U.S. President Barack Obama gives a statement on the earthquake in Chile outside of the Oval Office of the White House in Washington February 27, 2010. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS DISASTER)
Posted on 02/27/2010 11:15:54 AM PST by opentalk
Barack Obama was in his element as he addressed the bipartisan health-care summit he had convened for the principal purpose of shaming the recalcitrant Republicans.
His preferred lectern had been taken away and he had been forced to agree to remain seated but it was nevertheless a cherished opportunity for him to scold, patronise and peevishly disdain his opponents – and to pontificate for nearly six hours.
To be fair, Obama spoke for a mere 119 minutes, as opposed to the 110 minutes he deigned to allocate to the Republicans and the 114 minutes he gave to his fellow Democrats. When challenged about the two-to-one imbalance between the parties, Mr Obama shot back: "I'm the President."
Again and again, he put Republicans down with sarcastic asides, berating them like naughty schoolboys for bringing in a copy of the 2,400-page Senate health bill as a "prop" and informing them of the need to "get our facts straight".
The televised event, dreamt up by the White House to create the desired "atmospherics" for an attempt to push his health-care bill through Congress by Easter, underlined the reality that Obama is not a leader or even really a politician – he is a professor.
Professor Obama is convinced of his own intellectual superiority. When his pupils fail to realise that he knows what is good for them, he simply repeats himself in the expectation that the simpletons will eventually understand.
...For almost three decades, he lived in liberal campus communities where he was insulated from the real world by comfortable consensus and shared assumptions.
Now that Obama inhabits the self-reinforcing cocoon of the White House, this background has become a dangerous liability – and could spell disaster for Democrats in the November midterm elections.
..the event was both a sham and a failure.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Yep he taught America that the Kenya way is for dummies.
The most amusing political intervention of last week was from former president Jimmy Carter, who indignantly rejected the increasingly common charge that Obama is "as bad as Carter".
On only one occasion since 1896 has a party lost the White House after just four years. That was when Carter was defeated by Ronald Reagan in 1980.
With ACORN, “stimulous” money to throw around, redistricting and the census the boobOTUS could ALSO be a 2 termer or longer. At the rate he’s going in regard to blowing his nose on the constitution, I wouldn’t be surprised if he went 4 terms like FDR.
We the People are working hard to make it so. We want our country back.
Especially since he doesn't deserve to be there in the first place
This Brit is on target. That health care meeting was set up to make Obama look like the teacher and the others his underling students.
Haha, that's one way of putting it. Another way would be, "Even the most mind-numbed, red-diaper liberals are starting to realize that there's absolutely nothing behind the kenyan's slick eloquence, and that they were hoodwinked into voting for a corrupt, incompetent, neophyte marxist who lacks even basic social skills."
U.S. President Barack Obama gives a statement on the earthquake in Chile outside of the Oval Office of the White House in Washington February 27, 2010. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS DISASTER)
I have to disagree. Hundreds of millions of people have spent their adult lives in these places yet do not manifest anything close to his pathological narcissism. There is more to this than the cities where he lived, or even his three years at Havaaaaaaaaaaaard.
How different this is from the Joe Klein piece yesterday. Did they see the same meeting???
I think it’s a given that he’s a one-term president.
The real question is if he’s going to make it through his current term.
I’m predicting he’s gone after November. If the Dems are smart, they’ll find some way of getting rid of him BEFORE November.
He really “showed them” alright. Unfortunately he showed us too. And what we saw looked decidedly unpresidential.
Didn’t his old man wreck Kenya’s economy when he was economics minister or something. Another Mugabe protege.
I loved this & Toby Harden is a great write and the UK Telegraph is a great paper:
“Now that Obama inhabits the self-reinforcing cocoon of the White House, this background has become a dangerous liability – and could spell disaster for Democrats in the November midterm elections.”
His cocoon sounds like Hitler’s bunker.
Was he for or against the earthquake? How is the quake Bush's fault?
Fortunatly for us he is not tenured. Hope he does not go off like the one from AU.
I was struck by him deriding the Pubs showing the bill itself as a “prop”, and any objections to what was in it were “talking points”, that people are supposededly tired of hearing. Which was clearly a talking point he planned in advance to use as soon as any objections were raised. He had no problem though when the RATS filibusted with sob stories talking points about constitutents wearing their dead sisters’ dentures.
He had the chutzpah to tell the pubs that they should only talk about things they agree on, not what they disagree about, and that his time didn’t count towards equal time, cause he won the election for president. Finally, he called all the Pubs by their first names like children.
Newt Gingrich said the day before that the Pubs should demanded that there be equal time at the beginning, and if Obama said no, walk out en masse. He was right. They should not have put up with his smug power plays.
One term is 4 years too long.
It would be good to be a grizzly bear - they hibernate dontchya know;)
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