Posted on 02/02/2013 3:59:24 AM PST by IbJensen
A perspective on our president from Down Under.
In Herman Wouk’s classic World War II novel, The Caine Mutiny, there is a moment when a group of the ship’s officers are getting away from the increasingly eccentric Captain Queeq by relaxing ashore.
Suddenly the malcontent Lieutenant Keefer asks the others: “Does it occur to you that Captain Queeg may be insane?
In fact Queeg is not insane, at least not at that time. He is simply grappling, more and more disastrously, with a job too big for him. Come the crisis of a typhoon, he becomes paralyzed and nearly sinks the ship by failing to give the obvious orders. At the subsequent court-martial he appears quite normal until he breaks down under the pressure of cross-examination. Before this, the officers have searched the regulations for guidance, but the regulations refer only to a captain who is clearly and unmistakably insane, not one who is merely guilty of eccentricity and bad judgment. At a lower level of responsibility, Queeg might have performed adequately, but with Keefer’s question, the remaining respect for Queeg’s office has gone.
Obama’s second inauguration speech may be his Queeg moment — an undeniable demonstration that, in an emergency, he is incapable of grappling with reality. For all his unceasing invocation of the word “change,” the outstanding thing about Obama has been his apparent inability to react, even to an imminent crisis. Like Queeg, he stands frozen on the bridge as the waves grow higher, or obsesses over issues like homosexuals and women in the military as the typhoon rises.
Faced with the worst looming fiscal cliff-fall in world history Obama, like Queeg in the typhoon, has done nothing at all, but has, increasingly, resorted to meaningless words.
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Obama's speech - moronic though it was - delivered a message to his supporters.
He is NOT the President of all Americans; he is only the President of those who donate to him and pledge their fealty. The rest of us are screwed. It's commonly understood among conservatives that our country's collapse is his goal. He's more a Captain Ahab than he is a Captain Queeg; America is the white whale and he intends to spear it. And I for one hope he comes to the same end as Ahab, figuratively, of course. What delicious irony.
I think it’s a combination of the two things. Obama and everyone around him are genuinely incompetent and believe that wishing will make things happen. At the same time, the little voices in Obama’s head - Bill Ayers, Al Sharpton, etc. - genuinely hate America and do want to sink it and crush anyone who defends it. So we have the worst of both Queeg and Ahab.
I think one of the things that has slowed the reaction of our few responsible politicians, however, has been this very confusion. Is he just incompetent and slow to learn, or is he doing these bizarre things purposely? I think in his first term , many people thought he was just in over his head, since he is clearly uneducated and not very bright, but now people are realizing that you don’t have to be smart or knowledgeable to be a hate-filled would-be dictator. The question is whether they have realized this too late to halt him.
That's Obama!
This guy is the EIEIO queen of the last century. He has the degrees, the titles, and in the end wasn't picked up by even a third rate law firm. He has supporters who'd like to think of him as being a private in the ranks who rose to Field Marshall in WWII ~ but he's much more like a private in the ranks of the Bulgarian POWs brought into the Fuhrer bunker for the purpose of donating flora and fauna to Adolph Hitler.
Tom Hanks played the part much better, but of course Forrest Gump had better writers behind him!
NOTE: That doesn't get his handlers of the hook ~ some of them are mad dog killers and perverts of the worst sort.
Only in states like Illinois where the entire government and its inherent apparatus is totally corrupt could such a puffed up nobody be elevated to the U. S. Senate.
Who cares that this miserable creep spent his formative years learning his marxist crap while smoking weed, drinking whisky while seated at the feet of a known communist? Who cares that this phony spent his youth in homosexual bathhouses?
Well, I for one do! If one watches this simple-minded fool pontificate and pay attention to what flows from his mouth and watch what he does, they’ll see that he is a sociopathic, narcisstic hater and destroyer.
As to his educational qualifications, I honestly believed that the whole history of this fool has been manufactured as a joke, first played on the doofusses of Illinois and the voters of America. Of course the Republicrat Party was complicit in this folly by barfing up candidates who were inept and incapable of debating a nut case. Neither Juan or Mitty could debate Daffy Duck.
I fear we are too late.
Dani comes to mind...
He is a big steaming pile of you-know-what-—but he is going to take us all down, while he retires and basks in his million dollar mansion in Hawaii. Mission accomplished for him. I hope Michelle’s wig holds up till then.
Good analysis from both of you.
At the risk of a dose of Obama’s megalomania, I compared him to Capt Queeg as early as 2009.
Some of us said during his entire first term that if we, in the grand sense, kept the pressure up on this guy he would crack. The similarity of Qweeg the character in the novel to his excellency is striking accurate. I think anyone who has worked for or with someone who has risen in an organization above their level of competence recognizes the resemblence to this situation. He refuses to acknowledge to himself he is a dud. The evidence is there, super control freak and person who conjures up straw advisaries whenever a decision need be reached while holding onto his teleprompter prop for support.
Two things we need fear more than this clown, those who control him and those who voted for someone like him. Kagel let slip the beans during his hearing: I am not a decision maker. Really, a cabinet member who is not making decisions for his constitutionally approved “ministry”. Wow. So, if the cabinet people are not making decisions, except how to arrange their office furniture, the question begs be answered, who is?
Some of us said during his entire first term that if we, in the grand sense, kept the pressure up on this guy he would crack. The similarity of Qweeg the character in the novel to his excellency is striking accurate. I think anyone who has worked for or with someone who has risen in an organization above their level of competence recognizes the resemblence to this situation. He refuses to acknowledge to himself he is a dud. The evidence is there, super control freak and person who conjures up straw advisaries whenever a decision need be reached while holding onto his teleprompter prop for support.
Two things we need fear more than this clown, those who control him and those who voted for someone like him. Kagel let slip the beans during his hearing: I am not a decision maker. Really, a cabinet member who is not making decisions for his constitutionally approved “ministry”. Wow. So, if the cabinet people are not making decisions, except how to arrange their office furniture, the question begs be answered, who is?
sorry for double post.
Why figuratively? The need is real
For ten thousand dollars, complete the sentence, and spell the last word. The sentence is, "Old MacDonald had a ..."
The contestant answers, "Farm, EIEIO"
I am certain that any analysis of the Big O will be better served by simply asking the question, “what is the agenda?”.
I’m also worried that it’s too late. I think at this point that the only thing that could put a halt to this would be findings by the courts that his various “executive orders” were, for one reason or another, not legitimate for the type of thing he used them for (essentially, to make law), thus throwing things back on the legislature. Then the courts would somehow have to have enough legislative and popular support to actually enforce these decisions, or Obama will simply ignore them, as he has done to date on similar things.
As for the legislatures, Obama is riding roughshod not only over the GOP in the legislature, but the Dems, as well; there were several agreements on important matters (particularly fiscal) reached between the Dems and the GOP that Obama simply rejected, instead imposing his own version. I’m sure there must be at least some Dems who are not happy about this.
The other possibility is that Obamacare will implode, as it already shows signs of doing. The question is whether this will lead to a legislative rebellion and even possibly a popular rebellion (in response to the IRS administered fines for not being able to afford the new, insanely expensive, mandated health insurance).
In the latter case, however, the country will be in such disarray that Obama will have achieved his goal of destruction.
5.56mm
The worst plant manager we had could have passed for a Captain Queeg.
I call him the Plant Manager from Hell. Also known by others as Mr Wonderful!, Short Man, That Mongoloid ************!
Eleven years we suffered under his rule! Yes, RULE!
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