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No More Unicorns

That was then:

Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.

You have to stay at the seat at the table of democracy with a man like Barack Obama not just on Tuesday but in a year from now, in four years from now, in eights years from now, you will have to be engaged.

This is now:

The outfit that put upwards of 8 million volunteers on the street in 2008 – known as Organizing for America – is a ghost of its former self. Its staff has shrunk from 6,000 to 300, and its donors are depressed: receipts are a fraction of what they were in 2008. Virtually no one in politics believes it will turn many contests this fall. “There’s no chance that OFA is going to have the slightest impact on the midterms,” says Charlie Cook, who tracks congressional races.

…By the time they realized they needed more troops, says longtime consultant Joe Trippi, “their supporters had taken a vacation from politics.”

TIME blames administrative neglect, which of course is always a plausible explanation where Obama is concerned, but of course there are other reasons why the kind of people who changed their middle name to Hussein and collected heroic unicorn art of their Leader have lost the thrill:

Not even sorcery may be able to rekindle the excitement many first-time voters showed back then. “The popularity of the President with these voters is not a transferable asset,” says Jamal Simmons, a Democratic strategist. “I don’t think it’s realistic that they would ever be able to replicate the unbridled enthusiasm. It’s like a first kiss: you can never experience it twice.”

Ah, the perils of treating politics as a substitute for religion. George W. Bush never had that problem; nobody really came to politics for the first time in 2000 because they thought voting for Bush would make them feel personally fulfilled, would end politics as we have known it, would end the nation’s racial divisions and make the world love us, or that he would pay their mortgage and car payments. Bush got elected because he seemed like a guy who could be trusted to do the job. And of course, that’s before you get to Obama’s actual job performance:

WHY, asks a Democrat leading a training session for fellow activists, doesn’t “Yes we can” work as a slogan any more? “Because we haven’t,” a jaded participant responds.

TIME notes that the Obama team is now trying to rebuild OFA in time for 2012, but that’s cold comfort for Democrats across the country who never did have Obama’s personal glamor.

Election Day is November 2. There will be no unicorns.


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"It’s like a first kiss: you can never experience it twice.”

Tbone (Diary) Thursday, September 9th at 2:32PM EST (link)

“Kiss” would not be the term I would use for what Obama has done not only to his faithful but to his unfaithful as well.

Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.

I wouldn't use "kiss" either...

ultraconservative (Diary) Thursday, September 9th at 4:29PM EST (link)

Thanks for the laugh

No, kiss is definitely not the right word.

soljerblue Friday, September 10th at 1:44PM EST (link)

And like a lot of “first times”, the morning after wasn’t fun, either.

 
 

Welcome to Obama's AmeriKa

greyhawk Friday, September 10th at 7:18AM EST (link)

So folks, welcome to the Kinder, Gentler America since we elected a president who is revered by Radical Muslims the world over, revered by Communist Dicatators the world over, revered by the Russians because he took down the nuclear shield that was in place in Eastern Europe as a reminder to the Empire Building Russians that they better not dare invade their neighbors.

Now, we are going to go the way of France and England and other European Nations where they have allowed Muslims and Their Sharia Laws to supplant their civil laws. Where Rule is By Violence or Threats of Violence.
Is it not pathetic that if you threaten to punch your next door neighbor in the nose that your neighbor can go and file a charge against you and you will be arrested for making terroristic threats, but if you are a Terrorist Religious Cult, you can Threaten To Murder American Citizens, and our government Does Absolutely Nothing, and in fact appeases the Radical Muslims.

The Muslims have basically laid down the gauntlet that says: “If any American or Anybody Else dare Offend Us, We Will Terrorize You.” And, what is really sickening about this is the fact that our own government and mainstream media is on the side of the Radical Muslims, and will use all the power of the U.S. Govenrnment and All the Power Of The Mainstream Media to Squash Anybody or Any Group that dares challenge them.

Welcome Folks to the New United Fascist States Of America. Fascism defined means “No opposition allowed.” This, my friends, is what our government has just told us. Also, look at what they are doing to Arizona and other States Who Dare Defend the Legitimate Laws of the Land.

Better wake up folks and rally Conservative Voters on November 2, 2010. At the rate the Obama-Pelosi Regime Dictatorship is moving, there may never be any elections ever again. If they will not tolerate basic First Amendment Rights of Speech and Expression, how long do you think they will tolertate the rest of the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution, which one of the Communists in the Congress, Al Cee Hastings recently said when he was asked about the constitutionality of the Socialized Medicine Bill which they call Obama Care, Hastings replied: “What, the Constitution?? WE, The U.S. Congress do not care anything about the Constituton.” Al Cee Hastings was speaking for All of Congress and the President of the USA.

If you care about your freedoms and you do care about the Constitution, you need to get Out The Vote and Take America Back, and Totally Ignore the Mainstream Media, because they have just shown us how far they will go to Aid and Abet Our Enemies while Squashing A U.S. Citizen who dares express his Displeasure with Islam and With This Government and the Obama Regime.

greyhawk

 
 

We will see...

NeoKong (Diary) Thursday, September 9th at 2:44PM EST (link)

Exactly who gets pushed out of their comfort zone and is never allowed to go back to their lives as normal in November.

Barack ain’t the boss of me.

As the wise sage Potsie once said. You can take your hope and change and “Sit on it”.

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It is this simple.

msctex (Diary) Thursday, September 9th at 2:49PM EST (link)

If you are proven to have nothing to offer, if what you put forth does no good for anyone whatsoever, and you cannot even manage to leverage corruption into the equation so that it might briefly appear there is a reason to pay attention, this is what you are left with: empty rooms, and an enraged electorate.

 

It’s like a first Kiss concert: you can never experience it twice."

Mark D Thursday, September 9th at 2:52PM EST (link)

Your expectations are high because your going with members of their “Army.” Everyone tells you how great it is, and you get swept up in the moment. But then you realize that while yes, there is some talent and originality on stage, it’s overshadowed by the stage props and other visual effect. Afterwards, you realize, “Meh, it’s just another band/politician.”

You know you’ve reached rock bottom when you’re told you have character flaws by a man who hanged his predecessor in a military coup.

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Mark D Thursday, September 9th at 2:54PM EST (link)

duly noted.

You know you’ve reached rock bottom when you’re told you have character flaws by a man who hanged his predecessor in a military coup.

 
 

Thanks for reminding us

constitutionalconservative (Diary) Thursday, September 9th at 4:09PM EST (link)

How creepy and Orwellian the Obama’s vision for America is. I’d forgotten all about that little campaign speech.

 

Au contraire "jaded participant",

tngal (Diary) Thursday, September 9th at 4:27PM EST (link)

What do you mean by “because we haven’t'? You and your One have accomplished so much in such a short amount of time!

Remember when:

those delightful school children were being assimilated to the tune of Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm, Barack Hussein Obama.

He received that delightful Nobel Prize for thinking great thoughts, like the Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz

He forced bad policy upon bad policy and their costs on the many when only a scant few had the desire for the policies to begin with. (TARP, Healthcare)

He again ignores the will of the people by refusing to enforcing our current immigration laws which includes the removal of illegal aliens.

He floundered worse than a trapped fish while attempting to deal with an oil spill. Being bererft of any knowledge on what do to do, your One causes greater harm to the region and its population by halting drilling and stopping needed assistance.

Made a concerted effort to remove certain words, like ‘terrorist’ from our day to day conversation.

Attempted to shun a legitimate news outlet while encouraging the same from others within his circle.

If you guys mean “yes we can” alienate the majority of ordinary working class people, as well as the business community, wall street, health care providers, the disabled, veterans, unemployed, Christians in general, the Jewish community, and other groups, well yes you did. Fine job.

 

Words. Just words. Just like virtually everything about This President.

romeg Thursday, September 9th at 5:30PM EST (link)

“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.

You have to stay at the seat at the table of democracy with a man like Barack Obama not just on Tuesday but in a year from now, in four years from now, in eights years from now, you will have to be engaged.”

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – C. S. Lewis

 

0 X's anything is still 0

renny (Diary) Thursday, September 9th at 5:47PM EST (link)

But he has evidently just issued another famous EO ordering no deportations of any illegals except ones convicted of crimes. I guess he fails the semantics test on the word “illegal” or is still hoping “Yes we can” applies to fraudulent Hispanic voters.

 

RE: That was then:

Jeff Weimer (Diary) Thursday, September 9th at 6:24PM EST (link)

Michelle was right. we DID:

Get to work.

Shed our cynicism.

Put down OUR divisions.

Came out of our isolation, moved out of our comfort zones.

We pushed ourselves to be better.

We ENGAGED.

We are no longer uninvolved, uninformed. We are committed to staying at the seat of democracy this year, in 2012, in 2014 and beyond.

We are the Tea Party.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire

Bravo! Well said!

politicalqrm Friday, September 10th at 8:25AM EST (link)

A great example of turning things around. Americans have taken the words of socialist thought and turned them around to be used against them. Instead of us falling into lock step behind them, the Tea Party has started the movement that will bring sanity and the constitution back into our country.

The success of the tea party is one big raspberry in their faces!

Great post, Jeff

 
 

OfA = Flash Mob. 'nuff said. [nt]

acat (Diary) Thursday, September 9th at 7:26PM EST (link)

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self-portrait

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost”. –Tolkein

 

OfA (obamas foney Acornies) realized what a LIAR and all the CORRUPTION in obama and his OfA.NT

bobojake (Diary) Thursday, September 9th at 7:42PM EST (link)

They got one part right

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Thursday, September 9th at 9:00PM EST (link)

“Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual”.

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

 

Life Replicates Art...

exDemo Thursday, September 9th at 9:16PM EST (link)

There was a 60s era SciFi movie in which an enemy had a body double planted, to take the place of the American President. He then undertook everything to assist that enemy, to take down the country.

Well, life replicates art. We have a guy who was born an American in Hawaii, raised in Indonesia by parents who were communists in hiding, after their Putch failed to topple Indonesia.

He was sponsored to the best schools by Angela Davis’ Communist father; promoted constantly via Affirmative Action, the only fellow ever appointed to the Harvard Law Review, who never authored a single paper of legal scholarship. Chosen by Harvard Dean, Elana Kagan, subsequently rewarded by appointment to the Supreme Court.

He was sponsored into registering gravestones in the Chicago political machine; and then launched in to political office in mass murderer Red Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dorn’s living room.

He was born and bred a fully anti-American leftist, with stripes in the National, (anti-Semite & Eugenics/Abortion), Corporate, (Guidance of business),Trotskyite, (Anarchist), and Leninist, (Totalitarian), tradition; and now sits in the Oval Office.

And he is his own Manchurian Candidate…

I don't know, ex, sounds like a typical American

throwback59 Thursday, September 9th at 9:34PM EST (link)

upbringing to me. I mean, who among us haven’t been embarrassed by our parents & friends at least once, right?

 
 

DEMOCRAT MACHINE PAID WITH TAX DOLLARS

tigertooth Friday, September 10th at 6:33AM EST (link)

The so called, foot soldiers, were bought and paid for by all Americas Tax Dollars. ACORN and SEIU have been bought and paid for by all Americans. How can it be that all of us must pay for Democrat Vote Buying Schemes?
This policy must stop for any political party. Its un-constitutional and, at best, borders on treason.
This new congress must flex its muscles to our constitution and elliminate all funding for bogus organizations, injcluding Unions, ACORN and other Community Activist Organizations, and ACLU!
We are fed up with this insanity!

 

WHY indeed doesn’t “Yes we can” work as a slogan any more?

southcoast Friday, September 10th at 9:13AM EST (link)

One need only to look towards Massachusetts which was the dry run for Obama’s campaign to get the answer. The governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, was, and is, the prototype for the feelings rich and substance deprived candidate who compelled people to a cast a vote based on emotions. In the four years since that election, his has been an administration of ineptitude, waste and incompetence. It was the intersection of the Peter Principle and affirmative action. At this point, there is nothing in the form of an accomplishment which can compel any thinking person to cast vote for this politician this November. Likewise, there is nothing which can compel a thinking person to cast a vote for Obama in 2012.

 

I REALLY hope this is true...

LaborUnionReport (Diary) Friday, September 10th at 11:07AM EST (link)

BUT, I wouldn’t cast OFA aside as a “has been” yet. They have been active and are, of course, coordinating with the unions.

LadyImpactOhio has done a yeoman’s jobs at tracking these cretins.

“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine December 23, 1776

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.-Ayn Rand

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Nope...

soljerblue Friday, September 10th at 1:47PM EST (link)

“Election Day is November 2. There will be no unicorns.”

And maybe we can make a lot of progressives disappear, too.