LDOTR: Bush vs. Obama
No contest.
I briefly listened to some talk radio this week after a three-week hiatus … the fill-in hosts were desperately flailing about, talking about the new communist agenda, typical Illinois politics … and I heard the Golfer talk about the double-standard the MEDIA has shown with Obama, celebrating his golf game and talking favorably about his abs, whereas Bush had to stop playing golf because of MEDIA pressure.
Look at me, talk radio nation: let me explain this as simply as I can, in five words. It is all about personality.
Heck, I’m happy for Obama and his family. I think it’s COOL the guy is vacationing in Hawaii, working on his golf game and enjoying the beach. I think it’s great the populist’s champ is vacationing for all of us. That’s LITERALLY how it feels; that’s the impression I get from others I’ve been in contact with this week. There is not one hint of anger or jealousy or bitterness directed at Obama.
On the other hand, Bush … heh heh. You’re kidding, right? Everyone gets mad when they see that buffoon having a good time. It’s like he’s mocking us.
Look, Obama is likeable … his personality type (seven) meshes well with the MEDIA and the loud half of the nation. Bush (personality type one) is like an annoying perstering relative or manager who is overly-intrusive and out-of-touch. He’s obnoxious. And he can’t speak clearly. It’s embarrassing, really.
Besides, Bush has managed to kill patriotism in South Florida and other areas with his ill-advised (i.e., Rumsfeld and Cheney) war on Iraq. He managed to flush all that good will he had down the toilet — sorry, talk radio guys, but you can’t blame Keith Obermann and company for that.
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I gave up on Bush when he appointed Alberto Gonzalez for Attorney General back in 2004 — Damian can vouch for that. That single appointment told me all I needed to know about what was to come in his second term.
Obama, on the other hand, has appointed professionals for each cabinet post. They all have excellent resumes — they are no old drinking buddies from back home on his team (at least none that are obvious).
So, Obama easily wins the comparison at the moment. He has a clean slate and a winning personality.
And, considering how down and negative things are with Bush, Obama has no place to go but up. How much of an improvement he is over Bush is up to him and his Cabinet. I wish them luck.
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Whether or not the Big O and company destroy talk radio or not is irrelevent; I think they’re imploding quite nicely on their own. They can blame themselves for carrying Bush’s water for many years instead of bashing his blatant liberal spending plans (and Greenspan’s socialist interest rate agenda). Now the MEDIA has successfully linked fiscal conservatives with Bush’s policies — it’ll take a few years before the real silent majority forgives the Republican party and lets that go. Can you say betrayal? I can.
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I agree with your comparison and thoughts on Bush vs Obama. Also, conservative Talk Radio is simply on “auto-sim” with its attacks and panic mongering.
Shame on Drudge for trying to make something out of nothing again with pictures of Obama and his family on vacation. He, of course, doesn’t believe in the double standard as you described, so he is attempting to “balance it out”- but-as you said- NO ONE CARES that Obama and Michelle are in hot weather while most states are freezing.
After weeks of preparations for the largest sex event of its kind in Israel, organizers were forced to cancel it this week due to public pressure and threats exerted on the owner of the venue where the sex fest was to take place.
The event in question, which was scheduled to take place on “International Orgasm Day,” aimed to bring together some 250 participants seeking to promote world peace through multiple orgasms reached by masturbation or sex.
The orgy was organized by the Raelian movement, a UFO religion whose followers believe humankind was created by aliens. The group’s spokesman, Kobi Drori, said that the orgy was meant to include straights, gays, lesbians and bisexuals, all of them over 18.
“The purpose of the event was to try and bring world peace through mass orgasm, this by experiencing consensual sex and natural, uninterrupted pleasure. It was important to make love without feeling guilty or shy,” he explained.
Drori protested the fact that nowadays the words “war,” “violence” and “murder” have become more legitimate than “sex,” “orgasm” and “pleasure.”
“It should be the other way around. Several years ago an Iraqi boy whose limbs were amputated was shown on TV and everybody treated this as if it was okay, but when Janet Jackson exposed her breast during the Superbowl the American nation was appalled.
“We wanted to put into practice the saying ‘make love, not war’.”
‘Society based on self-fulfillment’
According to Drori, the orgy was just the first in a series of events dedicated to promoting this objective. On January 22 the movement will hold a conference on sexuality and masturbation with experts and writers in the field.
He also vowed that the cancelation of this year’s orgy would not deter the Raelians from setting up another sex fest next year.
The Raelian movement has several hundreds followers in Israel and some 70,000 members worldwide.
“We don’t believe in demons, ghosts and gods,” said Drori. “The group’s primary goal is to inform humanity, without attempting to persuade, regarding scientific messages that deal with the origins of life on earth.
“The second goal is to expedite the establishment of a society based on the principles of non-violence, solidarity, self-fulfillment and pleasure. To establish one global currency, one global government and harness science to the service of humanity, and not against humanity,” he concluded.
The Obama team, pledging the ”most open and transparent transition in history,” gets an ”A” for disclosing donors to the Jan. 20 inauguration and a ”F” when it comes to revealing transition meetings with groups. Contrary to its own ‘’seat at the table transparency policy,” meetings are not posted on a Web site