Obamanoia
And You Get in Return?
I believe that even the soon-to-be murderously taxed upper brackets would patriotically hand over their money to a grasping government—IF it went to debt reduction.
But it won’t. Far worse. Millions will work from January to September to pay for Acorn-like subsidies, more NEA politicized grants, nationalized health care, canceling mortgage, credit card, and student loan debt of those who may well have been less than careful with their expenditures. In short, consider: the more you will be taxed, the more you will be demonized as deserving it, the more your money will be wasted, the more your country will borrow, the greater you country will become the world’s laughing stock debtor.
And that depressing fact is beginning to infuriate millions. If Obama needs a mop to clean up after Bush, someone will need a fleet of street sweepers for his financial detritus.
So I expect Obama’s ratings to dip well below 50%, and that will be something to fear, given his unfamiliarity with the notion that over 1 out 2 Americans thinks he is failing.
But imagine that you are a small business owner, and just consider—why expand now or rehire? since (a) I have no idea what the new taxes will be; (b) I have no idea about what all these new regulations, cap and trade, card check; etc will cost me; (c) I am beginning to think all this trash talk about bad doctors, insurance companies, the Chamber of Commerce, CEOs, the wealthy, etc. suggests this administration does not like me or what I do; (d) the government is everywhere: Ford now must compete against Government Motors; Banks against government-affiliated Citibank; Blue Cross against the public option; and so on. If I have a business, somewhere down the line there is going to be a government-run rival, sort of like your local can’t go broke PBS station in every avenue of commerce. Why insist on ensuring hustling employees when the rival, overpaid DMV-like work force can’t go broke whatever they do?
Meanwhile…
YouTube videos play 24/7 of White House Communications Director Anita Dunn—now that Van Jones yielded center stage—either idolizing the greatest mass murderer in civilization’s history or boasting about how Team Obama took the obsequious media to the cleaners. Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod—apparently worried that the public thinks this two-headed Cerebus is too nice and meek—swarm the talk shows to blame Fox News. That’s the equivalent of a Bush around 2007 whining about MSNBC not being a news organization and the meanness of a Chris Matthews is hurting the war in Iraq. Sending creepy people out to say creepy things does not make sense, when a hit network loves showing Americans how these creepy people say creepy things.
And the Problem?
Obama’s agenda polls less than 50% on almost every element. What keeps him viable is that the public still likes him and his family personally, and takes him at his unity/no blue state-no red state/can’t we all get along? 2008 rhetoric.
Don’t they get the obvious: In reaction to that Olympian, above-the-fray brand, what does Obama do? He sends out two of the most unlikable, mean-spirited attack hounds to go after a news organization in Nixonian fashion, which only erodes the precious image of a kinder, gentler Obama—right now the administration’s only asset.
One almost gets the feeling that Time, Newsweek, the NY Times, the LA Times, Washington Post, NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, NPR, MSNBC, CNN, the Huffington Post, etc. are all not quite enough to balance right-wing talk radio and Fox News.
The problem is that (1) it is always harder to defend a president than criticize him (as the liberals can attest from their 8 years of demonizing Bush); (2) those in the right-wing media are more populist and grass-roots than those in the staid left-wing elite media establishment. So Rush Limbaugh or Glen Beck can caricature Obama far more effectively than can a Rachel Madow or Brian Williams bow to him; (3) the traditional left’s homage to dissent, protest, free-wheeling media outbursts, demonstrations, and over-the-top commentary is now, to use a Nixon term, “inoperative.”
Somehow we went from revolutionary fervor to the boring Ministry of Truth in nine months.
Personally I found the left far more interesting when they were suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome than Obamophilia.
Bottom Line: Code Pink and Moveon.org have been Gergenized.
Can I ask why, with his numerous CZARS, he seems unprepared for every issue and unable to “handle” more than one thing at a time?
Word Dr. Hanson!
Yeah, I think you’re onto something with this: “Sending creepy people out to say creepy things does not make sense…” Obama himself is “likeable enough,” but his crew is unpleasant.
And there’s no adult on-hand to say, “Hey Rahm, you looked like a sick vampire on Charlie Rose. You did a poor job promoting your boss’ agenda. And you scare old people and children.”
Rahm obviously thinks he’s a great communicator. But Rahm also thinks he’s an effective Chief of Staff. So, unless Michelle pulls him aside, the Creepshow will continue.
I expect that the real danger will come when his numbers fall below the 50% mark. He will lash out, and the fallout will be ugly. Congressmen will throw him under the bus. Could be entertaining, but I expect a Hitler-like blizzard of executive orders. He’ll attempt to legislate from the Whiteouse.
Anyway, wasn’t this all predicted during the campaign? I tell you, Hannity diesn’t seem very bright to me, but he is moral and dogged. He didn’t equivocate. people thought he was a loon. Now, it seems he may have underestimated the depths of the evil we face.
Obama and Co., please keep demonizing Fox, even if it is just a distraction. Their numbers are going through the roof, as people check in to see what the fuss is all about. They then wake up to the danger. Beck is making converts of the average Americans. He’s their worst nightmare.
With Obama there is less than meets the eye, there is no there there. He has turned out to be far less competent as President than anyone in my lifetime.
Anita Dunn is just a disaster for this administration. Now that she has recast Mao as a philosopher will the next installment be that she describes Hitler as an author?
The President and his cronies have many critics who are keeping their powder dry for another day. I don’t know when the day will come but am certain it will.
Dr. Hanson’s excellent analysis reminds once more of why whenever I think of The Self-Exalted One today, a classic Beatles song runs through my mind.
“Nowhere Man” from “Yellow Submarine”.
A lot of people think President Obama is really the Chief Blue Meanie, and I think he’d really like to be, in the belief that it would somehow make him as popular, loved, worshiped, etc., as all four of the Fab Four put together. Because he wants everyone to worship him the way he worships himself.
But it won’t work, because inside, he’s really Jeremy Hilary Boob, Ph.D, and he knows it. He’s all artifice, in the service of a colossal ego and nothing else of substance. And unlike the Boob, he can’t even make a speech without a teleprompter to read from.
As for the real Blue Meanies in the world, they know better than to be intimidated by a Boob. Because even if he “means it”, he doesn’t really mean it.
Obama thinks none of this really matters, because (being the narcissist he is) he believes that no law applies to him. Not even the one quoted by the slave who rode in the chariot with a Roman general during a triumphal parade. (“You, too, are mortal.”) But even after he finally leaves, the rest of us will have to live with the consequences of having had a Nowhere Man in the Oval Office for a very long time to come.
clear ether
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Spot-on observations. It seems each day we are given fresh evidence of Obama’s rank incompetence. 2010 just can’t come soon enough.
(A small nit-pick: The two-headed dog is Cerberus, and Beck spells his first name with two N’s.)(Sorry, pedantic, I know!)
Even worse, President Obama is still black!
Your vile, racist attacks on our new Leader are as water off a duck’s back. President Obama has the love and support of all people except racist white male oppressors, who cannot accept that their time has passed.
Please just shut up and go away.
There’s much important material here. As a synopsis of Obamunist mendacity, incapacity, intolerance, and ambition for totalitarian power, it could hardly be bettered.
Should the excesses, reversals, lies, and attacks on honest critics reach some unknowable threshold, they will bear a terrible fruit: the complete withdrawal of Americans’ allegiance from the Obama Administration, and perhaps from the federal government as such. A fearsome day that would be…and it might be a lot nearer than anyone thinks.
Those of us who voted against Obama don’t find any of this surprising. It is what we all read between the lines. I have said in the past that I was surprised he stepped up the effort in Afghanistan, I thought he said it just to sound tough enough on defense. But now he appears to be back peddling, which is what I thought he would do in the first place.
Taxes will increase because the breaks are due to expire. Biden’s plan will win out and he will reduce the troops in Afghanistan. Clinton was saved from his tax increases because they came at a time of great technological revolution: The Cell Phone The Internet The Personal Computer and The Response to Y2k. These economic movers are behind us and won’t be there to save the day.
“Don’t they get the obvious” – in a word – NO.
Clear headed thinking, as usual Doc.
Personally, on the energy front, I’m waiting for the next hiccup in the middle-east to send oil over $150/bbl. I didn’t expect Israel to wait this long as those sworn to destroy her get a nuke.
Any disruption in the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf and we will see skyrocketing oil import prices. Obama could have avoided that if he had unleashed the oil companies with a policy of; “Drill, Baby, Drill”, and reasonable taxation; as promised during the campaign. Just the threat of America finding it’s own oil would have kept the speculators in check, but now they will smell blood and go for the jugular.
Like most liberal elite lawyers, words are his only stock in trade, he doesn’t understand that talking about a problem won’t solve it. He also doesn’t understand the physics of energy, nor has he bothered to hire anyone who does. Looking over his staff I don’t see a single Geologist or Geophysical expert there to advise him in the crafting of a viable energy policy. Wishing for green energy won’t produce it.
Great post, doc, but you left a few dots unconnected.
“And keep in mind that 55% of those in the cross-hairs who make over $200,000 voted for Obama.”
There really is justice, after all, although I have to say I don’t blame the idiots who bought Hopenchange and were dumb enough to vote for this neo-, crypto-, proto-communist as much as I blame the “conservatives” who knew what was coming and stayed home on Election Day.
“Soon we will get everything on the official transcripts and websites scrubbed down to read: Guantanamo really will close on March 1, 2010; Iran must comply this time by June 1, 2010; all combat brigades will be out by March 2008, 2009, 2010; health care must pass by August, September, October, November.”
So, is this a Maoist or Stalinist administration? The Mao groupies aside, the scrubbing of websites is right out of Uncle Joe and the era of the non-person.
“If Obama needs a mop to clean up after Bush, someone will need a fleet of street sweepers for his financial detritus.”
No credit on this question, doc. The correct analogy is a reference to the Augean Stables.
“Don’t they get the obvious…?”
Not yet, but, once the taxes and inflation hit, they will.
When you say that, “Obama’s agenda polls less than 50% on almost every element..” that tells me that half of the people in our country are still as stupid as they ever were.
This is astounding given the downright scary battering that Obama has subjected our country to since he walked into the Oval Office.
No Democrat is willing to stand up against Obama for any reason.
No Republican is capable of doing it.
I see an excellent analysis of what’s wrong in Dr. Hanson’s article, but I do not see a single defined solution or way to get out of this mess.
Why is that?
Maybe Dr. Hanson understands better than anyone that the philosophy of, “It doesn’t make sense to cast your pearls to the swine lest they turn and rend you.” also applies to a majority when they are ignorant; more accurately stated as downright stupid.
All of that energy is best saved for the personal battles of survival everyone will be forced to fight beginning shortly.
Victor, small businesses are not coming back until they have some business. Every small businessman I know is trying to keep more people than they need with too little business. the only friend I have with a small business that is thriving is a fund raiser for non profits. I figure another year of this economy and even he will have a hard time.
We have no confidence in this administration to help foster an atmosphere of confidence and are certain that their policies will continue to strangle any real growth.
A friend of mine is a big time bond trader, he told me that if health care and cap and trade go through, it will be game over for any chance of avoiding the Big Crash. By the way, for those of you in the market, he said the Dow is complete smoke and mirrors.
Knowing most of the posters here from their wise counsel I know these two statements are probably no surprise, they weren’t to me either…but it didn’t make me feel any better to here then from a guy who sees what is really going on behind the scenes!
Who would have thought we would see “Atlas Shrugged” played out before our very eyes? It even appears to be showing signs of “1984″ in some ways too. I just hope the rest of the media wakes up and begins to do the digging for background that should have been done long ago (the whole brilliance mantra will disappear then) as well as doing the real analysis and holding the admin’s feet to the fire that will bring truth to light instead of this steady flow of admin fed verbosity that seeks to hypnotize us.
Dr. Hanson:
Ford now must compete against Government Motors; Banks against government-affiliated Citibank; Blue Cross against the public option; and so on.
Do you know that Chrysler cannot get parts for their trucks and that they did not pay the people who make their parts for them when they got their bale out? Did you know that people are on back order for parts and that the parts are hard to come by in our hometown? Chrysler’s debts are not paid, or so we have been told.
We are a bit worried about Dodge trucks, because we own two of them, and though our trucks are running, it is troublesome to think that if our trucks break down, they will not have our parts we need to fix them.
Then we think of conspiracy theories and the thought- could Liberals be keeping the big truck parts from production to keep them off the roads? We already know that it is hard to find ammo in our area, and it is not a theory- it is a fact.
One way to sell Government Motors to the people is to keep the Chrysler’s off the road.
Gergenized? Ouch. They ain’t gonna like that.
How’s that Hope and Change working out? Really?
“Right now to save America we need some steady leadership”
It is not going to happen. Alas, we normally do not overthrow a sitting president. Barack Obama may very well experience a mental breakdown—but then we will be stuck with Joe Biden. At best, we can be modestly successful checking and balancing Obama’s abuse of power. Elections matter. We must make sure this doesn’t occur again. Let’s hope we have learned our lessons.
VDH, I love ya, buddy, but this one just doesn’t fly:
“Millions will work from January to September to pay for Acorn-like subsidies, more NEA politicized grants, nationalized health care, canceling mortgage, credit card, and student loan debt of those who may well have been less than careful with their expenditures.”
No, we’re not working until September to pay for those. You might work until January 4 to pay for those, but not much longer. It’s nonsense to suggest that those have a major impact on the budget. Instead, we’ll be working until September to pay for transfer payments to the elderly and poor, for health care for those same groups, for the military and interest on the debt.
We’ve got to start being honest about the targets of the mammoth government spending and picking at politically opportune, but tiny things won’t do. I completely agree that government spending is out of control, but we could cut all of your examples down to zero and never notice it.
The next time someone accuses you of being a racist for opposing Obama’s policies, do what I do: tell them you like the half-black side of Obama, and you are just opposed to the half-white side. Works like a charm.
I’m an idiot. I took you to task for enumerating tiny budgetary concerns and the quote I used from your article includes “nationalized health care” which would indeed be a big contributor to the budget.
Sorry.
VDH: Well! You’ve begun to take the gloves off. At least you’ve got the little finger of the left hand half out.
After three de-generations from the 60s, America has no Pericles, no Leonidas. But you, sir, are our Cicero.
So tell the future how the Republic was lost and who lost it.
VDH …you are very astute and eloquent.
HOWEVER ..I think obama does want to destroy the economy, he does want to take over all aspects of society, he does want to control speech.
I saee in your pieces that you have modified your approach to obama but still write like he will come around and do the correct thing for the american people. I do not share your optimism.
please take him at his word and judge him by his deeds and by those he has surrounded himself with.
they are are socialists. many of them are communists and marxists….they are evil, he (obama) is evil. If you disagree show me where I am wrong.
Gergenized ….lol
you left out Brooks
Little hope,little change? I don’t know Mr. Hanson;America’s own Hugo Chavez is trying hard to realize the psychotic dreams and hopes of the international and domestic left.The vicious attacks on Fox, and the insurance companies,the demonization of the military,and of conservative Christians,and gun owners, the attempt to communize the economy;the demented Maoists, outright communists,and haters of the bill of rights(Cass Sunstein),selected to control our nation,bespeaks of an attempt to clone our nation into a North American Venezuela. The substitution of elected government by regulatory uneelected “commieTsars”,is only the visible attempt to create the repressive structures of a future left-wing authoritarian country.It’s time to organize active resitance to this incipient Stalinist slug.There is no question in my mind, that the Obamanista regime will try to shut down the free media,(including PJM) and intimidate voters to prevent its likely defeat in next year’s congressional elections.The conservative movement needs to create the street-level structures of resistance, to stop this attempt to destroy our democracy.Demonstrations, civil disobedience(if necessary) and noncompliance need to be considered.It’s time to pass from analysis and debate, to community organizing, and street-level action,such as the tea party protests,bypassing and ignoring the collaborationist fools, and profiteers,who run the republican party.!Aux armes les Citoyens!
Nearly all of those on Nixon’s Enemies List prospered in the decades that followed. Their careers grew; their speech fees increased beyond inflation. To have been on that List was a badge of honor worn proudly and talked about endlessly. Since all that happened when BHO was out of the country or in high school and since he is such a lackluster student of history, I suspect he hasn’t a clue about how all of this will turn out. I wonder of Gary Trudeau will once again surround the White House with sand bags and barbed wire? If that ever happens BHO will be toast. Jay Leno has already started, can the rest of the comedians be far behind?
Let’s not forget that the President will not visit the 20 year anniversary celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Two possible explanations: Putin might get upset or spending too much time in Indonesia, listening to Kenian family members, Yvy League professors and Chicago organizers has led to the notion that the fall of communism was an insgfinicant event in overall human history.
‘Can somebody please take the bust of this old white guy called Winston out of my office?’
This picture pretty much sums it all up http://tinyurl.com/ygepwt3
Our only hope is the 2010 election but that may be too late at the speed our economy is declining.
29. deguello:
Vicious attacks on insurance companies . . .
Do you sell insurance, of guello? That seems to fit. Do you? Or are you just committed to corporate abuse of middle America? Rape a pre-existing condition? A baby too fat gets dropped from coverage? A baby too thin gets dropped from coverage? Why do you imbue these profit pirates with ANY respect? Repeal their anti-trust exemption . . . NOW!
Full of hope I am. Soooo I had the pleasure of posting this sad story at a Congressperson’s site, namesofthedead.com, and on the Gateway blog. This site wants to hear stories about those killed by Republicans denying sick care insurance to the uninsured. I suppose the Feds will come after me for the crime of lack of sympathy for BS.
“My husband went hunting one beautiful day last fall. He was trying to get a little meat for our sparse table. Some careless hunter, it seems…he has never come forward…shot him. A friend took Elmer to a nearby walkin clinic, where they said they were not equipped to take gunshot victims.
They then went to a hospital more than 15 miles away…THEY REFUSED TO TREAT HIM after he admitted he had no insurance. His friend then took my husband to a nearby insurance office. This cold-hearted insurance company refused to sell my husband a policy. It was then, finally, when my loving husband died from loss of blood.
Thank you for listening to my story and for spending your own personal family’s funds to set up this website.
Denise Fuddnik”
Does this fit in with the Hanson article above? In my opinion it does because it adds to the unflattering close-up pictures of Obama’s sick care supporters, like this Congressperson [don't want to add to the spread of his name].
Yes we did. Your racially obsessed rantings are ignorant and ludicrous. Over 50 % of the public opposes Obama but in your eyes only racist white guys oppose him. You’re obviously ignorant of math, demographics and too stupid to actually analyze real events. With dopes like you voting our country is in real peril.
27. homero:
“I think obama does want to destroy the economy, he does want to take over all aspects of society, he does want to control speech.”
This is what continues to marginalize conservatives and destroy Republicans. Unfortunately for you people, it’s the only option you have. You’ve tied your chances to Fox News ratings and Rush Limbaugh tirades. They are driven by profit, not political principle or any sense of morality or patriotism. They’re successful for the same reason porn is successful . . . it’s sick but people can’t stop watching it. (Google “porn consumption in red states”)
So have at it. Just be sure to have a towel handy.
‘Gergenized’ – now that’s funny.
The right-wingers paradise:
1 Get rid of the presidency
2 Get rid of legislators
3 get rid of the courts
4 Let the market run free
5 Everyone is on their own
6 No gun control
7 No taxes
Bliss!
16. TennesseeVolunteer.
“Victor, small businesses are not coming back until they have some business.”
I’ll second your comments.
I work out in a gym several times a week and in a last year or so the atmosphere has changed markedly. Most of the business people have taken on the attitude of “I will see this through”, “I’ll make it somehow”. There is a sense that positive thinking is their best friend, and at best, the hope is that the government will somehow ignore their particular field. Wishful thinking?
Most of the former and current supporters of Obama shrug their shoulders and say “oh well, it will get better”. In short, nearly all of these business people have very little confidence in Obama. They base their somewhat guarded optimism on the workings of the economy as a whole. Obama has become an adversary.
This is anecdotal, but unmistakably, there has been… change. And a business does not function well when Hope is a major component of it.
#31: Speaking of Churchill: Just gone done reading —
On Thursday, October 29, Winston Churchill’s granddaughter Edwina Sandys will speak exclusively at Boston College about “Breakthrough,” a sculpture she created from eight panels of the Berlin Wall at the site of her grandfather’s “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, MO.
http://www.bc.edu/offices/pubaf/news/Berlin_Wall_2009_1013.html
Yes We Can
That was Funny. Play the race. Too funny.
At the risk of being redundant, it’s not just that Obama’s influences have always wanted to punish, drag down, cripple, and deminish the United States for perceived wrongs (we know who they are and what they’ve said) but when a new program is passed, that means a budget, and that means cash to spend, and that means that Obama and his cronies stuff their pockets even more. And then they decide who can be bought.
The left are like zombies with that blank stare repeating over and over…spend spend spend…it’s only another 900 billion…it’s only another 350 billion…it’s only…The Republicans have been that way too, but it’s Obama’s Administration now and it’s Obama’s responsibility to stop the madness.
We’re frightened of the day somebody somewhere says, ‘PAY UP, or we hurt you.’
#31 VAN den BERGE:OBAMA WILL NOT VISIT THE BERLIN WALL DURING 20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF COMMUNISM, BECAUSE HE DOESN’T WANT TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED CRYING!
VDH, what I can’t stand about leftist extremism is not that it is a mutant philosophy devoid of any real problem solving.
It’s not that it is based almost entirely on being flame-throwers, provocateurs…who stand for nothing and against everything.
It’s not that it has failed miserably almost every place it has taken hold and almost always devolves into totalitarian rule and mass brutality.
Nope…the thing I despise about leftist extremism, Victor…is that it cannot stand on its own, it is built on a sand pile of lies, distortion, and sedition.
Leftism is a parasitic disease. It invades a host body and then kills off reason, logic, loyalty, honor and truth.
It destroys facts and makes them unrecognizable shattered splinters of their former selves. This detritus is then served back to us as “news”.
Leftism would NEVER have a chance to take hold…if truth was being served with it. It is a nest of disgraced conscience and malevolent intent.
Liberalism is often confused with leftist extremism. It shouldn’t be. A liberal can take a set of honest facts and make an argument with it. A leftist extremist will take “any means necessary” to advance his disease.
Until we know, appreciate, recognize and alert ourselves to the difference…we will always be fighting the wrong battles. And, currently…we are losing.
Yes We Did:
Thank you for that. I really needed a laugh!!
We already know that it is hard to find ammo in our area, and it is not a theory- it is a fact.
First restrict the ammo then set up for the gun grab.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-45
#34
Hhmmm. Do the name Elmer Fudd strike a familiar note?
So is Rahm Emmanuel Haldeman or Erhlichman? Does that make Axelrod the other one?
What I find even more astounding is the fact that Obama’s poll numbers are as high as they are. With nearly 10% of the job force out of work (and it might be argued that the real number approaches 16%), failed domestic policies, i.e. stimulus, cash for clunkers, cap and tax, healthcare reform, failed foreign policies, i.e. allies in the M.E., FSU, Afghanistan, Iran, etc. it is inconceivable to me that one-half of the country supports this clown (or should I say joker?)
For better or for worse, 2/3rd’s of the American economy is predicated on consumer spending. With rising unemployment, the devalued dollar, and the prospect of higher taxes at every turn, there is little HOPE of recovery. When one contemplates the increasing number of property forclosures, bank takeovers and wholesale industry takeovers, the liklihood of any HOPE is nil.
Various pundits have ascribed differential motivations to Obama’s actions or lack thereof; he’s either an evil socialist hell-bent on destroying the American way of life and reshaping our country into a European style, socialist nightmare or he is a naive, self-agradizing, fool who is rapidly allowing America to disintigrate into a third-rate banana republic. To me, the distinctions are irrelevant. Whatever Obama’s true intention are the net effect is the same – the destruction of the greatest country that mankind has ever witnessed.
Obama and his cronies must be marginalized and ineffectualized.
If Obama needs a mop to clean up after Bush, someone will need a fleet of street sweepers for his financial detritus.
Mop Levity
If you look at all the shots Obama has taken at variety of issues, people, and policies, and he has yet to hit one. This is the gang that can not shoot straight. Jack and squat are just harbingers, Obama is running out of ammmo, and money.
Does any one else think that price controls will be next? I bet they rgulate gas prices and there will be the inevitable shortages.
Horrible. And since here, is there anyone around with a military background willing to provide a notion as to HOW LONG SHOULD REALLY TAKE A PRESIDENTIAL ASSESSMENT OF THE MILITARY SITUATION IN AFGHANISTAN? One month? three weeks? Half-year? One week?
As for myself, I see Obama’s DELIBERATIVE MANNER in this issue as MALICIOUS AND CRIMINAL -
RE #9/Yes We Did: [...] Even worse, President Obama is still black! Your vile, racist attacks [...] has the love and support of all people except racist white male oppressors [...]”
Yes We Did – and right you are – many soldiers dying in Iran as result of Obama’s dithering are black, too!
You nailed, buddy -
First, cudos to Yes We Did. I always enjoy farce!
Now and Then, just let insurance companies compete across the country and some minor regulation and all your problems will go away. You see government was your problem.
Also remember, Republicans will one day be back in charge. It may be 2010, it may be 2012, it may be 2016 but they will be in charge again. You can go take you sedatives and malox now.
RE #37/Now and Then RE Homero: [...] This is what continues to marginalize conservatives and destroy Republicans. [...]
I am always moved by liberals who worry about the Republicans’ standing – with president Milli Vanilli’s polls spiking through the ceiling, they sure have some emotions to spare.
It was easy for Obama to criticize Bush when Bush was “the man in the arena”. Now Obama is in the arena and he is finding it is not so easy. For our country’s sake I hope he is able to make good decisions.
Surviving the Ignorant Uncorrectables
By Robert Winkler Burke
Copyright 10/16/09
Sad to say,
And it gives me no pleasure,
Some leaders,
This moment, this hour…
Ignorant of yesterday’s blood-sacrifice lessons,
Ignorant of ancient time-tested truths,
Ignorant of how great-indwelt of God man can be,
Proclaiming famed intellect is their ruse.
Until mugged, the mugger’s great champion,
Until enslaved, the slave shackler,
Until humbled by man, God and Devil,
The cause of epic human disaster.
The deniers of the greatest revelation,
That God lives in man, His creation,
The propagandist of the greatest lie,
Survival of fittest means others must die.
Unenlightened, ignorant uncorrectables must live,
All lesser others must die?
That the indwelt of good depopulate earth themselves,
And never ask why?
The ignorant uncorrectables,
Have an amazing blandishment trick,
They, being deceived, deceive well,
Diseasing multitudes yet appearing not sick.
Ages come,
And ages go,
Fiat paper worthless,
Gold always gold.
Why rail against darkness,
When gross darkness has completely now come?
Batten down the hatches,
Behold, oh world: Job’s unavoidable storm!
Not to prove you or I are right,
Or that the uncorrectables are wrong,
But that in self-restraint is liberty,
A lesson seven billion must learn strong.
Even if just half of the people of the world,
Believed in Lincoln’s, Jefferson’s and Moses’ precept,
Mutual dedication to self-restraint,
Then in liberty man would have his best days yet.
But first the mad uncorrectables,
Must rule and ruin their aureate roost,
To disabuse the world of lies,
And give peace on earth its best boost.
Sanctimony dies hard,
Lies die harder,
But not all death is vain,
Truth lives farther.
VDH:Did Obama really think he would be elected, hailed as the anti-war laureate, simply summon home the troops from the “quagmire” in Iraq, and then fly over to Kabul to do a Victory Column speech?
Yeah, he did think that. Bush Was a terrible President. Obama is WORSE.
39. vivo:
The Left-wingers paradise:
1 presidency–for life!
2 Get rid of legislators–replace with politburo
3 get rid of the courts
4 nationalize
5 Everyone is a slave
6 No guns-except the ones pointed at your head
7 Nothing but taxes
Bliss!
vivo, your baseless, fact-free comments – they’re childish. Truly.
Again, you have no cognitive ability to process, let alone discuss any topic. For your knee jerk reaction is emotion ridden nonsense.
The sweeping generalizations and repeated anathema you espouse would be funny if you hadn’t made known you have children.
Your mentally challenged-like comments of a scholar, classics/ military historian, writer, speaker etc., writings is so outlandish and moot.. I don’t know.
PT Barnum was right..
Vivo @39:
If only!
Now & Then, I take it the Government power grab, err, interaction, for the ‘greater good’ regarding the health care scare tactics these last few months is for non-profit, right?
Now granted, the following is an op-ed piece by an orthopedic surgeon. And, it stays on topic with the current piece. Unlike yours, it doesn’t contain information regarding pornography, whereas you continually post in the other forums, but it calls into question many avenues you and like minded people needn’t consider.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/In-health-care_-fighting-for-spoils-8414547-65055952.html
Off topic, Now & Then.
Pornography being distributed moreso in Red States. Whether it’s fact or fiction I don’t care. I ask you, is this a fascinating topic for you because it’s funny or jealousy?
The liberal side of the spectrum is supposed to be more open and less candid about the human form.
If this is your poking fun of these ‘perversions’, then you’re a hypocrite to your cause.
Or, is it such a delectable point to ‘massage your ego’ (easy N&T, it’s just a play on words) on the ‘hypocrisy of conservative states supposed values’ (I’m a registered Independent since ’93 but I have to inquire for I truly don’t understand your motivation)?
These adult videos in ‘red states’, are the purchasers married or single? Are the buyers/ videos for hetero or homosexual viewers? The list of questions can go on and on.
I got one for you. Guess which states boast of more multi-generational welfare recipients and where they lean politically.
Though I’d much rather discuss health care on this HEALTH CARE op-ed.
#15:
“All of that energy is best saved for the personal battles of survival everyone will be forced to fight beginning shortly.”
Obama said in a speech (I paraphrase): IM BARELY GETTING STARTED I AIN’T TIRED I AIN’T TIRED!
The logical arguments to be made against this president’s agenda makes no more impact than a fart in the wind, and can only be rendered unto a like-minded amen corner of armchair activists, or to a roomful of crickets chirping, or to leftists who will accuse you of racism or put you on an enemies list for your hate speech (flag@whitehouse.gov, anyone?). I suspect most Americans are more concerned about the latest American idol, whether their teams made the playoffs, or the prospect of ever more govt goodies to even register these arguments.
IN short, there is absolutely nothing we can do. Cap&Tax will pass, as will health care reform and even more bailouts; Iran will get the bomb, Gitmo will be closed and liberal defense lawyers with hand-picked dumbed-down juries will release them into our cities, and any fight against terrorism, or criticism aginst Islamiism will be deemed hate speech and a crime against humanity.
We are only getting the government we deserve, after years of teaching our younger generations to hate their country and their culture, and that self-esteem matters more than knowledge and achievement.
The best bet is, as said by #15, to save all our energy for our own personal battles for survival.
Let’s do a little compare & contrast here . . .
If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special
Olympics, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given Tony Blair a set of inexpensive and useless
(to Tony Blair’s UK video formatting) DVDs, when Tony Blair had given
him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have
approved?
If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing
videos of his speeches, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have
approved?
If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the
non-existent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a
minor slip?
If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with
people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you
have approved?
If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major
corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so,
would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had
taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you
have approved?
If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10
years, would you have approved?
If Laura Bush had shut down a major part of D.C. during rush hour, and cost the tax payer hundreds of thousands of dollars, all to gush over certified organic Tuscan kale, would you have approved?
Yeah, yeah, I know. . . “But but but but Bush!”
“Bottom Line: Code Pink and Moveon.org have been Gergenized.”
You mean they’re something the dog reGergenated on the carpet.
As his approval numbers inevitable drop into the sewer, I fear for the safety of President Obama. Not from anyone on the conservative side of the aisle, but from the shadowy leftist kingmakers who annointed him as Standard-bearer three years ago.
A politically-neutered Obama is a liability to them. An martyred Obama would be JFK cubed. The inconvenient fact that Kennedy was assassinated by a far-left looney hasn’t slowed the “CIA did it” conspiracy industry.
69…Excellent point.
mmmm mmmm mmmm barack hussein obama mmm mmmm mmmm
It would be a battle cry for eternity!!!
The president has also said on many occasions, most recently in NOLA, that he would be able to solve more problems more rapidly, but there are road blocks like “the Constitution” that are holding him back. He continues to potray the Constitution as a bad thing that is in the way of progress, equality, and prosperity for all. Make it the only thing in the way, and push for it to be disolved, so that Obama can truly realize all our desires.
I wonder who made this presidency possible. We knew little about the BHO prior to the election and what we know now is not comforting. To me, the real question is how did we get from Hawaii to the presidency with such an device. I guess if we knew who scripts the teleprompter, we could get a glimpse of the cabal that programmed and operates this BHO thing. If this is the AI state of the art, long on artificiality and short on intelligence, it is a long way from perfection.
37. Now and Then:
27. homero:
I am with Homero on this one. Now and Then you seem to change the subject or and blame others for all that is going on. Everything I have seen and heard indicates obama has surrounded hiomself with america haters who advocate marxist policies. Therefore I believe that he is one also.
So when I see this present administration give me reason to believe they are not then I will continue to think they are as homero posted.
“I think obama does want to destroy the economy, he does want to take over all aspects of society, he does want to control speech. ”
now and then you are a dishonest broker for the obama administration.
People who didnt vote for Obama know what the problem is. What he is doing wrong and unable to do has been beaten to death. Nothing new in this essay.
What we need to try and analyze or discuss is where we think our country will be in all aspects domestic and foreign policy come Nov 2010. Then we will ask what does bringing in more Republican Congressman actually do. Then we do the same thing for 2012 election.
If you say its too early to guess or to figure out, then we just need to sit back and see what happens because there is not a thing the right minded people of this country can do about it.
Obama and his cronies have power and we all know what they are doing and will do. The question is ultimately can the damage be repaired and will this repair take place sooner or later.
All of this flailing about might indicate the arrogance/insecurity of an imcomplete local politician cum national leader. On the other had, the looming national disaster is looking more and more like a conscious design. Not to state the obvious, but Obama on numerous unscripted occassions has indicated exactly where he wishes to drag this country. He benefits from the cowlike media, and a public divided between a small majority of ordinary Ameicans who are totally absorbed in saving their economic asses, and an expanding parasite class seeking only to expand it’s take..
73. Samson
agreed. but it is pointless engaging the trolls ..Now and Then is such a creature. and you are quite right he is a dishonest broker for the obama administration.
I wonder who made this presidency possible…I guess if we knew who scripts the teleprompter, we could get a glimpse of the cabal that programmed and operates this BHO thing.
You could start with George Soros (tip of iceberg) and the $750 million campaign war chest.
Proceed to Uri Bezmenov describing the drip drip drip of 40+ years
The guy at Pravda has some thoughts
Let me see.
The president fails to send the troops he’s been requested to send by the General who commands the operations in Afghanistan.
The president fails to prevent Iran from going nuclear (translation: from being able to give nukes to terrorist groups worldwide).
The president’ s economic policies multiply by three the federal deficit in nine months.
The president moves to nationalize healthcare and his Congress passes punitive legislation against the insurance companies.
The president establishes the wages paid by private companies.
The president begins a campaign against free media.
The president causes ICANN , i.e., the Internet, to be controlled by foreign interests.
The president announces punitive taxes for the private enterprise (cap and trade) and for capital owners (rejection of Bush’ tax cuts).
The president’s administration is made of communists and musliam jihadists.
And the Professor is bored about all that.
So sorry.
It’s just the demise of America, nothing exciting.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment.
President Obama’s carefully crafted facade will crash & burn to reflect his failed policies; furthermore, the little dictator will become more shrill, vapid, angry & lash out at anyone who gets in his way. I believe he will have a scorched Earth campaign when he realizes the American people do like Obama very much at all. It’s not going to be pretty, but this is necessary to be rid of the tyrant who is President Obama.
I’ve given up even trying to document the non-stop insults flowing from this administration.
No matter what they do, the operative rejoinder is: “If president Bush had done this, what would have been the reaction?”
Apply this thought to almost *anything* Obama has done, and the hypocrisy is startlingly obvious.
Very, very sad.
…but Victor, Obama was elected because he promised hope and was given the nobel prize for bringing hope to the world.
Who cares about an imploding global economy, rising commodity prices and the challenges that will surely come when scientists start tinkering with weather systems. So long as we have a community organiser with a photoshopped six pack talking about hope nothing can go badly wrong.
A weak imitator of The Cunctator, errant in the Afghan battlespace, exposing his indifference for American interests to both our soldiers and the terrorists they were sent to kill; deplorably sincere in his haste to be The Taqiyah in his bowing to a Wahhabi chieftain, letting it be clear he relinquishes control of the future of energy to a hostile cartel; and, predictably The Discontent when his suborning of the media has extended to all but one news organization, the personality of our historic first Islamic apostate president consists of a hydra of advocates for the remaking of America with no one left to speak in defense of the traditions of our way of life.
One question; Why isn’t Congressional pay cut based on the same non-performance as Wall Streets?
I used to defend VDH to the contrary few who like to post here. I used to defend the majority opinion here. But the far left, name calling, insulting few seemed to enjoy the attention.
But now I skip them and those who answer them. Kudos to the wise posters and many thanks to the professor.
It is disappointing to see someone who should know better repeating the talking points of the GOP. People want secure access to health care, progressive taxation, better loan terms, and a reformed foreign policy.
The reaction of Fox to being called out for their partisan hackery is predictable – VDH jumping on board to defend them is just pathetic. More to the point, VDH is wrong about Obama’s policies being unpopular – there is broad support for health care reform, changes to the tax code, and putting an end to torture.
It is harder to defend against baseless attacks than it is to make them – but Obama’s strategy of isolating the wingnut set is probably a sound response to this problem. Those who buy Beck’s schtick as real news are not going to gain critical thinking skills readily, anyway – they are mostly a lost cause.
Peace.
DS
Yes, be afraid when the White House numbers turn south. Cook County Democrats don’t deal well with either bad news or bad publicity. History teaches that if things go bad in foreign affairs, governments will turn their ire against their domestic opponents. When the promises fail to materialize, will the Obamaniacs blame their own misguided view of the world? No, they will blame those who don’t share their world view.
Great Presidents have had to overcome some sort of personal failure long before they became President. Overcoming such personal tests gave each of them a depth of character which guided each through the adverse times during their respective administrations.
So we are about to witness a test in the President’s character. Nothing in his life has prepared him for it. I doubt that he will handle the deluge well.
Why the 0bam-annoy-ya?
We are all gonna have government jobs soon with the ‘$timulu$’ package [or 'pockoshz towtal'] to help bring our country out of joblessness.
Oh wait.
Who pays for the government jobs?
OH NOES!
Ave Caesar morituri te salutant. Translation: R.I.P. America.
This takes the prize. There are so many one-liner truths, it’s hard to pick a winner.
73. Samson wrote:
now and then you are a dishonest broker for the obama administration.
Peter writes: N&T is a paid poster who gets his talking points from the Soros website. Most simply ignore him/her/it. You would have a better chance of a viable discussion with a brick wall since N&T and his co-workers vivo, bc, etc simply follow the script handed to them and have not an original thought in their heads.
Thanks professor. Ignore the trolls. Maybe they’ll go get a job.
“Ministry of Truth” rings true as a catchy phrase to describe the Administration’s recent attempts to control the national conversation and to silence critics. With a little wider broadcasting, the phrase could quickly catch on and be as effective and devastating as Palin’s “Death Panels”
Now and Then, the reason so much porn is viewed in the Red States is because we like to compare staged screwing with the real thing Obama and his administration are doing to the citizens of this country without the benefit of a even getting a kiss on the cheek. And you know which cheek I am referring to. Besides, the pornography coming from DC costs more and is more prevalent than what is on the internet. Just a matter of economics.
Why do people think Obama is “likeable?” Are they truly that susceptible to a false smile and smooth (but empty or untruthful) talk? This man has shown himself to be a mean-spirited, racist, free market-hating, egotist since he graduated from Harvard (and probably earlier than that). We are truly a nation of saps for believing otherwise, and we will pay a terrible price for our mass gullibility.
“Some would say I must do something to turn back the tide of evil right-wing forces marshaling against me. But, in my heart-of-hearts I know one true and everlasting solution to the problems of this temporal world to which I am bound….. I shall give another speech.”
–Barry Obama–
# 49 Michael B
“Ernst” Rahm Emanuel is a more appropriate. Just wait until our very own knight of the long knives.
#85 David S. – I find it interesting that you chastise Dr. Hansen for “repeating the talking points of the GOP”, and then proceed to repeat the talking points for the DNC as if they were your own original thoughts.
However, I find it terrifying that you repeat them without any clue that what you have stated is patently and demonstratively false, yet you’ve willingly absorbed and re-branded as “uniquely your own” the DNC’s own special blend of propaganda.
In the latter 1940′s the question was asked how a group of logical, civilized people could come to be led to ruin by someone like Adolf Hitler. The answer inevitably came back “Joseph Goebbels”. (Of course, with a little help from Leni Riefenstahl.)
David S – have you never learned the term ‘hubris’?
It means arrogance, and an example of such is your assertion that “People want secure access to health care, progressive taxation, better loan terms, and a reformed foreign policy”.
You have no right to speak for the desires of anyone other than yourself. You are not the spokesman for the American people. This is both an example of dicto simpliciter – sweeping generalizations and a false voice, yours claiming that you have the authority to speak for others.
With regard to the particulars of your comment, they are functionally empty. What do any of those terms, operationally, mean?
People already have secure health care via their insurance. Who says people want ‘progressive taxation’..and what does that operationally mean anyway? Better loan terms? Heck- that’s an empty concept; of course any and all would want that.
And a ‘reformed foreign policy’ is equally operationally empty since it is without specifics. Do you mean one that insults major foreign leaders (as did Obama);one that bows to ME dictators(Obama); that utterly ignores the democratic desires of the Iranian people? That supports Zelaya’s rejection of the Honduran constitution? That enables Iran to get a nuclear bomb? That enhances Russian imperialism? Hmmm?
You’ll have to provide data to support your claim of ‘partisan hackery’. Why don’t you object to the ‘partisan hackery’ of MSNBC and CNN? Well?
And, as usual, your opinions, which commit the fallacy of ‘ad populum’ provide no data to support your views. No, there is not ‘broad support for Obama’s health policies – where have you been? Rasmussen polls say tha 54% are opposed to the plan, and only 42% in favor.
Changes to the tax code? Explain – there’s no data for your assertion. Putting an end to torture? This is a meaningless statement, because removing context means removing meaning.
Might I point out that a good book on critical thinking, which outlines the nature of the argument and its requirement for FACTS and logic ..and also supplies a list of the common fallacies, might help you?
The problem, at this point, is that Obama is basically whittled down to the core of his reasonable former supporters. The people still clinging to him; still drooling over his pecs and feeling thrills up their legs every time Obama slips in one of his tiresome, phony-ebonic panderings (which is only one-upped in creepiness by the way Hillary adopts a terrible Southern accent when below the Mason-Dixon line); still reliving the glory of ‘yes we can’ every time he makes another boilerplate speech; these people will NEVER be made to see reason. They will never admit that he was and is a colossal, embarrassing mistake and an utter failure, because his failures are the very foundation of their psychoses.
The dedicated leftist is already unhinged from reality. Since their beliefs have been proven false time and again, they cannot use reason and logic. So they HAVE to believe that they are somehow better people, fulfilling a divine purpose, that their opponents are evil people, that capitalism is evil, that communism and socialism are good, etc, etc. It’s all about emotion and feeling smug and superior.
The insurance company thing is the best one right now. Nevermind that most Democrats are firmly in the pocket of the insurance companies – the true hilarity is that the current situation in health care is all because of idiotic ‘progressive’ ideas. You know, brilliant things like mandating types of coverage, making our society into one that relies on employment to receive coverage. These were Democrat ideas. Just like the mortgage fiasco, it was a bunch of smug, self-satisfied people with ‘good intentions’ think they were solving a problem when in reality all they were doing was causing problems.
The only logical way forward is deregulation, to stop thinking of insurance as subisdy (or even as a necessity), and to open the health market for greater competition. It has worked in every instance in which it has been tried. Everything they claim to want is historically best provided by free markets: low costs, competition, better service, et cetera, et cetera.
But these are not reasonable people.
“It is disappointing to see someone who should know better repeating the talking points of the GOP”
When you’re so deluded and lost that you have to dismiss documented facts as ‘partisan talking points’, you’re gone. You’re almost as bad as Clinton, insisting the mess of his own making was part of a ‘vast right wing conspiracy’.
MSNBC fakes video to support a narrative about racist people bringing guns to Obama’s speeches. They fake video to support a narrative about the Willie Horton ad. CNN calls Tea Party protesters ‘teabaggers’ and fact-checks SNL skits for this president. Today all the left-leaning networks had a two-and-a-half hour closed-door meeting with the president.
But they’re not biased. No, Fox is the problem.
It would bother me if your type were rational and sane. Instead, I just feel sad for you. Only a year ago your type were so proud about how you ‘questioned the government’ and ‘dissented’. Today you’re happy stormtroopers marching over the cliff to your doom. You should be embarrassed.
62. paul_unalaska:
“PT Barnum was right..”
Excellent observation!
* * * * *
61. baal:
The independents paradise:
1 6-month presidential campaign
2 Legislators paid for accomplishments
3 Centrist courts
4 Properly regulated market
5 Education budget is the largest
6 Strict gun control
7 Taxes reflect GDP
Bliss!
The American people elected this guy and his left of left central cronies and ideals. So what if he had no business, experience, or credentials, the American people elected him in a fair election. It would seem that any problem or joy any of us has with him must be transferable to the electorate.
Was it what he promised? Did generation X want a rock star who can jet to New York for Wednesday date night? Was it truly his ideals that sold the majority? Obama is well framed by now. Who is not that well exposed and analyzed beyond the mere statistics of polling is the American voter. Blame or praise them. What were they thinking?
Uh; They’re all winners! And true
Everything that I reall Mr. Obama saying during the campaign and, frankly, everything that I have heard him say since, has turned out to be a lie.
Has he actually told the truth about anything? Ever?
If there were anyone in Washington with a pair of balls Obama would have been impeached the first time he spouted that national health care crap.
Charlie
There is a certain level of dividend income that rankles me. People like Teresa Heinz earn such vast amounts of dividend income that they can fund the most vile liberal movements imaginable. What do they care the 50% taxes inflicted on the worker bees trying to raise children and take care of their parents? These young people are forced to use public education because they are taxed out of the ability to have private education for their children.
The elites only pay 15% on their millions, perhaps billions of dividends right now, which just keep growing due to the low taxation. Perhaps this explains the growing divergence of incomes. These profits are what ought to be taxed instead of “cadillac insurance”. I propose a progressive tax on dividends paid per individual or corporation. Take that, limousine liberals.
//People want secure access to health care, progressive taxation, better loan terms, and a reformed foreign policy.//
Noooooo. Some people, a minority or ignorant, arrogant, self important people want progressive taxation. No one I have ever talked to has ever said “We are not taxed enough, please sir tax us some more”. Here’s a clue- the less money people have to spend the less money will go into businesses who will lay off more workers who will then not have money to spend on goods or will have less money for the government to steal, thus insuring more people on the dole, less business, more people at the public trough, less people creating jobs an on and on and on.
If liberals only thought logically they wouldn’t be liberals.
People want affordable health care. They also want honest politicians but health care is probably more likely. They also want the federal government out of their lives. There is not ONE program run by the federal government that functions well, actually there isn’t ONE that functions at all. They are over budget, over staffed, and overwhelmed.
As for a reformed foreign policy, this group of morons in power are without a doubt the most inexperienced, inept, incompetent buffoons ever to pratfall on the world stage. We are now the butt of every joke told around the world. Hence why the rest of the world just loves this administration.
Personally I hope all of the Libs out there get exactly what they want, they whined hard enough for it, they deserve it. The rest of us however will not be interested in pulling their butts out of the fire. I personally will simply stand by and watch the fire burn. I have so had enough.
Oh and how many news organizations does this administration need ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSMBC, the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, L A Times, Associated Press, Reuters, Al Jazera et al? All of them are cheerleaders for this group of posers. Talk about greedy.
Sheeesh!
As has been noted by a notable NPR commentator, Obama is having to deal with a failure of the “Force of Personality” effect.
Every step of his movement through the public arena has been perceived (probably correctly) by him as resulting from the force of his personality.
His stages in Chicago and Springfield were achieved solely by force of personality.
There were no “accomplishments.”
His “fluke” selection and ultimate election to the Senate came by force of personality.
They were not the result of “accomplishments.”
His control of his campaign was maintained by force of personality.
His election was attained by his force of personality.
He is now encountering those situations in which force of personality is not an irresistable force.
On the contrary, the situations demand response that begins to reveal that the personality lacks the capacities that justify confidence in its presumed “force.”
Instead, the personality’s response has been to personify all opposition, all inadequate complementaries, all hindrances – to be faced with his own force of personality; everything on all issues reduced to a contest of force of personalities.
Because of the way that force of personality is now being thrust into all contests by those around him, as well as by himself, it is dissipating, being spread over “too much, too often and in too redundent formats.”
People tend to forget that the “Wizard of OZ” was a political satire.
We now have a reminder.
R. Richard Schweitzer
The President is a captive of his own appointees and of Congressional leadership. He is doing their work, out in the hustings soliciting support for an agenda, when it should be just the opposite. The people out in the hustings should be the advocates for change e.g. “healthcare”; he should reserve judgment until he has a sense of what is appropriate and what is not. The President has it backwards. The Senate and the House leadership seems to be in command, not the President.
The trolls can be declawed easily: just visualize a /sarc tag at the end of their rants. That fits especially #9 up there, which is just too ludicrous to be taken otherwise than as a spoof.
Now, earnest defenses of Obama’s policies and democratic socialism are another matter and need to be addressed, but I haven’t seen any of those particular beasties appear on these threads.
a dumb, empty, oily fascist and islamist, and possibly psychotic, sits like a conquering medieval potentate on a whoopee cushion.
there is no turning back from this. america is practically extinct. everything we loved and fought for and fought over, the freedom of ideas, the world’s largest middle class, the opportunity to excell, courage, love of country, all of this is trampled over by these horsemen of the apocalypse. and every day it slips further away and out of our hands.
Piss on your Peace.
39. vivo:
“The right-wingers paradise:
5 Everyone is on their own”
Do the Democrats help you? Do you think Obama is here to help you like your Mom and Dad.
I have been working and supporting myself since I was 16. I am on my own. I don’t need the Democrats to live my life. It would be bliss if I did not pay taxes to pay for the Democratic machine.
Stand up vivo! Feel the power that comes from being your own man.
#101 vivo – Okay, just listen to me this once, vivo. I’ve been plenty fair to you over time, so hear me out, please.
#1 6-mo Prez campaign. We have that now. Primaries are over in early June, then the Prez campaign starts. This last primary started way earlier than usual. Conservatives, too, would like some more sense in this.
#2 Legislators paid for accomplishments. No. What constitutes an accomplishment… and the right amount of compensation? Empty ideal which would lead to the mother of Unintended Consequences. How about part-time Congressmen, and all mostly telecommuting.
#3 centrist Courts. Um, no. Ideology has no place on the bench. Strict constructionist judges only. For example, deficit spending, except for war expenses, is unconstitutional. Does the SC EVER strike the bloated budgets down? No.
#4 Properly regulated market. Conservatives agree. Properly, not overly-regulated. Level, safe playing-field.
#5 Education budget is the largest. It already is! Spending on education has increased four-fold in 40 years, after inflation. Combine all the levels of spending, and education is king, yet it gets worse every year. The Dems own our education system. 90% of educators are Dems. The NEA NEVER supports a Pub. Never. It’s the Dems fault. $10k per 1st grader per year is simply WAY TOO DAMNED MUCH!
#6 Strict Gun Control – Why? Do the legal gunowners commit the crimes? Almost never. When gun controls are relaxed, violent crime goes down 8% in EVERY SINGLE CASE. Guns in good hands do good. Guns in evil hands do evil. Guns are simply POWER. Whom do you wish to have the power? The Governmentalists want to keep that power solely to the government, i.e., themselves.
#7 taxes reflect GDP. They always do. Read up on economics. Read about the Laffer curve. No matter where you set the tax rate, you end up with the same maximum amount of taxes. When you set the rate higher, the economy slows. You get a higher percentage of a smaller economy. Lower them, and the economy grows, again getting roughly the same amount for government… and less poor people. (Simplistically put, of course. there are other factors, and economics is a soft-science.)
Quit trying to be so damned clever, and try to get some basic understanding of how the world REALLY works. Forget the dogma. Just look at the facts. Not the opinions of the facts. The facts. You, vivo, I think, have potential. Please use it. Discard all you know, and look again!
Great article Doc,
I agree with everything you wrote but the sad news is that Obama still leads in the 2010 election. It must be that there are still a lot of Kool-Aid drinkers out there.
I am not impressed with the Republicans. Case in point would be the NY -23 election in upstate N.Y. Let’s hope we won’t have similar battles in 2010 when there’s a chance conservatives could gain a lot of seats in the House.
112. Ruebacca:
“The right-wingers paradise:
5 Everyone is on their own”
I agree with you, I was trying to imply a lack of regulations.
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113. Marc Malone:
“#1 6-mo Prez campaign.”
I meant primaries and everything.
“#2 Legislators paid for accomplishments. . . . How about part-time Congressmen, and all mostly telecommuting.”
You have a good point.
“#3 centrist Courts. Um, no. Ideology has no place on the bench. Strict constructionist judges only.”
I guess I meant that.
“#6 Strict Gun Control – Why? Do the legal gun owners commit the crimes?”
They don’t commit the crimes because they are controlled.
Thanks for your comments.
I admit that I too worry that this President is just a bit too naive. He seems to be pandering to just about everyone, specially on one thing, near and dear to me. Healthcare. We need that reform passed now so he needs to get off his duff and get that thing on his desk and signed before too much time goes by. And stop pandering to the right, they will not support reform….
On foreign policy too this President is getting too Bushist. We dont need more troops and money for more war. we need more money to make more “of their own” troops and alot more money for rebuilding their countries (Iraq and Afghanistan). I just hope this president don’t get sold down the river by “rock star” generals. Those types ruined us in Vietnam and they will do the same again by pyramid building wars to fit in with their own desires of more rank and self-serving careers…..if Obama lets them. They must be fired, ignored and re directed to implement a real winning plan immediately.
Sheesh, what is this president thinking lately anyway?
Obama,…..knock it off….please.
106. seanmahair
“No one I have ever talked to has ever said “We are not taxed enough, please sir tax us some more”.”
You probably have never talked to Warren Buffett or Bill Gates (I haven’t either), but both suggested that the super rich like themselves should be taxed more than the rest of us.
“Warren Buffett, the third-richest man in the world, has criticised (British spelling)the US tax system for allowing him to pay a lower rate than his secretary and his cleaner.”
London Times Online June 28 2007.
I’m sure you are not for the rich paying less of their income than the rest of us, are you?
113. Mark Malone
“#4 Properly regulated market. Conservatives agree. Properly, not overly-regulated. Level, safe playing-field.”
Good idea Mark, but most folks thought the markets were properly regulated before everything blew up in our faces. The Devil is in the details. You should watch the PBS show Frontline “The Warning” about how Greenspan, Rubin and Summers prevented a woman with the wonderful name of Brooksley Born from properly regulating the Derivatives market under Clinton. Of course Bush didn’t do $hit about it either. No most of the people with power in this country, left or right, could care less about us so perhaps you too should “…try to get some basic understanding of how the world REALLY works.”
90. Peter the Bubblehead:
“N&T is a paid poster who gets his talking points from the Soros website.”
98. ETAB:
“And, as usual, your opinions, which commit the fallacy of ‘ad populum’ provide no data to support your views.”
So many certainties to choose from. Tell you what, you guys just keep contradicting each other and I’ll keep on skewering your relentless hypocrisies. You just can’t help yourselves. Health care reform is coming- with a public option. Then what’re you gonna do? All the bluster, all the tea bagging and whining victimhood, all the power and imperative of Fuk Snooze won’t have been enough to stop the will of the people. Then what? Is that when you break out the guns? Is that when you don the cammo and grab the ammo and launch Conservanoia? Pick a martyr, folks. (Actually, that should be, “Pick a martyr, Fox.”)
‘Partisan hackery’ – Yeah, darn those Fox people for bringing to light the Democratic nominee of the most powerful country of the Free World’s friendship with a racist pastor and racist priest in Chicago. Infuriating! They should be in lockstep with the other, ahem, ‘bipartisan’ news outlets.
‘Secure access to health care’ – 84.7% (from the ‘bipartisan’ wikipedia for many left leaning folks look to wiki for ‘facts’) of the country HAS health INSURANCE. A larger number chooses NOT to have it than those who can’t afford it. Besides, this isn’t about ‘care’, but insurance.. but you know this. You didn’t word it this way for it being,’a simple mistake’. Also, everyone, including illegal aliens have ‘access’ to health care. I know this for my premiums mysteriously climb due to the uninsured.
‘Better loan terms’? – You do realize your ‘better loan terms’ is the primary reason why banking giant B of A lost $2.24 billion last quarter, right?
Interest rates are very low right now. FYI, the banks are no longer ‘giving’ houses away anymore. Sorry you’re getting this news late in the game..
It’s the job sector that’s shaky right now. You know, a priority Obama spoke of.. 9 + months ago.
‘Reformed foreign policy – Now that is happening. It started with ‘Apology Tour ’09, giving UK’s Queen Mum an Ipod, wrong formatted DVD’s for Gordon Brown and a bow to the Saudi King.
‘Changes to the tax code’ – Now I’m in agreement on this. I feel those investing in an overseas/ offshore account on American income is sleazy.
‘An end to torture’ – you do realize the information obtained from KSM, Abu Zubaydah (sp?) and al-Nashiri and lives saved lives? Apparently, you don’t. Not to mention the plans these p o s may have carried out.
I don’t buy Beck, O’Reilly, Limbaugh etc., jib. Or other ‘links’ you and like-minded posters ignorantly use a broad stroke when confronted woth opposing views.
David, your recommendation of ‘critical thinking’ is an oxymoron.
You believe (as is evidenced by your numerous comments) Government is the answer to the difficult questions. It’s critical thinking, not bureaucratic, non sequitur-like blowhards you should rely or put emphasis on.
Instead you point fingers at a media/ mouthpiece outlet. Accomplishing nothing but furthering their ratings and less basis for your smugness.
After 8 years of ‘oppression’, you seem to have learned nothing.
N&T, it’s funny you mention ‘will of the people’ and health ‘care’ (insurance) reform hand-in-hand.
Rasmussen has 42% opposed to doing anything, 39% for the reform. As well as 62% of Independents doing nothing as well.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/october_2009/49_say_no_health_care_reform_better_than_current_plan
Sorry for stating FACTS rather than emotionally filled drivel and limp wristed attempts at humor for which you sadly, proudly ALWAYS espouse.
Your comments are so WaPo/Daily KOS-like. Boorish and go nowhere..
As for martyrdom, our CiC is refusing to take on, let alone acknowledge a differing view from the #1 news affiliate. OBAMA IS PLACING FOX NEWS, VOLUNTARILY, IN THAT ROLE you boob!
Actually #61, we should do more of what all those lefties in Europe do. Hey #61, have you ever been to Europe? Europeans kick our asses on almost every level. They speak at least two languages, and in many cases, three languages. They eat better, drive less, live longer. They are much thinner. they work less, play more. and, most importantly, everyone has healthcare. People like you who blather on about Freedom (really, freedom to rob), lack of ammo, lack of Chrysler parts being due to an Obama conspiracy, rather than Chrysler admin incompetence, will never ever get it! The ‘it’ being that your ignorance and limited world view are the reason for the shambles that is now the reality of our country.
All VDH junkies…like me…great new VDH article on nationalreview dot com Friday 10-23.
There was another one yesterday thursday too.
Joseph @117:
“I’m sure you are not for the rich paying less of their income than the rest of us, are you?”
There isn’t a law on the books that stops ANYONE from paying more taxes than he owes. Warren Buffett is a hypocrite – he can write a check to the government for any amount he feels fair. I detest that he feels it’s fair to determine how much I should pay.
Of course Bush didn’t do $hit about it either. (the markets)
I have ben told he tried and his iniciative was torpedoed. Mostly by Democrats.
Liberals have become so bizarre that you can’t tell their considered opinions from sarcasm and irony. Take for example:
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” 9. Yes We Did:
Even worse, President Obama is still black!
Your vile, racist attacks on our new Leader are as water off a duck’s back. President Obama has the love and support of all people except racist white male oppressors, who cannot accept that their time has passed.
Please just shut up and go away.
Oct 22, 2009 – 3:36 am”
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Is this supposed to be serious discourse or some bizarre joke?
If McCarran-Ferguson is repealed as part of the Public Option, then there will be no regulation of the Federal program.
“And the Problem?”
The problem is that they don’t care about what the people think, and they just may have the power to pull of the complete destruction of this country.
Stick with the ballot box through 2010, but keep your powder dry.
When his “numbers” fall below 50%? Here is a bit of a hint for you. Only people with either a land line telephone or internet service can be polled at all. (Anyone been mailed a snail mail poll lately? Didn’t think so) Over 25% of the American public have given up land lines for cell phones, and land lines are the first thing to go when money gets tight. Now the pollsters surely must know that, but they like lying through their teeth instead. But then, they also don’t want to be accused of “undermining consumer confidence”. People living out of their cars or in tent cities have no land lines, or any “permanent” internet access.
Oh well, this won’t last until Christmas anyway. It won’t be the Grinch who stole Christmas this year, it will be Obama and his minions. And the clowns and monkeys of the Main Stream Media circus.
139..vivo!!!
at last , you are right about something!!!
I love #5!!!…that means we wouldn’t need to support the sorry butts of the lazy welfare leeches!!!! yeah no affirmative action and such
Heck, no gun control..love it, THEN.. the honest person would be on a level playing field with the criminals.
More than simple bliss…nirvana!!!
butbutbut there would be no room for the liberals because there would would be no one around holding them up out of the water…and the poor republicans what would they do now that they have lost their backbones???
TYG we are independents!!
Obama’s WH has embarrassed American democracy with their crap over FOX and the stint they tried to pull yesterday with the media, totally disgusting.
I was shocked that the MSM actually showed some integrity..did I just put MSM and integrity in on sentence??? OMG!!!
But remember, under Newspeak “Yes, We Can!” hold two conflicting ideas at the same time.
Good article, Professor.
homero @ 27 said:
The question is this. If The 0bamanation wished to destroy the US and it’s economy, what would he do different than he has done so far? I think that the answer is “No thing.” All of the optimists still believe that he has good intentions, he is really not a Communist at heart, he has the best interests of the US citizen in mind. The sad, sad truth is that he does not. All of this: the loss of AfPak to the Taliban, the crash of the economy, destruction of citizens wealth at rates never imagined, soaring tax rates, the loss of the dollar as the world reserve currency, the ascendancy of Iran in the ME, the ascendancy of Russia in near Asia and Europe, the Islamization of the EU, the coming assault on the Constitution, etc. are all features, not bugs.
You all thought he said “Hope and Change”! He said “Rope and Chains”!
‘Save the planet and feed your pets, eat an environmentalist, they are soft and chewy.’
A breathe of fresh air. Dr. Hansen, your analysis is based on fact, and with an intent to express truth. If that isn’t refreshing enough, the comments from your readers are so articulate, thoughtful, and measured, the next time I hear a whisper of negativity about Americans, I will force feed them some VDH and give them a spot quizz later.
As Dr. Hansen’s analysis indicates, we can all anticipate a train wreck of problems ahead. Questions to consider, what can we anticipate those to be (higher taxes, inflation, stunted growth, and a drop in medical care for example), how do they affect people, when, and how can one best manage.
(Woops.. That’s Hanson, sorry for the misspelling).
Further to the questions of how to prepare and manage in the immediate term, what course of action can be taken to oppose the current direction. It’s one thing to do the analysis, the next is to consider what’s needed to course correct (‘course correct’ – way undersated, I know), measure progress, determine timelines, and be clear about the milestones necessary to shift towards a desirable path.
It seems this is necessary to express, for those 50% who fail to see the problems brewing, and wouldn’t know another way, unless it was served up on a USA Today kind of platter.
A Friend of mine recently told me who ”Voted “” for Obama as did his wife both , College Professors .
That never could have believed in a Million years it was a Vote against this Country …. But it was indeed ..
They are no longer on the Obama band wagon … They both are only Two of Millions who now deeply believe Obama is anti American Fascist but most of all full blown Marxist and they were
‘Tricked ‘ by the Media into voting for the Lier in Chief .
Obama was to promote a “”Colorless Society ? Blacks are now blacker as are whites whiter . Geez Obama I don’t how to thank you enough ? Not !
Obama is also at War with the White race without question and that is why a race war is brewing .
This is sick behavior but that is his politics and long held deep beliefs at work .
Blacks better enjoy Obama’s time in Office since it will be the last Black President maybe ever again . Obama and now whites have drawn a line in the sand .
He has brought back the horrible 60.s on purpose as well .
He who has to destroy the top economy ever to fix it , never meant to fix it at all . Not only do they always destroy the economy and freedoms but they all made the poor poorer and the wealthily enslaved .
See the PROOF : Stalin , Hitler , Mussolini , Mao , Castro , The Dear Leader , Pol Pot , Saddam and Hugo Chavez ……… It was nothing more than a power grab as is it with Obama,
his party as well obviously .
NAT say: “…I’ll keep on skewering your relentless hypocrisies.”
Good good. When do you propose to start?
#118: “Health care reform is coming- with a public option. Then what’re you gonna do? All the bluster, all the tea bagging and whining victimhood, all the power and imperative of Fuk Snooze won’t have been enough to stop the will of the people.”
Bring it on!! I hope the leftists pass all the bills they orgasm over. It will certainly be amusing to watch this country of lazy, multiculti, PC self-entitled, full-of-themselves morons more interested in the latest American Idol or if their team made the playoffs get the government they deserve. I know Health Care reform is coming, Cap and Trade is coming, endless government bailouts are coming, and a nuclear terrorist attack is coming (after all, Obozo has given the Iranians carte blanche to make nukes, his blather is all meaningless to them).
Then when the law of unintended consequences takes its course, and our economy is the greenest third world banana republic ever, and our dollars are worthless, and a few cities are reduced to radiation fallout and dust, it will be fun watching the looters bitch and moan.
Let the producers see the writing an the wall and go John Galt. This is the time to hoard because the economic collapse is coming. I am in survival mode and could care less about doing anything to stop Obozo’s agenda. Let him have it all on a silver platter.
After all, the bolsheviks used “will of the people” to usher in the communist revolution” and confiscate private property for “the people”. Soon we will see the fall of our own czars and an american version of marxism. We just have to get set to ride out the nightmare.
Swine flu? Hell no! I’m suffering from Obamamonia! I’m sick and tired of his vomiting on the public!
vivo: It was amusing watching you being ushered off your high horse. Thanks for the entertainment. But, let’s give credit where credit is due. You didn’t further embarrass yourself on the way down.
Today, Saturday, 0bama has declared the
The Green Slime“the swine flu” to be a “National Emergency”. National emergencies are usually war, acts of war, natural disasters, etc. This means that 0bama administration can or will declare martial law, impose curfew(s), impose quarantines on those they deem “infected”, people who have symtoms of another disease yet still misdiagnosed as “swine flu”, incarceration of those who refuse the “swine flu” vaccination (but has turned out to be just a generic flu vacccine).“Swine Flu” vaccines include many byproducts such as mercury, and other things called adjuvants which include: http://preview.tinyurl.com/lcbjtv found in Gardasil
“He[President Obama] seems to be pandering to just about everyone…”–Poor Citizen
You obviously did not pay attention during the campaign; he pandered to every audience he had often contradicting himself within the same speech. Obama has not changed. He is still in campaign mode since he does not know how to govern—only rule as the dictator he yearns to be. If President Obama ever ventures into the Siege Perilous he would get his desire to be a dictator of a Banana Republic just like Hugo Chavez, Kim Jong Il, & Fidel Castro; however, he would not be dictator of America since America would & is rejecting his strict rigid Leftist demagoguery. Dictator Obama would be a petty dictator in a small land, probably renamed ObamaLand.
I have been an entrepreneur for 30 years. I have never seen a business climate so distressed. When President Reagan stepped in he created a climate that an entrepreneur had faith in, that is lower taxes, less government intervention etc. That gave us real hope that things will get better, and they did. Now, not only is hope gone, but fear is becoming pervasive. That is a bad omen for our economy because fear is infectious.
May I present to you ladies and gentlemen Obama the hollow man while he can speak well his words in reality mean nothing at all. Oh by the way he can only speak well when it is displayed before him on a teleprompter. You have voted the most unaccomplished inexperienced individual every to occupy the highest position of your country, may God have pity on you and your nation for such an act of stupidity and ignorance!
123. captcouv
Warren Buffett was trying to explain that he didn’t think he should pay a lower rate in taxes than his secretary. Is your position that he should pay a lower rate than the rest of us unless out of the kindness of his heart he gives more?
124. JFM
I stand corrected. Could you give me some evidence of Bush’s farsighted efforts and which of those evil Dems thwarted the good and just President from saving us from the recent financial disaster? Remember we are speaking of derivatives.
My position is that both the Dems and Republicans work for the big boys not us.
121. Albert wrote:
Actually #61, we should do more of what all those lefties in Europe do. Hey #61, have you ever been to Europe? Europeans kick our asses on almost every level.
Peter writes: So when do you board the plane to go live there? Obviously, if the US is so intolerable, you should get out. I would even be willing to pay 50% of the one-way ticket.
Anyone want to join me in sending Albert on a bon voyage, never to return? Personally, I think the US would be better off without him.
“Soon we will get everything on the official transcripts and websites scrubbed down to read: Guantanamo really will close on March 1, 2010; Iran must comply this time by June 1, 2010; all combat brigades will be out by March 2008, 2009, 2010; health care must pass by
August,September,October,November“.I can remember the sound bytes from this summer: they included, in fact they started with this one, from all three principals, Pelosi, Reis and Übhamas- “We are going get this thing passed (health care “reform”), by the end of the week.
Then it became …“By the end of the month”…”Before Labor Day”…”Before the Summer Recess” …”Before Halloween”…, “Before Thanksgiving”…
What next? How about- “We are going to bring this thing home …Before Christmas” …”Before New Years?… “Before the Spring Thaw”?…
How about …”By the Midterm Elections Nov. 5, 2010″ ? How about that? These people are the most pathetic losers; they can’t do anything right, not even their own cloaked power grabs. They wouldn’t even be able to tie their own shoes if all eunuchs called in sick that day.
they got the “majurity”, but they don’t got the votes.
I say it again, they got the majority, but they don’t got the votes.
Some force majeure. Looks as though we got it on our side, which should end up being one hell of a blow to their pathetic, insecure, already weakened, strumpet egozze.
“Hey, Leggo my EAGGO!!”
BWA! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
“they got a “majort-tee”, but they don’t got the votes.
I say it again, they got the majority, but they don’t got the votes.
And they’re not gonna get them neither.
Gaffe Prices
If the Dems and the Obama administration are as pathetic as you all suggest (and I think you are right, they are) what is all this fear of their commie/nazi take over of our country?
Have no fear right wing folks 2010 and 2012 will be your time again and you can get back to changing our country into… what ever it is you want. Maybe we can increase our racking from 35th in the world in life expectancy and our infant mortality rate to less than Cuba, South Korea, or Bermuda (source CIA World Fact Book).
Obama, drop the continuing janitor and mop jokes: they are racist.
@146 Joseph,
I don’t know, but someone has already said it, and it wasn’t me, he said, with his eyes already bleeding, he said “Just please don’t tell 0bama, what comes after a trillion”
He was a skeleton, I couldn’t believe he could talk, but his word keep ringing in my ear, he said just talk, talk, talk, just please please don’t tell him nought.
President Obama had no other choice but do what he is trying to do. He has inherited a big mess and it will take years to fix the problem. I wish him and the US good luck in this endeavor.Unfortunately the President is surrounded by people who firmly believe that social and economic problems can only be solved by force and massive debt.History will show you that this attitude has invariably brought the demise of all past empires. The economic success of the US will necessitate deep cultural changes in the way people think. That is not going to be easy after being top dog for so long; perhaps only a major depression can bring this about!