Posted on 11/01/2010 6:17:38 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
Roosevelt: 'Your government has unmistakable confidence in your ability to hear the worst without flinching and losing heart.'
Obama: We don't 'always think clearly when we're scared.'.
Whatever the outcome of today's election, this much is clear: It will be a long time before Americans ever again decide that the leadership of the nation should go to a legislator of negligible experience—with a voting record, as state and U.S. senator, consisting largely of "present," and an election platform based on glowing promises of transcendence. A platform vowing, unforgettably, to restore us—a country lost to arrogance and crimes against humanity—to a place of respect in the world.
We would win back our allies who, so far as we knew, hadn't been lost anywhere. Though once Mr. Obama was elected and began dissing them with returned Churchill busts and airy claims of ignorance about the existence of any special relationship between the United States and Great Britain, the British, at least, have been feeling less like pals of old.
In the nearly 24 months since Mr. Obama's election, popular enthusiasm for him has gone the way of his famous speeches—lyrical, inspired and unburdened by the weight of concrete thought.
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For all his other faults, at least FDR fought WWII to win.
Thanks for sharing this. I was almost tempted start my first thread ever here on FR to share this. Excellent writing by the author.
So many very good lines in the article:
” popular enthusiasm for him has gone the way of his famous speeches—lyrical, inspired and unburdened by the weight of concrete thought. “
And this one:
“What’s clear now is that we’ve heard quite enough about the “angry electorate”—a peculiarly reductive view of citizens who’ve managed to read all the signs and detect an administration they were not prepared to live with.”
"...Nothing wakened their instincts more than the administration's insistence on its health-care bill — its whiff of totalitarian will, its secretiveness, its display of cold assurance that the new president's social agenda trumped everything.
But it was about far more than health-care reform, or joblessness, or the great ideological divide between the president and the rest of the country. It was about an accumulation of facts quietly taken in that told Americans that the man they had sent to the White House had neither the character or the capacity to lead the country..."
Obama is tone deaf. He returns the bust of Churchill, proving D'Souza's complaint that he's an anti-colonialist, and he denigrates the "special relationship" between England and the U.S.
How stupid is he, not to know that Israel and Britain are the 51 and 52 states?
He's toast. Thank God.
Additionally, FDR did understand that America had very real and very dangerous foreign enemies and he was prepared to stand up to those enemies no matter what. FDR understood that world peace REQUIRED American military strength. Zero WANTS America to be weak.
I think, if it's looked at objectively, Zero is far to the left of FDR.
These people are delusional! FDR??
This Jackwagon isn’t even Jimmy Carter!
The world would be safer if Jerry Lewis were President.
The title is from the dems’ perspective. The article itself is from the conservative’s perspective and it’s great.
That's what Rabinowitz is saying. It's a great article.
Interesting juxtaposition of Obama with Stalin and Mao. Although there are many dissimilarities (Obama hasn’t managed to slaughter millions...yet), one similarity jumped out immediately—”failed leadership”.
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