Mister, we’ve got a man like Jimmy Carter again! It’s been obvious since, oh, about the middle of 2008, but Laura Ingraham makes it official, as even center-left Mediaite is forced to note:
Today on The Laura Ingraham Show, host Laura Ingraham presented a remix, of sorts, juxtaposing portions of former President Jimmy Carter’s 1979 “Malaise Speech” (also known as his “Crisis of Confidence Speech” or, perhaps, his “Generally Terrible Stuff Speech”) with recent comments made by President Barack Obama.
The emphasis of both speeches used in the clip is on convincing Americans to scrimp, save and sacrifice during tough economic times. It’s like they say: The more things change, the more they stay the same. Depressing. I was really looking forward to blowing a lot of cash on Vegas.
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Must not be much of an Obama fan, huh?
By the way the Village People played,
Singin’ ’bout the YMCA,
We were all in deep malaise!
These ARE those days!
And if you as you were then,
Men were girls and girls were men,
Mister, we got a man like Jimmy Carter again!
Ever bigger welfare state,
Almost no one pulls their weight,
Chevy Volts ain’t worth the wait,
These ARE those days!
From afar, Obama looks to me like a man who has set his house on fire and now blames the firmemen of ruining his belongings by drenching them with water.
I’d love to see someone go back in time and make an accounting of Obama’s outrageous comments, such as this one, and the timing of said comments. I suspect you would find a direct correlation between things like a trip to Las Vegas and a comment meant to outrage Las Vegas. There are just too many of these and I don’t have the memory to pull them all out. From Vegas to Michelle talking about low-fat diets with their mouths full of fatty foods, to saying “tighten your belts” as Michelle goes on a spending spree …oh my goodness, the list goes on and on and on.
It is a very peculiar habit of this president to do just this sort of thing.
It’s hard to know if he is Chauncy Gardener, and Vegas pops into his head and out of his mouth as an example because it is on his brain. But it really does seem that there is a strange pathology at play here.
Welcome back,
Your green dreams, they have lost their clout
Welcome back,
It’s an even thicker malaise, watch us vote you out
Well the names have all changed since Jimmah hung around,
But the games are the same, so we’ve run aground
Yeah we tease O a lot ’cause he’s created this rot,
welcome back
He uses strawmen a lot ’cause that’s all he’s got
welcome back
We’ll vote a conservative in and erase this whim once again
welcome back
Welcome back, liberty,
welcome back
I lived through Jimmah Peanut. He was an incompetent fool who brazenly violated Machiavelli’s dictum on subordinates with almost every appointment he made. I despised his Presidency and thought those were the darkest days America had seen since the Great Depression. That said, I never had any doubt that Carter was an American who loved his country and was trying his best. His problem was that his best simply wasn’t good enough.
Fast forward to today: these are the worst days the country has ever seen. We’re drowning in debt, the current inhabitant of the WH obviously hates both this country and the white section of its population, the corruption goes unchecked in both public and private affairs, and our popular culture is total trash. “Atlas Shrugged” is becoming more real with every passing day. Things can’t continue this way because we’ve burned through the design margin. We’re due for a hard reset or a complete collapse as a nation, and it looks to me like the Democrats want the second option.
Obama is a contemptible fool who should never have been elected, but he’s only the most visible example of the problem that pervades our national life. It’s not only that he got elected, it’s that he COULD HAVE BEEN ELECTED! That fact, in and of itself, speaks volumes of very bad things about our national intellect and morality. Historically, countries that have become as feckless and irresponsible as we are now ended up consigned to the trash heap of failed nations. I’d say another term of Obama will put us past the last off-ramp on the road to oblivion. I’d like to think we’ll wake up but I wouldn’t want to bet on it. In all honesty, the odds aren’t good.
I think Laura is looking pretty darn cute these days.
There is a natural comparison between Carter and Cool Hand Fluke (sometimes nothing is a real cool hand…but not ALWAYS).
And for a party that didn’t even produce a budget for 500 Days of Slumber, the Democrats are in no position to tell us what ought to be in one. We prefer that they sit back and watch as we take a page from their book…they can find out what’s in ours after we pass it.
By the way, if these little congress turds don’t bother to read legislation, don’t bother to know what is in it, don’t bother to even produce a budget, don’t balance the communal checkbook, …what right do they have to take more of our money out of our pockets?
How did they get Carter into that costume? It’s right out of Mission Impossible.
The Blogfather is running a poll: “Which President Is Barack Obama Most Like?”, and the choices (other than Present and “above my pay grade”) are Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, James Buchanan, FDR, JFK. and Zaphod Beeblebrox.
I responded:
Somebody a lot smarter than me, like Michael Barone or Walter Mead argued that BO was turning into another Herbert Hoover. As Blogfather says, Jimmy Carter is a best case scenario. So I went with Zaphod, because both he and BO are space aliens.
Man?
I didn’t vote in the Blohfather’s poll, because I believe that Obama will be in a class all by himself by the time his 4 years are up. It won’t even be a contest.
The administration following had better go through and fire every single appointment it can that was made by Obama, or things will never get better. This was something GWB should have done, to clean up behind Clinton, who similarly brought in a major infestation of slime mold with his administration. That Bush never did is a major screw up, in my estimation.
The difference is that Carter was more intelligent(before he went over to the
dark side). As a trained engineer he kept getting bogged down by minute details and never saw the big picture, as did Hoover, also an engineer by training. Obama is a blinkered Marxist ideologue who will do anything to advance his
ideology. He is a conman of the first order. Reminds me of Reverend Ike without
the sense of humor.
The malaise speech was actually well received. Carter lost it when he fired his cabinet soon after the speech. Obama, on the other hand cannot fire his cabinet, they have already quit or are planning on leaving. Peter Orszog gives an analysis, that surely fell on deaf ears while he was in the White House, in the WSJ. What does that tell you about what they know is coming? It is as if they want to save their reputation and leave an obviously sinking ship. When the country does fall into another statistical recession instead of a de fecto one MSNBC will really need that mental health benefit…
in defense of carter…(four words I never thought i’d type)
deficit as a % of gdp:
1977…2.64%.
1978…2.58%.
1979…1.59%.
1980…2.65%.
2009…10.01%.
2010…8.92%.
2011…10.91%.
for the libs:
reagan’s four worst years?
1983…5.88%.
1985…5.04%.
1986…4.96%.
1984…4.72%.
i tend to think that the national psyche was probably twice as bad in the 70′s, as it is now…vietnam, oil prices, and watergate dominated the decade.
those three events were easily digested.
the economic ramifications of the obama presidency can best be understood in the number of people who can state what our approximate gdp is, to the nearest trillion.(my guess is less than 10%)
Carter’s problems were not about deficit spending. They were inflation, interest rates, unemployment and a pervasive pessimism he exuded as President.
so THAT’s where they get the stuff they type into his teleprompter !
I think Obama is purposely pushing the debt ceiling talks to the wall because he WANTS a default. It will allow him to blame the coming economic bad news on the repubs, rather than the obvious source of blame, his own policies. Repubs, expecially the Tea Party wing (who I generally support) need to be careful here. They need to pass a debt extension in the house, with spending cuts balancing debt limit extension, without any obviously partisan components, in order to make it clear to everybody that they did the right thing, and any shutdown is Obamas fault. They need to realize that Obama will not budge here because he WANTS a shutdown, and the MSM will back him up and try to blame repubs no matter what, so be very careful. I know this seems like caving, but we have to realize that this problem cannot be solved until we have a senate and president that WANTS to solve it. The battle now over the debt ceiling is a phantom, since with Obama and Reid in control it can’t be won, except under their terms. The battle that matters is in 2012.