Posted on 09/05/2009 7:38:42 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
When Barack Obama was considering running for president in 2006, the political strategist who had engineered his Senate victory two years earlier bluntly stated a potentially fatal concern.
"I don't know if you are Muhammad Ali or Floyd Patterson when it comes to taking a punch," David Axelrod wrote Obama.
Then and now, that's the question: When the going gets rough, as it did in the campaign and has many times over the first seven-plus months of his presidency, does Obama flinch or fight.
Well, both.
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Obama is following a familiar arc.
He decided to leave the details of bill-writing to Congress and pursued bipartisan negotiations, hoping that would be more effective than trying to ram something down lawmakers' throats. The debate then slipped from his grasp, with a conservative outcry that dominated town hall meetings and summer coverage.
The president intends to burst back on the scene. Aides say that in Wednesday night's prime-time address to a joint session of Congress he plans to both jawbone Republicans and signal compromise.
In other words, he'll fight and flinch.
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The failure of a sitting President, especially in the first nine months, is a terrible, terrible thing. Of course his extensive experience will pull him through..........or maybe Soros will.
media begging their guy to get off the ropes?
When Obama speaks, markets and opinion polls tank.
Whether on the ropes, or not, he will soon come to the realization that iconic aura and idol worship by liberals won’t be enough. That’s when he’ll drop the pretenses of fair, honest, caring and go for despotry. He’ll realize polls don’t mean shit when you control elections, control lives, income, wealth and have the power to utterly intimidate, and much worse.
Huh?! I must've missed the rough patches Obama had to endure. Other than his "Joe the Plumber" moment, which was self-induced and short-lived, Obama had a free ride throughout the campaign. His toadies and lackeys in the MSM made sure of that.
Typical metro sexual approach to a battle.
Maybe Obama is going to have to offer in this brilliant new magical speech to his ever-shrinking tv audience the hope of a temporary sort of superficial compromise with his enemies, but he is also going to have to reinforce his coolness with a display of power over them during this same speech for his base. How is that going to work out? Also, since I am babbling anyway - how can the White House quietly let Jones go, as the panel on Fox predicted, when Jones would certainly have something to say in public afterward about it all which would appeal to the crazy Far Leftists and further erode Obama’s standing in ways which might actually matter to him? The only way for the administration to have any hope of managing Jones at present is to continue to keep him inside their tent.
I predict the whole Jones thing will have blown over by the end of the long Labor Day weekend. Anyone remember the IG scandal—whatver happened to THAT? And Nancy Pelosi’s accusations about CIA lying? All just distant memories, it seems.
“The Divine One” is one of the most dangerous individuals ever to hold office. If he sees himself as truly threatened he will literally fight.
He takes a punch like Roberto Duran.
Makes a fist like Peewee Herman...
Reminiscent of what LBJ said of J. Edgar Hoover - "I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in".
Boy, is Jennifer Loven off in never-never land. This is the guy who said "victory" is not a word we would use to describe our goals there.
I have never seen a president age so quickly as this one. I almost feel sorry...ROFLMAO!!! I hope our March on Washington next week gives him more gray hair!
Revisionist history. Obozo's response to Republicans was "I won." That's not bipartisanship.
I agree as to the dangerousness of The One...but have a wait and see attitude about the fight part.
Best I can tell, Obama has been pampered his whole life and mentored by all kinds of folks who wanted him to do well.
There is a strong possibility that he hasn't nurtured his own inner strength and has indeed be deprived of the opportunity to build REAL inner toughness.
My own experience has been that one learns to fight by being in fights (the more, the better). Life's funny that way.
As to that famous Chicago toughness...I now associate that more with the foul-mouthed ballerina-types than Al Capone.
Makes a fist like Peewee Herman...
It’s not that Whopper Jr.s are so big, he just has
small hands...
He’ll flinch and fight just like he caught and pitched with Larry Sinclair
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