Posted on 10/28/2009 11:27:38 AM PDT by markomalley
President Barack Obama has been in office just nine months and already he is defending his legacy, pushing back more aggressively against criticism of his record on health care, climate change, closing Guantanamo, reforming immigration laws and financial regulations and managing the war in Afghanistan.
For the past two weeks, as he’s jetted across the country to fill Democrats’ 2010 coffers, Obama has been test driving a new speech that sounds a lot like one he’d be giving if he were on the ballot next year: A line-item defense of his record so far, and a sober reminder to supporters of the against-the-odds campaign slog that eventually swept him into office.
Obama begins with a breathless rehash of the state of the economy on January 20 and the steps he took to try to turn it around.
“So that was pretty good for the first month,” he quips, before moving on to policy changes that have happened on his watch. He ticks them off: the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, stem cell research, children’s health insurance, national service, tobacco regulations, housing legislation. Then he segues to his efforts on foreign policy, touching on Iraq, al Qaeda, Somalia, interrogations and nuclear non-proliferation.
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I prefer “Lame Turkey”
"ME...ME...ME...ME...ME...ME...ME...ME...ME...ME...ME...ME...ME...ME...ME...ME...ME...ME...ME...ME...BUSHES FAULT!"
He showed more responsibility in picking out a dog than letting our troops hang in Afghanistan.
That is true...it is Bush’s fault that we ended up getting Obama.
“Hey, Beavis, this is starting to suck.”
“President Barack Obama has been in office just nine months and already he is defending his legacy, pushing back more aggressively against criticism of his record on health care, climate change, closing Guantanamo, reforming immigration laws and financial regulations and managing the war in Afghanistan.”
That pretty much makes him a 100% flop doesn’t it?
For a guy that hasn’t done a days work in his life, he is probably ready to retire after 9 months of pretending to do some.......
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An article from American Thinker By Geoffrey P. Hunt, 8/31/09
Subject: Another Failed Presidency
Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson. In the modern era, we’ve seen several failed presidencies—led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed presidents have one strong common trait— they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out. Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party. Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by his triumphant overture to China .
But, Barack Obama is failing. Failing big. Failing fast. And failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in forging connections with the American people. The incomparable Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger on it: He is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe them. Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard says he is failing because he has lost control of his message, and is overexposed. Clarice Feldman of American Thinker produced a dispositive commentary showing that Obama is failing because fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame.
But, there is something more seriously wrong: How could a new president riding in on a wave of unprecedented promise and goodwill have forfeited his tenure and become a lame duck in six months? His poll ratings are in free fall. In generic balloting, the Republicans have now seized a five point advantage. This truly is unbelievable. What’s going on?
No narrative. Obama doesn’t have a narrative. No, not a narrative about himself. He has a self-narrative, much of it fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else. But this self-narrative is isolated and doesn’t connect with us. He doesn’t have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of us. All successful presidents have a narrative about the American character that intersects with their own where they display a command of history and reveal an authenticity at the core of their personality that resonates in a positive endearing way with the majority of Americans. We admire those presidents whose narratives not only touch our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and smarter than we are. Presidents we admire are aspirational peers, even those whose politics don’t align exactly with our own: Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Ike, Reagan.
But not this president. It’s not so much that he’s a phony, knows nothing about economics, is historically illiterate, and woefully small minded for the size of the task—all contributory of course. It’s that he’s not one of us. And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout made from delaminated corrugated paper. Moreover, he doesn’t command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant and how things work just don’t add up. They are not existential. His descriptions of the world we live in don’t make sense and don’t correspond with our experience.
In the meantime, while we’ve been struggling to take a measurement of this man, he’s dissed just about every one of us—financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance executives, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, post office workers, and anybody else who has a non-green job. Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in 2012: “For those of you I offended, I apologize. For those of you who were not offended, you just didn’t give me enough time; if only I’d had a second term, I could have offended you too.”
Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 devised a useful remedy for such a desperate state—staggered terms for both houses of the legislature and the executive. An equally abominable Congress can get voted out next year. With a new Congress, there’s always hope of legislative gridlock until we vote for president again two short years after that.
Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama among them. The coyotes howl but the wagon train keeps rolling along.
Margaret Thatcher: “The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
“When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.” – James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union
“The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates.” - Tacitus
“A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn’t own.” - Unknown
Dr. Hunt is a social and cultural anthropologist, who has had nearly 30 years experience in planning, conducting, and managing research in the field of youth studies, and drug and alcohol research. Currently Dr. Hunt is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Scientific Analysis and the Principal Investigator on three National Institutes on Health projects. He is also a writer for American Thinker.
Not really. Barama's free fall in his ratings was entirely predictable, since he's a big fat loser.
FDR was an intellectual lightweight and a fascist. He put us on this road to a socialist hell. I admire NOTHING about that b@$t@rd. If I knew where he was buried I'd buy a hundred cases of beer and a pup tent and go camp by his grave.
“Lame Duck already?”
Makes him even more dangerous because he thinks he has absolutely nothing to lose.
Uh. That’s not a mop in your hands, Barack. That’s a golf club.
When has this affirmative action fraud done any of THIS stuff? Its all bullsh*t. His legacy to date is to start the Second American Civil War!
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