Sandbox State of The Union

I didn’t watch SOUT last night, and not necessarily by choice; we are just too busy here.  Leslie Loftis alerted me to another FLOTUS get up that lived up to the expectations:

This is our 21st century Amazonian beauty ideal — or something: upper arms dwarfing breasts and the lower body looking ever-ginormous thanks to too tight skirt and sparkles. Sparkles?

This is a cocktail dress.  She wore one for SOTU 2012, too; that gown was shiny and blue.  The First (if I may call her) Lady has a tendency to wear cocktail dresses all day long.  I know, I love to dress  up too.  Unfortunately, by not looking serious when seriousness is called for, Moochelle is sending a message — that she’s not taking her husband serious.  And if she doesn’t, why should we?  No need to be nervous, Marco.

Here we have the far better designed prototype. Jason Wu Pre-Fall 2013. We can observe Mobama’s fashion sense maturing in her fifth year of FLOTUS-ship.  There is a clear trend for shiny sci fi villain looks

The President’s favorability is down — not that it matters at this point.  He’s in the black on national defense only, and that’s probably because of droning.

All this SOTU news is coming against the rough LAPD ex-cop with some sort of racial grievances on a murder rampage.  Don’t you just love how Barack Hussein Obama personally solved all our race problems?  And did you know that Christopher Droner loved Michelle Obama’s bangs?

Sarah Palin already fact checked O’s speech, so I don’t really have much to add.  If you are not too busy figuring out why all of a sudden you paycheck is smaller, you might notice that in 2010 we surged in Afghanistan for some reason, and now we are for some reason leaving.  In the meantime, a recent Medal of Honor recipient former Army Staff Sergeant Clint Romesha politely declined an invitation to sit next to the Flablulous Buttness during the speech.  Three years ago, Kimberly Munley, the hero who helped stop the terrorist attack at Fort Hood, was a Presidential guest at the State of the Union.   Now she is on record saying that she felt betrayed by Obama who classified the attack as “workplace violence” thus denying proper benefits and military honors to heroes and victims.  Currently BO is making further plans to take on our military.

The two MO’s guests who did show up, and were seated right next to the Flabulous Buttness were the parents of the teenage victim of Chicago gang violence Hadiya Pendleton.  Their prominent placement signals the centrality of the anti-gun agenda to the President’s policies — nothing new here.  This morning when we were packing lunchboxes DH said that he’s glad BO keeps talking about guns.  You see, we own stock in Smith and Weston, and every time the Prez opens his mouth about guns, the stock goes up.  It’s up 3.5% today.

I did scan the text of the speech this morning.  President BO conceded that he’s waging class warfare.  Thank you.  Blabbed on about the middle class (see my notes on FLOTUS MO’s opinions of her hubby above) and called for more spending on hip grown-up toys, like windmills.

‘Bamster wants to get the states to subsidized babysitting, potentially edging out private (and often religious) pre-schools, or, as he put it politely, “high-quality preschool available to every child in America”.  In real world, a “high quality pre-school” is the one where the teachers are nice.  The wee ones don’t need any more than that.  Oh, and a mommy will do.  Anyhow, this might be a Nancy Pelosi’s idea.  Not sure how her bankrupt home state of California is supposed to afford it all, or how the millionaires in Congress will be affected.

He also feels that all state should mandate high school graduation.  While this sounds nice, universal high school graduation is not a hot idea.  Many students simple don’t have the ability, or the drive, or respect for the system.  I gather drop outs don’t care much for your little mandates, that’s why many of them drop out.  When I went to a junior college, I had many classmates who oped out for the GED, and then went the community college rout, and were doing fine.  Instead of mandating graduation, how about designing a challenging curriculum that makes their diplomas meaningful?  He topped off his education chat with call for further inflation of the higher education bubble.

The Prez believes that the state of the Union is strong.  OK.  Then perhaps we can deal without universal pre-school.

The Drama Obama

Fellow Americans, how would you like to change for your President?  After all, his better half warned you four plus years ago that Barack will require just that from his subjects.  The public might overwhelmingly believe in the constitutional right to bear arms, and the Supreme Court seems to think that the Second Amendment actually means what it says, but Barack says “change!”  How can we be of service?

There’s been a lot of drama in the Obama administration lately.  The damsel in distress that is his Secretary of State will not testify at Benghazi hearings due to fainting, and the President himself has been crying quite a bit.  He cried the night before the election, for instance.  He was touched by the devotion of the low-paid workers who worked for his campaign.  Barack cares.  Perhaps not for Brian Terry and his family, and we all know that he’d rather hang out with fans in Vegas than deal with the fact that we have a murdered ambassador.  But speaking at a vigil for the victims of the Newtown mass shooting, our President didn’t waste time shedding tears while advancing his anti-gun agenda.  Mind you, that’s before any of the victims were buried.

He’s anything but shy about advancing his agenda.  Four years ago, many of us considered health care the third rail, and yet Obama went in to advance the cause of nationalized health care.  Shredding the Second Amendment should be trickier than passing Obamacare.  For one, unlike 2008,  the GOP now controls the the House.  Gun ownership is popular, and it is in the Constitution, plain and simple.  But I’m looking forward to seeing more of the crying Obama.

Election Day Soundtrack

Desperate College Girls

A few days ago I noted the eery resemblance between Putin’s party “Lets Do It Together” ad and Obama for America girls’ “do it in the voting booth” tees.  And now, in a desperate attempt to court them ladyparts, O released an ad starring somebody by the name of Lena Dunham comparing voting for a 50-year-old man with big ears to losing your virginity, which by some strange coincidence happened to be a remake of another Putin ad.  Behold:

The 26-year-old Lena had a chance to pull the lever for O[h-oh-oh] in 08, during his virgin Presidential election because raving about the 2012 early voting is like bragging about attending a Woodstock anniversary concert.  However, 08 shouldn’t be her “first time” either unless she missed the chance to vote for the guy who wed a ketchup heiress, which is hard to imagine considering her hard left tendencies.  Lying about her “first time”… tisk-tisk-tisk.

On Legal Insurrection we find an Aussie “first time” commercial, and learned that Ronald Reagan once joked about voting Republican for the first time.  I’m sure we can find more obscure instances if we dig deep enough, but how many of them obsess about virgin voting for a specific man?  It was Putin’s campaign that got a good deal of attention in the English-speaking world just a few months ago, not some obscure Australian politician recording that looks like a public service announcement. Plus, Dunham chirps about the voting booth curtains, which sounds like something from “Lets Do It Together” electoral orgasm.

She’ll probably be more flexible after the election

Towards the end of his vacuous 2012 campaign jump-started by “Putin’s Army” of shirt-ripping alleged co-eds, the Russian strongman issued at least three virgin ads.  The most famous one had a virgin discuss her “first time” with a psychic before heading to the polling place.  In the other two we watch virgins consult a doctor and a shrink.

I couldn’t find the ad with psychoanalyst, but the reference to it is here.  And speaking of psychoanalysis, wasn’t O[h-oh-oh]‘s mom’s maiden name Dunham?  Then we learn that whereas Obama virgin ad are cool and all, and, according to The Atlantic at least, only “old white men” can find a fault with it, Putin virgin ads were “creepy”.  Go figure.

Putin’s virgins were looking for a man who’d make them feel safe “like behind the brick wall”, but O[h-oh-oh]‘s virgin is looking for a man who’d make her safe with regulations like The Lilly Ledbetter Act.  (Lilly Ledbetter, is that her real name?)  Also, Putin ‘s quaint virgin was convinced that the first time has to be “for love”, after which anything goes, presumably.  O[h-oh-oh]‘s virgin wants “a great guy… who cares”.  She must be looking for an Earth-shattering experience… or not.

Etch-a-Sketch forever: Mitt Romney met his future wife in high school.  Don’t give up on love!

Even though Russian women outnumber their male compatriots by a greater percentage than anywhere else on Earth, Putin’s commercials are not geared towards women.  His ads were designed to project the image of masculine vigor and give Russian men something to identify with.  The Dwarf’s obsession with masculinity is a topic for a whole different story. The point I’m making here is that the women in his commercials are hot.

Obama, on the other hand, is targeting the single white female vote.  Dunham’s ad is described “sexy”, but it’s not sexy at all.  It is safe.  It stars a gal whose heterosexuality is not immediately obvious making innuendos about a non-threatening man twice her age.  She’s supposed to be the cool big sis — if parroting Putin is cool.  It might help the President to get out the desperate college girl vote, maybe, but he should have had this demographic bagged by now.

At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if O[h-oh-oh] would produce a Slutwalk Army, sort of like Putin’s Army, but Putin rented his girls from a modeling agency.  OFA will turn out moderately overweight chicks who spend their spare time filling out applications to grad schools.  And in grad schools they will, once again, find themselves outnumbering the men.

Glambama

Since I had a positive response to my New Wave post, how about Glam?  Here is the funniest David Bowie parody ever:

And here is Adam Ant with what should be the new Obama campaign theme:

UPDATE: Post of the day on Legal Insurrection — thank you!  For FMJWA, check out Legal Insurrection for another 80′s has-been’s half-hearted and unintentionally entertaining attempt at Obama campaign song.

Whatever Happened to The Sensitive Man?

As soon as the Biden/Ryan Vice Presidential debates ended, a conservative critic noted that Biden, with his condescending, confrontational tone, was sure to loose women.  It’s assumed that women prefer candidates who hold hands and talk about feelings using their inside voices.  I’m sure to certain extent it’s true about the female voter, but I, for one, like a feisty debate; I’m just anti-buffoon.

Once upon the culture war it was decided that stoic masculine ideal is flawed.  Hippies and their likes proclaimed that it’s good to cry, and it’s desirable of men to be “good listeners”.  Second wave feminists championed “sensitive” men in touch with their “female side”.  But guess what? Even if modern day liberals assume that we don’t need men to win wars, somebody still has to win them elections.

So when Obama bombed in the first Presidential debate, the Democratic base attributed his poor performance to his unwillingness to attack Mitt Romney.  The base was reassured to see Biden’s little grimaces and interruptions in the Vice Presidential debate.  Instead of yelling at their TVs, they got to watch an old white man do essentially the same onscreen.

Too bad Biden was the wrong kind of assertive.  Instead of projecting moral and intellectual perfection and confident determination, he radiated insecurity and lack of respect for his opponent, who, although much younger, seemed much more learned and composed.  There is something wrong with people who admire Biden’s performance.

In the case of a medical or psychiatric emergency please hang up and call 9-11

Many on the left feel that Biden was some sort of an antidote to too passive O, who barely showed up for the first debate.  Democrats wish Barackster was “Joe Biden without the smirks”, but the smirks is what the two have in common.  Unlike his veep, O wouldn’t interrupt his opponent or the moderator because his typical white grandmother instilled good manners in him (all right, maybe it wasn’t his grandmother, maybe it was his Indonesian missionary school or his elite Hawaiian high school), but watching him on TV I got the sense that were he not on TV, he’d explode — or at least walk out.

Halfway in Bidenland

After the first Obama Romney debate, Roger Simon observed that we saw an abandoned son unable to confront a good father.  Rush Limbaugh continued with the fathers and sons theme following the veep debate:

Paul Ryan was a son who was a little embarrassed for his father… trying to tell his dad that the world has passed him by [...]

Embarrassing fathers, abandoned sons … it’s as if there is a Democratic party masculinity void.  The faithful got rid of the stoic ideal, and failed to come up with anything to replace it.

Elsewhere in the world of post-stoic masculinity, two Democratic Congressional candidates are involved in a brawl and wife-beater Ross Mircarimi is the  “de facto progressive leader” of San Francisco.

Rosanne Barr thinks that women who have sex will vote for Biden (sorry for putting this one in your brain), even though women who have more sex, i.e. married women, lean Republican.  Forget about sex.  According to Gallup, all American women are now turning to the GOP.  Neither the top nor the bottom of the democratic ticket looks like what we seek in men.

Amatuer Psychology

On October Julianne Moore sent me an email on behalf of President Obama’s campaign titled “making our voices heard”.  Evidently this 1%-er thinks that me and her are part of the same herd.  B-listers must feel so ignored.

A day earlier I got an email from the One titled “I want to win”.  Curious title, considering that that he wants to win is supposed to be obvious.  I always had my doubts about him wanting another term because, prior to being elected the United States president, the guy never held a job, let alone a demanding job, for four years.  He must be tired by now.

Our future President champions the idea that Obama is a nice guy, just out of his depth.  I don’t think Mitt himself believes O is a nice guy, but by now it should be painfully obvious to everyone that he is, in fact, out of his depth.  It’s not just that Obama lost all the arguments in last night’s debate, but the “atmospherics” were so awful.  His smirking, looking down at the audience, refusal to look at his opponent, not knowing how to approach the podium — all of it was horrible.  One really has to be true blue obamamaniac to watch that debate and not think “This is not the leader of the free world”.  Reagan stumbled in his first debate in 1984, but came back swinging in the following round.  I somehow don’t see Obama capable of doing it.  I doubt he will relish the opportunity to explain to the American people what happened in Benghazi.

Right now Obama is looking at two more nights of humiliation on national television.  He doesn’t like his job, he doesn’t want it, but what can he do if Michelle is having so much fun?

Fabulous: Michelle appears at DNC last month in a sleeveless special occasion dress

UPDATE: Related Potluck graphic here.