Posted on 11/06/2008 6:03:02 PM PST by neverdem
Exactly. Circumstances should force The One to back off, but I doubt that he will. He may even think that he has a huge mandate and try to do it all at once. If he starts pulling some of the stuff that he has promised, and things do not get better(and they won’t) then he will face a potential backlash that could overwhelm both him and the democrat party. The key is holding his feet to the fire when the cow patties hit the fan. That is our job. I can see Obama being completely lost within two years if things go bad and people begin to turn on him.
There is a lot of wishful thinking in the press. I don’t think anyone, but Freepers, Rush, Hannity, and Sarah Palin understand what Obama is going to do.
this wont be the first time... Hanson had it wrong here as well...
A thumbsucker. This column is predicated on the notion that Obama is not a doctrinaire Bolshevik, that he means anything he said when he backed away from any past radical statements, mentors, or alliances. It is predicated on the baseless assumption that Obama wants to govern the United States rather than destroy it. It is empty words, a summary of what Victor Davis Hanson might do in office, having nothing to do with anything that is known about the thought of Obama or his masters.
I believe VDH is dreaming. He's a registered dem, IIRC. I like VDH better when he sticks to analysis. I posted it for Tolik.
You have that right... the others are the ones we need to watch out for.
You mean we’ll look for him when we’re busting people out...
Hussein has lived a pretty isolated life I think. His background is in academics and as a legislator. These are professions that rarely if ever get their hands dirty or deign to mingle with and learn about real people and real life. And all the media coddling and hero worship will not have served him well. If he is typical he will believe some and possibly all of the adulating blather that has been spewn about him. This could well lead to complete bewilderment when reality presents him with the fact that he is not as smart, accomplished or capable as he thinks he is. A wise man would learn from such an experience. A fool would dismiss the lesson as an aberration and keep on doing what got him in trouble to begin with. My assessment of Hussein is that he is not particularly wise.
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