Barack Hussein Obama (peace be unto him) tried to recapture lightning in a bottle Sunday, imploring voters not to reward what he called Republican cynicism and incompetence by sitting out the Nov. 2 elections.

Project much, Scooter?

The president unloaded with both barrels on the GOP and their record in front of several thousand people on a beautiful day in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood.

Obama reluctantly acknowledged that Americans are frustrated, especially about the economy. Ignoring his own failed economic policy,  he said Republicans have decided “to ride that frustration and anger” without providing solutions. He added that congressional Republicans deliberately opposed his administration and the Democratic majority on almost every issue, in hopes that stalemate would depress Democratic turnout in the midterm elections.

Obama explained:

If I said there were fish in the sea, they said ‘no.  They figured ‘if Obama fails, then we win.

Scooter, you have, and they will…on November 2nd.

Reminding voters of their enthusiasm for his presidential campaign, the president said, “we need you as fired up as you were in 2008.”

Fat chance, Scooter.  That was before everybody knew you.

Obama’s 28-minute speech was the second of four planned large rallies scheduled in a desperate attempt to spur Democratic turnout to try to make a dent in  what many expect to be the biggest GOP victories in House, Senate and gubernatorial elections since 1894.

Sunday’s event, before a mostly black audience, was smaller and less boisterous than last week’s rally on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison.  According to Democratic organizers, more than 18,000 people turned out, including those in overflow lots who listened on speakers.

Obama repeated many of his familiar themes ad nauseam, such as the claim that Republicans drove the economy into a ditch before he took office, and then they refused to help Democrats extract it.

Somebody get the president some Kleenex:

The Republicans messed up so bad, left such a big mess.  The hole we’re climbing out of is so deep.

Do you want some cheese with that whine, Scooter?

Obama said about 8 million Americans had lost jobs before his economic policies could start taking effect.  He said:

It’s going to take us a while to get out of this hole.

Republicans want to increase the debt to continue a major tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, he said, yet they “lecture us on fiscal responsibility.”

Uhhh, because Americans never got a job from a poor person, Scooter.

Vice President Joe Biden, who was born in Scranton, Pa., introduced Obama with a three-minute speech. Democratic Senate nominee Joe Sestak also spoke briefly.

With only 22 days remaining, it’s doubtful that Scooter can stir up enough Democratic passion to avert a GOP takeover of the House, which would require a net pickup of 40 seats.

Democrats are trying to fire up apathetic voters who feel this year’s elections are not nearly as exciting and meaningful as his record-breaking election was.  They also are trying to placate liberals who feel Obama and congressional Democrats have let them down.

During the rally, someone threw a book at Obama.  It sailed past the president’s head without him even noticing.  The MSM is strangely silent about the event so far.  However, you can be sure that some Secret Service heads are going to roll.

John Duda, 46, a Veterans Administration physician who attended Sunday’s rally, said he thinks liberals are somewhat disenchanted that Obama had to make compromises on major issues such as energy and health care. Duda said he saw no reason for dropping a government-run health insurance option that would compete with private insurers.

Duda was not feeling the hope and change:

We’re probably better off. but there wasn’t this sea-change” that people had expected from an Obama presidency.

The crowd did liven up for a moment, however, and it wasn’t due to the performance of the hip-hop band playing there or the soaring rhetoric of the president.   24-year-old Juan James Rodriguez streaked in front of Obama, disrupting the president’s pontificating.

Rodriguez performed the mindless stunt in pursuit of a $1,000,000 reward offered by Alki David.   
 

David is a billionaire shipping and bottling magnate who is known to carry out stunts by paying others to perform them. As the The Sun reported on August 17: 

A WACKY billionaire has offered $1 million (£638,700) to the first person who streaks in front of US President Barack Obama. Loaded Alki David has promised to pay out the cash — providing the streaker writes the name of his website ‘Battlecam’ across their chest.

According to David:

When I see the video and it’s confirmed…it won’t be check [that he sends], it will be cash.

Per David, the requirements of the streaking stunt,  were that the streaker must have been within “eye-shot and ear shot of the president, they have to scream the name ‘battlecam.com’ six times, and they have to be nude.”

So, Rodriguez is a million dollars richer, if he ever gets out of jail…minus lawyer fees, of course.

I’m waiting for the announcement today that Obama created another job.