“These Aren’t The Reasons You’ll Be Voting For…”

July 9, 2011 | Filed under 2012 Presidential Race,Barack Obama,Categories,Economics | Posted by

 (I just noticed Rick touched on this story already.  Oh well.  I’m getting used to this new interface, and am just happy I figured out how to post something.)

 On Thursday, Obama’s top political advisor attempted to employ the “Jedi-mind trick” on us.

 Original verbage follows (From The Hill):

 ”Americans won’t cast their votes in the next presidential election based on the unemployment rate, President Obama’s top political adviser said.

“The average American does not view the economy through the prism of GDP or unemployment rates or even monthly jobs numbers,” David Plouffe said, according to Bloomberg on Wednesday. “People won’t vote based on the unemployment rate, they’re going to vote based on: ‘How do I feel about my own situation? Do I believe the president makes decisions based on me and my family?’”

Some political observers have voiced skepticism of Obama’s reelection prospects given the 9.1 percent unemployment rate. That’s a higher unemployment rate than any president who has won reelection since World War II, according to Bloomberg. Except for Reagan, who won reelection when the unemployment rate was at about 7 percent, no other president in that span was voted into a second term with an unemployment rate above 6 percent.

Plouffe added that this race would be much closer than the last one.

“It will be a closer race than last time,” he said. “They will run a better race than last time, whoever it is.”

 Jedi Mind Trick translation:

 Plouffe: “They won’t care about the economy”

 Stoopid Americans: “We won’t care about the economy”

 Plouffe: “These aren’t the issues you will vote on.”

 Stoopid Americans: “These aren’t the issues we will vote on.”

 Plouffe: “It’s none of your business.”

 Stoopid Americans: “It’s none of our business.”

 Plouffe: “Vote Obama.”

Just a little peek into the mind of the Obama administration’s utter disdain for how us rubes think.

This dufus is Obama’s TOP political adviser. Unbelievable?  Yes.  Bad?  Hell no! If this is the kind of fantastical fictional advice he will be feeding into Obama’s unnaturally large ears for the 2012 election, then “May the Force be with you!”

To highlight some of the economic statistics that we stoopid Americans will not care about, Thursday’s Investor’s Business Daily editorial flat out states Obama has “made the recovery worse” claiming there are “many economic indicators that are demonstrably worse since Obama took office.” (All true, so why use the term “recovery?”):

 • There are 2 million fewer private-sector jobs now than when Obama was sworn in, and the unemployment rate is 1.5 percentage points higher.

 • There are now more long-term unemployed than at any time since the government started keeping records.

 • The U.S. dollar is more than 12% weaker.

 • The number of Americans on food stamps has climbed 37%.

 • The Misery Index (unemployment plus inflation) is up 62%.

 • And the national debt is about 40% higher than it was in January 2009.

 In fact, reporters who bother to look will discover that Obama has managed to produce the worst recovery on record.

 By this point in the Reagan recovery after the 1981-82 recession, for example, unemployment had been knocked down to 7.4% from a peak of 10.8%, and quarterly GDP growth averaged a screaming 7%.

 Under Obama’s recovery, we’re stuck with 9.1% unemployment, and an economy that’s managed to eke out an average of just 2.8% growth since the recession ended two years ago.

 Meanwhile, 70% of small businesses report that they’ve delayed hiring thanks to economic uncertainties, and more than three-quarters say the country is still in a recession.

Nope.  None of these fancy-shmancy numbers mean anything to us.  Just irrelevant mumbo-jumbo that doesn’t make us feel anything, and most certainly makes us feel that Obama cares about “ me and my family.”

Ugh.

Certainly, a far cry from the Clinton War Room’s anthem of  “It’s the economy, Stupid!”

And all of this occurring under the reign of an incumbant President that some claim is unbeatable?

As a wise Jedi once said:

“At an end your rule is… and not short enough it was.”

I’m with Yoda, Stupid!

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  • Anonymous

    Reports are that consumer sales are down again, and inventories are starting to pile back up.  Car sales are also down (how long can they continue to blame the Japan earthquake?).  Home sales are also in the toilet.

    But not to worry!  Barry, Nancy and the rest of the socialist idiots “will get it right, this time!”.

  • Anonymous

    In a sense he is absolutely right.

    The media will not tell us that we are voting against obama (or for someone else) because of the economy, or unemployment, or Afghanistan, or Libya, or Iraq, or GunWalker, or obama’s neglect of red states with natural disasters, or shutting down the coal industry, or the Gulf drilling moratorium, or selective enforcement of the law, or the debt, or taxes…..

    Nope.  People are going to vote against obama because…

    THEY’RE RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!

    So Plouffy is right.  We already know the meme that will be in play for the next 18 months.

    • Anonymous

       RACIST!!11!!111!!!

  • Anonymous

    And so it begins… We are not even to look at the the most basic reason and basis for keeping the job of President.  We are just supposed to look at his ‘first black’ credentials and ignore all we have lost with this puppet show.

    Well, screw that !  Obama’s ship of stoopid fools is sinking fast!

  • Anonymous

    Plouffe  can say what ever he wants, the obvious is so glaring that he has no way of avoiding the obvious other than to hand wave it dismissively. The (P)resident is going to be road killed by his own record of failure at everything he’s touched.

    If all he has is race to run on he’s dead meat as well. No one’s buying that BS anymore when it’s been demonstrated repeatedly that this administration uses race in everything it touches.

    • Anonymous

      I’m thinking of Jonah Goldberg’s column from last week:
      http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/271109/s-racist-jonah-goldberg

      And that’s the joke. And the people who’ve spent the last few decades
      screaming “that’s racist,” not as a punch line but as a heinously unfair
      accusation or in an attempt to bully people, don’t seem to get that the
      joke is on them.

      They don’t get it and I’m not sure they ever will.

  • Jeff Blogworthy

    As deities go, Obama really sucks.

  • Tanuki Man

    He’s a Plouffter!

  • Anonymous

    As we move through the campaign cycle and toward next year’s elections my prediction is the MSM will again go all-in for Obama as they did in 2008. I don’t think that would surprise anyone here at Wizbang.

     But I’m wondering if Barack will be receiving support from some unexpected sources, something along the lines of receiving next year’s Nobel Prize in Economics. Does anyone want to set up a betting line on that one?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

    What did we expect a political adviser to say?  “We’ll run on our record!”  Heh.  They’ll be running from it as fast as they can.

    They will attempt to demonize the GOP candidate, and will jettison any real debt deal that involves entitlement reform so they can use the “Mediscare” tactic of frightening old people.  It’s worked in the past, and they have nothing else. 

    The fact that it is a false charge, and that without immediate action the eventual cuts required will be much greater and more painful to recipients, doesn’t matter.  Truth is not the friend of modern Democrats anyway.