Even the legacy media is beginning to take notice of Barack Obama’s, well, less-than-uplifting rhetoric of late, as Russell Goldman reports:
If you’re President Obama, you know you pushed the sarcasm envelope at Monday night’s debate when even Rachel Maddow describes the way you spoke to Mitt Romney as being in “very, very overtly patronizing terms.”
Maddow probably meant it as a compliment, but there have been plenty of other observers who were critical of the president’s use of Seinfeldian set-ups and snarky punch lines to score points about military spending and the state of U.S.-Russia relations.
Time’s Mark Halperin described the president’s style as “belittling.” Mike Allen at Politico called it “snide derision.”
(H/t: Reader Kurt.) Candidates, to borrow Goldman’s expression, tend to leave “most of the snark to their staffs and surrogates”, but Mr. Obama seems to relish making snide remarks himself. His campaign has even invented a term to deride Mitt Romney that Obama delights to use: “since Friday, Obama has not delivered a campaign speech without mentioning” Romnesia.
White House senior adviser David Plouffe may contend that the term “is about as big a thing you can have in a presidential election”, but it doesn’t seem to have impacted Mr. Romney’s favorables, having instead hurt Mr. Obama’s.
How can this man expect to unite the country after waging a campaign this divisive?
The moron and chief has not record to run on in the first place!
No wonder the MFM keep publishing all of those editorials calling for more civility in our political discourse and lecturing the President for setting a bad example.
Oh, wait, sorry, I forgot that standards change when the President is a Democrat. My bad.
And yet, at the end of the day Maddow, Halperin and Allen, along with that world renown General Powell will still shill for, and vote for Obama. So, all their consternation over Presiden Snarky is nothing more than a smoke screen.
To answer the last question of the post: When did Barry EVER give the impression that he wanted to unite the country? Beats me!!
“that world renown General Powell will still shill for, and vote for Obama”
“Powell cited several reasons for the endorsement, namely the economy and foreign policy. On the economy, Powell said … “I think generally we’ve come out of the dive and starting to gain altitude.” Powell said Romney’s solution to the economy is “essentially let’s cut taxes and compensate for that with other things,” adding that the compensation doesn’t cover all the cuts.
On foreign policy, Powell called Romney a “moving target” who contradicted his previous positions in Monday night’s foreign policy debate, including on when to pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan … and said [Obama’s] efforts to protect the United States from terrorism have been “very, very solid.””
Yes, and it doesn’t make you look very good when you are condescending but also flat out wrong.
“I think generally we’ve come out of the dive and starting to gain altitude.”
Yes… Unemployment is back to where it was at the beginning of Obama’s term. Lets forget that we had $5 TRILLION in deficit spending as well as printing in excess of $3 trillion in new money. Those numbers do not include the $16 trillion in non-deficit spending.
To recap.. Obama blew through $24 trillion to get unemployment at 7.8% and GDP at 1.75 (if he is lucky). Yup.. lets re-elect him !!!!
We will also exclude the following lies from the debate :
Obama voting for war funding
Obama saying the stimulus will have 6.5% unemployment for 2012
Obama saying he will fix the deficit in 3 years
Obama saying he is against/for SSM marriage
Obama saying he will close Gitmo
Obama said executive orders are an end run around the constitution
Obama saying the attacks in Libya were a result of the “film”
Obama saying solar companies are America’s future
Obama promising the withdrawal of troops from Iraq within 11 months of him assuming office
Obama saying he saved the auto industry
Obama on 5 days notice of new laws
Obama on the “Fast and Furious”
Obama on governmental transparency
Obama on Katrina waivers
I forgot to add :
With the simple facts I posted, how in the world can there be voters who are undecided?
[Insert Copy/Pasted OFA talking points].
Colin Powell is nothing more than an identity-politics hack who is voting for the (half) black guy.
There, I said it. Now call me racist. I double-dog-dare you.
Regards,
Peter H.
Colon Bowel was the guy who decided to leave Saddam in power at the end of the 1991 Gulf War; because the sight of all those dead Iraqi soldiers made him sad.
His judgment has not improved since then.
Hey “Passing By,” just because General Powell says it’s so, doesn’t mean it is so!
Not worth pointing it out to you, but there are volumes of data and facts available that point out how really bad this economy has become over the past 4 years. See some of it in #6 above.
As for protecting US from terrorism, why don’t you ask Ambassador Stevens and his 3 friends. Oh, my bad – THEY ARE DEAD!!!!!
Powell is doing what he is doing because of the black thing. Nothing more, nothing less. His actions are as racist as mine would be if I had proclaimed to a mixed group of people I voted for McCain because he was white. Sad as it is, but he and you are entitled to your opinions, as wrong headed as they are.