Amateur Hour at the White House
Any fifth-grader knows that public sector jobs, needed as they are, do not create anything. They do not expand the economy. They don’t help the private sector grow. And adding more government workers certainly does not bring down our ballooning deficit. But these elementary facts seem lost on President Obama. Recently, the president showed the country his lack of understanding of how the economy works when he declared the private sector was “doing fine.” He also went a step further, insisting that government spending on jobs is the best way to stimulate the economy.
Our workforce participation rate is at 30-year lows. (Welcome back, Carter.) Wages are down. The housing market is in the toilet. And unemployment is heading in the wrong direction once again. Lost on our Harvard-educated president: When a public sector worker is hired, someone in the private sector has to pay for that job through taxes. Any child knows that if one wants to pay for something, one must work for it. The problem is fewer people are working. We already borrow forty cents of every dollar our government spends, but Mr. Obama wants to borrow more to give the illusion that America is working. They’ll be working alright — working to drive America’s debt to levels seen in Greece. It’s ironic that a kid in school should be able to grasp these concepts, but our president can’t. At the end of the day, it will be that school kid who is left to pay for Mr. Obama’s lack of experience.
The right-wing political punditry has taken to calling our president a man-child. I think that’s too gracious. Even children have basic understanding of fundamental fairness, rule of law, and how to keep a secret. America really did screw up in electing a man who had no qualification to be president. A community organizer voting present in the Illinois Senate and then for two years as a U.S. senator hardly seems adequate preparation for running the world’s largest economy.
President Barack Obama was the wrong man at the wrong time for America. We needed an experienced leader with a knowledge and understanding of how the world truly works to rescue America and the globe from economic ruin. Instead, we got amateur hour at the White House.
I have to disagree that any president is elected for, or has the job description of, “running the world’s largest economy”. No one person or group of people can run an economy. Only the fair market can do so, even though it’s not perfect, (what is?) it’s the best idea yet. All we should hope for from any president or elected official is that they leave the economy alone! It’s been shown time and time again that the more they muck about with the economy, the worse it is for all Americans. There is plenty of work to be done by our elected officials without their messing about with things they don’t understand, and in Obama’s case, don’t even particularly like.
Right on target, Nancy.
In fact, one of our greatest problems in this country is that too many people have the idea that it is the government’s job to “run the economy”.
We can find plenty of people on BOTH sides of the aisle who hold that destructive idea.
BARACK OBAMA
is a man of great deficiencies blindly driven by a utopian ideology on a rendezvous with disaster for himself, his party and political creed.
The Obama presidency is summed up in the Confucian maxim: Much power and little wisdom is doomed to fail.
“Whenever he throws them a bone, they call it a steak dinner.”
I sure hope you are right about Hispanics being deeper than that and I know that lots of Hispanics, like others, have enough street smarts to know when they are being conned. The question is, will there be enough.
My sincere belief is that the American voter (I no longer talk of ‘groups’), will ultimately see through this ‘charade’ that we currently have in our highest office. We deserve better A’s our leader. With the possible exception of Bill Clinton, I haver never been more disgusted with a POTUS. Semper Fi.
I’d like to think the hispanic/Latinos are smarter as we hope. Check out El Semanario newspaper that’s pitching the.BS for illegal votes. IslamObama Guns kills hundreds of innocent Mexicans, attacks their church and they say ”give me more”. Yes read,your local hispanic rags to see the truth of what we all would like to be.
I really disagreed with Clinton, his policies were not good. However, he has Obama beat handily. Clinton had capable people running the departments and agencies, Obama has fools. Heck, we didn’t even know who the Commerce secretary was until he ran into 3 cars in 3 seperate events.
His regulators are killing every segment of our society, will we survive 6 more months. I cannot imagine him being reelected, but I fear between his favors, his lies, his perks, and his twists of power he could be. If so, I think I will need to move to a conservative country like Canada.
The juveniles in the Obama administration have used the distraction technique so much that it has no effect any more.
The careless people that voted for this recalcitrant punk thinking “how much can he hurt” have found out what fools they have been taken for.
They’re crying “Look; I got a booboo!” or “He called me a bad name!” isn’t working any more.
It’s time to get back to an adult administration with responsible people at the controls.
END THE BULLYING OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
Wait till we see the secrets he leaks when he’s OUT of office.
Don’t think so. The recent secrets leaking was a political ploy in an election year, and as Pres he can’t be held to account in a legal sense. Even he is smart enough, however, to know that if he does this out of office, then the door to the jail cell right beside Rezko’s will swing wide open just for him; more, that there will be any number of people just waiting for their chance to close it behind him — and throw away the key. So, IMO, that’s not something to worry about now. Let’s worry about getting him voted OUT. We have work to do!
President Obama is an extreme example of the Peter Principle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
It is clear he has been promoted far beyond his competency.
His meeting with failure exacerbates his penchant for lying. The recent strategy of claiming executive privilege reminds me of Dick Nixon in his frantic attempts to hang onto office.
But, when you get right down to it, Obama isn’t just the Peter Principle. Obama isn’t just a reincarnation of “Tricky Dick”. Obama is, simply, a dick.
Hasn’t Obama’s cabinet members say that they haven’t had one on one meetings with him? Were is the press to flesh that out?
I’ve come to the conclusion that our Faculty-Lounge-Lizzard-in-Chief has no deeply-held beliefs beyond a core conviction that he was born with an absolute entitlement to absolute power.
The man talked a good game. He laid on the charm. Add to that, the GOP gave us a man who wanted to be nominated but was unwilling to compete for the office of president. Here’s hoping this year’s apparent nominee has more spine and is willing to stand up for the Constitution and for the American people.
“It’s ironic that a kid in school should be able to grasp these concepts, but our president can’t.”
I’m sure everyone has heard the saying that, paraphrasing, one needs a computer to REALLY screw up. I think what this President is demonstrating is that to really foul up public policy requires a Harvard degree, something I’ve suspected for three decades.
“It’s ironic that a kid in school should be able to grasp these concepts, but our president can’t.”
For a kid who has gone to a US elementary school, one would surely hope so. Someone who went to an Indonesian elementary school while classified as a Muslim might find this more difficult
Thanks for presenting the video clip. I wished you had focussed more of your commentary on it because of its true underlying importance. In it you have two of the biggest media supporters of Obama telling the public that top Democrats in the Senate are themselves astonished at Obama’s incompetence at dealing with fellow politicians. Actually, what the Democrat Senators are really complaining about is that Obama doesn’t talk to or work with anybody, including themselves. This complaint suggests that when Obama will need them this coming fall, they may well absent themselves from any participation in helping him to get re-elected.
Obama’s refusal to seek advice from far more experienced Democrats shows his complete isolation from his own party.
Hey, Navarette, let us know when you get deep enough that you are no longer identifying yourselves as “brown-skinned folks”.
We welcome the day when you consider yourselves just plain “Americans”.
Mark V,
The quote was from Ruben, the author, Sosa, was making the claim that Latinos are more than single issue voters.
50 cents of every dollar that Obama spends is stolen from our children, who instead of inheriting wealth will inherit an enormous mortgage against a bankrupt welfare state. The idea that deficit spending is virtuous is an ignorant idea.
I am always amazed at the naivete (or is it CYA?) asserting that Obama is just inexperienced. Are the journalists afraid to say “this was all part of the plan from day one”? Valerie Jeffers told us all right before the Inauguration that “Obama is ready to RULE.” That was the most truthful thing to come out of the Obama camp. EVER.
He has always and still does see himself as a king. His ideology is for America to be brought lower than his bows to foreign kings. He hates our country and if he gets reelected, his plan to finish us off will succeed.
“How can we trust that President Obama knows what he’s doing, if he thought it was appropriate to have a campaign hack like Axelrod anywhere near top-secret information?”
It’s worse than that: How could the voters have thought it was appropriate to have a subversive narcissist like Obama anywhere near top-secret information?
How can we trust that President Obama knows what he’s doing, if he thought it was appropriate to have a campaign hack like Axelrod anywhere near top-secret information?
Calling Axelrod a hack is too kind.
Scumsucker works.
While still a contender himself, even Crazy Joe Biden observed that Obama wasn’t ready for prime time.
Joe Biden swears Obama is not ready to be president
It is fun to read the “demos rats” jumping over board from the good ship Obama as he sinks into the intellectual level he really was and is still today…just a lost cause in a dangerous world, trying to pretend he is a real life Prez. I believe he has done the best he could.
Hope and change is not a lost slogan, as it now can be applied to healing our country with a new Prez who has the experience and knowledge and leadeship to heal us. But then only each of us can heal us.
(And I don’t know who that will be however, I will pray for him or her to be sucessful.)
I think OB did the best he could to convert us to embrace his socialist/communist outlook, however, as many left radicals and/or rabid conservatives, their message over time sinks into the sand of being rejected by the citizens. The American people are not stupid! I honestly believe that the we citizens are much smarter than what the policians believe us to be.
Take care folks, don’t be surprised to see civil disturbances created especially by the left and right extremes by paid/volunteer “trouble makers”. We got a taste of it earlier this year from “Occupy…ect” (which was hatched by OB and his followers. (Its getting like the 1960s again!)
Good luck to all and stay safe. (Everything I wrote is JMO.)
Jim N.
Whatever happened to that Obama idea to create a new legion of youthful “brown shirts” who would march in the streets and bop citizens over their heads until they got the proper Obama word? Was that what those Occupy doofi were supposed to morph into?
If you look back, Obama has had a lot of Hitler-lite ideas — like neighbors and relatives tattling on and turning in people making anti-Obama remarks, and like thugs and goons attacking citizens demonstrating free speech and biting their ears off. Somehow, though, those ideas just haven’t taken off. Nor have they worked. I think for several reasons: (1) the populace Obama had annointed to carry out his ideas in public are too stupid, inexperienced, lazy and stoned to be effective, (2) about 50% of the American population are *really* opposed to being told by anyone how to live their lives, and (3) we got guns.
One final remark and that is Obama’s waffling and wishy-washiness is also consistent with him getting his orders from someone else somewhere else where they’re not real familiar with the American way, the rule of law, and the Constitution. I still think JugEars is a bought man and not just inexperienced and over his head. That’s in addition to being raised in Kenya and/or Indonesia by Muslims.
Bravo, a good one. What is depressing is that so many went for this fool in’08, as well as the media which regards itself as the country’s elite. The man is a stumblebum & seems to be developing psychological problems at this point of his degraded life. And to think the cognoscenti laughed at Bush.
Barack Obama in three letters:
C.O.N.
“Barack Obama was the wrong man at the wrong time for America.”
No, he was and is the wrong man for America, at any time, for all time. A man of no season. A Nowhere Man for a Neverland–one not suited to children.