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The Impending Obama Meltdown
National Review Online ^
| February 4, 2009
| Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 02/04/2009 5:20:52 AM PST by libstripper
Some of us have been warning that it was not healthy for the U.S. media to have deified rather than questioned Obama, especially given that they tore apart Bush, ridiculed Palin, and caricatured Hillary. And now we can see the results of their two years of advocacy rather than scrutiny.
We are quite literally after two weeks teetering on an Obama implosionand with no Dick Morris to bail him outbrought on by messianic delusions of grandeur, hubris, and a strange naivete that soaring rhetoric and a multiracial profile can add requisite cover to good old-fashioned Chicago politicking.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abovemypaygrade; corruption; digg; emperorhasnoclothes; first100days; incompetence; obama; presidentobama; vdh; victordavishanson; worst100days
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posted on
02/04/2009 10:42:36 AM PST
by
Tolik
To: libstripper
My take is COMRADE 0 will cut lots of pork out of the stimulus package. Show Congress who is boss and in this way his poll numbers will go back up.
No more tax cheats are getting in either. Only Tim Geithner will make it past his tax problems and is now in office. Unfortunately Comrade 0’s polls will go back up
142
posted on
02/04/2009 10:59:02 AM PST
by
dennisw
(How can you expect fairness or decency on a planet of sleeping people---Gurdjieff)
To: TomGuy
I hate to say it, but.... we really need to nominate someone under the age of sixty who can connect to the Sodom and Gomorrah of pop culture. Principled geezers just don't cut it in national elections.
143
posted on
02/04/2009 10:59:37 AM PST
by
April Lexington
(Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
To: patriot08
I think we just forgot to nominate a conservative candidate. All of the RINOs had their ducks in a row. Where was OUR candidate???
144
posted on
02/04/2009 11:01:43 AM PST
by
April Lexington
(Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
To: libstripper
why else is obama stuggling with executive pay caps?
he has nothing?
he has an empty hand.
His bluff was called and rather than do something really useful, he dusts off the left wing cookbook and serves up the same old class warfare of the communists.
145
posted on
02/04/2009 11:02:02 AM PST
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: brownsfan
Obama is a puppet. Someone else is pulling the strings
My money says Pelosi or Reid.
146
posted on
02/04/2009 11:05:06 AM PST
by
JamesP81
(I shall give their president the same respect they gave mine)
To: Uncle Ike
It all looks so foolish now; to think we ever thought that McCain ever had a chance. How could we have been so stupid? I dont think all that many of us were stupid, necessarily we were gulled by the vocal minority (unfortunately very present here on FR) who insisted that we hold our collective noses and push/pull/punch the R button/lever/chad even if Ronald McDonald was the name beside it.... (Yes, RM would have been a preferable candidate, in many ways).... I confess. I was so terrified of Hillary that I supported McWhatshisname. Never, ever believing Americans would be so incredibly stupid as to elect someone with NO capacity to serve as POTUS just because he is 1/2 black. Hillery'd be looking pretty good right now compared to this nightmare.
147
posted on
02/04/2009 11:06:59 AM PST
by
April Lexington
(Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
To: libstripper
It will happen. I wouldn’t even be surprised if Obama resigns.
148
posted on
02/04/2009 11:07:28 AM PST
by
Salvation
( †With God all things are possible.†)
To: longtermmemmory
These pay caps are beyond zany. Who will work for these banks if they make less than everyone else at that level in the industry. Affirmative action jobs????
149
posted on
02/04/2009 11:08:41 AM PST
by
April Lexington
(Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
To: Salvation
It will happen. I wouldnt even be surprised if Obama resigns. Maybe THAT'S why he's holding his birth certificate info. Its his "get out of Dodge" card.
"OOOPPS! Sorry folks. I just checked my birth certificate and I'm not legally qualified! Guess I'll just be on my way. Oh, and Joe, the key to the front door of the White House is under the mat. Love, Barack!"
150
posted on
02/04/2009 11:11:28 AM PST
by
April Lexington
(Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
To: originalbuckeye
Big Media blew Zero up so high that he can only fail.
I started saying this in the weeks up to the inauguration. The expectations put on Obama by the media and the far left are so unrealistic that I almost feel sorry for Obama. There's simply no way he can deliver what they want. And when he can't, they shall turn on him like the rabid wolves that they are.
151
posted on
02/04/2009 11:14:55 AM PST
by
JamesP81
(I shall give their president the same respect they gave mine)
To: April Lexington; All
We lost when the RINO sob announced to the nation, ‘Senator Obama is a decent family man and is not to be feared’.
To: Badeye
I knew all along what Obama was. But I never would have guessed he would get off to this bad of a start.
100% agree. Given the unrealistic expectations of him, I knew this was coming. But I had no idea it would take less than a month.
153
posted on
02/04/2009 11:24:41 AM PST
by
JamesP81
(I shall give their president the same respect they gave mine)
To: LottieDah
You can see that already. His skin is looking ashy and there are bags under his eyes.
Near the end of the campaign, I thought for sure I spied a few flecks of gray in his hair when watching some interviews. I guess someone got him some better hair dye after Nov 4.
154
posted on
02/04/2009 11:29:29 AM PST
by
JamesP81
(I shall give their president the same respect they gave mine)
To: JamesP81
Yep. And the MSM suddenly seems to be doing its job, excluding NBC/MSNBC.
155
posted on
02/04/2009 11:30:14 AM PST
by
Badeye
(There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
To: Scotswife
In fact - I wouldnt mind doing some shots with her.
I don't drink, and I didn't like the Clinton administration. But I have to agree; if she were off somewhere doing shots, I'd knock a few back with her.
156
posted on
02/04/2009 11:30:57 AM PST
by
JamesP81
(I shall give their president the same respect they gave mine)
To: Scotswife; ontap
Nor did VDH mention Kentucky.
AKA Obama’s Katrina.
The biggest National Disaster (since Inauguration Day) so far this year... and Obama is ignoring the millions without heat and electricity as he cranks up the thermostat in the White House.
And the press is silent on this - of course.
To: Conservativegreatgrandma
True, but don't forget the liberal churches. They may even be a bigger problem than the Big Government schools.
You may be right. The church is the last bastion of sanity, but even it is being assaulted on a daily basis, it's message diluted.
158
posted on
02/04/2009 11:35:49 AM PST
by
JamesP81
(I shall give their president the same respect they gave mine)
To: Darkwolf377
To: JamesP81
Actually, many of the mainline churches are now liberal activists. They've gone beyond having a diluted message.
This is the list of National Council of "Churches" that I just posted on another thread.
These people are dangerous to our salvation, freedom and liberty.
African Methodist Episcopal Church
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Alliance of Baptists
American Baptist Churches in the USA
Diocese of the Armenian Church of America
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Church of the Brethren
The Coptic Orthodox Church in North America
The Episcopal Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Friends United Meeting
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Hungarian Reformed Church in America
International Council of Community Churches
Korean Presbyterian Church in America
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
Mar Thoma Church
Moravian Church in America Northern Province and Southern Province
National Baptist Convention of America
National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.
National Missionary Baptist Convention of America
Orthodox Church in America
Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
Polish National Catholic Church of America
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.
Reformed Church in America
Serbian Orthodox Church in the U.S.A. and Canada
The Swedenborgian Church
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America
United Church of Christ
The United Methodist Church
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posted on
02/04/2009 11:42:00 AM PST
by
Conservativegreatgrandma
(When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule the people mourn. Proverbs 29;2)
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