DON IMUS: “I think you would have been a much better President than the guy we have now, don’t you agree with that?”

SEN. JOHN KERRY: “You’ve asked me that before. Every time I come on you try to get me to –”

IMUS: “– I’m not trying to get you to do anything. I’m trying to get you to be honest.”

KERRY: “I’m always honest.”

IMUS: “Well, you would’ve been a much better President.”

KERRY: “I would have been a good President. Maybe even a great one. How about that?”

Audio Transcript via realclearpolitics.com

Unrelated Viewing:  You Tube – I Could Have Been A Contender

Clinton is back in the White House, and Obama is too busy acting like the late party goer Andy Warhol to do his own job.  How ironic is it that Republicans are now GLAD to see the old pervert back?

Barack Obama is being politically crushed in a vise. From above, by elite opinion about his competence. From below, by mass anger and anxiety over unemployment. And it is too late for him to do anything about this predicament until after November’s elections.

With the exception of core Obama Administration loyalists, most politically engaged elites have reached the same conclusions: the White House is in over its head, isolated, insular, arrogant and clueless about how to get along with or persuade members of Congress, the media, the business community or working-class voters. This view is held by Fox News pundits, executives and anchors at the major old-media outlets, reporters who cover the White House, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders and governors, many Democratic business people and lawyers who raised big money for Obama in 2008, and even some members of the Administration just beyond the inner circle.

On Friday, after the release of the latest bleak unemployment data — the last major jobs figures before the midterms — Obama said, “Putting the American people back to work, expanding opportunity, rebuilding the economic security of the middle class is the moral and national challenge of our time.” But elites feel the President has failed to meet that challenge and are convinced he will be unable to do so in the remainder of his term. Moreover, there is a growing perception that Obama’s decisions are causing harm — that businesses are being hurt by the Administration’s legislation and that economic recovery is stalling because of the uncertainty surrounding energy policy, health care, deficits, housing, immigration and spending.

And that sentiment is spreading. Many members of the general public appear deeply skeptical of Obama’s capacity to turn things around, especially, but not exclusively, those inclined to dislike him — Tea Partyers and John McCain voters, but also tens of millions of middle-class Americans, including quite a few who turned out for Obama in 2008.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2024718,00.html#ixzz123wiGjsZ

During my recent interview with Ari David, he mentioned that he perceived his generation as ‘Reagan / South Park Conservatives’.  It is with this reference in mind, that I make this point.

During South Park Episode 1205, a sub-plot saw the character ‘Cartman’ poses as a Latino high school teacher named “Mr. Cartmenez” at a under-preforming urban high school.  During this time, “Mr. Cartmenez”, installs the values of ‘cheating‘ to motivate, and improve the lives of his students.

LANGUAGE WARNING

Much like this example, the final scoreboard was 219 vote for Health Care Reform.  The final score does not count the kick backs, the arm twisting, or back room deals needed for the final vote.  Nor did it count the fact the bill being voted upon, was an incomplete Senate version, originally passed merely as a procedural vote pending a final amendment.  All that counted for Pelosi at the end of the day, was the 219 ‘Cartmanesque’ votes for Obamacare.

Now Obama and the Democrats have to sell (convince people), what they passed by force was worthwhile.  What you will instead see, will be the Democrats still attacking those raising reasonable concerns over Obamacare.  What Pelosi and her ilk showed, was their ignorance conquers all when emotional rationalization, and self justification are added.  When the dust settles, the middle class will see what Obamacare offers, and how much it will hinder them.  That is, if the dust can be allowed to settle.

Act 2: Orchestrated Distractions: And so starts the next thorny issue of public debate on Immigration Reform.  Any rage over Health Care Reform, or worrying about Obamacare will be pushed aside while a new battle is fought.  

Welcome to the tactic of  Orchestrated Distraction. Compared to the 12 months it took to pass Obamacare, November 2nd is a hard deadline they can’t get around.  So expect the push for Immigration Reform, Economic Reform, Cap & Trade to be rammed past the House and Senate. Even if Obama loses the Democrat controlled House in November, Obama gets everything he needed in time.   Even if the Senate loses a few Democrats in the Mid-terms, Obama can still pass everything he want in the Senate, by tweaking the rules and pushing for reconciliation with the 51 remaining Democrat votes.

The fact is this, Obama and Pelosi wont let the dust settle until they are finished implementing the most expensive social engineering program the world has ever seen.  After which, a few billion spent on Iraq, and Afghanistan for eight plus years of warfare will be viewed as a bargain.

Hold onto your hats folks, we’re not even close to the end.

Craig Edwards

Craig Edwards

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are headed to the White House for a meeting on jobs Thursday, and they’ll have a few words to say about how President Barack Obama is doing his.

The 43-member caucus is fighting through one of the most difficult periods in its 39-year history, and some members and aides said they’re getting far too little support from the nation’s first black president — a man they once believed would be their strongest champion.

Read more at Politico