Posted on 08/19/2010 5:11:10 PM PDT by La Lydia
As J. R. Dunn writes at the American Thinker, “There comes a moment in a failing presidency where the incumbent, through some single gesture, action, or statement, crosses a certain line from beyond which there is no return:”
Through his own will and behavior, he so underlines his failings, so frames his negative image, that no further action can ever erase it. Fate, accident, and circumstance have nothing to do with it. It is the president himself who puts the period at the end of his own sentence.
Such moments are obvious in retrospect, though not always at the time. With Richard Nixon, it was the “eighteen-minute gap.” ... The voting public viewed the uproar with bemusement rather than indignation. But the tape gap finished him. In less than a year, he was forced into resignation.
For Jimmy Carter, it was the “malaise speech” of July 15, 1979, in which he attempted to shuffle the blame for his tepid performance as president from his own administration onto the shoulders of the American people...It was America’s fault, not Jimmy Carter’s. The public reaction was open disgust and the abject collapse of any support for the Carter presidency.
With Obama, we have an abundance of riches: the multiple vacations, the legal harassment of the state of Arizona on behalf of illegals, the clownish response to the Gulf oil blowout. But when historians come to select the moment when Obama went over the edge of the world, I think they’ll find the great Iftar mosque speech of August 13, 2010 hard to beat.
And then there’s this to look forward to, Dunn writes:
The past two years are the best Obama will ever see. The real crises of his presidency are still to come, and they are easily visible as they move toward us — Iran, terrorism, the economy, the collapse of the national health care system hastened by his own policies.
What happens next for the rest of us? That depends on what happens in November, of course....something tells me that the reality of the next few years will be much more messy.
The lamestream, leghumping media are stil propping him up.
He has gone over the cliff and is free falling to the bottom. Like Wile. E. Cyote. His scams all work as well too. I think they should be renamed like the Acme stimulus Plan. The Acme Health Care Plan etc.
It’s up to the Republican Party to take a bold stance this November in order to be able to shepherd this country through the last 2 years of the Muslim Messiah’s “presidency”.
If they don’t take a bold stance, we are all going to be in a world of hurt.
Isn’t it ironic that he tried to tie his heritage to Kansas?
Sing along!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60A1yKc2hi4
I firmly believe the point of no return happened with the Officer Crowley/Prof. Gates debacle. Obama revealed himself to be a racist and not post-racial. The fact that Obama ceased having formal WH press conferences for nine months after his off the cuff remarks at the Press conference was the telltale sign that he had committed a major mistake.
...as they did Carter.
This time they must face the InTerNetS!
Helped by drooling idiots who watch TV. ALL the TV networsk own all the channels and they all support Obama. Fox, based on Rush’s web site, was shilling HEAVILY for non-muslim Obama. Fox has Saudi shareholders.
Dunn’s article is excellent.
I think the media covered his rear that time, but there isn’t much they can do about this latest episode.
What an absolute travesty that the first black president is of the very lowest caliber imaginable. He is a poor excuse for even scum.
President Barack Obama prays daily, a White House official said Thursday,
Ok, but what direction is he facing???
Thanks, I needed a laugh. :)
Hope the Point of No Return does happen, but he is a skillful manipulator. However he has done plenty of provocative things against American patriotism, etc. such as bowing to the Saudi’s and his continual gravelling in apologies when he should be showing pride of being an American and everything America has done for others worldwide. He ultimately cannot hide his underlying disdain for America.
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