Posted on 11/23/2008 7:21:04 PM PST by jay1949
I have no personal dislike for Barack Obama; I don’t wish him ill fortune. I simply have no faith that the policies he enunciated during his Presidential campaign will produce good things and a great deal of trepidation that they will lead to bad results. In fact, Obama is well-positioned to jump the shark in record time.
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Personally, I’m rooting for the shark on this one. And I REALLY don’t like sharks.
I’m rooting for Obama to have a change of heart and suddenly become a conservative.
Talk about “Hope” for “Change!” A Shark-Jumping, spot changing leopard is a bit much!!! (snark!)
I’ll let you know as soon as I see pigs flying south for the winter, OK?
The author makes interesting points, but is mistaken on a couple of points.
The Bush Administration really jumped the shark in its response to Hurricane Katrina. He was far from alone in the blame- the City of New Orleans and the state government failed even more than the Federal governemnt did. But Bush never recovered from that fiasco.
He jumped the shark on election day. What the majority of voters wanted was to absolve their sins by voting for a black candidate. This has been accomplished. The next four years is like waking up and realising you got married to a girl you just met during a drunken leave from your ship.
If Obama became a conservative we are talking about a conversion of Biblical proportions-Saul become Paul on the road to Damascus.
“Clearly the Chosen One was not ready. He should have listened to that one boob chick.”
-Narrator, “Kung Pow: Enter the Fist”
I won’t argue a lot with that; he came back a little between Katrina and early ‘06, but probably not enough to brag about.
Obama is already backing away from his campaign promises. It won’t matter to his faithful; remember, the Obama hysteria is all about feelings and has nothing to do with actually doing anything. I getting hopeful that he’ll just vote ‘present’ when the fanatics in Congress want to dismantle the first two amendments in the Bill of Rights.
since I’m watching the Colts/Chargers, here’s my Sharks cheer:
`A pussycat purrs
and a big dog barks
Eat him up! Eat him up!
Sharks sharks sharks!’
;^)
I just don’t think the peeps will be that patient. His very first speech after getting elected was spent on lowering expectations, and the pie won’t be available until perhaps his SECOND term.
“Ahhhhh HELL nahhhh!
Where my PIE?”
Sometime about March or so, we’ll hear the grumblings and I for one will publically bring up pie at every chance I get.
And I will extend the zero the exact same support W enjoyed from the left these past 8 years.
And then some.
Turnabout is fair play and payback is a you know what!
I’m hoping I’ll wake up tomorrow and suddenly start pooping 24K gold logs.
A Freeper posted something on this subject just after the election. She said that she believed BO had already jumped the shark, and I think she’s right. Modern people have an extremely short attention span, so they get bored quickly and are always looking for something new that catches their fancy. Sad, but true.
I’m praying for Obama to have a change of heart and suddenly become a conservative.
With God, all things are possible.
IMO, he failed in his response to the furor. Bush had a GOLDEN opportunity to teach America how ineptly Democrats handle disaster. Clearly FEMA was in place to help. Armed forces, too, could have been deployed if the BOOB of a governor (as you said) had requested help.
Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution clearly says the federal government may only protect a state from internal problems if requested by the Executive of that state. The President should have used the aftermath to publicly flog all griping Democrats for not pushing Blanco to request help earlier.
Bush, interested in merely showing a "new tone", instead went on a pickup truck ride with the idiots in charge of that state...and let the national Democrat leaders and the LameStream Media continue the myth that he watched with delight while Louisiana crumbled.
The last great Republican President would never, ever have taken the unjustified attacks laying down. Bush did, and you're right--we've paid the price in subsequent years.
I mean, come to think of it: Louisiana--in the election JUST AFTER Katrina--overwhelmingly voted for Republican Bobby Jindal. Hell, it wasn't even CLOSE. Bush could've seized the moment then.
I watched a clip of "refugees" in Houston, a poor black woman who fled New Orleans...I think it was on ABC's "Nightline", and it was a live interview. The hack/reporter asked her if she blamed Bush...and on live TV, this woman said, no--she blamed the local officials who didn't help them enough. The reporter's beeber was STUNED. Bush's team could've used THAT as an opportunity to teach America--but they didn't. They capitulated.
Well, that would be an all-time record - - jumping the shark on election day. I doubt that this is the case, at least as measured by approval ratings, which have gone up a bit. One the other hand, one can hope, mais non?
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