Does he not realize everybody is laughing at him?
Posted on 09/30/2011 6:18:58 PM PDT by passionfruit
Our ludicrously unqualified chief executive would have been regarded as a joke candidate in any serious nation.
"The way I think about it," Barack Obama told a TV station in Orlando, "is, you know, this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft."
He has a point. This is a great, great country that got so soft that 53 percent of electors voted for a ludicrously unqualified chief executive who would be regarded as a joke candidate in any serious nation. One should not begrudge a man who seizes his opportunity. But one should certainly hold in contempt those who allow him to seize it on the basis of such flaccid generalities as "hope" and "change": That's more than "a little" soft. "He's probably the smartest guy ever to become president," declared presidential historian Michael Beschloss the day after the 2008 election. But you don't have to be that smart to put one over on all the smart guys. "I'm a sap, a specific kind of sap. I'm an Obama Sap," admits David Brooks, the softest touch at The New York Times. Tina Brown, editor of Newsweek, now says of the president: "He wasn't ready, it turns out, really." Article Tab: From left, incoming Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Vice President Joe Biden, President Barack Obama, and outgoing Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, take part a ceremony at Ft. Myer in Arlington, Va., Friday, Sept. 30.
If you're a tenured columnist at The New York Times, you can just about afford the consequences of your sappiness. But out there among the hundreds of thousands of your readers who didn't know you were a sap until you told them three years later, soft choices have hard consequences.
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Many of them support what he has done.
Simple. The other nations aren't serious either.
Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize not for what he had done, but for what he said he WAS GOING TO DO. Since he’s put us on the verge of bankruptcy, he should give it back.
Maybe, maybe none of the above. In my humble, but ALWAYS correct opinion, I think that Obama got elected to The Big House, and was selected for the Nobel Peace Prize due to White Guilt over slavery in the USA.
Maybe, maybe none of the above. In my humble, but ALWAYS correct opinion, I think that Obama got elected to The Big House, and was selected for the Nobel Peace Prize due to White Guilt over slavery in the USA.
More energy is devoted to investigating the background of an applicant for a middle management position of any company in America than was devoted to investigating Obama’s by the self-appointed gatekeepers of “news.”
Does he not realize everybody is laughing at him?
Their malpractice has cost trillions. Divided by 300 million or so Americans yields a tidy sum for each and every American they defrauded.
I say "defrauded" because members of the Press have certain rights, access to information and individuals the rest of us don't have.
With these rights, they also have responsibilities to practice their profession to high standards.
They didn't do that. They lied to us. They failed their professional duties. Clearly malpractice.
Somebody please sue ABC,NBC,CBS,NPR, AP, UI, Reuters and every other so-called "News" organization foe every penny they have!
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The other day, a letter emerged from ATF supervisor David Voth authorizing Special Agent John Dodson to buy Draco pistols to sell directly to known criminals. Over 200 Mexicans are believed to have been killed by "Fast and Furious" weapons – that's to say, they were killed by a U.S. government program. Doesn't The New York Times care about dead Mexicans? Doesn't Newsweek or CBS News? Isn't Obamaism with a body count sufficiently eye-catching even for the U.S. press? Or, three years in, are the enablers of Obama still so cynical that they accept it as a necessary price to pay for "change you can believe in"? You can't make a hopenchange omelette without breaking a couple hundred Mexican eggs?
Wow, Mark is hitting it hard today!
Amen!
Steyn sure can write:
“Hard statism is usually murmured in soft, soothing, beguiling terms:
Regulation is about cleaner air, healthier restaurants, safer children’s toys. Sounds so nice. But federal regulation alone sucks up ten per cent of GDP. That’s to say, Americans take the equivalent of the Canadian economy and toss it down the toilet just in complying with federal paperwork. Obama and the great toxic alphabet soup of federal regulation – EPA, OSHA, SEC, DHSS – want to take that 10 percent and crank it up to 12, 14, 15 percent.
Who could have foreseen that?”
The media has been part of the problem for decades.
Digging through the claims and background of POTUS candidates is the bread-and-butter of journalists —here they’re simply stating, “I’m bad at my job”.
Hey they’re in the private sector. What do you do to someone Bad At Their Job in the private sector?
You fire them.
I fired them 10 years ago —the only time I see TV news is while on the treadmill at the gym:
Are you like me? Via FreeRepublic and Drudge about 80% of the “breaking news” stories I see flickering on that monitor up there on the Legacy Media is stuff that I read about the PREVIOUS DAY...!
Or even earlier.
What is “NEW” to them is OLD to me.
FIRE THE LEGACY MEDIA...! Be like me.
Yep, the first thing that needs to happen, is the media needs to be burned to the ground.
“They still support this scumbag, after they have seen what he has done.”
Do you think in many cases, it’s the battered wife syndrome?
“how do you reconcile that statement with the fact that Obama received The Nobel Peace Prize, an INTERNATIONAL prize, in the very first year of his illustrious presidency?”
Look at what a leftist, knuckle-headed bunch comprises the Nobel Peace Prize committee and the socialist, globalist country that houses it. Heck, just look at the list of past recipients. Anti-semitic, terrorist-loving Jimmah Carter, for God’s sake.
“Mark Steyn should be required listening among those with a voting ballot. His cutting humor and wit are without equal when it comes to deconstructing what politicians are trying to sell.”
I agree, Mark Steyn is a treasure, and brilliant. I heard him speak a few weeks ago about his new book - just excellent. I love to hear him fill in for Rush.
“and instead fell for the ridiculous hype of the “FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT”. Idiots!”
It’s so tragic that our first black president couldn’t have been Herman Cain or Allen West. I just pray that BHO & Co.’s racism hasn’t poisoned the well for these two great guys.
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