The Obama Administration : What Went Wrong

NRO ^ | August 17, 2009 | Victor Davis Hanson

[SMARTY]

Having been asked/forced to wait for the ‘real’ Obama was in itself, a red flag that should have put everyone off this horse’s a^%!!

No legitimate and viable candiadate could or ever should be indulged the way “O” was indulged in the run-up to the campaign or during the campaign. I know more about the guy I bought my last car from than I know about this ‘President’. Just think about that for a moment.

[Atomic Vomit]

"Epoch Fail!! Health care Waterloo."

Epic Fail.

Epic.

Sheesh,

AV

[browardchad]

Hanson has an amazing talent for literate rants that hit all the points.

This is over-the-top (because McClellan is such a dolt), but it made me laugh:

"Press Secretary Robert Gibbs makes Scott McClellan sound like a Cicero by comparison."

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Clinton operatives will covertly start to clamor for the birth certificate

Covert? It's front page on all of the tabloids that the Clintonistas control. It alternates with Sarah Palin "divorce" stuff. Now, what do you suppose Sarah Palin and Barack Obama have in common?

[livius]

I don’t think he’s going to go quietly. I just had a truly creepy experience.

I was at a volunteer project when suddenly a group of strangely smiling, somewhat hyper people in their early 30s descended on us. My first thought was that they were Moonies or Hari Krishnas.

But they were worse: it turned out they were a crop of some 30 Americorps volunteers who had been “assigned” to my town and apparently are to be placed in each elementary school classroom. These people are absolute goofballs. They started gushing to us about how “the government” was going to do all these wonderful things and how they had been sent here to “help” us. Then they announced that they had one place left on their “team” and asked a couple of our volunteers if they wanted to “work in the community” and receive a salary for it.

I was stunned. I had no idea these people were fanning out across the country. This is one of the creepiest things I have seen yet. What exactly are they going to do sitting in our elementary school classrooms? Fortunately, I don’t think they can get into our Catholic school (a good argument for sending your kids there).

Even a rather liberal lady I was working with muttered “Hitler Youth” under her breath when they left. We were all very unnerved by this.

[b4its2late]

I know my world is not that significant, but I can tell you that more and more people who used to not give a rats rear end about politics are sickened by what Obama and the democrats are doing to this country.

[God luvs America]

he was doomed from the get-go because of his arrogance and beligerance...

the fact is 58 million of us voted against chairman zero....there were almost as of us who voted against the heavenly president sent from above in ‘08 as those who voted against “evil” ticket of GWB/Cheney in 2004....

yet chairman zero and his beligerent administration treated us like the enemies from the get-go....his arrogance somehow thought we would follow in line....

[Psalm 73]

And it's too bad there is no other party to exploit this turn of events.
There is no Republican leader to lead the counter-offensive into the shattered front of the Demoncrats.
Just McAine/Schmidt kow-towing to the homosexual lobby, Tom Delay on Dance Fever, Steele looking more clueless every day.
Sara could, but the "Machine" just continues to slap her around.
We're screwed.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Nothing is worse for a president than a growing belief among the public that it has been had.

And this foreign joker tries to rub the public's nose in it by arrogantly reminding everyone that "he won".

[BornToBeAmerican]

Maybe not, even rabid dogs turn to eat their own eventually.

I see the Pelosi / Read crowd as rabid in every sense

[Reagan69]

If McCain had done his JOB and told the American people who BO really is/was... he might have won the election.

But, we had to play nice.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

This is what happens when radical left liberals think they are in the drivers seat....America rejects them!

[ari-freedom]

there’s no there, there.
the left wants the government to run everything but they picked a guy who hasn’t run anything in his life.

[TSgt]

Read DU today, meltdown like I haven’t seen since 2004 election.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4018655

seabeckind (124 posts) Mon Aug-17-09 12:09 PM Response to Original message 14. I agree, O is cutting his own political throat It's probably that f'ing Rahm -- dlc stooge. If they ram this thing thru he's going the LBJ route and there'll be a very serious primary challenger. And believe me, I'll be scraping the Obama off my sweat shirt and writing the other guy's name on it. In fact, maybe it'd be good to do that now to send a message. So far (you Obama people can flame all you want) he has done around 4 things that I did NOT vote for. Iraq, Geithner/Summers, and ... oh f' it. I'm too pissed to think straight. And yeah, Dennis was my first choice. Only statesman in the crowd. I'll be doing an email/call to Inslee later today. Probably letter to the local paper, too.

[khnyny]

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[Joiseydude]

The Obama Administration : What Went Wrong

That implies that there was something right with it to begin.

[ari-freedom]

right, it’s bad but not ridiculously bad. and if it gets ridiculously bad, Obama won’t be able to blame that on Bush anymore.

[RobinMasters]

Very good analysis, BrookHaven. I couldn’t agree with you more.

[silverleaf]

It means the average schmuck who voted against the POS because they could tell he was a ...POS....has more political acumen than Noonan, Parker, Brooks, Powell, and most of the NRO staff.

[NMEwithin]

Sixth, there is a growing fear that Obamism is becoming cult-like and Orwellian

Becoming cult-like? Huh? It has been since the beginning...didn't the little symbol tip you off?

Hitler had his own symbol too you know?