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...
Victor Davis Hanson, hat tip to Gerard: Perpetual campaign mode isn’t working.
The State of the Union could have been written by a computer program. All the now familiar Obama furniture was in the room: the mock outrage at “them,” the psychodramatic first-person boasting (as in, “I will oppose…,” “I will not work with…,” “I will decline…,” “I will not stand by…,” “I will not cede…,” “I will not walk away…,” “I will not back down…,” “I will not go back…”); the now customary rear-view-mirror jab at his fading predecessor; the monotonous promising that something is so bad that we must have a new program for it (each year the same threat, the same solution, the same failure); and the silence about the Obama legacy of stimulus, debt, and ObamaCare.
But the people are tired and simply by now shut their ears.
The President’s approval numbers seem to have bottomed-out on bedrock. On the other hand, that bedrock is rather high, somewhere in the range of low 40’s.
On the other hand, President Obama, like all politicians nowadays, is something of a scavenger. He doesn’t drive a high approval rating; he receives it, as bleed-off, a hand-me-down of sorts from whatever agenda to which He is seen by the electorate as harmoniously aligned. He says He is in favor of X, and if X is okay with the public, then His popularity ticks upward a little bit. But…only if He seems sincere about it and has the history to back it up.
In other words, at this point He doesn’t even have agility going for Him anymore. He would not be able to, say for example, tout the benefits of allowing the job creators to keep more of their money so they could create more jobs, and keep the government out of the process. Even if He were inclined to take a position like this, He’d be called out and it wouldn’t work. He has to do what mediocre public speakers do, and stick to His knitting.
President Obama does do better at public speaking than the average bear. But at this point, that is nothing but a footnote of recent history. He enjoys all the momentum that would be enjoyed, at this time, by any other leftist democrat — as a champion of one side of many discussions that polarize us. That is the source of His forty percent. There is no other except…well…maybe some white guilt thrown into the mix. That, and the sheer inertia that imbues a sharp ego and dull wit that can’t admit it made a mistake at the ballot box three years ago.
It must be an awful job to be an Obama speechwriter; the job seems to have no impact on anything whatsoever. Maybe there is no such thing.
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