Posted on 03/09/2009 11:45:44 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
During the 2008 presidential campaign, people speculated whether someone like Barack Obama, who has never really run anything or had any major achievements other than winning political office, could handle a three AM crisis call. Well, as it turns out, Obama has been such a bumbling incompetent that he probably couldn't handle a trip through a Wendy's drive-in window without a teleprompter telling him what to order and whether he wants a Coke or a Mountain Dew. Even though Obama has been in office less than two months, he has already made more boneheaded errors than most Presidents do in an entire term.
10) After doing the "We've got to have this stimulus package passed right this second or the economy is going to explode" routine so convincingly that not one single soul in Congress actually had time to read the entire bill before it was signed, Barack Obama then promptly went on a three day vacation to celebrate before he signed it. If the bill was so important that no one could even have time to read it before it was passed, then why wasn't it important enough for Obama to skip dinner at Table Fifty-Two in Chicago to immediately make it a law?
9) In a juvenile stunt, reminiscent of something a third grader might come up with, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handed Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov a button that was supposed to say "reset." However, incredibly, the word on the button translated to "overcharge," not "reset." Apparently, despite the enormous deficit the government is going to run up this year, Team Obama forgot to budget enough money to hire someone who speaks Russian for the State Department. If only America could just press a button and reset the entire Obama presidency so far and start over.
8) When Barack Obama was trying to sell America his stimulus bill that will put the country more than a trillion dollars in debt, he alerted America that, "Caterpillar's chief executive…told him the company will rehire some laid-off workers if the stimulus bill passes." But, when he was asked about Obama's statement, Caterpillar CEO Jim Owens said, "I think realistically no. The truth is we're going to have more layoffs before we start hiring again."
7) A large part of Barack Obama's appeal was the idea of racial reconciliation. The implicit deal was that by putting our first black President in office, America would prove once and for all that it wasn't racist, and we could put all this silly squabbling about race in the rear view mirror once and for all. However, not only has it failed to work out that way, Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder issued an an insulting challenge on the topic to the American people,
"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards." Maybe someone should ask the poor guy who did an innocent cartoon for the New York Post that made fun of the stimulus bill and the rampaging monkey that was in the news why people might be afraid to get dragged into a debate about race.
6) Typically, Presidents don't pick fights with pundits and talk radio hosts for obvious reasons. It draws more attention to their criticisms, elevates their status, and comes across as thin skinned and a little creepy, much like Richard Nixon's "Enemies list."
But, the Obama Administration hasn't figured this out -- yet. They've launched attacks at Rick Santelli, Jim Cramer, and most prominently, Rush Limbaugh. Ratcheting up the creepiness factor a couple of notches in Limbaugh's case, the President of the United States, members of the mainstream media, and liberal interest groups are all coordinating an attack on a private individual for daring to criticize Barack Obama. That sounds more like something that would happen in the old Soviet Union than in the United States.
But happily, if you look at the results of the White House campaign, it has backfired in every instance. Rush Limbaugh is on pace to make more revenue by the end of March than he made all last year, there are Santelli inspired "Tea Parties" popping up all across the country, and every criticism of Obama that Jim Cramer utters is now linked by the Drudge Report.
5) The first task a new President engages in is bringing a staff on board. After choosing Joe Biden, who has behaved like he was kicked in the head by a horse as a child, things have really gone down hill from there. Bill Richardson quit as Commerce Secretary after coming under investigation. Republican Senator Judd Gregg accepted, then declined Obama's offer to be his Commerce Secretary over irreconcilable differences. Tom Daschle quit after having tax problems. So did Nancy Killefer. Ron Kirk also has tax problems, but he's trying to hang in there like Hilda Solis and another cabinet member who gets his own special entry -- and keep in mind, Obama has a considerable number of positions left to fill. Hey Barry, the word of the day is "vetting." You should look into it.
4) George Bush spent a lot of time strengthening our ties to Eastern European nations like Poland and the Czech Republic during his two terms in the White House. Yet, it took Barack Obama less than two months to undo much of Bush’s good work with those nations.
Obama wrote a "secret" letter to Dmitri Medvedev offering to leave Poland and the Czech Republic twisting in the wind on missile defense in return for Russia's help in stopping Iran from getting nukes. The problem was that the letter went public even as Russia turned down the deal. So, in other words, our friends in Eastern Europe were publicly alerted that we were willing to sell them down the river to the Russians, who they were already afraid of, and yet we got nothing out of the deal. That's a real "welcome to the Big Leagues" maneuver from the Russians for our naive, rookie President.
3) After making a stink by sending back a Winston Churchill bust, Barack Obama blew off a press conference with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown -- but, the real kicker was the gifts.
After Brown presented Obama with a pen holder crafted from the timbers of the 19th century British warship HMS President (whose sister ship, HMS Resolute, provided the wood for the Oval Office's desk), Obama offered up ... 25 DVDs of American movie classics. The Brits offered Obama a thoughtful, priceless gift and he handed them back a bad Netflix queue that was probably picked up at Wal-mart earlier that day.
2) Choosing tax cheat Timothy Geithner to be his Treasury Secretary was such an incredible screw up that it deserves it own entry. It's mind boggling that any Administration would choose a tax cheat to run the department that's in charge of the IRS. Moreover, in Obama's case, he has already announced plans for the largest tax hike in American history, nearly a trillion dollars, and the man in charge of that effort doesn't pay his taxes? Prediction: a few years from now, if the New York Times isn't out of business by then, they'll write an article telling you that they're baffled, baffled I tell you, by the massive increase in the number of people cheating on their taxes.
1) Barack Obama may be a liberal thriller, but he's also a stock market killer. Since he came into office, his Bunyanesque new spending proposals, his plans for a trillion dollar tax hike, his regular badmouthing of the economy, and his incessant tinkering with banks and the housing market have caused the stock market to go into a freefall. Granted, stocks would have likely dropped anyway because of the economic crunch we're in, but the market wouldn't have already reached the lowest level since 1997 without lots of help from Obama. As Democratic financial wiz, Jim Cramer, has said of Obama’s performance, "it's amateur hour at our darkest moment" and it's "crushing nest eggs around the nation."
Why all of a sudden his love for his Kenyan grandfather? He has never mentioned him that I am aware of. Despite that he should never endanger our relationship with our staunchest ally for personal vendettas.
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Terri, I think you are right on......Obama harbors ill feelings about the Brits because of Kenya....among other things (Colonialism). Obama is a NASTY person.....so is Omarosa Obama.
So someone found out they cost $4.11?
Oh dear, I was hoping they were at least overpriced at $19.95.
Are you kidding me? I’m not only missing GWB, I’m missing Clinton at this point!
The Winston Churchill Bust was given to the President after 9/11, obviously George Bush did not think it was a personal gift or he would have taken it with him. By leaving it at the White House, he made it a gift to the people. How dare that POS, return it. OMG, Obama makes me want to puke.
First of all, he cancelled a joint press conference because of snow flurries, then he didn’t offer PM Brown a formal dinner as tradition, nor did he even offer him some lunch.
Then, after getting two priceless gifts (see article) and a gift worth thousands, he gives the PM a DVD box set including titles like “ET, Psycho, etc..”
Then, after the PM’s wife gave the Obama daughters pricey London boutique dresses and matching necklaces, Michelle Obama sends her home to give the Brown’s two boys plastic helicopter replicas from the White House gift shop of a helicopter that the US just cancelled the contract for (costing the UK millions) building.
I’m sure I’ll remember something else included in this ridiculously embarassing “snub”. This was far beyond a “snub”, this was a punch in the nose.
Oh yeah, and after a London journalist called the state dept to question it, (keep in mind, this country has troops fighting OUR WAR) the state dept official told the journalist “You aren’t any different than any of the other 190 countries in the world”.
I did not realize that his staff said that!
Lord Have Mercy, this administration is a nightmare.
I didn’t like Clinton, but he definitely was a lot better then this arrogant mealy-mouthed lying p o s that occupies the People’s House
I will have to admit that Obama has caused me to become a racist.
That's because every time I see a black person, I am reminded of the hordes of blacks who were otherwise disinterested in voting, turning out just to put this baffoon into office, not knowing a damn thing about him and caring less.
Now the 5 years before my retirement has turned into 15 or more or never, and I can't help but apply my disgust of Obama and Democrats in general to every dark face that crosses my path.
There. I said it.
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Correctomundo. Thank you for the spell check.
Neither is very good when the person viewing it is blind in one eye and vision in the other is greatly diminished.
Story at link
Gordon Brown's eyesight is causing concern among aides
0bama can't even do simple research on a gift, much less a cabinet appointee.
It's even worse than that.
See my post #74.
Prime Minister Brown is blind in one eye and losing his sight in the other eye.
Giving him a set of DVD's is like giving an iPod to Helen Keller.
The bust was a “loan” only in the sense that it was sent here to the White House after 9/11. Brown explained that it was sent by the UK to symbolize support in the War on Terror. Bambi said, we still wanted to return it.
Anyways, the beat goes on.
Not to worry.....He will do exactly what Pelosi and the Democrats tell him to do. A better servant they couldn’t have.
Of course, I agree with your statment above, and my comment about it all being about Obama implies that. His behavior toward Britain and Brown was completely unprovoked and thus outrageous and I am still incredulous. I have never heard of such inappropriate and trite behavior from a president toward a staunch American ally in my lifetime.
Then when reading about Obama's grandfather, it clearly became the correct explanation.
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