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The Presidency is Breaking Obama Even As Obama Has Broken the Nation
Commentary ^ | 8-16-14 | Peter Wehner

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crises; hewitt; obama; presidency; scarborough
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To: afraidfortherepublic

It took over 200 years to build this great nation and a few years for one @ hole to destroy it.


41 posted on 08/16/2014 8:07:00 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Guns are like parachutes. If you need one and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again.)
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To: I am Richard Brandon
And you can have 'Joe for President!'

Better then what we got now. At least he doesn't hate America.

42 posted on 08/16/2014 8:22:45 AM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (I live in NJ....' Nuff said!)
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To: Glennb51

Dragged


43 posted on 08/16/2014 8:23:14 AM PDT by mommyq
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I stopped reading when the writer said ‘Joe Scarborough is the best talk show host...’. Really? Have you heard of Fox News, Mr. Journalist?


44 posted on 08/16/2014 8:25:32 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: oldbrowser

Ever occur to anyone that when you take away the affirmitive action, the grades for mouthing leftist rhetoric in cake courses, the bad grades that had to be hidden anyway, the arrogant brainless liberal kant, the ease of being elected as a black in Illinois, and his flair as a natural bs artist - The man is an empty headed phony idiot?


45 posted on 08/16/2014 8:31:06 AM PDT by Williams
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To: Russ

I wondered how long it would take for someone to post that comment!


46 posted on 08/16/2014 8:33:40 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Hussein has the wrong temperament to be president. He is an phlegmatic idealist who wants to create an ideal society rather than a choleric who wants to boss people around and control everything.Now that he sees how lousy the outcome of his destructive commie ideals are, he has lost interest.


47 posted on 08/16/2014 8:38:33 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: afraidfortherepublic
It’s very much beginning to look at if Barack Obama saw the presidency as primarily a way to satisfy his narcissism.

Barack Hussein Obama has no interest in being President - he just wants to be a celebrity.

48 posted on 08/16/2014 8:41:47 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Bryanw92
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.

He's like a tenant who knows he is about to be evicted and decides to trash the place.

49 posted on 08/16/2014 8:51:54 AM PDT by varon (Para bellum)
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To: DanZ

Wrong Coast... he was a RINO from Pensacola, Florida.


50 posted on 08/16/2014 8:53:34 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Williams
The man is an empty headed phony idiot

I think most of us here, knew it from the beginning.

51 posted on 08/16/2014 9:04:55 AM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Does anyone think that Valerie Jarrett, or Michelle, or Eric Holder are tired of their positions of power?

No, and I'm quite sure that they have other plans for, shall we say, a more dramatic exit for Barry, one which will solidify their power, perhaps permanently.

52 posted on 08/16/2014 9:10:15 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: F15Eagle
Obama ‘greatest hoax ever perpetrated on American people’

I rate it a tie with the man caused global climate change hoax. Neither is limited to Americans.

53 posted on 08/16/2014 9:10:24 AM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: DanZ
Formerly a U.S House RINO from San Diego

Florida. A Rino whose secretary was found dead in his office.

54 posted on 08/16/2014 9:24:22 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
He’s going to do exactly what he wants to do

To know Dinesh D'Souza is to know Obama.

Dinesh D'Souza Books and Movies to discover Obama's agenda for America.

I can think of three people who published serious evaluations of America and whose observations are available to the public.

Alexis de Tocqueville Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville 1805 - 1859

Democracy in America was published in two volumes, 1835 and 1840, after Tocqueville's travels in the United States, and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science.

Alistair Cooke 1908 - 2004

Letters from America 58 years of letters.
Alistar Cooke’s America published in the 1960s
America: A Personal History of the United States, a 1972 13-part television series about the United States and its history.

Dinesh D'Souza 1961 -

The Roots of Obama’s Rage In 2010 this book was described as the most influential political book of the year and proved to be yet another best seller.
2016: Obama’s America is a documentary film released in 2012 based on his bestselling book, The Roots of Obama's Rage.
America: Imagine A World Without Her is his most recent book.
America: Imagine A World Without Her is a film released July 2, 2014 based on the book.

55 posted on 08/16/2014 10:09:15 AM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
"The Presidency is Breaking Obama Even As Obama Has Broken the Nation"

Not enough.

We need this current presidency to not just break obama, but it must break the obama voters even more.

56 posted on 08/16/2014 10:16:21 AM PDT by Vision Thing (obama wants his suicidal worshipers to become suicidal bombers.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I think Baraq may be in love....and you know what they say about people in love.


57 posted on 08/16/2014 11:10:31 AM PDT by Larry381 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: afraidfortherepublic


58 posted on 08/16/2014 11:37:56 AM PDT by QT3.14 (USA born 7.4.1776 fathered by geniuses - died 11.4.2008 (Suicide) by idiots and traitors)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The drug-addled community organizer has always been broken. From the time his Daddy abandoned him to the time his Mommy started raising him to be a communist demanding that others care for him, he never had any potential to be more than an unusually articulate (with teleprompter) but still broken loser.


59 posted on 08/16/2014 12:30:53 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Pollster1

“he (obama) never had any potential to be more than an unusually articulate (with teleprompter) but still broken loser.”

obama has proven the Peter Principle to be wrong: With his incompetence, he should have risen no further than community organizer.


60 posted on 08/16/2014 12:38:36 PM PDT by Vision Thing (obama wants his suicidal worshipers to become suicidal bombers.)
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