Obama

Now, I get, I think, how this happens. You call something a crazy conspiracy and you change the subject by making the people doing the talking the target and subject of the discussion, rather than the content–the factuality–of what they are saying. You PERSONALIZE everything. This is a core and explicit Alinskyan Rule for Radicals.  It is easy to drive a discussion off the rails quickly, and make yourself seem superior to the fray in the process, all while ACTUALLY driving the discussion into the gutter. Obama is good at this.  Alinsky was his hero and model, and he was acknowledged by all as a worthy and effective practitioner of the Method.

But what I think he has failed to grasp is that “hope and change” is no longer in the future. It is no longer a glittering possibility. There is no more question about all the marvelous things that will happen if we elect then reelect him. We KNOW what happens. We know he is a habitual liar, a con artist, a charlatan, a carefully scripted phony who was most likely CREATED for the express purpose of furthering the agenda of people who always viewed Valerie Jarrett as the real President, who called her first.

So he can’t expect to get, now, what he got then. Yes, of course he has residual fans and admirers, perhaps many of them. But I think a lot of people also feel cheated. He made a lot of explicit and implicit promises he made NO effort to keep. I had an insurance plan I liked. I lost it. And he KNEW this would happen. It was in the fucking bill, as we found out when we read it.

I think putting a spotlight on Obama is an act of desperation. I don’t see how it could work, especially when he remains as arrogant and pissy as ever.