A-I-D-A

A-I-D-A.  It stands for Attention, Interest, Decision, and Action.  This message is on the the other side of the chalkboard that Alec Baldwin's character in Glengarry Glen Ross uses to hammer his pitch to the beleaguered salesmen about to lose their jobs.  "Attention - Do I have your attention?  Interest - Are you interested?  I know you are, because it's **** or walk.  You close or you hit the bricks.  Decision - Have   you made your decision, for Christ?  And Action."

Obama got our attention with the stimulus, the bailouts, Obamacare, and all the other harebrained ideas his administration has offered or concocted.  We are extremely interested in turning him and his cronies out through the elective process.  We have made our decision and remain enthusiastic about our choice to reverse his policies.  According to the polls, decisive action will be taken on November 2nd to set a new course for America.  ABC/AIDA.   Let's win that Cadillac El Dorado.  Vote!  Let's not settle for the steak knives.

ABC

In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec Baldwin's character berates the sales associates to "ABC", "always be closing."  Mickey Kaus, of Newsweek, reports that Barack Obama has changed the meaning of "ABC" to "always be condescending."  Apparently Mr. Obama has once again offended the electorate by claiming that American's "fear and frustration" is to blame for his and his party's downfall in the polls.  In a speech this past weekend to supporters, the president said, "Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared."  Remember that during the election of '08, Obama told a similar audience in San Francisco that middle Americans tend to "cling to their guns and religion" or otherwise show "antipathy towards people who are not like them," when confronted with a faltering economy as well.  Which makes me think, if indeed Obama is right about our fears and unclear thinking when we are scared, then that explains his election victory in "08.  He's so smart.

 

Liberal Arrogance is Authentic

In the latest issue of Time Magazine (from Real Clear Politics, remember I cancelled my subscription to Time), Joe Klein authors a piece entitled Ignorance as Authenticity, and  subtitled Why Do Some Idolize Ignoramuses Like O'Donnell.  Like a dog with a new chew toy, media elites just can't get enough of O'Donnell/Angle/Palin, or anything else that seems foreign to them, i.e., conservative women.  Just ask Meg Whitman.  Joe tries to explain to us that these "Tea Party know-nothings"are absolutely unqualified to join the Washington elite because they aren't really smart enough, and because they don't agree with him or Obama.

"There is something profoundly diseased about a society that idolizes its ignoramuses and disdains its experts," he writes.  "It is a society that no longer takes itself seriously."  Didn't our president just admonish us recently in a speech for not being serious about his transformational reform of government?  Mr. Klein goes on to say that we don't get Obama because his policies are "abstruse."  Abstruse is defined as difficult to understand.  In other words, it's not that we disagree with Obama's policies because they are an anathema to our values and ideology, it's the fact that we are simply too stupid to understand or comprehend them.  Further translation; the American people are too obtuse to grasp the wisdom of Obama.

Benchwarmers

What's scarier than the first two years of the Obama administration?  The next two years of the Obama administration.  Why?  Because for the first two years we were treated to the best and the brightest the Democrats could muster to help President Obama carry out his/their insidious plans and policies.   Now that a large number of his most key appointments and first string wonks have left the White House playroom, Obama now has to draw upon second and third choices for backfill.  This should make us all extremely nervous.  Then again, if his collection of valedictorians couldn't fulfill the promise of a progressive's dream, even with huge majorities in both houses of Congress, perhaps we can all sleep better knowing that a Republican majority in at least one chamber will thwart any further attempts at making us more European than Europe.