Mr. President, Why Did You Want This Job?
By Ani on October 7, 2009 at 5:01 PM in Arrogance, Bank Bailouts, Barack Obama, Bush administration, Chicago politics, Congress (House & Senate), George Bush, Michelle Obama, Obama, Obama Administration, Obama's Broken Promises, Obama's Budget, Obama's Characteristics, Obama-Barack & President Barack (PARENT CATEGORY FOR ALL OBAMA REFS.!), Obamatopia Mirage, President Barack Obama
I would like an answer to my question. How can someone be so determined to knock everyone else off the stage that he would spend nearly a billion dollars to do it, and when his waffling and doubling dealing in office don’t yield the desired result, blame President Bush and everyone else under the sun for his predictable lack of leadership skills. The Democrats have controlled Congress since 2006. With overwhelming Democratic majorities in Congress now, what’s the problem? Could it be our Democratic Commander in Chief was not as ready or right on day one as he promised? I next want to know how he dare take this job at such a difficult time if that was the case.
The American Idol president is running his own reality show and we are picking up the tab. Mr. Obama seems to think that he and his wife are the most fascinating part of the American narrative. Last Friday, the IOC clarified the butter for the Obamas. In the past months, we have published many articles reporting on Kool Aid drinkers who have lifted their heads from the pink trough, dazed and confused, wondering where the “Change” is. The list is long: Peggy Noonan, Frank Rich, Susan Estrich, Andrew Sullivan, Camille Paglia, Robert Reich. Feel free to add your own. Today I add three more to that growing list.
First WaPo’s Richard Cohen complains Obama Doesn’t Seem Ready to Lead:
Barack Obama’s trip to Copenhagen to pitch Chicago for the Olympics would have been a dumb move whatever the outcome. But as it turned out (an airy dismissal would not be an unfair description), it poses some questions about his presidency that are way more important than the proper venue for synchronized swimming. The first, and to my mind most important, is whether Obama knows who he is.
This business of self-knowledge is no minor issue. It bears greatly on the single most crucial issue facing this young and untested president: Afghanistan. Already, we have his choice for Afghanistan commander, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, taking the measure of his commander in chief and publicly telling him what to do. This MacArthuresque star turn called for a Trumanesque response, but Obama offered nothing of the kind. Instead, he used McChrystal as a prop, adding a bit of four-star gravitas to that silly trip to Copenhagen by having the general meet with him there.
Mr. Cohen is blaming Gen. McChrystal for someone else leaking his report to the President. The more important point is, as Gen. Wes Clark or anyone else who’s actually been in this position will tell you (and as he did say in an interview this weekend), you’d better listen to your commanders on the ground. Cohen is right that the 25 minute meeting with McChrystal on Friday was merely a photo op. He’s still deliberating. How many more months of ‘deliberating” are required while our soldiers are dying in Afghanistan?
This is the president we now have: He inspires lots of affection but not a lot of awe. It is the latter, though, that matters most in international affairs, where the greatest and most gut-wrenching tests await Obama. If he remains consistent to his own rhetoric of just last August, he will send more troops to Afghanistan and more of them will die. “This is not a war of choice,” he said. “This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al-Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans.”
President Obama has the disastrous example of Iraq where Bush’s Generals told him from the outset that an overwhelming force was needed. They did not get it. You saw the result. Obama himself admitted that the belated 2007 surge was wildly successful. How much more evidence does he need? Define the mission, and either send the forces in to get the job done or pull all our men and women out of there. Choose. Lead. That’s the job description. Date night I don’t care about. Dog walking I don’t care about.
Cohen concludes:
But the ultimate in realism is for the president to gauge himself and who he is: Does he have the stomach and commitment for what is likely to be an unpopular war? Will he send additional troops, but hedge by not sending enough — so that the dying will be in vain? What does he believe, and will he ask Americans to die for it? Only he knows the answers to these questions. But based on his zigzagging so far and the suggestion from the Copenhagen trip that the somber seriousness of the presidency has yet to sink in, we have reason to wonder.
Has the seriousness of the presidency sunk in? Now there’s a question.
You may be surprised to note that NY Times columnist Bob Herbert is wondering the same thing. A huge cheerleader for Obama, Herbert cried racism and even saw phallic symbols in the leaning tower of Pisa in a misguided attempt to defend his chosen hero last year. Now he wonders Does Obama Get It? Well, Mr. Herbert, don’t feel bad. This question has been keeping me up nights, too. He states:
The big question on the domestic front right now is whether President Obama understands the gravity of the employment crisis facing the country. Does he get it? The signals coming out of the White House have not been encouraging.
Clearly Mr. Herbert, if you have to ask, then Obama does not understand the gravity of the situation. Where is his good judgment? How can one not understand 9.8 unemployment – in reality it is a much higher number when one includes Americans out of work for so long they have fallen off the rolls.
The Beltway crowd and the Einsteins of high finance who never saw this economic collapse coming are now telling us with their usual breezy arrogance that the Great Recession is probably over. Their focus, of course, is on data, abstractions like the gross domestic product, not the continued suffering of living, breathing human beings struggling with the nightmare of joblessness.
Even Mr. Obama, in an interview with The Times, gave short shrift to the idea of an additional economic stimulus package, telling John Harwood a few weeks ago that the economy had likely turned a corner. “As you know,” the president said, “jobs tend to be a lagging indicator; they come last.”
The view of most American families is somewhat less blasé. …
Nearly one in four American families has suffered a job loss over the past year, according to a survey released by the Economic Policy Institute. Nearly 1 in 10 Americans is officially unemployed, and the real-world jobless rate is worse.
It is a nightmare. No one is blasé when they are worried how they are going to feed their families. What about the porkulus package? Is this administration waiting to release most of the funds in 2010 to help them at the polls? If that is the case, shame on them.
Why should Obama understand when he isn’t spending his own money? Half million dollar pizza parties, an obscene amount spent on the inauguration and several million on this reckless Copenhagen junket show a frightening disconnect between Obama’s priorities and his fiduciary responsibility to the American people. Herbert continues:
The Obama administration seems hamstrung by the unemployment crisis. No big ideas have emerged. No dramatically creative initiatives. While devoting enormous amounts of energy to health care, and trying now to decide what to do about Afghanistan, the president has not even conveyed the sense of urgency that the crisis in employment warrants.
If that does not change, these staggering levels of joblessness have the potential to cripple not just the well-being of millions of American families, but any real prospects for sustained economic recovery and the political prospects of the president as well. An unemployed electorate is an unhappy electorate.
Mr. Herbert, they are already crippled, but instead of addressing the urgency of the economy and Afghanistan head on, we get what George Will calls The Obamas’ Narcissism on Display. Speaking of Mr. and Mrs. Obama’s speeches before the IOC last week,
…Their separate speeches to the International Olympic Committee were so dreadful, and in such a characteristic way, that they might be symptomatic of something that has serious implications for American governance.
Both Obamas gave heartfelt speeches about … themselves. Although the working of the committee’s mind is murky, it could reasonably have rejected Chicago’s bid for the 2016 games on aesthetic grounds — unless narcissism has suddenly become an Olympic sport.
George Will suggested that since the Obamas used so many “I” and “me” references in their speeches, Obama’s genius speechwriters (Favreau et al) should have substituted the words I and me with “sauerkraut” to underscore the ‘antic nature of their excessive appearances.’ Someone needs to tell the Obamas that what is compelling about America is all Americans – all colors of the rainbow, all states, all social strata – together. All of us. Not just the two of them. And all of us are hurting out here. Our soldiers are hurting, too.
Will also points to Obama’s excessive use of cliché:
“At this defining moment,” a moment “when the fate of each nation is inextricably linked to the fate of all nations” in “this ever-shrinking world,” he aspires to “forge new partnerships with the nations and the peoples of the world.”
…
Does our Cicero even glance at his speeches before reading them in public?
All this is indicative of a man not connected to his words or not caring enough about either his audience or the subject at hand to come up with anything better than patented brand phrases that some focus group told him “resonate” with the public.
Our soldiers and our economy need a coherent plan. Now. He has had ample time to figure this out, as has Congress. Too much energy is focused on infighting for a health care plan that is such an incoherent monstrosity that they should trash it and start over. This is not even supposed to take effect until 2013, after the next election. Hmmm I wonder why. All things considered, that leaves health care the least urgent issue of the three.
On Afghanistan and the economy, pressing matters where lives, jobs and homes are on the line – where is the president? Will concludes:
Unhappy will be a president whose defining adjective is “vain.”
In keeping with the vanity of this man’s administration, we also see that nothing President Obama does is his own fault. This is the job he wanted. And a majority of the electorate voted him in to do it. What is he waiting for? There is no one else to blame if he hems and haws so long that Afghanistan is lost. There is no one else to blame if he insists on focusing on parts of an agenda that are not helping put the American people back to work. This is his presidency now. So I’ll ask again.
Mr. President, why did you want this job?
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He wanted the Air Force 1. Remember how he kept upgranding his campaign plan during the primaries?
Wonderful insight, Ani. It has been very much like a reality show. In fact, it has been even more like a movie imitating a reality show–the lead character and the script seem more than a little unreal and phony: an actor playing a reality-show character who is struggling to grow up to be just like a real heroic and historic president, and beginning to believe that he is really the character he is playing. Something like that. The adoring fans love it.
it’s more of a horror show and we the people are suffering watching him make a hash of everything.
Actually, I have been wondering if we’ve all become unwilling actors/actresses in a performance of theater of the absurd.
Most presidents bored me because I always knew what they would say before they said it. They came to office with a set of principles and never deviated from them. With this guy you never know what he is going to say from minute to minute. He isn’t boring — he is terrifying.
For those of us who have been pounding our heads against the kool-aid brick wall for more than two years, “I told you so” is too little and too late and why he wanted the job has been on display forever—to be admired, loved, fawned over; to be the fist AA Pres, to be historical, to pick up the torch from JFK and inherit the Kennedy legacy; to be another FDR.
What’s governing go to do with it?
OT: Seeing posts at TC and other blogs about Ayres publicly taking credit for writing Dreams of My Father. May or may not have any truthiness.
Ayers taking credit for writing Dreams of My Father?
Bill, Barry hardly knew you! You were just a guy in the neighborhood.
I still want to know if the timeline from the early to mid 90’s is such that Barack Obama flew to Bali to finish writing his book about his deadbeat sperm donor father, literally flying over his own dying mother’s Hawaiian bedside, to finish writing his book.
Is this actually true? I can only do so much research. Isn’t this the most telling sign of all? Somebody who not only eschews being with his own mother while she is dying, but flies over where she is so he can finish writing his book, about his deadbeat dad?
Then Barack Obama talked about his mother dying of cancer during the 2008 election as if it were his cross to bear, made a commercial about his mother for the Texas contest against Hillary Clinton, brought up his mother again during the second debate against John McCain.
I’d like to know if the timeline is such that Barack Obama chose finishing a book over assisting his mother.
Why does Obama go out of his way to pick fights with Seniors, The Catholic Church, our Military Leaders and Conservative Voters? Its as if there is a duality at play in his personality. He wants to be loved, admired, for children to sing his praises etc. but he has divided this nation by gender, race, age and income.
but that can’t be…he is the great Uniter remember? Altho how anyone fell for THAT BS when he had already divided the Dem Party, I’ll never know
Oh, forgot—why O wants the job: to play with all those presidential toys; to be an international tourist; to meet all those heads of state and the world famous.
You know, jangles, your post really struck me as true.
Witness that Obama KNEW Iran has the 2nd nuclear plant, when Obama was speaking “eloquently” about a nuke-free world and chairing the Security Council. We know now that Sarkozy and Brown also knew, and both were outraged, albeit privately, that Obama didn’t mention Iran at all during the UN summit, but waited until a few days later at G-20.
THEN we find out that Obama’s political staff urged him not to mention the reality of Iran because it might damage his “image” of a peaceful world leader at the UN.
His IMAGE was more important to him than the reality of working closely with Sarkozy and Brown, or holding Iran accountable at the UN.
It’s stunning, really, to understand what that means.
I read somewhere a while ago that Obama wants to really be King, not President.
He wants his castles and adoring subjects and PR diary of ribbon cutting ceremonies.
Oh, and read also last night was Astronomy night at the White House. Pictures of our beloved first lady looking out a telescope.
Obama can’t make up his mind about the Afghan war but he has plenty of time to look out at the stars.
And in case you’re interested, next week is Latino night!
You probably won’t see the economy turn around until President Obama’s second term. He has said consistently that the mess Bush left him may take him more than one term to fix. So, please have some patience, Obama has only been in office less than a year.
FF— Whatever excuse you need… Go away… There is a hole in the sand left vacant with YOUR name on it!
Wow, apparently asking for some patience with the new president obviously struck a nerve with you.
I truly pity your ignorance… Ye a wee bit naive eh sonny..??!!
Thanks, sjc, that sounded just like my grandad.
I was wondering about the name “freedom fighter” as in one fighting for freedom… then it hit me. Freedom fighter means fighting against freedom… makes perfect sense now.
Excellent!
“Freedom Fighter”…a title given to those who strap bombs to the chests of their children so they can blow up Jews,or cowardly little men who hide behind the burkas of their women,shoot at our soldiers from school buildings,hospitals,and mosques
“Freedom Fighters”…yeah,like Hamas, Hezbolah,Taliban,al-Qaeda,Islamic Jihad,et al.
If the name fits….
What does That One need, exactly, to get his arse in gear–two hands, a GPS, a flashlight, and an engraved f*cking invitation? Time isn’t something we have in abundance, botboy. Compare our 9 months of interminable waiting for That One to actually DO something as your 5 minutes of waiting for your Mommy to give you your next bag of cheetos. Do you get the picture now, kid?
There’s one thing FF Obama will leave a bigger mess than Bush left him. How’s that feel?
Still you don’t care when you have your hand out for the distribution of others wealth.
Go ahead and talk about patience to the 8 military families burying their soldiers; I dare you.
Comment hit the wrong spot, meant for FF.
FF = 255.
Why don’t you do something useful, useless, like sign up, shape up, and ship out. You could bore the enemy to tears with your unmitigated bilge.
Oh, the military needs men and not malfunctioning automatons. Me culpa.
Ferd, I’d like to thank you for taking the time to swat FF down. He reminds me of my autistic brother.
Autistic bro: Repeats meaningless phrases.
FF: Ditto
Autistic bro: Engages in mindless, repetitive activities.
FF: Check
Autistic bro: Engages in ritualistic behaviors that annoy others, and may cause harm to himself.
FF: Yup.
Autistic bro: Stares at lightbulbs for hours on end.
FF: Not enough data.
My pleasure, Arabella. Botflies are always in need of a good swatting now and then.
You are a constant source of delight, Ferd!
Ellen D, this what I was headed for. LOL
Ah ha!
Thank you, Ellen D.
Swatting bots is like picking up other people’s litter. I’ll just bet the Obots who come to squat here and off-gas at will are also litterbugs in their “real” life that others come along and pick up after.
The economy won’t turn around until “Obama’s second term.”
In other words, never. Because Obama will not have a second term.
“Obama’s second term” = when pigs fly
“Obama’s second term” = until the 12th of never
“Obama’s second term” = the Greek calends
“Obama’s second term” = when hell freezes over
Your remarks are so cheering, trollbot boy. Thank goodness for you that your mommy has a never-ending supply of Hot Pockets in the freezer. Watch out for carpal tunnel syndrome.
Yeah but that red beanie, with yellow propeller and chin strap he wears really has to go.
This not about patience, this is about priorities.
There are actions the President can take right now to help small business, to get the economy moving, and he knows what they are.
This does not suit his agenda and that is why he is not doing it.
This is not about a time issue and how much time he needs to clean up. He wants to keep people in crisis mode so they will feel forced to push through his porkulus, cap and tax and health plans that are helpful to everyone but the people who need it most.
And he has continually tied healthcare to the economy, meaning that he has to fix healthcare beore the economy can improve. If he takes other measures available to him to help the economy, to help people get jobs back, then there goes his crisis to force through his health plan that the insurance and pharmaceutical friends want.
So he dare not fix the jobs situation, for fear of not being able to rush the healthcare stuff through, which of course won’t even take effect until 2013.
Amen, lorac. You stated this much better than I did!
His focus is on himself, creating some mythical legacy, instead of solving specific problems now. The stimulus funds are still not spent–what happened to an infrastructure plan that would have put people to work immediately? It has nothing to do with what he “inherited.” It is about what HE has not done, and continues to avoid. Lives are at stake.
YES (we can) of course Freedom Fighter! We will wait and wait and wait and wait and wait…
I dont think Obama will make it into a second term.
2010 is more than likely going to be a turn around for the House and Senate. Unless the people who get into the House and Senate make a lot of screw ups making Obama look good Obama will not make it for a 2nd term.
Certainly HOPE you are correct. However, it will take a big CHANGE for the House to swing to the Republicans.
I didn’t think he would make it into a first term;
get elected.
The last time we gave an incompetent boob a second term his name was Bush Jr.
Now you’re saying that we should have faith in another incompetent cause he said we should.
Well he also said unemployment wouldn’t reach double digits if they passed the second “stimulus” package in a hurry.
And here we are on the precipice of 10% unemployment.
Bush Jr. showed his lack of leadership and competency in his first term, and the idiots shouted, “Let him finish what he started” giving him a second term to continue to run the country in the ground.
Now the idiots (that reads “you”) are shouting the same thing with Obama.
To this I say, “hell no!”
This is where Obama’s agenda meets the reality of the 2010 election. If unemployment continues to rise and the dollar continues to fall the Republicans will win in a landslide.
Yeah right, Freedom Fighter, and according to some reports Obama has a “secret plan” to get us out of this economic mess. It’s soooo secret that even he doesn’t know the details.
The Obots never fail to insult our intelligence!
OMG. Are you a complete idiot? We don’t have the time to wait for Barky to get a grip. That’s why we (some of us) didn’t want him as president and DID want Hillary. So something is true because Obama said it was? Not bloody likely. We are so screwed.
FF: If there is a second Obama term, there will be no USA economy or $$$ to “turn around”. The Democrats had congressional majorities starting in 2006—including Sen. Barack, occasionally present, not holding any committee hearings, Obama.
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Let the taxpayers pay the extravaganza for doing NOTHING but show that toothy smile.
WE NEED THE JOBS PROMISED TO US LAST PRIMARY !
Wow…fabulous post, Ani! I think all Obama thought about was the celebrity of being President and less or none at all about the actual work that is involved in being President. I guess all the travel, meeting the cool, famous people and having “Hail to the Chief” played when he walks into a room, plus having people bow and scrape to him were the things a the top of his “why do I want to be President” list. It really makes you wonder, if he ever had a clue just what it would all really involve. Did he think that the drunken kool-aid haze would never wear off, and he could just skate by?
Considering all the times he voted “present” in the Illinois Senate, we know he can’t make a decision to save his life. He is quite the gutless wonder. I don’t even think he is all that smart, myself. Haven’t we all met or known someone that seemed smart at the outset, but when you got right down to it, they weren’t all that bright? Obama is not an impressive person, no matter how you look at it. All I can be sure about him is that he is liar and fence-sitter…two characteristics that I don’t want in anyone in serving in public office.
He is not bright at all. Have you ever heard him say one brilliant thing? Have you ever heard him say anything that wasn’t trite, cliched, and stupid? He is an idiot. And he is incompetent. He won’t lead because he has no idea about what to do. he is paralyzed by his inadequecy. He thinks he is wonderful…but he knows he is a fraud. God help us…because 0bama is the third term of Bush.
All he wants is everyone to boost his biiiiiiiiiig ego. I have never seen a president sooooooooooo engrossed in himself. He thinks the world just falls at his feet he is the biggest jerk going.
What Obama and his backers really want is to change our capitalistic system to something quite sinister…just look at the background of the people he has around him and you’ll see that their model resembles Marxism. Forget that the American people want to remain true to our current system of government. We don’t matter. It’s all about what Obama thinks is best for us (and most especially, what is best for his people).
He is intent on taking away from those who have worked and earned their wealth (and relative wealth) and redistributing it to the slackers, the shiftless and those unwilling to get an education.
He is being met with a resounding NO by the voters and I couldn’t be happier. It’s just unfortunate that he has trashed this country and this economy (and yes, it is HIS economy, not Bush’s)in the process. I am appalled at how much damage and dissention he has caused in so short a time.
THAT’S his only talent. He can keep it!
Sadly, I can just hear Obama turning to Michelle and asking “how f’ing cool would it be to get Leonardo DiCaprio to the White House, serve kobe steak, and get the people that stole America from it’s rightful owners to pay for it? HaHaHa”.
I wish I could think of a word that meant narcissism on steroids.
Why dod Obama want the job? Certainly not in order to do the job.
Obama genuinely believes that Capitalism is evil and he lied his way into the Presidency in order to right the perceived wrongs of those who he feels were cheated by our Founding Fathers.
Excellent commentary, Ani. I, too, wish an answer as to why he wanted this job. I’m sure it was only for the perks and to stroke his already over-bloated ego.
He isn’t ready today, won’t be ready tomorrow, and if truth be known, will never, ever be ready. This is all he is, a pandering, pontificating, prevaricating, puling pustule of a POTUS. He is a carbuncle on the body politic and naive nattering numbskull. Every time he opens his mouth, thinks, or issues some ill-conceived order, he weakens this nation.
Amen to that…
Excellent post, Ani - when I first saw that Bob Herbert article, I had to check to make sure it was the same man who had been carrying the water for Obama.
And this highlights the problem with these people going for the STORY of who Obama is (and I do mean story - large chunks of it are made up) rather than looking at his record, for instance. Pathetic.
I guess Herbert will now have to label himself a “racist,” Amy. Afterall, he was so quick to make the charge about the rest of us critiquing the POTUS’s performance [or lack, there of].
But we need to remember–this is the same press that supported Bush&Co, sold the Iraq War as a “war of necessity.”
Until they didn’t.
Will they turn on Barack Obama? It’s almost a given. But we should never forget, these same “journalists” sold the original package to the American public.
Mission Accomplished!
And we all lose, again.
exactly; the MSM are whores, first and foremost. they sold america bush and the iraq war, and then they sold us Ozero. and you can believe that as soon as the public mood turns definitively against zero, the MSM will turn on him like a pack of wolves.
in obama’s “defense,” i would like to say that i think that a lot of his arrogance comes from the fact that since the very beginning, powerful behind-the-scenes interests have seen him as a useful tool (front man) to advance their own causes, and they have helped him get places that he never would have gotten on his own merits.
zero, however, thinks he “earned” everything he’s gotten, hence his arrogance and the disillusionment of his followers, who now that they’ve got a closer look at the messiah, realize that there isn’t all that much there.
Another one gobbled, Ani. The spammy monster really doesn’t like me tonight. Sending a second email now.
I rescued both. Thanks for your comments, Peggy Sue.
Thanks for the lifesaver, Ani :0).
Well, for Herbert to come out and complain like this, you know something horrible is going on.
Furthermore, as a strong, sincere and faithful Obama apologist, if Herbert thought the problem were only that Obama “inherited” a mess and would take a lot longer to solve it — everyone can be sure he would say as much.
Instead, Mr. Herbert makes quite clear he thinks Obama can do something about it right now but is either choosing not to or has his priorities so skewed that he isn’t paying attention.
Very telling.
Obama wants to “fundamentally change” this country. Why do you think he has so many Marxists surrounding him?
He doesn’t give a shit about the economy or jobs or those pesky Citizens. He WANTS people to be broke so that he has more minions begging for his help.
Good article, Ani, but I think it’s too late for those BO supporters to wake up now. We saw all of this coming before “The One” was elected, and no one listened to us. I just hope it’s not too late to save the Republic.
I predict that the refrain pealing from the belfrys of the next presidential election will be somewhat of a echo from the last one. This time around: “Anybody but Obama”!
Right on, Ani! To steal someone else’s amazing tagline:
The ego has landed.
Why did he want the job? Because it’s the biggest and bestest out there. Except right now, it’s not because the job is fraught [as has always been the case] with serious and keep-you-up-at-night implications. The idea that the American Idol took a job well beyond his reach is evident with each passing day. No amount of spin can change that, regardless of how many times Axelrod comes out to explain and excuse and soften the blow.
The American electorate, the majority, was lulled into thinking that a great smile and some rousing words had more power than they actually did. The Obamatrons always hyped Obama’s “intelligence.” But even if that were true intelligence does not equate to leadership qualities. And leadership is what we need right now, what every American Left and Right is desperate for. Appeasement? Sell it to your dog!
The speeches? They’re all beginning to sound the same and are achingly ineffective. Mr. President, this is not about you! It’s about the America’s past, present and future. And you, sir, are letting the country down.
God knows what the next three years will bring. But I’ll take a wild guess: this is “not” the change most people were counting on.
And for FF–how long will progressives make excuses for this man? You’ve [as a group] have compared Barack Obama with FDR. Go check the record. If you dare, that is.
Not even close. And patience? Tell that to the guy who’s out of work, losing his home, and can’t feed his family. The unemployment numbers? They’re bogus. 9.8 is a joke. Look underneath the “easy” calculations. But beware! The numbers are shocking.
Did Bush&Co. set this up? No doubt. But our fearless Democratic leader is not doing anything to make it better. In fact, this Administration is making the bad worse. And lying about it to boot.
Too big to fail? I don’t think so.
Ani, I had another one go the way of the spammy monster. Sending an email now.
Why did he want this job?
* Feels grandiose and self-important (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents to the point of lying, demands to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
* Is obsessed with fantasies of unlimited success, fame, fearsome power or omnipotence, unequalled brilliance (the cerebral narcissist), bodily beauty or sexual performance (the somatic narcissist), or ideal, everlasting, all-conquering love or passion
* Firmly convinced that he or she is unique and, being special, can only be understood by, should only be treated by, or associate with, other special or unique, or high-status people (or institutions)
* Requires excessive admiration, adulation, attention and affirmation - or, failing that, wishes to be feared and to be notorious (narcissistic supply)
* Feels entitled. Expects unreasonable or special and favorable priority treatment. Demands automatic and full compliance with his or her expectations
* Is “interpersonally exploitative”, i.e., uses others to achieve his or her own ends
* Devoid of empathy. Is unable or unwilling to identify with or acknowledge the feelings and needs of others
* Constantly envious of others or believes that they feel the same about him or her
* Arrogant, haughty behaviours or attitudes coupled with rage when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted
Yes.
Obama wants to go down in the history books. He thought it’d be like every other job he had before - just show up and let others do the work all the while giving him the credit.
Obama will go down in the history books, all right. Just not in the way he expected.
yes but how it will be glorified when his friend Ayers writes a pack of lies about him.
I think Obama wanted this job as a stepping stone to the job he really wanted KING OF THE WORLD.
As I have said before and will now say again…
Obama wanted to BECOME POTUS. He never wanted to BE POTUS.
I grew up with women who wanted to GET married. They never wanted to BE married. It’s fun and exciting to GET married. You get to plan to be “Queen for a day”, wear a beautiful dress and have a great party with lots of music and food.
The list is long: Peggy Noonan, Frank Rich, Susan Estrich, Andrew Sullivan, Camille Paglia, Robert Reich. Feel free to add your own.
Here’s another, the writer Gore Vidal. I used to consider the guy a great writer and a smart man. I still consider him a great writer. Not so intelligent after all, but at least he’s honest enough to admit he was mistaken to drop Hillary for Obama. Maybe the kool-aid will wear off completely before he buys the farm.
I hope that’s true for our country as well.
Link:
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6854221.ece
Cugel, Thanks for reminding me. I saw the article of Vidal last week. How could he have been so delusional. I really believe part of this is couched sexism. The idea of a woman commander in chief was too threatening so “intellectuals” like Vidal talked themselves into believing the branding, rhetoric and canned speeches.
No logic to it, really.
there was definitely as element of sexism in it; as Geraldine Ferraro correctly said (paraphrasing) - obama was lucky to be a black male, because if he was a white male or a female of any color (with similar qualifications), there is no way he would have gotten the dem nomination or won the GE. she was of course crucified for daring to speak the obvious truth.
there is no doubt that many people just thought it would be “cool” to have a younger black male POTUS; and older white female POTUS, not so much.
Because Gore Vidal and Barack Obama are both condescending, unashamed elitists, in matters of class…
No one backed the president because Obama “grew up in a black city” (Washington??). It is patently insane. He didn’t. That Vidal saw a greater intelligence and less propensity to lie than Hillary is a smoke screen to white wash obvious implications of something, his own arrogance, but without excluding the possibility of sexism.
Thanks for the link. That article would be unprintable in an American newspaper, and not for the reason one would expect. Not because Vidal says Americans are ill-educated boobs addicted to candy. Not because Vidal talks frankly about his homosexuality. Oh no.
Vidal’s “Burr” is one of my favorite novels. No doubt he would be surprised to know that American people still read books.
But he’s a marvelous old bastard, I give him that.
Karma is a bitch… eh OBee??!
I think Obama wanted to become President so he and Michelle would never have to work another day, so he would have ‘bodyguards’ the rest of his sorry life and so he could live off of the taxpayers for ever and ever, AMEN.
He’s the “welfare recipient” President. LOL
Postmaster, has BO ever had a real job?
Not that I’ve ever heard of, unless you call “community organizer” a job.
No, wait (smacks head in sudden recall) Now that I think of it, Obama had at least one job, and it wasn’t the glamour finance job in Dreams of My Father. He worked for some publishing outfit that printed financial newspapers or directories.
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But my favorite is
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LOL.
Yeah, that’s probably a lie, too. I’d say he was a park pooper scooper, which is all he’s qualified to do anyway and serves as the basis for his not eating chili.
How many people do you know that would not White House ice cream on their White House pie?
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mmmm mmmm mmmm. ( I am referring to the patience of 6 newly mented Gold Star mothers that Katmoon mentioned)
Obama eats pie while solders die.
He certainly does and ought to be ashamed of himself for his indecision, lack of candor, and lack of empathy. He is devoid of real human emotion.
Check Please!…BO and the Dixie Sampler.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oyTD6JGie0
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Anyone from the south NOT have a definitive favorite and making up ones mind is not a problem?
I mean seriously, I know there are many ways to serve “Buba Gump Shrimp”, but everyone has a favorite.
Ani, I am still lookin…Elkhart, IN August 6th 2008, found one but that part was cut. Personally, I like to see the full context not some overlayed commentary. You know all that CSpan that BO promised?
Just WTF is a Community Organizer? From what I can discern they organize communities so that they can line their pockets with the newly organized community’s money, which means it is more akin to an organized crime community. What has all this organizing, PowerPoint Presentations, jib-flapping, and flat out lies done for anyone? Certainly nothing for Chicago’s south-side except help get a scrawny slacker with an opaque background elected POTUS.
He even lied about THAT job, according to the other people that worrked there with him, I’ll see if I still have the link
“1983-84 — research assistant, Business International Corporation — New York — At this firm that helped American companies do business abroad, Obama was a researcher and writer for a reference service called Financing Foreign Operations; among his duties was writing a newsletter called Business International Money Report.”
Here’s the link by the guy that worked at BI with him and said everything Obama wrote about it in his book was lies, (which BTW this was written in 05 and other coworkers commented in the comments, interesting that no one in the MSM interviewed any of these people, but since they would be calling Dr.Utopia a liar, I guess we know why they weren’t interviewed.
http://www.analyzethis.net/2005/07/09/barack-obama-embellishes-his-resume/
…But after reading his autobiography, I have to say that Barack engages in some serious exaggeration when he describes a job that he held in the mid-1980s.I know because I sat down the hall from him, in the same department, and worked closely with his boss. I can’t say I was particularly close to Barack – he was reserved and distant towards all of his co-workers – but I was probably as close to him as anyone. I certainly know what he did there, and it bears only a loose resemblance to what he wrote in his book…
…as the months passed, I felt the idea of becoming an organizer slipping away from me. The company promoted me to the position of financial writer. I had my own office, my own secretary; money in the bank. Sometimes, coming out of an interview with Japanese financiers or German bond traders, I would catch my reflection in the elevator doors—see myself in a suit and tie, a briefcase in my hand—and for a split second I would imagine myself as a captain of industry, barking out orders, closing the deal, before I remembered who it was that I had told myself I wanted to be and felt pangs of guilt for my lack of resolve.
If Barack was promoted, his new job responsibilities were more of the same – rewriting other people’s copy. As far as I know, he always had a small office, and the idea that he had a secretary is laughable. Only the company president had a secretary. Barack never left the office, never wore a tie, and had neither reason nor opportunity to interview Japanese financiers or German bond traders.
Nope Witzend, I don’t believe he has….thanks for bringing that to my attention! woooooooohooooooooooooo……….
When he first announced his run for President, I was pretty sure I knew why he wanted the job. He decided to run just after it became known in the media that the Clintons were worth $100 million, after leaving office with a multi-million dollar debt for legal fees. They earned it from their books and speaking engagements. Big Dawg is very popular at the podium, since he always has something interesting to say and says it in a clear and concise manner. I think Obummer and his missus decided that they wanted the same perks and wealth as the Clintons. But there is a problem with that plan. Obummer isn’t Bill Clinton and isn’t a patch on Hillary by any stretch of the imagination. He cannot write well, and as for speaking..uh..well, uhm…not so good at that either. He will depart quietly, though, if he is impeached by the next Congress. All someone has to do to ensure it is tell him that if he is convicted, he is off the taxpayers’ dime forever..no pension, no SS, not a dime of perks. That’s why Nixon resigned, he wanted the pension and he knew he wouldn’t get it if he was convicted. So, the Obummers got into the presidential game for the money and the resulting, they think, income. Of course, I can’t imagine anyone paying Obummer to give a speech. After his presidency, no one will want to hear from him again. But he will have the mansion in Chicago, and his pension and staff allowance. At our expense, of course. Just like his presidency is at our expense. An expense we can’t afford.
No logic to it, really.
I never understood the attraction, but then I never understood the attraction Reagan had for many. Smooth talk issuing from a cold and empty vacuum. Didn’t Oblahblah say something positive about Reagan Transformational or something. Maybe he’s not GWB III after all, he’s RR III.
My sentiments exactly, Cugel. The first time I heard Reagan speak, I got creepy-crawlies. He was an actor giving a wonderful performance. (Just like my dad, all those years).
However, he is such a beloved actor/president, that I don’t have the nerve to say anything against the man, unless I duck and cover, even though he had no idea what he was doing during that 2nd “Alzheimer’s Term”.
Heck, he had no idea what he was doing during his FIRST term.
Ijust hate empty suits.
We used to make a game out of parsing Reagan’s speeches. Once you took out all the filler, the feel-good cliches and the required patriotic appeal, there was nothing left. No substance. I do the same thing with Obummer’s speeches. Same result.
i don’t think he really wanted it, in the beginning… remember when they asked him in 2004, and he said no, he thinks people should be ready when they run? I think the Dem powers that be pushed him into it, pumped his head with all kinds of ideas, and he went for it.
And like Tom Cruise, became so full of himself, and surrounded by sycophants he went way beyond in believing the hype. he wrote a couple of books about himself (at his age?? please!) and they pushed him through state senate to US senate, sold him to supporters, slapped his name on bills, and threw money at him, used his ACORN connections/background, the Alinsky rules for radicals, and the anti-Bush sentiment. He could read a teleprompter, invoke a southern baptists lilt when needed, and looked like a young MLK/JFK. hell they even regurgitated speeches that didn’t work for Deval Patrick. And let’s not forget the race card. And the delegates.
he’s kind of like milli vanilli.
if you’re everything to everybody, you’re nothing to nobody.
Well put.
AGI said:
“if you’re everything to everybody, you’re nothing to nobody.”
In a nutshell! And didn’t we try like hell to tell people this? But unfortunately, the majority refused to listen.
Now, we all lose.
he’s kind of like milli vanilli.
Yes! All noise and no action.
great post, btw!
2nd that…
The motion is carried.
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Obtaining a position and doing the job are two different things. Not one of us has not been exposed to the Dilberts of the world. We just rarely let one get behind the desk of the oval office.
THIS is what CNN call unbiased reporting. The kids even mention Joe Wilson lied.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/10/07/school_kids_sing_for_health_care_reform_on_set_of_cnn.html
Did CNN fact check any candidate or president before ? If my memory does not fail me,the answer is NO !
CNN has become one big joke.
I can’t take credit for this prediction - but the Village Voice predicted Obama won’t seek a second term.
My guess is he really just wanted to be the first Black President. Rather than have the first Black President lose re-election, he’ll drop out:
“At this defining moment in history, for the good of our great nation, I must focus all my attention on Afghanistan. With every waking moment, with every beat of my heart, with every fiber of my being, with every hair on my head — I will not rest until we are victorious. Therefore I will not seek re-election as your President. It’s been great, America! Yes We Did!”
I’m sure that it is true that all Obama wanted to do was become the first black president. Then ride the gravy train to cadgeville for the rest of his life. Obama will not run again.
I hope Obama wants to be the first black man to live on Mars, and I pray every day that he accomplishes that goal.
Oh how I wish you’d write more here. Your comments never fail to make me laugh. Thanks!
Thanks, Portia Elizabeth!
If he runs for a second term,
HE WILL NEED TO PRODUCE A VALID BC
and other sundry info.
THAT’S WHY HE WON’T TRY IT - MHO…..
Andrew Cohen: “Already, we have his choice for Afghanistan commander, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, taking the measure of his commander in chief and publicly telling him what to do.”
Perhaps it is precisely BECAUSE he has taken the measure of his commander in chief that McChrystal feels compelled to tell him what to do.
McChrystal took the measure of his commander in chief…….and found it sadly LACKING! Otherwise, he would never have gone public.
Spot on–I would only add four-flusher to the list.
In my first management position, I quickly learned that the best executives will always hire people who are smarter than they are. You don’t need to be the smartest one in the room; you need the best advice. And, in the end, it’s you who gets credit for the team’s hard work. If BO had any executive experience, he would know this.
For every good piece of advice he gets (e.g., McChrystal), he’s got 3 humanoids pulling him the other way. He may have touted his judgment during the elections, but this is just one more quality he utterly lacks.
Agreed. As a manager, I don’t want stuffed shirts or yes-men or hangers-on. Many of those who work for me have PhDs and aren’t afraid to mince words. I often get flack but more so, I get results with the assembled team.
That being said, some other managers in the company are fiefdom-builders who only want a title and someone to push around and whose work they can take credit for until they retire (which is never too soon).
LMAO. Subhumanoids, to be specific.
I don’t think BO ever even entertained the possibility that he could fail. Heck, if George W. could do it….
So, in 9 years we’ve gone from a Rhodes Scholar to a dullard to an empty suit. Embarrassing, isn’t it?
That’s sad and funny at the same time. If it weren’t for the humor I see in this situation, I would be weeping a river of tears. With the track record of the electorate in the last three General Elections, I’d say the next President will be a 40-year old, never-married, basement dwelling hermit with no record of ever having existed and never having stayed at a Holiday Inn Express–but he’ll be real good at video games. We’re doomed.
Actually, joking aside, the one word I can’t get out of my mind is “MALADMINISTRATION”.
When the subject of impeachment came up at the Constitutional Convention, George Mason advocated “maladministration” as sufficient cause. Madison and others dismissed this as too broad, favoring “high crimes and misdemeanors” instead.
Whatever misgivings I’ve had through the years about the parliamentary system of government, BO has made me an ardent supporter of one of its practices: the No Confidence Motion. In effect, this is a means of curtailing the damage done by the ruling party mid-term, and, boy, could we use this here now.
If deception and gross incompetence aren’t instances of “maladministration” and grounds for impeachment, I don’t know what is (except perhaps lying about a sexual liaison).
The “Marxists” surrounding Ozero don’t bother me, as Marxism has been shown to be a complete failure; what does bother me is the Fascists he has installed running and ruining our financial and defense systems. Fascism being defined as a government run by and for corporations. By acting as a figurehead president over the essential demise and restructuring of the middle class, he assures himself and his Chicago cronies a rich and secure lifestyle for the remainder of their miserable lives. Add all the toys he gets to play with and that’s why I think he “wanted” to become president. And it has nothing to do with the country or its citizens.
Excellent post Ani! As usual
Obama is probably sitting in the Oval Office pondering this very question, now that he can’t just vote present on crucial issues such as Afghanistan or the crumbling economy. I think it’s beginning to dawn on him that being POTUS isn’t about speechifying, posing with world leaders, and taking Michelle out on dates.
This is a man whose confident exterior betrays an insecurity within his core being. How else can one explain the excessive self-congratulatory preening sessions that pass for speeches? Or the constant need for public adulation and approval? Honestly, Obama’s egotism has only increased since being elected, a feat which I had previously thought to be impossible.
I don’t want to hear anyone who promoted him or voted for him to EVER say anything resembling buyer’s remorse. They got what they wanted, they should be made to seethe in silence, much like how they wished for Hillary supporters like me to mourn in silence while kowtowing to The One during the later primaries.
So to those who voted for him, and Peggy Noonan, Frank Rich, Susan Estrich, Andrew Sullivan, Camille Paglia, Robert Reich, Gore Vidal, Richard Cohen, et al, don’t cry ignorance now since you were forewarned about all his flaws and yet you chose to antagonize ones who sounded the alarms. To quote a famous line from the movie Heathers, “Lick it up, baby, lick-it-up!”
To quote a famous line from the movie Jerry McGuire. He lost me at Hello!
Now WHO was that said we should pick the work horse and NOT the Show Horse? Oh wasn’t that Hillary
When I was reading these people that went out of their way to make sure Obama was POTUS like the racebaiter Herbert, I want to remind thenm that any thinbg Obama said while campaigning was “words just words”
Obama wanted the job, cause it was a cool title and he had all kinds of perks and would never have to actually work in his whole adult life and Meeshil could Finally be proud of America.
I know it’s been said before, and I’m saying it once again… He didn’t really want the job. He wanted the title. He wanted the position. He wanted to live in the White House.
I’d like to ask Me-shell, “How’s ‘keeping your house in order’ workin’ for ya?”
He always reminded me of the kids you know who don’t like sports, but join all the leauges because they LOVE wearing the uniforms and being on the team. They are happy sitting on the bench, because they really don’t want to practice or work hard, but sure love putting on the uniforms.
That One is a leach, a parasite, and a locust. I believe reference to that unholy trinity, comprising Thee One, an artful slipshod, shiftless slacker of a deity, is all that needs be said. I wonder if Prime Obutt knows of that which he worships. Nah, so long as he gets to come up for air, he’s fine with it.
I fear the Boy Blunder wanted the job for kicks and giggles.
Great read Ani, In the end the meme of O-pe and Cha Cha Cha Change, is not finding any sustanable resonance.
Fact. Hope does not put food on the table.
Fact. Change is a constant.
What does an immoral, indifferent human know of these things, other than to be used as a weapon?
Change as a weapon. A tactical weapon… like smoke bombs, tear gas or flash grenades. That is dead on right.
The Bill Ayers as ghostwriter bit just keeps picking up steam. Will the media notice? Will the rest of the world?
http://www.cdobs.com/archive/featured/author-author-a-sorry-denouement,71678
IMHO Obama wasn’t interested in running for POTUS until Axelrod et al (namely the Daley machine) stroked his ego and the egos of the likes of Bill Ayers and others into running, by offering the WH for their silly marxist ways in exchange for the 2016 Games.
Obama’s entire history has shown he does nothing and only accepts credit when it boosts his own selfish needs, an easy mark for the likes of Axelrod and Daley to exploit. From Obama doing virtually nothing with the Alten Gardens aspestoes situation to having a single word changed in the Bill in the Senate for gratuity reform, yet his claiming he wrote the Bill, shows the type of person Obama is, a selfserving opportunist!
And his wife isn’t far behind him, having grown up in a household where MO’s father was a water plant operater and yet was making more money than a teacher was, gratus of being a District Captain in the world of Chicago politics where those who do the crimes reap the rewards. That MO had seen her entire life while growing up and it is just a bred into life she holds and lives by!
The speeches to the IOC in reflection are not an expose of BO and MO, they were simply using the same speeches that pulled the wool over the eyes of millions of Americans who are too lazy to investigate for themselves in this day of the internet and still rely on the likes of Oprah and Chris My Leg is shaking Matthews to tell them how to think!
Fortunately the IOC has a job to do and based on the resulting outcome, they did their jobs well in embarrissing the Infomercial duo who live in the WH to the world, something anyone who actualy did any investigating knew going into the heavy times of the Primaries last year and rejected BO for numerous reasons from birth certificates to Pathalogical liars to inexperienced to marxist and more!
Unfortunately the IOC has made it clear to Americans that the US has a weak place in the world today, from the outside world blaming the US for the depression of today to the corruption the US has placed by invading Iraq and ignoring the stance BO made during the elections of withdrawing immediately and pushing for the real war on terror in Afganistan, America to the world today is nothing more than broken promises and lies!
With 10% unemployment and likely to spike at 12 to 15% within the year, Obama will leave office with one thing to his credit only, making the people wake up and ignore the media and actually investigating for themselves!
Right now, Obama has a major problem to deal with, providing Daley et al the $27+ Billion Chicago needs for infrastructure money that would have been a cake walk had Chicago won the 2016 Games with a soft sell by Obama for the money allocation and no doubt it would have happened burried in the rest of the $800 Billion Obama has at his disposal to spend.
The one thing Americans cannot do is point out this guy as a lousy Black POTUS, but siply as a corrupt one that skin bears no color on otherwise America will sink even further down the road!
It is high time people step up and hold elected representatives and media accountable — 2008/2009 is absolutely the time of the citizen journalist. I am continually amazed by how many news items came out about Obama last year that people complained were exaggerations or internet smears — meanwhile they have since been proven true.
$27+ Billion Chicago needs for infrastructure money
This will have an adverse affect on the poorer parts of Chicago… as all the racketers head back to the same old
watering holesmoney pits.All those who were greased in advance must be in a pickle of jar.
What bad judgment these writers had in being bamboozled by Baracko. Good to read the bamboozled idiots are waking up, but won’t put much faith in anything a current or former Obama supporter states.
Just feel anyone that supported Obama has nothing teach me. Idiots with herd mentality are not independent thinkers.
Excellent, excellent post.
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Ani, So I asked the Great google barcode behind the cutian that I was not supposed to pay any attention to a question.
Obama was asked Why do you want to be president.
Turns out a seven year old girl did just that.
(I am looking for the extended clip of this)
Love to see it…
I remember that… because we aren’t so great a nation anymore was the short answer he gave the 7 year old. I had forgot about that. Since then he has told that exact same thing to despots worldwide. We aren’t so great anymore. No wonder the Olympics would rather have their games in a third world country… at least their leader is optimistic about his third world country.
Thank you Ani for supplying such good, recent examples of disillusionment and discontent!
If this POTUS were honest, he’d admit he merely wants to be a figurehead because tokenism is his comfort zone — it’s the major aspect of his noteworthy experience (what little he has).
He was selected president of the Harvard Law Review, not because he had the highest GPA which was the traditional determinant, but because he was AA at a time of campus racial unrest.
He was selected keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, not because he’d truly distinguished himself in any way as a legislator or leader, but apparently because he’s an articulate, pleasant-looking (not too dark!), non-threatening AA male. Why else, since he was just a state senator at the time and his speech was mainly about race relations?
The fact that the general public rates him higher than his policies and management suggests they don’t expect as much from him.
Media characterizes him as No Drama Obama on one hand, and too exotic for some tastes on the other — the very definition of tokenism.
Thousands mob Detroit Center, hope for free cash.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV2ngvYI_ZU&feature=player_embedded
As always great read Ani
IMO Obama only wanted to be POTUS to destroy America. Oh, some here will balk at that, I know. I’ve heard Larry and others call Obama well intentioned. He means well, many want to believe. I never have and never will believe that. It isn’t just a manner of accidental incompetence. It is purposeful incompetence. The final stab in America’s back. If Obama had ever had good intentions, he would not have had to have people thrown off the ballot to become Senator. He wouldn’t have needed to get Hillary out of the way. He would have chosen to learn from Hillary for her 8 year term as VP and then he still could have been the first black POTUS to serve his 8 years and still relatively young still. No, he is a post turtle, he didn’t get this for or by himself. Someone else is pulling the strings, maybe several someone elses and what they want will always come first, no matter how stupid it is and how destructive to the country. Obama post Turtle:
“You know he didn’t get up there by himself. he doesn’t belong up there, he doesn’t know what to do while he is up there, and you just wonder what kind of a dumb a$$ put him up there to begin with.”
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In reality….all Barry really wanted was to be the Queen of England…think about it…the Queen does nothing but travel, very well respected where ever she goes, etc….
We should have elected Barry the Queen of USA!
Why did he want this job?
The adulation of millions of people who drank his kool aid and until now hasn’t awaken.
The special trip to New York for a dinner with the wife.
Visits to different countries with the family.
Constant campaign and with it comes constant adulation.
Try and convince people that his radical agenda is the only way to go.
I truly believe Obama is the antithesis of what he projects. Instead of a confident man, I think he is extremely insecure and in need of constant adulation to stroke that ego. The applause, the worshiping crowds and finally, a place in history (he mentions that constantly) as the first AA President. However, we all forget that Obama is racially mixed, has never lived the American experience and has never achieved anything on his own merit - like Lincoln, like JFK, like Martin Luther King. Why the comparisons? Because the man can’t stand on his own.
Obama genuinely believes that Capitalism is evil and he lied his way into the Presidency in order to right the perceived wrongs of those who he feels were cheated by our Founding Fathers”
He doesn’t “genuinely believe” anything, except perhaps the power of the Soros & et.al. controlled media to cover for him and keep him where they put him.
If he believed capitalism was evil, he would be not be jet setting around with all the advantages a capitalist society can give him and his worse-than-useless wife with many useless assistants.
He “believes” in whatever gives him what makes him feel good. He has the ego of a 5 year old, and the mental capacity of, perhaps, a 14 year old. I picture him going into that Oval Office, sitting down and looking like “what am I doing here?”and “what do I do now?”
Me too, Mr Obama, How did you dare take this job at such a difficult time when you are not ready and likely never will be?
Is anything real to you Mr Obama? The tenants who suffered in Resco’s slum on your watch? The Teflon game you played in the State Senate while the people who needed/elected you suffered? The war in Afghanistan during your brief visit to the US Senate?
Is there anything inside of you Mr Obama? Could you shake them off, all the king makers who attached themselves to you so long ago, and become a real person/president?
I think he’ll make it a fuss. Dealing in Afghanistan is now in noone’s hand and no one can bring its end.
I’m really tired of hearing people say that Obama inherited this problem. He was a US senator and he helped contribute to the problem.
The problem is, not only does Obama lack leadership qualities, he has no good people to support him. Pelosi and Reid? Perhaps, if the leadership in congress were different we would be seeing some sort of positive action. It seems that all Pelosi and Reid know how to do is to piss people off.
Both parties got us into this mess and I’m not seeing much action being taken to get us out. They need to start slashing taxes to encourage people to invest in our businesses.
Great blogpost, Ani: Instead of Hail to the Chief, we should force Obama to enter a room to the sounds of:
“You’re so vain….you probably think this song is about you…..you’re so vain….”
ROTFL!!!
haha! What a great idea!
MG-PUMA
I hate to say “I told you so” but I told you so to as many people as I could find, most would not listen, thought he was The Chosen One, believed the hype about him, and fixated on him as the new Savior. He did admit to inexperience, but said “don’t worry, I will surround myself with experienced people.” At the time I thought that was the stupidest reason for voting for someone, why not go with someone who WAS experienced, rather than him, like, what do we need you for Mister if you don’t yet know what you are doing? But his Con seemed to work for so many.
To answer the question: Why did you want this Job? I think it was to impress his wife, to be center stage, to get all the perks the presidency offers, to be able to go around giving speeches at lucrative prices when the ordeal of actually being the president is over. I think he believes he is The Chosen One, the first man of color to be president, which annointing came down from on-high and made him the ruler of the world. It is about ego, power, narcissism, validation, and nothing about caring for America and preserving our Constitution. For those who thought it would be otherwise, this gives me no pleasure, and I am sorry to have to say “I TOLD YOU SO”.
Yep, and the Europeans have caught on too. Witness recent statements from Italy’s PM and the Olympic Committee. (btw, THANKS to the posters who posted the *priceless* videos of Chicago crowds waiting to hear they’d won.) LOL
I live here on the Peninsula in the Bay Area of SF.
Owe-bama’s main supporters here are the following (in no particular order-its all the same):
The money-drivers and supporters: Very High Income people of all ethnicities, particularly whites, law schools grads, university employees, a few doctors, nearly all real estate people and those involved in finance. Talking Very High Income bracket here.
The rest of the bucket: blacks, asians (yes, them too, they love Owe-bama), latinos of mid to lower income brackets. Why? Because these folks are the recipients of federal and state jobs handed to them by various programs such as immigrant employment efforts and affirmative action.
Owe-bama has the least amount of support from caucasians although caucasians of all income levels voted for him in the 2008 elections. He got a lot of voter support from tech workers and IT people, many of whom are being laid off or who got laid off this past summer.
The “Obama/Biden” bumper stickers on the 280 fwy have dropped about 90 percent since Owe-bama started to go after health care “reform.”
Apparently, he had supporters in the health care field (Stanford VA Center and Stanford Medical Center) however, just judging the reduction of bumper stickers I see in Menlo Park/Palo Alto/Los altos/San Mateo, I would guess that many would not vote for the guy again.
MG-PUMA
I a sick a tird of this “FRAUD ” everywhere he goes and does a speech he downs AMERICA and the People!
When he hise self wear blanket to hide who he is.H complains of wall street when infac he ables everything of wall street taking from the people.He complained of taxes when infact he has raised more tax then in hisory !and stil finding new taxes to raise on the backs of the aerican people.
He complaind of to big of government.He his self is continuing forcing into a government run halth whn infact government pays $550.00 for treatment for the year..They aynomore,,n co-pys nothing and the doctorcomes to them.They get the best treatment anthing any doctor at their beck and call.Their family is also on this.but,hey want us to be find f wdn’get insurance >hmmm if dont it will 1,900 find nd Snowe wants it 1,5000 ..BS OBMA.BS SNOWE ! They canpay the $550.00 with what they from us the taxpayers..so they get free medcial..They line their pockets with lobbiest money.
Obama is a fraud..The American pople want to see his birth certificate……MNBC-CN-ABC-CBS-NBC ..I say this to you all … go to hell you lying clown of a media!we are sick of your lies an you snip clip of your media to fool he people.That’right MSNBC you are on the top of the list the most shameless media,if you can even call it a media.You did nohing but lied- lied of Sarah Palin– Hillary- you lied of the tea parties.White people rascist.You yourself MSNBC PLAYED THE RACE GAME TO BENIFIT YOUR AGENDA.YOU USED US THE African Americans you played all the people of all race and color..You MSNBC are very sick people.
Can’t you see now that people of all race and color have caught out in many many lies but you continue to go on with them. MSNBC YOU ARE NOTHING BUT TRADER TOTH AMECAN PEOPLE ! EVEN THINKING ABOUT YOUR CLOWMEDIA MAKES ME WANT TO GRAB PUKE BUCKET. I STOPED WATCHING YOU NO GOOD LOW LIFE CLOWN MEDIA May 31-08 when I knew there was no hope for the truth will ever be part of your media.”YOU MSNBC-CNN-ABC-NBC-CBS THEV VIEW-TODAY SHOW-OPRAH-MATT LAUDER-KATIE COURIC-HELL ALL OF YOUR NETWORK..LOOK WHAT YOU NO GO NASTY PANSY CLOWN MEDIA DID TO OUR COUNTRY!LOOK WHAT YOU GAVE TO OUR THEIR FURTURE OF THE AMERICA DREAM ISN’T STRIPED AWAY FROM THEM…..”YOU MAKE ME SICK kATIE COURIC-KEITH OLBEMANN-CHRIS MATHEWS-CHRIS TODD-MSNBC-CNN-ABC-CBS-NBC -RICKY LAKE-MARTHA STEWARD-OPRAH-MATT LAUDER.
IF W AL “ALL PEOPLE DO NOT STAND UP AND FIGHT THE CRUPRTION IN OUR GOVENEMENT AND MAIN STREAM MEDIA” WHAT WILL BE FOR OUR CHILDREN ?????LOOK AT YOUR CHILDREN..THE GOVERNMENT OBAMA IS NOT OFFERING YOUR CHILD THE FREEDOM ,WHAT THEY ARE OFFERING IS FULL CONTROL OF THIER LIVES,AND WE PARENTS HAVE TO SHUT THE DOWN…. WHILE THE GOVERNMEMT OF THE RIGHT IS GOING ON TRING TO GRAB AT THE FREEDOM AND TEAR IT AWAY TO SLAVE US ALL BY USING SLAVEY AGAINST THE PEOPLE FOR THEIR REAL AGENDA OF WHAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS ALWAYS BEEN WHICH IS THEY THE GOVRNMENT SLAVES ALL TH PEOPLE OF ALL RACE AND COLOR.HISTORY IS LET IT BE KNOWN THAT RACE OF ALL ENSALVE THEIR OWN RACE AS ALL RACE AND COLOR ENSLAVED EACH OTHERS RACE.
THE MAIN STREAM MEIDA WILL DARE NOT TELL YOU THIS CAUSE THEY THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA USE MY RACE African American as to use us all in the ral reason..to continue to keep the ball rolling so goverment can continue to control take more from the amerian people of all race and color.
MSNBC-CNN-ABC-NBC CBS… YOUR GAME IS OVER ! “WE THE PEOPLE GOT WHAT YOU ARE DOING”NO LONGER WORKS FOR YOU ! MY PEOPLE WILL NOT BE HELD HOSSAGE FOR YOUR POLITICIAL RACE CARD…NOR WIL IT WORK ON ALL RACE AND COLOR !!! SHAME ON YOU MSNBC !!!!
WE THE PEOPLE WILL STAND TALL AGAIST THOSE WHO WANTS TO ENSLAVE US MORE,,SO MSNBC YOU ARE NO LONGER THE MEDIA AND HAVE NOT BEEN THAT PEOPLE ALL ACROSSOUR GREAT LAND CAN EVER TRUST ONE WORD…DO YOUR SELF A FAVOR MSNBC,GET OUT OF THE NEWS ! YOU ARE NOLONGER EXCEPTED BY THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA..AND I DO SAY America with such pride” can’t say that for you fools who lost thier way..
Oh,MSNBC…BIT ME !Our country or the american people is ot a game for your agenda !we will stand for our country….not you lousy nasty low life untrue lies of you all on msnbc-cnn-abc-cbs-nbc
BITE ME !!! LOSER YOU ARE NO LONGER WELCOME IN OUR HOME MSNBC !
God Bless America
God Bless all America people !
Dear Administrator- I think spammy got me again. My comment was in reply to “Freedom Fighter”. Help! Thanks. Great article, Ani.
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The New Republic’s Marty Peretz’s take on Obama’s narcissism:
http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-spine/rio-1-chicago-0-the-politics-narcissism-and-general-mcchrystal
Great! Thanks for sharing
MG-PUMA
Excellent post.
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