Posted on 08/20/2009 4:19:47 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
President Obama is on the way to joining an exclusive club. It is the club of failed one-term presidents.
During the presidential campaign, Mr. Obama sold himself as a pragmatic moderate. In fact, he is the very opposite. He is an internationalist socialist whose policies will lead to ruin at home and defeat abroad. They will also doom his re-election efforts. He is flirting with political disaster.
Despite his many flaws, former President Bill Clinton established the model for successful Democratic administrations. Mr. Clinton governed as a liberal centrist. He realized that veering too far to the left early in his presidency was detrimental: His support of Hillarycare and gays in the military resulted in the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress. Mr. Clinton changed course by embracing free trade, welfare reform and balanced budgets -- combining fiscal responsibility and social liberalism. This formula prevented the Republican Party from recapturing the White House in 1996.
Mr. Obama is the anti-Clinton. He is a leftist ideologue who has surrounded himself with radical and inept advisers. Mr. Clinton had political counselor Dick Morris and Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin. Mr. Obama has David Axelrod and Timothy F. Geithner.
As a result, Mr. Obama’s presidency is starting to look like the worst in 100 years. His $787 billion fiscal stimulus has failed to restore economic recovery. Unemployment remains high. Growth is anemic.
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bttt
Actually, having Bob Dole as the candidate secured the election for Clinton.
BS - Move the country left a little, republicans get elected do nothing come back and move a little to the left.
They are getting there - a second term is not important.
Bill Clinton would never gotten a second term if the GOP actually ran someone that was not as useless as bill.
I CAN’T WAIT TO KICK HIS BACK SIDE ALL THE WAY BACK TO DIRTY CHICAGO. HIM, HIS LOWLIFE WIFE AND HIS ENTIRE TAX PAYER MONEY-SUCKING FAMILY.
As Bawney Fwank would say, "What planet are you from?"
I never saw that damn fool campaign as anything but a worn-out tax-em-all-Dem, and as time went on he got rather open and downright cocky about his socialism.
We can only help so...and with as little permanent damage as possible.
Bob Dole was a lackluster candidate of a party leadership that didn’t care or had been bought off.
“Betcha” The big( 0) “wee weed” all over himself after he saw this article.
Gotta hand it to Sara, She lit the fuse on this fire.
Every time he tries to veto...have it turned over forthwith. Make him an absolute powerless, minimized, trivialized lame duck who can do nothing but pout into his TOTUS.
Looking for 1/2 a term, but will take what is available.
That's the trick now, isn't it...
Hey, IT”S NOT HIS FAULT, it is George W. Bush’s fault that he won’t get re elected.
The Messiah, OTOH, NEVER HELD AN HONEST JOB IN HIS WHOLE LIFE, and therefore has no clue, none, about how to work with people and existing structures.
>> Looking for 1/2 a term
If the ‘Rats lose one or both houses decisively in next year’s midterm election, then Bambi’s term might just amount to half-a-term, even if he finishes it out.
Praying you dreams come true!
I so pray.
>>A failed, single term?<<
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No, a successful first term, considering that he may be legally not eligible for the position of POTUS. Even now, Congress protects him by allowing him to keep his past and origin a secret so that he can remain in the WH, unchallenged.
Congress should easily be able to force him to identify himself completely, but instead it is satisfied with having an enigma as Head of State. They seem to be part of the conspiracy.
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