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| 2011-08-08 | |||||
By Drew Weston
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
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.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #27 "I do believe that the problem is that the President lacks the communication skills necessary to exposit the correct operations of our world, which rides on the back of a giant tortise." |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2011-08-08 23:58 |
| #26 JM were all gonna die....sometime. I just hope it's not listening to liberal twaddle. |
| Posted by: Dale 2011-08-08 22:25 |
| #25 NEWSMAX > MOODY'S WARNS OF COMING DOWNGRADE IFF DEFICIT REDUCTIONS "NOT CREDIBLE". As seemingly affected indirectly by ... * WND > IRAN SAYS US "WILL BE TAUGHT THE MOTHER OF ALL LESSONS" | [KAYAHN Newspaper] EDITORIAL WARNS OF IMPENDING CYBER-ATTACK AGZ [US] ELECTRICAL GRID. Revenge for STUXNET. * FREEREPUBLIC > [NOAA]SEVERE SOLAR STORM TO CREATE GLOBAL CHAOS + COMPLETE DARKNESS. SGT SCHULTZ = US-Global GPS + CIS, etc. to be potentially disrupted or knocked out = "FLAT AS A PANCAKE" LIKE BERLIN AFTER ALLIED BOMBINGS. * RENSE > {Military.com] ARMY PREPARES FOR "COMPLEX CATASTROPHES" STATESIDE. E.g. MAG7.7 Quake scenario along New Madrid faultline. [YELLOWSTONE SUPER-CALDERA + "GREAT ASIA-PACIFIC SLUSHY = NEW/MINI-ICE AGE here]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-08-08 21:39 |
| #24 Flailing, he is. I can only pray that we are not completely destroyed by the Lefts death throes. |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2011-08-08 20:11 |
| #23 Soooo.... how is that childish war on ATM's, big oil, corporate jets, millionaires and billionaires, the markets, and the dollar going obama? Nice speech. Quite redundant and repetitive - glad to see the markets were soothed. Bah, why am I talking to this POTUS for anyways? He never listens and is like a petulant 8 year old boy. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-08-08 16:36 |
| #22 Jim Leaviss of M&G, one of Europeâs largest bond investors, called the downgrade âan end of empire momentâ. |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2011-08-08 16:01 |
| #21 I wonder how much this NY psychologist pays in taxes? He's not in New York. He's at Emory University in Atlanta. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-08-08 16:00 |
| #20 JohnQC- Ditto you said it. About blaming others I saw a cartoon where his card was denied. Do you have another sir? how about my race card.( I am close on that recall). Wait I found it. It's in there just page down just after Free Radicals New Democratic logo: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/ |
| Posted by: Dale 2011-08-08 15:18 |
| #19 I have no idea what Barack Obama and by extension the party he leads believes on virtually any issue. None of the rest of us do either. Whenever something happens or someone questions his policies, he sends out a donk reactionary force who all sound surprisingly the same. None of them think for themselves; they just parrot the talking points of the far left-wing part of the Democratic Party. They are not willing to debate ideas or programs but are out to promote class or political warfare. If someone questions anything regarding this administration, they find someone to blame. It's Bush, the Tea Party, the Japanese tsunami, the European market, the Gulf spill, the Chamber of Commerce, racism, the American people, etc. never manning up and accepting responsibility for their failed big government, big spending policies, anti-business policies. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-08-08 14:25 |
| #18 Drew should have read the fine print when he purchased that enchanted monkey paw. |
| Posted by: Charles 2011-08-08 13:19 |
| #17 News flash: there ain't no tooth fairy, either. |
| Posted by: mojo 2011-08-08 12:07 |
| #16 What Happened to Obama? He's playing Golf. I didn't read the article, so I'm just guessing :) |
| Posted by: Willy 2011-08-08 11:36 |
| #15 Those of us who were bewitched by his eloquence on the campaign trail chose to ignore some disquieting aspects of his biography: TRANSLATION: "Those of us" = Fellow communists. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-08-08 11:31 |
| #14 O is a symptom of the greater problem of the lack of responsibility of half the electorate. We have had 40+ years of liberal claptrap and class and race division in our country, mainly by the dems to exploit real or perceived divisions in order to get votes and ultimately power. If we are to survive, we better collectively take responsibility ourselves. The Con-gress can't. They can not even pass a budget. The game is over except for the crying. The grasshoppers have taken over everything, they think. But the ants know what to do, and winter is coming, ya know. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2011-08-08 11:25 |
| #13 Since we're piling on here: I think one takeaway from the S&P downgrade is that Obama has so little credibility left that he couldn't back down one chickenshit domestic rating agency. (Imagine S&P's response to Dwight Eisenhower: "When and how high, Mr. President?") That doesn't give me a lot of confidence in our future dealings with Iran, Russia and China. |
| Posted by: Matt 2011-08-08 10:52 |
| #12 "law professor"? No, part time lecturer. Law degree but for some reason (undisclosed) not a member of the bar (both he and wife)? These folks (liberals) are still in denial.... |
| Posted by: tipover 2011-08-08 10:01 |
| #11 What does that tell you about the wits of over half of the American people? It's says Americans are lazy. They'd rather have the crap burger feed to them then make the effort to be a real engaged citizen. As another theme on another blog repeats, if we held the ruling class to the same standards of ethics and truth which they pass legislation regularly for businesses and communities and the rest of us, they'd all be following the career model of the Illinois governors, a term in office followed by retirement in the pen. The whole purpose of the Constitution was to do just enough to allow the country to survive/exist but to prohibit the growth and centralization of power. That control was thrown out when the courts decided 'reinterpretation' could over come the daunting requirements of 'amending' the Constitution. It was compounded by the assumption of international security by the United States in the post-WWII. The need to raise and maintain a large standing military created dynamics which demanded power and money commensurate with the task. That meant further centralization. Centralization develops a life of its own drawing more and more into its realm. Really, you think people were that concerned with who ever was President much before then because the office never had that much power except in times of extreme emergency. Even in such dire times, as soon as the danger passed, it pretty much went back to business as usual. Now being lazy means not having to pay attention to a lot of things that don't impact our daily lives. That is now changing. It's the attention getting phase. Or as an old mentor of mine would say "You really don't want my attention". The pols are about to realize what that meant. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-08-08 08:12 |
| #10 Finally. The pouty admission of "I'm not that bright after all" from the NPR-listening, NYT-reading, credentialled but not truly educated, bigoted against authentic Christians, pseudointellectual twits that comprised the critical mass of white Obama voters is a long time coming, and quite welcome. But perhaps a bit too late. Hey, rube...... |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2011-08-08 08:09 |
| #9 Nothing happened to Obumble, as Silentbrick noted. Many of us saw exactly what he was (and wasn't) before the election. If you really want to know what the problem is, rube, just look in the mirror. We could have done better by picking a name at random out of the phone book. |
| Posted by: Spot 2011-08-08 07:58 |
| #8 The average voter is far more worried about jobs than about the deficit, which few were talking about while Bush and the Republican Congress were running it up. See? It's all those rich Republicans! The top one percent who have all moved to D.C. to make the poor suffer! I can't read anymore of this dribble. I wonder how much this NY psychologist pays in taxes? I expect he pays enough! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-08-08 06:20 |
| #7 To the average American, who was still staring into the abyss, the half-stimulus did nothing but prove that Ronald Reagan was right, that government is the problem. He should of stopped right there instead of going on and on about how the rich are destroying to country. And the poor, to boot. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-08-08 06:15 |
| #6 Obama was ELECTED. What does that tell you about the wits of over half of the American people? One: That they are poor judges of human character? They are willfully blind or deliberately obtuse? You could listen with your ears and see with your own eyes. Something is WRONG with the ability of a LARGE number of Americans to SEE what is right there to see. He was there and you couldnt see it? And you made more than a simple mistake. You let the creepy slimy thing into the house. His wonderful speeches? Quote me a single line from any of them. Quote me his Fourscore and seven....its slipped your mind? You cant remember a line just of ANY of his speeches....how about the one he made in Cairo? He blew air up your empty minds and your ears are worthless because your minds arent really there. Half of the population of the United States are SUCKERS. You dont GET something for nothing. You dont get a free ride. No one is to blame but you yourselves. You were PUNKED. And you were punked because you are functionally and personally BLIND dicked. You CAN fool some of the people ALL of the time. And over HALF of the American people were. F.O.O. L.S. Now you are wearing toilet paper for a hat. And you literally ARE, arent you? Now let's turn and look at Congress. What do you see? And let's look at the list of GOP Political Candidates for the next Presidency. Inspired? if you cant see it...try and smell it. That is who you are....that line of mediocrities is you. And its your Future....yeah. tap that bell with your finger nail and tell me what you hear? Pure gold? You are going to need to buy a gun, I am sorry. Dont lie to yourself that everything will somehow work out. One out of every two people you see on the street is headed for a date with Darwin. They arent going to make it and you better pay attention to where the stuff goes down the drain. |
| Posted by: de Medici 2011-08-08 04:49 |
| #5 Nothing happened to Obama, other than he was himself. Which is plenty bad enough. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division 2011-08-08 03:29 |
| #4 What happens when you elect a cheap crook to the highest office of the strongest country in the World---he gets delusions of divinity. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-08-08 02:35 |
| #3 Psychologist, heal thyself. Perhaps the only thing more unimaginable than needing 4 pages to ping 30+ emotives (skimmed that last page and a half like a greasy broth) is that this, uhum, piece was published. Y'all elected a car salesmen. Don't like the banana in the tailpipe? Bought and sold. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-08-08 01:21 |
| #2 I believe we are seeing this repeated in leadership elsewhere in the world: "When it becomes serious, you have to lie," Juncker, who as the chairman of the regular meetings of eurozone finance ministers is one of the currency union's key spokesmen, said in recent remarks" http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/05/jean-claude-juncker-luxembourg-pm-and.html |
| Posted by: Dale 2011-08-08 00:35 |
| #1 So, what the hell use is your "news" paper if you constantly will lead the public away from the truth when you ""chose to ignore the utter lack of any credible experience that makes a man ready to be President of the United States of America? The NY times is the disgraced toilet paper of a few Pollyanna that really think utopia is available to them on earth. Nothing happened to Obama, he has always been a stupid idiot. And so has that idiot paper you write for. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-08-08 00:30 |