Speech, Speech

After a petty showdown with Republicans and a temper tantrum, Hussein the First has agreed to move that speech which no one particularly cared about anyway to another day. There's nothing that O can say that will convince the country that sunny skies are ahead. With 80 percent of Americans saying that the country is in a recession, the Summer of Recovery propaganda. All that leaves is more useless proposals and the old blame game.

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Three years ago columnists fainted at his feet every time his mouth imitated the teleprompter, today even they have to admit that the magic is gone. In a wholly negative campaign, his best bet would be to avoid the limelight and let his pet poodle press do his dirty work for him. The less people remember that he's around, the less likely they are to blame him. It's a smart strategy, but O's ego would never let him bend that far. Instead he has begun delivering speeches like Castro, with much less to say. And the more the public sees him making the rounds, the more they associate him with the disastrous situation. All Obama can offer is more programs that will waste money without creating more jobs, while warning about the irresponsible Republicans and their crazy tax cutting ways. And we've heard it all before. All the pomp and circumstance of the office reduced to a petty nose thumbing, while millions remain out of work.

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Speeches about economic proposals don't matter when you have zero credibility on the economy. Last election, the Dems and the pet poodle press could pitch Obama as the bright young thing with an Ivy League Degree who was going to turn things around with new media and green jobs. Today that brings bitter laughter from people who know better. Obama's only real shot at credibility is to admit his mistakes and claim that he learned from them-- and it's the one thing that he's least likely to do. Instead he and his staffers give in to paranoia and petty tantrums. “It is a big deal that the House said ‘no’ to the president from our end,” a White House source with intimate knowledge of what took place between the House and the president told me Thursday. “This confirms what we all know: They will do anything in the House to muck us up.” Next thing you know, Obama will have to get his own bunker.

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