{"id":26263,"date":"2012-02-17T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26263"},"modified":"2012-02-17T07:31:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T13:31:22","slug":"obama-to-women-look-dummies-a-shiny-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26263","title":{"rendered":"Obama To Women:  &#8220;Look, Little Ladies!  A Shiny Object!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama thinks women are idiots.<\/p>\n<p>Time will tell if he&#8217;s got a point.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/gallup-state-numbers-predict-huge-obama-loss\/352881\">Obama&#8217;s poll numbers aren&#8217;t good<\/a>. \u00a0Oh, the media is doing its best to spin it (with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26113\">measures that seem desperate and slapdash<\/a>), but the economy is still miserable (especially if <a href=\"http:\/\/campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/scourge-deregulation-barbers-arborists\/377211\">you&#8217;re not too big to fail<\/a>), the unemployment rate is &#8220;Down&#8221; to where the Administration said it wouldn&#8217;t go <em>above <\/em>if we passed Porkulus, and that&#8217;s through the grace of the fact that no Mullah in Iran has yet walked to the shore at the Strait of Hormuz and skipped a rock across the water, sending tankers scurrying for cover and pushing oil over $200 a barrel. \u00a0Yet. \u00a0And even so, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/articles\/2012\/02\/16\/cbo-longest-period-of-high-unemployment-since-great-depression\">this is the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression<\/a> &#8211; largely <em>because <\/em>of Obama&#8217;s policies.<\/p>\n<p>People have been cooling on &#8220;The One&#8221; pretty much since inauguration day.<\/p>\n<p>And The One needs to get that enthusiasm going again.<\/p>\n<p>And so what better to take peoples&#8217; minds off their miseries and rile the (female) troops?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Republicans want to take away your contraceptives!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding the fact that, as Romney noted in December when George Stephanopoulos\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=romney%20contraception%20stephanopoulos&amp;source=web&amp;cd=12&amp;ved=0CHkQFjAL&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.tv%2Fromney-tells-stephanopoulos-contraception-question-is-silly%2F&amp;ei=NFY-T4TDH8HBgAeJnvWrCA&amp;usg=AFQjCNFv5sDem9MtrQgVm8p_qTaxPkoiMw&amp;sig2=GMeclBLQhDJBiEdkT0DGmQ\">incongruously broached the subject in a debate<\/a>, the subject has never come up in GOP circles. \u00a0Period. \u00a0It&#8217;s a non-issue to the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>No matter. \u00a0The media is in lock-step behind the Administration&#8217;s meme that the GOP wants to outlaw contraception. \u00a0The theatrical &#8220;walk-out&#8221; of Democrats from Darrel Issa&#8217;s hearings was a classic bit of Goebbelsian theatre; while the useful idiots in the media (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=issa%20hearing%20contraceptives&amp;source=web&amp;cd=3&amp;ved=0CEAQFjAC&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2012%2F02%2F16%2Fcontraception-hearing-house-democrats-walk-out_n_1281730.html&amp;ei=FVI-T7CPM8Pjggf0v6WoCA&amp;usg=AFQjCNEDqNK6EOu27Gum8RIwdW121F8TSw&amp;sig2=AaBdL_3vgTl5c2fm-kQvkQ\">in this case, the gleefully dim Amanda Terkel at\u00a0<em>Huffpo<\/em><\/a>) called the hearings &#8220;about contraception&#8221; they were in fact hearings on the constitutionality of mandating that religious groups offer contraception against their beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Catch that? \u00a0The Democrats don&#8217;t even need to hijack Republicans&#8217; meetings themselves. \u00a0The mainstream media will do it for them, after the fact.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, that&#8217;s Obama&#8217;s message to female voters: \u00a0&#8220;Never mind the economy; never mind the unemployment rate; never mind the fiscal catastrophe waiting for you, your kids, and their kids; and above all, don&#8217;t believe your lying ears when the GOP mentions that they&#8217;ve never said word one about taking anyone&#8217;s contraceptives away. \u00a0Look! \u00a0Boogeyman!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Women, in Barack Obama&#8217;s world, are not just dim little dolts; they seem to think that women are intellectual slaves to their reproductive systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama thinks women are idiots. Time will tell if he&#8217;s got a point. 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