All the President’s creeps.
[Update a few minutes later]
I liked this comment:
Obama distrusts and/or despises the U.S. military, so he takes a job as Commander-in-Chief when two wars are ongoing.
Obama has little positive to say about America, so he takes a job where he is the Head of State of a nation he largely abhors.
Obama despises capitalism so he leads a nation that has a reputation as a paragon of capitalism and which built its prosperity on this economic system.
Obama, who perceives himself as black, is an academic racialist and sometime racist who wants to lead a nation that is two-thirds white.
Obama, who believes Western Civilization is ultimately the cause of all that is ill in the world, takes a job as chief executive of the nation that is preeminent in the Western world.
Obama, who is neither Christian nor Muslim and who attended an anti-Semitic church for 20 years, wants to lead a nation whose citizens are mostly Christian and whose history is steeped deeply with Judeo-Christian sensibilities.
Obama is thin-skinned and overly sensitive to criticism, so he takes a job where he is criticized every minute of every single day, all across the world, for some reason or another. Much of the criticism is ill-informed, but some of it is well-informed and cuts right to the bone.
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What could possibly go wrong?
The irony is amazing.
I really wish I could write like that! Superb!
It’s easy to write like that when you’re telling yourself what you want to hear.
“It’s easy to write like that when you’re telling
yourself what you want to hearthe truth.”FTFY.
I can speak for myself just fine, Barbara. That comment Rand quoted is pablum.
So Justin, Obama is a patriot? He defends the constitution? He worries about the troops more than his democratic base? He’s not killing jobs while claiming to save them? He never insulted our allies and gave comfort to our enemies?
In case you haven’t a clue; the answer is no to all those questions.
“I can speak for myself just fine, Barbara.”
Obviously not.
No more or less of those things than his predecessor, Ken. I don’t agree with a lot of what President Bush did, but I do believe he did what he thought was best and I do believe he loves this country. Why aren’t you willing to give this President the same consideration?
Ken and Bill: Rand and I have spirited debates, but I respect him – even where we disagree – because he doesn’t make it personal. I don’t think it’s too much to ask the same of you. Unless all you want is an echo chamber?
I don’t agree with a lot of what President Bush did, but I do believe he did what he thought was best and I do believe he loves this country. Why aren’t you willing to give this President the same consideration?
There is a brazen and smug insincerity to Obama that simply doesn’t engender respect in me. I don’t know Obama. I don’t know whether the words coming out of his mouth indicate in any way his feelings. What I do know is that his actions have been actively harmful to the future of the US, that he’s favored ideology and special interests over the welfare of the US. Maybe he truly believes that he’s helping or “doing his best”. It’s not uncommon for ideologically blinded people to believe that they’re helping by obsessively pursuing their flaky ambitions. I don’t respect it though.
Further, he doesn’t seem remotely competent. His experience going in was weak. He’s proven himself ineffective in such things as managing Congress, appointing people for cabinet posts and the courts, foreign diplomacy, managing the recession and the now usual, “jobless” recovery, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (he did the right thing by letting BP complete the job, but the administration looked pathetic in its attempts to appear to be in control), and the administration’s less than enlightened stand on racism.
His administration routinely says insane and stupid things. I haven’t kept count, but there are several officials that I would have fired by now (if I were president) for the things they have said (not for ideological reasons, but because their words indicate contempt for the democratic process, being out of touch with reality, or simply acting immaturely and/or unprofessionally).
Karl, how can you say he has a “brazen and smug insincerity,” but admit that you don’t know him? What, specifically, do you think he has done that was “actively harmful to the future of the US”?
I’ll willing to agree that his administration has a mixed record so far. For some bad examples, just off the top of my head: Nancy Pelosi clearly thinks that she’s the boss and Obama doesn’t appear willing to stand up to her. I think he overestimated the reach of the goodwill he had with the Senate once he crossed over into the Executive Branch. The administration also horribly handled the Shirley Sherrod situation.
On the other hand, his decisions to have Hillary head State and keep Gates as SecDef appear to have been net positives. Additionally, his proposed NASA policy even earned the endorsement of Newt Gingrich and Bob Walker.
It’s this visceral reaction – that is very reminiscent of the way the far left reacted to Bush – against Obama himself that I have trouble understanding. I don’t agree with all of the decisions this President has made. In fact, I think some of his policies are horribly wrong.
I just don’t see the need to question his patriotism or his commitment to this country. He can be wrong without being some kind of subversive who hates us, but just won’t admit it.
Karl, how can you say he has a “brazen and smug insincerity,” but admit that you don’t know him? What, specifically, do you think he has done that was “actively harmful to the future of the US”?
It’s simple. I see the masks he uses for his public faces. I don’t see what lies behind those masks.
What, specifically, do you think he has done that was “actively harmful to the future of the US”?
Here are a few examples: the health care “reform”, increasing deficits to almost 10% of GDP, continuing and extending the misguided bailouts of the Bush administration, spending bailout money in a way that blatantly benefits his supporters, moving taxation towards a system where a minority of voters pay net taxes, insulting long term US allies such as the UK without reason, increasing public employment and job security at the expense of private employment and job security, and stacking his administration with a cast of characters that are both ideological and scornful of the Constitution and US law.
I understand where you’re coming from a little better now, Karl. When you said “actively harmful,” I interpreted that to mean “deliberately harmful”.
Unfortunately, I don’t see much opportunity to fix or reverse any of the examples you cited in either major party today.
Unfortunately, I don’t see much opportunity to fix or reverse any of the examples you cited in either major party today.
For what it’s worth, I’m going to vote tea party in November. Maybe even vote straight ticket Republican (or at least non-Democrat, if there are decent third party candidates) all the way down to dogcatcher.
Justin Kugler- Your comments are a breath of fresh air here.