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Hoping To Fake Change Successfully

Posted on | July 13, 2012 | 11 Comments

By Smitty

VodkaPundit points to The Weekly Standard, where there is a teaser about an interview with #OccupyResoluteDesk fortuitously airing on Friday the 13th (emphasis mine):

CBS News’s Charlie Rose has an interview with Barack and Michelle Obama airing tomorrow, and in an advance excerpt, the president says his biggest mistake was focusing too much on policy and not enough on the “story” of his presidency:

This recalls some talk from yesteryear:

In 2008 Hillary Clinton argued candidate Obama’s record consisted of “just words;” Obama shot back “don’t tell me words don’t matter.”

Indeed, words matter, as does intent. A couple of orders of magnitude more important than either is results. Barack seems to have a tendency to confuse word with deed. To behave as though a speech stating some amorphous, positive result constitutes leadership and accomplishment. To be good, not at getting things done, but speaking about things as if they had been done.

The Weekly Standard article prompted me to finish a bit of doggerel written based upon my impression of the decadent Progressive mind:

Hoping To Fake Change Successfully

Fake it until you make it.
Traditions are just a jape,
And it’s all rigged, anyway.

They doctor all of the tape,
For the talent or the git:
Focus on winning the day!

Claims of truth are all tripe,
And public opion clay–
Purest power conduit.

All the world is a stage play,
And floating a fact-free swipe
The surest path to a hit.

Tea Parties howl where they may,
Ever refusing to quit,
See what betrayal they take?

Sliding into the debt pit,
With their hand-made signs so gay,
The need for reform to slake.

But the votive candle’s lit,
For liberty’s lonely wake,
As freedom loses the fray.

Ace was a bit more sarcastic.

Update: Hot Air made it the Obamateurism of the Day. While not particularly dramatic, I think this notion is near the heart, and forms a theoretical underpinning, for Obamateurism in general.

Update II: linked at Daily Pundit. Thanks, Bill!

Category: Democrats, VodkaPundit

Comments

11 Responses to “Hoping To Fake Change Successfully”

  1. Bill54
    July 13th, 2012 @ 9:11 am

    Bill Clinton had the same problem until the Republicans scared him real good.

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  3. Red
    July 13th, 2012 @ 10:35 am

    “…the president says his biggest mistake was focusing too much on policy and not enough on the “story”of his presidency:…”

    I could go on and on really but enough about me. What do you think of me?

    What an a$$hole.

  4. JeffS
    July 13th, 2012 @ 11:06 am

    Shorter Obama: 

    “Me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

  5. richard mcenroe
    July 13th, 2012 @ 11:10 am

    “Indeed, words matter, as does intent.”

    That will be $5.00 to Jeff Goldstein, please.  He takes PayPal.

  6. Red
    July 13th, 2012 @ 1:37 pm

    “LIKE!”

  7. Red
    July 13th, 2012 @ 1:37 pm

    lmao!

  8. Adjoran
    July 13th, 2012 @ 4:02 pm

    Drat, mixed up my threads – my suggestion for you is on Stacy’s thread.

  9. JeffS
    July 13th, 2012 @ 7:11 pm

    Smitty, speaking of faking things, didn’t you post about the  Voter Participation Center a few weeks ago?  If so, here’s a follow up that you’ll find interesting.

  10. gunsmithkat
    July 14th, 2012 @ 1:52 pm

    Us bitter clingers are just too stupid to understand the Won’s brilliant policies. He should have stuck with one syllable  words.

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