Posted on 08/28/2011 7:07:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
Every now and again, your teenager gives in to that base temptation and does something impulsive and self-destructive. It sets them back for a while, but you dust them off, hope they learned their lesson, and get them back on their feet. American voters are a lot like that.
When the Electoral College voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976, it was like dating that person who your parents anxiously warned was not a good match for you. But, he seemed so genuine and romantic compared to that boring old Gerald Ford.
Bill Clinton was a fire-red Pontiac Firebird with that big gold eagle painted around the supercharged SD-455 engine protruding through the hood. The Clinton ride was flashy, fast and dangerous and got us into a lot of trouble. We came out of it a bit disheveled, but none the worse for wear.
Electing Barack Obama was like, let’s say, getting a face tattoo in the likeness of a Che Guevara. Somehow over the next 20 years, we should find a way to undo it. It will involve many painful treatments that fade the impression a little more each time. And the sooner we begin, the better off we will be.
Daily news reports these days are an ominous drumbeat of our sorry economic condition. The polls are measuring the regret that America is experiencing for having elected someone to the presidency whose strongest quality is his speaking skill.
And the President’s behavior seems to reflect those of the depressed captain of a rudderless ship, out of wind and out of ideas. Nothing spoke louder to us than his announcing a pending job creation plan just before retreating to Martha’s Vineyard.
We remember that it was less than three years ago that President Obama announced his initial plan for a healthy job market, ostensibly showing resultsby January of 2011. Flanked by a Democratic controlled House and Democratic controlled Senate, President-Elect Obama delivered this assertion in November of 2008: http://youtube/b1nz60J39eM
I did not vote for Mr. Obama, strictly because his political philosophies are as antediluvian as the city of Nod. But to be honest, once the election was decided, I savored in the moment that America had elected a black president. With his lovely family, his talented persona and veneer of judgment, my hope was that he would leave the country in no worse a condition than Bill Clinton did.
But with the reality of the damaging effects of having given hardcore liberalism a chance at the helm, Americans are once again finding their maturity. Voters seem ready to come to their senses and elect someone with the kind of wisdom that is called for in the Presidency of the United States of America.
They realize that re-electing Mr. Obama to a second term would be the ultimate act of rebellion against reason; one from which we may never recover. I am looking for wisdom and assertiveness while considering who would be the most effective replacement for the Obama Administration.
“whose strongest quality is his speaking skill”
Disagree. His only skill is his reading ability.
Best reading president we ever had or will have. The head librarian reading to America.
“Clinton’s public rejection of logic helped send an entire generation into la-la land.”
And his non-stop “party boy” attitude towards the job completely destroyed the reverence for the position that every previous president had honored.
Nose like a vacuum cleaner? BJs in the oval office? Missile guidance technology for a campaign contribution? Lying on a regular basis on an Olympic level? Janet Reno’s Waco massacre? Vince Foster? And many other “suspicious” deaths going back to his governor days?
We’ll be suffering the Clinton hangover for decades, as well as the effects of lowering the bar for presidential qualifications. If it wasn’t for Clinton muddying the the presidential waters, it would’ve been easier for even the blind and stupid to see just how unqualified Obama was for the job.
If the Chinese ever let loose with something like that we would retaliate and a billion people could find themselves dead within a month. I don't think we have anything that could stop an ICBM with 12 independently guided warheads either. We might be able to hit the missile before the warheads dispersed but they just have to fire enough so that one gets through and there goes 12 cities.
His speaking ‘ability’ is waaaaay overrated. No inspiration, no enthusiasm. He seems as bored as his listeners.
He sounds more like the substitute teacher who doesn’t know the subject material.
“Open your books to Chapter 16 and read along with me.”
Drone, drone, drone, bla, bla, zzzzzzz
Spot on!
By the time clinton passed into presidential history certain topics that had been taboo in polite society had become dinner table conversation for all ages. I will not deign to enumerate them here.
Or Mr. Ed finds mate?.
For the sake of accuracy, we must include cousins gag, retch, and puke.
Skynet will do it, on Judgement Day.
I don’t think he is even a good reader. I feel like I am back in the classroom where each student had to stand and read a paragraph and he is the one I painfully sat through while I silently read to the end of the chapter.
Oh, no! He’s not getting another term as The Governater is he?
Tha primary problem is that he's NOT FINISHED!
“Bill Clinton was a fire-red Pontiac Firebird with that big gold eagle painted around the supercharged SD-455 engine protruding through the hood.”
Not even close.
More like a base, secretary-special Firebird with a 4-cylinder engine.
Bill Clinton was the Pinto Stallion
Obama isn’t just a bumper sticker we can remove with a knife and some alcohol.
Obama isn’t a tattoo we can have removed in an outpatient visit or few.
Obama is like a sex change operation.
This is going to be a long term painful recovery with several serious costly operations and we still may never be quite the same as before.
Clinton's damage wont be fully appreciated until China launches a few Clinton Campaign Nukes.
I was always convinced that the reason that Clinton let the Lewinsky affair hubbub go on for so long was to distract us from the nuclear secrets sales to China. IIRC, just before Lewinsky hit the news, there was a pretty significant transfer of nuclear technology to China. Had Clinton spoken up immediately--Yeah, I had an affair with her, what's the big deal?--chances are, that story would have gone nowhere. But then we'd have been paying more attention to what was going on with China.
I call Bullsh1t!
nobama has NO speaking skill. Rather he does a passable job of reading off a teleprompter words written by others. Every time he gets in a position where he has to speak extemporaneously, he falls apart. Ums, ers, painfully long pauses, backtracks, getting words out of order, a complete doofus. THAT is the real nobama.
Yes, I caught that and threw up in my throat a little bit.
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