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When Folks Stop Liking Barry
The American Thinker ^ | June 28, 2010 | Bruce Walker

Posted on 06/28/2010 2:58:15 AM PDT by Scanian

President Obama's image of leadership flounders in the Gulf of Mexico. While Governor Jindal displays the true qualities of leadership, our president is stuck in Saul Alinksy gear, demonizing a foreign corporation instead of actually doing anything constructive. Disgust at Obama's genuine incompetence at this genuine ecological disaster stretches across party lines and the ideological spectrum.

Barry blames Bush for everything about our dismal economy. A partisan rubber-stamp Congress has given Obama the wild and wasteful expenditures which his childish, failed, quasi-Keynesian witches' brew prophesies will spend us into prosperity. It hasn't worked. Now, oddly, congressmen facing electoral apocalypse have stopped writing our wise leader a blank check against the federal treasury.

Wearing the hat of Commander in Chief, Obama explicitly sought a general in sync with his plan to end the war in Afghanistan. Then, when General McChrystal snickered too publicly at Obama's cartoon leadership, the president replaced him with the old Bush team -- the man Obama and his pals three years ago were calling "General Betray Us." Does this cause a "willing suspension of disbelief" in Obama?

The nomination of radical leftist women to the Supreme Court simply reinforces the image of Obama as a closet Marxist. His cabinet choices reinforce this image of radicalism. The American people, during Obama's administration, profess to be conservative -- and increasingly conservative according to Gallup, a poll that already shows that conservatives outnumber liberals in every single state of the Union.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: incompetence; leadership; likability; publicopinion
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It's hard to understand what anyone would find "likable" about that preening, snooty narcissist but the fact is that tens of millions have taken a personal liking to him. One day, however, Hussein will give the chumps who support him a look at his inner rottenness and that may prove more damaging to him than any policy decision or piece of legislation.
1 posted on 06/28/2010 2:58:19 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian
Indeed. The terrible response of President Obama over this disaster will result in an angry electorate wanting REAL change, and that could only foretell one thing: potentially the biggest change in Congress since 1994.
2 posted on 06/28/2010 3:01:08 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Scanian

Blame the ongoing, systematic “dumbing down” of America for any support this traitorous moron may yet enjoy.

Sure as hell explains his election.


3 posted on 06/28/2010 3:01:46 AM PDT by RightOnline
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To: Scanian

Maybe we should start a “Where Did Our Barry Go?” effort...and ask why we can’t have the pre-campaign Barry back. This would confuse the media and probably confuse half the Democrats.


4 posted on 06/28/2010 3:03:57 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Scanian

This awful President was elected on an ‘America Sucks’ campaign. Now that he is in it does not work as well.


5 posted on 06/28/2010 3:05:02 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (m)
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To: Scanian

‘Closet Marxist’? Barry was never in the closet. People who took the time and trouble to check out his record, his pals, mentors, knew exactly what he was.


6 posted on 06/28/2010 3:16:29 AM PDT by hershey
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To: Scanian

I’m not sure how much people actually “like” him - he’s just not a likeable person - and how much many Americans simply believe they like him because they are told 24/7 by the press that they like him. That is, the press loves him and keeps informing the world of how much Americans like him, and I think some of these people actually believe what the press is saying about them. They feel a mild twinge of guilt at even thinking that they may, deep down inside, not like him.

As you say, there’s nothing to like. The only group that probably does genuinely like him is blacks, and they only like his suntan and probably his wife; they’re very defensive about him, and no matter what, they’ll never abandon him as long as he plays up to them by having rap parties at the WH, talking about basketball and throwing them a few dollars from his “stash” every now and then. It doesn’t take much for some people...

That said, I think if he loses the media, he’ll lose the public. But the press and other media have staked their entire professional careers on him, between getting him elected and supporting his every bumbling or dictatorial move, and I honestly don’t know what it would take to get the media to abandon him.


7 posted on 06/28/2010 3:16:52 AM PDT by livius
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To: Scanian
Last part of Bruce Walker's article: In fact, the real time bomb is probably Obama himself. As Robin of Berkeley observed in her truly scary article, Barack Hussein Obama may well be have been a traumatized victim in his youth, perhaps of sexual abuse. If he is, then Obama will have personality disorders which simply cannot be cured (read Robin's article for the details). If Robin is right, then at some point, the true, hopelessly sick Obama will show himself before a horrified nation. Average Americans will no longer like the president. They will, instead, be saddened and repelled -- and they will emphatically expel Obama and his supporters from power or influence in our lives. When folks stop liking Barry, the party is over.

LET'S HOPE SO... WAKE UP AMERICA




8 posted on 06/28/2010 3:20:00 AM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: RayChuang88
This author is a wee bit nuts.

For example, this...

If Obama gets caught in a transparent lie, then that deceit could be a quick and deep stinger.

IF?

Obama has been caught at so many lies one wonders if he can tell the truth (even on small, unimportant things). Obama is nothing if not a liar!

Furthermore, "likability" is NOT an important quality of a president or national leader. Respect for, confidence and faith in. Those are the important issues...and Obama ain't got 'em.

Likability counts only when ALL other issues are equal.

That said, this guy is not likable. He's a snooty, Haahvahd lawyer, who has NO friends who aren't either crooks or radicals! And he has shown a complete disregard (disrespect) for American voters. He rams down what he wants and the voters be damned.

Likable?

Yeah...I'd like to meet him in a dark alley sometime.

9 posted on 06/28/2010 3:21:45 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself...)
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I understand that "there's no accounting for taste", but the Obama thing strikes me as very odd:

They say he's likable. I disagree -- and you've listed good reasons why he's not likable. Certainly he has no history of attracting lots of friends.
They say he's smart. Well, we have no academic or legislative track record to bolster this. I just don't see him as anything but a mediocre talent.
They say he's a great communicator. Nope. He reads words off a teleprompter with some skill. I've seen him in debates, interviews, and town hall meetings. He's a disaster when he speaks his own mind.

And yet, a lot of people think he's incredibly great. It's got to be the skin. People love him because he's a magic negro. That's going to carry him through 4 years of the presidency?

10 posted on 06/28/2010 3:34:50 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Scanian

Barrack Hussein Obama is incompetent? Who could have guessed? What hint did we have?

/sarc


11 posted on 06/28/2010 3:43:59 AM PDT by Mere Survival (Mere Survival: The new American Dream)
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To: Scanian

“inner rottenness”

perfect!


12 posted on 06/28/2010 3:46:06 AM PDT by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: hershey
‘Closet Marxist’? Barry was never in the closet. People who took the time and trouble to check out his record, his pals, mentors, knew exactly what he was.

Yes, the power of the mainstream media to turn off people's thinking is incredible. They said Obama's Marxist connections weren't an issue and people didn't THINK. It's the old technique they used after McCarthy of attacking anyone as an extremist that calls a Marxist a Marxist.

13 posted on 06/28/2010 3:48:59 AM PDT by Mere Survival (Mere Survival: The new American Dream)
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To: hershey
‘Closet Marxist’? Barry was never in the closet. People who took the time and trouble to check out his record, his pals, mentors, knew exactly what he was.

Yes, the power of the mainstream media to turn off people's thinking is incredible. They said Obama's Marxist connections weren't an issue and people didn't THINK. It's the old technique they used after McCarthy of attacking anyone as an extremist that calls a Marxist a Marxist.

14 posted on 06/28/2010 3:48:59 AM PDT by Mere Survival (Mere Survival: The new American Dream)
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To: Scanian
Some in the DNC and overseas get what they want.


15 posted on 06/28/2010 4:25:29 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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“It’s hard to understand what anyone would find “likable” about that preening, snooty narcissist”

As the media will tell you, if you do not love the Bambie messiah, then you are a dirty, rotten, RACIST.
This is precisely why he was selected by the puppet masters.
They can always play the race card when anyone criticizes
Obozo.


16 posted on 06/28/2010 4:29:28 AM PDT by AlexW
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To: AlexW

The media are such shallow thinkers, they probably believe that about themselves, so they continue to praise Barry in order to not feel that they themselves are racists.


17 posted on 06/28/2010 4:58:07 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Hey, Barack "Hubris" Obama, $10 is all it would take, why spend millions to cover it up?)
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To: Scanian
Well people along the Gulf Coast will have plenty of reasons to hate Obama. Getting oil dumped on your livelihood everyday is going to make them strike back at anybody in sight....
18 posted on 06/28/2010 5:07:01 AM PDT by Average Al
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To: Scanian

BHO is not incompetent. He is working very hard, carrying out the wishes of the late Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Alinsky.
Too bad he isn’t using his energy for the good of the United States.


19 posted on 06/28/2010 5:30:52 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism: severe deterioration of the thinking apparattus)
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To: RightOnline

To me, even a stupid illiterate should find that guy creepy and off-putting. I never, ever could understand the attraction.


20 posted on 06/28/2010 5:35:47 AM PDT by Scanian
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