On my radio show, I have been discussing the 2012 presidential race, and when mentioning Obama, I have said, “Obama can’t win re-election. I don’t even know why he is running.” I have made this declarative statement on my show, as well as interviews on other radio shows around the country.
While some have made mention that it is too early in the race to make such a statement, and that such statements are generally reckless, I stand firm on my words. Certainly, I could be wrong, and I advocate that no one give up working hard on the race to unseat him, but the writing is on the wall….and, now, on the web.
In today’s ”Morning Jolt” from Jim Geraghty over at NRO, he – knowingly or otherwise – makes my case by quoting Morrissey and Noonan. From Peggy Noonan, Geraghty quotes:
The market is dispirited. I’m wondering if the president is, too, and if that won’t carry implications for the 2012 race. You can imagine him having lunch with political advisers, hearing some unwanted advice — “Don’t go to Martha’s Vineyard!” — putting his napkin by his plate, pushing back from the table, rising, and saying in a clipped, well-modulated voice: “I’m tired. I’m going. If they want this job so much let them have it.”
Ed Morrissey, of Hot Air.com, gives his own take…with the same ending result:
Some will scoff at the notion that Obama and his large ego would walk away from the office…It’s a low-probability outcome, but it isn’t a zero probability outcome. Obama’s ratings have tanked this year along with the economy, and he hasn’t come up with an original thought on economic policy since Porkulus. The leaks of his rumored plan sound a lot like Porkulus II, a sequel to a flop. This gives the impression that Obama has run out of ideas, and as Noonan argues in her piece, his attacks on Republicans for their supposed refusal to pass a plan he has yet to even submit to them sounds like a man who realizes that he’s out of ideas, too.
I have been talking for months now that Obama’s problem with being President is that the job involves work. President Obama has never done work before – he is not a capitalist. The capitalist accepts that a job has work attached to it, and that work gets measured – either you succeeded in your work, or you failed. Obama has never had his work measured, and therefore becomes extremely agitated when people question his work, disagree with his answers or, in the case of groups like the Tea Party, actively work to undo his work – like Obamacare.
Since the election in 2008, which involved a complicit press that failed to do any proper vetting (no matter what Thomas Friedman may say!), Obama has shown that he is just not capable. Not only does he understand this, but the voters do. Independents have already turned their back on Obama. Those who turned out for Obama in 2008, specifically hard-core Progressives, and black voters, won’t necessarily vote for another candidate, they’ll just stay home. Obama’s record has made it impossible to win the “turn-out” battle. To quote The Who, we won’t get fooled again.
In a recent interview on the radio show, Vodka Pundit.com’s Stephen Green stated that Obama would much rather resign with “dignity” than go through the embarrassment of losing an election. He was unaware that I said the same thing just days before. A loss is not only a repudiation of Obama, but it closes the book on America’s failed experiment with Statism. It shows conclusively that America tried it, and rejected it. We don’t see ourselves as European Socialists – we’re Americans. Believers in individual liberty, personal responsibility and free markets. Believers in private charity, and the pursuit of Happiness.
Obama is on the ropes, and he may decide to simply slip through them, and head back to the locker room. However, people act in very strange ways when backed into a corner. As I have written before, Obama has already showed an overt disdain for the current rule of law, and has engaged in a campaign of talking down the Constitution. Who knows how we will react in the coming months?
This is why we must keep working, and take nothing for granted. The writing is on the wall, and on-line: Obama can’t win re-election.
Tony Katz – From your pen to God’s eyes. I don’t think, though, he will resign (and leave us with Biden?) and I don’t think he will not run. So, in the end I have to agree with you: ” … we must keep working, and take nothing for granted.”
I am very happy to agree with you. The consequences of continuing on this path of statism are too terrible to contemplate. As you aptly describe, too many of us are “Believers in individual liberty, personal responsibility and free markets. Believers in private charity, and the pursuit of Happiness.” to find this path tolerable. I fear what may come if we do not get off of it.
The list of reasons why he should lose the election is long, but the wrecked economy is making everyone feel pain; that is why he will lose.
This will be only a small battle in the war we must wage to rein in the Frankenstien’s monster we have created in the Federal Government, but we must win it.
With Bin Laden killed, Iraq won, Afghanistan stabilized, and now Khadaffi overturned … Obama’s war record is pretty good.
As for economics, Forbes is now claiming that neither party has any good answer to US economic woes.
So let’s look at the cards … hmmmm …. Republicans can’t beat Obama’s solid war record … and on issues like evolution, gay marriage and climate change the far-right ideologues have alienated mainstream America (kudos to Huntsman, Bloomberg, and Christie for daring to say this out-loud) …
… so to win, the Republican candidate is gonna have to provide solid answers to this Forbes article.
Soberingly, it seems that *neither* party has good answers.
So most likely, the moronic slogan-shouting will continue.
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Why Amazon Can’t Make A Kindle In the USA
URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/08/17/why-amazon-cant-make-a-kindle-in-the-usa/
Well, it’s a reasonably informative link to a useful, if somewhat mistaken, article. It’s prefaced with some fairly silly temporizing, but still, a worthy attempt at ceasing to be a silly troll.
If I were trying to cease being a silly troll, the first thing I’d lose would be the goofy smileys.
It ain’t me who’s changed, Charlie … it’s you (and your fellow PJM/Tatler editors) who’ve been slowly awakening to four harsh truths … the present leading Republican candidates (1) have no coherent strategic plans of their own, (2) are wasting precious campaign time and resources in mutual back-stabbing and slogan-shouting, (3) have alienated America’s centrist voters, and therefore (4) are on-track to lose.
No-one will be surprised at their defeat … except the (surprisingly many) folks who’ve been hunkering in ideology-first, censorship-protected bubbles.
(1) have no coherent strategic plans of their own, (2) are wasting precious campaign time and resources in mutual back-stabbing and slogan-shouting, (3) have alienated America’s centrist voters, and therefore (4) are on-track to lose.
John, how did you reach your advanced age — hell, you’re almost as old as I am — without ever paying attention to primary season before?
Neither did Reagan have a specific plan. What the nation craved then and craves now is an attitude, a vision – of confidence, optimism and courage – that Mr. Obama neither seems to own or inspire. He continues to come across as an empty suit full of rhetoric, often apologetic, and when soaring full of caveats. He has had a his shot and it worked for a while. It’s doubtful come next summer that he can pull off another rousing sermon to fruition. Hence, I too suspect that he will withdraw from the race in late Spring next year and let Biden become nominee by default, thereby blocking the Clinton name once again. He alone shall triumph, you see.
Your 1st sentence was a hoot! Obama had nothing to do with winning the war in Iraq so it won’t help his approval rating. Afghanistan is not more stabilized now than 3 years ago. Things are much worse there now than in Bush’s last year. In 2008 there were 155 US deaths and 150 IED attacks. This year we are already at 300 deaths and 178 IED attacks which is on pace to be only slightly better than 2010 where we had 499 US deaths. As a physicist I would think you would actually look at the numbers before making a statement like that. The only reason you might feel like things are better in Afghanistan is the MSM doesn’t regularly feature it because they know it will hurt the President’s approval rating. The only exception is a catastrophic attack like the recent shoot down of a Chinook.
Eh, yer right, Wigglesworth … what does our family know? All we got is a son who served five combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan as a USMC sergeant. And a daughter dating *another* Marine sergeant … who *also* has served multiple combat tours … *and* who has served as a trainer for Afghan security forces.
What made the stresses of these combat tours bearable for my wife and me … and for the young Marines themselves … was that the sobering truths we heard from these boots-on-the-ground Marines … were *exactly* the same sobering truths that we heard from Gens. like Petraeus and Mattis … and from Adm. Mullen … and from SecDef Gates … and from CINC Obama.
A lot of these truths weren’t easy to hear … and none of them simple … but unlike Vietnam … instead of self-delusion or outright lying from military leaders and politicians … there’s been a sustained commitment to sober-minded truth-telling … about a d*mn tough grinding war.
And *that* commitment has been vital, to our family, and to our Marines, and to our nation.
As usual you didn’t deal with the facts, but gave an internet story of your family and friends in the military. Charlie was right. You are a troll who is not interested in a serious debate.
Anyone who tracks the career of BrigGen. Herbert Raymond McMaster … anyone who reads his historical and strategic writings … anyone who follows his present assignment in Afghanistan … will come to understand the strategy of this war considerably better than any ideology-first political pundit (known to me) … in either party.
Nicely, and accuratedly stated!!
Regarding the Chinook so-called accident, the truth has quite surfaced yet, what really happened!
We’re all still waiting for you to tell us where you got your doctorate in physics.
Respectfully begging to differ with you, Obama’s war record was a total stroke of luck for him. He had nothing to do with taking out Bin Laden; the military have been working on this for years, and after a nail-biting wait for the final OK to go with the mission, Navy Seal Team 6 pulled it off magnificently. The right’s stance on gay marriage, climate change, etc., has by no means alienated middle America, it has brought us together. As an Obama Admin. member stated “Obama leads from behind”. This sounds a lot like “following” to me. Leadership is totally lacking, when challenged he picks up his toys and goes home. What a jackarse. He needs to do himself and the country a favor and just drop out. Much better than taking another “shellacking” and his ego is so fragile, he’ll pout forever. Or just have a nervous breakdown, to which I believe he’s close now. Not up to the job at all. Makes one bad choice after the other, blames others for unwise decisions he’s made, and, frankly, in la la land big time. It is harder and harder for his team to cover this up day by day. He is a major embarressment to himself, his family, the U.S. and the whole world has lost respect for him, therefore they are not sure what to think about the U.S. until after the 2012 election.
Amen Sista ! Middle America is waking up !
Very clear and concise read on the follies of both Republicans and Democrats. My wife, friends and colleagues, the people I meet are disappointed with what both parties are doing, AND HAVE DONE. Hence the Tea Party and Libertarian movements gaining more followers each day.
Iraq, Afghanistan and Ghadaffi: Iraq is in turmoil, totally out of control, Afghanistan the same, with the Taliban in effective control, and still the world’s largest producer of heroin, and Islamic Jihadists have taken over Libya and almost all of the mideast, including Egypt. N. Korea has the Bomb, and tomorrow Iran will, too. Pakistan is locking arms with her fellow moslem terrorists, islamic revolution is sweeping all over the world, and YOU really think B. Hussein O. has won something? Aside from destroying the value of the dollar and communizing the auto, insurance and healthcare industries, that is.
Perhaps his greatest achievements are the three million innocent, unborn babies he has butchered and his vehement protection of such heartwarming activities as samesex fellatio and sodomy. Just the sort of person we all want our sons to emulate?
Well, hell, they made a sequel to Bloodrayne, didn’t they?
But Porkulus the Next Generation won’t have explosions and nearly naked women.
Or at least I don’t think it would.
Well, probably not explosions…
That would make him a quitter. His entire being is drenched in Alinsky’ism and from what I understand of Saul baby, they don’t quit until goals are reached.
Personally, I don’t give a damn HOW he goes..OOPS, leaves office, this nation just can’t take another four years of him or his lackey’s. Looking at you, media..
On its face, this is a good “food for thought” article. Reality is Mr. Obama has a “full court press” underway, to wit:
1) Holder’s DOJ along with ACLU, is fully engaged to meddle in State elections.
2) National Popular Vote Movement and its lackeys are busy with Congressional legislative proposals.
3) Then there are all the countless social service political organizations operating extra electorally with one objective, fraudulent ballots and voter registrations (all of which have been underway) Re: Wisconsins recent August 2011 Recall Elections.
Then there is the question of campaign funding by Mr. “O.:
1) $40 million from the DNC
2) $47 million in pledges
3) $100 million from George Soros’ “priorities” organization
4) $800 million from on-line campaign pledges.
5) Additional funds as the 14 months roll along.
Not sounding like a person willing to “walk away from re-election.”
VOTE massive fraud is on its way this 2012 election. God Bless America.
The democratic machine is busy collecting money which could be put to use for any candidate; Obama’s integrity is shrinking more and more each day. He is constantly repeating his wimpy campaign slogans which we are all growing so tired of hearing, and he’s saying nothing new. He’s acting reallly overwhelmed and in need of a vacation and playing golf in an attempt “to find himself”. Don’t forget the birth certificate issue which has not been fully answered, and he is alienating people across the board. In fact, if you are openly supporting him, you look foolish. Look at Debbie Wasserman Schultz, comes across as a crazy woman, as out-of-touch as Obama. These are scarey folks.
I truly believe we are going to experience massive voter fraud like Chavez on steroids.
THAT is why EVERYONE needs to put on their marchin’ boots and VOTE this scum OUT of office.
God BLESS America!
YES WE CAN [ha]!
Which ever way it goes, whether he runs and loses or decides not to run look forward to a speech that will be disgusting. It will denigrate the United States, it will say that the reason of his not winning or not to run was because of racism and he will do his utmost in the last minutes of his tenure to harm the United States.
I figured a month ago that O’bama would get mad and quit. We’ll see.
Has it occurred to anyone that a ’12 Republican in the oval office would be a convenient scapegoat, blamed for the results of Obamanomics throwing the nation into likely default?
Maybe this is all a plan to deliver permanent government control to liberals…after all, they’re so compassionate and all. With your money.
*A Physicist* so you’re sayin’ that The Won looked up long enough from his 90th or so golf game to see a ‘solid war record?’ And you’re a Physicist? I’ll play too: I’m A Rocket Scientist.
I think your speculation proves quite insightful. Since Obama and gang shoved Obamacare down the nation’s throat, during the ascendancy of the Tea Party (huge backlash)no less, I’ve instinctively felt as though he may not serve the entirety of his first term and certainly was not re-electable.
That was then, this is now and NOW things are notably worse. I do not believe that anyone sitting in the WH when unemployment is 9-10%, gas is $3-4 a gallon and our prized AAA credit rating had been lost is re-electable. There are plenty of other details, some worthy of consideration, but I believe the matter is just that simple.
Indeed, it must be quite the dilemma for a Grade A narcissist.
If things keep going the way they are, then Obama has only two choices: to find an excuse to resign with dignity, or lose the election in an utterly humiliating landslide.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see him get us into a war with Syria, now that Libya seems to be going his way. If that happens, I’m afraid all hell will break loose.
President Carter lost his election to a very difficult candidate whose name was Anybody Butcarter. When voters went to the polls they voted with their pocket books. The candidate that will beat Obama is Anybody Butobama. With unemployment, the economy and the loss of confidence Obama will be lucky to match Carter’s performance of carrying 4 States.
What is not being covered much is the death of the Democratic Party. The Party of Truman, JFK and the Blue Dogs is dead. Look at who now runs the New Democratic Progressive Union Socialist Communist Party. Google the congressional progressive caucus and take a look at some of these beauties like Waxman, Lee, Waters, Woolsey, Miller and the list goes on and on. Then take a look at who the Democrats are putting in positions of power like the hag Debbie Wassermann Schultz. Old school Democrats are leaving the Party in record numbers.
It will take two elections to correct the mistake the Nation made in 2008 reacting to Bush. In 2012 the Senate and the White House will turn Republican and much of the socialist mischief created by Obama, Peelosi and Reid will be undone. It is too bad we do not have a vote of no confidence and hold the elections now and not let the Nation continue to suffer at the hands of these clowns.
Pete – Carter didn’t quite lose that way. Near the end it was pretty close. What apparently decided the election was Reagan’s performance in his debates with Carter.
Well, he could resign, but in doing so he would be declaring Obama to be a failure. And wouldn’t that be, you know, racist?
Obama told us that if the economy wasn’t better in three years he wouldn’t be president again.
He promised max. unemployment at 8%, and we are way above that
He told us that the recessionw as over, and somehow nobody is buying that
He told us that he would have 500,000 new jobs a month under his plans, and that isn’t happening
He told us that his stimulus would have shovel ready jobs, and then he laughed about his failure to deliver.
So it is incombent on us to make sure that he is only a one term president, and that his failed polices only serve to make Jimmy Carter look good.
It is entirely possible that Obama could quit rather than face reelection. Here is why. His ego wouldn’t be able to accept the loss (this would probably be the first time he has actually faced the realities of life because he has been shielded from it with his time as a community organizer and professor). Just look at how he blames everyone but himself for the problems the country faces even though he has had both House and Senate Majorities for the first two years of his presidency. If he was a true leader he could done so much with nearly the entire government of the same party. I say he will resign and say he is doing it to protect his family from the pressures they all face. He will feel good about himself not getting tossed out of office, and look like a good guy for putting his family first. Second his marketability will be damaged if he looses reelection and is seen as a failed president. He won’t be able to command the kind of speaking fees that Bill Clinton does. Even though he “doesn’t need the money” his ego won’t be able to handle minimal speaking fees.
What will Dear Leader’s campaign supporters chant?
“Yes, we can!” Yikes.
“4 more years!”. Truly laughable– he’ll be the only incumbent whose supporters will certainly NOT trot that out. (And, really, that’s Tony’s point, isn’t it?)
“You’re not Morman!” Possibly– nice alliteration.
“You’re not a creationist!” Nice but too many syllables.
“Let him be clear!” Again, too many syllables, although, on background, sources indicate that’s the one Dear Leader favors.
Personally, I like the suggestion above of a certain physicist above– “War! War! War! War!”
Regardless of when he loses or quits he’ll go out pointing and screeching like Donald Sutherland at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
And his media sycophants will cover for him – primarily to cover for themselves.
People tell me that this is no joke and that ole jimeroo is not dreaming…There is [in jimi`s opin. ] only one or two people that could really pull the USA out of this communist quagmire, that 0b00z0 and commy crowd has thrown us into….that is Ms. Sarah Palin, And possibly Mischelle bauchman, or #3 don trump….in that order…My opin……jimi
Obama is a horrible, miserable person in so many ways. The continuous and relentless lying, the hateful demonizing, the smug superior lecturing, the obvious and insulting BS, the abject laziness, the self-absorbed narcissism, the utter inability to learn, and the inability to accept blame or responsibility.
He is extremely conflicted right now, because he wants to damage and degrade the U.S. much more than he already has, but at the same time he needs the U.S. economy to be good enough to get re-elected. He wants to get re-elected for three reasons: his ego, to live even more breath-takingly lavishly – like the storied sultans of old (on the backs of the taxpayer), and to very aggressively force the U.S. into being a corrupt, bankrupt, Sharia/Communist hybrid.
Wil, I thienk you are right on point with your analysis. In fact I just did a quick online study of narcissism – actually known as narcissistic personality disorder and is in the same category as antisocial and borderline personality disorders. Although the narcissist seems to act superior, underneath all this behavior often lies a fragile self esteem, having trouble handling anything that may be perceived as criticism. Well, Obama better fasten his seat belt and put on a helmet because even the Congressional Black Caucus (Rep. Maxine Waters in paricular) has publicly stated they are ready “to have the talk” with him in regards to unemployment, etc.; How long can the main stream media pretend that he’s all that and a bag of chips? When they can’t cover up any longer, he may just pick up his toys and go home.
He will not run and the Democrat Party will put up Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo. He has done well for his state. He will lose, but to save the party, he will fall on his sword, and be ready at 2016, he is young and well liked, will be formidable.
Wonderful posts here and the descriptive opinions are all quite accurate. My I also add my disgust with Congress and their deplorable behavior over the years, both parties are at fault here. There’s no need to retell the stories now but allowing Obama to get away with his attempt to remake the government completely ignoring the document he swore to uphold is just as bad as the behavior of the POTUS. It will be fun to read all the stories that will come out after he is out of office that will be written by the people who witnessed all the corruption and the cover ups taken by the media in their attempt to control the public opinion.
I would love to see Obama quit…however, I don’t believe for a moment that he will. His has HIS PLAN in place and it is working all too well…the demise of America and all that it stands for. He vacations because his plan works best it he is removed from “We the People”. He doesn’t have to listen to us, he is free to listen to his Czars. He has already promised us surprises in Sept and Oct, and he will fulfill these promises. He has much worse planned for the America people that he hates so much.
Plan numero UNO:
Get the marxist, commie scums OUT of the white house.
I will even vote for Marty McFlea at this point in order to do so.
Obama has a plan, just like Carter had a plan, and Nixon had a plan, and L.B. J. had a plan, the blowhards always have “a plan.”
I REALLY enjoyed this article. It is quite a brilliant read on the current political situation with President Obama. I’m afraid that he will do a kamikaze trip and totally tank the economy into the ground, and do end runs around the constitution. I have never been more afraid for my country. Even during the Vietnam War and the stupidity and arrogance of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations…nothing is like the current political moment in our country.
If only wishing made it so, then it would be a sure thing to judge from all the different variations on this theme coming out lately.
There is no way he will quit. He does have too big an ego and in his mind, only by running can he save the one accomplishment (if you can call it that) that he can claim, Obamacare. He knows that if a Republican wins the WH especially on a wave that overturns the Senate, that it is as good as dead. In his mind, he believes that he is the only Democrat capable of beating any Republican nominee.
Unfortunately, I would have to agree there. He has the advantages of the incumbency plus the advantages of celebrity. The Republicans don’t have that all in one place unfortunately. You would have to gin up some weird hybrid of Palin, Bachmann and Romney to get the equivalent.
That said, I think he will still lose, but another Dem would probably have even less chance of winning.
One thing we need to begin to prepare for that many are not taking into consideration is how to control his pardon pen. I find it truely frightening when I think of how much damage a rejected narcissist can do in his last hours as president.
As someone who has had to deal with another person with NPD, I’ll say that the most important aspect of it one needs to understand is that the classic NPD person is utterly incapable of empathy. In other words, “you” simply don’t exist to him. “You” means “us”, the country. That’s why the classic NPD type can’t abide criticism. Period.
He will be hard pressed to resign….such a hard desicion to make…rather then face a reject by WE THE PEOPLE..he will resign for the good of his fax family. He has enough money to live to be i00 years old and never want.GOOGLE White hats report.net. See how he and many more in govment have swendled the GOBAL SETLEMENTS for their own wealth.Billions have been diverted to their private accounts….They are the rich BILLIONAIRs………..Reserch the GOBAL SETLEMENTS.SEE WHO have profited.
Oh, yes, I’m the Great Divider…
MY RECENT TWEETS CONFIRMS ‘WRITING ON THE WALL’ AS WE ALL SEE IT:
from 8-22
@tiacarolann HEY.. @obama we accept your resignation to serve your ego elsewhere, #UN ? we will defund + evict anyway..don’t go away MAD, just go away !!
Um doesn’t someone who runs get to keep any unspent campaign contributions???? You could buy alot of cheese burgers with that much lettuce!