means his vaunted focus groups are sounding alarms. The obsession with tested messages is precisely why the president's rare moments of candor—on free enterprise, on those who "cling to their guns and religion," on the need to "spread the wealth around"—are so revealing. They are a look at the real man. It turns out Mr. Obama's dismissive words toward free enterprise closely mirror a speech that liberal Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren gave last August. Ms. Warren's argument—that government is the real source of all business success—went viral and made a profound impression among the liberal elite, who have been pushing for its wider adoption. Mr. Obama chose to road-test it on the national stage, presumably thinking it would underline his argument for why the wealthy should pay more. It was a big political misstep, and now has the Obama team seriously worried. ... And no wonder. The immediate effect was to suck away the president's momentum. Mr. Obama has little positive to brag about, and his campaign hinges on keeping negative attention on his opponent. For months, the president's team hammered on Mr. Romney's time at Bain, his Massachusetts tenure, his tax returns. "You didn't build that" shifted the focus to the president, and his decision to respond to the criticisms has only legitimized them and guaranteed they continue. The Obama campaign's bigger problem, both sides are now realizing, is that his words go beyond politics and are more devastating than the Romney complaints that Mr. Obama is too big-government oriented or has mishandled the economy. They raise the far more potent issue of national identity and feed the suspicion that Mr. Obama is actively hostile to American ideals and aspirations. Republicans are doing their own voter surveys, and they note that Mr. Obama's problem is that his words cause an emotional response, and that they disturb voters in nearly every demographic. >> >> I think you're giving him way too much credit, he didn't build those >> accomplishments by himself, other Dem traitors helped out... >> > You could make a point without denigrating anyone, or could you? I could, but liars like you so earn it that well... you know... > Did your tactics help your position in 2008? Did useless candidates and an anti-Bush backlash make that a moot one regardless? Lol. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443931404577551344018773450.html What's the difference between a calm and cool Barack Obama, and a rattled and worried Barack Obama? Four words, it turns out. "You didn't build that" is swelling to such heights that it has the president somewhere unprecedented: on defense. Mr. Obama has felt compelled—for the first time in this campaign—to cut an ad in which he directly responds to the criticisms of his now-infamous speech, complaining his opponents took his words "out of context." ...That ad follows two separate ones from his campaign attempting damage control. His campaign appearances are now about backpedaling and proclaiming his love for small business. And the Democratic National Committee produced its own panicked memo, which vowed to "turn the page" on Mr. Romney's "out of context . . . BS"—thereby acknowledging that Chicago has lost control of the message. The Obama campaign has elevated poll-testing and focus-grouping to near-clinical heights, and the results drive the president's every action: his policies, his campaign venues, his targeted demographics, his messaging. That Mr. Obama felt required—teeth-gritted—to address the "you didn't build that" meme means his vaunted focus groups are sounding alarms. The obsession with tested messages is precisely why the president's rare moments of candor—on free enterprise, on those who "cling to their guns and religion," on the need to "spread the wealth around"—are so revealing. They are a look at the real man. It turns out Mr. Obama's dismissive words toward free enterprise closely mirror a speech that liberal Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren gave last August. Ms. Warren's argument—that government is the real source of all business success—went viral and made a profound impression among the liberal elite, who have been pushing for its wider adoption. Mr. Obama chose to road-test it on the national stage, presumably thinking it would underline his argument for why the wealthy should pay more. It was a big political misstep, and now has the Obama team seriously worried. ... And no wonder. The immediate effect was to suck away the president's momentum. Mr. Obama has little positive to brag about, and his campaign hinges on keeping negative attention on his opponent. For months, the president's team hammered on Mr. Romney's time at Bain, his Massachusetts tenure, his tax returns. "You didn't build that" shifted the focus to the president, and his decision to respond to the criticisms has only legitimized them and guaranteed they continue. The Obama campaign's bigger problem, both sides are now realizing, is that his words go beyond politics and are more devastating than the Romney complaints that Mr. Obama is too big-government oriented or has mishandled the economy. They raise the far more potent issue of national identity and feed the suspicion that Mr. Obama is actively hostile to American ideals and aspirations. Republicans are doing their own voter surveys, and they note that Mr. Obama's problem is that his words cause an emotional response, and that they disturb voters in nearly every demographic. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .