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We can't let more than a few days go by without an anti-BHO article from our friends at the UK Telegraph, can we? smile.gif

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8024846/Barack-Obama-the-Great-Unravelling-of-a-One-Term-President.html

A president has no more solemn duty than that of being commander-in-chief. And judging from the evidence presented by Woodward, Barack Obama’s view of that role is at best disquieting.

Officials are reluctant to dish the dirt because they have the chance of years of employment ahead of them. The cynic might think that a positive portrayal helps position the Watergate scribbler nicely for access next time.

But the clamour among staffers to present their boss and themselves (not necessarily in that order) in the best possible light has backfired spectacularly.

A president has no more solemn duty than that of being commander-in-chief. And judging from the evidence presented by Woodward, Barack Obama’s view of that role is at best disquieting.

Nearly 100,000 American troops are now committed to Afghanistan but Obama’s principal war aim is to withdraw and his main preoccupation is how the conflict plays domestically, particularly within his own Democratic party.

“This needs to be a plan about how we’re going to hand it off and get out of Afghanistan,” Obama says at one stage. At another he declares that “everything we’re doing has to be focused on how we’re going to get to the point where we can reduce our footprint”.

Obama comes across as viewing his generals with thinly-disguised hostility, while at the same time acquiescing to their proposals for the escalation of the Afghan war he so wants to avoid. His arbitrary drawdown of July 2012 was a signal to the Taliban to hang on because American commitment to success was lukewarm and time-limited.

The description of Obama staffers glorying in the firing of General Stanley McChrystal because they believed it boosted the president’s macho credentials (it did the opposite) brings shame on the administration.

Perhaps the most revealing aspect of the coverage of it is that the White House is so delusional it seems to think their man has come out of it rather well. In fact, Woodward’s book will further damage Obama and could not have come at a worse time.

Obama has even lost Shepard Fairey, the man who created the iconic red and blue “Hope” poster of Obama’s visage. Those who elected Obama, he said this week, feel cheated. “They wanted somebody who was going to fight against the status quo and I don’t think that Obama has done that.”

The president can’t stop blaming George W Bush for anything that goes wrong but it will be the current rather than the former president who Democrats will take to task after November.

Obama scarcely helped himself this week when he responded in a CNBC “town hall” event to a black woman who said she was “exhausted of defending you” by prefacing his answer with “as I said before” – code for “you’re clearly too dumb to have understood me the first time”.

David Axelrod, the most civilised of Obama’s closest aides, has been tasked to make nice with liberals and encourage the media to get back behind the man who was their candidate in 2008.

The result? Not much doing. When he announced his desire to “enlist” liberal bloggers for the midterms, one tore into him, accusing the White House of engaging in “hippie bashing”.

Reporters were not impressed by Axelrod’s demand in a Washington Post opinion piece that the press needed to investigate Republicans. These days, the White House press corps is feeling unloved by Obama’s inner circle and a tad embarrassed about 2008.

For the first time, and despite the fact that no credible Republican candidate for 2012 has yet emerged, Obama is looking like a one-term president while one-party rule in Washington is in its death throes.

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They absolutely have solid reasons to be ashamed of 2008.

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Sanders wrote:

They absolutely have solid reasons to be ashamed of 2008.



Sanders, I watched the movie Network tonight and it is amazing how prophetic it was with regards to our "news" becoming nothing more than entertainment.

What I am finding most amusing is how much the media is now "dumping" on the Dems about the upcoming election the way they dumped on Hillary during the primary.  Once again, the media is creating/fueling/propagandizing the political climate in order to have a "major" story.  What the Dems reveled in during 2008 has now come back to bite them in the ass in 2010.

Careful what you wish for you may surely get it.



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