Posted on 01/23/2010 5:05:57 PM PST by smoothsailing
January 23, 2010
By Bryan Fischer
There is virtually unanimous agreement that President Obama is toast. Mort Zuckerman says the air is out of the balloon, and even Der Spiegel is saying that, for German commentators, the hope is gone. In my judgment, Obama is now a lame duck president with 75% of his first (and only) term remaining.
ObamaCare, his signature issue, is dead in the water and Democrats are floating belly up right next to it. Think Corzine, Deeds, Coakley, Dodd, Dorgan, Snyder, Nelson, Lincoln, etc. etc.
If the Democrats do not insist that Obama resign from office — politically unlikely to be sure — they are liable to be dessicated, withered and powerless by 2012. His coattails are just long enough to drag them all under unless they detach themselves immediately if not sooner.
The natives are restless. If I've observed any one thing over time in politics, it's that the only thing that matters to 95% of politicians is getting re-elected. They will sell their soul to anyone who will ensure re-election and abandon any principle and any friend who serves as a drag on their electoral hopes.
The president is now dead weight, an albatross around the neck of every Democrat member of the House and the Senate. They simply cannot afford to be linked to him anymore. He is blindly pursuing policies that the great majority of Americans flatly reject, and yet he soldiers on, oblivious, perhaps through sheer hubris, to the fact that voters aren't buying the swill he is trying to sell as champagne. Congressional Democrats have got to get as far away from him as they can, and they will. Sheer self-interest will dictate separation.
Obama is a disastrous 0-5 on the campaign trail, in his first year after an inauguration attended by unmatched euphoria and expectation. Few in political history, apart from appalling scandal, have fallen so far so fast. He is the Tiger Woods of the political world. He got hosed in Copenhagen, trying the bag the Olympics for Chicago. He got hosed again in Copenhagen, trying to impose economy-destroying carbon caps on the entire world.
And he got hosed in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts when he tried to lend his now vanished charisma to troubled candidates. He's now preparing to make it 0-6 by going to Nevada to prop up the dismal fortunes of the thoroughly unappealing Harry Reid.
Congressional Democrats now can safely ignore their own president, and in fact must do so to preserve any chance of survival. Dick Morris is surely correct when he says that the president will never be able to pass a significant piece of legislation ever again. The American people are watching, they know he cannot be trusted, and they will beat the daylights out of any politician who supports his disastrous agenda.
He has grossly misread the American public, perhaps again because in his insular and self-adulating world he believes he is the smartest person in the room and is sure that his brilliance will inevitably be recognized by the great unwashed. Ain't gonna happen. The American people are a lot smarter than he thinks, maybe even smarter than he is, and surely wiser when it comes to politics. They will never trust him again about anything.
The president is catastrophically weak and naive when it comes to our war against Islamofascism. He is indifferent, desultory, casual, and lacking in seriousness regarding the threat. The American people know this. He waited three days to say anything at all about the Tighty-Whitey Bomber of Christmas Day, his Pentagon whitewashed completely the jihadist attack on Ft. Hood by refusing to use either the word "Islam" or "Muslim" anywhere in its 86-page report, and he nominated a manifestly unqualified man (Erroll Southers) to head the TSA.
If there is another successful Islamic attack on the United States, and a planeload of innocent Americans gets blown up, I believe that will be the last straw for this vain and incompetent president. The American people will hound him out of office. He won't be able to show his face in public because the reaction will be so visceral and angry. He will become as isolated as Dick Nixon became in his last days in office.
He'll crank up the Oval Office thermostat to 72 degrees and hunker down in an effort to ride out the storm.
Hillary Clinton is of course watching, and I have been predicting for months now that she will launch a primary challenge to Obama in 2012. Rush Limbaugh said much the same thing this past week. The campaign of 2012 is her last realistic shot, and she is shrewd enough to see that he is finished as a politician and she'll just be too old in 2016.
Surely the Democrats in the party will see the same thing, and know that if they back Obama in 2012 they will be backing a loser. Believe me, there will be an underground movement among Democrats to plead with Hillary (or somebody) to save what shreds will remain of their party from The One in the next presidential election.
President Obama has no chance at a second term. And eroding chances of completing his first one.
© Bryan Fischer
NASA strength tinfoil: Biden picks Hil as his VP, then has a little "accident" while walking in Ft Marcy Park....Hil becomes Prez and runs as the incumbent in 2012.
The Idiots will vote for any Democrat woman just to make it historical, like they did just to make Obama the first Black President (after Clinton of course). There is no doubt in my mind that she is salivating at the bit for the chance to get nominated in 2012. If she does, I feel the black vote will be diminished, as they would see her as one who felt Obama wasn’t qualified for another term. Yeah, how about Clinton/Schumer, what a ticket!! LOL
...but the Obama victory dance is premature.
I don’t believe that to be the case. Remember the fall elections are approaching and the mindset of much of the electorate is anger and a desire to put a stop to Mr. Obama’s red tide. By further shifting to the right, the Senate and House will be able to further isolate his power and minimal influence.
Of course the liberals will, but the independents who helped Obozo win may be a bit more cautious.
President Obama has no chance at a second term. And eroding chances of completing his first one.
I have seen this comment or one similar in a number of articles, commentary in the last few days, I do not think he will go away before the next election and I am not complacent enough to think we will beat him in 12. We can not take our eyes off the goal or rest on lesser wins.
Betcha. McCain would not be a consideration, as he was never elected. Note that the entire line of succession gives preference to those who were elected.
The stock market took off after the Republicans took control of Congress. Clinton's approval rating was mostly because of the humming economy. This sequence is likely to happen again under Obama and he has a good chance at reelection. We will need a corruption scandal, Iran holding American hostages again to display his pacifism, or issue other than the economy to unseat him.
How can someone who was not eligible to be in the race finish first?
However, I still detest the guy because he had no honor, and was morally bankrupt. He should have been in jail for numerous things.
But I'd still take him in a heartbeat over 0bama.
The Obama-Biden ticket was elected. So far as we know, Biden is eligible -- there being no IQ test for president.
I’m with you. The moment she attached herself to this loser and his policies she was done.
The ‘rats will have to turn to someone else.
Uh, huh. Only twice in US history has a one term president been succeeded by another of the same party (Buchanan(D) followed Pierce in 1857, and Garfield(R) followed Hayes in 1881), and the last time was 130 years ago. Now if he's predicting Hill will be the nominee, he might be right, but if he means she can actually win, I'm skeptical.
Wouldn't Hillary have to be female for that to work?
Can I get me a huntin' license here?
Not that I’m any happier about the corrected number.
People have had enough of the Bushees and Klintoons. Ma Klintoon is less likable than Coakley. Shillary is going nowhere.
Fauxbama being impeached at the behest of Democrats is, if the political calculus remains the way it is today, with im continuing to push fauxbama care at all cost, tax and sham etc.... and other leftist ideological nonsense... in spite of voters clearly rejecting this crap... Is not a REMOTE possibility.
If NOVEMBER sizes up to be the bloodbath I believe it will be, the odds of Democrats drawing up articles of impeachment against him and pushing for his ouster, in 2011 are 50/50 if not higher right now.
Fauxbama is rapidly becoming a man without a country, and if november winds up being like I expect, the few democrats left in office, are going to revolt and demand his removal in order to save the party.
I have been speaking with my boss about Hillary. I told him I expect her to resign her post and get as far away from barry as she can.
Once she does, she will attack him, and possibly release the information, i.e. birth certificate, she has on him and will be the one to destroy the “Great Liar” of all times.
I do believe she will wait until the 11/10 elections, just to make sure she knows “which way the wind is blowing”.
Once she has that in hand, she will resign and under “great duress” release the goods on barry.
Biden was elected VP.
Who was elected president? The eligible candidate with a majority of valid electoral votes - McCain.
Voting in the EC is not by ticket. The P and VP are voted on separately.
I judged him to be mentally unstable, exacerbated by immaturity, from the beginning.
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