NRO:
During his fundraising trip to Los Angeles Wednesday, President Obama discovered anew that the United States is in bad shape, and he was again left in puzzlement about what could be the cause.
“You get a self-fulfilling prophecy,” the president told supporters, urging them to help Democrats avoid potentially significant losses in both houses of Congress in the November midterm elections. “The people who have the most at stake in a government that works opt out of the system. People who believe government doesn’t work are most empowered. Gridlock reigns and we get the downward spiral of even more cynicism.”
Speaking to a group of millionaires during a $10,000-to-$34,000-a-plate dinner at the Bel Air home of Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn, Obama explained that the Democrats’ problem is that they’re just too committed to the poor.
“The congenital problem that Democrats have is in midterms especially we don’t vote,” Obama told donorsincluding living legend Barbra Streisand and Dreamworks SKG co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg. “Our voters are younger, they’re more likely to be minority, and because they’re more likely to be struggling they’re not always paying attention when the president is not – the presidential candidate isn’t on the ballot.”
During his L.A. sojourn, Obama, whose achievements include stopping the rise of the oceans and healing the planet, also received an “Ambassador for Humanity” award from Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation. (“President Obama’s commitment to democracy and human rights has long been felt,” the powerhouse filmmaker said.) And his second-term fundraising has outpaced that of most or all previous two-term presidents.
Still, Obama is stumped as to whose mismanagement of national affairs has left the country in such a state of “disquiet” and “frustration.” In addition to speculating about his party’s “congenital” problems, the president has attributed his party’s fading hopes in 2014 to Republican obstructionism and theorized that Democrats usually “get clobbered” in midterm races.
So, after courting the ”low-information voters,” now Obama is blaming them for all the Democrats’ troubles?
That’s rich.
The man is TRULY out to lunch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Though I have no respect for the socialists leading the democrat party, I understand why they are making such blatantly idiotic statements.
What I don’t understand is how so many people who know the economy has gotten worse, how our national stature has fallen so precipitously, and how our country seems to have fallen into a far worse malaise than when Carter was screwing things up -.absolutely refuse to see the cause of our decline due to Obama’s policies. I was absolutely stunned when I learned a friend of mine cast his 2012 vote for Obama, stating full well he knew that he was still unemployed after 3 years because of the effect democrat policies on taxes, environmental regulation, and healthcare. When I asked how his vote made any sense, he said he was afraid of losing his welfare benefits before he could get another job, so he voted for Obama.
This is the morale destroying, dehumanizing effect that leftist political insanity causes every time our nation stupidly elects a nincompoop like Carter, Clinton, FDR or Obama. Leftist ideology is an enslaving, will-destroying, insecurity-driven mental illness thinly veiled by a rotting husk of forced false pseudocompassion for the so-called poor. Spend a little time in a third world country to get a glimpse of true poverty before allowing yourself to be swayed by the snake oil “income inequality” and wealth redristribution propaganda of the democrats. Then ponder the blatant hypocrisy of ultra wealthy democrats like Pelosi, Kerry, or any other multi-millionaire leftist shedding crocodile tears pretending they care about the poor. They sure don’t seem to take the opportunity to give away any of their wealth while they raise taxes to take your money to fund socialist government programs designed to buy the votes of those too uninformed to recognize they are voting to enslave themselves on the democrat plantation. The sheer evil chutzpah of someone as well to do as the Clintons claiming tax deductions for donating worn out underwear (which they did when occupying the Oval Office) while trying to impose socialist healthcare on the country is beyond belief. Claiming it was legal to do so demonstrates the glaring lack of living according to their alleged principles.