Posted on 01/01/2010 12:32:22 PM PST by SpaceBar
Narcissists dread the stigma of failure. Our self-admiring president is so fearful of ever being blameworthy that he reflexively shrinks from consequential decision making. Barack Obama’s aversion to making difficult decisions has left America effectively leaderless.
Mr. Obama’s decision-making malfunction was no big secret before his election. Back in 2006, Mr. Obama himself had warned us in the opening pages of The Audacity of Hope that
“I am new enough to the national political scene that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views. As such, I am bound to disappoint some, if not all, of them.”
Obama was a “blank screen” all right, not because he was new on the scene, but because he had cultivated an inoffensive and unchallenging blankness. It was political camouflage. During his days in the Illinois senate, Obama had carefully avoided controversy by repeatedly voting “present” rather than taking a position on polarizing issues. Friends of Obama had spared him the rigors of vigorous campaigning in both the primary and general election phases of his run for the U.S. Senate by tarring Obama’s opponents with the details of their messy divorces. Obama arrived in the U.S. Senate without ever having taken a tough stand on any issue of consequence.
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Obama is “present” on the golf course though.
perhaps the puppeteers of the nwo got him nominated as a...sort of...joke—and the pseudo-americans—both legal and illegal, dead and alive—elected him...no...
I think he started a four year vacation on January 20, 2010.
Sorry ... 2009!
Thomas Clough is a master of deconstructing the left and has a sense of humor to boot. One of my favorite conservative essayists after the venerable P.J. O’Rourke.
Our enemies are watching and know that for the next 3 years, we are ripe for the pickn’s.
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