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Posted on 10/24/2009 3:39:07 PM PDT by STARWISE
As usual, Mark Steyn nails it in this Investor's Business Daily editorial, as only Steyn can do.
Steyn points out what should be obvious, but hasn't been articulated or emphasized often enough, which is, Obama's enemies are all American citizens (FOX News, Rush Limbaugh, Oil Industry, Insurance Industry, Tea Party participants, doctors, drug companies, Wall Street, bankers, etc.).
He has no problem with, and his door is always open to, the true foreign enemies of America and freedom, like Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong Il, Chavez, and Castro (also: they are publicly both fond of him and his policies).
It's sadly ironic that Obama's enemies are all Americans and he's more willing to love-up to brutal dictators than he is to sit down with Republicans to discuss health care.
Benjamin Disraeli's most famous advice to aspiring politicians was:
"Never complain and never explain." For the greatest orator of our time, a man who makes Churchill, Lincoln and Henry V at Agincourt look like first-round rejects on "Orating With the Stars," Barack Obama seems to have pretty much given up on the explaining side.
He tried it with health care with speech after speech after exclusive interview for months on end, and the more he explained the more unpopular the whole racket got.
So he declared that the time for explaining is over, and it's time to sign on or else.
Meanwhile, to take the other half of the Disraeli equation, Obama and his officials and their beleaguered band of surrogates never stop complaining. If you express concerns about government health care, they complain about all these "racists" and "domestic terrorists" obstructing his agenda.
If you wonder why the president can't seem to find time in his hectic schedule of international awards acceptance speeches to make a decision about Afghanistan, they complain that it's not his fault he "inherited" all these problems.
White House Whine
And, if you wonder why his "green jobs" czar is a communist 9/11 truther and his National Endowment for the Arts guy is leaning on grant recipients to produce Soviet-style propaganda extolling Obama policies, they complain about Fox News.
The most recent whine — the anti-Fox campaign — is, apart from anything else, unbecoming to the office. President Obama is the chief of state of one of the oldest free societies in the world, but his official White House Web site runs teasers such as: "For even more Fox lies, check out the latest 'Truth-O-Meter.'"
It gives off the air of somebody only marginally less paranoid than this week's president-for-life in some basket-case banana republic ranting on the palace balcony because his interior security chief isn't doing a fast enough job of disappearing his enemies.
If you're going to attack the press, you need a lightness of touch, not a ham-fisted crowbar such as the White House wielded last Thursday, attempting to ban Fox from the pool interviews with the "pay czar."
Loon Or Thug?
Another bit of venerable Disraelian insouciance, on the scribblers of Fleet Street:
"Today they blacken your character, tomorrow they blacken your boots."
For two years, the U.S. media have been polishing Obama's boots, mostly with their drool, to a degree unprecedented in American public life. But now it's time for the handful of holdouts to make with the Kiwi — or else.
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"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."
I love the term “Maosketeer” and think we should make it stick.
He got used to having smoke blown up his fourth point of contact. Now only his enemies are the only ones blowing smoke up there.
If this Fox News Truth-o-meter works on the White House website, perhaps next month they can post the Ahmadenijad Truth-o-meter, or the Global-Warming Truth-o-meter.
You know, I have always had a respect for the man holding the office of President. Even for Bill Clinton, though it was not easy. But I cannot get past the utter contempt I have for this President. Even Clinton was not adverse to making a decision, but Obama?
Here is the IBD article: http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=510104
Barack is a Beta-male. That’s why he hired Rahm to engage in the sophmoric overagressive dirty tricks that he can’t perform himself. Now that his Administration has proven ineffectual and he has nothing but these juvenile attacks to show for the past year of work, he has no choice, but to fire Rahm. Barack seems to see Rahm as his Che. It’s just a matter of time before he looks at the playbook and sends Rahm to the modern equivalent of Bolivia, so I don’t see much of a future for Rahm.
Bo is way too scared to fire Rahm.
Mrs. Prince of Space
“Bo is way too scared to fire Rahm.”
Ain’t that the truth. I don’t care for his worldview, but at least Rahm has genuine cojones. Can’t say that about his boss.
stole your title for my tagline....
Rahm & Axelrod is the wizard behind the curtain. Obummer can’t think without them and Michele’s girlfriend Valarie.
“Even Clinton was not adverse to making a decision, but Obama?”
He got this far by only voting ‘present’.
Kiwi shoe polish.
I don’t know ... wondered that, too .. LOL
I’ve a feeling it’s not very complimentary .. ;)
Not mine, the author’s .. Mr. Warner.
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REPUBLICAT!
Has more brainz than the average Democat.
Thanks for the info! I thought it was maybe an English saying....
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