Posted on 11/03/2009 10:13:43 PM PST by Steelfish
It's Barack Obama's First Anniversary - But There's Precious Little To Celebrate
The US President's performance has dismayed even his biggest admirers, writes Simon Heffer in New York
Simon Heffer 03 Nov 2009
A year ago, almost to the minute, I was here in New York, watching television reports of the aftermath of the election of Barack Obama as 44th President of the United States of America. I recall the sight of a lachrymose woman from the Midwest, standing outside her run-down house as the sun rose, giving thanks for her deliverance: not from George W Bush, but from the threat of foreclosure. I have no idea whether this poor woman kept the roof over her head; all I know is, if she did, it would have been no thanks to Mr Obama.
On the anniversary of his election, he is busy with unpleasant confrontations with reality. As my colleague Toby Harnden reported so graphically last week, the honeymoon is over. Never in American politics has someone come to power on such a bubble of expectation; never, inevitably, has the pricking of that bubble caused such shock.
America may just have come out of recession, but things remain bad. Ten per cent of the workforce is unemployed: here in New York, perhaps the most dynamic and prosperous city on the planet, the figure is even higher.
The rhetoric that bore Mr Obama to office proved equal to electoral success, but not to economic management. Moreover, Mr Obama's most coveted legislative aim, the creation of a sort of national health service, remains elusive.
The Wall Street Journal, the newspaper here of serious money, has just savaged the Bill as perhaps the worst inflicted on the American people since the era of...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Love the Brit Press. It’s astonishing that the Press in this Country has become nothing more than the P.R. outlet for ZER0 and Stretch Piglosi.
I’m drinking to his failure.
The writer adds this:
“To use another old cliché, Mr Obama looks like a man who has made the mistake of believing his own publicity. His adherents in the media are now so defensive that they have started complaining about the rules – implying that the exercise of free speech by the likes of Mr Limbaugh verges on the traitorous, and is preventing the President from doing his job properly. Any excuse, we must suppose, will do.”
OBAMA LOST TODAY. HE LOST. It was a personal loss and no matter how they spin it, it is on him. And that is just the beginning of the story. By no means the end.
Was it only a year ago zero lifted the glass of white wine in one hand and had that evil look in his eye?
was it only a year ago we were introduced to the black widow spider dress? It feels like forever.
He drank white wine? I’m drinking Jim Beam. And it’s making me feel dumb.
What a sissy
Good excuse. I’ll drink with you.
Obama, President of The USA: Been there, done that.
The Brits, Canadians and Australians seem to be more concerned with our situation than we are! The brits and Canadians see it clearly because they’ve seen it before. They know what’s happening to us. But most Americans know more about Jon and Kate than what is happening to their own country and future. Sadly, these foolish Americans are asleep.
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