Posted on 07/24/2011 6:53:32 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote
July 24, 2011, 10:11 AM President Pushover Updated: Drew article now available.
The redoubtable Elizabeth Drew has a forthcoming article in the New York Review of Books — not yet online — that confirms all our worst fears. She tells us that past concessions have
established in both Democrats’ and Republicans’ minds the thought that Obama was a weak negotiator—a “pushover.” He was more widely seen among Democrats and other close observers as having a strategy of starting near where he thinks the Republicans are—at the fifty-yard line—and then moving closer to their position. Even more alarming, however, is her window on what the White House is thinking:
It all goes back to the “shellacking” Obama took in the 2010 elections. The President’s political advisers studied the numbers and concluded that the voters wanted the government to spend less. This was an arguable interpretation. Nevertheless, the political advisers believed that elections are decided by middle-of-the-road independent voters, and this group became the target for determining the policies of the next two years.
OK, I’ve never won a tough election. But neither has Obama! The 2008 race was looking close until Sarah Palin and Lehman came along. And as far as I can tell, this assessment both of what 2010 was about and what matters for 2012 is just ludicrous.
(Excerpt) Read more at community.nytimes.com ...
It gives me great pleasure to watch them on the verge of suicide.
Its beyond that now.
He'll have to pull in the sympathy vote for someone else, 'cause he's got to go, if they've got any hope of keeping the White House.
Biggest trouble the Dems are going to have, is in finding someone to replace him. That's a very tall order.
The latest is that the Harry Reid deal is so bad because "Progressives" aren't attacking and harassing "tea baggers" and "dildo heads". Maybe it's because "Progressives" (defined by the poster as people who should engage in assault and battery) know somewhere in the darkest recesses of their pea sized brains, that they would have their gluteus maximi handed to them.
I enjoyed fanning the flames over there.
I'm thinking some sort of nervous disorder, brought on by evil Republican opposition to his Grand Marxist Utopian Plan.
I would love for some commies to try to harass me.
Relapse of his coke addiction?
Oh, stop. You're gonna make me go to bed grinning from ear to ear. Now, how'm I supposed to get to sleep like that? LOL
Charles Schumer (D-NY)--who likely represents the powerful Wall Street interests--is looking at another financial meltdown that could take down a whole bunch of Wall Street financial companies. I'm sure Goldman Sachs has told Schumer to "do something about Obama."
Harry Reid (D-NV)--who probably has the ear of the very powerful Culinary Union Local 226 in Las Vegas--is realizing that Obama's policies has seriously hurt the membership size of that union. Being Majority Leader, he will soon realize that Obama's policies is actually hurting union membership nationwide in a gigantic way and I wouldn't be surprised that the rank and file of the unions are going to turn on Obama very soon, which means Reid may start asking a lot of hard questions on just Obama is up to, despite Reid's public face.
I have looked there for years. I have never seen such mass meltdown.
This is very explicit in “The Undefeated”
“when they REALLY turn on him, it will be ugly.
The Left are racists and that long stifled racial hate will manifest itself when they dump him for Hillary...”
The Left are indeed racist. Remember the comments of Biden and Harry Reid. They said Obama’s “clean” and that he does not have the “negro dialect”.
They may try to dump Obama, but this man’s ego is enormous. If they try to dump him, he’s not going down quietly. He is so Cesar like, I think he would rather bring the entire country down before he steps down. I don’t think Obama’s all that stable. He is utterly lawless.
BHO will be remembered in the history books as the great uniter. Both Republicans & Democrats despise him equally.
I think it was comments about partying golf, drinking, and date nights that got me banned.
Yes, I can see where that would drive the emotionally shrivelled and maladjusted moonbats - moonbatty. How unkind of you.
There writers were like civilized DUers.
some real funny stuff there. lol
They’re starting to eat their own.
Maybe that will solve Michelle Obama’s “food desert” program.
There’s nothing thinner than liberals’ skin.
Obama won the 2008 election with the highest percentage of white votes that any Dem presidential candidate has garnered in the last 6 elections, something like 46%. Someone posted a recent Pew poll reflecting his rating down to 38% of white voters. I guess the magic unicorn effect has worn off for some of them after watching the guy in action for the last 2 1/2 years. Not only does the emperor have no clothes but it appears but apparently he has joined the scarecrow from Oz in search of a brain.
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