President Obama: The conscience of the king

"Pure garbage," says Tuck, retilling the source of the exquisite, deep, dark soil he uses for planting, repotting and mulching our Chelsea Gardens (above). Fruit and vegetable scraps from the kitchen, grass clippings and dry autumn leaves from the yard. Compost 'em, mix 'em together and ted 'em periodically over three years. Turn it around, and you're looking at Pure Chelsea Gold. The plants eat it up!

"Well, you can lead a leftist to reality, BUT…" twitters Darleen Click this afternoon, and our reply:

…You can't make him think. 

Thank you, Mr. President. Like every freedom lover suddenly released from the Fear Society Lite shackles of Obamaspeak by Mr. Obama's own unwittingly self-revelatory words during a post-armageddon press conference this afternoon, we're giddy at the thought of the narrative gift he has bestowed upon us:

The private sector is doing fine. Where we're seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government. Oftentimes cuts initiated by, you know, Governors or mayors who are not getting the kind of help that they have in the past from the federal government and who don't have the same kind of flexibility as the federal government in dealing with fewer revenues coming in. 

Mitt Romney's Rapid Response Team has our back:

For the president of the United States to stand up and say the private sector is doing fine is going to go down in history as an extraordinary miscalculation," Romney told the crowd.

Romney also addressed the president's argument that the federal government should help state and local jurisdictions hire more employees, citing the recent recall election in Wisconsin. Gov. Scott Walker was able to fend off a challenge there inspired by his move to block state workers from collectively bargaining.

It was too late, but "some in press working hard to explain and contextualize Obama's 'private sector' remark," twittered Byron York in the wake of the Leader of the Free World's unintended revelation of the gap between his statist vision and the world view of the average American, as expressed in Tuesday's Wisconsin anti-recall reelection of Scott Walker. The Washington Post's Ezra Klein was typical of the reflexive JournoList Talking Points:

I don’t, for the life of me, understand why people get so excited over things like this. Is there any evidence that either campaign is having trouble coming up with enough damaging quotes, out-of-context comments or grainy video clips to populate their attack ads?

"Things like this." That's the left's problem. They are forever conflating leftist fantasies with facts from the right. As we twittered Byron York:

It perfectly reveals the difference between big-govt statists like Obama and limited-govt state leaders like Governor Walker.

The last word goes to Doctor Zero aka John Hayward:

Romney says Obama is "detached, out of touch." Hell, he's hermetically sealed.

Update: Darleen Click of Protein Wisdom links!

Update II: Michelle Malkin Buzzworthy link!

Update III: Ed Driscoll links!

Update IV: Mama Grizzly Sarah Palin is on the same wavelength:

Sarah Palin slams Obama: 'Private sector doing fine' remark 'absolutely out of whack" and 'out of touch.'

Crossposted at Riehl World View.

Comments

[Iamsnarkitus]

Of course the private sector is doing fine. It's unencumbered by all those pesky workers wanting jobs.

[Pasadena Phil]

Sissy, you nailed it. Maria Bartiromo has come around to the same conclusion. That press conference will be to Obama what Phil Gramm's 2008 "whiners" comment was to McCain: fatal.

In 2008, McCain economic advisor Gramm condescendingly labeled those of us who were alarmed at the rapidly deteriorating economy as "whiners" arguing that there was no recession and that the economy was stronger as ever despite the fact that banks weren't lending to each other overnight to cover their reserve requirements! McCain soon after suspended his campaign to run back to DC to vote for TARP despite the rosy economy. Wait for that part next from Obama.

That press conference provided that same moment of disconnect, that moment where tired "same old same old" rhetoric conflicts with what "everybody knows", that moment where we ALL realize that we are listening to a crazy person. It doomed McCain and has now doomed Obama.

Get ready for Hillary. Bill may have apologized for his his CNBC comments but he soon repeated them. Add Peter Orszag and Larry Summers echoing and amplifying Bill's comments, it sure looks like the USS Obama is stuck in a whirlpool of insanity.

[SteveP]

It isn't surprising that Obama would say what he did.
The core belief of leftist economics is the belief that all money belongs to the government and that government spending is the engine of economic growth and the source of prosperity; that increasing government spending causes economic growth and that profits take money out of the economy, counteracting the benevolent influence of government and impoverishing the lower economic classes. Wealth is neither created nor destroyed, but exists as a set quantity that is made to flow from one place to another.
This is an unassailable truth to them so they think nothing of saying the private sector is doing fine because in their worldview it is. Since increased government spending equals increased economic growth the economy will improve only if government spends more and the jobs situation will improve when state and local governments start hiring again.