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(2/5/10) Excellent article from American Thinker "Another Failed Presidency"
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I received this as an email and wanted to share it with you.  It appears to be written 6 months ago and I don't have a link.  But, I think this article really tells the story of why obama doesn't 'feel' like our president.

Subject: FW: Article from"American Thinker"
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:21:49 -0700
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.

[editor's note: The author is not the not the same person as Geoffrey P Hunt, who works at the Institute for Scientific Analysis as a senior research scientist.]


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The RINOs (Republican in name only) knew Barry would fail when they escorted him into office.  That was the whole point!  And the Dems fell for it and him hook, line, and sinker.

We've got to WAKE UP and stop letting the dum-dum media tell us which end is up!



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Alex, I couldn't have said it better. Why do people fall for the hype?

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Another Failed Presidency
By Geoffrey P. Hunt August 31, 2009

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Yes, the nation got led by hand. First they said GOP can win better against this candidate. Then they figured who they can control better.

-- Edited by Sanders on Friday 5th of February 2010 06:16:57 PM

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Sanders wrote:

Another Failed Presidency
By Geoffrey P. Hunt August 31, 2009

Article Source link

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Yes, the nation got led by hand. First they said GOP can win better against this candidate. Then they figured who they can control better.

-- Edited by Sanders on Friday 5th of February 2010 06:16:57 PM


Hi Sanders,

Thanks for finding the link!  Yes, his supporters were hoodwinked.  As we know now, it's just ego for many to not admit to their mistake.  Most of the people I know are in the "blame bush" game.

Destiny

 



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Destiny,

I think it is high time for people to recognize that blame Bush is not any help. If anything, they can blame a faulty primary and caucus process for landing us with who we got in the POTUS seat.

The primary and caucuses process is messed up. It allows interference by the other party; it gives differing weights to votes in different states. And, it works differently from the general election where winning majority of votes in a state equates to winning all the electoral votes for that state.

The Dems -- members at large -- got hoodwinked from all directions.

MSM was happy to feed on news, a photogenic face, the daily news snippets, birdflips and misbehaviors that gave nice fodder to tease their most favorite bulls-eye target practice. They KNEW there would be more stories to come - that 20 yeas of sitting in an extreme priest's presence would just be the tip of the iceberg... and they are correct. Stories keep feeding the MSM.. but in ways different from what they thought.

The Presidency has been a colossal failure in terms of path it is on. So far there is no chance of HC reform happening. The President is insisting on it.. "Do your job" he says, without giving any directions nor leadership/guidance. Recovering from the mess of an economy we are in is going to be difficult; unemployment will improve but at far slower pace than ever before.  The President has become a lame duck because he is not adjusting to his situation well.

It will take more than a decade to undo the harm that 2008-2009 did to our economy. Then again, we will no longer be #1; we will be far behind China as a super power. 

Perhaps time to get our kids to learn Chinese.  That is certainly more productive than blaming Bush.

-- Edited by Sanders on Friday 5th of February 2010 06:54:14 PM

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Hillary warned it was going to be hard work.  If there is one thing consistent in Obama's background, it is the LACK of hard work.

Maybe the voters now realize that the American Idol mind-set when voting for POTUS will produce just that...an idol only.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzoiPnrCwSc&feature=related

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Several months ago, I read a post from a PUMA (can't remember who). This person said that Obama does not know this country and this will be his undoing. Now the author of the above article is saying the same thing. I totally believe it.

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What the great authors as this guy above purports to be, STILL don't understand, is that the people, the majority, don't like or trust Republicans either. We are in the most dismal situation I can think of. We can't trust either party, both are crooked, both are pathetic, both are corrupt, both are criminal, and I don't want either one of them. Yes, Obama is bad. Pelosi is bad, Reid is bad, Howard Dean is a loser, but who in the Republican party is any better? McCain is the best of the lot, and that really just ain't saying much.

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Excellent article and so true.  He can't even get black history correct let alone American history.  This is going to make him one of the worst.

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