Presidential Papas: Obama’s Daddy Issues
When newly elected President John F. Kennedy was flying out of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, he looked down at his father and said to a nearby assistant, “There’s the man who did all this.” Kennedy’s dad, like most fathers of presidents, played a massive role in the identity of his son. And as the 2012 presidential election approaches, it would be helpful to look closely at the dads of today’s candidates. As psychologist Dr. Dale Atkins put it, “Our relationship with our parents is the ‘original’ relationship of our lives, the template for all other connections.”
There is no better place to start our look at presidential papas then with the father of our current president. President Barack Obama is featured in a new book that psychoanalyzes the world leader. George Washington University professor Dr. Justin Frank had previously written a negative book about George W. Bush in 2004, and this time he puts Obama on the Couch (which also happens to be the name of the book).
Frank focuses on what he calls Obama’s “father hunger.” He believes that Obama has made most of his decisions based on feelings from being abandoned by his birth father as an infant and his step-father at age 10. Frank argues that Obama has even tried to feed his dad-shaped hole with replacements like Jeremiah Wright and Vice President Joe Biden. Frank writes, “Obama searched for a father, for someone to relate to who could help him — a strong man who knew what to do.“
We know that Obama has reached out to know more about his Kenyan father and namesake. In his 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father, Obama quoted his half-sister: “I can’t say I really knew him, Barack. Maybe nobody did . . . not really. His life was so scattered. People only knew scraps and pieces, even his own children.”
In Dreams, the reader discovers an Obama reaching out to discover a father to reveal the own mysteries within himself. Author Sally Jacobs wrote about the father-son relationship between the two Baracks and also saw real issues:
In Dreams, you feel Obama Jr. struggling with [questions like] “Who am I? What kind of a man am I? What will I be?”
Next: Does parental abandonment yield “excessive bipartisan disorder”?
The ‘birth’ father had literally no input and is just a facade.
The step-father isn’t even named.
And nothing of his natural father and philosophical mentor, the pederast F. M. Davis.
Obama is neither strange nor disaffected. He is a sociopath. Click, please, on Antisocial Personality and see that he meets not only three, but all of the diagnostic criteria. He is a male Oprah Winfrey or a Shirley McLain- a dingbat whose megalomania drives him to attempt to control the cosmos he really believes he has created.
Heres lies a great danger! Given the failure of the GOPhers to evolve a candidate who is virtuous, intelligent and appropriately experienced, the
criminally insane person who currently infests the White House may be re-elected. If so, don’t get between the border and the masses emigrating to wherever.
Soetero, his stepfather was abusive to Barry; his mother returned Barry to her parents. Barry’s nanny in the Soetero household was a tranny, and he had a good relationship with him.
If indeed Barack senior was his father, his irresponsibility towards womenhas turned Obama into ridiculing/attacking etc anybody disagreeing with him. So, sure he is a good father, but he married a controlling and overbearing woman, who obviously wears the pants in that household.
There is a lot we do not know about Barry, since everything is hidden by paid agents who arecollectiong millions to keep it that way, but I’m sure if we know the true ‘Barry’ we may would be slackjawed, not knowing which way is up or down, and surely he would never gotten into the white house.
The most psychologically screwed up president ever.
AMEN to that Bonny,
The father factor is only part of the story. Obama supporters think that he is a brilliant mind and is doing great work under difficult circumstances. We need to consider his appeal to a potential majority of voters. I wrote about his diverse base here: http://clarespark.com/?s=Is+POTUS+crazy%3F. If at times he seems unhinged, I prefer explaining it with reference to a base that is fragmented and at odds with each other.
No responsible analyst would attempt a genuine diagnosis of a person they have never met, and especially from such a vast gulf of time, distance and life circumstances. Thus this “Dr. Frank” is either a charlatan or a fool — or both, as one does not exclude the other.
His book screams of wishful thinking and projection.
Yeah, maybe…but I believe I saw father-hunger as well (here is where Rev. Wright comes into focus) in Barry when he burst onto the national scene in 2007.
What is disheartening, is that a person with advisers such as Weatherman Bill Ayers, can make it into the highest office, cheered on by a compliant and incurious media.
Oh, well…gotta go; time for Viewing Whoopie and Barbara to hear how I should think if I wanna be a good person an’ all…
Does it?
One may say, “You can’t judge a book by its cover” but you can tell a lot about it.
Most thinking people can identify Barack Obama’s strangeness, magnified because of celebrity as it always does but all Paul Cooper does, really, is offer some plausible explanation that it’s due to abandonment issues. He understands the symptoms and explains it well enough to be a legitimate occurrence.
I’ll also submit that it doesn’t take a psychiatrist or psychologist to notice that Obama is off in many ways. It’s been evident to many here, as well as Rush has pointed out that he’s a very angry individual.
Finally, it’s not the duty of Americans to have to understand a person such as Obama. He has repeatedly made decisions that are bad for this nation and regardless of the genesis of these decisions, he must go. He is not healthy for us or other living things.
“Finally, it’s not the duty of Americans to have to understand a person such as Obama.”
My thought exactly.
The Presidency is no place for therapy.
I don’t even want to consider anymore whether Obama’s sundry destructive moves, fiscal, confiscatory, international etc. are based in incompetency or intention.
Maybe. But I think it’s safe to make general observations that apply to certain profiles, and then see how well your subject matches. For example, the outward symptoms of narcissism are pretty well known; we can look at at individual exhibiting many of those symptoms and conclude that he/she is probably a narcissist.
While Frank’s assessment is interesting (and may be accurate) ‘obsessive bipartisan disorder’ is not something I normally would associate with males with absent fathers.
Where to begin?
Today’s Obama, for example, is more likely to build a bridge to single-payer health care through Obamacare instead of foolishly trying to force the whole program down the taxpayers’ throats.
Huh? Single-payer health care is a tough sell, so rather than foolishly trying to force it down the taxpayers’ throats, you “build” a shoddy, deliberately complicated and convoluted “bridge” to single-payer and foolishly try to force that down the taxpayers’ throats instead?
Frank believes that because Obama barely knew his father, he struggles with “obsessive bipartisan disorder.” According to Frank, Obama constantly wants to bring people together because his own family was always so broken.</i.
You mean Frank says this. Nobody believes it. And I can’t believe you’re letting it go unchallenged. No one who has a compulsion “to bring people together” could have achieved the exact opposite result as completely or as often as Obama does.
President Obama is universally acknowledged as an excellent husband and father.
President Obama is not universally acknowledged as anything, other than as the first black president and as belonging to the Democratic Party. There are very few opinions which can be agreed upon about this president, and even fewer facts which can be known. You have no idea what kind of father he is. It’s one thing to cede petty points for the sake of argument; it’s quite another to lavish wildly inaccurate praise (“universally acknowledged?”).
I don’t know why an Obama critic would indulge in the same postmodern nonsense rhetoric that Obama uses to defend his policies, let patently false statements by his supporters go by unchallenged, and puts obsequious praise for his unknowable personal merits on the lips of everyone, unless it is because that critic feels intimidated by the backlash that comes from even the smallest criticism, and is verbally cringing in anticipation of the slap he thinks is coming.
Breathe. It’ll all be okay:)
Half black. The fact that he adamantly rejects half of his blood line and almost all of his upbringing (raised primarily in a white family) is illustrative of his pathology. He is a man filled with self-loathing that desperately wants to exorcise that half of his humanity on which he blames the ills of the world.
I’m looking forward to reading a real psychoanalyisis of BO but this is off the mark. Frank doesn’t watch Obama speeches or study photos like I do.
Obama is far from the calm, detached individual the left describes. He’s a passive-agressive with the emphasis on agressive. He is a very angry indidvidual.
His smiling demeaner is a charade. You can quickly see the smile turn to anger as registered on his face. He’s passive-agressive towards Michelle O belittling her in public about her eating.
The fact that Frank uses his ghostwritten book, Dreams, as a source is another myth the left uses.
“…Obama constantly wants to bring people together…”
This is absolute hogwash. The tone set forth by his actions (“I won & I’ll trump you on that” attitude) has created the most divisive, polarized atmosphere I have ever seen. One where friendships erode over arguments regarding politics. One where students at a particular school feel comfortable putting up “Colored Only” signs at drinking fountains.
I know PJM likes to have libbies write for their site, but this is ridiculous. Perhaps this is all a joke, but I didn’t feel the urge to laugh.
Perhaps you missed the full quote from my article: “According to Frank, Obama constantly wants to bring people together.” How in the world you could leave out the first part of that sentence and claim I was making that argument is beyond me. Make sure you get basic facts straight before making accusations.
This ‘analysis’ is nothing but pure propaganda of the left. Ignorant and manipulative.
Obama wants to get people together? Hah – what a joke. Then why does he insult western leaders, why does he tell hispanics to go out and fight the enemy (non-hispanics), why does he insult the Tea Party, why does he file suits against Arizona, against Boeing for wanting to set up a new plant? Why does he insult Americans by calling them lazy, by calling them ‘rednecks’, by….
Why does he belittle Congress, which is the voice of the people; why does he set up czars and mechanisms to bypass and sideline Congress?
Why does he insult producers who make money, why does he belittle hard work, why does he insist that they give all – to Him, to ‘the govt’? Why does he set up a class war?
Why does he reject American exceptionalism, why does he think all the technological advances of America are mere accidents and not due to an ideology of individualism and hard work?
Why is he so narcissistic, so filled with rage if anyone dissents or criticizes him? Why is he so lazy – leaving all policy and program development to others, and spending his time, apart from golf, on campaigning, i.e., on public sessions with vetted audiences that will all just cheer for him?
Obama is a pathological narcissist; he doesn’t want to bring people together. He wants to splinter them into adversarial groups who focus only on Him as their Messianic and totalitarian Leader.
All on point.
Add that this paean to the puppet of the one-worlders seems to have forgottent he role of the promiscuous pseudo hippie mother, the socialist grandparents and his teenage mentor, the bi-sexual black communist Frank Marshall Davis.
The man is more effedup than A. Hitler ever was, and look at the world chaos that that fellow led us to.
Hitler was just angry that they rejected him for art school. Obama’s problems go a lot deeper.
You can psychoanalyze this character until the OWS come home. But, unless he is willing to fundamentally transform himself, including unsealing his records and demonstrating transparency of his agenda, he must continue down the psychopath of the other malignant narcissists. There can only be tragedy in the outcome of his anger and the toys in his attic.
Aren’t we overlooking the obvious? His mother abandoned him too!
And his grandparents essentially left him to his own devices as well. He says it in the book Ayers wrote for him.
One quote says everything you need to know about his relationship with his grandmother. “She’s a typical white person”. The contempt drips from every word.
This guy is one sick puppy. It’s a good thing he was born in America or he would be working on his second hundred million to the gulags.
How can any analysis of Mr Soetoro ignore the evidence of his “Down Low” homosexuality, the likelihood that Obama, Sr was not his actual father, but that Malcolm X (Little) was, and the impact of his mentor, the pederast marxist beat-poet Frank Marshal Davis, on the man.
Who was Larry Sinclair???
Has Google deleted him?
Absent a real father, the president became a child of the Left — and never grew up.
Father figures were guys like Frank Marshall Davis and Jeremiah (Bullfrog) Wright. Obama Sr., from all indications, married willy nilly (didn’t bother to divorce his Kenyan wife when he hooked up with Barack’s mom, left her and 2 YO Barack to pursue his “studies” & another Caucasian woman, was a communist radical and an alcoholic who lost both legs in one car accident and died in another.)
Bill Ayers might have titled his ghostwritten Obama memoir “Nightmares From Dad”.
Kennedy’s dad, like most fathers of presidents, played a massive role in the identity of his son.
Joe may have been a present (as opposed to absent) father, but he had a deeply ruthless side.
Pssttt, wanna hear some more psychological stuff about the narcissist-in-chief?
Listen awhile to Sam Vaknin
(overlook that the interview is at the LaRouche website)
“Frank believes that because Obama barely knew his father, he struggles with “obsessive bipartisan disorder.” According to Frank, Obama constantly wants to bring people together because his own family was always so broken.”
How Frank reconciles this claim with the blindingly obvious fact Obama is the most arrogant, ideologically rigid man to become president since Woodrow Wilson is beyond me.
We should also note that Barack Obama spent much of his childhood being raised by grandparents, so in a sense, he was abandoned by his mother as well. Most of us grow up with at least one parent as a guidepost. Obama’s guideposts were forever changing. No wonder he continually contradicts himself.
FWIW, my observations on President Obama.
1) You can tell a lot about the kind of people he likes having around him. Obama despises “weak” people – I mean “weak” in the sense of not being a bully. Obama is not aggressive himself on a one-to-one basis – he prefers to be passive-aggressive, like putting people in positions where they can’t easily respond to him (as with Paul Ryan). But his closest associates (even if temporary) are either thuggish or wanna-be thugs – Wright, Van Jones, Emanuel, Ayers. I would guess that he was even intimidated by, or has respect for, Hillary Clinton in this respect – so he preferred to neutralize her (or having her as his subordinate) in the State Department. And, of course, Michelle herself – is there any doubt who is more afraid of whom there?
2) In the presence of people he sees as stronger than he – and neither subordinated to him, nor openly an enemy – he becomes subdued. He behaves like that, for instance, with Bill Clinton (as in that press conference episode, when Clinton took over) and Nicolas Sarkozy. And, of course, with the Saudi King – almost certainly with Vladimir Putin as well.
3) With people he sees as openly hostile to him – or not as friendly to him as he thinks they should be – but, still stronger than he is, he becomes extremely annoyed. Examples are Binyamin Netanyahu, maybe John Boehner. But he doesn’t dare to be openly confrontational, only indirectly.
Obama is a fundamentally weak man who nevertheless thinks he’s smarter than most people – so he’s drawn to people who he sees as intellectually inferior but will be tough pushers of his agenda – in a way, protect him. Which also explains his political views: he favors a paternalistic state because he himself feels helpless without one in a “complicated” world – a world where, as he complained, you have to pay attention to which car insurance you choose, and do the paperwork for your health insurance. He needs a protector, so he assumes everyone needs one, too.
Contrast his choice of close associates with those of, say, President Kennedy. Kennedy liked having intellectuals around him (whether they were right or wrong about real issues is not the point): Ted Sorensen, Arthur Schlesinger, McNamara. Not one thuggish character among them (and he disliked the arguably thuggish Lyndon Johnson). Kennedy did not like having tough guys around him maybe because his own self-image was of being tough enough, without needing protectors (an image thst was shaken by his encounter with Khrushchev)
Obama’s self-image is of a weakling who’s nevetheless more intelligent than those who are stronger than him – so his instinct is to try to make them his allies and protectors, and to be either submissive, or angrily hostile (from a distance) to those whom he can’t bring to his side.
Good points.
When, as a Senator, candidate Obama haltingly and meekly tried to put down General Petraeus in committee questioning, his demeanor and behavior spoke volumes.
Hillary, in the same meeting, was tentative and little girl-like when questioning Petraeus.
Also spoke volumes.
Obama does like bullies, the only way to describe confidantes like Axelrod and Emanuel. Valerie Jarrett (Obama’s “protector”) is a girl bully
Obama likes to tell would be supporters stuff like when they bring a knife, we bring a gun and “punish your enemies”…
“Valerie Jarrett (Obama’s “protector”) is a girl bully”
I would say there’s sufficiently strangeness about what Jarrett gets away with and her questionable proximity to the decision-making that comes out of the WH to speculate that the true nature of her relationship to BO, and/or Moo-chelle, is rather closer.
Good points. But is ‘intelligence’ the correct term?
Obama thinks he is superior to others, unique in his self-defined abilities (which exist only in his mind and not in reality). But in reality he is intellectually ignorant: of history, of economics, of societal organization, of political theory. And he lacks curiosity about these areas; he’s not interested in finding out any facts or theories about economics or societal organization or..anything.
As such, he self-defines himself as having an ‘intuitive wisdom’. Not a learned wisdom. That’s why he moves into the defensive when asked to justify his opinions. He can’t; they are subjective opinions not factual analyses.
That’s why he has no interest in his policies being debated by Congress; he has no involvement in the actual workings of his proposed policies – and can’t deal with Congress exploring these policies and coming up with the facts that his proposals are deeply flawed.
Obama lives, not in the real world of hard data and actual consequences, but in the virtual world-of-words. That’s a world where what you say is all that matters, and there is nothing to debate; the words stand by themselves. For anyone to question those word-images or to wonder about their connection to reality, is considered a betrayal of Obama’s power and ‘wisdom’.
He’s pathological. I suggest he moved into this disconnection from reality and into a virtual world that he alone controls, as a young boy. Such a disconnection from reality in a leader is dangerous to the nation.
I am posting this list around the net in the hope it will get general circulation by election day. It takes a lot of space but i feel it’s worth it.
It is a list of reasons to appreciate Obama based on his real rotten accomplishments complied by Rabbi Dov Fischer. Can anyone think of extra reasons:
1. Obamacare — Attempting to federalize local state rights, extending federal control over massive components of the national bourse, extending federal control over individuals’ lives in violation of the Constitution’s Commerce Clause. Cynically lining up supporters in white doctors’ robes, while refusing to consult with much more prominent and predominant medical groups who oppose. Lying about the program’s cost and tax burden by subterfuging it with exorbitant taxes that begin several years into its anticipated roll-out. Robbing $500 billion from Medicare that will destroy access for seniors, while lying about the Ryan proposal that would not affect people over 55.
2. The catastrophic $850 billion stimulus. $700,000 to develop a robot that tells jokes. $3.4 million for an underground tunnel for turtles to cross the road in Florida. $1 million to help smokers kick the habit by giving them Blackberry “smartphones.” $2.6 million for Chinese prostitutes in China to drink responsibly. Lying to Americans by claiming the money was going to “shovel-ready jobs” — and then joking about the falsehood. Lying by hiding the amounts transferred to favored liberal projects unrelated to job growth or economic stimulation.
3. Chronically high, persistent unemployment — His own staff said that he would bring it under 8% ; yet it remains over 9% thirty months into his one term, with real unemployment actually exceeding 15% as huge numbers of unemployed Americans withdraw from searching hopelessly for jobs. Lying about a Summer of Recovery (2010).
4. Gas prices — Now exceeding $4.50 a gallon in California, while he bars exploration in ANWR, restricts licenses to explore along the Atlantic coast or in the Gulf, but exports American dollars to help Brazil explore for oil in the Gulf even as Obama promises that America then will buy that oil from Brazil. (See also #82.)
5. Failure to pass a budget. The abject failure by the Chief Executive to get any kind of budget adopted for 2010.
6. Multi-trillion debt free-fall. Turning the disastrous Bush deficits into a multi-trillion-dollar economic free-fall, now leaving the nation with a debt exceeding $14.3 trillion . . . and pressing for authorization to increase the free-fall. His own latest mad deficit proposal was demolished in a House vote 97-318, as his own Democrats abandoned him in droves.
7. The seizure of GM and Chrysler. The illegal transfer of bondholder wealth to unions, imposing his views on parts of the American auto industry, artificially trying to jump-start his favored companies with “Cash for Clunkers,” only to find that American tax dollars were used instead by people buying preferred Japanese cars to acquire them cheaper while being forced to destroy throughly sound used cars.
8. Dodd-Frank.
9. Unremitting hostility to Israel. Destroying the Mideast process by imposing unilateral burdens on Israel, forcing Israel to cease construction of Jewish homes, even in Jerusalem, thus compelling Abbas to harden several positions, all while publicly snubbing Prime Minister Netanyahu in the basement of the White House (the first visit) and trying to snub him on the second visit with a horrible policy speech as Netanyahu was flying en route to America.
10. Failure to support Iran’s Green Revolution. A complete silence and abandonment of leadership when Iranians risked their lives for freedom, while backing the Moslem Brotherhood uprising in Egypt.
11. Failure to support the Syrian people’s revolution against Assad. Utter failure to lead until it was impossible to overlook the massacres by a dictator who actively finances and supports Iran and Hezbollah, America’s sworn enemies in Iraq and South Lebanon.
12. The Libyan Fiasco. Entering Libya while failing to consult Congress. No sense of whether we are supporting people just as bad as Qaddafi. Remaining in the war more than 90 days without obtaining Congressional approval. Lying about violating the War Powers Act by claiming there are no “hostilities” in Libya.
13. The Gulf oil disaster. Bumbling in handling the Gulf oil disaster — refusing aid from countries with oil-cleaning vessels, failing to accept offers of boom to corral the spill, bringing in underwater filmmaker James Cameron as an expert.
14. Closing down oil exploration. The unnecessary moritorium on permitting oil exploration in the aftermath of the Gulf oil disaster, contributing to a massive explosion of oil prices, even leading a federal court to overturn him.
15. EPA interference. The shutdown of Shell’s Arctic oil exploration by EPA
16. Cap-and-Trade Fiasco. The push in Congress for a disastrous “cap-and-trade” plan that would stymie the coal, electric, and natural gas industries, while enormously raising Americans’ home fuel prices, leading even his own party’s U.S. Senator from West Virginia to film a TV promise to voters that he will shoot the proposal full of holes.
17. Use of federal agencies to bypass Congressional oversight. The attempt, after Congress refused to adopt his cap-and-trade nonsense, to bypass Congressional opposition and impose cap-and-trade undemocratically via the EPA.
18. Use of FCC initially to restrict free speech. The push for unconstitutional restrictions on free speech on his political enemies on Talk Radio while assuring protections for unions to spend money on campaigns via The Disclose Act.
19. The Disclose Act and cherry-picking. The attempt to unconstitutionally impose The Disclose Act on his political opponents but not unions via Executive Order.
20. Czars to bypass Congressional oversight. The use of unaccountable “czars” who effectively run huge segments of the American Government without being accountable to Congress and who are protected from Congressional subpoena power.
21. Boorish shaming of Supreme Court justices. The embarrassing and arrogant verbal assault on the Supreme Court while Court Justices courteously attended the first State of the Union address, sitting in front of him, leading most to boycott the subsequent State of Union addresses.
22. Boorish attempt to shame Paul Ryan. The similarly embarrassing and arrogant verbal assault on Rep. Paul Ryan when addressing the federal budget, with Ryan having been invited personally by Obama to attend the speech and sit in front of him.
23. Boorish attempt to shame John McCain. The insulting, embarrassing, and arrogant gloating at John McCain during the televised sham negotiation over Obamacare, when he responded to McCain not substantively but by saying that Obama had won and McCain had lost the election — so there!
24. Refusal to prosecute Black Panthers for Voter Intimidation. Obama’s and Attorney-General Eric Holder’s politicization of the Department of Justice, including refusing to prosecute the Black Panther voter-intimidation case in Philadelphia.
25. Marriage Act. Obama’s and Holder’s refusal to defend the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, an act of Congress.
26. Lies, Lies, Lies. The regular use of straw-man demonizations to try winning support for his unpopular legislation, like accusing doctors of performing unnecessary surgery so that they can enrich themselves by imposing misery on their patients.
27. Throwing his grandmother under the bus. Using his grandmother as a foil to win points, calling her a racist like “typical white people.”
28. Bowing to the Saudi King and the Japanese emperor. Literally.
29. Treating our British alliance contemptuously. Shamefully returning to Great Britain the bust of Winston Churchill that they had given us and that had reposed in the White House, while insulting the Queen and the Prime Minister with inane gifts like DVDs. The subsequent fiasco while toasting the Queen, continuing to talk during the playing of the British National Anthem.
30. Violating and abrogating long-standing promises to our allies. Removing the missile shield from Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Putin.
31. Standing with the aspiring Honduran dictator. Backing the would-be dictator of Honduras when that nation’s duly convoked Supreme Court had removed him from office in careful compliance with law.
32. FTAs with allies. Failure to push for quick ratification of free trade agreements with Columbia, Panama and South Korea.
33. Amateurish handling of Afghanistan military effort. The painfully over-extended indecision, for months, whether to authorize a military surge into Afghanistan, then exacerbating the indecision by announcing to our enemies a date-certain withdrawal timeline — a time coordinated with his reelection bid.
34. Incoherence on how to handle the anti-Mubarak uprising in Egypt. Dispatching Frank Wizner as his emissary, then rejecting Wizner’s advice.
35. Radicalizing the NLRB outside Congressional purview. Appointing [Harold] Craig Becker, a radical unionist, to the NLRB through a recess appointment that otherwise never would have passed Congress.
36. Radicalizing FCC outside Congressional purview. Appointing FCC commissioners who are pursuing “net neutrality” without Congressional authorization.
37. Ecology gone wild in California. Wiping out much of the agricultural economy of California’s Central Valley by restricting full water deliveries to protect a small Delta Smelt fish
38. Gitmo debacles. Promising to close the Guantanamo Bay facility that interns terrorists, trying to close it, failing to close it, refusing to concede his error or assure that “Gitmo” will remain open.
39. Civil trials for terrorists debacles. Promising to move terrorist trials to civilian courts, then trying to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed in Downtown New York, only to be opposed even by the two ultra-liberal Democrat U.S. Senators of New York, then pressing to try another terrorist, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, in civilian court, resulting in the terrorist being acquitted on 284 of 285 counts.
40. Napolitano out of touch. The shameful failure of Obama’s Homeland Security chief, Janet Napolitano, to appreciate the Obama Administration’s security failures in the face of the near-catastrophe of the “underwear bomber” in the skies over Detroit, as she insisted “the system worked.”
41. Student loans. Government takeover of the student loan program
42. Border security. Cancellation of the “virtual border fence” project with no replacement, while deploying National Guard troops to do paper work at desk jobs and provide office assistance rather than stand armed along the border.
43. The “Beer Summit.” In the aftermath of wrongly castigating and erroneously pre-judging fault regarding the Cambridge Police Department, tying up the country with a foolish spectacle on the White House lawn.
44. Immigration and Arizona. The Department of Justice’s attack on Arizona for that state’s exercise of its sovereign legislative authority on the issue of citizen identification rules. Failure of his own federal government to execute the law on immigration.
45. The attack on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Attacking the Wisconsin governor and his state legislature for exercising their sovereign legislative authority on public employment issues, while Obama failed to acknowledge that the new Wisconsin rules are comparable to those that always have applied to federal employees.
46. Lying to McCain on their deal over campaign fundraising. Violating his pledge to John McCain to abide by McCain-Feingold limits for funding his Presidential campaign.
47. Downplaying American exceptionalism. Apology tours.
48. Implying that the Minnesota bridge collapse was the result of lack of infrastructure funding
49. Chicago Olympics fiasco. Shamefully inserting himself into a botched campaign to bring Olympic Games to Chicago, thereby exposing the Presidency of the United States to ridicule and formal rejection, and demonstrating early-on his overconfident sense of himself and his unpreparedness for the seriousness of his office.
50. Hypocritical attack on D.C. public school voucher effort. The attack on a voucher program for Washington, D.C. schools, even as his own children are protected from the educational failures that curse the Washington populace.
51. Associating with the murky. Associations with convicted unrepentant domestic terrorists and eccentric haters of America: the Reverend Wright, William Ayres, Van Jones.
52. Anita Dunn. Her war against Fox News and her boastfulness that the Obama White House has the “courage to speak truth to Power” — when it is the White House, not a cable TV station, that is “Power”; and her speech to schoolchildren, as a White House representative, sharing with the young and impressionable her idolization and admiration of mass-murderer Mao Tse-Tung.
53. ACORN.
54. SEIU. Having Andrew Stern, President of SEIU, as the man who has visited the White House more than any other person during the Obama term.
55. Teleprompters / White House for Dummies. A reliance on teleprompters to protect him from stumbling and bumbling speeches when, without scripting, he has spoken of his visits to America’s “57 states,” has denigrated the handicapped, could not pronounce “corpsman,” moronically said that Austrians speak “Austrian,” referred to deceased war heroes adding that many were in the audience he was addressing, and has made more gaffes than Dan Quayle.
56. Arrogance and Haughtiness. An extreme level of personal nose-in-the-air arrogance and lack of graciousness, from physical comportment to the way he addresses others. The Roman columns. The arrogant temerity to tell Americans, God-like, that history will record his coronation as the moment that the rivers stopped rising and the planet healed.
57. Chicago Corruption. The house he corruptly acquired through Tony Rezko.
58. The artificial shifting dialects. Affecting an artificial accent when speaking to unions, and to others with whom he allies in his “class wars,” that belies his having grown up in Hawaii, reared by a Caucasian grandmother, his having spent years being schooled in Indonesia, and later attending school at Occidental College in California, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School.
59. Lack of transparency. Refusing to share his academic records or the sources through which he paid for private college and law school, despite his pre-election calls for transparency.
60. Failure to lead on immigration. Not confronting the immigration issue when he dominantly controlled both the House and a filibuster-proof Senate, then mocking the GOP on immigration, saying they would not be happy with “alligators and moats” — when all they want is secure borders.
61. Fiscal irresponsibility on foreign relations with Egypt. Forgiving billions of dollars in Egyptian and related Mideast debt when we are past the 14.3 trillion debt line.
62. Wasting billions on corrupt “Palestine” agencies. Pumping billions more into the discredited United Nations Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA) and the Palestinian Authority that merged with the terrorist Hamas.
63. Radical judicial appointments. Nominating a radical leftist, Professor Goodwin Liu, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit despite Liu’s contempt for constitutional imperatives towards limited government.
64. Acceding to political bribery by cherry-picking waivers to Obamacare for favored donors. Forcing Obamacare down the throats of small businesses across America that cannot afford it . . . then approving politically correct and electoral pay-off waivers for his friends, donors, and rich boutique businesses. Granting 20% of all the country’s Obamacare waivers in Pelosi’s San Francisco district. Buying off votes from Ben Nelson of Nebraska (the Cornhusker Deal), Mary Landrieu (the Louisiana Purchase) to pass Obamacare.
65. Using the White House to crush political opposition. Trying to force donors to his political opponents to reveal their contributions. Using the White House official website asking supporters to report to the Government instances of people criticizing Government policies.
66. Attempting to crush media opposition. Punishing a Boston newspaper whose editorial attacked him, having his White House conduct a war against Fox News, claiming they are an entertainment, not a news organization, and then boycotting Fox until that strategy backfired.
67. Encouraging cultural decline. Inviting “Common,” a “poet” with disgusting lyrics of hate, to entertain at the White House
68. The Louis XVI Factor. Vacations and high-profile golf during the Gulf oil crisis, prompting even Democrat strategist and Presidential advisor James Carville to erupt in fury. More high-profile golf at Cape Cod while the country was losing its AAA credit rating for the first time.
69. The Marie Antoinette Factor. Michelle high-profile huge trips abroad, a la Eva Peron, with family friends and their children partying on the public payroll, at 5-star hotels in places like Spain.
70. Al Sharpton. Launching his national presidential reelection campaign with a speech to Al Sharpton’s base.
71. Secrecy in Legislation. Failing to honor his pledge to conduct transparent governance, crafting Obamacare with Democrats behind closed doors barred to Republicans, leaving Obamacare as a massive document so convoluted that Nancy Pelosi had to tell the media: “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
72. A philosophy of redistributing other people’s money. Trying to persuade “Joe the Plumber” that it is a beneficial national economic goal to “redistribute the wealth.”
73. Cynically blaming Republicans and Talk Radio for the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Blaming their rhetoric, while failing to address Democrat use of vile and violent language to describe Republicans and the Tea Party.
74. Lying about a family connection to the Holocaust. Lying and falsely telling Americans that his grandfather was among those who liberated Auschwitz when, in fact, no American troops liberated Auschwitz.
75. Failing to grasp the Israel narrative. Describing Israel’s right to exist as premised on the Holocaust, thus missing the entire point of a Jewish country built on the land where Jews have lived since Biblical times.
76. Lying about a family connection to the Civil Rights movement. Telling Americans that his birth happened because his parents became amorous as a result of the 1965 Selma Civil Rights March — even though he was born in 1961.
77. Collapse of the housing market. American housing prices lowest since 2002.
78. Manipulating legislation by forcing votes on massive documents. Racing massive thousand-page legislation packages through Congress without allowing Congress or the American People time to read, comprehend, and absorb the bill — and thus breaking a major campaign promise.
79. The Credit Rating downgrade. Presiding over the first credit-rating downgrade in American history.
80. Timing military campaigns to coincide with election campaigns. Manipulating and sacrificing the lives of American soldiers, basing a withdrawal from Afghanistan not on strategic national security considerations but timed instead to coincide with the start of the 2012 Democrat Presidential Convention.
81. NLRB. Stacking the National Labor Relations Board with left-focused political hacks who are attempting to prevent America’s leading exporter, Boeing, from building a $1 billion manufacturing plant in South Carolina because that state permits employment of non-union labor.
82. Cynically manipulating the national Strategic Oil Reserve. Releasing 30 million barrels of oil from the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve in order to obtain the temporary political goal of lowering gasoline prices that have skyrocketed in the face of his severe restrictions on permitting exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, along the Atlantic coast, and in Alaska in his obsessive pursuit of “green jobs.”
83. “Operation Fast and Furious” debacle. Allowing Mexican drug lords to access illegal firearms, then losing track of the firearms while the drug cartels used the illegal firearms for crime including murdering Americans.
84. Lying, lying, and more lying to voters. Trying to create class warfare by telling people that Republicans’ refusal to raise taxes will cause youngsters to be unable to finance their college educations, while causing seniors to lose health care and social security payments. Failing to admit honestly that Congress extended the Bush tax cuts and refused to increase taxes even when Democrats had a filibuster-proof Senate and veto-proof control of both Congressional chambers.
85. Investigating CIA patriots. The Holder investigation into CIA operatives’ interrogations of suspected Al Qaeda terrorists and their use of methods that had been approved in advance by the Justice Department.
Here are some my additions:
86. the Solymdra scandal.
87. Noncompliance by Eric Holder and the White House for information relating to various investigations.
88. Requesting help from an anti-American terrorist group, Pakistan’s ISI to negotiate with the Al-Qaeda supporting Haqqani network.
89. Bankrolling failed green manufacturing schemes in Finland and Spain, to the tune of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.
90. having an Islamist Turkish government, that openly engaged in a terrorist attack on Israel, join an anti-terrorism task force.
91. Undermining America sovereignty by joining the International Criminal Court and UN Human Rights Committee. The latter exist mainly as a cover for dictators and to condemn Israel.
Please everyone add to this list and circulate it.
I wonder if obama would have pursued more information about his father if he had been from downtown Honolulu.
One way to view Obama is as a cult member. With no father and the kind of mother who saw no problem with moving her 6 year-old son to a strange foreign country that was only a few months removed from a major Communist insurrection, it’s no wonder that Obama was so easily sucked into every fruitcake leftist cult that he ever encountered. If his mommy had been right wing, little lenin would probably have ended up with Lyndon LaRouche or building bomb shelters and machine gun nests in Wyoming.
I doubt if young Obama has had an independent thought since he was 13 years old and came under the influence of Frank Marshall Davis, the communist pornographer and child molester that grandpa selected to be his “black” influence. From there, on to the world of drugs, gay Pakistani college roommates, hard-core marxism before he was 20, the Midwest Academy, Acorn, Palestians, Weathermen, Rev Wright, Community Organizers, and the worst of the worst, Harvard. Literally, the boy has not had a thought for 35 years that wasn’t planted in that calcified brain of his.
The only real question is whether he is a self-directed radical/anarchist or one who was planned and designed from the get-go. I lean toward the latter, but it doesn’t really matter. He ain’t changing, he ain’t backing off, and he ain’t compromising (which is why I don’t think he is self-directed).
If the country survives, someday someone will actually teach it about who the msm tricked it into hiring. It will be the most important lesson since 1776.
What garbage. This is one more recitation of the deranged leftist trope about Obama as Neville Chamberlain. It’s everywhere. A lengthy New York Review of Books piece made the same case not too long ago. But it’s Frank and his fellow leftists who need to go on the couch. For the idea that Obama is overly conciliatory or excessively interested in bipartisanship is a denial of psychopathological proportion. Every gesture of Obama’s toward bipartisanship has been a mask or a lie to conceal a determined ideological objective. Obama’s broken relationship with his father has produced not an appeaser but a bold and masterfully dissimulating ideologue.
Obamacrat Slurs, Snipes, and Smears
The other day, Rush Limbaugh warned whomever eventually wins the Republican nomination for the presidency to be prepared for an avalanche of vicious assaults from the re-elect Obama billion dollar attack machine.
Limbaugh was wrong in one respect: That onslaught began months ago with the only distinction being that the viciousness is mostly emanating from Obama acolytes in his mainstream media rather than directly from the White House.
All this year, we have witnessed every Republican hopeful mercilessly pilloried as soon as he or she gains any traction in the GOP sweepstakes. Pawlenty, Trump, Christie, Bachmann, Gingrich, Cain have each had their turn being attacked. If a day goes by without some leftist guttersnipe taking unsubstantiated pot shots at a candidate, Leno and Letterman are ready to ridicule them at night with nasty derision–all in good fun, of course.
The only Republican to escape leftist castigation, relatively, has been Mitt Romney, leading to conjecture that the left wants him to win the nomination because they expect to whup him, just as Carterites were eager to get at Ronald Reagan.
What was it Obama said about the need for more civility? Evidently, the mainstreamers never got that memo.
One of the leaders of the MSM attack pack, the Washington Post, was apparently running out of ammunition with which to abuse the latest target, Newt Gingrich, so WaPo’s Aaron Blake resorted to the internet to gather more dirt. Blake tweeted for his fellow Twitter tweeps to send him all “outlandish/incorrect predictions and quotes” by or about Gingrich that they could dig up or make up.
Note: Blake was in search of the “outlandish/incorrect” rather than the truth. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=7657.)
The reason the leftists haven’t attacked Romney is because they calculate he will be the nominee.
They are saving that fire for a time closer to the election when it will hurt the most.
The notion that they have picked him is nonsense. People who think someone like Cain or Bachman would be a stronger candidate and that the msg is afraid of them are fools.
Could the man be bi-sexual? Is that why Obama, at times, seem bloodless?
Come on, we all know he’s had a history of it. To me it assists in coloring out his view of the world. For one, such a man puts everything at risk. He has no center, no core ethic.
Lastly, how much do the smart ones in DC know about his past and/or present outings into the escapist world of bi-sexuality. For that is what it is – a mirage in the wasteland of careless sexuality (which includes its double meaning – one who is reckless in his choices and behavior, and one who is dead to attachments).
Who is looking into this?
Confirmed accounts by Larry Sinclair back in ’99 concurs with your thinking. His encounter and the relationship with Donald Young (murdered gay choir director at Rev. Wrights assembly)supports without question his bisexual preferences. Remember Reggie boy Love just left the White House also. He (Reggie) is on film with amateur gay porno videos at Duke Univ. parties.
Obama, like Carter before him, knows why we are in the economic doldrums, and its not because of the economic policies that these Presidents pursued, its because we, the people, are full of Carter’s malaise and because we are lazy i.e. we’re “malazy” (see http://www.nrsc.org/campaigns/malazy-no-more-bailouts/)
Mr. Cooper, if you would read more of the columns here you would not make the assertion that even Obama knows who his father is. But no less than 40% of Americans know who their father is, and he is Obama.
When you’ve been abandoned by both parents and handed to a child molester by your insane freak of a grandfather you’ve got issues. Which doesn’t excuse taking out those issues on your country (which, of course, you don’t consider to be your country because how could you consider your country or any individual to be other than a potential or actual abuser). This guy’s a walking ball of mean mad who must be shown the door in November. Unless the country enjoys being abused. Always a possibility.
Here is a detailed list of the American Left: The American Left consists of individuals and groups, including socialists, communists and anarchists, that have sought fundamental change in the economic, political and cultural institutions of the United States.[1] Although left-wing ideologies came to the United States in the 19th century, there are no major left-wing political parties in the US. As a result, Americans frequently use the term “left-wing” to refer to radicalism or even liberalism. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Left#Origin…
It would be essential to confirm barry soetero’s past. Even the photo presented above of alleged mother and sister is Photo shopped. The hair of Stanley Ann is CG.
Amazing still, based on what “we DON’T know” about him, no vetting, no past records,fraudulent SS#, forged birth record, not ONE remembers him at Columbia, and he occupies the Oval office? Pathetic security for a nation in destruct mode under the liar-in-chief.