Posted on 09/09/2009 1:29:58 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Obama's problem is more fundamental than his health-care mess. He campaigned on a no more red state/blue state, white/black, rich/poor polarity, and offered a sort of transcendence that was used to make up for his prior dubious relationships with the likes of Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers.
When governing, his supporters liked to think that he would have to rein in extremists like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to gravitate to the center and work in "bipartisan fashion." But that was never in the cards. The problem is that beneath Obama's hope-and-change veneer, his past legislative and vocal record (cf. his Senate partisanship, his statements in his memoirs, his spread-the-wealth, clingers, typical-white-person gaffes, his talk of single-payer health care and reparations, etc) were hard left, left even of Pelosi and Reid.
The Van Jones appointment was logical, not an aberration. So to save his presidency, since the hope-and-change hocus-pocus has become old and trite, Obama would have to become an un-Obama, and do a 1995 Clinton switcheroo.
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When 0 talks about there being no more red state, blue state politics, he means there will be no more free speech and Democracy. Everything is going to be black and controlled.
True . Victor knows O cannot pull a Clinton. For all of his failings Bill could read the tea leaves and he had mad skills . O has one skill , reading a prompter.
and unlike Bubba he is not pragmatic enough for any level of switcheroo
Obama is, to some extent, just a figurehead for the people behind him (Ayers and the gang) and didn't come up with these ideas on his own. But these are the ideas that have gotten him where he is today, not because they were his ideas or were even known or accepted by the people who voted for him, but because his malleable, ever changing sociopathic personality was the tip of the spear used by the real powers behind him (the Marxist oligarchy) for inserting them into our society. He actually can't change.
He doesn't have any personality of his own, he doesn't have any ideas of his own, and without maintaining this persona, he won't have any power, either, because the people behind him will abandon him. And while people laugh at him and think he's too dumb to do any real damage, the one thing he wants, like any good sociopath, is power, and I don't think he's going to be happy unless he has complete power.
I hope I'm wrong.
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You hit the nail on the head. Bill Clinton is a master politician. Barack Obama is a text reader.
Please please please let it be in public!
LOL. That would be entertaining.
“I hope I’m wrong.”
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