MOTUS A.D.

Monday, July 16, 2012

No Apologies, Not Sorry: The New Obama WTF Story

After years of apologizing to everyone for everything we finally ran across something BO is not willing to apologize for: calling Mitt Romney a felon.

“No, we will not apologize,” Obama told WAVY-TV of Portsmouth, Va., vowing to continue attacking Romney on his private equity record.

The specific allegation has something to do with the fact that Romney was off saving the 2002 Olympics from financial scandal and ruin while he was still officially the CEO of Bain Capital. You remember Bain Capital: the evil vulture capitalist company Mitt founded that raised money to try to save troubled companies from bankruptcy? Just like Big Guy tried to do with GM and Solyndra, only Obama used your money.

And Bain’s success rate was better

Gee, as I understand it, Mitt just took a leave of absence - to do a little community service. I thought Big Guy approved of that sort of thing.

BO, hanging curtains on our “National Day of Service” aka “9/11”

You’d think BO would understand leaves of absence; you know, to pad your resume a little in case you decide to run for public office?

“Community Organizer” – a job to fill out your resume where it would otherwise be empty

Anyway, all these sordid facts led Stephanie Cutter to the conclusion that Romney is a felon. And she thinks – along with Rhambo and Big Guy himself – that Mitt should just stop whining about the fact that Obama 2012 has accused him of being a felon.

Stop whining? I really don’t really think Big Guy wants to go there. After he’s spent so much time whining about Fox News,

being “out spent” in the campaign,

and Lady M being “dragged into politics” (!?!).

Despite struggling valiantly to escape, MO got dragged into politics, kicking and careening.

Butt NO! BO will not apologize!

Mr. Romney claims he’s Mr. Fix-It for the economy because of his business experience, so I think voters entirely legitimately want to know what is exactly his business experience.

I’m not perfectly clear on all the nuances in Obama 2012’s allegations, butt you’re all smart; you can judge the Pinocchio ratings for yourself.

I think I’d just drop it if I were Big Guy, before some smart-aleck on Romney’s team decides to counter-attack and ask BO about his suspicious – some say fraudulently obtained - Social Security number. Because I’m pretty sure that would be a felony too. Maybe Sheriff Arpaio will have more information for us tomorrow that the OMG (Obama Media Group) will ignore.

And while I’m giving Big Guy advice, I think I’d stand clear of that outsourcing allegation against Romney too, as a lot of our “green energy dollars” went to companies who immediately sent it off shore. Also because everyone knows that a lot of that outsourcing would disappear in a nano-second with the implementation of tariffs, quotas and enforcement of anti-dumping laws and other unfair trade practices – normally all things that liberals love.

I can understand why Big Guy would rather talk about Mr. Fix-it’s record than his own. Butt I’m afraid that if Big Guy insists on calling Mitt “Mr. Fix-it” Mitt’s going to insist on calling BO “Mr. HOPE and CHANGE.” And that doesn’t work so well anymore. Hope? Nope. Not so much, 23 million people are out of work, some so hopeless they’ve stopped looking altogether. Change? We assumed he meant for the better, butt since median income has dropped 10% in the last 4 years, some critics are wondering...maybe “Mr. Break-it” would fit better because Big Guy sure has made most Americans broke.

So, I guess we’re testing another new campaign slogan this week: “No Apologies” – It’s like “No Excuses” only with excuses and no apologies. Don’t like the sucky economy? It’s George W. Bush’s fault and I’m not sorry. Can’t find a job? Not sorry, it’s Bush’s fault. Gas prices doubled? Bush again, and I’m really not sorry about that, “butt you’ll be sorry if you don’t give me at least 4 more years.”

I think you get the point. We’re trying it out today as this week’s “No Apologies” tour hits the road for battleground state Ohio.

Lady M unofficially kicked it off yesterday at a fund raiser in New York (no battle there).

She was dragged into the political fundraiser before taking the Wee Wons to see the new Spiderman movie and hitting Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill joint for a healthy T-Bone snack (h/t: Marty Davis aka Chickaboomer):

Of course, we had to be inconvenienced by an idiot making another stupid bomb threat. The heat is starting to get to everyone, it’s just been one meltdown after another around here. Fall can’t get here soon enough.

What fresh hell is this?

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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Channeling our inner Cherokee: a social contract story

“You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for...

“Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”

Elizabeth Warren September, 2011

Here’s the hunk you can keep, bupkis

"Look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own"

Barack Hussein Obama, Roanoke,Virginia July 2012

“I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.”

“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help”

“You didn’t get there on your own “Somebody else made that happen.”

“There are a lot of smart people out there.”

“It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.”

“Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.”

“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.”

“There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.”

“Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.”

“Somebody invested in roads and bridges.”

“If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that.”

“Somebody else made that happen.”

[ed. in this case, a whole lot of “somebodies”]

Somebody’s ideas (and money)

Somebody’s organizations (and money)

Somebody’s influence (and money)

“There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back.”

Warren, bupkis, please spare us any more of you guilt. We can’t afford it. And that goes for that other Warren too.

…and the Grand Cherokee headed off into the sunset. I wonder how that got out of the ditch? Oh, that’s right, four-wheel drive, a hemi-engine and a full tank of gas. And a new driver.

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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Every Designer Tells a Story: Every Story has a Designer

Yesterday Lady M took a break from the rigors of campaigning and story telling to host the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards – the Museum’s annual event honoring lasting achievement in American design.

Is it just me, or do those mics look a little, uh, racist to you?

At a luncheon held in the East Room, the ceremony honored representatives in every category of design from architecture to technology, butt the fashion design is always the most anticipated announcement. This year the honor went to Thom Browne, an outstanding American designer who reinvented the men’s shrunken suit,

Who needs sleeves, when we turn the air conditioning off to save the planet anyway?

“Every day, these visionary designers are pushing boundaries, creating and revealing beauty where we least expect it,” Lady M told the audience.

Here’s somewhere I didn’t expect:

in a guy’s bare midriff

And here’s somewhere else where it’s unexpected: skirt pants (for men)

The surprises just keep coming: how about comic book art as fashion-wear? Who would’ve expected that?

I know what you’re thinking, butt no, he’s real.

Thom also does women’s fashion, although it’s not as boundary pushing; in fact it’s rather derivative.

Thom Browne’s burka inspired women’s fashion

Come to think of it, it might even be a little derisive.

Thom’s reflections on a women’s proper place. Yes, those are coffins

After all the brew-ha-ha over the Ralph Lauren Olympic wear being manufactured in China, I wonder if Lady M was aware that Thom Browne moved his menswear, uh, “fashion” shows from New York to Paris two years ago? At least he chose an appropriate location: France’s Communist Party headquarters. Perfect for the debut of his “perfectly calculated, spare gray suiting.”

Mid-High fives for the little designer guy

Clothing designer Thom Browne: like Lady M, he doesn’t believe in wearing socks either: Wait! Are those Sansabelts!?

As you may imagine, Thom is a huge fan of Lady M’s: “Browne said Obama ‘really understands that she is on a huge platform.’”

I’ll say

He even sounds a little like MO, when he talks about things he’s passionate about:

“She is so conscious about using where she is in a really good way, in a very helpful way, by the clothing she wears and supporting younger and newer designers …I think she is very generous in being very conscious in that way.”

I think she is too.

And Lady M concurs with Thom’s thought that “Fashion is more interesting when the references aren’t specifically fashion.”

Below, left to right clockwise, some of MO’s specifically non-fashion references include: yachting flags, Silicon Valley, toilet tissue, beach umbrellas, dominoes, spa robes, smurfs, salt water taffy and test patterns.