I think you may have the wrong picture of her unless she porked up quite a bit
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.
The choice was to vote for a crazy person or to vote for a communist.
You wrote:
“I want apologies, not “OOPS! OH WELL!” I want them to be ashamed of themselves.”
I agree. I don’t need sack cloth and ashes from them, but I want them to say, “Yeah, I was a moron. I was so stupid I shouldn’t be allowed to vote again. I’m sorry.”
I don’t want the apologies out of a feeling of vindictiveness. I just want the people who have screwed up my country for the next 50 years to fess up and take responsibility. THEY OWE US THAT MUCH.
Obama must be one heck of a speech-reader. Fortunately, I’ve never heard the guy speak, so I’m not fooled one bit.
Where do these dipped in stupid people come from!! Did they miss the "Most liberal Senator" rating prominently put forward all through the campaign. No wonder the United States is in the shape it is in! The voters are drooling Woo Woos!!
So she thought Wm. Wright’s rants against America was just fine.
So she thought William Ayers was just a guy from the neighborhood who’s kids went to school with O’s kids.
GIVE ME A BREAK
Hey guys; we have been calling these guys idiot and stupid for a long time because they don’t do any research beyond their nose.
Atleast it appears she woke up and is trying hopefully.
I think you may have the wrong picture of her unless she porked up quite a bit
“Stop picking on her, sillies!”
Presidential elections are held every 4 years and are enormously important. If this “moderate conservative” made a mistake of this magnitude, she deserves no sympathy for her regrets.
We should treat “moderate conservative” ObaMugabe remorse voters like the women who collaborated with the Nazis by shaving their heads, and stone them while running naked through the streets. Maybe by the next election, they won’t be so “silly”.
That’s not the same person shown on her article.
Wait until you see how women fare in the Obameconomy.
Oh yeah, and the Obamedical system where sex change will take precedence over cancer treatment, get in line, unless you are a political office holder.
“Crystal isn’t the brightest bulb, is she.”
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She sure ain’t! I don’t buy this line of how people just could not know that he would turn out to be exactly what he said he would be. I blame Obama for a lot but I don’t blame him for keeping his agenda hidden. Anyone who paid the slightest attention could have seen what he intended, he actually spelled out much of it in detail and what he didn’t spell out could be easily predicted by just listening to what he said. Those who are now disillusioned simply refused to face the truth, they were willfully blind.
“I truly had no idea he would turn out to be ...”
Every time I see those words written by anyone regarding their infatuation with Duh Won, I immediately want to write them back and say something like ...
“if you really, really, had no idea about ... (whatever), then you are too stupid to be sharing that opinion with the rest of mankind. There were, and still are, far too many signposts showing the way that TOTUS was going to rule. Your failure to heed the hundreds of warning signs means the part of your brain that is concerned with logic has atrophied. Either that or you are lying.”
guilty.
That’s my sentiment. I want them to learn from their mistakes. Shame is a useful emotion, used properly.
Question is...next vote, will she learn from her mistakes? Probably not...
Obama made her fat!
Of course he was a horrible candidate, and we only have the GOP to blame for letting media select him.
Still, we had no other choice but to vote for him, imbecile that he is; as were /are the people around him that wrote his speeches, managed his campaign and advised him. NONE of them paid any attention to what the general public republican voter base was saying.
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