Posted on 04/30/2012 4:28:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
On April 30th in 1789, at Federal Hall in New York City, George Washington took the oath of office to become the first president of the United States. He took that oath amidst a widespread surge of popularity and consensual respect that has yet to be replicated in any subsequent presidential election in this country. For two terms, Washington was able to govern, and govern well, because even before he won the election as president of the United States, through his deeds, Washington had won the respect and trust of all of colonial America. If measured against that high standard, Barack Obama, whether he is elected in November 2012 or not, will be unable to govern effectively, if at all.
Whether the standard to measure Barack Obama is legislative, fiscal, foreign policy, managerial or personal, Obama ranks among the lowest of the low in presidential ability.
Legislatively, Obama’s signature piece of legislation, Obamacare, is tied up in a Supreme Court challenge which has exposed the shameful short cuts, side dealings and horse-trading that Team Obama was forced to implement in order to have the legislation scrape past the Senate. Billions of dollars of “incentives” to Senators and congressmen can be done once or twice. But, if congress requires these kinds of tawdry incentives to advance Obama’s presidential agenda, it is hard to imagine Obama has any ability to implement future legislation.
Consider some of Obama’s other signature efforts--a JOBS bills that doesn’t create jobs, an energy policy that increases the price of gas at the pump and increases America’s dependence on foreign oil. An insistence of subsidies, for failed “green” endeavors, that waste billions of taxpayer dollars on ill-thought Solar and wind schemes that advance the agendas of Obama’s political allies.
Fiscally, Obama has been the most irresponsible president in the history of the United States (and that is saying something!). Obama’s spend, spend, spend agenda has kept the economy from growing, has created new generations of citizens dependent upon the government dole and has resulted in the slowest growth in GDP in three years. And for what? Obama has not been able to create the jobs he promised because Obama doesn’t understand that business, not government, creates jobs in a free economy.
Entitlement spending has ballooned to outrageous levels wherein over 50% of Americans do not work, nor do they look likely to do so in the future. Obama has put in place trillions of taxpayer dollars as spending intended to stimulate the economy. But the economy has not been “stimulated”, though the pockets of Obama’s political allies have been generously lined with taxpayer dollars.
The president has not even been able to produce a federal budget that can be debated seriously by congress. His last such pathetic attempt was unanimously voted down (0-414), showing that Obama has been abandoned by his own party. Could congress, in a bi-partisan effort, be sending the president an indisputable message about what they think of Obama’s stewardship of the economy?
What does it say that Obama can’t even get one vote on an issue as important as the federal budget? There seems to be universal, bi-partisan agreement that in matters financial, the president is irrelevant.
Obama’s international shenanigans, from his bowing and scraping his way across Asia during his first year in office, to his hugs and handshakes for charlatans and brutish dictators, has been a public embarrassment. Obama’s off-mike comments to Medvedev show the president to be an anxious schoolboy, lackey-like and eager to be all things to all people, desperate for praise and willing to sacrifice American values to achieve.
The story of George Washington and the cherry tree may be apocryphal; merely a tale emblematic of George Washington’s propensity for truthfulness, but Obama spawns no such legend. He has told too many falsehoods, taken too many short cuts, and appointed as his spokespersons and surrogates, too many who do the same, and hence, Obama has lost the trust of the American people. What Obama has lost is what Americans value most—integrity.
And then there is the personal. It is turning out that Obama is actually not very likeable. At every opportunity, Obama seems to jump into controversies that should be solved at a state or local level (Gates affair in Cambridge, MA or Trayvon Martin in FL), before he has all the facts. Obama is showing himself to be a race-baiter, citing directly, or through his surrogates, that any who disagree with his policies or opinions must somehow be racist. Or there’s the class-warfare mongering. Repeatedly, Americans hear Obama blaming “millionaires and billionaires”, claiming that they haven’t paid their “fair share”, though Obama is a multi-millionaire and he, too, takes advantage of every tax loophole.
Barack Obama has been so fixated on his re-election (another of his falsehoods since he has often stated he didn’t care if he was a one-term president) and consumed with building winning “issues-based” coalitions, that he has lost the trust and respect and confidence of most Americans. Even if Obama, by some sleight of hand, were to win in November, he has no mandate; he lost consumer confidence, and he can’t govern.
John Marshall once said that a statesmen is a “a person that loves the people enough to tell them the truth". Barack Obama is clearly no statesmen and has repeatedly refused to deal honestly with the nation’s problems as he ceaselessly maneuvers for short term political gain. Even if he wins the election, it’ll be the longest lame duck session in the nation’s history. Barack Obama cannot govern. The nation is wiser and demands a statesman.
I agree with you 100%.
I agree, PS144. Romney ran against zero opponents with the financial resources to launch an all-out attack on him.
That has changed.
Romney is even a target you don’t need to lie about. He really is a pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, anti-gun, big government, pro-tax liberal.
And don’t think for a moment Obama doesn’t have the cash to backchannel attacks designed to dampen republican turnout.
My opinion of Hillary hasn't changed for the better but I would now rank his personality as at least as bad as hers. He has done and is doing more harm than she would have done--her foreign policy might have been marginally better and she probably wouldn't have managed to get the federal takeover of health care through Congress.
The dream police, they live inside of my head
The dream police, they come to me in my bed
The dream police, they’re coming to arrest me, oh, no
You know that talk is cheap
And those rumors ain’t nice
And when I fall asleep
I don’t think I’ll survive the night, the night
‘Cause they’re waiting for me
They’re looking for me
Every single night
They’re driving me insane
Those men inside my brain
DREAM POLICE — SUPERTRAMP, 1979
You may very well be right, but I really don’t see how the country survives another 4 years of the Marxist-in-Chief. I would sooner vote for a ham sandwich than have Obama back.
Same here.
Romney has named Judge Bork as a legal consultant.
He’s talking with Bolton about foreign affairs.
He might nominate Bork to the Supreme Court... wouldn’t that be a hood.
Way to go on your associates so far, Mr. Mitt.
“How does that demographic compare, in voting percentages, to the general under-21 crowd?”
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I don’t know but I do know that the founders only intended for responsible, productive and literate people to vote and they had good reason for that. They also intended for only males to vote and although I didn’t think so in my younger days I now see that they had good reason for that also. They were no bunch of dummies and those who imagine they can come up with a better system than we started with should think long and hard about that.
“You can’t compare a race with a stinking incumbent to one with no incumbent.”
“Obama played the race card against a race card coward. That isn’t happening now.”
Brilliant, intellectual, really-really smart,
above-it-all Independents, plus die-hard ethnic groups that worship at the feet of The President, plus those who are
dyed-in-the-wool Progressives, no matter what, will put him over the top, 55 to 45%, not to mention Mickey and Minnie Mouse, plus the votes that will be counted many times, plus the phantoms that will visit the polling places. (Race will have nothing to do with it, only the propaganda that floods the airwaves.)
IMHO
(probably via another Executive Order)
I am a realist. I live in REALVILLE and I don’t apologize to you or anyone else for refusing to keep my head stuck in the sand about the reality what kind of disaster this nation faces, infact the problems this country faces are significant enough that they cannot even be solved by winning temporary political elections on the margins.
“unless and until JR steps in and silences one side of it.” Yes, let’s trample all over the 1st ammendment why don’t we?
Rush lives in REALVILLE, you live in a tent at the edge of GLOOM & DOOMSBURG.
You have no candidate that you back, so you surrender.
Worse than surrender, your inaction helps the enemy.
Make no mistake, obama is the enemy, mittens is weak and spineless, but no one can call him a communist traitor, who is plotting the end of our second amendment rights.
The pinnacle of his presidency was the day he was inaugurated. I predict he will be resoundingly defeated in November.
Ultimately it’s Jim’s private board to manage as he pleases. I have decided to risk getting kicked for the sake of being honest. I am highly disappointed that Barack Obama’s main challenger is shaping up to be a third rate, compromising, flip flopping, wishy washy excuse for a Republican — and yet Barack Obama has been so horrible that even this excuse looks like an oasis in a desert. As an oasis on an arduous journey across the dry land, it certainly is by no ways a destination — not even the best of presidents could be, let alone the Mittster.
Barring unforeseen circumstances, I’m buying stock in nose clothespins.
The welfare rolls aren’t anywhere large enough to buy off even progressives who have or recently had day jobs. They may not go for Mitt but they are willing to sit out Obama in protest.
Bud I’ve given up long ago on trying to be clever. That is no avenue into truth, it’s only so much debate jiu jitsu.
But I refuse to be confused by irrelevant factors.
I hope you’re right. (I can’t wait until November.)
Best Regards.
this article should be turned into a Republican campaign commercial.
I hope you’re right. (I can’t wait until November.)
Best Regards.
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