As We Wait For The Fever To Break...

Obama delivers the old standby for his parties mid-term failures - it is the messaging, not the policies. Here he goes:

"...we stopped paying attention to the fact that leadership isn’t just legislation. That it’s a matter of persuading people. And giving them confidence and bringing them together. And setting a tone. And making an argument that people can understand. And I think that we haven’t always been successful at that”.

Ooops, my bad - that was Sooo 2010. Here he goes again, with his quadrennial whinging to 60 Minutes:

WASHINGTON — Just days after his party was routed in the midterm elections, President Obama said that he and his White House team had not succeeded in effectively selling the benefits of his policies to the American people, calling it a “failure of politics” that he must change in the final two years of his presidency.

“It’s not enough just to build a better mousetrap,” Mr. Obama said in an interview that was taped Friday at the White House and broadcast Sunday on the 60th anniversary of CBS’s “Face the Nation” program. “People don’t automatically come beating to your door. We’ve got to sell it. We’ve got to reach out to the other side and, where possible, persuade.”

Just offhand, I don't think Obama's opposition to the Keystone pipeline can be scored as a better mousetrap misunderstood by an ignorant public. On the other hand, I suppose winning "Lie of the Year" for 2013 with 'If you like your health care plan, you can keep it' could be offered as an example of poor messaging. Or outright lying about an unpopular feature of an Obama policy.

Well. Problems in ObamaWorld are always the fault of the bitter-clingers in flyover country who simply fail to grasp Obama's genius. Sometimes they are diseased, other times they aren't paying attention, but some day (he hopes) they will see his light. 

Comments

[henry]

Egads! What a fool. We can't grasp what doesn't exist.

[Jeff Dobbs]

If Obama ever blamed himself, it would be the FIRST! time.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Dang.

[daddy]

“It’s not enough just to build a better mousetrap,”

What the hell would this jerk know about building anything. What a Jack-ass.

[James D.]

I want someone on the Giants defense to catch Russell Wilson on one of those design QB runs, and absolutely take his head off. Literally, if possible.

[daddy]

Palmer, QB of Arizona down with big pain.

Raiders stink/stench/smell/suck/pee yew!

[henry]

Remember Daddy, you didn't build that mousetrap. It was a racist heteronormative mousetrap anyway. Unless people are persuaded -- by subsidies for cronies and bullying for bitter clingers -- mice won't be attracted by the peanut butter Mooch school lunch bait.

[henry]

Oops Obama's mousetrap coded that. .

[James D.]

Henry, it's also speciesist. What right do humans have to try and catch mice in the first place?

[henry]

James, I hope they have beer at the reeducation camps.

[MarkO]

"come beating to your door."

I give you the President of the Harvard Law Review.

[James D.]

OK, I officially hate the Seattle Seahawks.

Do they have to get every single m-f-ing bounce and break on top of everything else?

[daddy]

I completely understand. I am still not able to comprehend the complete collapse of good manners and good taste which has occurred over the last 20 years

Miss M,

I was surprised to notice that while hanging out at the large swimming pool in our very fancy Singapore Hotel the other day, there were no Tattoo's evident. I was sitting next to a cute gal, surreptitiously staring, wondering "OK, where's the gratuitous ugly tat?", but there wasn't one!

Then I started an investigation, Unbiased and Scientific of course, and no matter how hard I looked I didn't spot a one on the many female sun-worshippers lounging about. Either there were none, or they have all migrated to locations not immediately evident in bikini's.

Gave me hope that that repugnant trend may be on the decline.

[daddy]

No local word on the Begich/Sullivan Ballot counting in the local rags. Maybe I'll here something on the radio during the dog walk. Later.

[narciso]

they have brought laura logan back, but not on issues that might directly impact the president's policies,

is it just me, or does risen's latest piece, make you want to go 'liam neeson' ala taken,
on the guy,

[James D.]

Ugh. I really do loathe the Seahawks now.

I would much rather have seen the Giants blown out early, than be given false hope for 3 quarters and then have it ripped away as though by the hand of God Himself.

[Beasts of England]

Waiting for the fever to break? We've got a fever? There's only one cure...

[rich@gmu]

TCFAB ...

[rich@gmu]

I've got a fever and the only prescription is more ...

[Beasts of England]

No kidding, MarkO. I think someone had a saying about his intelligence...

[narciso]

how big a cowbell,

'mr. president, you spent the last six months going from golf tee to fundraiser, ebola outbreak, ISIS beheading, VA abuse, notwithstanding, what are you talking about,

[Beasts of England]

Thanks, rich. #QuotationFail

[Miss Marple]

daddy,

Around here the tattoo and piercing parlors are the fastest growing businesses. Seriously.

My dog trainer's wife askedme to sell an antique clock she inherited. At great trouble and some financial cost I did so as a favor. Got her top dollar.

So she came over to my house and showed me what she spent the money on...a tattoo of her commemorating her short career as a pole dancer!

I gave her the frozen smile and said, "Well, that isn't what I would have spent the money on, but it's your money."

She got $300 for the clock.

Very dispiriting.

[Danube on iPad]

The Cardinals are 8-1 for the first time since Charlie Trippi was the QB (1948).

[narciso]

'1984, it's a cookbook;

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2014/11/09/the-liberal-obsession-with-rewriting-the-history-of-the-berlin-wall-continues-apace/

I do highly recommends' Sebestyen's book on the subject, which tied all of the strands that led to that event,

[Beasts of England]

Howard 'AAAAaaaaarrrrgh' Dean says that dems lost the vote of those evil white dudes because the economy has gotten better.

Good call, Howie! Keep that story going!!

[Beasts of England]

Do you have her number handy, Miss Marple? ;)

[Dave (in MA)]

Waiting for the fever to break? We've got a fever? There's only one cure...

Is there a czar yet?

[Steve]

Full Video: BEN CARSON'S 'BREATH OF FRESH AIR : A New Prescription for America'

http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2014/11/full-video-ben-carsons-breath-of-fresh.html

[Danube on iPad]

Correction: Trippi was a halfback.

[Danube on iPad]

Yoo is wrong: there is, indeed, a split in the Citcuits. The D.C. Circuit in Halbig th Circuit ruled against them in King.truled in favor of the challengers to the law; the 4th Circuit ruled against them in Kng.

Did I miss something?

[Miss Marple]

The bossy-pants left never quits.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-a-national-food-policy-could-save-millions-of-american-lives/2014/11/07/89c55e16-637f-11e4-836c-83bc4f26eb67_story.html?hpid=z1&Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost

[GMax]

Yeah what TM said. Plus Powerline picks up this nugget buried in a NYT story near the end, I assume you know who Mark Mellman

Mark Mellman, a Democratic strategist: “Anything that makes it more partisan makes it less likely that there will be legislation, until such time as Democrats take over the world. Which according to my watch, will not be happening anytime soon.”

[Janet]

repost -

How odd is THIS -

"In explaining why he can’t delay, Obama told CBS News’ Bob Schieffer, “Every day that I wait, we’re misallocating resources, we’re deporting people that shouldn’t be deported, [and] we’re not deporting folks that are dangerous and need to be deported.”

http://dailysignal.com/2014/11/09/president-obama-explains-cant-wait-congress-act-immigration/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

What??? He admits that his administration is incompetent.
I've never seen anything like this guy...

[Miss Marple]

Janet,

The whole point is to make it something outside himself, something for which he has NO responsibility.

Deportations and lack thereof become something which happens just because of some non-passed law or whatever. Blame-shifting is his stock in trade.

What's really annoying is that people like Schieffer will never call him on it.

[GMax]

BTW Gallup back down to 39% approval. He may quickly test new lows if he keeps up this massive delusion.

[Iggy]

--“People don’t automatically come beating to your door. We’ve got to sell it...."--

I think he missed the whole point of the aphorism. If you improve on something already really good, it sells itself.

By a simple process of deduction I think that can lead us to a conclusion about his policies.

[Captain Hate]

OK, I officially hate the Seattle Seahawks.

Welcome to the dark side.

[Captain Hate]

BTW Gallup back down to 39% approval. He may quickly test new lows if he keeps up this massive delusion.

But he represents the non responders.

[Janet]

Yes, MM!
And there sits Bob lookin' all stupid. Why didn't Bob Schieffer ask Obama - Why are you misallocating resources? Why are you deporting people that shouldn’t be deported? Why are you not deporting folks that are dangerous and need to be deported?
Our lousy old media is worthless...worthless, I tell ya.

[Captain Hate]

People don’t automatically come beating to your door.

Another one for Medved's forehead. My staple gun is running low...

[Miss Marple]

Captain Hate,

Non-responders = imaginary friends.

[Beasts of England]

Great comments with that article, Miss Marple. A significant quantity absolutely destroying the whole concept. Maybe the tide is turning our way.

[James D.]

MM @ 7:51

Just writing the words "national food policy" ought to be grounds for immediate public execution.

I long for the day when the WaPo bleeds enough money that Bezos pulls the plug and every single employee ends up broke, homeless and eating cat food.

[Miss Marple]

Beasts,

I am absolutely convinced that a lot of GOP votes came from 18-year-olds who suffered through Michelle's healthy lunch program.

So the comments on that article don't surprise me. People like their food and do NOT want the government ordering them what to eat.

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: Miss Marple | November 09, 2014 at 07:28 PM
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you wouldn't happen to have her number Miss Marple? asking for a friend ...

[Miss Marple]

rish,

If you are talking about my dog trainer's wife, trust me, you don't want it.

Some people go into such professions to prove they are really attractive.

It's a fail.

[narciso]

Such eloquence, maybe the teleprompter is punking him,

[GMax]

Gallup = Adults. Not RV or LVs. That dog wont hunt...

[Dave (in MA)]

Some people go into such professions to prove they are really attractive.

Compared to the dogs?

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

I don't think Mooch has gotten enough credit for torpedoing donks who had the misfortune of her campaigning for them, including the one who she couldn't be bothered to learn his name. Princeton must be so proud.

[RickB]

CH,

That would be former Congressman... Baily, wasn't it? The one who not only lost to Ernst but watched his district flip from blue to red. She may have done more damage to other candidates though. It's damned hard to tell who she hurt worst.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

LOL Rick.

[clarice]

DoT, it took me aback ,too, but if you read Yoo carefully, heis not referring to the DC Circuit where there's a pending rehearing en banc and the case is thus not concluded there.

[clarice]

Of course, the right food is a matter of debate. A new Austrian study shows that people who eat red meat are healthier than vegetarians, cheese is good for you and people subjected to second hand smoke are LESS likely to get cancer and heart disease. Sleepers was right.I'll dig up the link and post it here.

[Miss Marple]

If this has been posted, I missed it. Long article, but still worth reading and reading between the lines, this is devastating.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120170/valerie-jarrett-obama-whisperer

[clarice]

http://gopthedailydose.com/2014/04/02/study-proves-meat-eaters-are-more-healthy-than-vegetarians/

My favorite: "Another popular and widely held belief, that of the link between second-hand smoke and cancer was dismissed by the WHO’s study. Passive smoking was determined to have no statistically significant correlation with lung cancer and heart disease.

One area of the study did find a correlation between second-hand smoke and cancer as a result of childhood exposure with surprising results which were the opposite of what would be expected. Unbelievably, children exposed to cigarette smoke were found to have a 22 percent reduction in the rate of lung cancer as adults.

Beef, cheese, wine and cigars; Not only good, but good for you."

[narciso]

maybe the Solon is not as ironic as sobriquet:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/president-vp-may-differ-immigration-strategy-obama-angrily-cut-biden_818457.html

occasionally he does have a point.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Paul Christman was the Chicago Cardinals QB in 48. I remember him doing AFL broadcasts, I think with Charlie Jones, before Paul's demise in 1970. Good announcer IMO.

[Beasts of England]

Love the military-themed livery in the NFL this week.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

I erred, it was Curt Gowdy who teamed with Christman in the broadcast booth before Paul's demise at 51.

[RickB]

"We’ve got to sell it...."--

Maybe if he tossed in a free side of Edsel New Coke...

[Danube on iPad]

That may be it, Clarice, but he does refer to "cases" in which the courts have sided with the administration. I'm only aware of one (King). Also strange that the says they're takin 'the Burwellcase." They're all Burwell cases; she's HHS and is a named defendant.

[Beasts of England]

It's Betamax all the way down, RickB! ;)

[Danube on iPad]

The New York Football Gints surrendered 350 yards rushing en route toa absorbing a savage drubbing, as we sports scribes are wont to say.

[rich@gmu]

>>>A decade after his ascent, there is still a basic unknowability about him, a puzzling gap between his talents and the public’s enthusiasm for his years in office.<<<

I'm just gonna let this roll around in my head for a while.

[Danube on iPad]

In the AFL days it was Gowdy and Al (look for the tight end over the middle") Derogatis. I remember reading in SI that "the players tend to derogate Derogatis."

[rich@gmu]

its always the messaging, never the message ...

[Miss Marple]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/duped-by-innocence-project-milwaukee-man-now-free-b99386015z1-281852841.html

An absolutely perfect example of how the left will sacrifice innocent people for a cause they believe in.

[clarice]

Could be he's made an error calling it The Burwell case, but my point stands until the Ct of Appeals en banc decides the Halbig case there is no Circuit conflict.

[rich@gmu]

the drubbing in GB is going to be savage ...

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

I remember DeeRo, DoT, on NBC, but the original AFL broadcasts were on ABC and Gowdy teamed with Christman. NBC, back when they had an excellent sports operation unlike now, marketed the AFL very effectively, the Heidi game notwithstanding.

[James D.]

DoT @ 8:49

I think the way I'd put it is that my Giants were beaten like dogs in the street.

What makes it even worse is that the Jets won today. There is very little more depressing than a Sunday on which the Jets win and the giants lose.

[Jeff Dobbs]

JamesD.:
OK, I officially hate the Seattle Seahawks.

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to...

Welcome to the dark side.

Posted by: Captain Hate | November 09, 2014 at 08:05 PM

The good news is, you may have skipped the whole "suffering" part. Wait, reading your comments, maybe not.

[narciso]

so they are saying 'his appeal is more selective' ala Spinal Tap

[Jeff Dobbs]

Clarice:
A new Austrian study shows that people who eat red meat are healthier than vegetarians, cheese is good for you and people subjected to second hand smoke are LESS likely to get cancer and heart disease.

The phrase "wheeling and dealing" in the original Austrian is one of the most beautiful sounds in the world.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

That Jets/Stoolers game was brutally painful watching as Big Ben forceably raped the concept of modern quarterbacking. Just a horrible viewing experience. Rich Gannon pretty much called Rex an idiot.

[narciso]

'dogs and cats, living together, human sacrifice, mass hysteria,'

[Miss Marple]

Nytol.

[James D.]

Hit, I'm definitely a Dark Side kind of guy.

If I had Jedi powers, I have no doubt that I'd be rocking a black cape, shooting Force Lightning from my fingers and telekinetically choking my many, many enemies. No doubt at all.

[Beasts of England]

Boop. Sha-doobie. Slattered.

[Jeff Dobbs]

James D.:
There is very little more depressing than a Sunday on which the Jets win and the giants lose.

See, look on the bright side - that will not happen next week.

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: Miss Marple | November 09, 2014 at 08:13 PM

ha ... was trying to make a joke. a bad one.

and Rodgers has more TD passes than incompletions ...

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Aaron Rodgers single handedly turned my opinion from forever hating the Packers to actively cheering for them. That shootout he had with Kurt Warner is the most enjoyable game I've ever watched, including Redskins Super Bowl victories.

[Beasts of England]

Rats on the west side. Bed bugs uptown. Slattered.

[Danube on iPad]

Your point is a good one, Clarice. Do you know what is the other case besides King that he is referring to?

[rich@gmu]

Rodgers has as many TD passes as Chicago has first downs ...

that was a great game 51-45 Cards but wow still remember it.

[Beasts of England]

lol, narciso - one of the best movie lines evah!

[Danube on iPad]

I remember Gowdy and Chrisman very well, CH. N.Y. Titans, L.A. Chargers, Dallas Texans....

I adopted the league immediately, and very early on recognized that its best teams could compete with anyone in the NFL except the Packers and Cowboys. You can imagine how I savore SBs III and IV.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

I think Kurt Warner had the highest possible quarterback rating in that game. I'm pretty sure he had more TD passes than incompletions.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

People don't talk about IV as much as III but the Chiefs just ran roughshod over the Vikings.

[henry]

Looks like nuking from orbit has begun.

James D, it could be worse... Cutler could be a Giant.

[glasater]

OK, I officially hate the Seattle Seahawks

Hey! :-)

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

There's something about Cutler than brings out the internet hate.

[rich@gmu]

CH-

Warner 29/33 379 11.5 5 0 154.1 rating

brilliant.

[narciso]

at 28-0, it appears so, it could turn around,

'those words he is using'

[henry]

Lacey. 35-0

[rich@gmu]

35-0 ... lol.

[henry]

CH, Cutler is my favorite Bear.

[rich@gmu]

Collingsworth just trashing the Bears ... lol.