Barone: Voters spurn the 'boob bait' of the educated class (Sorry- cannot get this fine thing to link)
Newsbusters: Chuck Todd: Obama Can't Buy GOP Votes Because of Tea Parties
The O needs teleprompter to talk to schoolkids
Steyn asks Who's panting for O speech #412? A quote:
According to Barack Obama, the problem is he overestimated you dumb rubes’ ability to appreciate what he’s been doing for you. “That I do think is a mistake of mine,” the president told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “I think the assumption was if I just focus on policy, if I just focus on this provision or that law or if we’re making a good rational decision here, then people will get it.”
But you schlubs aren’t that smart. You didn’t get it. And Barack Obama is determined to see that you do. So the president has decided that he needs to start “speaking directly to the American people.”
Wait, wait! Come back! Don’t all stampede for the hills! He only gave (according to CBS News’s Mark Knoller) 158 interviews and 411 speeches in his first year. That’s more than any previous president — and maybe more than all of them put together. But there may still be some show out there that didn’t get its exclusive Obama interview — I believe the top-rated Grain & Livestock Prices Report — 4 a.m. Update with Herb Torpormeister on WZZZ-AM Dead Buzzard Gulch Junction’s Newstalk Leader is still waiting to hear back from the White House.
More Glaciergate:
In fact, the 2035 melting date seems to have been plucked from thin air.
From Godfrey Bloom, MEP (h/t, Moonbattery):
Haiti: The aid agencies and charities are fighting over the money. Mr. FM: Haiti, Yugoslavia & the disaster relief industry.
Also, David Warren Generous to a fault. One quote:
The first part of disaster relief is uncontroversial: food, water, medicine, shelter. Surprisingly, that doesn't cost a whole lot, nor take very long. It's the "peace and development" programs that follow which absorb the big money -- the growing of permanent new branches of bureaucracy to mind the population thus saved.
Haiti is not a basket case from the absence of foreign aid. Quite the contrary.
I lived many years in Asia, and much of my journalistic work was focused on "development issues." I've seen the consequences of aid dependency with my own eyes. It is the same story everywhere, where people are desperately poor: they have no freedom, they are landless, everything belongs to an exploiting class. And that exploiting class is, almost invariably, "leftist," and the nearly-exclusive beneficiary of foreign aid.
