Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Page Profiling

What world does Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page live in? Do Massachusetts voters fit this description?
A big mad-as-hell, throw-the-bums-out segment of the electorate hungers for some red-meat rhetoric in the way that Huey Long or William Jennings Bryan gave voice to grass-root frustrations back in their day.
Do I fit your profile Mr. Page? For that matter, are Illinois voters a bunch of ill-informed bums? More from the illustrious pundit Page:
With Obama's cool technocratic style and his stubborn concern for facts and compromise, he does not do that kind of "anger" well.
Does this sound like the President Obama America has come to know over the last year? (some of us before that). Massachusetts voters were not impressed by his personal campaigning. I'd say he was factless and uncompromising, considering that at the time he was peddling a healthcare bill the public has not seen in its entirety or final form, and that it was arrived at solely by one party--the Democrat party.

A party Blue Massachusetts decisively repudiated.

And who's been demagoguing lately, and being disingenuous about it?

As for Sarah Palin she has actually governed rather than being a perpetual campaigner. She worked her way up. PTA, Town council, Mayor, Energy Commissioner, then Governor of a complex state, with a Democrat legislature. She forged successful bipartisan initiatives, challenging corrupt members of her own party. She has an incisive mind and a decisive style, yet she's a good listener. This comes through whenever she engages the public, whether it be on Facebook, on her book tour, or her Tea Party SOTU. Underestimate her at your peril.

President Obama had a majority in both houses and still hasn't managed to deliver a single major accomplishment.

As for corruption, well, have you been back to Illinois lately? The president took some of these players with him to Washington and it hasn't improved the tone.

Needless to say. But perhaps I should say let me be clear: Sarah Palin is more real than Barack Obama. She's more honest.

She's more grounded. And more and more Americans are figuring that out.

More. Legal Insurrection.

P.S. Alec Baldwin thinks Sarah Palin is a brilliant faux-populist. I'll agree on the brilliant Mr. Baldwin but how many people do you know who can shoot and dress a moose, bring a fishing boat into harbor in a storm, and are married to a Native American oil rigger who is a champion arctic snow-machine driver? But maybe that is your point. Because you think a real walk the walk we the people American is beneath contempt.

As far as incurious (and sheltered) that would be our President Barack Obama. As blindered an ideologue as it is America's misfortune to endure.

Finally. One of the other op-eds in the Tribune: Why we're tea partyers. And as far as Rush, he is not a politician, nor does he aspire to be. He lampoons them and hoists them with their own petard. Which is what he was doing with Rahm and PC liberal Dems, in office and in the MSM.

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