Barack Obama: Lost Telemarketer

September 1, 2011 | Filed under Barack Obama | Posted by

 

 

There’s an annoying commercial making the rounds by Hertz, in which people are pigeon-holed into two classes, which Hertz tags as the ‘gas’ and the ‘brake’.  The ‘gas’ people are fun-loving, adventurous types while the ‘brake’ people are depicted as timid and, well, a bit dumber than the ‘gas’  people.   The commercial highlights the ‘gas’ people taking stupid risks, and driving rather recklessly.    If someone renting from Hertz were to actually drive one of their cars the way their commercials, the Hertz company would charge them for abusing the cars and bar them from ever renting again from them.  But the marketing guys don’t care about the real world; they just want to sell their story.

 

Barack Obama is really just a marketing guy in the wrong business.  He’s pretty slick at telling a story, especially if he doesn’t need to back it up with substance or results.   When he’s put in a job where he actually has to defend his claims, though, he gets into trouble right away.  Like the GEICO people who don’t see the paradox in having an animated reptile gush about how they have “real live people” waiting to talk to you, Obama glibly tosses off claims about his dreams for America without once making the slightest effort to actually do any work.   Like those paid celebrities who assure us how buying the product they endorse “will change your life”, Obama really seems to think his promises will come true just because he spews them on camera.  Come to that, Obama is a bit like Alec Baldwin, the once-competent actor demoted to eternal commercial pimpdom but convinced he still carries star-caliber charisma because his manager tells him so.  Obama has surrounded himself with people who protect him from the real world, so much so that he imaginesAmericareally buys into his con game.

 

So, it would seem that Barack Obama is simply a telemarketer who got lost and ended up in politics.  Then again, considering where people in his line of work usually end up,

 

maybe Obama is smarter than the average con man.  It looks like, at the worst, he’ll end up a free man with a pension and his ego intact.

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DJ Drummond holds an MBA with a concentration in Accounting, and has worked in Finance/Credit for 13 years, with 17 years of Operations Management experience before that. He writes on political, religious, and cancer-related issues, with the occasional foray into satire and snark.

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  • Anonymous

    Maybe he’ll follow in the footsteps of OJ?  If the 2012 glove don’t fit that is..

  • http://www.wizbangblog.com David Robertson

    Obama is a bit like Alec Baldwin, the once-competent actor . . .

    When was he ever competent?
    Baldwin, that is.

    • jim_m

      I remember one role where he played a wealthy, self-absorbed divorced man.  In one scene he unleashes a vulger, abusive tirade upon his preadolescent  daughter because she failed to be waiting at the phone the instant that he happened to call.  He played the ignorant, selfish bastard perfectly.

      Oh. wait. That was real life and he did humiliate his daughter that way.

      Never mind.

  • Anonymous

    DJ:  Colon, not semicolon.  

    • djdrummond

      Thanks JWH, it’s corrected.

  • Meiji Man

     I served with Don Draper, I knew Don Draper, Don Draper was a friend of mine. Mr. President You’re no Don Draper.

  • herddog505

    In all fairness, Bad Luck Barry is no different than any other politician: their stock in trade is making big promises about how they’ll do great and wonderful things if they are elected (and, concersely, how electing their opponent will result in hell on earth).  Barry’s problems are that he’s incompetent and was GROSSLY oversold.  We were told that he was incredibly intelligent and well-educated; a wonderful speaker; possessed of a calm, thoughtful temperament; a man of the world whose own diverse life experiences gave him a unique, unprecedented ability to understand and work with people of all different backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures; a uniter who thrived on and inspired compromise and cooperation; an honest, post-partisan, moderate, cool, charismatic, competent by-golly WATERWALKER who was practically ordained by God to heal not only our country but the entire world.  Jesus didn’t get the kind of ballyhoo that Barry did in the heady days of the last campaign.

    Of course, in the years since January, 2009, we’ve found out that the truth is a teensy bit short of the hype.  The Annointed One has turned out to be a stuttering clusterf*ck of a massive failure, a bitter, hateful, incompetent boob who somehow got the ideas that the President of the United States is supposed to RULE rather than lead and govern and that making hectoring speeches filled with platitudes is all that is required to make things happen.

    Well, I say “we”, but the unfortunate and irritating fact is that many of his partisans refuse to see what seems to be so plain but instead cling to the myth of The Annointed One, making bewildering and ridiculous excuses for his failures: Bush left too big a mess; the country is “ungovernable”; the GOP put party above country; earthquakes and tsunamis and Libya and Europe; RAAAAACISM!  If he has any fault, it’s that he’s too compromising, too understanding, too intellectual, too GOOD for the dirty game of politics.  If only our system of government was different, why! think of all the great things he could do!  DAMN that Constitution…

    But why should we be surprised?  Barry was sold as a near-religious figure, and faith in a false god dies hard.

  • Anonymous

    “He’s pretty slick at telling a story, especially if he doesn’t need to back it up with substance or results.”

    It got him where he is today.  Unfortunately for Barry, this is one job where people DO expect results.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G7YIUZMXOD5JGZZTCYMVA75KFU Shadow

    Obama has no experience gained from running a business, he has never had to produce results.  He does have experience in Chicago politics.  So he uses what he knows, the tactics of lying, bribing, extortion, and intimidation.  He fakes the results from public funds spent to buy votes.  He is the ultimate con man and has helped to perpetrate the biggest scam in the history of the world.

  • Anonymous

    I think you’re doing a disservice to the sales and marketing professions.  Compare and contrast.  Ron Popeil and BHO.  The former raised himself from childhood poverty, personally supervised the development of the products he sold on television, virtually created the infomercial, and, frankly, was a true rags to riches story of hard work and perseverance who sold his business for $55 million in 2005.  And the latter… has had a career as an intellectual dilettante and empty suit front man for the so-called Progressive program of Big Government.