Democrats Rue the Obama Halloween Surprise
By Larry Johnson on October 14, 2009 at 12:43 PM in Current Affairs
So you are in a bar. Lights are low. You’ve been over served with an adult beverage. The music is seductive and a good looking lady sidles up and makes you an offer you cannot refuse.
But she’s not just any lady. It is Marilyn Monroe (the 28 year old version, not the 82 year old). So you go to bed. You have a night of mad passion.

And the next morning?
Turns out you went to bed with Marilyn Manson.

Whoops.
Well that’s what is happening to Democrats who chugged down the Obama kool-aid. Buyer’s remorse is setting in big time.
Have you seen the latest Tom Tomorrow toon? Wowsza!! (Click on image to go to link.)
When the golden child loses Tom Tomorrow you know the worm has turned.
My friend, Brent Budowsky, who has been a big Obama booster just wrote this:
The Nobel Prize gets to the heart of the matter of the Obama presidency. The prize was not awarded to President Obama, but to the idea of Obama.
Voters may vote for an idea. Prizes may be awarded for an idea. But war and peace, prosperity and joblessness, legislation and treaties, illness and health, are not decided by the idea of the candidate but the actions of the president who is elected.What made Roosevelt Roosevelt, Kennedy Kennedy and Reagan Reagan was that the idea of their persona during the campaign was followed by their actions during their presidencies.
This has not happened yet with Barack Obama. The difference between the idea and the actions, the persona and the program, the words and the deeds will ultimately define the success or failure of the Obama presidency.
The Jerusalem Post piece was troubling because it is true. There is a pattern that others repeatedly say no to the president. Passing weak legislation and calling it a “W” does not change the pattern of his presidency or satisfy the powerful yearning for change that is not realized by promises, public relations or the cult of personality.
Virtually every player in the Middle East has said no to the president. Banks and Wall Street say no to the president. The Europe that said yes to the Nobel Prize says no to giving more support for Afghanistan. The president even snubbed the Dalai Lama in anticipation the Chinese would say no. The list is long of those who say no and short of those who say yes.
It is time to worry when “Saturday Night Live” makes fun of the president for achieving so little. It is time for alarm when so many power players believe this president can be rolled. Even a Senate where Democrats have 60 votes shows an almost daily disrespect for the president.
The reason so many power centers, at home and internationally, say no to the president is that they do not know his bottom line. They believe he may shift with the winds. They know he accepts a tiny loaf while claiming a big victory. They believe he can be rolled.
Tom Tomorrow and Brent Budowsky are not isolated voices. The bloom is off the rose. The Dems hopped into bed with a Marilyn Monroe beauty queen and have awakened with a Marilyn Manson nightmare. Trick or treat!






















