"How do you spill a bucket of air?
"How do you test the octance rating of sailboat fuel?
Posted on 09/16/2010 1:38:06 PM PDT by Nachum
A longtime Washington D.C. insider, and former advisor to the Obama election campaign and transition team, speaks out on an administration in crisis, and a president increasingly withdrawn from the job of President.
2008 gave America an incredibly charismatic candidate for President of the United States. Speech after speech showed a candidate with increasing momentum as primary race after primary race concluded. And then came the nomination, more speeches, culminating in an election night victory.
According to the person sitting across from me, those were incredibly exciting times, even for one who had been a participant with three previous presidential hopefuls. Barack Obama appeared to move from one city to the next effortlessly, gaining confidence and motivation with each campaign stop. He was remarkable to watch. He took the script, elevated it with his oration, left the crowds screaming for more, and then would do it all over again, time after time after time. On the campaign trail, Obama is a machine.
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Here's Michelle agreeing with you:
"How do you spill a bucket of air?
"How do you test the octance rating of sailboat fuel?
Captain Queeg.
Minus the steel balls.
But he voted “present”.
Obama lost ‘it’ a long time ago. In fact, my best guess is, he never had ‘it’.
And we have two more years of it.
Do you know anything about the source? Are they well connected in DC?
"Carol Platt Liebau was first female managing editor of the Harvard Law Review:
It reminds me a little bit of my experience with him when he was president of the Harvard Law Review. You know, I hesitated to say a lot about this during the campaign because I really thought maybe it wasn't fair. That maybe, finally, when he got to be President, this would be a job big enough to engage and hold Barack Obama's sustained interest, because really, is there a bigger job out here?
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[W]hen he was at the HLR you did get a very distinct sense that he was the kind of guy who much more interested in being the president of the Review, than he was in doing anything as president of the Review.
A lot of the time he quote/unquote "worked from home", which was sort of a shorthand - and people would say it sort of wryly - shorthand for not really doing much. He just wasn't around. Most of the day to day work was carried out by the managing editor of the Review, my predecessor, a great guy called Tom Pirelli whose actually going to be one of the assistant attorney generals now.
He's the one who did most of the day to day work. Barack Obama was nowhere to be seen. Occasionally he would drop in he would talk to people, and then he'd leave again as though his very arrival had been a benediction in and of itself, but not very much got done.
So, you know, you see that and you think, gosh, maybe that's the way the guy operates, but then you figure ok, obviously he always had his eye on bigger and better things."
But now he's President...there really isn't a bigger or better thing.
Wait until she starts her run and the "three o'clock in the morning telephone call" ads. I think we will need a lot of popcorn here.
A foregone conclusion from the moment he answered the “experience” question with, “I can run this campaign.”
Great article thanks, it is a good one. First time I have ever heard of this site, any opinions?
newsflavor.com ...
It's got to be especially tough when the person knows deep inside that the achievement isn't truly based on merit.
This is going to get dangerous. “He’s a 3rd world president doing 3rd world things. He’s our Last King Of Scotland and that didn’t end pretty. Watch him closely.” - MrArbitrage
I just read the entire article and two things pop out very clearly. Something I just said in another thread...
I smell Hillary
AND I think this article is real by someone that was inside the WH and has since left???? Hmmmmm that loves the Clintons.
“Captain, did you not turn your ship upside down in a vain search for an imaginary key” ?
Don’t you read the Globe?
Obama Marriage on the Rocks!
Fed up President Barack Obama took off his wedding ring during a furious fight with his wife over her lavish spending - and his marriage has now reached a crisis point, White House insiders reveal. In a blockbuster exclusive, sources reveal the shocking problems in the Obama marriage - and why First Lady Michelle is breaking the Commander-in-Chief’s heart by refusing to have another baby. It’s must reading!
And he took off his wedding band!
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