"Back then, the symbol of a failed president was a big rabbit. Now, it’s a big bird."
"Machiavelli says that once a leader becomes an object of contempt, he’s doomed. Which is Obama’s current condition. Once you become the butt of jokes the aura of leadership is gone forever."
The obamov followers running around in idiotic chicken outfits, certainly doesn't help salvage any dignity, however much is left. A terrific analogy by Michael Ledeen.
To: bronxville
Obama is Carter 1980. Romney is Carter in 1976.
To: bronxville
It Looks Like Carter All Over Again
At the rate Obama is sliding, the above statement could end being libelous toward Carter.
3 posted on
10/09/2012 4:08:29 PM PDT by
verum ago
(Some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
To: bronxville
A huge difference in 1980 was that the famously conservative leader Ronald Reagan, had to convince the American people that he was not too far right for American politics, that he wouldn’t get us killed with his strong, bold, even radically conservative views.
5 posted on
10/09/2012 4:12:13 PM PDT by
ansel12
To: bronxville
Reagan had significant;y different policies than Carter. Romney supported the rebels in Libya and now in Syria. Liberal fail.
7 posted on
10/09/2012 4:13:30 PM PDT by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: bronxville
"Back then, the symbol of a failed president was a big rabbit. Now, it’s a big bird."
Actually, I think it's the Big Bow.
8 posted on
10/09/2012 4:14:26 PM PDT by
workerbee
(The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
To: bronxville
Electorally it IS a lot like Carter. However, don’t dismiss the advantage the left has enjoyed between then and now. When good and evil compromise, evil wins.
10 posted on
10/09/2012 4:16:20 PM PDT by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: bronxville
11 posted on
10/09/2012 4:24:10 PM PDT by
Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: bronxville
1. high gas prices
2. high unemployment
3. widely hated USA in the middle-east
Yup..! What is old is new again..!
Hey why isn’t the media noisy about it? Cuz we don’t have a WHITE guy from Georgia as Prez, that’s why.
Cuz East coast intellectual elites DO prefer professional death to criticizing a black bisexual Muslim.
13 posted on
10/09/2012 4:32:03 PM PDT by
gaijin
To: bronxville
Don’t forget Carter’s policies were so devastating to the country that the British thought he was a Russian mole.
14 posted on
10/09/2012 4:42:41 PM PDT by
NoobRep
To: bronxville
15 posted on
10/09/2012 5:20:14 PM PDT by
Iron Munro
(Obamaspeak: An army of pompous phrases marching across the landscape in search of an idea.)
To: bronxville
444 days...
and his plan to wear a sweater if oil prices got too high...
16 posted on
10/09/2012 5:24:12 PM PDT by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: bronxville; ml/nj; firebrand; juliej; ExTexasRedhead; Yaelle; Clintonfatigued; SunkenCiv; ...
Michael Ledeen is a good guy, but it's hardly a brilliant idea to compare Obama to Carter, especially on foreign policy. The analogy is just so obvious.
Seems as if the presidential race this year is going similarly to the one in 1980 so far, and hopefully it will continue that way through Election Day.
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