Time will tell whether he can "pull it off" or not. My concern is these "empty suit" arguments work to his advantage, in that they'll allow him, with the media's assistance, to disassociate himself from whatever disastrous results accumulate from his policies, by blaming various expendable appointees for failures and/or mistakes.
Didn't we see this process in the case of Jeremiah Wright, when his 20-year association with a toxic racist was sloughed off with the excuse that he himself hasn't verbalized these sentiments, and that he really wasn't attending the church because he agreed with those statements, but for other more innocuous reasons? Net damage to Obama: Zero. Ditto Rezko, Ayers, etc.
Haven't we also seen the affect in the musings of supposedly "right-wing" pundits who've insisted on prefacing criticism of policy with, "I'm sure Obama is a nice man...but.." or some such nonsense? Or in the admonitions to "give him a chance" in the early days after the election?
I see the same attitude now even in his supporters who are having second thoughts about the stimulus bill. But, rather than blaming their cult hero, they blame Congress, ignoring the fact that it's Obama who's using the bully pulpit to ram it through.
Obama has one goal with this bill. It’s a complete takeover of the United States for the Socialist/Marxist Democrat party. This bill will not restore jobs, fix the economy, or anything other than to bury this nation in so many additional gifts to the public, that the U.S. will be unable to pay for it, and a large segment of the public will be unable to vote for anyone but the Democrats who bear presents at every turn.
If Obama were an adult, he might be slick enough to pull this off without much downside. IMO, he isn’t going to be able to fool the adults in the room for long.
Look at the stock market today. Obama’s press conference yesterday was a complete disaster. The media may try to tell us what it wants us to think, but the underlying support for these policies will vaporize.
The majority of citizens can only be so dumb. IMO, they can’t be dumb enough to miss Obama’s vacuous intellect, and the disaster his policies will bring upon this nation.
Look at the phone calls to the U.S. Capital. They are hundreds to one against Obama’s policy.
He’s not selling this to anyone except three dumb ass RINOs in Washington, D.C.