I've figured out what Wayne Madsen does for his day job. He writes these bodice ripper things...
Posted on 11/08/2010 10:48:22 AM PST by Renfield
President Obama was urged by the few White House insiders from whom he still takes advice to leave the country on his ten-day Asian trip, his longest trip abroad since becoming president, in order to not inflict any more damage to the Democratic Party in the wake of one of the worst electoral defeats for the party of an incumbent president in recent history. According to sources close to the White House, who put themselves in great danger by even talking to members of the media, the plans to have Obama leave for a visit to India, Pakistan, Indonesia, South Korea, and Japan are an attempt to get Obama out of the country while top Democrats can sort through the political disaster created for the party by Obama's increasingly detached-from-reality presidency.
Virtual political guerrilla warfare has broken out between Obama's inner circle on one hand and senior Democratic officials, including outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Party strategist James Carville, former Demcratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, and, behind-the-scenes, Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton, on the other.
Top Democrats are still reeling from Obama's bizarre behavior at a $7500-a-plate fundraiser at a stately mansion at Brown University in Rhode Island on October 25. The fundraiser, organized by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, was supposed to highlight Democratic Party unity. However, while Obama endorsed Democratic House candidate David Cicilline for outgoing Representative Patrick Kennedy's seat, the president failed to endorse Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio over Republican-turned-independent former Senator Lincoln Chafee. Obama's lack of an endorsement for a Democrat over a former Republican prompted Caprio to tell a radio show host that Obama "could take his endorsement and really shove it as far as I’m concerned."
Later that day, Obama briefly appeared at the fundraiser at Brown University, where Democratic loyalists paid $7500 to hear Obama speak, but departed after only twenty minutes, telling the assembled guests that he had to go back to the White House to "tuck in my daughters, walk the dog, and 'scoop the poop.'" The Democratic faithful were appalled and shocked at Obama's quick departure and one of the three reasons he gave for it: to scoop up dog turds as if the President of the United States actually performs such tasks with a phalanx of White House staff and Secret Service agents at his disposal.
Vice President Biden knows too well about Obama's lack of attention to his daily tasks of being president. The details of the fiasco at Brown soon were conveyed to Biden by his two old Democratic Senate colleagues from Rhode Island: Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse. Biden was not amused about Obama's dissing of the Democrats in Rhode Island. A week later, Chafee defeated Caprio for the Rhode Island governorship, thanks largely to Obama's less-than-neutral stance in cutting a secret deal to support Chafee against Caprio.
White House leaks about the ineffectiveness of Obama's presidency are expandng beyond the revelations attributed to a former high-level Obama administration insider and which have been reported by a blogger named "Ulsterman." Some White House staffers have described a "reign of terror" in the White House over continued leaks and a troika of leadership that is making decisions without any input from the president. The troika reportedly consists of First Lady Michelle Obama, presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett, and the president's mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, who resides in the White House.
Not to be deterred, some White House staffers have sought out journalists and have arranged to meet them at nearby Starbuck's cafes to discretely convey to them inside information about the current disarray within the Obama administration. Some staffers have personally born the brunt of Obama's temper and witnessed his extreme narcissistic behavior. WMR has also learned from White House sources that Obama is taking presciption anxiety medication.
Vice President Biden, under intense pressure from some Democratic Party officials and Cabinet members to invoke Article 25, Section 4 of the Constitution and have Obama temporarily or permanently removed as president because of his mental incapacity to fulfill his constitutional oath as president is reluctant to take such drastic action. Biden feels that the country would "become unglued" after such action and he doesn't want to be the one who would be responsible for "picking up the pieces," according to a source who works within Biden's office.
Some staffers have said on deep background that the revelations by the ex-White House official to "Ulsterman" are not even half of the story about what is actually occurring in the White House.
However, Biden and other Democratic and adminstration do believe that if Obama were to display some of the same reckless behavior publicly as many White House personnel have witnessed privately, there may be wide support for enactment of the provisions of the 25th Amendment.
Such a public display by Obama that could trigger succession action might involve a public outburst, including the use of foul language or a statement that Obama believes there is a conspiracy against him.
On October 5, Obama was addressing Fortune magazine’s “Most Powerful Women” summit in Washington, DC. During the middle of Obama's speech, the presidential seal fell off the podium. Publicly, Obama took the incident as a joke, but WMR has learned from White House insiders that Obama went on a tirade after the incident, accusing White House staffers of purposely not anchoring the seal to the podium. The White House supplies all the podiums and seals at all presidential addresses and the seal is usually well-anchored with four screws affixed to the podium. Obama reportedly "freaked out" and accused White House staffers of engaging in a conspiracy against him. The presidential tirade over such a trivial matter was not lost on senior administration officials who have witnessed Obama's lackadaisical behavior during the consideration of much weightier issues, for example, the war in Afghanistan.
http://www.opinion-maker.org/2010/11/oh-dear-obama-this-world-is-full-of-agony/
Although some observers believe African-Americans would react negatively to the invocation of the 25th Amendment, WMR has learned that members of the Congressional Black Caucus would reluctantly go along with such a move. Many in their ranks, including outgoing House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-MI) were outraged over Obama's lack of interest in Haiti after that nation's devastating earthquake. For many black caucus members, it was their first indication that there was something very wrong with Obama and his grasp of reality.
With Obama intent on running for re-election and seriously considering sending White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to replace former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, the potential Democratic challengers to Obama in 2012 are beginning to stir. WMR has learned that former DNC chairman Howard Dean is seriously considering a challenge to Obama as is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who will reportedly depart Foggy Bottom after Defense Secretary Robert Gates leaves his position, possibly in January.
Several top Democrats consider Obama's chances to keep the White House in 2012 as slim and they find it fanciful that White House policy adviser David Axelrod is moving back to Chicago to work on Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, an effort many Democratic officials find a "fool's errand."
Obama also is disengaged from the plight of his former Senate Democratic colleagues in the wake of their near loss of the Senate with a much-reduced majority. There is pressure on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to step down as Majority Leader. However, Charles Schumer (D-NY), who has been mentioned as a replacement, reportedly has let it be known that he will not carry Obama's water as Majority Leader and may not want the job after all. The Majority Whip is Dick Durbin (D-IL) but he is seen as part of the Obama Chicago Mafia and almost every Democratic senator agrees on one thing: they do not want Durbin as their Majority Leader. Obama, the titular head of the Democratic Party, has refused to weigh in with any effective leadership as congressional Democrats pick up the pieces and lick their wounds.
Meanwhile, a team of ex-CIA officers are traveling the globe assembling a dossier of documents on Obama's past, including his education, passport, travel, and residency records. The team has scoured Kenya, Indonesia, Pakistan, and other countries collecting documents that are not already mantained in the CIA's own files on Obama's past. There is a possibility, according to WMR's sources, that any "smoking gun" documents may be released while Obama is in Asia in order to elicit a public and, perhaps, irrational enough response from the president to prompt the public to begin raising questions about Obama's suitability for office. Such an incident would make it easier for Biden to begin the succession process that was previously considered when President Richard Nixon was drinking heavily and taking prescription medication during the final days of his administration, twice during the Ronald Reagan administration — after the attempted assassination and in 1987 when he demonstrated early stages of Alzheimer's Disease, and during the Bill Clinton administration, when Clinton's self-destructive sexual antics had Vice President Al Gore considering taking similar steps.
7500 large for that?! LOL,LOL,LOL.
The BS meter pegged after I read this.
but this wouldn’t make sense then:
“According to sources close to the White House, who put themselves in great danger by even talking to members of the media, the plans to have Obama leave for a visit to India, Pakistan, Indonesia, South Korea, and Japan are an attempt to get Obama out of the country while top Democrats can sort through the political disaster created for the party by Obama’s increasingly detached-from-reality presidency. “
Since we know this was planned ahead of time and if this was planned so that dems could work on their problems, they’d tried to solve it BEFORE the election.
But we do know that he smokes. Therefore, he must be really crazy. :)
It may also serve the purpose of lessening the sense that the dems were, as an ideological block, intentionally harming the Republic, as in “we were just following our mentally ill leader’s orders.” But who would buy that?
There is another way to see this. Isn’t it from the Art of War, that you should always make your enemy, er, I mean your opponent, think the opposite of what is true about you? So that when you are weak, you make them think you are strong, and when you are strong, you make them think you are weak. And what disarms the conservative movement better than a false comfort that our “opponent” is finally about to implode, just like in the movies? Relax, sit back, and enjoy the show, right? Or worry that whenever something is too good to be true, most likely it isn’t true. Not always. Just mostly.
Mental illness is real, and I’m not saying it couldn’t be true, but there are reasons to believe we are being played, and we should at least entertain a healthy level of skepticism. If the article is true, it will have a near-term chance to prove itself out. The Asia trip won’t be but a couple of weeks, and the calculated release of the destabilizing information is supposed to happen before then. This is a hypothesis that can, at least theoretically, be falsified. Not time for popcorn. Time for wait and see.
Any idea what this may be about???
http://www.mainjustice.com/2010/11/04/white-house-alters-doj-succession-plan/
If he really believes in a conspiracy who am I to get in the way of his paranoia. But it probably really was an accident.
My 2 cents anyway.
I've figured out what Wayne Madsen does for his day job. He writes these bodice ripper things...
Discounting the rumours flying around re: Obama’s mental state should not be easily discounted. The problem is, this guy’s got access to the “football”.
This is a 10 on the BS meter.
I agree that BO is nuts, but how long ago was the trip planned? The president can’t just up and go on a 10 trip overseas. Had to be planned well in advanced.
Fiction? Probably.
Put out by the Clinton camp? Yep
Will it stop? Nope.
The party has shipped the one off for a 10 day trip abroad, and every day they feed stories to the media questioning his sanity. I bet he’s wee wee’d up!
These types of stories may be designed to drive him insane.
Yep. Later in the article the author corrects it to Amendment 25. There is, of course, no Article 25. And for it to be invoked Biden and a majority of the Cabinet would have to vote for it. A coup d'etat to save the Democratic party? Nobody in that crowd has the brass ones to pull it off.
The behavior cited is not so much erratic as detached and incompetent. I would be interested to learn how much truth there is in this, however:
The troika reportedly consists of First Lady Michelle Obama, presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett, and the president's mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, who resides in the White House.
It has the character more of a slur than a legitimate complaint, frankly, but if true we're in for a long series of leaks from disaffected and displaced staff. This could be fun. A caution, however.
Virtual political guerrilla warfare has broken out between Obama's inner circle on one hand and senior Democratic officials, including outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Party strategist James Carville, former Demcratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, and, behind-the-scenes, Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton, on the other.
This is, essentially, the Arkansas Mafia versus the Chicago gang. What they'll leak will be carefully controlled, and I wouldn't be too terribly surprised to learn that the stuff we've heard from this source so far started there. It'll still be fun.
I wouldn’t worry about that.
Even though he has the ‘football’, the President alone can’t launch or authorize any nuke attack. If I recall, we have a ‘two-man rule’. That is, there has to be a second senior military official who has to concur with the President’s launch order. I believe in this case it would have to be the SecDef as the second man, with the launch order going through them to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
I don’t know about Sec. Gates, but do you see the C-JCS relaying the President’s order when it appears that the President has gone looney-tunes? I don’t see a “bolt-out-of-the-blue” nuke attack, authorized by a possibly insane President, being carried out.
True, but the 'Rats knew they were going to be hurt badly in the midterms. First, midterms are always a loss for any president's party. But when Obamacare and Cap and Trade passed without a single Republican vote, the Dems knew that the backlash fro independents would be fierce. They were right.
I wouldn’t be so worried about Obama attempting to initiate a nuclear strike. I am terrified that if we were launched upon by Iran, Obama might refuse to retaliate.
This smells like pure 190-proof nutjob juice, but if true, the bit with the Presidential seal falling off the podium sounds straight out of the Fuehrerbunker circa April 1945. (Cue the “Downfall” parody!)
}:-)4
Even so...if Iran DID launch against us and we KNEW it was them, and Obama did nothing, wouldn't the American public be crying out for his head? That might be the trigger that causes the American people to rise up en masse and DO something more than cast votes in an election.
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