Posted on 07/19/2009 10:51:22 AM PDT by americanophile
Finally, we’re starting to see him sweat.
President Barack Obama made his personal icy cool the trademark of his campaign, the tenor of his White House and the hallmark of an early run of successes at home and abroad. But as the glamour wears off and a long, frustrating summer wears on, he is being forced to improvise, stooping to respond to political foes and adjusting his tactics and demeanor for the trench warfare of a legislative agenda.
The root of the change is one that faces every president: Economic and international realities that resist political charm. Iran and North Korea have shown no interest in the president’s outstretched hand. The economy has delivered a double-whammy, with rising unemployment stirring voters’ concerns while sluggish growth deprives the government of tax revenues Obama would like to spend on new programs. Health care reform, which once appeared flush with momentum from earlier congressional victories, is now on a slog through no less than five committees, which include Democrats who either aren’t sold on Obama’s expansive vision or can’t figure out how to convince voters to pay for it.
“This is when it gets harder,” the president told supporters June 30.
And so it has.
In turn, Obama has adjusted, deviating from the playbook on every front.
The cool president has turned hot on the stump, stripping to shirtsleeves to lambaste doubters in New Jersey Thursday. He departed from his prepared remarks last week to accept a Republican challenge to take personal ownership of the economy: “That’s fine. Give it to me,” he said.
Even Obama's scripted speeches are deliberately more forceful, aggressive and direct in taking on critics, aides say. Friday remarks at the White House had a trash-talk edge – count me out and you’ll be sorry.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Just another form of lying
Well whaddya know. The American people aren’t as willing as Obama thought to be herded like sheep into his Animal Farm utopia. And that makes the dictator mad.
Let’s crank it up and watch his head REALLY explode.
Next, he’ll be threatening to “bust a cap” in anyone who
doesn’t vote for his nonsense.
When young children get caught doing something wrong they often become angry.
I wanna see the guy light up a Kool at his next presser - you know just to calm the stutter!
I know what "trash" is - it's stuff you throw away. But what's "trash-talk"? Stuff you ignore?
I can see Obama in the Oval Office ranting, steaming, threatening, and meanwhile his advisors are just listening to him saying get it all out now, that’s right Mr. O, as long as you go in front of America and appear cool you can have anything you want...have another cigarette, scream if you want to in the privacy of your office. We are all with you Mr. O.
“trash talk”
I suppose it won’t be long now until we hear some “your momma so fat” insults out of the White House.
ping
Obama is showing us the weaknesses of man. The American people are showing him the strengths of man.
LMAO, you made my day!!!!!!!
Obama is a failure.
Daddy cool wears mom pants!
Obama had a childhood hero.
He’s in the major league now and it’s obvious he can’t pitch.
Rank and file Republicans who criticize the stimulus have also suddenly found themselves under a concerted DNC assault that asks if they’d prefer the federal funding left their districts out. And criticism from Sen Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) drew letters from no fewer than four Cabinet secretaries to his state’s governor, asking if she would prefer they withheld stimulus money.
Many people have commented on his obvious malignant narcissism. What may be less well-understod is that the dynamic underlying narcissism is shame and rage. Like all despots, Obama suffers from a profound fear of being exposed as inadequate--an all too realistic fear, in his case--hence the desperate dependence on the teleprompter, and the carefully scripted charades passing for "press conferences."
As you suggest, his defenses are wearing thin, as Congress hesitates to bend over for his crazed initiatives. The possibility exists that he may treat us soon to a public display of the vicious evil that lies coiled in his dead soul.
“Even obamas scripted speeches are deliberately more forceful...”
Unless there’s a teleprompter glitch, in which case he turns into jello.
Keep sweating, 2010 we'll take back the Congress and you will be a lame duck your first and prayerfully your last term.
Is he using crack or meth? the guy was in a rage!
This time it's different. It's NOT Chicago anymore. This time the conservative heartland is pushing back.
Oshama has never faced defeat. It's going to come at him from all sides. What will the new Oshama look like? It's going to get more interesting.
“I can see Obama in the Oval Office ranting, steaming, threatening......”
Germany had its ranting and screaming ego-maniac house painter and we have our ranting and screaming ego-maniac community organizer.
Wow. That post was...poetic!
Scr*w him.
That sounds like a threat to me.
So true. Obama talks far to much and his polices are increasingly large and bizarre.
Even his own party is telling him to shut-up.
Here’s a portion of some direct advice to Obama from Mr. Van Dyk that appeared Fridays in the WSJ:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124779697143755743.html
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“Time out, Mr. President.
....I had greater concern when you staffed your administration and White House with a large number of Clinton administration retreads who had learned their trade in the never-ending-campaign culture of the Clinton years. Some appeared to represent what you had pledged to eradicate in the capital.
Many of the missteps that have followed flowed, in part, from your reliance on these Clinton holdovers. Your chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, defined your early strategy by stating that the financial and economic crises presented an “opportunity” to jam through unrelated legislation. To many of us, the remark was cynical and wrong-headed.
The crises did not represent an opportunity. They presented an obligation to do one thing: Return our financial system and our economy to good health....
Your staff recently has compared your strategy in pushing health-care and energy initiatives to the way Johnson pushed his Great Society legislation. That’s not a fair comparison. Johnson’s initiatives were framed in the White House by his administration. But at every stage, congressional leaders of both political parties and financial, business, labor and other private-sector leaders were consulted. Johnson wanted to assure that his legislation was substantively sound and could get consensus support in the Congress and the country.
Your strategy, by contrast, has been to advocate forcefully for health-care and energy reform but to leave the details to Democratic congressional committee chairs. You did the same thing with your initial $787 billion stimulus package. Now, you’re stuck with a plan that provides little stimulus until 2010. A president should never cede control of his main agenda to others.
This tactic has already had negative consequences. Frightened by the prospective costs of your health-care and energy plans — not to mention the bailouts of the financial and auto industries — independent voters who supported you in 2008 are falling away.....
What adjustments should be made?
- Cut back both your proposals and expectations. You made promises about jobs that would be “created and saved” by the stimulus package. Those promises have not held up. You continue to engage in hyperbole by claiming that your health-care and energy plans will save tax dollars. Congressional Budget Office analysis indicates otherwise.
It’s time to re-examine these initiatives. Could your health plan be scaled back to catastrophic coverage for all — badly needed by most families, but quite affordable if deductibles are set at the right levels? Should the Rube Goldbergian cap-and-trade proposals be replaced with a simple carbon tax, with proceeds to be allocated to alternative-fuels development?
The evolving health and cap-and-trade bills are loaded with costly provisions designed to gain support from congressional leaders and special-interest constituencies. ***In short, they have become an expensive mess.*** This legislation will not clear Congress by the August recess, as you have requested, and could be stalled for the remainder of 2009. Settle for incremental change: Do not press Democratic legislators to vote for something they fear will destroy them in 2010.
- Talk less and pick your spots.You are outdoing even Johnson and Mr. Clinton with your daily speeches in the capital and around the country.
Applause and adulation are gratifying. But the more you talk, the less weight your words will hold. Let voters see you at your desk, conferring with serious people about serious matters. When you do choose to talk, people will understand that it’s important and they should listen.
- Conform your 2009 politics to your 2008 statements. During your campaign, you called for bipartisanship and bridge-building. You promised to reduce the influence of single-issue and single-interest groups in the policy process. Yet, in your public statements, you keep using President Bush as a scapegoat.
You have ceded content of your principal proposals to Democratic congressional leaders who in large part have yielded to special-interest constituencies and excluded Republican leaders from policy formulation. This certainly was the case with the stimulus plan. It has been the case with health and energy legislation, with the notable exception of Sen. Max Baucus’s attempt in the Senate Finance Committee to develop genuinely bipartisan legislation.....
Even though he’s surrounded by yes men and lapdogs, he probably has heard the “wears mom jeans and throws like a girl” comments. I’m sure his little sissy lackeys have told him to act more angry and manly when he lectures. Must be a new gig for him. After all, he’s never been told no in his whole life.
Do you think he could be coaxed into a narcissistic breakdown, preferably in public?
I’m waiting for the day when someone—anyone!—blurts out “Quit threatening us!” when he tries this nonsense. I wish we had some men in D.C. who really don’t care about their election chances and would rather be one-termers anyway. Then they’d have nothing to lose while they stand on principles and convictions rather than the good graces of the gravy train.
Oh, he will snap in public. The question is only when this will happen. The man has no patience and he becomes more angry with each delay in his screwball agenda. Zip. Zero. Nada.
“Obama is showing us the weaknesses of man. The American people are showing him the strengths of man.”
Make my day! Love it......It’s only just begun!
I hope you’re correct.
My fear is that the Baraqqi coalition of minorities, ACORNS, illegals, union members, welfare recipients, dead voters, and random idiot libs comprises nearly a majority in America.
In the 2010 elections when the Messiah hisself is not on the ballot, we may have better luck knocking off his disciples.
He’s getting sand kicked in his face by a REAL man—Netanyahu—and feeling the heat from his own party. I hope the layers of opposition stack up, deny him his narcissistic power source, and bring out some really bizarre behavior. Maybe he’ll resort to . . .ahem . . .”smoking” again, if you get my drift.
You read my mind.
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Yeah, he’s sweating. Iran and North Korea ...not to mention Dr. Orly’s foot on his neck.
Thank you and yes it’s just begun.
Americas people are its strength. Obama is not.
Hearing the same song over and over gets boring after a while.
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