Posted on 03/08/2010 3:58:36 AM PST by HospiceNurse
It is a universal political truth that administrations do not begin to fragment when things are going well: it only happens when they go badly, and those who think they know better begin to attack those who manifestly do not. The descent of Barack Obama's regime, characterised now by factionalism in the Democratic Party and talk of his being set to emulate Jimmy Carter as a one-term president, has been swift and precipitate. It was just 16 months ago that weeping men and women celebrated his victory over John McCain in the American presidential election. If they weep now, a year and six weeks into his rule, it is for different reasons.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Is he supposed to jump in a phone booth, peel off his suit, and fly over the city dispensing majik?
during his campaign he implied exactly that. unrealistic expectations that he himself manifested.
Oh, yeah- remember how the seas would cease to rise, and the planet begin healing?
What scared me worse than Duh!1 ( Thanks, Ophrah! ) and the kid-glove treatment he got from the media hive was his loony followers- remember the fainting in the aisles? They glossed right over that.
I needed some belly laughs, so I read the comments to the article at the source, which were hilariously full of good old American sarcasm. Many of the posters claim to be Americans, and were eager to set the record straight.
After two hours, I had barely scratched the surface of all the diatribes, but the hundreds I did read were about 99% against Obama for all the right reasons — he seems inept as a leader, he did not and could not deliver what he promised, he is proffering a statist ideology Americans do not want, his programs are irrelevant to the real need of lowering taxes to create job growth, he is bankrupting us, he is doing it on purpose for ideological reasons, he is a product of a corrupt machine, his background was concealed, his staff are elitists, etc., etc. And that the MSM has been silent about the risks of his candidacy and programs and complicit in foisting him off as a messiah.
Another surprise was the outpouring of defense for Fox News, pointing out in detail the difference between reporting and commentary, which of their talking heads is doing the rightwing commentary and which is not, and an all-around disgust with the MSM, who, according to many of the posts, “created” Fox News due to its own non-stop bias. Many said that Fox is the only outlet where both sides of the debate can be heard, and there was considerable scorn for the author’s implication that the state-run BBC is remotely impartial. There was also a smattering of defense for the Tea Party movement.
Truly extraordinary.
Awesome post!!! Hope I will see it in many threads here!
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