Doesn’t this sound like a nice guy? Isn’t this the kind of guy you’d love to have as your president? He sounds so…caring…even frustrated that he can’t make things better for us as soon as he’d like. He even sounds like he really believes that jobs should be created in the private sector. He just wants to help that along a little with things like…”partnering”…what a nice word…it sounds so…cooperative… and lets us know that the government is here to help us during this difficult time.

The president says, in his weekly address, that he wants to help create jobs by giving community college manufacturing students an extra little advantage of having a special seal of approval credential. This way, businesses who are hiring will know that the graduates with the credential are approved for their new jobs. Problem is, Mr. President, nobody is hiring…there are no jobs. And the reason for that is your policies have made a bad recession worse. Your policies have created so much uncertainty, so much ambivalence, and so much fear in small businesses and companies that no one wants to commit to hiring more employees. I believe you are referring to this phenomenon as “bumps in the road.”

Does the president really want to help Americans find jobs? To be sure, the president would say, “Of course.” What he might not say, but think, is, “I want to help people find the right kind of jobs, like green jobs that help me to achieve my green energy agenda, because that is what is really important to me.” And that is what the president actually does.

Ah, the difference between what the president says, and what he does!

He pushes and demands his agenda, and then attempts to retrofit the needs of Americans into it. He is so eloquent, and so cool-looking, that he can convince some Americans that they want green jobs, too. But, one size doesn’t fit all, Mr. President. Most people don’t care about the color of their jobs. They just want jobs.

This weekly address is only one of many more talks and speeches just like it. Most Americans who follow what is going on in Washington have likely already decided whether the president’s agenda is working for them, or not. But, there are many Americans who shrug their shoulders cynically at Washington DC, shlep themselves to the voting booth once every four years, and pull the lever or fill in the oval for the last person they saw on the news the night before. If you are one of those Americans, and the last speech you heard was given by President Obama, just like this weekly address, why wouldn’t you vote for him?

These Americans could give us President Obama for four more years, and the White House is counting on it. That is why one of the essential tasks for Republicans- both national strategists and community grassroots conservative groups- is to confront Americans with the fact that what this president says, in front of the teleprompter, is not what he does. This president is interested in his own agenda, which is not the agenda of mainstream America.

Interestingly, if you try suggesting to the president that he doesn’t get what Americans are about, his “likability” disappears. Republicans need to expose this fragile, thin veil of a presidential image, held in place by a teleprompter. Beneath it, is a prickly and petulant personality who wants what he wants, in spite of the American people.

A recent CNN poll found that, after the Osama Bin Laden “bounce,” President Obama’s approval rating dropped to below 50%, in the shadow of increasing worries about the economy. Despite this drop, CNN states that “Obama’s strength remains his personal appeal: Three-quarters of all Americans say they approve of him personally, including a plurality of Republicans.”

And, according to a recent Rasmussen poll, 83% of likely voters believe one person’s vote really matters. Although President Obama may, indeed, be easily beatable on policy issues, Republicans need to ensure that every vote is accounted for, especially the ones of Americans lured by popularity, as was so well described in a post at RedState.

Grassroots conservatives need to put aside any charm school etiquette which warns against bringing up politics at summer barbecues, church picnics, and family reunions. Even in these every-day settings, effective listening about how people are coping, and discussions about how the free market and conservative principles can move the country on a better path could ensure that the fate of the nation is not in the hands of an administration which says one thing and does another.

By using the World’s Largest Teleprompter.

Every speaker used this from the podium, positioned below the lecturn.  There were unconfirmed reports that it had been borrowed from the White House.

It makes one wonder who actually wrote the script and if the rally was little more than propaganda for the TV cameras, given the host of radical organizations participating that day.

Today Sarah fired back…

She wrote “Hi Mom!” on her palm during her campaign stop with Governor Rick Perry of Texas.

Hah!

Here’s one of the actual photos from Daylife. It’s not a fake:

Here’s another one:

Of course, the far left is not amused.

Give this inning to Sarah Palin.

How short their memory is. For that last year we’ve witnessed numerous examples of President Obama’s staged press events and town halls–most recently the Politico reported on Obama’s preselected questions for an Organizing for America forum on February 5, 2010:

The four pre-selected questions Obama took were the exact issues he stressed this week: health care, small businesses, jobs and education, in that order.

Obama is rarely seen without a teleprompter and in the off chance his speech writers can’t put together a masterpiece for him, it’s a disaster.

So, let’s take a walk down memory lane, shall we, because, the MSM seems to have forgotten the online town hall debacle and the control the Obama White House has had on them since the 2008 election. In addition, American Spectator previously reported:

Using a screen is nothing new for Obama; almost nothing he said in supposedly unscripted townhall events during the presidential campaign was unscripted, down to many of the questions and the answers to those questions. Teleprompter screens at the events scrolled not only his opening remarks, but also statistics and information he could use to answer questions.

Also forgotten were the preselected reporters, in addition to his complete reliance on the teleprompter–Palin was dead-on when she said, referring to Obama, that he was “A charismatic guy with a teleprompter.”

Palin spoke for over 40 minutes and only used note cards; but the media pounces over 6 keywords written on her hand–not even answers but words. Andrew Bretibart is right when he stated, “It’s you that sucks.”

To the MSM, so willing to assail Palin, I have a question. Why do you write your questions down?Can’t you memorize them? You only get one question to ask during a press conference, maybe a follow-up. What’s wrong? You need to write it down. Interesting.

Finally, rather than trump up Palin stories, couldn’t the MSM concern itself with some real news?For example, in 2009 Obama’s policies set a number of “records”, including record bank failures, record foreclosures even with assistance, record car dealership closings, and record lows in air travel.

And the one that poses the most threat to Americans–record terror attacks since 2001. Then there is the newly breaking story of Tim Geithner’s problems with the AIG bailout–now that’s a scandal.

On the other hand, the outrage on the left is being completely misunderstood by the right. Democrats don’t mind that she needed a few notes for her speech. They’re upset that Sarah used her hand, proving once again that she is an unsophisticated hick. Everybody knows that whether you are talking in a sixth grade classroom, or talking dirty to the First Lady, using anything other than a presidential-level teleprompter is simply pedestrian.

Note to the left: You can read the writing on the hand, or the writing on the wall. Take your pick.