Prophet Obama has built his campaign on euphoric rhetoric? Who knew?
By Miss Scarlet ~ November 2nd, 2008. Filed under: Hayek, Uncategorized.
Throughout this entire campaign, it has been obvious and apparent that Obama’s speeches are chuck full of euphoric rhetoric and dreamland promises. He has spent his entire campaign pulling on the heartstrings of confused Americans, leading them to vote based on emotional responses rather than logical inferences. This has terrified conservatives for a number of reasons and to complicate matters further – he does not have much of an established voting record for us to refer to.
Obama is apparently so confident in a November 4th win that he has already chosen his cabinet and he is already shifting his focus away from campaigning. He has inflated the expectations of his voting base to incredibly high levels, and Americans in general have been wondering how he is going to achieve everything he has promised. Obama himself has even recognized this phenomenon. In recent news, there has been discussion about a new plan to deflate the expectations of his voters so as to avoid “…a vast mood swing from exhilaration and euphoria to despair” says one of Obama’s senior advisors. In recent interviews, Obama has appeared to downplay what he can accomplish in his first one hundred days in an attempt to buy himself more time, saying that maybe he needs a thousand days to really make some changes.
This is incredibly problematic. Doesn’t this “plan” speak to the credibility of his entire campaign? Obviously he is recognizing he cannot possibly achieve what they are expecting him to achieve, and it is his fault. He knows that he has been painting this wonderful picture of how life can be if he were to be elected, and he knows he does not have the ability to “change” their lives in the dramatic ways he has been promising. This tells the American people that he has had a strategy of campaigning that had nothing to do with what he actually hoped to achieve once he was sworn in. He has been able to do this because he does not have a voting record that provides a ‘check’ for his words. Obama recognizes what conservatives recognize about a large percentage of the democratic voting base – they are gullible enough to vote for you if your speeches invoke an emotional response. As much as this plan speaks to the credibility of his campaign, it also speaks to the credibility of those who are putting him in office. If his campaign has been able to inflate the expectations of his voting base to such levels, yet he does not have anything concrete to back up his words, what did they really base their votes upon? This “plan” tells his voting base outright that they voted on empty promises.
If Obama does win this presidency, this could pose huge problems for the Democratic Party. Obama is already recognizing that if he does not handle this fragile situation with his voting base, they will turn on him. He has campaigned to come across as their “saving grace”, but because he has filled their minds with empty promises, he runs the risk of disenfranchising a large amount of voters.
UPDATE: Watch this video. Case and point: Peggy the Moocher. These are the types of people who Obama will inevitably completely disenfranchise. This was the message his campaign sent to voters!
Michelle Malkin has more…
Related posts:
- Obama in 2008? Obama is considering running in 2008. The Illinois Democrat said...
- Obama and Expectations: His Own Damn Fault I’m getting a little tired of Obama and the ever-complicit...
- Obama: The Candidate vs. The President People are so gullible: President Barack Obama’s optimistic campaign rhetoric...
- Obama “Claims” Himself “Most Accomplished” How stupid. The Obama administration is going into tonight’s pivotal...
- On the Campaign Trial From a conservative’s perspective, this should be a great run-up...
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
