David Axelrod: It Sure Does Look Stupid for a President to Talk About a Bad Economy from the Golf Course!
I can’t top Allahpundit’s typically amusing introduction:
Via BuzzFeed, enjoy as one of the masterminds of Hopenchange kneecaps his future self not once but twice in a 61-second span. Turns out it’s a bad idea to try to B.S. the public with economic optimism when they’re not feeling optimistic, and it’s a really bad idea to try to do it when you’re known for spending your leisure time engaged in the ultimate stereotypical rich-guy pastime. Eighteen years, a catastrophic global recession, and 100 rounds of golf later, here we are.
Axelrod’s likely defense: “Wasn’t me. Check out the caption on the clip. That is clearly some other person named ‘David Axelron.'”
The Not Ready for Primetime Players.
SPQR (26be8b) — 6/13/2012 @ 6:22 pmHe will lose his key to the executive restroom in the White House.
Stan (103775) — 6/13/2012 @ 6:33 pmdavid axelrod
Colonel Haiku (b6f803) — 6/13/2012 @ 6:57 pmteh gift what keeps on giving
after Teh Love gone
There comes a point where Obama’s whining about George Bush will make people realize that perhaps they should elect a Republican so at least there will be a valid reason to blame them for the country’s ills.
Given that George Bush can’t run by constitutional mandate, it will be Romney who will get the nod.
Neo (d1c681) — 6/13/2012 @ 7:07 pmDid he break 100 yet? In total rounds, or strokes in a round?
JD (95e569) — 6/13/2012 @ 7:24 pm“smart diplomacy”???
Colonel Haiku (b6f803) — 6/13/2012 @ 7:25 pmliberals can’t be trusted
put adults in charge
Is it just me or does Axelrod look like a child molester?
the wolf (f71b83) — 6/13/2012 @ 8:41 pmMy second proposed slogan for Obama’s re-election campaign turns out to be the absolute truth (The first one: Do the Math. On second thought, don’t do the math was already evident)
I think I may have said somewhere that this issue will displace all other issues in American politics and is only rivaled by the slavery issue in the first half of the 1800s.
It’s NOT the economy, stupid. Obama has trumped it.
What happened today is almost unprecedented. The only comparison is Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. An Abraham Lincoln, however, who in the previous two years had intensified enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act!!
But that may not matter. In politics it’s always “What Have You Done for Me Lately?”
Romney, of course has no principles and no coherent thoughts. So he really can’t say anything except doubletalk. He has no idea which way to go and what to say if he leaves the doubletalk.
If Romney doesn’t endorse it Hispanic turnout goes way up. If he half endorses it, he might lose some of the Republican base. If he doesn’t half endorse it, he loses other votes.
The difference between this and Mediscare and talking about Social Security is that this is absolutely real, Unless, of course, Romney says it is not, and he will not undo anything, but that’s put him a pickle.
Sammy Finkelman (8a20da) — 6/15/2012 @ 3:48 pmAnd just what hap[pens to people who were born before 1982 but have lived in the United States since childhood? They got married and legalized already or what?
Sammy Finkelman (8a20da) — 6/15/2012 @ 3:50 pmDid you see the cover of TIME Magazine? Now that was printed yesterday and worked on even longer.
Sammy Finkelman (8a20da) — 6/15/2012 @ 3:54 pmIf Romney can’t come up with coherent thoughts on immigration, people are going to find it difficult to believe he has any coherent thoughts about the economy, either. And there’ll be an economic crisis too – the Euro. Even on the economy it could be 2008 all over again, with the Republican candidate not quite sounding in command of the facts, or at least less than Obama.
Sammy Finkelman (8a20da) — 6/15/2012 @ 4:01 pm