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2010-03-12 Home Front: Politix

New Poll Shows Carteresque Trend for Obama

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Posted by Fred 2010-03-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Cramdown that healthcare takeover bill, and you'll get serious change. Not necessarily via ballot box as there are some people who are getting a tad hysterical about this thing.

Note to moderators: I am NOT Advocating this, just picked it up on the weird fringe thanks to a forwarded email from my brother. The far far "right" is beginning to sound like the far far left in methods. Again these are not my words and they scare the crap out of me that someone would actually say this: "couple of bullets would eliminate a couple of yes votes and settle this". Down that path is a banana republic, anarchy and eventually the jackboot. Their solution would kill our republic just as surely as the socialist Obama bill now in the house.

These extremists need to get a grip - my oath said "uphold and defend the Constitution", and they would attack it with such actions. They may not realize it but they have made themselves into the enemy, a domestic one.

What is this country coming to? Why can these people in DC not see what they are doing in contravention to Vox Populi, is starting to bring out the crazies who would shred our nation apart?

I didn't put my butt on the line for these crazy people to burn it down, nor for the idiots in Congress to rot it from within.

People, time to bombard your local congressman with phone calls, not armament. Call, get your friends to call, get your neighbors and anyone else. Fax them too, and visit the local district office for good measure to complain or support them in person with their staff.

Time to be heard and force your congressman into listening, before the idiots in Congress bring down the whole thing on our heads and the lunatics on the fringe help them.

Obama will be no help. He is a vain, narcissistic and possibly evil ignoramous.

Its up to us. Time to fish or cut bait.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-03-12 00:40|| 2010-03-12 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Carter wasn't a left-winger; he was incompetent, mainly, and also dizzyingly inconsistent.

Obama's very consistent, and consistently lefty, when it comes to his three main passions:
1. bashing friends, puffing up enemies, and generally promoting his Howard Zinn/lefty cartoon-version of recent history to foreign audiences;
2. shoveling benefits and privileges to his adored public sector unions;
3. and the occasional "teachable moment" about race.

But all of the above, while deeply annoying, pales next to the man's fecklessness. He's making Carter look strong and decisive.

In fact, Carter recently took umbrage at a Walter Russell Mead piece that had the temerity to compare B.O. to him.

Imagine that: a president so clueless that CARTER's offended by the comparison to him rather than v-v.

God help us all.

Posted by lex 2010-03-12 01:14|| 2010-03-12 01:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Let me settle this for you.
Carter was an American Assh*le.
Obama is an UnAmerican Assh*le.
The two breeds are quite different in their habits.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-03-12 04:20|| 2010-03-12 04:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Why can these people in DC not see what they are doing in contravention to Vox Populi, is starting to bring out the crazies who would shred our nation apart?

It makes me wonder if the silly DHS circulars on right-wing extremists wasn't a preparation for DC engaging in some truly un-American political endeavors- i.e. the near-nationalization of healthcare, whatever Obama could get at Copenhagen, etc.

Posted by Free Radical 2010-03-12 06:39|| 2010-03-12 06:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Grom: Obama is an American. I'm not happy at all with him but I won't deny him his country. He's wrong, wrong, wrong with the wrong ideology, and he's major, major incompetent to boot.

OS: I understand what you're saying, and I'm reading and hearing the same things. Peggy Noonan once pointed out that the party in power tends over time to become arrogant, whereas the party out of power tends to become insane. I'd say that's true and it causes both sides to behave foolishly.

Posted by Steve White 2010-03-12 08:45|| 2010-03-12 08:45|| Front Page Top

#6 In medical parlance then, could he be said to be a.... non-practicing American?

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-12 08:52|| 2010-03-12 08:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Steve zero was born American but he is UnAmerican.

Posted by Beavis 2010-03-12 09:13|| 2010-03-12 09:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Dr White
(i) I don't believe Barry had a Kenian father.
(ii) It's a cultural matter. For instance, in Israel we've a lot of people (term used for solely for purposes of reference) who think of themselves as Europeans.
My point is that Carter's peculiarities were a perversion of American values.
Obama's derive from quite a different basis.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-03-12 10:00|| 2010-03-12 10:00|| Front Page Top

#9 VDH was commenting on how there have been few set piece battles recently. I disagree, this has been a set piece battle which was lined up like airplanes into o'hare since 2006. It is a testiment how quickly the people of freedom from government have rallied.

I, too, have heard the funny talk. I have to remind them that the contest is one of will and spirit, and that there are many political and social ways to fight this intrusion onto the exotestial realm and concept of freedom. "Going Gault" is almost passive; there are many ways to bleed the pig if passed from the inside which have yet to be talked before such other talk.

The point is that this is home. Nowhere else to go people. My children will not be in chains no matter how bedazzled or covered in tinsil. And to the Voltarians who concept 'tend your own garden' whatta do when they come piss on your seeds and tell you its rain?

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-03-12 12:59|| 2010-03-12 12:59|| Front Page Top

#10 And one more thing.
All I needed to know about the man Obama was learned when he bowled 6 shitty frames and quit. He is a person of image, hiding behind endorsed paper of theory, handled by a committee of lost souls and wannabe lords.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-03-12 13:08|| 2010-03-12 13:08|| Front Page Top

#11 All he needs is a brother named "Billy" and an aggressive swamp rabbit.

Posted by Mike 2010-03-12 13:11|| 2010-03-12 13:11|| Front Page Top

#12 I don't know/care about the who's-more-'marekin issue, but I think it's instructive to compare these two men's very different records of training and executive/leadership before becoming POTUS.

James Earl Carter, Jr.:
-- degree in nuclear engineering
-- ran a successful business
-- served as an officer in the US Navy
-- served two terms as governor of a medium-sixed US state

Barack Hussein Obama:
-- affirmative action awardee at HLS
-- failed junior legal associate (billed less than 1,400 hours/yr) and haphazard lawyer for nincompoop clients such as ACORN (no joke-- his biggest client)
-- part-time adjunct lecturer at local law school
-- one term in a state legislature
-- half a term as US senator prior to running FT for POTUS
-- wrote not one but two autobiographies (before he'd achieved enough to merit even one) which established him as a darling of progressives and editorial writers

Posted by lex 2010-03-12 14:42|| 2010-03-12 14:42|| Front Page Top

#13 I cannot believe I am actually going to say this, but Carter actually was more qualified to be President than BHO and actually shines by comparison.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2010-03-12 16:20|| 2010-03-12 16:20|| Front Page Top

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