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By Alan Caruba

The most interesting thing happening in the world of politics and finance today is the way Barack Hussein Obama continues to lose traction every time he gives a speech.

After the “jobs” speech, Wall Street dropped three hundred points when the market opened the following morning.

When longtime, staunch supporters of Obama such as MSNBC’s Chris Matthews look and sound betrayed, it is clear that even Obama’s liberal base is in disarray. Matthews, presumably a seasoned political observer, had poured all his faith into Obama, believed in hope and change, and Obama only delivered a huge national debt, the first downgrade of the nation’s triple-A credit rating, massive unemployment, and the sad repetition of failed solutions.

Conservative commentators were openly disdainful of Obama’s use of a joint session of Congress as a stage for a purely political speech, but it was the public as always that had the last word.

Obama’s first speech to a joint session of Congress in February 2009 garnered 52.4 million viewers. By January 2010, the State of the Union speech drew 48 million and the 2011 SOTU attracted only 42.8 million.

His “jobs” speech was watched by 31.5 million. On the East Coast it was 7 PM, but in California it was 4 PM. Maybe it was just the time difference? Or maybe people have decided that listening to Barack Hussein Obama is just a great waste of time, no matter what the hour may be.

I know that the conventional political wisdom is that Obama has 14 months to go and that he’s a great campaigner, but to my eye his audiences following the “jobs” speech were composed mostly of union members or the very young.

Among the military, whenever he addresses them, the silence is palpable. Recall the sullen response he got at West Point when he announced his Afghanistan strategy, if one can even call it that.

There is a hard core of perhaps 20% who love Obama to the exclusion of his record of failure to focus on the economy. Others, though, from the black and Hispanic base are beginning to look for the exit. The Black Caucus is unhappy. Hispanics are unimpressed.

The race card is being played. Class warfare is being encouraged. These are the tools of a demagogue.

Obama, though, is convinced that if he just talks enough he can change opinion; thinks he is the master salesman, the ultimate campaigner. What he does not see, nor sense, is the derision with which his message is being received.

The public has had two and a half years to take his measure and while he cannot be fired until November 2012 and will not leave until January 2013, he is pure poison to any hope of economic recovery. He has the reverse Midis touch; whatever he touches turns to poop.

It was almost comical that the solar panel company he touted as the green jobs wave the future, Solyndra, received millions from the government, filed bankruptcy, and got a visit from the FBI that seized its records and computers. When it comes to picking winners and losers, Obama always manages pick a loser and stick the public with the bill.

Meanwhile his administration seeks to block Boeing from creating new jobs and raids Gibson guitars for using the same wood as every other guitar-maker in the nation. His administration shipped guns to the drug cartels in Mexico for reasons beyond comprehension. His Attorney General pleads ignorance.

His rhythmic phrase, “Pass this bill”, repeated seventeen times in the course of his speech to Congress ignored the fact that there literally is no bill. Out on the campaign trail a day or so later he was still saying it.

Obama is intoxicated with the sound of his voice, his staccato delivery, his hand gestures, and all the other elements of oratory upon which he has depended for his rise to the top. He just hasn’t figured out that it is not what you say, nor how you say it, that matters. What matters is the result of his policies. They don’t work.

Obama matters less and less in national affairs except for the destruction he and his minions continue to wreak upon a nation struggling to come back from a major financial crisis, fearful of his flawed judgment, not hiring, not spending, and waiting impatiently for November 2012 to arrive.

© Alan Caruba, 2011

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Tags: Jobs, President-Obama, Unemployment

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Comment by Robert L. Voelsing Sr. on September 16, 2011 at 5:50pm

To Al Newman from Wednesday.    Did ya ever notice that BHO always hesitates before making a decision???

Thats because he is waiting for ORDERS from higher-ups such as Soros,,,his backer,,,& Cloward & Piven his Marxist mentors from Columbia U..     They & others like them have TRAINED this Marxist Manchurian POTUS to do THEIR will & bidding & NOT  for ALL on the Far-Left,,,who now are dis-illusioned with their 'God'  Obama. BHO has a very tight inner circle to whom he listens & it's usually just HIMSELF who dreams up this BS to fit his pattern of a Dictator (Do as I say,,,not as I do) with a pronounced case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

We must do what it takes to DEFEAT   B Hussein O in 2012,,,,,fight fire with a bigger hotter fire,,,& no matter who gets the Repub nod at the Convention,,,WE must ALL get out & vote to STOP this Marxist from ruining our country & turning it into his version of a 'Third World Nation" before it's TOO LATE,,,,OK???

Comment by Al Newman on September 14, 2011 at 9:05am
Sworn to?  Sworn to muslims, marxists, evil billionaires, and leaders of unfriendly foreign countries, and the defeat of America.  THAT'S what he's sworn to.
Comment by Al Newman on September 14, 2011 at 9:04am
I think you'll really like the 'connect the dots' part. (prev. comment)
Comment by Al Newman on September 14, 2011 at 9:03am

Here's a little VERY INTERESTING reading for you.  This information has been out for years and yet most people have no clue.  Written by 2 Columbia professors in 1963 ( I think) Cloward and Pivens.  Called the Cloward-Pivens Strategy.  Frances Fox Pivens is one of Husseins close advisors. Enjoy your day!:

 

 

Comment by mary young on September 14, 2011 at 4:50am

J.LStevens:"Deliberately" as in political correctness. As in it's not polite to call BHO a "socialist"

Comment by mary young on September 14, 2011 at 4:39am

Everytime I hear BHO speak (and it's been almost three years?) I have to yell and curse; I cannot stand the sound of his voice, how he uses a long "s" at the end of  aword, his use of an accent (remember Hillary Clinton) depending on which part of the country, and his scowering, arrogant look. He  has destroyed this country and I know we're not supposed to say "deliberately" but I truly believe it is.

Comment by Daniel F. Meucci on September 13, 2011 at 8:48pm

Mr. Obama is sticking to his organizer in chief roots!  Why is everyone so surprised?  He sat in front of Rev.

Wright for 20 years, his friends included old SDS Terrorist like Bill Ayres, his Mother and Father were avowed

communists, he taught social justice in law school telling his students the constitution was an old document

which basically means nothing in the face of a radical changing society which must be supported on the backs

of taxpayers who must share their wealth with his people...huh?  Sounds like Black Liberation theology to me?

Americans have been slow to figure this nut out but ...slowly they have...let's hope we just don't get a

RHINO to replace him...MItt seems to be singing my song...but I don't trust him, Mr. Perry is scary...I don't

know who he is...he supported Hilary Clinton and was a Democrat at one time, he is not conservative

on imigration,...but I truly believe he is right about social security as a ponzi game...but he has not offered

any good solutions yet?

Comment by Jerome J.Bernhard on September 13, 2011 at 6:24pm
what more can I add-you said it all-cant wait to celebrate my 90th birthday with a goodbye celebration to oibama and return to conservatiosm-Hallalulia-
Comment by Al Newman on September 13, 2011 at 6:23pm

You're killin' me.  :)

 

Comment by Al Newman on September 13, 2011 at 5:58pm
Excellent pic.

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