Obama Appears as Max Headroom in Iowa Video Teleconference While Spotlight Zooms in on Santorum

 

Tuesday night while GOP Presidential Primary Candidate Rick Santorum captivated the imaginations of Conservatives nationwide, the White House counter-acted in an odd way, to say the least, by revealing a much older looking President Obama to their own base of supporters scattered throughout the State of Iowa using a new video teleconferencing tool that many including conservative  talk radio host, Rush Limbaugh, equated with 1980’s pop-culture star Max HeadRoom.

“I’m telling you, I don’t know how this happened folks", Limbaugh told his audience on Tuesday.  "They added 25 years to his appearance. He looked like the character Max Headroom out there. Barack Obama looked like a space alien. He looked like he was 75 years old.”.

Seated before a computer camera backstage at the Aragon Ball Room in Chicago, Obama spoke to grassroots volunteers gathered at more than 1,160 locations around the country using a custom “skype – like software program developed by Adobe systems Inc for his campaign.Obama To Iowa Dems: "More Optimistic" About "Change" Than in 2008

Although Obama urged his supporters to maintain the same sense of determination and energy they had four years ago, that was not the impression he communicated nonverbally. As Rush said, he looked old and tired, giving the impression he would rather be doing anything but being there giving a calculated pep talk immersed in campaign rhetoric and nostalgia.

Rumors have been circulating on the blogs and the new media for some time that Obama had become isolated in the White House and unwilling to talk to members of Congress or anyone else for that matter.

I know that all presidents age before our eyes during their tour of duty. Bush and Clinton, did as well although they never looked as strange and as old as Obama did on a night the attention was clearly focused on the Republicans.

 
The weirdness portrayed by the web broadcast amid static and sporadic audio interruptions was in starc contrast to the exuberance and genuine heart felt emotion displayed by Rick Santorum, who flawlessly addressed his supporters without a teleprompter and appeared to genuinely speak from his heart. It was no secret that Santorum who had come out of nowhere in the polls emerged as the big victor despite receiving 8 less votes than Romney after a curious delay in which efforts were made to find votes that were termed "missing" .

During Obama’s “Star Trek style” presentation, CBS news reported that there was no cheering or chanting or clapping for the president’s message that appeared to be “beamed” from an extra terrestrial command center in outer space to more than 200 caucus locations throughout Iowa. Seeing that Iowa was treated like another planet by the mainstream media this month anyway, the analogy seems appropriate here.

You know…”these alien life forms we’ve talked to (when we absolutely had no choice) actually believe in God, go to church, and think marriage should be between a man and a woman like that nut job Rick Santorum does”

Obama’s battleground state director Mitch Stewart,   who has been using the platform to hold several national online training sessions told participants last month that “this  is relatively new technology and there are some bumps we’re working through” ABC: A Nostalgic Obama Uses Webcast to Rally His Iowa Roots

Boy you’ve got that right Mitch!

But before signing off lets hear a few words from the mastermind himself who paved the way long before President Obama transmitted his revolutionary new image to supporters stranded on the far away and peculiar Planet of Iowa.



Max HeadRoom

Rick Santorum Is On Fire!

While he's been one of my favorites all along (as well as Cain and Bachmann, both of whom are sadly already out of the race), I didn't expect to see such a slam dunk performance by former Senator Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucuses yesterday. Congratulations to you, Sen. Santorum, and for God's sake, keep it going!

As I've mentioned before, we Republicans have been blessed with an awesome field of primary contenders to choose from. Unfortunately, however, the trend for the past several months - impacted in no small amount by the mainstream media political talking heads, of course - has been a rousing game of musical chairs. King Romney has been planted firmly in one seat and a slew of other (much, much) more conservative candidates taking the remaining seat. One by one they have been picked off, not only by strong media criticism, but also by the factions within our own dismal party.

Ever since Rick Santelli's iconic rant on CNBC, the sleeping giant within the GOP now known as the Tea Party Movement has placed a firm grip on the true conservatives of America, and placed themselves squarely at odds with the strangest of adversaries - no, not the bleeding heart liberals in the White House - our own stodgy, GOP political elite, also known as 'the Establishment.' Mwahaha! It sounds so powerful and daunting, doesn't it? The Establishment has become such by riding along with the status quo, compromising conservative values in order to stay in office, and racking up an enormous federal budget in the meantime.

The make-up of the GOP has been firming up for the past nearly three years, and it looks like 2012 could be (dear God, please let it be!) the year that the Establishment is kicked to the curb and conservatives grab the GOP wheel and yank us all back to the right.

What Santorum needs now is a solid New Hampshire victory next Tuesday to push him over the edge and into front-runner position. Hopefully right now he's getting floods of donations and Republicans all over the northeast are driving in to help his team go door-to-door and make calls. If you haven't gotten involved in this race yet (and I am definitely one of the folks that hasn't), now is the time! This next weekend/week is going to be fun!

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