A bitter, clingier Obama
The strangest moment of the speech was when Obama mocked Romney’s vocabulary. The former Massachusetts governor had correctly called Ryan’s budget “marvelous.” Obama’s brilliant rebuttal: That’s “a word you don’t often hear when it comes to describing a budget. (Laughter.) It’s a word you don’t often hear generally. (Laughter.)”
The president’s transparent motive was to suggest that Romney is somehow weird or out of touch for using the m-word. This is an argument likely to thrill the legs of Washington correspondents, who heartily laughed along with the president, but unlikely to provide independent voters with any reason whatsoever to support a second Obama administration.
Are we really to believe that Romney is disqualified from the presidency because of his word choices and support for the only serious plan to restore sustainability to the welfare state while promoting economic growth? What is Obama’s alternative? Never to say “marvelous” in public while raising taxes, foisting an unpopular health plan on a recalcitrant public, empowering an unelected board to set prices for Medicare and Medicaid, and delivering the worst economic recovery in history?
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Last week good Matthew Continetti thought that it was the worst week for Obama. Then this week came along.
Young man, it’s going to be a long host summer.
Schadenfreude aplenty!
Schadenfreude on April 6, 2012 at 4:07 PM
In touch and “Presidential”: feigning ignorance of Marbury v. Madison. Allowing Cee Low Green to sing his hit “F**K You”, unedited, at a campaign fundraiser.
Out of touch: saying “marvelous”
Kataklysmic on April 6, 2012 at 4:07 PM
*Cee Lo
Kataklysmic on April 6, 2012 at 4:08 PM
The stench of Obama’s failures cannot be escaped. And he still has the SCOTUS ruling to look forward to.
Chuck Schick on April 6, 2012 at 4:09 PM
Most intellectual president evah makes fun of his opponent for using a word not everyone uses.
PerceptorII on April 6, 2012 at 4:10 PM
A Bitterer, clingier Obama. This is important because
1. He has also increased in bitterness
and
2. Parallel structure, or something.
RINO in Name Only on April 6, 2012 at 4:11 PM
4 years ago today – Barack Hussein Obama’s “BITTER, GUN AND RELIGION CLINGERS” speech to rich San Francisco donors secretly taped. 4/6/08
Urban Infidel on April 6, 2012 at 4:12 PM
What recovery? The jobs numbers sucked, and a new wave of foreclosures is about to rock the already flailing housing market. The only people talking about a recovery are the Obama crotch-sniffers in the MSM, who’re trying to create this mythic recovery out of thin air.
AZCoyote on April 6, 2012 at 4:15 PM
I see what he did there, and I love it.
UltimateBob on April 6, 2012 at 4:16 PM
Corpsemen…. That’s a word you don’t often hear when it comes to describing someone serving in the military.
UltimateBob on April 6, 2012 at 4:20 PM
Peevish. Great word.
I wonder if Obama will begin to understand in the coming months that peevishness isn’t presidential. It’s fine for his surrogates to engage in petty sniping, but voters expect the President to be the grown up in the room…not one of the mud wrestlers.
Dee2008 on April 6, 2012 at 4:21 PM
Austrian…That’s a word you don’t often hear when it comes to describing the german language.
HumpBot Salvation on April 6, 2012 at 4:22 PM
You know the president is melting down when he picks on the use of the word “marvelous”.
Afterall, it was the Modern Day Lincoln ™ who introduced us to the phrase “wee wee’d up”.
Chuck Schick on April 6, 2012 at 4:25 PM
BTW, I heard a tape of this last night. When he made the first comment, he was the only one laughing. There was a little nervous laughter in the audience, but not much. Then he made the second comment and when he started laughing again the audience joined in. I don’t really think they thought it was very funny. They only laughed when they realized that was what he expected from them. And there’s Obama, laughing at his own lame jokes. Who was that comic that used to say, “I slay myself.” Snort.
Dee2008 on April 6, 2012 at 4:26 PM
Remember when Nancy-David Brooks wiped off his chin long enough to pronounce that this would be “the valedictorian administration“? I am struck now by the impression of The Four Stooges.
Has there ever been four so painfully dimwitted leaders presenting the public image of our government? In my 53 years I cannot recall such stupidity: Obama, Biden, Holder, and Carney … four mostly white, mostly male, and most remarkably stupid people give the world the impression that no one with a functioning brain has input into the U.S. government at this time.
Send in the clowns — the gender-victim corps of Butch Napolitano, Sebelius the pro-abortion Catholic “health” stooge, and SmartPower (C) doofus Hillary — and you have the biggest bunch of nitwits I can ever recall in one administration.
Jaibones on April 6, 2012 at 4:36 PM
Dream on Matthew, dream on.
lester on April 6, 2012 at 4:41 PM
You bitter clinger, you
Schadenfreude on April 6, 2012 at 4:52 PM
Can’t you just see them all in the room, realizing Ø expects them to laugh?
sycophant |ˈsikəfənt; -ˌfant|
noun
a person who acts obsequiously toward someone in order to gain advantage; a servile flatterer.
ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (denoting an informer): from French sycophante, or via Latin from Greek sukophantēs ‘informer,’
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That’s our MSM, all right.
jodetoad on April 6, 2012 at 4:53 PM
onlineanalyst on April 6, 2012 at 5:03 PM
I always check the price of Arugula…
cozmo on April 6, 2012 at 5:07 PM