Posted on 01/20/2010 6:16:50 AM PST by ChocChipCookie
Obama punted on the economy and reversed the fortunes of the Democrats in 365 days.
He’s misjudged the character of the country in his whole approach. There’s the saying, “It’s the economy, stupid.” He didn’t get it. He was determined somehow or other to adopt a whole new agenda. He didn’t address the main issue.
This health-care plan is going to be a fiscal disaster for the country. Most of the country wanted to deal with costs, not expansion of coverage. This is going to raise costs dramatically.
In the campaign, he said he would change politics as usual. He did change them. It’s now worse than it was. I’ve now seen the kind of buying off of politicians that I’ve never seen before. It’s politically corrupt and it’s starting at the top. It’s revolting.
Five states got deals on health care—one of them was Harry Reid’s. It is disgusting, just disgusting. I’ve never seen anything like it. The unions just got them to drop the tax on Cadillac plans in the health-care bill. It was pure union politics. They just went along with it. It’s a bizarre form of political corruption. It’s bribery. I suppose they could say, that’s the system. He was supposed to change it or try to change it.
Even that is not the worst part. He could have said, “I know. I promised these things, but let me try to do them one at a time.” You want to deal with health care? Fine. Issue No. 1 with health care was the cost. You know I think it was 37 percent or 33 who were worried about coverage. Fine, I wrote an editorial to this effect. Focus on cost-containment first. But he’s trying to boil the ocean, trying to do too much. This is not leadership.
Obama’s ability to connect with voters is what launched him. But what has surprised me is how he has failed to connect with the voters since he’s been in office. He’s had so much overexposure. You have to be selective. He was doing five Sunday shows. How many press conferences? And now people stop listening to him. The fact is he had 49.5 million listeners to first speech on the economy. On Medicare, he had 24 million. He’s lost his audience. He has not rallied public opinion. He has plunged in the polls more than any other political figure since we’ve been using polls. He’s done everything wrong. Well, not everything, but the major things.
I don’t consider it a triumph. I consider it a disaster.
One business leader said to me, “In the Clinton administration, the policy people were at the center, and the political people were on the sideline. In the Obama administration, the political people are at the center, and the policy people are on the sidelines.”
I’m very disappointed. We endorsed him. I voted for him. I supported him publicly and privately.
I hope there are changes. I think he’s already laid in huge problems for the country. The fiscal program was a disaster. You have to get the money as quickly as possible into the economy. They didn’t do that. By end of the first year, only one-third of the money was spent. Why is that?
He should have jammed a stimulus plan into Congress and said, “This is it. No changes. Don’t give me that bullshit. We have a national emergency.” Instead they turned it over to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi who can run circles around him.
It’s very sad. It’s really sad.
He’s improved America’s image in the world. He absolutely did. But you have to translate that into something. Let me tell you what a major leader said to me recently. “We are convinced,” he said, “that he is not strong enough to confront his enemy. We are concerned,” he said “that he is not strong to support his friends.”
The political leadership of the world is very, very dismayed. He better turn it around. The Democrats are going to get killed in this election. Jesus, looks what’s happening in Massachusetts.
It’s really interesting because he had brilliant, brilliant political instincts during the campaign. I don’t know what has happened to them. His appointments present somebody who has a lot to learn about how government works. He better get some very talented businesspeople who know how to implement things. It’s unbelievable. Everybody says so. You can’t believe how dismayed people are. That’s why he’s plunging in the polls.
I can’t predict things two years from now, but if he continues on the downward spiral he is on, he won’t be reelected. In the meantime, the Democrats have recreated the Republican Party. And when I say Democrats, I mean the Obama administration. In the generic vote, the Democrats were ahead something like 52 to 30. They are now behind the Republicans 48 to 44 in the last poll. Nobody has ever seen anything that dramatic.
We here at FR knew all about this lying fraud well before the election, were warning folks, and sending distress signals. They were ignored by an ignorant mass of voters who put the USA on a path to oblivion because they believed the “cool black guy” would somehow live up to the hype.
Guess what - the “cool black guy” is a total fabrication, with no experience, no knowledge of the real world, but a dangerous burning ambition fired by a breathtaking malignant narcissism that is his downfall.
Wow. Just wow.
The true meaning of "Hope and Change?"
And they say that no one is perfect! Obama is the Dan Larsen of ineptitude.
This "author" actually believes that the president can do this? The very idea of a president doing this runs against every principle of a Republic. Not that Obama hasn't tried, mind you. This is the problem: people like this actually believe that the president is some sort of celebrity-king hybrid. Then, they vote.
If it were not so sad, it would be funny.
Am I showing my deep anger? LOL
The author is actually deluded enough to believe that
0bama actually intended to
HELP the economy and not intentionally destroy it,
and that the purpose of the stimulus was to boost the economy
and wasn’t just a bunch of political payoffs.
Barack Obama was, and is, a fraud. He is a self-absorbed fool, propped up by powerful Progressive interests for the achievement of their long sought-after goals. Obama is a man whose very narcissism served perfectly for those who helped create the image-laden cult that propelled him to victory in a campaign purposefully long on platitudes and short on specifics.
Viewed in this light, Obama has not "done everything wrong", he never had a clue at all what to do, in what order, or for what reason. Those decisions were left instead to his political operatives in the White House and to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. For his part, Obama has simple spent the last 365 days playing at being President, leaving the hard choices to others, or evading them entirely.
IDJIT!
It's unclear how the Republican Party can be of assistance at this time.
Obama is a genius at self-promotion. As such, he has promoted himself far beyond his abilities. Unfortunately, he has no talent for anything other than self-promotion.
Bill Clinton was the same way...
His election should have never happened; but you know how the Democrats and the RINOS are. The Dems have had 3 of the worst POTUS in the history of this country; Carter Clinton and Obama. Not one of them is for America.
Here’s my response to the obama acolytes that say he “inherited” the problems we now face: obama may have inherited a “wildfire”, but it doesn’t excuse the fact that he’s pouring gas on it, all the while claiming he’s trying to put it out....
It’s really very simple, and as a small business owner I can say with some certitude: The country will not get back on its feet until there is a belief that the Communist-loving administration (President and Congress) that is currently in charge is GONE.
Until then, no one is investing in the future because it has been made clear that the administration intends to take everything away from us and turn us into a collective society.
As soon as we feel truly safe from this threat, the U.S. will boom again.
"I'm a fool."
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