Posted on 05/30/2009 8:45:38 AM PDT by yongin
Admittedly, I was one of the moderate conservatives who was wooed by Obama during his PR campaign to become the country's next president. Sadly, even though I was still unsure of my vote until the week before the election, I know better now. I truly had no idea he would turn out to be the radical tax and spend liberal he's revealed. Since the beginning of his presidency, Obama seems more interested in making policies and decisions that grab headlines than those in the best interests of the country. The announcement of his whopping $3 trillion budget, trailing the $800 billion bank bailout, was shocking and yet the media seemed to rally around him. The president wants to do everything at one time, national healthcare, economy, taxes (wealth redistribution), clean energy, infrastructure, education and more. He acts very king-like, expecting Congress to endorse everything he floats their way, but his high octane PR strategy--loaded with smiles and good oratory may be fading.
Mr. Obama spends money like its coming out of his own piggy bank and expects Congress to rubber stamp his agenda at every turn, which they have been doing except when it came to the closing of Guantanamo Bay prison. This is when the pie in the sky headline grabbing Obama style of governing met reality. Mr. Obama asked Congress for $80 million to build a new prison (it's just more money to pile on the ginormous debt) but they paused, scratched their heads and couldn't just go along with this brazen request without more details from King Obama. Even more hilarious was when the administration said it would just relocate these terrorists to state prisons but governors stopped that bad idea --- "not in my back yard." Even FBI Director Mueller nixed the idea as highly risky because terrorists could easily plot attacks on the US from within prison, recruiting other terrorists, organizing, fundraising etc.
Before this miscalculation, the President listened to his faithful servant Rahm Emanuel and released CIA memos about harsh interrogation tactics used on terrorists under the Bush administration. Many people including Defense Secretary Gates thought this was a bad idea and would endanger our troops needlessly not to mention reveal interrogation methods to our enemies. Once again, the president got great headlines from the partisan press which bashed President Bush and the interrogation methods he endorsed during his administration.
But as the reality of keeping this headline grabbing story going began to sink into President Obama's head, he started walking backwards on the topic weighing the risk in the reality of the situation. This is when the administration had Attorney General Eric Holder tell the media that the Justice Department wasn't going to prosecute former Bush officials. Shortly after this, the president announced he wouldn't release photos of detainees being interrogated. Why engage in any of this in the first place? Releasing interrogation memos and detainee photos only harms our intelligence community and puts American's at risk. Incidentally, the Wall Street Journal was the only paper to relentlessly criticize the administration about taking this action.
These recent events, the planned closing of Gitmo and "CIA-gate", have made the president look very inexperienced and unpolished in his ability to lead the nation and only widened the partisan bickering in Washington. Oh, yeah and Speaker Pelosi's memory lapse over when and what she knew about waterboarding looks sloppy, as if she's trying to hide the truth. It doesn't help the president and certainly doesn't look like change we can believe in or need.
On a side note the president's comments about his nominee to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, are also cause for pause. He said he picked her because she would show empathy. While Supreme Court justices are human and bring experience to their work, they're tasked with finely reviewing cases, considering the Constitution and using their intellect to arrive at rulings. Emotion isn't part of the job. Even more disturbing are Judge Sotomayor's comments that judges make policy.
It seems like the president's image is unraveling in recent months and we're getting a look at the real Obama underneath the PR, razzle, dazzle veneer he sports so well. I think Americans are growing weary of the sparkle, shine and high-spending policies this president is selling and want to see something more. Every week he is on TV holding a press conference for this or that announcement on funding, bailouts or programs to expand government exponentially. As my father exclaimed recently, "when does he have time to run the country, if he's on television everyday." This is a question to be pondered. Team Obama may have won the presidency through an innovative public relations campaign but winning over the confidence of Americans and setting the country on the right course will require careful thought, temperance and bipartisan collaboration.
A smile and eloquent speech won't make it all right.
Ah, but as you and I both know, there is no one so blind as an Obamatron who WILL NOT see.
I don’t care about their “buyers remorse”. She can take her remorse and go to hell with it. I f she is suffering I hope that she suffers some more. In fact, I hope that she loses her job, house, car, and retirement fund. Her and idiots like her killed the United States on November 4, 2008. Let her die with the Country they killed.
She should be incarcerated for felony stupidity.
Please excuse the incoherence. The poster must be suffering from extended Friday night hang over syndrome; I hope otherwise its idiocy.
Regards.
“The weeping has begun. And the best is yet to come. I personally hope every son of a bitch that voted for obama loses their job, car, and house , and retiremebnt and before he leaves office they will have”
Me too. I will enjoy seeing Obamabot liberals suffering.
" I am a moron...I am an idiot...I am a moron...I am an idiot..."
You wrote:
“I disagree. I think the article is actually quite brilliant.”
I made a comment about the people who vote for Obama apologizing. I said nothing about the article itself. I am not sure what you’re disagreeing with then.
“It will persuade many more stupid people not to vote for Obama next time than any amount of scolding from people like us ever could.”
I’m not scolding them. I also don’t think that Obama voters will read this article.
“There are alot more stupid people in this world than there are Conservatives. Unfortunately stupid people also get to vote. Far better it is that they recognize their stupidity and vote properly the next time.”
I am the one who wants them to recognize their own stupidity. Hence, the apology.
“Remember that someone very famous once said “if they are not against us they are for us.””
And in this case, he would be wrong. Our own party wasn’t against us, but it certainly wasn’t for us.
> I made a comment about the people who vote for Obama apologizing. I said nothing about the article itself. I am not sure what you’re disagreeing with then.
Perhaps I misunderstood your intent... you were responding in agreement to somebody who was responding negatively to the writer of the article. I took that to mean that you didn’t think much of the article — which was brilliant.
> And in this case, he would be wrong. Our own party wasn’t against us, but it certainly wasn’t for us.
I almost forgot — it was Jesus who said that.
A person like this irritates me more than any other voter. All the criteria about Obama was OUT THERE.
I hold a person like this more responsible for the ruination of the USA because of this phony POTUS than I do any other.
Too late you freakin’ idiot Crystal.
There will be more like her to realize the stupidity for supporting the Zer0. Whats done is past and perhaps she can be a full blown convert to conservatism.
And in this case...He never would have said that. Those who were not opposed to the Christians allowed them to preach the gospel and spread the faith. We can’t even do that much as conservatives. The simple fact is that only conservatives actually support, or don’t oppose, conservatives.
CLICK-CLICK!
Sincerely,
forest153
Next time do your homework before you go into that voting booth carrying a glass of koolaid. They vote stupid and we all pay the price, as does our Republic.
This is one of the comments: LOL
EMR76
5/29/2009
6:45 AM
How did you miss the fact that the guy sat in a racist church for 20 years, hung out with terrorists and felons, supported infanticide, would strangle our economy with environmental regulations, planned on raising taxes and spending to a level not yet seen by humanity, and instead of walking softly and carrying a big stick, would walk like a gay guy in Bath and Body Works and carry a pink rose. How did so many miss the mountains of evidence that this man would govern from the far-left as he always has?
I don’t understand how anybody can say “I didn’t know”. Obama could not have been more clear.
(I personally hope every son of a bitch that voted for obama loses their job, car, and house , and retiremebnt and before he leaves office)
You may get your wish. The fanatical Messiah worshippers make up the poor, elderly with health problems, unemployed, unisured, and othe malcontents unhappy with their lives. Their vote for the Messiah was based on the belief that he will level the playing field for them.
I have around 200 known relatives either by blood or marriage in my extended family between Mississippi, Tennessee, San Fransisco, Jacksonville and Winston Salem....
only a handful are libs...and all those are lawyers or arty and of course my cousin the Muni judge in Gomorrah.
I was an organic libertarian with an anti-establishment leaning in college....which was a leftism markedly different than today 30 years later
BO is exactly the radical liberal conservative talk shows demonstrated repeatedly during even the primaries. Anyone with ears to listen could have known exactly what we are getting. The MSM were Obama’s lapdogs and even that should have been obvious. Obama rode into the White House on Bush hate, and BS.
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