Posted on 12/29/2016 8:16:51 AM PST by Kaslin
Still shell-shocked from his party's Nov. 8 beating, President Barack Obama said, "I'm confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could've mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it" to win a third term.
When the upstart New York Jets' Joe Namath of the old American Football League upset the 19-point favorite Baltimore Colts of the National Football League, stunned the-NFL-is-still-superior sports pundits said things like, well, the Colts would have beaten the Jets nine times out of 10. But the Super Bowl isn't the best nine out of 10, is it?
Hillary Clinton lost. Obama backed her. He and first lady Michelle Obama campaigned hard for her. Obama even claimed that a Clinton loss would be an insult to his "legacy." Clinton still lost.
Besides, isn't Obama the same man who told us that "no one" was "more qualified" than Clinton to serve as president, including him? Never mind -- to offer just one example -- the first President Bush. George Herbert Walker Bush, when running for reelection against Bill Clinton in 1992, had served four years as president, eight years as vice president, as the head of the Republican National Committee, as head of the CIA, as United States ambassador to the United Nations, as a member the House of Representatives and as a decorated a World War II Naval aviator.
Obama, in making the prediction of his hypothetical third-term victory, argues that his policies are working just fine -- and the only problem is the irritating inability of voters not to understand this. They are simply not gifted enough to see it, or Clinton was not talented enough to make them. Here Obama clearly implies that he, as a better communicator than she, would've opened the voters' blind eyes and won the election.
The Obama-as-better-communicator argument arrogantly ignores the approximately two-thirds of Americans who say we're on the wrong track economically, with a similar number feeling the same way about foreign policy. It ignores the low labor force participation rate, reflected by the abandonment of the jobs market by working-age Americans who are frustrated by the most lackluster recovery since 1949.
Take Obamacare. It, maintains Obama, is a wonderful plan, even if it passed with no Republican support and only after an ocean of false promises. These promises included that it would bend the cost curve down; save the average household $2,500; and that if you liked your current plan or doctor, you could keep your plan or doctor.
Premiums went up, not down. Copays went up, not down. Same with deductibles. And yes, some of those who face hikes still get offsetting subsidies, but this just pushes the costs onto others. Who knew that providing health care insurance to 20 million by forcing insurance carriers to accept those with preexisting conditions; forcing carriers to allow parents to keep their "children" on their policies up to their children's 26th birthday; and regulating how carriers set premiums was going cost money?
Obama, a product of two Ivy League schools and the best private school in the state of Hawaii, still does not understand Economics 101, a common phenomenon with someone of his academic pedigree. But how to explain the cluelessness of his fellow non-elite, non-Ivy League educated Democrats? As with Obama, the left sees the world as they want it to be, or the world as it should be -- if they can only get the "obstructionist" Republicans out of the way. This is a most appealing perspective for a politician who survives by peddling this nonsense.
His "climate change" measures are also, according to Obama, working splendidly. Sure, the green-tech jobs that Obama promised did not materialize, and most of the government "investment" provided little if any return for the taxpayer. A devastating "60 Minutes" expose titled "The Cleantech Crash" reported that "the federal government has allocated a total of $150 billion to cleantech -- through loans, grants and tax breaks with little to show for it." Had such a televised piece exposing this outrageous "cleantech" boondoggle run in a Republican administration, the media would've cried for congressional investigations of the program's waste, fraud and abuse. But the President's climate-change crusade did not miss a beat.
In eight years out of office, President George W. Bush said virtually nothing about his successor, his successor's policies or even his own legacy. His father did likewise about his successor, Bill Clinton. But in the waning days of his presidency, Obama and his press secretary attacked his successor while criticizing his successor's cabinet choices. Obama even carps on Donald Trump's use of social media, specifically Twitter, which enabled Trump to go around the traditional anti-GOP media and beat Clinton while spending half as much money.
Compared to other presidents, Obama entered office as a young man and leaves as a young man. Hell hath no fury like a left-wing president, with plenty of sand left in his hourglass, out to preserve his "legacy."
In 6 or 7 months, with the economy booming, the headlines will say “Foundation of economic growth laid by obama. Trump benefits.” The story will continue to state the Bush’s term was so bad that even obama could not recover it in a meer 8 years. If only he could have had 12. The MSM will not change.
Barack Ozymandias.
Very appropriate.
Many will look back on the Greek columns at his first presidential acceptance speech and dispair. Others will remember and laugh.
IIRC, they were, after all, styrofoam.
This guy is destined to become the Beltway version of David Dinkins.
Well, Dinkins was referred to as custodian where Golf-One will be a gay bath house towel attendant.
Carter started the modern radical Islam issue replacing the Iranian secular leader with a radical Islamic one.
Clinton repaired Chinese rocket technology and gifted them missile guidance technology so China could nuke every city in the USA and around the world.
Obama lost a won Iraq and gave it to radical Islam. Had red lines he would not defend and destabilizing Libya and the region gifting millions of Islamic radicals into Europe as refugees.
Backed the Arab Spring, reset buttons with Russia. Back stabbed Israel anywhere he could.
Took in almost no Christian refugees from the Middle East and just let tens of thousands die.
No real response to radical Islam/Sharia and the problem vastly grew.
Politicized the IRS, had people audited and status for conservative PACs denied or stalled for years.
Exasperated race relations always backing the black no matter the criminality.
Spied on the Washington press computers, phones and all communications.
Spied on all our allies.
Gave 400 million to Iran for hostages and 150 billion for nothing.
Should be in the bottom three of all time, but will be held up higher for being born black for sure. He will be given the demeaning treatment of expecting less from him because he was black.
Oh, and the black guy took our national credit card and more than doubled our national debt.
Excellent graphic.
A legion of writers working nearly 24/7 at VJ’s request are busy cooking up likely events which could plausibly have happened and will constitute his legacy - their only hold up is the requirement from the ruling mullahs to pray five times a day ...
Larry Elder apparently buys into the idea that a lifetime in government is what "qualifies" you for the Presidency. They give you information on how the bureaucracy works and who holds power, they give you access to secrets and data on where they bodies are buries, they make you one of the club. But those years do not make you qualified to be President nor do they ensure you'll be even a mediocre one. I would suggest they almost guarantee that you'll be a mediocre one AT BEST.
Our last four presidents never did a thing in the private sector. They all stunk on ice. Reagan was great, he had a life before politics unlike those others. Let's see what someone with real world experience can give us.
he is the worst president in the American history...
whose adversarial use of the tyranny of the federal government woke true Americans up to start a movement to take back America and make her great again.
IMO, that was his purpose and the reason God allowed him to become President in the first place.
“Those writing the history books are liberal.”
We must hammer the left like Charles Martel, again, and again, and again, until they have no voice in anything, ever.
A charismatic leader is needed to inspire parents to rise up and demand that those history books not be used.
You just know he’ll be on every Sunday talk show, writing (with help!) op-ed pieces, constantly saying how he would do things differently, etc.
He’s never going away...
In 2016, Obama’s job approval held very consistently in the 50% to 55% range.
Job approval polling started in the 1930s, and no incumbent president with a 50% rating, or higher, has ever lost a reelection.
Trump, on the other hand, lost the Popular Vote by almost 3 million votes to a weak candidate, Hillary Clinton.
And, Trump won the three decisive states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania by a total margin of less than 80,000 votes.
Pictures of his kids real parents. They travel with them frequently. Perhaps even a picture of Michael in a spandex outfit. Obama is not going quietly. Everything about him was a lie. He cannot allow all of those lies to be revealed.
Explain...I've heard rumors, but nothing definitive.
Was a link from a Zero Hedge comment. Probably too conspiratorial for here yet. We have to be more civilized here. And I do not post over there. Too many Israeli haters. But seeing that Obama may release Armageddon here within three weeks, because he frankly has no other choice, will work on finding a cleaned up link for you. Will post it here later today.
What an arrogant, self deluding moron this sniveling poofter is.
Obama and his logic 100% failure for 8 years.
AKA Worst President in the American History
Excellent point, they will not change their point because they got their lips stuck on his derriere.
Love it..!!
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