Posted on 07/19/2011 10:38:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
Barack Obama may be the most surprising President in the history of the Republic. In his two-and-a-half years in office, no matter what has happened, it seems to have come as a surprise to him.
Shovel-ready projects? Unexpectedly, they didn't exist. The only shoveling that went on was shoveling about $700 billion of our tax dollars into projects that didn't help jump-start the economy way back in 2009.
Health Care? Obama was shocked when it took a whole year and passed the House by just seven votes - at a time when Obama had a majority of 75.
Mid-term elections? He was startled when his Close-Your-Eyes-and-Swing-at-the-Piñata style of government cost his party six seats in the U.S. Senate and an astonishing 63 seats in the U.S. House.
Increase taxes? In December 2010, during the lame duck session when Democrats still had their wide pre-election majorities, Obama seemed bewildered by Republicans insistence on keeping current tax rates and refusing to allow him to roll back what he and his pals in the popular press called the "Bush Tax Cuts."
Recovery Summer? That was supposed to have happened LAST summer. The President appears to be completely befuddled by an unemployment rate of 9.2 percent a year later.
Now President Obama has appeared to have been stunned at being forced to cut spending before Republicans will allow an increase in the debt limit.
Unless his daughters told him, I'm pretty sure the President was clueless about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II breaking the old record for a film on its opening weekend by $10 million when it took in $168 million domestically and $476 million - just under a half billion - worldwide.
And all those are just the domestic surprises.
The highly touted "Arab Spring" (which actually began in December 2010 in Tunisia) was supposed to lead to a region swinging over to popular democracies as country after country threw off the yoke of dictators and monarchs in favor of popularly elected governments.
The big one was Egypt where the demonstrations started right after New Years Day and led to the military tossing Hosni Mubarak over the side of the boat and into the Nile River promising to bring democracy to the most populous country in the region.
That led President Obama who, like everyone else on the planet, was totally unprepared for the velocity of Mubarak's demise said, "Egypt will never be the same."
He was right. In yesterday's Washington Post there was a front page article in which reporter Leila Fadel wrote that the generals who are still in charge, are suggesting strongly "that the military be granted special status under a new Egyptian constitution in which the armed forces would not be subordinate to the president."
Largely unnoticed, protesters have returned to Cairo's Tahir Square. A mass sit-in this past weekend provided a platform for, according to the New York Times "42 different groups" each of which has a different set of demands of the military government.
How long until we routinely refer to the generals running Egypt as a "¿junta?"
Immediately to the west of Egypt a gentle nudge was going to topple Moammar Gaddhafi's rule. "Days, not weeks" we were told back in mid-January. Didn't happen. But we were told again last week that Gaddhafi is packing a valise and will be leaving any day now.
To Obama's great wonder, the effort in Libya has done more to show the weakness of the NATO Alliance than any weakness in Gaddafhi's hold on power.
Next door to the east, in Jordan Aljazeera is reporting that "In the third consecutive Friday of protests, about 3,500 opposition activists from Jordan's main Islamist opposition group, trade unions and leftist organisations gathered in the capital."
And, of course, in Syria President Bashar al-Assad has killed more than a thousand protesters but the Obama Administration is unwilling to "Do a Libya" in Syria because it would almost certainly mean going to war with Iran.
The 5½ wars (that we know about) to which Obama has committed the United States (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and a half war in Pakistan) are more than enough for the immediate past holder of the Nobel Peace Prize which, by the way, was also a surprise to the President.
If you don’t have a brain (or high IQ), everything is a Surprise! to him.
Why don’t we surprise Obama and kick him to the curb next year?
I’ve noticed that, the farther left someone is, the more shocked they tend to be by the obvious.
My theory is that it’s the amount of time they spend with their heads up their butts that keeps them unaware of what’s going on around them.
The biggest surprise, never to be admitted, is that the entire country didn’t roll over for him the way hundreds of path-clearers had for his entire life.
An even larger surprise is that anyone is surprised by the overwhelming failure of his policies. As much as he tries to hide it, Barry has a record of having no idea how to run anything, or even how to develop the courage to vote something other than ‘present’ much of the time.
I still can’t believe he claimed in a speech that the planet would heal and sea levels would start to lower, due to his presidency. HOW did he get away with THOSE HUGE LIES?
It is all BUSH’S FAULT!
LOL
President 0 only knows how to create protests and riots in the streets, community “organizer”....
I hope he realizes when he does that it endangers his own family too. I HOPE he wakes up before he destroys his own daughters’ futures and OURS, too!
He’s always been nothing but the front man...progressives told him...they’d run it all and make him look good...well, it hasn’t worked out too well, has it?
I think you overestimate Barry. In order to care about the effects on his own family, he would have to care about someone other than himself. That would be entirely out of character for him.
I can’t wait until we have a competent president that simply does his/her job and doesn’t need to make headlines on a daily basis. Ahhh, for the good old days when Americans could actually live their lives without daily intrusion by the federal government.
FUBO!
I love Townhall.
What’s this 9.2% unemployment? The true unemployment level
is 16%!
Sort of like a "Calvin Coolidge?"
Obama loves the results.
He's like Douglas Adams's Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.
You may be uncomfortably close to the truth here. That's what he knows how to do, so that's what he'll do.
Sadly, we are such a corrupt country where 51% of the people pay NO FEDERAL INCOME TAX and a LOT of them get MONEY BACK, he will WIN in 2012. Sad but true.....I will not be surprised.
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