Posted on 02/28/2010 5:00:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
BTTT
The Incredible Shrinking President.
The thing that struck me about the “summit’ was that Obama met on a level playing field with mere legislators. Every other President would have brought influential legislators or critical votes into the White House and awed them with the power of the Presidency. Obama truly can’t get past being a community organizer. He debased his office with his little PR exercise.
Liberals are learning a sad lesson, and that is that Obama is woefully inexperienced. Electing a media creation, a neophyte, is coming back to haunt them.
I sometimes wonder if Teddy did this on purpose. He got the Obama ball rolling; he had to know the man was incapable of leading at this point. Perhaps he thought he didn’t want the stronger, experienced Hillary in, and preferred someone that Congress could lead around by the nose.
By electing Obama, we have made Pelosi and Reid the real president.
VERY interesting op-ed piece. Thanks for posting it.
>> Obama, in contrast, talks incessantly on practically any subject... He’s lost his connection with millions of Americans, who’ve tuned him out.
That’s a good, concise analysis of Bambi’s problems. All talk... no effectivity. Which follows from the fact that he’s an empty suit.
BHO is less qualified than Franklin Delano Romanowski.
4 million since Jan ‘09. Fair is fair.
Leaders lead. Ideologues push.
Obama pushes.
He debased his office with his little PR exercise.
Mac Daddy does that each and every day with phony photo-op’s, promoting himself daily and the most vile part being unable to ever tell the truth, ever.
More like to the level of an overpaid community organizer.
Zer0 has reduced the presidency to the level of a common zer0.
good, so he is a tiny 0
There are many differences between FDR and Obama. For one thing, FDR had executive experience as Governor of New York (then the most populous state) before running for President. For another, FDR had a sense of humor (e.g., pretending to be upset over Republican attacks on his little dog Fala), whereas Obama is a humorless prig, maybe worse in that way than Jimmy Carter. FDR came across as likable, whatever he was in private, whereas doesn't even try to be likable--it's as if he feels that it is our duty to like him because he's the first black President.
Jimmy Carter is feeling more and more vindicated every day.
One of the issues that Obama highlights for us is that very, very few men without executive experience (whether as governor or a military officer) make it to the Presidency.
Obama is a prime example of why.
FDR had been the governor of NY State directly before running for the Presidency. NY State at that time was the most populated state in the US, the home of Wall Street, lots of banks, corruption, etc, etc. FDR was seen by the nation as it slipped into the Depression as having had something of a clue what to do as a governor.
Obama, meanwhile, was elected because of two issues:
1. He wasn’t Bush. The press, the coasts and an increasing number of independents, soured on the GOP and Bush especially going into 2008. The GOP’s mistake of letting McCain get to the final round when McCain hasn’t got the economic IQ to know how to support himself other than by marrying money was very apparent as the markets were melting down during the campaign.
2. Obama is black, and there was a huge sales job to “the youth” how were were all going to get along, birds would sing again, the oceans would stop rising, the world would be a better place and the Gaia would smile upon us if only we’d elect a black man.
Well, the first narrative was pretty much true, but sucking less than your opponent has turned out to be a pretty limited qualification. As it turns out, Obama has continued nearly every single policy of the Bush administration, and on some of them, he’s doubled down.
The second narrative was ridiculous on its face from the get-go, but self-loathing white liberals felt really good about themselves at the time, and there’s nothing more important in their universe than feeling really good about themselves. Right up until they lose *their* job, *their* home, etc. Then suddenly, I’m sure they’re saying some pretty nasty things behind closed doors about our historic President.
So, yea, Barry ain’t no FDR. “No duh.” The reason why is that Barry was only a senator, in his first term, and not a particularly impressive senator either. Barry has, in fact, never won a political battle that wasn’t rigged in his favor. He’s never taken a piece of legislation that was contested by the opposition through the legislative process. His overriding vote was “present” - the mark of some guy who is just filling a seat. Barry talks incessantly because that’s exactly what senators do: the US Senate is the biggest collection of professional windbags on the planet. Duh.
And somehow, the feckless idiots in the press are surprised by this outcome?
Maybe no FDR, but Dear Leader is surely a Chavez or a Castro or a Lenin or Pol Pot....got to give him credit for being wannabe despotic dictator who could care less for what the people want....a trait common to all tyrants.
Presumably, the reference is to 4 million jobs lost since his inauguration. The others were lost between his election and his inauguration.
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