Ever since viewing his depressing and disconnected “energy” speech last week, I have been mulling whether Barack Obama actually wants to be president anymore. That was an address given by a man who looked very much like he didn’t want to be there, didn’t want to continue. He appeared slumped and worn, as if he aged eighteen years in eighteen months. His demeanor was oddly distracted.
I am not being metaphorical here — I am quite serious. The more I have thought about this, the more I am convinced Barack Obama no longer wishes to be president. The degree that he admits this to himself, I am not sure. But I rather suspect that in the small hours of the morning he fantasizes he were anywhere but 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And who could blame him? By almost any measure, he is doing a terrible job.
Of course, as we all know, Obama didn’t really expect to be president. This was to be a trial run. And then it took off. He ended up in the White House with virtually no experience that prepared him for the task. His superior intelligence was supposed to carry him through. Only intelligence — whatever his level — is just one component of leadership, and probably far from the largest one.
But the question here is not his qualifications. They are no longer particularly relevant. This is a beaten man, struggling to show he is not, even though everybody knows he is.
The media claque that put him in office is getting disaffected and now his party allies in Congress are beginning to disregard him, sometimes for the better. One of the early symbols of Obama’s disconnection was his remarkably unemotional reaction to the democracy demonstrators in Iran. His Iran policy continued to be a phony concoction of non-existent dialogue and toothless sanctions, right up to the latest round at the UN.
I am an Iranian. One thing I can tell you is that Obama really reminds me or reminded me of Khomeini. People worship Obama the way the idiot Iranians worshiped Khomeini in 1979-1980. I am not trying to say Obama has Khomeinist visions or plans. Not at all. I am just trying to say how scary it is when people worship individuals. Hopefully America can get back on track. Please vote for someone else in 2012. (I dont care about your congress or senate)
He reminds the rest of us of Jimmy Carter.
As the Blogfather says, at this point a 2nd Jimmy Carter is a best case scenario.
In some ways, he’s starting to remind me of President James Buchanan…and that’s a pretty tough feat to accomplish, seeing as how I was born over 100 years after he left office.
I’ve no doubt that Obama displaces Buchanan on everybody’s list of worst presidents.
Easy does it there…let us wait for the first shot to be fired before we give obama buchanans seat. Pray we never hear that first shot.
We should be so lucky. Carter was merely feckless and incompetent; he wasn’t utterly corrupt and megalomaniacally power-mad like Obama.
Maybe he wasn’t then, but he certainly is now. Elder Statesman my foot.
He’s working fast to bring America to her knees.
Any decision he can make to cause friction..he does it.
I truly believe He “loves” being president, so does Soros.
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…and Jimmy Carter was not a communist, for crying out loud, who was deliberately, purposefully trying to wreck the United States of America.
I still think he really aspires to be a Caudillo. he’s discovered that the Presidency doesn’t offer the power of an authoritarian regime, so he’s not interested.
Barack Obama probably is upset by the Constitutional limits on his power. The man is a narcissist—and lazy. The presidency wasn’t supposed to be this demanding. He may very well resign by January.
I have given considerable thought to the question of Obama’s fundamental laziness. Was any other president in our entire nation’s history as lazy as our current occupant in the White House? I am dead serious—and not indulging in slime jobbing. Jimmy Carter might have been something of a jerk, but nobody though him to be an indolent individual.
Good point. And Jimmy Carter was actually an accomplished man(Annapolis grad, expertise in physics, state governor, etc.).
The same can also be said of Bill Clinton. He is well known for his self discipline when facing a crisis. Clinton stays focused and asks intelligent questions of those involved in the response. Obama appears to be very lazy. This is another reason why it is unwise to elect a president with little executive experience. Obama has no substantial track record in leading others in trying times!
Of course he’s lazy. He reached age 48 without ever producing a single concrete result from any of the nebulous “jobs” he’s ever held. He used each job as a springboard for the next. Victor Davis Hanson thinks he will use the presidency as a springboard to the job he really wants: world citizen celebre. Seeing Clinton and Gore making fortunes and reaping accolades for their “world citizenship,” he sees himself in the same role, although no doubt surpassing those two. He only loves accolades, not doing, not producing—he never has! The only way he gets those is by making his speeches. That is what he will try to do, that and get in shady business deals like Clinton and Gore, collect graft and so on.
We are lucky he’s lazy. We are lucky he is vastly incompetent. Because he hates America to the core of his being—the America that is, the America that was. He wants to tear down everything that made and makes it what it is and replace it. Thankfully, his own incompetence will place some limits on how deeply he can wound us in his 2-1/2 years left.
I’m starting to think he won’t run in 2012. Some say his narcissism will not allow him to drop out. But if his poll numbers continue south—and what could he possibly do to boost them? Bomb Iran? If his numbers continue south, and they will, I think his narcissism will allow him to risk defeat in 2012. He can declare himself too good for this iniquitous nation and graduate to world citizen, traveling the world trashing this nation he so deeply loathes. Oh, some will say he could boost his numbers with a “pivot” or some such nonsense. His ideology won’t allow a pivot. And he doesn’t want the job of governing. He wants the job of messiah, Caesar. If he can’t have that, he doesn’t want the job. So why pivot? To keep a job he doesn’t want? Yeah 2012 is faraway in political time, but what can/will Obama do, realistically, given who he is, to recover the trust (gullibility) of the voters? He was always pure illusion anyway. That souffle ain’t rising twice.
But the other reason I think he may not run is—laziness. Hoo boy! this job is actual work! He has never experienced it. Literally everyone we all know has accomplished more in their careers than this cipher. He has to hate it.
Read up on James Buchanan, David. Obama is awful close.(Only this time around its the President causing the devisiveness not the Southern states).
Neither Hitler planned HOLOCAUST at the beginning of his cereer as a despot and conqueror.
Nor the young MAO has planned to exterminate 70 million of his fellow Chinese.
Nor has STALIN envisaged HOLODOMOR when he joined the BOLSHEVIKS.
Nor has POL POT had designs to murder 2 million Camodians when as a young man he dreamed about more just and equal Cambodia.
But they all have had EVILS PLANS though for the people they intended to rule.
They all thought it was morally acceptable to weaken and impoverish their own countries and people to achieve their aims.
SO DOES OBAMA!
The mass-murder comes later…
Exactly—see my comment below.
This guy doesn’t want to be a POTUS. He wants to be, actually believes that he is entitled to be, GOD himself. He doesn’t like to be questioned. Does not like to have to address the nation or hold press conference. And he is as tyranical as any of the ones you mentioned—hitler, stalin, mao, pol pot—if not more. And as delusional. The combination makes him the most dangerous man alive today.
Winston, my sympathy is with you. I, too, come from a country, which was for the longest time under virtually totalitarian rule, although not nearly as scary as the Khomeini/Clerics rule back in Iran (which i study assiduously). I can relate to what you mean when you mention ‘people worshipping an individual’ …
However, i disagree with you about obama’s dangerousness. If you trace the history of the Left from Jacobins of france (eighteenth century?), all the way to Obama, and if you put together his words, his past actions, AND his actions as a president, perhaps it might convince you that Obama is far more dangerous America (and the world) than Khomeini cabal is/was for Iran (and world). A huge part of the reason is that Obama is a closet tyrant, the degree of whose tyranny is directly proportional to the opposition he meets.
The most perfect analogy would be Peron rule in Argentina—although i believe Obama and his cabal is far more ruthless than Peron could ever hope to be.
About your appeal to americans to vote him out in 2012, it seems to me impossible that he will allow any such election in the first place. Read his biography, read everything he has ever said, and look at his response to even smallest opposition …
This is not the kind of guy who will quietly give up what the Left has fought for, and plotted for, for at least a century, now—crushing america has been their Holy Grail. Now that they have it under their belt, and almost under their boots, why would they simply give it up peacefully, just because the people say so? Just look at his presidency. Has he (or the Congress) given up on a single thing they wanted to do? Despite overwhelming majority of americans being against his insane agenda, has he ever so much as flinched in achieving his goals? The author of the current article should also consider this. Unlike his contention that “obama is a beaten man” and his presidency is a failure and such, he has been the most successful president the Left has ever dreamt of. Successful at HIS agenda, and theirs.
And he sincerely doesn’t give a hoot about america or americans or any human being, for that matter. Look at how he is INCREASINGLY becoming tyrranical and testy. Look at what his companion Congress is doing. Look at what his various agencies (FEC, SEC, FTC, FCC et al) are doing. Not only is he successful, he will remain so unless we, the people, do something. November is useless. Even if you win ALL the seats in the elction, it is arithmetically imposssible to win a veto-proof majority in the Senate. We need 26 more seats, and there are only 18 extra in the market. So even the majority republican Congress can’t undo what he and current congress is busy doing, have done. And his agenda is RAPIDLY being transferred to ‘rule’making by the above agencies—not to mention Executive Orders. Even if the court strikes down one such, they change the words a little and issue another one (e.g. read about what Salazaar wants to do to defy the court lifting the drilling moratorium, or how FEC wants to bypass SC ruling about campaign finance …oh dozens of such instances…)
We can’t do ANYTHING until 2012 —if 2012 ever comes. By that time the Republic will be totally under the boots of the Obama’s Left. And its back would have been permanently destroyed. Folks this is serious business. We, the people, must go to Washinton and not leave until our demands have been met. There is no other way to tame this wild beast ravaging this country.
EXCELLENT comment, American Eagle. Obama’s devious ways of getting around the legislative and even judiciary branches of government are appalling. I urge people to take a look at this well-done little visual representation of exactly how the executive branch is completely bypassing the other two:
http://www.obamachart.com
As for the November elections, we need all hands on deck, starting now, to prevent the massive fraud/rigging/stealing that the Democrats and their goons in the SEIU and other leftist outfits are planning. Forewarned is forearmed:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/democrats_and_vote_fraud_on_th.html
Oops, sorry, that Obama Chart link should be:
http://americansforprosperity.org/obamachart.php
… but today we are stuck with President FUBAR
This election will turn primarily on jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs.
Exactly where ARE the 3.5 million jobs Obama promised us would be “created or saved” by his “Stimulus” bill?
They can be found almost exclusively within the Public Employee Union payrolls. The “Stimulus” was nothing more than a tax-payer funded bail-out for the collapsing Bureaucratic Political Machine. Which is STILL collapsing. Even after $862,174,500,000. Not to mention the obligatory long term interest payments to countries like China, Saudi Arabia, & Quatar to service the new debt – as much $350,000,000,000.
This will be recorded by historians as the greatest boondoggle ever perpetrated on humanity.
& the full-scale economic disaster that IS the Obama Presidency is now in the process of destroying the modern Democrat Party.
38% approval among Independents means a Wave Election that dwarfs even the 1994 Republican revolution. Like millions of new Libertarian-minded voters, I’ve come to realize the massive spending, anti-growth, interventionalist & collectivist policies of the party in power are wrecking HAVOC on the private sector, small businesses, the jobs market, the National Debt.
Democrats are marching straight into a meat grinder this November.
Dems will loose 10-12 seats in the Senate, & 50-70 in the House.
So let the electoral butchering begin. In the Senate:
NV, Reid: Loss – Bye-bye Harry, you corrupt wretched filth.
AR, Lincoln: Loss – See ya, Blanchie!
CA, Boxer: DONE! – This condescending elitist ideologue with a room temperature IQ is finally gonna get the BOOT!
CO, Bennett: Loss – Should’ve held out for a better gig in the Obama Regime.
CT, Blumenthal: Never! – The Fake Vet – What a lying, posturing, dishonorable scumbag.
DE, Coons: Not a chance, & Biden Jr (for Gov): Son of the ViceTool?, don’t make me laugh.
IL, Giannoulias: Nope – & your daddy’s bank has gone belly up. Better dust off your phony resume’.
IN, Ellsworth: Sorry – you won’t be able to demagogue your way out of THIS one.
ND, Potter: Ain’t gonna happen.
OH, Fisher: Adios!
PA, Sestak: Fail! – say it ain’t so, Joe.
WV, Byrd: The ancient & senile Exalted Cyclops is FINALLY filibustering nonsensically in Hell. Good luck holding on to THIS seat, Dems.
WI, Feingold: Maybe we can finally put a stake through THIS bloodsucker.
And the House looks much, much worse. Collectivism has always and will always fail. It’s course correction time, here in America.
This fall the Dem majority will be obliterated beneath the HURRICANE of righteous voter fury.
I’ll be dancing on your graves.
116 days
Obama wants to be dictator, not president. Constitutional niceties and communicating with the common man are beneath him. He doesn’t want to lead; that requires the consent of the led. He wants to boss, then be showered with rose petals by Axelrod and Jarrett.
He doesn’t seem to have the character to inspire followers for the long haul. And you are right intelligence is over-rated as a component of leadership, but even so, as you hint, we know nothing of Obama’s. We know Bush’s SAT scores were middling. We know Gore got Cs in Government at Harvard. We know Kerry got three Ds his first year at Yale, including one in Political Science. Given the distortion of his Vietnam experience, we shouldn’t be surprised he got one in History. But Obama? Nothing. Much like is other purported qualities: Coolness under pressure, rhetorical skill, ability to compromise. Which illusion shatters next?
I agree with the “dictatorial” comment. Thomas Sowell noted that in an on-line post yesterday. Obama demanded a $51 billion payment from BP. The problem is the Constitution doesn’t give the President that power. It says specifically that no one will be deprived of property without the due process of law. How hard would it have been to haul BP into a circuit court, and get a judgement against them? It’s not like BP would have tried to stretch out the trial; that would have been a public relations disaster. But Obama didn’t do this; he dictatorially demanded a payment. Kinda reminds you of Hugo Chavez, doesn’t it?
As to his vaunted “intelligence”, I think it’s greatly exaggerated. He’s a great performer in front of the Teleprompter, but when I hear him speak without one, he stutters and doesn’t create fully formed sentences. Former UK PM Tony Blair and current Canadian PM Stephen Harper both seem more natural and articulate than Obama, without any electronic assistance.
I’m an English teacher, who has assessed and taught hundreds of ESL (English as a Second Language) students and students with learning disabilities. I noted Obama’s fractured syntax and semantics from day one. Among many anomalies—like noun/verb, noun/pronoun disagreements, and the use of non specific, filler vocabulary, like “uh” and “stuff”—yes, it’s true, Obama often speaks in sentence fragments, rather than in the fully formed, complex sentences one would expect of a Harvard law graduate. Obama’s many anomalies aren’t just evident in his substandard, written language—where they might be edited (and aren’t!)—but in his quite deficient spoken language too.
Obama is not fluent in English: hence, the teleprompter. As most of us have noticed, off TOTUS, the President of the United States’ verbal expression is a disaster.
(Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper may not exactly be a dab hand at communicating, but during Obama’s pit stop in Ottawa—“I’m glad to be here in Iow . . . I mean Ottawa . . .”—in February, 2009, the PM, who spoke articulately in both French and English, from notes, made Obama—a bobblehead, as his noggin swivelled from right to left—look like a rank amateur.)
The only “evidence” of Obama’s “intelligence,” since he has never produced anything in his life, is his ability to speak in the patterns recognized by college-educated Boomers, all skilled in BS-ing their way through college sounding like they know something. He excels at it.
But regardless of his SAT-type intelligence, whatever it is (I think an IQ no higher than 120,) he shows no evidence of intellect. that is, the ability or proclivity to think creatively and originally, to grasp broad, complex subjects and see patterns there. He is a parrot. He learned his lines. He learned his Marxist ideology. He learned the buzz phrases to fool the rubes. But he knows little of history, nothing of economics, nothing of business or anything in the concrete world. He shows no evidence of an active intellect.
He’s a mind-controlled puppet PLACED in the White House!!! I’m enjoying watching the mask sloooooowly falling off…….like a willful child that isn’t getting his way…look at the progression of his pictures………the more opposition he faces, the more he becomes the dictator he was meant to be………I don’t think they quite expected the American people to stand up and voice their oppositon so strongly…..we won’t go down without a fight…….I’ll die a free patriot before I’ll submit to slavery…….as will the majority of Americans…….as Patrick Henry said, “Give me Liberty or Give me Death……….”
Interesting observation. I never thought of it that way.
Bush’s SAT scores were somewhat better than “middling.” As I recall, they were quite respectable.
Actually, as was pointed out here at PajamasMedia, his oil-spill speech revealed how bewitched he is with academia and committees and titles and Nobel Prizes, etc.
His true calling is college professor– lazy, unaccountable, self-absorbed, comfortably marinating in adolescent liberalism, and adored by the young and impressionable who never tire of listening to him and absorbing his “brilliance”. He is, quite literally, a leftist professor who found himself elected POTUS.
He’ll find out soon enough, though, that he doesn’t have tenure.
He is only incompetent to the extent that anybody expects him to actually fulfill the duties of a patriotic president. When we finally realize that this was never the plan in the first place, then we begin to realize that the presidency is a means to an end for him, but not an end that has America’s well being, prosperity, and global influence in mind, and we begin to see that he is quite competent after all. No, competency as a patriotic president was never the plan. He is a radical Marxist and Moslem, all in one. They are not mutually exclusive. He plans to bring America down, down to the level of Mexico, for instance. A strong America, as the Superpower and defender of the Free World, stands in the way of The New World Order–global governance/one world government. If she is broken and corrupted economically, culturally, morally, and every other way, then it isn’t hard to imagine that she will succumb to The Plan, ultimately. Obama is a tool, a puppet, who has been promised greater things on the World Front. Things greater than the U.S. Presidency.
KR…….My sentiments EXACTLY!!! I couldn’t have said it better myself…..if only more people would realize this, we would have a VERY strong force…….
The key thing to remember is that this is not so much the Obama presidency as the Soros presidency. It really is George Soros who is calling the shots behind the scenes. And Soros has explicitly said that his goal is to knock the United States down many notches, to destroy our sovereignty, and to have world governance.
I also believe Obama will have a breakdown. The only question in my mind is how dangerous to the rest of us it will be.
I think ”melt-down” is more accurate than breakdown. He’ll retreat from reality (further than he already is) & his speeches, those that he still dares to make, will show a disconnect from reality. He’ll become erratic but the White House staff (those that don’t desert the sinking ship) will shield him as best they can. He’ll become a virtual hermit in the White House, more concerned with parties, golf, vacations, & absolutely no press conferences. Only the leeches & parasites who make money off his policies will support him – the Left ideologues will look for another messiah & forget all about him.
Many of us knew Obama was a Marxist, we just didn’t know it wasn’t Karl but Groucho.
> Many of us knew Obama was a Marxist, we just didn’t know it wasn’t Karl but Groucho.
Nope – Groucho was competent. All of the Marx Brothers were competent, as were their relatives in the NYC political machine of their youth.
The Marx Brothers were also funny.
And they paid their own way.
Yes, I know that Groucho was intended as a joke, but Obama isn’t that kind of funny.
Point well taken, you’re right, Obama is not funny although his presidency is becoming a joke. I had in mind the Marx Bros. movie in which Groucho was the president of Fredonia, sorry don’t remember the name of the movie.
That Marx Bros. movie is Duck Soup.
PCM.
Thanks, right, ”Duck Soup” — For Obama, we’ll call it ”Lame Duck Soup” ….
LOL, very good.
Good insight. I might add, I believe that’s already happening; witness Emanuel’s jumping ship.
The new Republican majority will be elected in November; however, they will not be seated until next year. Why would Rahm want to stay after that? Until then the lame duck democrats can damage this country as much as they can as there is nothing left to lose. Be very afraid until the new majority is seated!
Just what we need, another Wilson.
Will Michelle reprise Edith?
These breakdown/ meltdown comments are interesting. I see a smoker who is under incredible stress, going gray, exhausted. Heart problems? Then I see a guy who plays golf twice a month, plays basketball, takes Hawaiian vacations, and seems to spend a lot of time having dinner with his kids.
Don’t know which way this one will go.
I keep thinking Cindy Sheehan. How long did it take to abandon her?
I had not considered the breakdown and meltdown scenarios. But I can see him cracking and doing something crazy. Very worrying.
Roger Simon wrote that he did not believe Obama would have a breakdown, though Roger did not sound too sure.
I think he is having a breakdown. That is, combined with his already strange personality, which Simon wrote about previously and now his incredulity at not being worshiped (but rather despised), the signs are there.
Another way to say it is that he does not need to break down to be completely mismatched to the job. Intelligence? Sure, he has some. Experience that is relevant to the actual job? Virtually none? Character? Well, I saw all I needed to know when Steve Croft interviewed him on CBS and Obama was literally cackling over the unemployed’s suffering. He has no grip on reality, whether it is Islam-induced or by a variety of factors. It looks sociopathic.
Hope Obama is “cackling” over the McChrystal/Rolling Stones deal…more people that have no confidence in Obama.. Perhaps it will drive him closer to the edge.
Of course McChrystal will pay the price for an honest opinion about Obama getting out…
Obama needs to be at a liberal Univ (with a golf course) where he can be worshiped..not at the helm of a nation where his actions are judged on intelligence and love of this nation..
I spent my first few years of college at Santa Cruz a long time ago. He reminds me a great deal of some of my professors. They too were ‘Marxists’ and spent most of their time looking good, hippie-style, developing student cult followings and promoting free sex and smoking dope. But I don’t think most of them wanted to be a President or a Prime Minister. Well, they’ve ‘won’ now.
UC Santa Cruz? Isn’t their mascot a Ragin’ Banana Slug? A perfect analogy! Can’t talk w/o the TOTUS, lazy, won’t study history, makes messes of everything, but rages on about “know[ing] whose ass to kick”.
Obama the Ragin’ Banana Slug!
His Father’s day speech may have been a reflection on his own life
I was so inspired by Roger Simon’s original “President Weirdo” that I wrote an essay about Roger’s daring and related explanations for his increasingly strange behavior: http://clarespark.com/2010/04/05/is-potus-crazy/. Hundreds of people read it, and I thanked Roger for taking a risk in his speculations. I also suggested that pleasing the incoherent Democratic Party coalition could explain his weirdness and inconsistencies. If he is indeed a “malignant narcissist” as one psychologist friend conjectured, he probably would not have a breakdown but would be increasingly destructive to the national interest; if he is simply unable to please everyone who supports him, he will vacillate without necessarily “losing it.”
Which is a better explanation is unknowable to me (I left out the possibility that he is a red mole). But I do suggest to those who would like to defeat the feckless Democratic Party in November that they stick to fiscal conservatism and don’t raise social issues that are divisive.
I happened to read some comments by Frank Davis’ son defending Barack. Obviously he knows Obama and is protective about him. Davis’ son posts under a Hawaiian name; anyhow, he is very pedantically insistent that virtually all criticism of his friend Obama is ‘guilt by association.’ I know this is a non sequitur to what you wrote, but my point is that he really is steeped in leftist ideology. I think it merges with his racial orientation, which is why he ended up at Rev. Wright’s shindig regularly. Black liberation theology; Kenyan nationalism founded on Sharia, the avid involvement with Rael Odinga.
So I think what you have is a very fierce ideology and then a personality which is indeed fed by the notions of those who propped him up and ‘educated’ him when he was young. I think Obama is beside himself to see how many Americans totally oppose what he believes in. He is quite furious that they reject his Truths.
Larry, as a professional historian I must remain agnostic until I see unimpeachable primary sources. But it is also true that not enough people understand the full horrors of black liberation theology. I wrote about it here: http://clarespark.com/2009/10/31/the-offing-of-martin-luther-king-jr-and-ralph-bunche/.
Personally, the man scares me half to death.
HTuttle’s, “a breakdown” is most interesting—look at his script—from what shows: not in the least is he “a penetrating intellect”, and supersensitivity—he doesn’t know what to with criticism—good, bad, or ugly; in consequence of which for all, he’s hurt, easily hurt, . . . and then, confused—good thing he’s got plenty of advisors.
Do you remember what he said that, for his Inaugural Address, Michelle’s advise to him, was? “She said: ‘DON’T SCREW IT UP!’”. Michelle has three kids requiring of her attention—an older boy and two younger girls.
He has been pushed forward in the strength of spirit of “Michelle the Manager” and that other woman—and, he just might “make it”.
The Marlboros are a refuge where a man can still be his own man.
So then, to conclude “Does Barack Obama REALLY Want to Be President?”, with a direct answer: Who was that comedian who said: “Hey, it doesn’t matter if the audience doesn’t think I’m funny—I’ve got a wife and kids at home who think I’m hilarious!”. Barak Obama has one real goal which must be fulfilled: Please the four females in his existence.
Be President? Sure, yeah, if that’s what’ll make them happy; and, if he basically goes along with or works within their counsel, and there may appear a rough spot or two, how could that be the fault of any of the four of them or of himself?
Yes, he is in the thrall of two shallow, bitter and resentful women. They are ignorant about prosperity and obsessed with petty status and power. He is their redeemer, the one who will get even on their behalf. These are not strong black woman who look you in the eye such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali or even Oprah Winfry. Valerie and Michell are hurt puppies. Shallow egotism long ago replaced eternal values in this government. It is all about him, which makes it all about very little.
Humorous cartoon titled “rub a dub dub” with Obama, Rahm, and Rob Blagojevich at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/category/politics/
I believe that Mr. Obama enjoys the trappings of the office. The nitty gritty things bother him no end because they interfere with his big picture of transforming America to a complete welfare state.
Nail. Head.
This guy loves the benefits, but not the responsibility.
One of the defining characteristics of leftism is advocacy of this illusion: that one can have privilege without responsibility. It is the same fallacy Satan used in the Garden of Eden.
He wants to be president, but not do president
Nope, I strongly suspect that he wants to ‘have been’ president.
In my opninon Obama has proven to be a wimp. He has no leadership at all for leading this great nation of ours. He wants to go around and give speeches. The last thing he wants to do is get down and dirty. G.W.Bush looked liked an idiot at times, but at least he had some chutzpah to let everyone know to be very afraid of hime. Obama makes W. look like a genius. I know the BP oil spill is not his entire fault, but he did not demostrate the leadership to deal with the mess. I blame him,Congress and BP since all parties are responsible for this situation.
Just a reminder that those of us who were paying attention during the presidential election who questioned barry’s abilities were called “RACISTS”.
Like #5 Pedro,I think Barry likes the perks of office but not the details of actually doing the job.
And if Obama does have a meltdown, the, um, Vice-President will have to assume the office, no?
I’m beginning to believe even Slow Joe would be an improvement.
Personally, I don’t think Joe could do any worse a job, and at least he might be good for a few laughs.
And then we can slowly drive him to a nervous breakdown also…..then Hillary…..What fun!!!!!!!
Reversible? No!
One fool can destroy in one day what took thousand wise man thousand years to build.
I had not considered the breakdown possibility. Very worrying. Excellent excellent article and comments.
Off topic but maybe interesting
I’ve just read in the German Magazine “Spiegel”:
Der russische Präsident Medwedew reist in die USA, aber er beginnt seinen Trip nicht in Washington, sondern im Kalifornien. Der Kreml-Chef will Konzernkolosse wie Cisco und Apple für Investitionen gewinnen. Er weiß: Die Modernisierung ist für die Wirtschaft seines Landes die wichtigste Zukunftsfrage.
Translation:
The Russian President Medwedew travels to the USA, but he does not start his trip in Washington but in California. The “Kreml-Chef” wants to encourage mega-corporations like Cisco and Apple to invest in Russia. He knows that modernization is for the economy of his country the most important question.
What does modernising the economy usually mean? It means the improvement and production of exportable goods. The only high tech product Russia is good in exporting is weapons. And guess who are her clients? So please Mr. Apple and Mr. Cisco- help the man! Obama will be proud.
Hey Roger, Get with the program; the new righty talking point is that Obama is fiddling and playing golf while Rome burns and the oil spews. Hannity was more of a buffoon than usual last night asserting said proposition, especially when GWB and Reagan, were not exactly known for putting in long hours. VDH and others tell us that Obama does not care about a second term, so why worry? And somehow
But then, I suppose, the loyal opposition has the obligation to pick at every scab, prod every crevice, or is it orifice? Obama, like EVERY President that I recall, has been a disappointment to his followers, who actually believe the rhetoric that their candidate has to mouthe to get elected, or that he can actually achieve half of what he claims. Internet political palaver has not been around long enough to cover all that many Presidents, but the ODS, does seem the strongest that I can recall.
I love your final lines, “Except for the most partisan among us, none of this is cause for rejoicing.” Hmmmm, a number of the denizens of this site border on the pathological in their blather against “our President,” and they get each other all stirred up as well. I hope that there is at least a strand of rational discourse amidst all the absurd hyperbole…or else, what the hell am I doing here? My wife certainly asks that question all the time.
Obama is a phenomenon and such an occurrence by its very nature is different than whatever came before. Therefore, we are in uncharted territory and naturally wonder what will happen next. He’s already done strange and troubling things, like bowing, and not just removing from the White House but sending a symbol of our most important cultural tradition back to it source.
“Internet political palaver has not been around long enough to cover all that many Presidents, but the ODS, does seem the strongest that I can recall.”
Huh? Were you asleep from January 2001 to January 2009?
For a liberal, by definition, it’s not hatred when you agree with it.
Also, any statement that you disagree with, by definition, is hatred.
Your usual inane spew, I see.
The role of those fighting a rear guard action is to:
1) If they have the fire power, stand toe to toe with the enemy and slow them down.
2) If they don’t have the fire power, create enough noise and confusion that your commanders have a chance to get away.
Dwight doesn’t have the fire power for option number 1.
I hope that there is at least a strand of rational discourse amidst all the absurd hyperbole…or else, what the hell am I doing here?
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Funny thing – as I read your posts I have those same thoughts – why are you here?
You sound like one of those foaming-at-the-mouth libs who found fault in every little mis-step (real or perceived) Bush made – believed every lie and half truth the left nurtured as a weapon against Bush – and never let truth get in the way of the factual evidence. Those half and totally untruthful ‘facts’ are well known – you know them – I know them.
The facts are you see your Messiah in full melt down mode and your response is to attack Bush and Reagan? At least when there was national emergency they looked ‘presidential’. Obama neither looks nor acts ‘presidential’. His crass attitude has been on display for all to see. If you fail to recognize that attitude maybe you need to remove your rose colored glasses.
What are you doing here? Good question. Obama’s genius was never established by fact. And neither were his management skills. So we all were expected to buy into the myth, and your only defense is to say Hannity etc. are idiots? Unrelated but interesting observations. I know
plenty of people like Obama, that are clueless at defining a problem let alone solving one….Teflon veneer with a smooth delivery signifying nothing.
It is not the quantity of time that you put in, it is the quality of that time, that matters.
Teh Won is trying to make up in quantity what he lacks in quality, and is being found wanting.
Bush may have gone down to Crawford a couple of times a year, but that doesn’t mean he was on vacation. He was still doing 100% of the job of POTUS whether he was in DC or TX.
With Bammy, the only impression I get is he seems upset he doesn’t get to attend enough parties and that his Oval Office duties get in the way of hitting the links too often.
“…opposition has the obligation to pick at every scab, prod every crevice, or is it orifice?”
If all the irony of this statement could be collected, we could rebuild the Titanic.
“Members of his cabinet are rumored to be deserting him…”
He has a cabinet? Who knew?
Well, as long as his czars hang in there, I’m sure Pinnochio will be fine.
Well, if Oilbama doesn’t want to be president, then perhaps he could become the Tidy Bowl Man and hang out in a yacht suit in a little dingy in the Gulf of Mexico. We could have a web cam on him the same way we do the gusher and know that Oilbama is (symbolically) //cue Johnny Cochran// doin’ all he can as the Tidy Bowl Man!
I cringe as I see his realization that his silver tongue is insufficient to carry him through the big leagues. I think everyone has hit the nail on the head. I too have seen the detachment and struggle he seems to go through while realizing his comments to the nation and the world lack credibility. We are witnessing a meltdown already. Imagine being president and realizing you can’t do the job and your not fooling anyone about that impotence. I hope he makes me eat my words, I really do. It’s sad to witness.
I refuse to feel sorry for him. Look what he and his chums have done to George W. Bush. Disagreement is one thing but if you also display a lack of compassion you can expect to be paid in kind.
when Obama has the meltdown, I pray it’s in public….plleeeeasssee
Obama’s appearance and demeanor strike me as entirely consistent with his situation. He was put forward as a front man for the Chicago machine. The idea that he’d actually have to fulfill the responsibilities of the presidency probably never came home to him with its full baggage.
Having written that, it occurs to me that even the actual, Constitutional responsibilities of the presidency might have proved to be too much for Obama. Those that have accreted onto the office extra-Constitutionally, since the New Deal, are crushing beyond measure. They’ve ruined better men than him.
Jimmy Carter looked as if he’d aged a couple of decades at the end of his term, didn’t he? And he didn’t have a nuclearizing terror state or a catastrophic oil leak to cope with.
Of course Obama does NOT want to be president. If he did, that would mean he would actually have to RUN something, like a country. Remember, you have a guy here who has never had to run anything in his life, not a town, a city, a state, or even a corporation. Nothing, nada, zip. He has had no executive experience, yet to the 52% of the Americans who elected him, this didn’t matter because he was so “brilliant,” right? I guess it sucks to be wrong, huh? Experience DOES count for something and Obama never had it. The only thing he ever ran were political campaigns and that certainly is not enough when you have to run one of the most complicated countries in the world.
But now Obama is stuck with some huge problems and, if he doesn’t deal with them, events could rapidly spin out of control (actually, I think they already are). Iran is about to get a nuclear bomb, North Korea may be about to invade South Korea, our economy is about to collapse, and the Gulf oil spill gets worse by the day. Added to that is runaway spending in Congress and a military strategy that’s about to fail in Afghanistan. Yep, he sure is going to have a lot of “fun” in this job over the next 24 months. I just hope the United States will be able to survive the stress of all of this. Who knew that we now have a president that is going to make Jimmy Carter look like a political genius. How pathetic is that?
To quote what Marrion Barry said about Jesse Jackson, “He’s never run anything bigger than his mouth.” Unfortunately, that fits Obama perfectly.
The One came from Chicago with a sense of entitlement- rather like James Taggart in “Atlas Shrugged”, he believed he deserved to be a state legislator, then a Senator, and then President of the United States just because he wanted it. And that it was everybody else’s job to give him what he wanted.
In return for which he would give them- his soaring rhetoric. Plus his ability to strike poses. Which he believed, and continues to believe, should be the only “qualifications” he needs, or that anyone else should expect.
Now that he is POTUS, he is frustrated. Playing on a much larger stage than he ever has previously, he finds that his audience is not 100% reliable in the fawning department. To a narcissist, this invariably comes as a shock. Also, there is actual work that needs to be done- and it both confuses him (because he has no actual knowledge or experience) and bores him (because it interferes with his obsession with self-admiration).
Worst of all, he now is beginning to suspect that this may be as far as he ever gets. I’m sure he saw the Oval Office as a steppingstone to something like UN Secretary General (or, as he would remake the office, World President For Life), but now that his popularity with Europeans other than the “enlightened elite’” is fading, he now senses that it’s not going to happen. Let alone his goal after that- being crowned Ultimate Totality God Of Everything For Eternity.
In short, he’s not happy. And, being who and what he is (an egotistical narcissist with delusions of grandeur), he will respond by doing what he does best.
Namely, making speeches, and blaming everyone else for his problems. While using the power of his office to punish everyone else for not worshiping him.
He simply is incapable of realizing that to the rest of us, he looks like a combination of a buffoon and a schoolyard bully. Because that would require him to admit that he is not perfect- which he simply cannot do.
The Peter Principle states that people are promoted to their level of incompetence. In this case, we have a President who has somehow managed to be promoted several tiers beyond that level.
clear ether
eon
I’m sure he saw the Oval Office as a steppingstone to something like UN Secretary General
Heh. I’m told that all the effort Brazil’s Lula put into getting an “accord” on Iran’s nuclear bomb was to get him into the UN.
Eon,
What is it with this “clear ether”?
Traditional sign-off to a communication in the Galactic Patrol- see the “Lensman” novels by E.E. “Doc” Smith.
cheers
eon
It’s a little like ‘Cool Runnings’….kind of what Jamaica would be without drug wars.
“Clear ether” is only appropriate if you have an inertialess drive…
What about an inertialess leader?
Wow, you nailed it. A consequence of Obama’s mistaken belief that speechifying = leading and governing is that the balance of world power has already begun to shift, just in his first 18 months. At the end of 4 years, he will leave a world remade, although probably not in the way he wanted, and an America much weakened.
Voting “Present” in the IL State Senate, was his level, and Axelrod carried him beyond it.
It’s strange that conservatives embrace Ayn Rand, who was an outspoken atheist and who’s philosophy, referred to as Objectivism, called for the abandoning of all morality in favor of competition.
Your knowledge of what motivates conservatives is woefully lacking.
Given the amount of time Obama spends on the golf course, or at state dinners and parties, I’d have to agree. At least when he’s out playing golf he’s not actively sidestepping the Constitution or finding new ways to deconstruct the country to more resemble some sort of Marxist distopia.
Let’s hope he does give up trying to ruin our country. Hopefully, after the realignment in Congress this November, he’ll have much more reason to golf and entertain.
Try this for scenario.
All very well to be sympathetic for the travails of the Presidency.Obama is responsible for what he is and WHY he’s doing what he’s doing. HE IS NOT DOING IT ALONE. He was groomed and presented to the world by the DNC, the Democratic National Committee and the “Democratic” Party.Whose spokesperson, the Speaker of the House/Congress, Nancy Pelosi, at the loss of the election of 2000, “lost it”with her public tantrum and vows for revenge. Obama might be construed as the revenge.
It took eight years during which the “Democrats” used every means to undermine the elected President in virtually everything he proposed,and EVEN tried a re-play of “Watergate”.But those years could also be used to develop and polish tactics of their strategy for CHANGE. CHANGE which has been the goal of the “Democratic” Party since the 1950s begnning in earnest at the election in Chicago in 1960.
Review the itinerary of the nation with “Democrats” at the helm since then. Obama IS THEIR MAN.He is NOT a free agent.He’s THE ONE they (their Media) dubbed the “new” Kennedy, the Messiah. Fellow “blacks”, AMERICAN citizens were to be manipulated as one of the tools. Of course he wants to be President with the advantages of prestige /status – treated like a Prince/King, and double immortality as President of the US AND the FIRST Black President. The chance to pilot the engine of world affairs. The respectful attention from world “leaders” and for his personal agenda of revenge against “whites”, especially the English speaking whites. (why ignore his public behaviours and statements?)
HE was to be the candidate for the “Democratic” Party because he “fit the bill”.The DNC didn’t even care if he was /is constitutionally eligible for the office. That could be ignored, subsumed under only loonies would question it. There was always the main attack OF RACISM to fall back on if necessary. An additional plus for him was his essential immunity from criticism. WHO criticizes a “saint”? The AMERICAN MANDELA. And it worked.UNTIL Obama became impatient to effect his (AND HIS SUPPORTERS AND ALLIES)revenge.
Who could turn down such an offer? BUT WHAT ABOUT THE SO-CALLED DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE MEMBERS ALLIED TO THE CHANGE? STILL UP TO THEIR TRICKS BEHIND THE SCENES.
What about them?
jojo:
Your proposed scenario doesn’t fly. The DNC had nothing to do with the annointed one becoming President of the United States.
Obama became President of the United States because the Marxist Dictators and all their parasite hanger ons that frequent the UN and all the other alphabet soup agencies around the world waiting for more money from a shrinking number of American taxpayers wanted him to be their enabler.
The man is poorly educated and ignorant about many things and he has demonstrated clearly that he is neither intelligent nor brilliant.
Why is it so difficult for so many to be able to state the obvious? Barack Hussein Obama is a Marxist idealogue and he works on a daily basis to ensure that the United States of America is brought down to the level of all the corrupt and rotting nations around the world.
And Roger, NO, it cannot be undone.
I wish he had been just the DNC’s choice. To veer into tinfoil hat territory, I see him as someone selected and groomed by a Red network that has run interference for him for decades. Such a peculiar life history – floating effortlessly from triumph to triumph, honors and acclamations heaped upon him in the absence of discernible achievement, book contracts, Harvard Law Review, Annenberg Challenge (who wouldn’t select an unknown 20-something to hand out $100 million?), state senator, US Senator, President, Nobel Peace Prize, doors flying open before he knocked on them, obstacles and opponents miraculously removed, resume builders thrown his way, no setbacks, no contretemps, all embarrassments (e.g., lousy transcripts) buried, all the while surrounded by hard-left activists, yet no high school, college, or law school friends or girlfriends have turned up (was he in Witness Protection?) – just don’t happen to real people, and especially without any actual accomplishment. No one in human history has lived a life that charmed. His whole life is incredible – literally. Conclusion: the fix was in.
Think about it – any one of his life events would make his life unusual. Have you ever known a terrorist? I haven’t. Have you ever heard of any other 20-something being selected to hand out $100 million? I haven’t. Have you ever heard of a law review president who submitted no articles? I haven’t. Have you ever heard of someone getting a Nobel Peace Prize on the come? I haven’t.
The conclusion is inescapable. We’ve been treated to political kabuki. Let’s hope he doesn’t deal himself the Red Queen.
Occam’s Beard: Very interesting analysis. You don’t have to veer too far into tinfoil hat territory to see this as about six coincidences too many.
Occam, I have wondered that myself. Throw in a great deal of serendipity of having an incredibly weak opponent named McCain to run against, and the situation almost seems too good to be true.
Two autobiographies before any real accomplishment? And it sells?
Nice, thought provoking post.
Occam:
How about writing that book during the second year of law school? Most people I know in that situation barely had enough time to take a whiz let alone write a book. Most lawyers I know have some measure of mental agility that enables them to speak extemporaneously, Obama can’t string three words together in a sentence without the teleprompter. Smart? Not.
Jojo,
What about them indeed? ^_^
They too are being punished by the voters in the same way as Mr. Obama has and in the worse way possible – They have been given the power they thought they wanted and deserved and now are finding out the hard way that they are unfit to wield it. And there is nothing they can do to stop it since the very ambition that prompted them to seek power beyond their ability will not permit them to step down so that better men may take their place. If they were half the men their predecessors with the Democratic Party were then perhaps they would be able to admit mistakes, pull back and adjust to the fact that ideology must often submit to physical reality. But they were already losing that ability at the time they had elected John F. Kennedy, a man very much of the same caliber as Mr. Obama (And I do not mean that as a compliment to either man!
) and completely lost that ability by the time of George McGovern.
If I did not wish the rest of us well I might even wish this to play out the way I enjoy watching a tragedy like Shakesphere’s Richard II play out all towards the end. But since America and the world might very well end up suffering for their mistakes as well let’s look forward to the day we voters go ahead and boo them off the stage! After all, we vote them out of office for the sake of their own continued mental health as well as for the future of the United States!. ^_~
I sometime wish Obama had been a Canadian rather than a
KenyanAmerican. Then he could have been Governor-General. The duties of that office consist almost exclusively of being symbolic and reading out speeches that other people wrote for you, and I think we can all agreed that Obama is competent to do that. (On his good days.)You are right about that. The current GG of Canada is a black, Haitian-born Francophone woman. She does nothing and brings nothing to the Canadian table. She does not represent this 5th generation Canadian in any way, shape or form. She is a figure-head, another affirmative-action elected official. Obama would have fit the profile perfectly.
I recently read Game Change, the book about the 2008 campaign. What struck me was that a number of high level Democrats, such as Harry Reid, were encouraging Obama early on to run, as an alternative to the Clinton juggernaut. Come to think of it, Hillary didn’t have a lot more experience than Obama.
Hillary’s claim of having been so close to POTUS for 8 years gave her the experience to run for office.
Hey! I must be a computer expert – after all I’m at my computer several hours a day – at least according to the logic Hillary used.
In one sense he’s far outstripped Jimmy Carter. Carter had to grovel years for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Well, yeah; but then Obama made it a priority from Day One to assrape Israel. Carter didn’t really get rolling on that until retirement.
The Diversity Hire cant handle the workload. Obama will soon file an EEO complaint against America.
Very interesting article. I have wondered about this for some time. I have always had the feeling that Obama enjoyed, indeed, craved the celebrity, but didn’t like the work. Has he ever worked? He did almost nothing as a senator, so what has he actually done? He is making a huge mess of this, he is making decisions every day that are hurting our country and I am convinced he has no idea what he is doing. Think back to his odd behavior from the time he took office. Tacky gifts to heads of state, big “date” nights, costing taxpayers thousands, many of whom are unemployed, it goes on and on. It was bizarre. And now, turning away foreign help for the Gulf oil spill! The pain that is causing so many people. He is a disgrace and he and the democrat party are going to have a lot to answer for!
His ‘cover’ for not accepting aid was in the printed news a few days back. All the aid came with a price tag.(regardless of the fact that ultimately they could have billed BP)
he is just a front man, as someone suggested. he is doing exactly what he did in the senate, just shows up occasionally. he is a sock puppet. other people are pulling his strings. he was promised this lifestyle if he was elected. after they screw up USA, on to the world, one world order, the UN. imho.
may GOD have mercy on our country! be at the polls in november and vote out all the democrats and the republicans that vote with them.
The problem is that the presidency is a full time job; Obama has never in his life had had a full time job. Community organizers make their own hours; college professors are not really counted as people with real jobs, they create their own universes and spin comfortably in them while arrogantly making declarations about this and that. No the Obama is a man who suddenly was confronted with the responsibilities of an adult and had no preparation for it. No wonder he wishes out; out of office he could return to the university with a lucrative position and no real expectations of actually doing anything.
John, this assumes there will be high-paying university positions in early 2013, that still use PC and AA as hiring criteria. I suggest the K-12 and higher-education systems will be collapsing well before then. If such positions remain available, we’ll have lost.
Obama was NOT a university professor. He was an adjunct lecturer, with no faculty or scholarly duties; he was in effect a glorified graduate assistant.
In fact another thing the MSM never told us is that Obama applied for a post on the UC law faculty- and was turned down.
You’re talking about him as though he is psychologically stable. He’s not. Nothing in his upbringing suggests he has the emotional wherewithal for this position.
In terms of simple character creation, this is a story arc of disaster. There is no Act 3 where he takes the wisdom provided by his astute mentor late in Act 1 and rises, against all odds, to the task confronting him. (Swell hopeful music, fade to black, roll credits.)
Bonny Kate – you are absolutely on the mark with your observation of Obama winning before he was “ready” (unfortunately no amount of preparation was going to change his qualifications for office). Vapid, ineffectual and aimless describes his presidential style. Its all about the party and having “fun” (frat house mentality). Cheers.
Personally, I think that Obama is not a dictator in waiting or a socialist or some front man for a devious plot.
Rather, he is Chauncey Gardiner.
My theory is that he did not think he would win the nomination in 2008, let alone the White House. Maybe he thought he would run and win in 2012 or 2016, depending on the outcome in 2008. He would get his name out there, build a new progressive coalition and get an e-mail list of supporters. He would then go back to the Senate, easily win reelection in 2010 and do the statesman thing for a few years, before deciding to run again.
Then he won.
I imagine him standing around on election night with Axelrod and Emanuel and says “Now what?”
This has been my opinion since he won the nomination – his “plan” wasn’t to become president, or ever the Dem nominee in 2008. Rather, it was to get experience in campaigning on the national level, get his name out there, etc. I suspect that maybe, just maybe, even he didn’t think he was actually experienced enough for the job just yet.
I think he’s still doing that…eighteen months later.
You know, you might have something there…
> Rather, he is Chauncey Gardiner.
Excellent! Thank you!
I remember what hit me on that fateful night in Nov 2008 when we all found out the worst had descended on our nation. Obama reminded me of a dog in a cartoon I saw many years ago that has actually caught a VW bug in the intersection – the car on it’s top and the caption from the dog is “Great – what what do I do now”?
I had/have a variant on the same theme as yours: Obama is inherently lazy and as a consequence all he wanted was to become VP (i.e. the Ed McMann role).
He honestly didn’t believe ANY Dem was going to beat Hilary C. in the primaries, but he could envision himself making a VERY respectable showing….certainly a sufficiently good enough showing to become Hilary’s VP. Then things went terribly wrong…..He won!
No he doesnt want it. He got smacked upside the head by reality. It’s much easier to bash the guy in charge than to be the guy in charge. He’s finding that out the hard way.
I have believed this from the start. I don’t think he ever intended to make it to the white house on that election cycle. The media started hyping him and his ego got the best of him. He stated clearly not long before the campaign he needed to get more experience before attempting a run at the presidency.
Hillary was a weak candidate that everyone was tired of and he was the shiny new thing the media couldn’t get enough of. Sadly Obama started to believe his own press. He doesn’t want to be there and has no idea what he is doing. He has a major personality flaw in that he refuses to admit his fallibility so he tries to maintain this public face of being in charge and in control.
I think he would get some sympathy if he didn’t come off like such a cocky jerk most of the time.
I think Mr Obama has had to confront reality–As others have said, intelligence (and we have no measure of Mr Obama’s intelligence–nor his health records for that matter) has little to do with job performance. Harry Truman remains my exemplar–He grew into the job, and understood his challenge.
There is a wider issue, I fear, and that was the role of our media in elevating Mr Obama into the job–agree entirely that he was floating a trial balloon in 2008–He won Iowa and the media piled on in support. All one has to do is look back at all the campaign promises and see what he has delivered on (Health Care was a gift from Ms Pelosi, not Mr Obama)–other than that is a sorry recitation of gradiose promises with little follow through.
I am almost to the point that Mr Biden would be preferable. As soon as he gets back from the world cup.
“I am almost to the point that Mr Biden would be preferable.”
Biden? He’s barely in touch with reality.
Biden? Why not? He would be a lame duck just filling in until 2012. At least the destruction and dismantling of America would stop. Biden would be just fine.
I blame malaise.
I agree with you 100%.
I’d go further and say that not only does he not want to be President (he only wanted to be elected, to be that kind of person); he does not even like America or Americans.
he hates the country he is President of. He is Rev Wright’s “God Damn America” President.
He is not ine if us and he holds deep resentment against us.
The damage he can do when you add in that he is going to get more and more angry in the next two years is frightening to contemplate.
If Republicans don’t take Congress and force adult supervision on him, it could be really really bad.
It seems it’s already gobsmack bad.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704113504575264513748386610.html
Even with a total recall/unseating of all Democrats in Congress by 2012, a new majority of conservatives are faced with the “unwinding” of the welfare state, winning a couple of wars, engendering employment for 30 million US citizens and securing the border, while opposed by the Supremes and every gov’t lawyer, to name just a few of the massive obstacles.
The whole thing has been a bad dream. Worse than my worst nightmare of what he would be like. I had hoped he really was a pragmatic politician who would run, at worst, left of center. Turns out he’s Lenin on steroids.
Every day is a fresh assualt. Every day another timber in our beuatiful country is hewn. Every day civilization itself comes closer to a new barbarism. Barak the Hun. He is crude and barbaric and spiteful and extremely powerful.
The article is right: if we do survive him, the cleanup will be worse than 1000 oil spills or natural disasters. It will be like the cleanup after a war. Long and slow.
My theory all along has been that Obama’s presidential primary campaign was really a book tour that got way, waaay, out of hand.
After reading about the inexperience of Obama and his inability to do anything constructive over the past 18 months my question is: “Where is Joe Biden?”
Wasn’t he, according to the MSM, the networks and the Left, the answer to any possible lack of expertise that might exist in the still wet behind the ears Obama?
It seems that after the trashing that Sarah Palin received for alleged inexperience etc., even as a possible vice president, “Time” is now lounging in schadenfreude.
Simply stated;
I think Barack Obama wants to BE president
He just doesn’t want to DO president.
You got it.
Actually…he hasn’t wanted to “DO” anything that he’s found himself “doing”…
President of Harvard Law Review? NO PUBLISHED ARTICLES and very little of “notes”!
State Senator in IL? Voted “present” 36 times and actually hit the wrong button 6 times!
Senator from IL? 1.5 years…most spent running for President…
I don’t know if I’d agree with Roger totally about his being LAZY, though. It’s definitely a “selective” laziness…doing the HARD things that come with the job, THAT he doesn’t like doing.
The fun stuff? Like traveling abroad and even campaigning…he enjoys. Also golfing, shooting hoops, concerts at the White House, hob-knobbing with rich and famous liberals…THAT he REALLY enjoys!
Don’t forget about his drug past. Can you imagine a situation in which he goes into rehab and Joe Biden takes over temporarily?
The US is learning a few very hard lessons:
- The Media is largely socialist with dictatorial tendencies.
- Socialism is collapsing worldwide with nary a notice by the ideologue President.
- Leadership skills are not acquired in a legislature position.
Obama is cold blooded and calculating. Regarding him as irrevelant is delusional. He has accomplished exactly what he set out to do. Fantasizing about his departure from the scene is silly and naive.
Cold & calculating doesn’t exclude incompetent. Sure, he’s a liar & a con man, that’s how he got elected. As for irrelevent, he may become pretty irrelevent after the mid-term elections. The danger is that the US will essentially be leaderless in the interim. Don’t think for a minute that America’s enemies don’t know that.
This has it right, and the OP and most of the other commenters have it wrong. You are assuming that Obama wants what is best for the United States and is merely incompetent at achieving it, or merely choosing his goals and methods differently than conservatives would. I think Obama hates the United States, and wants to destroy it. He is doing whatever he can as quickly as he can to attain that goal, his only limiter being to stay just under the threshold of actually triggering a coup or impeachment. To that end, the oil in the Gulf isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. The longer it spews, the more damage to the economy, the more distrustful the public of corporations, and the more attractive government emergency powers become.
BHO was not a neglected child. On the contrary, he was treated like a little prince and the second coming. The only job he ever held was a brief stint scooping ice cream one summer.
Does he ever have doubts? He immediately replied in one interview, “never”. He’s not at all introspective. He’s plotting revenge against his detracters.
He won’t give up his position without a fight. Why would he give up all this: (My You Tube) And He’ll Have Fun, Fun, Fun Until 2012 When We Take It All Away
@Carla,
Bingo!
Mr. Simon:
“I have been mulling whether Barack Obama actually wants to be president anymore.”
Some people have to learn things the hard way, y’know?
Had he played his cards right, he could have had his own fishing show on TeeVee. The dummy.
I’ve maintained since his Ascension, (I think that’s the right word), that he would be a one-termer. Nothing to gain from his POV by serving a second hitch. Maybe he feels that there’s not much to gain from serving out the second half of his first term…
“But I rather suspect that in the small hours of the morning he fantasizes he were anywhere but 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”
I wonder how often the phone in Crawford,Texas has rung during the dog-watch.
But seriously, I think we all know the feeling. I fantasize that Obama is anywhere but 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue too…and not just in the small hours either.
“But the question here is not his qualifications. They are no longer particularly relevant.”
Ummm, well…no Mr. Simon. Qualifications always should have been, and always has been at issue for a number of us. Barack Obama is only allegedly a Hawaiian, and he has been allowed to preen and sulk in the Oval Office without doing something, display an original birth certificate, that other Americans have to do every single day to prove their eligibility for stations a whole lot less rewarding and lucrative than the office of POTUS.
“America cannot thrive with a president who wishes he weren’t there.”
I’m not so sure about that. Italy and Japan seem to change governments faster than some people change cell phones, and they seem to muddle along with a chief executive that is little more than a Roman joke or a Tokyo fad.
“We can only hope that the damage that is done is reversible. Sometimes I think that it is. Sometimes not.”
If you feel this way, Mr. Simon, then I can’t see how you could not agree that he must be impeached, convicted and removed from office.
If he indeed is a constitutionally qualified natural-born citizen, then his extortion/exaction of BP for 20 billion dollars, presents the opportunity to do what must be done,
Does Barack Obama want to be president? Sure. Does he want to do the work required or represent all Americans? Of course not. He’s a show horse. A mascot for the Chicago gang. Plan A was winning the election. He had no Plan B other than to travel the world, plug in the ‘prompter, and hope people kept showing up.
Will he run in 2012? How much weirder can this all get? I agree with Bonny Kate, he does not appear to be psychologically stable and I have doubts about some in the MSM too. I’m not sure that Barack Hussein Obama has changed that much but the country’s reaction to him has. If he had been vetted on the campaign trail, if one of the true believers has said, “Hold on a minute, what do we really know about this guy?” would it have made a difference? Will those questions be asked now?
I thought we saw political drama in the 1990s, what is going on now tops it. Bring on the elections.
Honestly, I believe that President Obama thought that being the POTUS would be kind of like being either the President of the AFL-CIO or a Mafia Boss. He must be terribly disappointed that he can’t just order his political opponents be eliminated (as Castro and Chavez do).
I think he has been rather surprised at how hard a job it is. I, for one, would love to know what his grades were in college and law school – did he do well in Constitutional Law or Contract Law?
He seems to have a huge disregard for our legal system, which to me is quite a worry.
Obama as President can not overstep his powers without a compliant Congress and Court. There are Constitutional Limits,under Separation of Powers designed to CHECK AND BALANCE overweening actions from any of the other offices. Blame Obama for his misunderstanding of the office of the Presidency. BUT DO NOT EXCUSE CONGRESS AND COURT FOR SHIRKING THEIR DUTY TO CHECK AND BALANCE.
“BUT DO NOT EXCUSE CONGRESS AND COURT FOR SHIRKING THEIR DUTY TO CHECK AND BALANCE.”
Congress (democrats for the most part) are doing anything BUT shirking their duties. They are aiding and abetting this criminal enterprise that inhabits the country’s White House. Add to that some of the more liberal Appeals courts in the country and it all adds up to trouble. Checks and balances only work when there are differences of opinion – these slow speed yo-yo operators are all on the same page.
Vote the dems all out in November – and dump the RINOS along with them – even if it means voting for some third party quack.
Obama studied constitutional law in order to learn how to avoid and evade constitutional constraints. He makes this clear in the WBEZ interview.
Thank you for the article, Roger.
I’ve seen before what I saw in at least one comment: “Oh, this guy’s just another crappy president, like all the crappy presidents we’ve had before. He’s no big deal. Get over the whole liberty-freedom-Marxist thing….”
I couldn’t disagree with this cynical outlook more. This guy is not the reincarnation of Jimmy Carter, to my mind.
I’m reminded of the beginning of The Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” This guy in the white house has ignited a firestorm in the hearts of many of us who wouldn’t otherwise be more involved than voting and being responsible citizens.
Oh how true! For the first time in my life I feel angry and on fire over what this current administration/congress has done to my Country. I am reading, watching, learning more each day. I’m ready to fight like never before!
Oh how true! I am angry and on fire over what this current administration/congress has done to my Country. I am reading, watching, learning more each day. I’m ready to fight like never before!
Two psychiatrists and I watched the speech in the doctors changing room. Both of ‘em thought this President was on SSRI’s, and that the dosage was wrong. Surprising, since the doc’s at Bethesda are great, but SSRI’s need a close monitoring, and we’ll bet the Navy doc at the White House doesn’t have that expertise. Paxil has a faster absorbstion rate than Prozac, which can lead to a yo-yo effect on mood and attention if the dosage is mistimed or excessive. Increased suicidal thoughts and other rebound behaviors generally occur in young people under 24, hopefully not to someone who could trigger a nuclear exchange.
I doubt it. I don’t think his affect showed signs of Paxil/ssri. Too much Paxil could make someone agitated, not zombie-like.
BHO was a cocaine user. Maybe Reggie Love supplies him with his drugs and other things I can’t mention.
Concur that the agitation of “over meded” ssri is not there, however the zombie like depressive affect is common with Paxil if intake and dosege are not carefully regulated. The folks around him are doing no favors by lax admin.
Obama reminds one of a farm dog that has been chasing cars for some time; now he has caught one, and has no idea what to do with it.
I recently had a conversation with my WW2-generation mother, who last voted FOR Dwight Eisenhower, and says she has been voting against someone ever since. She is thoroughly disgusted; it is beyond her comprehension that the American people elected such a clueless empty suit to the White House, and is now convinced that her generation saw America’s best years, and that mine may see its downfall.
I want to think she’s wrong, but I’m withholding judgement until after 2012.
I’ve made this comment many times, Obama doesn’t want to be President of the United States because he disdains us.
The feeling is entirely mutual.
SNL thought they were mocking then President-elect George Bush, but it seems quite prescient for President Barack Obama. Were the Left projecting as usual?
Saturday Night Live Season 26, Episode 4, November 4, 2000
A Glimpse of Our Possible Future I
Voice of Don Pardo: America, Election Day fast approaches, and with the Presidential Race still too close to call, “Saturday Night Live” would like to present “A Glimpse of our Possible Future”.
[ open on Scenario I ]
Announcer: And now a Message From the President of the United States: George W. Bush.
[ open on the Oval Office - beer cans on desk, socks hung on the lamp, a barbecue grill burning on his desk ]
Voice of Advisor: Mr. President, get out there!
President George W. Bush: [ from under his desk ] No! No, you can’t make me! You’re gonna yell at me again!
Voice of Advisor: Mr. President!
President George W. Bush: [ peeks out from under his desk ] No! I don’t want to go out, it’s too hard!
Voice of Advisor: You’re on, Sir!
President George W. Bush: Awww.. [ jumps up and takes his seat ] Hey, America! So, how we all doing out there, huh? Yeah, not so good. I broke the Hoover Dam.. we had that war thing happen. But I mean, who ever heard of a Civil War, anyway? What is that? [ grabs a pair of binoculars, unscrews the lens, then pours alcohol from it into his mouth ] I have missed you, ol’ buddy! [ pours it into his barbecue grill ] Whoo! I think we can agree, Americans, that these have been a difficult first two years of my presidency..
Voice of Advisor: You’ve been President for two weeks!
President George W. Bush: Really? Oh, man! I told you, this is hard! Okay, listen.. I’m just gonna get this Address thing over with. As we assess the State of the American Union today, we have reason to hope, because.. [ takes out a map which shows California and Florida as islands, Texas in Communist Mexico, and the Great Lakes on fire ] Holy crap! When did all this happen?! Wow.. the Great Lakes are on fire – even I know that’s not good. [ laughs ] Okay, America, we got a lot of problems. I ain’t gonna lie to you.
Obama doesn’t have a clue how to function as president but rather sees it as an opportunity to become head of the Chicago mob, or the UN. During the interim he is enjoying the perks and paying back those who advanced him to the office. He is the worst, most inexperienced, and dangerous president since W. Wilson. His only legacy in the history books will be as first black president. We need not worry about him so much as about the kind of ignorant people who gave him their vote – they are still out their. Hurry November !
If he has a breakdown, will that mean that Michelle is running things from behind the throne? There’s ample history to back her up, a wife stepping up to the plate and filling in for her stricken husband. If anything, I think she is worse than he is, in a MacBeth vs. Lady MacBeth sort of way.
I don’t think Obama will ever give up on trying to get something for nothing for his core base, which is the millions of black people living on welfare and drug money, and having babies. He’ll always support ACORN and its vote-snatching outliers, he’ll always try to get them free medical care to take care of their self-inflicted gunshot wounds, and he’ll take pathetic stabs at trying to rebuild the housing and/or banking industries so they can try to own homes again without any income.
The only comfort I have in the situation is that most of the rest of the world is in even worse shape than we are … except for Russia and China. Those are the two scary parts.
Here’s your purse and your white hood and robes, madame.
And there’s the exit…
If you think that the Alleged Hawaiian gives a fig for Black American citizens,(not directly related to him), you really haven’t researched his Illinois record all that well.
He made his career by letting his backers exploit his constituents.
Michelle made a nice little bit of “pin money” doing the same thing for the University of Chicago Hospital.
One thing I *will* allow to be credited to That Person in the White House, is that he has absolutely and totally taken all sting at all, whatsoever, for now and forever, out of the epithet “racist”. If the only argument one can muster in return is a tired little KKK reference, then that person is just as much of a shallow and trite loser as his jug-eared, wannabe leader in chief.
Someone needs to come up with a name for this syndrome, like Godwin’s Law did for Nazi references.
“One thing I *will* allow to be credited to That Person in the White House, is that he has absolutely and totally taken all sting at all, whatsoever, for now and forever, out of the epithet “racist”.”
This is one of the true tragedies of the Alleged Hawaiian’s regime. People will think that there is no such thing as racism and bigotry, when there manifestly is.
Has His Fraudulence effectively meant that the use of the term “racist” as a punk-ass rhetorical weapon to silence an opponent has been de-fanged? I certainly hope so.
But I fear that overt bigots and actual racists, like yourself, will use that happy occurrence as a free pass to advance what is a counter-productive, harmful, and plain morally wrong worldview.
Let’s review what you wrote about American citizens who have Black skin:
“I don’t think Obama will ever give up on trying to get something for nothing for his core base, which is the millions of black people living on welfare and drug money, and having babies. He’ll always support ACORN and its vote-snatching outliers, he’ll always try to get them free medical care to take care of their self-inflicted gunshot wounds, and he’ll take pathetic stabs at trying to rebuild the housing and/or banking industries so they can try to own homes again without any income.”
Pure stereotypical thinking. The only question is if it led to your bigotry, or did your bigotry lead you to the “thinking”?
I actually pity Black American citizens. They finally get a “Black” man in the White House, and it turns out to be THIS fraudulent incompetent boob who shares less of their heritage of struggle and travail in our,(as in theirs and mine), country than MY Honkie Southern working-class behind does.
That’s gotta just suck!
“If the only argument one can muster in return is a tired little KKK reference, then that person is just as much of a shallow and trite loser as his jug-eared, wannabe leader in chief.”
If the robes and the hood FIT, madame…oh, you don;t care to be stereotyped, do you?
Now ain’t THAT a hoot?
Wishing bad things on other countries is not nice; not nice at all. I’m glad you’re not the President.
Good article, Roger! And all this before the McChrystal affair. Put me in the camp of thinking he will soon have some sort of mental breakdown, if indeed it has not already started. This all reminds me of the progressive breakdown of Chief Inspector Dreyfus in The Pink Panther series over the antics of Closeau. Life does indeed imitate art sometimes.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. The job isn’t as rewarding as Barry thought it would be. Might as well play golf.
Is my gut instinct, from the cheap seats observation that Obama is an emotional ticking time bomb with respect to that he is in “the Real World” now and that people are not going to kowtow to him regardless of his perceived [social] position over theirs in Life..
PS.. *THANK YOU* for the follow recently over at Twitter..! A most pleasant surprise, indeed, as I’ve been a forever fan since first finding PM back pre-Election 2008..
Shortly after his inauguration, I saw a mention that he got to the Oval much later than GWB did, who, of course was an early riser and hauled in his entire staff earlier than most WH staffs.
With all the talk about golf and parties, I haven’t seen anything about O’s office hours. I’m guessing he arrives late and leaves early.
“I’m guessing he arrives late and leaves early.”
To be fair, Reagan also kept pretty standard office hours – but Reagan had run the biggest State in the Union, and had a very clear sense of where he wanted to go, and how to get there.
When you aren’t in crisis mode, it’s a pretty good idea to keep pretty close to normal business hours for two reasons:
1) You aren’t already burned out when a crisis does hit.
2) If it takes you 14 hours a day to conduct normal business, where are your reserves for handling a crisis?
A good leader delegates the more routine stuff to trusted staff and then handles the big decisions and anything unusual. Reagan knew how to do this, this is why he’s one of the few presidents that didn’t age 20 years while in office.
Aside from indiscriminately pontificating on every issue, what entitles you to deliver a bromide on working hours and “crisis” mode? I mean seriously, listen to yourself. Are you going to start telling people what to eat too?
Do you have a point, or are you just jealous of my vastly superior intelligence?
Was commenting on your vastly superior sense of self. Not sure why we benefit from your comments on what to do in “crisis mode.” Suspect you are just one of those guys that confuse your desire to offer an opinion on every subject with evidence of intellect. Confirm that from your flea-like jumping from one comment to another posting replies of no value. Get a life!
So posting comments that you disagree with is now defined as worthless?
And you complain about my sense of worth?
How much sense of worth does it take to spend all your time complaining about other people and no time actually contributing anything?
If you disagree with something I’ve said, then pipe and say what and why so that I can educate you as to just how you are wrong.
If the best you can come up with is a complaint that I post too much, then that says a lot about you and your abilities.
I’m contributing–by pointing out that bar-stool pundits offering comments on every isssue no matter how small, are not worth listening to. They are also tedious. And hoping you might “get it” and let the adults with something to say talk without being nattered to death by your evidently bottomless capacity for saying nothing. “Crisis mode?” What “crisis” have you ever been in other than when to get up or what to eat? “vastly superior intelligence?” Try “monkey at the computer ability to churn out text.” Can you just observe and read for a bit?
So you, a bar stool pundit, with nothing to say, objects when a bar stool pundit with something to say, says something.
I have yet to see you demonstrate that nothing I say has value. We just have your opinion on that. So why should your opinion of what constitutes value over ride my opinion?
As to your claim that I offer nothing of value, that is easily refuted by noting the number of people I have had very intelligent conversations with.
I suspect that your main problem is that you don’t like the way I make those posters with whom you do agree look really, really stupid. But then again, by posting, you have done the same to yourself, without any help from anybody.
I would suggest that you have a nice day, but I suspect you haven’t had one of those in decades.
What intelligent conversations have you had with anyone? In the case of items Nos 12 and 18 above, for example, you simply pinned a useless comment on the tail of other people’s observations: but no one replied to you. They pretend you don’t exist. Instead of dealing with the topic, you add pompous things like your unsupported theory of how to act in “crisis mode.” Face it: you are a pest on this site like some people are pests at parties.
Oh my, the maaster of worthless statements adds another worthless statement.
If you think this is the only article that I have responded to, why are you complaining about the number of posts that I write.
If you don’t believe this is the only article I have responded to, then your complaint makes no sense. Then again, it never did.
I’ve always wondered why liberals spend so much time complaining about the behavior in others that they excuse or even celebrate in themselves.
Try no. 65 below. For a complete refutation of your entire theory.
Oh my gosh, nominate that man for mensa! That incisive penetrating two sentence comment at 65 surely added a lot to this thread. We’ll stack it on the shelf with “Cindy Sheehan’s Ruminations,” and “Jaywalking Arrest and Public relations Techniques,” by the seattle cop. Really impressed as well at the quality of the comemnts your item 65 attracted. Almost as good as 58 where you waste everyone’s valuable time on typos (have you learned how to spell “taser” yet? Even Dr. Evil knew how…). But then as vvss or vvss noted, you must have been in “crisis mode” while typing–doubtless yelling out the window at a jaywalker in front of that pub you sit in all day.
I realize that liberals are incapable of performing basic reading comprehension.
I also realize that liberals are incapable of believing that anyone who disagrees with them has any intelligence.
Therefore your reaction is hardly surpising.
What is surprising is that you have ridden this loosing argument for so long.
Then again, few liberals have any form of life outside their mother’s basements, so they have plenty of time to waste.
I must say that I have seen absolutely no evidence of any superior intelligence. The news flunkies make such statements because their masters in the Democrat Party told them he was smart. The guy cannot even write.
A fellow who posts on PJM a lot opined before the inauguration that Obama would eventually resign the Presidency.
As I sense that the junior rats are leaving what they perceive to be a sinking ship, this may indeed come to pass.
There was another narcissistic ideologue in the 20th century who loved the trappings of power, but hated the work and responsibility that went with it. He, ultimately, resigned his office by taking cyanide and putting a pistol to his own head.
Like this one, that Leader could never accept his responsibility for his own fate. Like that Leader, this President does great evil to his country and to the principles of its founding. He will not be missed, in any case.
Superior intelligence????
His supporters often claim this, but I have yet to see any evidence of it’s existance.
One sign might be his ability to spell “existence.”
There’s no evidence that Obama can even do that — after all, we still aren’t allowed to see his collegiate grades or read his academic papers. Perhaps we should simply impose a spelling exam in order to determine intelligence levels, since that’s apparently what you deem a primary indicator of such.
Have you ever seen him spell it? Without TPUSA’s help.
I have seen you spell it. Try using your spell checker.
Tut – you didn’t pick up on the mis-spelled “it’s”, too. For shame.
Here is my take: I don’t think that a person under 60 years of age is ready to be president. It takes that long to get the experience you need. A man in his 40′s has figured out a lot of things, but still has some major life changes to live through, such as:
–You need to have run something, preferably a state or an army.
–You need to have failed miserably at something, and spent a period of time “In the wilderness”, followed by the hard work of starting again.
–You need to have some experiences of deprivation and settling for second best, so that you value what you gain and work to maintain it.
–You need serve in an unrewarding position so you understand what it is to serve people and discover if you can love them when they are at their worst.
–You need to have a major change of opinion about at least one fundamental thing.
–You need to take enough heat to make your skin thick.
–You need to build a team of trusted advisors. Your “bench” should be deep — many reserves for each position.
Hard to get all those things in two decades!
After this term, and maybe 10-15 years of maturing, Obama could (maybe) make an good president. By the same token, I hope that Palin will not run in 2012. Great potential, needs more maturing. In 2020, she could be an outstanding president, while relatively young.
As far as I’m concerned, whatever potential Palin had evaporated when she quit as governor of Alaska. You don’t become more seasoned by running away from opportunities to get seasoned.
Exactly what seasoning does one get from handling an unending series of groundless ethics complaints that are bankrupting your family and preventing you from doing the job the taxpayers are paying you to do?
Obama has never dealt with serious opposition. All through his life, his way has been prepared for him, his problems solved for him.
I want this guy to be beaten like a rented mule for every minute of every remaining day of his presidency. I want the entire country to understand what a f*ckwit he is, and how f*ckwitted they were to vote for someone with no experience in running anything except his mouth. I want him broken, cowering, an utter failure, and I want that godawful wife of his to feel the same.
He was my state rep when I lived in Chicago and I saw every bit of this headed our way.
I want to have something to hold over the heads of my my lib acquaintances for the rest of their lives.
No one ever told Obama that the Presidency is a full time job. He wanted the position, not the job. He loves the honors, the pomp and circumstance. He hates the work. He really hates the responsibility. He wants to be President. He doesn’t want to do the President’s job.
He is an empty man.
In 2012, to make up for it’s complete failure to vet Obama, the MSM will double down and work twice as hard to … dig up dirt on whoever the Republicans nominate.
I suspect millions of Americans have the same fantasy!
Does Barack Obama want to be president?
I don’t think he ever wanted to be president in the first place, at least in the 2008 election. I just don’t believe that a senator with forty-three days or so of experience before he hit the presidential campaign trail – even someone enamored with himself as Obama – really thought he had a chance. I’d bet a beer that Obama’s plan was to gain experience or maybe even luck out and be called upon to be VP in 2008, with his eyes on the 2012/2016 election. With the mainstream media in the tank and his only real opponent Hillary, things snowballed, and he let Emmanuel and his other handlers talk him into going for the gold.
If I am right and he ended up the VP in 2008 and was allowed to gain experience over the eight years, the irony is he might have gained enough experience by 2016 to be an average president and serve for two terms. The way things are going now, come 2016, he will be remembered only as a one-term president and a below average one at that. Obama will still be a youngish man 2016.
Oh great. That means we have 50 to 60 years of this guy being a former president to look forward to.
I rather like the idea that Obama will be sentenced to 50-60 years in gen-pop without possibility of parole.
Oh, yeah. He’s going to be flying all over the world, moving beyond his practice apologies, and speaking absolutely treason (that would be a continuation of sorts) at all manner of funerals, crises, formal events, overseeing elections (ala Jimmah Carter) and showing up at ever gathering of former presidents.
And he’ll do all of that even if he’s impeached, convicted and moved out of our White House towing an old U-Haul.
Bill Clinton has gained something with this fraud’s performance, too–he almost looks dignified as an ex-President.
If we’d all just shut up and let Obama and his coterie of ideologues get about re-making America into the enlightened (tedious) rathole they have in mind, he’d be a very happy camper.
He said it himself over healthcare…he’d love to impose some academic enlightened scheme onto (we the clueless) peeps, but, alas, alack, he has to try to operate inside this messy process of “democracy”.
If he truly doesn’t like the job he fought so hard to obtain, I wouldn’t be the least distressed if he stepped down. In good community organizer style, his only talents are chastizing, demonizing and power grabbing.
He tried the soft sell with the world’s bad actors and all they bought was the soft, not the sell.
We can only hope that the damage that is done is reversible. Sometimes I think that it is. Sometimes not.
Although one four year term is not forever, with the amount of unilateral power being claimed and ceded to the executive, it will be very hard to untangle this mess.
Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny?
I’ve been all along that Obama had no intention of actually winning the Dem primaries in 2008, much less the presidency. He threw his hat into the race like countless other candidates do, to earn name recognition for a future run. But the media latched on to him and swept him into the White House, and once they got that idea in their heads there was little he could have done about it without seriously damaging his own brand. I think Obama would give anything to be able to go back and hand Hillary the primary.
“the media latched on to him and swept him into the White House”
This is what affirmative action is all about. A minority high school senior who is perfectly prepared to thrive at Cal State Long Beach is recruited by Princeton. A mediocre student at Columbia is admitted to Harvard Law.
This kind of upward suction is bad for everybody, including the kid caught in the updraft. If you keep getting sucked upwards at each juncture you can easily wind up with a job for which you are hopelessly unprepared.
Unfortunately our President has NO capacity for self-reflection, nor any humility either (I do not believe he wrote “Dreams …” alone; in fact, Michelle Obama indicated he had help in the bio of them that was published last year, but this escaped the lamestream media). There would have to be a Democratic Party revolt to get him off the ticket in 2012 and I don’t think we will see that. Lots of us like to think that liberals, progressives and Democratic party members are disenchanted with Obama, but they will still vote for him. They’ve all bought into the mythology of Obama, Liberalism and bigger government.
If he had some balls he’d fire MacChrystal, but I don’t think he does or will.
I disagree; I think it takes far bigger balls to say:
“Gen. McChrystal, I think you may have a point…”
Obama won’t fire McChrystal, but Secretary Gates will. I bet Obama won’t even meet with McChrystal, because his feelings are hurt.
I think Obama has already had the first breakdown. This is the reason for his weekly therapy golf sessions and many nightly parties and diversions.
Obama knew from the beginning he was over his head.
It will only get worse; the wolves of the world will smell the weak, sick one and take advantage.
I am waiting for this announcement: “As set forth in the Constitution, I have taken over the reigns of running the United States; I am the new President”, says Joe Biden after Obama totally collapses.
I disagree that Obama is a beaten man, slumped over, dispirited, wishing he weren’t in the Oval Office (which I guess means more time on the golf course; whatever happened to basketball?) What I might agree with is that he’s discouraged because even his allies in the MSM are excoriating him, chiefly because he’s not implementing his and their socialist agenda fast enough. And you must admit that he still has that old Chicago-gangster flair: violating the 14th Amendment of the Constitution he is alleged to have taught at U. of Chicago, he actually did “shake down” BP for $20 billion. This is property seizure, pure and simple, regardless of what you think of BP’s culpability. Face it people: we have a thug for president. And what did a very famous socialist/communist have to say?: Power comes from the barrel of a gun. Obama and Congress subscribe to that philosophy. Clue: it’s Anita Dunn’s favorite philosopher. Time to think of impeachment. The charges will be many.
I disagree that Obama is a beaten man, slumped over, dispirited, wishing he weren’t in the Oval Office (which I guess means more time on the golf course; whatever happened to basketball?). What I might agree with is that he’s discouraged because even his allies in the MSM are excoriating him, chiefly because he’s not implementing his and their socialist agenda fast enough. And you must admit that he still has that old Chicago-gangster flair: violating the 14th Amendment of the Constitution he is alleged to have taught at U. of Chicago, he actually did “shake down” BP for $20 billion. This is property seizure, pure and simple, regardless of what you think of BP’s culpability. Face it people: we have a thug for president. And what did a very famous socialist/communist have to say?: Power comes from the barrel of a gun. Obama and Congress subscribe to that philosophy. Clue: it’s Anita Dunn’s favorite philosopher. Time to think of impeachment. The charges will be many.
It’s all Bush’s fault that Obama is a failed president.
No, Roger…he wanted to be Divine Emperor.
In some Asian countries, during Obama’s youth…such a position came with a fawning belief in the leader’s infallibility. A sort of god.
Ingrained in the popular belief of the masses that some sort of magical, mystical powers, wisdom, higher conscience was part and parcel of the leader’s makeup.
The legacy media gave him this false buildup, the fakery being naked and relentless. Leftists gave him cover for every gaffe, buried flaws and weaknesses, glossed over serious questions.
An infallible emperor (or pope, I suppose), is a fiction that requires that the masses remain tied to a suspended disbelief in reality. It’s performance art in a way. If either side drops the charade or comes out of the state of suspended disbelief, the harsh light of reality can be jarring.
That this administration would go into a bunker mentality (or perhaps, a pope-a-dope) is simply a manifestation of wanting to hide from the harshness of reality’s burning flame.
He won’t leave. He won’t have a breakdown.
There is no place to run and even less of a place to hide.
Instead, he will become energized by having something at which to strike back, to lash out. A huge Republican win will give him the foil that hyper-leftists need in order to thrive. As a rule, they make horrific leaders. They are strictly snipers and counterpunchers. They are the “anti” crowd and work poorly at being responsible for anything but criticism.
They are less likely to “do” and much more likely to “opine” about those who are in the actual trenches. They drift toward jobs as legacy journalists (observers with attitude), professors (bull sessions in the humanities), Hollywood (pretending to be something they aren’t and could never be)…and Democrat politicians. (making rules for others they themselves ignore)
A huge Republican win would give them oxygen again. Someone to criticize. A foil to cop an attitude about. An America they can lament and loathe. Policies that can be reviewed and critiqued in “academic” and flowery debate. Movies about soldiers, businessmen and religious types who are always evil, crass, and hateful.
You see, Roger…it is tough to be infallible. Or somewhat of a deity. Reality never really goes away, no matter how deeply your “true believers” try to bury it. But fear not, the leftists will rebound when they have something they can truly loathe, coming soon to a poll booth near you.
Obama = Captain Queeg, ‘The Caine Mutiny’.
nope, wrong movie.
I suggest “The Manchurian Candidate” instead.
See the movie, or, better, read the new book “The Manchurian President.”
I am surprised that b. Hussein’s poll numbers are staying so high, but I am even more surprised that Roger Simon and so many who have replied here are going for this idea that bho doesn’t like being president.
If you were President and wrecking things, you’d be discouraged because you were fouling up. He intends to wreck things. He is not discouraged. That isn’t discouragement you sense. He just doesn’t care.
Obama got in waaaaay over his head – now he’s scared sh*tless. He tries to pass it all off with a calm demeanor, but anyone can see that he is totally freaked. I’m glad to hear McChrystal say what everyone else was a coward to say.
Unfortunately, in the editorial salons of the NYT and the Washington Post, none of the character flaws and failures you describe tip the scale to suggest a Republican would make a better President. Does anyone seriously suggest there’s more depth to John Edwards or Barbara Boxer than Sarah Palin?
One thing you rethuglican tools need to remember is that just because you believe something is true, that doesn’t make it true. To convince someone else, you have to provide evidence. So your circle jerking and assertions like “Obama is doing a terrible job” only have currency outside your circle if you actually describe WHY.
The fact is you have never liked Obama, and never, ever thought anything about him was positive in any way since before he took office. You are die-hard partisans, not patriots, as much as you congratulate yourselves on your supposed virtues. So your “analysis” about Obama is about as relevant as scrawls on a bathroom wall… why do you even bother writing new columns? You should just write “OBAMA SUX” with a picture of a penis over and over.
Yaaaawwwnnn….
errrr, Frank (tapping your shoulder), reality calling, just making sure you are still tethered…
RAsmussen poll…41% approval
Openly mocked by his own apptd general for being a feckless p@ssy
NO leadership with GoM disaster
Economy rolling over
His “righteous” war in Afghanistan going down the commode
Tripled an already bloated fed budget
Refuses to reign in the criminal cabal running Wall Street (and lining his pocket)
Frank, are these enough for you? You may return to Imaginationland now.
Believing something to be true doesn’t make it automatically not true either.
The evidence that you demand has been provided. Perhaps you missed it. That happens when you never read anything the other side writes.
As to your complaints that the other side does nothing but throw insults, need I remind you of how your side behaved during the previous adminstration?
For that matter, just look at the tone of your post. You are the best argument against your position that I could possibly come up with.
“You should just write “OBAMA SUX” with a picture of a penis over and over.”
You are confused. It was a ‘progressive’ live production that had flashing pictures of penises on the screen behind an actor playing a vulgar, stupid, and deranged George Bush. In character certainly for the class challenged actor I might add. Not even a close approximation of the former president though. The actor who played George Bush was the well-regarded thespian Will Ferrell. Always an actor to take seriously in any role he takes on and whose political thoughts are at least at the well-grounded and reasoned level as Ashton Kutcher’s. At least.
Also, anyone who uses the word ‘rethuglican’ to make a point on a serious site immediately reveals him or herself as a lockstepping Democratic Underground a$$shat who wandered off the asylum grounds. As such, you aren’t worth more than passing consideration in the adult company here and that as no more than comic relief.
Me thinks you have spent too much time looking at liberal prose on bathroom walls.
Now to complete the charade, you need to lift your vulgar comment from this site and show it as an example of what those fascist Republicans say about dear leader. That would help make you look like a bonafide member of your crowd. Get out of here, asshole.
Frank is irrelevant.
The fault may lay with the voters who thought that a rookie president with a super majority was a good idea. Obama told them want they wanted to hear, about social justice and such, and not what they needed to hear about the balance of freedom and security and such. At that time of the campaigns we were guessing and wishful think about whom Obama may be. Now that he is fairly transparent, the delusions end, and Obama-world is far less applicable in the real world; hence the wee hours of the morning walks. However, the dangerous extent to which his ego is the measurement of his legacy, should not be taken without great caution.
Obamao spoke in vague generalities and pablum. His teleprompter was careful to never define anything he said. Everything was left to the listener’s imagination of what those words meant to them. One reason (I think there are quite a few) for the teleprompter was what slips out of his mouth when he’s off his leash – e.g. “spread the wealth around”. What he’s *really* thinking! The kool-aide drunk masses heard *what they wanted to hear* and ignored everything that contradicted their mirage-like version of who he was.
Those who voted for him are culpable.
Obama wants to be President but he is only a puppet. When he announces he is a ” born again muslim ” ( perhaps I shouldn’t quote myself ) The White House will, under islamic law, become part of the Dar el Islam. Obama is the 50 yard line for the islamization of America. The real question is not whether Obama wants to be President. The real question is whether the citizens of the United States want to remain Americans.
Obama is going to be our president for the next 6+ years.
Wishful thinking isn’t going to change that simple fact.
Wishful thinking won’t change it, voting will. I plan to vote early and often, the Chicago way, but not for the Chicago guy.
Both Gallup and Rasmussen have Obama at a 48% approval rating today…same place as it was a year ago.
Still more than enough to beat Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee.
I sincerely doubt he was at 48% a year ago. He started at 65%+ on inaugration day, basically Feb-1. And this is after stimulus passed but before HC bill. 48% I doubt.
And here’s a troubling little secret that nobody wants to confront. How many people, when on the phone with someone they don’t know give him better marks because they don’t want to be considered racist? If Chrissy, Olberdork and Rachel all say that the vast majority who oppose Obama are racists, does it not stand to reason that some who disagree with him on purely political grounds just nod yes to the question to avoid being labeled?
My guess is that at his approval rating is inflated by 2-4%, minimum. Don’t think this is happening? People just don’t want the hassle. Everywhere he has campaigned for someone, they’ve gotten clobbered by even more than the most recent polls had indicated. Pollsters will blame bad statistical models. “Over” turnout. Whatever. But look at the polls for NJ, MA and (the third state last fall escapes me).
The Orwellian Presidency is a face-cage full of hungry rats. I find it hard to believe that anyone wants the job. I’m mistrustful of people who want it so badly they’ll spend a king’s ransom to get it. The next president should be dragged to the inaugeration, screaming, “No! Not me! Do it to someone else!”
Why must there always be some sort of hat tip towards Obama’s intelligence? Always with the “despite his obvious intelligence” this and “regardless of how smart he is” that. What is the evidence of all of this brilliance? Papers? Scholarship? Results? Anything?
Barack Obama is a smart guy, sure. But the first thing that everyone here needs to realize….and admit openly….is that every last one of us know and have personally met 50 people as smart or smarter than Barack Obama.
Oh, how un-intelligent you are! In the old days, kings inherited divine rights by being born into a kingly family. Today, One inherits Intelligence by graduating from the elitest University. Understand?!
50 people smarter than Obama? I’m an ordinary person and I’m aware of HUNDREDS smarter than Obama.
Obama has shown, in more ways than one, that the job of POTUS is WAY above his pay grade.
In Bugs Bunny’s immortal words, “What a maroon!”
Obama is the dog who chased the car and caught it. Now what?
At this point, I’m beginning to think Obama doesn’t really consider being President as his actual job – he agreed to be a front man for the Marxist coup and nothing else. I get the feeling he goes to meetings where his Czars and advisors review their agenda, give him the latest talking points, and then he goes out and gives the speeches and/or reads the teleprompter. After that he goes and plays golf because, as far as he’s concerned, his job is done. He’s nothing more than an image and an empty suit – basically an actor hired to play president while the actual job of governing is left to his inner circle filled with socialist ideologues. The gulf spill? Not his problem and neither is most other issues this country faces.
You are drawing a bead on the truth!
He was sold( the gig) that the country more or less runs itself
Let’s say he definitely wants to be a ruler to issue decrees, not necessarily a president of such ungovernable people who had no ideas of what’s good for them, and too selfish to care for the public good.
Oh, only if he could have dictatorial powers, for a short time, like as long as he deigns to, to gift us, the unwashed, universal health care, to save us from impending global warming doom, to lead us to the final solution to that pesky Israel problem (mind you, it’s the Zionists who cause the world’s troubles, not the Jews, no anti-semitism here)… What else should our own Caeser do? Oh, look at that hair, tingles up Matthew’s hairy legs.
Wait, such a superior figure calls for a superior title. We have more czars than the Romanovs, why don’t we top them by calling our Dearest Leader the CzarSupreme?
“Does Barack Obama want to be president?”
Who cares what HE wants?
“Except for the most partisan among us, none of this is cause for rejoicing. America cannot thrive with a president who wishes he weren’t there. Nothing does. We can only hope that the damage that is done is reversible. Sometimes I think that it is. Sometimes not.”
I disagree with this entirely.
American cannot thrive with a president who does the things to us Obama has done and wishes to do. The less adept he is at these things, the better off we are.
The more lame duck he is, the better.
Unless, of course, one wants him to fight energetically for such things as suing Arizona, taking over corporations, pushing the health care and now cap and trade on a populace that doesn’t want it, etc.
Alana, I’ve wondered about this myself. I want Obama to fail in the sense that Rush Limbaugh does. But can our other two branches make up for an AWOL executive? What about our foreign policy? Our military? I don’t want Obama to have his way in those areas, but what would happen with no one at all to set policy or command troops?
Maybe that’s Roger’s point. I’m not quite sure how to put it, but Obama’s presence is absence. I guess I can only hope that those who wind up covering for Obama will get the job done as well as those who covered for Woodrow Wilson after his stroke.
Barack Obama is the Accidental President: his presidency is one huge head-on collision.
The view of the catastrophe is so awful, we can’t take our eyes off it.
As Obama realizes he is an incompetent failure, as his acolytes begin to desert him, as his once adoring minions abandon him, as his loving worshipers reject him, where will he turn?
I think Obama’s paternal abandonment permamently scarred him. He is a truly conflicted soul, the good dad who wants to be the antithesis of his weak, promiscuous, male slut father, yet who also wants to be the proud scion who rises to become his fathers political ambition, the socialist anathema maranatha.
His whole life he sought a reconciliation, yet he cannot reconcile these things. Thus, his search for a replcement ‘father figure’ led him to seek strong and forceful organizations, the structure and ‘love’ his father denied him.
He found it first in the strict and oppressive ‘religion’ of Islam, which clearly made an everlasting impression upon his psyche, and which he clearly still loves.
He next gravitated to the bullying force of ‘community organizing’, then the ‘punch back twice as hard’ world of Chicago socialist politics, complemented by the rigid hatred of ‘Reverend’ Wrights ‘church’….all violent dogmas that demand submission.
Obama is actually a very weak man, who can only find self acualization in the subordination and submission of others to him. He is a petty dictator, and like most petty dictators he cannot stand on his own without some kind of thugocracy backing him. He is thin skinned and cannot take criticism, as it reminds him of his fathers rejection.
After the fall elections, I think Obama will collapse like a house of cards. He will take this rejection personally and simply give up, while continuing to blame others for his own failures.
So…after the elections, his rejections, his failures, perhaps after his term is over, where will he find the salve for his re-injured ego? I believe he will seek comfort in his first home. He will rediscover the qibla, re-acquaint with his ‘holy’ Koran, and will be soothed again by the call of the meuzzin.
I believe he will ‘revert’ to Islam, an ideology he never really left.
~ The Infidel Alliance
I believe BHO wants to “be” the president. He as always wanted to be president. He simply has no desire to perform the functions of the presidency, he wants the authority without the responsibility – he wants the position without the job.
Our Presidency is uncommon (from the world perspective) in that it is two positions in one. Many – if not most other countries have a “head of state” or leader of the country – and also have a leader of the government as a separate position. The leader of the country is the President or King – and the head of the Government is the prime minister. Our Presidency combines those two positions. Obama seems to only want half the job.
Obama wants to pontificate, travel, hold state dinners, propose grandiose ideas, meet foreign leaders, make policy statements etc. He has no desire at all to actually execute, accept specific and measureable accountability, assign priorities, manage multiple departments and work hard. Obama has no interest in the “prime minister” component of the presidency.
Obama has never been a senior manager of any type. Not only does he not know how – he really doesn’t know what it means to be a senior manager. He doesn’t grasp the concept. He really did believe that if he was just “cooler” that the last guy – everything would be great – just because of the force of his personality.
Obama wanted to be the “rock star” head of the country. I think he still does. Obama just never quite understood that the job “Manager of the US Government” was part of the package. I think he would quit the 2nd half of his job tomorrow if he could.
It’s such a shame that the world would be in this place at this time in history. Consider: in the early 90′s communist expansionism died a quiet death, technology was exploding, the American economic expansion was starting its second decade and a Middle East dictator/invader had been driven out of his conquest, beaten and humiliated in about week by a mighty American military. We should have been poised to usher in a renaissance the likes of which the world had never seen. But…
Instead here we are with a socialist if not marxist President dismantling the most creative and productive society there has ever been because someone might get rich – and that would be unfair. Instead of unleashing the power of individuals to create and improve our lot in life Obama and those who think like him demand that everyone be the same, have the same, feel the same because then and only then would Utopia be achieved.
What a damn shame…
Well, Roger, you have now officially hit the big time: Rush Limbaugh is talking about this very column right now. He disagrees with you, btw.
I 180 degrees disagree with the thrust of this article. The destruction of America in every conceivable way continues apace. This is what Obama wants. This is Obama’s mission. He positively revels in the simultaneous acquisition of ever greater power and the dismemberment of the passionately hated and resented U S of A. Obama is not only not failing as President, he is succeeding mightily, by his lights. What utter naivete to think for even a second that Obama wants what is best for our country.
I agree with you about what Pres. Osama is up to…
but I think you miss it on your “utter naivete” comment.
As the feller said, people just can’t handle the truth.
For a very good reason. The truth–that b. Hussein hates America and wants to take it down–is so terrible, too terrible for many people even to consider.
Tragedy.
“America cannot thrive with a president who wishes he weren’t there”
Actually this might not be so bad if we had a reduction in presidential power. The truly worrying thing to me is the Democratic leadership in congress. If we had a good congress I wouldn’t be worried.
President Obama and all of his handlers (including Hillary Clinton) are all communists. Maybe Obama is wishing he had not won the Presidency, but his handlers all know exactly what they want. To ignore that is to open the door for the totalitarian state. What Obama has found out is that communist political philosophy is not as popular around the country as it was in the cocoon of his Chicago church. He is too thin skinned to push the communist agenda because, somewhere in the recesses of his mind, he knows he shouldn’t push against the will of the people. Communists see such a fight as being a necessary means to their ends. He needs a Psychobabble Czar to get his mind back from the Weather Underground.
That all said, I am still completely appalled that this country would ever elect such a person to be it’s President. It says something real bad about the control that the far left has had over our education systems. We have to get Obama out and we have to keep Hillary out and we have to destroy these communists who have hijacked our country. It is time to go to school board meetings to identify and then throw these people out.
Forgetting about all the psychological problems the man may have, I think he is basically a lazy man who wants the perks, freebees and adulation of the presidenty but doesn’t want the job to infringe on his ‘personal time’.He’s never really had a job wiich required him to work every day.
What sane person actually wants to be president. It is a pretty thankless job. You are always on call. You are constantly making more important and stressful decision than anyone else in the country. Your movements are now dictated by the secret service. Almost no matter what you do half the country is going to be disappointed by your actions. You have to deal with the house and senate. The pay is not that great. That is just what any president has to deal with. The one who came in in 2008 had two wars and an economy that was tanking so fast no one knew what would happen. No one really wants that kind of responsibility. Like when someone breaks everything in the store on their shift then you come to work and now have to fix it all. While he has not been as great as I wanted the idea of another republican in office makes me sick. Apparently people have short term memory issues if they think the republicans will not repeat themselves. He has said on record that he would rather be a productive one term president than a do nothing two term president. I would be willing to bet large sums of money that he will easily win a second time if he runs for a second term.
I hope you are wrong and I will do everything I can do to keep him out of a second term. I think by then, you will too, and that is my bet. I think Ann Coulter is right, “About every 12-16 years the country forgets how bad the Democratic party is and elects another one.” Anyway, that is the closest I can remember that quote.
But he’s incapable of being either.
Given the amount of damage he has done so far, I would say his productivity is pretty high.
This essay surprised me. I expect an angry rant about how Obama doesn’t protect American beaches from oil, American workers from unemployment, American citizens from Islamic terrorists, or American borders from illegal immigrants. Does Obama want to be President of the United States or the United Nations?
But you wrote a better, wiser, and more illuminating article. Does Obama still want to be president?
At some point, he must be aware of his inept handling. He had strong ideas and a huge ego, but his misperceptions and mistakes have become quite visible. The oil continues to gush, unemployment soars, the deficit balloons, and all his misdirections on confronting Islamic terrorists are visible. The Cairo speech failed.
Perhaps he will resign???
The best job for Obama? Sec. Gen of the UN. Here he could give vacuous speeches, travel on big planes, wine and dine with celebrities, but do nothing and be responsible for nothing. Sec Gen would be all show and no go, and without the constant criticism. Can we persuade Ban-Ki Moon to resign so Bambi can have his job?
I don’t believe the Sec. Gen. can come from one of the 5 permanent members of the Security Council.
Of course if Obama gets us out of the UN, that would solve that problem.
Are you kidding? Barry LOVES being president. The whole Obama family is having a blast. Piping hot french fries, cooked to order, “when you want it done” (as Michelle charmingly put it). What’s not to like? It’s not as if these party hearties have anything to actually worry about (aside from the nagging realization that the Royal treatment will one day end for them).
The Washington Examiner has an editorial in which Obama really believes President Bush is a stupid man; therefore, Obama, in his platitudes & arrogance, thought the POTUS is like any other job. It’s not. The Office of the President of the United States is a 24 hour job which requires plenty of executive experience; however, Obama possesses no executive experience. Heck, he has hardly no political experience even as a Illinois State Senator & spent the better part of 2 years campaigning for POTUS as a senator in Washington DC.
Obama is in over his head while he’s trying to enact his radical agenda. He’s passive. He’s not a leader. But Obama is a demagogue. Obama is actually the worst elements of the Left’s Liberalism personified.
I believe Obama is bored being POTUS since it is too much work. He’s not used to working.
Random observations: America (starting in 1960) has often voted in Presidential candidates for reasons more related to show business ability than perceived leadership ability. This is what TV has wrought. You must look somewhat handsome and sound reasonably facile on TV to get elected. Not much else matters.
This has come home to bite us with the election of an incompetent who looked and sounded great when speaking under his own terms, with a teleprompter and a fawning audience. None of this is Obama’s fault, it is our fault.
We also hold to a silly idea that Presidents will “grow” in office and meet the challenges with statesmanship. Not this time, America. Obama is shrinking, not growing. The more time he spends on the golf course the better.
He and his administration ignore the key to our country pulling out of the current problems: JOBS! Every policy promulgated conflicts with a prior policy, leading to floundering about with no results. Obama has both oars in the water, but they pull in different directions.
Only JOBS! can initiate a housing recovery, not silly bribes to buy a house. Only JOBS! can raise more tax revenue to avoid sovereign debt default. Only JOBS! can lift people out of poverty. Only JOBS! can free up credit as banks must have creditworthy borrowers in order to make loans that will be repaid. Education alone won’t do so, I know plenty of poverty-stricken people with graduate degrees.
Where do JOBS! come from? Risk-takers, that’s where. Why are the risk-takers sitting on their hands? Because the policies of Obama are reactive, impotent and conflicting. No one is going to risk losing everything under these conditions.
Also, the healthcare situation brings about uncertainty in some areas and certainty in others. The areas of certainty influence risk-takers to sit on their hands. The areas of uncertainty do the same. Nice work, Obama and Democrats.
Oh, and to cap it all off, taxes go up in 6 months. Higher taxes inhibit JOB! growth. Despite all rhetoric, the middle class pays the lion’s share of taxes. You can’t collect taxes from people who don’t have JOBS! Raise taxes all you want, it won’t help.
If you want less of something tax it. Obama is taxing income, meaning we will get less income. And he will get less revenue as more JOBS! are lost. Brilliant. Not.
We are doing what Japan has done for the last 15 years. Check out how it has worked for them. I include Bush here, he made mistakes too. But it has taken us about 75 years to get to this point. The responsibility is spread to many, including most of us.
Obama is the wrong guy to get us headed back in the right direction. It will take us until about 2022-25 to recover from years of overpromising and underfunding of govt largess. The can has been kicked into a dead-end alley the bill is due, and we are broke.
Which reminds me, what has Obama done about our two largest underfunded entitlement problems, Medicare and Social Security?
I don’t think Obama ever wanted to be president.
Certainly, he wanted to become president. With the golf games, basketball games, fundraising, etc., he also seems to be preparing for when he’s a former president.
But to be president? Never saw anything suggesting he wanted that.
Mr. Simon, love your work– thank you for it.
I don’t think Obama is a conspiratorial character. I don’t think Dr. Evil/George Soros has “selected” him. I think he was simply an attractive affirmative action novelty option at the right place, at the right time. Blame the sterility of the other choices (all of them superior but badly sold).
As for laziness, golfing or his choice of subordinates, etc…these aren’t critical to me. Leadership is. I prefer those who work smart over working hard. But he does neither. I also see equal merit in leading through love versus fear. Again, he is capable of neither. As a leader, there is a lonely center in which you have to be utterly convinced of your own values and positions. You have to see the future. I think Obama does possess a kind of vision, but one completely incompatible with American values. He is a failed leader with an impossible self-selected mission.
Although I am antithetically opposed to his world view, I have the deepest sympathy for him. I’ve seen his type before in the corporate world many times an dit never ends well for them.
As for the damage, we’ll get through it. The Founding Fathers’ brilliant calculus is playing out even now. The void is necessarily being filled. The Last Best Hope (aka The American People) steps in again, just as it has for many years whenever so summoned, and makes the necessary course corrections.
Like Dilsey, we will endure…
No, he wants to be “King” : give orders and all subjects follow his divine lead. May he fail!
Perhaps Barack can just phone it in.
God save our Republic.
I recently began praying for a complete meltdown by our usurper in chief. Not a complete breakdown, which could be dangerous, but rather the OMG! moment of all OMG! moments. The type of thing that would sear into the global psyche for all eternity an ugly, pathetic, utterly despicable act that is a complilation of his vast pathologies. The kind that makes you want to immediately spit it out of your mouth or take a shower.
At which point, the puppet masters who contol him would simply create a “medical emergency” of some physical sort (not mental mind you) to give him a quick exit out the back door. These un-elected communist academics could then lead ‘ol slo joe aroung for a couple of years by his gonads. I pray for a meltdown on a grand scale with all involved in these evil schemes against humanity.
“….he fantasizes he were anywhere but 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue…”
So do I. So do I….fantasize that he were anywhere but 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
If sheer numbers count, there are millions with this fantasy. So if he turns up missing, we’ll know our fantasy has become reality. (And if he turns up missing, PLEASE don’t let any guilt-ridden Republicans go looking for him.)
Barak Hussein Obama dreams of being THE WORLD DICTATOR. Will we let it happen ?
Rob Crawford wrote
“Internet political palaver has not been around long enough to cover all that many Presidents, but the ODS, does seem the strongest that I can recall.”
Huh? Were you asleep from January 2001 to January 2009?
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I was awake, but I will confess to frequenting righty sites, who would quote various outrageous examples of lefty slander against GWB, rather than my hearing many of them first hand. I did hear a fair amount of stuff on GWB as alcoholic personality etc.
Let’s assume that the BDS and ODS were about the same. They are still crazy…both ways. Both became or are simply ways in which people could offload the meanest or goofiest stuff. Two thirds of the subsequent posts here are a clear Exhibit A.
A subsequent poster asserts that I love Obama, am a lefty, hated Bush blah, blah. All I will confess to is not distancing myself from the BDS stuff as early as I should have. Iraq as a pre-emptive war made the lefties crazy. Obama is making the righties crazy, despite the fact that you can make the case that both were much more centrist than the extremes of their parties would like.
The left got giddy when Iraq started to go badly. Many here are giddy with Obama’s current problems. They couldn’t help themselves and neither can you. The left came up with Kerry to take out GWB and he couldn’t do it, despite GWB’s vulnerability. Unless things get much worse, it is reasonable to think that Obama could ride this out to get a second term, and hell, he may then get numbers as low as GWB did.
I think this country is healthier both parties (and talk as if) the country will survive a President from the other side. When was the last time we talked that way?
From waaaay upthread…
The Buchanan Administration and the Presidential Campaign of 1860.
Let’s try: “I think this country is healthier when both parties believe (and talk as if) the country will survive a President from the other side. When was the last time we talked that way?
Actually, I talked exactly that way through both Clinton and Bush. But both of them at respected the fundamental underpinnings and traditions of U.S. government.
Ditto. This is qualitatively different in so many ways.
He just wanted the keys to AF ONE. Is he ever in the Oval Office? Everytime we turn around, he is jetting off to some college town to give a speech (trying to justify whatever). I think he likes to hear himself talk, er…read. When off the prompter, he sounds like he is searching for the words or maybe trying to remember what he said last time. His supporters justify all this uh and ahhing because he is “thoughtful” and wants to “consider” before he speaks…supposedly this is intelligence.
I feel like I went to sleep and woke up in a different country. It’s all surreal. Sometimes it feels like a dream that this Nation is crumbling like a week-old cookie.
If you are a Christian, could you see yourself stumbling and blurting out in a conversation….”my Muslim faith.”? I’m sure that’s happened to a lot of people, right?? Just curious.
Don’t elect a Senator to the White House. It would save us so much grief. Only a United States Senator has enough limelight and status to make voters forget about a complete lack of executive experience.
Who was the last one? JFK? Wasn’t he the guy who bet all our asses in a poker game back in ’62?
Roger, Washington Examiner’s Michael Barone wrote along the same line a few months back. Obama seems detached, almost bored with his job as CiC. Can we be surprised? The guy has never stayed in a position long enough for he was always pushed, err, ‘earned’ his way to greater things.
Yep, sad state of affairs for our nation. More so considering Obama hasn’t ANY IDEA how to be a leader.
The most epic oxymoron of all-time: ‘The most transparent, bipartisan administration’.
Don’t fret, though. The useful idiots will continue holding this abysmal failure in great esteem and wear their silly ‘Obama’ shirts on the Beltway..
“The most epic oxymoron of all-time: ‘The most transparent, bipartisan administration’.”
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Well, the ‘moron’ part is right on.
Obama, dissatisfied with the limitations of community organizing, went to Harvard Law to learn power’s currency in all its intricacy in detail. Now he’s the most powerful man in the most powerful government in the world and still that power is checked at every turn, by law, by politics, by uncooperative heads of other states. It must be disconcerting to realize that this is as powerful you will ever be and, yet, you are still powerless to make all the “fundamental, foundational changes” you desire. It’s also disconcerting to find out you’re not nearly as smart or clever or capable as has been advertised through the years and that you are, indeed, in over your head. He’s never been subjected to unrelenting criticism before and he doesn’t like it, not one bit.
Obama likes the trappings of the job (boy, does he). The house, the office, the big, splashy plane. The partying with an unlimited entertainment budget. Having hundreds, if not thousands, of people at his beck and call. The ability to stop traffic at will. The deference. The adoration and adulation, although those are clearly on the wane. But the job itself? No, I don’t think he likes it. It’s hard and he’s lazy. It requires exacting decisions and he prefers to be the blank screen who votes “present.” It’s demanding on his time and interferes with his golf game. And it doesn’t pay enough because Obama hasn’t reached that certain point where he’s made enough money yet. He’s probably salivating at thought of the kind of scratch he’ll pull down when he leaves office. Well, no time like the present, I say.
Careful what you wish for… the honest truth is that Obama has potential to be even more of a disaster as an ex-President.
Imagine that he has all of the same demagogic instincts, but is no longer restrained by any actual responsibilities. Now imagine him spending the next forty years grandstanding on the world stage.
Gives you nightmares, doesn’t it?
And all at our expense.
“Obama likes the trappings of the job (boy, does he).”
Well, of course.
All left wingers want two things.
The power to control the lives of other people (see the Democrat Party’s fascination with slavery, military conscription, gigantic tax rates for examples).
Free handouts.
Naturally, he loves the idea of being president. More power than any other job…and the free handouts are virtually limitless.
Obama’s like a ‘Where’s Waldo’ character. Talk shows, late night shows, baseball games, golf courses, Chicago restaurants, not to mentioning his teleprompting speeches before sporting events.
I’m waiting for Obama to be on a Telemundo soap opera sometime when I’m channel surfing!
Oh yeah, when push comes to shove he’s in the South sometimes, too.
I’ve been wondering something similar for a while now. It seems to me that you can trace out Barack Obama’s career path on a fairly straight-line trajectory, and now he’s hit the end of the road, so maybe he’ll just quit.
The theme of Obama’s career path has been: Obama wants to make an enormous change in the world, but doesn’t have the patience to spend decades doing it, so every few years he tries to get more power.
- He was a community organizer, but couldn’t help enough people fast enough. “He didn’t see organizing making any significant changes in things,” said Jerry Kellman, the man who hired Obama to be an organizer in Chicago. “He was constantly thinking about his path to significance and power… He said, ‘I need to go there [Harvard Law School] to find out more about power,” said Mike Kruglik, who worked with Obama in Chicago.
- After law school, he worked as a professor at the University of Chicago, but he also spent that time working for Project Vote and for a law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development. He also was on the boards of the Woods Fund, the Joyce Foundation, and the Chicago Annenburg Challenge. These were first reaches for power, but again, he didn’t have the power to get things done quickly enough.
- Since then, he’s run for the Illinois State Senate, the US House of Representatives (and lost), the US Senate, and the Presidency. Every step of the way, he’s been climbing the ladder to get more power, and each time, he’s discovered that he doesn’t have enough. Now he’s President of the United States. There’s no more powerful position to seek. He barely got the healthcare measure passed, and that may have been at the expense of his accomplishing anything else. Where does he go from here?
I don’t know, and Roger Simon doesn’t, either. I’ll bet Obama himself doesn’t know.
You make it sound like Obama accomplished this. He didn’t. He was a cat’s paw — a find by someone else, or a group of shadowy figures (Ayers-Soros-etc.?). Obama may not have even laid out the strategy, just gone along with what was offered him. His instructions might be — do nothing now, just enjoy the ride, and “things are in the works.” They said Truman was the pawn of the Pendergrast machine, and McKinley too answered to a higher power, namely, Mark Hanna. Both outgrew their masters. Will Obama? It sure does not look like it now.
“A subsequent poster asserts that I love Obama, am a lefty, hated Bush blah, blah. All I will confess to is not distancing myself from the BDS stuff as early as I should have. Iraq as a pre-emptive war…”
LOL. Since you go around spewing left wing boilerplate propaganda, naturally people leap to the conclusion that you’re a leftoid.
Nothing “pre-emptive” about the war in Iraq. It’s a lie…like everything else that comes out of the mouths of leftoids.
Pray this country will survive this President. Breakdown or not, he’s a danger to all we hold dear. http://www.thefedupamerican.com
In my role as a manager. I have had to terminate several employees. I knew it was time for them to go when it was obvious that they had ‘shut down’. Signs included increased tardiness and absences, if at work, spending all their time surfing the net, im’ing, or emailing friends, doing anything but the task they were assigned too do.
In almost every case it was a situation where the employee was not qualified for the job. The employee at first tried to bluff their way through, but soon realized they were in over their head. It’s at at this point that the person gave up and ‘shut down’. I think Obama has ‘shut down’.
I agree that Obama probably never thought we’d actually win as it was supposed to be Hillary’s coronation instead of an election. At some point it became clear to someone in the Dem powerbase that Obama was the ‘One’ that they needed to back as #1) he had a thin voting record that like his past, made him hard to define and #2) he was young and cool and that would attract the uninformed, Star Search crowd, and 3) any and all opposing views, accusations, having to defend what few votes had had cast, etc. could be silenced with all powerful ‘R’ word.
It started to look like he might actually win. What to do? Well for eight years all Obama heard from his fellow Dem’s and MSM was how dumb Bush was and it was really Cheney and Rove that ran the White House. Obama figured if someone as dense as Bush could do it and get away with for eight years, surely someone as cool as he was he could do it too.
He wins. I think he may have realized he was in over his head when at his 1st National Security meeting, he actually had to face the reality that there were terrorist in the world that actually wanted to do American harm. Terrorism wasn’t just an excuse for Bush/Cheney to shred the Constitution afterall. But that was okay, he’d just talk to the terrorist and all will be fine…because he wasn’t Bush and everyone liked him.
Another rude wakening for Obama once in the WH was realizing that Bush actually DID make decisions as president, he actually worked. But that was okay……
It always seemed to me to look like Obama had cut a deal with Pelosi/Reed and all the other major Dem’s in Congress. If they’d drafted all the legislation, he’d campaign to get it passed, they’d give him the credit, and in return they could use his coat tails and 70% approval (that surely would only go higher)the next time they had to run for re-election.
I’m sure that seems like an eternity now to all those guys.
It was just a matter of time before the illusion faded…for both the public and Obama. As time went on, Obama’s great oratory skills didn’t impress everyone like it was to, people began to disagree with and even challenge him, the stimulus didn’t work out like it was supposed too. Health Care turned into a real battle revealing a side of Obama that no one was supposed to see. It wasn’t supposed to be this hard.
But even with all that, Obama and gang continued right along as the MSM marveled at the amazing ‘skill’ and ‘intelligence’ he used to handle one ‘crisis’ after another. However, all these ‘crisis’ were just scare tactics that the Administration created to push their agenda. So when faced with a REAL crisis in the Gulf, Obama wasn’t even able to recognize it as a crisis and therefore didn’t respond to it till it was too late.
As the oil leak went from bad to worse, his poll numbers plummeted even further than Healthcare had drug them down, a point came when Obama realized he was in over his head and would end up being just a one term president. It was at this point he shut down, hence all the concerts, parties and golf.
He’s now checked out for the most part and just going through the motions…which is NOT good for the country.
For all their faults and misguided idealogy, I do believe that the Democrat party has got to realize the danger a ‘checked out’ president is the the safety of the nation. So for that reason and the fact that the longer Obama remains in office, the longer it will be before the Dem’s ever win another election, it would not surprise me that at this very moment the Dem powerbase is divising a plan to get Hillary into the WH ASAP. Just today a poll came out showing Hillary leading all the other Dem’s and Republicans who people would elect as the next president.
The tin-hat side of me wouldn’t be surprised to hear on the news in a few months that Biden has step down for ‘health reasons’ or to ‘spend time with his family’ and that Hillary has been appointed VP. It then just becomes a question of why Obama steps down so that Hillary can assume the office of president.
Your last paragraph gives me cold comfort. She is as much an ideologue as he, but she, described by Senate colleagues and observers as a “workhorse” in contrast to Obama the “show horse,” is actually ready, willing and able to do the heavy lifting the job requires. In some ways, she’s even scarier than he. I would, however, trust her more to run the GWOT and its adjuncts, so that’s something. At any rate, how the hell did we get the point that having Hillary Clinton step in is actually the rosier scenario?
Don’t include me in that “we” business. I know the face of collectivist claptrap when I see it. She would literally destroy what is left of what we have and she would do it without pushing for any legislation at all. She is a true fascist. Try reading her “It Takes a Village of Useful Idiots” without puking.
I agree with Jim Baker…….if any of us had pulled the illegal shenanigans that Hillary and her phony so called “husband” had pulled, we’d be in prison, right where the two of them should have been long ago……the two of them are nothing but criminals…..watch “The New Clinton Chronicles” for a real eye-opener!!! …….they’re both total “One World Order” goons……..
As I see the situation OB is accomplishing exactly what he set out to. Unraveling the threads of the United States one at a time.
My answer to “How many times has the phone rang in Crawford,Texas in the dog hours?” is,
How many times has the phone rang in the Kremlin in the off hours?
259 comments says it all. I didn’t read most of them but I’ll bet it’s mostly negative. Obambi is a failure. However he WANTED to be President, he campaigned long and hard and fought for his chance. If he’s running away from it now what does that say about the character of the boy king.
121. Dave Surls wrote;
“A subsequent poster asserts that I love Obama, am a lefty, hated Bush blah, blah. All I will confess to is not distancing myself from the BDS stuff as early as I should have. Iraq as a pre-emptive war…”
LOL. Since you go around spewing left wing boilerplate propaganda, naturally people leap to the conclusion that you’re a leftoid.
Nothing “pre-emptive” about the war in Iraq. It’s a lie…like everything else that comes out of the mouths of leftoids.
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Now there is some profound analysis. A little name-calling and a little blind assertion. I think you make my case quite nicely.
That would be another beef I have with you guys that many of you cannot distinguish “left wing boilerplate propaganda,”… from what I do, which is “centrist boilerplate,” er, profundity. Since, being righties, your minds tend to think in absolute terms, something is either good…or evil. Lefties operate their equivalent way on the other side, but aren’t quite as much into absolutes. Mark (the Great in his own mind, evidently) talks about having enough ammo to fight various actions) which is his way of defending goofy extreme attacking from either side. Having enough ammo means blowing up your own brain at every possible juncture with stuff that “proves” how evil, incompetent, lazy, fanatical, diabolical, character-disordered blah, blah, blah, blah, blah Obama and all leftoids are.
You guys are drama queens. Things get worked out in the center, compromises between RR and Tip, or Clinton and Gingrich, and one hopes that something similar will be happening after the next election. The drama queens were raging on both sides before, and if we are lucky, will be after November, because their extremes have been rejected, Rush will be slyly blustering his way to his next pile of money, but some useful progress (to the extent that there is such a thing; alas it may indeed be simply holding back the deluge) gets made.
Maybe you guys are somewhat justified in your danger sirens blaring at top decibel because there is a lefty President with an almost filibuster-proof lefty congress, a terrifying scenario for you and not an ideal one for centrists, but still, you come up with such goofy stuff, some of it in the guise of pop psychology, the equivalent of the left’s talk about GWB’s laziness, alcoholic personality, and relationship with his father and siblings. Profound stuff, indeed.
Reasonable people should hope that Obama is capable of gathering himself as Clinton did and working with a new Republican congress to get something done. That something will probably include some serious rethinking of Afghanistan, health care and stimulus packages, but as Newt found out, you can’t “take away” all that much from the great unwashed, before they bloody your nose.
The funny thing is, that you still consider yourself a centrist.
“Now there is some profound analysis.”
It’s just an observation…not a profound analysis.
If you’re going to go around talking about a pre-emptive war in Iraq, when there was no pre-emptive war in Iraq, then don’t be surprised if people leap to the assumption that you’re a left winger.
The war in Iraq began when the Iraqis attacked Kuwait. We weren’t “pre-empting” anything. We were directly responding to their action.
The war continued when the Iraqis broke virtually every single condition of a tenative ceasefire agreement, among the acts carried out by the Iraqi governmment: repeated attacks on American and allied aircraft, as well as continued Iraqi support for terrorist groups who had previously attacked the United States and murdered our citizens.
The idea that the war in Iraq was pre-emptive in any way shape or form is a lot of left wing claptrap.
And, if you’re going to repeat left-wing claptrap…it makes you look like a left-winger.
All of Dwight’s comments are in the range of near to far left wing.
He has never made a comment that any reasonable person would consider right wing.
I’m wouldn’t be surprised to find out that based on a sampling of his college friends and professors Dwight is somewhere in the middle. Kind of reminds me of the old bat who couldn’t imagine how Nixon could have possibly won, since nobody she knew voted for him. To Dwight, he is centrist because in his small circle of acquintances he isn’t the furthest to the left.
Then again, just about every liberal I’ve ever met claims they are mainstream.
The GULF WAR began when the Iraqis attacked Kuwait. That lasted from 1990 to 1991. Wrong war.
It’s senseless to express moderate ideas around people so far to the right on the political spectrum. Anything you say that isn’t in the Limbaugh Manifesto is immediately shot down as being un-American or communist. In other words, moderacy is relative. To them, moderates ARE leftists, because they’re to the left of them on the political spectrum (even though almost everything is to the left of them).
Roger, you must be joking. This man never wanted to be President-only a dictator.
Every decision he has made, every action he has taken has been to hurt this free nation
and increase his power and control over it. He is not tired, he is not depressed, he is not on
the verge of a breakdown. He simply doesn’t give a damn about this country. Wake up.
” A little name-calling and a little blind assertion.”
Followed by…
“You guys are drama queens.”
Not to mention countless blind assertions.
He’s a “MODERATE”, you see, who just happens to ramble on and on about Rush Limbaugh, & whine constantly about criticism of 0bama. I can understand the blind devotion to the messianic “articulate black guy” – what I resent is how this faux-moderation insults everyone’s intelligence.
A better man than Dwight once commented on “moderation” when faced with the great moral issue of his day:
“Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; — but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.”
Sounds like William Lloyd Garrison, maybe? If so, he was talking about SLAVERY. And there’s the problem; To many of you Obama pushing an agenda close to what he was elected on is the moral equivalent of slavery.
To me it makes perfect sense that a “moderate” would mock Limbaugh. I would mock Olberman and Matthews if anyone paid attention to them. A moderate also points out when partisan criticism is over-the-top. The people being criticized for the over-the-top blather need to paint the moderate as an extremist.
To you, anything short of saying that Obama is the anti-Christ or completely incompetent is “blind devotion to the messianic “articulate black guy” ” Therefore almost BY YOUR DEFINITION, there can be no “moderate” support for Obama. Can you define any possible position on Obama somewhere between “blind devotion to” and “incompetent anti-Christ?”
As for Surls and his objection to “pre-emptive,” what I am saying is that we decided to invade the second time. We didn’t have to, but we decided to or got somewhat forced into it with all the troops over there with no place to. We weren’t really invading for what Sadaam had done to us already, but for what he might do. Anyway, “pre-emptive” is not the ultimate perjorative that you seem to think it is. Are you saying that we HAD TO INVADE Iraq?
Good to see that someone failed to post a response about the name calling – after all, that’s apparently reserved for the more enlightened commenters. Kinda like how these selfsame commenters decree what is and is not “moderate” political thought.
“To many of you Obama pushing an agenda close to what he was elected on is the moral equivalent of slavery.”
Yep – self described Communists, apologists for mass-murdering dictators, advocates for forced sterilization infesting the big O!’s admin – no reason to worry about incremental slavery to the Feds – no, sir. By O!’s own admission he sought out the company of extreme leftists, whose ideological heroes were responsible for crimes objectively worse than slavery. Southern slave owners at least had a financial investment in their “property”, while radical Leftists killed out of quasi-religious ideological fervor. Now, people whose worldviews borrow heavily from traditional Marxist-Leninist thought & tribalist identity politics are in positions of tremendous power. Of course, they will be sure to show respect for individual rights, unlike their heroes.
Yet another example of how a left winger claims to be moderate.
Obama is not governing as he campaigned. Not even close to it.
As to mocking Limbaugh. A centrist wouldn’t mock anyone. They would instead show where Limbaugh is wrong. Those of us on the right do mock Olberman and Matthews, but we do so by showing how the things they say are really stupid.
Hmmm, I guess I did not get the intructions that a centrist should not mock anyone. I thought that a centrist could mock both sides.
And I love Nine o Diamonds’informing us that Obama=communist=Gulags and worse. Sounds a bit too much like Bush=Hitler wouldn’t you say? That’s why a centrist has to mock both sides; they deserve it. Can you say howling and yowling drama queens?
An a$$hole mocks both sides. A centrist would try to deal honestly with those he disagrees with regardless of whether they are to the right or left of him.
…So no response to the fact that the Kenyan by his own admission seeks out Communist sympathisers, or to the fact that there is a SELF-DESCRIBED pro – Communist contingent in the White House. For crying out loud, they have suggested sterilizing people with poisoned drinking water – it’s like something out of a bad sci fi movie, but 100% true. Note that this is not me labeling them – this is how Van Jones, & other 0bama administration officials describe THEMSELVES. Quite the apologist, to deny that these would-be tyrants really mean what they say.
Instead, ridiculous mewling about how the evil Rush is exploiting the public – after all, it’s the talk show host, and not a quasi-Marxist infested government & courts, that is the true threat to liberty.
For the record, listening to Rush costs me nothing, although the touching concern for dittoheads’ financial wellbeing is duly noted.
This “Centrist” trolls forums like his hero governs! Massive self deception, both with respect to personal competence and the audience’s capacity to be fooled.
OK, Try to follow this, guys. Obama has some past extreme associations with lefty or wacko types. How the hell else does a poor boy from Hawaii get to the top? These extreme guys fall by the wayside as Obama rises. Both Bushes et al. got to the Presidency via the silver spoon method; Nixon, LBJ, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and Obama had to get toeholds in power somewhere else. Their extreme associations fall away as they rise. You guys choose to assert that Obama is still a commie-terrorist because he came up via Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright etc. and ignore the fact that his Cabinet Geitner, Clinton, Gates, eyc is for the most part full of (relative) centrists. But you are still sounding the commie commie commie warning call, while the left grumbles because he is less commie, commie commie, every day. Van Jones was there…and he is now gone. Of course Obama’s tendencies tilt lefty; what do you expect?
Do you know how much Lincoln was blasted (and half the country seceded) for being associated with abolitionists, while at the same time the abolitionists despised him for being an appeaser. I will admit that it is only a dream that Obama could be another Lincoln, but the country needs a special leader to emerge. Maybe it is Jindal or Ryan or hell, even Scott Brown. The great leader has to survive via his own greatness. Lincoln had Sumner and Chase in his cabinet, and Obama has Clinton and Gates. I know that you despise Clinton etc., but if you can’t see a guy who is pushing toward the center, I have to say that it is because your commie meme is a lot more exciting for you. It’s like my hometown fans yelling “Yankees Suck!” Over and over. It is dumber than dirt, but it seems to entertain them.
“Obama sucks” Got it.
I didn’t mean Sumner in Lincoln’s cabinet, but rather Seward. Lincoln chose the man he had defeated for the nomination. So Obama chose Clinton and kept Gates, neither of which he had to do…or maybe he did have to do it because he knew that he would need their help as Lincoln knew that he would need Seward’s and Chase’s.
Instead, may of you here are essentially seceding. Just to continue the model, let’s say that that healthcare is Obama’s Emancipation Proclamation. The oil spill is any one of a number of humiliating Union defeats. McChrystal is not substantial enough to be a McClellan; Petraeus would be.
18 months in, did Lincoln still want to be President? Had he ever run a corporation or been governor of a state? No, but he had greatness within him from other sources. To you guys, Obama could not have this greatness within him because he is a hollow fraud, having come up the wrong way, bluffing, posturing, speechifying etc. But we are living in the year 2010 guys, and one could argue that his special skill set is what is appropriate for this time. Of course, maybe not, but a centrist should be ready to accept that possibility. You guys do not appear ready to accept anything other than “commie, commie.” And yes, the country was never the same after Lincoln’s war-time expansion of the Federal Government. Commie, commie.
Heh. Still no refutation of 0bama’s own self-professed inclinations, and his associates’ leftist spewage. Good. It looks like the self-deception just isn’t working anymore, so there’s nothing left to do but deny, and post irrelevant theses about Lincoln. And snivel that people unfairly think 0bama = commie.
Is it depressing for all of the little “centrist” drones out there? The “centrists” who thought that all the ugly associations could be thwarted by hagiography (0bama = Lincoln/Lightworker/God), and a few well-timed screams of the dreaded “R” word? That support for Mao, Castro, and other mass murderers was OK, so long as it was papered over by a “post-partisan” facade?
I know I’d be depressed by the 0! administration’s current state – but then again, I think it’s good not to get so personally invested in politicians in the first place. Not 0bama, Palin, Dubyah, John McAmnesty – no one.
Nine-of-Diamonds- PROVE IT. Because I’m pretty sure you can’t.
If trolls fail to keep themselves informed, it’s not my fault. Are they too incompetent to use teh interwebs, or do they just not want to disrupt their illusions about the 0bama machine’s competence?
If only there was a ‘lemon law’ for bad Presidents who repeatedly fail to meet standards of quality and performance.
What does it say about a person willing to seek an office for which they know they lack the requisite experience? Is Obama too dumb to know he’s incompetent – or is he really starting to feel that he’s a failure? I suspect that he has an avoidant personality style, hence all the “present” votes, and we know Axelrod said that Obama’s weakness is his sensitivity to criticism.
I think it is all crushing him, and he feels humiliatated and shamed. This is a bad, bad situation. Obama looks depressed in all his informal moments, even when smiling his cheek muscles are sagging, reflecting depression.
The real problem is that Obama doesn’t want to be President; (remember what he carved into the wet cement at his school in Hawaii?) – he wants to be King Obama.
Yep! Depressed and royally pissed off at the same time. He seems to vacillate between abject self-pity and barely bridled fury.
Bambi wants to be Emperor.
In fact, he thinks he is. >:-(
Between this tripe, and Sowells latest abomination, I wonder if you people have really, truly, gone nuts.
“More likely he will stumble on, spending as much time as he can on the golf course or on vacation.”
Hey, now! George W Bush has left office, and there’s no need to bring him into it, now, watch this drive!
“When Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s…he deliberately sought to activate people who did not normally pay much attention to politics.”
Just like the conservative movement that courted the previously apolitical religious movement, turning them into the “religious right?”
This article is pure, unadulterated projection:
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ThisConservatism is anbeaten manarchaic, defeated ideology, struggling to showhe isit is not, even though everybody knowshe isit is.” And their writing shows it.Hitler comparisons are a parody thanks to you fools. And you all are a parody of yourselves.
I love the way liberals deal with viewpoints that they oppose, like Dwight above, they don’t try to answer the disagreements, they just mock.
I guess it comes from the way liberals spend so much time telling each other how superior they are. (They have to tell it to each other, becuase everyone else is too busy laughing at them to tell them anything at all.)
Not how the classic liberal doesn’t even try to refute anything written by either this author or Sowell, he just mocks it, as if everyone agrees with him so nothing more is needed.
Really? How else are you supposed to respond to someone who equates Obama with Hitler? Obama passed a stimulus. Hitler exterminated 6 million Jews and 6 million others in concentration camps. Are you really going to equate Obama’s actions with the Holocaust? How dare you equate the extermination of Jews with Obama’s policy! That’s not only stupid and worthy of ridicule, it’s insulting and offensive.
Hitler wanted nationalized health care and civilian gun control. He wanted race based preferences and control over what the people ate. He wanted social justice in the form of shortened work weeks and equivalent pay scales. He believed that the needs of the state trumped the needs of the individual and that religious holidays should be replaced by political holidays. He believed that all who opposed him and his party had inferior intelligence. What do you believe in, smart guy?
Who cares? The bad thing about Hitler was that he took over almost all of Europe and exterminated 12 million people in concentration camps! Who cares about his gun control laws??? It would be like saying “mustaches are Nazi, because Hitler had a mustache”.
If the biggest problem you have with Hitler is his gun control laws, then you have issues.
So some Presidents accept the limits of Executive power, and some try to take more. Who would be the ones who “accepted the limits?”
As for “institutionalized privileges for his constituencies,” can you explain how he does this any differently that all Presidents do it? If you want to learn something, read “Freedom Just around the Corner by Macauley to get some context on how such things have been done throughout our history.
What I object most to about ODS is that it relies on the outrage of generally ignorant people, or the willfully ignorant. Some are clever enough to be good Alinskians to use and exaggerate any crisis for political gain; that is par for the course. But to say such outrageous things about Obama makes the speakers sound either looney, or just plain ignorant. Obama is just a Democrat politician who happened to be elected President, but he has set loose some crazy stuff in the fever-swamp of many righty brains. The smart righties blather to persuade the gullible; the not-so-smart, because they really believe it.
Which one are you?
There are so many valid, reasonable points that can and should be made in a conservative critique of liberalism, but so often they are accompanied by a ton of cultural yahooism which communicates, if not in tongues, then with absurd swagger and name-calling, and the fact we can be anonymous here just exaggerates the whole effect. It is sort of the cartoon version of the First Amendment.
Moderate Liberal Carp attempts to reconcile swaggering tongues, yahoos, righty brains, the not so smart, and Mr. President.
138. Dwight
“But to say such outrageous things about Obama makes the speakers sound either looney, or just plain ignorant.”
“…but he has set loose some crazy stuff in the fever-swamp of many righty brains. The smart righties blather to persuade the gullible; the not-so-smart, because they really believe it.”
“…a ton of cultural yahooism which communicates, if not in tongues, then with absurd swagger and name-calling,…”
June 25, 2010 – 3:24 am
“Obama is just a Democrat politician who happened to be elected President,”
No kidding. Just? Where is sea level at these days?
The Moderate Liberal Crystal Ball Carp knew 2 days in advance that “A little name-calling and a little blind assertion” would come forth from the fullness of its own “swaggering” “tongue”. Profound. Analysis.
126. Dwight
“Now there is some profound analysis. A little name-calling and a little blind assertion. I think you make my case quite nicely.
June 23, 2010 – 4:42 am
Part of Nine’s previous filleting of The Moderate Left Carp. Nice carving over all.
128. Nine-of-Diamonds
” A little name-calling and a little blind assertion.”
Followed by…
“You guys are drama queens.”
The cry for existential meaning. Feeling useless.
12. Dwight
“…what the hell am I doing here? My wife certainly asks that question all the time.”
June 22, 2010 – 3:28 am
So the question arises –
“Which one are you?”
Are you partner whipped, Mr. President whipped, or “just” “absurd” “swaggering” “righty” “tongue” whipped?
“..what the hell am I doing here?” Ya’ll come back Dwight. Maybe you can “persuade the gullible; the not-so-smart”.
Hey, great scholarship. Keep studying my stuff….and if you are lucky, it may help soothe the fevered brain.
Sad. I was hoping for an explanation as to why self-professed moderates can throw around ad-homs, & why it’s verboten for the rest of us “non moderates”. Also, why it’s so self-evident that this particular “moderate’s” views are indeed moderate. Instead, how many times has he talked about fever swamps, swamp fever, or whatever? Good Allah – please throw in some other geological features for the sake of variety!
Evidently, you guys are sensitive about being called “fevered,” since you don’t respond to much else in my posts which are trying in quite a few different ways to put Obama in some reasonable personal, political, and historical context. You guys, on the other hand, are continually pushing for “worst ever.” What adjective would you like to have used to describe your approach? Cold, cleared-eyed rational analysis of O’s strengths, weaknesses, growth, movement toward the center etc.? Hmmm, doesn’t seem to fit. You appear to despise him, possibly hate him, despite your claim that you don’t get that involved with politicians.
Or maybe you guys are more rational about him than I have realized. Can you point to ANY fair and balanced posts either of you have made about him?
Evidently, someone reacts VERY poorly to criticism of the “president”. Maybe the fever swamp paranoiacs need to put their own house in order before they lecture about ad hominems while spewing ad hominems, lie about their political orientation, and make demands that we treat Teleprompter Jesus “fairly” (according to whose standards?) in our blog comments.
OK, I’ll take that as a “no.”
Why should 0bama supporters’ definition of “fair” criticism matter to us?
Oh, I don’t know, maybe so you can be a least slightly in touch with reality.
Many lefties knew that they hated GWB and would use whatever they could to smear him. Obama’s policies really are not that much different than GWB’s except for health care. The passion with which the lefties went after GWB, the passion with which you guys go after Obama, finally seems more like passion and rant for passion’s sake. Why should either side care what the other thinks? I don’t know; I suppose that the Founders thought that there would be some rational discourse between the parties, even if Jefferson and Adams got down and dirty fairly quickly.
Your version of rational discourse seems to be, “why should we care what you think?” which smacks of not really having an answer for rational points and questions. It also makes you less interesting because you don’t bring much to the table…. other than what an evil, incompetent person Obama is. How about some historical perspective?
“which smacks of not really having an answer for rational points and questions.”
Nope. It smacks delusional whiners who cringe whenever their political idols take a little heat. Right in the face!
Dwight. Why do you feel the need to call us “fevered” anyway? Condescending remarks don’t imply that you have a greater intelligence. In fact, I think it is just the opposite. You don’t have any confidence in your opinions so you lace them with insults.
I didn’t ask you what you thought of my commentary, I asked you what you believe in, real smart guy. You think you can call anyone, whose views you don’t like, a fascist. But you know nothing about the original purveyors of fascism and their lock-step collectivism.
We’ll be back to interview you in the not-so-distant future…..as you’re standing in the soup line……..you may have a different opinion then…….
Obama likes being President. He doesn’t like doing President.
I agree, that after the Nov elections, he’s either a shriveled up paranoid like Nixon or really goes rogue on us all. The guy has never done anything for longer than 2-3 years, once the “newness” wears off, has never had to face any opposition. Opposition is not “let’s raise taxes 10% arguing against raising taxes 15%.”
He’s been sheltered that novody has ever challenged him because there was really no opposition in any position he’s ever held. He could talk, sound dreamy to all the bobby-soxers, sound intelligent and then skip to the next job. I really believe he thought once he was elected, the oceans would recede and the planet would begin to heal and that he would merely state “I want this done” and it would occur.
I believe he doesn’t run in 2012. He’ll call his work done and run for Sec of the UN so he can go around giving speeches, getting paid and not have to vote or be responisible for anything. After all, that is the perfect job for him.
I think one of the things that is dawning on Obama right now, is that he gives speeches but doesn’t lead. Now, after the presidency, when former presidents are appointed to boards, legal firms and such, and you are a CEO of a large organization, are you going to hire Obama? Think about this.
You’ve got a project to be done that needs a leader. Is Obama your guy? You’ve got a PR disaster. Is Obama your guy? The guy that says “We’re gonna keep out boot on their neck?” Do you want him leading a divison for you? I understand alot of this is hob-nobbing and “who you know” inside the beltway stuff. And most of these board appointments are really ceremonial, or least were until SOX404.
But as a CEO of a corporation, do you want this guy out there in front? It’s one thing to be president and have all these people working for you, getting TV time any time you want, interviews with who you want and vetting the questions before hand. But can you imagine this guy in a give-n-take with Charlie Rose? And at that point the courtesy and deference given to the president will not be there and you want this guy representing your corporation speaking extemporaneously about anything?
Sure, he can go around giving speeches, but if the decline continues, who’s going to show up and who’s going to pay? Campaign for candidates like Clinton? Not if the recent past is any indication. At the end of the day, what is this guy going to do for money after the presidency? Coinage in memoirs, maybe hanging with some Hollywood types. Clinton was a political genius, or close to it. Obama is far from that. Dems like Clinton because they think he got screwed over Lewinsky and he can still make some calls. Obama? He’s writing his own self tragedy and no matter how hard he blames others, even the most ardent Dems see he’s leading them off a cliff. No budget. No 3rd or 4th stimulus, or whatever number it is. What does this guy do after the presidency to earn some coin and to keep his head in the geme?
It’s so clear now. It was all just a silly mistake. President-Pope, Pope-President, they both start with P. Anyone could make the same mistake.
Okay. I’ve been giving this question further thought. Does Obama want to be president?
Yes.
But only as a stepping stone.
lol – I rest my case. Anyone else still need evidence of the personal investment left wingers have made in this affirmative action nonentity? I suppose this personal investment is what’s left so many of them in denial. Much more than white candidates, 0bama was expected to be a transformational figure, and perhaps he believed it himself. Early on, 0bama’s poor work ethic, brittleness, and inability to empathize with his opposition should have been obvious. But then, self deception is much easier than rational appraisal of what a politician can be expected to achieve. Better to foam at the mouth, and attribute concerns about 0bama to ODS or some other psuedo-psychological phenomenon.
“He’s been sheltered that novody [sic] has ever challenged him because there was really no opposition in any position he’s ever held.”
There’s an element of truth to that, but I believe he’s aware that large elements of his own party don’t respect him. Recall how several prominent Dems have pointed out that he still has little political seniority in the party. The congressional Dems, especially, resent someone who does little of the political “dirty work” but is always eager to take credit for legislative successes. Jesse Jackson, the Clintons, Harry Reid, and others have revealed their contempt for him at one time or another. I believe one of them even made a nasty comment about 0bama being a shoeshine boy (try to imagine the media’s reaction to a Republican saying that).
In many ways 0bama is akin to any other underqualified token “kicked upstairs” to a figurehead position within a company. Deep down, he knows that his position is largely ceremonial, and that people other than himself are the real powerbrokers. If he fails to deliver in November and in the remaining months of the presidency, expect to see him get taken down and replaced with a “serious” candidate – most likely a White Southern populist – to show America that the dems aren’t trying to gain points for novelty this time around.
Obama thinks he’s in a hollywood drama akin to “the West Wing” where everything works out by the end of the hour.
Obama wanted to be president to, allegedly, even the score for all the perceived wrongs against blacks in America. He’s finding out there’s more to being president than hosting and attending parties and ballgames, travelling all over the world at taxpayer expense, golf outings and vacations.
Being president and acting presidential is a full-time job but, because like most politicians he’s never had a real job in the private sector, he’s finding the job a bit more difficult than he thought.
Reality is biting him in the a** every second of every day and he can’t take the pressure. He should resign but he’s too stupid to realize just how incompetent he really is. Another problem is Joe Biden, who is equally as stupid and ill-informed and even dumber than a box of rocks. Just ask him.
He’ll be a one-term president worse, even, than Jimmy Carter. Just like Carter though, the taxpayers will be paying his luxurious retirement until he assumes room temperature.
Too bad that won’t be sooner rather than later.
First of all I am sorry for join this discussion so late; however, I felt that if I didn’t have anything substantive to offer, all I had was an opinion. Opinions seem not to matter much. As to the question, Does Obama still want to be President, there is an interesting article in Atlas Shrugs.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
On this page it describes how Obama is using all the new medias to get the ‘word’ out. His Organization for America is his main tool to do this and it is targeting our children. By indoctrinating the kids still in High School, he figures to steal the next election. Check out Organization For America on the internet and you won’t believe it. Obama is portrayed as a saint and it is a powerful message.
His one big mistake was to put a known anti-Semite as its head. Pam Geller has caught the site putting on anti-Israel messages calling for the dismantling of Israel. Because of her objections, they were quickly removed.
Obama has never stopped campaigning for the white house. He continues to do so every day with photo ops and declarations. My opinion is that he started running for the seat the day he won it. If you see the site, you would think that it was a Hitler type indoctrination you were witnessing, really its that close. It just chills the blood. Don’t underestimate the devil, he has many tricks!
@Mr. Lucky – thanks for your comments – you have a good eye for detail.
Here’s another another convincing argument that 0bama is still not quite up to the task and has no interest in self-improvement that MIGHT help him to muddle through. Not that the presidency lends itself to on-the-job training.
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/obama-255034-one-president.html
Money quote:
“”What are his core beliefs?” It would seem likely that his core belief is in himself.”
After all, he got into the right schools (thanks to melanin), got the right degrees (earning unknown grades), joined the right law review (writing almost nothing) and taught the right subjects as a “lecturer” (preaching a bastardized, racially-fixated variant of Con Law, as opposed to, say, Tax, Torts, or Civ Pro). Credentialism is what got him to where he is today, and it’s what his dwindling base believes in. Internally, I suspect that he’s aware of the disparity between his qualifications and his achievments, and that it does not make for a very healthy mindset (although the former do account for a healthy ego). I won’t lapse into psuedo-psychology like certain other commenters, but I suspect that the end result of this internal contradiction will be personal distress & greater disengagement from the nation’s problems.
0bama probably won’t do an LBJ and step aside peacefully – the 2012 campaign season will appeal to his egoism, and largely involves political tasks attractive to an indolent figurehead (speeches, jetting around the country, and hobnobbing with likeminded elitists). Consequently, IMO, those who fantasize about him relinquishing power are incorrect. If he wins, expect the same pattern once more, as he “coasts” until he leaves office.
“Can you point to ANY fair and balanced posts either of you have made about him?”
Stop the presses! Criticism of 0bama on this blog may not be 100% “fair”, according to his acolytes!
I could care less about whether or not concern-trolling liars think that this criticism is “fair”. Getting all the little keyboard Stalinists in a tizzy is fun. It’s like their own flesh is pierced whenever they sense criticism of teh Lightworker. Once again, excessive personal identification with politicians leads to amusing (if disturbing) reactions.
OK, I’ll take that as a “no.”
The “moderate” snowflakes are upset? That our criticism of the “Lightworker” is unfair? They’re whining that some people “appear to hate” 0bama? Good. The sooner these concern trolls realize how laughable their demands for “fair” and “nice” comments are, the better.
Oh, I don’t know, maybe so you can be a least slightly in touch with reality.
Says the rube who’s about about as much in touch with reality as his lightworking wonderboy. All this “hateful” criticism is a threat to lefties’ carefully-constructed sense of “reality”? Excellent. The sooner their illusions crumble, the better.
Speaking of “hate”, who cares if ZOMG u iz an 0bama hatur!
Assuming arguendo that a commenter hates 0bama, (s)he can still hate 0bama and still make valid political points. You can like 0bama and be out of touch with reality (case in point: all the 0bama supporting comments above).
Since it will soothe certain commenters’ shattered nerves, let me state for the record that there’s much to like about the big Zero. I don’t hate him. I admire his ability to prey on people’s racial bigotry, envy, and desire for a free lunch. He’s kept American politics much more interesting than Maverick McAmnesty would have, so hats off to him!
Oh, and it’s very flattering that my “hatred” of the big O! is such a tremendous issue. Overreact, much?
The answer is, yes, he wants to be President. The truth is, no, he is not even qualified to be the Keeper of the Presidential Seal. Next subject please.
I think All great presidents and men really say “why i’m are..why it happened just to me?”
Rotundo Pierluigi
President Barack Obama is the Naked Emperor :
http://www.davidicke.com/articles/political-manipulation-mainmenu-72/18281-barack-obama-the-naked-emperor
WHY DO I KEEP DREADING AKA HAS SOME PLAN(CONTRIVED CRISIS) THAT WILL KEEP HIM IN POWER?
This election will turn primarily on jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs.
Exactly where ARE the 3.5 million jobs Obama promised us would be “created or saved” by his “Stimulus” bill?
They can be found almost exclusively within the Public Employee Union payrolls. The “Stimulus” was nothing more than a tax-payer funded bail-out for the collapsing Bureaucratic Political Machine. Which is STILL collapsing. Even after $862,174,500,000. Not to mention as much the obligatory long term interest payments to countries like China, Saudi Arabia, & Quatar – as much $350,000,000,000.
This will be recorded by historians as the greatest boondoggle ever perpetrated on humanity.
& the full-scale economic disaster that IS the Obama Presidency is now in the process of destroying the modern Democrat Party.
38% approval among Independents means a Wave Election that dwarfs even the 1994 Republican revolution. Like millions of new Libertarian-minded voters, I’ve come to realize the massive spending, anti-growth, interventionalist & collectivist policies of the party in power are wrecking HAVOC on the private sector, small businesses, the jobs market, the National Debt.
Democrats are marching straight into a meat grinder this November.
Dems will loose 10-12 seats in the Senate, & 50-70 in the House.
So let the electoral butchering begin. In the Senate:
NV, Reid: Loss – Bye-bye Harry, you corrupt wretched filth.
AR, Lincoln: Loss – See ya, Blanchie!
CA, Boxer: DONE! – This condescending elitist ideologue with a room temperature IQ is finally gonna get the BOOT!
CO, Bennett: Loss – Should’ve held out for a better gig in the Obama Regime.
CT, Blumenthal: Never! – The Fake Vet – What a lying, posturing, dishonorable scumbag.
DE, Coons: Not a chance, & Biden Jr (for Gov): Son of the ViceTool?, don’t make me laugh.
IL, Giannoulias: Nope – & your daddy’s bank has gone belly up. Better dust off your phony resume’.
IN, Ellsworth: Sorry – you won’t be able to demagogue your way out of THIS one.
ND, Potter: Ain’t gonna happen.
OH, Fisher: Adios!
PA, Sestak: Fail! – say it ain’t so, Joe.
WV, Byrd: The ancient & senile Exalted Cyclops is FINALLY filibustering nonsensically in Hell. Good luck holding on to THIS seat, Dems.
WI, Feingold: Maybe we can finally put a stake through THIS bloodsucker.
And the House looks much, much worse. Collectivism has always and will always fail. It’s course correction time, here in America.
This fall the Dem majority will be obliterated beneath the HURRICANE of righteous voter fury.
I’ll be dancing on your graves.
116 days.
Elitist, arrogant, narcissistic, low class nouveau riche, lazy, America-hating, anti-business, anti-Jew, hypocritical, racist, corrupt, immature, angry, vindictive, unprofessional, inexperienced, incompetent, unqualified, un-presidential, un-American.
A definite one-termer.