Thoughtful article. Perhaps even one we could share with our liberal family/friends, as Jonah shares the Truth so sweetly... perhaps even with Puss in Boots eyes.

The Taranto Principle on display.

Love the line "hunger for Obama has been replaced by indigestion..."

Awesome analogical article....AAA.

I'm willing to bet (and based on my own observations) that most dems would argue that beauty is only skin deep.

Underneath the notable lack of attractiveness, they would point out about, say,______ (fill in blank with dem politician), there is a man/woman who cares for the little guy. But somehow they can't get it through their minds that Black, too, is only skin deep. Obama IS the man they saw at the debates. No matter his skin color.

Obama should give hope to cult leaders everywhere. Just find the sheeple. Seriously.

The manchild will not win in the arena of ideas or accomplishments. That leaves how he won his other electorial contests - the Chicago way baby. This is the set up for the axe. As in Axelrod.

This race is going to get more brutal and ugly.

Brietbart.com is alluding to a new donor scandal hitting the Obama camp soon...


stay tuned folks... October surprises are going to be dangerous.

Its the orchestra playing behind the empty chair people should be worried about.

Great analysis by Jonah, as usual.

I've always liked the Obama analogy of the blank canvas. At first blush, people interpret ''blank canvas'' as a place where they can paint what they want on it. And far too many painted on their blank canvas a Messiah, someone to save them from themselves, and whom they would willingly follow.

But when you break down the term ''blank canvas'', what do you have? Blank means nothingness, zero. And Obama certainly has been that.

Canvas means a hard, rough fabric, scratchy to the touch, not soft and comfy. Obama certainly has been that as well.

So there's my analogy of Obama: A prickly nothingness; a hard, scratchy zero.

Blank canvas, indeed. And now, on that blank canvas, I paint a big ''L'' with the words, Buh-bye! And perhaps a red circle with a hammer and sickle inside and a diagonal line through it.

Obama War Room: After Math

[White House exercise facility]

MICHELLE: Axelrod, spot for me while I press 250. Everybody else, gather round.
JOE BIDEN: Hey, what's goin' on? I just saw the Boss in the Rose Garden. He’s wearin’ pjs, chain smokin', and killin’ ants.
DAVID AXELROD: Ants?
BIDEN: Yeah. Watches them, then crushes the ones headin' right. Those meanderin’ aimlessly, he leaves alone. Some kind of simpatico thing.
MICHELLE: He’s stressed out. I’m running things until his therapists clear him for duty. Jay, at your briefing, say the president's decided to hole up in the White House for the duration to do the work of the American people.
BIDEN: How ‘bout tough love, M’am. Just haul his bony rear end back to the Oval Office and tell him to start actively deferrin’ decisions again.
AXELROD: Just got word. Joy Behar, Whoopi, Maddow, and Ed Schultz are going on a nude hunger strike until the polls show the president opening up a 10 point lead.
MICHELLE: Eric, what about Lehrer?
HOLDER: He’s in custody, charged with failure to report an assault.
NANCY PELOSI: I’m outta here. Call me if Waterwalker over there gets his game back. [exits]
CARNEY: Senator Reid, line 1, M’am.
MICHELLE: Put it on speaker. Hi Harry, I. . . . .
REID: The election is lost.
MICHELLE: [hangs up] Loser. Jay, contact the Commission on Presidential Debates. Tell them the president is too busy juggling crises to attend the last two debates, but he’ll be happy to respond to questions submitted in writing.

[enter president, holding Blackberry]

OBAMA: It’s Chris Matthews, dear. Says he forgives me. He wants to know what I’m wearing. Should I tell him?

Obama is a false prophet and his mindless followers are just beginning to awaken to that fact.

The debate reminded me of the final scene from "A Face in the Crowd."

Jonah hits all the notes. Started to highlight a good one to bring to the thread, but there were too many good ones. You'll just have to read it.

As for the Puss in Boots eyes, I thought they looked more like Shooting Daggers eyes. Evil.

Sagman!

He is not our first ''African American'' president; he was catapulted into office because the Democrats were guilt-laden. The job is above his pay grade.

Amen, 13.

Bamboozler.

#8...!

He's back!!!

I fianlly figured out what happened to the bamster at the debates....

I saw the "ole" obama on the tube last night as they replayed his speech from the campaign rally....

He didn't have an audience participating at the debates. He needs constant stroking, i.e. applause and approval, for him to respond to the question with energy....

He's always looking for the attention he didn't get as a child from his care/takers.

At the debate -- he was on his own. No affirmative action "mandate" to force others to like him and his opinions. He was truly the "man without clothes"....

Completely out of his league....

LZK

I think it was the silence of the crowd that un-nerved him. He couldn't gage his own wonderfulness.

From late night TV....

Obama's performance in the debate with Mitt Romney was the same as his performance with Clint Eastwood.

Wonder how the election of 2008 would have turned out if McCain had actually challenged (like Romney did) Obama in their debates?

"He thought he smashed through the Democratic primaries like a battering ram through concrete when he mostly pushed on open doors."

Didn't Push.
He cruised through open doors on Soros'
airport conveyer in a Lazy-Boy recliner
like Baldwin in a travel commercial!

It was more the cheshire cat grin that he turned on and off. There was no smile in his eyes, just showing those teeth. That was really off-putting.

Frankly I think he wears big contact lenses sometimes like Moochie does to get that puss look ..check out the real close up ( if your stomach is strong).

"Obama implored Lehrer, a bit like a motorcycle thief begging a cop to take him into custody rather than let him stay with the surly biker gang that caught him." Very good piece of writing. Hat tip to Mr. Goldberg.

Okay, we are on a crowded elevator - something happens - someone says "whew!" - most everyone glances around -

"wasn't me" says the tall guy in the middle, chin lifted, looking skyward at the floor lights blinking along at the top - "wasn't me . . . it was George Bush".

. . . and George Bush wasn't even on that elevator!

When Barack looks in the mirror and sings to himself, he has a choice of four songs:

1. BS, I love you.
2. I'm So Pretty
3. You're So Vain
4. They're Coming to Take Me Away, HAHA

This is a dangerous world, and this cat isn’t remotely qualified to handle it. This guy has no clue, I promise you.
~~George W. Bush

Sagman, you are going to make these next 30+ days tolerable. You're the only reason I have smiled this morning.

Excellent article, and great reporting by sagman, also.

Sagman, I think I am in love with you!

"Mister Sagman," sing me [another] song. Enjoyed your post.

(Apologies to the 1950's singing group, The Chordettes.)

#26, W said that? Wow! That was right on the money.

#8, Brilliant, Saggie!
"He wants to know what I’m wearing." I'm STILL laughing.

Great article by Jonah. Many excellent metaphors!
And how adorable that little Luci uses the 'Puss in Boots eyes' on her daddy.

Get in line, #29. I love him first.

Good piece by Jonah. Loved the point about flabby narcissism.

But the weeping in the king's court isn't from his clunky limericks - take note that amid the tears someone manages to squeeze out a few words ... "Mm-mmmmm, who's m-m-mmaking coff-c-coff-ee c-c-cake?"

When King Barry passes gas, the sycophants all insist it smells delicious.

Will the day ever come when intelligent people will say that Obama is not "black"? Why won't the Repubs simply have a blogger release this truth every day for the next thirty days. At least 25% of his support is due to this bold faced lie.

Ladies, puh-leeeze. It is far too early in the day to start fighting over Sagman.

First of all, Obama has accomplished most of what he wanted. Don't confuse creation of policys that are opposed to our country's success to failure of Obama to succeed. He has succeeded, it is just that his success results in our misery.
Secondly, Obama is the master of straw man creation. His description of Romney and Romney's policies are created and not accurate, so when Romney is there to defend himself with logical and factual rebuttals, Obama's straw men crumble to chaff.

Excellent article.

Uh. No. I never did believe that lying President. Never liked him. Was never fooled. Sorry so many of you are so silly.

I've got a talking Puss in Boots doll. My favorite line for Fauxbama:

Uh . . . hairball!

Here lemmie step in my time machine back to 2008.

SWOOOOOOOOOOSH.

Can you hear me?...Told ya so.

Kudos to Jonah and #8.

Sure, Obama always was a 100% media creation. No accomplishments, no record, no expertise. The media declared him brilliant and a trailblazer and closed the subject to futher scrutiny, until Wednesday night. But he wasn't the first. Remember Hillary Clinton? One was race-based, one was gender-based. Same result. Crash and burn.

Storybook man indeed, a horror story that won't go away.

Sagman, you're a frickin' genius! Back off, ladies! He's MINE!

Mrs. Cheese

Re the column: As far as I'm concerned, every piece Jonah writes is a must-read. I regard him, Steyn, Michael Walsh, Krauthammer, and Will as the best columnists out there.

I laughed my head off at some of the comments following my earlier post. However, my wife was not amused. (sarc/off). I really do appreciate the feedback and encouragement.

Thanks Jonah, and thanks sagman. My favorite line: ''tell him to start actively deferrin’ decisions again.''

Actually what if McCain and Huckabee hadn't colluded to knock Mitt out of the 2007 primary because "it was McCain's turn"?

Oh and Sag, ignore all those women rolling on the floor of this salon pulling out each others' hair over you - let's slip out the back door while they are distracted. ;-)

(Sag, Jonah, Mark Steyn, James Delingpole, Ann Coulter, IowaHawk - all our right-rapier wits who have kept me sane for these mad elections! We need them all this month!)

What does it say about an educational system that turns out voters incapable of seeing through Obama's practiced smile and soothing patter, to an inexperienced beneficiary of affirmative action?

I wanted to comment on obozo's 2007 speech.
This race baiting behavior reminds me of fascists/commies. They don't care if their incitement will lead to unrest, violence, casualties... They have their agenda, which usually is power hunger. And I mentioned many a times, imo, they are clinical sadists. They don't care about ideology, they want rape as many humans as possible! (This is my homegrown theory).
And look at the executioners of this theory: hitler, stalin, pol pot, kim family from n.korea, mugabe, sadat, as-assad from syria....
Tell me they are normal people!

“Hunger makes the best sauce.” This is good stuff. Excellent article!

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Obama, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".

sigh. I just love this site.

Biden, describing Mr. Potato Head: “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” Stroke away, Joe. And may you reach climax and achieve satiety. Instead, I see pictures of matchstick men.

FTA: "(H)is speechwriters, who always did him the disservice of producing the kind of pedantic and clichéd boilerplate that Obama mistook for soaring oratory" ....

Pedantic? Pedantic?? No. Absolutely not. Not even close. His pedestrian road licking speechwriters (who can write better than he ever could) aren't capable of cobbling together one memorable sentence, and haven't done so in the past four years. Pedantry is a couple of universes away from the place where he exists. (John Entwistle: "Every sentence in my head someone else has said.") The "small c communist" Bill Ayers and the Large C Communist Frank Marshall Davis (CPUSA card #47544) were his only truly competent ghostwriters. (Davis wrote that poem "Pop" that is credited to Obama.)

Eric Voegelin was pedantic; Leo Strauss was pedantic; Willmore Kendall was pedantic; Ernest van den Haag was pedantic; WFB was pedantic; Whittaker Chambers was a poet. Zippy is a bull artist, and not a particularly effective one at that. He won't win a debate against the superior mind of Romney because such ability does not inhere in him. Nor do the facts. He abhors any fact that he can't pull out of his narrow ass at will.

All the kings horses and all the kings 's men couldn't put Humpty 0bama together again.