Posted on 01/01/2009 5:31:13 AM PST by Kaslin
As he stands on the sidelines, seemingly oblivious to what's going on in the world, President-elect Barack Obama opts out of the game by proclaiming that there's only one president at a time.
That's another way of saying, "Let George do it," when the Middle East erupts in violence, the economy continues to slump, and the governor of his state defies demands that he step down.
His almost nonchalant approach to the turmoil around him has thus far protected him from adverse reactions from his real base -- the media -- but that immunity from harsh criticism has not extended to his political base, the far left. They are after him hammer and tongs.
Barack Obama will not become president until January 20, but the far left of his party is already blaming him for all sorts of alleged omissions. He seems to have violated the liberal's major shibboleth, "No enemies to the left." He's suddenly acquired a whole slew of them.
He may have chosen a few bomb throwers to serve in his Cabinet or the White House, but that hasn't satisfied the more dainty of the lefties who are appalled at his selection of Pastor Rick Warren, who committed the unpardonable sin of not only opposing gay marriage, but actually promoted Proposition 8, which banned the aberration in California.
Up on Capitol Hill the Democrats are out of sorts because he failed to act more quickly on his planned stimulus package, and Barney Frank -- an openly homosexual Democrat from Massachusetts -- is enraged over the choice of Rick Warren.
They simply don't buy his only-one-president-at-a-time alibi. They want him to start acting presidential now, and all he's been doing in Hawaii is physical exercise (when he's not showing off his pecs to the gaga media).
The left is also unhappy with the economic team he's assembled -- a group of moderates who embrace traditional approaches to economic policies rather than the openly socialistic nostrums the Marxist wing of his party cherishes.
His problem with Congress lies in the fact that Congress never accepts responsibility for anything. They shift whatever blame there is in any situation downtown to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., but wallow in the glory of anything that goes right.
The boys and girls on Capitol Hill were more responsible for the current economic mess that any other entity, but they shift the blame to the Bush administration, which had in fact tried to forestall the crisis and was blocked from acting by such top Democrats as Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd, who were drinking heavily at the money fountains of Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac.
The fact that they haven't done anything worthwhile is all Obama's fault, and starting on January 20 they'll blame him for anything that goes wrong. His honeymoon will more quickly resemble a marriage on the brink of divorce rather than a joyous romp at Niagara Falls.
All this, sadly, is simply a sign of the decline now evident in Washington with the utter absence of backbone and leadership.
The taste of Barack Obama's triumphant victory could well turn out to be ashes in his mouth rather than that of honey. He has climbed the hill to the top and found it covered with thorns and thistles and poison ivy, instead of the roses he expected.
Shortly after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, Sen. Barry Goldwater dropped by the White House to see his friend and former Senate colleague President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
When Barry asked him how he was, JFK looked at him, threw up his arms and said "What a lousy fouled up job this has turned out to be."
Welcome to the White House, President Obama. Enjoy your stay. Have a great New Year. You are in our prayers.
And Happy New Year to one and all.
You are right in more ways than you realize. If 0bama had a similar position on Israel their sharing of information, comments, united front kind of stuff would be fine.
The reality though is 0bama’s position on Israel is diametrically different than anything we’ve ever seen. Democrat or Republican.
Now that Obama has become a leading Presidential candidate, he has assembled a body of foreign policy advisers who signal that a President Obama would likely have an approach towards Israel radically at odds with those of previous Presidents (both Republican and Democrat). A group of experts collected by the Israeli liberal newspaper Haaretz deemed him to be the candidate likely to be least supportive of Israel.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/barack_obama_and_israel.html
I question how many democRats were polled compared to republicans, and I bet you the rate was 3 to 1 rats to republicans
Napoleon Dynamite:I don't even have any good skills.
Pedro: What do you mean?
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Yes he is right and thank God he knows it.
He was just like any other empty suit, Talk a lot without saying anything
They keep calling the election a landslide....
47% didn’t vote for him.
Yes, but you don’t you know his decisive “leadership” has given him the highest approval rating in 3 decades of any president?? (CNN)
Hey, get with it pal /sarc
I refuse to watch any news on January 20. Instead I will either read a book or watch some movies instead
me either...nor any news about him or his family on any of the media...mute and channel change buttons or my tv will be broken soon....but then again i hardly ever watch any tv any more so what the heck
hardly amy internet except for here and a couple of other sites...seems like when i ever do search for information via google or yahoo or anywhere on the net within a day or so someone is sending me an email with something to sell me in regards to my “private” search....now that is total BS!
big brother and the nobama internet savy crowd have taken over everything...very sad year getting underway!
You are not the only one.The feeling is mutual
Ditto. I will be joining you. I can’t bear to watch this travesty.
obama’s crew keeps acting as though this situation never happened before. Yea, there’s never been an president-elect before, obama. Sure. No one else has ever dealt with this situation before. Sure. We buy that. Sure.
This guy is a clown and he makes me want to hurl chunks. He’s not qualified to be a student leader on a campus.
Now I can empathize with third world residents who have corrupt fools for leaders, know it, but can’t say anything about it except in private.
At least we can still complain openly (for now).
It is all Obama's fault.
Only thing I need to say for the next four years.
Exactly same policy here. In the interest of keeping my sanity and retaining my innate cheerfulness, I will have a personal news blackout for anything related to the stoopid inauguration for at least a day either side of the event.
Bush once had a poll showing 82% approval rating... adoration is fleeting in the real world.
LLS
hussein will NEVER be my president... NEVER!
LLS
I will not be watching the inauguration/coronation.
I will be reading my book FDR’s Folly - How Roosevelt and his new deal PROLONGED the Great Depression
by Jim Powell.
And I am also reading The Great Bubble and its undoing Origins of the Crash - about the past depression/recession/stock market crashes by Roger Lowenstein, and I am seeing the SAME THINGS happening NOW in DC with the bailouts.
And I am reading State of Fear by Michael Crighton about GLOWBULL WARMING HOAX written as fiction, but reads true now, reads like the Al Gore power point show.
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