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The Presidency is Breaking Obama Even As Obama Has Broken the Nation
Commentary ^ | 8-16-14 | Peter Wehner

Posted on 08/16/2014 6:21:33 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

One of the nation’s best radio talk show hosts, Hugh Hewitt, interviewed Joe Scarborough, the host of one of the best political shows on television. According to Mr. Scarborough

This is a president that does go out of his way to show that he’s not paying attention to what anybody says. He’s going to do exactly what he wants to do, and he’s going to be stubborn about it. He is politically, he is either politically tone deaf or he just doesn’t give a damn. And I tend to believe based on everything I’ve heard from people who work inside the White House, and we’ve got a lot of friends there, and based on my friends who are senior Democratic senators, this president has checked out… He wants to be the next, I hear it time and time again from his close political allies. This man wants to be an ex-president.

So the president — with crises breaking out across the globe, the economy still staggering, and unrest and despair in America rising — seems to have grown bored with the job. This is on one level an astonishing thing; on the other, it has the ring of truth. I say that in part because Mr. Scarborough is speaking to Democrats, not simply Republicans, on this matter. His sources are excellent. Yet one also sees Obama’s indifference in how he conducts himself, as well as stories leaked by the White House about his “restlessness.”

What could possibility explain this attitude? It may be that Mr. Obama was drawn to the job not for the right reasons but because he viewed the presidency as a new mountain to climb, a prize to win, as a way to feed his unusually large ego (even for a politician). It may also be that Mr. Obama, with his presidency crumbling, is like a petulant child who wants to pick up his marbles and leave. He was fine serving as president when he was adored and well liked; now that things are going south he appears to have emotionally “checked out,” to use Scarborough’s phrase.

The problem with this is that Mr. Obama is disengaging (a) after having done extraordinary damage to America and (b) at a moment when the world is convulsing because of the void left by Obama’s (and therefore America’s) diffidence and passivity. An increasingly insouciant commander-in-chief is not what’s needed at this particular time, given the multiplying threats and increasing disorder in the world.

It’s very much beginning to look at if Barack Obama saw the presidency as primarily a way to satisfy his narcissism. What’s happened instead is the presidency is breaking him, even as he is breaking the nation.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crises; hewitt; obama; presidency; scarborough
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To: afraidfortherepublic
This man wants to be an ex-president.

Resign!

21 posted on 08/16/2014 6:53:44 AM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (I live in NJ....' Nuff said!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

As it becomes ever-more-difficult for the rabid supporters of Clown Prince nobama to deny that he is an anti-American reprobate, they are beginning to criticize the fool. This does not remove their complicity in creating him and their complicity in his attempted destruction of Free America. Their treason is noted and will never be forgotten. Justice will find all.


22 posted on 08/16/2014 6:54:07 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Obama came into office with two overarching goals. First, to visit the nihilistic destruction on the US and its allies dreamed of by “Pop” Davis and which Little Stevie Dunham was weaned on. And second, to complete the radical left’s Long March to complete control.

Those ‘rats who are sweating the ‘14 and ‘16 elections and who want Obama to ease off can forget it. In his mind, they are expendable in the effort to secure the second goal as above. The Chicago commies are perfectly happy to let the GOP be swept into office in response to amnesty, etc, knowing that the GOP has NEVER reversed any leftist advance. They are totally confident that, having left their myrmidons populating the bureaucracy, the courts, the press, having corrupted the electoral process, having bought all the crony ‘capitalists’ and having admitted millions of reliable leftist voters, they will achieve control again - this time permanently - after a brief interlude of feckless GOPe administration. That a few ‘rat senators and a couple dozen ‘rat representatives lose their jobs is just a small price to pay to reify the eschaton.


23 posted on 08/16/2014 6:55:18 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The debacle of the Obama Administration in the summer of 2014 is why this mess has to seriously unnerve Hillary Clinton (who did serve in the Obama Administration and has to run on that record in 2015) and Elizabeth Warren (who increasingly wants to be a Presidential candidate and is a known hard Leftist).


24 posted on 08/16/2014 6:55:46 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Russ

Read it again. He’s saying that Joe thinks his show is the best not the writer.


25 posted on 08/16/2014 6:57:12 AM PDT by surrey
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To: afraidfortherepublic

obama has never had to deal with criticism. In his mind, he’s had all the answers and, until he was president, his ideas have never been challenged. Of course he can’t wait for it to be over. He’s looking forward to the high-paying speaking engagements filled with agreeable students and former political and business cronies. Has he learned anything? Absolutely not! He’s above it all, still thinking he has all the answers.


26 posted on 08/16/2014 6:57:17 AM PDT by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Many of whom will be played for chumps again in 2016. The continuation of sending messages to the world.


27 posted on 08/16/2014 6:59:32 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: DanZ
"Scarborough...formerly a U.S. House RINO from San Diego..."

Scarborough is a former congressman from the 1st District in Florida.

Leni

28 posted on 08/16/2014 7:02:35 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: ryan71

In the cocoon of the teachers’ lounge, leftwing doctrine sounds intellectually superior to all others including Constitutional Conservatism.

But in the real world, leftism always fails - economically, morally & culturally. ALWAYS.

Yet leftists simply fail to grasp the reality their religion fails.


29 posted on 08/16/2014 7:05:48 AM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I forced myself to continue even after reading...

“...interviewed Joe Scarborough, the host of one of the best political shows on television.”


30 posted on 08/16/2014 7:05:50 AM PDT by moovova
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To: oldbrowser

I think you’ve got it. Avoidance rather than boredom.


31 posted on 08/16/2014 7:06:55 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Obama is a restless traitor and wants to be free of the job of destroying this Republic..

WHO CARES?...


32 posted on 08/16/2014 7:18:49 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

People keep saying Obama is “clueless” for vacationing “while the world burns,” etc.

Obama is sending a message around the world with his golfing, feasting, and dancing the night away. He’s CELEBRATING the crucifixions, rapes, beheadings, and slaughter of Christians in Syria and Iraq. He WANTS to be seen celebrating while these atrocities are taking place.


33 posted on 08/16/2014 7:20:05 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: txrefugee

Don’t you remember? In 2008, it was decreed that “skinny,” in reference to Obama, was racist.


34 posted on 08/16/2014 7:23:03 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: afraidfortherepublic

GOOD!
Break him even HARDER.


35 posted on 08/16/2014 7:27:41 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I have prayed and wished that Obama is returning to Washington, DC to resign as POTUS and hand the job over to “Moron/Buffoon, Joe Biden!!! That will not happen.....unless the insane Obama feels his resignation will cause chaos and revolt among the American people. I put nothing past Obama!!! He is a dedicated “Enemy of the United States of America”!!! A worthless human being, along with his Democrat riff-raff Party and his most beloved MUslim Brotherhood Muslim terrorist brothers!!!


36 posted on 08/16/2014 7:29:41 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

In addition to all the personality flaws mentioned in the article, Obama is extremely lazy.


37 posted on 08/16/2014 7:34:05 AM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Obama will never resign. he will have to be drug, kicking and screaming, from the white house.

He won’t resign simply because he will no longer have the free vacations and perks the presidency gives him.

Once he is out of office, he will be of no use to those who manipulate him now; he will be cast aside like a dirty, holey sock.


38 posted on 08/16/2014 7:57:44 AM PDT by Glennb51
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To: Focault's Pendulum
"This man wants to be an ex-president. --- Resign! "

And you can have 'Joe for President!'

39 posted on 08/16/2014 8:01:32 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: afraidfortherepublic

To be fair, it is a long and steep jump from dope smoking community organizer to cocaine snorting CIC.


40 posted on 08/16/2014 8:02:14 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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