Obama: "We Have Lost Our Ambition, Our Imagination"

RCP ^ | October 26, 2011 | Maobama

[LibLieSlayer]

Hey kenyan muzzie... YOU WON which means we LOST... and IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT YOU RACIST MARXIST POS!

LLS

[jetson]

Go back to Kenya you dweeb.

[MrB]

It always comes back to that, now doesn’t it?

Is he stupid or evil?

The results speak for themselves - they are not desirable to people with good intentions.

So, if he truly has good intent, he’s stupid for pursuing policy whose results are contrary to a “good” outcome.

If he’s not stupid, then he has to be desiring the negative outcomes.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”Obama: “We Have Lost Our Ambition, Our Imagination”
“We have lost our ambition, our imagination, and our willingness to do the things that built the Golden Gate Bridge,”

Ha-Ha. He has Rachel Maddow writing his script now. MSNBC has been playing these maddow clips for many months now saying exactly the same thing as Obama just did. This is why I watch the other side.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow: The Hoover Dam(short clip on government building a dam)

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow: Government Leadership(short clip on government building a bridge)

Funny thing is that Maddow NEVER suggests that HER viewer/fans should pay more in taxes to fun these things, just the wealthy.

[jersey117]

Putting down Americans again. Why doesn’t he just GTFO of our country.

[Texas Eagle]

"We have lost our ambition, our imagination, and our willingness to do the things that built the Golden Gate Bridge," President Obama said at a fundraiser in San Francisco on Tuesday.

Being fluent in Obonics, I can translate this. Mission accomplished.

[Broker]

This is an excellent article, regardless of one's politics. Even the liberal press seems to realize that Obama was a big mistake.......an interesting read from a columnist with the Washington Post, the New York Post and the San Francisco Examiner.

"Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal."~~ St. Thomas More

The Obama Phenomenon August 18, 2011

Obama: The Affirmative Action President by Matt Patterson

Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job?

Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote "present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions. He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as legislator.

And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?

Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal: To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberaldom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass.

Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass -- held to a lower standard -- because of the color of his skin. Podhoretz continues: And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) "non-threatening," all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?

Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon -- affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.

Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don't care if these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist. Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin -- that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing is. And that is what America did to Obama.

True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois ; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary. What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks?

In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people -- conservatives included -- ought now to be deeply embarrassed. The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that's when he has his teleprompter in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth -- it's all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years.

And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?

In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.

But hey, at least we got to feel good about ourselves for a little while. And really, isn't that all that matters these days?

[livius]

Your tag line is only too true.

[Arrowhead1952]

The only thread with 0 bummer’s name in the title that does not need a barf alert would be “Obama resigns”.

[GlockThe Vote]

Is this idiot aware that a project like the Golden Gate Bridge was proposed more time and money would be spent doing environmental studies, govt. permits and trying to appease various govt. agencies than would be spent on design and construction? Look at the World Trade Center. That whole project should have been completed at least 7 years ago. This is not the fault of the American people but of nit-picking, power hungry bureaucracies and political correctness. Government is the cause of this malaise and statists like Obama think more govt. is the answer.

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[commish]

All I can think of when I read that quote is: “We are in a Malaise”

[SMARTY]

• ___(NO) “We Have Lost Our Ambition, Our Imagination”

• ___(YES) American ‘ambition’ and ‘imagination’ deprogrammed
by Liberals

Hmmmm.... what do you think?

[livius]

In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job.

But he has a gigantic ego and an absolutely ruthless will to power.

That said, you're right, this was an excellent description of the "Obama phenomenon" that got him elected.

[Future Snake Eater]

Another "malaise" speech? How many did Carter give?

[GlockThe Vote]

He is an absolute disgrace.

FFFUUUBBBBOOOO!!!!!!!

[LachlanMinnesota]

Obama admits the nation is Going Galt.

Buddy, you are not welcome in the valley.

[Texas Eagle]

Is this idiot aware that a project like the Golden Gate Bridge was proposed more time and money would be spent doing environmental studies, govt. permits and trying to appease various govt. agencies than would be spent on design and construction?

In other words, is he aware that it would take years and years of throwing gobs and gobs of money at Most Favored Constituency entities in return for those entities contributing gobs and gobs of money to DemocRAT polluticians for years and years before a single shovel of dirt is dug?

When you ask it that way, the answer is quite obvious; yes.

[LachlanMinnesota]

Exhibit A offered for proof is Chris Christie’s cancellation of the large public projects out East. It can’t be done in today’s regulatory and graft-laden environment.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

truest statement:
“Socialism always steals ambition.
It’s an inevitable consequence, and one that will never be overcome - no matter how much the left tries to make it otherwise.
Altruism can only come from the individual. It cannot be legislated.
Socialism is theft, in so many different ways, including the theft of ambition ~ ... by pieceofthepuzzle

truest tagline : “(The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)”... by GlockThe Vote

[klamath]

“Socialism is theft, in so many different ways, including the theft of ambition.”

Thank your for this succinct quote. It should be ingrained in every mind!