Watermelons:
GREEN on the outside, RED on the inside.
Posted on 03/05/2009 10:53:08 AM PST by AJKauf
I was having lunch yesterday with a prominent critic of the Spender in Chief, and he raised a possibility that many of us have entertained over the past several weeks: that Obama is simply out of his depth: that he hasn’t a clue about what makes the economy tick and his talk about the “profit-to-earnings ratio” was not a slip of the tongue but a worrisome confirmation of the suspicion that he is an empty suit floundering around in the dark.
We kicked around that possibility for a few minutes: certainly the Obama administration seems like a monument to incompetence. Consider the multiple appointment fiascos. Consider his treatment of Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the country that has been our staunchest ally. Consider, if you can stand it, the economy: That sucking sound–the only palpable trace of the once-mighty U.S. stock market–reminds us what the market makes of Obama’s plans to raise taxes on “the rich,” the middle class, business. It reminds us what the market thinks of his efforts to shove the coal industry into a death spiral with absurd cap-and-trade carbon emissions regulations. And that’s all before breakfast, before he sets about wrecking the U.S. health care industry by turning it, too, over to Washington for ruination.
Yes, we agreed, it certainly looks like incompetence and, judged by its results, is effects, its consequences for this great country, it is incompetence on a breathtaking scale.
And yet, is it only incompetence? Remember, shortly before the election, Obama boasted to his mesmerized supporters that “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Is that not what he has set about doing–with a vengeance?...
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
Not Pink, but Red as Hell.
Obama is an idiot. As President, he is a very dangerous idiot.
The only incompetence involved is on the part of the electorate..............
GREEN on the outside, RED on the inside.
When asked for specifics about his plans for change during the campaign, Zero refused to articulate specifics because he never had any.
On inauguration day I could see in his eyes that he was thinking "Oh sh*t, what do I do now?"
Zero's one skill is confidently pretending that he knows things he doesn't really know. The Rats seem to be looking for diversions to cover up the fact that neither Zero or they have any ideas about anything except how they're going to steal as much as they can before the games over.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."—C. S. Lewis
THAT’S RACIST! THAT’S RACIST! snork
I had never read that Lewis quote before—I love it!
/sarc
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