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The Fall of Obama (Krauthammer)
Real Clear Politics (Washington Post) ^ | 1-15-10 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 01/15/2010 5:26:32 AM PST by truthandlife

What went wrong? A year ago, he was king of the world. Now President Obama's approval rating, according to CBS, has dropped to 46 percent -- and his disapproval rating is the highest ever recorded by Gallup at the beginning of an (elected) president's second year.

A year ago, he was leader of a liberal ascendancy that would last 40 years (James Carville). A year ago, conservatism was dead (Sam Tanenhaus). Now the race to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat in bluest of blue Massachusetts is surprisingly close, with a virtually unknown state senator bursting on the scene by turning the election into a mini-referendum on Obama and his agenda, most particularly health care reform. Babson_300x250_mbawspongecell_aug09

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A year ago, Obama was the most charismatic politician on earth. Today the thrill is gone, the doubts growing -- even among erstwhile believers.

Liberals try to attribute Obama's political decline to matters of style. He's too cool, detached, uninvolved. He's not tough, angry or aggressive enough with opponents. He's contracted out too much of his agenda to Congress.

These stylistic and tactical complaints may be true, but they miss the major point: The reason for today's vast discontent, presaged by spontaneous national Tea Party opposition, is not that Obama is too cool or compliant but that he's too left.

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TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: bho44; blogpimp; conservatismisdead; deathofconservatism; democrats; fall; krauthammer; obama; obamacare; samtanenhaus
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1 posted on 01/15/2010 5:26:33 AM PST by truthandlife
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To: truthandlife

At the end the fool will be destroyed by his foolishness. The truth will always comes out, always. Liberals have never understood and will never understand this simple but very important fact of life. Why? Because liberals can never speak the truth.


2 posted on 01/15/2010 5:30:58 AM PST by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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To: truthandlife

At the end the fool will be destroyed by his foolishness. The truth will always come out, always. Liberals have never understood and will never understand this simple but very important fact of life. Why? Because liberals can never speak the truth.


3 posted on 01/15/2010 5:31:46 AM PST by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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To: truthandlife
Obama veered Far Left. Too far Left it appears, even for Massachusettans.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

4 posted on 01/15/2010 5:32:55 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: truthandlife

What time is it,kiddies? Revenge Time!


5 posted on 01/15/2010 5:33:17 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: truthandlife
Notice how that when Sarah Palin’s name is mentioned, the 0bamunist sympathizers immediately say that she is not qualified. Well, she has FAR MORE experience than Hussein, even after a year of OJT at our expense. It seems the only thing Hussein can run is his mouth!
6 posted on 01/15/2010 5:33:22 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Pork Eating CRUSADER - FUBO! Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: truthandlife

Outstanding article. 2010 is the year that Obama will implode and bring the entire Democrat party down with him. He’s too much of an ideological puritan to triangulate.


7 posted on 01/15/2010 5:33:30 AM PST by chpmass
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To: truthandlife
A couple of money quotes:

It's inherently risky for any charismatic politician to legislate. To act is to choose and to choose is to disappoint the expectations of many who had poured their hopes into the empty vessel -- of which candidate Obama was the greatest representative in recent American political history.

and...

The system may not always work, but it does take its revenge.

8 posted on 01/15/2010 5:33:37 AM PST by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: jveritas

Their ideology is based on the lies of the serpent in Genesis 3:4-5, and they serve the prince of this world, the father of lies.

It is no wonder that they can never fathom reality and truth. It is not in them (John 8:44).


9 posted on 01/15/2010 5:34:41 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: truthandlife

Light skin doesn’t mean what it did a year ago.


10 posted on 01/15/2010 5:35:03 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: truthandlife

Again I say. We have Communists trying to run (ruin) a Capitalist country. Won’t work. The Counter revolution has begun.


11 posted on 01/15/2010 5:35:14 AM PST by screaminsunshine (!!three if by government)
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To: truthandlife

Pissant Obama should never been elected. No one know anything about him. Claims that William Ayers was never known to him as a Weatherman Underground. Oddly being an alinsky disciple the Weatherman are mentioned on page xvii. Where is the birth certificate? Why is that the adoption records of Barry Soetoro are not released? What about the Indonesian Pasport and his traveling to akistan. The media aided and abetted this calamity. The People have the rights afforded in the Constitution to depose this charaltan, fraud schemer, fill it in yourself


12 posted on 01/15/2010 5:36:27 AM PST by hondact200 (hondact200 No to Socialism - Michigan is bad, socialism would even be worse)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

The left loves him because he runs his mouth.
To them, appearances of brilliance are far more important than substantive character.

This was their main complaint about Bush, and their main “relief” when 0bama was elected. “Finally we have a president that can speak well.”


13 posted on 01/15/2010 5:36:32 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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...not that Obama is too cool or compliant but that he's too left.... Obama too left? To a liberal, there's no such thing. THAT'S the problem. Remember when the DNC was run by Terry McAuliffe? He said that the reason why the Dems didn't win back Congress was that they didn't go left enough. How else can you explain the administration's deaf ear to anything coming from the right side of the aisle? They don't care about anything but their own agenda, the right and the people be damned. Force their will upon the people, alienate the right, dehumanize your enemy, intimidate and threaten anyone even in your own party ...............
14 posted on 01/15/2010 5:36:32 AM PST by Red Badger (Obama - The first ever elected lame duck..............)
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To: chpmass
2010 is the year that Obama will implode and bring the entire Democrat party down with him.

A couple of thoughts...

1) How will he govern after he's neutered? Like Clinton did after he was nutted? I don't think The Kenyan has it in him to run a kindergarten.

2) Will his own party finally see him for the liability he is and take him down, perhaps gin up a made-for-impeachment scandal...? Will the dems become born-again birthers?

15 posted on 01/15/2010 5:37:32 AM PST by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: MrB

Amen. Everyone thinks this is a political war and it is to a certain extent but it is spiritual war and this will be fought with spiritual weapons. We need to continue to intercede in prayer for this nation.


16 posted on 01/15/2010 5:37:34 AM PST by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: hondact200

Bush never answered or addressed the attacks by the left.
The “new tone” is the reason we have 0bama as president today.


17 posted on 01/15/2010 5:37:41 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: jveritas

It can’t happen soon enough.


18 posted on 01/15/2010 5:37:49 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: truthandlife
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19 posted on 01/15/2010 5:38:45 AM PST by Tawiskaro
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To: truthandlife

Most media also seem to be able to overlook that it is Democrats raining on the Obama parade. They have a huge majority in the House and a Super Majority in the Senate and can’t pass his agenda.


20 posted on 01/15/2010 5:40:12 AM PST by IamConservative (Liberty is all a good man needs to succeed.)
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