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What Happened to Obama?
By Drew Weston
Who, by his own confession in the waning paragraphs of the fourth page of this opinion piece in the New York Times, reveals himself to have been yet another rube. Ladies and gentlemen, this piece demands to be fisked, but four pages is beyond my ability, not to mention fair use.
If we took the time to fisk every rube who is only now coming to see that Obama is a shallow, weak man and merely a mirror onto which the rubes projected their innermost authoritarian desires, Fred would have to rename the blog. Nevertheless, you ask and we deliver:
The most charitable explanation is that he and his advisers have succumbed to a view of electoral success to which many Democrats succumb -- that "centrist" voters like "centrist" politicians.
Democrats co-opt centrist views to win election and then tack left to push their agenda. They've been doing it since FDR. If you read history, you'd know that.
Unfortunately, reality is more complicated.
No, it ain't. The only thing complicated for the left is how to explain massive wealth transfers from those working to those who don't.
Centrist voters prefer honest politicians who help them solve their problems.
The implication here is that left and right voter prefer dishonest politicians. Way to smear a larger large of the electorate other than the elusive centrist voter
"The public was desperate for a leader who would speak with confidence, and they were ready to follow wherever the president led."

Drew Westen
Jobs? Balanced budget? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?
A second possibility is that he is simply not up to the task by virtue of his lack of experience and a character defect that might not have been so debilitating at some other time in history.
Ya think? You mean to tell everyone else who don't read the Times you are just now glomming on to that glaring fact?
Those of us who were bewitched by his eloquence on the campaign trail chose to ignore some disquieting aspects of his biography: that he had accomplished very little before he ran for president, having never run a business or a state; that he had a singularly unremarkable career as a law professor, publishing nothing in 12 years at the University of Chicago other than an autobiography; and that, before joining the United States Senate, he had voted "present" (instead of "yea" or "nay") 130 times, sometimes dodging difficult issues
What a weinie. "Chose to ignore?" Really? If you took the whole election thing seriously, as you didn't, sources aplenty were to be had to tell a reader just what kind of huckster Obama and his Obamanation really were.
I think we pointed it out once or twice here at the Burg. Well, okay, once, I'm sure once...
Gawd, it must stink up in there!
It's pathetically amusing that a "a practicing psychologist with more than 25 years of experience... a scientist and strategic consultant", at a top-20 university no less, should be on display this way. Then again, he's among friends in a friendly territory.

Posted by: trailing wife 2011-08-08
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=327644