At what point do you recognize that you’ve been supporting an incompetent ninny?
At another point in Obama’s presidency, such a minor skirmish would not have mattered all that much. But this is, in fact, a key point in Obama’s presidency. As I explain in this week’s issue of TIME magazine, now available online to subscribers, the Obama White House is preparing a major shift in tone and substance in the hopes of reasserting Obama’s leadership abilities heading into the next election. Recent months, of course, have not been kind to Obama’s polls, which have registered roughly 10-point declines in Obama’s reputation for being a “strong leader” and for being “able to get things done.”
You don’t say.
The nation is of course fortunate in that the president with the most leftist agenda in decades, if not in history, is incompetent at implementing it.
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This seems related somehow:
It’s reported that the new jobs plan that you will unveil next week will, once again, focus in substantial measure on “green job” creation.
What, specifically, are “green jobs” and why do their creation merit more of your attention than other jobs?
Precisely how many “green jobs” have been created in the last two and a half years? At what price per job?
How many “green jobs” need to be created over the next 14 months to fulfill your promise of lowering the unemployment rate to 5.5 percent by November 2012?
What qualifies you, or any other politician, to determine which jobs are worthy of creating?
What evidence do you have that government can create jobs for which there is little or no current market demand?
Why do you believe your government-command approach to job creation will be any more successful than had been that of, say, the Industry Secretariat of the Odessa oblast?
We have a president who knows nothing about business, nothing about economics, nothing about technology, yet deludes himself (and many of his followers) that he’s a genius at all of the above. It’s a devastating combination for the nation.
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“There is no secret, brilliant strategy. This White House is in a bubble.” Considering the personnel involved, how could there be a brilliant strategy?
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The Obama-thon continues:
Two years ago this week, President Obama came back from his summer vacation and asked to speak to a joint session of Congress. It was the fifth prime-time sales pitch for ObamaCare in his seven-month-old presidency. ObamaCare eventually passed, but the address did essentially nothing to make the plan more popular. Indeed, it remains unpopular.
Why? Surely the substance of the legislation amounts to its essential flaw. But it’s also worth noting that, measured by effectiveness, President Obama (unlike candidate Obama) simply isn’t a very good speaker. Indeed, with the possible exception of his post-Arizona shooting speech, it’s very difficult to think of a single instance where Obama has delivered a politically successful address on domestic issues during his presidency.
Such statements stun some of his biggest fans — though fewer and fewer these days — because they think he talks the way a president should. It seems they pay little heed to the possibility that they like what they hear because the president tells them what they want to hear, or because their fondness for Obama clouds their judgment. The fact remains that the president is very bad at persuading people who don’t already agree with him.
It’s not 2008 any more.
This means he’s not bound by the tired old thinking that hampers innovation among the so-called “experts” in those fields.
He is not a robot. He is a unicorn.
(How long do you think before that meme becomes global?)
The incompetence of this administration is staggering. Frankly, if Obama cared about the future of this country, he’d resign. He’s proven that he and his staff aren’t up to the job.
I can’t help but thinking that these pushes actually harm the industries they are supposed to be helping, in some cases.
It’s hard to say no, when you have money being thrown at you, so when you are a tech firm supplying a niche market, you focus more on expanding your market by increasing efficiency and function, so that you can expand the nice.
But with all the free money thrown at you, you scale up before your product warrants it, ad when the free money goes away you find yourself assed out.
You do understand he will amputate as much of the fossil fuel industry as he has to in order to bring his “green jobs” Frankenstein to life. We’re all Republicans anyway so why should he care? I’m waiting for next years “grand bargain” to bail out CA, IL and MA.
I was watching a bit of MSNBC during lunch and they had a Republican v. Democratic national committee strategist on to talk about the “big” Obama speech. The Repub was saying it will most likely be a bunch of micro issues focus grouped 6 ways till Sunday that as a whole will seem incoherent and petty. The Dem strategist was adamant that Obama speech has a “bold” plan in store for us all (my thought is Obama giving a speech IS his bold plan). I know that the Dem strategist must of thought this was a great talking point. But anytime the words ‘Obama’ and ‘bold’ appear in the same sentence it just leaves us all wishing the man would just call in sick and go hit the golf course.
When you are trying to fix something and you don’t know what your doing, the more you fidget with it the worse it will continue to get. If the U.S. economy were a sick person we would have to tell Obama to just put the bone saw down and step away from the patient. He came in for a appendectomy and you’ve managed to amputate three feet. The only thing impressive about any of this is how royally you’ve screwed things up.
Douglas Says:
“I can’t help but thinking that these pushes actually harm the industries they are supposed to be helping, in some cases…………
But with all the free money thrown at you, you scale up before your product warrants it, ad when the free money goes away you find yourself assed out”
Witness the Wind electricity debacle in Spain – croaking for just that very reason. The market does not support the idea and so Spain spent $860,000+ for each “job” they created and then the whole thing collapsed.
But anytime the words ‘Obama’ and ‘bold’ appear in the same sentence it just leaves us all wishing the man would just call in sick and go hit the golf course.
Like I wrote last week, Obama does far less damage to the country when he’s playing golf than when he’s playing president.
It’s not Obama’s fault. His party hasn’t backed him with the needed policies. At this point in the revolution, you’re supposed to round up a few hundred thousand of the Kulaks who are not hiring – and therefore obviously sabotaging the economy – and shoot them. The Democratic failure on gun control has rendered this rather more difficult.
I was amused to find out that some of my coworkers were really pissed at Obama because his rescheduled speech to a joint session of Congress (moved from Wed 8:00 PM to Thu 8:00 PM) now lands on top of the opening NFL game, Packers vs. Saints. They predict Obama will be impeached on Friday.
“The nation is of course fortunate in that the president with the most leftist agenda in decades, if not in history, is incompetent at implementing it.”
They might be incompetent but a lot of the agenda has made it through or around congress. Obamacare was big and I am sure there are other examples from congress but when they failed to get things through congress the EPA and NLRB just did things on their own.
Amusingly I will refer to my comments that I was concerned he was going to turn out to be as pointless as Tony Blair.
Gee… how glad am I to be right.
Still…. sadly he is STILL better than ANY of the alternative options.