In two years, a fearful turn in Obama's speeches

[Wretched Excess]

disillusionment is apparently rampant at the LA Times.   what a difference a couple of years makes.  "hope and change" has become "fear and paranoia", and even the liberals at the LA Times are calling him out on it.  hell, other than not being george bush, he didn't run on anything besides "hope and change".  once he turned his back on that, "why the hell are you here, and what the hell are you trying to do?" became  legitimate questions.  

I guess "I want to transform all of your lives to a pointless, soulless existences" didn't fit on a bumper sticker.

In two years, a fearful turn in Obama's speeches
The message in Portland in 2008 was hope. The president returns to talk about mistrust and threats.

Reporting from Portland, Ore. —
With the 2008 Democratic primary race all but won, Barack Obama appeared at a massive outdoor rally here and delivered a message that was unique by the cutthroat standards of American political campaigns.

"We're not going to worry about what other folks are doing," Obama told a crowd of 75,000 at the waterfront event in May 2008. "We're going to try to focus on what we think we can do for America."

Obama returned to Portland on Wednesday night and delivered a different sort of speech. His message of national unity and reconciliation had been replaced by a stark warning against cynical Republican tactics, vague threats to America's political system and the urgent need to keep the GOP marginalized.

There was less hope, more fear.

Obama conveyed much the same message Thursday during a rally in Seattle, and the appeal is not expected to vary significantly as he campaigns in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Minneapolis over the next two days.

Obama in Portland suggested that "foreign-controlled corporations" were bankrolling a "misleading, negative" ad campaign that serves Republicans, but offered no evidence.

"We don't know," he said.

Whereas his 2008 speech said that Americans needed to "start trusting each other again, start working together again," he said at the Oregon Convention Center rally this week that even if Republicans cooperate more with the White House, they would be forced to "sit in the back seat."

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[dandi]

Whereas his 2008 speech said that Americans needed to "start trusting each other again, start working together again," he said at the Oregon Convention Center rally this week that even if Republicans cooperate more with the White House, they would be forced to "sit in the back seat."

Little Lord Bitchboy's meltdown after election day is going to be epic.

[miskie]

I'm beginning to suspect that they will need to shut down the White House the same way Skins limits DU when bad news hits.

[dandi]

I'm beginning to suspect that they will need to shut down the White House the same way Skins limits DU when bad news hits.

To hose the blood and feces off of the walls?

[Wretched Excess]

pull the plug on TOTUS when the .  he goes mute.  problem solved.

[miskie]

To hose the blood and feces off of the walls?

Indeed - like a bunch of rabid monkeys. Blood, Feces, and Broken Typewriters everywhere.

[littlelamb]

Indeed - like a bunch of rabid monkeys. Blood, Feces, and Broken Typewriters everywhere.

Don't forget the broken teleprompters

[true_blood]

pull the plug on TOTUS when the .  he goes mute.  problem solved.

[NHSparky]

Another reason why Obama is rapidly taking Carter's place as worst president in recent memory and with the possible exception of James Buchanan, EVER, is because the crisis we now face is largely of his own making as well as that of his party.

Admit it, kids--we haven't had a major incident on our soil, there hasn't been a significant overseas political crisis on par with the Iranian hostage crisis, etc., yet the Obama administration still is powerless to deal with even relatively minor issues, instead overblowing them to make them seem worse than they are, or in the case of Afghanistan, ignoring them.  Unemployment is high, to be sure, but we do not have the rampant inflation of the late 1970's/early 80's (at least not yet--but it's coming.)  However, that is due to many of Obama's policies and expiration of the tax cuts which is just around the corner.

Bottom line, rhetoric met reality, and Obama can't bring himself to come to grips with the fact that his policies are in fact NOT popular with most Americans.

[Wretched Excess]

Another reason why Obama is rapidly taking Carter's place as worst president in recent memory and with the possible exception of James Buchanan, EVER, is because the crisis we now face is largely of his own making as well as that of his party.

Admit it, kids--we haven't had a major incident on our soil, there hasn't been a significant overseas political crisis on par with the Iranian hostage crisis, etc., yet the Obama administration still is powerless to deal with even relatively minor issues, instead overblowing them to make them seem worse than they are, or in the case of Afghanistan, ignoring them.  Unemployment is high, to be sure, but we do not have the rampant inflation of the late 1970's/early 80's (at least not yet--but it's coming.)  However, that is due to many of Obama's policies and expiration of the tax cuts which is just around the corner.

Bottom line, rhetoric met reality, and Obama can't bring himself to come to grips with the fact that his policies are in fact NOT popular with most Americans.

outstanding.

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