Credence Clearwater had a major hit in “Bad Moon Rising.” One of my favorite lines was the following:
Don’t go around tonight,
Well, it’s bound to take your life,
There’s a bad moon on the rise.
I am still convinced that what they actually said was “there’s a bathroom on the right.” If you don’t believe me, listen to the original recording and you can hear it for yourself.
This song could be re-released today and dedicated to the Democratic Party. As Yogi Berra once said, it’s getting late early. There are more and more signs that the Democratic faithful have figured this out. Obama’s fund raising machine is running on empty. As an incumbent President, Obama should be up 9 to 10 points in the polls. The President of the United States has huge advantages during an election year. If the polls were showing a close election, that would be bad news for Obama. But, the polls are showing Romney pulling away. The only way any poll can even pretend to look favorable for Obama is to poll about twice as many Democrats as Republicans. Even those polls are starting to look scary for the Annointed One.
In addition, President Obama is the gift that keeps on giving. Stung by criticism that he relied too much on a TelePrompter, he stupidly tried speaking without one. He immediately stepped in it and on it. His comments about how small business owners didn’t actually build the businesses they built was incredibly dumb. Now Obama is claiming that he didn’t say what he said. Then, when it became obvious even to the main stream media that he did say what he said, he claimed he didn’t mean what he meant.
The Obama administration is now running ads that reek of desperation.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-campaign-brings-felons-latest-ad_649152.html
This is really really bad. Here we are, just over three months from the election, and Obama has run out of things to say. The economy is not only failing to improve, it looks poised to go over the cliff. Voters all over the country are rejecting anything resembling a tax. In California they couldn’t even pass a new tax on cigarettes. Now the voters in the Atlanta region voted down a penny sales tax increase for transportation projects:
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Atlanta-region-shoots-down-transportation-tax-3755100.php
The voters are discouraged and they are angry. They are sending a strong message to Washington that they want the government to stop wasting money. In this particular case, unlike the high speed rail to nowhere in California, the project even made some sense. But the bottom line is no one trusted government to get it done right.
If you want proof of the real mood in the county, check out the Chick fil-A story. Recently the owner of Chic fil-A appeared to be in serious trouble for saying what he believed about gay marriage. In prior cases, the main stream media assault would have resulted in a rather pathetic public apology and at least some kind of concession. But not this time. The owner of Chic fil-A didn’t budge an inch. Chic fil-A was immediately under assault with liberal left wing Democratic mayors pompously saying they wouldn’t allow such moral degeneracy in their town. But the liberal left failed to understand the nationwide anger over the attempt to force everyone to accept their position on gay marriage. Liberals define free speech as the main stream media only providing free favorable coverage to liberals. A lot of people are becoming more and more intolerant of intolerance.
The citizens have spoken with a loud voice that sent shock waves through the liberal establishment. There was a nationwide movement to support Chic fil-A and people responded, in mass, all over the country. This may just be the biggest mass demonstration in the history of the United States:
If you are a liberal and a Democrat there’s a bad moon on the rise. And with regard to liberals who are starting to experience feel more than a little fear induced nausia, go the nearest Chick fil-A. There’s definitely a bathroom on the right.
TDM