Obama Now Putting Out Trailers to Hype His Upcoming Speeches

Obama's Big Climate Change Speech drops today. Video under the fold, and check out Ross Douthat's column, excerpted at Hot Air, about Obama's relentless focus on Lifestyle Liberal issues while he ignores the ones most people actually care about.

After all, gun control, immigration reform and climate change aren’t just random targets of opportunity. They’re pillars of Acela Corridor ideology, core elements of Bloombergism, places where Obama-era liberalism overlaps with the views of Davos-goers and the Wall Street 1 percent. If you move in those circles, the political circumstances don’t necessarily matter: these ideas always look like uncontroversial common sense.

Step outside those circles, though, and the timing of their elevation looks at best peculiar, at worst perverse. The president decided to make gun control legislation a major second-term priority … with firearm homicides at a 30-year low. Congress is pursuing a sharp increase in low-skilled immigration … when the foreign-born share of the American population is already headed for historical highs. The administration is drawing up major new carbon regulations … when actual existing global warming has been well below projections for 15 years and counting.

An Obama advisor has declared that while Obama won't be so straightforward to mention a War on Coal, "a War on Coal is exactly what's needed." He really said that.

In line with a summer tentpole movie release, Obama has already released the speech to friendly critics-- liberals like those at CAP, which is sort of the Ain't It Cool News of Transnational Progressivism.

You gotta watch the "Redband Speech Trailer" below. The piano tinkle, an insipid theme vaguely suggesting Hope and Change, is a micro-commercial jingle designed to stick in your head.

It's all about branding. Not so much about governing.

posted by Ace at 12:27 PM

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