Obama’s campaign has lost its groove
Anyway, the bigger problem with Obama’s press conference was that there wasn’t any news in Obama’s prepared remarks. This really makes me shake my head. If you’re going to call a press conference, you have to give beat reporters something new. New is the root of news. If you don’t say something new, a misstatement is bound to dominate, or an answer to an off-message question. In this case, his response on the national-security leaks would have probably led the stories—as it did Daniel Stone’s Beast report. Not as bad as a gaffe, from the spin-room point of view, but also not what they wanted to put out there.
At bottom, then, the press conference reflected the general drift that Clift described. The White House doesn’t have an argument right now. Ever since the jobs report, Romney’s got all the momentum. The White House has tried but then dropped arguments, as I wrote earlier this week, and it sounds a little whiny and ineffectual when Obama urges Congress to pass something that everybody knows Congress isn’t going to pass. And by the way, he ought at least to say “Republicans,” not “Congress.” I’m sure there are risks associated with sounding too partisan, but to me, he has little choice but to lump Romney and the GOP Congress together.
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The bloom is off the rose.
Turns out it wasn’t a real rose, but was a silk rose, pretty but just manufactured out of whole cloth, so to speak.
ProfShadow on June 9, 2012 at 10:13 PM
ProfShadow: Silk rose?
Another Silky in waiting?
Logus on June 9, 2012 at 10:15 PM
Should he go to a tropical island and meet a young stud like Stella did?
John the Libertarian on June 9, 2012 at 10:17 PM
I guess now Obama’s campaign knows how the American economy feels….
notropis on June 9, 2012 at 10:18 PM
get down, boogie oogie oogie
cmsinaz on June 9, 2012 at 10:20 PM
Just as long as he goes . . . . and stays gone.
AZCoyote on June 9, 2012 at 10:20 PM
Tomasky tears…mmmmmm mmmmmm mmmmmm.
d1carter on June 9, 2012 at 10:24 PM
It wasactually a rose of frosting and the heat that is being applied is melting it quickly.
Rio Linda Refugee on June 9, 2012 at 10:28 PM
The GOP Congress? I don’t think the GOP wants to claim Harry Reid either.
Flange on June 9, 2012 at 10:35 PM
I don’t have the time or inclination to read a Tomasky article.
Is it pretty much like the rest?
“Waaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, it’s the mean old rethuglicans fault that Obama isn’t as awesomely awesome as he used to be.”
That capture it?
HumpBot Salvation on June 9, 2012 at 10:38 PM
Yep, you guessed it.
Flange on June 9, 2012 at 10:46 PM
Yeah, I won’t look at it either.
22044 on June 9, 2012 at 10:48 PM
There are repercussions when you take on Bill Clinton.
sublibertate on June 9, 2012 at 10:53 PM
Clinton was and is an a-hole but he is way more tolerable than Little Lord FauntLeroy Baracka.
arnold ziffel on June 9, 2012 at 11:02 PM
OMG, they have been saying this. In fact, this is the only message that they have been using for months. But “things” are not getting better! Everyone knows this is a lie. Trying to convince Americans that this lie is true is what made him claim that the private sector is doing fine in the first place.
Dollayo on June 9, 2012 at 11:04 PM
Bumbty Odumbty is having a great fall.
VorDaj on June 9, 2012 at 11:05 PM
Despite a fawning Press, they can’t keep Obama smelling like a rose when he keeps stepping in *stuff*.
Jurisprudence on June 9, 2012 at 11:20 PM
First, nothing is more schadenfreudig about the media than to see Tomasky suffer.
His only truth was at the end “when you’re not playing offence you’re in defense”.
Stupid and untrue.
Last Friday was the beginning of the end.
Last Tuesday the Nov. barricade was raised.
Last Friday the rattled commander showed his emptiness.
The toothpaste will never be back in that tube, nevah, Michael.
Get out of Obama’s azz. What you eat in there is not Beluga caviar.
Schadenfreude on June 9, 2012 at 11:48 PM
Friday, a week ago, was the beg. of the end.
Schadenfreude on June 9, 2012 at 11:49 PM
It wasn’t a misstatement. It was a revelatory statement. The socialist isn’t concerned about the private sector. What socialist is. Obama is concerned about the public sector. The more public sector employees the better he thinks are his chances of re-election. He doesn’t get that every public sector employee is a net drain on the Treasury.
The economy is going to explode when this gross incompetent is removed from office and replaced with his antithesis.
Basilsbest on June 10, 2012 at 12:03 AM
Let’s establish up front one single fact;
You cannot lose that which you hever had.
And Obama’s campaign never had a groove. It had a masquerade that looked like a groove, but it never really had a groove. As long as The Brave Sir Barack Bravely voted Present, he had no established viewpoint and therefore was a “Blank Slate” (as opposed to an Etch-a-Sketch) upon which everyone wrote their own candidate.
But now that people have had a chance to see the boy king in action, they realize who and what he is. What looked like a groove in 2008 now appears as a marring scratch upon the golden surface revealing the tin idol beneath the veneer.
jaydee_007 on June 10, 2012 at 12:08 AM
You are so totally correct in your assessment.
And look closely at the things he said.
At the Press Conference he said;
1 The Economy is doing Badly
2 The private sector is doing fine
3 The Public Sector is doing badly and draging the Economy down.
.
When pounced upon for his Public Sector comment he immeadiatly backtracked (NOT)
.
Later that day he
clarifiedobfuscated;1 The Economy is Not Doing Fine
2 The Public Sector needs a stimulous.
.
Essentially, No Different than his Compromise on Religious Institutions funding Contraception – a ReFraming of the same piece of bad art.
jaydee_007 on June 10, 2012 at 12:14 AM
more like lost it’s mind. the snake oil and obfuscation that worked the first time around just isn’t cutting it.
they don’t have anything else.
no, it ain’t gonna be pretty. epic FAIL incoming continuously because they don’t have anything else.
mittens on June 10, 2012 at 12:41 AM
An Obama campaign by any other name would still stink.
The Rogue Tomato on June 10, 2012 at 12:46 AM
Rumor has it that this morning a livid Moochelle screaming: “Where am I going to get four more years of free taxpayer lobster now, Chump?” could be heard clear all the way to Constitution Avenue.
Oh well, Moochelle can always go back to that $300k set-aside job watching paint peel at the University of Chicago…wait! after Mooch left that purposeless job, uh, disappeared, that’s it!, disappeared.
viking01 on June 10, 2012 at 1:48 AM
Right, because the Democrats in the Senate have totally validated and passed Obama’s agenda.
Oh, they haven’t? Then they’ve voted on it and forced the Republicans in the Senate to filibuster; right?
No? So why is it just the Republicans not voting on Obama’s agenda, and not the Democrats doing the EXACT SAME THING we must blame?
Why is appointing all blame to the Republicans appropriate? Does Harry Reid NOT still control the schedule of votes for the Senate?
The House has passed dozens of jobs bills that Harry is blocking from votes int eh Senate. Now they’re not all good, but they’re all PASSED. What does the Senate have?
Ah, nothing passed, nothing voted on… so they’re better?
Good luck persuading America that doing NOTHING is better than doing your job… you’ll need more luck than I think you could possibly have.
gekkobear on June 10, 2012 at 4:23 AM
They can wrap a turd in all the rose petals they want, but it won’t stop stinking.
Benedict Nelson on June 10, 2012 at 6:51 AM
The Obama campaign has lost its groove?
That’ll be good practice for them for November, when they’re going to lose the election.
AZCoyote on June 10, 2012 at 7:30 AM
“Hey, Stella!”
Fallon on June 10, 2012 at 8:13 AM
Time for the Obama campaign’s next ad, based on the melting chocolate bunny.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on June 10, 2012 at 8:20 AM
They can wrap a turd in all the rose petals they want, but it won’t stop stinking.
Benedict Nelson on June 10, 2012 at 6:51 AM
ProfShadow on June 10, 2012 at 8:25 AM
Since Obama will not be a sitting senator who can funnel pork to the hospital, I wonder if she’d be of any use to them. I imagine they’ll get on some boards of liberal foundations, and go on the lecture circuit for a while. And the usual book deals about their years in the White House.
After that, he’ll have to live on his pension, which certainly could cramp her style when it comes to designer clothes and expensive vacations. They’ll have to start mooching off rich friends with homes in the Hamptons and Martha’s Vineyard, the way the Clintons do.
Can’t come too son.
Wethal on June 10, 2012 at 8:27 AM
Well,
I’m no graphics designer, so anyone that wants to run with it and do it right, go for it.
http://goo.gl/3J0ku
ProfShadow on June 10, 2012 at 8:45 AM
The dream of hope and change met the reality of an over-his-head, can’t lead, cold, socialist, permanent campaigner, poor communicating, finger pointing, failure as a President.
albill on June 10, 2012 at 9:40 AM
Groove? What groove? No more lost it than the wizard of Oz lost his smoke and mirrors bamboozle. They never had it and now the world knows it.
AH_C on June 10, 2012 at 10:20 AM