Substance, Not Style, Is Hurting Obama
The president also has taken a hit in the polls on the health care issue. In March of 2010, Congress narrowly passed on a party-line vote a sweeping reform of the health care system that has been dubbed “ObamaCare.” Some parts of the package like letting students stay on their parents’ health care coverage while still in school or a ban on “pre-existing conditions” were quite popular, polling over 2-1 in public support. Other parts, like taxing some lucrative health care plans or requiring adults to purchase health insurance (the “individual mandate”), were not popular at all. From the beginning of the health care debate, Americans were sharply divided by party: Democrats supported the president’s plan, Republicans hated it, and independents were somewhere in the middle. I happen to support the plan. But the point is that a highly partisan, highly polarizing plan isn’t likely to win anyone plaudits as a bipartisan “unifier.”
Other factors in the president’s mid-range polls are the high price of gas and the continuing housing crisis.
Since the summer of 2009, President Obama’s job approval rating has reached 60% exactly once: in May of 2009 after the killing of Osama bin Laden was announced. Since then, his polls have been in the 45% to 55% range with opinions along predictable partisan lines — not terrible, but not really good either. A 50% job approval rating is good enough to get an incumbent re-elected as it did for George W. Bush in 2004, but that was an election won by one state (Ohio) in the Electoral College. Unless the president can either raise his job ratings or totally discredit his opponents in the fall, he’ll be facing a tough re-election race.
So, the president has been roughly 20 percentage points less popular for the past three years than he was at the start of his term. Is that because he hobnobs with celebrities in Hollywood or Nantucket during vacations? Or does it have more to do with the fact that 6 million fewer Americans have jobs, people are still losing their houses, and his health care plan is the subject of a Supreme Court case? Well, you make the call….
Briefly. None of the above. Obama is a self-indulgent clown who wants to continue living off the effort of others, as he’s been doing most of his life.
He’s less popular because he’s a SCoaMF, and always will be, whatever line of “work” he ends up in once he gets retired from the White House. What all the Louis XVI/Marie Antoinette jetting about and overindulging in everything stuff does is rub people’s faces in just how big an economic disaster he’s been for this nation. It’s both. It’s his utterly miserable performance as president, and the appearance of being on an all expense paid luxury vacation at the same time that’s done the damage.
The only thing that my completely uninformed wife (her only source of news comes from the E channel and Bravo) has latched on to has been the frequent vacationing. Since the misinformed are the largest slice in the Vote For Obama Pie, I see nothing wrong in hammering away at this “issue”. He’s already lost the subset of adults with a combination of thinking capacity and lack of evil intent, so why not target the ignorant? HE sure is…
Oh, of course…use every single stupid thing they do and say against them. “Hit back twice as hard” as they say.
“He’s already lost the subset of adults with a combination of thinking capacity and lack of evil intent, so why not target the ignorant?”
Brilliantly stated. You summed up exactly why we go after Obama for all of his transgressions and not just the key few. Most people have a few key issues that are important to them. For some it’s jobs. For others it’s gas prices, health care, gun rights, gay marriage, the environment, taxes. And for a few it’s taking extravagant vacations on the taxpayers’ dime. The more people who are upset with the direction Obama has led our country in, the better.
Yes, but all those other things really make you HATE his smug ass! Nothing in life is so annoying as to be talked down to by an idiot, except an idiot who’s bankrupting you, stealing all your money, and ruining your life, while partying like it’s 1789! And did I mention the strutting around like he’s frikkin’ Mussolini?
For a bonus, we get 2 idiots: Moochelle.
/Agreed
Hell my wife HATES Michelle because of how much she’s in her face. All the women’s magazines, the reader’s Digest covers, TV pretty much everywhere she goes on the “ladies internet” or what have you she keeps running into her and my wife HATES it. She doesn’t even follow politics and she just wants Michelle gone.
I have to flip magazines at the grocery store sometimes just to keep her from going off on another rant about her. I’ve never seen her so polarized over anyone since Bush! (Back when she was still in Australia even)
And the word “ugly” has been severely devalued in its meaning.
Sigourney Weaver had better looking aliens.
CG makes me spew on my monitor yet again! LMAO!
Oh, now. We should give her a break.
I mean, she’s finally stopped wearing outfits that were clearly made out of old drapes and tableclothes.
Well, I guess Vivian Leigh did set a high standard for what could be done with old drapes.
Technically, it was Scarlett O’Hara who set the bar for old drapes. . . . but Moochelle is more akin to Carol Burnett’s portrayal of Scarlett: one of the greatest comedy routines in history!
Okay, “Rock”;
I can appreciate the comedy, but, what’s entertaining about Mooochelle?
We need a gong for every appearance.
He’s incompetent. He’s such an ideologue that he’ll stubbornly refuse to do what’s needed to put the nation on the right track. His naive vision of world peace, with the US as a farm team benchwarmer instead of major league starting pitcher is yielding predictably dismal results. His misguided attempts to “wish” green energy success by throwing good money after bad is crippling our economy and, awash in domestically-retrievable but off-limits oil and gas reserves, continues to threaten our security by sending billions to Middle Eastern and South American oil-producers that use our money to threaten us and our political and societal allies.
Add to that his petulance in working with those who disagree with him, and his reversion to Chicago-style politics and petty revenge on detractors. What other president calls the citizens whom he serves his “enemies” simply because they disagree on policy? I didn’t vote for him, I won’t vote for him, yet he is my president. He doesn’t see me as “his” constituent but as an apostate dimwit who can’t appreciate his “brilliance” and the undeniable correctness of his policies.
Incompetent or doing it all on purpose.Its definitely one or the other.
How many solyndras,stimuli,no budget,obamcares,or no keystone pipelines either in Canada or Alaska can one suffer/endure before one has to question his judgment. Its all far left incompetent or well planned. The question remains.
Ned, you are far too generous. Obama is not naive, or disinformed.He is sociopathic. He kills babies and promotes sex perversion- for openers. He weakens our defenses and sells 60 billion worth of fighter aircraft to Saudi Arabia- the home of the 911 bombers.He spends with deliberate intent to destroy our economy. He builds a 600 ship navy, 300 of which ships “cannot survive in a combat zone.” He fais utterly to deal with Iran and North Korea and their nuclear capacities. He ignores the mexican invasion and supplies the drug cartels with thousands of weapons. He issues unconstitutional executive orders establishing a dictatorship, etc., ad infinitum.He belongs in an institution for the criminally insane.
obama’s lackluster polls isn’t his “inability” to solve real-world economic problems plaguing ordinary Americans, but rather his proven ability to purposefully, and assiduously, plague ordinary Americans with such economic problems.
What other posters have said more eloquently than I.
I can add dozens of more instances though the standout for me was his bringing WH photographers to McGuire AFB when KIA soldiers were returning home in the wee morning hours whereas Obama looked at this as a photo op.
I personally found this egregious act truly revolting.
I had to read his AUTObio and Fredosso’s, Corsi’s rebuttal books to get ANY kind of read on this empty vessel.
Some of my fellow Americans frighten me with their lack of foresight and being duped (how?) by this glaringly obvious grifter.
Roger Simon asked “What can we do? Are we preaching to the choir?”. Well, one thing you can do is clarify events. For example, the 4th para should start:
At the same time in the first half of 2009, the Great Recession that began in December of 2007, just 11 months after the Democrats took control of Congress in January,…
Why allow the Dems to be blameless in the recession that their policies exacerbated? Heck, why not just rerun all their comments in 2007 about how horrible that 4.5% unemployment was under the horrible George W. Bush? Let the country listen to them run down the economy that they would love to have today.
People also tend to forget that although we ended a war in Iraq (which is still as unstable as ever), we had an increasing war in Afghanistan which never seems to end. Although we are supposed to be out of there in 2014, we are still going to have a substantial presence in that country for at least 10 more years according to Obama. This is not sitting well with the American public, especially if you have relatives who are in the armed services and stationed in Afghanistan. And that’s a lot of people. Also, we are painfully close to seeing a war start between Israel and Iran, and China is making noises that it wants to take over Asia. Add to that the possible collapse of the Euro, the European Union, and the European Central Bank (not to mention several countries in Europe, such as Greece and Spain), and you have a world that’s on the brink of a economic disaster. Now I know foreign policy usually doesn’t mean much in presidential elections, but if the world starts to collapse around us either in the Middle East, Europe, or Asia, we’re going to have much worse problems than 10% unemployment. People had better start noticing how Obama handled foreign policy and all of the mistakes he made, becaus it WILL come back to haunt us. And soon.
We’ve been debating whether ‘Obama is incompetent’ vs ‘Obama is evil’ for what, about three years now? I think Bill Whittle hit upon the real answer in a recent Afterburner.
Obama and his elite university colleagues have – with no real world experience at all – constructed an elaborate social engineering model about how our society and country should work. Constructing these kinds of theories is very much like someone erecting an elaborate model train set in their basement. The model train set is pretty, impressive, and works flawlessly. And now Obama and his elite university colleagues have been turned loose to control things in the real world. Smug in the knowledge that their train set works flawlessly, they set about to remake the world in it’s image.
There’s just one (unforeseen) problem: In the train set, railroad ties never rot. Conductors never get disgruntled. People don’t poop. Most of Obama’s elite university buddies have discovered that their train set doesn’t match the real world and have abandoned The One and returned to their universities. Obama on the other hand is stuck. On one hand, he enjoys operating the controls and making the trains go where he wants them to. On the other hand, he just doesn’t understand peoples’ need to leave these steaming piles of crap around that stink up the place. And the vast bureaucracy of leftists in Washington are just steps away from promulgating a new rule prohibiting people from pooping.
Here is the Bill Whittle Afterburner you refer to: “The Train Set”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnEsI2fTaJo
Obama is neither incompetent nor evil, he’s simply been more successful in implementing long-standing Democratic Party policy goals than his predecessors. Obama’s minions didn’t write ObamaCare, they didn’t create the stimulus programs and they really haven’t done anything that’s definitively “Obama” because, at the end of the day, Obama is the minion. The result is simply a real world look at what happens when you implement Socialism. It’s just a shame that we had to be the guinea pigs, that we had to be the canaries in the Socialism mine, that there weren’t any current or former examples of socialism at work in the world. Oh well, we’re the beta testers, we’ll call it a lesson learned and now the rest of the free world can continue on with free markets and capitalism.
Obama 2012 “We’re not the droids you were looking for”.
Very true! Comrade Obama is merely the fruition of the Left’s takeover of the Democrat Party which began with the Alinskyite “Get Clean for Gene” campaign in ’68, reached full song in ’72 with the McGovernite takeover of many state parties, but which resulted in the loss of The South and a badly divided and disorganized party for several election cycles. Carter only won because he was “not Washington” and Ford was tainted by the Nixon pardon. While the Left enjoyed considerable success in the House in ’74, their excesses paved the way for 12 years of Republican control and a still divided Democrat Party was tentative and put up weak Presidential candidates. Meanwhile a young leftist Southern governor and the scion of a powerful senator held the reins of the DLC and morphed the old “minimum winning coaltion” into something that would build and hold a Democrat governing coalition and firmly established the client-seeking grievance culture of the modern communist controlled Democrat Party. Though I suspect HRC, she who wrote her thesis on Alinsky, is really the brains behind much of the Clintonista thinking, WJC has yet to explain his youthful sojourn in the Soviet bloc or his extraordinarily close ties with Communist China. As Lefties will, the Clintons overplayed their hand with HillaryCare and provoked a stunning backlash that produced a Republican controlled Congress. Clinton, smarter than most Lefties, trimmed his sails regarding public agendae but very successfully busied himself by taking advantage of Republican porking proclivities in setting up federally funded sleeper cells in every state and local government and in mainlining federal funding to unions and other Democrat front groups and non-profits. The Democrat machine wasn’t bulked up enough to stave off the very well financed and run Bush campaign in ’00 and ’04, but by that time, they were powerful enough and well enough organized to trash both the Bush Administration and the Republican Congress and place the Democrats back in control of Congress in ’06, whereupon the floodgates of federal largesse were opened to give the unions and front groups the necessary walking around money to put HRC in the White House in ’08 to take up where they’d left off in ’94. Then along came the Soros run cabal of billionaires, foundations, and, I believe, foreign sovereign wealth and their made-man, Barry Soetero aka Barack Hussein Obama mmm mmm mmm. Somebody whispered in HRC’s ear that something bad was going to happen to the Clintons, probably something to do with Chinese money and espionage, and she struck her colors albeit grudgingly and at a price, and WJC still carries a Helluva grudge about the boy he thinks should be bringing his coffee. (If you want to see in the mind of a real racist, read Saul Alinsky for his attitudes towards the people he “organizes.” Remember HRC is a disciple.)
In any event, BHO came to power presiding over a very powerful, very Leftist machine in the Democrat Party, a machine well suited to his meager talents as a community organizer but nonetheless someone well steeped in communist dogma. He just let the Democrat Congress do what they’d long been planning and they just dusted off their old bills that they could never move under the Republicans and busied themselves throwing renewed walking around money to Democrat interest groups and clients. Meanwhile, the Soros Junta has busied itself with occupying the federal bureaucracy root and branch and running it with trusted leftists who don’t have to be held up to the light of Congressional confirmation. Even with BHO’s obvious failures and declining popularity that very robust machine is still very much intact and very well funded and intends to keep itself both in money and power in ’12. If the Republican Party had even at this late date any inkling of the kind of enemy it faced, it would be moving Heaven and Earth to cut off the federal money flow to Democrat front groups and dues money to unions, but, then, that would be partisan and mean-spirited.
You nailed it … Obama is just the charming grifter that was employed to do his “agitating” in order to push the already written agenda forward … and he doesn’t give a rats hind end what comes next because he’s been rewarded handsomely by his handlers/bundlers. It’s gonna be interesting to see how much longer he can keep griftin’ without having a pang of conscience when he sees the real consequences of the masquerade.
“…rewarded handsomely by his handlers/bundlers.”
Your comment reminds me of a TV show plot where a guy (Erik Estrada) volunteers to be a Mayan/Aztec human sacrifice in exchange for one year of having his every wish granted.
At the end he changes his mind, jumping off the altar and escaping, knife wielding high priests pursuing him out the door.
Makes me think of Barry Soetero for some reason…just sayin’.
“…that there weren’t any current or former examples of socialism at work…”? You mean to say that the USSR, China, Cuba, North Korea, all of eastern europe, never existed? Socialism/communism has been tried and has failed worldwide since 1917. Where have you been? It is always installed by genocide; and so perpetuated. Not evil? Oh.my! But perhaps on the Mother Ship y’all lack contact with contemporary news sources?
“The man ain’t got no couth!” And we’re worried about style? Pleease. I have been aware of every president that has been in office ever since I arrived in the states in 1954. ALL of them have had policies that irked me and some (a few) had policies that hurt me (financially). But, none of them have been as horribly incompetent and arrogant as this bum. And that’s all he is. A bum. A loser. A poseur. A jerk.
I thought I had seen everything after Jimmy Carter with Bill Clinton. But this guy makes THOSE GUYS look like winners. For the life of me, I cannot understand how anyone other than his family would have seen him as presidential timber. I have never been a conspiricist, not even through the Warren Report and later, Watergate and THAT president. BUT damn! I truly am beginning to wonder if there was not some shadowy figure or group that thought “Mmmm. I think we could use him.” Could this truly be a question of evil using incompetence?
We have all known people like him. And if one has any sense, you flee their company as though they were carriers of the plague. I know, I know, a few won’t. Which is why a flim-flam man will always succeed for a limited amount of time. All the while working the “short con”". But then, they’re caught and exposed.
This guy truly makes me believe that this was an “investment” by someone or some group with nefarious intent. This was not just a confluence of the right events. I refuse to believe it. Am I the one going crazy?
No, you’re not crazy. The crazy people are those who won’t accept what their eyes and ears are telling them. All you have to do is look at his background, read his and Ayers’ book, “Dreams …”, and he makes sense. But then people didn’t believe Hitler meant that stuff in his book either.
Comrade Obama is a Red Diaper Baby. His grandfather Dunham bummed around on the West Coast before WWII and probably linked up with the Wobblies (International Workers of the World or IWW) or some other communist or communist leaning group; it was a lot more common than our mythology makes it out to be. After the War he moved with his wife and young daughter to Seattle, where his lifestyle and connections are not commensurate with what we know of his social and financial position. The family attended a church so leftist it was called “The Little Red Church” and his daughter went to a very “progressive” school, and behaved in a manner not typical of girls from middle class white families even of fairly liberal bent. In those days Seattle was not the groovy town full of Starbucks swilling computer geeks it is today, it was a rough, tough, manufacturing, port, and railroad town and the most powerful force there was organized labor, specifically the left-leaning Machinists with their base at Boeing and the communist Longshoremen led by Harry Bridges, last seen with his comrades on the balcony of the Kremlin.
The Dunhams then move to a town that Bridges’ Longshoremen also had significant power over, Honolulu, where again they wind up in circumstances beyond what one would expect from their social and financial position. In Honolulu, young Miss Dunham’s “progressive” behavior would have mortified even liberal white parents in the early ’60s and the child she whelped off either the Kenyan or Frank Marshall Davis, who was known to like them young, would have been quietly aborted, easily enough done in Honolulu, or Miss Dunham would have been sent to live with “her aunt in Montana” where the baby would have been put up for adoption. The Kenyan disappears and she finds herself another black man and goes to Indonesia then a flashpoint of communist led anti-colonialist forces struggling with a Westward leaning government. There is some evidence that she might have been considered a CIA asset in Indonesia, but she could just as easily have been a double; the CIA was heavily penetrated by communists and fellow travellers. Young Barry goes back to live with his grandparents and again, lives far beyond what we know of his family’s social and financial circumstances, and lives under the wing of the communist Frank Marshall Davis (I’d love to see a DNA test). We don’t know how he got in fancy prep schools and fancy colleges or who paid for it. We don’t know how he got in Columbia and Hahvud or who paid for it, or even what nationality he claimed to be. We don’t know a lot about Comrade Obama, but we know enough to establish that he is pretty close to a Manchurian Candidate.
I live in Chicago and back in 2006, I believe, a neighbor of mine knew, through her husband who worked in the upper echelons of Chicago business and finance, of early fundraising for Obama by Chicago’s movers and shakers. I couldn’t believe it at the time because it was obvious he was just an empty suit. I don’t believe in conspiracies either. But why would anyone push his candidacy unless they had something to gain?
“This guy truly makes me believe that this was an “investment” by someone or some group with nefarious intent.”
You are on safe ground if you simply believe that he is exactly that…an investment. That is exactly what he is. But that investment is only a success because of the total acquiescence of the mainstream media. An honest and dedicated non-partisan mainstream media would have destroyed a con scheme such as the Obama candidacy almost instantly. Obama will not bring down America. People with names like Williams, Couric, Moyers, Sawyer, Blitzer, Cooper, and Laurer will.
It’s substance AND style, of course. To think otherwise is just plain dumb.
Virtually everybody on this blog resents the man as well as his policies. We may feel stronger about it than some others, but to deny that the crimininal infuriates a lot of people is ludicrous.
Just based on reading this one article, it’s obvious that this Reddy guy is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Bin Laden was killed in May of 2011, not 2009.
From “Change We Can Believe In”, copyright Obama for America, 2008: “As President, Barack Obama will: Pay for all proposals and cut the deficit. Cut spending and reduce government waste. Put Medicare on a sound footing by reducing costs and improving quality. Give tax relieve to the 98% of Households making less than $250,000 a year. Eliminate special tax breaks for corporations. Simplify tax filings for middle class Americans. Create a reserve fund for emergencies and deficit reduction.” Obama for America lists many other things President Obama was supposed to do, practically none of which he has actually done. Get this: They accuse President Bush of politicizing the Department of Justice.
According to Obama, the reason he led his party to a heavy defeat in 2010 was that his party was so busy doing wonderful things for the country that they neglected to tell the electorate what wonderful things they were doing. Based on his own remarks, then, The One(tm) believes his problem is style and not substance. But, what if it’s both? The ads I’ve seen from his re-election campaign, like Biden asking whether Romney would have ordered the killing of Bin Laden or that silly “Julia” ad or the equally silly “Forward” slogan or commemorating the anniversary of Bin Laden’s death, write their own parodies. Saul Alinsky must be turning leftward in his grave.
Patrick Reddy said, “I happen to support the [healthcare]plan.”
You are therefore a socialist and I don’t read what socialists have to say or believe them to be reasonable and based in any sort of logic whatsoever.
I suggest that you actually read some of the 2,000 pages and see how damaging to freedom it is.
You are absolutely correct. Anyone who supports Obamacare is a hard core socialist or marxist. Take your pick. This article is a waste of precious time. I’ll bet Reddy votes democrat.
Especially considering this ‘plan’ is nothing more than a power grab with lots of hidden ‘gems’ to forward the march to Communism.
Absolutely right. As soon as I read the “I support….” statement the author’s contribution became worthless to me. The “Comments” section was the worthwhile part of the exercise. Author Reddy should do his writing for “The Nation”.
You commenters are getting on my last nerve.
Just because an article writer like Pat Reddy has a certain biased right wing anti-Obama premise, doesn’t mean you all have to go along with him like a bunch of lemmings.
Hello.
Obama wakes up every morning with the weight of the free world on his shoulders; he literally has the whole world in his hands, and every move he makes, every single day, is for the good of the nation.
Lest we forget, but Barack inherited from George Bush a nation in economic free fall. Since then, it’s like he caught the falling economy in his hands, saving millions of jobs and putting more than a few Americans back to work. 8% unemployment is nothing compared to what it would have been had not President Obama initiated his series of trillion dollar economic masterstrokes.
Socially, the U.S. under Bush was a house divided.
President Obama has done a masterful job of closing the fissures that have separated the east and west, north and south, rich from poor, jobless and employed. Aren’t we all today working toward the same goal; A prosperous American where everyone has a fair and equal chance to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and realize the American Dream?
This has always been Obama’s vision for America. You should think of President Obama has a father figure who knows what’s best for you. If he believes the Keystone Pipeline shouldn’t be built for environmental reasons, you should accept his will cheerfully, knowing you don’t have the knowledge or intelligence of the President. Operation Fast and Furious is just one more example how Obama’s superior knowledge and intelligence should never be questioned. Over an insignificant matter, the rich Republicans have created a hornets nest that is taking time away from important matters like the Bush recession.
If Obama believes we need to spend our way out of Bush’s economic legacy by sending trillions toward new green technologies, we should pray for his success, not criticize mistakes no one could have foreseen. Anyway, people forget that Solyntra was Bush’s idea.
As to foreign matters, less educated Americans forget that we would have lost the Iraq war if it wasn’t for Barack’s idea to implement a brilliant surge strategy. Yet, millions of petty Americans claim Barack doesn’t know how to fight and win a war, which is laughable. A time table for withdrawal simply puts the enemy off balance.
What’s more, if Obama wants to give up land and sea drilling and fishing rights to Russia and China, only Obama knows the wisdom behind those measures. Do not question him. Where in the Constitution does it give the people the right to comment on Obama’s decisions that could affect the nation for generations.
As Barack recently whispered off microphone to Pres. Medvedev of Russia.
After re-election, our great President will have the flexibility to share our missile defense secrets in full. President Obama believes mutual trust is the best way to avoid nuclear disaster. Giving up our nuclear advantage marks a wonderful shovel ready beginning at building new bridges of trust and understanding.
Then there was the little matter of Obama killing Osama. Unlike what was reported in the main stream media, Obama gave all the credit to the brave men of SEAL team 6. Then flew to Afghanistan to congratulate all the troops there. What a kind, giving American. The media charged Obama did it for political purposes which couldn’t have been farther from the truth. There’s never been a more popular commander in chief than Obama, who has the toughness of a Patton, the concern of
FDR and the brilliance of Lincoln.
All in all, who could not agree that President Obama is a truly magnificent President?
He’s invested all his time in transforming American into a progressive; yes you may call it a communist society where fairness rules, and Obama decides what’s fair. Because Obama is the master tactician who knows what’s best for his citizens who has gained their respect, trust and admiration.
A word about transparency.
Not everybody realizes it, but Obama doesn’t reveal any of his school records so as not to make the rest of us feel inferior. Obama never received less than a B plus in any course he’s ever taken.
Regarding Michelle.
Considering America’s treatment of blacks and Indians, it’s not surprising Michelle had never been proud of America until they elected her glorious husband, an almost Godlike figure in black circles. The fact that 90% of African Americans vote for Obama isn’t because of the color or his skin, but, rather, the content of his character.
Regarding Michelle’s multi-million dollar vacations.
It’s none of your business. You should be honored to give your tax money to this exquisite woman. She brings a wonderful presence wherever she goes.
Before I end, a comment about Obama’s decision not to drill for American oil, but rather to give Russia and China off shore drilling rights. While it greatly weakens the U.S., it shows China and Russia we’re not the evil people that Ronald Reagan and George Bush made us out to be. A subtle, but brilliant move by Obama that will gain the trust of these great nations down the road when our weakened economy and, consequently, military takes orders from Moscow, Peking and the United Nations.
President Obama trusts them to do right by us. And if Obama, a masterful judge of character, trusts those countries, that should be good enough for you.
Under President Obama, we no longer are the feared global bully, but, rather, on a par with the other nations that respond to the dictates of enlightened regimes elsewhere in the world.
We have never had a President like Obama before, and, chances are, we never will again.
Hallelujah, Brother, Hallelujah !
Amen Amen
PS
But for three seconds you had me.
ROTFL! Gosh I love some of you commenterians!
LovelyEarth is gonna have to bow down before you.
Dupe extraordinaie.
“President Obama trusts them to do right by us. And if Obama, a masterful judge of character, trusts those countries, that should be good enough for you.”
For a minute there, you had me going. I was about to explode on you until I got to this sentence. Then I had to laugh. OK! you got me.
Uhh, you forgot to add a “sarcasm off” tag at the end of your rant. I hope.
I notice you put his first six months approval rating in *backwards*. why would you do that other than to mislead? In feb 2009 (when he’d been in office for less than ONE month) his approval rating was 76% – by May it was down to 55%. I attended a tea party rally in feb 2009 – to which the local media was too scared to send a news crew and literally had a plane do a fly over to take pictures.
Has Obama being doing anything to reach out to and encourage at-risk youth? This seems like such a missed opportunity. With imagination and commitment on his part so many lives might have been turned around. I suppose the trouble is that it’s all about hard work, and he doesn’t have much experience with that himself. Maybe this can be a mission for him once he leaves the Presidency….
Glad to hear $ trillion in blown money isn’t hurting him
Pandering to Gays for money
Pandering to Unions for money
Failing to enforce immigration
Failing to enfore US law againt CAIR
Failing to support ANY Oil exploration
Failing to support Isreal
Appointing Socialists and Commies as Czars
Ramming unwated changes in the Healthcare system down our collective throats
No to companies paying taxes while favoring those who pay nothing
His steady 9 to 4 work ethic
But I think he’s cool so i’ll vote for him again
President Obama’s former doctor claims that the president lacks passion, feeling and humanity by Jarrett Stepman 05/11/2012
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=51433
That is because he is a psychopath. He also suffers from delusions of grandeur, believing himself to be the islamic Mahdi,or messiah, who will rule the world as the Grand Caliph. He is qualified to drive a taxi at a small town airport, or to shine shoes.He is a communist and an islamist; not an odd mix at all, as neither communists or islamists really believe any of the nonsense they spout to cloud the fact that their mission is really an international criminal conspiracy to overthrow the governments of the world by any and all means.
I ain’t no genius but even I have been able to figure out that while Barry is sinking a putt on the 5th hole his czars are busily engaged in destroying America in every possible socio-economic way and when he’s sinking a putt on the 11th hole his czars are busily engaged in destroying America in every possible way and when he’s sinking a putt on the 16th hole his czars are busily engaged in….GET IT?!
Yeah, but at least this year The Wohn won’t spend any vacations at the former FBI convict vineyard.
Can’t figure why though.
– since you are not using the White House, may we borrow it?
Obama the ‘Undocumented’ man with no HISTORY, voted in to power by the people with no BRAINS.
Two Words…..
Arrogant Ignorance!
Empty Suit or Manchurian Candidate?
We can almost be certain that he, Barry Satoro, Barack Obama or whomever,
HE is hiding HIS past to cover his incompetence.
No One remembers him from school, there are no records, the Birth Certificate is fabricated, the SSN is stolen, the selective service is forged and on and on.
Would the REAL Obama please come forward, forget it, it will never happen!
But history (Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Kim Il Jung, et al)
has shown that
given the right BALANCE between Ignorance and Arrogance, success is assured!
We may have stumbled upon the perfect balance here!
I don’t speak for America OR the world, and I don’t want to. I have no right. But that doesn’t stop the racist right. Somewhere in their delusional hypocritical minds, someone made them speakers of the world and this country. No one did. No one ever win. But like I said, it doesn’t stop them from spreading the wide-spread lie of hate. That EVERY SINGLE BEING in the United States of America and the Whole World of existence hates Barack Obama.
No that is not true. It’s obvious they don’t pay attention to how the world thinks. just how faux news and hate radio tells them how the world thinks, But the cold-hard fact is not EVERY single being in the world is an uneducated, racist, bigoted right-winger who hates that a black couple represents the United States. Week by Week, I keep saying how the racist right have lost their sense of reality (If they ever had one!)
Ever heard that retarded saying “SCOAMF” Can’t tell you what it means, look it up. I said people if they are tired of hearing this crap. Turns out they aren’t, because they never heard. One a certain group of people never head the disrespectful trope. Classy, Respectful, Intelligent People. Ob’s such a Miserable Failure he grad Harvard Law and passed his bars and practiced law and beat the “war hero,” John McCain & Simple Sarah. Got Bin Laden. The white supremacists of the GOP Base reek of envy and desperation.
Why does he need to release his school records? President Johnson didn’t even learn how to read until he was an adult, and he was taught how by his wife, not a school. There have been 7 presidents who never went to college at all, 2 that attended but never graduated, and one who in his entire life had a total of 1 year formal learning and everything else was self-taught. And please look up the definitions of Socialist, Communist, and Capitalist. I don’t think those words mean what you think they mean, and Socialist and Communist are not interchangeable.
Why go through all this crap? Because of Mitt Romney. He is the only respectful man in the cesspool of racism known as the GOP. He takes the high road so much, they should just re-name it “The Romney Road” But his followers CAN’T create reasons other than he’s not black for the majority to vote for him in November.
They don’t like him because he;s not the spitting image of their god, Ray-gun. As we more toward the November election Romney will increasing get more and more ludicrous in his attempts to find talking points to use, as the economic conditions slowly and surely get better. This in spite of all the efforts of the republicans in Congress to flush this country down the toilet just to make Obama a single term president. Mitt is the most out of touch politically and socially tone-deaf individual, in my lifetime, to run for President, and that goes back to the 1952 election.
So lies and slander is ALL the racist right have left. Not to mention character Assassination. Think about this. Obama said he’s a Christian, He’s a liar. But If he said he snorted cocaine, he’s telling the truth Obama said he respects religions, he’s a liar, But if he said that he used to bully people all the time, he’s telling the truth. These hateful slime balls believes ANYTHING bad about Obama, even if he said it. He even said he was a Christian, but he’s lying. Bet you if he, out of nowhere, said he used to kill for fun. The a-holes who believe it.
This is gonna be the most possibly racist election in history. As told by this man:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/obama-divorce-story-8950341