The end of the road for Barack Obama?

telegraph.UK ^ | Monday March 8, 2010 | Simon Heffer

[Bigtigermike]

The descent of Barack Obama's regime, characterized now by factionalism in the Democratic Party and talk of his being set to emulate Jimmy Carter as a one-term president, has been swift and precipitate. It was just 16 months ago that weeping men and women celebrated his victory over John McCain in the American presidential election. If they weep now, a year and six weeks into his rule, it is for different reasons.....

[Bigtigermike]

Despite the efforts of some sections of opinion to talk the place up, America is mired in unhappiness, all the worse for the height from which Obamania has fallen. The economy remains troublesome. There is growth – a good last quarter suggested an annual rate of as high as six per cent, but that figure is probably not reliable – and the latest unemployment figures, last Friday, showed a levelling off. Yet 15 million Americans, or 9.7 per cent of the workforce, have no job. Many millions more are reduced to working part-time. Whole areas of the country, notably in the north and on the eastern seaboard, are industrial wastelands.

A thrashing of the Democrats in the mid-terms would not necessarily be the beginning of the end for Mr Obama: Bill Clinton was re-elected two years after the Republicans swept the House and the Senate in November 1994. But Mr Clinton was an operator in a way Mr Obama patently is not. His lack of experience, his dependence on rhetoric rather than action, his disconnection from the lives of many millions of Americans all handicap him heavily. It is not about whose advice he is taking: it is about him grasping what is wrong with America, and finding the will to put it right. That wasted first year, however, is another boulder hanging from his neck: what is wrong needs time to put right. The country's multi-trillion dollar debt is barely being addressed; and a country engaged in costly foreign wars has a President who seems obsessed with anything but foreign policy – as a disregarded Britain is beginning to realise.

There are lessons from the stumbling of Mr Obama for our own country as we approach a general election. Vacuous promises of change are hostages to fortune if they cannot be delivered upon to improve the living conditions of a people. The slickness of campaigning that comes from a combination of heavy funding and public relations expertise does not inevitably translate into an ability to govern. There is no point a nation's having the audacity of hope unless it also has the sophistication and the will to turn it into action. As things stand, Barack Obama and America under his leadership do not.

[nevergore]

The question of the day is....

Why does it take a Brit newspaper to point out the obvious yet no major American paper has?????

[Outlaw Woman]

The slickness of campaigning that comes from a combination of heavy funding and public relations expertise does not inevitably translate into an ability to govern.

Ya think?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Because Bummer doesn’t have ACORN goons in Britain.

[garjog]

[Bigtigermike]

Brits blast everyone even though they are liberals, American media just get on knee-pads.....

[NavyCanDo]

“Why does it take a Brit newspaper to point out the obvious yet no major American paper has?????”

The same reason Al Capone's crime family did not have an impact in Great Britain. The Ocean

English papers are not afraid of repercussions.

[Bigtigermike]

This nation is in a malaise like the late 70's
WELCOME BACK CARTER!

[Gargantua]

Check out these vids of Senator Obama predicting that the "Troop Surge in Iraq will not only fail, but will make the situation much worse..."

This ass chimp goes on in other videos listed here to make commitments to how he will deal with Afghanistan if he's elected Prezadizzle. Fun to hear him then, and see how it comports with his actions as we now know them.

Dead wrong. Complete ignoramus. Compulsive liar.

America's biggest political mistake, and failure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnaiGByyh58

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or7Vc9vv6e4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4XY1SB7FFU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s41EHbDm4SA&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vpCBpTbEds&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD6nMxYcmjE&feature=related

Great viewing! Enjoy!

;-/

[mlocher]

Fortunately for us, Obama is inept in virtually all dimensions. Only 32 more months, and the joke will be over.

[rockinqsranch]

Just a couple of responses so far, but evident that folks aren’t reading the article before commenting.

Read on, and find yourself wondering where’s the “Barf Alert”.

[thecraw]

Fortunately for us, Obama is inept in virtually all dimensions. Only 32 more months, and the joke will be over.

Lord have mercy! This is one joke I NEVER, EVER WANT TO HEAR AGAIN!

[Bigtigermike]

Fox news? LOL!! yea i saw that too!

[HerrBlucher]

Lets hope sooner. The commie needs to throw in the towel NOW!

[thecraw]

This nation is in a malaise like the late 70's

Bush's. Fault.

[Cicero]

The magnificent campaign created the notion that Mr Obama could walk on water. Oddly enough, he can't.

[tacticalogic]

Obama/Reid/Peolosi will be extremely dangerous for the next 8-10 months. That's their window of opportunity.

Their Congressional majority will evaporate in the 2010 elections, and I don't think he can produce the required documentatation of eligibility that some of the States are now requiring to appear on their ballot in 2012.

Anything they can't get done this year isn't going to happen, period.

IMHO.

[Bigtigermike]

This nation is in a malaise like the late 70's Bush's. Fault.

How did you find out about the Obama admin campaign strategy for 2012?

[mlocher]

Lord have mercy! This is one joke I NEVER, EVER WANT TO HEAR AGAIN!

Not a very good punch line. Not even The Carter Joke was not this long, drawn out and chuckle-less.

[cranked]

My vision of real "hope and change" comes in November 2010 and in 2012.