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Posted on 08/16/2014 6:21:33 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
One of the nation’s best radio talk show hosts, Hugh Hewitt, interviewed Joe Scarborough, the host of one of the best political shows on television. According to Mr. Scarborough
This is a president that does go out of his way to show that he’s not paying attention to what anybody says. He’s going to do exactly what he wants to do, and he’s going to be stubborn about it. He is politically, he is either politically tone deaf or he just doesn’t give a damn. And I tend to believe based on everything I’ve heard from people who work inside the White House, and we’ve got a lot of friends there, and based on my friends who are senior Democratic senators, this president has checked out… He wants to be the next, I hear it time and time again from his close political allies. This man wants to be an ex-president.
So the president — with crises breaking out across the globe, the economy still staggering, and unrest and despair in America rising — seems to have grown bored with the job. This is on one level an astonishing thing; on the other, it has the ring of truth. I say that in part because Mr. Scarborough is speaking to Democrats, not simply Republicans, on this matter. His sources are excellent. Yet one also sees Obama’s indifference in how he conducts himself, as well as stories leaked by the White House about his “restlessness.”
What could possibility explain this attitude? It may be that Mr. Obama was drawn to the job not for the right reasons but because he viewed the presidency as a new mountain to climb, a prize to win, as a way to feed his unusually large ego (even for a politician). It may also be that Mr. Obama, with his presidency crumbling, is like a petulant child who wants to pick up his marbles and leave. He was fine serving as president when he was adored and well liked; now that things are going south he appears to have emotionally “checked out,” to use Scarborough’s phrase.
The problem with this is that Mr. Obama is disengaging (a) after having done extraordinary damage to America and (b) at a moment when the world is convulsing because of the void left by Obama’s (and therefore America’s) diffidence and passivity. An increasingly insouciant commander-in-chief is not what’s needed at this particular time, given the multiplying threats and increasing disorder in the world.
It’s very much beginning to look at if Barack Obama saw the presidency as primarily a way to satisfy his narcissism. What’s happened instead is the presidency is breaking him, even as he is breaking the nation.
"Beginning?"
Not to worry... The people behind him have more damage planned for him to implement. Does anyone think that Valerie Jarrett, or Michelle, or Eric Holder are tired of their positions of power?
I agree. I also think he won’t quit because if he did he wouldn’t be able to give $ 1000,000 speaking gigs afterwards. He will play the race card and blame his failures on Congress failing to act because we are a racist nation...and they will love him for it.
Joe Scarborough? Wonder what his intern thinks about that . . . oh, that’s right . . . she’s dead. What a source of “excellence.”
Well, duh. From the beginning, its been obvious that this person never wanted to lead, manage, or govern a nation of free people. He wanted to come in and RULE and change the America into a nation that it could not become through lawful leadership, management, or government.
The people pushed back against his dictatorship and now he means to make us pay by letting everything fall apart during the end of his presidency. In his mind, we were too stupid to let him rule us, so we can suffer the consequences (that he will create).
I just couldn’t get past that first sentence. Is this guy joking?
Valerie Jarrett’s been our president since Obambozo got elected. . . . Doncha’ remember voting for her or do you remember the Senate confirming her? Doncha’?
Bump
Don’t forget George Soros, whose arm is up Obunga’a poop chute, working him like a sock puppet.
“— seems to have grown bored with the job.”
Wrongo.
Bored would be the case of a guy who is WAY on top of everything because it’s too EASY to handle.
This clown isn’t bored. He’s in WAY over his head.
He IS Chauncey Gardener(Being There).
His ‘handlers’ groomed a “Community Organizer” (rabble-rouser), ran him through state politics for 5 minutes and turned him into a national candidate.
This guy is SO unqualified and now that he’s got the job, he’s overwhelmed. He cannot handle this. Never could.
I think by “best,” he meant “overrated.”
Bump
Some really good BullSh$t from the Left wing Obama Handmaidens. Joe Scarborough - one of the best political shows on television - Left win nut job. Formerly a U.S House RINO from San Diego
I think his drug use has caught up with him, and his handlers (Jarrett,et al) are having a more and more difficult time bringing him back to a state of coherence.
In any event, he is still a drug-addled, homosexual, American-hating Muslim who should never have darkened the door of the White House.
We will look back at this time and say “Never Again”.
And Obama even looks sickly. That last press conference showed a skinny, worn out old man.
Community Organizer = Demagogue
Blame the voters. They were played.
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