Not the end of the world ( Steven Den Beste )

http://chizumatic.mee.nu/not_the_end_of_the_world ^ | Steven Den Beste

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think Obama is going to turn out to be the worst president since Carter, and for the same reason: good intentions do not guarantee good results. Idealists often stub their toes on the wayward rocks of reality, and fall on their faces. And the world doesn't respond to benign behavior benignly.

But there's another reason why: Obama has been hiding his light under a basket. A lot of people bought a pig in a poke today, and now they're going to find out what they bought. Obama isn't what most of them think he is. The intoxication of the cult will wear off, leaving a monumental hangover.

And four years from now they'll be older and much wiser.

A lot of bad things are going to happen during this term. But I don't think that this is an irreversible catastrophe for the union. I've lived long enough to absorb this basic truth: the US is too large and too strong to destroy in just 4 years. Or even in 8. We survived 6 years of Nixon. We survived 4 years of Carter. We even survived 8 years of Clinton, God alone knows how.

The President of the United States is the most powerful political figure in the world, but as national executives go his powers are actually quite restricted. Obama will become President, but he won't be dictator or king, let alone deity. He still has to work with the House and the Senate, and he still has to live within Constitutional restrictions, and with a judiciary that he mostly didn't appoint.

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Calm yourself Cochise.

Anyone who looks at Carter can see the man was a true believer. He most certainly DID have good intentions. That was his problem. We all know what road they pave.

He was an incompetent, naive, a micromanager, and soft on communism, but like all true believing libs his intentions were good. Good lord, that is the problem with almost all libs! Its also why the young and women are attracted to it’s fantasy ideology.

I don’t believe Chairman Obama’s intentions are good at all. Nor do I believe most contemporary dems are. I do believe Carter’s were.

By the way...he did do one thing. He gave us the 688 and Ohio class subs!

[NucSubs]

And before you let this run off in a segue about Carter, the issue is DenBeste being “a dope”. Have you ever read any of his energy policy or middle east/Islamofacism analysis? Go to his website’s archives pages.

[I see my hands]

"And before you let this run off in a segue about Carter, the issue is DenBeste being a dope"

You are the one who expanded on Cater. Not me. We disagree on his intentions. We agree regarding Obama's intentions.

Tell me, then, how you arrive at the conclusion his analysis isn't dopey?

Obama's good intentions, yeah right, that's disgusting. Strike one.. and these days you only get one.

[I see my hands]

"And before you let this run off in a segue"

C'mon, you've got the wise guy attitude, so where is the the analytical brilliance in declaring that Obama's intentions are good?