Posted on 08/23/2011 6:51:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
President Obama's legacy is shaping up to be a recurring cycle of rhetorical failures chasing policy failures, an endless, stupefying effort to convince us of the wisdom of pursuing -- again and again -- policies that have already failed.
This point is reinforced as we read reports about Obama's umpteenth luxurious golf outing while our economy and financial condition approach DEFCON 2 and Middle East turmoil continues apace.
From the superficial snippets we get from the liberal media, Obama doesn't seem to be too concerned with either domestic or foreign policy while on the links, but to the extent he allocates thought to either, he's contemplating his next speech more than deliberating over any substantive decisions.
From all appearances, he's not fretting over the grim jobs reports and hints of creeping inflation; he's not meditating or seeking advice about a new direction he could propose to navigate us out of this malaise.
He's thinking about his abysmal approval ratings, wondering how he can fob those off on President Bush, too. And he's thinking about how he can con the nation into permitting him to give us more doses of the same poisonous elixirs he crammed down our throats the first time.
If he really cared what the people think, he might try listening to them instead of just pretending to be on a listening tour. When an Iowan farmer tried to gently school him on the depressing effects of stifling governmental regulations, Obama cavalierly blew him off and launched into one of his canned monologues deriding income disparities and partisanship. He's got to be the closest thing to a robot ever to inhabit the Oval Office.
As an incorrigible and stunningly narrow-minded ideologue, Obama can't process information or ideas that don't conform to his presuppositions and predispositions. When his policies don't work, it must be because conditions were worse than he'd realized or he didn't go far enough. There is utterly no room for consideration of the possibility that his policies don't work.
So it was that last year when Obama returned from Martha's Vineyard, he didn't emerge revealing any hint of humility about the ongoing failure of his economic prescriptions. He didn't announce that economic realities had finally forced him to take a second look at the wisdom of his agenda.
Instead, he strode into Wisconsin and Ohio to unveil a "bold economic program," as if his $800 billion stimulus package hadn't been brassy enough. He called for "quickly" investing some $50 billion in roads, bridges and other public works projects and, of course, for his obligatory tax hikes for the evil "rich," who could always "afford to give back a little more."
I don't know why more people didn't outright ridicule this juvenile idea at the time. If not already, at what point will he have forfeited the privilege of being taken seriously about the economy? At a time when almost every thinking American was becoming increasingly horrified at the national debt, Obama was proposing that we increase it substantially more in pursuit of policies that had already failed. He never provided any glimpse into the bizarre thought process that had led him to believe that $50 billion could jump-start an economy when 16 times that amount had not.
In the past year, since Obama attempted that preposterous Stimulus II, the people have made it even clearer how opposed they are to his reckless Keynesian schemes, but he refuses to hear them. Just as with Obamacare, he has no intention of deviating from his programmed course. His only challenge is to repackage it -- and fool us into buying it in fewer than 54 speeches this time.
That's right. Believe it or not, in between holes, he's crafting a grand September speech, "mapping out a jobs package that he hopes can boost a sluggish economy and win over voters who are coming to doubt his leadership," according to the Los Angeles Times.
He's not about to propose that the government, to stimulate growth, relax its stranglehold on the private sector by loosening onerous regulations, easing the tax burden, and drastically reducing spending. Those do not compute.
He's going to propose -- in a different, perhaps more deceptive, form -- the same blueprint: government spending of borrowed money to "stimulate" growth. And he'll ratchet up his attack on Republicans, blaming them, along with his predecessor, for obstructing his ingenious reforms. To make his case, he will have to revise history to distort the fact that he had supermajorities in Congress long enough to get his way on the omnibus bill, the stimulus package and Obamacare and that they've all greatly exacerbated our financial crisis.
Obama's puerile predictability is pathetic, but even more so, it's tragic. If only there were a way to reprogram this robot.
Until the debt-ceiling deal, I had never seen so clearly the degree of contempt and disdain in which not only the Democrats, but also the liberal, establishment Republicans hold us. To them we are literally nothing more than dim-witted serfs whose only purpose is to earn the money that keeps them in power.
Obama is a PINO, as in, President In Name Only.
He sees himself like the Queen of England, loving the limelight, making pronouncements, all while letting others do the heavy lifting, or, as he likes to say, Leading From Behind!
He shows no leadership skills or desire, and every day is just another day on the campaign trail.
Shovel-ready, DOA proposals.
Does Zero really have any idea about how long it takes to undertake a major road or bridge rebuilding?
I think you nailed it... not only does he want to be dictator, he wants to be a figure head to be worshiped, riding around in his limo waving to to the unwashed masses..... because ...uh.... he won...and uh.... he’s the president..... he has no concept that the U.S president actually works at the job and is NOT just a figurehead.....
He needs his chip pulled out and destroyed.
bump
If Black Banana were a robot, it wouldn’t be a crime to smask him to pieces with a shovel and urinate on his circuits.
Obama Is a Dumb-bot That Needs Dismantling
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I have long believed Obama is a shill/puppet of international manipulators. His coat off tie-off public ramblings are most often hashed over in some form, smooth and appealing to his crowds. I find it ludicrous that people from all walks of life including military which he in no way can claim service want to take this man’s hand in a ritual of subservience. This man was chosen because he has that charm of talking to match his narcissism for the purposes of his enablers.
Revising history is easy when you're a democrat: you have virtually the entirety of the mainstream media as your own personal communications department...
“I have long believed Obama is a shill/puppet of international manipulators. His coat off tie-off public ramblings are most often hashed over in some form, smooth and appealing to his crowds. I find it ludicrous that people from all walks of life including military which he in no way can claim service want to take this man’s hand in a ritual of subservience. This man was chosen because he has that charm of talking to match his narcissism for the purposes of his enablers.”
Yes, there seems to have been a network boosting him along his way from his earliest college days in Los Angeles. Urban terrorist Bill Ayers in his early communications and writings has been entranced with the notion of the “noble Black man,” and Barry/Barak seemed to fit the bill of an image - Black, white, Muslim and Christian all at the same time and talking like a white man - that could be disguised and sold to the American people. The Muslim world would see him as one of their own and he them, given his formative years being educated as a Muslim in a Muslim school in Indonesia. Obama seems not to have ever had an original idea of his own, nor to really understand anything, but the most superficial notion of any topic. He seems to have been a Trojan Horse installed to open the gates of America and the West to forces waiting to wage war against the U.S. economy and security from within.
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