Posted on 10/26/2012 7:46:59 AM PDT by Senator Goldwater
Why was the first debate so toxic for the president? Because the one thing he couldn't do if he was going to win the election is let all the pent-up resentment toward him erupt. Americans had gotten used to him as The President. Whatever his policy choices, whatever general direction he seemed to put in place he was The President, a man who had gotten there through natural gifts and what all politicians need, good fortune.
What he couldn't do was present himself, when everyone was looking, as smaller than you thought. Petulant, put upon, above it all, full of himself. He couldn't afford to make himself look less impressive than the challenger in terms of command, grasp of facts, size.
But that's what he did.
Which gets us to Bob Woodward's "The Price of Politics," published last month. The portrait it contains of Mr. Obama—of a president who is at once over his head, out of his depth and wholly unaware of the fact—hasn't received the attention it deserves. Throughout the book, which is a journalistic history of the president's key economic negotiations with Capitol Hill, Mr. Obama is portrayed as having the appearance and presentation of an academic or intellectual while being strangely clueless in his reading of political situations and dynamics. He is bad at negotiating—in fact doesn't know how. His confidence is consistently greater than his acumen, his arrogance greater than his grasp.
People saw for the first time an Obama they may have heard about on radio or in a newspaper but had never seen.
They didn't see some odd version of the president. They saw the president.
And they didn't like what they saw, and that would linger.
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"His confidence is consistently greater than his acumen, his arrogance greater than his grasp."
"He was often patronizing, which in the old and accomplished is irritating but in the young and inexperienced is infuriating."
"A president who is at once over his head, out of his depth and wholly unaware of the fact"
Question: When did Peggy Noonan finally see the REAL Obama?
I sum folks like Obama up in 4 words
“More Ego than Ability”.
You can use a lot more words, but there reali is not reason to.
Oh, come off it. Project much?
I sum folks like Obama up in 4 words
“More Ego than Ability”.
You can use a lot more words, but there really is no reason to.
Nice try, Noonan. You voted for this Leftist AA baby. Your judgment is not very credible.
But now that sees his defeat comin' round the bend, she's banging on conservatives' doors, "Let me in!"
Sorry, Peggy, but the divorce has been declared final.
thanks for posting.
If Obama has lost Noonan...
:)
We should never forget the "conservatives" who swooned over Obama -- Noonan, Christopher Buckley, Krauthammer, et al. Never forget the damage they have done and how easily they were owned.
Actually, the petulant, smug, arrogant Obama is the Obama that most conservatives saw four years ago. Why did it take Noonan so long to see this?
Sell it somewhere else, Noonan. I also remember the worshipful op eds you wrote about Obama back in 2008.
If we could buy Obama for what he is worth and sell him for what he thought he was worth, we could retire the debt he so recklessly incurred.
I love how FReepers get down to brass tacks and just NAIL IT so quickly in a thread. And you two just did that.
I am so tired of these eureka people. We got it day one. Get up to speed.
Eureka people . . . I like that!
I have never been able to figure out how so many have remained so fooled for so long. And, believe me, they're still out there.
No, you weren't in fantasy land or even caught up in some sort of emotional wave of guilt. You were, like so many other fifth columnists, positive that the democrat fascist victory was total and permanent so you discarded your disguise and very publicly worshiped at the feet of King Barry.
Sorry, Peggy, but no matter what you have to say at this point you've already shown the world that you've really been running a false flag operation on behalf of the democrat fascist nobility all along and don't have a single non-fascist bone in your body.
You're nothing but a tool of the democrat fascist nobility so just shut up and slink off to the scrap heap with the rest of the worn out old tools.
You could have seen the real 0bama back in 2008, but you chose not to. He was right there for all to see. But you chose to join the ranks of the “conservative” eastern elites and go with the flow and chime in with how exciting and charismatic that Barry was. Just ignore the BOATLOAD of evidence that he was a lying radical muslim marxist with no executive experience but an abiding hatred of American, the Constitution, and free enterprise. Not only that, you helped perpetuate the 0bama myth by using your establishment Republican credentials and your wistful touchy-feely columns to sell the Barry myth and make him “acceptable” to “moderate” Republicans.
Oh, how the wool has been pulled from your eyes, Peggy! Your about-face doesn't fool anyone, except maybe yourself.
Her judgement here is credible, but like Obama she is arrogant and overconfident and self absorbed. She writes as if her vote and opinions in ‘08 never happened. How could they have happened? The Belle of East Rutherford New Jersey could never have supported someone as clearly overconfident and unprepared as Obama. That must have been an imposter.
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