Posted on 06/11/2010 5:31:06 AM PDT by bestintxas
Leave it to my wife to come up with a jewelry metaphor for Barack Obama. Obama is, according to my bride, the political equivalent of cubic zirconia. Usually sold to people who love the look of diamonds but can't afford a real one or are fooled into buying an imposter, cubic zirconia is superficially pretty and appealing. But when subjected to the scrutiny of an expert or when placed under great pressure, the falseness and weakness compared to the real thing become apparent.
The pressure analogy is particularly appropriate given that the source of Barack Obama's troubles lie a mile under the ocean's surface, where pressures are about one ton per square inch. The pressure of the situation is causing Obama's vaunted reputation as "competent" to crack like the false promise it always was.
Unlike the ring that accidentally falls into the garbage disposal and gets crushed, the destruction of Barack Obama's perceived competency is almost entirely self-inflicted. On May 28, he aggressively placed his own reputation under that literal ton of pressure down at the oil-spewing well-head by saying "I ultimately take responsibility for solving this crisis…I am the president and the buck stops with me." He was reinforcing his words of a day earlier: "The American people should know that from the moment this disaster began, the federal government has been in charge of the response effort… In case you're wondering who's responsible, I take responsibility."
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Summed up nicely!
Obama isn’t The Cubic Zirconian President...he is a paste president. Cubic ziconia is tough and durable. He is made of hardened mush that would get crushed under pressure.
...he has the shine of a rolex sold on the fold up table on 7th Ave. Manhattan with a pirated copy of Milli Vanilli Greatest Hits.
Good one.
I also believe he is diamond paste and when placed under effective lighting to make these artificial diamonds appear exquisitely tempting. If you look into the paste one from ‘ll find the inner surfaces just don’t shimmer that the surface is not hard and just not as sharp.
Such is the case we have here.
Either way, cubic zarconia or paste, now there seems to be a bit of buyers remorse. The honeymoon is over and things are tanking.
Expert? I think anyone with half a brain can see this guy is a phony. It is the shysters that are pawning him off as the real thing and the cheap, bling loving, approval addicted b@stards that are buying these even knowing what they are....
Spot on! He definetly is costume jewelry bad costume jewelry.
The Illegal’s willingness, and seeming desire, to take full responsibility shows that, if he took any serious American history or modern European history courses in high school or college, he forgot, or failed utterly to understand the meaning of, two vitally important leadership anecdotes.
The first is Abe Lincoln. Lincoln was neither a general nor a military man, but he knew exactly what he wanted, to win the war. Thus, he never took charge of the military details of the war and, instead, concentrated on finding generals who would aggressively pursue the war to ultimate victory. That meant he could make failed generals suffer the consequences of serious defeats, insulate himself from those, go on to find successful generals, and profit from the glory that resulted from their victories.
Czar Nicholas II of Russia, OTOH, demonstrated the horrific consequences for a national leader of taking full responsibility for something he could not entirely control. After the Russian army suffered a series of horrible defeats at the hands of the Germans around the middle of WWI, Nicholas went to the front and took full operational control of the army. Thereafter, when it continued to lose to the Germans, he had nobody to blame but himself. The upshot was his being deposed and murdered by the Bolsheviks.
If the Illegal understood those two historic examples, he’d have tried the Lincoln approach of immediately getting the best people and advice, giving them the physical and legal resources they needed, and standing back to let them do their jobs.
I likened the Obama campaign to a slickly produced infomerical. He was marketed as this great product. When they buyer got it home it failed to lived up to the hype.
Let us all remember what made him look so shiny. Obamamedia.
yes. our very own Billy Mays for 4 years.
The Obama campaign was an unmitigated triumph of style over substance.
Good one!
We need some huge highway billboards with a picture of it and Obama side by side for comparison.
And some photoshop images for the cartoonists.
He's pissing on the country.
You got that right....Obama is a good speaker (with a teleprompter). President George W. Bush was a horrendous speaker, but he had way more substance and integrity is his pinky toe that Obama will ever have.
I think fool’s gold more than cubic zirconia—appears to have worth, but has none whatsoever...shiny and simulates something real.
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