Thursday, September 06, 2012

Obama channels George Smathers



The artful lie & ignorant people
Res Ipsa Loquitor

In 1950, a candidate for Congress in Florida named George Smathers reportedly gave speeches to rural, uneducated voters and accused his incumbent opponent, Claude Pepper, of being “a known extrovert” who practiced “celibacy” before marriage, practiced “nepotism” with his sister-in-law, “matriculated” with women in college and had a sister who was “a thespian” and brother who was “a practicing homo sapien.”

In the world of political campaigns, the story is legendary. In truth, what we know today is that Smathers crushed Pepper in that election. What we don't know for sure is what role those speeches played, if any, in his win over the popular incumbent. [Obama channels George Smathers]

With all the seriousness I can muster, I'll say that damn near any Democrat running today could win his primary with exactly that speech. Add— "Niggardly!  Yessir! That's what he calls people who don't adequately contribute  to his campaign!  Calls them niggardly!"—and he would top the Democrat presidential ticket.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Please do not bypass the opportunity to call the opposition guilty of "niggerization".

A Mudgeon from Texas

Skoonj said...

Smathers also said his opponent's wife was a thespian.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

as quoted skoonjy

bocopro said...

Full original speech:

http://gis.washington.edu/phurvitz/outgoing/bustagut/Non-SlanderousPoliticalSmearSpeech.htm

Cheesy said...

He also once attempted to interest a young girl in philately.

toadold said...

I hope I never have to use it but I'm so glad I'm stocked up on ammunition.
However,the combination of sociopaths and the ignorant fools that follow them that make up the Democratic party and its allies gets a bit scary sometimes.

DougM said...

… and a known abuser of homophones.

Anonymous said...

I don't know why, but I'm more and more often reminded of a movie called "Idiocracy," or something like that, starring Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph. It wasn't what you'd call great theatre, but it resonated with me as a cautionary tale.
Seems to me we're trending in that direction, and I'm not sure we can stop it!
PvtCdr(SS) MichigammeDave

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