I think the media term for this conclusion is "Unexpected".
Posted on 07/31/2011 10:43:12 AM PDT by Signalman
Bill O'Reilly thinks the only thing that can save the Obama presidency is the extremism of the Tea Party followers in Congress.
And he's right.
Maureen Dowd compares Obama to Jimmy Carter today in her Sunday New York Times column, clearly overwhelmed by the job, bowing to Republican demands at every turn, out of his depth.
And she's right.
Both leading Irish American columnists essentially agree that the only thing that can save this ineffectual president is the extremism on the right .
The two leading Irish American voices (pictured together at an Irish Central/Irish Voice event above) rarely agree on anything, but see Obama increasingly as a failed leader.
Dowd worries why Obama didn't just cite the 14th amendment clause that the Democrats including Bill Clinton believe allows the president to raise the debt ceiling an challenge Republicans to take him on in the courts.
Not this president unfortunately.
Here is what Dowd wrote today;
"The world is watching in fearful — and sometimes gleeful — fascination as the Tea Party drives a Thunderbird off the cliff with the president and speaker of the House strapped in the back. The Dow is hiding under the bed with a glass of single malt. Can it get more excruciating? Apple has more cash than the U.S. government.
Amid the chilling anarchy, there’s not a single strong leader to be seen — not even a misguided one. All the leaders are followers. You have to wonder if President Obama at some level doesn’t want to lead. Maybe he just wants to be loved."
Here's what Bill O'Reilly said;
"The only thing that can save Barack Obama at this point is craziness on the right…It’s not only going to hurt the Republican party, which has already been hurt, but it’s going to save President Obama who they hate…The irony is, the people who dislike President Obama the most…are helping him the most. You’ve got to stop this hateful rhetoric. Some of the rhetoric is so hateful…it’d spin your head around. You have to say, listen, we’re at a point in the history when we have to save the country…But I just hope they’ll all just say let’s do what’s good for the country."
O'Reilly is absolutely right. Obama can still energize the power Democratic base by pointing to what will happen if he is defeated. 'After me, the deluge' indeed.
But even that may not be enough to save Obama.
If the Republicans choose a half decent candidate such as Mitt Romney and the economy is still foundering, then Obama is toast .
But if they slew off and follow the siren call of a Michele Bachmann or a Rick Perry then they will lose out badly.
O'Reilly is right, Obama is there for the taking only Republican extremism can save him.
Dowd is right that Obama has gone from 'Yes we can' to 'No we can't. '
But given the current level of hateful rhetoric among Republicans they may fail to defeat the weakest American Democratic president in generations.
Sooo,
What’s the difference to having Mitt or Obammy as president?
Either wiill continue the proliferate spending.
Only Repubics can save Buraq 0bama.
I think the media term for this conclusion is "Unexpected".
If it's "extremism" of the Tea Party that saves us then so be it.
If BORe says to do something, then do the exact opposite.
The 40 or so responses to this posting represent a larger audience than Patrick Roberts ordinarily enjoys all week, so the message is clear: write outrageous crap and more people will read you, if only to conclude that you are, indeed, a moron.
Maureen O'Dowdy and her folksy pal (with the #1 show in cable news!) unfortunately, aren't in the same class of people we can afford to ignore. That is, BOR may have arrived at the same place, but he is not a Quasi-MoDo. She wants to pretend 0bama is weak and we need another McCain to exploit that weakness for selfish reasons. On the other hand, Ted Baxter's instincts about the American Indy voter are usually -- sadly -- quite good. So we must follow the tortured reasoning (such as it is) of this pompous gasbag, and use it to our advantage.
The Indies are "non-ideological" as BOR proudly proclaims more or less daily, as if that were a GOOD THING. Of course, it isn't. It means they employ no-self consistent reasoning process when it comes to the issues facing the country. Never have, never will. Luckily for the Good Guys, they have mostly conservative instincts.
Mostly.
The solution is to improve our message, not to nominate d-bags. We need to get Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Jim DeMint and others who can articulate the message front and center, using the dopey cliches about "for the kids" that the clueless Independents love so much.
Except in our case, we'll be telling the truth.
Basically what O’Reilly and Dowd are saying is the because Obama has been such a disaster, American voters want an opposition candidate whose views most closely resemble Obama’s. Yeah, great logic there.
With super-user privileges.
BINGO! Insight of the week award.
Do not listen, watch, or read any of BO’s ‘looking out for you’ BS. Mark Levin is the real deal.
I'm a Laphroaig fan, myself, but Irish single malt does exist.
Even if he is a communist, how could communists ever expect to profit from a total financial meltdown? I do’t get these extreme leftists. Where do they stand to gain from our bankruptcy, hyper-inflation etc.
all communist/socialist states are nothing but huge bureaucracies controlling everything. Where would they get the money to pay their bureacratic employees? Or anything else?
the only alternative is state production/slave labor and communist countries already tried that.
Like I said, I don’t get it.
Brilliant! That made me laugh so hard I signed in just to say “Bravo!”
LOL. And a big "Póg mo thóin!" to Dowd and all other Irish socialists.
("kiss my a**")
Bill O’Reilly is a liar. People need to stop watching that Obamite. He’s in the tank for Obama and the establishment.
It’s because of what they call “Tea Party extremism” that the Republicans won control of the House of Representatives. If not for “Tea Party extremism”, we would still be under the tyranny of Nancy, the witch, Pelosi! Then we would not even be having a debt ceiling debate. The Democrats would have raised it already and be running up trillions more in debt with zero spending cuts.
It’s the Tea Party that’s DEFEATING Obama. Bill O’Reilly, Shut Up!
or the nation.
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