Obama’s “nook u’lar” moment….

The thing about 10% unemployment is that for industries such as food service, this is always a slow time for us. But we still have our jobs, and things typically pick up within a month or two. This goes for restaurants, hotels, catering (all of which I do work in) …etc… and I’m gonna guess it’s the same for retail. People NEVER spend money in January, regardless of the state of the economy, as they are recouping from the holidays. I’ll be very interested in seeing the figures come mid- April, and how success is claimed, when it’s actually the natural order of things.

The figures in Nov were 7.8 – the busy season. Come April/ May going from 10% to 7% will not be much of a success, but I’m sure it will be touted as such. Bring us to 5% and I’ll concede progress.

Also, I have absolutely no problem with anyone who uses notes or reads what’s written for a speech, whether it be on a screen in front of them, on their hand, typed on paper they keep on the podium, or index cards. It’s nothing new. The only thing new here is technology.

One day TOTUS will be acceptable usage, and entered into Websters “American Dictionary of the English Language”….attributed to Barracko Heussssein Obama.

Aye:

“TelePrompTerJesus” — good one!

@rich wheeler: In such a case, they would be variations of the same speech, and she could upgrade to index cards. I most likely wouldn’t vote for her, but this is really not a counter against her. How many speeches have YOU given without notes? As an actor, I can tell you that a typical rehearsal period for a stage play is four weeks, we’re often off book within a week and a half. For film, it’s stop and go so not as much of an issue. I don’t expect my President to know every word of his/her speeches along with everything else they do. I do expect the speeches to reflect what they have and mean to accomplish. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the only President who any sort of acting training was Ronald Reagan, and even he used notes and teleprompters.

@rich wheeler:

Well first of all, Rich, let me start with saying that I don’t think she’s the ditz that the media plays her up to be. I think she was thrust into the National spotlight perhaps before she was ready to be, because McCain wanted to play the gender card, thinking that Hillary would be Obama’s running mate. That doesn’t make her stupid.

She stands on the opposite side of many of the issues that are important to me, so I’d not likely vote for her unless she changed those positions. It will also depend on who would be running against her, and what their positions are.

I hope that answers your question for you. I’m gonna leave this alone now, as I have the feeling you’re trying to bait me and I’ll have none of that. You’ve also ignored my main point about using notes. Besides, I gotta go get some beer and pizza and get ready for the game.

Who Dat? Dat’s Peyton Manning gonna beat da Saint’s dat’s who dat!

Cary Just an honest question looking for an honest answer.Go Saints.

@Skookum: I think they might have called off the Super Bowl and blamed it on Sarah…and of course, Bush.

Atti, that’s a hard overhand right, you get the Thomas Paine Award today my friend. Keep them coming.

Oh I think you guys miss the point. (And sorry, I don’t have time to read every post here. But I get the gist.)

See, for Obama, there’s a difference between speeches and Q&A. Speeches are carefully crafted. There are points to make, overarching themes, thoughts to provoke. He cares about language.

Q&A, of course — for Obama, anyway — is a different activity. It requires listening to the question and then answering it. Sometimes he’ll reject the premise or the framing of a question — but if he does that, he’ll tell you he’s doing that and why — and then reframe it or provide a valid premise. (I know you guys probably won’t admit you saw his Q&A at the House Republican retreat. But hoo boy. A masterful performance.)

So, a teleprompter is appropriate for a speech — and no different, really, than having the speech on cards — but completely inappropriate for Q&A.

For Sister Sarah, it’s all the same. Giving a speech, answering a question — either way it’s just “go” time! Just toss a word salad and that’s it! Q&A? Treat each question as the equivalent of the questioner saying “Go!” and then toss that word salad, baby!

Face it, people. The woman is an ignoramus and not remotely interested in correcting that problem. She’s extremely skilled at delivering non-stop snark with a you-betcha smile but that’s her sole skill. Not that that doesn’t work quite well with her base. Obviously it does. But I have yet to hear her actually voice a thought. Even a “received” thought is beyond her — it’s all word salad. That’s it.

Anyway… who dat! Were the Saints spectacular or what?! 😀

hi rich from what i read on your smart comment number 115 about SARAH she would not make as much speechs as the President but being the PRESIDENT of AMERICA she would make ACTIONS i have a feeling that with HER things would rolled one after the other in a situation of what it is now,thank you.

Good morning Bees Hard to argue with that.How bout dem Saints. Thought you might enjoy some Bushisms.

Family values “Families is where our nation finds hope,where wings take dream.” Lacrosse Wis 10/18/2000
“I know how hard it is to put food on your family.” Nashua N.H. 1/27/2000
“Rarely is the question asked.”Is our children learning?” Florence S.C. 1/11/2000

For Sarah “Our enemy is innovative and resourceful and so are we.They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people and neither do we.” Wash. D.C. 9/5/2004
“I know the human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.”St.Louis 10/8/2004

Super Bowl and The Who “There’s an old saying in Tenn.— I know it’s in Texas,probably in Tenn.– that says fool me once shame on you. Fool me— you can’t get fooled again.” Nash. Tenn. 9/7/2002

I love the guy. We’re fraternity brothers,along with his dad. Drunken D.K.E.’s Colgate’66 and Yale ’68.

Quote: “Substitute Sarah Palin for Lynn Dee and I think you are on to something.”

Oh good one, Missy! My God, you are so funny! I am rolling on the floor here! Boy, you sure told me!

😀

P.S. Just a question, though: Did you perhaps mean “substitute Lynn Dee for Sarah Palin…”? I’m just sayin’.

Lynn Dee “the woman just ain’t that bright” That’s why they love her.Just like “W” and centerfold model Brown. The common man or women is much revered in Conservative political circles these days.

Bees Well spoken.You should be running on the “The Party of No and Proud of it” ticket.Mascot could be a WASP.

thank you i can humbly say that since i landed in here i learned fast straight from the pros …we lost our black beauty as i used to call her but her name was PIPER 29 years old my step son and daughter buried her in the land that i share too they had a life time riding her you gave a smile in my sadness bye

RICH you see we share feelings for our friends animal i know your sadness too thank you

CARY i did not ride her but some family did for me was to give her some carrots and apples love that she return in her own way she was a real picture of Black Beauty thank you

If we could step back for a moment and get an overview, we would see that many people in this country, especially on the Left, cling tenaciously to a paradigm that is over a hundred years old. In this paradigm, “monied interests” continually conspire against the “common man,” with only the “progressives” to protect us hapless commoners.

Further, those wascally interests project power abroad, to find others whom they might exploit. I think it’s not such a bad paradigm. I surely gave it my best for nearly thirty years. It has just simply been dashed to smithereens on the rocks of reality.

Consider, the very nice people defending the “rights” of illegal immigrants to this country, as if they had been brought here for some humanitarian purpose, rather than to be exploited for their cheap labor. I have heard tender-hearted Liberal clergy, and business agents for unions (!!) defend the further importation of third- world workers. Who will benefit? The employers of said workers, of course, and other employers, as well, who think we need more cheap labor to keep costs down.

Just who are those dastardly capitalists, anyway? Well, if you mean the money men of Wall Street, they are Democrats. A quick look at the electoral maps of New York City and its wealthy Connecticut suburbs shows a very deep blue sea. The vile corporations that secretly rule Amerika? Eighty per cent of the CEO’s are Democrats.

These corps use regulation to stifle the entry of new competition, until their industries die of some sort of sclerosis, like our automobile, rail road, and steel industries have done. Who owns the stocks in corporations? Some of them are fat cats, like major Democrat bank roll George Soros. Some, indeed, a great deal, of stock is in the IRA’s of ordinary folk and in the pension plans of unions, who are defenders of the commoners.

Our troops around the world, supposedly enforcing our economic rape and pillage thereof, are mostly concentrated in some of the richest countries, like Japan and South Korea, and Germany, now moved on to Poland. Some pillage! I clearly remember when Japan and South Korea were third-world countries, who made cheap toys out of old beer cans and tissue paper, not highly technological automobiles and electronics.

We “bombed Iraq for oil,” and now the Chinese have outbid us for contracts to explore and sell that oil. Mexico, whose largest export is poverty, nationalized its oil industry in 1937, and now oil is its second export, behind that poverty. Remember those evil insurance companies opposing the beneficient health care takeover? Thank God, some of them did just that.

A number of others, however, supported nationalization, with lobbying and advertising funds. Corporations do, indeed, try to earn a profit. That is their duty to their shareholders, whether the shareholders are fat-cat Democrats or little old ladies’ pension plans.

The legitimate police power of the government must enforce the laws against fraud and coercion. Occasionally, they get around to doing just that, as when, at the beginning of the past decade, Enron was finally called to account for the money entrusted to it, after years of madcap highjinks.

How, you must be asking, does this connect to BHO’s malapropisms? Well, it’s actually quite simple. Although he appears to be reading things from a teleprompter that he does not understand, and did not even have the initiative to read beforehand and ask for a few footnotes, he is being defended, counter to all reason, by people who insist that he is their champion, their standard bearer in the “struggle” against evil corporate skulduggery.

No doubt, these same defenders will assail me, too, for “shilling for the corporations,” (Please send the check via FA.) They will drag out some anecdote or several that “prove” the existence of the evil capitalist conspiracy. However, again taking the larger view, the average worker in Western Europe has a standard of living roughly equivalent to our welfare recipients, if we measure in things like square feet of living space, daily grams of protein consumed, etc.

There is more opportunity here to move from one socioeconomic stratum to another. Instead of trying to glue back together the shards of the shattered paradigm, one does, indeed, benefit from looking at the real world, and the real people in it.