Incompetent Obama teeters on the edge

National Post ^ | January 22 2010 | Conrad Black

[knighthawk]

The burning question after the Massachusetts Senate election is whether the administration responds by making a course correction to survive politically by jettisoning its policy core and cleaning up its methods, or 'doubles down,' as President Obama has implied, and escalates the ideological and guerrilla war for direction of public policy. This was a referendum on the Obama administration, including health care, not just on health care. Even less was it just the rejection of an astonishingly unappealing candidate, predestined to glory as a trivia question. John F. Kennedy took that seat with lashings of his father's money in an anti-Brahmin revolt against Henry Cabot Lodge in 1952, and was reelected by 864,000 votes in 1958. In the intervening years of Teddy Kennedy, the Democrats could have won with a candidate not confined to two legs and one head. This was less a wake-up call than a Te Deum for a dying and sweaty dream.

The president has three principal problems. He is well to the left of the public and of what he promised the voters in 2008, and it is an old, passe leftism, that is authoritarian, deviously presented and was discredited in this country decades ago; the sort of nostrums that caused Bill Clinton and others to become 'New Democrats.' He is increasingly perceived as having credibility problems and of being cold, cocksure, narcissistic and intoxicated by what he modestly called 'the gift' of his own articulation. And as president, he has been quite, and quite surprisingly, incompetent.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[Chode]

and 0bama takes another one in the.................................HA ha!!!

[goldstategop]

Obama makes Jimmy Carter look like an exercise in competence. And here I thought Carter was awful. Obama has outclassed him.

"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

[kjo]

It has beocme clear that Barry is in way over his head. He doesn’t know how to be president, how to lead, or what to do next.

Somebody needs to instruct his teleprompter.

This guy’s a one termer...guaranteed.

Question is...how much more damage will be do over the next three years?

[Repeal The 17th]

“...as president he has been quite surprisingly incompetent..”
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Who is surprised?
Conrad Black?
Not me.

[TUX]

First blush he’s an empty suit. Wait its not a suit its a Mao jacket. Well yeah he is a lefty we knew that. No its worse... we elected a wacked out radical nut job.

[HIDEK6]

This was less a wake-up call than a Te Deum for a dying and sweaty dream.

I think he means Requiem, not Te Deum.

Don't they have any real Catholics in Massachusetts?

[paulycy]

[hershey]

Dems and Zero want totalitarianism, with dems in charge in perpetuity. America will never agree.

[timetostand]

O is unstable and very dangerous!

[Recovering_Democrat]

[Panzerlied]

“And as president, he has been quite, and quite surprisingly, incompetent.”

That’s odd. I’m not surprised one bit.

[hflynn]

The President has three principal problems.

Since the President is such an obvious a-hole I will go with colitis, anal fissures and anal warts.

[FlyVet]

And as president, he has been quite, and quite surprisingly, incompetent.

I don't know what's surprising about it. There was no evidence of competence pre-presidency.

Lawyer for ACORN. Helped put teeth into the Community Redevelopment Act. Disaster. Helped flush hundreds of billions of tax dollars down the toilet.

Annenberg grant with Bill Ayers, supposedly to improve Chicago public schools. Disaster. Shut down after a few years. Flushed over 100 million tax dollars down the toilet.

Affordable housing with Tony Rezko. Disaster. Condemned buildings, built substandard to code. Flushed another 100 million tax dollars down the toilet. Rezko in jail.

So, he's only doing what he's always done: flush tax dollars down the toilet, except now he's in the big leagues, and we're talking trillions instead of millions.

He's a destroyer. It's who he is, it's what he does. He can't help it. He won't stop.

[FastCoyote]

[And as president, he has been quite, and quite surprisingly, incompetent.]

Yup, it was all UNEXPECTED!

[mombonn]

What a difference a year makes! Last year, he could walk on water.

[ishabibble]

Why would anyone be surprised that Obama is incompetent? He was the editor of the Havard Law Review and never wrote a single article for it. Anyone who watched that American Idol campaign knew that there was no substance there.

I am not surprised at all. I am,however, appalled at just how bad he is turning out to be, Obama is simply not fit to be the POTUS. He can't do this job.

[GOPJ]

He is well to the left of the public and of what he promised the voters in 2008, and it is an old, passe leftism, that is authoritarian, deviously presented and was discredited in this country decades ago; the sort of nostrums that caused Bill Clinton and others to become 'New Democrats.

Nice post, knighthawk.

[truthguy]

I can't write one-tenth as well as Conrad Black. But everything that he said I predicted back in Nov of 2008. I wasn't fooled by Obama for even a microsecond. I knew he was a far left wing ideologue. It was obvious to anyone not blindfolded.

But the MSN wanted this guy to win in the worst way and did nothing to vet him. They spent 10x the amount of effort to background check Sara Palin as they did for Obama. And then add that to Juan McCain deciding NOT to attack him for his far left associations and policies and you have a recipe for disaster. And now we are suffering for the stupidity of those who pressed the D-button back in 2008.