Abraham Obama
Axelrod as Morris?
In this search for another persona after the 2010 disaster, Obama flirted briefly with a Bill Clinton identity. He gave signals that he would be another triangulator of the Dick-Morris brand, who saved his presidency after the 1994 “shellacking” by moving to the middle. So in December 2010, a subdued Obama announced that these recessionary times were not the right moment to raise taxes on anyone. There was no more talk of “punish our enemies.” Remember Rahm Emanuel had wisely resigned right before the midterm wipeout, and Chicago fixer Bill Daley took his place as proof of the new pragmatism. The Left howled and soon even the New York Times was printing op-eds that Obama was more or less a fraud.
Missouri Obama
But given that Obama had, by his own advisors’ admission, already lost the clingers’ vote, triangulation passed. Obama had not Clinton’s political savvy or flexibility. So he dug in, searching for yet another identity — only to find it in Harry Truman circa 1948. “Give ‘em Hell” Barry now crisscrossed the country in campaign mode, damning another do-nothing Republican-controlled Congress that had tried to stall the fair deal. The premise was that if over $4 trillion in borrowed money had not jump-started the economy, someone should be blamed for not borrowing an additional half-trillion that surely would have.
Obama Versus the Trusts
And what mask now? Apparently it is to be Obama as Teddy Roosevelt, crusading against the modern equivalent of trusts, monopolies, and John D. Rockefeller zillionaires — and this from the largest recipient of campaign cash in presidential history, and the first candidate to renounce the public financing of presidential campaigns.
Note that Obama’s TR trust-busting does not include mention of tax-avoidance by a Timothy Geithner or John Kerry. Ill-gotten gains and unfairness do not include the many annual millions of Bill Gates or Warren Buffett, much less a Leonardo DiCaprio or Johnny Depp, still much less those who pony up $38,000 a head to meet with Obama. We are not to hear much about Jon Corzine’s missing $600 million. Nor is there reference to Bill Clinton’s firm’s charging $50,000 a month to a broke MF Global.
The evil “they” are not the liberal elite whose children are at Harvard, but the lesser, more uncouth folk who hustle to run three muffler shops, or operate barges, or own a timber company, lacking the grace that comes with government sinecure or inherited wealth and with no guilt over their success, and no desire to purchase psychological exemption from Obama.
A Better Mask
How odd that Obama has tried on every mask except one that naturally fits him, that of Jimmy Carter. Carter, remember, railed about luxury boats and three-martini lunches, as if that kind of indulgence had sent the economy into 8% unemployment, 12% inflation, and 15% interest rates. Our problem was always Nixon of old, never Carter of the present. Beneath the utopian Christian caring was the mean streak and petulance; Carter, you see, loved humanity but not humans.
Currently we also see a return of Carter’s foreign policy disasters. Do we remember them — the reach out to leftist enemies, the suspicion of Israel, and the drift away from Europe?
What happened with Obama’s natural resonance, as he promised in his Al Arabiya interview, with Muslim countries such as Pakistan and Egypt? Now reset is also over with Russia. The pressure is heating up with Iran, which not long ago we dared not slight when a million were on the streets trying to topple the regime.
Until she opened her mouth and revealed herself to be a functional idiot...
So now he channels Jimmy Carter: refuses to stand up to Iran, economy a mess, one and done.
He sucks so much he has to steal his image from other presidents....
Who do I—I mean, how many do I have to blow
out before they sing Happy Birthday to me?
Obama is a gifted grifter possessed of merely average intelligence.
An excellent article - thanks for posting it. Hanson has become one of our most widely-read political writers, and the attention is well deserved.
Zero’s speech would contain the words, “Mr. Putin, please build a new wall here” !
> And at the Brandenburg Gate, Obama would have liked to electrify Europeans with another Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech.
” - - - Empty soaring rhetoric of the day, as the president without an identity desperately searches for one about every three months. - - - “
3 months, that is equal to one season.
So now the Democrats have a Coward-in-Chief who is an illegal candidate that is arrogant, petulant, dictatorial, hates bickering, and puts on his “Emperor’s new clothes” with each change of the season.
BTW, we have always seen him as a sorry, buck-naked Socialist, pretending to be an Emperor that gives public pep talk speeches to himself.
BTW, BTW, if Obama-the-looney is not the perfect impeachable pOTUS, then who is? ( I guess it depends upon what is is. )
This is a beautiful essay, thanks for posting.
Now what needs to be asked is, does anyone really believe the Rat machine saw none of this, when it kicked Hillary in the dirt and chose Obama?
And if it did, then why go so far with the Beast, only to then choose the BoyToy instead?
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. Delay just makes things a lot worse.
Abraham Obama
Yep.
