The Smallest President

American Thinker ^ | June 1, 2010 | Goeffrey P. Hunt

[Zakeet]

Would someone remind us again why the nation elected this man to be president? A man with no resume, a man with no experience in running anything other than a political campaign, a man who is ignorant of history, economics, and technology? A man who is shallow and lazy? A man who shares neither character nor temperament with the American people in this vast republic? How did this happen?

Voters were smitten by the ideological handmaidens of identity politics and the promise of big government. The identity politics substituted a cosmetic profile for character and experience. The promise was that big government has the benevolent power and enlightened expertise to remake America from the top down into a more capable, more caring, kinder, gentler, and more respected place.

What we've received instead was on display at the president's long-awaited press conference in the last week of May. Only a partisan or a fool could deny the irredeemable failure of these ideological handmaidens, the genius of Obama's shrinking presidency. No amount of posturing, buffing up, or Q&A briefing book drills could hide the reality that this man is on a raft at sea accompanied by an equally bewildered boatload of companions who have no idea how they arrived in such deep water, hundreds of miles from land, and with no clue that they are in trouble, let alone what to do about it.

What we've received instead from the ideology of identity politics and big government has been the spread of competency and accountability so thin that the federal government is utterly incapable of defending our shores and borders from invasion -- one by sea in the form of a massive crude oil slick, the other by land in the waves of illegal immigrants flooding Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California. In utter exasperation, the citizens of Arizona finally took matters into their own hands, only to be vilified by Obama and his cohorts, who have neither the will nor the capacity to do anything about it.

Identity politics is where grievance-mongering and class resentment intersect with entitlement agitation and representational profiling. Those who use the currency of identity politics appeal to the ideals of justice and fair distribution of resources and outcomes. But in reality they prey on those who are underprivileged and dependent, making claims of dispossession against those who have enjoyed success and independence derived from their own sweat, equity, and competence.

Leaders who devote all of their energy and emotional capital to identity politics instead of creating a competent, skills-based organization soon discover that when critical decisions need to be made and highly skilled resources need to be mobilized, nobody is around who knows how to do it. Such leaders, eventually tuned out and abandoned by even their former acolytes, become irrelevant, easily overwhelmed by events and rivals, taking their organizations -- even a nation -- down with them.

ObamaCare was the progeny of a shrinking president preoccupied with identity politics accompanied by big government ideology and not much else, floated on the emotional chaise of justice and fair distribution. Yet its proponents thoroughly disregarded the vast, complex, and highly skilled bureaucracy needed to attain those ideals in a brand new, centralized, top-down social engineering monstrosity. It will require a bureaucracy ten times the size of the Pentagon.

And now we are watching in slow-motion agony the failure of identity politics and big government unwilling and unable to cope with the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, gradually revealed like a developing image from a Polaroid instant print. Identity politics assured that no one with any skills or experience would occupy the top jobs in Obama's administration needed to navigate a crisis of this magnitude.

And where oh where is the president, anyhow? Playing another round of golf and hosting the Duke University women's basketball team.

So what's the alternative? Simple. The ideology of limited government. Why? Because limited government is the antithesis of identity politics. The ideology of limited government wouldn't need to rely on overextended organization competencies to manage vast and complex bureaucracies because those bureaucracies would be unnecessary and wouldn't exist. Without identity politics, people who actually know what they're doing could occupy key jobs.

Limited government has to assemble and target just those competencies needed to carry out the limited duties envisioned in the U.S. Constitution, such as providing for the common defense, facilitating interstate commerce and a monetary system, and defending the rights reserved to the people. Everything else can be better-managed by private enterprise, where distributed self interest can gather competencies in units small enough to accomplish something useful.

Identity politics combined with incompetence have exposed the absurdity in the ambitions of big government and made Obama the weakest, most anemic and flaccid president in the modern era. The Latinate word would be diminutive. In simple Saxon tongue, the word is small. This is Obama's presidency.

[The FIGHTIN Illini]

Ditto that, His luck has run out” Finally, eyes that were shut are starting to crack open and see what has been wrought.

[litehaus]

"In a nutshell, this is the Dem playbook and mantra. Obama is the demagogue and his supporters are all idiots."

As succinct as analysis as I have seen regarding our first affirmative action prez......

Didja know he is going for a second NOBEL? Awarded for perfecting 'The Peter Principle' as shown by the folks appointed by him???

[backhoe]

For whatever it's worth around here, I remain convinced until this day that -Komrade ZerØ--

Was never intended to be elected in 2008-- it was supposed to be a dry run to introduce him, and give their side time to sanitize his background and prepare the public for his "descent from Heaven"--

Unfortunately for all of us, a lethal confluence of Media Hive enablers, white guilt, and black racism propelled this fool

far beyond his "level of incompetence..."

I also still believe Duh!1®, was "selected" by an unhappy confluence of "Mo Money" than the unfortunate Cap'n Queeg, the shadily-orchestrated meltdown of "The Economy" ( which still seems to be staggering along despite it all ) and the Ophra-ization of the masses. Aided and abetted by the dumbing down caused by Public Miseducation and too much Popular Culture, which is a cesspool of reaction shots, bumper-sticker slogans, and tits, and teeth, and asses. Literally, and figuratively...

American Idol and Survivor, writ large and smarmy...

Basically, Obama was "Marketed Better"- like soft drinks are...

...but still, he's just an empty suit:

for all those

Drinkers out there in TV land... "you gotta fall down, an' worship De Idol"--
( Old Negro Spiritual, "Shadrack, Neshack, Abendnego" )

But...

If we aren't all rounded up and re-educated at

Camp Obama

it should provide endless opportunities to hector, and catcall, and kibitz from the sidelines.

I hope all the MoonBats really, really, really enjoy having The New Little Big Fraud© at the helm. It's going to be quite a ride...

This guy really is Bad News.

And Then! There are his gullible, self-deluded camp followers:

Preview of Anti-Obama Documentary Outrages Left

John Ziegler didn’t know the kind of fury the left would unleash on him when he unveiled his web video “How Obama Got Elected.”

See his website and video here.

“The Zogby results were incredible and they were credible and the vast majority of enws media ignored it because it was their own malfeasance that created a massive amount of ignorance,”

See poll results here.

As I have mentioned here:

OBAMAO ... is America ready for a Marxist president?[ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]

Nope, but we are about to get one, good and hard...

...so chroniclers like Yours Truly will be documenting every move he makes, every breath he takes... unless, or until, we are silenced by all that "tolerance & inclusiveness" he & his followers are already practicing.... ( "we in charge now" )

America Held Hostage- the Obama Files...
Click the picture:

[Yorlik803]

Obama is the first “American Idol” President. Young people who know nothing about the real world were told that Obama will give them shiny things and it is all free. They fell for it enmass and now they are going to be stuck paying for it.
The voting age should be increased to 21. And everyone must be able to prove their ID.

[ohioWfan]

That answer may be "easy" but it misses all the real issues, ignores the historic facts, and takes the focus away from the real problems that need to be solved.

But that's OK. It's "easy."

[highlander_UW]

The voting age should be increased to 21. And everyone must be able to prove their ID.

It wouldn't hurt to have a voter's rights test that would make sure the voter has a basic level of understanding about the constitution, the declaration of Independence, how a representative republic functions and basic economics. And then if you can't show a basic understanding of how things work then you don't get to vote. I suspect there is a constitutional issue with that, but it'd sure fix the system some.

[alarm rider]

“It wouldn’t hurt to have a voter’s rights test that would make sure the voter has a basic level of understanding about the constitution, the declaration of Independence, how a representative republic functions and basic economics. And then if you can’t show a basic understanding of how things work then you don’t get to vote. I suspect there is a constitutional issue with that, but it’d sure fix the system some”.

Good idea.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Didja know he is going for a second NOBEL? Awarded for perfecting 'The Peter Principle' as shown by the folks appointed by him???

Nothing would surprise me anymore, especially when it comes to the Nobel Prize.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[MSSC6644]

I pray every day for the removal of this cancer from the White House but my prayers seemingly go unanswered. What a sad and terrifying end to America we face.

Doc, keep praying. Remember, we need to rely on God. So all good things will occur in His time. Not in ours. Providence gave us America. Providence will keep America.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Americans are stupid, extremely selfish, ignorant of history, economics, the fundamentals of American government, and utterly morally corrupt.

While this is true, the impact of institutionalized vote fraud can't be underestimated.

[Arrowhead1952]

The voters were duped by the SRM and no one really ever questioned his experience. If GW Bush had said he campaigned in all 57 states and may have missed one or two, he would have never been elected in 2000. The SRM would have made that the leading story for weeks on end.

[dools007]

Are you sure you have the right guy? I do not see that I posted to you—directly anyway.

[ohioWfan]

Public post by you. Public response by me.

Yes. I have the right guy. And I'm disagreeing with you.

If you have a problem with being disagreed with, perhaps you should not post.

What is "easy" is not usually correct. Blaming the GOP for everything may suit your "It's easy" criterion, but it doesn't lead to an accurate assessment of the situation.

[dools007]

Oh, I know which post you were responding to now. Exactly what did I say that was not true. It would help to start there.

[drypowder]

For this one time only, “it’s Bush’s fault”.