“Obama, the Dishonest”, should be the daily salutation and eternal epitaph to this con-man potentate presently in the White House. He is nearly a complete failure as president. Whether by intent or incompetence, is still not clear. The only things going for him are his con-artistry and cleverness of speech, his arrogance and chutzpah, the New York Times, and the rest of the university trained though police in the communications industry…..which adds up to be quite a foe within America.
Will good triumph over evil? America has had a lucky past. Its citizens, after all, were trained to be Americans, tolerant, Christian, respectful, educated, compassionate, conserned, and devoted to free enterprise and the dominance of individual liberty over the dictates of government
Our once beloved traditional American has been corrupted by Change….as promised by Barack Hussein Obama, sculpted by the Marxists at university. The end of this story has not yet arrived.
It may on the first Tuesday of this coming November.
The political opponent of this 3rd world introduction to American life will be Mitt Romney. In the past either of America’s major political party’s would be enhanced to have him be their candidate for president. The man is very, very American in the best of its expressions.
He and his friends and supporters had a good night last night….a hopeful night with the challenges of our nation’s future clearly outlined. ……outlined by leaders of a NEW wave of American leaders…..those who actually want to heal the nations’ wounds, rather than bloviate about them.
John Podhoretz wrote the following article at the New York Post. I like Mr. Podhoretz for his politics, observations, and temperatment of critique:
A perfect blend caps off a
perfect night for the GOP faithful
by John Podhoreta at the New York Post:
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/perfect_blend_caps_off_perfect_night_ELjh0ccurtd935yAccyD4J#ixzz24wTIrvVv
Well, the first night of the Republican convention couldn’t possibly have gone any better for Mitt Romney. The evening showcased two speeches that represented two key aspects of the American electorate — the two aspects of the American voter to which he needs to appeal if he is to win in November.
One is the heart. The other is the spine.
Ann Romney’s spectacular performance — as impressive a convention showing as any I’ve ever seen — focused on the heart. She made a direct appeal to women with straight talk about the difficulties of everyday life they know (she said) better than men.
She connected those difficulties to the present-day economic woes of the American family, to suggest that she (and, by extension, her husband) understood the plight of the middle class and were determined to do something about it.
He would do well for the country because he had done so well by her and by her children. That is always the message of the political wife, but there was something almost surreally deft about the way Ann Romney delivered it — offering encomia to her husband’s character and strength without treacle. And she found a way to humanize his great wealth:
“It’s given us the deep satisfaction of being able to help others in ways that we could never have imagined. Mitt doesn’t like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point. And we’re no different than the millions of Americans who quietly help their neighbors, their churches and their communities. They don’t do it so that others will think more of them. They do it because there is no greater joy.”
The blissful haze that fell over the convention when Mrs. Romney was done was instantly replaced by the blustery charge of New Jersey’s Chris Christie. It was his choice to use his keynote address to try to stiffen the national spine. Mrs. Romney said she wanted to talk about love. Christie went in the opposite direction: “Tonight,” he said, “we’re going to choose respect over love.”
His speech was focused on the notion that Americans want to be, expect to be and should be treated as self-governing adults rather than as dependents — citizens ready to deal with the “hard truths we need to hear to end the torrent of debt that is compromising our future.”
This was a speech designed to speak to undecided voters and independents, the very people who put him over the top in New Jersey. And so he didn’t attack Barack Obama by name or call out the Democrats as a party.
Instead, he suggested that the electorate in November would turn to the Republican ticket because it understands better than politicians the depth of the country’s problems — and that only the Republicans would speak honestly about them and the need to change course before it’s too late.
There was talk on Twitter as the Christie speech went on that he wasn’t praising Romney in the way a keynote speaker usually does, since he waited 17 minutes to mention the nominee.
There’s something to that, but by building slowly to the idea that only the Romney-Ryan ticket would be honest with the American people about the challenges facing them, they arrived in the speech rhetorically, almost like liberators at the gates.
Ann Romney said her husband would succeed for the American people because he had never failed before. Chris Christie said Mitt Romney was the only choice, because without him, failure was a near-certainty — whereas with him making the necessary hard choices, the United States would be in a position to bequeath our children and grandchildren a “second American century.”
Thus, the loving heart and the stiffened spine — compassionate but tough. Exactly the mix Romney needs to convince the American people to hand him the reins.
jpodhoretz@gmail.com
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/perfect_blend_caps_off_perfect_night_ELjh0ccurtd935yAccyD4J#ixzz24wLVhmDl
Well, the first night of the Republican convention couldn’t possibly have gone any better for Mitt Romney. The evening showcased two speeches that represented two key aspects of the American electorate — the two aspects of the American voter to which he needs to appeal if he is to win in November.
One is the heart. The other is the spine.
Ann Romney’s spectacular performance — as impressive a convention showing as any I’ve ever seen — focused on the heart. She made a direct appeal to women with straight talk about the difficulties of everyday life they know (she said) better than men.
She connected those difficulties to the present-day economic woes of the American family, to suggest that she (and, by extension, her husband) understood the plight of the middle class and were determined to do something about it.
He would do well for the country because he had done so well by her and by her children. That is always the message of the political wife, but there was something almost surreally deft about the way Ann Romney delivered it — offering encomia to her husband’s character and strength without treacle. And she found a way to humanize his great wealth:
“It’s given us the deep satisfaction of being able to help others in ways that we could never have imagined. Mitt doesn’t like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point. And we’re no different than the millions of Americans who quietly help their neighbors, their churches and their communities. They don’t do it so that others will think more of them. They do it because there is no greater joy.”
The blissful haze that fell over the convention when Mrs. Romney was done was instantly replaced by the blustery charge of New Jersey’s Chris Christie. It was his choice to use his keynote address to try to stiffen the national spine. Mrs. Romney said she wanted to talk about love. Christie went in the opposite direction: “Tonight,” he said, “we’re going to choose respect over love.”
His speech was focused on the notion that Americans want to be, expect to be and should be treated as self-governing adults rather than as dependents — citizens ready to deal with the “hard truths we need to hear to end the torrent of debt that is compromising our future.”
This was a speech designed to speak to undecided voters and independents, the very people who put him over the top in New Jersey. And so he didn’t attack Barack Obama by name or call out the Democrats as a party.
Instead, he suggested that the electorate in November would turn to the Republican ticket because it understands better than politicians the depth of the country’s problems — and that only the Republicans would speak honestly about them and the need to change course before it’s too late.
There was talk on Twitter as the Christie speech went on that he wasn’t praising Romney in the way a keynote speaker usually does, since he waited 17 minutes to mention the nominee.
There’s something to that, but by building slowly to the idea that only the Romney-Ryan ticket would be honest with the American people about the challenges facing them, they arrived in the speech rhetorically, almost like liberators at the gates.
Ann Romney said her husband would succeed for the American people because he had never failed before. Chris Christie said Mitt Romney was the only choice, because without him, failure was a near-certainty — whereas with him making the necessary hard choices, the United States would be in a position to bequeath our children and grandchildren a “second American century.”
Thus, the loving heart and the stiffened spine — compassionate but tough. Exactly the mix Romney needs to convince the American people to hand him the reins.
jpodhoretz@gmail.com
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/perfect_blend_caps_off_perfect_night_ELjh0ccurtd935yAccyD4J#ixzz24wLVhmDl
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