With the local unemployment rate above 12% and rising again this summer, about a third of the employer display tables stood empty. Julie Griffin, who voted for Obama in ’08, sat down at the room’s edge, well dressed and discouraged. After 23 years as a payroll administrator at a local RV plant, she got laid off 18 months ago. “Really, what has he been doing?” she said when I asked about Obama’s efforts to help people like her. “I guess I don’t know what he is doing.”

Ironically, back in December of 2008 when I switched American Glob over from a news aggregator site to true blog form, my very first post was about the absurd number of times TIME Magazine had featured Obama on their cover.

That was almost two years ago. God only knows how many more times they’ve had him on the cover since then.

Read more opinion on the Time article at Memeorandum.

You can also watch Scherer summarizing his article in the video below.

No surprises here…

CABLE NEWS RACE MON. AUG 30, 2010
VIEWERS

FOXNEWS O’REILLY 3,977,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,645,000
FOXNEWS BECK 2,600,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,097,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 1,858,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 1,856,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,078,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,027,000
MSNBC SHULTZ 699,000
CNN SANCHEZ 676,000
CNN KING 620,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 620,000
CNNHN GRACE 586,000
CNN COOPER 581,000

I wonder why other cable news networks are having such a problem connecting with viewers?

It’s a mystery.

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) decried what he said was a “systematic, conscious” effort by groups to “destroy” President Obama. Feingold, who’s facing a tough reelection effort this fall, blamed coordinated opposition to Obama and the Democratic agenda in Congress for some of the political and electoral woes facing his party this fall.

Puhhlleeeaaase…….

Hat tip to Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit.

Protest the White House they’ve controlled for almost two years?

What the hell are they protesting? Oh, I see. They’re going to protest the fact that they’re being protested…

Labor leaders, liberal religious leaders and the NAACP will hold a rally on the National Mall on October 2, one month before the fall midterm elections, in an attempt to show they too have political clout and momentum in response to last Saturday’s massive gathering of Tea Party types led by Fox News host Glenn Beck.

“The AFL-CIO is determined that the Tea Party and its corporate backers are not going to get the final word,” said AFL-CIO executive vice president Arlene Holt Baker. “We will expect tens of thousands of union families to come.”

“We are fueled by hope and not hate,” Holt Baker said.

Really? Well, let’s see… You hate Glenn Beck, you hate conservatives, you hate Republicans, you hate independents and libertarians who side with conservatives, you hate the tea party, you hate anyone who dares to criticize Obama, you hate opponents of ObamaCare and high taxes, feel free to stop me any time. When does the hope part kick in?

The obvious lesson here, for anyone who’s paying attention, is that this is all the left knows how to do. It’s all they have.

They can’t govern, they’re so afraid of offending everyone but average Americans that they’re terrible on defense, they’re awful on fiscal issues and they don’t even seem to realize that for now, they control everything.

If current trends continue and the GOP takes even just the house in November, expect  miles of headlines from liberal media outlets to the tune of “How We Blew It.”

They’ll still point blame at everyone but themselves but at least they’ll no longer have single party rule.

In the end, it will suit them better. At least they’ll have something legitimate to protest.

Read more at Memeorandum.

For those of you who don’t live in New England, let me fill you in.  96.9 WTKK is a mostly conservative talk radio station in Boston. Their current morning line-up starts at 7 am with liberal talk team Margery Egan and Jim Braude. They’re followed up by the 10 am to 2 pm show by conservative talker Michael Graham.

This morning as Michael Graham was preparing for his show, Egan and Braude were talking to Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick about the recent Glenn Beck rally in DC. In the video below, Graham and his producer talk about how they weren’t even listening to Egan and Braude’s show but they were forced to pay attention when their email accounts were flooded by listeners who took offense to a certain comment by Obama’s bestest buddy, Deval. Listen below…

Ed Morrissey of Hot Air weighs in here, saying Michael Graham makes a strong point toward the end…

Graham calls it a Kinsleyan gaffe, noting that if anyone asked Patrick if he liked that the US was a free country, he’d almost certainly say “Yes!”  But do Patrick’s policy choices and that of his party actually stand for freedom — or something else?

Oh, liberal Democrats stand for freedom, alright – freedom for those who agree with them.

Update: Linked at Weasel Zippers. Thanks ZIP!

BigFurHat of iOwnTheWorld has expressed this sentiment visually with his wizardly photoshop skills.

Ed Schultz seems to think he could gather a crowd like Glenn Beck did last weekend. Uh huh. Sure you can Ed.

I bet you can fly too if you just shut your eyes and wish hard enough.

And by the way, I’m not suggesting Ed Schutlz is a nazi. I’m saying he’s a buffoon.

In case you haven’t heard, it’s great news for Democrats everyone but Democrats.

Weasel Zippers links. Thanks!

7:55 – Here we go. Watching Bret Baier’s opening remarks on FOX.

7:57 – Foreign correspondent in Iraq.

7:58 -  Steve Hayes, Juan Williams and KRAUTHAMMER are on the case. Juan Williams wants Obama to focus on Afghanistan. Shocker.

7:58 – Krauthammer says the world is watching. And listening…

8:01 – Heeeerrrre we go…

8:02 – Decade of war, recession, but this milestone is is a message to the world.

8:02 – First mention of Bush was neutral. Everyone drink!

8:04 – Obama compliments troops. Nice.

8:05 – I am announcing Iraq combat operations are over. MY pledge. MY promise to the American people…

8:06 – Saying everything Bush said about democracy in Iraq.

8:07 – OUR agreement with Iraq? Umm that was Bush’s agreenment, buddy.

8:07 – Great news! Biden is taking care of things in Iraq.

8:08 – Ending this war is in our best interests. It’s been really expensive… of course, not as expensive as the Stimulus or ObamaCare.

8:09 – Today I spoke to W. No one can doubt his commitment to our troops and country. Collect 15 points.

8:10 – Al Quaeda is still a threat. We will keep going after them. Good, good….

8:11 – Props to Petraeus.

8:12 – We’re going to start pulling out of Afghanistan in a year. Lose 5 points.

8:13 – America is the leader of the free world. Collect 10 points.

8:14 – Bush spent way more than me and screwed up our economy. Lose 30 points.

8:15 – Honor our troops by working for the American dream. That sounds nice.

8:16 – Here comes the green economy crap again…. Oh wait. Just new businesses. OK.

8:17 – I’m doing lots of stuff for the military. Unlike last year when I suggested they pay for their own benefits…

8:18 – A story about some soldiers I’ve never talked to or met….

8:19 – Quote of the night… “In an age without surrender ceremonies…”

8:20 – Better days are coming.

8:20 – God bless our troops. Bye.

8:21 – Krauthammer: Well that was flat.

8:22 – Dr. K says war is a “distraction” from what Obama really wants to do.

8:22 – Juan Williams: Hooray! Obama is made of awesome!

8:23 – Steve Hayes: Krauthammer is right. Obama opposed Iraq every step of the way as a candidate.

And now, the O’Reilly Factor.

Boy, that was quick.

Did you believe him?

I wasn’t sure until I read this bombshell from the Washington Examiner which exposes an email from Arne Duncan, the United States Secretary of Education to his staff, urging them to attend Al Sharpton’s counter event. Do you still think Obama was ignoring Beck’s event?

President Obama’s top education official urged government employees to attend a rally that the Rev. Al Sharpton organized to counter a larger conservative event on the Mall.

“ED staff are invited to join Secretary Arne Duncan, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and other leaders on Saturday, Aug. 28, for the ‘Reclaim the Dream’ rally and march,” began an internal e-mail sent to more than 4,000 employees of the Department of Education on Wednesday.

Sharpton created the event after Glenn Beck announced a massive Tea Party “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial, where King spoke in 1963.

The Washington Examiner learned of the e-mail from a Department of Education employee who felt uncomfortable with Duncan’s request.

I don’t blame the employee for feeling uncomfortable. Can you imagine if you were an MSNBC watching liberal and your boss sent you an email urging you to attend Glenn Beck’s event? How would you feel?

No depth of manipulation seems to be too low for Obama and the crowd of Chicago corruptocrats surrounding him.

They employ tactics which are much worse than anything their supporters railed loudly against under the George W. Bush administration.

Hat tips to ZIP and Matt Drudge.