Posted on 12/29/2009 4:20:00 PM PST by STARWISE
Barack Obama's reaction to bad news is to play it so cool that Americans yearn for a bit more drama - and some even for his predecessor, writes Toby Harnden in Washington.
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During the election campaign, Barack Obama's cool detachment was a winning quality, the "No Drama Obama" a welcome contrast with the "Mr Angry" John McCain, never mind the hot-headed "I'm the decider" President George W Bush.
A year into his presidency, however, Mr Obama seems a curiously bloodless president. If he experiences passion, he seldom shows it. It is often anyone's guess as to whether an event or issue truly moves him.
He has spent more than two months considering a troop increase but do we know how he really feels about the Afghan war?
In a sign that the Obama honeymoon truly is over, I began to hear this week the first stirrings of a wistfulness about Mr Bush. "I never thought I'd hear myself say it," one Democrat told me. "But Obama makes you feel that at least with Bush you knew where he was on something."
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It could do him good to show he has a bit of fire in his belly. Perhaps he might make a decision or two based on gut instinct and deep conviction. In other words, maybe he should try being a bit more like Mr Bush.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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Hey now, Dear Leader was visibly upset when his buddy, Skippy, was wronged by the po-po! Why he even called the white po-po stupid! He just doesn’t want to offend by calling a Muslim any names...yeah, that’s what he’s doing - he’s just being cool and calm and collected. mmmmmm, mmmmm, mmmmm
He’s mental. Steve Kroft’s “Are you punch drunk?” was an attempt to get him to act normal. But he doesn’t know what normal is. He doesn’t have normal emotions.
Impeachment.
I do not miss GW Bush, I am NOT enjoying the Obama years but I am eagerly awaiting the Palin Presidency!!!
Barack Obama could not buy a feeling with all the money in the federal reserve.
Of course he isn't. Listen to his 9/11 so-called speech; he could be reading a grocery list for all the emotional connection he has to the event itself. But the answer is starkly simple: a foreigner is never "moved" by events of a host country the way a native of that country would himself be.
B. Hussein Obama is not an American. Not culturally and almost certainly, not technically.
He doesn’t have normal emotions.
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You’re right ... he truly doesn’t ..
and he also doesn’t have a naturally
American outlook or mindset.
Except for organizing communities and suing those who don't give loans to people who can't pay for them, this jerk has no convictions!
You bet I miss George W Bush — I wish we could have him back in the White House!
His other "home" was Indonesia. After these two, he was sent to very liberal educational institutions. He has NO concept of the average American, which is why I knew he would be a disaster of a President!
Check him out when surrounded by SEIU and ACORN hacks.
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Why I Miss George W. Bush
Andrew T. Durham
November 22, 2009
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Though it may be an unpopular sentiment to some, I really do find myself missing George W. Bush. There is no sarcasm in that statement; no hidden slander. I genuinely find a vacancy in the world where President Bush used to be, and for very specific reasons.
I voted for Bill Clinton twice.
In subequent years I came to realize the kind of creature he was, what he did - and I don’t mean Lewinsky - and the kind of no-conscience reptiles he and his wife were. And are.
I remember experiencing rage at the election of George W. Bush in 2000.
Then 9/11 happened when I was working down the street from the JFK Federal Building in Boston. I realized with 20/20 horror-sight what it would have been like if Al Gore had been President. Gore, in the following years, has shown what terror he would have brought on this country with whatever his ideas of leadership would have been.
My mind changed and I began to see the foundation of what made this country and what motivated lunatic terrorists to want to snuff it out. And I became angry.
The next 8 years went by and now we are truly infected by a brand of vermin without conscience. And lately this has caused me to seriously reflect on what we are missing and the reasons I genuinely miss President George W. Bush.
Quite probably the most noticeable reason is that we were not bombarded daily with the Maoist inundation of images of the “Commander in Chief” as we are today. President Bush, once he won, stopped campaigning.
His victories and, indeed, his presidency were not about some bombastic, megalomaniacal ego feeding frenzy.
He was our CEO.
Further, President Bush could be relied upon for steadiness of purpose. Whether you agreed with him or not, you knew there would be a landing on the tarmac without incident.
While I was a supporter of the Iraq War at the beginning, by 2006 I realized that something else had to be going on, and it wasn´t oil. If it were oil, we´d have seized it and avoided the rising gas prices. The expenditure of lives and money for the Iraq War are far, far out of proportion to the stated objectives. I don´t claim to know what was or the purpose is there. All I am certain of is that it is not oil and it is not security from terrorism.
That being said, we have been safe. Inarguably safe.
This is not in small part due to the fact that President Bush surrounded himself with some of the most experienced and seasoned bureaucrats and military officers around. And, yes, I am an unabashed fan of Dick Cheney.
Dick Cheney just in sound bites makes Joe Biden look like the utter moron he is. Cheney is a man of class, decency and dignity. Yes, he probably knows a lot of things I would really like to know or would really not like to know. But my guess is these things are safe with him.
I can say that of no one in the current administration, least of all the President.
Understand, we have the first administration in history that is an administration of thugs.
If you criticize them, you are insulted on a personal level. I never once remember this happening in the Bush White House. The Bush Administration handled criticism primarily by citing the individual´s right to free speech and to challenge aspects of authority.
Now, if you disagree with the Obama gang, you are a racist or a Nazi. How sane people can´t see this stark difference is beyond just mere learning disability.
No, I don´t give a damn about so-called “real Conservatives” who carped on Bush for not being the cardboard cutout of a party platform. These same people helped sink McCain and elect Obama. I grew up feeling lucky for what I had. I wish these idiotic Conservative ideologues would learn from that principle.
But, they´re all rich. They have no idea of being truly thankful.
And on a purely intuitive level, I miss President Bush because I don´t believe he had an evil bone in his body. He ran this country; he didn´t try to shape it into some Frankenstein´s monster socialist nightmare. A President of the United States should be a statesman, even a simple man, but surely not a child radical whose origins we are not allowed to challenge lest we be labeled crazy.
Yes, I miss George W. Bush, if only because I could come home at night and go to bed knowing that, for now, everything was going to be all right. He didn´t have a staff of hotshot narcissists with daddy issues. He ran a board of directors. They stayed in the background and actually worked.
Work.
And you better believe me: God, we need to get that back sometime or we´re all in deep crap.
Andrew T. Durham
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/129701
*Posted with all due respect to those who lost loved ones at Ft. Hood.
What? Me worry?
Truly a wise man, this Mr. Durham.
And he is totally correct when he says “we have the first administration in history that is an administration of thugs.”
We need to rectify this as soon as possible! 2010 is our opportunity to bring back safety and security to America!
Why miss Bush —He wasn’t running for election
If I am going to miss a past president it will be REAGAN
I bet those aren’t selling very well these days, LOL. I’m originally from Hawaii, and one of my friends who still lives there told me a funny story a couple months ago. She was on Oahu at an event with lots of vendors, and one guy was selling Obama t-shirts, hats, etc. My friend noticed no customers at the booth and couldn’t help herself, telling the vendor, “I bet you’re wishing now you’d picked something else to sell!” and the guy actually laughed and said, “Yeah, I know!”
Jimmah Carter is now on the sidelines cheering him on so he can pass the baton as the worst living ex-president in a few years.
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