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The Worst of All Possible Presidents
Townhall.com ^ | November 5, 2011 | John Ransom

Posted on 11/05/2011 5:31:11 AM PDT by Kaslin

Let’s just stick to skills. Let’s not talk about how bad his policies are.

Because I can’t think of a person who is less suited and less interested in being president of the United States than Barack Obama is. 

I’m reminded of this as I see Europe drift from debt to crisis to dissolution.

“Events in Greece over the past 24 hours have underscored the importance of implementing the plan, fully and as quickly as possible,” said the US president according to Euronews.

I didn’t understand that there was a real plan for the Greek debt crisis. If there is one, certainly Obama has nothing to do with it.   

People like to pretend at times that who our president is doesn’t matter. They say presidents get either too much blame or too much credit. Can’t say much about the credit part, but it’s not possible to blame Obama enough for the poor state of the United States and the lack of leadership and confidence the United States engenders around the world today.

In our economy, our relations with other powers, our reputation around the globe, we’ve become a laughingstock under Obama. “Hope and Change” has become a hackneyed punch line of lost chances, hopes destroyed and dreams knowingly betrayed by golf vacations.

Obama has offered us nothing but our blood, our toil, our tears and our sweat; and for what?

So public employees can continue to bust public budgets on Cadillac benefits that you and I can’t afford. All this while he pushes austerity down the throats of a sovereign Greece.

I’m tired of Obama’s “leading from behind.” That’s not leading, that’s pushing

Don’t think for one minute that Obama would accept for his union friends the type of cuts he says he favors for Greece.    

We’ve gone from each according to his means to each according to his union. We’ve gone from a post-partisan, post-racial America, to all partisan, all the time.    

The president of the United States once, not long ago, stood up to Communism when they tried to take over South Korea- in this, he was sustained by the whole world. Today we’re left with the president being lectured to by Chinese Communists regarding reckless spending; and after being lectured to by Chinese Communists, in return, all Obama can offer to Europe is lectures about their own profligate ways.    

It’s inconceivable that a Reagan or a Kennedy would let things drift with a world in crisis. A Reagan or a Kennedy would have acted, if only in a moral sense. Both George Bushes had enough sense for that.    

"I am confident that Europe has the capacity to meet this challenge. I know it isn't easy, but what is absolutely critical, and what the world looks for in moments such as this, is action," said Obama after a G20 meeting on Europe’s debt crisis, according to the Wall Street Journal.

But don’t look for action from Obama. If he could attack Greece with a covert drone missile strike, he’d probably do so in order to avoid having to exercise real leadership.

He’s been the "drone" president on fiscal issues here in the US too, having dinner with his family and getting a hair cut while his aides bickered about bailouts.        

There was a day when the US could help exercise some leadership on the European stage. But if Obama’s interested in the European debt issue, then that’s news to me, German chancellor Angela Merkel, French president Sarkozy, members of the G20, fans of All My Children or anyone with electricity.

Obama has become the absentee landlord of the world, not presiding over the budget; abstaining from the debt ceiling; absent from Europe during the debt crisis; issuing a bull against a tsunami as enjoyed his own National Lampoon’s Brazilian Vacation.

If I were Greek, I’d be worried about the missile strike.            


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: europeanunion; greece; obama457states; obama4caliphate; obama4islam; obamavsamerica; worstpresident
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1 posted on 11/05/2011 5:31:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I stand firm that technically while Obama may be signing documents in the Oval Office and sleeping in the Whitehouse legally for all the right reasons he failed to qualify thus his place in history as POTUS can be challenged, as it will be eventually.


2 posted on 11/05/2011 5:35:12 AM PDT by Eye of Unk
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To: Kaslin

Our Slacker-in-Chief


3 posted on 11/05/2011 5:36:42 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Obama: The stupid person`s idea of a smart person.)
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To: Kaslin

“It matters not that he is neither eligible
nor qualified. He is now your King.”


4 posted on 11/05/2011 5:39:54 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Kaslin

To pick a better President, just close your eyes, open a Manhattan (or Queens) phone directory and run you finger down the page and stop - now open your eyes. I guarantee this person will make a better President than Barack Hussein Soetero Obama.

Of course he’s be powerless, because the New World Order Communist machine wouldn’t be backing him or her.


5 posted on 11/05/2011 5:40:47 AM PDT by RoadTest (For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.)
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To: Kaslin

To pick a better President, just close your eyes, open a Manhattan (or Queens) phone directory and run you finger down the page and stop - now open your eyes. I guarantee this person will make a better President than Barack Hussein Soetero Obama.

Of course he’d be powerless, because the New World Order Communist machine wouldn’t be backing him or her.


6 posted on 11/05/2011 5:41:00 AM PDT by RoadTest (For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.)
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To: Eye of Unk

I agree with you and Obuggery will eventually become an asterik “*”.


8 posted on 11/05/2011 5:48:14 AM PDT by DarthVader (That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
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To: Kaslin

We still don’t know who this guy is...college grades and thesis under seal...passport records too. Birth cerificate still in question, and will be until the original copy is produced. Social security number issued in Connecticut in ‘77, a state he’d never been to.

Some funny funding/loans for his home in Chicago. Tony Rezko’s fingerprints all over the transaction.

So our media covers twelve year old maybe sex charges against Cain.

What a joke.


9 posted on 11/05/2011 5:50:14 AM PDT by kjo
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To: Kaslin

A title like that should provide more evidence and commentary.


10 posted on 11/05/2011 5:57:37 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Kaslin

My guess is that history will hold Obama in contempt for several things, one being U.S. policy that allowed the Iranian revolution to be crushed.


11 posted on 11/05/2011 6:04:30 AM PDT by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (The "p" in Democrat stands for patriotism.)
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To: DarthVader

No matter how many times I see a heading describing Obama as either bad, inept, idiotic or even deranged I have to mentally correct the description.

Obama failed to qualify, he isn’t and never will be POTUS as far as I am concerned, he is a squatter.


12 posted on 11/05/2011 6:05:01 AM PDT by Eye of Unk
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To: Diogenesis

13 posted on 11/05/2011 6:07:54 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

F U B O


14 posted on 11/05/2011 6:09:59 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways a Guero y Guay Lao << >> with a floating, shifting, ever changing)
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To: Kaslin

Hate to mention this BUT I KNEW IT IN 2007!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


15 posted on 11/05/2011 6:13:28 AM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: kjo

I’m with kjo, but all I get is this helpless feeling,...like I know a secret and no one wants to hear it! What a depressing time for Conservatives.


16 posted on 11/05/2011 6:15:43 AM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: Kaslin

Can you imagine how history would have differed without Carter and Obama?


17 posted on 11/05/2011 6:17:06 AM PDT by umgud
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To: Kaslin

the leadership vacuum created by the “Dictatorship of Relativism” cannot be filled with raw power, though that won’t keep them from trying.


18 posted on 11/05/2011 6:21:48 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (everyone's a criminal in a police state.)
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To: Doc Savage

My latest feverish ravings about this president is that we are living through a quiet revolution a la Pol Pot in Cambodia after the Viet Nam years.

Think about it. The middle class in America is dying slowly in place as if we were pushed out of our homes into the fields. The academics, who have no souls, are in charge with their economic justice redistribution theories just like those fools that destroyed Cambodia.

How did it work out then? We are so screwed.


19 posted on 11/05/2011 6:23:03 AM PDT by Thebaddog (Remember, Obama said he's only 60% done with his agenda.)
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To: Doc Savage
What a depressing time for Conservatives.

Hey! William F. Buckley said, "Despair is a mortal sin."

And there's a good reason for that -- despair never begot victory.

20 posted on 11/05/2011 6:23:09 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (everyone's a criminal in a police state.)
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