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He Was Supposed to Be Competent [spill is a disaster for the president and his political philosophy]
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Posted on 05/27/2010 5:28:49 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

He Was Supposed to Be Competent The spill is a disaster for the president and his political philosophy.

By PEGGY NOONAN

I don't see how the president's position and popularity can survive the oil spill. This is his third political disaster in his first 18 months in office. And they were all, as they say, unforced errors, meaning they were shaped by the president's political judgment and instincts.

There was the tearing and unnecessary war over his health-care proposal and its cost. There was his day-to-day indifference to the views and hopes of the majority of voters regarding illegal immigration. And now the past almost 40 days of dodging and dithering in the face of an environmental calamity. I don't see how you politically survive this.

The president, in my view, continues to govern in a way that suggests he is chronically detached from the central and immediate concerns of his countrymen. This is a terrible thing to see in a political figure, and a startling thing in one who won so handily and shrewdly in 2008. But he has not, almost from the day he was inaugurated, been in sync with the center. The heart of the country is thinking each day about A, B and C, and he is thinking about X, Y and Z. They're in one reality, he's in another.

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Ouch.....
1 posted on 05/27/2010 5:28:50 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

“Did YOU plug the hole yet, Dadddy?” PUKE!!


2 posted on 05/27/2010 5:30:11 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience....)
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To: Sub-Driver

Peggy SWOONED over Bammy.


3 posted on 05/27/2010 5:30:44 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience....)
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To: Sub-Driver

Peggy feels jilted.


4 posted on 05/27/2010 5:31:57 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Sub-Driver

But, but, he was so cute...


5 posted on 05/27/2010 5:33:13 PM PDT by keepitreal ( Don't tread on me.)
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To: Ann Archy

“Peggy SWOONED over Bammy.”

She sure did. What a lame tool she is.


6 posted on 05/27/2010 5:33:20 PM PDT by Slehn (Resolve)
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To: Sub-Driver

God forbid another 9/11 type event takes place. Obama and company will spend all their time thinking of how to use the situation to blame Bush and grab more power than addressing the aftermath.


7 posted on 05/27/2010 5:34:19 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Ann Archy

Don’t get me wrong I hate this admn w a passion and think bama is a communist pofs. However I am almost feeling bad for him how bad this is getting and how obvious it is to everyone including himself how over his head he is.

I think if the gop wins big in november he may resign.


8 posted on 05/27/2010 5:34:53 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote
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To: Sub-Driver

How can a man who controls the sea levels let this happen?


9 posted on 05/27/2010 5:35:54 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Sub-Driver

Peggy, you ignoramus, you’re a day late and a dollar short.


10 posted on 05/27/2010 5:36:28 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: GlockThe Vote

Hey, no resume........all he offered was hopey changey....stupid electorate (and the MSM)


11 posted on 05/27/2010 5:36:54 PM PDT by Sub-Driver (Proud member of the Republican wing of the Republican Party)
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To: Sub-Driver

“The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training” - Biden


12 posted on 05/27/2010 5:38:01 PM PDT by voveo
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To: GlockThe Vote
"I think if the gop wins big in november he may resign."

I don't. The 'powers behind the throne' won't let it happen. They'll push harder.

Only way to tell if the balloons are going up is to watch Axelrod, Emmanuel, and others in the administration. If they start leaving for other work, they're trying to get to cover before the SHTF.

13 posted on 05/27/2010 5:38:14 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: GlockThe Vote

Oh PLEASE....he is NEVER going to RESIGN...NEVER.....they LOVE...LOVE >>>LOVE the PERKS, and NO ONE, except Republicans actually think he has to do some heavy lifting!!<P.They would miss the PARTIES and AF1!! geesh....Michelle has 30 “slaves”.


14 posted on 05/27/2010 5:39:05 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience....)
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To: Sub-Driver

Another urban white liberal jumps off The Kenyan Express...


15 posted on 05/27/2010 5:39:36 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Sub-Driver

I have been very skeptical about Obama since his primary win over Hillary, but today’s press conference totally convinced me that this man is one sick puppy.


16 posted on 05/27/2010 5:40:57 PM PDT by Kahuna
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To: GlockThe Vote

Do not feel sorry for Obama. Please, I became ill reading your post. This man wants to get rid of seniors and turn us communist. He sends his SEIU thugs out to terrorize people.

geesh


17 posted on 05/27/2010 5:41:24 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Sub-Driver

Competent?

He’s a L-A-W-Y-E-R. Law school is incalculably easy: no mathematics, no dissertation, no competition from foreign students.

In what way was he supposed to be competent? Because he went to law school he can’t even prove he’s smart, which is very different from being competent.

He’s about changing the world, Peggy, not about making it better.


18 posted on 05/27/2010 5:43:16 PM PDT by AmishDude (It doesn't matter whom you vote for, it matters who takes office.)
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To: GlockThe Vote
"However I am almost feeling bad for him how bad this is getting and how obvious it is to everyone including himself how over his head he is."

Yeah me too, It starting to affect mysleep on how bad it is getting for Obama.

Really...

No, now seriesly I'm knot kidding...


19 posted on 05/27/2010 5:43:51 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
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To: Sub-Driver

Sorry, but I don’t get the impression any of this has damaged his reputation in any meaningful way among the 51% he needs to win reelection. Yes, some “independents” now realize he isn’t what he pretended to be...so what? He’s still the guy giving away government cash to anyone who asks for it.


20 posted on 05/27/2010 5:44:58 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)
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