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The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown Very good piece by Nile Gardiner published in the Telegraph (UK). I only posted the headline and list of reasons but trust me you want to go read the whole thing. It is both rather scathing ans seems somewhat generous at the same time. It cannot be long before the amazing silence on this side of the pond to the dire collapse is replaced with sullen acceptance of reality.
1. The Obama presidency is out of touch with the American people
2. Most Americans don't have confidence in the president's leadership
3. Obama fails to inspire
4. The United States is drowning in debt
5. Obama's Big Government message is falling flat
6. Obama's support for socialised health care is a huge political mistake
7. Obama's handling of the Gulf oil spill has been weak-kneed and indecisive
8. US foreign policy is an embarrassing mess under the Obama administration
9. President Obama is muddled and confused on national security
10. Obama doesn't believe in American greatness
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08/15/2010 00:00 ||
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#1
Missed the biggest one. Americans facing the reality or the threat of unemployment recognize that this man is a complete lightweight who does not have the faintest idea how to get this economy adding real jobs again.
#2
It's about the unemployment, stupid. i.e. the death of the American Dream for millions.
As annoying and mindless as his repeated trashing of America and promotion of one-worldy pro-muslim idiocy may be, Obama would nonetheless be a popular president overall if his programs had significantly reduced the unemployment rate and enabled the economy to turn the corner.
Instead, this loser continues to blame Bush and tout his Potemkin jobs, such as the Census temporary non-jobs.
Every American can see what should have been obvious four years ago: the man has no expertise in anything beyond the subject of his two books, ie his Most Excellent Lifestory. No executive experience. No expertise in economics. No understanding of fed-state relations as they relate to con law questions or even the simple administrative fact of "leakage" as money travels from Washington to the sieve that is our state governments. A weak grasp of US history and a complete misunderstanding of the history of modern Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The man doesn't even have a sound grasp of his supposed area of professional competence, the law.
He is utterly out of his depth, and the people know it. Even Jimmy Carter has done his damndest to distance himself from this BS artist.
#3
Because he is building a structure that is begging to be used to turn America into just another socialist country.
I believe in American exceptionalism. We have exceptional people borne from an exceptional system. But if the system collapses, it won't be long before the people aren't any more. And that will be the end of it.
#4
It seems that 9 caused 8 while 7 brought about 2. 4 is inextricably linked to 5 and 10 explains 1.
Posted by: abu do you love ||
08/15/2010 2:36 Comments ||
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#5
There have always been a few people here who thought the French Revolution strain of thought which came out of the Enlightenment was superior to the American Revolution version.
Obama is one of them.
Hence #10.
Posted by: no mo uro ||
08/15/2010 6:35 Comments ||
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It would have been a damn sight more helpful had they reached their rejection and conclusions in November, 2008.
#7
Americans are increasingly rejecting President Obamaâs big government solutions to Americaâs economic woes, which many fear will lead to the United States sharing the same fate as Greece.
It would have been a damn sight more helpful had they reached their rejection and conclusions in November, 2008.
#8
Aside from superficialities, and perhaps the last two items, does anyone think things would be appreciably different under President McCain? These are the problems of the presidency for the last 80 years. The social contract is breaking down because it no longer addresses problems even remotely efficaciously. A new one will take its place, and the transition will be bumpy. Keep your seat belt on.
I chose my friends carefully.The more politically active black students.The foreign students.The Chicanos.The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets.At night,in the dorms,we discussed neocolonialism,Franz Fanon,Eurocentrism,and patriarchy.When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake,we were resisting bourgeois societys stifling constraints.
#10
"I chose my friends carefully.The more politically active black students.The foreign students.The Chicanos.The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets.At night,in the dorms,we discussed neocolonialism,Franz Fanon,Eurocentrism,and patriarchy.When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake,we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints."
People actually paid to read a book full of that pap and bought into it?
Idiots.
#11
"I chose my friends carefully.The more politically active black students.The foreign students.The Chicanos.The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets.At night,in the dorms,we discussed neocolonialism,Franz Fanon,Eurocentrism,and patriarchy.When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake,we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints."
-oooh, such an independent revolutionary...however, you didn't seem to mind taking bourgeois society's college scholarship money though did you Barry?...sanctimonious douchebag.
#12
11. He blames everyone else for his and his administrations shortcomings.
12. He really doesn't get America.
13. He is disengenuous about nearly everything. This administration couldn't tell the truth to the American people if the truth hit them in the a$$.
14. There are ethics problems with the administration. They take the radical left approach of the means justifies the ends.
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08/15/2010 11:07 Comments ||
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Add reason #11:
Obama has strongly endorsed the building of the mosque near ground zero.
I suppose next the Smithsonian will be displaying the Enola Gay at the Hiroshima Peace Monument or they'll open a Joseph Stalin museum in the Ukraine
Call to evening prayer music playing softly.....as photos of all 9/11 terrorists in rows with Obama's at the end....set on a backdrop of 9/11 tower jumpers leaping to their deaths. Caption reads...'What do the people all have in common?'
The Socialist Party of America announced in their October 2009 newsletter that 70 Congressional Democrats currently belong to their party as well.
I wonder if they are pleased with the attention their little newsletter is now getting?
Socialists are funny that way -- you'd think they'd be proud but for some reason they prefer to skulk around behind the scenes until revolution day ...
Posted by: JohnQC on the road ||
08/15/2010 11:09 Comments ||
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#7
This is obviously an incomplete list:
For example, only one Senator on the list, and he is an openly declared member of the DSA. Where the hell is Al Franken?
Also the only member from Minnesota is Keith Ellison. I know there are others from here.
Al
Posted by: Frozen Al ||
08/15/2010 13:20 Comments ||
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#8
Obama should be on that list as well....
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
08/15/2010 13:26 Comments ||
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#9
Well Technically Obama isn't 'Congressional' anymore so he wouldn't appear on the list anyway.
#10
Well, those who belong to this club are probably Menshaviks and Trotskyites, and the utterly fanatical congressmen consider themselves Bolsheviks, or maybe even Maoists, so won't associate with them except as a political convenience.
#13
Hope to see soon a list of Bilderbergers, National Corpratists, Lizards and closet Buchanonites. Not that it will matter, the methane bubble is still growing, not much can be done now that the so called well is so called capped. The commie in the so called white house is leading us to a new socialist order as made profitable by James Baker in order to insure the Texas Oil money is forever safe. Wake up! Sheeples Obama is a trick of the ogliarchy. Obama has oil on his hands and we is deh doomed.
#14
I see WA own Bagdad Jim [McDermitt] (D-Al-Queda) is on it. Others include Waxman, MADAM Maxine Waters, Charles Rangle, Keith Ellison, Jesse Jackson Jr., Shela Jackson (Co-Chair), etc...
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