Obama Cramming for Midterms
Observe President Obama’s remedies for the giant out-of-control plume of hemorrhaging political support that is casting a stain over his ambitions. His latest attempt to place a stopper over the gusher was announced by a liberal Newsweek writer, Howard Fineman, whose take on what White House operatives are saying about the looming midterm elections was that the goal would be “more about attacking Republicans than promoting [Obama's] own vision.”
Fineman is an Obama fan — like many another political hack, he lapses into bedazzled schoolboy poetry when he thinks about all the president signifies, calling Obama’s presidential campaign “effervescent” (what, like Sprite?). There is a hopeful note to his column. Yet even Fineman seems a tad incredulous that “the strategy [Obama] and fellow Democrats will pursue in this fall’s election season” is all about “looking backward.”
Fineman and Obama’s thesis is that because a Republican was president in 2008 (while Democrats ran the House and the Senate), Republicans “caused” the financial crisis. The implication is that the meltdown could not possibly have been delayed until, say, 2009, nor could it have occurred during the hallowed Clinton years. No: it involved Wall Street, and everyone knows Wall Street is a Republican thing (though financiers have given massively to Obama), therefore the crisis was a result of bad Republican policies.
Never mind that the Wall Street bailouts Obama and the media credit with stopping the slide were bipartisan, or that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which Republicans have attempted to reform, amount to an ongoing massive Democrat-enabled federal bailout every month. No, according to the increasingly arrogant Obama view, he did only the right things, with no Republican aid. “After they drove the car into the ditch, made it as difficult as possible for us to pull it back, now they want the keys back,” Obama said of the GOP while speaking at, naturally, a Wall Street fundraiser. “No! You can’t drive. We don’t want to have to go back into the ditch. We just got the car out.”
Switching metaphors, Obama said, “We got our mops and our brooms out here and were cleaning stuff out and they’re sitting there saying, ‘Hold the broom better, that’s not how you mop.’ Don’t tell me how to mop,” Obama said. “Pick up a mop! Do some work on behalf of the American people to solve some of these problems.”
A better metaphor might be that a pipe burst, there’s water all over the floor, and if Washington could leave the room it would dry out. Instead, there’s an army of bureaucrats tromping all over the floor, leaving big muddy footprints as they angle to splash more dirty water on the problem. The floor has gotten filthy, and the people have noticed. What they want is a healthy dose of government inaction.
“Obama has only been a Washington politician for five years, most of which have been more about celebrity than governance, and he is proving to be a slow learner.” Be still my heart! Slow learner, indeed.
It is finally getting interesting, some in the MSM are realizing not everyone is in the BHO fan club. Some are doubling down on their pledges to the MESSiah and others are willing to criticize his bad ideas now and again, since the Obama-bailout-wagon has run out of other people’s money and won’t save them.
Can’t wait until election night, these will be midterms to remember.
Obama’s Report Card
TARP = F
Cash 4 Clunkers = F
Stimulus Bill = F
HealthCare Takeover = F-
Economics – F
Foreign Policy = F
American History = F
Oral Presentation (with teleprompter) = B-
Oral Presentation (without teleprompter) = F
I doubt if there are enough hours in the day for studying to get him up to speed on any subject, and I think America will show their disdain for his performance come November.
I didn’t know you could get an F-, but it certainly applies.
Governing against the will of the American people (from healthcare to spending, to immigration and just about everything else…) = A+
“Governing against the will of the American people”
I agree with the sentiment, but this needs some expansion. So let’s grade him for acting in concert with American enemies who wish…:
…to see America grovel, (Cairo speech, first Presidential interview granted to Arab propaganda megaphone al jazeera, deep bow to Saudi royal clown, refusal to recognize Jihad, apology tour to Muslim world, etc. etc.) A+
…to see America kick her friends and downright turn her back (UK, Honduras, Israel, Australia, Taiwan, etc.) A+
…to see America shackle herself with insurmountable debt (TARP, Obamacare, CAP’n'TRADE, Amnesty for illegals) A+++
…to see America more divided than it has been since the Civil War (“America is a nation of cowards”, race relations, attempting to criminalize and defame the TeaParty, class warfare rhetoric and venom spewing by Obama and operatives, demonizing all opposition, scapegoating, fingerpointing, etc.) A+++
This creepy freak of a man has succeeded wildly in all of these. He also should be graded in the area of misdirection. It’s not working because (thank God) the crowd is beginning to notice, but this tactic of “focusing like a laser beam on jobs” and turning right back to enact Obamacare displayed some of the most cynical lying and manipulation of the media I think we’ve seen in our lifetime. A+ for effort, A for execution.
Jump Shot…B+
Hey now…you’re forgetting Obama is our first “affirmative-action” President!
He got accepted into Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard on what are unknown and unseen records and essays…
He was a State Senator in Illinois with a paper-thin record and a habit of voting “present”.
He was a Senator from Illinois for less than 2 years, most of it spent running for President.
HIS GRADES DON’T MATTER! NEVER HAS TO HIM (or any of his liberal friends and benafactors).
He KNOWS it has never been a issue for him his entire life!!!
And now he is right where he belongs… and he’s set for life…
Even as an ex-President in 2012…he’s won!
Ain’t America a GREAT COUNTRY!!!
To BackwardsBoy
Excellent!!!
How about
Taking Vacations=A
Babo
The One’s definition of “cramming” will no doubt consist of him re-reading his two autobiographies yet again.
Someone who says that Republicans “drove the country into the ditch” and “they can ride in the back but we won’t give them the keys back” while he’s trying to do a Thelma & Louise finale (over the cliff, if you haven’t seen that one) is difficult to take seriously as a President, or indeed as anything but a demagogue.
Increasingly, The One resembles the Emperor Nero of Rome. In case you’re not up on him, his reign consisted largely of spending Rome into bankruptcy, attacking everyone including his allies for not giving him enough support, and giving lute concerts in a quest for public adulation. (It was made worse by the fact that he was a genuinely lousy lute player.) His legendary “fiddling while Rome burned” had a basis in fact; during the great fire, he composed a new piece for lute titled “Ode to the Fall of Troy”- as opposed to running the fire-fighting operations, which was one of his jobs as Emperor.
Nero was not a monster, like Caligula or Tiberius, or even an amoral opportunist like Claudius. He was just a narcissistic, egotistical incompetent who had been promoted far too high in the chain of command.
If Nero had been just another Roman citizen, patrician or otherwise, his narcissism and rather delusional worldview might have been seen as merely eccentric, or pathetic, depending on one’s tolerance for bad lute-playing. But unfortunately for Rome, he happened to be Caesar.
Unfortunately for us, Obama happens to be POTUS.
clear ether
eon
The Christians that Nero used as torch lamps might disagree with that assessment of him not being a monster. One problem with narcissists is that they must always have a scapegoat when things go wrong, and the extreme ones have no qualms about killing innocent people to preserve their own self-esteem.
We should give him a break, because he’s black (well, mulatto actually but no matter). Just as he was given the Harvard Law Review based on his skin color, and for the same reason he was voted into office (his skin color), let’s continue mollycoddling him – after all he is an African American.
FINALLY, an astute person realizes that Obama is a mulatto, not black. Why was this fact not mentioned during or after the presidential campaign?
Because it’s un-PC.
The “slow learner” diagnosis assumes a fact not in evidence: that Obama really wants to “solve” any of the various “problems” he claims to have inherited. In my estimation, that assumption is dubious at best.
If Obama were incompetent and nothing else, random chance would have made at least one of his initiatives a harmless one. Obama is not incompetent; he’s a bad man deliberately doing bad things to advance an evil agenda.
A great part of the Democrats’ strategy these past eighteen months has been to enlarge, as greatly as possible, the sphere of Americans who depend in large measure on the federal government, either for salaries or for handouts. If enough new federal dependents were added to the rolls, the Democrats, the Party of Special-Interest Coalition Building, would not need to fear being displaced from power. Assess Obama’s “mistakes” by that standard, and see how they look to you!
Let us remember what put this bum in the White House in the first place. Dubya was punch drunk and looked it, a testy old man was nominated “because it’s his turn” — the Ole Bob Dole precedent at work here — and decades of political correctness pounding away at the notion of white racial guilt implanted by the Marxist academy. Bush is gone, the Republicans appear to be awakening from their long sleep, and white guilt is so over.
Good previous comments. Obama will approach midterms just as he has on all other issues: blame others, blame the system, nose in the air, skip to the podium, suck up to the unions and suck up to the non-productive “takers”. Again, he is depending on the press to elevate him to the front of the class due to his “charm”, color, empty promises, and promoting a sense of victimhood. Has any one ever seen this guys grade transcripts, diplomas, law degree, previous writings or any actual qualifications other than his own autobiographies ? It appears that he is educated and elected way beyond his intelligence. Time to strip away the charade and spare our democracy any more damage. November will be the first opportunity to begin the repair. Obama is to democracy and capitalism what the oil spill is to the gulf = a nasty man-made mess that will take generations to clean up. VOTE
Oil spills do not take decades to clean up. Once the oil stops leaking, the bulk of the oil can be cleaned up in a few months. The real problem is fixing the leak.
Really, well it sounds like you know more about the marshes, oil, marine life etc than the conservationists, biologists etc…a few months?..wow, you should share your knowledge with the Gulf coast people.. Of course you don’t know more, or even as much it seems.
However, you are right in saying the oil leak is of utmost importance at this point,
That depends on which biologists you are talking about. The real ones, or the ones who make their living making up press releases for environmental groups.
…Washington politician for five years, most of which have been more about celebrity than governance
It seems to me that for Obama celebrity is governance & that he knows no other way.
And is severely upset when actual events intrude on his traveling around, speechifying, golfing, vacationing & being photographed lifestyle
Hey, governing is for peons !
I’ve also been musing on Obama’s “get out of the way and let us mop up” (after the disastrous Bush) remarks of last year.
Well, get out the ole mop Barry, the Gulf can’t stand much more of this.
Seems all you’re doing is spreading stuff around.
Obama=Twit
God save our republic!
eon,
“Unfortunately for us, Obama happens to be POTUS” and, worse yet, he can’t even play the lute!
Every morning I get up and the first thought in my head is; “WTF, how could this have happened to my country?”
anton;
It happened because 52% of the electorate made the same mistake with Obama that the electorate in the blue states have repeatedly made with anybody named Kennedy. It was best summed up by one of Dutch poet-mathematician Piet Hein’s little poems he called “Grooks”, to wit;
It is always tempting to impute
Unlikely virtues to the cute.
Everybody was busy swooning over how “photogenic” The One was, and in doing so utterly failed to notice that, as was once said of a noted Hollywood starlet, “There’s no ‘there’, there.”
cheers
eon
Enemies without (Muslims, Socialist, Communists) Enemies within (Muslims, Socialists, Communists) this was all seen before it even happened, on these pages. The goal for the President is not to learn but to destroy. So it is not all about Obama learning it is about the doing and how fast can it be done. Long ago the King gave a prophetic vision about a false prophet, a whore and a beast; it was about the end of days. One piece of advice given to believers in the truth was to “come out of her my people lest you receive her plagues”. So now the time has come to get out and stand apart and sever the connections that will force us into the judgment that is coming upon the false prophet, the whore and the beast (Muslims, Socialists, and Communists). Another view of these days from the King was when He said two persons will be standing, working, walking or whatever and one will be taken one will be left. That sounds like 50% to me. It is time for all to consider the future as seen from the past, the end is not in question but who is left standing is a question each one of us might want address right about now instead how much the Muslims, Socialists, Communists in the White House are or are not learning.
It’s satisfying to vent one’s anger at Obama and Co. But we must also fight with all our might against what they are doing to our country. How to stop them? How to stop them from robbing Peter to give to Paul? How to stop them from passing laws that tell us what to do with our money? How to stop them from setting wages, taking over banks and car companies and our retirement funds? Obama & Co will not listen to reason. There is only one solution. Every single last one of them must be removed from office. They must by voted out. They must be replaced by those who will start repealing regulations and start ending “entitlement” programs, by those who will start de-regulating and establish a proper free-market. Most of all we must insist loudly and repeatedly to restore individual rights.
“It must really be a front for conspiracy theorists or haters.” If hating is disagreeing with everything the one stands for, then count me in. The one is just the culmination of Lyndon Johnson, who created the failed “Great Society” welfare system. And of Jimmy Cater’s failed attempts at anything except the inflation that almost brought the country to it’s knees. And of liberal minded Congresspeople and Senators that refused to reform any of the bad policies and continued to implement making the problems bigger. Yes, I hate them all.
And as the one finishes his book “The Post_American World” (http://theghostfighters.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/this-will-curdle-your-blood-and-curl-your-hair/), I hold my breath and wish tommorrow was November 2. 2010.
cramming is impossible for obama. he was never a capable or competent person as he claimed to be. the mainstream media accepted his claim instead of pushing and prodding to get to the essence of his self-proclaimation and thus defaulted on their job. they will have to suffer for their collective neglegence of the candidate obama. he is continuing to discredit himself as the president and there is a very good possibility that he will not make it to the presidential candidacy for 2012 because of his lack of credibility and judgment. his personal narrative is just too far from the mainstream American’s that is evident to one and all. a matched pair to the one term presidency of Jimmy Carter.
Cramming? Obama treats the Presidency like he treated college. Party Time. The affirmative action student morphed into The Affirmative Action President.
Yet even Fineman seems a tad incredulous that “the strategy [Obama] and fellow Democrats will pursue in this fall’s election season” is all about “looking backward.”
So let me get this straight. This fall, the Democratic election strategy is going to be:
Oil spill = Bush’s fault
world on the brink of war = Bush’s fault
country going broke = Bush’s fault
borders leaking illegals like a sieve = Bush’s fault, but okay with Democrats
Wow. Sheer genius.
Midterms results in favor of Republicans=Bush’s fault?
Special prosecutor investigating Obama’s “jobs program=Bush’s fault?
Obama’s defeat in 2012=Bush’s fault?
Declaring ribcage belts a fashion felony=[Laura] Bush’s fault?
Don’t forget Al Gore’s divorce is also Bush’s fault….
I love his SOLUTION to the oil spill, pass Cap & Tax… and / or TAKE OVER BP… now exactly how does he TAKE OVER a British Company?
About Arizona… someone needs to tell Obama to READ the Constitution Article 4 Section 4 ‘The United State shall guarantee to every State in this Union…, and SHALL protect each of them against Invasion!!!!!
Hello, Arizona (and every state in the union) is being INVADED!!! it is Obama’s JOB to STOP IT!!!
Well said John Boot; and thanks for the reference to Michael Ramirez -its simply one of the best political cartoons I’ve seen since hurricane O has blown into Washington.
While I’ve remained cautiously optimistic since the Tea Party movement helped clarify just how craven Obama & Pelosi are via the health care show, its really been the BP spill that has taken out the tide politically speaking as of late. This could just be the economic disaster that restores the republic – as the reference to slobbering journalists like Fineman reflects – we can’t rely on the media to snap out of their fawning adulation to get it together.
I’m old enough to remember Carter, who I view as Obama’s fraternal brother more so than Clinton. Besides the intercene fighting necessary for Obama to knock off Hillary, Obama’s White House is filled with the kind of leftists whose world views have been informed largely on the fields of academia rather than the real world.
These underlings tend to view Clinton as the great capitulator – so while Obama has been selling the notion of Bipartisanship ever since running for Prez – everything of import is following the example set when Senator Gregg cut ties once recognizing the true thuggish impulses lurking within the Obama administration.
Truth is that the more you ‘drill down’ into the bowels of the working beast -its hard to find many Clinton survivors who have assended to join the Obama team; that is people who have actual experience working in a prior (like it or not – fairly successful) democratic presidents administration.
This is Carteresque to the core. The ‘Jhemmie’ also insisted he bring his brand of purity to Washington, as Obama has. That meant no insiders – which also meant – NO EXPERIENCE. Outside of Rahm & Axlerod, Hillary is the only real player who brought a track record with her.
Consider this:
Ask anyone over the age of 40 to name the top ten people in Carters Administration – and you always get the same head scratching. Most people WITH AN MBA can’t get past Zbig Brzezinski & Ham Jordon. While some liberals still try and defend Carter as a lovable grandfather type whose globetrotting has led to some humanitarian good, the truth is he was the worst president of the last (and arguably any) century. The 70′s under him were that painful and expensive. Just spend 5 minutes on Wiki gazing over the dimwits who populated his adminstration.
Pretty soon the resemblence to the Faker from Chicago comes into better focus.
Yet Carter suffered minimal historical congressional losses by the ’78 midterm. (The real story that said more about what Reagan was about to represent were the STATE RACES – where conservatives made considerably bigger gains – quite surprisingly).
The scariest thing about Obama two years ago was that this guy was the opposite of Carter as far as presentation. Policy wise it’s almost like they are clones, but Obama was so overpowering when it came to wooing the Media and the crowds that Slick Billy Clinton looked pale by comparison. ‘The Truth’ not only had Pelosi(Who as much as I loath her is the savviest nutcutter leading congress on the left since LBJ) and a filibuster-proof majority – he had that indespensible ‘something’ – charisma. He was the first Billion dollar Baby – this was a juggernaught. Money, power, motive, and a congressional majority. All wrapped up with the blue ribbon of an adoring media to facilitate his adgenda.
And here we are nearing the midterms. BP isn’t Obama’s Katrina – it’s more like what happened to Carter after Three Mile Island. Carter was all about alternative energy. This is the president who ‘leveled’ with the American People when it came to Oil in the Middle East.
And most importantly – he WASN’T YET HATED. People still listened to him as late as May/June of 1979 – as miserable as things were they still hoped he could right the ship. The Republicans didn’t have some great savior on the right. (just as they don’t now either – unfortunately)
That crises should have elevated his presidency. He was a NUCLEAR Physists in the Navy for crissakes! Instead his person became cemented as the shrill & cold intellectual who, while a smart guy, was a bloodless moron when it came to governing. He couldn’t do squat because he didn’t know squate and he had surrounded himself with loser after loser who bumbled through to stealing a paycheck.
While the economy kept getting worse and worse with inflation and unemployment and all the misery – here was Jimmy giving lecture after lecture – and people just grew finally to really hate the guy. In the end he was the ultimate #$%hole.
This is the Obama I saw on C-Span giving a speech yesterday. Bush this Bush that – bad Republicans bla bla bla. And Fineman is shocked he’s running the way he’s running?
It’s the same kind of slide downhill – all about incompetence, incompetence, incompetence. After Three Mile Island (may of ’79) – WE HAD THE HOSTAGES/REVOLUTION IN IRAN in the fall. For over a year leading up to the 80 Nov election. Day after Day.
Here we are on a daily vigil when it comes to the Gulf. Day in Day out. This slow unwinding muck – and now people are saying – maybe we can target Xmas for a possible end?
Talk about getting naked when the tide goes out!
Already, no matter what Obama tries to do, NO CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE IN HIS RIGHT MIND WANTS TO STAND NEXT TO HIM FOR THE UPCOMMING. How bfrustrating for the narcissitic lecturer in chief! He has given himself a B+ for saving the economy in year zero – then passed historic Health Care (which the people still haven’t ‘learn to love’) & after that Financial Reform – and still – nobody understands him/loves him.
The only thing worse than ‘a crises is a terrible thing to waste’ – turns out to be 10% unemployment and a jobless recovery once that financial crises stablizes. You don’t get brownie points from the American People for that.
So, what has a Brother who is Prez gotta do to get some love?
Dave II & Francis W. Porretto are dead right (yet again on their posts!).
What has a Brother who is Prez, who is deeply committed to living ‘BLACK TO THE SEVENTIES’ ala Jimmy Carter as our first affirmative action soul-man-in cheif gotta do to get some love?
simple answer – RESIGN OR RETIRE.
Then take up residence at a University where you’re wanted (LIKE CARTER DID)- spin that into doing the Clinton thing – trot the world lecturing making ooddles of noodles while doing so.
But most important; Leave the governing to those who still rightly view American Exceptualism as alive and well. LEAD FOLLOW OR GET OUT OF THE WAY FOOL.
People, people. Take a breath.
We are standing at the tipping point. “Progressivism” … “statism” … however you characterize it — is on the brink.
What I DON’T want to see happen is statists getting it too soon that they are toast. We know it, and any of THEM with half a brain cell are waking up to it. We MUST allow them to take their insane behavior to its inevitable conclusion.
If I know anything about desperate behavior, they’ll try one of several things:
1) Clamp down on/censor MSM through legitimate means (which they’re already trying)
2) Play every last ridicule card against any conservative they can
3) Whinge, whine and moan about how every last thing they try and accomplish is thwarted by the EEEvil Rethuglicons™
Oh, wait. They’re already doing these things. To no avail.
Keep the faith. Trust me — they’re hist. I just don’t want them to see the light too soon. So forget I said anything *s*
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Should Obama fail his midterms, that is to say should the Republicans take back control of one or both houses of Congress, make no mistake, the agenda will continue to go forward. Obama will continue his assault on white middle class productive America. How? Through the system of government by totally unaccountable czars he has set up and government by rogue agencies like the EPA. Yes, the radical assault will be somewhat stymied by the Republicans in congress. But the damage Obama will do in his last two years in office even without a Democrat Congress will be immense.
Sad but true. Many current congressional Republicans are hardly any better than the lockstep Obama crowd. What to do except vote out incumbents and hopefully limit the damage.
Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: Obamacare
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time,” Honest Abe prophetically said.
Those people who believed that Obamacare would actually allow Americans to keep their existing medical plans and not be forced into a government-run plan have to be the dumbest people on the planet. They constitute those who were fooled by Senator and then President Obama’s transparently false promises.
That might be a harsh evaluation even though it is true. It was the scheme of the left all along, articulated by Rep. Barney Frank and others, to get the government’s foot in the door first and gradually phase in the so-called ”public option” until it became the only option, ala Britain’s National Health Service.
Some people knew that all along but Obama’s believers wouldn’t listen.
In defense of the naive believers, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1735)