Is Obama’s 2012 Convention the Most Incompetent Ever?

Barack Obama is running his convention just as well as he’s governing the country. Both are total disasters.

What was Sandra Fluke doing giving a speech in Prime Time?

I still pronounce her name the way it’s spelled — “Fluke” instead of “Fluck” (the way she pronounces her name) . . . because I’m concerned I might slip up and inadvertently leave out the “L” when I’m talking about Fluck.

So I’m flipping back and forth between the NFL football opener and the DNC Convention, and there’s Fluck at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time delivering a feminist tirade.

Even the liberal FOX News commentator Kirsten Powers (bless her heart) said she was embarrassed for her party and gender watching Fluck’s angry man-hating speech.

Then Bill Clinton comes on at around 10:30 EST . . . because Fluck had prattled on for so long  – something about how Paul Ryan wants women to perform their own abortions in bathtubs with coat hangers; and how Republicans are mean because we don’t think taxpayers should pay for Fluck’s birth control and her recreational sexcapades.

Poor Bill Clinton.

He would have been better off having been preceded by Monica Lewinsky, Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, or Juanita Broaddrick.

But, no — he was stuck following Fluck.

Who says God doesn’t have a sense of humor?

And who was the genius who scheduled the DNC Convention and Clinton’s speech at the same time as the NFL football opener?

As a result, Clinton’s speech tied “Honey Boo Hoo” in the ratings race.

Ouch!

So no one saw Clinton’s speech, as he had the impossible task of defending Obama’s record.

The best he could come up with was that no one could have solved these problems in just four years.

So then Clinton rambled on for an hour about himself, every now and then throwing in Obama’s name because that’s what he was up there to do — puff up Obama.

The problem is that Clinton’s speech just served to highlight the huge differences between Obama and Clinton.

Obama added nearly $6 TRILLION to the national debt in four years. Clinton left office with balanced budgets (thanks to a Republican Congress not letting him spend money).

Clinton cut capital gains taxes. Obama wants to increase capital gains taxes. Clinton signed welfare reform into law, which included work requirements. Obama is waiving work requirements and has been one of the few critics of welfare reform and work requirements. Clinton deregulated. Obama has issued an avalanche of regulations that have strangled the economy.

When Clinton suffered a rebuke at the ballot box in the 1994 mid-term election when Republicans won control of the House and the Senate, Clinton pragmatically told the country that the “era of big government is over.”

He then tacked right and worked with Gingrich and the Republicans in Congress. He cheerfully signed many of their initiatives in to law (welfare reform, capital gains tax cuts, deregulation) and happily took the credit.

Obama suffered the same kind of defeat in the 2010 mid-term elections and tacked even harder Left. Instead of working with Republicans, Obama demonized them.

So Clinton’s hour-long speech last night just served to underscore how different he is from Obama. Oh, sure, he did what he was supposed to do and endorse Obama (the Democrat) over Romney (the Republican).  Clinton will take one for the team every now and then. But mostly what he did was talk about himself and remind voters how different he is from Obama.

I wonder how angry Obama was having to wait back stage for Clinton to end his hour-long speech so he could come out and have Clinton give Obama a hug.

Obama looked so small at that moment. He looked like a six-year-old whose dad had just taken the training wheels off his bike — his dad picking him up off the pavement after falling in a heap. The visual contrast of the successful elder statesman Clinton and failing, flailing Obama is not the image that gets Obama reelected on November 6th.

Clinton’s message to the country was, yes, Obama failed in the first term because the task was just too big for Obama. So let’s give him a second try to get it right.

But Obama declared the U.S. economy in recovery in June of 2009 — before a single Obama policy had kicked in.  So, really, this was the Bush recovery.

The recovery stopped in its tracks in April of 2010 — two weeks after the passage of ObamaCare.

Had Obama done absolutely nothing except play golf, we would be in a full-blown Reagan-style economic expansion right now. It was Obama — specifically ObamaCare — that killed the recovery.

The stimulus and Dodd-Frank didn’t help either.  The zealots at the EPA and Obama’s war on domestic oil and coal production also haven’t exactly given our economy a boost.

There have been many embarrassments at this convention in addition to Fluck and the Clinton-Obama contrast.

Taking God out of the Platform and then having the delegates boo when party officials put God back in sure wasn’t a help. Nor was removing the reference to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Obama had to move his speech indoors because there was no chance they would come close to filling the football stadium for Obama’s speech. Now they’re so disorganized they can’t even have a balloon drop.

Has there ever been a convention without the traditional balloon drop?

Team Obama says they’re moving his speech indoors due to weather concerns — even though the weather forecast is that there’s a zero percent chance of rain.  The weather is perfect.

Bill Clinton’s 1992 Convention is thought to be perhaps the best choreographed convention of all time. Obama’s 2012 Convention is the worst.

So that’s another big difference between Clinton and Obama.

Tonight Obama will ask America for a Mulligan on his first four years — a “do over.”

How inspiring.

I sure wish I had a Mulligan in the first job I was fired from.