Posted on 06/25/2013 2:17:29 PM PDT by libstripper
There is a turning point in every presidency that people point back to and say, you know, nothing was ever the same after that. Sometimes it is the point where presidents go on to greatness. Sometimes, it is when a presidency unravels.
For Jimmy Carter, it was when a group of students seized the American Embassy and took more than 100 American diplomats hostage in November 1979. Carter could do nothing right after that. His attempt to rescue the hostages was a pathetic, feeble failure. During the oil crisis Carter went around the White House in a cardigan sweater turning down the thermostat and turning out the lights, while the American people endured gas rationing and long lines at the pumps because some third-rate petro powers decided to punish us.
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I would argue that Jimmy Carter’s turning point was the “malaise” speech of July 15, 1979, in which he stated that a “crisis of confidence” that strikes at “the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will” is manifest in “the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.” Carter had spent a week at Camp David with his top aides hoping to come up with a barn burner of an address that would recharge his administration, but the somber and pessimistic speech that they finally came up with had the opposite effect.
yep
He is not done and fallen until the media says he is. The low information voters follow the media narrative.
If you really want to see how bad Obama has been and the left is then check out these sites tracking him and tracking the left:
http://www.commieblaster.com/index.html -This site gathers up links from many sources on various topics related to Obama and has categories of things Obama and the left have done.
http://www.exposeobama.com/ - A blog tracking Obama and the left. It was one of many links Commie Blaster linked to.
http://keywiki.org/index.php/Main_Page - A site with info on the left in the format of Wikipedia. It has its own bio of Obama.
http://discoverthenetworks.org/ - A site detailing the left. A reference guide.
http://gulagbound.com/ - A news site and a guide on marxism.
http://dissectleft.blogspot.com/ - Blog I found through Key Wiki that has some interesting links and synopsis of articles from sites I never heard of that sounds worth reading.
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/ - Site of a blog talk radio program that also has commentary.
Yep. Those are our kids. I too graduated college in the midwest at the time of gas lines and double digit inflation and unemployment. I worry about our sons, even more when I consider that they are prime draft age in a nation which is being set up on so many levels. A time for prayer, certainly.
Absolutely. In addition, he's almost certainly ineligible (depending on what his true origins narrative turns out to be) for the office he currently enjoys, and the other global ptb certainly know it, which means he's completely compromised and therefore a breathtaking security breach.
I hope this guy's history is part of what Snowden has, and that it's released very publicly and irrefutably.
Well if “doing nothing right” is the criteria, then Obama hit it about 5 years ago
” just look to Moscow. “
I don’t buy conspiracy theories often, but that raises a very interesting point. If anyone knows Obamas secrets outside the US government, it would logically be the KGB, or a similar state-level intelligence network. Putin’s attitude certainly conveys a sense of absolute control and untouchability.
That point came in mid January 2009. Disaster then, disaster now.
That’ll happen on the 12th of Never.
You got it.
I agree that Obama is just an icon. He is around for the branding.
“I think 0bama is just a craven narcissistic coward. An empty suit. A puppet who thinks he’s the puppet master.”
Your assessment is spot on. Your statement also describes his fearsome “army” that some number of people here are afraid of. It’s all kabuki theater.
Russia has asked that George Soros be extradicted. Trade?
It sounds like Alexander is the puppet master
The only reason he's being protected is because it currently benefits those that hold the cards. The NSA/CIA rake in untold multi-billions to pay perks & salaries, with the remainder going to gear from Silicon valley (by way of China).
The Russians benefit because they're watching the US implode as fear & distrust of fed.gov overwhelms patriots. If Putin was to ok a release of information, the US would be thrown into an uproar, and potentially avert a coup.
It is much preferable, at least from a Russian long-term strategic perspective, to keep the Obama cancer eating @ the American body politic. If Putin really wanted to put the knife in our back, he'd send Snowden directly to DC.
That would break all possible resistance by any potential whistleblower(s), and fast track us straight to outright, in-your-face, tyranny.
Not the Sun King, the Mahdi.
Jimma Carter has to be the happiest exPOTUS in the world knowing how Barry Hussein Soetoro has arrived.
I know, and for me it’s so hard to see why 2012 wasn’t a repeat of 1980. Oh yeah, no conservative running for the GOP.
President Vladimir Putin confirmed on Tuesday a former U.S. spy agency contractor sought by the United States was in the transit area of a Moscow airport but ruled out handing him over to Washington, dismissing U.S. criticisms as “ravings and rubbish.”
In his first public comments since the fugitive flew in on Sunday, he appeared to make light of the affair around Edward Snowden, whose flight from U.S. authorities is becoming an increasing embarassment for President Barack Obama. Asked by a journalist about the affair, he smiled fleetingly.
“I myself would prefer not to deal with these issues. It's like giving a baby pig a haircut: there's a lot of squealing, but there's little wool,” he told a news conference in Finland.
His refusal to hand back Snowden risked deepening a rift with the United States that has also sucked in China and threatens relations between countries that may be essential in settling global conflicts including the Syrian war.
Putin said the 30-year-old American was in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and, not having gone through passport control, was free to leave.
“The sooner he chooses his final destination, the better it would be for us and for himself,” Putin said.
Snowden has applied for asylum in Ecuador but Quito has said it is still considering the application and the United States is trying to persuade the governments of countries where he might head to hand him over. His plans remain unclear.
“He has not crossed the state's border, and therefore does not need a visa. And any accusations against Russia (of aiding him) are ravings and rubbish,” Putin said in response to a question at a news conference during a visit to Finland.
Washington has gone to great lengths to try to ensure Snowden has nowhere to go to seek refuge. But Putin said Russia had no extradition treaty with the United States and suggested Moscow would expel Snowden only if he were a criminal.
“Thank God, Mr Snowden committed no crimes on the territory of the Russian Federation,” Putin said in the garden of a presidential residence, with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto beside him.
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