Barack Obama and His Ship of Fools
By Larry Johnson on January 24, 2010 at 9:44 PM in Current Affairs
So David Plouffe, campaign manager extraordinaire, is back at the White House to perform some miracle act of rescue for the sinking Obama Presidency. This event encapsulates what is wrong with Obama and his Presidency. And it also is a stark reminder that these boneheads simply do not understand the pickle they are in.
Obama and the morons who surround him and enable him in the White House have failed to realize that they are no longer campaigning. They must govern. They must lead. And those are skills Obama has never developed.
The incompetence of the Obama staff, at least in the governing mode, is staggering. Look at what they did today.
David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett and Robert Gibbs hit the airwaves today to insist health care had not hurt them in Massachusetts and that Obama has done wonders for the economy. Problem? These stupid nimrods did not have a coordinated message. They were just making “facts” up out of thin air. The Politico had the story and noted the different messages:
Axelrod, on CNN’s State of the Union: “But understand that, in this recession that began at the beginning of 2007, we’ve lost 7 million jobs. Now, the Recovery Act the president passed has created more than — or saved more than 2 million jobs. But against 7 million, you know, that — that is — it is cold comfort to those who still are looking.”
Jarrett, on NBC’s Meet the Press: “The Recovery Act saved thousands and thousands of jobs. There are schoolteachers and firemen and— and— teachers all across our country, policemen, who have jobs today because of that recovery act. We’re investing in infrastructure. We’re investing in public education so that our kids can compete going forth into the next— generation.”
Gibbs, on “Fox News Sunday”: “Well, Chris, let’s take for instance the example you just used of the stimulus package. We had four quarters of economic regression in terms of growth, right? Just last quarter, we finally saw the first positive economic job growth in more than a year. Largely as a result of the recovery plan that’s put money back into our economy, that saved or created 1.5 million jobs.”
Then they compound the error by whining about the terrible economy they inherited. Blaming Bush, rightly so, for running up a one trillion plus deficit. So what is the prescription of Barack Obama for the sagging economy? He quadruples the deficit. See, Barack and his band of buffoons want you to believe that a deficit by a Republican President is awful and damaging to the economy but, when a Democrat does four times more of a deficit than Chimpy McBush then it is economic genius.
A then they wet themselves because they only have 59 votes and those goddamn Republicans are stifling all legislative progress. Let’s ignore the fact that Republicans got a lot more done (much of it bad) with a much smaller majority. I guess Mr. Axelrod and his team of idiots think it is useful to portray Democrats as a bunch of hapless clowns.
The bloom is definitely off of the rose. Barack got hammered today from all sides. David Michael Green tears him a new asshole. Here’s my favorite from his rant:
Barack Obama has now, in just a year’s time, become the single most inept president perhaps in all of American history, and certainly in my lifetime. Never has so much political advantage been pissed away so rapidly, and what’s more in the context of so much national urgency and crisis. It’s astonishing, really, to contemplate how much has been lost in a single year.
Michael Goodwin then conjures up the image of Barack Obama as the Cowardly Lyin (aka Lion).
We the people of the United States owe Scott Brown’s sup porters a huge debt of gratitude. They didn’t merely elect a senator. They ripped the façade off the Obama presidency.
Just as Dorothy and Toto exposed the ordinary man behind the curtain in “The Wizard of Oz,” the voters in Massachusetts revealed that, in this White House, there is no there there.
It’s all smoke and mirrors, bells and whistles, held together with glib talk, Chicago politics and an audacious sense of entitlement.
At the center is a young and talented celebrity whose worldview, we now know, is an incoherent jumble of poses and big-government instincts. His self-aggrandizing ambition exceeds his ability by so much that he is making a mess of everything he touches.
Barack will continue to fail and will continue to be clueless. Why? He lacks a core belief and vision. Ronald Reagan really did believe that America was destined for greatness. He offered a positive vision that resonated among the American people. That’s why he was re-elected and regularly kicked the ass of the party of the Jackass err, I mean, Donkey. Obama does not have that quality or character. He is a liberal Avatar. A fake character. But we knew that early on, which is why we tried to persuade American voters to reject him knowing that this day would come. Who knew it would come so soon?
by Ronald Scott
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