Posted on 02/17/2009 5:02:52 AM PST by shortstop
Barack Obama could learn a lot from Ronald Reagan.
If nothing else, he could learn something from his movies. Namely "Knute Rockne: All American."
That's the one in which Knute Rockne is coaching the men of Notre Dame against Army. After the first half, the cadets have whooped on the Irish pretty good and it's looking like a blowout.
Trailing by a country mile, the coach has a talk with his players.
And he encourages them. He inspires them. He leaves them fired up and ready to charge out the door and onto the field.
Onto the field where both history and the screenplay tell us that, in 1928, Notre Dame came back in a rousing second half to defeat Army.
That's what Barack Obama needs to learn. He needs to learn the difference between being a leader and being a manipulator. He needs to learn how to solve problems, not exploit them.
And he needs to learn how to man up a little bit. A little bit less crying about our problems and a little more stiff upper lip and we'd be a lot better off. After 200 years of presidents who have encouraged us to strength, this guy is celebrating our weakness. Honestly, his negative words have done almost as much damage to the stock market as all the financial challenges combined.
And it's time to stop.
It's time for Barack Obama to act like a president, not a politician. Because, thus far, his speeches have done nothing but build himself up. And what he fails to realize is that a leader doesn't build himself up, he builds his people up. All of Barack Obama's speeches so far have been sales pitches, con jobs meant to get people to do what he wants them to do. And getting people to do what you want them to do is not leadership, it is narcissism. It is not about imposing his will on us, it is about him doing our will.
And if you have to browbeat and frighten people into doing what you want them to do, that's not representing them, it is using them.
In the midst of a challenging economic difficulty, Barack Obama has been a prophet of gloom. He sees nothing good -- other than his policies -- and there is no optimistic word anywhere. If we fail to do fast enough what he wants, he said, our country will never be the same.
He has beaten down the spirits and the strength of the American people.
And he has lied to do it. His repeated claims that our nation is in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression are patently false. These aren't even the worst economic times in the last 30 years.
Interestingly, in the early 1980s, when things were statistically at least as bad, Ronald Reagan took an entirely different tack when speaking about the difficulty. He was unfailingly optimistic and upbeat. He praised Americans and their strength and said that they, in their own hands, had the power and the persistance to beat the hard times.
Barack Obama says no such thing.
Probably because he believes no such thing.
In the world of Barack Obama, individuals are meaningless -- except as it regards their entitlement to welfare programs -- and government is omnipotent. In his view, it is not individuals who solve problems, it is programs. His is a top-down world, not a bottom-up world. His view is that the government is the source of all that is good, and that only government can handle the problems of life.
And so it is that the government has taken over -- the banks, the car makers, everything.
And still he talks us down.
He sounds like a group therapy session, or an episode of Dr. Phil. He tells a tale of unrelenting woe and misery. He breaks the American spirit.
He takes the team in the locker room at halftime and discusses plans for their capitulation in the second half. He wants to negotiate terms of surrender, not set a course for victory.
He could learn a lot from Ronald Reagan. He could learn a lot from the average high school coach. When you're down on points, you talk to your players about faith and courage, about grit and determination. You buck them up and slap them on the back. You make them believe in themselves. You tell them that they can do it, that they have it in them, that all they have to do is believe and work.
But that's not what we get out of this new president.
A leader makes people believe in themselves, not in him. Barack Obama hasn't figured that out yet.
And thus far it doesn't look like he's going to learn anytime soon.
To B. Hussein.......fear is Power.
Obama is going to keep on spending and spending... It’s not going to stimulate anything except the debt!
Because he’s,in essence , talking down capitalism and the free market economy. It’s all part of the gov’t dependency plan the RATS have been playing for the last 70 years.
Talking down the economy is rule one in justifying his abuse of power and imposing policy that would NEVER PASS in separate legislation.
Hussein works for (just an idiot figurehead, really) the guys who desire to take this nation down.
And they won't stop until they've done exactly that.
Fear Is right
up there with greed and guilt as a motivator.
It is much easier to frighten people than to urge them to do the right thing.
It’s the affirmative action effect - low expectations.
The words and actions of The One (piss be upon him) are exactly what The Majority of The American People want. They are Leftists, just like Him.
They voted for Him, crying “Who is like unto The One (his name be pissed)?” Therefore they do love what He bringeth unto them.
It is easy for the one and his handlers to “talk down” America and Americans.
They claim to want to change this country so they (and the world) can love it. But their contempt for all Americans except the “victims” - is manifest.
Because Liberals Need a Crisis to scare the sheeple so the go willingly to the shearing shed!
M’mmmmmmm, Lonsberry....GOOD!
Same reason ALGORE talks down the Earth’s climate. The majority of people are NOT aware.
It’s okay for 0bama to “talk down” the economy but when W mentioned economic troubles when he ran the first time the media and people now employed by 0bama hammered him for talking down the economy.
He was not trained to give people hope and encourage them to strive to be better, his training was to convince people that they were truly downtrodden and oppressed, and that only the government could save them. He was trained to get people to follow their leader in “fighting the system” and to convince them that only their blind allegiance to the “party/leader” would give the leader power to wrest control of the government and thus to give them what they want, modern bread and circuses of ancient Rome.
Because his stupid PORKULOUS is doomed to fail, and he wants to LOWER expectations, plus more pork bills to come.
The aim is to make the USA a complete welfare state. His model is Hugo Chavez, who he praised today ....for tossing term limits. We have a dictator on our hands.
He has no desire to inspire ppl, he wants ppl oppressed.
Talking down the economy is part of the socialist plan known as Cloward-Piven Strategy.
Agreed......right from the playbook
I've long said that were I king for one day, I would mandate that no law could come out of congress that by itself exceeded in length (based on word count) the constitution and its ammendments. If our entire nation can be defined in that document, some law on protecting field mice should be able to be too. Now, had this been the law of the land things like this porkulus package would have never been permitted. And those who envision themselves as kings such as Obama would be forced to cram through hundreds of smaller pieces of legislation, not one massive one.
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