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None Dare Call It Desperation
Townhall.com ^ | November 26, 2010 | Michael Gerson

Posted on 11/26/2010, 4:49:03 PM by Kaslin

Edited on 11/26/2010, 5:19:35 PM by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

WASHINGTON -- Following two years of poor economic performance and electoral repudiation, liberalism is casting around for narratives to explain its failure -- narratives that don't involve the admission of inadequacies in liberalism itself.

For some, the solution is to lay the blame on President Obama. He hasn't been liberal enough. He can't communicate. "I cannot recall a president," says Robert Kuttner in the Huffington Post, "who generated so much excitement as a candidate but who turned out to be such a political dud as a chief executive." Obama is "fast becoming more albatross than ally."


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1 posted on 11/26/2010, 4:49:08 PM by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Anybody who had voted with knowledge of who they were voting for, instead of I feel, I feel, I feel, we wouldn’t be in this mess right now.


2 posted on 11/26/2010, 4:53:04 PM by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Kaslin

So Obama should double down on liberalism, once again.


Go for it usurper. This is your last hurrah before removal from office. The people’s day in court is coming soon.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=232073


3 posted on 11/26/2010, 4:53:21 PM by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: Kaslin
" "I cannot recall a president," says Robert Kuttner in the Huffington Post, "who generated so much excitement as a candidate but who turned out to be such a political dud as a chief executive."

Kuttner either has a very short or a very selective memory: does the name "Jimmuh Cartuh" ring a bell?

Obama is just the "Chocolate Carter."

4 posted on 11/26/2010, 4:59:16 PM by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: Kaslin

Obama is increasingly becoming hostile to the American people, dangerously detached from events domestic and foreign and increasingly becoming unhinged. It’s beyond conduct unbecoming an American president and he is becoming a danger to the nation. He has to go. Impeachment or by some other means by God, but he has to go. This is becoming a national disaster in the making. No man is above the law and the will of the American people. Not Richard Nixon and certainly not this bum.


5 posted on 11/26/2010, 5:00:48 PM by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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To: Kaslin
With Obama we have killed two birds with one stone. The electorate has elected a black AA President and a devout commie/socialist to the Presidency. It has turned out to be a royal Cluster F(Charlie Foxtrot). Let's hope the electorate got that out of their system for a LONG time. It is safe, and "cool", again to vote for a boring white guy. Maybe even a gal.
6 posted on 11/26/2010, 5:01:32 PM by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Kaslin
"...Republicans ...according to Benen, creating "massive economic uncertainty by vowing to gut the national health care system."

But what is the result of this alleged "massive economic uncertainty?"

When it looked certain the GOP would regain control of the House, the stock market began to take off - more a sign of economic certaintly, for a change.

7 posted on 11/26/2010, 5:03:56 PM by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: MsLady

“We’re talking about a major political party ... possibly undermining the strength of the country — on purpose, in public, without apology or shame — for no other reason than to give themselves a campaign advantage”

Hmm, reminds me of a certain war George Bush tried to prosecute in the Middle East.


8 posted on 11/26/2010, 5:13:42 PM by Crooked Constituent
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To: Kaslin

I thought Obummer was the Left’s Ronald Reagan? He was supposed to be the Great Communicator. No one has done more to sell their agenda to the American people than him and they weren’t buying it.


9 posted on 11/26/2010, 5:50:26 PM by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Redbob
does the name "Jimmuh Cartuh" ring a bell?

I don't recall Skippy generating anything remotely like "excitement".

Yeah, he beat Jerry but there was no messianic quality to his campaign.

10 posted on 11/26/2010, 5:59:52 PM by rogue yam
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To: MsLady

>>Anybody who had voted with knowledge of who they were voting for, instead of I feel, I feel, I feel, we wouldn’t be in this mess right now.<<

Republicans and Independents do the same thing as the Democrats. They fall in love with their candidate and from that day forth s/he can do no wrong.

The last thing that should be in your decision to vote for someone is sexual emotion but unfortunately people are humans and they have weaknesses.


11 posted on 11/26/2010, 6:00:35 PM by B4Ranch (I have never met one, not one Veteran who enlisted to fight for Socialism.)
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To: B4Ranch

Obama had a mesmerizing, soaring rhetoric. It enthralled people and cuz they were sick of Bush, they didn’t bother to notice there was no real substance behind it. That’s ok... once in a generation Americans buy a dud.


12 posted on 11/26/2010, 6:03:39 PM by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Hotlanta Mike
The people’s day in court is coming soon.


13 posted on 11/26/2010, 6:08:05 PM by ReignOfError
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To: Redbob

And how does a “national health care system” not even in place yet cause such panic if it is “gutted”?


14 posted on 11/26/2010, 6:17:00 PM by kevslisababy
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To: B4Ranch

I agree!!! Educate oneself before getting into that voting booth. I think that’s just as much a responsibility as an American, as going and voting is.


15 posted on 11/26/2010, 6:43:34 PM by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: goldstategop

>>That’s ok... once in a generation Americans buy a dud.<<

So true. One from each Party.

When I look back at Bush, I see a good looking man with an attractive wife (which are both important) man who pushed the Free Trade Agreements on us and subsequently that took American heavy manufacturing out of the US causing today’s unemployment problems. The financial root of the New World Order.

I see someone who refused to use the oil supplies we have on American property and thereby enriched the Saudi Arabians.

I see someone who tried to push Islam as a peace loving religion and has successfully flooded America with almost 10 million Muslums. Wait for Sharia Law to come. It’s next.

I see someone who refused to protect American borders thereby allowing millions of illegal aliens to enter America and get on our social programs which is helped bankrupt the states.

I see someone who built the DHS thereby almost doubling the number of federal emoloyees today.

I see someone who pushed the Patriot Act which led us to Gramma being molested at the airports today.

I see someone who was very compassionate and not the slightest bit Conservative.

These problems didn’t start with him though, it comes from the GOP and who they push on us voters as Republican candidates. Look at the last one, McCain. Pulled from the garbage pail and forced onto our plates. Are they listening to us now?

If and when the next time the Republicans get the House, the Senate and the White House it will be the same as 2002. Not a single Bill passed by the Democrats will be reversed / revoked.

You’ll have to talk a long time to convince me that there is a difference between the goals of the Republicans and the Democrats. It’s been so long since the Republicans were truly conservative, before I started voting and that’s 40 some years ago.

I don’t know what it’s going to take to keep this Republic but I don’t think we will. Legislators spit on the Constitution and wipe their butts with the Bill of Rights.

I apologize if you find this depressing. That’s the result of 50 million illegals and 10 million Muslums.


16 posted on 11/26/2010, 7:04:06 PM by B4Ranch (I have never met one, not one Veteran who enlisted to fight for Socialism.)
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To: goldstategop

Oh, yeah, just get a load of this mesmerizing soaring rhetoric. Is that a new name for a load of bovine feces?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omHUsRTYFAU


17 posted on 11/27/2010, 1:49:16 AM by RipSawyer (Clem Hussein Kadiddlehopper would be a vast improvement.)
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