Posted on 12/12/2010 9:28:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Bill’s cool and Barack’s an uptight prig.
Cue the laughter. Bring on the guffaws.
But wait — didn’t we already know that?
It’s easy enough for conservatives, libertarians, et al, to gloat about Barack Obama’s recent petulant, child-like performances — at first unable to be even slightly gracious in compromise with Republicans on the tax bill and then, only a few days later, fleeing in panic when Clinton acted the real president, fielding questions with a relaxed authority so surpassing Obama’s it was almost comical.
But there is a bigger reason not to gloat. We are stuck with this odd duck for another two years at minimum and now everyone, the entire world really, knows what he is like. They also know, if they have been paying the slightest attention, the etiology of his behavior: the man never had to face serious adversity until he was elected POTUS. And now he can’t deal with it. He’s the very model of Harry Truman’s famous advice about getting out of the kitchen if you can’t stand the heat. Obama was out of the White House briefing room the second he realized he was being outclassed by Clinton. And, boy, was he ever!
We need a leader and don’t have one. This is extremely bad news for our country, especially now.
What is to be done? Unfortunately, the answer isn’t close to simple even with a real leader. Merely cutting taxes — assuming we do that — may not be nearly enough. And pseudo-stimulus spending, such as has been shamefully added on to this “compromise bill,” will most likely make matters worse. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking on our economy, our way of life really. Interest to China alone will soon be enough to bankrupt us.
So what indeed is to be done? Paul Ryan has a prescription that’s a starting point, but even his ideas may not reduce spending fast enough. There is little reason to be optimistic, even with the Tea Party victories. I have just returned from New York and found the situation there similar to California, strongly resistant to change. (A good analysis can be found in the WSJ’s interview with Richard Ravitch — “Gotham’s Savior, Beaten By Albany.”) It’s tempting for some on the right to dismiss this as just New York and California, but these are our two most populous states and comprise a huge percentage of the U.S. economy. Things will not be easily improved without them. In fact, they probably can’t be improved without them. And Illinois too seems out of control.
And we have Barack Obama to lead us. Wow. The Republican leadership had better be strong. Their recent “compromise,” as Charles Krauthammer has shown us, was not inspiring. Color me nervous.
Don’t blame Obama, blame the morons who voted the idiot into office. They are the real shame of this country.
*****Obama was out of the White House briefing room the second he realized he was being outclassed by Clinton.*****
Foot fungus outclasses Clinton - so we must ask ourselves - how low can BO go from here?
Im going to spit in my sisters cranberry sauce this Christmas
You have to go to the septic tank for that answer.
Law against Clinton re-running for Pres?
Any chance we could get Joe Biden to resign, put Herself, the Cold and Joyless in as VP, then get the Obamster to step down? That way, Herself could finish out this term (less than two years remaining, thus making Herself eligible to run for two full terms later on).
Incumbency is such a powerful tool.
“Merely cutting taxes — assuming we do that — may not be nearly enough.”
Is he referring to the tiny reduction in SS taxes for the coming year? Yeah, THAT’S a real game-changer...
It amazes me that some people on Free Republic have never read the Constitution
The question of who is POTUS between 0bama and Clinton shifts the fact that this TOTUS-reader is merely the stand-in for Soros et-al.
Gloat, no. Ridicule, yes.
Law, no. Constitutional Amendment, yes.
Most of us pretty well knew we we getting an empty suit, but now the truth is very obvious even in the sycophant media. Obama walking out of the press conference to go to the WH Christmas party leaving Bubba in charge was nothing short of pathetic. We now have a eunuch for a president.
And somehow, millions of our fellow citizens still aren't getting the message that the POTUS is in completely over his head.
clinton is as much of a lying, loathsome beast as he ever was.
obama not having class, doesn’t mean clinton has it.
i always wonder why the same basic group of reporters
and politicians who went nuts over reagan’s million
dollar speech in japan have no problem with a
man, who went into presidency with nothing was
worth a hundred million several years out.
Yeah! That'll teach her.
Everyone made such a big deal of Obama being ready for the 3AM phone call. He couldn't even handle the 3PM presser.
Some of the pictures that Drudge has posted of him recently lead me to believe that the man may be on some form of opiate. The half closed eyes are a hallmark of drug use.
“It amazes me that some people on Free Republic have never read the Constitution”
IMHO, the cloud of confusion for those of us who believe in the Constitution is whether our representatives believe it should be followed. Let me count the ways in which the Constitution has been ignored as of late....
Lincoln first, then the progressive rendered that useless document moot 100 years ago.
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