The Life of Julia...

I just read an apt metaphor for the repeated mistakes of the Obama campaign, but I'm not sure who to attribute it to – it's been picked up by numerous sites with conflicting attribution.  The metaphor: the ACME exploding cigar.  Obama's campaign team keeps buying (and lighting) another of those cigars every few days.  Most recently we had their exposure of the Romney “dog on the roof” incident morphing into “Obama ate dogs” (boom!), and their pointing out that Romney's grandfather lived in a community known to include polygamists morphing into the disclosure that just about every male in Obama's lineage except Obama himself (so far as we know) actually was a polygamist (boom!).  As noted below, Obama's recent speeches taking personal credit for the Obama raid are looking like perhaps another ACME cigar.

And here's yet another.  Still up on Obama's campaign site is The Life of Julia.  It's an almost unbelievably blatant piece of propaganda supporting the entitlement mentality state.  The more I look at it, the angrier I get – and it's not just me.  This deserves to be another ACME cigar, and I see some buzz building on it, so maybe it will.

Another thing occurs to me as I look at The Life of Julia: it's a great illustration of the gulf between those with the entitlement mindset and those without it.  I'd be willing to bet you that a great many people read this and say to themselves “Yes, that's right!  That's how it should be!  I'm voting for that Obama guy, 'cause he gets it!”  Other people (like me!) read it and say “What the hell is wrong with these people?  Are they missing some essential gray matter or what?”  People in the first group, with that entitlement mindset, dominate Greece today – and are majorities in other European countries.  They don't yet dominate here in America.  Whether they're the majority here or not will be measured to some extent this coming November...