Posted on 06/02/2010 4:52:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It’s not a good narrative arc: The man who walked on water is now ensnared by a crisis under water.
One little hole a mile down on the ocean floor, so deep it seems like hell spewing up its sulfurous smoke, has turned the thrilling saga of “The One” into the gurgling horror of “The Abyss.” (Thank goodness James Cameron, the director of “The Abyss,” came to Washington Tuesday to help the administration figure out how to cap the BP well. What’s next? Sending down the Transformers and Megan Fox?)
With as much as 34 million gallons of oil inking the Gulf of Mexico, “Yes we can” has been downgraded to “Will we ever?”
It’s impossible not to feel sorry for President Obama, pummeled by the cascading disasters, at home and abroad, unleashed by two war-mongering oil men — plus scary escalations by Israel, Iran and North Korea. (Dick Cheney’s dark influence is still belching like the well. BP just brought on a new public relations executive: Anne Womack-Kolton, who served as Cheney’s campaign press secretary in 2004 and worked in W.’s White House and at the Energy Department.)
Obama wanted to be a transformative president and now the presidency is transforming him.
How does a man who invented himself as a force by writing one of the most eloquent memoirs in political history lose control of his own narrative?
This president has made it clear that he’s not comfortable outside whatever domain he’s defined. But unless he wants his story to be marred by a pattern of passivity, detachment, acquiescence and compromise, he’d better seize control of the story line of his White House years. Woe-is-me is not an attractive narrative.
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“Maureen, please stop making fun of my ears”. “OK, Mr. Spock, I won’t mention them anymore.”
This is pretty scary stuff.
Since Daniel Ayres played Cyrano de Bergerac to Obama, did these dolts actually mean to make Ayers POTUS?
Don’t ask a question if you don’t want to know the answer...
You have got to be kidding! I've been busy lately, and a tad out of the loop, so this is the first I have heard of this. So, let me rephrase it to: You have got to be effin kidding!!!
Oh, that one was gooooood.
;-)
Just when it seems Dowd is getting a clue, she feels sorry for Pres. Obama and blames Dick Cheney.
Ms. Dowd is the perfect example of why the 19th Amendment was a baaaad idea.
Because he didn't write anything.
Pfffft. Maybe it is impossible for YOU, you ideological equivalent of a withered up, dessicated, bitter old hag.
I wish worse, a LOT worse for this hideous polticitian who is doing his level best to deliberately destroy and deface our country so it can be remade in HIS image of what America should be. I would like to say that I hope he wrings his hands so vigorously that his fingers fall off, but if he does, it won't be because he thinks he is doing badly by the country.
It will be because he will be stymied in his marxist, socialist goals. It will be because his own narcissism eats away at him. How I wish that were true.
But what I find most disturbing and pathetic is all these people who whine and moan "Boo hoo...things are just so terrible for Obama. Things are so difficult for him. The poor man, just one bad thing after another happens, and he is so taxed, he just can't get a break..."
DAMNED RUBBISH. If he has problems, it is because he is a worthless piece of crap who never held a job or responsibility in his pathetic life before he became President.
ONE of the reasons this came to pass is because pathetic dumb idiots like you were too busy removing your panties to throw at him to stop and say things like:
"Hey! Where is his proof of citizenship?
Where are his college transcripts?
Why was he chumming around with people like Bill Ayers and his twisted wife who thought the Manson Murders were great, especially when they stuck a fork in the slain Sharon Tate.
Who are these crooked Chicago people he associated with?
Why are we going to elect to the highest office in the land an obvious racist because he dedicated a book (not written by him) to a proven racist, had his children "baptized" by said racist and listened to this "reverend" and his racist rants for twenty years?
And so on. You want to elect a "man" to office? Elect George W. Bush. For all his issues and disagreements many of us had with him, we never heard him whine, not once, ever. He understood the concept of "You asked for it. Now you got it."
What a raging pussy metrosexual, and what an idiot this "journalist" is for even having the moxie to put this sentiment to paper.
...I presume you both mean “Bill” Ayers?
;)
Maybe dowd is starting down the path to shore up her credibility.
Sorry modo, way too late.
She is part of the media elites who openly campaigned for the first puppet and they are stuck with him no matter what they do. Even if the media turns on him, which I doubt, they can’t do it with any credibility.
Yeah. Bill. D’oh!
See, that’s how nasty rumors get started!
Yep, the Kenyan’s epic failure is all Bush’s fault.
The Bamster supposedly wrote a good book that shows he understands people. Big whoop! How does that translate into being competent to run the country? It doesn't. It means he wrote a book. Media is convinced that the show is reality. Peggy Noonan and Dowd are surprised that a man who has never done anything substantive can't do anything substantive.
When faced with a real crisis, Obama's next move is to send in lawyers. Lawyers can't do anything to stop the well spewing. All they can do is throw around paper, and this reveals the true nature of both the media and the academics who loved Obama. They think throwing paper and making speeches is doing something. When Obama is faced with a situation where being disappointed, saying he won't tolerate this, and promising "grave consequences" doesn't make the situation go away, to use his own words, all he can do is stand there and act "rather stupidly."
LOL, yes. I’m highly suggestive.
Words over deeds. Libs are weird.
Remember when the press talked about how tough it was for Obama when he lost his filibuster-proof majority in the Senate? They acted like it was something no president had been forced to deal with before.
Only starstruck MSM libtards thought this guy had any credibility whatsoever. So none of us citizens are surprised at BHO's total lack of competence.
What’s next? Sending down the Transformers and Megan Fox?)
Megan Fox could probably do a better job than Obama and His Merry Men.
It’s impossible not to feel sorry for President Obama, pummeled by the cascading disasters, at home and abroad, unleashed by two war-mongering oil men....
Seventeen months and still President Bush and VP Cheney are blamed for everything. UN - EFFING - BELIEVABLE!!!!
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