Yes, I’m jumping on the bandwagon—pun intended—of this presidential—or lack thereof—bus tour. This just reeks of desperation. I’m surprised he hasn’t hired a PR company to try and remake his image. Of course, when you have the entire media working round the clock for you, perhaps you don’t need that. No, the one thing Obama needs right now is results. What results? Why, unemployment coming down, the dollar going up, and the restoration of America. Of course, it’s difficult to restore America when he vowed to “fundamentally transform” it.
Yes, results are what he needs, but all the campaigning in the world (well, country; world would violate campaign contribution laws) won’t help him get results. It’s all image with this guy. He’s claimed to have promised laser focus on creating jobs multiple times during his first year in office, yet he never actually does it.
Now some comments on some of the things that he’s said on this tour. He claims that carmakers can’t “just make money on trucks and SUVs” and that they should focus more on small to mid-sized cars and energy-efficient vehicles. Mr. President, forgive me for asking, but what do you know about business? Let me rephrase: what do you know about growing a business. We know that you know how to destroy them. Even your green-energy companies that you promote so much are folding. But what do you actually know about managing a company? The only real job that you’ve had was as a lawyer, but even then you claimed to have felt you were “behind enemy lines”.
He’s also claimed that he turned the recession around until he hit some “bad luck”. Bad luck? Like what? An earthquake? The Arab Spring? Well, we can’t exactly control earthquakes, but he encouraged those in the Middle East to rise up and make the Arab Spring a reality! So, not only is he driving across America in his big bus, but he’s clearly throwing plenty under it too.
Shifting to the GOP primary field, Rasmussen shows that Perry is on top with 29% with Romney and Bachmann at 18% and 13% respectively. This isn’t at all surprising, but we still have a couple possible shake ups in the mix. Rumor has it that Chris Christie and Paul Ryan are mulling late bids. Paul Ryan’s an interesting possibility as he’s clearly a numbers guy and with our current debt, we need the right numbers guy now. Chris Christie might shake things up and there’d be a lot of excitement, but he hasn’t had a full term as governor yet so I don’t believe he’ll rise to the top of the field.
In obscure news, researchers in Australia have found that watching an hour of TV after the age of 25 can shorten the viewer’s life by just under 22 minutes. I’m sorry if I sound skeptical, but how do you possibly figure that one out? I tend to ignore these types of studies anyway since they prove to be wrong so often or, for every study that shows one thing, there’s another study that shows the opposite.
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