11/01/2012 12:01:00 AM MDT
By Mike Rosendenverpost.com
The Denver presidential debate was a crucial turning point in this year's election. There have been many signs of desperation in the Obama campaign since then, both big and small.
The belligerent attitude of Joe Biden and Barack Obama in the subsequent debates is a prime example. That may have stirred the animal spirits of Obama stalwarts, but it's been a turn-off for moderate swing voters, especially women. It was already well known that Biden is subject to clownish episodes and overblown behavior, but presidential debates two and three particularly revealed Obama's petty and nasty side. And even liberal "fact checkers" exposed some of his false claims.
The luster and the novelty have worn off. Beneath a cool veneer, Obama is a brutish politician tutored in the Chicago School, not Mr. Nice Guy. On the other hand, now that more voters are seeing Mitt Romney up close and personal for themselves — as compared to the Obama campaign's portrayal of him in its barrage of negative ads — they're growing to like him.
A recent "unofficial" Obama campaign ad directed at young women displays desperation of a more squalid nature. The ad features Lena Dunham, who created and stars in the HBO series "Girls." (The show is the female version of the clichéd genre of raunchy guys doing stupid things. In "Girls," it's a circle of hip, twenty-something gals having a go at it in New York.) Lena, not very subtly, likens the act of voting for Obama with that of a young-woman voter having sex. "Your first time shouldn't be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy ... someone who really cares about and understands women." She goes on to urge these first-time voters to discard their inhibitions and surrender their political virginity to Obama. If someone asks you if you've voted, she implores, don't say, "No, I wasn't ready." The creators of this ad no doubt thought it was clever. Maybe it is, but it's also tawdry. And the style of it betrays a low regard for the intelligence of the young women it's targeting. Apparently, Obama partisans will stoop to any depths to pander for votes.
Since the Obama ad has brought sex (not to be confused with gender) into the campaign, I'll extend their analogy. STDs are a serious problem for unmarried sexually active young women. But there's an even more serious problem for them and the nation: PTDs. By that I mean politically transmitted diseases, the worst of which is life-long dependency on government handouts. This is what Democrats have been spreading for decades, ever since FDR and the New Deal, to expand their voting base. Barack Obama is now their primary carrier.
PTDs can drain you of ambition, breed idleness and sloth, inflict an allergic reaction to private enterprise and productive activity, generate resentment toward the success of others, and degrade your rational auto-immune system's resistance to political demagogues. Societally, PTDs can lead to an epidemic of government deficits that bankrupt the nation under a plague of debt.
In his four years as president, Barack Obama has been a bad chief executive, lacking in managerial experience or ability and ineffective in getting along with others — like Republicans in Congress — to forge public policy compromises. At heart, he's still a community organizer. And his organizational model is torn from the pages of Saul Alinsky's leftist schematic, "Rules for Radicals."
The centerpiece of the Obama campaign, which started the day he took office, has been class warfare and the politics of envy. Obama himself has an inherent distrust of private enterprise and business along with unbridled, though unmerited, faith in the proficiency and benevolence of government. He confuses ambition with greed, success with exploitation, and covetousness for the property of others with entitlement and social justice. He should come with a Surgeon General's warning.
Freelance columnist Mike Rosen's radio show airs weekdays from 9 a.m. to noon on 850-KOA.
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