Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
So David Broder is announcing the honeymoon is over (hat tip: Melissa), and His Anointedness’ approval ratings — yes, He has to worry about these too, just like any other President — have sunk beneath sixty percent. Maybe that’s as low as they’ll ever go. Maybe not.
If not, it opens up a question about the nature of His incredible popularity: If it continues to decline, will it decline the same way as with His predecessors?
I’m thinking not. I have a theory about this. I think, given the characteristics of the people who slavishly follow Him, this is going to be tracking downward along a different trend. These are people who have found it to be an incredible, intoxicating opportunity to be a part of a “change”; a change that had such an overwhelming inertia built up behind it, that without any one of them, it would’ve succeeded just fine anyway. These are, therefore, people who find it to be a spiritually uplifting experience to contribute to revolutions that don’t really need their help.
From that, and from interacting with them personally, I conclude most of them lack the character fortitude to participate in a real revolution. They don’t have experience being on the thin side of a crowd. After all, these are people who found the mere illusion of making a difference to be so affirming. Can it really be said they’d be this enthralled if they had any experience standing against the majority? I find that doubtful. I think these are people who crave, well before that feeling of making a difference and fomenting “change,” the safety of facing the same direction as the majority, ahead of it or behind it. This is necessary for the affirmation.
I don’t think Obama can have an approval rating of 49%. I think His approval numbers will slide down to 50%, and after that He’ll keep it there for a time, just long enough for His followers to figure what’s going on. And then once the reality sinks in He’ll be down in the twenties, or teens, or low teens. He’ll be just like any last-year’s fashion statement.
The point is, there will be a sudden, unrecoverable, drop. The challenge that will arise in 2012 will be to recapture some of that old excitement from 2007 and 2008. That will be the big question, upon which the elections will turn. Perhaps it will be like 1996 all over again — voters will figure, hey, we handed Him enough of a butt-paddling in the 2010 midterms voting all those Republicans into Congress, He’s gotten the message by now. Maybe He can give a few really awesome excellent speeches.
But it will, ultimately, be a campaign asking people to repeat a mistake. A mistake they will, by then, bitterly regret…not only with sorrow, but with some measure of rancor. The President asking them to forgive and forget will be polling at…oh…about 22%, tops.
Once the Obamafan perceives himself to be in the minority, it’ll all be over for good. They don’t have the intrepidity to tolerate a situation like that. They aren’t that strong. Their moral resilience is just not there.
That’s why they are so driven to provide the illusion that it is; and, why they’re never, ever quite finished proving it. It’s a desire to have something others have, that they’ve never had.
They’ll desert Him like rats on a sinking ship.
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Wait a minute, how could you leave out ,’It’s the fault of the Failed Policies of Bush Administration’, (FaPoBuAd) ?
You shill.
- tim | 03/17/2009 @ 09:04Anecdotally, my college daughter confirms that the bloom is coming off the rose.
- chunt31854 | 03/17/2009 @ 21:16