Posted on 02/27/2010 11:15:54 AM PST by opentalk
Barack Obama was in his element as he addressed the bipartisan health-care summit he had convened for the principal purpose of shaming the recalcitrant Republicans.
His preferred lectern had been taken away and he had been forced to agree to remain seated but it was nevertheless a cherished opportunity for him to scold, patronise and peevishly disdain his opponents – and to pontificate for nearly six hours.
To be fair, Obama spoke for a mere 119 minutes, as opposed to the 110 minutes he deigned to allocate to the Republicans and the 114 minutes he gave to his fellow Democrats. When challenged about the two-to-one imbalance between the parties, Mr Obama shot back: "I'm the President."
Again and again, he put Republicans down with sarcastic asides, berating them like naughty schoolboys for bringing in a copy of the 2,400-page Senate health bill as a "prop" and informing them of the need to "get our facts straight".
The televised event, dreamt up by the White House to create the desired "atmospherics" for an attempt to push his health-care bill through Congress by Easter, underlined the reality that Obama is not a leader or even really a politician – he is a professor.
Professor Obama is convinced of his own intellectual superiority. When his pupils fail to realise that he knows what is good for them, he simply repeats himself in the expectation that the simpletons will eventually understand.
...For almost three decades, he lived in liberal campus communities where he was insulated from the real world by comfortable consensus and shared assumptions.
Now that Obama inhabits the self-reinforcing cocoon of the White House, this background has become a dangerous liability – and could spell disaster for Democrats in the November midterm elections.
..the event was both a sham and a failure.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
“...underlined the reality that Obama is not a leader or even really a politician – he is a professor.”
No. He is none of those things.
He is nothing more than a useful idiot, a communist rabble-rouser.
He is good only at exploiting the compassionate part of the system to destroy the entire system, bit by bit.
At best, he is like most other professors in this capacity.
Wanna bet? Seriously, I’d wager 25 dollars for the next four “Freepathon’s” in your name if you win and vise versa? I say he’s a one termer...period.
Imagine how extreme you would have to be for Kenya.
The picture that keeps coming to me is this one. ZERO and Odinga ...
There were hoards of shoeless Kenyans dancing in the crowd it the crowd, waving machetes in the air. Not what you want as a US President.
America and the rest of the world better hope Obamao is only a one term president, providing he doesn’t try to turn it into a career dictatorship.
Did you photoshop the teleprompters out?
ZERO shows much more comfort with ignorant students teaching them the idiots guide to Alinsky.
I doubt that Obama will have a second term, but who really knows.
I absolutely guarantee you that regardless of the forces he may bring to bear, he WILL NOT have a 3rd and 4th term.
Or sooner whuldbe better.
I promise that I would not cry if it were to happen, not even one little hint of a drop.
Well maybe one, but it would be not out of sadness.
If the Dems are smart... well I guess that means that he’ll be here till November. With them voting Pelosi and Reid as their leaders, it shows their intellegence. They are going to have those two lead them all off a cliff.
I think whatshisname wanted the Pubbies to create a food fight.
McConnell did point out the time not being shared equally. He made his point and the silly whatshisname made a stupid snotty reply for all the world to hear.
I very seriously doubt that he would survive the attempt ... just a prediction
The tags, do they refer to the earthquake or the president?
“I say he’s a one termer...period”.
...I wouldn’t bet FOR something that I pray every night WON’T happen. One term is all we can take so I hope you’re right.
More from it:
Again and again, he put Republicans down with sarcastic asides, berating them like naughty schoolboys for bringing in a copy of the 2,400-page Senate health bill as a "prop" and informing them of the need to "get our facts straight".
Typical Alinsky "Rules for Radicals" tactics, utilizing Rules 5 and 11
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
Professor Obama is convinced of his own intellectual superiority. When his pupils fail to realise that he knows what is good for them, he simply repeats himself in the expectation that the simpletons will eventually understand.
Although Obama graced the health-care summit with his characteristic silky eloquence, the event was both a sham and a failure. A sham because it wasn't a genuine stab at brokering a compromise between Democrats and Republicans but an attempt to portray Republicans as the block to "progress". A failure because Republicans defied expectations by presenting measured philosophical objections to the bill and outlining sensible alternative approaches.
Many of us warned the Republicans to boycott this sham:
Health Care Summit Rope-A-Dope
The Republican's did well and took the high road, while Obama and the Dems slivered like snakes through the dirt.
Final comment: Why do we have to seek out honest commentary such as this from the Brits? This is yet another example of the US MSM being in the tank for Obama!
They will cheat to try and make it happen. Acorn, unaccountable campaign funds, soros Secretary of state project, media propaganda.
States requiring proof of eligibility may be a road block.
Poll : Obama Meets the Abyss (55% disapprove President's performance)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2460670/posts
The fact of the matter is that the Republicans did far better with voters than 0bama and the Democrats at that conference. The public got to know exactly what the Republican health care plan was like, and the public really liked the common sense, fiscally conservative, Republican approach, which is not going to cost tax payers another 2 trillion dollars like 0bamacare will, but will instead end up bringing down health care costs massively (tort reform, selling insurance across state lines etc).
Up till now, 0bama, Pelosi, Reid and the lame stream media had been going about pushing the “Republican have no health care plans” meme. and getting away with it.
We have to rely on Britain for the truth about our own friggin’ “summit!” Amazing.
Maybe, you and Toby Harnden need to look at the only verdict of the health care conference that counts: The verdict of the American people:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460499/posts?q=1&;page=51
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2460670/posts
The British just don't get American politics a ,lot of the time. They think this is like “Prime Minster's Question Time” in the British parliament. It isn't.
You’re right.
I’m not confident he’ll be a single termer. When I listened to the CPAC meeting, I didn’t hear any of the speakers articulate a vision for the nation other than they don’t like Obama, Pelosi and Reid.
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