Posted on 12/10/2010 7:52:41 AM PST by FtrPilot
There is still no sign at all of any kind of near or long-term recovery for President Obama after his midterm shellacking in early November. If anything, one month on from the Congressional elections which brought the Democratic Party to its knees, the outlook is getting even worse for the Obama presidency, and the notion of an Obama bounce is simply a pipe dream at the moment.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
An excellent rebuttal from the article:
"Reagan however was a hugely experienced, highly principled politician, who advanced free market policies that ultimately led to an economic boom for America. He was also an extremely inspirational and charismatic leader, a conviction politician with an unshakeable belief in American greatness. In contrast, Barack Obama has relatively little leadership experience, fails to inspire the American people, does not even believe in American exceptionalism, and is implementing policies that are making America weaker, poorer and more indebted. He also heads a party that is deeply divided, with liberals engaged in an increasingly ugly civil war, with open talk of a challenge to Obama for the 2012 nomination."
That is some of the best prose I have read in quite awile. Well done, Mr. Gardiner. The truth deserves a well-written presentation.
I think with the conservative demacrats being defeated in the recent election it will push his party to the left and sour his base on him. Where as Clinton had some conservative rats on his side to help him move to the middle. If Obama tries to move to the middle it will anger the rats in congress (since they are all hard leftists).
He’s in a no win situation.
Of late, he has the countenance of an outed con artist. I have learned never to say never, but a recovery from this “outing” is highly unlikely. Many of his followers may not yet have learned that they are in the same situation. If we maintain the pressure, they will fall too.
We can only imagine what hysterics the news media would be spewing about now were Obama a republican president.
Some of the best writing about Obama is coming from the
Telegraph.
Truer words were never spoken. If Obama was not a black man, he would never have been elected based on his qualifications and experience. This has become enormously evident as time goes on.
This is Obama’s “Hail Barry”.
He’s going to desperately move to the center, and thereby alienate everyone. He’s in a no-win situation, we’re in a win-win situation. When he started referring to his fellow liberals as more interested in “feeling good about themselves”, that was a pretty clear sign he thinks this his last chance to re-invent himself before 2012. But it’s too late. The press is going to do the dirty work for us and destroy him.
I said this months ago, and I’ll say it again. The Democratic leadership in Congress is going to march over to the Oval Office one day and tell him he can’t run in 2012.
What they do after that is a mystery, but there’s no way he wins against a guy like Rick Perry or Christie.
Who knew a Brit could write well in English?
Perhaps if he brings out the Roman speech props again.....
HTB PING!!
I have seen, and lived this before.....wanna know how it turns out....see carter, jimmy for answers
I agree. Well done, Mr. Gardiner. You are on a roll and it is a necessary one. Ideas matter and your work contributes to the debate nicely.
2012 is shaping up as the election no one in their right mind wants to run in.
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is
To see you
Bob Dylan, Positively 4th Street.
One of the best lines...EVER.
Too bad he just can’t take his basketball and go home.
Agreed...
Ditto for domestic policy, except domestic policy requires not only an accurate understanding of human nature, but also a fundamental, gut-level understanding of the national identity.
Obama has no clue, really, what it is to think like an American. This is one reason that, among all his many failings, the worst skill-deficit is that he is a horrible politician. He has no skill at truly inspiring, leading, or explaining or demonstrating principle.
One of the links I post often these days is this article by a German economist: Obama's Misguided Approach: America Has Become Too European.
When the Germans are perceiving that Obama's fundamental approach is simply, totally UNSUITED FOR AMERICANS (sorry for shouting), well, the problem is, as Mr. Gardiner points out, not one that goes away with some kind of political bounce.
See my tagline. Don't tread on me.
Agreed. It's not unlikely that he will be announcing that he wants to spend more time with his family in 2012.
That said, there's is a slight chance that he'll get his dander up and go to war -- real, ugly, public, knock-down drag-out war -- with his party. He could get that crazy.
He shows little understanding of how politics works, actually. I could see him actually forcing a sort of constitutional crisis if his party tries to marginalize him.
This article is correct, and America’s falling-out-of-love with Obama makes the next two years particularly dangerous. Besides the influence of his Marxist-Leninist mentor, his training in the soft progressive socialism of US academia, and his anti-colonialist leanings, Obama is a pathological narcissist.
The guy has utterly failed to lead. He has failed his liberal/progressive supporters in the area of civil and human rights and in extricating the US from its wars. Instead, he’s worse — actually far worse — than George Bush in these regards. He has failed wishy-washy, middle-of-the-road independents because his whole concept of economics already rests on the ash heap of history. Only Marxist dead-enders like Obama don’t understand this. He’s even disappointed the conservatives most pessimistic about the Obama regime: the extent of government corruption and curtailments of individual liberty were unimaginable just a few years ago in America.
As a narcissist, a Marxist dead-ender, and an utter failure as chief executive, Obama is particularly dangerous now. He’s smart enough to know that he can’t fix the economy, the adoring crowds no longer swoon for him, and his big dollar supporters in the unions, Hollywood, and certain corporations have already gotten all they can expect to get. He knows that the fraud and failure of his chief accomplishment, health care reform, will soon be obvious to all. He also knows, after racking up trillions in deficits, that the chickens are comin’ home to roost. But this narcissist, this guy who had published his first memoir by the time he was 35 and a second a decade later, sees himself as a world-historical figure. He still wields immense power. This is not time to become sanguine.
>>> He’s in a no win situation. <<<
IOW: He has nothing to lose.
Which makes him an extremely dangerous man.
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