Has the President Lost His Bearings?
There was a moment during the campaign, when candidate Obama was still keenly feeling his superlative oats, where he declared about his older opponent: “McCain is losing his bearings.” At issue then was a McCain comment that Hamas, the terrorist organization shelling Israel from Gaza, was “clearly supporting” Obama’s election.
Of course, in retrospect, it’s not hard to see which candidate was off-kilter upstairs, especially in regards to the Middle East.
The slo-mo implosion of Obama’s presidency is the topic du jour among just about everyone these days. From the yuppie-occupied tables at the neighborhood Starbucks to every main street beer joint and pool hall, in every golf club tavern and even at ladies’ luncheons, the question of what went wrong and why is foremost in every American mind and on their lips.
It’s a rare citizen these days who is not asking that very question — has he lost his bearings? — about the president. And as the days tick by on the government’s feckless response to the BP oil spill, a spill that occurred squarely in federal waters in a federally regulated industry, one image stands out and may go down as marking when we all knew Barack Obama had clearly lost not only his bearings, but his presidency.
The image, which ought to be branded in every voter’s mind right now, is this one — nicely captured by video — where the president leads the entire first family up on stage to join Paul McCartney and his raucous band of musicians in a momentous rendition of Hey Jude. The affair? Another in-poor-taste White House gala, which ought to, by now, be billed by the press as tawdry let-them-eat-cake displays of President Obama’s royal-laden, out-of-touch disposition towards all things real-life. The president’s Hey Jude moment occurred on June 3, day 44 of the man-caused catastrophe in the Gulf.
The whole thing sadly reminded me of my teeny-bopper excitement upon seeing the Beatles perform live on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. I was 13-years-old and went around singing I Want to Hold Your Hand in a silly girl, fawning trance for a week afterwards. So did all my girlfriends. We outgrew it in less time than it took for our hair to grow out from those awful Beatles’ haircuts we just had to have. To see my president thus grossly enthralled — and up on the stage, no less — was enough to put me nearly round the bend myself from embarrassment. What was he thinking? This seems too mild a question for the enormity of the statement Barack Obama made about his own transparently disordered character.
Any president who fails to see the vulgar implications of partying hearty while millions of American citizens are seeing their already-imperiled livelihoods go completely kaput with every day of gushing crude has lost touch with reality.
Like everyone else, I’ve hated — just hated — seeing those gorgeous pelicans drenched in rust-colored slime. I’ve cried over the devastation of such a beautiful, pristine coast. The beaches and the marshes and the nature preserves, all hideously disfigured for what some experts say may be a decade.
But even worse, in my view, is the decimation of the fishing and tourism industries which have barely just recovered from Katrina. These industries represent the livelihoods of millions of our fellow Americans. Hard-working from-the-bootstraps-up people, who do their jobs, pay their taxes, raise their families, and help keep our country strong.
As citizens, we must ask why our federal government has grown too big to succeed at anything much at all. That’s not all this president’s fault, of course. Our federal government has been outgrowing its constitutionally set boundaries for decades now. But anyone who has the temerity to put his name on the ballot as presidential material without having ever run anything more than an election campaign with an infatuated press in tow ought to know that he just might be getting in a bit over his own head. And when a president doesn’t even have the good sense or the backbone to have a face-to-face meeting with the BP CEO he is entrusting to fix a national disaster, then he’s not only in over his head, he is drowning.
Anyone still in charge of his faculties would know he was drowning.
In order to lose them, he had to have them in the first place.
Following Roger L. Simon’s original article wondering if Obama was not mentally disturbed, I wrote this: http://clarespark.com/2010/04/05/is-potus-crazy/. What I like most about it is the ideological interpretation, namely that the Democratic coalition consists of persons with diverse interests that cannot be reconciled with each other. When Obama promised to heal divisions, it was an unfulfillable wish. But here is where the narcissism comes in: only a person with an elevated opinion of his powers would not see this.
obama is part of the kids who were raised in an environment where self esteem is everything, probably further encouraged by people catering to a black kid, so now we get him and he has not quite figured out just how ignorant and incompetent he really is. His version of reality unfortunately will hammer us all in the end, but he will probably not get it even then, or perhaps he just falls back on denial or finger pointing if he does get it, some body else’s fault, his usual approach.
Trust me, the best is yet to come. This guy will go into melt-down as the cumulative effect of his failures becomes impossible to conceal.
You know, I have this terrible feeling you are right. We are going to have one crisis too many, like Iran finally announcing that it has a nuclear weapon, and Obama will fold like a cheap tent. Elections do have consequences. Unfortunately, many Americans are just waking up to that fact with Mr. Obama.
And some of us have known and worried about from the very beginning. The Junior Senator from Ill. was voted “Most Liberal US Senator”, answered many many votes with a resounding “PRESENT!”
We shouted it loud and long and were branded Racists and Scaremongers…
The only way in which this President acts “presidential” is when he plays golf…
Unfortunately, he does that waaaaay to much!
It could be worse, he could be using those hours golfing to really be screwing things up. Heck we should look at every hour the Poseur in Chief is on the links as a blessing.
Sad, but true.
Even worse, their is some officer in the back ground hauling around the codes for the nukes, now that is really scary.
I, too, was 13-years-old in 1964, and remain a Beatles fan to this day. And as a fan, everything about the Gershwin Award celebration was embarrassing. McCartney gushing over Obama, crooning a cringeworthy “Michelle” (with POTUS singing along) to the First Lady, wrapping up the evening with a totally unnecessary cheap shot at President Bush. Much to the amusement of the Obama-worshipping audience, of course. So the President on stage, swaying along to “Hey, Jude,” perfectly encapsulates the entire ludicrous, ill-timed event.
Supposedly Obama is a brilliant man, the smartest guy ever to be POTUS. No school records–no paper trail of any kind, in fact–to prove it, but if the MSM says it, it must be so. In politics, perception is reality. So why isn’t he smart enough to know that he looks disconnected, like his only interest is in living the high life in the White House?
November is coming. Hey, voters, take a sad song and make it better.
Well, it’s just like a high school reunion. I turned 13 at the end of 1964, and of course was a Beatles fan. But McCartney is not the Beatles. Their creativity died when the group broke up, and since then even his best work can’t compare with virtually any Beatles songs.
I, too, was a Beatles fan back then. But the truth is, they weren’t that great. They just happened to hit the scene at a time when there was very little else going on. And went rapidly downhill, trying all sorts of musical follies, to stay “fresh”. Instead, they got old, and I grew up.
With the advent of CD’s, I collected all the great 60′s music that I’d enjoyed back then, but not a single Beatles track. I wouldn’t cross the road to see Paul McCartney.
This is really not fair. Has Obama not promised that he will make BP pay for the mess? This should be enough to make us and the people living along the devastated coast feel warm and fuzzy inside. How much more do we want?
Fred, what more do we want? Too late! The proper question would be “What DID we want?”
To put it in perspective with an analogy -
Suppose someone set your house on fire… Would you call the Fire Department or the Police?
First and foremost you want the fire out! You can have month long investigations with finger pointing and lawsuits… but get that freakin’ fire out! Of course you could track down the arsonist and force him to clean up what is left of your home, but then it is too late. Your life and everything important is lost in the ashes.
Well, we HAD a fire, and those people we entrusted to put it out were too busy campaigning for fire chief.
Hi David,
that is exactly my point.
…Ahh, but the strawberries that’s… that’s where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with… geometric logic… that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I’d have produced that key if they hadn’t of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers…
Obama didn’t see fit to attend the memorial service for the 11 people who perished in the rig explosion. Pray for your country.
Very, very, good Elisa. The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial and Obama will make a great Philip Francis Queeg. Just give him another year and he’ll start rolling a few ball bearings in his hand while he talks about how the mainstream media is all against him. And what’s happening in the Gulf will be his “Yellow Stain,” just like in the play and in the movie. But who will be Steve Maryk, the guy who brought Queeg down? And who will be Barney Greenwald, the lawyer who torpedoed Queeg in public? Let me know your thoughts on that.
Whoever it is, they won’t work for any member of the MSM.
Let me take a quick stab at this. Who will take him down? Remember that it wasn’t one person but primarily three with the help of the entire crew. So the Tea Party, grizzly moms, and conservative talk show hosts/bloggers will lead the way for the entire crew of the USS America to throw him overboard. Who plays the part of the lawyer that tries him? Remember that lawyer did not want to destroy Queeq, but that was his job so he did it. In the face of the inevitable meltdown of this presidency the MSM will have little choice but to report and we are finally seeing this happen.
Libertyship, after reviewing the plot, the analogy breaks down completely. Maryk is a concerned and competent person waiting in the wings. Don’t have that.
Greenwald, after winning his case, defends Queeg as belonging to the class of men who fought to deliver his relatives from the Nazis, and asserts that if the men had given their captain the support he needed, he wouldn’t have frozen. Also doesn’t apply to our case.
Not sure how it happened, but I didn’t mean to post as anonymous, above, but rather respond to Libertyship as ElisaPardo.
yes! yes! maybe the “bearings” Obama’s lost are the steel ball bearings he, like Queeg, must hold in his hand to steady himself.
“Has the President Lost His Bearings?”
Assumes he had the correct bearings to start with?
Since his bearings were “foundation less”; then one can not lose what one never really had.
The public wanted a rock star and they got one – all glitz and no substance.
This is not the first time and goodness knows it won’t be the last.
While rational folks are duly appalled at Obama’s out of touch, don’t give a rat’s behind mentality,Obama sees the catastrophes surrounding him as flat out opportunities. An opportunity to control over 70% of the US economy, an opportunity to break the back of capitalism, and an opportunity to finally ! implode the system from within.
In fact, I would further venture to state, that this oil castastrophe is like manna from heaven, gifted to an otherwise do nothing POTUS. How many times in ones life does a ‘gift’ like this come along, where all one has to do is weather the ire of the American public-which he disdains as cretins anyway-and wait for the remaking of America,thus re-shaping the US agenda, from what once was considered beautiful expanses of waters, to now oil coated slicks, filled with dead wildlife too?
Is any more visual aids needed to prove his point, that the US MUST start over to give the masses ‘hope and change’ as only the Feds can? Exhibit number one, and ad infinitum, are the dead sea life now littering American shores, props to be used as to why the Feds must take over EVERY associated industry, however tangentially connected to this catastrophe.
Folks, I ain’t kidding, I am as serious as a heart attack!
You may be right, but the reality of the situation is quite the opposite of the intended result. The more areas of life government subsumes, the less it accomplishes. The average American must then become more self-reliant and less dependent on government bureaucracy, as that bureaucracy becomes increasingly obstructive and decreasingly effective. Unsustainable systems collapse.
Who says the federal government has become incapable of success?
The EPA has successfully stonewalled every effort to limit the spread of the Gulf spill to provide propaganda for the deep-ecologists’ “ban oil now” screeds.
The Homeland Security Department is busy thwarting every effort law enforcement makes to prevent Islamist terrorists from entering the country, in keeping with Obama’s “hitting the reset button” with Islamism.
The State Department is having stupendous success in setting Israel up for nuclear annihilation at the hands of the Iranian apocalyptics.
And oh yes, the Democratic Party is busy breaking its arms patting itself on the back for simultaneously seizing control of over half the American economy while simultaneously spending us into deficit oblivion.
Everything Obama has wanted to do, he has succeeded at. To loud cheers from the rest of his party.
The question nobody bothered to ask up front was, did he intend to govern the United States as a wise President, rule it as a philosopher-king… or simply destroy it to prove how “enlightened” he is?
In politics, as in method acting, if you want to judge the success of a performance, the first thing you need to know is the “actor’s” motivation.
clear ether
eon
We better ease up on Obama. As thin skinned as he appears, these criticisms might alienate him to the point where he withdraws. If he ever thinks there is no chance of him regain the love of his followers them he might retreat to his bunker and, like another leader, try to bring vengeance on his countrymen. He could always assure a place for himself in history by bringing down his tormentors, by destroying their country.
As a good Socialist/Marxist, the President is not out of touch. He knows EXACTLY what he is doing.
He is not letting a crisis go to waste:
a) He gets to bash oil companies in general and capitalism in particular.
b) He gets to create an excuse for even more government control.
c) He gets to punish those racist, Nazi-KKK southern states and bring them to their knees.
d) He stops offshore drilling and make us even more dependent on his beloved Muslim world.
e) He gets to push his phony “green” agenda and “cap and tax”.
Kylie, if you think he is clueless, then you are the one out of touch.
Obama is not clueless – he is ruthless.
It is bad form to respond to your own post, but Politico says that President Hussein is using the speech on the Gulf to push his own energy bill.
http://www.politico.com/playbook/
Not that I am a genius, but did I call this one, or what?
It’s not in bad form if you are doing a correction or an update.
You are doing an update, so no foul.
Obama telegraphed that move a while ago, but thankfully someone noticed. The foot dragging could be seen as reinforcement for that goal…or not. It’s clear that O does not have the skill to take the initiative and handle a real problem. Hands-on he’s not…just a disinterested delegator. I still can’t decide if it’s self-absorption, evilness (with a purpose) naivete, communism or what that motivates him.
I don’t believe he’s all that smart. Just a teflon coated chameleon. If you can find him, you still can’t get anything to stick to him.
Well, perhaps, but predicting obama is not all that tough, look at the situation and decide what would be the worse course of action and that is what obama is very likely to do.
obama knew of the oil spill long before it blew, check out this article, obama is guilty of dereliction of duty for a warm up. He probably should be impeached on this issue along with many others.
I have wondered for some time as to his involvement in this spill, it just seemed that their was more to this story then was coming out, now we all know.
http://www.thefoxnation.com/obama-administration/2010/06/21/should-pres-obama-resign-over-feb-13
Obama has not lost touch with reality. In fact, he probably has a firm grip on reality. The horrific problem is, he does NOT know what to do with reality. He has no executive experience, none at all. He has never run anything, except political campaigns. He has never run a town, a city, a state, or even (heaven forbid) one of those large, evil, corporations he loves to attack.
So now “Mr. Charisma” has to actually run something, one of the largest and most complicated countries in the world. And the American public has nobody to blame but themselves. They knew full well this guy had no experience and was not qualified for the job. Well, at least 48% of the voters knew this. The other 52% believed the hype, believed the PR, we sold on a marketing idea, just like you’re sold on buying a certain car or a set of tires. Obama was Madison Avenue at its best, selling the nation on the ultimate product, a presidential candidate. Problem is,if you succeed in this marketing campaign, you actually have to do something, like run a country. Obama doesn’t have a clue.
I’m just hoping (and this is a really, really, big hope) that Iran does NOT get a nuclear weapon before the next president can replace Obama in 2012. I know, I know, that’s probably an impossible dream, but if they do get the bomb before then, we really are sunk. Heaven help us all.
My gut tells me they already have one. Provoking Israel is the next step. Sending their own ‘humanitarian’ flotilla towards Gaza may be the trigger.
“…especially in regards to the Middle East.”
of course, what the writer meant was, “…especially with regard to the Middle East…..”
Mainstream journalism has turned into a nightmare. As the alternative media takes front and center, I sure hope we don’t find out it’s a mile wide and inch deep over the years ahead. Teenybopper phrasings that sound like kids playing grownup journalists are tiresome.
I don’t think obummer has had any bearings except one and that is a strong determination to destroy America. He reminds me of someone who has won the lottery. He spends and spends and spends. While Americans are being thrown out of their homes at an incresing rate; jobs are hard to find; and the American Dream is slip sliding into a nightmare he parties and parties and flys around the world.
His arrogance and anti-America attitude are his badge. He will go down in history as the most incompetent president to ever live in our white house.
RE: “He’s done.”
Not so fast, sweetie. He might be a Hey Jude president completely out of touch with reality, but remember he got elected by a Hey Jude electorate, and most of them will probably vote again in 2012, between verses of Hey Jude.
You may be right in that many of Obama’s supporters will vote for him again. However, Obama was elected by 30% of the electorate. Only 58% of eligible voters turned out for that election. Of those, 52% voted for Obama, which computes to 30% of the electorate supporting him. If there is a large turnout we can defeat him.
We don’t have to flip most of them; 10% will be plenty. Even if 90% of his voters continue to back him in 2012, he loses.
Ms Shiver,
More evidence of the complete disconect, and perhaps one even potentially more of a disaster, has been the President’s approach to the Iranian nuclear crisis. Obama was handed an opportunity to topple one of the most violent and destructive regimes in the history of our planet, one that has killed hundreds of US citizens via it’s proxies in Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He lifted not a finger to help the Greens. No, he would turn Iran’s leaders via accomodation and an outstretched hand.
This approach ignored the motivations of the mullahs and the real situation in Iran. It has been a complete failure ending ignominiously last week with completely toothless sanctions that the mullahs laughed at. Meanwhile, they enrich uranium and build their weapons to use against our allies and, by extension us.
The President demonstrated a laughable disconect with reality here, except for the seriousness of his miscalculation. He is Carter and Chamberlain except the stakes are far higher now than in 1979 or 1939 because the weapons involved are ones that can kill tens of millions of people in a few minutes.
If the nation was not distracted by the federal incompetence in containing the Gulf oil spill, perhaps it would have noticed that it’s President may have become the primary accelerant that will cause a major disruption in the fragile stability of the middle east. All becuase he thought his own personal charm was more valuable than the promise of freedom’s support to an oppressed people.
For an American President that’s about as pathetic as it gets.
Barack Obama may turn out to be the best thing to happen to this country in the past 25 years, and maybe in the last 80. Through his arrogance, incompetence, and inexperience, he’s laid to waste the “promise” that the progressive movement has been pushing since FDR, and as we watch Europe reap the rewards the democratic socialists have sewn, we may yet catch ourselves in time to step away, lick the wounds already inflicted, and wean the federal government of the sickness of excess it’s engorged itself in. Whose ass is Obama kicking? Ours, with any luck. And if we’re smart, we’ll wise up, take the sign off our back, and take our country back.
Amen Barn!
Fred
Ya’ll are being Racist.LOFL
I missed your comment while you were on vacation. Nice to have you back. Even
some persons who have no interest in politics have asked me “what’s wrong with Obama”? In fact it’s anybody’s guess. BUT FAR MORE IMPORTANT to me is the analogy with Hitler and his administation. He did not act alone in his destruction of Germany and the entire Western World, but with the full cooperation and compliance of the Reichstag, the Courts, the propaganda machines AND the military in 1930s Germany. Santayana again ! Obama is culpable for his acts, his understanding of his powers in the political process. BUT MORE CULPABLE are the DNC and agencies of the government of the USA whose duties include limiting the power of any or all of other government agencies / persons who overstep powers delineated in the LAW/CONSTITUTION. Exemplified by that Congressman Phil Hare, D/Ill, on record / video saying “WE THE CONGRESS DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION”. AND the hints contained in Obama’s, the putative constitutional scholar and professor, that the Constitution if “defective / flawed” can be ignored. Congress and Court permit the depredations on the US Constitution. And are thus the more culpable in their refusal to act to limit behaviours against the Rights of the American People in Obama’s, and by extension their, catering to a small group, e.g establishment Media and “elites”/ royalists. Political behaviour which you have recognised as the style of governance since the mythical time they call Camelot,the proud exception from 1980 to 1988.
I watched the video. I’d forgotten how long and boring Hey Jude is.
Ms. Shiver, I’m highly critical of Obama, but I think you’re trying too hard here — or maybe caught up too much in short-term negativity. The tone of the article reminds me of the Left’s dismissal of George Bush in about 2006. Of COURSE he’s the worst president in history. Of COURSE the Iraq war is lost and hopeless.
You write:
Nonsense. Even in the darkest days of 2006, one out of three Americans continued to support the decision to go to war in Iraq — supported the original decision, not just the need to stay and stabilize the country once we were there. Obama has a substantial core of support as well.
Throughout his life President Obama seems to have gotten where he was not so much because of anything he did but because of what he was–the most notable examples, of course, are the presidency and the Nobel Peace Prize. So he continues to present himself as what he is and seems at a loss to understand why it isn’t working this time.
With the possible exception of Warren Harding modest men do not become president, but giving the Queen as a gift an iPod loaded with his own speeches does seem to indicate an extraordinarily high opinion of himelf.
Beautifully written and right on target. Obama played golf yesterday in 90+ heat for 4 hours. He attended a play friday night at the Kennedy Center. There are no photos of these events. If we can’t see them then maybe it never happened. This was after he declared that the Gulf crisis was another 9/11. Maybe it is except that he is the kamikaze pilot.
As a blog, this site is pathetic. How can you blog with anyone when you have to wait for hours for some “mediator” to approve your comments?
I think they have done a bit in that dpt with the “reply” option…
….at least the person knows you are speaking to them…not a dozen posts down the line.
Reply to a comment…seems to appear quicker.
Soros knows exactly what he wants Obama to do.
Yep,Soros wants those drilling rigs in Brazil. They’re headed that way now.
Obama is a malignant narcissist, a defensive psychological state he probably moved into as a young boy. This means that he moved himself out of the control of reality and into a ‘virtual reality’ where he alone controls what goes on.
Obama is unable to interact directly with reality because this external force threatens his need to control everything and everyone. His defensives against reality forcing itself on him are his pathological lying; Obama will say whatever needs to be said to keep him in control. And his emotional manipulation of you…and if you question or reject his stance, he’ll accuse you of bias – racial, ethnic, political..whatever. All these tactics are to keep you and reality away from him.
His previous ‘jobs’ kept him in this virtual realm where he alone is the author of what happens – whether as community organizer, as editor of the Harvard Law Review where he did no editing, as Senator where he merely voted ‘present’. This job as president is entirely foreign to him; he’s required to react to reality – and his basic need is to REJECT reality.
So he runs. He doesn’t give question-and-answer press conferences; he speaks only via the teleprompter or to prescreened adulatory audiences. He can campaign, which is all about rhetoric and talk and manipulation – but he can’t interact with reality.
If reality tries to intrude, Obama pushes back against it. He smears the Tea Partiers and Town Halls, tells Americans they are ignorant if they reject his health care, lectures them about their entrepreneurship by defining it as greed. His need to reduce the power of other people is behind his constant belittling of people who work hard and make money, it’s behind his insults to the leaders of US allies.
The radical socialist Democrats who chose him as their upfront puppet to assist them in inserting statism into the US..chose him for that idealistic unreal rhetoric, that manipulative talk..and didn’t realize that Obama can’t do anything else.
As reality attempts to intrude on Obama’s virtual world, Obama will reject it – as he rejects Islamic terrorism – and will delegate more..as we see with Bill Clinton, Biden and others moving in..and Obama will retreat more and more into parties, golf, and the occastional prime time pontificating newscast to remind Americans that He Know Best.
You hit that one out of the park. Well done.
Good psychobabble. But, I think you’ve hit on one aspect of this con artist.
Scott Brown for President anyone? Just kidding.
Let there be no doubt: M. Obama is the ultimate manifestation of the “Triple A.” America will suffer mightily for the naivete (not to mention sedition) of those children and useful idiots who helped elect him.
Those children and useful idiots got their start with stuff like the Beatles.
Witness the childish worshipfulness of even the writer of this article and its commenters.
Imagine — if all the pee pull . . .
It’s years of cocaine.
Just as Nero fiddled as Rome burned Obama escapes reality as the world now stands on its head. He is the most incompetent President one could have possibly imagine.
“That Hey Jude sing-along was pretty strong evidence that the president is no longer in touch with reality.”
He’s no longer in touch with the hypocritical, idiotic conservative reality.
A celebration in the midst of chaos makes more sense than Sarah Palin getting breast implants.
More evidence that liberalism is a mental disorder.
Lets not feed the troll.
Vivo,
So what reality is he in touch with? A reality where you don’t talk to boom manufacturers when you need boom, you don’t talk to foriegn nations about skimmers they will lend us when we need skimmers, where you take six weeks to study a berm proposal before it gets ok’d and after oil is on the beach? This man is in the most powerful office on earth. He can waive law by executive order, or have congress vote to suspend it by bill, if need be. He did none of that.
What your hero has done is insult our most valuable European ally and he has done it repeatedly to the point where the British have declared the “special relationship” over. Simultaneously, he has insulted our most valuable Middle Eastern ally. How does that make sense whether you are liberal or conservative? What did the insults gain our country?
What reality do you and he live in? The majority of Americans reject his reality. That fact will become more profoundly apparent in November.
At least Sarah has a “pair”. Cannot say the same about the current CIC, unfortunately.
Reality is conservative, you got that right.
Check your facts, Vivo. Idiots repeat baseless rumors. They can be conservatives and they can also be you, Bozo.
The reality is that BP had an unfortunate malfunction and was not ready to fix it. They supposedly possess the best technology to deal with oil leaks, but it doesn’t work. Other oil companies have been of no help. The end result is an extended and expensive cleanup and compensation for victims, and no more oil drilling beyond certain profundities at sea. Idiots want to see the President barking and yelling because that’s all they know and it doesn’t conduce to practical solutions. You guys live like chickens in a coop making noise every time a leaf moves and call the rooster to crow . . .
I love the way you bend over backwards to obsolve Obama of all responsibility for everything.
Funny thing, you didn’t think the president was this powerless during pervious adminstrations.
While Obama can do little to stop the leak itself, there is much he could have done to prevent the accident and there is much he could have done to lessen the impact of the leak.
These things have been documented many times, and no doubt you have managed to ignore them everytime the list has been presented.
It must be nice to be a liberal and live in a world without responsibility.
Your right that BP acted negligently. They are probably going to go bankrupt for that. However, MMS was in charge of oversight and failed to inspect 16 times, documented fact.
Obama has completely failed to contain the spill and the technology existed for that to occur if he had moved aggressively. You can name call and obfuscate all you like, it doesn’t change the fact that he was incompetent and unable to handle the responsibility.
If the consequences of electing this man were not so dangerous, I’d be laughing at his sad example of leadership. We all lost our bearings in 2008 when we put this man in the white house, and now we all will lose big-time. And not only we, but Israel and every other ally we have (had)will lose.
Is anyone surprised here? The American people idolize movie stars and rock stars. So then we elect some clown because he looks good and don’t examine anything or anyone in depth.
And no, I’m not some right wing kook. I just want the government to go away and leave me alone.
The Hidden Imam must not be underestimated. Yes, he will boogy down when circumstances require, but always he is thinking advanced thoughts with eyes fixed on distant horizons. We cannot even guess at the occult gifts conferred on him in lieu of a first rate mind. Suffice it to say that he grasps what we cannot know.
He wanted to be king. Kings don’t have to work, he thought. Not exactly up on history, our boy. But this work stuff is so tedious. He tried it few times and didn’t like it. Lesser people are supposed to take care of these things. He is the guy in the Oval Office. He signs bills and lectures both the tycoons and the proletariat. He won. Now the country is letting him down, soon Michelle may no longer be proud of the USA. It’s all so tragic.
Meh. This guy’s a piker. Why,in my day, I would have been on stage nude fondling the help while drinking wine from a conch shell! Anyone expressing even a hint of displeasure would be “handled” by my secret service.
regards,
Caligula
“whether he ever had any doubts concerning his utter lack of foreign policy experience. The beyond-audacious candidate gave the one-word answer “Never.””
I wonder if he has any doubts now?
Jeez Louise, what the hell did the voters expect from a man who has never held a real job in his life?
No, not at all. His ‘incompetence,’ even if genuine, is most helpful to him. I do believe at this point that it is personal and political taqiya. I did not want to believe this. I prefer that Kylie Ann and the rest of the posters who believe in the Incompetence Theory are right.
It’s not right, ultimately. Whether the motivation is Emanuel and friends making good use of a crisis (to stop offshore drilling and nationalize oil companies as much as they can), or is part of a larger design that has OPEC input, the result is pretty much the same.
Meanwhile, according to Debka file, Bibi has bowed to EU-Turkish-Spanish-American demands to ‘internationalize’ the sea lanes outside Gaza, and even to replace Israeli border inspectors at the Gaza border with international inspectors, at least on ‘civilian cargo’ going into Hamastan. If this is true, then Netanyahu is actually violating the Oslo Accords, which require of Israel that it protect Gaza security; that is, in theory, that it stop the infiltration of terrorists who do act not only against Israel but against local civilians (by this I mean those that do not actually support Hamas). Additionally, Barak canceled a trip to Paris, apparently because pro-Pal grips threatened to have him arrested as a ‘war criminal.’
I do not think Barack Obama has lost his bearings. They are Marxist chaotic and pro-Islamic. He is on course.
Has the President Lost His Bearings?
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I’d say that he’s lost his marbles.
I remember the destruction the Clintonites visited on the White House on their way out. I wonder if the Obamamites will even leave the building standing.
You are presuming he’ll leave peacefully?
Narcissism is the mental disorder that breeds dictators.
Frank Young wanted Hey Jude to be our high school graduation song, and sing it as we marched into the auditorium. We didn’t. It was a crummy idea then, it’s still crummy and taints anyone in the vicinity. That 70 graduating rural kids got it and Mr Harvard Law Review remains clueless and without the slightest sliver of self-conscious awareness only proves the saying “Too much college, not enough high school.”
Among other disasters, there are a reported 40 million people now on food stamps, the official unemployment rate is 9.7% but the broader and more comprehensive rate is 16.6%, (and the recently touted “job growth” of 431,000 new jobs last month–on examination–was actually comprised of 390,000 short term government jobs for Census workers and only 41,000 new jobs created by the very depressed private sector), Obama officials are testifying that high unemployment will not abate for many moths or years, the housing market is in the toilet, the Federal government under Obama, which already owns GM, Chrysler, various Banks and Financial Institutions, has taken over the entire Health Care Sector, and now owns 95% of all home mortgages, is poised—with the passage of its “Financial Regulation” bill–to control 70% of our entire economy, Obama and the Democratic Congress have quadrupled the national debt, and put us–and our children and grandchildren–in hock so far for $13 trillion dollars and counting, the dollar is shaky, years earlier than predicted just a few years ago, Social Security just crossed the Rubicon of paying out more than it takes in, Moodys and other bond rating agencies are threatening to downgrade formerly solid, AAA rated government Bonds and Treasuries, there is a major ecological and economic disaster ongoing in the Gulf coast with no end in sight, psychotic, malevolent Iran is about to attain nuclear weapons, Muslim terrorist attacks here in the U.S. are rising in number and boldness, but our entire establishment refuses to admit that Islam has anything to do with them, and instead only wants to focus on the grey-haired, little old ladies, farmers in bib overalls, and families with kids in strollers who comprise the “Tea Party extremists,” a joint HHS/DOL/IRS report out last week estimates that somewhere between 60 and 80% of all employer offered health plans will lose their “grandfathered” status within the first 3 years of Obamacare’s implementation, forcing millions of workers out of plans that they are overwhelmingly satisfied with and onto Obamacare’s rolls, and, yet, the “Let them eat cake” Presidency of Barack Hussain Obama rolls on.
Among the overwhelming multitude of faults of Barack Hussein Obama, it does seem like one of his only talents–beside his genuine talents for condescension and for lying that is, is a talent for spending tons of taxpayer money on having a good time.
Last December, for instance, the Chicago Tribune had already counted some 170 parties and social events staged at the Obama White House just through December 3rd of his first year in office, and this was in addition to the other 17 parties and 11 open houses that “feted” more than 50,000 guests during the Holidays (mustn’t say Christmas though). If you watched the news closely, even the totally sycophantic MSM occasionally let things slip, like the mentions of his favorite “Wagyu” steaks–at $125 per 5 ounce steak–flown in from Australia to be served at one White House party, the President’s various vacations (he’s overworked and tired, dontyaknow”), the cost (estimated at $250,000) and disruption of Obama, Michelle and their retinue jetting off to attend a Broadway play on their “date” in New York City, and his insatiable golfing for hours each day at venues all over the country while, all around him, Rome burns.
These are hard times so, to great press fanfare, Michelle planted her own little “Potemkin village” vegetable garden, whose vegetables were featured on an episode of “Iron Chef America.” But it finally emerged that the vegetables used were not actually grown on the White House grounds, but bought at local markets. I am also having a hard time picturing Michelle, who favors designer dresses and very expensive purses and shoes to attend their constant round of parties in, getting out there every morning to weed, water and fertilize (God knows there is enough shit being generated there in the White House)”her garden,” and I suspect some unfortunate White House underlings have been assigned those tasks.
I’d bet you hard cold cash that this POTUS has his cheese slip off of his cracker before this term is over.
Who you callin’ a “cracker”?
We can now see what the inevitable result of collectivism will be. Stupid glass house academics will be in charge of our lives. Now lets all go back to our jobs and start producing wealth and, in November, we will redirect this country to an approach that makes some sense.
I must respectfully disagree about the iconic crazed president moment.
For me it was his pitch at the Washington Nationals opener, and the aftermath. The self-absorbed posing with the White Sox cap, the incredibly inept pitch, his complete lack of humor regarding it, his attempt to explain it away, and his inability to name even one Sox player he admired as a self-professed fan — it all added up to a complete view of a narcissistic, inept, humorless, and dishonest person.
I know that part of the McCartney concert choice was the juxtaposition of Obama’s partying with the Gulf tragedy, so that scores some points. Also noteworthy was his lack of any recognition of the D-Day anniversary, when he went to yet another gala at Ford Theater.
Our nincompoop of a 44th President will be one from whom America can (and will) recover, as Americans are resilient and resourceful. He will only have the rest of this year to cause further damage, b/c after November he will be politically neutered. He will then be relegated to complaining & whining that he can’t achieve his lofty (read: expensive) goals b/c of his “mean-spirited” friends on the other side of the aisle.
The media gave Bush all kinds of grief for “Bring it on” but nary a word about Obama saying ” . . . so I’ll know whose ass to kick.” The fact is, not only was that comment un-Presidential, but Obama won’t kick anybody’s ass. And when you’re the POTUS (leader of the free world), if you’re really serious, you don’t need to state outloud that you’ll kick ass. Jeez, Louise, you’re the President! It would be akin to Chuck Norris going around telling everyone how tough he is and whose ass he’ll kick – ridiculous. Chuck Norris is so obviously tough, he doesn’t need to tell people – there are enough websites out there to do so.
After November, perhaps he and McCartney can sing “Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away . . . . .”
I wonder what the average age is for people who post on this site. I would guess 50+. It just seems most people here are old and bitter about life. This seems like a horrible article that says absolutely nothing. I think the Author has our current POTUS confused with the last one who was on vacation for a record amount of time, he was good at one thing. He was on his ranch a total of 879 day. That is 30% of his time in office just at his ranch. I am sure you people were up in arms over that if this is the response for going golfing. This president has actually taken off very little time. The fact that people are getting upset that the POTUS spends a little time blowing off steam by playing golf seems disingenuous at best. Humans cannot keep going without a break every once and a while. I do not know about Obama but I do my best thinking when golfing. The guy is only human after. How come no one is taking issue with the fact that one of the leading republicans said the tax payers should be held liable for BP’s mess. Talk about bail outs. Let us not forget this is first and foremost BP’s fault and shows why we need greater environmental regulations. I get confused by you people saying Obama should take a bigger role in BP’s clean up decisions. If he did you would just point and yell about how he is trying to take over another section of the economy in his socialist ways. Would you people have rather had McCain? The guy who said our economy was strong as we plunged into the greatest recession since the depression. Not to mention Alaska Barbie who cannot list one periodical under the immense pressure from Katie Couric. If that question was too much pressure for her how is she going to being VP. Not to mention the fact she only handled half her term as Gov. I imagine she would walk off on McCain after two years as well.
Why do you resort to generalized labeling and personal attack to make your point? The criticism hurts is why. Your POTUS has concealed his entire background, including that which relates to his eligibility. He apparently has multiple social security cards. His college records are sealed. He is a big ‘X’; meanwhile, his affinities for Islam are clear and dangerous, or a ‘clear and present danger.’
I don’t recall if you are the same Brian who said ‘Hamas just regards Israel as their land’ but if you are, 1) you don’t really have a clue; 2) you have no moral basis for any of your political stands. Any person who thinks that Hamas’ platform, which is for politicide and genocide, is just a ‘point of view’ needs a severe and immediate course correction.
Congratulations on your ability to completely misconstrue my comments and create your own reality/enemy. The discussion you are referencing was limited to whether it was reasonable to think Hamas would detonate a nuclear bomb in Jerusalem. I argued that no because they want to live there and making what you consider your proper homeland a desolate wasteland for generations illogical. While they are a terrorist organization they also happen to be a political entity that was voted into power. Generally speaking politicians want to in power not obliterate the area they control.
Brian N,
A couple of points:
MMS Failed to properly inspect the Deep Water Horizon 16 times. That’s an executive branch responsibility.
There is a federal fund and procedure in place for oil well disaters such as this. It’s protocal was not followed. That’s an executive branch responsibility.
President Bumbles rejected boom, offered help from the Dutch who had equipment and expertise to deal with the spill, and dithered over the requests of state governors such as Governor Jindal, who made the berm request and was denied for 6 weeks due to environmental concerns. What could be more of an environmental concern than the thousands of tons of crude lapping up on the beach?! He is only now beginning to accept outside help and there are 100s of skimmers in the US that 6 weeks later have still not been sent to the gulf.
What possesses you to make excuses for such obvious incompetence? Even Rolling Stone has turned against President Feckless while he croons away with MaCartney.
I would be happy to answer your questions once you provide me with some sort of factual backing for all your accusations. Often times posters and even the authors quote bad information. Until the leak is stopped nothing will matter once. I also have no idea how they will handle the underwater plums. I wish Obama had been more active in helping cut through red tape as well. I am not giving anyone a free pass.
By Law, the EPA is responsible for all oil spill cleanup operations. They can (and should) send the bill to BP, but it is the Federal Government’s legal responsibility (EPA, FEMA, and Coast Guard) to have the tools, materials, and plans ready for instant response in case of an accident of the magnitude of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. While there are plans in place, the Federal Government totally fell down on the job and implemented none of them. Containment booms that should have been stockpiled were not, burn-off plans that should have been implemented within hours were not, permits that should have been waived or expedited were not.
One of the jobs of the president is to ensure that such plans are in place and are followed. If nothing else, the president must make clear to his subordinates that they are not to engage in CYA behavior but are to make rapid and clear decisions to solve the crisis which will be backed up by him if questioned later.
By contrast – despite the MSM’s best efforts to report to the contrary – FEMA and the Federal Government actually did a very good job following Katrina. FEMA’s position has always been that it would take them 3 days to respond to an event, and that it is the responsibility of the state and local government to handle things until that point. The governments of New Orleans and Louisiana totally fell flat on their faces both in preparation for and response to the hurricane.
Samiz.. and Paul.. have highlighted some important failures of the Government, of the President, whose office is not called the EXECUTIVE for some arbitrary reason. The job of the President is to make critical decisions, to direct and lead the branch under his authority. He has done nothing of the sort and continues to campaign and party, shirking his responsibility to the country and his duty to office. …and he won’t hold conference with the American Flag in the background. Pure bottomfeeder.
I love the way liberals have to lie about everything.
Even if Bush were at the ranch as much as you claim, so what. He has a full blown duplicate White House at the ranch. He wasn’t on vacation. Now when Barry is on the greens, just how much work was he getting done.
As to Sarah resigning, that’s been fully explained, hundreds of times.
I’m sorry that you don’t like the answer, but you don’t get to ignore the answer just because you don’t like it.
Now, do you actually have a worthwhile comment that you wish to present, or is whining and bitching really the best you can do?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-4728085-503544.html. I was wrong the 900 days was split between the ranch and camp David. That includes 149 trips to the ranch. One game of golf probably equals a one way trip to the ranch. I think the point is that he is not working when he is playing golf because he is trying to relax and clear his mind. I believe the POTUS is still allowed to spend a little time relaxing as I mentioned he is human. I think Bush was lazy. As for the spill it is not going away anytime soon and there is nothing that can be done to make it stop any sooner than BP is able to fix the hole. The booms are not going to stop the 5+ blooms that are underwater. Hurricanes are going to come and it will be an incredible disaster. You could look at it as an unfortunate consequence of needing oil. I however see it as a very strong motivation to move our energy production to local materials that do not lead to natural disasters of the highest order.
Brian N,
You said Bush went to the ranch 149 times in 8 years. That’s 18 times a year. Document the accuracy of your statement, it seems patently suspicious.
I suspect your lazy and have your facts wrong, just as you ignored the facts I listed above that evidence Obama’s lacadasical and incompetent response. By the way, Bush used Camp David for numerous meetings regarding war strategy and for meetings with dignataries from foreign governments. He also used his ranch for meetings with foreign heads of state. You can have any opinion you want regarding the war, but these meetings were not vacations. Of course, he also vacationed at his ranch too.
I have serious issues with GWB, he spent way way too much and grew the size of the Govt. However, the man is not lazy. He was a successful business man and became a hands on owner of the Texas Rangers, prior to becoming governor.
Bush is not the issue. Obama is President now and is showing a serious lack of administrative and executive ability.
It seems to me your young, sloppy and incredible.
Brian doesn’t have a math gene. He is a liberal Democrat. Give him a break. Stuff that sounds patently suspicious to most folks will likely make perfect sense to Brian.
You’ve forgotten that in the liberal dictionary, a lie is defined as anything that hurts a liberal.
When Bush leaves the White House, he’s being lazy.
When Obama spends twice as much time outside the White House, he’s just clearing his mind.
One thing you can always count on from a liberal. Is their heavy use of the old double standard.
Provide me with some kind of factual backing for your assertion otherwise I will assume you are making it up. I provide newspaper links for all my claims. I will happily accept something from fox.
It would be interesting to know at what age you believe that an individual is no longer eligible to comment on political events. I hate to repeat what has become a cliche but why is it that when liberals object to government policy and actions they are always “activitst” and when conservatives object they are always “bitter”? Nobody here is personally blaming Obama for the oil spill but there are a lot of questions as to why he is getting a relative pass from the media while Mr. Bush received a continuous beatdown for his far less dilatory response to Hurricane Katrina. Like it or not an American President must appear to lead and Mr. Obama’s performance (particularly with a sympathetic media willing and ready to support him) has been rather, shall we say, lame. Much of this is probably due to the fact that Mr. Obama has never really lived in a world outside of academia and politics – a world where persons are often called upon to actually do something.
Mr. Obama will certainly give us massive regulation of the oil industry (“never waste a crisis”) which will put paid to any hopes of being self-sustaining in this area. However any engineer will tell you that all the rules in the world cannot totally prevent structural failures in something as complex as oil production. Which is probably why there are so few engineers in evidence in the circle “energy policy experts” within the administration.
Brian,
I am 50+ and I supported the election of OBAMA. However, its time to take the “change” tinted glasses off and hold this president to the same standard that Bush was held to. You need to see what it is, for what it really is.
This “Oil Thing” needs to be solved,…….yesterday…and this president is pointing fingers and playin the Anti-Oil thing while the country is standing by, awaiting action and leadership. No, we dont need another president thats spends valuable war and disaster time on vacations, but at the same time, we do not need a finger waver either. Our country demands action, now, not yesterday, or tomorrow,……NOW….So he would be wise to summons the best in country immediately … to solve this thing …. NOW….
You can rest assurred that if this president succeeds in losing supporters like myself, he will begin to lose the country. Time waits for no man…even when he/she is the President. So stop defending what cannot be defended, OBAMA is in Charge, … he just needs to learn to take charge, before its too late.
You lefties who have spent the last 80 years screwing up the greatest model of liberty and free enterprise the world has ever seen have alot to answer for. That being said, I applaud your guts to come out and state that the emporer has no clothes.
Paul of Alexandria has it correct above and describes the responsibilites that Obama negligently handled. His downfall was his inability to mitigate the damage via, skimming, booms, berms, dispersants, absorbants and offered new technologies. If he had deployed offered assistance and answered the state’s calls for equipment he would have been as effective as he could be, except for the rig inspection failures. He didn’t even come close.
Imagine if, instead of blame shifting, he had brought in boom from all over the world, leased skimmers and had them brought in by plane or high speed navy vessel and assembled the best OIL rig engineers from around the world to work the problem; he would have looked highly effective and would have isolated himself from BP’s negligence.
Instead, look what he has done. His leadership has been feckless and unhelpful.
You Know “I can’t suck it up with a straw”
I can only hope he has lost you, and you are too polite to say so directly. If he has not lost you, what would do it?
BrianN is The Principal Liar sleazits Persons Galore, also parading around as G Marks aka Skid Marks as of late.
The Brian N doll pops up Now and Then and attempts to appear serious. No kidding, really… The goal is attention and nothing more.
It’s quite difficult for it to hide the Kick Me sign when it’s nailed to ass. It knows, but that’s how it gets its kicks.
Need a reminder sleazits?
Mr. President “Lost His Bearings”. Why not just tell him to “grow a pair”, Brian N sleazits?
Whatever.
Actually just Brian N. I do not go by other pseudonyms on this site. That would defeat the point. I am not here to troll, if I was you would know it. I come to this site to get a different perspective on world events. I want to know what conservative people are thinking and why. When I come across a comment I think is wrong I try and explain why. The mark the great insults me and I move on to the next comment. I also love to argue, but most of my friends are liberal so I have no one to argue with.
Ok Brian N, I’ll accept your explanation on face value.
Brian,
Busted, man, you got me. I’m 58+ and I will still be around to cancel your damned stupid vote for the next 6 or 7 elections until you grow up.
Brian N-I see that you believe that mostly “old and bitter” people over 50 are posting here, and that you are offended by this.
I do, indeed, believe that it is mostly adults who post here and many are, no doubt “older,” people who Obama & Co. apparatchiks like Cass Sunstein and Dr. John Holdren will no doubt set things up in Obamacare to weed out, because they have few “quality of life years” left, are just “eaters” who are of little worth, now that their prime earning and tax paying years are in the past. I, however, tend to think that those of us who are “older,” and have some experience of life, remember how things were in the past, and have gained some perspective, might just be a little more shrewd, more likely to be correct in judging the people, issues and events of the day than the majority of the young, who are products of today’s “schools’ and can—many of them–neither read nor write in a competent fashion, cannot correctly add a few numbers together, dissect a political speech or argument, cannot identify major countries on a map, who barely grasp that WWII even occurred, much less who was involved and what it was about (believe me, I know whereof I speak), and who have been “educated” to believe that the United States is the source of all evil in today’s world, and that “the world owes them a living.”
Well, I am glad to see we are all comfortable with generalizing. I would hate to be the only one to do so. I am distinguishing between adult and elderly (50+). My point is not that elderly people are no longer able to participate in political and worldly discussions. My assertion is that my generation and your generation see the world differently. You have the mindset of what was appropriate when you were growing up, i.e. cold war or world war II depending on your age. let me use post 66. as and example
“The group of marxist criminals that have seized this country must be tried in a court of law. The jackasses that voted this affirmative action feces in DESERVE all the bad happening to them.”
My generation views the current administration differently. Not only that we are happy to become a bit more socialist. which means we are pretty happy with the current administration while your generation thinks it is pure evil. I do not think we need to bring geography into this discussion. You are not going to change your view of the world, but this is irrelevant because life moves on and we all pass. This is nothing new there is a continual push toward progress throughout history. Not so long ago people thought the world would end if non-property owners were allowed to vote. Then the world was going to end when black people could vote. Next the world would end when women were allowed to vote. Soon gays will be allowed to marry and people profess that this will lead to the end of civilization. Some how our country keeps going despite everything. I guess my point is that it is telling that conservatives are mostly the elderly while liberal are younger, but this is nothing new.
Funny how my kids all 20 somethings see more in common with me than you…I’ve always encouraged them to think things through on their own and look at all possible outcomes of theirs or any ones actions. More Libertarian than Liberal and certainly not socialist in their thinking.
They work hard and expect their due for the effort…why are you different?
The world is coming to an end because we decided to allow moronic 18 year old kids to vote, I think.
“Hopefully, the next time a charismatic candidate makes such vainglorious claims, the public will be healthily weary, vigilantly skeptical, and not in a false-god worshiping mood.”
Hope On.
This is the same country that elected Jimmy Carter, and didn’t learn from that blunder. (We’re still reeling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, mostly Carter Appointees)
So now the U.S. has doubled down with this clown. And he ain’t funny.
When I think of our relationship with our government, I keep reminding myself of what Bethmann-Holweg said about Germany being allied to Austria/Hungary during WWI: “We are fettered to a corpse.”
Oh cripe! John Lennon was honest enough to say that the dream was over, way back in the early 70′s. Paul and Barry didn’t get the memo. Agree with him or not, I’m pretty sure he would have replaced “I don’t believe in Kennedy” with, I don’t believe in Obama, in the litany of the song “God”.
I never imagined that someday I would look back fondly on the Carter administration. As far as Dem presidencies of the past 40 years, his was not too bad.
Sure — as long as you can ignore niggling little facts such as why the M.E. is in such disarray. Carter’s meddling in Afghanistan drew the USSR into invading that country… and his decision not to back the Shah of Iran gave birth to the modern world’s first full blown islamic state…
Carter’s stupidity is responsible for a lot of what’s wrong in this world today.
Oh yeah – the good ole days.
NOT!
What does Palin have to do with what is going on in the present Adm’s lack of taking care of America and the Gulf? I know…nothing…
Obama is out of his element being in charge of anything he has to answer to someone for. A community organizer delegates, he then can fall back and say..well, i depended on them…
He’s really good at talking, saying words that someone else writes for him..nothing else, oh, golf, entertaining,…
Also, much of the time Bush was at the “ranch”…he was hosting diplomats, conducting business
I don’t care if you like Bush or not, you need to take a closer look at your demagogue.
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Even when Obama is gone, he will spend the rest of his life haunting us, like Jimmy Carter does, with stupid, destructive remarks, and complaints that the Republicans and “white America” never gave him a chance. That’s if we aren’t all radioactive rubble by then.
The only thing I can figure is:
1) This suits his anti-petro pro-fairydust alt-energy agenda.
2) He and BP know they are F’d with this well and there is no way on earth to stop so why not party like it’s 1969?
Finally, someone with common sense.
A quick breakdown:
1. The man has never held a real job. He doesn’t know how to work.
2. This is the first affirmative action president. He thus thinks he is entitled due to grievance rather than achievement.
3. Crises are a problem only for the little people and something to be exploited by their betters.
4. The fact this guy even got a major party nomination let alone elected is an indictment of the United States.
The people of the Gulf Coast certainly don’t deserve what has happened to them, but it was visited upon them by the greater electorate in a democratic fashion. Let us hope our republic can endure this pathetic wretch and correct course later this year and in 2012.
Everyone is comparing this spill to Katrina, but there is also another catastrophe that Bush handled very well–the tsunami. He organized an international group of countries that had needed equipment, skills, and manpower. He got a carrier underway almost immediately, and said carrier had medical facilities and desperately needed water-purifying equipment as well as the helicopters to reach stranded people. He wisely used the military’s logistic, air traffic control, and information gathering abilities to assess damage and locate and deliver aid to people. At the same time, he quieted any angst the Muslims in Indonesia may have had about our military presence there by promising to leave within, I believe, 2 months, which he did. Then he got his father and Bill Clinton to help coordinate follow-up aid. I seriously doubt that those who cooperated closely in this effort harbored bad feelings toward the US.
The public wanted a rock star and they got their rock star – all glitz and no substance.
This isn’t the first time and goodness knows it won’t be the last.
We would have been better served if Ozzy Osbourne had been our elected rock star.
How deliciously ironic that Jude is the patron saint of lost causes.
Somehow, the voters with the American Idol/Glee mentality will still vote for Obama because they have been taught nothing matters, except whatever/whenever the definition of ‘IS’ is appropriate at the time of the event. And when they see an emperor with no clothes, instead they see the messiah with a magic voice and Mickey Mouse ears to match the fantasy. But in the face of reality the OTHER voters know how much of a nightmare Obama is making for us. Read ANY book on socialism, history or philosophy, and his agenda starts falling apart. Its up to us to educate the clueless, the blind ignorant ones who were demon dialing cellphones for their fav Idol with redial, while they filled out their ballot for B. Hussein Obama at home or in the booth.
I knew Obama was going to be a disaster from the first time I heard him speak. He made me nauseous, filled with dread. When he won the election, I cried, knowing he would cause this country SO much pain. I’m sorry to say he has exceeded my most pessimistic expectations.
Does it strike anyone as strange that we are suddenly inundated with oil spills? First the BP disaster, then more leaking rigs have come to light, and now a leak in Utah…something about this strikes me as a little too politically convenient, all just in time for the big Cap n’ Tax push. Coincidence?
There are two kinds of bearings – compass bearings and ball bearings. The President has lost the first and has yet to find the second.
Went over to look at the video. I’m embarrassed for those people (was the guy standing next to Sir Paul with the village idiot grin plastered across his puss Jerry Seinfeld??). I’m quite sure they have no idea how lame that was. Not even remotely cool. (Sir Paul: OK, now I want to hear the men, just the men. Oy.)
One of the reasons Bill Clinton made it through the whole Lewinsky thing and impeachment intact was that he would end every encounter with the media by saying, “Now I have to get back to work for the American people.” And he gave every impression that that’s exactly what he was doing and that was all he was doing. Whether he was or wasn’t, enough people bought it so that he left office with an extremely high job approval rating. Clinton’s an old dog, but he’s got bag of reliable tricks. Obama should learn a few.
“You Never Want a Serious Crisis to Go to Waste”
Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm “Fishhead” Emanuel’s infamous comment in November, 2008 that “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste” have been words the Obama administration has lived by from its beginning.
Crises by definition are usually serious in governments but this particular government has governed by manufactured crisis repeatedly, from the banking crisis to the economy as a whole crisis, to Korea, to Iran, to illegal immigration, to health care, to the auto industry, always using the “crisis” to its best advantage.
That advantage always serves to stir up a certain fear in the populace, which is its aim. It enables Obama to make strategic moves, and spend billions of taxpayer dollars, with impunity and with minimal if any oversight from his Democrat congress and his Democrat idolators in the mainstream media.
After all, the matters were critical so who needs oversight or criticism!
Obama may have overstepped with the latest, ongoing, and extremely serious crisis at hand, the Gulf oil spill, which continues to wreak havoc with the ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico and on the states bordering on the Gulf of Mexico and their residents.
However, comparing the disaster to the unmitigated–and yet unavenged–catastrophe of September 11th, 2001 was not only foolish but it betrayed an insensitive ignorance of the momentousness of 9/11 that is unforgiveable. It’s comparable to comparing apples to oranges and equally absurd. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1734)
What is it with right wingers and morality? The “discussion” here is absolutely maliciously moronic. Seriously — there seems to be no reluctance whatsoever on the right to make the most insanely stupid and malicious charges against any political or media opponent, and then have others chime in and pretend that there is a serious debate on the table. You guys get all defensive about not being taken seriously, but….well, you too often talk and behave in way that provokes eye rolling and twirling a finger around an ear. This thread is a perfect example. Gawd….
You know a liberal can’t refute anything that has been said when he goes straight for the insults.
What’s to “refute”? There is not a single shred of real evidence to support any of that ranting rubbish. And it’s not at all my place to refute nonsense — if you want to claim, say, that aliens live on the far side of the moon in invisible igloos, the burden of proof is on you to support that claim, and not for me to disprove it.
Move along, BC. I have seen too many of your posts on this website to believe you don’t find anything of interest here. You are mostly just full of yourself. The discussion is purely speculative and centers around whether Obama is drifting away from reality in the face of a problem that teleprompter speeches can’t solve. Most of us believe something is very wrong with our President, the rest is speculation.
I have been saying for over two years that Obama and all of his handlers are communists. I have a very low opinion of them. That is just my opinion but I would like to see you refute it.
Not sure where you’re coming from. Anyone that’s had to oversee a major problem site/issue(as part of their job) And has the ultimate responsibility and negative consequence from failure to succeed would be more actively engaged, asking the difficult questions and pushing for solutions ‘outside the box’ to get er done quickly. Obama is content to delegant and party. That’s BS and should get you fired, or lose you revenue if you’re in business to make money.
He looks disengaged and acts the same. And the posters here are malicious?
I have the honor of teaching high school English, and like our absurdly self absorbed president, I have an appreciation for the importance of words. Unlike The One, however, I understand that words have utility because they have clear, easily understood meanings, meanings that don’t change so that we may rely on them as useful tools that allow those of us in flyover country to deal with each other, each and every day, with sincerity. For he who is the one we have been waiting for, words serve his ends and mean whatever he wants them to mean at any given moment.
Thus do we arrive at one of my first lessons of every school year: The difference between self esteem and self respect. I tell the kids that I care nothing for their self esteem. Some actually gasp and recoil in horror, not because they’re really horrified, but because they think, somehow and for some nebulous reason, they ought to be. The point is that self esteem is completely independent of reality, of the influence of those around us and of our relation to the real world. One may consider themself to be slicker than sliced bread, yet be among the worst human beings ever to walk the planet. Such people have an endless reserve of self regard, yet it is virtually always based not in accomplishment, altruism, kindness or demonstrated competence, but in mindless narcissism.
Self respect, on the other hand, must be earned and earned based on external criteria. We are worthy of self respect when we see our genuine accomplishment, altruism, kindness and competence reflected in the positive regard and support of others, others who are similarly sincere and accomplished. Self esteem costs us nothing. We need not raise a finger to possess it. We need do nothing to improve the life of a single fellow being. Not so with self respect which requires constant effort and positive action.
A president loaded with self esteem has no idea of the significance of 9-11, seeing it merely as a rhetoric tool to leverage his momentary political needs. A president possessed of self respect would never think of playing golf or holding fairy tale, let’s dress up like mommy and daddy galas in the midst of a national crisis (let’s forget for a moment that our second and overarching national crisis-the ever climbing debt–is in large part of his own making). Say, didn’t George W. Bush give up golf because he rightly believed that it would be unseemly to be seen on the golf course while the nation was at war? Indeed he did, and that is the virtual definition of self respect. Self esteem? Spitting on our allies and embracing our enemies. Employing words when force is required. Self respect? Upholding the fact of American exceptionalism and accepting that America is the one indispensable nation if peace and justice are to prevail in the world. Accepting also that as president, there is no greater responsibility that recognizing that it is every president’s job to maintain the everlasting struggle for freedom and democracy and to suppress evil and to understand that each American president is a servant to that unending goal, never its master. There is no nobler job, yet Obama seems to imagine that he is above it all. No doubt this is because his success, like self esteem, has always been unearned and independent of reality.
Those whose self esteem is so great that it cannot be measured by the most sensitive instruments known to science are unreachable and cannot be changed. We can only hope that Obama will not do so much damage in four years that it cannot be undone, and that he will receive only four years because Americans will recognize that he was yet another, Jimmy Carteresque experiment in seeing if democrats could be trusted with the security of the nation and of the world. They cannot. Ever. Self esteem indeed.
Having witnessed this pathetic administration at work, we can sing a different oldie, from the Byrds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3szM702Ofk
The group of marxist criminals that have seized this country must be tried in a court of law. The jackasses that voted this affirmative action feces in DESERVE all the bad happening to them.
“Flipped out. Gone ‘round the bend”
I disagree, he’s always been a bit off compared to your average American.
Next election I urge all voters to do their homework before casting their vote, it’s simple really.
Go to your favorite Internet search engine and research.
“Barack Obama + voting record”
Tip: If the politicians voting record is extremely to the left guess what? He will not be a moderate, he will not govern from the political center……duh.
Eric
Texas
He acts like an alien, dropped unexpectedly into a strange land, where he knows not the language or customs or mores.
The big BO has no bearings. He is just a stealth Muslim Marxist community organizer. The sooner he is out of the White House the better.
The most important thing to obama is- obama. I think he sees the Presidency as confirmation of his awesomeness. To hell with the details. It’s all gravy to him now.
As always, God Help Us.
“lost all his bearings”
When will his followers finally admit the obvious truth, he never had them to begin with.
Obama has not, for a single moment, ‘lost touch with reality’. Nor is his presidency ‘imploding’. Nor is the ‘federal govt to big to succeed’ etc.
ALL the things you count as his failures, HE and the Left count as success—and rightfully so. That he is a minor thug, and not so bright, is a given. (media depictions of him as a Plato or Aristotle notwithstanding). However he is EXTREMELY, in fact ABSOLUTELY successful at what he considers his job is — to break the back of America, if not outright decapitate it. Name a single one of his agendas he has tried (through Congress or through Executive orders or through regulations from his Agencies) and not succeeded at, or is in the process of succeeding at. Nothing stops this guy. He keeps coming back with new methods of fighting any and ALL setbacks to his agendas. Even SC rulings and CIrcuit Court rulings are being flagrantly flaunted. (not in the sense of appealing the decisions–but defying those.)
In fact, given stubborn ability to strike back at setbacks—often unconstitutionally—there is only one thing that can and will stop him. Death. He is in it for the long haul. And he ain’t going anywhere until God makes him. I can jolly-well imagine him committing suicide a la hitler in the whitehouse bunker —if the people rise against him.
Ain;t nothin’ else gonna stop him.
I think this author—and most of the conservative commentators, not to mention most of the conservative citizens, are the ones who are out of touch. (evidence? Article as inept and as counter-factual as the current one.) The real complain we should be screaming is THAT he is succeeding, acceleratedly so, and seem to have no intention of stopping until america is destroyed, or he is dead, whichever comes first.
Now it can be argued that Obama’s fascade is imploding. His fascade, the carefully built image of a deep intellectual, a cool-and-calm leader,
a fair-minded leader who is a CENTRIST, and the larger-than-life expectations of leadership, and uniter, and a supremely gifted manager, and administrator, and a supremely knowledgable ‘Constitutinal Scholar” and all that gobbledygook,…, ah those things are crumbling, sure. But that has nothing to do with his agenda, where he has been, and where he is headed, and how many scalps he has collected in the process.
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