Posted on 06/24/2010 5:45:51 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Do you remember candidate Barack Obama offering his hope-and-change platitudes in front of the fake Greek columns during the Democratic convention? Or, earlier, pontificating at the Victory Monument in Berlin?
Why didn’t an old cigar-chomping Democratic pro take him aside and warn him about offending Nemesis? She is the dreaded goddess who brings divine retribution in ironic fashion to overweening arrogance.
Or maybe a friend could have whispered to Senator Obama to tone it down when he was merciless in damning the Bush administration for its supposedly slow response to Hurricane Katrina.
Obama railed that Bush showed “unconscionable ineptitude.” Obama further charged that Bush’s response was “achingly slow,” a result of “passive indifference,” and that his team was rife with “corruption and cronyism.”
Those phrases now apply to Obama himself, as he seems lost amid his own disaster — eerily, in about the same Gulf environs. Adding insult to injury, a recent poll revealed that Louisiana residents thought Bush had done a better job with Katrina than Obama has with BP.
Couldn’t one of Obama’s many handlers have warned him to ignore the media’s tingling-leg gaga worship, or their nonsense that Obama is “a god”?
Didn’t Team Obama ever suspect that such an unhinged press, in the manner of a Greek chorus, could just as easily sour on their prophet once his poll ratings fell as quickly as they had soared?
Couldn’t David Axelrod have admonished his candidate to cut out the creepy stuff about himself and his throng being “the ones we’ve been waiting for”? Why was there a need for all that megalomaniac hocus-pocus about slowing the “rise of the oceans” and healing the planet? Sure enough, Nemesis ensured that instead of Lord Poseidon lowering the seas, Obama is a smoky Hephaestus fouling them up.
Did the Nobel Committee members really think they were doing their post-national, post-racial heartthrob any good by giving him a peace prize even though he lacked any record of foreign-policy accomplishment? Didn’t his Scandinavian admirers grasp that prophets suffer the wages of hypocrisy far more readily than mere mortals when things go badly, as they inevitably do? Jay Leno is now more likely to use the phrase “Nobel Laureate Obama” than a serious diplomat.
For nearly two years, Senator, Candidate, and Freshman President Obama ridiculed his predecessor — as if running the executive were as easy a job as community organizing, serving a couple of years in the Senate, or campaigning for president.
But now the once-enthralled electorate is starting to tire of the hope-and-change platitudes, and even of the easy blame-gaming of his predecessor, mostly because almost everything Obama once demagogued is in weird fashion now coming back to haunt him.
Obama easily damned everything from Guantanamo Bay to Predator drone attacks in Afghanistan to the war in Iraq, only to adopt those policies and more from Bush.
He sermonized about the morals of a corrupt Republican Congress, only to keep quiet about earmarks, lobbyists, and the sins of Democratic cronies such as Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Charles Rangel.
Deficits were once supposed proof of Bush’s out-of-control spending. What does far greater red ink say about Obama?
If only swaggering George W. Bush could have been smart enough to reach out to Cuba, Iran, and Syria. Then Obama did just that, only to make bad things even worse.
And remember the Obama comment about an arrogant Bush turning off our allies? Why, then, does an aloof Obama seem to alienate them even more?
The reality of Barack Obama is that he was an inexperienced community organizer with an undistinguished record as a Senate newcomer. A perfect storm of popular anger at eight years of George Bush, a lackluster John McCain campaign, Obama’s landmark candidacy as a black American, a disingenuous campaign promising centrist and bipartisan governance, and the financial meltdown in 2008 got the relatively untried and unknown Obama elected.
Most mortals in Obama’s position would have treaded lightly. They would have kept promises, steered a moderate course, and listened more than lectured until they won over the public with concrete achievement.
But headstrong tragic figures do not do that. They neither welcome in critics nor would listen to them if they did. They impute their unforeseen temporary success to their own brilliance — and expect it to continue forever. So would-be gods set themselves up for a fall far harder than what happens to the rest of us.
That’s about where we are now, with our president playing a character right out of Greek tragedy who, true to form, is railing about the unfairness of it all.
Last week the Pegster said 0bama was 'snakebit'. I think VDH has more accurately defined all of his problems as self-inflicted due to his incomparable arrogance and hubris (and yes, utter contempt for the history and constitution of the country he sought to lead), straight out of a Greek tragedy that could have written itself. I'm thinking that a certain Chicago-area preacher might say that 0bama's "chickens have come home to roost".
This 0bama Greek Tragedy theme was also well presented by Jeffrey Jena last year at Breitbart's Big Hollywood: Are We Witnessing a Greek Tragedy? (0bama=Oedipus?)
I am having so very much fun posting these articles on Facebook, this is a great one indeed!
I am a lot more worried about the fate of the free world.
As for saving Obama. He can rot in hell for all time for all I care.
Victor, you’ve done it again.
I love the references to Greek mythological figures. There’s a reason they’ve lasted through the millenia. Read them and learn. Apparently, Obama never did. So it is written, so shall it be done. I just wish it would happen way sooner than 2012, for our country’s sake.
“Couldn’t David Axelrod have admonished his candidate to cut out the creepy stuff about himself and his throng being “the ones we’ve been waiting for”? Why was there a need for all that megalomaniac hocus-pocus about slowing the “rise of the oceans” and healing the planet?”
Because Oprah had more pull than Axelrod - and she actually believed all that sh&t.
my rabid liberal friends have been VERY QUIET on facebook.
Obama needs to be impeached, tried for treason and sent to Gitmo to rot with his muslim buddies.
snicker. So true. (and axelrod, et. al. isn't any smarter anyway)...
Obama railed that Bush showed “unconscionable ineptitude.” ... was “achingly slow,” ...a result of “passive indifference,” and that his team was rife with “corruption and cronyism.”
I hope the Repubs use these words against Obama and Company. I especially like “unconscionable ineptitude.”
VDH could’ve easily worked in a Narcissus reference, since it is also a part of this Greek tragedy.
Thanks. Have the WSJ right here. Haven’t gotten to read it yet.
Sorry, VDH, you miss the point.
Obama is a scary far left Black Panther / Weatherman with a racist Orwellian vision for America. He cares little about re-election, providing he can damage America beyond the point of no return.
Selling Obama as if he is a failure is pure idiocy. He is letting the BP spill continue unabated for pure political motives (wealth transfer and pushing green/corrupt energy). His war policy is political - we will pull out when he thinks he can win big Democratic votes at the midterms by using the Nixon promise of ending a war.
He got his wealth transferring and rationing union-friendly health care legislation chiseled in stone.
And he will grant amnesty by executive order to 40 million (not 10 million) illegal drug dealers, gang members, rapists*, thieves, La Raza crooks, and other trespassers from the sewers of Latin America).
“Because Oprah had more pull than Axelrod - and she actually believed all that sh&t.”
Ever notice how easy it is to believe in that sh&t when it doesn’t have an impact on you? If you make less than 50k a year you don’t have to pay and if you make more than 250k a year you write it off.
The rest of us pay for it. Or as I was once told, “the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and everyone else pays taxes.”
Just devastating.
See page 40 of the June 28, 2010 National Enquirer. The article is titled, “Oprah the Oracle!” There must be something in the water in Chicago.
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