What Maureen Dowd wished for?.......
Posted on 09/04/2011 12:10:34 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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You know you’re in trouble when Harry Reid says you should be more aggressive.
If the languid Obama had not done his usual irritating fourth-quarter play, if he had presented a jobs plan a year ago and fought for it, he wouldn’t have needed to elevate the setting. How will he up the ante next time? A speech from the space station?
Republicans who are worried about being political props have a point. The president is using the power of the incumbency and a sacred occasion for a political speech.
Obama is still suffering from the Speech Illusion, the idea that he can come down from the mountain, read from a Teleprompter, cast a magic spell with his words and climb back up the mountain, while we scurry around and do what he proclaimed.
The days of spinning illusions in a Greek temple in a football stadium are done. The One is dancing on the edge of one term.
The White House team is flailing — reacting, regrouping, retrenching. It’s repugnant.
After pushing and shoving and caving to get on TV, the president’s advisers immediately began warning that the long-yearned-for jobs speech wasn’t going to be that awe-inspiring.
“The issue isn’t the size or the newness of the ideas,” one said. “It’s less the substance than how he says it, whether he seizes the moment.”
The arc of justice is stuck at the top of a mountain. Maybe Obama was not even the person he was waiting for.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“Maybe Obama was not even the person he was waiting for.”
Giving credit where it is due: that is a clever line.
oh she really has come off the hopium, twisting the knife in that last paragraph, its actually mocking.
What Maureen Dowd wished for?.......
Maureen Dowd, RACIST!
I searched many ways but I didn't find it.
Those Dems sure can pick 'em
He could give his next speech while standing in front of the Red Sea. He can wear a robe and be holding a staff. He will climb on a rock and tell his fellow lemmings how he is dividing the nation, parting people from their money, and leading the nation to the land of poverty and strife.
Break out the Roman columns and he toga’s, we need a doozy of a speech to the Senate Emperor!
From the article:That confirms it, the White Hut is occupied by delusional people. Don't they have drug tests for White Hut aides?
“The issue isn’t the size or the newness of the ideas,” one said. “It’s less the substance than how he says it, whether he seizes the moment.”
This is what those of us who were awake and alert in 2008 were seeing in all his speeches. He seizes the moment with speeches that say nothing of substance.
I know, he could build himself a a Greek temple with pillars and stuff. Oh yeah, been there, done that.
"Smarty-pants"? Clear evidence that Maureen Dowd has the mind of a sixth-grader. And that The New York Times should be flushed down the rat-hole of history.
Has Maureen Dowd hired a Freeper as a ghostwriter?
He could have even included it in this year's state of the union address.
Oh piffle, Maureen. Obama isn't a triangulating compromiser like Bill Clinton was, and everyone knows it. He's deep in liberals' pocket. When for sound political reasons he finally gave up on one of the liberals' holy grails, ever expanding environmental regulations, he got the closest thing to a mutiny he has seen yet. Another compromise or two and nobody will be his friend, not even the left.
As Rush would say, “It’s not the nature of the evidence, but the seriousness of the charge!”
Ha!
Such drivel and disappointment in a mere "man" reveals Dowd's total lack of awareness, understanding, or appreciation for the historical role of a President under the provisions and limitations of the U. S. Constitution--a Constitution which, by the way, never has been amended to make any President a magician, a dictator, or "the one we've been waiting for."
Perhaps the words of one of our early Presidents--a man who was 9 years old when his father passionately convinced 55 fellow colonists to risk their lives in signing our Declaration of Independence from a taxing, spending government power; 11 years old when the Constitution was written; and who served as President himself might serve to inform Dowd, as well as others of her so-called "progressive" friends, including the President, of how limited the so-called "Executive" is under our Constitution:
"The President himself is no more than a representative of public opinion at the time of his election; and as public opinion is subject to great and frequent fluctuations, he must accommodate his policy to them; or the people will speedily give him a successor; or either House of Congress will effectually control his power. It is thus, and in no other sense that the Constitution of the United States is democratic - for the government of our country, instead of a Democracy the most simple, is the most complicated government on the face of the globe." - John Quincy Adams in his "Jubilee" Speech by invitation of the NY Historical Socity in New York City, in 1837)
Apparently, this former President and son of a President approved of the kind of "effectual control" on a President's power "either House" might exercise under the Constitution, as well as "the People's" legitimate role under that Constitution to "speedily give him a successor."
LOL!!!
How about: "...to the land of bilk 'em, honey."
Of course, it's also possible that a largely ineffectual one-term president and son of a largely ineffectual one-term president has a very particular view of the limitations of the office and the people's willingness to "speedily give him a successor." When JQA left office, only two presidents had failed to win re-election, and both were named Adams.
Don't get me wrong; the elder Adams was perhaps the most crucial of the Founders, and JQA was one of the key figures of the early 19th century, and a founding father of American diplomacy. But both men's greatest accomplishments were outside their presidencies.
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