Posted on 08/07/2013 7:10:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Critics of the president are convinced that Barack Obama will do lasting damage to the U.S. I doubt it.
Obama came to power in the third year of large Democratic congressional majorities. In his first referendum, he lost the House and he may soon lose the Senate; in other words, there followed a somewhat normal reaction against a majority party. Obama’s popularity rating is well below 50%, despite an obsequious media and a brilliantly negative billion-dollar campaign that long ago turned Mitt Romney into a veritable elevator-using, equestrian-marrying, canine-hating monster.
In the second term, there is little of the Obama bully pulpit left. “Make no mistake about it” and “let me be perfectly clear” can incur caricature, not fainting. “Really,” “I’m not kidding,” “I’m serious,” “in point of fact,” and “I’m not making this up” often prove rhetorical hints that the opposite is true. When Obama warns about gridlock in Washington, the “same old tired politics,” the dangers of a tyrant or king in the White House, the need for an honest IRS, or the perils of government surveillance, these admonitions have tragically become a psychological tic to warn us about himself. Former jokes about siccing the IRS on his enemies or using Predator drones to go after suitors of his daughters are as eerie as they are comedic.
Each new “historic” speech is by now mostly history repeating itself as farce. The Victory Column oration gave way to a flat vignette at the Brandenburg Gate. The Cairo speech follow-ups were mostly confusion about Egypt and Syria, without the fictions of the West’s underappreciated debts to Islam. The second Trayvon Martin aside on racial look-alikes was even more disturbing that the first. I don’t think Obama’s advisors will allow him to proclaim any more “deadlines,”(continued)
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VDH is always worth reading. Thanks for this.
We sure hope his optimism pans out...
(the tunnel can seem so very dark when you’re stuck inside it)
Impeach now!
As Rush said, the USA can survive Obambi. But can it survive a majority of low-info voters? Her Thighness (a.k.a. Madame La Serpente) is lurking in the grass.
VDH is a weekly regular on WIBC (93.1 FM,) radio Greg Garrison Show on Wednesday mornings. Always worth listening to.
(not pimping for the program, just a regular listener.)
VDH worth reading???
Writing just doesn’t get any better than this. I know of no writer so concise; just the words that are needed, none that aren’t...Thomas Sowell also comes to mind...I hope you enjoy him, also faithhopecharity.
Let’s assume Obama wants to be a good President. What evidence do we see of that? Now, let’s assume he’s out to make money for himself and his buddies and live the good life. What evidence do we see of that? Think about it.
Jewish pessimist: “Oy, things couldn’t get any worse!”
Jewish optimist: “Oh yes, they could!”
But don't count on it. The people elected this one. They may well elect another one . . . and another . . . til it's all over.
Obama has already done massive damage to the United States. He has made us a laughing stock in foreign affair, Bankrupted us in finance, Destroyed the morals of America, Destroyed marriage, the military and our Government agencies.
He has had help now. The democrats would back him if he wanted to kill every white first born.
The USA has survived...yea, prospered...thru much adversity -- a Civil War, multiple world wars and financial crises.
But can it survive the legacy of the sixties -- with its egregious subversion of our institutions and universal corruption?
In other words, can the USA survive today's Democrat party?
LOL!
Then, let’s assume he’s the political equivalent of a kamikaze? What evidence do we see of that?
He might be, but history is full of thieves and murderers hiding behind a political mask.
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of Idiots such as those who made him their president.”
Author unknown.
I, for one, have had quite enough of the "hopey changy' president.
well, to your point....
we have to find a way to make sure that millions of voters don’t stay home next time
It’s difficult to gauge “lasting damage” when your attention is always in front of you looking for the next Obama IED.
Meanwhile, Conservatives look in the rear view mirror and see the damage already done that seems to be forgotten when a new “issue” emerges, like Amnesty or Gun Control.
Obama is a post turtle. The clymers who put him in office are the problem.
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