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- Clearing the Browser Tabs – The Internet Goes Up and Down Monday Edition
- RIP Tim Pawlenty’s Campaign, Slain by a Lot of Horrible Advice.
- What Did The President Know About Rick Perry and When Did He Know It? Look to the ATM.
| Clearing the Browser Tabs – The Internet Goes Up and Down Monday Edition Posted: 15 Aug 2011 03:10 AM PDT This is going to be a short Clearing the Browser Tabs post. I’ve had intermittent problems with my internet connection and telephone line all weekend and I can’t say for sure whether the connection will be up when it’s time to send the post or not. It’s working right now, so instead of combing through my RSS feed for more great links, I’ll save them for another day and give you the best ones I found Sunday afternoon and evening. Before I do that, though, let me say that there is a chance that I may not be able to do The Delivery in the normal live-show fashion tomorrow. Verizon, who delivers my DSL service, can’t guarantee a technician will visit me earlier than next Wednesday. Yes, folks, ten days from today. I spoke to a customer service agent and explained the difficulties. She tagged my service call as urgent (and that it’s due to their technician’s error, since he left a box open and it got rained on for several days before I noticed it), so there’s a chance that I’ll get a quicker response. From what I can tell, the fix is relatively simple, but I’m no technician myself. We’ll have to see. If the connection continues to drop out on me (as it did last week, though it’s worse now than it was then), we may not be able to put together two decent halves and I won’t be able to hold a UStream connection. I’ll spend the day brainstorming ways of doing the show otherwise, but the live option may have to fall by the wayside. I will keep you posted as best I can. In the meantime, pray that the Verizon technician will be able to get out and fix the problem today or tomorrow and that the repair is relatively easy to perform. And now, links!
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| RIP Tim Pawlenty’s Campaign, Slain by a Lot of Horrible Advice. Posted: 14 Aug 2011 04:15 PM PDT
From where I sit, Pawlenty’s campaign was doomed by utterly horrible advice from his advisers and strategists. By all rights, he should have been a strong candidate, perhaps stronger than Mitt Romney. His conservative bona fides are strong though not perfect. He is smart, personable, competent, and forward-thinking. He was a successful executive, something we sorely need after four years of community organizing. His course, at least to this point, should have been very simple — introduce himself to the electorate over the course of a couple months with a few simple and effective videos and public speeches, build a message that showed that he could write the economic success in Minnesota over the entire nation, flick a few jabs at his rivals to see where they were strong and where they weren’t, and to mount a cheerful and unflappable defense in response to any attacks against him. He managed none of those things and for that I blame his campaign team.
Let’s talk about those debates, too, while we’re at it. Whoever decided Pawlenty’s attack strategy should be banned from political jobs for at least a decade. Let me sum up the Governor’s Adventures in Attack:
You don’t need to be a professional political observer to see that Pawlenty was never comfortable as an attack dog. That’s not who he is and there was no chance that he could succeed playing against his basic personality. Someone, or a few someones, convinced him that the only way he could get any separation from Bachmann was to pummel her. That wasn’t just bad advice, it was bone-stupid. But not to worry, the other campaigns have lined up to land the people who steered Pawlenty’s once-promising campaign straight into an iceberg. Why? Hey, nothing succeeds in big-money politics like failure. Ask Mike Murphy or Bob Shrum. In the meantime, I want to wish Tim Pawlenty the best. I’m sure in a couple or four years a race will come around that he can jump into without seeming like a ladder-climbing typical politician (and for that reason, by the way, he needs to not hit the campaign trail for a while). He seems to be a good man and a pretty solid conservative. I’m sure the opportunities will come. Next time, though, I hope he hires people who’ll let Pawlenty be Pawlenty. That’s how he’ll win.  |
| What Did The President Know About Rick Perry and When Did He Know It? Look to the ATM. Posted: 14 Aug 2011 01:47 PM PDT I was a little bit surprised at the speed with which the Obama campaign responded to Texas Governor Rick Perry’s formal entry into the 2012 race. Politico has the statement only minutes after Perry’s speech ended, which made me wonder how the President’s people could work so fast. Surely the President’s re-election staff is busy crafting a positive message for how Barack Obama will take ownership of the nation’s economy and turn it away from the doldrums in which it’s been mired for so long. It’s hardly plausible that a campaign staff with its plate as full as Obama’s would have the time to write and distribute such a detailed rebuttal to a speech they barely had time to digest. So I started thinking. What if the President had some inside information? What if Barack Obama knew that Rick Perry would enter the Presidential race long before any of us mere mortals who rely on the linear and one-way nature of time? Surely such a thing would be possible for The Lightbringer, the man who claimed powers over earth, sky, and the rest of the spacetime continuum. But how could I prove it? Then it hit me. I had the proof staring me right in the face. Let’s think back June. The President gave an interview to NBC’s Today Show in which, we thought, he blasted Automated Teller Machines for stealing jobs from hard-working bank tellers. The right-wing blogosphere had a high time ragging on the President for what we believed was his economic illiteracy, but what that what really happened? Let’s take a look at his quote:
Straightforward no? I say no. Let’s go down the Barack Obama/Rick Perry rabbit hole…if you dare. You’ll notice in the President’s quote, he said “ATM” and not “Automated Teller Machine”. Now, Barack Obama is a highly-educated man, credentialed by some of the finest institutions of learning in the nation. His intelligence is celebrated by those who consider themselves the cream of the intellectual crop. Why would a smart man, while surrounded by the highly-intelligent reporters of NBC, use a colloquialism like “ATM”? He wouldn’t, unless he was sending a very specific message. I contend that message was about none other than Texas Governor Rick Perry. What do we know of Perry, other than than he is Governor of Texas? Well, thanks to the MSM who recently unearthed his college records, that he graduated from Texas A&M university. Indeed, Perry identified so closely with the Aggies that he was an “Aggie Yell Leader”, a position that on the surface looks like a cheerleader but is in reality more like that of a cult leader. Yell Leaders direct the crowd in specific chants, even to the point of adjusting their posture into a position called “humpin’ it” that allows for a more forceful yell. By now, you should see why such a man would be the natural foe of Barack Obama. Among all the Republican candidates, only Perry could lead a crowd in chants that could outshine the President’s own “Yes We Can!” and “Fired Up and Ready to Go” chants that he used to such devastating and unifying effect during the 2008 campaign. But what does that have to do with ATMs? Well, here is the logo for Texas A&M. Game. Set. MATCH! My contention is that Barack Obama knew that Rick Perry would enter the race and used the Today Show interview not to inveigh against inanimate machines, but to deliver a two-fold attack against the man whose chant-leading ability could rival his own. Clearly the Obama campaign knew Perry would enter the race and so they had written their response well ahead of time and released it after a reasonable amount of time to give the impression that they worked quickly yet hide the prescience of The Obamessiah. The “ATM” term was a precise message that pointed as unerringly to Rick Perry’s alma mater as the Gnomes of Zurich’s Orbital Mind Control Satellites point to the decision centers of the members of the Federal Reserve. The evidence is conclusive. Now that the secret is out, though, who knows what the campaign will do? I am sure the “mainstream” media will pooh-pooh by conclusions as the ranting of an obviously insane right-wing wacko. But we know the secret now. The word is out and nothing can stop the tru— (Note: This is a JOKE! I swear, if this shows up on an Alex Jones blog post or a Ron Paul message board, I had nothing at all to do with it. President Barack Obama is not psychic, nor does he control the very fabric of spacetime. He is not an alien, a Kenyan, or a centrist. Honest.)  |
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