Posted on 08/18/2010 4:57:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It is becoming apparent for all to see that a man who made his name as a community organizer does not have the skills to be president of these United States. Maybe he could develop the requisite skills as a governor. Possibly he could develop such skills were he to sit in the Senate for a couple of terms. Yet there are delicate sensitivities, the ability to listen, to stick by your guns, occasionally to remain reticent. These are the fundamentals of a leader, and President Obama has demonstrated that he lacks all of them, most notably reticence. I think it is clear even to official Washington that Mr. Obama is the worst president of modern times. President Jimmy Carter is redeemed.
The other night at a White House dinner solemnizing the opening of Ramadan, he leapt right in to endorse building a mosque at ground zero. He - a man who has shown no religious fervor during his time in the White House - let out a ringing defense of religious liberty and tolerance. Of a sudden, he was at the center of a national controversy that was growing. It put me in mind of his inability to defuse the controversy over health care. Any sensible president would have relented as opposition to health care grew to the majority position. He would have settled for some sort of compromise, but not the community-organizer-turned-president. He wanted it all. He lunged on and created among the electorate a row over national health care that divided the nation and put some of us in mind of a civil war that continues to rage. What is more, he imperiled his party's margins in both houses...(continued)
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Incompetent? Obama is doing the job he was sent here to do all to devastatingly well. Nothing incompetent about it at all.
Please document your statement...
I have not heard of any Confederate State praising their reconstruction government; and most, if nor all, former Confederate States still believe in States rights and Individual freedoms.
“He cannot resist showing the world how smart he is, but at what cost?”
Any evidence he ever attended or graduated from college? What were his grades?
He hasn’t demonstrated he has anymore intelligence than an 8th grader by my observations.
They dissed Bush at Yale for his low grades and when Kerry’s came out they were lower.
SSDD.
Obama’s problem isn’t reticence it’s lakacence.
I stated back in Jan of '08 that Obama's downfall will be his utter lack of leadership that either comes naturally and by experience. A comparison is taking the "green" lieutenant in charge of the laundry and galley and putting him in charge of the entire aircraft carrier.
Obama is in a five-way tug of war: Senate, House, Media, Dem Detonators and his own ranks. He will continue to flounder. The first concern is security. Enough for now.
Wait. E. Tyrrell commentaries goes from good to downright sublime.
I'll bet you're glad that artillery rounds can't travel via the internet... '-)
Most either graders know how to pronounce the word corps.
Thankfully, a lot of people in the Southern states today believe in conservative small government, but a state-enforced system of Jim Crow was the exact opposite of limited government. Michael Zak’s “Back to Basics for the Republican Party” has a good concise account of the Reconstruction age. A lot of liberal writers try to twist the facts of that to their own ends, but Mr Zak’s account connects the Republicans of that age to limited government free-market principles of today.
If that was the case I'd look like Fearless Fosdick. :)
You could only say he's incompetent if he were trying and failing at something. I contend he's trying and succeeding at deliberately damaging this country. He's not incompetent - he's malignant.
LOL!! Me, too — sometimes...
“Reconstruction governments were the best governments some Southern states had for masny decades.”
Yeh, if you agree with general thievery of the civilian population, dis-enfranchisement of white people, draining state’s treasury by carpetbaggers and rule at the point of a bayonet. Let me guess - you admire and believe the Marxist revisionist Howard Zinn.
“Possibly, the age of charisma is behind us. Possibly, Mr. Obama even lacks that dubious quality.”
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I used to say loudly and often that the much ballyhooed charisma of William J. Clinton was purely imaginary but compared to Mr. Obama Slick Willie is magnetic. What is supposed to be charismatic about a narcissistic pathological liar with a low IQ who draws flies?
“but Mr Zak’s account connects the Republicans of that age to limited government free-market principles of today.”
Are you drunk? The Radical Republicans passed three separate Reconstruction acts to ensure the looting of the Southern states. There was nothing about “limited government” in these acts. President Johnson vetoed these acts but was overuled by Thadeus Stevens and his gang of thieving radicals to “punish” the southern states.
The Radical Republicans insisted on military rule and the subsequent thievery in the south, in direct contradiction of President Lincoln’s wishes to bring the southern states back into Union after the war.
How about you tell everyone the “conditions” the Radical Republicans demanded before allowing the southern states to rejoin the union.
Water seeks its own level, as so do incompetent and uninformed voters.
Yes, alas, you have described the people of America. Not much hope in them, is it?
I’d vote for Thomas Sowell in an instant.
How about you tell everyone the “conditions” the Radical Republicans demanded before allowing the southern states to rejoin the union.
Ratification of the 14th Amendment.
Thank you. The Democrats’ slavery and Jim Crow regimes were the nation’s biggest Big Government programs ever.
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