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The Strange Case of the Obama Meltdown
Pajamas Media ^ | August 20 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 08/20/2009 2:20:19 PM PDT by AJKauf

The Obama Meltdown—Symptoms/Diagnosis/Prognosis

Strange things are happening to the Obama administration and quickly so. His polls are diving and may not stop at 50/50, the most precipitous drop in approval of a first-year President since Bill Clinton in 1993 (cf. Hillary care).

First, here are some of the problems the President faces:

Symptoms and Diagnosis

1) Health Care. Health-care take overs and socialized medicine have terrified not just the right and conservatives, but the elderly of all persuasions who fear their shaky Medicare funds will be diverted to Obama’s new plans. In short, they believe their care will be rationed and given to all sorts of new recipients. And they fear age will be a basis for meriting treatment; as if the gang banger with a long felony record of mayhem at 22 would be more deserving before a federal health panel than would someone at 90 who scrimped and saved for insurance in case of some future need for a hip replacement (and was still active and productive; cf. great octogenarians from Sophocles to Barzun who did their best work in their late lives).

It was an insane political move to demonize these town-hallers, when streaming video showed the participants scared and angry, but not violent, trying to get answers from smug politicos who either cell phoned away, ridiculed questioners in the manner of Barney Frank, or mocked their interrogators. These were for the most part not Code Pink/Cindy Sheehan type protestors. (And by the way, what happened to Code Pink, given we are still in Iraq and Afghanistan?)

2) The Spell is Broken...

(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; agenda; bho44; blunders; third100days; vdh; victordavishanson
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Wow, good!! Very interesting.

In the article, besides the arrogant POSs on their cell phones, sneering, mocking, outright talking back to their employers.... there was also the looking-at-the-watch-the-whole-time (Specter), as if they don’t have aides to summon them or whatever.

I’m so sick of their lack of respect, but I guess it is good it’s on brazen display now.


21 posted on 08/20/2009 2:46:15 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: Liz

The biggest single thing is his stubborn refusal to even produce his dang birth certificate. This resonates with all kinds of people I run across. I mean, common folks can’t do jack without the thing. Can’t get a drivers license or social security card, can’t be admitted to school, etc. As result they BELIEVE he is (a) illegitimate, (b) foreign born, (c) a Manchurian plant, (d) the anti-Christ, (e) evil.

And no medical records, no school records, no nothing like all other past presidents and candidates have HAD to produce.


22 posted on 08/20/2009 2:47:12 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: RC2

The two you mentioned will probably NOT be voted out of office. The key is to vote so many of their followers out of office that Bawney and Nancy lose their positions of power ... they become the minority.


23 posted on 08/20/2009 2:47:41 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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To: RC2

They’ve been pandered to so much by the lapdog media that they think they’re Teflon coated. Like spoiled brats who’s parents won’t call them out, they get worse and worse, more childish by the day


24 posted on 08/20/2009 2:47:56 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: RC2
What other reason for their arrogance?

The same reason for all the democrats

They know they will never be held accountable for their corruption by the MSM
25 posted on 08/20/2009 2:48:54 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Soon is not soon enough. Get them out.


26 posted on 08/20/2009 2:49:04 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: RC2
Or, in the worst case, the elections are fixed and they will never be out of office. What other reason for their arrogance?

You saw what happened with Norm Coleman...their arrogance comes in part from knowing about this.

Secretary of State Project

More HERE

27 posted on 08/20/2009 2:49:50 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (BARF of the YEAR: Obama "We are God's partners in matters of life and death,")
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To: shalom aleichem

He definintely has something to hide.

FReepers should go to Utah-—Mormons are a worldclass genealogy source.


28 posted on 08/20/2009 2:57:12 PM PDT by Liz (When people fear govt, we have tyranny; when govt fears the people, we have freedom.)
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To: Borax Queen

My mother and I had lunch in Panera today. At the next table was a well dressed woman talking on her phone in a loud voice. (Everyone in the restaurant was able to hear her conversation.) She was talking to someone in DC asking for handouts to give to people who asked her about healthcare. She kept saying how hard she had worked to get Obama elected and that people she knew were coming to her for answers. She said she needed something simple to hand out, “something for dumb people”. Dumb people...her exact words.
She gave the DC person her email address in the same loud voice. Too bad the fishy hot line is gone I would have turned her in. LOL


29 posted on 08/20/2009 2:58:06 PM PDT by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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To: kalee

LOLOL!! We so need to turn a bunch in :0)


30 posted on 08/20/2009 3:01:51 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I am surrounded by leftists. Now they are fit to be tied over the idea of being taxed for their benefits. Most have pensions from teaching, etc.

Their sons and daughters have lost their jobs and they don’t see anything improving any time soon.

They are not about to vote republican but won’t be voting democrat in 2010 either.


31 posted on 08/20/2009 3:06:12 PM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Post #3 LOLOLOL


32 posted on 08/20/2009 3:08:08 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("It (Gov't) can't make you happier, healthier, wealthier, and wise" - Sarah Palin 07/26)
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To: AJKauf
The magic is ended but the throng remains the same.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

33 posted on 08/20/2009 3:10:54 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: AJKauf

Gays are angry with Obama too. I was at my local Whole Foods last Saturday and saw the latest Advocate, the gay magazine. Obama was on the cover but instead of the word “Hope” it said “Nope?”.


34 posted on 08/20/2009 3:17:08 PM PDT by Atlantian
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To: Borax Queen

Video tape these arrogant ghouls so the video can be used against them in 2010 and 2012. Plenty of good material for ads and to take door to door to show the American people the arrogant Kings and Queens of Socialism.


35 posted on 08/20/2009 3:21:19 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: RC2

absolutely. why else would they insist on courses pleasing to themselves and a handful of far left libs while ignoring the will of the many?


36 posted on 08/20/2009 3:21:58 PM PDT by wiggen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WayzmX0WQvg)
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To: Taffini

Odumbo’s “Jump the Shark” moment came on the “don’t know the facts but the cops acted stupidly” Crowley- Gates fiasco. I had one die-hard liberal Democrat acquaintance admit loudly that “That was stupid” and ridicule the “beer summit”.
It was a candid, revealing wake- up moment for millions that showed the vapid, arrogant out-of -his league nature of the man.


37 posted on 08/20/2009 3:22:28 PM PDT by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: Jerrybob

I realized that when I watched the davidians house burn up. I was referring to the german ss death head symbol. I am trying to figure out how to attach it to this post. No luck so far.


38 posted on 08/20/2009 3:33:32 PM PDT by Texas resident ( Boys and Girls, it's us against them.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead
She said he’s arrogant and not what she voted for.

Arrogant, yes. Not what she voted for? Wrong. He is exactly what she voted for. I knew he was going to do what he is doing. He told us all what he wanted. Each supporter read into obie One their own ideas. They were mesmerized and not listening.

39 posted on 08/20/2009 3:36:19 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Obama - fooling fewer people every day.)
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To: AJKauf

 


40 posted on 08/20/2009 3:38:59 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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