Posted on 06/09/2014 4:10:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
So it comes to this: After all that has been said about Barack Obama, in the end there is very little to say.
You are either willing to overlook Barack Obama’s foibles and foolishness; or you aren’t. We we're right, you were wrong. You can either admit or you can't.
There is no middle ground.
There is no saying for example “Well he’s kind of new in the job,” or “This is an example of one bad apple in his Cabinet,” or “The president didn’t know about it.”
Going into his second term, you either knew what we had in Barack Obama or you didn’t.You knew we were right and you overlooked it, or you knew we were right and you didn't.
For myself, I’ve never been willing to overlook the least ready of all presidents; nor have I ever been willing to give the least steady of presidents a free pass on issues.
Getting past his ideology, however, I was certainly willing to be dazzled, like most everyone else.
I was prepared for the post-racial America; for a Great Communicator, who at least on some things, would lift us all up together.
I was looking forward to a day when race, creed, ethnicity, didn’t have to be the issues that drove us apart.
I was impressed when Obama defended private insurance against Hillary’s single payer system; I was impressed that he was willing to tangle with Jesse Jackson, Sr. during the 2008 campaign. He put his prestige on the line to talk about personal responsibility to group that often hears those words like a lecture.
When he was elected, I was willing to celebrate the great racial divide that had been bridged in this country by electing a black man within the living memories of those who helped craft segregation.
In all these things, I was hopeful that the office of the presidency would lift up Barack Obama and with it, the rest of us, as it did Harry Truman, Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson.
I have, after all, survived many presidents I did not agree with, and could even something find something I could cheer in them.
But what a disappointment this man has been.
There has been no level of discord to which he has not been willing to drive us.
There have been no principles that he has not been willing to abandon.
There has been no opportunity lost to use our country for personal, political ends.
There has been no hesitation in manipulating, gaming, and otherwise using Washington, D.C. as a blood sport.
The deception he perpetrated on the American people is rivaled only by the deception he perpetrated on his party.
And if the stakes weren’t so grave for the country, I would laugh.
Someone is going to have to clean up this mess.
One day the Democrats are going to have to regain the trust of all Americans. They are the party of the Chosen One; they will not get a free pass on spying, or the Boston bombing, or Benghazi, or Eric Holder, the VA, Obamacare, Fast and Furious, the carbon tax, Bowe Bergdahl or scandals yet to be discovered.
And this isn’t socialist Europe.
We all expect to rise.
And when we don’t rise, we’re going to blame someone.
When we get bogged down, as we have, in the self-love of a man who adores his own reflection in the surface of a teleprompter because-- more or less-- he can read the same "great" speech over and over...well let's just say that's not an America built to last.
Since it remains highly unlikely that anyone, anywhere including: 1) members of Congress; 2) the Media; 3) the Democrat Party or 4) European automotive journalists, will ever, anytime hold Barack Obama culpable for his sins, it is certain that eventually some will hold his party responsible instead.
It’s a cautionary tale for Democrats.
“Jim Jett always used to say that his brother was the damnedest scoundrel that was ever borne,” drawled Abraham Lincoln, “but by the infinite mercy of providence he was also the damnedest fool.”
It’s the virtue of this Republic that eventually fools are found out.
Yet, it remains to be seen what anyone, anywhere will do about this particular fool.
Ignoring four decades of Clintonia?
A few weeks ago, I was watching newly rediscovered Imus I’d had set on my DVR, the simulcast on fox business.
He was talking to Donald Trump.
They were chatting about Clinton (male version). “Oh he’s just a great guy”
“Oh, yeah”, Trump says. “I play golf with him when I’m in...”wherever.
Imus say, on the air, with millions of New Yorkers/Tristaters listening, drive time, “There’s just nothing not to like about Bill Clinton”.
Maybe in my lifetime there’ll be a time when it will be alright again to expect people to discern that the supreme leader of our military cannot do things in his government office, during work hours, things that get a private second class or a general rightly dishonorably discharged, but as it is, two cultural icons, questionable as their characters are, are telling us there’s nothing to like about him.
No decent man in my acquaintance says anything so ridiculous, but this is what informs New Yorkers.
People love the license that immoral leaders allow them, for one thing.
Then, a few days later, we’re hearing from Imus that Hillary is great because she doesn’t take
crap’ from people.
Never mind that the ‘crap’ is coming from people who are desperately attempting to uphold the Constitution.
There’s no proper character assessment.
Imus regularly has on, and treats very well, Navy SEALS, Wounded Warriors, clips from Mark Levin, but...
Then, a few weeks ago, he said, about Hillary, “I love her to death”
That is a direct quote.
All the drive time people hear this and it gets to some of them.
Of course I turned off the TV, then turned it back on to cancel DVRing the series, then turned it back off.
But that’s the situation.
No mention that she has never done anything good for this country.
No mention that she employs the wife of that awful mayoral candidate they had running, who is a MB operative.
No reminders that H! was running the State Dept. when the diplomats were attacked, begging for help, and ignored, not a word about her refusal to testify or tell us what happened.
What is that?
The liberal desillusion will never end ...
No truer words were ever spoken.
I think it’s something along the lines of “normalcy bias” you see with some kind of disaster.
People simply cannot process in their minds what is happening around them and they block it out, it’s a mental defense to what is happening to them.
I’ve always considered Trump a complete idiot on current events that’s simply repeating talking points his staff has put together for him.
Trump is your typical BS artist when it comes to current events. No more concept what he’s talking about than the man in the moon.
When Trump talks about current events there is ZERO depth to his discussion, he’s simply repeating information what someone else has put together for him.
I’ve only listened to Imus a few minutes and it was clear he’s not the brightest bulb in the lamp.
Yet this is where New Yorkers get their cultural information.
It’s all very, eh, so what?
And that’s how they vote.
After 9/11 they can’t get a clue that it does matter.
“It’s the virtue of this Republic that eventually fools are found out. “
The author describes his delusion vis a vis bozo the klown then seems to imagine he his past delusion. Then he writes the above quoted line, apparently not understanding that it was the Cultural dismissal of Virtue which BROUGHT us The Supreme Ruler of Supreme Asses.
I saw obozo for what he is from the get-go. I was not wrong and owe no apologies. I say now this ends in War...or obozo wins; no middle ground.
The problem is that the media has Obama’s back, they are vested in making look as good as possible.
Its about time for this person to relieve his conscience,just come out and say,on Jan.16th 2009,Rush Limbaugh Stated for all to hear,I HOPE HE FAILS!
HE WAS CORRECT!
The POTUS and Congress go into some big groupthink. And groupthink breeds a bunch of fools.
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