Speaking of “echo chambers”
As we noted yesterday, President Obama told Senate Democrats to turn off cable TV and blogs and instead talk to the “folks” outside the “echo chamber.”
So, what’s the King of the Taxpayer-Subsidized White House Echo Chamber doing today?
Just arrived in my e-mail box:
Organizing for America
michelle –
Today, at 5:45 p.m. Eastern Time, Organizing for America is hosting a “Conversation with the President” — and you won’t want to miss it.
President Obama will talk about fighting for change in 2010, and then answer questions from grassroots supporters like you.
You can watch a webcast of the event starting at 5:45 p.m. Eastern Time:
http://my.barackobama.com/Conversation
President Obama will review our many accomplishments this past year and address the tough fights ahead of us — including the 2010 elections, fighting to strengthen the middle class, and finishing the job on health reform.
Then, I’ll ask the President some of the questions that OFA supporters like you submitted online.
I hope you can tune in at 5:45 Eastern:
http://my.barackobama.com/Conversation
Thanks,
Mitch
Those who live in the Mother of All Echo Chambers shouldn’t throw stones.
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Related must-read: Print, save, and share Anita MonCrief and Carol Greenberg’s two-part series on an inside look at OFA:
An Inside Look at Obama’s Organizing for America Part I
An Inside Look at Organizing for America Part II: ACORN for America?
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And be sure to have your copy of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals with you as your required reference text.
Ask him if he thinks taxes are an inalienable right of government or whether tax payers should receive direct reciprocity for each and every dollar they pay. Not that they would use a question like that…..
Does all this man do is talk?
Pull the string, wind him up …
When does he just stop?
Stop to think!
Seeing that picture of Obama looking in the mirror was pretty coincidental. Glenn Beck was talking just this morning about all the pictures of Obama that are everywhere in the White House. Generally, the pictures in the common areas of the White House are of historical significance, like Washington crossing the Delaware, etc. But apparently, Obama’s pictures are everywhere and are changed out weekly! It is like he has changed the WH into a shrine to HIMSELF! Glenn also said there is a picture of Obama with his feet up on some very precious and historic desk, showing extreme disrespect. I guess if you are raised in a Madrassa and know nothing about the history of the country you are supposed to be “leading”, you will not understand how important it is to respect it. This man is a bad joke that has been played on our country. We have been punked!!
I’ve seen his change. I don’t want it.
FIFY
They just better never question Obama or else we will all be told to turn them off too.
Remeber when Obama administration felt that Fox was not a real news network like CNN was? Now look, he is telling everyone to turn off what his own administration had called a real news network because it is part of the echo chamber with Fox News….
Translation: Obama has discovered that Americans still have some change in their pockets, so he will now fight to take it from them.
I’m sort of surprised there is actually a reflection in that mirror.
If he stares too long will he mesmerize himself?
What was the name of that group again…
OFA? Obfuscating For America, Right?
GREAT observation!! Ha!
What has to start publically being asked is, “Would you buy a used car from this man?”
There cannot be enough emphasis on Obama’s track record concerning is convolution of the facts, documented self-contradictions and indisputible lies.
The President has an integrity problem; a huge one. The bottom line is when someone has an integrity problem you cannot trust anything they say at face value. It has to be validated.
Obama should be absolutely hammered on the integrity issue. He has forfeited his right to hide behind the traditional respect for the office he holds.
I loved the comment about the reflection in the mirror. Couldn’t have said anything more appropriate for this vampire.
Not sure there is a connection.
You can either listen to what people say, providing their own slant, about what other people say, or you can listen to the original words.
Listening to pundits, or listening to the individual speak, are two entirely different things.
Obama: “Romper Bomper Stomper Do! Do tell me, tell me, tell me do! Boy , I sure hope Miss Nancy sees me in the magic mirror today!”
HA!
” Because I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me.”
If you haven’t seen this, check it out now. “You Talk to Much”. Hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgOZu_KcVi4&feature=sub
Why is the President of the United States so busy campaigning?
Is he really this stupid?
Americans are done with talk and rhetoric, it’s time for action.
We all know who the President of the United States is, we don’t need him broadcasting it, we need results: Stabilize the economy and reduce the deficit. If he doesn’t do that he won’t be re-elected no matter how much campaigning he does.
This guy is a complete joke.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who’s the most ineligible of all?
So he’s personally going to China to ask for more money?
Even in his speech this a.m. at the Prayer Breakfast, he was in campaign mode…bringing up health care numerous times, etc. He uses every single opportunity to push his agenda, even a prayer breakfast. Yes we are getting transparency from him…we are on to his tricks and he is fooling no one any more.
Speaking of taxes. The middle class will really be hosed by these crooks when they start eliminating all the deductions for charitable contributions and mortgage interest (next year). When that happens there will be two things happening simultaneously: 1.Revolt 2.Massive numbers of mortgage defaults.
If that does not get the MSM off their fat a**es and start reporting truth instead of Marxist propaganda nothing will.
“You say you want a revolution? mmmmm….” I love it when Leftists get their crap served back to them.
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HI RED DOG #24. Good post. I still know many people who believe that Comrade Obama (PBUH) will do a great job for the “little people” by taxing the hell out of those evil rich oil companies, banks, businesses, rich fat cats, etc. And they still think that anyone making under $250K a year will not pay more in taxes.
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Real marxist class warfare stuff. But the bloom will fall off The Messiah’s roses when the much higher taxes and costs hit all persons at all income levels. The wakeup call will be when we all do our 2010 tax year 1040 forms.
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And when many charitable organizations–like Salvation Army, World Vision, Red Cross, churches, etc. see their incomes cut drastically when people can no longer contribute to them. A lot of hungry third world people will hurt a lot more due to The One’s actions as he “heps out” the poor–and makes a lot more poor people in our country.
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John Bibb
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That picture is just ripe for a sudden appearance of the famous “scene-stealing squirrel”.
In the end his only claim to fame will be that he was the first black president…..an answer to a multiple choice question in a fifth grade history book. But hey, my name won’t be on the test.
Last week Fox News was called the most trusted news channel.
This week Obama tells people to turn off cable news.
Yep, the Obama administration is the most transparent one ever!
From the picture, I thought you might be posting about the 300+ pictures of “the one” hung all over the west wing! According to a secret service agent, they are changed weekly! As Dr. Krauthammer told Sen. Santorum when asked if he thought BO was a narcissist, he replied, “No. He’s a pathological narcissist.”
How sad that the first black president turns out to be a socialist/marxist who wants to enslave the American people!! Just think how wonderful it would have been to have a Conservative black as the first president, and how much better history would have remembered him/her! Yes, just so sad! How long until we elect another black president? I think it will be a very very long time coming. He has spoiled it for everyone.
The perpetual campaign.
No wonder he has no time to do the job liberals and other sheeple elected him to do.
And the “it’s not my fault” campaign continues. It seems like the deeper the hole Obama’s policies dig us into, the worse the anti-Bush rhetoric gets. Apparently, the only failure Team Obama will admit to is underestimating just how bad Bush was.
He likes that Benito Mussolini pose, for sure.
I’m not saying he is Mao, Hitler or Stalin, but he seems to have the megalomania part down pretty well.
Obama is the gift that keeps on giving..
I like calling Bho a malignant narcissist.
Remember, the White House as brought back David Plouffe for damage control. While we may not see a lot of him directly, he is and will be busy behind the scenes coordinating the “message”. Every single appearance and statement by Obama will be used for maximum political impact. I expect this will get worse as time passes and magnifies a persistent problem for the Dems: How to dress up their real agenda to appear to be something sane and reasonable that the average American would support and hide their contempt for him?
He is certainly not smart.
He is, however, quite dangerous.
Unfortunately, the joke is on us taxpayers, producers, and America-loving citizens.
For an answer, look to:
The puppet Obama and the rest of the minions are simply following Alinsky’s blueprint.
Remember, America-hating nihilists/fascists/statists/socialists can not create, maintain, or grow anything.
They can only destroy.
And, their goal is to destroy America, so that they can institute their impossible utopia, their paradise-on-earth, complete with unicorns and peaceful, “moderate” muslims.
That is why they eat the seed corn of our economy and culture; why they know only how to forcibly take from some and give to others, to level down…always – always – down.
bleeck! The guy is just disgusting. Every time I look at him, it makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit.
On February 4th, 2010 at 12:14 pm, happyscrapper said:
How sad that…[OB. Hussein Obama]…
turns out to bealways was, and is, a socialist/marxist who wants to enslave the American people!!Related:
“U.S.A. Now Less the Land of the Free”
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35460
and
‘Free World Leader: Lech Walesa, “The world has no leadership. The US was always the last resort and hope for all other nations.That was the hope, that whenever something was going wrong, one could count on the United States. Today we lost that hope.”‘
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/02/free-world-leader-lech-walesa-the-world-has-no-leadership.html
And another one:
“America Rides off Into the Sunset”
http://townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2010/02/04/america_rides_off_into_the_sunset
Translation: Anyone talking who disagrees with THE ONE.
Obama himself CAN’T be part of it because he’s against it, even though his voice is the most reverberating one in the whole world. If you want to know what ISN’T the “echo chamber,” then check it out HERE.
Since Bho has never had a real job, he has no idea what a work ethic is. He has spent his entire life going from one thing to the next while never actually doing the current job. He has gone back into campaign mode as soon has he got elected rather than trying to do any part of the current job. I think he’s scared of re-election. He won. Re-election depends upon doing the current job, something he has never done. He can’t continue to vote “present”, so he has gone into full thug mode. If there were an office higher than his current one, he’d be campaigning for it.
Good. Grief.
Does he ever stay off the frickin’ airwaves?
I’ll bet he even buys the tapes from the changing rooms in department stores so he can see himself in those thongs he tried.
An Obama quote from this mornings prayer breakfast:
“Talking about the issue of “civility,” he said, “Now, I am the first to confess I am not always right. Michelle will testify to that. But surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith, or, for that matter, my citizenship.”
First time Obambi himself has mentioned this……I hope it means that, quietly but surely, the heat is still on regarding this issue, as it should be.
Once again, the eggheads in the punditry are declaring the end of America. How about stooping down from the ivory tower and actually meeting some of us Americans. It isn’t up to them to declare that it’s over. It’s up to us and I don’t see us quitting. That is why we are going to continue winning. And we are going to bring new leaders with us.
Caption contest?
Here’s my entry:
“What have I gotten myself into? Who knew ruling the country would be so much work?!”
My caption:
“I can’t even tell I have on bronzer. That lady at the Borghese counter was right.”
Caption:
“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and gosh darnnit, people like me!”
(Enter scene stealing squirrel in lower right corner.)
Entry 2:
“Hmm. Okay, I don’t think that look was Presidential enough. Maybe if I furrow my brow a little more. Yeah, that’s it!”
If it came down to the Sock Puppet or Punxsutawney Philrunning for President hands down Phil would be my vote. At least he has a job and knows what to do.
next:
(whining)”I don’t care what they say–I think I look like I was born in Hawaii!”
Let’s see:
Question #3 President Obama was
A. The first black President of the United States.
B. The biggest Presidential failure in history.
C. Married to The FLOTUS with the best arms.
D. Father of two cute kids.
E. All the above. ** Sums up four years at the beginning of the 21st Century.
Let’s be fair Phil. Barry does this every day in his “town hall” forums in which real Americans who have been pre-screened present pre-approved questions for POTUS to ruminate over.
Yeah, and he stoops (is that the same as bowing?) alot too.
Caption:
“They promised me if I said it over and over and over most everyone would believe me…and it worked during the campaign.”
My caption:
(takes deep breath) My beef strong!
My entry: Caption
“Hmmmm…the destruction of America is a lot harder than I thought it was going to be!”
“I’m a little teapot
Short and stout
Here is my handle
Here is my spout
When I get all steamed up
Hear me shout
“Tip me over
and pour me out!”
Soon to be everywhere on DVD stands at your local gas stations!
They did a good photoshop job on that picture! They remembered to remove the marionette strings in both images!
Excellent!!!
Rim shot, please!
William “Boss” Tweed was imprisoned for his part in Tammany Hall. Today, he would be hailed as a great politician. Times have changed.
Barry better have a word with “Plugs” Biden. Looks like he is gettin’ a little thin in back.
You think that a little sand trap might be a-formin’?
Is it just me or doesn’t this timing kinda smell reeeeaaaaalllll bad? He has his “speechifying” and stuff while Glenn Beck’s show is on??? I find it very interesting and childish.
We are talking about adolscent opposite worldview-holders/nihilists/fascists/statists/socialists here.
Your point?
Yo Barry, keep the change.
Re pic:
I’ve seen this before, oh yeah, “Through the Looking Glass” also known as ” Malice in Wonderland!”
BHO,
It may be true that some conservatives (and liberals as well) live in an echo chamber, but most of us hear all sides and make up our own minds. It’s a little thing called, “freedom of thought.”
Venturing slightly off topic (with requisite apologies)
…Speaking of the “man in the mirror” …what’s the deal with Auntie Onyango – is she booted or not?
How come Obowmao never has a press conference?
Errah How the hell is he able to see his reflection??!!
That’s easy. He can’t speak without a speech in front of him, approved by his “advisors”. They know he would be a disaster speaking without it.
Should be a short meeting. Oh wait…
Us? Why is it always “I-me-my” until the conversation turns to something hard?
This is the beginning of the end.
“Cut yourself off from all other input, but listen to me.”
I have visions of Jim Jones talking to his cultists, on the way to Guyana.
The Internet and Fox are killing him. HIS media (and make no mistake, they were his media) are starting to turn on him en-mass, and he knows it.
He needs the Demos in the Congress to tune out, like they won’t notice, when we take them to the woodshed in November.
They’re in panic mode, and are ignoring the tea-party at their own peril.
This is actually getting better by the day. I’m making popcorn.
Re Pic:
Obama: (practicing in mirror) “Let me be uh, perfectly clear. When I inherited this mess, I uh, uh… ah f#$%it! I got nothing!”
Caption:
I Love Me !!!!
PfredE: Auntie is free pending a decision sometime before June. She’s a shoe-in to stay. I hope we can keep the other 30 million illegal aliens from getting a free pass as well.
This guy isn’t any different than Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton. They all have to be noticed and made to feel more important than anyone else.
First BO is a SOCIOPATH. Narcissist know there are rules that apply to them, but ignore the rules. SOciopaths know there are rules, but believe the rules do not apply to them and ignore them.
Same result, different reason.
Caption:
“Hum, getting a little thin in the back, maybe I can borrow one of those beanie thinkies from Lieberman and pretend to be a Jew this week? Yeah, that’s the ticket….”
VP, hey thanks for the info. Why am I not surprised by the outcome…(sigh).
“Nope…can’t do that and risk losing Hamas’ support…”
“…Perhaps a towel…yeah, that’s more like it…”
Caption:
I feel pretty, oh so pretty
I feel pretty, and witty and bright
And I pity anyone who isn’t me tonight.
I feel charming, Oh, so charming
It’s alarming how charming I feel!
And so pretty
That I hardly can believe I’m real.
See the pretty [ONE] in that mirror there:
Who can that attractive [ONE] be?
Such a pretty face,
Such a pretty [tie],
Such a pretty smile,
Such a pretty me!
I still love salted peanuts in my RC cola as well as a Moon Pie – is that racist also?
This may be my favorite photo of our Dear Leader.
Thanks!!!!! good laugh for the day!
Re pic:
When you stare into the abyss, sometimes the abyss stares back!
It IS sort of echo chamber in here, however, we are not charged with “running” the country. One could assume that with great responsibility comes an even greater mandate to look outside one’s own cirle for various opinions. When I look at Obamas circle of Czars for example, I am frightend by the radical social change agents who are the majority of his advisors.
It just struck me!
A great depiction of the ancient Greek myth of Narcissus gazing at his reflection in the pool!
Re pic:
Obama was late getting to the SOTU address as he became engaged in a staring contest, refusing to blink first, vowing “I will not quit!”
Man that just gave me flashbacks to fishing with my Dad. mmm….love moon pies and RC cola