Obama's Fatal Flaw

Who would have believed the president hidden flaw would be his downfall.

"Eric Spiegelman, of the blog "Bus Your Own Tray," noticed something fabulous while scanning the State Department's flickr page: Barack Obama's smile is amazingly consistent.

On Wednesday, the Obamas hosted a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and posed for over a hundred photographs with foreign leaders in town for the big UN meeting. His smile never changed." ~ Huffington Post

What kind of person would stoop to a smiling contest with utter disregard the decorum of the office of president. It was revealed that Rahm Emanuel whose secret Bolshoi dance fantasy was never realized per a wikipedia story.

Rahm saluting the "Just say no to smiling" Republican't Party

"Emanuel was encouraged by his mother to take ballet lessons as a boy and is a graduate of the Evanston School of Ballet. He won a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet but turned it down to attend Sarah Lawrence College, a liberal arts school with a strong dance program." ~ Wikipedia

Not Rahm's Mom

It was in a session with Nancy Pelosi that the group decided on playing the vicious "Smile Card"

John Boehner response to President Obama's Smile was "Hell no you can't" as he said without a smile. Then promised "Obama may be smiling less because he's been addressing the financial crisis, a situation that makes smiling often inappropriate."

One person noted, "What is behind the Barak Obama Smile?"

Undercover work by Eric Spiegelman discovered the sinisterness of Obama's consistent smile in his great video,

The pinko-commie, socialist,Fascist, Godlessness of the one true anti-Christ will always be the one without the S-M-I-L-E ...


From the emotionally two year old Rush Limpbaugh

Now wait. Drum roll please - dum dee dee dum. To ....... Glenn "baby face" Beck

Happy April Fools Day!

Marketing Incompetence

The First Law of Marketing is to find a need and fill it.

The Second Law of Marketing is to Create a need and fill it.

The First Law of Politics is Create a problem and Blame the Aftermath on the Opposition

Marketing and Politics is all about gaining "traction" on solutions to problems that may or may not exist.

An example is do you really need a BMW or a car. Branding is a method of turning your attention away from the need for transportation and replacing it with the desire for luxury and/or status.

In politics it can take the form of the need for security and replace it with the desire for retaliation even if the retaliation is directed to the wrong target and the blame goes to your opposition for governmental leadership.

If we open our eyes we see a huge deficit in the US created by two wars, one that should have been a short effective police action and the other that was never necessary. The cost is huge just in dollars for the war not to mention the ancillary cost in lives and personal costs to families of those serving.

And while the costs are dropping under the Obama presidency the debt amassed by the Bush Administration will take time to reduce.

Then there is the loss of wealth created by lack of regulations or enforcement of regulations in the Financial industry that was allowed to fester since the Presidency of Ronald Regan. Wealth redistribution since Regan happened moving from the middle class to the upper class through lower per capita taxes paid by the wealthiest of citizens and loss of US middle class wealth through Globalization.

CEO salary as a Percent of average worker

There is a direct relationship between declines in wealth, and declines in consumption and business investment, which along with government spending represent the economic engine.

• Between June 2007 and November 2008, Americans lost an estimated average of more than a quarter of their collective net worth.
• By early November 2008, a broad U.S. stock index the S&P 500, was down 45 percent from its 2007 high.
• Housing prices had dropped 20% from their 2006 peak, with futures markets signaling a 30-35% potential drop.
• Total home equity in the United States, which was valued at $13 trillion at its peak in 2006, had dropped to $8.8 trillion by mid-2008 and was still falling in late 2008.
• Total retirement assets, Americans' second-largest household asset, dropped by 22 percent, from $10.3 trillion in 2006 to $8 trillion in mid-2008.
• During the same period, savings and investment assets (apart from retirement savings) lost $1.2 trillion and pension assets lost $1.3 trillion.
• Taken together, these losses total a staggering $8.3 trillion.
• Since peaking in the second quarter of 2007, household wealth is down $14 trillion.[125]
• U.S. homeowners had extracted significant equity in their homes it doubled from $627 billion in 2001 to $1,428 billion in 2005 as the housing bubble built, a total of nearly $5 trillion over the period
• U.S. home mortgage debt relative to GDP increased to 73% during 2008, reaching $10.5 trillion.

To offset this decline in consumption and lending capacity, the U.S. government and U.S. Federal Reserve have committed $13.9 trillion, of which $6.8 trillion has been invested or spent, as of June 2009.[126] In effect, the Fed has gone from being the "lender of last resort" to the "lender of only resort" for a significant portion of the economy. In some cases the Fed can now be considered the "buyer of last resort."

So what does the Republican Party try to sell us (US)? The old Ronald Regan adage, "Government can't solve the problem they ARE the problem." So we ask WHO was the government that WAS the problem? The Republican government that was sold as being run by Businessmen who know how to lead. I guess there is a reason the word lead has more than one meaning. One to lift up through guidance and the second a heavy metal used to weigh down.

Marketing misdirection is the key top Karl Rove's method blame the aftermath on the poor guy left with the mess and offer to fix the mess by using the same methods that created the mess.

So back to Mark Barett's First law of Marketing "When your product is indistinguishable from the competition, add sex."

Enter stage right Sarah Palin or maybe Paris Hilton

"If sex is used to market a nonsexual product, that product is generic." – Mark Barrett


"Success in being a good follower lies in picking the right leader." Anon

As true today as in the 60’s

As true today as in the 60’s, "For What It's Worth" written by Stephen Stills is a reminder what the mind trapped in fear can do. So many people angry, fearful and anxious folks from the far left and right are creating a cyclone of distrust. The sad thing is we are all in the same boat trying to survive. Tea Baggers, extreme progressives and even the moderate middle are wondering what happened to America.

It's a little like we are all jumping out of the real boat for some delusional boat just an arm length away. It really is a mirage. Rodney King, for all the words said and hate, said it best. "Can't we all just get along"?

Gridlock and self righteousness is a slow poison and we all just need to stop drinking the "Kool-Aid" (Not the product the Jim Jones kool-aid) and start finding ourselves again. We really need to find the innocence of our youth coupled with the wisdom of our age.

"For What It's Worth"
Performed by Buffalo Springfield

Richie Furay - guitar, vocals
Dewey Martin - drums, vocals
Bruce Palmer – bass
Stephen Stills - guitar, keyboard, vocals
Neil Young - guitar, harmonica, piano, vocals


There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away

We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Pesident Obama sees Republicant's in Retreat

Ok so that' facetious but when it comes down to it the Republican't party better overcome their glee and wonder if their primaries will yield a strong shift to the right will lead to losses rather than gains. By bending over backwards to ultra conservatism will lead to the same results as the Upstate NY defeat.

So as the Republicant's retreat to the right they are losing the center. All Independents are NOT the fringe they are mostly people tired of political Gridlock and being manipulated by both parties.

So retreat ye grand wizards of misinformation you will lose.

Free Speech? Oh Really?

Free Speech decision essentially changes something fundamental about our country and reminds me of the Gettysburg Address. Perhaps I should say a parapharase of that great speech. "...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

can this now be written ...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the corporation's money, by the corporation's money, for the corporation's money, shall not perish from the earth.

Did the court ever consider these corporate entities are not a person but a collection of Board Members, employees, stock holders and, yes, customers. We will see a few individuals deciding the decisions of government against the will of many of those stakeholders. I agree with free speech but not with Other People's Money (OPM). Goodby freedom.

By LIZ SIDOTI

The Associated Press
Thursday, January 21, 2010; 6:57 PM

WASHINGTON -- There'll be a lot more special-interest money in political campaigns. And maybe even more confusion for voters trying to sort out who is behind the increasing clamor of TV messages.

The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision Thursday to allow corporations and unions to spend freely on elections seems certain to boost the political power of big business and labor. And perhaps diminish the clout of the political parties.

Its impact will be felt immediately. This year's midterm House and Senate campaigns already are under way.

By Bill Mears, CNN Supreme Court Producer

January 21, 2010 --

"It's about money," said Lawrence Noble, former general counsel of the Federal Election Commission and a national expert on campaign spending. "It's about free speech and it's about the ability of corporations to influence elections through the use of their treasury money."

Who is more out of touch - Both Parties

Scott Brown's win is a sharp message to BOTH parties. In my opinion the country is tired of both parties and their gridlock ways. Health Care is a perfect example of the fact that we are all tires of the sausage factory called Congress. It also shows we want results not argument along party lines for control. Political strategy is not what we want but results to the problems we all face.

The Health Care Plan was degenerated from a deep concern for a critical issue to a watered down usless piece of legislation. Scott Brown won because he addressed the problems Massachusetts voiced. For a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat I have to say he is a bad choice but I wonder how much better would Martha Coakley have been. Sure for the party it is an important setback but I'm tired like everyone else of a choice we are given by the majoe political parties, a choice between Dumb and Dumber.

Game Change and the Spin

So much is being reported on Harry Reid's comments, a little about Bill and Hillary and nothing about Sarah Palin and her being chosen John McCain's running mate. Have we Democrats forgotten the lesson about P-e-r-c-e-p-t-i-o-n?

We hear so much Republican't spin it sounds like a swift boat hatchet job rather than an interesting account of the election. Anyone who thinks the public persona of any politician is accurate must be the truth is really dreaming. You can tell only by actions and votes and even that may be a manipulation.

Harry Reid's comments while seemingly are insensitive are a reality of the voting public. They are insensitive to the extent that Barack's race should not be an issue while in reality we know his questions were based in some reality of a portion of the electorate.

Why are we not getting the full story, however, and hearing on the news the questions about Palin's inability to grasp the history of the world?

In essence we, the Democratic Party, have failed to understand we need a swifter boat to stay ahead of the Republican't "talking points."