Posted on 06/11/2009 8:00:29 AM PDT by Free America52
What do you mean “What If?” Obama is out of his mind.
No, Zero is doing what he intended all along. It is the State Controlled Media and the sheople who voted for this marxist who are ultimately to blame.
Sorry, didn’t realize there was a page 2 to this article . . .
Think about it. Jack Kennedy told us we were going to the moon, but he gave us a decade to do it, which might as well be a century, the way we look at politics today. Bill Clinton came into office wanting to do everything, but he chose to try to do everything one thing at a time. His opponents realized that if they could jam him on the early stuff — health care, certainly, but before that, gays in the military — they could gum up his whole agenda until he began to trip over his own dick, figuratively and otherwise. They forced a small-scale presidency on a man desperately in love with big ideas until he said “The era of big government is over” in front of Congress because it was more dignified than saying “uncle.” If nothing else can be said of Barack Obama’s first days in office, it can be said that what Clinton said about big government was at best considerably premature. The sudden reemergence of big government left all the people who’d built their careers on what they perceived was its grave — and there are nearly as many Democrats about which this can be said as there are Republicans — scrambling to dust off arguments that they never thought they’d have to use again. (”Socialism!” hasn’t gotten this kind of workout since the death of Robert Taft.) They may never catch up with the sheer velocity of what they’re trying to stop. The received wisdom was that big government was clumsy and moved too slow. Obama has turned that wisdom on its head. Big government is now too fast and agile for the people who want it to die. They can’t get a clear shot at it anymore.
It is an accelerated age. Everything moves faster. We have grown accustomed to speed and, though we may rail against all those things that have been lost because they couldn’t keep up, we have accepted the acceleration that our technologies have brought to every aspect of our lives, including our politics and what we expect from them. Political dilemmas arise in the wink of a pixel. Crises erupt instantly and all at once together. Obama may be the first politician to grasp fully the implications of this, and he has used that realization to his consummate advantage. He’s fashioning political leadership to this accelerated age, making energy and forward movement something very close to an ideology in and of itself, the way Kennedy used the burgeoning technological promise of the Space Age to energize his New Frontier.
Of course, Obama’s doing so in a political context of accumulated inherited crises — a financial catastrophe, two wars of dubious prospect, a vandalized constitution, and a fundamental unease with the American identity that had its roots in the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the country’s panicked reaction to them and the exploitation of that reaction by the greedy and the amoral — the way that Franklin Roosevelt addressed the myriad issues arising from the Great Depression. He is trying everything in order to see what works. He has lashed New Deal politics to New Frontier “vigah” and thrown the whole thing into overdrive to meet the challenges of an accelerated age. In doing so, he is attempting to solve the crisis in American identity by dealing all at once with the more concrete crises that he’s inherited. In doing so, he is reestablishing the American identity as a people who can solve the problems of their own making.
And so far, the country has followed him; an AP poll in late spring showed that, for the first time in a long while, more Americans believed the country was headed in the right direction than otherwise. This has had the effect of squeezing the opposition down to its craziest essentials until it now looks like a sharp, clear diamond of pure insanity. That’s where Commissioner Kilburn comes in, but he’s not alone. The Republican governor of Texas talked seriously about secession, which worked out so well for the country the last time. A Republican congresswoman from Minnesota proposed a constitutional amendment to keep the dollar as the official U. S. currency in perpetuity, because she thought an international cabal was trying to replace it with the euro, or the franc, or perhaps live chickens. Who could say? Other Republican politicians declined to comment without getting a “Mother, may I?” from Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News found a ratings bonanza in a raving lunatic named Glenn Beck, who is what the Peter Finch character in Network would have been had the movie been written by fourteen gibbering marmosets. Not only is there no serious opposition left to what Obama is doing, there isn’t even any effective opposition to it, a curious distinction that a number of Republicans made their careers on during the Clinton years. Obama has not only outpaced the serious ideological objections to what he has done; he’s also neutered the ridiculous ones, which often can do far more damage.
Obama has outpaced it all, and he has brought much of the country with him, albeit groaning as its atrophied muscles of self-government are thrown all at once into a kind of sprint. It may not last. The country had been adrift for so long that it may not have the stamina to keep up with the dizzying agenda that is being put before it. It may well have forgotten how to debate three things at once, or how to keep four thoughts about five things in its head at the same time. But that is what it is being asked to do again — to live up to what had become the hollowest of its boasts during a period in which a president cut our taxes during wartime and asked us to face down our enemies by heading to the mall. It was leadership by lassitude and misdirection. For such an allegedly epochal time, events seemed to slow down, largely because so much was done behind closed doors. There was no perceptible movement because few people were allowed to see what was really going on. This past six months has been different. The pace of what Barack Obama has done — and the number of things he has tried to do — has forced a renewed sense of civic involvement on all of us, if only to simply keep up, if only so that we don’t sound ignorant at cocktail parties, or on unemployment lines.
So is Obama crazy? Good question.
Some people — they call themselves “birthers” — who believe that the president is Kenyan-born and so not eligible to be president (and also in unicorns) have made it their cause to mandate that future presidents establish their Americanness beyond the shadow of a doubt before being allowed to offer themselves as national candidates. But after the last eight years, it is the sanity of the president that we ought to be more inclined to care about. If there were no other baseline qualification for the job, it should be that one. Of lesser concern during times when presidents aspire to do small things, certainly, but as we find ourselves at present in the maelstrom of the Obama Revolution, we can only hope that the president is as sober as he appears to be. For he may have campaigned on hope, but he’s governed with implacable audacity.
What if he is just a puppet?
I find that much easier to believe.
He is a self-absorbed narcissist. Google it. Describes him to a T.
I don’t doubt that he fried his brain on crack.
I agree with you.
He has definitely thrown the role of a NORMAL United States President into the wind! I’m guessing he’s doing “community organizing” on a world scale! He makes no sense at all!
Not to worry, if they drag him off to the Cuckoo’s Nest, Joe Biden will step in nicely. Noooo, wait a minute, he’s nuts too. Dang!
“Esquire”
Stopped reading here.
And then we get G-5 Stretchface when they drag Joe off to the booby hatch!......
We have not seen any health records. They are buried with the rest of the papers.
Was the leader crazy? Sure.
Did a large percentage of the people support some of his craziness? Sure.
Did a large percentage of the people turn a blind eye to other aspects of his craziness? Sure.
How did an advanced, sophisticated european power descend into such depths of madness, and cause the deaths of untold millions? I think I'm beginning to see how remarkably easy it really was.
Obambi set out to do what the Clintons only DREAMED of doing, but with a speed and hudspah that makes Bill Clinton seem quiet and reserved in comparison.
That ch sound is a toughy. You have to pronounce it as if you are clearing your throat...
BTW, zero really is crazy. The particular ailment is narcissistic personality disorder, and it is VERY dangerous in a President. The author of the article has cognitive dissonance issues, but that's so common on the left that it's more proper to call it normal than crazy.
This is disguised praise of Obama. Nothing less.
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