Posted on 08/17/2009 9:16:58 AM PDT by RobinMasters
We are witnessing one of the more rapid turnabouts in recent American political history. President Obama’s popularity has plummeted to 50 percent and lower in some polls, while the public expresses even less confidence in the Democratic-led Congress and the direction of the country at large. Yet, just eight months ago, liberals were talking in Rovian style about a new generation to come of progressive politics — and the end of both the Republican party and the legacy of Reaganism itself. Barack Obama was to be the new FDR and his radical agenda an even better New Deal.
What happened, other than the usual hubris of the party in power?
First, voters had legitimate worries about health care, global warming, immigration, energy, and inefficient government. But it turns out that they are more anxious about the new radical remedies than the old nagging problems. They wanted federal support for wind and solar, but not at the expense of neglecting new sources of gas, oil, coal, and nuclear power. They were worried about high-cost health care, the uninsured, redundant procedures, and tort reform, but not ready for socialized medicine. They wanted better government, not bigger, DMV-style government. There is a growing realization that Obama enticed voters last summer with the flashy lure of discontent. But now that they are hooked, he is reeling them in to an entirely different — and, for many a frightening — agenda. Nothing is worse for a president than a growing belief among the public that it has been had.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
Just a guess ... ;-)
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You elect someone with a paper thin resume, no leadership experience, and (if you actually listen to what he says) he has overt marxist tendencies (paraphrased response to Joe the Plummer, ‘taxes are good because they spread the wealth...’) - yeah, I suppose eventually disappointment (reality) might sink in...
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Not only that, but if we’d had sense enough to read his books, we would have known EXACTLY what he was, for he tells us of his hate for whites and his love of Islam:
From Dreams from My Father, “ I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER’S RACE”. Barack Hussein Obama
From ‘Dreams from my Father’, “The emotion between the races could never be pure, even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race (WHITE) would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.” Barack Hussein Obama
From Dreams fromMy Father: “That hate hadn’t gone away,” he wrote, BLAMING “WHITE PEOPLE — some CRUEL, some IGNORANT, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.” Barack Hussein Obama
He added: “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”
“There was something about him that made me wary,” Obama wrote. “A little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.” ‘The Audacity of Hope’, Barack Hussein Obama
“that ghostly figure that haunted black dreams.”- Barack Hussein Obama, ‘ Audacity of Hope’
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From ‘Dreams from My Father’, “There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on,to show your LOYALTY TO THE BLACK MASSES, TO STRIKE OUT and name names” Barack Hussein Obama
Quote from Barack Obama’s book, Dreams Of My Father:
“THE PERSON WHO MADE ME PROUDEST OF ALL, THOUGH, WAS MY [half brother], ROY..HE CONVERTED TO ISLAM”.
From ‘Dreams from my Father’, “IN INDONESIA, I SPEND TWO YEARS AT A MUSLIM SCHOOL” “..I STUDIED THE KORAN..”
From ‘Audacity of Hope: “LOLO (Obama’s step father) FOLLOWED ISLAM....”I LOOKED TO LOLO FOR GUIDANCE”.
From ‘The Audacity Of Hope, “I WILL STAND WITH THEM (MUSLIMS) SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS OF WAR SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION..”
From The Audacity Of Hope, “WE ARE NO LONGER JUST A CHRISTIAN NATION, we are also a Jewish nation, a MUSLIM NATION, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”
http://www.examiner.com/a-536474~_Trapped_between_two_worlds_.html
http://www.examiner.com/a-534540~Can_a_past_of_Islam_change_the_path_to_president_for_Obama_.html?cid=dc-article-obama
Any WHITE candidate with racist remarks out in print like that would have been CRUCIFIED!!
And then there was his list of supporters.
Obama supporters read like a list of the racists, radicals, Muslims, terrorists and America haters of the world.
>William Ayers
(Weatherman Underground bomber, unrepentant domestic terrorist)
>Frank Davis
(Member Communist Party USA, Admitted Bisexual and pedophile, Early mentor to Obama)
>Jeremiah Wright
(Black Liberation militant, racist, and Pastor)
>Tony Rezko
(Corrupt Financier, ties to Terror Financing)
>Louis Farrakhan
(Nation of Islam Leader, racist, anti-American)
>RailaOrdinga
(Fundamental Islamic Candidate, Kenya, Obama’s Cousin)
>Daniel Ortega
(Marxist Sandinista Leader. Nicarauga)
>Raul Castro
(Hard-line Communist Leader, Cuba)
>Fidel Castro
(former Communist leader, Cuba)
>Communist Party Illinois
(US Communist Political Party)
>Socialist Party USA
(Marxist Socialist Political Party)
>The New Black Panther Party
(Black Militant Organization, anti-American and racist)
>Hamas Terrorist Organization
(Islamic Terrorist Organisation)
>More than 80 attorneys for Guantanamo detainees
-who have been offering free-of-charge legal services.
Not surprising that lawyers for Muslim terrorists would support Obama.
>The Communist Party USA
>The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
>Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim congressman
> Sam Graham-Felsen, (Obama campaign’s official blogger)
He spent time in France taking part in labor riots, has written for a socialist magazine, hung a communist flag in his home, and was a fan of Marx while at Harvard.
>Kwame Kilpatrick
>MoveOn.org
George Soros’ (slumlord undergoing trial) son, Jonathan Soros, an attorney and financier, recently promoted to deputy manager of Soros Fund Management , is personally involved with MoveOn.org’s activities.
>Muslim Americans for Obama ‘08
>The Muslim American Society
>Obama Supporters for Marijuana Law Reform
>Obama Youth
“Obama Youth” had as its logo the Islamic crescent and stars (until word got out on the net and they had to clean it up)
>[COLOR=”Red”]President Daniel Ortega
..who statee, “It’s not to say that there is already a revolution under way in the U.S. ... but yes, they are laying the foundations for a revolutionary change.”[/COLOR]
>Project Islamic H. O. P. E.
..who displayed Obama as their banner boy until word got out and they had to clean that up.
Obama is no longer there on the site.
>Rev. Al Sharpton
..obviously supports Obama, but obviously advised to keep it quiet.
>Shepard Fairey
Official artist of the Obama posters...remarkable resemblance to Marxist posters
>Tony Rezko
Obama said that he estimated Rezko raised about 50,000 to 60,000 for his political career.
Obama has collected at least $168,308 from Rezko and his circle.
>Malaak Shabazz
Daughter of Malcomb X
>The Socialist Party USA
>George Soros
billionaire - anti-Israel master manipulator
They all support, endorse, and/or friends and mentors and advisors of BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA.
They all hate America, they all want to destroy America as we know it. They all want the United States to retreat in the war on terror, and they all want to make over the United States into a marxist/socialist/collective nation
Obama’s own core ideology/theology, coincide with these people.
This says all you need to know about Obama.. You can and should judge a man by the company he keeps.
Maybe this explains Obama hands were over his crotch instead of saluting the flag/anthem and refusing to wear the flag pin- claiming to do so was ‘false patriotism’.
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It’s quite simple. Obama was an inexperienced empty suit who was too far left for this country.
I’ve been expecting this to. Party loyalty can end rather quickly when they realize their career is on the chopping block and O and Nancy can’t save them.
I doubt it. And I doubt McCain has a problem with who BO is. They are both totally beholding to the Beltway looters, moochers and parasites.
We’re just at that point where the rock concert is over, the smoke machines have been turned off and what is left is cables onstage and a pile of garbage on the floor. Only you can’t leave.
His TelePrompter broke down and finally people heard what he really thinks. BTW where is your BC Bambi?
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It’s absolutely mind boggling that we had all the information that I posted above and we STILL put this monster into the White House.
Well, we got our ‘magic negro’. We are assuaged of all our white guilt. We showed the world we aren’t prejudiced. The world will love us now. NOT.
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"WE" had it....but the sheeple didn't!
I work in the health care field....I work with nurses, doctors, therapists, technicians, etc....that have NO clue to what is happening in D.C.
You would think these numb skulls would have a clue, considering how it could totally change their lives!!
It's sickening actually.......
A small city in North Florida (actually, one that is quite conservative and always votes GOP).
I still can’t get over the idea of having one of these idiots sitting in each elementary school classroom. To do what, spy on the teachers?
Actually, AmeriCorps was reined in during the Bush years and mostly consisted of kids who did low-level jobs in national parks, etc. and older people who volunteered for Habitat and similar organizations.
Obama declared right after he got in that he was going to expand the program and in fact I think the money was in the “stimulus” bill passed under him.
IIRC, it has been announced that he is going to give a speech about Americorps and his “volunteer” programs on September 11.
The same thing occurred in the Clinton Administration and the rats suffered defeats at the mid-term elections....so bad that the party took Clinton to the woodshed for a spanking (I forget the auditorium they used, but they excluded the public and the press, locked the doors, and had at him.).
bump & a VDH ping
30 somethings aren’t young people, maybe younger than me but not young. They should be out doing real work and paying taxes.
Neither was born in Hawaii?
Plain and simply, what went wrong . . .
They are wrong on all the issues. Reality bites.
Nice to see that you have a clue AuntB... Not that I would've expected otherwise... :)
It’s brown shirt training.
Actually, “Epoch” Fail fits. This article is by a historian, after all.
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