Help Wanted: White House Speech Writer

[McCamy Taylor]

I am not going to critique the budget deal. It is a piece of crap. However, American presidents have served the country crap before and made them ask for seconds. The speech our president gave last night is different. He told America that the deal is crap. He told America to be grateful that it is eating at all----there are starving children in Somalia who would be delighted to get that crap---and he told them that even the crap could be taken away from them, depending upon what the business communities thinks in six months.

“I have been concerned about the effect it has had on business confidence”

“Everything is on the table”

Our president, last night

http://punditpress.blogspot.com/2011/07/watch-obama-debt-ceiling-speech-july-31.html


Now, I do not expect miracles from our president. This is corporate America. Big business selects the candidates for both parties, and big business supplies the hundreds of millions of dollars that are required to pay for a presidential election. CEOs don’t do this out of the goodness of their hearts. They do this so that they can maintain control of a country which has been very, very good to them. Don’t believe me? Check out some of the statistics on rising wealth disparity. The rich keep getting richer, and the poor keep getting poorer, which means that someone has taken the idea of wealth redistribution and turned it on its head.

What I do expect from a Democratic President is coattails. Next year, he has to mobilize the base, so that Democrats regain control of Congress. He has to keep the White House out of the hands of Govs. Rick Perry and Mitt Romney. He has to restore some degree of sanity to a federal government which has been dysfunctional for most of three decades.

The president I saw last night is not up to the task. He was all “business confidence” and “balance” without a single drop of compassion.

When was the last time you heard our president describe the plight of an unemployed American who has worked hard all his life and now, at the age of 60, he finds himself tossed upon the garbage heap with no future job prospects, only the distant promise of Medicare and Social Security to keep him struggling through the next five years? When was the last time our president took to the road to force the corporate media to tell the stories of the 10% who have no jobs? When was the last time he shed a tear for a middle aged former teacher who is dying of breast cancer, because she lost her job and her health insurance?

When I look at our president right now, I do not see a viable Democratic candidate. I see George Bush Sr.. I see Herbert Hoover.

January 24, 1930
"Trade recovery now complete President told. Business survey conference reports industry has progressed by own power. No Stimulants Needed! Progress in all lines by the early spring forecast." - New York Herald Tribune.

If our president is not up to the task of running a second successful presidential campaign then he needs to step aside and make room for someone who can. Yes, he ran "the prefect campaign" back in 2008.But that was when we were looking for a "get us out of Iraq" president. Now, we are looking for a "my god, does anyone even care?" president.

[The Wizard]

1. Life is a big shit sandwich

and we all have to take a bite. The more bread you have means the less shit you have to eat.
Obama is a lousy negotiator, and most of us will be eating more shit.

[russspeakeasy]

2. A good speech writer needs something to work with..

If your beliefs are unknown, if you don't take a firm stand on issues, and you don't back up what you say, a speech writer won't help.

[Faryn Balyncd]

3. It is very, very painful (& difficult) to realize that one with so much promise is not up to the tas

task.

[abelenkpe]

4. Agree about needing a better speech writer

The last several speeches have been really poor and full of cliches. My pops uncle was a speech writer for Eisenhower though....so maybe I'm just expecting too much?

[Ignis]

5. What's lacking is the whole "Vision Thing," not just the writing.

[Name removed]

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[Fire1]

8. I'm sorry but I had to laugh. I can just hear you saying,

"the son of a bitch....." :spray: :rofl: :rofl: Thanks for making me smile.:hi:

[McCamy Taylor]

11. Gotta agree. There is constructive criticism and then there's....

:nuke:

I hope that my criticism will always be constructive. I try to address problems and suggest solutions.

[Marnie]

7. Why does the keep everything on the table when the Republithugs

don't.

[caseymoz]

19. Because it's what he'd give them for nothing.

I hate to say he'd give them Social Security just so they'd negotiate with him and stop saying he was a socialist Moslem, but that's exactly what happened.

That was, "See? I'm sensible like you." They were too surprised to take it, or too maybe too smart.

[StarsInHerHair]

9. Help Wanted: White House. Obama's a trojan horse

[McCamy Taylor]

10. Help Wanted White House: Reagan's Teflon Armor

If you want to be the dumb but lovable actor/cowboy president, you have to act like him. Nancy would have slapped Reagan's speech writers from here to kingdom come if they had given him something like last night's speech to read.

[drokhole]

12. I vote for Chris Hedges.

That man has a way with words that Obama has completely lost.

Throw Out the Money Changers
http://www.truthdig.com/chris_hedges


Short of that, Obama and his guy would do well to go back and study this speech, especially the bit about peace.

[McCamy Taylor]

13. Nice JFK speech. Proves you don't have to become disillusioned and cynical once you move to DC.

[OneGrassRoot]

14. Well said, as always, especially....

"The president I saw last night is not up to the task. He was all 'business confidence' and 'balance' without a single drop of compassion."

Word.

He is capable of so much more, that's what is so disappointing.


K&R

[Divernan]

16. O was effective at faking the compassion during his campaign.

[chervilant]

23. Is he?

Therein lies the rub. Or, should I say, "therein rubs the lie"? Obama's mendacity is subtle, but it's pernicious. I don't trust him. I no longer respect him. I will never support him again.

[bluestateboomer]

15. K&R!

[blkmusclmachine]

17. We're completely locked out of DC. In every way, shape, and form.

No one that represents us will ever see the light of day in that town.

[LibDemAlways]

18. I don't think he needs a new speech writer. He's a smart guy who

knows what he's saying. The lack of compassion is by design. It's who he is.

In 2008 I listened to Obama's speeches. He talked in vague generalities about "change," and people clung to that word like a life raft. They voted for "change" not knowing or understanding that it was nothing more than a come-on, a bait-and-switch mechanism to lure the unsuspecting voter in.

Bush wore his lack of compassion on his sleeve. He "joked" about his base being the "haves and have mores." He and his wife owned up to sharing a laugh the night of 9/11 before they went to bed. He ate birthday cake with McCain and fund raised in California while Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans. Upon hearing the plight of a woman working three jobs, he praised the American economic system.

Obama's lack of concern for his fellow citizens is less overt, but no less disheartening. As long as powerful business interests continue to bankroll candidates and the media continues to marginalize anyone who speaks out for the little guy, Obama is the kind of person who will occupy the Oval Office - one who acts in the interests of a select few to the detriment of the many. In 2012 the choice will be between R-hardcore and R-lite. Not a pleasant thought.

[Major Hogwash]

20. His speechs were what got him into trouble. He made too many campaign promises.

And forgot them on January 21st, 2009.

That's why Axlerod is not around anymore.

[MrTriumph]

21. LBJ made us look at poverty. It was uncomfortable, but it got results.

LBJ, with press in tow, visited poor families to draw attention to their plight. The MSM had no choice but follow. He was, in every sense of the word, our president, the man in charge. And party because of these efforts to publicise the ugliness of American poverty, LBJ pushed the Great Society through congress. And, despite GOP revisionist history, it was a success.

Omama is far removed from the stature of LBJ.

[proud patriot]

22. The President needs George Lakeoff

Badly !