Me? Really? What about those people in Ferguson? What about the Yazidis? ISIS cut off a reporter's head yesterday.
"And right now, a focus of that fight has to be getting people who really care about making things better for you elected."
What fight? Oh... the fight for folks like me. You're focusing on the fight for folks like me by getting people elected who care about folks like me. Could you be anymore bland and generic?
ADDED: If he really cares about me, he should send me an invitation to stay at his compound on the Vineyard or at least to one of those 5-hour dinners served up by the hunky Sam Kass.
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Obama's natural audience is anyone with a .edu email address.
Yeah - and no one needs help more desperately than senior university faculty!
Are you really fighting with a form letter?
"And in this corner, weighing in at 138 pounds, with blonde hair..."
Go knock 'em out.
That cinches it!!
He's officially just mailing it in.
Nothing has ever been more important than fighting for folks like you.
So, defeating the Nazis, abolishing slavery, aiding survivors of the tsunami in Aceh, none of that was as important.
Wow, Ann, you must be pretty special
help him out Ann...he needs your money to keep playing golf and going on vacations.
The world is burning and all our anemic president can manange is dull, bloodless, bland, and anodyne speechification lazily delivered from The Vineyard. Pretty amazing. How is it that this guys approval ratings are above 35% still?
Also, the use of the word "folks" should be banned to all people born after 1950.
""And in this corner, weighing in at 138 pounds, with blonde hair..."
This sounds like a continuation of yesterday's photo ID discussion….
ISIS cut off a reporter's head yesterday.
And the executioner had a British accent.
You are my priority. Give me money.
Could you be anymore bland and generic?
Not to mention mendacious?
118 pounds?
the hunky Sam Kass
You like guys with strong chins. Aren't you glad you don't have a receding chin, Meade?
Sweet Obama Love. Any attempt to consummate it is like Giraffe Love, it gets you a swift kick in the head and arrested for harassing the animal.
He wants you to help more people move onto welfare rolls. And more full time jobs moving to part-timers.
His personal priority right now is golf and fundraising period
Ann -- Nothing has ever been more important than fighting for folks like you. You are my priority."
Meanwhile, he immedately takes his motorcade back to the golf course. By his actions, he shows his real priorities. He's on track to play more rounds of golf since January 20, 2009 than Tiger Woods. Still, he does less damage playing golf than when he's playing president.
Progressive Democrats always seem to be "fighting," don't they?
Fighting for The People. Or so they say.
But it's still difficult to see Pres. Obama as, well, pugnacious. Whiny sometimes, and always passive-aggressive. But, "fighting"?
"And right now, a focus of that fight has to be getting people who really care about making things better for you elected."
Because his enemies do not care about you nor the well being of the country{/sarcasm}
demagogue:
a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.
(in ancient Greece and Rome) a leader or orator who espoused the cause of the common people.
I've never received presidential email expressing how important I am.... **sulk**
You would not have to moderate so many comments if you would just put a like button on some of these. This one in particular.
It's bland and generic because women fall for it.
Women's default judgment is that he means well.
Men's default judgment is that he's a moron.
To be fair, Republican literature isn't much better. Both parties seem to aim their stuff at uninformed, emo voters. And sadly, they probably do so based on results.
"Nothing is more important" for Obama than "fighting for" middle-aged law professors? What about young-elderly semi-retired lawyers whose IRAs were tanked under George Bush? Aren't we worth "fighting for"? "Hath not a young-elderly semi-retired lawyer hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter
and summer, as a law prof is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If
you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?" But please don't mention the last point to Obama: It could give him an idea about how to solve the Social Security problem.
I think Obama is merely asking for his overdue reparations check.
Yes Obama needs help.
Even Romney says he is even worse than he imagined.
So let's help Obama!
VOTE EVERY DEMOCRAT OUT so then Obama can just sit back and let others drive the bus.
My question is why he bothered to come back to DC at a cost of $1M to do nothing for 24 hrs. If it was Bill, I'd say it was a hot date :)
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 But it wasn't as important as fighting for folks like Ann.
So, Professor....
You sure do sound more and more like a Republican these days.....
I guess that whole JFK, "ASK NOT...!" thing is completely out the window, in favor of some campaign funding back scratch.
Ann Althouse said...ISIS cut off a reporter's head yesterday.
Point of order, but they released the video widely yesterday--I'm not sure it's known when it actually took place. Also ISIS has been doing lots of horrible stuff for a while now, the important thing here is that they beheaded an AMERICAN. I mean, sure, they're the "JV squad," but, yeah.
Foley was captured in late 2012. Were there many news items or reports about him between then and now? If not, why not, do you think?
To be fair, well-to-do white left-wingers ARE the primary group he cares about. In the sense of "wants money from".
I get such a kick out of the community organizing, wealth re-distributing, grievance mongering, president's addiction to a rich white man's game. Does that make me a bad person?
*whispers*
hhhhhelp him ouuuuuut, Ann...you knooooooow youuuuu want tooooo....
Foley was captured in late 2012. Were there many news items or reports about him between then and now? If not, why not, do you think?
Generally speaking, if people can't picture it happening to them or their loved ones, they don't worry about it too much.
If he'd been kidnapped from the USA, I suspect people would have been a lot more interested in the story. When people see "American goes to third world, horrible things happen to him", they mostly think "... and that's why I'll never go there."
I don't want people who "care about making things better for me" to have power over me.
I want people who propose good policies and implementations - not "caring" and nice-sounding goals - if anyone has to have such powers.
(Ideally, less of the power, for that matter.)
I'd say it was far more important to fight for those poor folks in Fallujah and Ramadi who are now being butchered by those ISIS savages. I'm sure that Lord Obama didn't deign to watch them saw that reporter's head off.
That's more important than fighting for our hostess who is perfectly capable of taking care of herself.
This clown has been a 100% disaster, not only for us but for many others around the world.
-Krumhorn
Revenant said...Generally speaking, if people can't picture it happening to them or their loved ones, they don't worry about it too much. Oh I agree, most people wouldn't be interested in reading about it, but I'd think the Media (members thereof, anyway) would have an interest in pushing stories about members of their group in mortal peril. I mean, I read several articles about the reporters detained by officers in Ferguson(from the McDonalds) but I don't remember reading about Foley at all until now. It makes me wonder if the lack of coverage has anything to do with biases other than self-interest (in reporter safety).
"I want people who propose good policies and implementations"
Me too. I don't like demagogues.
"He lost me at 'folks'"
I'd think the Media (members thereof, anyway) would have an interest in pushing stories about members of their group in mortal peril.
Foley worked for GlobalPost. If he'd worked for a major network, you'd probably have heard a lot more about it.
I mean, I read several articles about the reporters detained by officers in Ferguson(from the McDonalds) but I don't remember reading about Foley at all until now. It makes me wonder if the lack of coverage has anything to do with biases other than self-interest (in reporter safety).
Self-interest explains it adequately. If you're a reporter working in America, the odds of being bullied or harmed by a thuggish policeman are far greater than your odds of being killed by Muslim terrorists.
Hold on a dang minute here. I got the same e mail.
I guess I am not so special as I thought.
Any black folks get that letter, or just us crackers? Weren't Obamas white ancestors slaveholders?
First Robin Williams croaks himself, a gentle giant gets executed now a reporter gets murdered. Somehow it doesn't bother me any more than the thousands of non-combatants being killed in the middle east.
ISIS cut off a reporter's head yesterday.
Big fuckin; deal, right here in the USofA, two reporters were forced to leave a McDonalds without their McSalad and a CNN reporter allegedly was touched by a thug with a badge.
Reporters, man, always putting themselves in harms way.
Revenant said...If you're a reporter working in America, the odds of being bullied or harmed by a thuggish policeman are far greater than your odds of being killed by Muslim terrorists. Definitely, but just from the perspective of "I might be a freelancer one day and be in a dangerous place like this guy, so I ought to push for coverage of his plight and keep this story in the news so that powerful people and individuals take actions to try and help reporters in trouble," I would think you'd see MORE coverage of reporters in danger (plus it increases their own professional respectability, etc)--so my question is what pushes the other way and makes this story not worth covering until it's too late? Just a lack of public interest? I mean, I doubt the public at large gave a damn about Augusta National's membership policy but that was flogged for weeks when it served the Left-Media's political ends.
It is possible I'm overly cynical.
"Any black folks get that letter, or just us crackers? Weren't Obamas white ancestors slaveholders?"
As Jesse Jackson just found out, people who make their living off the family EBT card don't do a lot of donating.
They're really handy for laundering money through though...
I've been wondering also why there was nothing about Foley until his gruesome end. We heard rather a lot about Daniel Pearl between his abduction and his beheading, but that might be because of the much shorter time lag. Also, he wrote for the Atlantic.
There was another journalist who disappeared at the same time Foley did. Is he being held in reserve?
Hagar said...
118 pounds?
110,112 tops. She's short drink of water.
Definitely, but just from the perspective of "I might be a freelancer one day and be in a dangerous place like this guy, so I ought to push for coverage of his plight and keep this story in the news so that powerful people and individuals take actions to try and help reporters in trouble,"
That's not a very sensible perspective, though. On the one hand, you have a very real problem facing all American journalists -- police abuse. On the other, you have a remote threat facing a tiny minority of journalists, which the US government has never and will never do anything about.
We heard rather a lot about Daniel Pearl between his abduction and his beheading, but that might be because of the much shorter time lag. Also, he wrote for the Atlantic.
The Wall Street Journal, I think, not the Atlantic?
The most significant factor, I suspect, was that his kidnapping and execution came right after 9/11, when the American public was still strongly in favor of waging war against Muslim terrorists.
Honestly, though, I get the same kind of bullshit from Republicans all the time. Lowest common denominator stuff. The scary thing is that they wouldn't do it if it didn't work.
Lately I write little notes back, not that I think anyone actually reads anything other than a credit card #.
New tag request: "folks."
It makes me sad to read these emails, because it makes me think of how lonely someone must be for this approach to be appealing to him.
Yep, Danny was with the WSJ at the time. He also write for Creative Loafing and the AJC. He played a mean violin for The Ottoman Empire (Mind blowing Atlanta band) and was a wonderful, funny, wry dude whose ride an insanely beautiful and wonderfu French chick.
I knew Danny, a little, I drank beer and played cut throat pool with him and Michelle Malone at The Cotton Club.
I still want to turn the entire ME into glass just cause I know they cut the fucking head off of one of the nicest people I ever met.
Last time he fought for me, he cost me a whole lot of money, so I'd prefer that he fought for someone else.
Wed an insanely beautiful French chick. Sorry.
Danny wouldn't want to turn the entire ME into glass. That's the only negative thought I have about Daniel Pearl. Cause he was wrong about that.
Will you ridicule HRC's fund raising letters as well?
Obama and the corruptocrats need your money!
He's fighting for you.
Who is he fighting against? Your neighbors and fellow Americans.
What are we fighting over? How to spend money that other people earned. And how to threaten people into doing things against their will.
He's looking down his nose at the folks again. He may want to consider recalling policies which have secured progressive division and displacement, devalue capital and labor, denigrate individual dignity, degrade human life (Make life, not abortion!), and creation of other moral hazards. Now that would be important and extraordinary.
At least he's letting everybody know he doesn't care any more.
According to Harry Reid's people, when he, Mitch Connell and other Senate luminaries last met with the president, Harry complained that the Republicans weren't moving forward on any of the White House ambassador nominations. (Read a hilarious New Yorker account of the last putz sent to Russia.)
Obama said, "You and Mitch work it out."
Maybe it's best this way.
How is it that this guys approval ratings are above 35% still?
That's the sum total of the leftists in America, and they'll always support him and his policies.
The Sam Kass dinner trip is the kind of thing that should be announced with a price tag to the tax payer.
I don't care if the president wants to go on vacation. I do want to know how many families paid taxes to pay for his trip back for a dinner party.
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