President Obama

[DejaVu]

Yeah...can you imagine if someone said "Let's get the rookie Jew out of the White House!!!". Why the controlled media would absolutely froth at the mouth. 

[Terry]

Yeah...can you imagine if someone said "Let's get the rookie Jew out of the White House!!!". Why the controlled media would absolutely froth at the mouth. 

Exactly.  Please remember that I only posted it at Buzz request.  And again, I'm not sure that the quote is attributable to Iococca. 

[Pretender]

I would agree with everything in that article except the part about Iran having, or making, nuclear bombs.  Did he learn that from the same people who said that Saddam had WMD's?

Anywhooo...how about a link to the article so I can read the part that 'you' judge to be racist.  I'll 'judge' for myself, thank you.

I agree that WMD was a farce. I believe that the revolution has began.

[Guardian Angel]

Hitting the road................

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show#35025417

[buzorro]

Anatomy of a Failed Presidency!

The following is an interesting article and I wonder how long Dr. Hunt can remain at NIH once the powers that be get wind of this article. Dr. Hunt is a social and cultural anthropologist.  He has had nearly 30 years experience in planning, conducting, and managing research in the field of youth studies, and drug and alcohol research. Currently Dr. Hunt is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Scientific Analysis and the Principal Investigator on three National Institutes on Health projects. He is also a writer for American Thinker.

Another Failed Presidency
An article from American Thinker by Geoffrey P. Hunt

Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson.  In the modern era, we've seen several failed presidencies--led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ.  Failed presidents have one strong common trait-- they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out. Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party.  Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by his triumphant overture to  China

But, Barack Obama is failing.  Failing big.  Failing fast. And failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in forging connections with the American people. The incomparable Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger on it: He is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe them. Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard says he is failing because he has lost control of his message, and is overexposed. Clarice Feldman of American Thinker produced a dispositive commentary showing that Obama is failing because fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame.

But, there is something more seriously wrong: How could a new president riding in on a wave of precedented promise and goodwill have forfeited his tenure and become a lame duck in six months?  His poll ratings are in free fall.  In generic balloting, the Republicans have now seized a five point advantage.  This truly is unbelievable.  What's going on? No narrative. Obama doesn't have a narrative.  No, not a narrative about himself.  He has a self-narrative, much of it fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else.  But this self-narrative is isolated and doesn't connect with us.  He doesn't have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of us. 

All successful presidents have a narrative about the American character that intersects with their own where they display a command of history and reveal an authenticity at the core of their personality that resonates in a positive endearing way with the majority of Americans. We admire those presidents whose narratives not only touch our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and smarter than we are. Presidents we admire are aspirational peers, even those whose politics don't align exactly with our own: Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Ike, and Reagan.

But not this president. It's not so much that he's a phony, knows nothing about economics, and is historically illiterate and woefully small-minded for the size of the task--all contributory of course.  It's that he's not one of us.  And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout made from delaminated corrugated paper.

Moreover, he doesn't command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant and how things work just don't add up. They are not existential. His descriptions of the world we live in don't make sense and don't correspond with our experience.

In the meantime, while we've been struggling to take a measurement of this man, he's dissed just about every one of us--financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance executives, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, post office workers, and anybody else who has a non-green job.  Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in 2012: "For those of you I offended, I apologize.  For those of you who were not offended, you just didn't give me enough time; if only I'd had a second term, I could have offended you too."

Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 devised a useful remedy for such a desperate state--staggered terms for both houses of the legislature and the executive.  An equally abominable Congress can get voted out next year.  With a new Congress, there's always hope of legislative gridlock until we vote for president again two short years after that.

Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama among them. The coyotes howl but the wagon train keeps rolling along.
 
Margaret Thatcher: "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people's money."



"When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." - James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers  Union



"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." – Tacitus

"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own." - Unknown

[buzorro]

CONGRESS REFUSES TO BRING HOME MILLIONS OF JOBS

By: Devvy
February 15, 2010
© 2010 - NewsWithViews.com

...Before NAFTA and GATT were passed, 97% of all shoes were made here in OUR country. From toasters to hand tools, clothing to cars, we made our own products. We paid our workers good wages. Our factories hummed, our farmers and ranchers fed our people and millions around the world. Our industrial sector made the steel, we kept the money and the jobs. America kept her wealth where it should be: in the pocketbooks of her people. Instead of buying Made in America - even though it takes extra time - tens of millions of Americans bought and continue to buy "cheap" made in other countries. In reality what they've done is fire themselves. I know that sounds harsh, but it's the truth.

Part I :  http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd481.htm

Part II :  http://www.devvy.com/new_site/congress_refuses_part_II_021510.html

[buzorro]

Does this mean that Joe 'I Am a Zionist' Biden is Prez? 

Jeez!  Out of the fryin' pan, into the fire...

[DejaVu]

Does this mean that Joe 'I Am a Zionist' Biden is Prez? 

Jeez!  Out of the fryin' pan, into the fire...

I feel a need to speak up and say I don't think that picture actually expresses any truth. Say what you will about Obama, I think he came into office believing he could actually change things in Washington. I really believe that was his intention but he had no idea of what he was in for, the road blocks that would be set up to make him fail or how he could be manipulated by the powers that be. If anything I believe he has become a helpless puppet maybe....but not a quitter. I'm just say'n.

[Guardian Angel]

I'm with you DJ.....I don't think anyone had any idea what he was in for.............except the Neocons who want him to fail and FOX News who insists on helping them.

[Mr. Buzorro]

With all due respect to both of you ladies...

Both of you have been ardent Barky supporters at least since the Good Doctor was no longer a viable candidate.

Coming from what is likely the most corrupt city in the nation, why would you think/believe that he ever had honorable intentions?  Was it his winning smile, his 'oratory,'...what?  What did you 'know' about him before he was a candidate?

Didn't he mention in one of his books that, since he didn't have a father raising him, a man he referred to as 'Uncle Frank' was his childhood mentor?  A man later identified as a card-carrying Communist 'activist?'  Was this Barky's introduction to activism, which even the MSM has mentioned is what he gave up his 'alleged' college credentials to become?

And isn't the paper trail of his college attendance and achievements 'sealed away' from public viewing?  If so, why is that?  Would it prove that he got his scholarship while here on a foreign visa?

I'm just sayin...

Look, girls,...there's nothing I would like better than to witness an honest politician doin' the right thing.  Besides Ron Paul, I just haven't seen it.

Way back when I posted a description of my experience of attending a town hall meeting at DACC, and Barky was the speaker/answerer, I remember GA asking if Barky would make a good president.  I answered that a righteous man/woman could go to DC with the best of intentions and soon become filthy.  You can't play with pigs without getting stinky...

So, again,...what gave you 'faith' in him, and why do you still defend him?  Is this something that you 'need?'  Do you 'need to believe' that a person can occupy the White House and have your best interests in mind?

Just curious...

Peace out... 

[Pretender]

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!!! Not the girls------------The Politicians!

[DejaVu]

So, again,...what gave you 'faith' in him, and why do you still defend him?  Is this something that you 'need?'  Do you 'need to believe' that a person can occupy the White House and have your best interests in mind?

Just curious...

Peace out... 

Personally I am just trying to be fair minded if I defend him and maybe that's because I try to see the big picture. I don't just read or listen to things that agree with my point of view, which in all honesty can you say that you don't? Actually I don't agree on quite a few things that this President has done and I don't have any problem saying so and I've posted things here. Maybe you just haven't paid attention...ask GA. Yes...I posted below that I believe Obama came into office believing he could actually change things in Washington and I do, but because there is so much palm greasing, backstabbing and gridlock and the media to deal with I don't see how any president could get that place to function....not even Dr. Paul. If Obama didn't want people to see and understand what is going on...would he be having this forum on health care this Thursday. He is going over the MSM head and it will be broadcast on C-SPAN. He didn't have to do that....but I believe he wants people to actually see what is going on and how the Republicans and Democrats are (not) working together. It's never been done before...so I say good for him.

After the election I made an effort to read about Obama's life growing up and excerpts from his books. I couldn't find the article I read before about his friendships at the colleges he attended but here is one that I think gives insight into the kind of person Obama was before he got into politics. You want to make him guilt by association just because he lived and worked in Chicago. That hardly seems fair and many have said Obama was never part of the machine. In my opinion his mother seems to have been his greatest mentor and he seems devoted to his wife and his daughters adore him. My gut tells me that he has a good soul, he wants to change things for the working and middle class...for the whole country, that he is not corrupt and evil as some would like to portray him. And I'll tell you what....I trust my gut a hell of a lot more than I trust Rense.com so if that makes me a fool....so be it. I don't get upset that you don't always agree with me...you're usually very nice and polite about it.

My gut tells me you're a nice guy and I think you have a good soul too. 

[DejaVu]

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!!! Not the girls------------The Politicians!

Thank you for that! 

[Guardian Angel]

Well said DJ.   In case you have forgotten Buz, the President needs the cooperation of congress to get things done and he sure as hell hasn't had that.  He can't do it alone.

Like DJ, I have done a lot of reading and discounting the assumptions, I can't find anything that tells me Obama is anything other than sincere about what he wants to do.  This country was in a mess when he came to office and he hasn't had much of a chance to change that if you ask me.  I don't see how the man functions with all the negativity spewed by the Dick Chaney's, the Sarah Palins, and the Tea Party Crazies, but God bless him for trying.  Remembering back to George Bush's first years, no one was allowed to spew negative things about him over the airwaves and only a select few were allowed in to his speeches.   If anyone dared disagree, they were arrested......remember that?   At least when someone disagrees with Obama when he speaks, he still takes their questions and is polite to them and they are allowed to stay!

You put a lot of stock in Ron Paul, but I doubt he could have done any better because he wouldn't have gotten any cooperation either.

I don't always agree with what you say Buz, but you have the right to say it, just as I have to right to belive in the President.   Just because MSM says it doesn't make it true and just because you read it elsewhere doesn't make it true either.  You are entitled to your beliefs and sources and so am I and I have decided to defend the President until he has at least as much time to try to clean up the country as the past administration had to screw it up.

What gave me faith in him?..........................George Bush, that's what, that and the fact that so many people are so willing to give up on him in just one year.   

I don't NEED to believe in anything, I choose to just as you do...............and I am not at all curious about why you believe as you do.........................

[buzorro]

Allow me to submit this article from London for your perusal:

Obama’s ‘Chicago mafia’ blamed for paralysis at the top

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7034910.ece

Are we out of Iraq yet, as he promised?

Doesn't he still permit 'renditioning?'

Is Guatanamo closed?

Has any part of the Patriot Act been rescinded?

He has the power to issue Executive Orders and has, but none of them pertained to any of the above issues.  So, he made 'promises' that he, knowingly or not, couldn't keep?  As Commander-in-Chief, he could order troops out of Iraq, could he not?  He could order the Justise Department to end the practice of renditioning.

On and on...