Obama Trapped by Tidal Forces of History and Doesn’t Know How to Swim
Milbank is complaining about there being no sense of urgency in Obama’s remarks. The world is on the edge of a full-blown panic and the president seems detached, uninvolved, perhaps even unaware of the perception that there is a lack of leadership coming from Washington.
His allies and apologists claim that this demonstrates the president’s “coolness.” Nice try, but that just doesn’t cut it. Coolness is telling your wife when you’re on a stretcher with a bullet an inch from your heart that you hope all the doctors are Republicans. Obama’s “coolness” appears to be an aloofness — perhaps even an arrogance — that manifests itself in the curious way in which he views “leadership.” Giving inspiring speeches is very nice (although it’s been a while since we got one of those), and feeling people’s pain is very politically correct these days.
But political leadership is more than delivering pretty words and demonstrating political empathy. It is projecting the ability — whether it is present or not — to identify a problem and make the rest of us partners in addressing it. Leadership engages those being led, makes them part of the enterprise, inspires confidence that collective action will make a difference. In short, leadership is a two-way street. You can’t lead if no one is willing to follow.
When the president speaks, it is usually to lecture, or to have his rhetoric take flight, mouthing meaningless platitudes that fail to inspire but allowing us to feel good about ourselves. “No matter what some agency may say, we’ve always been and always will be a AAA country,” sniffed the president during his speech Monday. Does that inspire you? It seems despairingly banal to me.
There is much that is beyond the ability of the president to do anything about. The European debt crisis is not his fault, and he can’t get in a time machine and go back to fix George Bush’s mistakes, nor the errors of his predecessors. We are paying for a refusal by every president for the past 30 years to cut spending as much as we are now paying for Obama’s myopia on the subject.
But Bush is no longer the president of the United States. Obama supposedly is. Proclaiming that he is failing to do anything about our fiscal crisis because it’s not his fault is more than just politically passing the buck. It is demonstrating to any and all that the man in charge not only can’t control events, but that he has no desire to do so; that the wave he is riding — a wave built on 50 years of belief both here and in Europe that gargantuan schemes to redistribute wealth can go on indefinitely — will crash against the rocks with the president oblivious to the reasons why.
Does this make Obama stupid?
He makes predictions that prove false. He makes promises he cannot honor. He raises expectations he cannot meet. He reneges on commitments made in private. He surrenders positions staked in public. He is absent from issues in which he has a duty to be involved. He is overbearing when he ought to be absent.
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But it takes actual smarts to understand that glibness and self-belief are not sufficient proof of genuine intelligence. Stupid is as stupid does, said the great philosopher Forrest Gump. The presidency of Barack Obama is a case study in stupid does.
Neither does it reveal someone with leadership skills. The nation and the world cry out for an American president who can demonstrate that whatever is placed within his grasp can be addressed if we all face the challenges together.
Instead, Obama is telling us we have to make our way forward all by ourselves while he’s right there — leading from behind.
Thankyou Mr Moran for using the “s” word re Obama. Willfully ignorant with a nefarious natue also suit. BHO is an individual so wholly consumed by his ideology and frothing hatred for the actual American experiment and ethic, that to refer to him as President is abominable. Any and all likely turmoil that ensue after his near certain political defeat will be a small price. The country needs brace for a paroxysm of “blacks with attitude”(Holder’s people} behaving very badly. Again, it will be well worth the pain!!
No, Obama is not stupid…this has been his PLAN all along…to bring down this great country…then reconstruct it into a NWO nation. Read UN Agenda 21.
No, he’s not stupid, but he IS undereducated.
Obama’s intelligence is not the question.
The question is: What do the backroom gang that pulls his strings want?
Well, for starters, read Rules for Radicals.
Before BHO was even elected it was obvious to me that he held such contempt for this great nation and the American people. He’s not stupid and he has been deliberately destroying this country. What in the world did those who supported him thought when he said he was going to “transform America”?
I argue that Obama is, in fact, stupid. The fact that he’s a clever usurper does not contradict that belief. He does it out in the open and simply knows that the media and people in positions of great responsibility will run cover for him, if, for no other reason than he’s black.
I worked with people like this in the military who would try to pull the wool over the eyes of higher-ups, take advantage of situations and all this because they were “tuned” that way; Either by watching others who they learned from, or from a nascent talent that they learned to exploit.
But in order to expose them, people in positions of responsibility had to hold them accountable, call their bluff(s) and sometimes humiliate them publicly to expose there bad behavior and self-absorption. Apparently, the conservative blogshpere has done little to expose this creepy little man-child simply because the MSM is so large, so loud and so in the tank for their fellow marxist that it’s still easy for people, who (always) like to consider themselves intelligent, to be told to “dismiss the voice and argument of logic and reason and just FEEL the emotions of hating them because you’re oh-so-right to do it.”
The mechanisms they use work on the pleasure center of the brain while conservatives tend to do the heavy lifting in the thinking and reasoning game. Is it any wonder that the vast majority of liberals are so banal, shallow and pedantic? I can’t count the number of times I’ve run into an academic who wanted to learn how to sail. Yet, they would look down their nose at me when I tried to explain pitfalls, dangers, hazards and things to be concerned about. What mattered to them is that they could tell their friends about “yaawwwting” and the romance of it far outweighed the capability of actually doing it right. Their concern for details didn’t match the details I wanted them to be concerned about. If you get smart and learn to do it right, the romance of it will follow.
But I digress.
Obama is stupid. He has no inherent skill to take a piece of wood and whittle anything, take a bunch of parts and fabricate anything or even observe people, like, say, a bunch of kids and take measure of each child’s character and explain it to anyone else. But this is primarily because of the prism of racial hatred he looks through. If a service writer told him that his car needed a new hobnostic defosticator, he’d ask “how much and how long to install it?”, while doing his best, “gee that IS serious” look to make sure that no one in the room thought he was ignorant about what he was being told. Might even say, “Yeah..I’ve had that done before…absolutely necessary”.
He is stupid because he is willfully ignorant. He revels in “knowledge” that is simply what he is told and has learned by “conventional wisdom”. I doubt he’s ever cracked a book in his life. I also suspect he cheated on a fair amount of his college work. He’s been given a pass his whole life because 1) people were afraid to point out his shortcomings because of the charge of racism and 2) because it’s just easier than to try to get him to take responsibility seriously and shape up. In other words, nothing was ever expected of him.
Now he’s president and his shortcomings are on display for any thinking person to see. Obama is not a thinking person. He is a conniving, scheming person. He is not sympathetic, he’s cold and, given the opportunity, probably cruel as well. He has, not an agenda but a vendetta. And it doesn’t take an intelligent man who has the willing cooperation of fellow America-hating marxists hungry for power to allow him to do some wrecking while getting their own agendas (more money and power) met.
The fact that he doesn’t recognize that he’s being used indicates stupidity all by itself.
SG-1;
Right you are. Many people reading and commenting here have been saying the same thing for 5 years.
Obama’s the poster boy for the failure of Affirmative Action.
Obama is not a mere victim of events. He inherited a problem and it was apparent when he was elected that he would make it much worse – as should have been obvious to anyone aware of his background and the logical result of endless deficit spending. Expecting a socialist to address and reverse deficits is like expecting an arsonist to put out fires. Democrats buy political office with promises to be paid with OPM and Obama is no mere run of the mill Democrat. An examination of his appointments shows that he is as far left as they come.
He can no more pivot to do what is necessary to restore economic health to the nation than Madonna can pivot to virginity.
Obama has neither the intellect, temperament or life experience for the job. He thinks that cushy $330,000.00 government “jobs” grow on trees.
Wotthehell’s “OPM?” Spell it out, will’ya?
Sick And Tired Of All These God Damn Abbreviations Already
http://www.internetslang.com/OPM.asp
Now if I was as lazy (or perhaps as sleepy) as you I would ask what the hell you mean by wotthehell.
OPM = “Other People’s Money”
You’re welcome
Office of Perpetual Motion.
Threw me off, too. Here in DC it means Office of Personnel Management – sort of the HR department for the entire Civil Service.
Bugs
Yea ; I think I’ve heard of it. I’m retired USACE.
O-P-M Oh-Pea-Em. Opium. Intoxicant, mood-altering substance favored by liberals. “Other People’s Money” is a suitable juxtaposition of it for indicating the addiction people get to it.
There are people – not only in government but also among the populus – who see no problem with ever-expanding “entitlement programs” and deficit spending. To them, the extra spending is useful for buying votes and power to keep on expanding government for their own benefit. They expect someone else to pick up the bill.
For Obama, that someone else is the “rich” but in reality, the wealthy don’t have nearly enough money to pay for our current budget. You could tax 100% of everything earned over $200,000 a year and it wouldn’t come close to balancing the budget. I know that Barbie said “Math class is hard” but we’re talking simple arithmetic here, not differential equations.
The reality is that children are being stuck with the bills for today’s wasteful spending. Due to greed for power and “free stuff,” we’re sticking today’s children and children as yet unborn with a financial burden that will cripple their futures. They will curse our names for all time.
It’s time we start calling those people who demand ever more spending at the children’s expense what they are. They’re economic pedophiles. They’re screwing our children’s future for their benefit today. Call them out and label them for what they are – economic pedophiles. They call us terrorists for opposing them, make them own the label economic pedophile and see how they like it. Unlike calling the Tea Party terrorists, the label I’m giving them happens to be true.
Larry J,
I would like to nominate you for the harshest, cuttingest, truth hurt comment of all time said about the issues in Washington, “It’s time we start calling those people who demand ever more spending at the children’s expense what they are. They’re economic pedophiles. They’re screwing our children’s future for their benefit today.”
Yes, I’m aware that the term “economic pedophile” is harsh and incendary. Deliberately so. It was inspired by this tweet from Jim Treacher:
So we’re terrorists for “holding the country hostage”? Okay, then: For what you’re doing to future generations, you are pedophiles. Own it.
It’s time to fight back. They lie about the Tea Party, calling us racists, extremists, and now terrorists. I’m telling the truth about them when I call them economic pedophiles. The truth hurts but so be it. I’d like to see more widespread use of the term but I’m not holding my breath.
“But in Barack Obama’s case, events have gotten far the better of him. And most tellingly, he seems unable to see anything that he can control, settling for blaming his predecessor and promising to do better.”
The great presidents, the really great presidents, somehow manage to control events even when events start to spin out of control. They are not discouraged by these events, but see them as a challenge, something to be overcome and, in the end, vanquished. These are the great presidents, people like Washington, Lincoln, Eisenhower, Truman, and Reagan. They see a major problem and try to fix it, rather than run away and blaming somebody else for their problems.
Obama is a little boy, an empty suit who is in way over his head. A pathetic man who actually came to believe his own spin and public relations. And when things got bad, really bad, did not have a clue on how to fix them. I am so sick and tired of his blaming everybody and everything else for what is wrong with America. Sure, America has a lot of problems, but YOU wanted the job, right? So don’t come back to the American public and start whining about all the “other” people or things that caused this problem. Start keeping your mouth shut and FIX the darn problems. That’s what the great leaders do. Eisenhower was facing a gigantic war during World War II and he rarely gave public speeches. Did he have a lot of setbacks? You bet he did. But he didn’t blame anybody else. He was simply focused on winning.
So shut up, sit down with Congress, and actually DO something for once in your miserable life, Mr. President. The road to greatness is not an easy one and certainly NOT for people with no backbone or courage. Lots of courage. I know that we do not have such a man in office, so the best we can hope for is that a better person will replace him in 2012.
Exactly, imagine being the C.E.O. of a large company (which America is), and the product is late getting to the customer , chaos is ensuing, staff are scrambling , people laying blame everywhere, what does a good leader do?
He knows who on his team can get things done. The thing working for the corporation is that the leader isn’t sitting around wondering if he does a certain thing wether it fits into his ideology or not , as is Zero’s case. He could have made decisions but he would have been forced to get off of Frank Marshall Davis’ knee.
He’s hanging on as hard as he can to the words the Marxist’s whispered in his ears. He rather see everything laid to waste than commit the ultimate sin.
The people surrounding him are children. When I see the photo’s of Reagan at work with his team or the black and white picks of the kennedy administration you see really serious people doing very serious work. Zero and his team look like pikers, amateurs.
His work here is done.
Interestingly, Frank Marshall Davis has admitted in his own writings (“Sex Rebel” among them) that he was a pedophile and a bisexual. Yet he had charge of early adolescent Obama for three years, several hours a day.
His communism may be the least harmful imprint delivered to our president.
If you laid out your mission statement for the POTUS, with objectives, required skills, and success critera; and Little Lenin did likewise, you would see that the two of you could not be more diametrically opposed.
Until people fully understand that he has a radically different world view than their own, it simply isn’t possible to comprehend anything about him.
It’s a lot like people who expect their pets to be motivated and have feelings like a human. Until they get by it, they can never comprehend how an animal acts.
Seriously; People have to be wondering if these dummies in Washington have even been potty trained.
The tide is still rising in Washington, as the community organizer must look forward to more GDP and unemployment reports, a budget due in October, the nonsense of the supercommitte, and the Obama-care Supreme Court decision. Throw in the potential of a natural or terrorist event and Obama soup gets thicker.
But wait, what the hell, why is congress on a 5 week recess in the middle of an economic crisis. Do you know where your legally elected representative is? Are they all AWOL? For whom do they work?
We all know that Obama is truly not a leader. But my question is, will the majority of people who voted for him in 2008, vote for him again?
In a word, no. He has alienated, in no particular order; seniors, independents, a growing number of blacks, young people (because they are starting to realize that they are going to be paying the lion’s share of all this left wing bullsh1t) and the far left. He’s toast, the election in WI was a foreshadowing of the tip of the iceberg that is going to absolutely CRUSH the Democrats in the next national election, I wouldn’t be surprised if lil barry got fewer electoral votes than Walter Mondull in 1984.
Agree there are some aspects of where America nows finds itself that are inevitable (unfunded entitlements, etc).
But, I’m not sure it can be said that the current American budget debt crisis, scared markets, employers frozen in their tracks too frightened to make further investments in their businesses would have happened no matter who was President.
Barry took a bad situation that Bush created and amped it up beyond belief. He would continue to stay that course were it not for a few brave souls in Congress putting up some resistance.
If his goal is levelling society, spreading the wealth and creating increased government dependence can you think of better ways to accomplish it any quicker ? He shows no urgency because he doesn’t have a problem — small government conservatives are the ones who see a problem.
Sojourners – ‘Our President’!
A colored guy who can speak well and offers up a distant camera shot of a comfortable man who is continually turning his head from right to left in an effort to keep up with a teleprompter – that’s our President!
Without the scripts and prompting – I don’t think that Obama has the ability to formulate two paragraphs of original thought!
His ability to be ushered through Harvard and then return to the streets of Chicago as the ‘primo block organizer’ – coordinating Acorns and other nuts while working with the likes of Bill Ayers – this was a background that qualified him to run a country ?
My question is – who picked this loser as a possible candidate for the Presidency of the USA – I mean before the Communists – Socialists – Progressives – Racists and Liberal Democrats picked him?
Soros could be the wizard of this puzzle mix – with Obama as the ‘belled goat’ to lead the country toward a rebuild into the ‘one world government’ that George Soros dreams of !
The goat must be removed as well as the herder who tied the bell……..
The Whine is not stupid. What he is is a naive fool. He’s George Soros’ puppet who actually believes his fantasy land rhetoric. He was brought up to believe in a marxist utopia (of some stripe, whether softcore Mussolini fascism to outright Pol Pot communism) and allowed himself to be seduced by those who seek to destroy a liberty loving capitalist America.
Obama is not stupid, he is utterly lacking in useful skills to lead.
His skills are adapted to campaigning. He is the carny barker for leftist cotton candy ideology. He can get “you fella, yeah you…try your hand at this game of chance, win a kewpie doll for the little lady”.
He can masquerade as a “centrist”, a “compromiser”, “the willing bipartisan”. He is none of the above.
He can pretend to be a “healer”, beyond race, above pettiness. In point of actual fact, he is among the worst abusers of racial and class warfare tactics and is as visibly petty a human who has ever held high office. He becomes surly, prickly and despicably class warrior at the drop of a hat. His administration’s overt mistreatment of a large swath of our countrymen run over and mowed down by his attacks…is now legendary. Well, not in his propaganda machine that disguises itself as our mass media, but certainly here where some brave folks dare to tell the truth anyway.
As for his cowardice and shirking of responsibility, blameshifting is his trademark. This nonsense that he “inherited” the problems of his own making is the parroting of fools.
EVERY President suffers the hills and valleys of economic change. The whirlwind of events that makes the job difficult, if one is inclined to actually…you know…DO the job. George Bush left Obama a pimple on the face of the economy. Obama and his Marxist pack of wolves gave it leprosy and filled with festering boils.
Euroopean PIIGS and Japanese earthquakes and hot weather, cold weather, …are things that happen all the time. They are not that out of the ordinary. You deal with them and move on. This administration has a wholly different notion of how to implement the MoveOn part…and, as for “dealing with issues”, they see no legislation, hear no legislation, speak no legislation. And read no legislation. They pass polemics, get their trained monkeys in the media to promote it and jam it down our throats.
This isn’t someone who doesn’t know how to swim. This is someone who doesn’t like capitalism, doesn’t like the vast majority of the people he serves, doesn’t like American success, doesn’t like America’s “brand”, doesn’t like America’s allies and and doesn’t like to do any heavy lifting.
Hardly a resume’ filled with attributes to do this particular job. Then again, the traitors in the mass media helped to hide his resume’ from us, holding hostage tapes of him at fete’s, not demanding transcripts or proof of competency, much less integrity.
This is a man ill-suited by temperament, skills, aptitude, attitude, worldview and emotional IQ to do this job. The price we pay is a heavy one. As do our children.
Nice analysis of Obama.
In my view, he’s psychologically pathological, a clinical narcissist. That’s not your ordinary variety of egoism; that’s a serious psyche that requires the individual to exert control over all others that he interacts with. He does this by misinformation, emotional manipulation and accusations of your bias/incompetence etc if you resist him. IF he cannot control you, then you quite simply cease to exist for him.
To achieve this control, Obama long ago moved himself into a ‘bubble world’ deatched from reality, a cocooned self-written world that he alone controls. [And that includes his transcripts, his personal history.]. This world is made up, not of real facts, but of Words. That’s why all he can do is campaign, for campaign speeches do not deal with reality but with words, emotional manipulation and misinformation. This is why he can’t develop policies and programs because they must be focused on the hard facts and data of reality and Obama only lives within His words – alienated from reality. He leaves all policies and programs to others.
Again – if he can’t control people or situations, they cease to exist for him…which is why Obama is so obviously angry and ‘delayed’ when required to comment on such things as disasters, crises etc.
Obama can’t handle the real world intruding on this sense of control – which is why he doesn’t react, why he seems aloof and distant to real world situations. He can’t control them, so he can’t acknowledge them. And, as a narcissist, he cannot acknowledge that he is responsible for any problem situation because that suggests that he lost control of that situation!
Obama is, in addition to this serious psychological disorder, intellectually shallow, ignorant, ill-read, uncurious about the history and events of the external real world. Again, that’s because all of this is outside his personal control.
What’s next? To maintain his stability, Obama’s handlers must feed his narcissism and see that he’s surrounded by sycophants, adulation and hand-picked campaign crowds. His public appearances can only be to campaign. Put him in any presidential function – as was required after S&P, and he becomes surly, angry, feeling victimized and abused.
The Democrats surely must realize by now that there is something seriously wrong with him. Will they continue to support him? Obama has kept all rivals out of the Democratic Party. The GOP have, to the contrary, allowed in a host of new young blood with new ideas; the Democrats/Obama haven’t allowed any challengers to Obama – who can’t handle such an interaction. So, they have no choice but to support him.
And this means that their tactic will be to use a vicious, malicious campaign against the people of America – in particular, the Tea Party – and set up more and more class/ethnic/racial polarities.
Your excellence in details is stellar as per usual, cf.
Especially the “carny barker” quip. lmfao!
On the money, cf. My take on the last election which continues to amaze me, is that America made a an innocent and well meaning mistake in electing Obama. It was a time when ordinarily generous but sometimes dense white America was waking up to the deep need in the African American community for respect.
Sadly, some in our great land needed prodding to wake up and smell the coffee but savvy advertising men and publicists were there to remind even the crustiest and most deeply retarded of corporate or institutional executives that attention needed too be paid to improving the public image of African Americans. It would counter racist stereotypes, benefit the character of white Americans, boost the self image and morale of black Americans and shower the blessings of amity on the entire nation.
The result of all this social chemistry was a singular creature called the “Front Office Negro.” Every corporation and institution worthy of notice had one. Larger and more prosperous businesses and non-profits might have a front office negro in every department.
The qualifications for the position were mainly cosmetic and were recently echoed by Democratic Senator Reid of Nevada regarding the leader of his party. Nice looking, well spoken African American, neatly attired and polite to a fault.
Now here is when things go terribly awry. The the most articulate, polite and exquisitely corporate and reserved FON in America is affirmatively shooed into the Senate by the Democratic Party. A handsome and charismatic African American with an affirmative action Harvard degree in a high visibility position to swell Democrat hearts with pride.
But this FON has ideas of his own. No chucklehead he. This FON has has a head full of bright notions and his eye on the White House. Long story short, he throws his hat in the ring, plays the sexist and racist cards outrageously against the white witch running against him in the primaries, rope a dopes the old white gentleman running from the Republican side and winds up in the Oval Office. Hail to Chief.
The moral of the story is, never bump a front office Negro into the executive suite.
Obama is who he is because, personality-wise, if he was the forceful, take-charge type leader the media spun him as, with his ideological beliefs, he never even gets nominated by the Democrats, let alone elected.
The Democrats believed if they could elect the first African-American president, he would just by his historical nature, have free reign to get passed any bill he wanted, which is why the Obama=Lincoln=FDR=Gaia comparisons were trotted out so often three years ago. But the Democrats also knew that an alpha male type with a far left ideology would have screamed out “Jeese Jackson” or “Al Sharpton” to even the majority of their own party’s primary voters.
So they had to pick a detached, cool, non-threatening person like Obama to be their standard-bearer, and they thought that simply use of Alinsky tactics on any conservative opponents would be enough to keep the opposition in check. That’s where the decentralized formation of the Tea Party killed them, because there was no one person to Alinsky, and once the veneer of Obama’s alleged God-like powers was stripped away, there was no Plan B to fall back on, and their leader simply does not have the personality to either be a take-charge guy or break away from his own ideological beliefs and try a new strategy to turn the economy around (because to do that would mean to break permanently with his base, and Obama is only aggressive in attacking people when he thinks he has a ton of other people who’ve got his back).
Obama is neither stupid nor intelligent; he’s a creature of the leftist dogma that prevails in academia. His ‘thought process’ is a regurgitation of the drivel that was poured into his head by the professors of Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard. Plus, he’s a gold plated narcissist infatuated by the image in the mirror.
“This is a man ill-suited by temperament, skills, aptitude, attitude, worldview and emotional IQ to do this job. The price we pay is a heavy one. As do our children.”
Ditto!
The job he’d doing isn’t the job American’s think he’s trying to do.
Obama is not stupid,
This has been stated in several posts on this thread and yet the evidence is lacking. If someone is ignorant of history, ignorant of economics, ignorant of civics, ignorant of business, ignorant of the reality of most peoples’ lives and continually makes bad decisions, what exactly is the evidence of his intelligence? Don’t confuse speaking well (when reading a Teleprompter) with intelligence. The evidence I see suggests Obama is indeed stupid.
Ignorance is both universal and curable. The great humorist Will Rogers pointed out long ago that “everyone is ignorant only on different subjects.” The first step to wisdom is realizing the magnitude of our own ignorance. Once we realize our ignorance in a particular subject at hand, we can take steps to address it either by direct learning ourselves or by consulting with knowledgeable people on that subject. However, it appears Obama lacks any sense of humility and thinks he’s the smartest person in any room. That narcissism is the root of his ignorance and refusing to address it is stupid.
You’re right, but to say that he’s merely stupid implies that he is also without cunning, which seems not to be true. It appears that he does have an endgame that he is working feverishly to reach–making the federal government’s reach so large that it can never be scaled back (Socialism).
Cunning and stupid are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
As Forrest Gump said, “Stupid is as stupid does.”
Ya know, He told the Hippies he’s a gonna bring the Boys home from Vietnam and legalize marijane and he’s a deliver, just like every other Democrat a do.
Of Course one cannot argue with the Conservative position that the Poor should just work harder and the Old Poor should just die sooner, that’s just common sense.
That’s why National Health is such a bad idea, why keep unproductive people alive when we can just continue to import impoverished laborers from the south. They will die young, it’s a cultural tradition.
Do not worry America the rich are safe and you can be replaced.
The importance of the person vs events depends on the time period. When kings had total power, of course what they did was more important than even the totality of the serfs. Nowadays, no inidividual has that kind of influence. Isn’t that obvious?
The more interesting question is exactly how smart Little Lenin is. I say you can’t tell, because it depends on what factor’s will end up being decisive in the world we live in.
By the metric of one’s ability to adapt, he’s a world class dolt, no question about that. He has made his bet and he’s sticking to it.
But who’s to say at this point that he won’t turn out to be right? The ruling class and their marxist shell game could very well end up dominating the world for the next 1,000 years, in which case Obama will end up being the smartest man in history, the guy who really did kick off the 1,000 year Reich. And I don’t pick 1,000 years casually either. If these guys get their way, they will destroy the United States, and there will be nothing to stand in their way. The US stood in Hitler’s way (yep, Russia and England would have lost without us, for sure), but who besides the thin read line of the Tea Party stands in the marxists’ way?
Obama, more mentally deficient than any world figure in memory, could end up being the thug who hit the marxist powerball jackpot…without ever lifting a finger in his life…simply because he is an idealogue who was born half black.
Rick, Are you just another MSM tool?! You say: “The European debt crisis is not his fault, and he can’t get in a time machine and go back to fix George Bush’s mistakes, nor the errors of his predecessors. ”
I say: rubbish! Who’s push was it to install Turbo Tax Timmy? Who’s push was it to re-install Ben Bernanke? Do you not believe that the failed (financial, moral, etc.) leadership of Bush, et al is not to blame for Europe and our own mess as much as Obama’s continuation (virtually seamlessly) of those same failed policies, etc.?
Obama, not to blame my foot.
Shame on you and the MSM for continuing to cut someone and his whole class of elite rulers so much slack.
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Indeed.
Obama had the opportunity to undo much of what Bush had done, but Obama has taken Bush policies and dialed them up a few notches.
They are no longer Bush policies. They are Obama policies, and they became Obama policies because he made the decision to leave them in place.
SPREADING THE CATASTROPHE
We’ve already hit several icebergs, and now our clueless leader is steering us into several more. He won’t be happy until the ship sinks and everyone is drinking brine. It’s called spreading the catastrophe.
Click my name and read my widely linked Townhall piece, Why Barack Obama Hates Being In The White House.
The problem is not that he lacks leadership skills, although he does. The problem is that he consistently tries to lead in the wrong direction — the opposite direction, in fact, from where we need to go. This is the supreme irony of lefties now hitting him from the left — “he didn’t go far enough.” No, he went way, way too far. They’re still in denial about their brain-dead philosophy, but the silver lining is that they’ll be looking for a Ralph Nader type to be on the ballot next year to give them a chance to feel righteous about their vote. Fine with me, as long as O goes.
Before you can know where to go, you must know not only where you’re at, but where you’ve been.
You can’t change the tides of history, but you can learn to navigate them.
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Alvin Toffler’s The Third Wave.
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THE RISE AND FALL OF CIVILIZATIONS
December 2001
By Joseph M. Miller, Daan Joubert, Marion Butler
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Empires with Expiration Dates
By Niall Ferguson
September/October 2006
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The Decline of the Nation State
Phil Howison
Victoria University, Wellington,
New Zealand
October, 2006
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World Trade Order and the Beginning of the Decline of the Washington,
Consensus
Howard Wachtel
International Politics and Society, 3/2000, 2000
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Eight hundred years of financial folly
Carmen M. Reinhart
19 April 2008
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Long Waves in Economics and International Politics
Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Kondratieff (1892 – 1938)
University of Washington
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A Planet at the Brink: Will Economic Brushfires Prove Too Virulent to
Contain?
By Professor Michael T. Klare
Hampshire College
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The Five Stages of Collapse
Dmitry Orlov
FEBRUARY 22, 2008
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How do you gain executive leadership experience while on endless vacations and golf outings?
And fundraising events.
Obama isn’t the scariest thing to me, it’s all the people in the USA that think like Obama does. That’s what scares the hell outta me.
@23 BogusBob
That this nutcase can command a 47% approval rating today is confirmation of your thesis. It is very scary indeed that so many of our citizens are in thrall with Obama and his policies. There are so very many cures available for our economy that the Left is thwarting with all of their media help too, that it is frustrating.
Why is it that: 1)we are not exploiting our own oil, coal, gas, and sun energy to the max right now; 2)we are not relaxing tight regulations on industry to allow them greater freedom to operate; 3)we are heading towards yet another tax hike on the middle class as well as the upper income class instead of looking to reducing the government budget, number of organizations (at last count there were 1744 of them)and number of personnel? I could add twenty more steps easily!
That this nutcase can command a 47% approval rating today is confirmation of your thesis.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that 47% of Americans don’t pay any income tax. They’ve bought into the Democrats’ promise of “more free stuff.” Unfortunately, we’re heading to an economic “Come to Jesus” moment where endlessly expanding entitlement programs are going to bankrupt the country. When that happens and people start getting kicked off of the gravy train, you can look for riots like those in England. Hell, look at the hissy fit those public employee (can’t call them workers) union pukes have been throwing in Wisconsin for the past several months. Just wait until the people throwing the fit aren’t public employees but more hard-core welfare cases with an entitlement mentality.
This won’t end pretty.
We are living through the collapse of the multicultural social welfare state. Obama wants to finish the transformation of America from a federal republic with a limited government to just such a welfare state. He can’t or won’t see that his presidency is doomed to fail.
About three years ago on rightwingnuthouse I called Obama a crypto-Marxist. You said I was stupid and wrong. As he sets about destroying institution after institution, care to change your assessment?
Stupid? No, not stupid.
Take the ‘great movement’ concept for history and you can look at the US starting a U-Turn on Progressivism starting with Reagan. The Elite political and economic class is still very much stuck in the early part of the 20th century, using sloganeering and going against big business all the while being in bed with them. They saw Obama as that ‘great man’ who would ‘seal the deal’. Unfortunately the cat was already out of the bag in the 1980′s when the bankruptcy of SSA was put around 2030… and then revised downwards every few years until it is now operating in the red and going to be sucking in more funds and creating debt. Yet the Elite operate as if it was still solvent and still a great boon to everyone. Ditto the other Ponzi Schemes of Medicare and Medicaid.
Now you have the social and economic forces working against Progressivism: both are pointing out that the socially redistributive state is a failure. If you take it in this light then Obama isn’t stupid: he is a true believer and unwilling to accept reality, even when it smacks him around with a cluebat. The Left is coming to despise him as he can’t be pragmatic (something that was heretofore disdained by them) like Clinton… the fact that the true believer is failing and showing up the ideology to be hollow isn’t an act of stupidity but one of blind faith. Those that had espoused the ‘great movement’ concept then looked for the ‘great man’ in Obama. They got him. He is a great failure as the great movement is a failure, they go hand-in-hand.
In the meantime the pernicious effects of the redistributive state have eroded public morality and private ethics to the point where there are no restrictions, nothing is prohibited and, so, man can do anything. That is man as animal, not man as being civilized. That is human nature coming to give its return on us to remind us that when we stop controlling ourselves and seek government to do it we become enslaved to government and are no longer civilized. When government fails, as it surely will even if it takes decades, then it is man as animal that we see, the veneer of civilization stripped off as that is a being who has no morals to guide them and no conscience to make them ethical. That, too, is a trend and a horrific one, but it goes right along with what has been practiced for a century and more on our fellow citizens in the civilized world.
The backlash to this had started in the Middle East long before Israel was formed: you can read the accounts of Churchill about the Mahdi long before there was even a Zionist movement. Yet that religion has not made its followers civilized but subservient to it, and that means it cannot be sustained in states over time. Empires of it come and go, and we enter the time when the very ability to get an Empire is quickly vanishing if not already gone.
Can this be turned around?
Of course it can!
It does, as all great movements in society, start with YOU. It is YOU who are the moral actor in your life, and it is YOU who sets the example for your fellow man. When you are sustaining yourself, raising a family with morals and showing that hard work is its own reward and want nothing of the siren’s song of Progressivism then it is YOU who are leading the way out. Leaders will only appear once enough of the individuals get to a certain point to find those who can encapsulate what it means to lead a good life with the greatest liberty of all: freedom FROM government by self-governing.
If you can’t conceive of living without SSA, Medicare and Medicaid then you are giving your soul to the government to hold. And the weight you feel are the chains upon you and your children to live off the scraps government will hand you until the scraps can no longer be given. There is no good in impoverishing the spirit to feed the body because those feeding the body are crushing the spirit. When you provide for yourself you are uplifted, you are an important actor in your own life and you can tell government to go away. That social movement is now picking up steam… there are still those caught in the 20th century wishing to pull down the 21st with the failures so evident of the 20th. Those that make the transition will cut off that cancer of thought and action and seek to put their own houses in order and demand the government does likewise and keep itself to the proper role of government which is protecting society, not crushing its members with favor.
Obama isn’t stupid, and he isn’t lost.
He is stuck in a dogmatic ideology that is a boat anchor and he wants to believe it is a balloon… and grasp as many of us as he can to pull us down with him because he does not like people who can walk with their head held up and free from the grasp of government over their bodies, over their minds and over their very souls. And each person that turns from that ideology and steps up on their own will seal its fate and start creating a better society away from the necessary evil that is government.
On Sept. 27, 2010, this missy wrote this missive. To my way of thinking, it was a spot on description of a one term President who’s plan was to destroy this nation. Of course, today, the headline would read four and a half trillion.
After squandering trillions, even Obama figures his White House days are numbered.
It all adds up.
The poll numbers are telling Obama and the Democrats it’s time to get out of Dodge. The deficit, pushing 14 trillion, is politely nudging the brown eyed handsome man; make like a hockey player, it’s saying, and get the puck out. If honest, hard working, patriotic, tea partying Americans are the threat, Barack’s boys are screaming, “condition red.”
Hovering around Obama are progressives, socialists, marxists, whatever you want to call greedy, creepy people whose greasy outstretched palms are yelling, “fill me up” while nice, politically correct Alinsky inspired wealth redistribution schemes dance around in their heads. Designed, of course, to suck in voters who I’ve come to believe, and I could be wrong about this, just don’t know any better.
Of course, Obama got voted in by white, politically correct gullibles who swallowed his platitudinal speeches like a big fat striped bass swimming off Montauk Point swallows the bait hook line and sinker. The anointed one’s last three speeches were so full of the same spammy tripe, long on trite, meaningless, biased, prosaic statements; Rachel calls em’ verbal loogies. But short on specifics. Very short. No meat just spam. If Obama’s speeches were measured by the number of real, actionable, beneficial specifics in them, in people terms they’d be dwarfs.
Here let me give you a sample of an ObamaLoogie. Platitude central.
Obama, a week or so ago.
“If we’re willing again to choose hope over fear, to choose the future over the past, to come together once more around the great project of renewal, then we will restore our economy, rebuild our middle class and reclaim the American dream for he next generation.”
What’s that old saying? If BS were electricity, Obama would be a powerhouse.
A couple of days ago, when Obama panicked because the GOP “Pledge to America” was full of actionable specifics, like repealing ObamaCare, Obama gave a speech full of meaningless specifics. Hey, he’s a lawyer. Playing with language is what he chose to spend three years learning how to do.
Was it yesterday or the day before when Obama slammed the GOP “Pledge to America?” It reminded me of the way he sounds when Obama slams average hard working Americans who only ask for the benefits of being legal citizens. Americans who respectfully ask that their borders be secured so that drug cartels don’t cross into the United States and kill their families; Americans who want the national treasury respected, not looted, destroying the American dream for their children; Americans who want the best medical system in the world preserved, not destroyed with a lunatic idea called ObamaCare.
Golly, Obama doesn’t like that “Pledge to America at all.” Maybe because it reminds him of his pre-election promises that post-election he forgot to keep.
From no earmarks to having the most transparent administration in history to being the first-post partisan, post-racial President. Here’s where Obama really started accumulating those Frequent Liar Miles. In all of United States history, Obama has proved to be the most divisive, most racially biased man ever to occupy the oval office.
You don’t want me to recite chapter and verse the specifics to back this up. Do you? Does the name Sgt. James Crowley ring a bell?
Why, the first thing Barack and Holder cooked up after getting elected was an asinine statement calling white males cowards when it comes to race. Not just white males in Mississippi mind you. Or Arkansas. Or Kansas. But all of them; the whole kit and caboodle. Including of course the tens of thousands fighting two wars for the brown eyed handsome man. If that sounds like post-racial, I’m a natural blonde.
Giving the voter intimidating Black Panthers a get out of jail free card was I think the racial straw that broke the camel’s back. Democrats calling somebody a racist, after that, is like the boy who cried wolf.
Sorry, Dems, but with that single racist act, Obama and Holder shot the whole Democratic Party in the foot. I realize the Hannities and the Becks of the world don’t realize it yet. For one thing, their heads are on the firing line. But listen to Rachel. A Democrat throwing the race card now has the potency of a 60 year old man on blood pressure medicine who’s run out of Viagra. Obama dealt from the bottom of the deck once too often. And lost.
But so has our nation. In every way imaginable, Obama’s screwed up this country. Yes, totally and completely on purpose. With huge malice of forethought. Premeditation. He hates this nation like a woman hates a man who did her wrong. Obama hates everything this nation stands for. The “Pledge to America” isn’t exactly anti-American, and Obama instantly hated it with a passion usually reserved for child molesters. When he sent that bust of Churchill back to England, any doubt anybody ever had about where Obama’s allegiances lie should have disappeared.
If Obama were a puzzle, that single act should have put a lot of pieces together for you. He hates Britain as much as he hates America.
Does this not explain for all concerned why Obama goes against the 70% majority of this nation every chance he gets? What President in his right mind would sue Arizona for wanting federal law enforced. Only Obama. And not just because he wants his comprehensive amnesty plan to deliver 15 million new Democratic votes. To Obama, it’s one more step down the path to destroy America. Obama is Americaphobic.
If Obama’s driven this nation into an economic, social, political and international ditch, it’s because he steered it precisely in that moronic marxist, anti-American-values, bankrupt direction. By now, we all know what Obama wants. He wants the power to suck tax money and fees; (money in whatever form he can think up) from the hard working citizens he detests. You know who they are. They’re the ones who Obama says “cling to their guns and bibles.” As well as every other American who feels pride when they see old glory flying in the breeze.
What utter contempt our President has demonstrated for the people he’s supposed to represent. If there’s an ounce of decency in the man, I haven’t seen it. He’s out to destroy us, folks, because he possesses all the antipathy felt by the savages who flew the planes into the Twin Towers on 9/11. And more and more you can see the hate bubbling to the surface.
Why did Obama buzz New York after he was elected? Why do you think? Why is he so pro mosque when decency says it’s the wrong thing to do? In ObamaWorld, up is down. Right is wrong. Black is white. In ObamaWorld, a world of hate is felt and hopefully expressed for the America you and I know and love.
I truly believe that Obama is so disconnected to mainstream America that it’s like somebody who speaks only German trying verbally to communicate with somebody who speaks only Japanese. Do Obama’s actions confound you? Of course they do. He’s President of the wrong country.
Now where does all this leave us?
Today, September 27th, it leaves us with a dangerous perp. He’s free to roam the countryside, yet knows the jig is up. People are onto him. If he were a spy, you’d say his cover’s been blown.
At this point in time, looking at it from just a practical point of view, Obama wants votes, especially independent votes so badly he can taste it. They’d give him the leftist congress he needs to rubber stamp the further Stalinization of America. Unfortunately, for America, congress has become the enabler that allows the President to literally loot the national treasury while damaging the country in innumerable other ways. Obama’s last three speeches have demonstrated his desire to restate the same stale narrative he’s been regurgitating every chance he gets. He’ll say anything he thinks will get him votes. Like the Koran teaches it’s okay to lie, Obama’s been lying through his teeth to the American public since the day he took the oath of office.
But 70% or more of America is onto him. Run again in 2012? When pigs fly. Never happened.
ObamaWords aren’t worth a plugged nickle. Only the country’s progressive marxists believe them. Because ObamaWords are empty. Meaningless to any American who wants this nation to survive. And thrive once more. Which it will. Because the American will bends, but doesn’t break.
Barack, you truly are the carnival barker, the snake oil salesmen. You’re the wife beater who, when the police arrive, tells them it was just a bloody misunderstanding. How much hope you have for your marriage.
Obama, you’re unlike Lenin and Stalin. You have a bigger hurdle to climb than hu Jinto, the President of China, because the guys I mentioned actually believed and believe most of what they said. You, President Obama, believe what Saul Alinsky wrote in Rules for Radicals, your Koran, and consequently are in the unenviable position of believing almost nothing of what you say. Which is one reason you tend to lower your volume these days as you spout voluminous lies.
Like the eye is drawn to movement, the voice, taking cues from the brain, is aware of untruths and tends to make the voice fumble over them. The prime example is how the words, “preserve protect and defend” during Obama’s oath of office, barely had a chance to escape from his mouth unscathed. To speak loudly, with passion, without believing a word of what you say, one must almost be a fine actor, or a con artist. Obama, unfortunately, I have to place in the second category. He is the consummate con artist. That’s the pity of it. The harsh reality of it; He is also the President of the United States.
Whose actions speak louder than words. He squandered almost a trillion dollar Stimulus; included virtually nothing in the area of shovel ready projects designed to renew our infrastructure. Yet, it doesn’t dissuade him from doing the same with billions more. Has he no decency? Is the sun hot? Obama’s not just looting our tax money, he’s stealing the American Dream from our children. He’s set time bombs to wreck their tomorrows. Booby trapped futures for generations.
Where’s the money gone?
Millions upon millions of dollars have slid secretly and unseen into pockets of supporters. ObamaHenchmen say it was just too much money to keep track of. Nobody had experience in keeping track of such large sums, some of which was sent to districts in America that don’t even exist. Inexplicably the huge money transfers were made anyway. Obama created so many millionaires in that first 13 months of his administration that even Wall Street was impressed.
The ObamaShow isn’t the greatest one on earth. It’s something else. It’s the biggest demonstration of Presidential corruption on earth. No President in the history of this nation more deserves to be led out of the White House in handcuffs.
Barack Hussein Obama has desecrated the alter of freedom for which hundreds of thousands of Americans have given their lives. After that, there is no coming back. Only a comeuppance to look forward to. If not in this world, then the next.
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Everyone knews inside the beltway, America has far more debt and is keeping it silent to abate a run on accounts and banks.
The press continues to report our fiscal debt as, “a our second Recession.” The meltdown here and the ripple affect now starting in Europe is America’s, ” “second Depression.”
The Prez plays because that’s what he has been told to do.
The Chaos is working very well. The corruption so deep that no one will take definitves steps to impeach this impostor and refuse to be responsible for the the scandal that will be the worse cover-up in America’s short history.
Obama may or may not be “smart”, but he has the curse that many intellectuals, particularly those in academia, have: he’d rather be dead than wrong. I’d hoped that simple political ambition would eventually coax out his inner Calvin Coolidge, but it looks like he’d rather go down in flames and argue that if only the evil Rethuglicans and “tea baggers” had “compromised”, his wonderful ideology would have turned AmeriKKKa into a land of gentle angels and unicorns, overflowing with milk and honey, living carbon-neutral and sustainably for ever after.