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We Are Screwed As Long As Obama’s President

By Bronwyn's Harbor on January 7, 2010 at 3:49 PM in Current Affairs

I don’t care (do you?) if Obama is quickly destroying his own political party. What terrifies me is that Obama has not only created a Titanic collapse of the confidence of the American people, our economy, and our standing in the world, but he’s also left no enemy afraid of us. China knows it. Russia knows it. And Al Qaeda knows it’s got a patsy in its grip. I fear for our nation.

I’m tired of saying we tried to tell them. But it bears repeating. You don’t vote for an unqualified, inexperienced, and temperamentally unsuited candidate for president and expect anything less than a mess.


THIS Brit Hume commentary is the one that should get all the publicity from MSNBC et al., but they’d rather poke petty fun at his remarks about Tiger Woods’ religion. Besides, I doubt that MSNBC et al. can bear to hear what Hume has to say without at least inwardly shuddering. My heart sank as I took in the enormity of the implications of Hume’s brilliantly succinct commentary.

Hume ended with, “What a political disaster, and only in a year.”

Amen, brother.

But it’s more than a political disaster, as I noted above. It’s a disaster for the American people, and the American people KNOW it. They know we are in perilous times with this ignorant man trying to steer a country without either the requisite leadership skills or knowledge to do so.

As John Batchelor noted in his article last night, “Yemenizing Jordanizing“:

Another source tells me that the White House is overwhelmed with problems, people, threats and doubts.

POTUS must be taught everything, and then it is necessary to present a face that is waiting for POTUS to decide based upon information he does not have and that you just gave him — or that someone else gave him whom you do not trust, know, hear.

This is bad. We have a crisis. And we have an ignorant president who must be “taught everything.”

What say you?

  • Jazzman

    I say…hypocrisy seems to rule at Fox and the Hume family…Kim included….as well as other so-called MSM outlets… So Bush was qualified? The mess? Hell this mess was started with someone who was not qualified to become POTUS and ran Texas into the ground as Governor. What about the mistakes Bush made that Hume kind of glanced over? Provide duckspeak and support? Or not say anything at all?

    John Batchelor? Please….. I’ll say this much…. John Batchelor is no Brit Hume and Brit Hume needs to remember where he came from…..

  • Bronwyn

    You’re a bummer.  A cynical twirp who has nothiing substantive to say so you have to settle for put-downs.

  • Jazzman

    Really?

    The only partisan bummer and twirp on this thread is you…. Your hatred for Obama (and yes I am not a fan but I am an equal opportunity critic) is out weighting any logic and intelligence you might have.

    Remember Hune is the guy who blackballed Larry when Larry was a Fox Contributor because Larry was outspoken. Hume also trashed Scott Ritter and after Ritter was proved correct, Hume never apologized…  But do you care? Not at all as long as Hune is wasting your target (Obama), your a happy camper…..

    Take a real good look in the mirror……

  • mountainaires

    Yes, true: Bush was unqualified. He created a huge mess, and for 8 years, I rejected his ideology, and his policies, nearly every single one of them. I was a Republican in 2000, but I did not vote for G.W. Bush because he was CLEARLY a front for someone else. Now, we’ve re-elected G.W. Bush. So, Jazzman, your complaints about Fox, Hume and anyone else who criticizes the new Bush administration begs the question: If Bush was Bad and Obama is Bush II, then what? 

    Can you try to focus your mind on the fact that Hume is right NOW, and not that he was wrong THEN? Because despite your hatred of Fox, they may have been wrong then, but they are clearly right NOW.

    They finally came to see BUSH for what he really is–a massive failure, and a danger to the republic. If they didn’t see that until Obama [Bush II] became President, so what?! What’s your beef? 

  • Anonymous

    Obama is only trying to dig the country out of the mess that Bush left us with.

    Brit Hume is an ideolog idiot!

    Talking in terms of “enemy” and “afraid of us”. So neocon and so Bushism. We need far less of that….

  • felizarte

    “POTUS must be taught everything, and then it is necessary to present a face that is waiting for POTUS to decide based upon information he does not have and that you just gave him — or that someone else gave him whom you do not trust, know, hear.”–ASSUMING OF COURSE, THAT HE UNDERSTOOD AND LEARNED WHAT HE HAS JUST BEEN TAUGHT.

    I have said a few times, in different posts, that it doesn’t matter how many “good” advisers or ideas he gets, he doesn’t have the basic knowledge to evaluate the varying ideas.

  • Peggy Sue

    Well, what I picked up from Hume was: lost opportunity.  Was Bush&Co inept, corrupt and disastrous?  Yes, yes, and yes. But the Dems in general and Obama specifically had a golden opportunity to reign things in, instill a renewed sense of confidence and purpose and begin to right the listing Ship of State.

    They’ve done none of these things. In fact, I suspect the country’s confidence level is at an all time low because now we’ve had 9 years of lousy governance. 

    I opposed Obama’s candidancy for the very reasons stated: he was not qualified nor experienced enough.  I never voted for Bush, thought the whole 8 years were disastrous. 

    But Obama and the Dems [my party] are in charge now and if they don’t start getting on top of these mounting and very dangerous crises, we stand to lose everything.  That is “not” the change people voted for. 

    Hume is right.  It’s a political disaster for everyone. Because if the ship goes down, we all drown.  Political affiliation won’t be saving anyone.

    I’m listening to the President right now give a national security address.  He says the buck stops with him.  I hope the hell he means it!  You cannot lead by committee.

  • I’m a Linda too

    Oh no, don’t tire, please continue.  Look, these idiots drank so much koolaid, their heads have swelled and starting to harden.  You have to hit frequent and hard, so please, it’s a requirement, bang away!

  • IndieDogg

    Let me see if I’ve got this right, since I keep hearing it (or, more accurately, reading it) on blogs here and there….

    Since GWB was the devil incarnate, anything that happens after his presidency is, by definition, still his fault.  Therefore, nothing anyone else does, no matter how idiotic, can ever be wrong because we will always be in a post-GWB environment.

    Is that until the end of time or just a few decades or what?

    I understand that BHO can’t do anything wrong, much less idiotic, so I guess we’re stuck with the pretzel version of perfection for a couple of terms. But, is it going to carry over to Clinton II, or Palin I?

    If a Republican were to be elected in 2012 or 2020, is everything still Bush’s fault down the never-ending BBB (Blame Bush Boulevard) into the 22nd Century.  Or do we hit the “RESET” button whenever a Republican is in the  White House.

    I mean, I get the “It’s all Bush’s fault forever” argument. I’m just asking how long it stays in effect.  That way we’ll know when we can re-open the news services.  Meanwhile, they might as well just put a smiley face on their doors and come back later.

  • hokma

    If you understood economics, you would know that Presidents do not create or cure recessions. They are a naturally recurring event in the cycle of free market capitalism. However, Presidents can make recessions worse.

    This mess was created by Obama and Democrats. Period.
    Obama took over during a recession – not a depression.
    In fact, at the time he took over most economists predicted that unemployment would not exceed 8.5% and we would see recovery by the end of 2009.

    Then came the reckless actions of Democrats with their historically outrageous spending bill that put us deep into a hole – did nothing for a recovery – deepened the jobless situation – and created a backlash (Tea Party) of average Americans who never bought into this transformation into socialism agenda.

    The systemic problem of this recession that was exposed was the credit problem which was not created by Bush – it was created over decades and by liberal policies that initially legally forced banking instutions into giving credit to unworthy people. That practice became institutionlized by the banking industry and collpased with the recession.

    As far as Bush, he was the Texas Governor which means he had some management experience whether you want to believe that or not. Obama never ran anything in his life. There is zero comparison.

    If you look at the Presidential candidates from both political parties in the last cycle none would have committed the bone headed mistakes that THE ONE has. He was also the only one who was completely unqualified and inexperienced. It was Henry Stern of the Liberal Party who said Obama had the thinnest resume coming into office of any President in history.

  • Craig Della Penna

    Too bad we can’t impeach him for basic incompetence – 3 more years, feh!

  • hokma

    You really should see a doctor for that case of BDS you have.

  • hokma

    “out weighting any logic and intelligence you might have”

    As I stated in another comment to you, you should be the one looking in the mirror at the contented look of ignorance. Better yet go to the library and learn before you recklessly spew ignorant blind ideology. Facts matter.

  • Jazzman

    hokma… you are clueless …. My ideology? Ignorance? That is hysterical coming from you, Your ideology is so twisted that most of your neurons are not firing… And as far as ignorance is concerned I would not be so quick with the dull and pompous wit of yours. LOL go to the library and learn! You better go back to school…..Start at kindergarten….

  • elizabethrc

    No matter what you think of Bush, using him as a scapegoat for Obama’s mistake is just plain weak.
    The biggest difference between Bush and Obama is that no one doubted that Bush loves America and was resolute in his efforts to keep us safe after 9/11.  Obama?  There are enough people seriously doubting his commitment to America’s freedoms and rights to make most intelligent people stop and think.  It is utterly obvious that he has been concentrated in his efforts to excuse the terrorist behaviour of Muslims, going so far as to ban the war on terror phrase.  And look what he has filled the White House with!!!
    I do not trust Obama and I am pleased to see that that is a faction which is growing across the country.  Hopefully it’s only a matter of time before he is removed from office.

  • Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo

    HAha, Obummer is sucking the big one and the best they can come up with is “Bush sucked too!”. Yeah, no shit Sherlock!

    You can already see they’re preparing for the disasterous legacy of Obama…”It’s Bush’s fault! Had Bush not sucked, then Obama wouldn’t have sucked”. Obama wanted the job, said he was ready to lead from day one, all a bunch of lies and hogwash. No way around that no matter how bad Bush was.

  • Docelder

    the buck stops with him – Right, the buck has always sopped with Bush and it always will for him. He will take credit when something good happens, but anything bad is on Bush. Bronwyn is totally right, the man isn’t competent to run a medium sized company let alone this nation. He has no appreciable skills except for his charm and even that was probably mostly smoke and mirrors.

  • Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo

    Damnit, I forgot my lunch at home this morning…obviously that was Bush’s fault! Damn you George!

  • Tricia

    Three more years is a long time–especially when we are in deep doo doo and the President doesn’t really know how to do anything.  I can chalk his decision to run on word up to hubris, but it is too many voters and the DNC corruption that ended up doing the real damage.  (There were 18 million of us who knew much better…)

  • Guest

    THIS Brit Hume commentary is the one that should get all the publicity from MSNBC et al., but they’d rather poke petty fun at his remarks about Tiger Woods’ religion.

    _________________________________
    Why do you think he said it if not to be scandal-mongering? It’s in poor taste and also wrong. Everyone knows that the fake religion I’m in the process of creating to boost ratings and kiss up to Roger Ailes is the one true religion.

    Not to mention that poor judgment is not a matter of naïvete, inexperience or lack of knowledge alone. Obama will learn with time, his arrogance, his choice of associates, his motives, his tactics, his poor judgment and his ego behind the actions are less maleable.  

  • I’m a Linda too

    My Mom thinks we should be able to for lying just to get elected…and SHE voted for him.

  • tek

    If you paid attention during the Bush years and knew history, you’d know that Bush removed all the safeguards instituted after the Great Depression and beyond to make sure we would never have another crisis like this.  He considered the CEO “his base” and he gave them the free market they wanted.  Karl Rove said he was going to take us back to the Gilded Age and he did it, complete with the disastrous cycle of depressions.  Bush Caused This Recession–he let the financial sector run amok.

  • tek

    Now you know how Democrats felt when Bush got in and for 8 years EVERYTHING was Clinton’s fault.  It’s just stupid.  If you don’t want the job, don’t run.

  • POdVet

    I was always in favor of tossing George W and Dick Cheney in prison for their blatant corruption and incompetence. It truly wounds my heart to have to say this…I almost miss that pair of douche bags in the White House! Atleast when they were in charge, we knew most decisions were made to benefit Haliburton. Now we have thousands of the most vile despots in the nation, with their hands out collecting billions of our tax dollars. While they actively work to destroy our country! This isn’t a time for missing what was, or what might have beens. Now we are forced to say “WTF do we do now to keep it all from falling apart?”

  • getfitnow

    I agree. Bush was a diaster–a war criminal, as far as I’m concerned–but his last 2 years, he had a dem congress that did everything but keep the promises made in the prior election. I said this on another post, as bad as Bush was, I never felt my personal liberty threatened–my every day choices about my life stripped away.

  • getfitnow

    The problem Peggy Sue is he’s not a leader; he’s a brand.

  • Docelder

    Yep, and if it snows down to Miami this Saturday like I have been hearing it might on the local Tampa weather, then that is Bush’s fault as well. Because if Gore had won in 2000 it wouldn’t be snowing… wait that is totally backward. Never mind, it is still on Bush. 8-)  

  • hokma

    Grow up or go away – better yet talk to the small minds at daily kos.

  • Bronwyn

    Mindless attacks minus any specifics.  You’re like the brat in school who everyone despises and avoids, which is what I’m going to do.  If this continues — and that’d be personal attacks without any substance — you’re going to be on moderation or banned.  I’m sick of your immature behavior.

  • Jazzman

    hokma……Daily Kos is about as wasteful as you are. One day hokma not only will you grow up but you will also smarten up. Its people like you who think they know more than everyone else, who think they are better than everyone else who are the problems with society today.  When in reality not only have you never been out of your own back yard but live in that fantasy you call a life…

    You mind me of the locker people in MIB II… All Hail hokma!!!!

  • Jazzman

    hokma……Daily Kos is about as wasteful as you are. One day hokma not only will you grow up but you will also smarten up. Its people like you who think they know more than everyone else, who think they are better than everyone else who are the problems with society today.  When in reality not only have you never been out of your own back yard but live in that fantasy you call a life…  
     
    You remind me of the locker people in MIB II… All Hail hokma!!!!

  • Docelder

    On that note, we got a call from friends in Miami. Frozen iguanas are faling from the trees there. I googled it and yes, an urban legend has come true. I sent this on to drudge.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6947254/Kamikaze-iguanas-fall-from-Floridas-frozen-trees.html

  • stodghie

    jazzman, watch you tone. you are bashing a long time well thought of poster here. who do you think you are?

  • stodghie

    obama is trying to help himself and not us! next

  • stodghie

    guest, how silly and naive you are. don’t waste our time with your blather.

  • Jazzman

    You must love hypocrisy…. Mindless attacks? Better read some of your postings…..I responded to a posting and you and hokma attacked. I never said peep about you two personally until  both of you decided to get personal. Now its me?  How righteous of both of you….

    If you don’t like my comments just don’t respond….. But I know your egos will not allow that…..

  • hokma

    “If you paid attention during the Bush years and knew history, you’d know that Bush removed all the safeguards instituted after the Great Depression “
    You are referring to the repeal of The Glass-Steagall Act. The problem is that the legislation that repealed it was signed in 1999 by Bill Clinton.

    “Bush Caused This Recession”

    Please learn what an economic recession actually is and why it occurs. Only then can you understand that Presidents do not create them or cure them. Bush did not create this recession nor did Clinton create the recession he left office with or the first Bush create the recession he left office with.

    Even the systemic economic problems that each of the recessions exposed were also not created by any of the Presidents. It makes good political fodder since 95% of Americans have no real knowledge of these fundamental economic issues.

  • trixta

    “You are referring to the repeal of The Glass-Steagall Act. The problem is that the legislation that repealed it was signed in 1999 by Bill Clinton.”

    True, but it was a Republican bill and was passed in a veto-proof majorities in both House and Senate.  The vote in favor of the repeal was staggaring, and Clinton knew a veto would be pointless.  (I do, however, wish he had gone ahead and vetoed it anyway just to make a point.)     
     

  • Chicago Joe

    Your feelings are shared by many. 

  • trixta

    I hear that if you drink too much liquid you can die from it. 

  • trixta

    He should be impeached for not taking that 3am call about the panty bomber on xmas day.

  • trixta

    Identify yourself “Guest” … please.

  • FLDemFem

    Well, it looks like the POTUS and FLOTUS are looking ahead to their post-presidential lives. At least that is the only excuse I can find, and it’s a poor one, for these ads featuring Obama on the Great Wall of China and Meechelle saying how she doesn’t like fur. Check it out at Newsbird’s place..Obama ads 

  • Peggy Sue

    I agree, getfitnow.  It was what I and many others tried to warn the electorate during the primaries and then during the GE.

    We tried.  We really did.

  • jbjd

    “The systemic problem of this recession that was exposed was the credit problem which was not created by Bush – it was created over decades and by liberal policies that initially legally forced banking instutions into giving credit to unworthy people”  

    I would add, a major contributing factor to this financial collapse was Congress’ failure to regulate newfound financial institutions that were not banks, which concocted investment schemes not otherwise scrutinized by law.  It was these newfangled financial instruments which proved so lucrative for participants, the numbers of these participants shot up dramatically.  In this way, when the pyramid went bust, and their pie-in-the-sky slight of hand was revealed, their allies in Congress were nonetheless able to bamboozle enough of their colleagues into believing, not stealing our money to bail out these wild west speculators for their bad choices would bankrupt the whole economy.  (Of course, they accomplished this theft of public funds without simultaneously enacting any oversight legislation to preserve our money or prevent another bust.)

  • jbjd

    I kept trying to tell people, given his lack of managerial experience, why do you suppose he left of of his resume the sole managerial job he held as Chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, doling out millions of dollars intended to improve test scores in Chicago Public Schools?  (Plausible answers were either that, the test scores did not rise; or that, his friend Bill Ayers shared some of that money through his Small Schools Project …)

  • Jazzman

    Liberal policies that forced banks to do what????? Liberal policies? The banks were not “forced” to do squat they did not want to do and Wall Street played right into this by taking the mortgage business centered around the banking industry to one where global investors could pool money to loan. Yeah the liberal policies that so-called conservatives also voted for. So that was it ! Doh! And here I thought greed by the top money managers and and owners of the biggest financial institutions in the US played a bigger role.

    Over the decades yes indeed…. But that over the decades includes the loss of oversight by Congress (as you noted) by both liberal and conservatives and every President from Nixon (since Tricky played with the economy to help himself get relected) onward (including Reagan, since we won the Cold War by driving the Russians broke and us almost with them) and lets not forget to mention the our extensive indebtnesstahnks to our elected officials which really added to all of this, topped by the war in Iraq.

    Simple..when the bubble bursts all hell breaks out indeed…..

  • Scrapiron

    Maybe O’Dumbo will buy himself a pair of silk ‘fruit of the boom’ panties and take himself out.

    I like companies using the nuts in their ads. See the ad go shopping elsewhere.

    There are nuts everywhere. Some still believe that Haliburton was in Chaney’s hands even though Chaney donated every dollar earned for 8 years to charity. I can see the current POTUS donating over a dime to anyone other than AQ and associates.

  • stodghie

    blather, blather minus common sense! an excellent definition of jazzman. no sweet music from him just a song with no rhyme and unfortunately no end.

  • hokma

    Jazzman – your comments are generally ignorant and not worth responding to at all or by anyone. You don’t have a single fact to support anything you say – all of which can be seen on the unbalanced community journal called daily kos.

  • Anonymous

    Amen!

  • surfered

    Please reflect on the choices I was offered last November.  Sen. McCain said on Meet The Press in March 2008 that the invasion of Iraq was not a mistake and that he would have still invaded the country even knowing they did not have WMD.  And as far as voting for an unqualified, inexperienced, and temperamentally unsuited candidate for president, that would have been Gov. Palin.

  • hokma

    Palin ran a village, a city, and a state. So why was she unqualified? Or are you simply aping the mindless characterization created by the media of her?

    As far as Iraq, when they overwhelmingly voted to invade Iraq they all knew what the intelligence was and the questions over WMD, which, by the way, was only one of many reasons given to invade. Bush had overhwelming support on the Hill for that invasion. The claims that Dem leaders did not what the intelligence was is empty B.S. The fact that Bush made WMD the primary reason was a mistake and all the other reasons should have been focused on and debated before committing.

  • FLDemFem

    Actually, Bush was more qualified to be president that Obama is. Bush was a two-term governor and had run a business. Granted, he ran the business and the state into the ground, but at least he had the job experience. Which is a lot more than Obama ever did. And I am someone who hates with a passion the entire Bush family. And you don’t know what it cost me to defend him and say he is more qualified for the Oval Office than Obama is. But it’s true, God help us all.

  • FLDemFem

    And assuming he realizes he needs to learn. NPD people don’t as a rule. Narcissistic Personality Disorder..read the signs and weep. We seem to have two of them in the White House, Barack and Michelle.

    Criteria for NPD..scary how they fit perfectly, isn’t it?

    The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fourth edition, DSM IV-TR, a widely used manual for diagnosing mental disorders, defines narcissistic personality disorder (in Axis II Cluster B) as:[1]
    A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following: has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal lovebelieves that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)requires excessive admirationhas a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectationsis interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own endslacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of othersis often envious of others or believes others are envious of him or hershows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes

  • tek

    I am not referring to the Glass-Steagall Act.  I’m referring to Bush letting banks and mortgage lenders give money to people who don’t even have credit or jobs.  It’s nonsense that policy does not create recessions or depressions.  It absolutely does.

  • hokma

    Talk about completely inventing history .  .  .  .  where on Earth did you ever get the point of view that it was Bush who let banks and mortgage lenders give money to unworthy people????

    This started with Carter and courts forced banks to comply. It was Democrats who created this mess with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

    The only thing Bush can be faulted is not stopping Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and FMa/FMc when he had the chance. Legislation to stop this practice was killed by the new Democratic majority.

    If you are going to make accusations first get your facts right.

  • Anonymous

    a bit OT but i recieved a  request from james carville for a donation to help beat the republicans in 2010  and it sent a “thrill up my leg”   so i sent a penny with this note. “here is my “change”.  i “hope”you use it send mr obama and his gang of thugs, back to chicago”

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  • Guest

    It may not be popular to say it, but I do miss Jazzman if indeed he/she was banned.  It isn’t like there isn’t so much other thoughtlessly and baselessly accusing “personal attacks” on this site from regular posters it is ridiculous… :)