President Barack Obama: Perhaps he can't fix it. . .

Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | April 18, 2009 | Simon Heffer

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President Obama has been in power for just over 50 days, but already critics believe his plans to save America from disaster are doomed

Even in the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, New York knows how to throw a party. For most of yesterday hundreds of thousands of people made a sea of green that paraded up Fifth Avenue to mark St Patrick’s Day. Tens of thousands lined the street to watch them. The all-day party, fuelled by imports of Guinness and whiskey, seemed the more intensely engaged upon as an escape from omnipresent financial gloom.

Away from the party, the mood in America’s cultural and business capital is more firmly anchored in stark reality, and quite different from the euphoria that pervaded it when I was last here, on election day. President Obama still enjoys the popularity that comes with not being George Bush, especially in a city top-heavy with Democrats. But his initial response to the global calamity that he found on entering the Oval Office has not inspired popularity’s more sober elder brother, confidence. Large constituencies, notably business, are voicing their scepticism openly. The President’s much-vaunted $787 billion stimulus package is being widely interpreted, even by some of those (such as Warren Buffett, America’s second-richest man) who openly supported Mr Obama for the presidency, as a serious failure. And we are only just past the first 50 days.

Mr Obama is lucky that his Republican opponents in Congress are disorganised, incoherent and without ideas of their own. The White House branded Rush Limbaugh, the populist talk radio host, leader of the opposition, following an assault Limbaugh had made on the President’s neo-socialist policies. This remark was designed not just to humiliate elected Republicans for their impotence, but also to attempt to terrify the American public at

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Another mess up. Sorry, this article was March 18.

[Vaduz]

It’s ok you got that part right “President’s neo-socialist policies”post any date on that quote and it fits.

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LOL

[markomalley]

That’s OK that it’s from March 18th...

Zero, whether he is able to or not, has NO INTENTION of trying to fix it, only to try to make it worse.

A Socialist Revolution requires economic chaos. Food riots require the lack of food. Murders of industrialists require their vilification beforehand.

He wants capitalist blood in the streets and capitalist necks in nooses on lightpoles. He needs to create conditions that are ripe for that kind of chaos.