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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 implosion—and with no Dick Morris to bail him out—brought 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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To: mad_as_he$$
How do explain FDR never getting thrown out of office during an even worse financial time?

Very weak Presidential GOP candidates.

None of them ran against the New Deal on principle.

201 posted on 02/04/2009 10:55:53 PM PST by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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To: Buddy B
Really, what TV station?

Don't know.

But as I noted in my original post, you'll have to ask Joe Biden since he is the one who said it.

Could have been WDUM in Washington, D.C. or KOOK on the west coast.

202 posted on 02/05/2009 4:39:11 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat. But they know what's best.)
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To: bethtopaz

‘The clerk (a young Hispanic girl) didn’t even flinch. She said, “Yeah, and look at all the people he’s got working for him - didn’t pay their taxes!”’

I’d say this whole ‘thing’ with the economy, and who did what, is reaching critical mass.

From Democrats that don’t pay their taxes, to Madoff being in his penthouse rather than jail like any of us little people.

The bloom is already off of this new Administration.


203 posted on 02/05/2009 6:03:07 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: Dr. Ursus
Bummer
204 posted on 02/05/2009 9:20:42 AM PST by backspace (Please don't laugh at my tagline)
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To: backspace

Nice!


205 posted on 02/05/2009 9:53:37 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: Interesting Times; zot

Ping!


206 posted on 02/05/2009 11:33:54 AM PST by The Shrew (www.wintersoldier.com; www.tstrs.com; The Truth Shall Set You Free!)
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To: The Shrew

Thanks for the ping. Victor Davis Hanson is right, again.


207 posted on 02/05/2009 12:36:34 PM PST by zot
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