Posted on 01/25/2010 9:25:43 AM PST by Michael Di Domenico
Now that Scott Brown has beaten Martha Coakley in Massachusetts, is the progressive agenda being pushed by the Obama Administration over? If you listen to the political pundits, it is. The underlying basis for the theory is that, like President Bill Clinton after Democrat Congressional losses in 1994, President Obama will have no choice but to do as Clinton did and shift toward the center. Simple enough analysis, but it’s dead wrong. There are two enormous differences between Clinton and Obama that will make that rudimentary analysis go awry.
Bill Clinton had an unquenchable need to be liked by everyone. He rode into Washington feeling the adoration of the left, but as things went sour in 1994, he readjusted for both political survival and to reignite that American love-in. He was a success in this regard. Even with the scandals, he left office in 2001 with very high approval ratings.
Barack Obama, on the other hand, a narcissist in his own right, cares more about one-sided adoration. He has run in circles that have reinforced the notion that heroes are those who enact big, or better yet, massive planks of the progressive agenda. The adoration he seeks is from the Saul Alinsky wing of American society. The rest of us don’t matter to him, because he has absolutely no respect for our values. We are little more than the unwashed masses he’s forced to deal with on his way to FDR, Woodrow Wilson-status among his peers.
Where Clinton was a triangulator, Obama’s an ideologue. Where Clinton was an Ivy League, egghead student, Obama’s an Ivy League, egghead professor and where Clinton thought his stuff didn’t stink; Obama just knows he’s The Chosen One.
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War is coming this year. Obama will be pressed on every front, facing Nixon-like poll numbers and widespread scorn and derision, while the US and Global economy implodes, states enter bankruptcy along with corporations and individuals in huge numbers, and the underpinning of America is culturally shredded by the progressives.
War is coming. Only way out for the Bolshevik, Kenyan, Muslim Usurper. Maybe Intrade will start a WWIII salon for people to buy into. If I ran Intrade that is exactly what I would do.
Get in early if they do and buy on the yes side: Will WWIII start in 2010 prior to November 2?
Or not...
So instead of putting on the brakes, Obama is standing on the throttle. And hitting the nitrous. And wishing he had a turbo.
Barack Hubris 0bama
Ahh—good one...
I beg to differ. There is next to nothing about him that is scholarly.
Who ever said professors are scholarly? Some of the dumbest people on earth.
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