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Partly, Bill Clinton has joined the cause to go down in history as a
man who engineered and led three presidential victories. It's
certainly on many people's radar that Hillary's next shot and perhaps
only shot at the White House turns up in 2016. Her next and only shot
has the best chance of succeeding if Obama holds the White House for
another four years. Staying in the public eye as Secretary of State
during four years of foreign stabilization should set her up for her
run nicely. With Iraq and Afghanistan moving toward stability, with
Europe working out its Euro zone woes internally, with Russia moving
towards more and more capitalism if not democracy, what could go
wrong. In North Korea, the strongman's son has recently happily
married. China might see America as better to control through loans
than through any other kind of hegemony. Iran has promised to not
build a nuclear bomb, but still builds underground bunkers and
retreats.

I wonder if the techniques that produced the Arab Spring might also
work to loosen up the Chinese hierarchy somewhat. When it comes to
keeping political order, the Chinese Communist Party has far exceeded
the record of any political state known to man.

I was moved and humored by Obama's acceptance speech tonight. I was
amused when Obama pointed out that Mitt had embarrassed the United
States at the Olympics, causing an incident with one of America's
closest allies. Obama did not describe the incident or name the ally,
expecting fact checkers and wonks to work out the detail. I was amused
when he chided the Republicans by joking, "Take two tax cuts, roll
back some regulations, and call me in the morning". However, the Fox
consensus implies that Joe Biden outperformed Obama, and Biden started
out soft spoken and awkward at times. Biden kept repeating himself,
reminding me of a bar buddy trying verbal tricks to keep my attention.
Bill Clinton outperformed them both.

What a minute. I thought it was only Putin who could put a surrogate
leader into power, Dmitry Medvedev, and then lead from the sidelines.
At times, I think the re-election of Barack Obama will be the second
coming of Bill Clinton?

We have to remember, not even the Clinton powerhouse could put Gore or
Kerry into the White House. Gore and Kerry came so close. No Democrat
wants a close finish and an atta boy for Obama.

Bill Clinton will have to throw everything he and his talented wife
have learned into 2012. Or as they say as the quarter runs out on a
video game, "all your powers will be lost." Bill Clinton learns best
from mistakes and failures, and Gore and Kerry both were decidedly
failures of Clinton to extend his legacy and influence.

Surely, every Democrat is hoping that Rahm Emmanuel and his new job,
Super PAC Priorities USA, can make a cash gusher appear in less than
two months. Can another two billion appear out of no where as each
side doubles down on its investment in victory.

If anyone thinks the election can slow down after the two conventions,
they have a shock coming.

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Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:56:03 -0700 Okay, I admit it. I visited Hope, Arkansas, Bill Clinton's first house and his library in Little Rock. I enjoyed Clinton's speech, and then flipped to Fox for Charles Krauthammer http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/okay-i-admit-it-i-visited-hope-arkansas-bill http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/okay-i-admit-it-i-visited-hope-arkansas-bill
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I love how a speech, even a speech that will be studied for its
writing and its powerful delivery, can be spun in the matter of ten
minutes. I have always enjoyed the speeches of Bill Clinton, and I
consider his story to be a great American story. I have visited
Clinton's library in Little Rock. I have also visited Ronald Reagan's
library high on a ridge in California. I am trying to remain balanced
and see what I can see for the future of America. I am trying to study
the speeches and hear commentary from the red and the blue sides of
this election. I agree this is one of Clinton's greatest speeches.

Clinton spoke far longer than the normal duration of a nomination
speech. I am sure he was working from an established script, so the
organizers knew how long it would run. I cannot tell where Clinton was
ab-libbing, and Greta Van Susteren claims that the veteran statesman
gave a little more. I am wondering if Barack Obama had a good green
room where he could cool his heels.

It is possible that when Krauthammer called the speech indulgent, I
think there's matter to the charge. Yes, the speech did make Barack
Obama look to be a stand-in for Clinton's third term. Yes, I found
myself promising to look at the script so that I could follow the
spots where Clinton got too wonky. However, Clinton generated plenty
of excitement for the faithful, and they'll be energized to get out
the vote as soon as they arrive home. Can Barack Obama emerge from
Clinton's aura tomorrow? I'll have to tune into Barack Obama's speech.

Krauthammer claimed that the speech had to be brought indoors so that
empty seats would detract from the energy shown on camera, the energy
of the full speech. CNN talked about the fullness of the auditorium,
how the fire marshals had declared the auditorium full. I believe I
saw empty seats in the balconies. I am going to leave that one for the
flaks to spin Thursday morning.

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Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:14:15 -0700 The Democrats bring out not only Governors, the Democrats brought out mayors on the convention's first night. http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/the-democrats-bring-out-not-only-governors-th http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/the-democrats-bring-out-not-only-governors-th
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I regret engaging the Republican speeches on silent televisions at my
local Tim Horton's. I read them in closed captioning on Fox and read
them again online. I haven't had time to listen to them on YouTube. My
impressions of all the speeches tonight surprised me. Deval Patrick
presented in a Martin Luther King style, without histrionics, without
bluster. Patrick had much better polish that I am willing to accord
any Republican speech I noticed. I sincerely want to know who led the
team that prepared these speakers. I found the speakers offering great
eye contact, appropriate gestures, and a controlled emotional speech,
and I need to know who shaped their delivery.

Plus, Patrick's material had better heart material. He visited a
successful school, recently unsuccessful, and was asked to delay his
applause by the teacher. Martin Luther King's great speech, "I Have A
Dream" is an amazing speech, but many students hear it again and again
each and every February. To deliver the speech to a visiting Governor,
the second African American governor accorded that honor, would not be
enough. I expected, forgive me, the usual MLK reading. Patrick broke
through to me by describing how the teacher demanded talking and
testifying from her pupils. The children could define the words, such
as creed, and explain the speech from a point of deep understanding. I
am not sure the Republican's had a single speech that worked with
heart material this well. I say that and realize I have to go back a
review the Republican speeches again.

The Republicans can talk all they want about ironing boards and
basement apartments. No one beats the story of Grandmother Castro
winning the money to pay for the birth of her successful twins by
cooking up a prize-winning batch of menudo. I'm sorry, but that story
sticks to my ribs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menudo_%28soup%29

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Sun, 02 Sep 2012 22:03:28 -0700 President Obama, @BarackObama, Mitt has Clint Eastwood, Dinesh D'Souza and Glenn Beck working for him. You want #BettyWhiteDNC on that podium. You need @BettyWhiteDNC on that podium http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/president-obama-barackobama-mitt-has-clint-ea http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/president-obama-barackobama-mitt-has-clint-ea
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Dear President Obama

When you have more than two hundred and fifty million Americans to
reach and you have billions of dollars in money entering a blossoming
nexus of communication media, from Facebook to Klout to Twitter to
YouTube, you have the conditions for a strange and powerful event in
the nature of human communication. The next two months are going to
blow American and the world minds. Clint Eastwood has ascended into a
new level of stardom, that new realm of meme star. Betty White might
be the only meme star big enough to compete on this transcendental
level. For you. I hope. Maybe you already have her under contract and
this online petition movement to draft White is a mere viral strategy?
One can only hope, Mr. President.

I certainly hope the Obama team has a film in the can, ready to reach
the multiplexes. You are going against two, each of them selling
tickets briskly at Cinema Carousel. Unelectable 2012 and Obama 2016
are going to be much more effective than your knocking on doors
strategy that helped you win the 2008 elections. These movies are
going to get people out of their houses and off the couches and
directly headed to a place and time in the real world. Think of it as
a drill for voter turnout November 2012. This is so much bigger than
Newt Gingrich and his army of cassette listening ditto heads.

If you have no film in the can, no simulcast planned, there's not time
to correct the omission. Has the Democratic Party been caught with its
donkey kicking it old-style? That Donkey needs characters like Beck
and D'Souza, which the Republicans have been growing in hot houses for
three long years.

Future Shock meets Powershift meets Revolutionary Wealth meets the
election no one can afford to win?
http://www.alvintoffler.net/

Dinesh D'Souza takes a few moments from teaching college to becoming a
media kingmaker?
http://www.dineshdsouza.com/

Broadcasting from Austin, Texas, Glenn Beck will be gathering the
faithful in simulcast at every multiplex with a satellite link?
www.glennbeck.com/tour/unelectable2/


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10 May 2010
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Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:16:58 -0700 Dinesh D'Souza ain't playing when it comes to the election of Mitt Romney. His Obama 2016 is making millions at the multiplex, Cinema Carousel included. http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/dinesh-dsouza-aint-playing-when-it-comes-to-t http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/dinesh-dsouza-aint-playing-when-it-comes-to-t
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Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:06:21 -0700 Glenn Beck ain't playing when it comes to Romney victory in 2012. Cinema Carousel Muskegon will tune in for Unelectable 2012 from Austin TX, September 20, 2012. http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/glenn-beck-aint-playing-when-it-comes-to-romn http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/glenn-beck-aint-playing-when-it-comes-to-romn
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Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:38:20 -0700 Why can't political speeches, such as Romney's acceptance speech, have specifics any more? So I write fourteen questions I'll have to answer myself? http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/why-cant-political-speeches-such-as-romneys-a http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/why-cant-political-speeches-such-as-romneys-a
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  1. So really, what IS on Romney's iPod?
  2. Who lost the job paying $22.50 and hour and bennies and took two jobs at $9.00 dollars an hour and lesser bennies? Is he talking to Invisible Obama?
  3. Is Romney aware that John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who challenged us to go to the moon, accepted the nomination of the Democratic Party?
  4. Is Romney and his convention planners aware that in the old days, saying "Governor of the Great State of Michigan" meant also a camera moment of the delegation from Michigan cheering? Of course, I was watching Fox News coverage with the sound down.
  5. Who was the local florist, maybe in Bloomfield Hills, that supplied George Romney with his daily rose for his wife, Lenore? How did George keep the roses fresh on the weekend. Did he have a special refrigerator in his den?
  6. Who was the Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, a woman Romney mentions but doesn't name?
  7. Name one woman at Bain Capital that you mentored and the name of the great company she now runs?
  8. What were the names of the sports teams the Romney children followed while young?
  9. Which son or which daughter called from college and what job were they considering close to home?
  10. Who were the "some of us" who were around the table when starting Bain Capital? Who was the partner who made the pitch to the Episcopal Church pension fund?
  11. Which renewables are part of your energy portfolio?
  12. Can we help families by "slowing the rise of oceans and healing the planet", both of which are activities that create or protect wealth, create and improve jobs?
  13. Could you tell me about one visit to a war memorial with the names of the brave men and women who sacrificed their lives?
  14. Why the decided lack of detail in this vital speech? What theory of speech writing did the writing team follow when leaving out details. Did they think that general statements have general appeal?
Mitt Romney speech in the Washington Post:

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Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:43:11 -0700 Mitt the whip makes it easy for Obama to go. Clint Eastwood makes every one's day with his Dirty Harry bit. http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/mitt-the-whip-makes-it-easy-for-obama-to-go-c http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/mitt-the-whip-makes-it-easy-for-obama-to-go-c
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Mitt Romney had to shake every hand and hug every hugger along the
aisle while Marco Rubio had that awkward moment after finishing his
introduction. I guess the idea of all the handshaking came from a plan
to make Romney look connected to his movement. I felt he was awkwardly
delayed, unable to make people happy with good eye contact. I felt his
wife was watching him, quietly thinking, "Please, Mitt, don't bog down
along the aisle".

Pardon the phrase "Mitt the Whip", but his hand motion with his left
hand seem to be employing an imaginary whip. Those people trying to
keep the ocean low and heal the Great Lakes, watch out for the whip as
Romney puts all to work making smog and producing heat to melt the
polar caps for good.

The speech began, strikingly so, with a compliment to Obama. Every one
was so excited when Obama was elected and now Obama has to go because
he made no progress. Clint Eastwood pretty much got to say, "You're
Fired", instead of Donald Trump.

I am touched by his story of his parents, George and Lenore, and I am
moved that George left a rose on his wife's side table every morning
until the morning when he could not. I would like to know the name of
the florist who handled George Romney's account for roses. Convention
speeches always seem to fail on the detail. Mitt Romney alluded to the
monuments in every town that honor the men and women lost in the line
of duty. However, he could have mentioned one encounter with one of
these great walls. I really would like to know where Mitt Romney
contemplated the Americans who made the greatest of sacrifices.

Ronald Reagan, no matter how much one disagreed with his politics,
never made a speech that lacked literary and philosophical texture.
Mitt's speech didn't impress. Written with a simply vocabulary, Mitt
praised American Exceptionalism without using the word. I had to work
hard to pay attention. I had to reread it to see if it had more
backbone on the page than the speech showed in the delivery.

If this is what Mitt brings to the podium, I am going to miss the
George Bush father and son team. I also expect Barack Obama to score a
technical knock out in the debates to come.

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Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:23:45 -0700 Chris Christie believes in establishing respect before seeking love. Great. But what's up with the Republican gestures? Christie is a left handed boxer at the podium. @BobJagendorf http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/chris-christie-believes-in-establishing-respe-iizjB http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/chris-christie-believes-in-establishing-respe-iizjB
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Chris Christie believes in establishing respect before seeking love.
Great. But what's up with the Republican gestures? Christie is a left
handed boxer at the podium. @BobJagendorf

He's another of this current generation of Republican governors who
have chosen not to live in the state capital, to decline to inhabit
the governor's mansion. I can understand his attachment to Mendham,
New Jersey. He coached his sons in soccer there. He cheered his
daughter in the parades on the streets of Mendham.

I am wondering where the speech coaches hired by the Republicans learn
their craft. Ann Romney made multiple symmetrical air points. Isn't
that a gesture left over from Sarah Palin? It's like the Fonzi two
thumbs up, except its performed with the forefingers. The forefingers
are held up in a way that reminds me of pistols. Christie kept
punching the air and thumping the podium with his left hand. Okay, so
he wanted to be perceived as a pugnacious combination of Irish and
Sicilian cultures. I found the left hand punctuation of every point to
be lacking in nuance.

He's been Governor of New Jersey for less than three years. He
declared a financial emergency in New Jersey within three months of
assuming office. He defunded departments without support of the
legislature. He made a budget law after line item vetoes of one
billion in expenditures. He's a man in the cast of Governor Rick
Snyder of Michigan, who also cracked down on budgets in that state. In
his speech, he took lessons from his mother, and spun them into a
mandate for federal cutbacks and austerity. As he said, "I believe we
have become paralyzed by our desire to be loved." There's no pandering
from Christie. The polls have not yet elected Romney. Christie
dismissed the polls as being winds of opinion ignored by men and women
acting in principle.Clearly, Obamacare, public employee salaries are
in for change should Ryan and Romney be elected and Christie placed
into a cabinet post.

I wonder what seniors are to expect concerning social security and
medicare after the election of a Republican administration. I am
wondering what he means when he says that seniors will support the
sacrifice. The idea of American exceptionalism raised its head again.
I like the idea, but Christie doesn't explain it. Ryan often uses the
term without explaining it. I wish speeches allowed time to define
terms, even when listeners can be assumed to understand them.

As Christie declaims in his finale: "A second American Century where
real American exceptionalism is not a political punch line, but is
evident to everyone in the world just by watching the way our
government conducts its business and everyday Americans live their
lives" If you wish for me to vote for you, open up about your code
words.And maybe try out a few different hand gestures.

Text of Chris Christie's Speech at the Republican National Convention,
August 28, 2012.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80347.html

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He's another of this current generation of Republican governors who have chosen not to live in the state capital, to decline to inhabit the governor's mansion. I can understand his attachment to Mendham, New Jersey. He coached his sons in soccer there. He cheered his daughter in the parades on the streets of Mendham.

I am wondering where the speech coaches hired by the Republicans learn their craft. Ann Romney made multiple symetrical air points. Isn't that a gesture left over from Sarah Palin? It's like the Fonzi two thumbs up, except its performed with the forefingers. The forefingers are held up in a way that reminds me of pistols.

Christie kept punching the air and thumping the podium with his left hand. Okay, so he wanted to be perceived as a pugnacious combination of Irish and Sicilian cultures. I found the left hand punctuation of every point to be lacking in nuance.

He's been Governor of New Jersey for less than three years. He declared a financial emergency in New Jersey within three months of assuming office. He defunded departments without support of the legislature. He made a budget law after line item vetoes of one billion in expenditures. He's a man in the cast of Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan, who also cracked down on budgets in that state.

In his speech, he took lessons from his mother, and spun them into a mandate for federal cutbacks and austerity. As he said, "I believe we have become paralyzed by our desire to be loved." There's no pandering from Christie.

The polls have not yet elected Romney. Christie dismissed the polls as being winds of opinion ignored by men and women acting in principle.

Clearly, Obamacare, public employee salaries are in for change should Ryan and Romney be elected and Christie placed into a cabinet post. I wonder what seniors are to expect concerning social security and medicare after the election of a Republican administration. I am wondering what he means when he says that seniors will support the sacrifice.

The idea of American exceptionalism raised its head again. I like the idea, but Christie doesn't explain it. Ryan often uses the term without explaining it. I wish speeches allowed time to define terms, even when listeners can be assumed to understand them.

As Christie declaims in his finale: "A second American Century where real American exceptionalism is not a political punch line, but is evident to everyone in the world just by watching the way our government conducts its business and everyday Americans live their lives" If you wish for me to vote for you, open up about your code words.

And maybe try out a few different hand gestures.

Text of Chris Christie's Speech at the Republican National Convention, August 28, 2012.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80347.html

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Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:02:58 -0700 In a move sure to pay off, @MittRomney embraces his record at Bain Capital in a Wall Street Journal article. @WSJ http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/in-a-move-sure-to-pay-off-mittromney-embraces http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/in-a-move-sure-to-pay-off-mittromney-embraces
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Mitt Romney has taken more than his share of flack for his connection at Bain Capital. As the Republican National Convention prepares to declare him an official candidate, Romney starts a new meme in his campaign. "Yes, I am responsible for Bain Capital and I am proud of that record". As most of the memes in Romney's campaigns have started, Romney kicks this meme off in the highly visible pages of the Wall Street Journal.

He shouldn't have waited, but even though he comes late to the conversation with this declaration, it is an example of this idea from Romney's article.

"The experience taught me that when you see a problem, run toward it or it will only get worse." Romney is clearly running into the Bain Capital flackmasters range, and his public relations team have provided a suit of Teflon.

Proceeding in the manner of a Harvard School of Business case studies course, Romney know is happy to say that with Bain Capital, he "built these".

Staples  http://www.staples.com/
Bright Horizons /http://www.brookstone.com/
Brookstone  http://promotions.brighthorizons.com
Wesley Jessen http://www.1800contacts.com/
Accuride http://www.accuridecorp.com/
Steel Dynamics  http://www.steeldynamics.com/
Damon

I see that Damon is a hot spot that Romney daringly discusses in his Wall Street Journal article. Damon is another place where the flakmasters are firing salvos. Damon, if I am to believe the web traffic, was fined for submitting unnecessary medical tests to boost revenue. Romney says he was duly diligent and investigated the matter before the issue blew up.

Bain Capital had a good track record in many of its business projects.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444270404577605140607907860.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

No more banning Bain from the conversation:

http://www.baincapital.com/


Photography Credit:

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Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:31:54 -0700 How is the @JoeBiden debate with @PaulRyanVP going to play out in Danville Kentucky October 11, 2012? http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/how-is-the-joebiden-debate-with-paulryanvp-go http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/how-is-the-joebiden-debate-with-paulryanvp-go
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Biden has established, perhaps, two reputations. One, he's one of America's longest serving senators. He has a reputation for being able to speak across the aisle and develop coalitions to make legislative progress. He works well in elbow to elbow conversations. Two, he has a reputation for making statements that the flackmasters see as rising partridges above the auditoriums of America. And the flackmasters have taken many, many rhetorical blasts at his comments in Danville, Virginia. One wonders, how will he handle going response to response with Paul Ryan?

Ryan impresses me as cordial. Indeed, I am amazed how respectful he speaks when he speaks about President Obama. Biden strikes me as collegial, and he'll regard Ryan as a colleague. This makes me wonder if this will be treated as a duel, where both men take ten paces, turn, and fire over the opponent's left shoulder. Ryan doesn't need a knock-out blow against Biden. Biden will be well rehearsed, and will have good answers for any of a range of questions. I anticipate a draw.

Ryan needs to be perceived as a man who has toed the Romney line, so he will be there to deliver his comments that forward the dissemination of the Romney message. Ryan has to take care not to freak the swing voters out by striking too caustically and boldly at Biden. He just has to make his points and not speak to overcome. We need comfort factor with Ryan, so he'll just have a conversation onstage with Biden.

Biden is known for wit and self-effacement. As a seventy year old man, I think he'll be able to charm the respectful Ryan and maybe land a few jests. I am looking forward to this match between a pair of men who have almost three decades difference in their ages.

This will be a chess game played in a televised drawing room in Danville, Kentucky, the kind two men play for the entertainment of onlookers.


Breitbart Blog has begun to speculate on the match up:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/14/Team-Obama-Confident-Biden-Can-Take-On-Ryan-In-Debate

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Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:38:19 -0700 He's a family man, @BarackObama, and if he's outspent and loses at the polls, he can always go back to his family and his legacy. http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/hes-a-family-man-barackobama-and-if-hes-outsp-45668 http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/hes-a-family-man-barackobama-and-if-hes-outsp-45668
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He's a family man, Barack, and if he's outspent and loses at the polls, he can always go back to his family and his legacy. Although, only one of those possibilities is coming to fruition right now. It is quite possible Barack Obama's fund raising machine will fail to raise the amount of money necessary to stay even or ahead of the fund raisers and bundlers who are working to put R & R into the White House. Right now, it looks as if Obama - Biden has a lead in the polls and the Democrats have had a flack attack ready to stymie the Romney and Ryan ticket. It's been exceptionally effective, truly poisoning the Republican well. And most of the message has been propagated for free by the Democratic faithful manning their volunteer social media stations. I think it will be the first debate before anyone gets a real clear look at Romney the man.

However, much of the Democratic flack falls inside the friendly camp. Many of those social media flacks understand little about penetrating through belief systems. Obama's whole armament of advertisement doesn't seem to talk to Middle America, who is just looking for a better deal on the economy and taxes. We can barely think about our tax bill, and the ads require me to think and be envious of the rich. That's a cognitive task for me a bit beyond my simple level of thinking. I saw a message approved by Barack Obama tonight and the tone was rich and pleasing when Obama approved the message from the Oval Office. It took a satirical tone shockingly fast. It changed to a putrid palette when it began talking about Romney. I though I had entered the world of a cartoon.

R & R. That's Romney and Ryan. Where did the Romney camp come up with the arrogant R without a back line, dribbling the American flag to the lower serif of the R? I love how Pete Souza has captured the connectedness of the family, Barack clasping a hand of each of his daughter. I guess I have to ask all the candidates to reveal their last Christmas card pictures so I can contemplate each one.

Official portrait by Pete Souza of the Obama family in the Oval Office.
11 December 2011

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Pete Souza, official White House photographer

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Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:29:32 -0700 March 2011, in a conversation with the Economic Club of Chicago, @PaulRyanVP said the world Exceptionalism. http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/march-2011-in-a-conversation-with-the-economi http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/march-2011-in-a-conversation-with-the-economi
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March 2011, in a conversation with the Economic Club of Chicago, @PaulRyanVP said the world Exceptionalism. I was watching Ryan answering questions from the moderator before a banquet hall of Chicago's finest, and Exceptionalism is practically the last word he spoke on camera. It is amusing to learn that this term, cherished by American neo-conservatives, was first spoken by Joseph Stalin in 1929, chiding a group of American communists. Marxism states that the capitalist societies must collapse because of debt and too much goods that go unsold. That might sound like the financial crisis of the 2008, which American society survived. Our American communists, awfully close to Mother Russia in those days, answered that American ingenuity and resources made us immune to such collapses. And yes, American is exceptional due to the lack of rigid class distinctions. And that's when Stalin pushed back with the term, American Exceptionalism. Stalin didn't think American was an exception to Marxist doctrine. That was the sarcasm of Stalin, who locked up and tortured more American communists than the record reveals. Read the biography of Kenneth Rexroth, who said a final farewell to many American Communists taking a free trip to Russia. From Stalin's lips to Ryan's speech, the term American Exceptionalism has taken a longer linguistic journey than the word Liberalism.

The goal of Rom Bama speaks is to give each candidate a fair hearing. So I have listened again to Mr. Ryan's comments to the economic club. He raises the specter of shared scarcity, a time when the United States Government has to raise tax rates so high to pay off the interest on the American debt, individuals and corporations have to pay tax rates approaching one hundred percent. He also raises the bogeyman of the American bureaucratic elite, which he claims has the power to pick winners and losers, including elites on a medical rationing board with the power to pick who gets essential treatment or not. In many ways, he sounds similar to Governor Rick Snyder, who appeared upon the Michigan political scene as a kind of tax cutting tyrant. Get the economy moving by lowering taxes, make up the numbers with increased economic activity to tax. Problems in a good economy tend to dissolve in the flow of prosperity. The man can speak and speak well, delivering his ideas in a practiced way, polished after nights and nights of town halls in Chicagoland Wisconsin. You have to like the man for his robust manner of delivery and for his knowledge of conservative economics. He raises a cheer by saying: No one has gotten rich betting against the United States. I have to check if that's true. George Soros went up a quantum level of wealth by betting against the British Pound.

When he speaks to answer questions, there is a small tick in his delivery, as if he were about to stutter or speak incorrectly. I have a feeling that's when a burst of alternative thoughts arrive to his mind to be spoken.

In my days of being a Young Gun, I would have followed Paul Ryan and his philosophy. It sounds so much like the philosophy of the men I smoked cigars with at Michigan State University in the 1980s, all of them reading the Chicago school of economics, Uncle Milty Friedman, the National Review and Ayn Rand. Today, I know that he speaks from a strong pole of an American dialectic, and no matter the result of his three month run for Vice President, he will pull the American politic rightward.

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Paul Ryan at the Economic Club of Chicago, May 17, 2011. The man makes great Green Bay Packers jokes.

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Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:44:15 -0700 Why is the Romney pick of a Vice President taking an elongated period of time? Chary picks on the short list? A hush hush rejection? http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/why-is-the-romney-pick-of-a-vice-president-ta http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/why-is-the-romney-pick-of-a-vice-president-ta
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Vet them once and vet them again. Mitt must know they're only men. Short list must know that Rom could lose. Running to lose is career abuse. Did a select man turn Rom down? This news has not leaked to town.

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Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:08:39 -0700 Apparently @MMFlint, Michael Moore, despairs of Barack Obama's ability to triumph over "President Romney". http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/apparently-mmflint-michael-moore-despairs-of-vEsJo http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/apparently-mmflint-michael-moore-despairs-of-vEsJo

Moore has his reservations about President Obama, and that concerns me. Moore spoke to Piers Anthony Sunday night, and Moore expressed dismay that the president spoke in Aurora, Colorado, to the families of the lost, and the president said current gun control laws are sufficient. It might help for me to review a transcript of the conversation with Morgan, but that's what I took away.

Moore spoke from the pulpit at Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids last Thursday, and he raised the prospect of a Romney victory. Obama swept to office in 2008 on a wave of popular enthusiasm that might not be repeated. Moore pointed out the The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, has a vote for Obama. However, Springsteen might not perform concerts to raise funds, get young people registered and turn out the people to go to the polls. Obama needs this enthusiasm, which can't be bought.

Enthusiasm can level the fund raising equation, and without enthusiasm, the Obama dollar doesn't go father. And if Obama is beat in fund raising and can't leverage the social media X factor, Romney's effort might triumph. Obama will need two voters for every three that reaches the polls due to voter verification or "voter suppression", terms depending upon your viewpoint.

Much is going wrong in the Obama camp. For example, shaming Anne Romney for owning a fine horse will proved to be beating the proverbial dead-horse. The Obama camp has to conduct better analysis
of wedge issues, better examination of the depth psychology of the voters on the margins. Sing to the Obama choir yes, but also find a way to talk to those disaffected 2008 Obama voters.

Michael Moore in New York City's Union Square Barnes & Noble to discuss his book Here Comes Trouble.


13 September 2011
Author David Shankbone, http://blog.shankbone.org/about/

Piers Morgan
http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/

Here comes trouble, and maybe for President Obama's re-election prospects.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/here-comes-trouble-michael-moore-book

The Rapidian comes away with an excellent story discussing Moore's appearance at Fountain Street Church, last Thursday night: http://therapidian.org/grand-rapids-public-library-presents-michael-moore-michigan-author

Mlive covered the Thursday, July 26th, 2012 event from an entirely
different angle:
http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/07/michael_moore_fires_up_fountai.html

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Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:47:27 -0700 Apparently @MMFlint, Michael Moore, despairs of Barack Obama's ability to triumph over "President Romney". http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/apparently-mmflint-michael-moore-despairs-of http://rombamaspeaks.posterous.com/apparently-mmflint-michael-moore-despairs-of
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Moore has his reservations about President Obama, and that concerns
me. Moore spoke to Piers Anthony Sunday night, and Moore expressed
dismay that the president spoke in Aurora, Colorado, to the families
of the lost, and the president said current gun control laws are
sufficient. It might help for me to review a transcript of the
conversation with Morgan, but that's what I took away.

Moore spoke from the pulpit at Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids
last Thursday, and he raised the prospect of a Romney victory. Obama
swept to office in 2008 on a wave of popular enthusiasm that might not
be repeated. Moore pointed out the The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, has a
vote for Obama. However, Springsteen might not perform concerts to
raise funds, get young people registered and turn out the people to go
to the polls. Obama needs this enthusiasm, which can't be bought.
Enthusiasm can level the fund raising equation, and without
enthusiasm, the Obama dollar doesn't go father. And if Obama is beat
in fund raising and can't leverage the social media X factor, Romney's
effort might triumph. Obama will need two voters for every three that
reaches the polls due to voter verification or "voter suppression",
terms depending upon your viewpoint.

Much is going wrong in the Obama camp. For example, shaming Anne
Romney for owning a fine horse will proved to be beating the
proverbial dead-horse. The Obama camp has to conduct better analysis
of wedge issues, better examination of the depth psychology of the
voters on the margins. Sing to the Obama choir yes, but also find a
way to talk to those disaffected 2008 Obama voters.

Michael Moore in New York City's Union Square Barnes & Noble to
discuss his book Here Comes Trouble.


13 September 2011
Author David Shankbone, http://blog.shankbone.org/about/

Piers Morgan
http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/

Here comes trouble, and maybe for President Obama's re-election prospects.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/here-comes-trouble-michae...

The Rapidian comes away with an excellent story discussing Moore's
appearance at Fountain Street Church, last Thursday night:
http://therapidian.org/grand-rapids-public-library-presents-michael-moore-mic...

Mlive covered the Thursday, July 26th, 2012 event from an entirely
different angle:
http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/07/michael_moo...

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