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| 10 reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown | |
| 2010-08-15 | |
Very good piece by Nile Gardiner published in the Telegraph (UK). I only posted the headline and list of reasons but trust me you want to go read the whole thing. It is both rather scathing ans seems somewhat generous at the same time. It cannot be long before the amazing silence on this side of the pond to the dire collapse is replaced with sullen acceptance of reality. 1. The Obama presidency is out of touch with the American people 2. Most Americans don't have confidence in the president's leadership 3. Obama fails to inspire 4. The United States is drowning in debt 5. Obama's Big Government message is falling flat 6. Obama's support for socialised health care is a huge political mistake 7. Obama's handling of the Gulf oil spill has been weak-kneed and indecisive 8. US foreign policy is an embarrassing mess under the Obama administration 9. President Obama is muddled and confused on national security 10. Obama doesn't believe in American greatness | |
| Posted by: abu do you love |
| #17 1 Reason. You spotted a wrongun |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-08-15 20:39 |
| #16 Suing the state of Arizona didn't help. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2010-08-15 15:58 |
| #15 It's in meltdown because people are figuring out that the Bammo reality is very, very different than the Bammo image that was portrayed in 2008. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2010-08-15 14:37 |
| #14 Publican campaign 30 second clip suggestion: Call to evening prayer music playing softly.....as photos of all 9/11 terrorists in rows with Obama's at the end....set on a backdrop of 9/11 tower jumpers leaping to their deaths. Caption reads...'What do the people all have in common?' |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-08-15 13:42 |
| #13 Add reason #11: Obama has strongly endorsed the building of the mosque near ground zero. I suppose next the Smithsonian will be displaying the Enola Gay at the Hiroshima Peace Monument or they'll open a Joseph Stalin museum in the Ukraine |
| Posted by: James Carville/Karl Rove 2010-08-15 11:10 |
| #12 11. He blames everyone else for his and his administrations shortcomings. 12. He really doesn't get America. 13. He is disengenuous about nearly everything. This administration couldn't tell the truth to the American people if the truth hit them in the a$$. 14. There are ethics problems with the administration. They take the radical left approach of the means justifies the ends. |
| Posted by: JohnQC on the road 2010-08-15 11:07 |
| #11 "I chose my friends carefully.The more politically active black students.The foreign students.The Chicanos.The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets.At night,in the dorms,we discussed neocolonialism,Franz Fanon,Eurocentrism,and patriarchy.When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake,we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints." -oooh, such an independent revolutionary...however, you didn't seem to mind taking bourgeois society's college scholarship money though did you Barry?...sanctimonious douchebag. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2010-08-15 11:03 |
| #10 "I chose my friends carefully.The more politically active black students.The foreign students.The Chicanos.The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets.At night,in the dorms,we discussed neocolonialism,Franz Fanon,Eurocentrism,and patriarchy.When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake,we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints." People actually paid to read a book full of that pap and bought into it? Idiots. |
| Posted by: Fester Ebbereper1328 2010-08-15 10:18 |
| #9 Here’s a quote from Dreams of My Father “I chose my friends carefully.The more politically active black students.The foreign students.The Chicanos.The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets.At night,in the dorms,we discussed neocolonialism,Franz Fanon,Eurocentrism,and patriarchy.When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake,we were resisting bourgeois society’s stifling constraints.” |
| Posted by: Goodluck 2010-08-15 09:36 |
| #8 Aside from superficialities, and perhaps the last two items, does anyone think things would be appreciably different under President McCain? These are the problems of the presidency for the last 80 years. The social contract is breaking down because it no longer addresses problems even remotely efficaciously. A new one will take its place, and the transition will be bumpy. Keep your seat belt on. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-08-15 08:43 |
| #7 Americans are increasingly rejecting President Obama’s big government solutions to America’s economic woes, which many fear will lead to the United States sharing the same fate as Greece. It would have been a damn sight more helpful had they reached their rejection and conclusions in November, 2008. |
| Posted by: badanov 2010-08-15 08:02 |
| #6 It would have been a damn sight more helpful had they reached their rejection and conclusions in November, 2008. |
| Posted by: badanov 2010-08-15 08:01 |
| #5 There have always been a few people here who thought the French Revolution strain of thought which came out of the Enlightenment was superior to the American Revolution version. Obama is one of them. Hence #10. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2010-08-15 06:35 |
| #4 It seems that 9 caused 8 while 7 brought about 2. 4 is inextricably linked to 5 and 10 explains 1. |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2010-08-15 02:36 |
| #3 Because he is building a structure that is begging to be used to turn America into just another socialist country. I believe in American exceptionalism. We have exceptional people borne from an exceptional system. But if the system collapses, it won't be long before the people aren't any more. And that will be the end of it. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-08-15 02:02 |
| #2 It's about the unemployment, stupid. i.e. the death of the American Dream for millions. As annoying and mindless as his repeated trashing of America and promotion of one-worldy pro-muslim idiocy may be, Obama would nonetheless be a popular president overall if his programs had significantly reduced the unemployment rate and enabled the economy to turn the corner. Instead, this loser continues to blame Bush and tout his Potemkin jobs, such as the Census temporary non-jobs. Every American can see what should have been obvious four years ago: the man has no expertise in anything beyond the subject of his two books, ie his Most Excellent Lifestory. No executive experience. No expertise in economics. No understanding of fed-state relations as they relate to con law questions or even the simple administrative fact of "leakage" as money travels from Washington to the sieve that is our state governments. A weak grasp of US history and a complete misunderstanding of the history of modern Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The man doesn't even have a sound grasp of his supposed area of professional competence, the law. He is utterly out of his depth, and the people know it. Even Jimmy Carter has done his damndest to distance himself from this BS artist. Heaven help us all. |
| Posted by: lex 2010-08-15 00:56 |
| #1 Missed the biggest one. Americans facing the reality or the threat of unemployment recognize that this man is a complete lightweight who does not have the faintest idea how to get this economy adding real jobs again. |
| Posted by: lex 2010-08-15 00:46 |