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Posted on 09/14/2014 7:24:16 AM PDT by centurion316
The rising clamor over the beheading of two Americans, and rapidly sinking polls, forced President Obama to reassure the nation last week he had a plan to deal with the Islamic State. He did some of what he had to do, but only some, and so most military analysts believe the expanded airstrikes will not be a sufficient match for the size and weaponry of the terrorist army.
They miss the point. The disjointed speech wasn’t really about terrorism and launching a new war. It was about saving Obama’s presidency.
He is sinking fast and could soon pass the point of no return. In fact, it may already be too late to save the SS Obama.
The whole second term has been a string of disasters, with the toxic brew of his Obamacare lies, middling economic growth and violent global breakdown casting doubt on the president’s stewardship. Six years into his tenure, nothing is going as promised.
Earlier on, he could have trotted out his teleprompters and turned public opinion his way, or at least stopped the damage. But the magic of his rhetoric is long gone, and not just because the public has tuned him out.
They’ve tuned him out because they’ve made up their minds about him. They no longer trust him and don’t think he’s a good leader.
Most ominously, they feel less safe now than they did when he took office. Americans know the war on terror isn’t over, no matter what their president claims.
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The metaphor is apt, but my fantasy would’t be complete if the ‘ship’s casualties’ didn’t include all crew & passengers (i.e., ‘supporters/voters’)...
Besides, he’s not running the ‘ship’ anyway (puppet).
That half the talk about includes people getting Social Security and Medicare, most of whom are probably not supporting O.
You’re right. America has not yet realized the full price it will pay for electing this narcissist.
Public schools and mass media keep it afloat.
And it is now over half the country who is willing to sell all the promise if a better tomorrow for, what amounts to, a couple of crumbs from the gov’t.
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