Posted on 01/21/2010 6:45:30 AM PST by The Big Boo
The World Bids Farewell to Obama
US President Barack Obama suffered a painful defeat in Massachusetts on Tuesday. With mid-term elections looming, it means that Obama will have to fundamentally re-think his political course. German commentators say it is the end of hope.
US President Barack Obama has had a number of difficult weeks during his first year in the White House. Right after he took office, he had to wade through a week full of partisan bickering over his economic stimulus package combined with a tax scandal surrounding Tom Daschle, the man Obama had hoped would lead his health care reform team.
Then there was the last week of 2009, when a failed terror attack on a flight inbound for Detroit exposed major flaws in US efforts to identify and stop potential terrorists.
This week, though -- a week when Obama should have been celebrating the first anniversary of his inauguration -- may have been the president's worst yet. Scott Brown, an almost unknown Republican member of the Massachusetts Senate, defeated the Democratic candidate Martha Coakley for the US Senate seat vacated by the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. The defeat in a heavily Democratic state not only highlights Obama's massive loss of popular support during his first year in office, but it also could spell doom for his signature effort to reform the US health care system.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,673192,00.html
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No. It's the beginning.
Weakkneed and feckless.
Hey guys, remember, those Germans have a habit of falling for grade A a$$holes when it comes to selecting leaders. They make great things, though.
Don’t expect too much from this ‘personality’.
He is a DNC puppet and will accomplish NOTHING on his own merit.
The best thing that can happen to this country is three more years of just enough suffering that the lesson is driven home to the idiots who thought they were being trendy by electing an American Idol novelty. Just enough suffering that the enemedia loses all credibility by sugar-coating and selling this turd. And just enough suffering that the masses realize that Islamofacism is a real threat and global warming is nothing more than a boogeyman.
When ObaMao's approval ratings dip into the 20's and he teaches us the same lesson (or worse) which Jimmy Carter taught most of my generation, then we will have suffered enough. I just hope not too many more people will have to die as a consequence to teach that lesson.
And this is a historical yawn, as many of us know how well the Germans handled the end of "hope" in the 20s...
Anyone see the hearing yesterday with Togo West and Adm. Clark? We're totally screwed. Really.
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