Posted on 09/01/2014 2:46:19 AM PDT by markomalley
It was always obvious what Obama’s supporters wanted. They weren’t willing to settle for a Hillary, just another politician who would punch the clock, deliver tepid speeches and push their leftist agenda.
They wanted someone larger than life. A head made for Mount Rushmore and a body that would be cast in statues across the country. Speeches meant to be studied in classrooms for the next hundred years.
They compared him to JFK and Reagan. He was treated as the icon that his backers wanted him to be. His election was supposed to be a watershed moment in American history.
Instead it ends in miserable failure.
At home, Obama is caught in a desperate tug of war with Republicans. He won the budget battle by sending park rangers to shut down national monuments. His last ditch gamble for holding on to the Senate is using racial tensions in Ferguson to promote black voter turnout.
And if he wins, all he’ll have is what he has now.
This is how shoddy and tawdry the reality of Hope and Change has become. Trapped in a corner, Obama is dragging out the dirtiest Chicago politics. He’s trying to hold off the inevitable by using the same types of tactics that the crooked mayor of his hometown would.
There’s no inspiration here. No words that will resound across time. Just dirty rats on a sinking ship.
Blame Congress has become the new Blame Bush. ObamaCare is a slow motion disaster that requires constant course corrections to keep it from coming apart. It’s not the new Social Security or Medicare. It’s the new HMO; a clumsy construction that most Americans are unhappy with.
Obama’s only power comes from his abuse of his authority, but what one man does, another man can undo. Instead of creating a lasting legislative legacy, Obama’s executive orders and legislation by administration are a house of cards that his successor can topple with the same pen and phone.
They seem intimidating in the way that the actions of tyrants are, but tyranny can be undone with tyranny. What Obama failed to do was build a consensus. He didn’t change the course of American history. He didn’t win the hearts and minds of Americans. Now he’s reduced to vandalizing America.
Obama said that Putin’s actions in Ukraine weren’t a sign of strength, but a sign of weakness. There is some truth to that. Putin’s economic policies have failed and he was unpopular at home. But the Obama tyrannical reign of phone and pen also isn’t a sign of strength. It’s a sign of weakness.
Like Putin, Obama has run out of options.
Unpopular with voters, shunned by his own party in battleground states, he rules by executive order and parties with influential executives while ignoring his responsibilities.
That’s not Reagan. It’s not JFK. It’s not even LBJ.
Stumbling to the microphone in a tan suit, he admits that he has no strategy for ISIS. Why should he? A few months ago he was calling a force that controls much of Iraq and Syria a junior varsity team while claiming credit for defeating Al Qaeda. Now his spokesman insists that the US is not at war with ISIS.
What Obama says has no relationship to reality. It’s always been that way. It’s only becoming obvious to those talking heads inside his media bubble now.
Obama’s foreign policy consisted of a flowchart of how things were supposed to work. There was an arrow from “Outreach” to “Reconciliation” to “New Middle East”. Instead Iraq is on fire. Libya is on fire. Syria is on fire. Everyone else is either mocking him or begging for his help without seriously expecting him to do anything useful.
And the flowchart doesn’t mention any of it.
ISIS was supposed to be a JV team. Iraqis are supposed to reconcile. ISIS isn’t supposed to be at war with the United States. Like most ideologues, Obama confuses what his reading of the inevitable forces of history says should happen with what is actually happening. Political Islam was supposed to stabilize the Middle East. Instead the future will be defined by a clash between national armies and Islamist militias.
Removing US troops from Iraq was supposed to fix the problem. The best anti-colonialist scholarship said it would. Instead combined with the Arab Spring, it let Al Qaeda take over much of the country.
But what else was an ideological fanatic big on theory and short on life experience going to do?
Obama is Fareed Zakaria. He’s Thomas Friedman. He’s Paul Krugman. He read all the books and he talks a good game so that it’s easy to miss the fact that his ideas don’t have much to do with real life.
Friedman babbling about the flattening world, Krugman pretending that money is infinite and Zakaria jumping from one ridiculous globalist idea to another sound good in a lecture hall or a column.
But only an idiot would actually listen to them.
Obama’s speeches sounded good, but only idiots would elect a man with no life experience, no executive experience and no meaningful experience of any kind for speaking well, instead of doing well.
Of course Obama doesn’t have a strategy for ISIS. Why would he?
ISIS wasn’t supposed to happen. His schedule, in between golfing and fundraising, had amnesty and Global Warming unilateral orders penciled in. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine also wasn’t on the schedule. Killing missile defense and being incredibly flexible were supposed to fix that.
As a last resort, sanctions, the universal failure of global diplomacy, were supposed to keep this from happening. But like everything else that Obama tried, they didn’t work.
Obama doesn’t live in the world of “What is” but the world of “What should be”. Inspiration does come from the world of “What should be”, but when it isn’t grounded in the world of “What is” then it manifests as insanity or leads to miserable failures.
The difference between the brilliant architect and the lunatic on the street corner is that while both of them know “What should be”, only one of them knows “What is”.
Obama’s inspiration came from “What should be”. He never did understand “What is”. His followers thought and think that “What is” can be waved away, ignored or beaten down as a last resort. That is what he is doing now with his executive orders and his unilateral rule. He is trying to salvage his miserable failure as a leader by forcing his way on the whole country.
It hasn’t made him popular. It hasn’t made his way into the American Way. It has isolated him. The American people have rejected him in poll after poll. Now the media is slowly accepting their verdict.
And no, he doesn’t have a strategy for that.
The genius of Greenfield destroys the idiot at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Barack Obama is a psychopomp.
Obama is much the same as every fascist leader of our modern era, having more in common with Benito Mussolini than president John F. Kennedy, who at least had served in our nations military.Obama is nothing more than a liberal fascist who has betrayed the People,the Constitution and our allies in order to unilaterally utopianize our nation, taking away individual liberty. Horrible.
This is an exceedingly accurate assessment of Obama’s place in history, and should be read by all:
“Barack Obama the Quintessential Fascist”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
Oh please, please give this poor guy a break as he is desperately making an all out effort to LEAD FROM BEHIND.
Besides you may want to remember as it was written, at the moment it escapes me who did. “Blessed are the ones who don’t know what they are doing as theirs shall be the kingdom of heaven”
Amen to that.
No, I believe the correct quote is: “Blessed are the ones who don’t know what they are doing for they shall wander in the wilderness for all eternity.”
“Miserable failure” doesn’t even come close to describing him.
——Now he’s reduced to vandalizing America.-——
Great line....
Complete and utter failure depends on your point of view.
I honestly believe that he was groomed for this his entire life, to weaken, and if possible destroy the American way of life. I don’t know by whom, but it would take several very rich and powerful(politically, and financially) to do it. It would take decades, all you have to do is connect the dots, and it becomes clear as day.
Either through sheer coincidence or design did Obama somehow with no real life experience, education(?), or work experience come into the political arena and met very influential traitor leftists in OUR COUNTRY, and many other powerful communists and muslims in OTHER countries. Obama came from not the greatest family, no silver spoon in his mouth. He is an empty suit to the extreme, someone who has been pushed and masterfully manipulated by those seeking the destruction of the west. It was probably planned 50 years ago. The devil deceives, and boy must he understand human nature, and how to manipulate man to his desires.
I honestly believe that Obama is a manchurian candidate. A man placed very carefully into power. Using money, political influence and masterful manipulation. To achieve one goal; destroy or at least bring America to its knees. Even a democrat President would appear to at least TRY to support their country and fail miserably. Obama doesn’t, he may appear to, but watch his actions and not his words. You will see he is a liar, a traitor, deliberate in his inaction. Not one person elected to be POTUS would act as Obama has unless deliberately damaging every aspect of American life possible. Obama, through Jarret, always acts in a way opposite of anyone with a lick of common sense. He has us thinking he is just a miserable failure. No, no, no I SAY.
This is my honest reaction and analysis after reading, watching, and observing everything about Obama and his connections over the course of 6 years. I think it’s highly likely he is the first true enemy POTUS, he has not done one thing in the interest of America. Now, some will say his interest is in himself, and his incompetence brought this upon us. But no one could possibly be as delusional and incompetent as Obama seems to be and make it to leader of the free world.
Of course, IF this is all true. Then we have been betrayed by many, and the cost of lives has not even begun to be tallied. I agree with some of this articles points, but the view is completely wrong.
We should never think of Obama as a failure in this case. He should be viewed as a success, he has been successful in his goal. Covering it up as just a “failure” is just going to allow it to happen again and again. If there ever is another conservative administration, or an administration that at least has the best interest of America held first and foremost. Then anyone in government, and media who allowed an unvetted, unworthy, unexperienced, liar, and traitor, who is likely not even an American citizen should be held accountable. That is tantamount to all other issues. I want the truth, and a lot of people seem to think that this conclusion is preposterous. If you think about it, how hard would it be to buy Hollywood, and all forms of entertainment, education and mainstream ideas over 50 years in America? Or at least plant those sympathetic to your cause? If you had vast financial, and political power? I think it could easily be done by a group conniving and manipulative enough.
I want all of Obama’s past brought to light so America can see all those dirty little secret’s he has been hiding throughout his past. It is like the man never existed, and why is that? There should at least be SOMETHING, but it’s like his past was wiped clean. That alone is highly suspicious, on top of that all the actions of 6 years and all of his close ties to islam and communism, and you come to the conclusion that everything Obama was meant to do, has been successful.
Agree! Miserable failure is almost a compliment to the SCUM. . .
The true believers are upset that he hasn’t gone far enough.
The media and academia has stupefied the masses.
Mussolini was a fascist nationalist, at least interested in improving his country and asserting its position, as he saw it. And of course, he did make the trains run on time.
Obama can’t even say that; he’s not competent enough to run anything. But most of all, he’s in the odd position of being president of a country he hates and which he has spent his entire life criticizing and tearing down. Even Mussolini was better than that.
We have been had
oh noooo,
Obammy is the “magic negro”.
Gonna stop the oceans rise.
Won a NObel prize.
he is neat, articulate and has a nice smile.
Worthless f-ing idiot is more apt.
Many years ago I managed the second largest department in an industrial facility where the management had drifted into a world of their own devising. They were living in “what should be” rather than what was. Imagine the frustration of being told to do something patently ridiculous and costing several million dollars, enraging them by saying it won’t work, and then being beaten into the floor with blame when exactly what you said would happen happened. Psychiatrists (I went to see one) call this crazy-making behavior. A fellow employee described it as; “They build castles in the air and move into them.” These feckless men destroyed a solid $80,000,000/year business and 90% of the employees lost their jobs. The men who did this retired with gold plated parachutes. The business was so solid and so profitable I’d have thought it impossible for even imbeciles to destroy but never underrate insanity. I spoke with every one of them individually and several of the minor directors admitted they knew what the president was doing was crazy, but instead of backing me they just nodded their heads at him like a one of those nodding-head Chihuahuas you see on the package shelf of a 1957 Chevy. The thing is, a great organization can be laid low by just one bad leader. It’s like letting a blind man drive a $100,000 dollar car. The car itself has the necessary momentum, that if badly steered, will tear itself apart. (Imagine what 5,000 nuclear weapons could potentially do.) This is why I voted for first McCain and then Romney rather than sit at home. And, yes, they were both hideous men, but they were both more competent than Obama and, at least, they were Americans.
Yes, I agree the Manchurian Candidate; But his skill and
only skill was his ability to read fluently from a
teleprompter text that he didn’t understand.
I honestly think so. If more people could think for themselves, and trust not one word from any entertainment, media, or educational outlet then we wouldn’t be in this mess.
It’s been happening for a long time. Say it enough, on enough mediums and people will believe anything. Once you have complete control of information you can get any number of people to believe anything. Then you place someone in charge to bring it all down.
Shortly after WWII the idea came to someone. Sometime during the late 50’s and early 60’s the idea was realized, and formed into action. Whoever is responsible put their dream into motion. The communists realized at some point the west could never be brought down from outside forces. So they slowly started changing the rhetoric from the inside on every medium. To make Americans weakened, confused, and misled. Ripe for a man that was groomed. Probably many men and women didn’t measure up, or make it very far in politics. But one did, and that one man is Obama.
The house of cards crumbles and everyone has a huge mess on their hands.
It wouldn’t be that hard if you have the patience, influence, money, and power. Believe me, there are men out there that have the will to bide their time, and slowly infiltrate one step at a time.
It may not have been possible before the industrial, “modern” informational era. But when you can instantly relay your thoughts, ideas and dreams to the other side of the world in a second I believe it’s possible to brainwash an entire nation. You can’t expect to change everyone, but you can change enough.
Exactly. He has been manipulated masterfully his entire life. He is the ultimate empty suit. A puppet his entire life, moving this way and that, by a puppet master.
You are correct.
Obama----the Jubilation T. Cornpone of politics.
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