Actually, I don’t think people were hoodwinked by President Obama as much as we’d like to think. It’s nice to blame MSM for foisting President Obama off on people, but, we have to remember that Ronald Reagan was able to get elected.
Democrats are currently over reaching themselves. They think they have a mandate, because they have an overwhelming majority in Congress.
Democrats were not voted for so much as Republicans were voted against. People were fed up with the profligate spending of Republicans.
Bottom line, Republicans spent their way out of office. Democrats are working on doing the same thing.
President Obama reminds me of a shiny new car. It looks good and sounds good, but, after a couple of months, it’s discovered it’s actually worse than the car it replaced. But, because of payments, you’re stuck with it until you can get rid of it for a better model.
If Atlas Shrugged is working as a template for what is going on now, it is the role of the Democrats to use all the nostrums of the New Deal to fix our problems -- and to fail miserably. Only then can a whole new paradigm be unveiled, and it may turn out to be a very old paradigm.
Whoa! President Reagan was not elected after being foisted off on the American people by the mainstream media. There is hardly any resemblance between Obama and Reagan.
For starters, FReshman US Senator vs. two terms as Governor of California? No comparison. Obama is not ready for prime time; he knows it, and he knows we know it. Reagan was ready for prime time, and he showed it every day.
I’m not saying he was always correct, but he always had the best interests of the US uppermost in his mind. Obama doesn’t.
Obama is a great speaker and politician, but he is, in reality, a Marxist copycat who is following the LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist playbook page by page.
The mainstream media DID foist him off on us, because they are of a like mind. Witness all the hard questions Obama was asked and the pass the media gave Joe Biden on his almost daily verbal gaffes!
HST, enough voters bought his story to get him elected — well, that and the “voting irregularities” we don’t hear about, again thanks to the mainstream media.
I agree with you: Democrats will over-reach and spend themselves out of office; 2010 strikes me as a good time to eject them and elect a solid conservative Congress.
Obama reminds me of many things, but a new car is not one of them. It may be an apt analogy, but I’m not as charitable as you are.