18 thoughts on “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me”

  2. “What a narcissist.”

    In other shocking news, water is wet.

    Ken Anthony, you said a mouthful!

  3. I am an occasional reader of your blog and generally enjoy it. I am not in the least an Obama fan. However, I’m curious, did you actually read the text of Obama’s speech or did you just read what Brian Koenig blogged about after he read analysis of the speech at PolitikerNY? Seems like you should have provided a link to the text of Obama’s speech rather than providing a link to a blogger who also fails to cite the text of the actual remarks.

    Here’s the citation: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/08/11/remarks-president-dnc-event

    Again, I disagree with most of Obama’s policies but after I read his speech, I think he was simply saying that his change agenda is going more slowly than his supporters expected, just as change was slow and many times hard to see in the civil rights movement. You obviously have a right to your opinion, but shouldn’t it be a matter of personal pride for you that you cite primary sources?

    I agree with you that the President has a narcissistic streak. I just don’t see any evidence in this particular speech that he says he has “suffered as much as Martin Luther King”.

    If you are fair and use appropriate citations – you’ll be far more influential with your readers. I assume influence is why you blog in the first place.

  4. Thousands of poorly thought out, ill advised, badly managed projects lag far behind their initial timetables. Of the thousands of project managers in charge, I doubt any one of them has ever had the “This is like the struggle for civil rights!” epiphany.

  5. Great analogy George. The president can be thought of as a poor project manager and in his remarks he was guilty of hyperbole and pandering in a way that no other project manager would ever do. I didn’t vote for him and I sure would never choose to defend his approach to winning political points on the back of the civil rights movement.

    Once you’ve read the text of Obama’s speech at the link I provided, simply point out to me where he says or even so much as implies that he has “suffered as much as Martin Luther King”. My only point was that, rather than taking the word of another blogger, Mr. Simberg should first read what the president actual said before providing his biting commentary about infinity and beyond. Mr. Simberg, in this instance, simply did not take the time to look at the primary citation. Its sloppy commentary, not really the least bit biting at all.

  7. Paul, I’m sure Obama would be horrified at being compared to MLK. It’s kind of an insult to him, since he thinks he’s Jesus.

    There’s a story David Brinkley relates about LBJ and the receiving line at some White House function. An ambassador in the line finally made his way up to LBJ and asked, “Is it true you were born in a log cabin?” LBJ repied, “Oh, of course not. That was Lincoln. I was born in a manger.”

  8. THE PRESIDENT:And the debt– I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but when the stock market went down, what did everybody buy after the downgrade?

    AUDIENCE MEMBER: Treasuries.

    THE PRESIDENT: U.S. treasuries.

    AUDIENCE MEMBERS: Yes.

    THE PRESIDENT: Everybody understands that the United States still has the greatest economic potential and the greatest businesses, the greatest universities on Earth, and the greatest workers on Earth. And so the market voted with its feet in terms of its confidence in the marketplace. And what they also understand is if we were just willing to make some modest adjustments to our tax code and to how entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid work, this problem would vanish. We could solve it.

    Mr. Paul, since you are not guilty of hyperbole and pandering, can your suggest some modest adjustments to our tax code?

  9. Curt, Obama’s argument sounds like an profound alcoholic with severe drug and gambing addictions telling his wife that he just needs to make some “modest adjustments,” when what he needs is detox and years of rehab.

  10. “modest adjustments”?

    Getting a $1.4t deficit under control will take more than a modest adjustment.

  12. I just read Obama’s remarks. While he may not have said it outright (so the quote marks are inappropriate), he most certainly was making the comparison between his struggle and King’s. He was trying to wrap his agenda in the cloak of the civil rights struggle. The imagery was deliberate.

  13. If he keeps ‘claiming’ the persona of those others, does that mean he truly doesn’t have one of his own?

    My question is, of course, rhetorical in nature.

  14. “I am an occasional reader of your blog and generally enjoy it. I am not in the least an Obama fan. However…”

    Well, that’s a new twist on the “As a concerned Christian conservative, I am not in the slightest a fan of (liberal pol under discussion). However…” type of moby. Usually this was followed by some prime BDS (or after the last presidential election, PDS) rant, but sometimes it was more subtle, like what “Paul” did here, accusing Rand of taking something the liberal pol in question said “out of context.”

  15. I must admit to a little suspicion on that, Andrea. After all, if Paul was a real person, then he could read the Obama speech for himself and answer his own question without posturing in someone’s sandbox.

  18. So right. Perhaps we should have a weekday where we all go over to a specific leftard post somewhere and show them some real quality trolling?

    That was a joke Thomas, Chris, (where’s Jim), et. al.

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