Posted on 09/14/2010 4:53:30 AM PDT by iowamark
You know what? I'm not going to wait for them to call the game. I know how this ends, you know how this ends, so why not just call it ourselves and beat the traffic home?
The Obama administration is over. Done. Failed.
(I'm not saying he can't get up to more mischief, or that the Republicans are victorious -- I'm a realist: I think it's possible, even probable, that we live in complicated world where there doesn't need to be a winner, where everyone can lose.)
But here are three signs that he's over and out:
1. He's worried about his base. The left keeps saying, over and over, that the problem with Obama is that he's not....liberal enough. You've got to energize the base, says Joe Conason, and Salon. You've got to sound more left wing, says Bob Shrum. (Because that, presumably, is the heart of his problem with independents: he's not liberal enough.)
2. His toadies are desperate. E. J. Dionne spins hilarious wish-fulfillment fantasies about an Obama comeback. MSNBC tries to rally the troops. The LATimes and the Washington Post begin the painstaking work of cocooning themselves until Thanksgiving.
3. He's like a rat in a coffee can. He can't get any traction on anything -- not another stimulus package, not his targeted tax cuts, not his mess of a health care plan, not nothing. With no way out, he's flailing around for someone -- anyone -- on the other side to blame. Which is why suddenly John Boehner is suddenly a popular topic among the left. When a sitting president -- a guy who won with 53% of the vote! -- is so toothless and weak he has to run against the House Minority leader -- well, good Lord, how small can this president get?
I'm sure there are more than three signs, of course. But they all point the same way: Obama's moment is over. He blew it, with his arrogance and pomposity and his stratospheric self-love. With his ossified brand of big government liberalism and his dilettante's contempt for people who work for a living. The high point of his presidency was January 20th, 2009. That's when, as I'm sure it felt at the time to him, he gained admission to the prestigious University of the White House. Another step achieved. Looks great on the resume.
The next three years are Zombie years, as he stumbles around American politics like the walking dead. And sadly, as we all know, zombies are still dangerous.
Question of the day. Is Obama a Witch?
Does he float?
He will save himself when the war starts
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Most normal Americans saw this long before he was elected.
Our anger could not be the result of a president perpetually on vacation or on the golf course or out campaigning and fund-raising or shooting hoops and looking cool while oil flowed into the gulf, the the economy tanked, an average of 500,000 people a week signed up for first-time unemployment benefits while Michelle is renting 60 rooms in Spain eating caviar and living the high live and the president is too busy to meet with his commander in Afghanistan - the war of his choosing, or meet with the governor of Arizona to come to an agreement on securing the border before suing her and her state.
When you vote someone into the presidency without the experience of a hot-dog stand manager, you get turd-in-the-punchbowl results.
Liar = Obama.
Cheater = Feds.
Thief = Congress.
Con artist = Piss-Stream Media.
Throw 'em all out.
Exactly!
He forgot that congressional Democrats are running away from Obama-care,not bragging about it like Bill Clinton told them they would be.
Obama is done for this year anyway. Next year ???
We could check. But really just lookit who he is surrounded by. Napolitano?? Selellius?? All of them appear Witchlike. Maybe they are.
I beieve he will resign.
Some excuse will be used (health,family,etc.), but he will not finish the term.
He does not want to be known as a one term president.
He will cite threats from drunk UK teenagers as the reason.
He will become a very unpopular, even an odious figure next year.
How foolish they all look now!
This is getting all too scary....
Even so, he still will have achieved his central goal of marginalizing the worldwide power of the United States. It is the Dream handed down to him From His Father.
That's just funny in itself!
Obama’s only chance for reelection is if the Pubs take control of both houses of Congress this year. Then he can whip up his base by running against them, divert blame to them for any failures, and take credit for any successes they acheive.
I don’t think he will resign because there is no reason for him to do so. An honorable person who realizes that he is over his head would resign for the good of the country. This goofball gets to live like a king at our expense while continuing on with his social experiments. None of his crap will ever affect him so why should he care?
RE :”I beieve he will resign.”
You are dreaming.
Hopefully it is posponed until there is a Republican Speaker of the House. Imagine Pelosi being crowned the First Woman President. Although I would like to see the look on Hillary’s face.
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