Did Obama Let the Progressive Cat Out of the Bag?

President Obama traveled to Boston to help stop the bleeding of Martha Coakley’s campaign from several self-inflicted wounds. There are many critiques of the speech, with some pundits saying Obama was flat, uninteresting, and full of the usual drive-by campaign rhetoric that we have all become able to recite ad nauseum.

As most of us are aware, Obama–without his teleprompter–rambles, is at times incoherent, and goes on and on to answer a yes or no question. He needs his teleprompter. It’s not like an addiction need, it’s more like ‘I really need my teleprompter, because I don’t want to say what you don’t want to hear’ type of issue.

Obama and his compliant press have tried to manufacture him as a centrist; however, that cover has been blown as of today.

What was stated in the Coakley cheerleading campaign speech in Boston, I don’t think Obama meant to say. He’s been off the campaign trail for so long, that he’s not on his game; I think the misstatement by Obama was a huge gaffe. At about 4:28 during the speech, Obama states:

“…you will carry on the best progressive, forward-looking values…”

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Posted Jan 18th 2010 at 10:07 am in Congress, Obama, Politics, State Politics | 61150199 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/sahiller/2010/01/18/did-obama-let-the-progressive-cat-out-of-the-bag/Did+Obama+Let+the+Progressive+Cat+Out+of+the+Bag%3F2010-01-18+18%3A07%3A59SusanAnne+++Hiller

Obama’s Pet Goat Moment

For the Left, one of the most defining images of the previous administration can be summed up in three words “ My Pet Goat.”

If you remember, when President Bush was informed of the second plane crashing into the World Trade Center, while his photo op with school children at the Emma  E. Booker elementary school was about to start. For the next several minutes, (much maligned by Michael Moore, in “Faranheit 9/11″) we saw a man confused by the situation. It has been joked about by comedians as him wanting to see how the story ended.

Every time I watch this footage, I always saw a strong man, who knew that twenty school children had looked forward to their chance to read to the President, for weeks. He decided they would not be disappointed. And knowing that this was an attack on the United States, the President did his best to neither disappoint nor alarm the children.

I’ve always imagined his narcissistic predecessor bolting straight out of the room and into a bunker, stepping over any children in his path. In reality, what could the President do? In that moment of confusion there really was nothing that could be done, other than have him sit there uncomfortably, and pretend that everything was normal. It takes a strong man not to flinch under adversity.

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Posted Nov 9th 2009 at 10:07 am in Culture, Media Criticism, News, Obama, Politics | 27702260 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/tslagle/2009/11/09/obamas-pet-goat-moment/Obama%E2%80%99s+Pet+Goat+Moment2009-11-09+17%3A07%3A35Tim+Slagle