President Obama’s former chief of staff lauded his old boss as a “once-in-a-generation president” who could shape America’s next four decades.
“On that first day I said Mr. President, which crisis do you want to tackle?” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel told the Democratic National Convention tonight. He said Obama responded, “Rahm, we were sent here to tackle all of them, not choose between them.”
Rattling off the global financial meltdown, auto crisis, two wars, and great recession, Emanuel said, “Each crisis was so deep and so dangerous any one of them would have defined another presidency. Fortunately for us, we have a once-in-a-generation president.”
Emanuel said Obama’s “north star” is the 10 letters from “ordinary Americans” the president reads each night.
“It is their voices that President Obama brings to the Oval Office,” he said.
Emanuel predicted that in “the next four years an unforeseen crisis, challenge or conflict is going to show up and seize this country.”
“When the fog of uncertainty of a crisis storms the White House,” he said, the president’s leadership will shape “not just the next four years but the next 40 years of this nation.”
Thank God we only get one of these mooks in a generation.
Amen.
My thoughts, exactly!
Gawd. Who picks the letters. We are at the mercy of this anonymous functionary until his savant goes home to Chicago.
The boomers had Carter. The boomers disposed of Carter.
Rinse and repeat every generation.
A crisis? How will Valerie Jarrett handle it if Obama’s in the White House?
yikes – … “the next four years an unforeseen crisis, challenge or conflict is going to show up and seize this country.” Just the mental image of the O exhibiting his brand of leadership (clowns with squirtguns) should cause any living breathing American to run screaming from him….
What is so sad, is that they don’t realize how delusional they are.
obama along with his thug administration will be remembered as the worst pres/leader we ever had and the worst time in America
Well that’s certainly an endorsement NOT to vote for Obama. If the next President is going to shape the next 4 decades clearly Obama is not the man for the job. Hope we learn from these past 4 years….this guy has been the biggest embarrasment in US History. Next we need to get rid of the current Media Heads of the US. They are there to report the news to us, not fabricate their own political spin to us. Like having SNL in charge of our news media.
I’d settle for one like “O” coming along once in a century·
“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”
–Abraham Lincoln
Anon, that’s a great quote but it’s not by Lincoln. It’s the “Ten Cannots” by William J. H. Boetcker
– Heaven if it is another generation until we suffer again.
These pogues must laugh like hell at themselves after they come up with this sh!t….in the last four years he’s already destroyed 40 years of accumulated American prosperity and strength. If he had four more years to FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORM America, we would end up circa post – WWI…economic depression and not even in the top 10 militarily. I would not survive it…I could not live on rice and sharia; I would be shot for resisting relocation to a re-education camp.
Rahm ought to concentrate on getting Kevlar vests to the inhabitants of his city Fallujah..I mean Chicago.
I’m thinking positive thoughts. The Penn State showers are MUCH safer while the Democratic convention is ongoing.
Emanuel predicted that in “the next four years an unforeseen crisis, challenge or conflict is going to show up and seize this country”.
Would Total Economic Collapse/Hyperinflation qualify. Because 4 more years will see the US Dollar join Zimbucks as a failed currency.
But hey, it’s change…
We can only hope…… if these folks want socialism, why don’t they move where it’s the only show in town? Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Europe, etc., etc. Why destroy a shining light of freedom and individualism?
WHAT IF WASHINGTON WANTED TO EAT ALL OF THE RICH HERE IN AMERICA?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661pi6K-8WQ