Democrat + Former Obama Supporter Mort Zuckerman Now Sees Only an Ineffective, Contemptuous Loner...

Reaganite Republican ^ | 14 October 2013 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

Mortimer Zuckerman is a Canadian-born American real estate/media tycoon and co-founder, chairman and CEO of Boston Properties, one of the largest real estate investment trusts in the United States. He is also owner/publisher of the New York Daily News and of U.S. News & World Report, where he serves as editor-in-chief, used to own The Atlantic, and is worth about two-and-a-half billion bucks.

In addition to all that, he's a regular and entertaining guest on the good ole McLaughlin Report, where I do enjoy Zuckerman's well-supported turn on Obama: seems he's deeply alarmed by where Dear Leader's taking us, particularly regarding fiscal and national security issues- and his arguments come across as sincere, well-thought-out, and credible.

But what the man is saying this week (re. Obama and the debt crisis he and the lap-dog media are attempting to pin on the Republicans) is that it's chiefly the fault of the President himself... he's the one that's supposed to be providing leadership in ending the stalemate instead of digging-in and lobbing churlish insults.

If not effective leadership, you'd think Obama at least would be willing to talk to some people in Congress at a time like this -if only Democrats- but according to Zuckerman, our nation's Narcissist-in-Chief can't even be bothered with that:

"This president has very few personal relationships... not only with the Republicans, but even with the Democrats. And I can tell you that from direct personal knowledge, listening to the leadership of the Democrats in both the House and the Senate.

Reagan -when he was president- every week would have a luncheon with six Democrats- he built up a relationship. Bill Clinton did the same thing. 

You don't have this here, so the kind of dialogue that you normally have -that leads to compromise, that leads to negotiation- just isn't there... 

That is a key part of how our government works...
and it's not working now."

Alas, BHO tends to keep the legislative process at arm's length while forcing his agenda through behind the scenes, taking cheap shots at conservatives, issuing propaganda via MSM tools, and dispatching pre-programmed evil monkeys Reid, Pelosi, et al to do the dirty work... then he justs kicks-back and waits to take all the credit if any of this crap actually ever works.

Mort Zuckerman is hardly the only one to note this, but it's always more interesting coming from a liberal... here's what some other libs have said about Obama's antisocial demeanor:

Neera Tanden, (aide to B. Clinton and Obama): "Obama doesn't call anyone, and he's not close to almost anyone. It's stunning that he's in politics, because he really doesn't like people."

Journalist John Heilemann: "I don't think he doesn't like people. I know he doesn't like people."

WaPo's Scott Wilson: "Obama is, in short, a political loner who prefers policy over the people who make politics in this country work."

Liberal NYT columnist Roger Cohen: "Nixon, like Obama, was a loner, but he had Kissinger generating ideas..." but, for Obama "there is only one star in the galaxy at this White House and his name is Barack Obama."

Barack Obama himself said in Dreams from My Father that people are an "unnecessary distraction." (h/t American Thinker)

But the hands-free Dem/RINO machine that's rammed Hopenchange through for Obama (to this point) suddenly doesn't work quite the same anymore- seems somebody's thrown a spanner in the works, and our sociopath President has chosen to just sit home and pout about it.

[Reaganite Republican]

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[MarMema]

narcissist. So telling.

[Reaganite Republican]

He’s a real mess, ain’t he

[MarMema]

Well at least an introvert. Maybe more. Would be fascinating to know his MBTI type.

[exPBRrat]

...but he’ll will find salvation with the queen of diamonds. Just wait.

The hell with these know it alls, they absolutely knew what was in store with this marxists. Their just attempting to create an illusion of integrity for the next election.

[Hardraade]

Mort, you are a JEW.

The president is a muslim.

He’d sooner kill anyone who is not muslim than look at them or talk to them, and that goes double for you.

Do you still not understand how you got taken?

[mosaicwolf]

These “loner” types can be very dangerous people. Think about all the mayhem caused by loners.

[Arthur McGowan]

Obama has been on earth 52 years. As far as I can recall, the only time news breaks about a childhood or boyhood friend, it comes with a mug shot. One of the members of the Choom Gang was in the news a couple of weeks ago.

Has any story ever surfaced about an act of kindness? Somebody in trouble who was helped out by Obama in some significant way? Anything comparable to the dozens of stories of Mitt Romney dropping everything (and deploying all of Bain Capital’s employees) to search for a lost girl, paying someone’s kids’ way through college after a family tragedy? Has Obama ever been reported helping an old lady across a street, paying for a needy girl’s abortion? ANYTHING?

Stories of Reagan’s kindnesses to people—little people—even after he became President, are rife.

When someone becomes President, such people usually come out of the woodwork.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

My guess at his Meyers Briggs: ISTJ. What do you think?

[frnewsjunkie]

So, why did it take you so long.

I look at ‘his’ followers/worshipers, as really dumb and gullible. Intelligence and common sense escape them.

[gusopol3]

I don’t think he “likes policy” either; he likes hating.

[MarMema]

Yep most likely. I was pondering INTJ because of his arrogance but he’s not that bright....

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I think you are being too kind.

His actions (since he is a politician) are those of someone who is discussing these issues with other people, outside the typical DC beltway politicos that presidents usually negotiate with.

[NewHampshireDuo]

I think he’s got some serious psychological issues and they are only going to be more apparent.

[Netz]

Mort is a Jew indeed and I am happy to see him wake up but I am disturbed that he supported POTUS in the first place.

The ‘blinds of Liberalism’ prevented Mort (and the majority of American Jews) from seeing the true Obama in 2008? WTF?

I don't get it. I am a Jew who voted against BHO twice. Why? Because I saw the lies and falsehoods in 2007 why couldn't he?

Whether BHO is Muslim or not is irrelevant now, his policies are anti-Israel. I try convincing my fellow Jews that he despises Israel but for some unknown reason, they refuse to believe it.

[atc23]

Obama hates people because people hate Obama. His mother was an outcast as well. Even Obama's own family barely tolerated him hanging around. His mother got so fed up with is prima Donna-ism that she banished him to the "typical white woman" - his grandmother, who was probably the only person in his life who ever showed him any kindness.

I know the type of dude Obama is. Hie"s basically a mid level manager type with a race chip on his shoulder who thinks he's better than everybody else. Unfriendly, no sense of humor or self deprecating capacity - just a garden variety friendless asshole.

[trebb]

"This president has very few personal relationships... not only with the Republicans, but even with the Democrats. And I can tell you that from direct personal knowledge, listening to the leadership of the Democrats in both the House and the Senate.

Typical sociopath traits - can't really relate to normal people.

[abclily]

Valerie Jarrett is keeping Puppet Obama under close wraps. He makes stupid speeches when she lets him out. He may want to have discourse with others, but Valerie won’t let him. Talk about being a slave! Obama is a slave to an Arab female. How low can you go?

[DIRTYSECRET]

Doesn’t matter. He got elected. Zuckerman? Too old to ‘learn.’