Obama’s Straws And Our Tired Back
All that accomplished was to embolden those who hate America and depress those who like us. Does anyone think Obama’s visit to Turkey won that country over, or his Cairo outreach charmed Arabs, or his bow to China earned anything, or being checkmated by Putin was impressive? Lots of straws were piled on with all that.
The Final Straw?
So you see, it’s never just one thing with a holistic Obama. Unemployment is not good; trying to play it down by creating a new notion of jobs saved or created only makes it worse. The debt is soaring, and blaming the red ink on Bush has a shelf-life of, well, about 18 months.
Then came BP. Presidents can hardly be held accountable for oil gushing from 5000 feet. But Obama had already established two principles: One, presidents surely must be held accountable for natural disasters. That’s why he damned Bush as “achingly slow” and showing “unconscionable ineptitude” over Katrina. Google “Obama” and “Katrina,” and you will find hundreds of Obama “moments” over the last five years when he used Katrina to raise money, solidify his African-American base, ingratiate himself to left-wing voters, and campaign for office. Katrina was a sort of rhetoric flourish for Obama with which he gussied up his America-is-racist theme, Bush-is-incompetent trope, Cheney-is-corrupt theme, and conservatives-are-heartless talking point.
“This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass. His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.”
Second, Obama was not as most mere mortals. He had an uncanny ability to still the seas, heal the planet, and arrive at just the right moment to offer us salvation. False divinities such as these fall harder than mere mortals, especially when their feet of clay crumble. There are only so many times false prophets can climb the mount to lecture down to us.
At some point, along this devolution, our collective camel’s back snapped. Right now, millions of voters are quietly fuming and saying to themselves: “OK, enough is enough. That’s one too many straws, and I am going to take it out on them in November.”
Oh, not everyone says this, in part out of fear of being called a racist; in part embarrassed that they were had by Obama; and in part, given American fair play, to give their guy a chance. But that only makes it worse, since the polls, I think, don’t quite gauge the growing levels of discontent.
Add in that Obama’s base was not especially interested in the issues as much as Himself. And He is not on the ballot. So base voters may well not turn out in such droves. Remember, this time the Republicans don’t need a candidate; not being Obama is enough until gut check time in 2012.
Empire of Dirt
There is another problem for the Democrats: I don’t think Obama cares much about a midterm correction for reasons other than his own narcissism. One, he already is a laureate and post-presidential historical figure. If Bill Clinton or Al Gore is any guide, he can make a billion or two sermonizing and philosophizing for the next forty years. If Jimmy Carter can create an empire of self-absorption, any president can.
I think the presidency was always sort of a warm-up, a preparation for worldwide messiah-in-chief. It won’t be too bad a life — sort of like living in the Edwards mansion talking about marital bliss and the wretched “other America,” or Gulfstreaming into Oprah country while hawking Green, Inc. for those down in the lowlands. Once the left gets over the dismal record of Obama’s actual governance, they can afford once again to be mesmerized by four more decades of Obama’s planet healing tomfoolery. (Once Van Jones can’t do any more damage, he is a sort of left-wing cult figure.)
“Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies. It’s your misfortune and none of my own …”
Second, in prep for all that, it might be better anyway for Obama to have a hostile “them” Congress that he can perpetually run against. That can take the place of a now stale “Bush did it.” As it is, the Democrats give Obama what he wants, and what he wants is not what we the people want, at least if polls are any indication.
But with an obdurate opposition in power, Obama can speechify and do what he does best: demagogue, soaring with we should and must do without much worry about the icky details of actual implementation that never will come due to all those right-wing Beck and Hannity types. As for the November fate of 40-60 Democratic House members and 6-10 senators, again, they were never as pure as Obama anyway.
And so they too go the way of Rev. Wright and Van Jones — with a mellifluous Obama send-off of “Whoopee ti yi yo.”
2 years to come of Republican obstructionism preventing the omnipotent one from transforming the universe,
How convenient.
And for sure, there will be two years of monster problems to lay at the feet of the ones blocking the country’s path to nirvana. In fact, EVERY PROBLEM that arises in the next two years, in addition to the ones the boy king was not quite able to solve in the first two oh-so-short years, will be broadcast, oh, about 500 times a year.
The malovent Marxist is certainly humming himself to sleep as November approaches. If there is one thing he does well, it’s lie shamelessly about, well, everything.
Splendid post, sir. I enjoyed it as thoroughly as “The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern”.
Yet we have to step back, analyze the contextual ground in which this political tare sprouted, and come up with some political conservation policy to drain this debt-swamp within which we find all of our riches drowning.
Will the US Constitution, shifting from agrarian to nautical metaphor, have enough of a righting moment to avoid capsizing?
A bunch of other hard-heads and I will either go down hard or succeed in that recovery notion.
BHO, frankly, is but a detail.
Dr. Hanson:
I suspect you’re correct. The polls, negative as they are for Obama, don’t reveal the real depth of buyer’s remorse and revulsion more and more Americans are feeling. Perhaps more telling is the reality that democrat politicians are distancing themselves from Obama as quickly as they can, politely (one presumes) declining his invitations to campaign for them. Remember his arrogantly narcissistic comment to a fellow democrat that democrats will not fall victim to the common mid-term electoral pattern of defeat for the party in power because “you’ve got me”? They know they’ve got him and the more rational democrats (if such a thing exists any longer) recognize that ‘him” is not an asset.
And so we–those who appreciate the Constitution, America and Americans–find ourselves in a very odd position. In a perverse turn of events, we almost hope that a foreign crisis (or two) will occur to reveal the full lack of ability and leadership we know Obama possesses, to make it, once and for all, undeniable. An attack on Israel by Iran, a North Korean invasion or something just short of that, terrorist training camps and cross border incursions from South and Central America, an all out Turkish attack on the Iraqi Kurds, you name it, the possibility is there, and becoming more and more real as Obama’s fecklessness is understood as weakness rather than a trick, and weighed by our enemies, enemies foolishly embraced by Obama even as he neglects and insults out allies, forcing them to make concessions to neighborhood bullies who will be around to cause real harm as Obama merely wags a soaring, rhetorical finger in their direction. Yes, such events would cost thousands, perhaps even millions of lives, but what will be required for enough Americans–and the world–to once again understand that American Democrats absolutely cannot be trusted with national security, and that America is indeed the one indispensable nation, the last, best hope of civilization?
And yes, as Obama plans to sue Arizona(?!) for a law that exactly mirrors federal law and that is supported by a substantial majority of the public, and as he dithers over trials for terrorists in NYC, a larger issue looms: For the first time (and please correct me if I’m wrong) in American history absent open war, a substantial portion of American territory (yes, again, it’s Arizona) is so overwhelmed by armed, illegal incursions by foreign terrorists and organized foreign criminals that it has been closed to Americans for their own safety. And the federal government is allowing this, doing nothing, not even bothering to trot out Obama for a telepromptered speech. The lamestream media, living down to our lack of expectation for them, are generally ignoring it. We have surrendered a substantial portion of an American state to terrorists and drug thugs, right now, here, today, and Obama’s response is to sue the state for trying to enforce federal immigration law that he refuses to enforce.
If all Obama succeeds in doing is bankrupting America, we’ll be fortunate indeed.
Well said. Things had better change in November or methinks this will get ugly.
Hitler, “elected” by the German voters, did not act without the support and compliance from the Reichstag, the Treasury, the schools, the Courts, propaganda machine. and the military (von Stauffenbery et al acted only after they knew Germany was to lose that war). Nor did Stalin. Mao-tse-tung did not need any of those to assist him, acting on different premises no need to pretend that it was the “will of the People”. What about the American Congress and Court. Compiling ,AND publicising, a list of ALL those “Democrats” AND RINOS in Congress, House and Senate,(we already know of N.Pelosi and H. Reid) who voted to ram, among other laws, the Health “Reform”, and the nationalisation of some banks and industries, called “bailout” down citizens’ throats. WITH THE FULL KNOWLEDGE and defiant salute THAT THEY WERE DOING JUST THAT. And isn’t it time to call a child by its right name? Why “liberal” or “Democratic”? We have seen them grow in adolescence from the sweet loving child with the promise of a butterfly, into voracious, flesh-eating critters of the present day . They ought to be called by their true identity as the monsters they are: Statist Despots/ Totalitarian.
Obama, as a malignant narcissist, has only one agenda: control over others. Obamam is unable to deal with reality; he lives entirely in a virtual reality where he is not required to react to external uncontrolled pressures. His reaction to external pressures is to avoid them, deny them, blame others…and move into a zone where he alone controls what is going on.
I suspect that the reason he is suing Arizona, an astonishing act on its surface, is for votes. Obviously in a court, it is Obama’s government that would be on trial. Not Arizona but Obama’s govt. That’s because the case would focus on the fact that the federal govt’s LACK of carrying out its constitutional obligations of securing the border and dealing with immigration – led directly to Arizona’s attempts to deal with this situation.
But I suspect that the agenda is not to take it to court; the federal govt will delay and delay and eventually drop the case. The agenda now is to present Obama as on the side of hispanics and the left. The agenda is: votes for 2010. That’s all; that’s the only purpose. Obama has no interest in the law, in the people of Arizona or America. It’s just about power and his ability to ‘make people do what he wants’.
The problem for the Democrats is: what do they do about Obama? Since he’s becoming an electoral liability for the mainstream ‘social justice’ Democrat…reducing the Democratic base to radicals and far left socialists..then, what do they do about him? Obviously they have to find him some unaccountable world power position where he can pontificate all he wants.
Whoa ! Obama IS their boy. He isn’t a free agent, HES THE ONE. The DEMOCRATS ARE responsible for him. The DNC groomed him, put him onto the stage, in the spotlight.They MUST have known and accepted him for what he is and his plans for the US. And WHY NOT. They were EXACTLY the same as the “Democratic” Party and her Representatives in Legislature, Court and Executive were institutionalising for the past half century. They did not even care whether he was constitutionally eligible for the office. That would be subsumed in the fact that nobody would dare question it. He was the candidate. despite being out of nowhere and with no experience in management. A cynical act of contempt for the American System of Governance and the American nation and her people, displayed for decades by these “Democrats” who clearly HATE everything Americans are and stand for. Review their comments and responses to the reservations from “ordinary” citizens, as the plans for them unfold from these “Democrats” in Congress, Court and Executive AND the eatablishment MEDIA.
By selecting a candidate impossible to criticize, OR even question. HE WAS TO BE THE AMERICAN MANDELA ! And it worked until he himself gave the game away beause he did not/does not understand Americans and just how far they’ll allow themselves to be pushed before they decide enough is enough. .
You assume the Democrats will lose in November. In Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his party were re-elected even though every poll placed him and his followers far, far behind. Obama’s democrats will be re-elected in November because they are supported by the same silent majority that won victory in Iran.
The Minnesota election shows that strange things happen when votes are counted.
In Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his party were re-elected even though every poll placed him and his followers far, far behind.
Well, I suppose that if Obama and the Democrats behave as Ahmadinejad did then they will make sure that the opposition end up incarcerated or dead.
Are you saying that the Democrats can pull off another election fraud this year? Because that’s surely what the Iranian government did.
or as Stalin put it, it’s not the votes that count, but who counts the votes…
Dr. Hanson, Obama threw a bushel of straw across America’s back today–
Obama told Sen. Kyl, ‘He’s won’t secure the border until Immigration Reform is passed.’
http://www.breitbart.tv/sen-kyl-says-president-admitted-he-purposely-doesnt-secure-mexican-borderwants-it-open-for-leverage/
That revelation in and of itself should be considered an impeachable offense, following this November.
Looking at poll numbers uncritically usually is a mistake. A number of Obama’s actions have received less than a 50% favorability rating. But, THAT DOES NOT MATTER, as long as Obama’s favorability ratings exceed 50% among those who voted for him. Obama works to appease only the union workers, government employees, nannystate-lovers, and voters who suck the teats of the fat federal government sow. The rest of us can go pound sand.
If only half of the people who voted for him approve of him, then he loses his re-election by a about a rout of 73% against, only 23% for.
I’d love to find out you were a Democrat.
I’m a libertarian.
You are wrong about re-election. Obama can win even if he polls less than 50% on numerous issues. Nearly all left-of-center voters will choose Obama over any Republican candidate. More and more people either work for or are dependent upon big government (including centrist and right-of-center voters), and many of those people will vote for whoever promises them more milk to suck from the teats of big government. That combination of voters will give Obama the victory in November of 2012. It is unrealistic and unwise to believe that Obama will lose, especially since most of the likely Republican candidates lack charisma, leadership qualities, and intelligence. It will take a bad break (such as a devastating foreign terrorist attack within the USA that was successful due to bureaucratic ineptitude) for Obama to lose.
You’re so right. There’s a reason the polls show Obama doing poorly against a “generic Republican” – but not against any actual Republican you can name. Very unfortunate, for the country.
I’ve always wondered about the “personal” side of the polling. Not comparing Obama to Hitler/Stalin, but if one doesn’t like the policies, and the policies are the man, that’s kinda like saying “Yeah, I don’t like his policies but man is he a crack up at the Thursday nite poker tournament.”
What I’m saying is, I think there are a number of people who just answer the question in a positive form so that don’t have to answer all the follow on questions for not liking him personally.
Don’t like him personally because: of his policies? healthcare? he’s black? stimulus? cap-n-tax? unemployment? he’s black? the gulf hole response? Afghanistan troop build up? golfs too much? NYC terro trials? he’s black?
I just think peopl go with the short simple answer to avoid being cast as racist. I don’t think you could get away with just saying “I just don’t like the guy perosnally” without being tied to a tree and being labeled racist so many folks just nod to avoid the implication. I agree with Dr. Hanson, I think there’s a great undercurrent of discontent that is not being measured because people feel like they are not being heard. Add into that the challenge to AZ law which 65-70% of people support, an even greater number than were against healthcare, and I think he fires up the opposition even more.
He once said there is no red America. No blue America. Only America. To a great many people, there is only Obama’s America and for a great majority they don’t like what they see.
I think you are right that instead of Obama “triangulating” after a massive correction in November he will become even more demagogic. Nothing less will be expected from a community organizer who must always fight a constant war against “those” who stand in the way progress and redistribution. Obama is the most transparent President we have ever had and yet to state as much is to get you condemnation and scorn. This is the new reality, but I will take the lumps and keep telling it like it is to my friends and on Lefty blogs that I visit.
Well, there’s always secession. We could all secede from Washington D.C.—and a few vassal cities here or there.
The artifice of, first, placing blame fervently with disingenuous moral rectitude on a straw man scapegoat; and then, taking credit for draining the public treasury on the penumbrae of entitlement emanating from dependent constituencies has always had the promise of success for any novice politician, and no less so for our historic first Islamic apostate president in his emergence from his adoptive Chicago ward.
After the mid-term elections, all Republicans, and their voters, are racists; and government control of society the panacea, if it had only been given the chance.
George Will once wrote,’ Bill Clinton was not the worst president in our history,just the worst person to occupy the office’. I think Mr. Will in the future will have found the worst person and worst president wraped into one.
As usual, you are a perceptive observer of events.
What a crock. Carter looks like a hero now.
November cometh…
Dr. T,
I see your doctorate was not in statistics. Obama received about 52% of the vote. If 51% of those favor him (your more than 50% of those who voted for him), then to find the expected proportion of Obama voters, we take the product of those two numbers: (0.52)(0.51) = 0.27. We should be so lucky.
Obama won 52% of those who voted. However, only 58% of voters actually turned out for the election. 52% of 58% = 30% of eligible voters actually put that pos in office. Since Obama has not gained supporters and has lost some, I think that the halo effect will doom a lot of incumbent Democrats.
I am a physician, not a Ph.D., but I taught statistics at Old Dominion University and wrote a textbook chapter on medical lab statistics.
What you fail to realize is that polls that ask “Do you agree with how President Obama handled situation A?” are not the same as polls that ask “Will you vote for Obama or for Republican candidate X or Y or Z in 2012?”* Obama will get all the left-wing votes because left-wingers will never vote Republican even if the Democratic candidate makes Idi Amin look like a saint. Because more and more people (including centrist and right-of-center voters) either work for government or are dependent upon government, many of them will vote for whichever candidate promises more milk when they suck on the government’s teats. That combination of all left-wing votes and many dependent-upon-government votes will be enough for Obama to win re-election.
*Bush’s favorability polls in 2004 were lower than Obama’s are now, but he still won re-election.
I remember Carter as a conservationist(Fly-Fisherman,55 mph speed limit…),now his true colors as a socialist have come out.God damn all these Neo-Liberals for destroying our country .As for Clinton I hope he chokes to death on a cigar.Obama… :X
Is it too much to ask for something fresh in these leftovers being microwaved for the nth time? Sheeesh. I know that history repeats itself, but this is tedious. Tell us more about your farm or your community, or something. Except for the true believers who are singing “amen,” bashing Obama yet again, with nothing new does little more than fill another column of several hundred words. You must be boring even yourself, here.
I also appear to have a well of contempt without a bottom for “our dear beloved.” I’ve wondered why. All I’ve come up with is that he is so the flip of my values, that no matter where he steps, he steps on one. There is nothing, NOTHING, that endears me to him. All I experience is a 6′-2″ malodorous pile of b.s. I am revolted at the thought of him touching anything American.
Professor, you’ve got it wrong!
Obama did not say he would “still the seas”.
He said he would “SPILL THE SEAS”
He also didn’t say hope and change.
He said YOKES and CHAINS.
I would like to think that Novemeber 2010 is the Sword of Damocles hanging over Obama but he doesn’t seem to be worried about losing the House or the Senate. His inept speech in the Oval Office showed that he just mouths words, not ideas. Of course, he’s smart enough (just barely) to know that he doesn’t have to fool ALL of the people ALL of the time (as Victor David Hanson pointed out).
And as Hanson also wrote, Obama will have a fresh, new bunch of Republicans to demagogue in January 2011; a new bunch of enemies to chastise for obstructing the Obamian “fundamental transformation” of the USA. It isn’t what Obama will do (I think we know that answer) but what will the Republicans do?
What will the Republicans do ?
‘Congress is the Grand Inquest of the Nation’
A few shrewdly aimed inquires into the opacity
of the Obama administration’s activities, starting
with the dismissal of the New Black Panthers case,
moving on to the dismissal of Attorney General Walpin,
and granting immunity from persecution to those who
point the fickle finger of fate up the command chain.
Inquiries? How long do they take, and what do they cost, and what do we generally get for the time and money. More blather. Where are you going to find Republicans brave enough to effectively PENALISE other “members of the club”. How many “Representatives of the People” are lawyers? Of either Party? Lawyers are just as protective of “their own” as any professional/trade guild. Why waste time and money on the ritual of inquiries. More show biz, photo-opportunies, members of this private gentlemens club Congress to parade in front of the public. Isn’t there enough entertainment for the masses, wiwthout this sort of farce? Better to work on repeal of the many laws they helped enact that limit the natural rights of Americans because of those laws. Can’t see that happening, can you?
Back during the election John McCain got a lot of criticism when he said that Obama had as much management experience as Brittany Spears.
Having seen President Obama’s management in action, we can now consider the question: Would Brittany Spears have handled the Gulf oil spill better than President Obama?
Better. She is from Louisiana and would have tried. At least she would have held some benefit concerts for those whose livelihoods were lost.
My favorite new line from Rob Long( National Review, Ricochet) is “The War on Reality”
That a President can be playing Golf while the Gulf is polluted is beyond comprehension.
Imagine being a business owner and your Walmart order is behind schedule in production.
You know the Walmart policy is complete cancellation if the truck isn’t at their dock as
scheduled 12:51pm dock 5 August 15th. You wouldn’t sleep at night, would you be out playing
golf or partying, no. You would be living at the office sleeping under the desk until things were on schedule.
I know business owners who have done so. Families suffer and sacrifice.
Instead we get the “War on Reality”, golf, games, parties as if there is no catastrophe taking place
“crisis what crisis” (Obama is the guy in the lounge chair on the Supertramp album cover Crisis What Crisis”)
But in Stalinesque fashion they pile on the crisis’ Arizona, Ftc, net neutrality, media buyouts, backroom deals etc..
It makes for mass chaos and confusion and most of all distraction.
see Obama here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis%3F_What_Crisis%3F
Uh, huh. Try to picture Ronald Reagan responding to your Walmart order scenario. I’ll grant you that Jimmah Carter would have been busting his butt to get the order filled, but where does that get you?
It shows you how incompetant Carter was. Most CEO’s aren’t out on the shop floor filling orders. They are busy contacting their own suppliers to try and get shipments rushed. They are contacting shipping companies to see if packages can be rushed. They are talking with floor managers seeing if there are less important tasks that can be rescheduled to a time after this shipment goes out. They are talking with HR and accounting to see if the company can afford to offer overtime.
That’s what a CEO does. That’s what Reagan did. That’s what Carter and Obama are not doing.
A blog called garblog said it was a vanity election. It was our vanity. We were proud and happy to show we were not racists, we were eager for a chance to show that, and there he was, black, thin, handsome, lovely wife and kids, not a radical or rabble rouser, he talked just like your college professor, seemed reasonable, yes, too liberal, some of us thought, but how bad could it be? What could he do to ruin the country? If he went astray, he would come back to the middle at least. Were we ever wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Turns out he is an extreme left wing guy and Sean Hannity was right. But we ignored the signs and hoped for the best.
The basic assumptions that we have that a president will have a certain feeling about the nation and its culture, Obama does not have that. He is more like our college professor than we imagined, always America the bad. His attitude toward Israel we find alarming. The only thing stopping an invasion by hundreds of millions of Muslims is the US. Every word that the US says is examined to see how the wind is blowing, can we turn him against Israel, how far can we go with attacking it. Not just true regarding Israel but the whole world. The perception that Obama is not on the side of the west and those non westerners who have always supported the US and been allies is causing great consternation around the world, and changes of position, and violence.
Here at home we are afraid to invest and start businesses because we really don’t know what he is going to do. Perhaps where we had 100 pages of government forms to fill out, he will make us fill our 500, perhaps our taxes will go up to the point where we look at the paycheck and go what the h___, perhaps property will be confiscated, perhaps regulations will increase and we will need more lawyers to help us figure out things. We don’t know what the democrats will do, so we keep still.
You’ve nailed it. My thoughts exactly. Except for one thing: I think voters persuaded to vote for Obama who wanted racial absolution overlooked his socialist principles, on display for everyone to see and understand. Obama thought they all understood where he stood, so we got his heavy-handed socialist policies.
Absolutely some were voting in order to obtain absolution. And the more disastrous Obama is, the more absolution those voters get.
This is another reason why what bamboozled so many voters in 2008 will hardly work at all in 2012.
It’s not just Obama. Today’s political news has a story about three Democratic members of Congress in Arizona who are doing their best to hide their opposition to the state law aimed at curbing illegal immigration. When backed into a corner, they admit they think it is “racial profiling,” that radical interpretation rejected by an overwhelming majority of Americans. These political extremists are clinging bitterly to the left wing agenda even if it means political demise. The Democratic Party must be weakened to the point it can never again threaten the country.
Banjo: Agreed. But to do that is counterintuitive to what we as conservatives believe. First, we believe in a healthy republic replete with competing parties. Second, the only ways to assure that the left will not threaten our nation again are either secession, civil war or tax them and their money out of existence. I favor taxing them but how many other conservatives would support that idea.
Therefore, the left will continue to get stronger and by the end of Obama’s third term, we will be fully socialized or led by a dictator.
The Republican and Democrat parties are not the only two options.
If the Democrats were to impled one of two things would happen.
One of the existing third parties would step up and become the new second party.
A party, not in existance now, would be formed, and it would become the new second party (Probably out of the remnants of the Democrat party and one or two of the existing third parties.)
impled –> implode
impled –> implode
I hear Obama is pretty handy with a lyre, too.
For the first time in my adult life (where have I heard that before ?), I feel like the United States government is eager to take advantage of any crisis (where have I heard that before ?) that comes along, ginned up or actual, to further the defining feature of its agenda….expanding its range of control and diminishing the liberty of the people.
There should be no complacency about a November message to be sent by the voters to this gang that can’t shoot straight. The fact that it can’t shoot straight doesn’t mean it won’t be firing randomly in every direction, every chance it gets.
Big Sis Napolitano and the implications of her fixation with “domestic terrorism” ? Federal outrage that a state (e.g. Arizona) would challenge all-inclusive federal authority and assert states’ rights ? The FCC trying every contorted position it can muster to contain and control free speech in the form of the internet ? (its current salvo, to subject the internet to the same controls as telephone companies)
Enlisting foot soldiers to garner every illegal vote it can ? Throwing around some more of that Porkulus money to gain adherents ?
When it comes to the crowd infesting DC these days, Andy Stern let the cat out of the bag.
“If we can’t use the power of persuasion, we’ll use the persuasion of power.”
The battle for the survival of the Republic is even deadlier than the one against brain dead, murdering Islamists.
Calling someone a “racist” for finding Barack Obama to be wanting in just about every conceivable category of leadership is a lame ploy used by the Left for purposes of intimidating you.
Don’t fall for that crapola.
Could it be that the reason B. Hussein Obama is acting like he wants to destroy
this country is because he does not have any room in his heart for this country?
The reason the Founders required the president to be a natural born citizen
is that they recognized from history that those who are not born in a land
may very well not have their nation first in their heart. Since their day we
have even more graphic examples of what happened when:
1. A Corsican came to the throne in France.
2. An Austrian Corporal came to the throne in Germany.
3. A Georgian brigand came to the throne in Russia.
and so forth. Perhaps the so-called Birthers were not as far off base as
some would have us believe. In light of the horrors that befell other nations
when their head of state was not a natural born citizen, the whole birth
certificate issue may turn out to be more than a mere political side-show. I
suspect it may prove to be far more important then any of us imagined at the
time.
True. It is the mixture of his non/anti-American upbringing, his ideolog(ies) [Marx, Muhammad], his educational indoctrination, and his many lies – and apparent crimes – that made the man. Much of this was there for viewing during the campaign, in the age of the Internet. Most people chose not to look.
Obama’s birth place is a side – issue only for some. It is in fact a question of ourselves as American. The population, not just a few interested politicians and people in search of the power of the Presidency to influence matters in the USA and the entire world. It is a question of whether the Constitution IS the BASE OF AMERICA AS A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.If we believe it is a Constitutional Republic, then the Constitution is the applicable BASE in LAW. AND that Law clearly states, AND has never been amended: No person except a natural born citizen …shall be eligible to the office of President. Obama, putatively a”constitutional scholar”, MUST know this. His REFUSAL to provide proof of his lawful eligibility is therefore suspect. As is the behaviours of those who aggressively dismiss the question as the creation of “loonies”. Rather than insisting that HE clear up the issue by presentation of the usual official documentory proofs / evidence.
2012, Daniels/Ryan ?
Both of these two impress me whenever I hear them speak. Are they as good and efficient as their credentials seem to say? Both of these two would put Mr. Teleprompter away in any open debate and their track records stand out in comparison to any of the others being considered for the Republican nomination.
In today’s Wall Street Journal (6-21-10, p. A21), Professor Glenn H. Reynolds writes about Jacques Cousteau: Tech Pioneer. Cousteau, of course, was a media personality along with his ship the Calypso. But, more importantly, Cousteau was the co-inventor of the aqua-lung. The question is posed, were the media activities more important than the inventing? Talking about a problem. Or, doing something about a problem.
The professor notes, “In our postmodern society, talking about things–as with Al Gore’s environmental speechifying–is often seen as equal to, or even superior to, doing things.”
I am reminded of the old saw, “Those who can—Do. Those who can’t—Teach.”
It is clear we have elected as president a teacher not a doer.
God save our Republic.
The election of a Carter, Clinton, or Obama ultimately relies on the fierce naiveté of young(ish) idealists similar to the now disillusioned FlowerChildren of the 1960′s, and/or those whose idealism died an ugly death at the hands of merciless reality, but who, nevertheless, maintain their hatred of anything meritorious in nature.
Until we as a people put a stop, once and for all, to anything approaching the ‘entitlement mentality’ we’ll be doomed to this ever down-spiralling political cycle. Redistribution at its core, is childish, selfish, and, in the end, hostilely confiscatory.
It’s time the adults regain control.
With this much blase blinkered ‘progress’, and no apparent concern for what happens in November, I can’t help but wonder… knowing as I do the complete amorality of the movement Obama currently leads, the Alinsky advice to forget all ethics and morals and win at all costs, I must wonder if–
there is some plan in the offing to prevent or postpone the upcoming election. Or to steal it on a stunning new scale, as they did with Franken’s seat and several others.
I fear a terrorist attack that is comprehensive enough to call for a declaration of martial law or somesuch. “Shut down ze internet, for ze good of ze state! Seize ze talkradio studios for government instructional programming! Shut down ze satellite TV, like they do in our beloved Tehran! It is impossible to have an election mit fear and chaos in ze streets, citizen! Go to your homes, wait for instructions from ze government, ve are looking out for YOU!”
I have friends who say things like “this is America, that’ll never happen here”.
I believe with all my heart that it will happen anywhere that people say things like “it’ll never happen here”. Progressives progress, always. Stalin and Mao show what the goal is. But they go slowly, trying not to make the frog jump out of the pot.
Each little step, on its own, isn’t enough to change the minds of these friends.
Dwight: That’s the best you got? That VDH is boring? Pathetic.But then, being an Obama lickspittle is becoming more and more difficult daily.Reality has bittenyour affirmative action wonderboy, and he’s bleeding popularity, and looking not only scared, but foolish.VDH would call it Nemesis,that dignifies Obama too muchit’s merelya case of Affirmative action gone spectacularly public!
“Most Americans support Arizona’s popular corrective . . . ”
If what “most Americans” think is what should define policy, then you’re gonna end up with a heap of stuff you don’t like. Besides, I’m not very confident in the conservatives’ ability to read trends. Remember the “anti-incumbent tidal wave” put forth with such heartfelt certainty? Not so much, eh? You can expect the same confusion, disappointment and spin come November when your dreams of a regressive utopia fall short. The only thing conservatives have the ability to change is their rhetoric.
Hail Rush. Go Sarah!
whistle meet graveyard
skeeziks is a prevaricating jacka$$, but when he says “If what “most Americans” think is what should define policy, then you’re gonna end up with a heap of stuff you don’t like.”, he does have a point.
Not in the way he intends. He’s an imbecilic Obama fanboy who’s happy enough to have those who say they know whats good for him make the policies that affect him. But if you substitute ‘most voters’ for ‘most Americans’ – there’s no evidence Obama ever had the confidence of ‘most Americans’ -, we did end up with what most voters in November 2008 thought would be the right change in leadership, and therefore policy.
There is plenty of buyers remorse out there at this point, and the smart money is on ‘most voters’ making a change as soon as the system allows, but the ‘heap of stuff etc’ that was put into place will be harder to change. So ya, skeeziks has a point. Witness Carter and almost certainly Obama. One term presidents most voters at the time put into office along with their policies and in both cases a heap of stuff etc.
Let me know if you’d like examples of what “most Americans” want, you know, since “the majority” is so important to you (though I think you secretly know a few already, huh? huh? Sure you do. Tell you what, why don’t you offer a few just to show you’re not . . . phobic in anyway)
Try, just once, to respond without a cliché.
Try, just once to say something intelligent.
Skeeziks,
You seem like a child born late and for attention he pokes his much older siblings hoping they’ll get riled and show they know he’s there. Nobody can learn from you.
You sound like a tired, old, intransigent ideologue who was born to long ago to understand or accept the inevitability of change and the difficult steps it takes to advance a culture beyond the fog of nostalgia. Nothing benefits from your reminiscence. Just be grateful you live in a land where you can sit on the porch, drink your hard cider, and bitch about the work others have to do to clean up your mess.
Big Republican wins in the House and Senate may give Obama another villain, but he’ll be unable to convince the American people that they were elected for any other reason than to stop his regime and its’ “fundamental transformation” of the country.
Depnds on two things.
1. the margin of Republican victory
If it is again 51 – 48, Obama will engage in even more demagoguery and might still succeed. However, if the victory margin is a clear 60 – 40, Obama can try, but he will have a much hard(er) time convincing people.
2. we are assuming the elected Republicans are going to do what people elected them to do. Hopefully this time around we can elect the right kind of guys and gals. [Unfortunately, Grahmnesty is not up for re-election.]
As always the professor is spot-on.
I am hoping for a deadlocked Senate that will prevent the One from laying it off on Dems with a mega supermajority in the house.
The Republicans of 2002-2004 abused their mandate but the Democrats of 2006-2010 have utter destroyed the Democrat brand. We are slipping into dangerous, I mean truly dangerous economic peril and the pack of idiots in charge of our country think they can run the US like a ward in Chicago.
In 18 months Obama squandered the good will of this country. I did not vote for him but, I did wish him well, every President is entitled to that. Now most of America realizes we have made a substantive mistake in judgement and will be paying for it for a generation or more. We elected the Nowhere Man; the Prince with no leadership experience now shown to be unable to lead.
Prof. Hanson knows what happens when Europe goes into a financial tailspin and democratic institutions breakdown, war is coming with Iran and probably North Korea. And we have a Fool in charge.
VDH writes: “I think the presidency was always sort of a warm-up, a preparation for worldwide messiah-in-chief.”
That is no doubt how the job was sold to him by his global-leftist + monopoly-capitalist puppet-masters… i.e. “we will open our coffers, sideline Hillary and deploy our servile media to deify you in the minds of the people… You shall be a God among men. Your name will echo down the corridors of future history as the Great Transformer. And we ask nothing in return, for our dream is the same as yours: a Post-American world where equality (and thus, harmony) reign.”
At some point though it may occur to The One that he too was sold a bill of goods. That he was set up to be the fall guy for a risky money / power grab. That, as things become clearer and clearer to the American people, the pressure will only mount, inevitably pushing his controllers towards more and more desperate, scorched earth tactics (a probability they’ve anticipated and prepared for since the beginning, though they too were briefly blinded by The One’s aura.) And thus The One becomes the Great Scapegoat, when Nemesis inevitably appears in response to Hubris’ call.
“What a crock. Carter looks like a hero now.”
lol, people are rethinking Richard M. Nixon these days too.
All of the political wailing and teeth gnashing, but you have to ask yourselves just what the republican’s will offer up. Nobody, not even Obama can beat the narcissism we are seeing in California. We have it all, recycled old hacks and a couple of uberwealthy failed businesspersons trying to buy their way into office.
Otherwise heckling Obama over Van Jones and Rev Wright is sort of like criticizing the Captain’s resume as he steers the Titanic into the iceberg. Not terribly helpful at this point.
Well put. Lets hope the GOP won’t smugly rest on the inclination of many voters to vote for anyone but a democrat this November.
The GOP lost its banner as the liberty party, and a lot more black votes, by allowing LBJ to take credit for the Civil Rights Act, and then allowing weirdo elements of the party to proclaim that maximum liberty impinged on the “right” of a homeowner to discriminate when selling his house. Rand Paul still hasn’t figured this out.
It shed fiscal conservatism over the last 2 decades, preferring gluttonous spending, and treating lobbyists as their constituency while using social issues to make it appear there was a difference between the parties. Speaker Dennis Hastert let the House to become a cesspool of corruption and spending; the Bush appointees at the SEC and FDIC were asleep while tax secured banks became involved with derivitives and other instruments that shifted billions in risk to taxpayers.
The voters have not forgotten who spent like there was no tomorrow during 2000-2006. Hastert’s incompetence. The absence of any serious Bush spending vetos. The lobbyists. Harriet Meiers.
If the GOP is to recapture the majorities it once had, it needs to shed the idea that elections are referendums on gay marriage and abortion. It needs to remember why people used to vote GOP, and every GOP candidate needs to treat as unalloyed truth the corny old phrase, “A public office is a public trust.”
The author of this interesting article leaves out one point: O’Bama may not make such a big hit in the post-season lecture trail if he is impeached. And why would he be impeached? Because if it is proved that he was not born in the USA, and it appears now to be problematic that he was, Congress (after the November elections) will then be given the rationale to begin the proceedings. And if impeached, and it can be shown that O’Bama knew that he misled the American people, it could be considered a federal crime and, therefore, prosecution of the alleged offence would likely take place. A multiple number of years in a federal prison would likely hurt his arrival on the lecture circuit.
Congress should not look for a technicality to use
as grounds for Impeachment, when there are so many
substantive issues that can be raised.
Congress should under no circumstances set the precedent
that the President, or any other official, can be punished
for political actions taken while in office, after leaving
office; There is a case to be made that POTUS, at least,
should receive absolute immunity
Presidents can be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. What is the crime? Obama’s documentation passed scrutiny after he declared his candidacy. Unless there is proof that the documentation was forged and that Obama knew of the forgery, there is no justification for impeachment. “Birthers” should shut up unless solid evidence of forgery exists.
I believe that Obama will rank among our worst presidents, but I also believe that the birthplace issue will go nowhere. We won’t get rid of Obama unless we convince tens of millions of his supporters to vote Republican in 2012. (And there’s not much chance of that.)
At the risk of beating a dead horse, the true enemy is the media. They set the agenda and the tone of the national conversation. Like the tree falling in the woods without anybody to hear it, if the media refuses to cover something, it, for all practical purposes, doesn’t exist.
Just imagine the nightly stories if it were Bush doing the golfing or the partying during a crisis. Half the damn country would be out in the streets screaming for his head. But when it comes to Obama, the media is suffering from an appalling lack of curiousity.
I don’t know how you fix this but I do know that until it is, the small subset of radicals that controls this country’s culture will have an inordinate and destructive influence on the vast majority of the rest of us.
Don’t fall into that trap: Nixon went over the Manhattan salon media to talk to the People. So did Reagan. Its not hard to do. Its even easier now with the net. But Bush wasn’t as smart as Nixon. He had no world view like Reagan. Instead, he confined his talks to Beltway insiders, as if the People were bondholders or onlookers, or worse, outsiders trying to crash a private club.
Another problem is the paucity of acomplished republicans who can tell media and voters why anyone ought to vote GOP. The republicans used to have two term govenors of big states, who urged limited government with a passion derived from history (Reagan), vice-presidents who had been senators, and who had served in the military and had some experience in the private sector(Nixon).
In 2008 we had…tired old John McCain, who did nothing of note despite 20 plus years in the senate, and a first term gov of Alaska who flubbed every interview she had with the national press. 2012 is not far away. Will the GOP have someone who can run aginst Obama? Who? Where is the one who can stand up and explain why limited government is good, and run on a competent record? Chris Christie maybe.
Or Mike Pence.
Dr. VDH, even with all of the well recorded and obvious problems you have outlined one thing remains clear – the American people have not yet suffered enough. As with the practice by health providers, prevention would have been best. But no, lets just try to get over this spreading Obama-cancer by avoidance, or by waiting it out because, after all, we have always survived in the past. We are not unlike those people with lung cancer who use an oxygen tank while they continue to smoke. Apparently it doesn’t hurt enough yet to warrent change. When does the “final straw” simply result in the point of no return or the death of America pre- Obama ?
Give us SOLUTIONS not more descriptions. Let us begin by voting out all incumbents in this one party system of straw stackers.
Yawn. This place never changes. Always the same tired, regurgitated, uninformed BS. The right wing continues to bury itself by calling BP the victim and the oil spill a “natural disaster”. They whine at Obama for not taking enough action, and then they whine at him for overstepping his bounds. They whine about how not racist they are while applauding a racist immigration law in Arizona. They whine about how much they love the Constitution while applauding an unconstitutional immigration law in Arizona.
Where are these millions of voters who are going to throw out the Dems in November? Can you see them from your computer station? I can’t. I see a couple hundred of angry old white people showing up for tea party events every once in a while, but that’s about it. The GOP is bleeding voters every day and will continue to lose elections as long as they keep scaring everyone away.
You won’t take back the presidency or congress in November as long as you continue to espouse a philosophy that defends foreign corporate criminals like BP at the expense of American working people who have lost their lives or their ability to put food on their family’s tables as a result of BP’s criminal negligence.
Said it before, and I’ll say it again: Enjoy your exile in the wilderness. You’ve earned it, and you continue to earn it again and again each day.
“You won’t take back the presidency or congress in November as long as you continue to espouse a philosophy that defends foreign corporate criminals like BP at the expense of American working people who have lost their lives or their ability to put food on their family’s tables as a result of BP’s criminal negligence.”
Uhhh…..you are aware, I’m sure, that the majority of BP shares are owned by non-British stockholders. Just as I’m sure you’re aware that many of those who have “lost….their ability to put food on their family’s [families'] tables” have experienced that as a direct result of obama’s executive order cancelling all drilling in the Gulf….including all of those other companies who had absolutely nothing to do with BP or BP’s projects.
Of course, if you are aware of those things and said what you did anyway, that suggests you’re just a troublemaker. On the other hand, if you are not aware of those things, that suggests you are uninformed.
In either event, I’m quite comfortable in concluding that your contributions still are not significant or interesting……to use your phrase, “Always the same tired, regurgitated, uninformed BS.”
The left never changes. They constantly lie about what their opponents position is. They do this because they know that in an honest debate, they enter unarmed.
There are things a president, any president is authorized to do.
There are things no president, any president is permitted to do.
Obama could have done much to help the clean up effort. He did none of these things.
Obama has no constitutional authority to black mail money from a company, regardless of what they have done.
Absolutely nobody has ever claimed that BP is a victim, or that it shouldn’t pay the full cost incurred because of this spill. That’s one of the lefts most viscious lies. But then again, the left lies because that is their only option.
You don’t understand the Arizona law.
Everybody on the left and right are sickened by the spill.
Smitty:
Is your question a rhetorical one? Rather than going down with the ship, how about helping to institute a Draft Victor Davis Hanson for President in 2012 movement? That sir, might help to preserve a nation in deep crisis. Hot air is just hot air.
blotto
Banjo: Agreed. But to do that is counterintuitive to what we as conservatives believe. First, we believe in a healthy republic replete with competing parties. Second, the only ways to assure that the left will not threaten our nation again are either secession, civil war or tax them and their money out of existence.
One of the sayings I have been using since … Oh, about January 2009, is:
The first prerequisite of a “Loyal Opposition” under the Constitution, is a government that obeys the Constitution.
When the government destroys the Constitution, then the rules change and they cannot appeal to it to protect only themselves from counteraction. The ‘De’il is i’ th’ details’; as the saying goes. As the good Dr. notes, the weight of the straws is about to exceed the structural load limit. It would not take much to do so. The biggest threat, at the moment, is what the regime [a term I use advisedly in the wake of the government/union takeover of GM and Chrysler. see the economic term "regime risk" for investing] does in relation to the elections.
1). Will they be seen to be taking place legitimately, fairly, and without regime interference in the results?
2). Will they in fact be allowed to take place at all?
3). Will election results counter to the interest of the regime be honored, and the winners allowed to be seated?
4). Will the scope of political action of the opposition be restricted by Executive Orders and/or States of Emergency [we are currently operating under quite a few declared states of emergency from past events right now that are still in effect, even after the NATIONAL EMERGENCIES ACT (50 USC 1601-1651) modified or eliminated many existing prior to 1976] powers for the benefit of the regime?
5). What changes to the governmental system will be made by the Lame Duck Congress and the President between the election on November 2, 2010 [if such should take place] and the swearing in of the new Congress in January?
These, or other acts, could be the final straw noted. Sadly, the degree of arrogance, contempt for the people, and outraged noblesse supériorité displayed by the Democrats since January 2009 has been unprecedented. They literally act as if they know that they will never be held to account by the voters for anything they do. Aside from ignoring the wishes of their constituents, thugs have been hired to assault constituents, and in at least one case on camera a Congressman physically assaulted a suit-and-tie-clad college student for the offense of asking him if he supported Obama’s program. Democrat Congressmen have almost totally shut down contact with constituents; with the every few months’ Town Hall being replaced with screened and controlled telephone speeches masquerading as public meetings or small private meetings with carefully screened supporters and donors. [Funny thing, my Congressman still comes to the small towns of our county in the mountains a couple of times each a year, and fills any venue he can find without any unpleasantness and no small amount of enthusiasm. Of course, he is a Conservative Republican and he generally does what we want done.]
Taking the possibility of extra-Constitutional actions by the regime into account is now rational. It may not be certain, but the last year or so places some level of burden of proof on them, and not on skeptics of devotion to the Constitution.
And that takes us into different territory. Foreign and anathema to the Left is the Jacksonian strain in our patriotism and culture. There are red lines. [See Walter Russell Mead's work]. If you are part of the national family; people may disagree, may argue, may oppose. But if you stay within the red lines, the arguments will generally stay within the bounds of law and civility. Kind of like the crazy brother-in-law at the family reunion. He will be tolerated even when being totally obnoxious and/or drunk, because [with a sotto voce "dammit"] he is family.
But let him get inappropriate with one of the teenage daughters or a married woman, insult a spouse, or mouth off to the family matriarch; and tolerance is gone. The crazy brother-in-law will be removed, and he may not be completely intact after the process. He will from that point on be an outsider, and attacks and insults will be met with the same, and worse.
The original concept Banjo was pushing, I think [I don't wish to put words in his mouth] would be the idea that they would at that point be considered what I call TWANLOC; Those Who Are No Longer Our Countrymen. If they operate outside the rules, then the people are free to also. In its most extreme form, probably triggered by nothing less than an abrogation of Constitutional rule by the government; the process of re-establishing that rule will involve making sure that those who have left the national community can no longer ever take part in it. Think of the de-nazification process in Germany between 1945 and the founding of the German Federal Republic, or the removal of Marxists from the governments of eastern Europe in the early 1990′s. Or for that matter, the removal of any Anciens Régimes that are regarded by the successors as having been tyranical. The process may or may not involve violence, but it definitely will not involve giving the old regime a role in running things out of a misplaced sense of fairness. They will have had their chance. And from what we have seen in the last generation, the end result of such a process frequently is a republic with a multi-party democratic system.
All in all, it is best if we are able to remain a Constitutional Republic with the soap box and the ballot box. If those options are foreclosed by force majeure, then the ultimate ends are not knowable.
Subotai Bahadur
One word. There is just not a trace of it in Him.
Humble (or humbled).
Dwight, it’s been my experience in life that the entities who complain of being bored do so because they are boring in and of themselves, and can’t find anything internallly to amuse themselves. A deficit of intellect or world-view or merely “what if”-itude. From what I can see of your posts, you bring nothing to the party except crabby entitlement, so whyn’t you just toddle on down the internet path and start your own amazingly erudite and entertaining blog? And then you won’t be bored any longer, right?
VDH:
We are seeing a classic battle between image and substance. Obama knows what he wants to look like, but he does not know how to do much. He has given his ‘dreams’ precedence over reality.
People like Obama are often sad individuals, because they rarely achieve their goals. Although Obama is no Stalin, imagine — did Stalin, with all his ‘accomplishments’, want history to portray him the way it does? For megalomaniacs, self-infatuation prevents them from seeing reality from differing points of view than their own. In that sense, Obama may be suffering from a similar type of megalomanic tunnel-vision that Stalin suffered from. It is not apparent to him now, but it would be apparent to someone who is wiser and more experienced.
Being an executive requires a certain degree of humility. Obama is not humble in the canonical sense. Obama shows humility in his deference to ‘experts’ in academia, but he is unable to fathom expressing the same deference to the nation as a whole, and there is almost no deference to those who oppose him.
One consequence of Obama’s lack of humility is that for him, simple problems become too complex, and complex problems become too simple. The war in Afghanistan is by no means simple, but he took his merry time making a decision that he should have already been prepared for — one that he campaigned on. In the Gulf, the problem is too complex for him to grasp, so he falls back to simple ideas. There, his solution is to get money from BP and spread it around — a simple solution too boot, and one that he has employed before.
Obama lacks the enthusiasm necessary to correct his failing presidency, and I would expect him to lose interest as time goes on. It would be a stunning day for the nation if Obama does not seek reelection, but for some it would not be unexpected.
Oh yeah. What a long two years. Oh for the period of 2000 to 2008 when Bush was destroying our country. What a relaxing and refreshing experience that was. Its not like we’ve got a legacy of two hopeless quagmires and a completely destroyed economy to deal with…
Funny how you actually think that your opinion trumps reality?
I am no great fan of Bush’s administration, for some reasons I think you’d agree with and for many I think you wouldn’t.
But Obama has resoundingly proven that it’s always possible for things to get even worse.
Out here in dese darn lowlands wees able to no dem darn feets’f clay’ll lettcha down every darn time.
Thank God.
Just what America needs, more feigned folksiness.
#45 PRINCIPAL LEVINE: A legacy of two hopeless quagmires? You mean like those entities subverted by demtards to buy votes(with the O’hole cheering them on),like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which destroyed our banking system? Maybe you meant Medicare,or Social” “Security”, two more bankrupt Demtard legacies.Go back to creating more illiterate, ignorant drones in your government school,pricipal,(another democrat failure) and scribble your historical-revisionist drivel on the Huffington Post.
#43 NAHN CEE RE DWIGHT; you forgot the intellectual aspect,like most Demtards,DWIGHT’s NOT TOO BRIGHT!
Obama causes End of the World.
Do you realize that once Obama stops of oil coming out of the hole in the bottom of the Gulf that the Gulf will drain into the hole until all the oceans are gone and the Earth turns into another Mars.
Right on schedule. In 2012. As foretold by Incas.
Change we don’t need.
I think it history will find that Barry Obama was our first nutcase President. Only someone with severe mental issues could lie as often and so blantantly as this man does.
Luckily for Barry, the liberal’s march thru the schools have produced a large contingent of idiots who couldn’t take a dump without government “assistance” and we no longer are free to call lunatics, the nuts that they are and keep them from voting.
Obama’s election was a first class meeting of two forces….idiots and mental loons electing a fellow traveler nut.
Barry is as crazy as his loon of a mother, but we will not find out the truth for years when his groupies in the MSM can safely tell us the gory details.
Of course, many of the “journalists” fall into the lunatic category as well.
The Battle of New Orleans, 2010
—apologies to Johnny Horton and “The Battle of New Orleans”
In 2005 Katrina hit us bad
Nagin didn’t use the buses that he had
And just as the city started to come back
A BP platform had to blow its stack
(Chorus)
We looked to Obama to do something different
But he’s never run anything, and so he let it go
He spent his time hitting balls out on the golf course
He fumbled and he diddled and he let the oil flow
BP tried hard to cap the well itself
But that’s not so easy way out on the shelf
Obama said that he would give ‘em heck
And keep his boot hard on the corporate neck
We looked to Obama to do something different
But he’s never run anything, and so he let it go
He spent his time hitting balls out on the golf course
He fumbled and he diddled and he let the oil flow
The days went by and we watched ‘em come and go
But Obama wouldn’t even talk to BP’s CEO
He said, “Why would you think I’d even try?
He’s a corporate man and all they do is lie.”
We looked to Obama to do something different
But he’s never run anything, and so he let it go
He spent his time hitting balls out on the golf course
He fumbled and he diddled and he let the oil flow
Yeah, the oil spread and birds and the fish started dyin’
And folks getting hurt all started in to screech
They shouted so loud the President flew down to the Gulf
And was photographed picking up a tarball off the beach
Bobby Jindal tried to make barriers of sand
But the feds wouldn’t put permission in his hands
What the President will do to fix things we don’t know
Except hit BP for billions and watch the oil flow
We looked to Obama to do something different
But he’s never run anything, and so he let it go
He spent his time hitting balls out on the golf course
He fumbled and he diddled and he let the oil flow
Yeah, the oil spread and birds and the fish started dyin’
And folks getting hurt all started in to screech
They shouted so loud the President flew down to the Gulf
And was photographed picking up a tarball off the beach
Mark the great. Someday when you get the courage to actually respond to the points I’ve made, I’ll consider you somewhat less annoying than a flea on my balls. Until then, you’re worthy of little more than ridicule.
I can’t believe that there are still people here who actually believe that Fannie and Freddie caused the banking crisis. You people are hopeless.
I don’t think it will be smooth sailing for Obama when he leaves office. I think he represents failure on such an unprecedented scale that even he’d be too radioactive for the think tanks, non-profit global crowd/etc to embrace. I’m thinking more of a Dukakis style exile/sinecure at some small university. Yes, he will be an ex-prez. But forever carrying an asterisk as the “novelty” president. Looking at Obama will be painful to lefties in the future– inducing sort of the feelings you get when looking at polaroids of yourself from the 70s… “what was I thinking???”
Applause for buzzsawmonkey. Keep that up and you’ll get a column like Steyn.
I too fear the Dems playing fast and loose with elections. They are far too complacent this close in. What’s their plan? Will it be extreme, cancel them, or just cheat everywhere? I think they have solid cheat plans, it’s the Democrat Way.
VDH could help out by coming up with suggestions that Obama voters can use to close their cognitive dissonance. It takes an astonishingly mature person to admit that they have made a terrible mistake. Most Obama voters are not that mature. They need some guidance to ease themselves into something like a Twelve Step Plan.
what would happen if the military brass came to the fork in the road between their duty to follow chain of command vs. honoring their oath to defend the constitution against all enemies threatening it from without and within?
“and blaming the red ink on Bush has a shelf-life of, well, about 18 months.”
You misspelled ‘six’.
#56. duffy
what would happen if the military brass came to the fork in the road between their duty to follow chain of command vs. honoring their oath to defend the constitution against all enemies threatening it from without and within?
The answer to that will determine the fate of a Constitutional Republic. We all await the answer. I fear that we may be within a matter of months of finding out. I would note that The Oath, never expires, no matter under what circumstances it was sworn, or how long ago.
Subotai Bahadur
Neither the Democrats, nor Obama considers any of his actions of last two years a failure. Nor should we. The idea IS to break the back of the camel. He is extrmely succeessful at putting a dozen every day on the back of the camel. And the straws will keep coming. The question is—whaduwee gonna do aboudit? Do we want him to break our back, or are we going to break him?