Posted on 10/21/2014 7:21:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
When presidents become unpopular, they are no longer welcome on the campaign trail. They're trapped in Washington, watching their party abandon them.
Now, the same oppressive walls are closing in on President Barack Obama. He is welcome only in the palatial homes of Hollywood stars and hedge-fund billionaires or the well-kept fairways of Martha's Vineyard.
The contrast with 2008 is striking and painful. Six years ago, his acolytes fainted as he read from the teleprompter.
What went wrong? Ideology, say the true believers and their staunchest opponents. The left says he compromised too much, desperate to pass his agenda. The right says he refused to compromise at all, sticking to his socialist agenda as a community organizer long after the voters had rejected it.
That may explain why Berkeley, Calif., and Plano, Texas, lost faith, but it doesn't explain why most of America has.
It's not surprising the public has lost faith. Whether the topic is Ebola, the Islamic State, the IRS, National Security Agency spying, the Department of Veterans Affairs, or a dozen others, the White House spins, the Congress does nothing, and the public's trust in our basic institutions drains away. That's bad news for the president. It's far worse for our country.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
ain’t paying to read
As they say in the supermarkets,"Clean up on aisle seven".
He says ISIS is Junior Varsity and then it takes over most of Syria and Iraq.
He says there isn't a smidgen of scandal with the IRS and then emails on hard drives goes missing and the backup servers are somehow inaccessible.
He says the border is secure with thousands of young adult illegal aliens pouring through (that he foists upon the cities).
He appoints an Ebola Czar that knows noting about medicine.
Why else would America lose faith in Obama?
I have not lost faith.
In 2008, I believed that Obama would destroy America and I still believe!
The question (and the tragedy) isn’t why anyone would lose faith with Obola, but why they ever would have had any faith in him to begin with.
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Why would I sign up for something I don’t want?
could you at least summarize that the part of the article we can read?
I have even less faith in the idiots who voted for him....
“Ideology, say the true believers and their staunchest opponents. The left says he compromised too much, desperate to pass his agenda.”
Passed by who? Last time I looked, he’s ruling as a dictator.
Obama is the finest example of “There ain’t no ‘there’, there.
Not true. The House has passed legislation on which the senate has reused to act.
This is going to be one of those "everybody is doing it" articles that in blaming everyone, provides cover for the real offenders.
The truth of the matter is that it is designed chaos meant to provide cover for the Marxists as the loot the treasury and insert laws and personnel into government which will further degrade the Republic.
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."
Those same idiots will be voting for Hillary in two years time.
“and the public’s trust in our basic institutions drains away.”
While the Executive and Legislative bodies engage in a Mexican Standoff, the ‘institutions’ GROW exponentially.
We are to the point that government is a self perpetuating blob (EPA, FDA, FBI,IRS, etc,) that is incapable of being managed by elected officials even with all the money in the treasury.
A perfect example is Deval Patrick transferring 500 managerial positions to public union rolls. The next administration is stuck with them. Voting will make no difference.
Obama has never been challenged growing up, went to college on the AA program, never held a real job, never put his political career up to scrutiny, and was given a free ride by the press ever since 2002.
Even now, he his deflecting any responsibility through the use of Csar’s to increase government and make it even more ineffective.
If there ever was a picture of brainwashed Democrats this one is near or at the top. I wonder if those women still believe in Hope and Change. Looking at their glazed eyes I say they still do.
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