Posted on 01/31/2010 7:18:58 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
We should know the pattern by now. Barack Obama has a way of seeming to let things drift, even dangerously so. His supporters start to panic; his enemies start to sniff confidence like a junkie out of a brown paper bag. Scott Brown’s remarkable victory in Massachusetts provided the glue, and the Republicans and the media almost passed out with the rush — and still the president remained somewhat aloof; distant.
As health insurance reform looked dead in the water, Obama seemed equally inert. The mood on the liberal blogs went from depression to panic. His presidency was over! Liberalism’s revival was a mirage! The atmosphere — and I wasn’t entirely immune to it myself — reminded me of the autumn of 2007, as Obama remained mired 30 points behind Hillary Clinton and seemed to be drifting back into obscurity; or when in 2008, after his stunning victory in Iowa, he lost New Hampshire and allowed the race to drag on for months. Or how healthcare reform seemed massacred by last summer’s town hall meetings, or how he chose to stay removed from the Iranian revolution last June.
And then there’s the comeback. This time, the setup was almost perfect: an already scheduled grand political speech playing to all of Obama’s strengths. And yet what was striking about the speech was how unlike Obama it was. It was conversational, self-deprecating, sometimes funny, intermittently aggressive, occasionally moving, conciliatory in tone. But what struck me most was not the delivery but the reception. I’ve listened to dozens of state-of-the-union speeches and I have rarely heard such a quiet talk meet such silence. It was the kind of silence that greets the truth.
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Every time I read Andrew Sullivan the words of St. Paul echo in my mind: “Claiming to be wise, they became fools.” The more I read Romans 1, the more I understand people such as Andrew. They are men that exchange the truth for a lie. They are beyond help.
The truth in this case being that we are stuck with this posing, preening, arrogant ideologue for the next 3 years.
He's all excited ever since he heard Obama has been "going down" in the polls. /sarc>
Cheers!
Especially verses 26 and 27, you mean?
Obama's a lot more inexperienced and brittle. He may not have the ability to learn from his mistakes.
Obama did lose elections, but he never had the administrative responsibilities, so he's more resistant to realities than Clinton was.
Still, the general rule is that presidents do win reelection, so it's still a possibility.
I have to wonder if Sullivan was always so bad a writer and so obtuse an observer -- if he's lost it over the years or if we just notice it now that he's on the other side.
While I think the gays think health care will be the Obamite gimmie, I think they had better study history. Hitler played rope-a-dope with the homosexuals, too. Then pink triangles and to the camps with them.
If Bammy gets Socialist Health Care through, the homosexuals will find themselves in the cold in short order.
Silly flame war over nothing. Please stop.
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