Posted on 12/23/2009 11:24:35 AM PST by milwguy
I know Bush had his own list of catastrophes; other Presidents did as well. Again, my point is not trying to adjudicate relative culpability, but rather just to remind us all how and why Obama dived over 20 points in the polls in just 11 months—and his speeches transformed from inspirational to caricatures.
In short, taken together, after nearly a year, these fissures have nearly ruined the once pretty texture of the Obama administration, and almost rendered it incapable of effective governance.
Here is a random selection. I provide no chronology or theme. Nor do I judge the relative importance of any one incident. The point, again, is only that each was a fissure, some small, some major—all were glued over. The result is that now the public understands that its china presidency is fragile and held together by mere glue.
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Bows to Saudi royalty, the Japanese emperor, and Chinese autocrats
The on-again/off-again Guantanamo shut-down mess
The fight with the former CIA directors
The public show trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed
The reach out to Ahmadinejad Castro, Chavez, and assorted thugs
The Honduras fiasco
Czars everywhere
The serial “Bush did it”/reset whine abroad
The Queen of England/I-pod fiasco
Gordon Brown gets snookered in his gift-giving
Unceremoniously shipping back the Churchill bust
The end of the special relationship with the UK
The New York on-the-town presidential splurge
Anita Dunn and her Mao worship
Timothy Geithner/Tom Daschle/Hilda Solis and their taxes
What ever happened to Gov. Richardson?
“No lobbyists” = gads of them
The Podestas’ insider influence-peddling empire
Sotomayor’s “wise Latina” chauvinism
The Special Olympics silly quip
Trashing Nancy Reagan
The Skip Gates/police acting “stupidly” mess
The get-Chicago-the-Olympics jaunt to Copenhagen
Cap-and-trade boondoggle
“Millions of green jobs”
Ignore gas, oil, coal, and nuclear power production
Cash-for-clunkers
The Joe Biden gaffe machine
Jobs “saved” or “created” rather than references to the actual unemployment rates
Van Jones, the racist and truther
Desiree Rogers won’t testify
The blowback from, and silence about, the Rangel/Dodd corruption
The White House party crashers plan to take the 5th Amendment
The ‘bipartisanship’ con
The pork-barrel stimulus spoils
The demonization of the Town-Hallers
The Acorn Mess
The Kevin Jennings/Safe School Czar embarrassment
The SEIU direct access to the White House
The Asian Tour comedown
The politicization of the take-over of GM and Chrysler
The Obama readjustment in the order of paying back car creditors
Car dealerships closed on shaky criteria
Obama as “Caesar”
The Emanuel “never let a serious crisis go to waste” boast
The Black Caucus/Rangel/Waters bid to bail out the inner-city radio stations
Yosi Sergant and the NEA
$1.7 trillion deficit
The planned $9 trillion added to the national debt
New income tax rates; health care surcharge talk; and payroll tax caps to be lifted
Rahm Emanuel’s promised payback to those states that trash the stimulus
The supposed C-span aired health care debate
The promised website posts of pending legislation
Czechs and Poles sold out on missile defense
Sermons to and finger pointing at the Israelis
The failed ‘Putin helps to stop a nuclear Iran’ gambit
Voting present on the Iranian reformers in the street
Serial but empty deadlines to Ahmadinejad
The good war/bad war twisting and turning on Iraq/Afghanistan
The months-long dithering over Afghanistan
Renditions, tribunals, Patriot Act, etc. once trashed, now OK
Healthcare take-over
The 2,000 page proposed new health code
The embarrassing Nobel Peace Prize nomination
The attacks on surgeons, Chamber of Commerce, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, etc.
The Islam mythologies in the Cairo Speech
The al Arabiya “Bush did it” interview
Obama’s TV “my Muslim faith” gaffe
Add to list. Coward.
56 states?
That was when Obama basically stepped out of his disguise and "outed" himself as a race-baiting leftist.
But the gawdawful 6th Century was followed by nine mostly glorious centuries for Byzantium.
You can make a decent case that, given what he had to work with and what he nevertheless accomplished, Belisarius was the greatest general of all time.
Obama is Bush's legacy.
I'd content that Byzantium had little to be happy about after 1180, and particularly after the capture of the city by the Fourth Crusade in 1204. They hung in there for another 2.5 centuries, but it was pretty much downhill after that.
That said, you're quite correct about earlier centuries. For most of the "middle ages" the Eastern Roman Empire was far and away the most powerful and advanced Christian nation, in about any way you care to discuss.
Yet most medieval histories largely ignore it.
I’d like to add ‘fishy.gov’
$20 million to relocate Hamas to America.
Betrayal of Poland by yanking missle defense.
Allowing Russian nuclear weapons inspections to lapse.
And, I'm sure, hundreds of other high crimes and misdemeanors we'll only find out about at his trial.
Obama is the MSM's/sheeple's legacy with respect to Bush. The MSM did everything they could to destroy any good from Bush, and magnify any error, while holding Obama up as the messiah.
Bush was not perfect. His domestic issues haunted him. His unwillingness to defend himself also caused problems, but he is not responsible for Obama. The media, and a population of sheeple are.
Let’s add the following:
AF1 Photo-op NYC buzzing
The Blue pill is half the price of the Red pill...
And most annoying, I really hate the way he whistles and hisssssses his ssssssssssssses like a poof.
Bush never defends himself.
Why should we?
What does GWB have to say about what is going on today?
Nothing.He made himself nothing.
Obama is his legacy.
The “other” Bill Ayers, frequent White House visitor.
He is making historic changes to transform this country into a "progressive" (socialist) state which he believes will be successful simply because the right people are running it. In the end, the only option he wants available to Americans is the government option controlled by his appointed czars.
“”Obama is his legacy.””
Clearly...
I had to look up the exact quote to do justice to His geniousness:
“If there’s a blue pill and a red pill, and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half price for the thing that’s going to make you well?”
And that is only the first 11 months.
Quite a list of accomplishments for the first year!!!!!
Without the mainstream media running cover for Obama he would have dropped 40 points instead of the 20.
But MSM can only can water for the Messiah so long and then they too will turn on him.
Look forward to MSM walking away from ObaMao in 2010.
Agree with you, when Bush didn’t have the backbone to defend himself, I quit defending him also....Thats one thing I disagree with Rush on, he said Bush had too much respect for the Presidency to defend himself....I called BS on that one.....
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