Obama—Making it up as we go along.
Being There
Gone is Bush the great Constitution-shredder. Tribunals, renditions, Predators, wiretaps, Iraq, Guantanamo, preventative detention—these are now either embraced or expanded. Iraq (“the surge is not working”) is Obama’s “greatest achievement.” The public I think believes Obama demagogued all those protocols for political advantage, then as commander-in-chief looked at the intelligence, and quietly adopted them all. OK, politicians do that. But how can one “virtually” oppose all that he embraces? Does he just make things up as he goes along, assuming we all have collective amnesia?
The Candidate
The same thing has happened to Keynesian economics that gave us near 10% unemployment and $3 trillion more in debt, taking a bottoming-out recession and turning it into near European-like stasis. Suddenly, the Bush tax rates are critical. There is talk of budget cutting. Red states, not blue states, are proper fiscal models—for liberals as well as for conservatives. Do we believe that a Gov. Paterson had more answers than a Gov. Christie? Government apparently cannot create jobs by printing money. Christina Romer, Larry Summers, and Peter Orszag are gone back to either academia or the big money on Wall Street. Was early 2009 all a dream? Is all this what we call “moving on”?
Elmer Gantry
Ditto what happened to Obama the healer. Was that too just a convenient façade that was to come and go—and come?
Are we no longer all purple state friends, but to be at each other’s throats—and quite literally? Thus the great healer Obama just warned of impending “hand-to-hand combat” if the Republicans take over. He once declared of Sean Hannity that one of his supporters would “tear him up.” He thought he was a Chicagoan Sean Connery in the The Untouchables boasting that “if they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” He advised Latinos “to punish” their Republican “enemies.” Not long ago candidate Obama pontificated that his supporters just had to confront Republicans and Independents and “get in their face.” We remember his “whose ass to kick” or his relegation of Republican opponents to “hostage takers” and suicide bombers: “Here’s the problem: It’s almost like they’ve got—they’ve got a bomb strapped to them and they’ve got their hand on the trigger. You don’t want them to blow up.”
Obama clearly likes the tough guy imagery of metaphorically slicing, shooting and bombing: “We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.” So are we back to the Valerie Jarrett, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Bill Daley Chicago style? What happened to our new president as Deepak Chopra?
Cyrus Vance redux?
I know Obama has a liberal agenda, but more recently he seems to have no agenda, as he flits about, trying this and trying that, in the manner of a forty-something academic who found out his faculty utopianism does not quite work outside the quad. Is Putin now “on our side” or snickering at our naïveté? Should we try a fifth threat to Iran to stop proliferation by a particular date or else? Are we bullying or not bullying or sort of semi-bullying Israel? Did that outreach to Syria and Venezuela bring dividends yet? Do national security bureaucrats really employ “overseas contingency operations” and “man-caused disasters”—do their foreign counterparts laugh when they receive such memos? Do our anti-terrorism experts really refer to Guantanamo thugs as “detainees” and forbid the use of “jihadist” in discussion of radical Islamic terrorism? Is that still operative?
“Energy Independence”
When gas hits $4 a gallon, will we still stop new offshore exploration, table oil and gas leases in the west for more Van Jones “wind and solar and millions of green jobs” and inflating our tires to avoid the need for new oil drilling rigs? Or is that too all inoperative? Suddenly will Obama claim he was always for nuclear, gas, oil, shale, coal—any and all energy to get gas and power prices back down to tolerable levels?
“There will be growth in the spring.”
Chauncey Garndner
:) Thank you for reminding me. Brilliant movie and wisdom – spot on.
“Thank you Eve.
I like to watch.”
Obama clicks his remote and nothing happens… and America suffers.
Great movie – pathetic president. Chance the Gardner was an innocent. Obama is a spiteful little phoney , although he can read lines. As with his basketball he will fake right then go left. Has the country learned nothing ?
Reminds me of the old adage,
“Those you can’t do teach, (and as a teacher once told me) those who can’t teach teach PE”.
I’d heard a different version:
Those who can, do.
Those who can’t do, teach.
Those who can’t teach, administer.
How strangely applicable to the current administration.
I had never heard the third line before, but figured it out myself half way through my teaching career.
At least students were allowed to get into shape in PE class, but not so anymore, to many PC rules about gym class…
No, those who can’t teach, Administrate, or become writers/journalists.
Them’s that can, do
Them’s that can’t, teach
Them’s that can’t teach, teach teachers
Those who can’t teach, write textbooks.
Odd this post when Victor Davis Hanson is both a professor, teacher and writer.
Obviously the definition of ‘teacher’ has been distorted to the point beyond all recognition that we’re saying this in the midst of one of the greatest teachers in the world in VDH.
I don’t know about all of you, but this is a serious issue that the profession of teaching has sunk to such lows. For my kids and all kids, it’s essential to have excellence in teaching.
Those who can’t do or teach become President in 2008.
This video documents the reasons for and destruction of Marc Rubin’s masterful portrait of Barack Obama in 2009 after the NEA was hijacked by Obama and his progressive operatives. Its called “Catharsis”
http://www.marcrubin.com/obama.ivnu
He likes being the boss and playing the tough guy. He likes having the ability to punish people who, once upon a time, in his own fairy tale world, would have made his life difficult. He likes being in a position where he will be incredibly rich for the rest of his life. He likes lying. And he likes people believing the lies.
Other than having to work once in a while, he’s in hog heaven.
But he sure doesn’t like the country that made his scam possible.
That’s all true, but if that were ALL there is to him, we’d all be better off.
Obama is on a mission. Playing the Big Shot is merely the icing on the cake to him.
Underestimating one’s enemies is the most fundamental mistake one can make.
It’s also the most common.
Agreed.
His manias are far deeper than the just showing the world a total lie.
He isn’t normal by a long shot. People with his upbringing and mental framework usually become common repeat criminals, and many of them are extremely violent and mentally unbalanced. The smarter or luckier ones become master con artists. The country, for reasons we now understand thoroughly, fell for the con. Even so, the situation is so extreme that history will call it one of the most shocking stories of all time.
He makes Madoff look like kid playing with tinker toys. And holding the power that Obama has been granted, the danger to the world is thousands of times greater than what Madoff ever imagined, and we aren’t nearly out of the woods.
…. the power that Obama has usurped, the danger to the world is thousands of times greater than what Madoff ever imagined ….
You mean this marijuana-mumbling, mobbed-up, Mussolini-modeled modified-Marxist, murtadd-Muslim, morally and intellectually insolvent mother’s milquetoast narcissist is kinda like the traitor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, off his meds?
Off his steroid meds, that is.
yes …the worst possible case.
I still can’t get over that he was elected. he would have won without cheating (still he cheats ..in the genes).
I have read several people outside the USA who can’t believe that he could even be a contender. below is a link to one …follow his other essays ….his recent stuff is mainly in Portugues. the essay linked below is from 2008.
http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/english/articles/081120jb_en.html
http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/english/
also very good reading from a Canadian http://www.galganov.com/editorials/
Harold, eh? Sounded like Oliver Wendell Douglas with his mentor, Kimball, Hank (not Roger) Kimball! And who keeps playing that
little flute all the time?
As always, well said. Obama is, of course, a douchebag who will do whatever it takes to keep his job. That’s all it seems to him, his job, that and an endless party aboard AF1
Exactly. Of course there’s an agenda — it’s just one we dislike to talk about.
We need to face the truth about Obama….
He will do what ever, what ever..he can get away with.
We will see a new Obama this year. The old mask didn’t work, now we will see a new one.
He will have better writers this year to put words in his mouth, but we still need to watch out for his “off the cuff” moments.
Ah, the wisdom of the farm — for the sun, earth, and rain care little for unsupported opinions and bloviating. Better to listen to their nearly indistinct whispers, and also ask fellow farmers what have been meant.
Thanks for your perspective. I have been wondering what would happen after the election results; my big question now is “What will he do with the agencies including the EPA and FCC who have started a war on the economy and internet free speech?” Especially, the war on oil and gas….Hofmeister is predicting $5/gallon shortly if something isn’t done to open up the vast U.S. reserves. If he follows FDR’s model, which he seems to have been doing for 2 years, he’ll elect for ‘anything to get re-elected’. It will be interesting to see what he does, as he already is starting his 2012 campaign. Is he smart enough to know that Americans in today’s world KNOW what is happening versus FDR’s day when Roosevelt controlled the media by force, using the IRS and the FBI?
All true, and if that 80 year old had just spoken up a might sooner we wouldn’t be in this mess. Hopefully He who gives all life will keep the vineyard alive until we are wise enough to tend it ourselves. It won’t be the first time some old wizened farmer sat back and watched the young farmer screw things up over and over again and never said anything because he was quite entertained to watch and see what would happen next.
In the case of the President, he may be too dumb, too blind or too stubborn to learn. As you have so frequently pointed out, Obama hasn’t done anything new or different than Mr Bush just more of it. Stuck on stupid, one might guess.
You say “All true, and if that 80 year old had just spoken up a might sooner we wouldn’t be in this mess.”
I don’t think so. Many “80-year-olds” did speak up, before the election, after the election, and continually up to today. Unfortunately, either the “80-year-old” was labelled as a racist or otherwise demonized, or the listener was still entranced by the “well-spoken” Messiah who would “lower the sea levels”. It has taken two years for many to be able to now realize that they were duped from the beginning. Now, the question is “What the Hell can we do???”
It is your ag experience that gives you credibility in my world.
Has anyone noticed that The One has a new PR chief and a new leader of his special economic team, and that they are both executives of big Wall Street firms???????
Folks – WE’VE BEEN SOLD.
The Roman Republic once had a stalwart, propertied middle class that left their family farms to fight for Rome, until the Patricians got them so in hock that they lost their farms and became SERFS.
And that is what our government is doing to US.
We are losing our wealth and freedom, inexorably.
We need the wisdom and advice of that wise 80 year old farmer NOW. I fear that by 2012, it will be too late.
I have a friend who has a MA in counseling. It was he who explained to me the details of the narcissism.
It’s true. They just make things up and say anything that fits the moment. ‘Truth’ is not a consideration. It doesn’t exist when the object is to act like he is as brilliant as he believes the listener should think he is or as he thinks he is.
I worked for one and read a lot about it. I don’t know if Obama has the other traits like wierd eating and sleeping habits, is cruel in speech to those close to him, bad gift giver (Queen of England), doesn’t like receiving gifts, and other more personal traits. Mostly they believe they deserve praise.
I’m a layman but all this can be verified on the internet. That he makes things up as he goes along is typical.
That is an interesting and very scary idea…
This is what I found on the web.
The Symptoms of Destructive Narcissism
An unrealistic sense of superiority
Pursues power at all costs and lacks normal inhibitions in its pursuit
Concerns limited to expressing socially appropriate response when convenient;
Devalues and exploits others without remorse
Lacks values, is easily bored and often changes course
Traumatic childhood undercutting true sense of self-esteem and/or learning that he/she doesn’t need to be considerate of others
It DOES remind me of somebody!
There is a shocking percentage of the population afflicted with this mental disorder. What makes it very difficult is that there is a degree of dysfunction and function, and superficially doesn’t stand out amongst the norm.
They are persuasive blamers – lying is part of the m.o., and usually occurs with some added emotion.
There is no treatment for this disorder. The blameframe entrenches the individual into a state of others always at fault.
Yes, and the new edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) will apparently no longer list that disorder as a disorder.
After all, they don’t want anyone comparing the behavior of the President so many APA members voted for to a patient they should be treating instead, now do they?
clear ether
eon
Problem is, nearly half of Americans (if you believe the polls) support Obongo’s (academic echo chamber) brand of all talk, no substance governance. We are becoming a nation of know-nothing fools following a babbling idiot down the path to mutual destruction. Hang on folks, as this trail will become steeper every day.
The good Professor writes: “I know Obama has a liberal agenda, but more recently he seems to have no agenda…”
He does, it is to create chaos in order to impose “emergency measures”. Rahm only gave us part one of the leftist credo: “Never let a crisis go to waste”. Part two is “Foment crisis”. Most of what Obama says and does in the open is a shadow play, meant to confuse and conceal. The real action is taking place behind the curtain.
Those of us who have followed the progress of the (international) left’s “march through the institutions” of America and of the UN over the last couple of decades; who have read the works of Alexandr Solzenytsin, Richard Pipes, Jean-Francois Revel, David Horowitz, Igor Shafarevich, Jamie Glazov and other critics of Communism (and its sanitized offspring, “Progressivism”), had the conceptual basis for interpreting Obama’s agenda before he was elected.
That knowledge has spread dramatically over the last couple of years, thanks to The One’s socialist blitzkrieg, which shocked people into wakefulness. The conservative media, including talk radio and many grassroots bloggers, used the opening this created to get the message out: that we were experiencing the fruition of 40 years of Frankfurt School subversion, which has quietly morphed into a broad multi-pronged leftist ‘front’, behind which operates a small clique of international financiers. Their goal seems to be twofold: To take control of the “commanding heights” of the global economy, (partly by undermining the existing oil economy), and imposing a kind of global, hybrid UN / EU bureaucracy. They think that conservative America is really all that stands in their way. They thought they had us fooled. (No wonder they hate talk radio and Fox News. No wonder they’re trying to take control of the internet). November proved them wrong, by a long shot. Now they will do everything they can to neutralize the right as a political force.
Progressive strategists understand that by encouraging people to make the feeding of their sensory and emotional wants their top priority, you create the conditions for their enslavement. This is the core danger at the heart of our Capitalist system that people like Cloward and Piven were able to recognize and exploit. Barack Obama and his cabal are the handpicked executors for the real powers behind this leftist-globalist conspiracy. But they were too obvious, and the result was the rise of the Tea Party and the crushing repudiation of Barack Obama last November. But the fight is far from over. In fact it is only just beginning (since the left is digging in and preparing to wreck as much havok as they can before 2012). And now the tables have begun to turn.
Any movement will draw its share of unbalanced and insane individuals. We all deplore the murder of innocents. I for one feel great sorrow when I think about the hundreds of millions killed by leftists and left-wing policies in the 20th century, and the many more lives ruined. The Tea Party on the other hand has been remarkably constrained. Choosing to voice its righteous anger at this presumptuous elite through the ballot box. Nor has it risen to deliberate provocations like Pelosi’s triumphant march across the Capitol on the day they rammed Obamacare down our throats. What a beautiful, spontaneous coming together of free hearts and minds. No wonder the left hates them so.
The left is desperately trying to stir conflict along race, gender and class lines, and manipulate the naievete, altruism and even the violent impulses of the young. For them, class warfare is the preferred environment for imposing a revolutionary regime. They picked the wrong country though, and they will learn that the hard way.
Their effort to demoralize and divide America, to isolate, demonize and destroy segments of society, will soon begin to bear its bitter harvest. But I don’t think it will work out quite the way the leftists planned. Maybe someday they will learn…
Well said. The agenda now is to win re-election period. There is no other agenda than that. The first two years were a stealth socialist’s dream having enacted Obamacare, taken over two of the big 3, discontinuing oil drilling in the gulf, passing financial reform. Time now to pause, consolidate the political socialist gains, recharge, retool the message, and find a way to secure four more years. Nothing else matters except doing more spade work to prepare the soil to continue the good professor’s analogy. That spade work includes fomenting class, gender, race, environmental, anti-corporate, anti-Israel conflict in order to create chaos and produce a new crisis which can be exploited for political purposes.
Reality must be kept in check by spinning the news or changing the subject and with a compliant media it may work, but I doubt it.
I remember waiting a year, then 8 months, then 6 months then people started counting the days until the November election last year.
Now we wait again and the day is much more distant but we trust the day will come when a big enough majority will unseat the president. But what tricks does he or his handlers have up their sleeve before then?
We will continue to hope they’re winging it and the recent election wasn’t a mere stumbling block in the path to their planned goal.
Thankfully at least one of the tools of Barry-O has been taken. The GOP/Tea Party controlled Congress can to some extent, oppose the course of the POTUS’ agenda.
It’s not enough to have a stalemate, and nothing get done.
Every moment, the debt is increasing at a debilitating rate; and the level of confidence is impeded by the current policies that foster uncertainty.
We can recouperate our financial losses simply by refusing billions to the United Nations. This is an unsustainable league of extortionist. We are paying for countries that kill their own and don’t even call it “cleansing” any longer. The Ivory Coast farmers who fed the countryside were killed and the murderers took their farms and grew nothing.
The United Nations building stands like a tombstone over America.
His agenda is to be in power.
I have long believed that the marxism is incidental. He mouths it because it is the best thing going to con the rubes, and he is easily able to convince hismelf while using it that it is 100% true. That is abetted by the fact that he grew up in a marxist cesspool. But when it becomes clear that marxism is becoming a handicap rather than a hindrance, he can shed it like an old bad suit. Once the old suit is shed, he can then easily convince himself that the new ideology is 100% true, because it really isn’t an idealogy, it’s just a toolkid to gain and wield power.
This is what the left is beginning to realize and it is the thing that is fueling the overwhelming anger that we are beginning to see. It isn’t enough for the left to know that he has given them far far more than any previous demagogue has been able to give, they still feel betrayed to know that he isn’t one of them….he has only done it for himself.
No doubt, they suspect he will be willing to undo it if necessary.
Thanks for your thoughts all. You may be right, but I think he has no choice but to double down and push hard to continue their ideological agenda. They have the drop on him. They made him and they can destroy him too (by throwing him to the wolves). He knows this, and will not want to displease his masters. Besides, as many of us suspect, this regime has already “done things no-one knows about”. When we find out, they will be in hot water. That terrifies them. They will try everything they can to derail normal political life over the next two years. If they can’t, then I suspect Obama will be their scapegoat. They will hang him out to dry.
As others have noted, winning in 2012 is paramount. It may well be that nothing in our public lives has or will matter more than that, ever. But if the system goes off the rails, three things are crucial: 1) Recover quickly and seize the initiative. This adminstration is (in my view) close to losing its legitimacy. 2) Retain means of long distance communications that do not rely solely on the internet or other electronic means. Any ideas? 3) Expect the unexpected, and be prepared to respond accordingly.
Obama and the other anti-Christian, anti-capitalist liberals need to be laughed at, mocked, and ridiculed, as much as possible.
Too bad it’s easier to do if one exaggerates to the point of dishonesty.
I hope opposing Obama’s anti-American policies is not like tilting at windmills, tho there is something Quixotic about Obama’s own lack of grasp of reality.
It must be remembered that the Dem majority Congress gave the TARP bailouts to the super-rich bankers, to avoid them facing the free market.
Your contention that the just elected Obama “as Commander-in-Chief looked at the intelligence, and quietly adopted them all.”, is a penetrating one and deserves further scrutiny and attention.
President Obama’s own campaign contention in regard to these matters was that President Bush was pushing an unnecessary ideological agenda in foreign policy but one does get the idea that when Obama was secretly briefed in his first days as President into what was going on that he felt compelled to yield to seeing these policies as reality and not corruption and ideology.
In this sense Obama was an immigrant into Bush’s world who became fully assimilated into it’s culture seeing as how, as you point out, Obama carried on and even expanded policies he had until that time opposed.
When it comes to the Palestinian Arabs who talk tough just like Obama, this talk must yield to reality which Obama has no clue about. It took Robert E. Lee less than 2 yrs. of failure to come to the conclusion that in order to spare his people further suffering that in the end would accomplish nothing, the Confederacy must surrender rather than fighting a guerilla campaign; pragmatism as opposed to desire.
In 63 years the Palestinian Arabs have been unable to come to the same conclusion, preferring instead a coulda, woulda, shoulda, expression of moral high ground which has resulted in a failed fantasy world consisting of rejecting U.N. involvement, resorting to armed confrontation, having the military option taken from them, then favoring U.N. involvement.
In other words, here again gone again political expediency and opportunism rather than an overarching philosophy devoid of an ego and reality driven solution. The P.A.’s are perfect partners for Obama in this sense and the reason why Obama will accomplish nothing in Israel.
The reason that Obama seems so adrift is that, other than a racial agenda, he seems not to have really thought about a lot of issues, especially foreign policy, in any way that has produced an overarching philosophy concerning them. Part of this is lack of hands on managerial experience and the other an overly academic look at matters that are in fact controlled by reality.
Decontextualizing events in order to win a campaign debate is quite different from having to face that which you’ve conveniently ignored. One can win all the arguments you want when you’re still in a dry house about how you coulda, woulda, shoulda not let rain get you wet when it’s raining outside where you intend to go but in the end one needs an umbrella to go out in the rain.
Reality will intrude itself like it or not. This is the exact source of the failure of Obama’s presidency and the “No-State Solution” the Palestinian Arabs have unwittingly adopted. The key world for Obama is “unwitting”.
My oh My, a lot of people use a lot of words just to say Obama is a know-nothing from no-where.
Word.
Left-wing pundits, as well as the spin doctors in the White House, say that Obama is going to “change” and become more of a centrist. Swell, but what happened during the first TWO YEARS of his administration? Did we just sleep through all of that mess? Did it not count for anything? This man has singlehandedly destroyed our economy for generations to come and we’re just supposed to forget about it? So what happened up until now didn’t count. The voters will only pay attention to whatever happens from now until election day. How stupid do these people think we are? He actually spent almost a trillion dollars on a stimulus bill that stimulated nothing, created Obamacare that will bankrupt this nation and make healthcare worse, and we are so broke now from government bailouts to banks, car companies, and AIG, that we have to slash defense just to afford all of the increased social-welfare programs this socialist has created. And we are going to forget all of this?
Go center, go right, hire whoever you want, we will NEVER forget what you did to this country and how you totally disregarded the will of the people. November 2010 is only a preview of what’s going to happen in November 2012.
And NEVER underestimate the stupidity of the American public, the product of 60s and 70s radical know-nothing teachers and the 100% progressive media.
It’s over!
In answer to your question these socialists/communists think we are extremely stupid. They are planning to unveil some shiny toy that will grasp everyone’s attention and we will have already forgotten the past two years. Or they will create a conflict on several fronts and the media will be all consuming with the coverage while they (his cohorts) giggle behind the curtain. Putting the one and his misfits in charge of this great country has already cost us dearly.
Watch the petrol dollar and that will tell you who he is really working for. We know it ain’t for us.
It doesn’t take a farmer to recognize fertilizer. And we’ve been saying that this Juvenile in Chief is a tele-prompter messiah for years.
So; Does being an ‘affirmative action’ world leader give him precedence over the other world leaders?
What is truly clear is that government cannot solve individual’s problems better than individuals and those closest to them.
Obama diametrically opposes this belief. His actions are the evidence – his words only muddy the waters.
The basis for Obama is government expansion, and government intervening in our daily choices and lives.
The words of Milton Friedman, ‘Free To Choose’ ring louder than ever at this moment in time.
Obama should have been a farmer. He would have been consistent in his agricultural technique: more manure!
His crops would have failed, and your comment is disrespectful to farmers – he has none of what it would take to produce one crop, let alone succeed and manage the economics of a farm.
obama is being very successful.
he has mangled the economy,
he has everybody at each others throats (as you say).
their is very little hope for substantiative repair to the damage he has already caused. (and he isn’t done yet)
this is his agenda …don’t say he doesn’t have one. VDH you must know by now this is his purpose. to destroy your america.
everyone should visit .. http://michellemalkin.com/2011/01/10/the-progressive-climate-of-hate-an-illustrated-primer-2000-2010/
I would go one further and rather than it’s his agenda, I’d say it’s his being.
One typical behaviour of a Narcissist is to create chaos in order to fix it. The exact opposite of a normal and balanced individual.
He believes in what he is doing to the detriment of the country. And any issues that do exist are the fault of others – this is another trait of Narcissists. Some refer to this as being persuasive blamers, while those on the receiving end are ‘targets’.
Obama is a pathological narcissist. He’s not an idealogue, not an intellectual; his focus is only on himself as Himself.
As proreason outlines, Obama likes (and needs) that sense of power and control over others. He likes to polarize and divide people into adversarial groups – and with his rhetoric and accusations, he’s moved this country into a state of class, political and racial divisiveness not seen in a generation.
He’s a pathological liar; he talks and talks…to manipulate you. Not to tell the truth. But to ensure his control over you. Obama lives in a ‘virtual’ reality; not the real world. His reality is confined to words; what He says.
So- he’ll insist that Congress pass His Health Care and Stimulus, without reading or debate – just on Trust in Obama’s Words.
He’ll change the definition of terrorism to ‘man-caused disasters’ to ‘make jihadism go away’.
Obama is intellectually lazy and ignorant, shallow and ill-read. He’s relied, all his life, on his smile and rhetoric – and his racism – to manipulate people. So- who has the agenda for this country? Who is running Obama – who merely wants AirForce One trips and golf and campaign cheers?
It’s the radical socialists around him (Soros and gang); the money-plundering socialists such as Pelosi and Reid; his wife Michelle who is anti-American and anti-capitalist and anti-white. Obama is their upfront salesman…and his one aim is: Personal Applause.
I concurr.
the trouble is that until some one with enough weight starts talking about this things will remain as they are and continue to decline until the usurper is gone.
hope that congress does the hearing to get to the bottom of the stuff that happened in the last two years. …it may well be a witch hunt since pelosi is most certainly a witch.
that and defund NPR / acorn and the hundreds of names it goes under. hearings on the new black panthers and holders justice department. no to raising the debt ceiling (unless REAL alternatives are locked in) not like what the republicans caved on in the lame duck over the bush tax program.
I concur wholeheartedly.
Obama came to office glaringly incompetent and has revealed himself to be sinfully opportunistic. We had better hope and pray that he isn’t reelected. He seems to have no firm beliefs, no principles and is not above using anything to remain in office. The rest of the world is no longer fooled by him. Are we?
I’m beginning to back away from the incompetancy storyline.
I’m not sure that competancy is the problem with Obama, for many reasons. First of all, he appears to be quite competant at fulfilling his agenda. He is only incompetant at meeting the agenda that 70% of the country wants.
Second, the president doesn’t have to be the kind of hands on manager we all lie to think the country needs (ala, Clinton, who, despite his leftism, was masterful at “running” the government). There isn’t anybody in the world that has more hand-on help than the POTUS. Only a total fool like Jimmy Carter can overcome the built-in and overwhelimingly competant set of people that flock to a president, for many reasons, including the lifetime, high-level bureaucrats in the Defense Dept and elsewhere who know full-well how to manage their organizations.
Third, the real job of the president is to set the agenda, not micro-manage it. Again, Obama has succeeded at doing this far beyond most presidents. You really have to look to people like Lincoln, FDR and Reagan to find men who have done better. What we have in issue with isn’t his ability to implement the agenda, it is with the agenda itself.
And lastly, by emphasizing competancy, I think we hurt our own cause of 2012. If that is the most important criteria, then Romney, Daniels, Pawlenty, and even Newt, easily rise about the field, because those 4 were certainly competant at their endeavors for long periods of time. I would argue, that we will be better off with an idealogical leader like Palin, Rubio, perhaps Paul Ryan or DeMint, even though they aren’t the people who can demonstrate clear administrative competance like the other group of 4 just mentioned.
Our great compromise president and his teleprompter:
** Obama: “They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun”
** Obama to His Followers: “Get in Their Faces!”
** Obama on ACORN Mobs: “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!”
** Obama to His Mercenary Army: “Hit Back Twice As Hard”
** Obama on the private sector: “We talk to these folks… so I know whose ass to kick.“
** Obama to voters: Republican victory would mean “hand to hand combat”
** Obama to lib supporters: “It’s time to Fight for it.”
** Obama to Latino supporters: “Punish your enemies.”
** Obama to democrats: “I’m itching for a fight.”
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This just in from your local-loco lib’s:
** Republican Sara Palin verbal type abuse will not be tolerated.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention that Obama is the most racial polarizing president in modern history. Someone analyzing recent data said white voters have abandoned him with the exception of white college educated women. There evidently is a place for them in the wildly expanding bureaucracies Obama’s administration is creating. He can win reelection, it is said, by combining them with black and brown voters and the traditionally know-nothing young.
Does he just make things up as he goes along, assuming we all have collective amnesia?
Since “the base” and the lapdog media give him pass after pass on reversal after reversal*, Obama just says any old expedient thing at any old convenient time and gets away with it.
*reconciliation wrong for massive social legislation like healthcare (he said that many times prior to election); the surge in Iraq was a “resounding success” (in O’Reilly interview); support for DC gun ban turns to finding a second amendment right for the citizen to bear arms, following SCOTUS striking down DC law;
Let me be perfectly clear and make no mistake about it!
Next speech, play a little BS Bingo
(need a few car/ditch analogies on the Bingo card)
o’really has been sucking up to the obuma …and now we can see why. he wanted another interview.
FOX is not fair and balanced. half their left side of the so called balance are shrills for the obama and the clowns that make up the democrat congress and senate. actively lobbying for self inflicted suicide.
Fox is the best option out there – more fair and balanced then the others. Agreed on O’Reilly – he’s caved in to OBlah-Blah and that hurts this country.
“I add here he looked fit and trim, with nice belt buckles, clean cap, polished boots, and an immaculate truck.”
That should have been your first clue. Real farmers have used belt buckles, dirty caps, scuffed boots and dented trucks.
Dear Liar has such a polished image, because He hasn’t done anything.
who thought that the redistribution of wealth would come as a government unemployment check? ok we get the joke, now lets go back to work. 2012 will show how many black and brown voters he can count on. he has united the country in that respect, everyone is getting mad at him.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Bottom line is that we are currently living through times of mass insanity, punctuated with periodic episodes of hysteria.
What is a “mass”?
The sum of living individuals, most of whom have been taught by society to be—crazed and crazy!
So, those with a glimmer of sanity resemble Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, when he clambered to the top of a mountain so he could be above the clouds and see clearly. Once in a while, sanity flashes enough light so that it all can be understood in its most characteristic nature—
Narcissus rules!
It’s not just that Obama is today’s top dog playing the role of the guy looking in a mirror and admiring his image, and being ignorant that it is HIMSELF. The same act is what defines most humans, these days.
So, we are witness to bumper stickers, such as: “If you aren’t outraged, you aren’t paying attention”, or “Wait until 2008”, etc. All of these types of messages were rallying cries to the “faithful” left wing to help bring us an Obama—and, they succeeded.
Then, rightists pined for November 2010, so they could “right” the political ship of state, and they did.
Now?
More waiting!
Meantime, Narcissus continues to act like—Narcissus!
We live in very dangerous times, with a growing number of crazy nuts who are able to get their hands on more and more powerful weapons. And, I don’t just mean mentally deranged individuals, only, but must include many of those who are in charge of dastardly countries, like China, Russia and Venezuela—and, of course, the fruit basket case of North Korea.
Picture wild and out of control teenagers, who happened to have grown up chronologically, but unfettered by any concern for others, and empowered by deluded fellow traveling Narcissists.
That’s our powder keg world of humans, for you: Narcissus!
To quote from another classic book, “Strangers In a Strange Land”—
“Waiting Is.”
I am impressed by all the psychologically astute folks here with their analyses of Obama. VDH has a good story about the vineyard “expert” but it doesn’t exactly apply to Obama, who readily, if quietly, adopted the GWB policies mentioned. You guys are falling all over yourselves to knock him, but I can’t say that VDH’s article or any of the responses have gotten us anywhere, except for the usual venting.
Things s*ck because we are in a recession. If Obama had done everything he has done and unemployment were at 5%, his positive numbers would be pushing 60%.
The real estate market has NOT come back, and China still outworks us. The manufacturing sector is rallying slightly with the auto companies, but I don’t see a whole lot of other potential for rapid growth out there. What the hell, let’s just bash Obama, as if under McCain, Romney, or Hillary, things would be much different.
In the mean time, Obama’s poll numbers are clicking up a bit after the lame duck deals. Hmmmm.
I’m impressed that you came up with that bullsh!t in your post.
what bridge do you live under ?
Dwight, how soon we forget. Obama’s supporters, Journolistas, etc., were urging Obama to get tough on the Repubs. Victor really made me laugh with this one: “So are we back to the Valerie Jarrett, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Bill Daley Chicago style? What happened to our new president as Deepak Chopra?”
They didn’t want Obama as Deepak Chopra, Dwight, they wanted him as Tupac Shakur (from Wiki: “In addition to his career as a top-selling rap artist, he was a promising actor,[4] and a social activist. Most of Shakur’s songs are about growing up amid violence and hardship in ghettos, racism, other social problems, and conflicts with other rappers during the East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry. Shakur began his career as a roadie and backup dancer for the alternative hip hop group Digital Underground.”}
Hahaha. Knife to a gunfight indeed. Poor Tupac is pushing up daises, RIP.
“In the mean time, Obama’s poll numbers are clicking up a bit after the lame duck deals.”
Yeah, people just love tax increases and were hoping Obama’s minions would vote them in, especially those billionaires making over $250K per year. Phew.
Some de facto demi-slaves in China living like lemmings straight out of “1984″ outwork us – so what? They’re practically breathing dirt as a result.
McCain may very well have done a better job if he’d managed the government instead of the people like Obama and the Dems who for some reason only they and the Berkeley City council understand, are entirely delighted with the idea of turning swaths of California into a Disney-style Tenochtitlan theme park complete with an “Age of Copper” pavilion, , corbelled arch “Space Needle”, eco-friendly cotton bicycle helmets and the “Wheeless Ferris Wheel”.
…China still outworks us.
You’re a laugh riot, Dwighty-boy. Do you seriously think that Americans are willing to settle for the combination lao gai slave camps and the semi-slave worker’s barracks culture that dominates China’s workforce infrastructure. You know – the one that Leslie Stahl ooohed, ahhhed and gushed over during one her “in-depth” reports on China?
That may fit your vision for the future of this country, but there are many, many of us who are more than willing to take it to the limit to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Once again the link that connects Obama and his regime to the feckless intellectual with the “brilliant” new theory, brilliant because it flies in the face of the conventional used by lesser individuals, that will surely be revolutionary when it’s implementation proves superior in every way. It has only not been a huge success because no one of superior intellect has ever tried it or implemented it correctly; no need for experimental or real world proof. It springs from the fertile and brilliant minds that reside in their academic cocoon just itching to prove that those hundreds of thousands of dollars spent nurturing, developing and educating their fertile minds was somehow worth every penny. No real world experience or conventional wisdom required or necessary and all of history needs revision to fit their superior, insightful speculations on “what really happened and why” based on pure intellectual reasoning. It must be thus don’t you know; how could it possibly not.
Obama is going to keep scrambling, obfuscating and making end runs around a Congress that he has no intention of collaborating with. In the end the people will get on their knees and worship the ground he floats on; or not but in his eyes and those of his ilk the broke, disfigured, deformed, poverty stricken, defenseless America that they create will be a beautiful if unappreciated place, a work in progress, the envy of the world once they stop their derisive snickering and recognize the emergence of the long sought Utopian dream that “The One” has created.
But the whole thing ignores and defies human nature you say. Then human nature must be modified. Have you dummies never heard of behavior modification and there’s a lot of misbehaving going on out there, especially in America where people think they deserve to be free, so endowed by some fictitious “Creator” in an ancient and irrelevant document entitled “The Declaration of Independence.” Hogwash!
Here is a scary fact. If Romney or Huckabee get the Republican nomination, Obama is sure to win in 2012. Take it to the bank.
Already seeing the MSM push Huckabee to forefront – because he’s vulnerable. Might have said something bad about homosexuality or soemthing once. Meanwile O’s a coke snorting radical leftist with a pastor that is a is a hate speawing anti-american racist piece of trash and it’s not news. Incomprehensible how anyone would re-elect oblah-blah.
Excellent analogy Professor Hanson. Well done.
I’ve never agreed with the hypothesis that Obama’s plan is to deliberatly destroy what we may call our traditional American political/economic syatem. Rather, I’ve always thought that he and his appointees display incompetence.
One of the tactics of incompetent people, those that “wing it”, is to keep thing stirred up all the time, and they demonstrate it by continuous changes in policy diection, re-appointments, new policy statements, etc. I’ve seen those tactics used in business, usually by a floundering incompetent at the top, the CEO, or general manager. In my experience, the end result was always negative, evidenced by loss, layoffs, closures.
Since we won’t see the business of government closed, we will see continuous blunders till we have a new “CEO” and attendant staff. Two more years.
The President is proving himself to be unfit for the office he holds. All the nice sounding phrases he uttered while campaigning for the office, were meaningless remarks made only to persuade voters to cast their ballots for him. Once elected the Congress asserted itself as the dominant factor in his administration, aided by members of the staff President Obama appointed, who led him, rather than he leading them. The photograph of him in Hawaii, wearing flipflops, in shorts, and T shirt, with a shaved ice cone in hand, should be captioned “This is the President of the United States???”
Dwight – The point is Oblah-blah is at his core an anti American far left ZERO intent on destroying this country or in his own words “fundamentally transforming”. Things “Su*K” because he’s an anti-capitalist socialist/communnist/academic clown. I have problems with McCain, GWB, Newt, and others but at their core they serve this country and intend on acting in her best intersts – OBAMA DOES THE OPPOSITE. He’s a Soros-controlled evil turd.
well stated
regards
We can only hope and pray, that Obama is the last of the “Elite Liberal Politicians”. The Senate and House are full of the Professional Politican, with no understanding of the Working Class. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, ECT, continue to be the dominate University of the Professional Politician. And they never go home, They go to Washington DC and stay. Very few Business experienced Americans become professional Politicians.
Lawyers, Teachers, Union organizers, Social Workers, Media professionals.
But, with the Print and TV Media being all on board for the Obama Liberal machine, the Voter and tax payer will be hard pressed to get rid of Obama and the likes of Durbin, Pelosi, Waxman, Stark, Schumer, Leahey, Kuchcench, Nadler, Wiener,
We have a lot of work ahead if we are to survive as a nation of Freedom and Business Growth.
Obama and the American people. Same as one fool following another fool!
I’m still trying to figure out the ‘hope and change’ mantra.
Seriously, I am not kidding! I really still don’t know what we were suppose to be ‘hoping’ for and what we are suppose to be ‘changing’ to?? How every Liberal ‘fell’ for this when Obama used his ‘vague and ambiguous’ terminology and ‘no one’ asked him to ‘explain’ it?? Were we all suppose to ‘just know’ what he meant? Or is it ‘just me’??
Hope and change can’t be about ‘socialism/communism’ because the ‘left’ denies this, with fervor. What then is left to change? I know it wasn’t to conservatism for sure. I do know this, I have never felt so very ‘UNCERTAIN’ about my country and our future under his leadership then at any other time in my life!! I feel like I am living in a nightmare.
Cause what change has just happened in the last 2 years, I ‘hope’ we can ‘change’ it back.
My sentiments expressed in this article,exactly.
I have given up looking for the “True Game Plan” and have resided myself to the belief that Obama is Princess Diana. Way over his head.
You’re not going to guess what our tax dollars are subsidizing. Actually, in this ObamaNation, maybe you will guess it. It turns out that you and I are funding the State Department to purchase and distribute copies of Feisal Abdul Rauf’s book, What’s Right With Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West.
Rauf is the imam behind the Ground Zero mosque and is the same imam who won’t condemn Hamas as a terrorist organization; the same imam who said on “60 Minutes” that America was an “accessory” to September 11; and, as we reported at Human Events, the same imam who told a college audience overseas that the United States is worse than al Qaeda.
Yep, that dude. And not only has the State Department anointed him as our ad hoc ambassador to the Muslim world, but now they are acting as his personal Barnes & Noble to boot. Good grief! Buried in a recent New York Times article on Imam Rauf’s global hopscotch, the paper casually referenced that our government buys his tome in an effort “to lecture about tolerance” and pursue “interfaith dialogue” with Islamic nations.
Only in the left’s strange world does it make sense to support Imam Rauf as a goodwill spokesman for the United States while he’s busy trashing the United States. But that aside, did the bureaucrats at the State Department ever take the time to read Rauf’s What’s Right with Islam? If so, they’ll have to justify why they’re promoting a book that faults America for stirring up conflict with Muslims, brags that America is “Sharia compliant,” and makes excuses for suicide bombings.
Obama expects us to believe that he sat through twenty years of Rev. Wright’s anti-American, anti-white rants but never once heard or internalized any of that negative and racial propaganda! It’s as though someone had attended Communist Party political meetings for twenty years and then claimed that since no one had ever publicly uttered the word “Communist” in one of the meetings they couldn’t possibly have been Communist meetings. Obama has yet to learn that American citizens are overly forgiving, but they are not stupid.
If President Obma were serving in the U.S. Military and the military discovered that for the last twenty years he’d been attending weekly meetings where the leader of the meetings was spewing hate filled anti-American, anti-white rhetoric, the military would immediately cancel his security clearance and unceremoniously kick him out of the service because such a man could never be trusted with the nation’s defense secrets.
Did Obama’s up-bringing, influences, indoctrination, environment and education adequately prepare him to loyally and faithfully perform the duties that are required of America’s Commander-in-Chief? In short, can he be trusted?
Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barry Barack Hussein Obama’s pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society [Socialist International], which calls for ‘global governance’ and says rich countries must shrink their economies. “Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. Now this is going to be difficult for some who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible as many evangelicals do.”
Former U.N. General Assembly President – a Critic of the U.S. and Israel – Will Provide ‘Expertise’ to U.N. Human Rights Council
Friday, June 18, 2010. General Assembly president Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann addresses a meeting marking the “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People” at the U.N. in New York on Nov. 24, 2008. (UN Photo by Devra Berkowitz). (CNSNews.com) – Less than a year after he ended an often turbulent presidency of the U.N. General Assembly, a Nicaraguan leftist and arch-critic of the U.S. and Israel was set Friday to be appointed to the advisory committee of the U.N.’s top human rights agency. Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann has been nominated by the Sandinista government to fill a vacancy on the Human Rights Council’s advisory committee, a body of 18 experts, which functions as the Geneva-based council’s think tank.
As the vacant position is one of three earmarked for Latin America and the Caribbean nations, and D’Escoto is the only nominated put forward by that regional group, known as GRULAC, his election by the 47-member council on the last day of its three-week midyear session is likely to be a formality. The HRC states that the nomination process is meant “to ensure that the best possible expertise is made available to the Council.” According to agreed-upon U.N. procedures, the post calls for “recognized competence and experience in the field of human rights; high moral standing; [and] independence and impartiality.” D’Escoto’s year-long presidency of the General Assembly – which followed GRULAC’s unanimous endorsement and subsequent “election by acclamation” and ran until last September – was arguably the most polarizing in the organization’s history.
May 2010: Speaking of not understanding — or acknowledging — the complexities of the Middle East, the President’s counter-terrorism adviser, John Brennan, let it be known last week that he thinks there are ‘moderate elements’ within Hezbollah that the U.S. can do business with. Of course, he’s also told us that Islam is a religion of peace and that Islamic jihad is “a good thing.” There’s an old saying about politics that sums up our predicament pretty plainly: “Personnel is policy.” In this case, that means that what the people around the President think is, most often, what the President is going to do. If that doesn’t keep you on your knees a little longer, you’re not paying attention! Is this the dumbest employee of the Barry Barak Hussen Obama Administration or is he saying exactly what he is told?
Essential vdh
Victor, this rear view mirror analysis is “smart”, “accurate” and Not effective . The question is that once we have analyzed BHO what needs to be done now? We have known for years that BHO is a product of AA, PC and the current hands off and voter inattention to what is going on in America. America is now a desert for common sense. It has been for years well before BHO himself. BHO is a product of that process.
The question now to be answered is how to stop the “progress” that is destroying America? Address that to be effective. Otherwise this process of pointing out what an idiot BHO is, we already know, is getting boring. Onward get on with it. What happens now, take the lead put yourself out there in front. All Americans must now do the same. Instead of thinking what victim group should I join.to get mine?
Think I am losing the opportunity to succeed that has been Americans right since George Washington and his band of revolutionaries gave us that possibility. We, all humans in the world are now at risk of losing the high water mark of human history. We need action not more analysis of looking back. If we look back we must look back to the founding fathers principles and revive them.
In response to poster #31: I actually think Romney could win, but I agree with you about Huckabee.
Dear Dr Hanson,
I am returning to your very educational and interesting pages as here in Australia our esteemed Andrew Bolt on Holiday.
You write with such insight and good common sense,it is so refreshing to ponder your comments and essays.
You might well be describing our unelected Australian PM and also her useless, vain and incompetent predecessor Kevin Rudd whom she supported throughout his reckless leadership, and in fact was the architect of and also implemented many of his scandalous programmes/follies right up to the moment she made her move, politically assassinating him- trouble is he just won’t’ die’
We now see the fruits of their mismanagement, their State fellow travellors and their Green puppet masters in the tragic loss of life in the horrific floods in SW Queensland and other states due lack of infrastructure and wanton waste over many years.
As with New Orleans during Katrina, lack of good planning led to a dreadful disaster.
We are all going to pay very dearly for their criminal waste, they actually want to spend 45 billion dollars on an NBN ( in a country of 20 million people) which had it proceeded before this flood would now be washing back to China along with all the plasma TVs, pink batts and school halls that cost triple what they should, lining the pockets of union mates and shonky operators, and maybe, off shore numbered accounts, who knows?
I feel very depressed about the world today and wonder if we will see a return to sound and stable leadership by men, and or women, with a some business acumen, intelligence and common sense and who genuinely care for their country and people such as George Bush and John Howard. They, as with all of us has their shortcomings but one felt safer with them at the helm.
Obama’s Catch-22′s
The essence of the inescapably insane logic confronted by Capt. Joseph Yossarian in Catch-22 was that if he didn’t want to be killed he had to be sane and since he was technically sane he had to continue to insanely risk his life. Catch-22′s in the Obama administration may not necessarily involve life and death situations but they are nevertheless comparably insane.
Under duress from the new, business-friendly Republican majority in the House and from one of his nemeses, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the business-unfriendly president has ordered a review of regulations that place “unreasonable burdens on business,” regulatory burdens the USCC has labeled a “tsunami.”
So far, so good. Less government always means better government, as Jefferson believed.
Then, lest he erode his leftist support which would much prefer the government control and conduct all business in America, the president dropped his catch-22 executive order bombshell which seeks “the right balance.” That balance between the tsunami of government regulations and a free market would necessitate more government regulations. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3444)
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