Thoughts on the obsolescence of Barack Obama:
It was canonical to this administration and its functionaries that they were handed a broken nation, that it was theirs to repair, that it was theirs to tax and reshape to their preferences. Yet there was, in 1980, after another landmark election, a leader who had stepped forth in a time of “malaise” at home and weakness abroad: Ronald Reagan. His program was different from Mr. Obama’s. His faith in the country was boundless. What he sought was to restore the nation’s faith in itself, in its political and economic vitality.
Big as Reagan’s mandate was, in two elections, the man was never bigger than his county. There was never narcissism or a bloated sense of personal destiny in him. He gloried in the country, and drew sustenance from its heroic deeds and its capacity for recovery. No political class rode with him to power anxious to lay its hands on the nation’s treasure, eager to supplant the forces of the market with its own economic preferences.
Obama never understood that the notion of a leftist or “progressive” Ronald Reagan was an oxymoron.
“Obama never understood that the notion of a leftist or ‘progressive’ Ronald Reagan was an oxymoron.” Obama is Bizarro Reagan, from Bizarro Planet, where the law of supply and demand doesn’t apply, appeasement works, and what you tax you get more of and what you subsidize you get less of. Unfortunately for them–and more unfortunately, for us–we’re not on Bizarro Planet.
For anyone with any reasoning ability there was never any “magic” about Obama in the first place.
“For anyone with any reasoning ability there was never any ‘magic’ about Obama in the first place.”
Maybe not for you, but some of us will always have magical memories of the crease in his pants.
And when he did place faith in the country’s ingenuity, he did so in sectors of dubious or even non-existent reputation and in the most patronizing way possible–shoveling other people’s money their way. When do I get my taxpayer subsidized solar panels?
I recall that the Iranians released the American hostages about 20 minutes after Reagan was sworn in.
Makes you wonder what actions the Iranians put in motion 20 minutes after Obama was sworn in.
Somehow I wonder if Obama isn’t actually looking forward to a GOP sweep of the elections in November. It will give him something to run against in ’12 other than his own record.
“Makes you wonder what actions the Iranians put in motion 20 minutes after Obama was sworn in.”
Nothing much. Hanged some Gay Jews, maybe, but no big whoop.
“It will give him something to run against in ‘12 other than his own record.”
Exactly. That’s why the WH seems so nonchalant about the whole thing and why Pelosi is so ticked off at them. Obama has decided that his interests and the Democratic Party’s interests are not really the same thing. It’s the same conclusion that Bill Clinton came to back in the 1990’s.
But… but he’s a Lightworker!
But… but he’s a Lightworker!
No, he’s a lightweight, an empty suit. It amuses me to see how many self-proclaimed intelligent people could see through that fraud.
It amuses me to see how many self-proclaimed intelligent people couldn’t see through that fraud.
There, fixed it for ya.