That Might Help Win A Vote Or Two...

The NY Times front page links to Charles Blow's column exhorting Obama to be more visibly emotional and empathetic.  OK, the notion is ghastly enough, but the Times link justifies the subscription price:

Blow: Obama, Give Them Something They Can Feel

Hmm, does the Times want a President who feels our pain or... oh, I am moving on.

BUT SERIOUSLY:  Blow, who is the Times other race-grievance columnist, exhorts Obama to be more visibly angry.  But I bet if I reprised the campaign coverage I could find many articles noting that Obama had a special burden to stay cool and avoid the unfortunate Angry Black Man stereotype that lurks in our collective conscious. 

So which is it - should Obama be cool, or angry?  Beats me (although I Boldly Bet that "calm and effective" would trump "angry and impotent").  But I am disappointed that Blow missed this obvious opportunity to blame Obama's seeming detachment on the prejudices of white America.  What kind of race grievance columnists is the Times running out there these days, anyway?  Oh, well - Frank Rich can pick up this slack tomorrow.

Comments

[Pofarmer]

Awesome. What's gonna enrage folks even more, is when they realize that ALL of our oil is now imported, and the lights won't stay on, that cost 5 times as much now to operate.

[Got a brownout on your personal feelings of well-being?]

The cool thing about the structural changes that Obama is attempting is that they are pervasive. If anything goes wrong for the next half a century, we can legitimately blame Obama, and make the case for it.
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[daddy]

Ext,

I see where you're coming from. At least this time he actually bothered to mouth the word, as opposed to just letting all the media outlets supply the 'outrage', 'fury', 'anger', 'lividness', 'incensed' etc that he was supposed to feel about the release of the Lockerbie Bomber.

BTW did you see the other night the link that that very same released convicted murderer of 200 plus citizens was doing well in a Libya mansion, 6 months after he was supposed to die because of his medical condition? Feel free to guess my emotion about that?

[Innocent if he drowns.]

Heh, daddy; more proof the infidels had the wrong man.
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[Pofarmer]

Egads. Who knew Chris Matthews had a Sunday morning show?

Anyway, one of the commenters was pretty adamant that this wasn't Obama's Katrina, this was Bush's Second Katrina.

[Captain Hate]

Shorter McGinnis: Nobody in my family was a hero ergo being a hero is impossible.

Just another self-obsessed boomer loser.

[Jane says obamasucks]

Anyway, one of the commenters was pretty adamant that this wasn't Obama's Katrina, this was Bush's Second Katrina.

Yes, Joe let me kiss your ass Mr. President klein.

[Janet]

Exactly Captain.
and if the self-obsessed boomer losers are "into" something, they make laws and regulations to force everyone to participate.

I look forward to hearing from Bill in AZ about the rally. God bless Arizona!

[Pofarmer]

Anyway, one of the commenters was pretty adamant that this wasn't Obama's Katrina, this was Bush's Second Katrina.

Yes, Joe let me kiss your ass Mr. President klein.

Ah, that explains it. Also interesting Mathews comment that "This isn't caused by incompetence or detachment like in the Bush administration."

Yeah, no bias there. I promptly turned it off.

[Bob S]

More on Sestak:

I'm sure someone said this already, but the story they hatched serves two purposes. First, it at least arguably gets them out of a felony trap. Second, it gives Holder cover not to appoint special counsel.

I don't think Issa is going away, but someone in the Senate will have to champion it for it to last. Their scheme appears to be perfect right now in that Sestak is the one who'll have to take the fall.

MSM won't advance something that can hurt their party as would this, but they'll get another hypocrisy merit bag. It wasn't that long ago that we had Plame and the US Atty flaps.

[Bob S]

Jane says..: Chris Wallace just said that one Democrat strategist told his that a more apt analogy would be to describe this as Obama' Iranian hostage crisis. Yowza.

[BobS]

Crappy syntax to the last

[Pofarmer]

Hey Bob. Thing about the Story is, you really have to want to believe it to believe it. You need an ex President to offer a sitting Congressman an unpaid position on a Presidential advisory board? Really?

[Pagar]

Lew Waters wrote a great Memorial Day article at his Blog.
I'd be real surprised if it doesn't bring tears to anyone who reads it.

[BobS]

I know Pofarmer. Too bad it'll probably fly. Without a Senate majority, nothing will happen. Schumer will make sure of it. Looks like Sestak is left holding tha bag and that Clinton threw him under the bus. Holder will never be fired as he's a Democrat hack first and foremost. Obama sn Clinton can count on him playing ball. In the end, Democrats may just see that it's worth losing a Senate seat to Republicans to get this one to go away.

[pops]

Is it just me, or do you think God is getting a kick out of showing all those know-it-alls who said... Lousianna can't have it worse then George Bush in the White House.

At least the media could acknowledge that Bush was dealing with a natural disaster totally out of his control, while Obama is dealing with a disaster of his own making, overseen by his own adminstration and his own personnel.

[anduril]

Mark Kirk is the ultimate RINO--not only is he fanatically anti-life, he's not even fiscally conservative: he voted for Cap and Trade.

[Jane says obamasucks]

"This isn't caused by incompetence or detachment like in the Bush administration."

Oh I know. Don't confuse anyone on that panel with facts. I will admit that I can only bear to watch those moonbat shows when things are going badly for the democrats, so there is some joy in Mudville.

[BobS]

Issa is on with Wallace. He's not buying the story and even if the story is true, they've still broken the law.

[BobS]

anduril: While I don't particularly care for the use of the RINO tag, I'm afraid that Kirk is one of those lost souls who buy into the climate change/global warming gambit (see McCain and Graham). They've invested so much into it that they are unable to walk back from it. I'm looking forward to seeing one of them have a tooth fairy epiphany.

[Melinda Romanoff]

BobS-

It's part belief, part huge swath of his donor base are greens. IIt's about the only way he can get elected in this district and still beat the machine. Too much Cook County in the district.

[Naw, way too Burton for the likes of that lush.]

Sure it's a lie, and now Obama has placed his fate in the hands of Bill Clinton. I wonder if he'll mount it and give it to his wife.
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[Winners, losers. I'll take one from Column A.]

He wants a UN job in the new global carbon government.
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[Captain Hate]

I wonder if he'll mount it and give it to his wife.

Please don't use the verb "mount" in the same sentence with Slick and the glacier. Chelsea is the only evidence that mental-retina-detaching act ever happened.

On the FNS interviews, Issa looked very relaxed and Rendell looked like he was passing a kidney stone. Btw, how does the Sestak campaign committee proceed with this matter hanging over them: Wote for me because I can resist the present and past crooks in the White House? Chances of the jugeared imbecile making a campaign appearance?

Juan Williams is bringing out his long-weekend enhanced stupidity.

[narciso]

First of all, I would never be so disrespectful, second, one sees the motive in McGuiness's twisted world view, to tear down someone who is heroic in stature,

[Pofarmer]

overseen by his own adminstration and his own personnel.

Obviously you've missed the memo. It was mainly Bush personnel still left at MMS that were the problem.

Uhm, yeah, O.K. 16 months into it, Obama get's to blame Bush Personnel, with his own had and administrators appointed, BTW, for the oil spill. 8 months into the GWB administration, with Clintoon appointees still in place as head of Counter Terrorism and CIA, it's all Bush's fault all the time regarding 9/11. Yep, no bias here.

[Captain Hate]

Wote == Vote

[narciso]

Ok, if this doesn't occasion a filibuster, they ought just pack it in, in the LUN

[Pagar]

As I understand it the Illinois primaries are over, so the choice for those voters are as described by bgates at 01:02 AM.

IMO, not voting, in the general election, insures a Democrat wins every time.