The Worst of All Possible Presidents

Because I can’t think of a person who is less suited and less interested in being president of the United States than Barack Obama is.

I’m reminded of this as I see Europe drift from debt to crisis to dissolution.

“Events in Greece over the past 24 hours have underscored the importance of implementing the plan, fully and as quickly as possible,” said the US president according to Euronews.

I didn’t understand that there was a real plan for the Greek debt crisis. If there is one, certainly Obama has nothing to do with it.

People like to pretend at times that who our president is doesn’t matter. They say presidents get either too much blame or too much credit. Can’t say much about the credit part, but it’s not possible to blame Obama enough for the poor state of the United States and the lack of leadership and confidence the United States engenders around the world today.

In our economy, our relations with other powers, our reputation around the globe, we’ve become a laughingstock under Obama. “Hope and Change” has become a hackneyed punch line of lost chances, hopes destroyed and dreams knowingly betrayed by golf vacations.

Obama has offered us nothing but our blood, our toil, our tears and our sweat; and for what?

So public employees can continue to bust public budgets on Cadillac benefits that you and I can’t afford. All this while he pushes austerity down the throats of a sovereign Greece.

I’m tired of Obama’s “leading from behind.” That’s not leading, that’s pushing

Don’t think for one minute that Obama would accept for his union friends the type of cuts he says he favors for Greece.

We’ve gone from each according to his means to each according to his union. We’ve gone from a post-partisan, post-racial America, to all partisan, all the time.

The president of the United States once, not long ago, stood up to Communism when they tried to take over South Korea- in this, he was sustained by the whole world. Today we’re left with the president being lectured to by Chinese Communists regarding reckless spending; and after being lectured to by Chinese Communists, in return, all Obama can offer to Europe is lectures about their own profligate ways.

It’s inconceivable that a Reagan or a Kennedy would let things drift with a world in crisis. A Reagan or a Kennedy would have acted, if only in a moral sense. Both George Bushes had enough sense for that.

"I am confident that Europe has the capacity to meet this challenge. I know it isn't easy, but what is absolutely critical, and what the world looks for in moments such as this, is action," said Obama after a G20 meeting on Europe’s debt crisis, according to the Wall Street Journal.

But don’t look for action from Obama. If he could attack Greece with a covert drone missile strike, he’d probably do so in order to avoid having to exercise real leadership.

He’s been the "drone" president on fiscal issues here in the US too, having dinner with his family and getting a hair cut while his aides bickered about bailouts.

There was a day when the US could help exercise some leadership on the European stage. But if Obama’s interested in the European debt issue, then that’s news to me, German chancellor Angela Merkel, French president Sarkozy, members of the G20, fans of All My Children or anyone with electricity.

Obama has become the absentee landlord of the world, not presiding over the budget; abstaining from the debt ceiling; absent from Europe during the debt crisis; issuing a bull against a tsunami as enjoyed his own National Lampoon’s Brazilian Vacation.

I strongly believe that Obummer is moving us into Fascism. Of course, I understand that most of his “subjects” have no clue what that really means and will vote fotr him again.
I am looking for him to soon announce that all “corporations” are just screwing us poor citizens and that Government must now strongly control all Business, after all he is only trying to protect us. This will be the beginning of our end.

I also strongly believe that with the announced Iraq withdrawal by the end of the year and the just announced Afghanistan surrender, He is trying to accomplish two things: Help his reelection and then attack Iran.

>>>Like you know a secret and no one wants to hear it? The secret is: We are reliving the beginnings of Hitler’s Germany. Nazi Germany happened because the populace was just minding their business and trying to earn a living for their families, while evil was ignoring Germany’s laws and taking over the government. Same thing happening in the U.S.A. today. Our executive branch is being administered by evil, ignoring our laws, and taking over the government. This is what the Democrat party wanted??? Really???<<<

I agree with your premise. The end result of progressive, liberal, socialist - whatever name you want to give to government by elite planners - is totalitarianism. Did the Democrats want this? Did they have a choice on they embarked on their utopian vision of America?

However, I’m going to disagree with your conclusion. The United States is not Germany. Our cultures are distinct. The Germans had already been acculurated to the idea of benevolent kings - Bismark, Kaiser Wilhelm, the little princes in those tiny kingdoms that made up Germany after the 30 Years War. Hitler offered Germans a package that they could support.

Americanas are different. I don’t see a Hitler or a Stalin or a Pol Pot in our future. In fact, I see something far more sinister. I see lip service to individual rights, while the planners work in bureaucracies in far off Washington, D.C., hammering out regulations and rules about everything for everyone. Call it the Comintern with a nice appearance. You’ll get a chance to make your views known during the public comment period, and your ideas will make it into the regulations. Nice folks from the Dept. of Agriculture or the EPA or the Commerce Department will sit and chat and help you work through the red tape. It will be scrupulously fair. Your rights will be listed.

Slowly, slowly, the state will become involved in every aspect of life, even more than it is now, and you’ll be in a fog of regulation. You can listen to Rush complain about it, you can hear Levin rail about it, you can go to church and pray about it (although not in school), you can have all the guns you want. After all, who are you going to shoot - that nice neighbor just following rules written by some other guy just following the law? The president will be a marshmallow nothing, like Obama, and Leno and Letterman will mock him gently. Put it on your Facebook page. You’ve got a right.

Eventually, if you are really ornery, you’ll be asked to attend a workshop on citizenship at a swank hotel on the seaside with a free continental breakfast listening to pleasant speakers invite you to take part in activities designed to teach you new ways of thinking, after which you’ll sign a little contract promising not to be so loud and opinionated, and you should be lucky to have a job, so don’t complain about what you can and can’t say at work. The state will only need a few show trials every decade, well televised and reported in the media, to show everyone that following the rules is better than fighting them. After all, you still have your rights.

I think I’m correct about this. I hope I’m just a lunatic wearing a tin-foil hat. God help us.

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