But what does Obama want?
posted at 8:57 am on March 9, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
My friend Kevin McCullough offers some red meat in his weekly syndicated column by reversing the Rush controversy. Forget what a radio talk show host wants; does Barack Obama want America to fail? Does the new President want to use a series of crises to fundamentally change the nature of America? Kevin thinks so:
President Obama knows the history of recessions and how Americans get out of them. He knows, for example, that if he gave back to the American family in just pure cash handouts what he is instead planning on taxing them (with interest) in the days to come, that the number would loom between $25,000-$65,000 per family, for every family in America.
But pretending to be doing something about the problem is only half the strategy for Obama. He truly intends to see socialized health care, and European styled labor agreements become reality in America. He knows the consequences of doing such things, he’s seen all the projections and what the outcomes would be, but he’s doing it anyway.
But there is one tiny problem standing in his way to getting there–”We The People!”
He knows that in order to be forced down paths that we don’t wish to go, the only way he gets us to change our mind is to create abject suffering and misery.
Then in Venezuelan styled cries for help, he can promise to take America to a better place economically, a place of greater care, a place of true serenity. A place like Venezuela.
I’m not sure I’d say that Obama wants America to fail, as much as I’d credit this to a belief that America had already failed. Obama is a typical liberal ideologue who thinks that America has failed in the sense of equality of result. He sees inequities and thinks that government exists to eliminate all of them. My guess is that he’s aiming much more for France than Venezuela, but neither are particularly palatable destinations for a national economy. Obama seems to see our entire 230-year history as a long crisis that his statist policies will end.
What we’re seeing is the policy playbook of the Left. We predicted this all along, while the media hailed Obama as some sort of centrist without a shred of evidence for that. He has a long history, though, of alliances with the Left, and it comes as no shock that Obama has shown his true colors in the first days of his presidency. Massive government spending, reductions in defense, and preparation for nationalization of health care, banks, and other private industries fit well as a pattern with those policy goals.
Eventually, this agenda will sour Americans on Obama, and according to Rasmussen, that process may have already started. His approval ratings have begun to slide, now at 56% after spending most of the last few months in the high 60s or above. The difference between those who strongly approve and strongly disapprove has dropped to 8 points. Obama has scored as high as 30 points on that measure, and its quick drop has to have a few people at the White House wondering how much farther Obama can afford to go. Bill Clinton lost Congress in his first mid-terms even while remaining personally popular, and the GOP will have a good shot of at least winning back the House.
Kevin and I will talk more about this on today’s Ed Morrissey Show at 3 pm ET.
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You nailed it Ed. We’ve failed, and he’s here to fix us.
james23 on March 9, 2009 at 9:01 AM
Too late. I’m already sour on 0bama.
OmahaConservative on March 9, 2009 at 9:01 AM
But what if he were aiming for Canada?
ernesto on March 9, 2009 at 9:01 AM
Obama wants to create a Marxist utopia, and he doesnt care in the slightest that he has to destroy the United States Constitution to do so.
doriangrey on March 9, 2009 at 9:02 AM
I think he’s aiming for Germany/Canada.
DeathToMediaHacks on March 9, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Disgusting. In 2012, when our collective boots ass-kick this parasite out of office, I want to see the voting privileges of his cult revoked.
RepubChica on March 9, 2009 at 9:03 AM
INC: Are you here? that photo above goes a long way towards illustrating the point of your ‘obama is a narcissist’ links. Think I’m leaning your way.
jeanie on March 9, 2009 at 9:04 AM
Stupid, stupid media. Thanks for your help.
ladyingray on March 9, 2009 at 9:05 AM
I think BHO wants to be known as the FDR of the 21st century.
jgapinoy on March 9, 2009 at 9:05 AM
Talk,talk,talk. We’re fiddling while obama’s burning Rome.
Join the Resistance.
JiangxiDad on March 9, 2009 at 9:06 AM
ED,
OBAMA HATES AMERICA. HE WANTS AMERICA TO FAIL.
HOW COULD ANYONE PAYING ATTENTION THINK DIFFERENT!
Mercy4Me on March 9, 2009 at 9:06 AM
I find it hard personally hard to accept that an American president would want America to fail, but I can see why others would think that. Obama already has a record of doing things contrary to what a president would do if he wanted to see our economy succeed.
The DOW dropping almost daily, Obama raises the capital gains tax. Unemployment rising, Obama does almost nothing that would encourage private business to hire more employees. The auto industry dying, Obama raises their EPA standards. Record deficits and Obama multiplies it.
No one expects Obama to be crossing any finish lines after a couple of months out the starting blocks, but it would be nice if he could seem to be running in the right direction.
DarkKnight3565 on March 9, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Obama will do through taxation and the mortgage system, What Mugabe did with land in Zimbabwe!
Prepare to be enslaved and marginalized.
TheSitRep on March 9, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Obama is attempting to create a new European state, because I think he really prefers the system they have there. He’s also trying to bring America in line with these other countries so that we better fit his paradigm of “World citizens” rather than “US citizens”.
He’s a child with a dream. The problem is that children shouldn’t actually be in charge, because childhood fantasies are just that: fantasy. Real life is much more complicated and harsh, and he’s finding that out with every piece of economic and fiscal policy he signs.
MadisonConservative on March 9, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Take back Congress like we did in ’94, then the Bed Crapper in Chief becomes irrelevant.
Spend the next two years overturning everything the Obama-Mugabe regime managed to enact.
Then throw Bammy and Mammy’s worthless butts out of the White House on January 20, 2013.
Sounds like a plan.
NoDonkey on March 9, 2009 at 9:09 AM
It is true that our governmental and economic system has not achieved equality of outcome among all of our citizens. But it is also true that America has not achieved equality of outcome with the rest of the world. No other country has ever matched our level of freedom and prosperity. We are the world’s wealthiest nation. Unfortunately, we now have a liberal idiot in the White House who wants to change that.
backwoods conservative on March 9, 2009 at 9:09 AM
All us nutjobs that were out there during the campaign, saying that BHO was a socialist/marxist are now being vindicated.
Oh wait, that’s right, the MSM is too busy trying to help squash Rush to notice. Many of my libtard friends are starting to acknowledge that BHO is in over his head.
But, it is Bush’s fault.
Jamewah on March 9, 2009 at 9:09 AM
I think he’s aiming for Germany/Canada.
DeathToMediaHacks on Mar 9,2009 at 9:02AM.
DeathToMediaHacks: Piff,I say,next time Obama tries to
get into Canada,he better have his
papers in order,perferably his birth
Certificate!
Or,no entry to Canada!
And,he’s probably aiming for Moscow!
canopfor on March 9, 2009 at 9:10 AM
When the people who voted for him look at that picture you know exactly what they are thinking! Rush is right!
Eyvonne on March 9, 2009 at 9:10 AM
We the People. An outdated and silly concept. We need the One and Nancy to show us the way.
Cinematicfilm on March 9, 2009 at 9:11 AM
The Messiah wants the total destruction of America as it has been… He does not want Frace, Canada, Germany…
He want’s Obama-Land…
Home of the oppressed, cult of the weak and ruled from his throne with no objections…
The MSM is his propaganda machine…
We will just see if we have enough real Americans left, that don’t want the freebies, dictatorship rule of Obama to take America back…
At this point, I’m not sure we do…
Too many getting the pay while we do the work…
Mark Garnett on March 9, 2009 at 9:12 AM
Obama wants America to fail. So does the Democratic congress.
pearson on March 9, 2009 at 9:14 AM
Is it too late for our nation of sheep to wake up to what Obama is willfully doing to America?
Can the red tide be turned?
RandyChandler on March 9, 2009 at 9:14 AM
I do believe this. It’s Marx. Destroy the country- it creates great opportunities as Obama stated.
Opportunities for revolt and Communism.
It’s 1917 all over again.
drjohn on March 9, 2009 at 9:15 AM
More like a gradual move towards improvement that his policies will continue. When this country began only landed men could vote, women and black people were property, and only Anglo-Saxons were eligible for citizenship. And it took about two hundred years for most of those to get sorted out legally. Did the people who wanted universal male suffrage critique the history of only landed men having the right to vote? yes. Were women who wanted to vote critical of America’s history of male privelige? Of course. Were workers who organized the first unions critical of the legacy of an aristocratic planter/baron class? Yes. Indeed, America as a project IS a project of: 1. Criticism of history/status quo 2. Aggressive moves to correct those problems. Lest we forget the Revolutionary War.
How anyone can think that such an ethos unAmerican doesn’t know this nation’s history. Here’s my question for the folks on this board. At what point did Americans need top stop criticizing the status quo and just accept things as they are…after Reagan got elected?
DeathToMediaHacks on March 9, 2009 at 9:15 AM
Really? On Face The Nation yesterday, Bob Scheiffer said his ratings are higher than ever, & no one disagreed with him.
jgapinoy on March 9, 2009 at 9:15 AM
He wants the USA to fail. He wants to ruin our economy. He is succeeding. Thats it in a nutshell.
The things he has been doing to this country has me so pissed, I had to take a news break over the weekend. Now Im ready to get back in the fight.
becki51758 on March 9, 2009 at 9:15 AM
doriangrey on March 9, 2009 at 9:02 AM
DING DING DING!! WE HAVE A WINNER!!
A Marxist utopia is exactly what Liberals have always wanted. A representative Republic turns the stomachs of LibTards. THEY are the anointed, doncha know?
oldleprechaun on March 9, 2009 at 9:16 AM
What does Acting President Obama want, the Hugo Chavez solution.
tarpon on March 9, 2009 at 9:16 AM
Which Germany, the Weimar Republic? They didn’t turn out so hot.
Or when the far left National Socialists took power? They were able to provide good health care and revive the economy. Until like all unhinged socialists, they overreached.
Since Germany and Canada currently contribute pretty much nothing to their own national defense, who will Bammy get to pay for ours?
The Chinese? The Russians? The Iranians? The possibilities are endless.
NoDonkey on March 9, 2009 at 9:16 AM
I think that would require a 40 seat gain. In 1994 the GOP picked up 52. Maybe Newt knows the way.
dedalus on March 9, 2009 at 9:17 AM
Ernesto and DTMH, you sound vaguely proud about president Castro aiming for a Canadian model of government. Riddle me this, on one of Canada’s foremost experts on its socialized healthcare system:
The Ugly Truth about Healthcare in Canada
Imagine waiting four months to get breast cancer treatment. And this is only the very tip of the iceberg.
RepubChica on March 9, 2009 at 9:17 AM
Well, there’s your answer. They aren’t. I’m amazed at how many (otherwise) clear thinking democraps refuse to acknowledge our national situation. They want to “give him more time”, they laugh at the idea that a president could be socialist, we, (the right) have a “chip on our shoulder”. Also- they don’t watch any news save the evening news with whichever anchobot is their favorite. I hope they open their eyes, but it’ll probably take until it pinches them personally.
anniekc on March 9, 2009 at 9:17 AM
The damage Obama will have done by 2010 is unbelievable…
The America of our Fathers will be hard to recognize…
We will know for sure the direction the people of America want to go in the 2010 elections… If they again, fall for the Socilists, them Anerica is doomed… If they reverse and go Conservative, America can and will recover…
With Congree back in Republican hands, Obama will be nutered. That is, in my opinion, why his far left radical Administration is pushing so hard, so far left, so fast…
He knows when Americans wake up, they will be mad as hell…
It will not be Bush’s fault, it will be owned by Liberals.
We just have to wait and see how many Millions more the radical can get on the “welfare payroll” to win votes…
Mark Garnett on March 9, 2009 at 9:19 AM
The White House gelding knife is being sharpened as we speak.
coldwarrior on March 9, 2009 at 9:20 AM
When Michelle said a year ago…
…it showed yet another example of disconnect as far as the Obamas are concerned.
He is operating on his own flawed “vision” of what he believes America “should” be and ignoring the people and history of our country in the process. He has bought into his own hype and created image.
SassyDarlin on March 9, 2009 at 9:20 AM
Rasmussen is the only polling agency that shows him slipping below 60. Outliers in polls are normally that way for a reason. And their Strongly Dissaprove number only suggests that fewer Republicans will vote for him in 2012. That’s fine, 90% of Dems and a majority of Independents still support.
DeathToMediaHacks on March 9, 2009 at 9:20 AM
Republicans take back the house in 2010..
Republicans take away Nancy Pelosi’s private jet.
Republicans take away the Piglet’s private office, replacing it with an office in the basement.
Republicans create a task force to investigate the criminal actions of several Democrats.
Republicans start the process of returning America to the path of a Democracy.
Republicans start the process of Impeachment of a President who has rained down destruction on the people of America.
O.K., I’ll go get some coffee so I can wake up!
Keemo on March 9, 2009 at 9:20 AM
Not anymore he dosen’t… He was bashing Rush this weekend on talk shows… He’s as big an idiot and traitor as Frum and Brooks and others… Newt is dead to me… A loser!!!
Part of Obamaby’s faux-Conservatives that want power, but not the core princaplas and values Rush fans want…
Mark Garnett on March 9, 2009 at 9:23 AM
DeathToMediaHacks on March 9, 2009 at 9:20 AM
What exactly do you support Hack? The man has broken just about every campaign promise he made. Do you support him out of stubborness, or do you just support what he is doing?
Keemo on March 9, 2009 at 9:23 AM
Socialism. I hope he fails. Period.
swede7 on March 9, 2009 at 9:23 AM
This subject seems so taboo that it feels awkward to talk about, but…
I do think there’s a viable case forming that Obama does not want what’s best for this country; or
He’s just too stupid (or spent too much time cloistered in academia) to figure out how to achieve what’s best for this country.
At, a certain point, the distinction becomes moot, because it gets us to the same endpoint. If a house burns down because someone left the stove on or because someone doused it will oil and lit a match, you still end up with a burned-down house.
blue13326 on March 9, 2009 at 9:23 AM
Remember folks, all of our current problems started the EXACT day Obama took office.
Housing was fine up until January. Banking was fine. AIG, Bear Sterns, recession, etc – all happened on Obama’s watch.
We had no deficits, no debts, DOW was at 13,000 in December. Everything was peachy.
Any problems we had were either caused by Pelosi or our last president Bill Clinton.
cornfedbubba on March 9, 2009 at 9:25 AM
It’s been all of a 100 days and the stock market is dropping like a stone.
Unless the Bed Crapper in Chief stops enacting idiotic, counter productive, socialistic policies, he’ll be about as popular as gum on the bottom of your shoe, by the Fourth of July.
NoDonkey on March 9, 2009 at 9:26 AM
I have to confess, Obama has surprised me. I always suspected he was a radical socialist. But I assumed given his rhetoric and demeanor during the campaign, that he’d hold off on a lot of his agenda(crap-and-trade, nationalized health care, raising taxes) until the economy had recovered. If for no other reason than it would make it 100 times easier to pass all that legislation. Think about it. If the guy helps lead us out of a severe recession, he’d have carte blanche to do whatever he wanted.
Instead, he seems hellbent on doing literally everything within the first 6 months of his administration, regardless of the effect on the economy. The end result has been massive projected deficits, no concrete plans for anything he’s proposed(fixing the banking crisis, the stimulus bill, crap-and-trade, health care), and a tanking stock market overwhelmed with uncertainty.
I’ve never been much of a conspiracy theorist, so I don’t necessarily subscribe to the notion that Obama is doing all of this in a deliberate attempt to destroy America as we’ve known it in order to rebuild a newer, better, fairer nation out of the ashes. I do believe he intends to remake this country, but I think we’re dealing with a man so naive and inexperienced that he honestly expected the economy to just heal itself and pave the way for his expansion of government. Now he realizes he’s got a legitmate crisis on his hands and he doesn’t know what to do.
Doughboy on March 9, 2009 at 9:26 AM
Do you really want Canada’s or Britian’s Health Care here in the USA??? The lines, the wait, the rationing, the lack of services, the bloated Government, the closing of Hospitals??? Is this what you call progressive??? How will this HELP poor people, to wait longer, to have no services??
Mark Garnett on March 9, 2009 at 9:26 AM
For all the Germany/Canada fetishists out there, those countries are already on the way down and moving away from their social democracies as quickly as their broken political systems will allow them to.
Following them now would be like a start-up auto maker trying to emulate GM’s business model. For Christ sakes wake the f up from this stupid dream of socialism.
venividivici on March 9, 2009 at 9:26 AM
Photo of Obama at the head of this article:
Somewhere I have seen a photo of V.I. Lenin in just exactly that same pose.
Insufficiently Sensitive on March 9, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Mark Garnett on March 9, 2009 at 9:23 AM
Me too Mark… His actions this past weekend really puts his good buddy (Hannity) in a tough position. Hannity & Limbaugh are close, and Newt just jumped ship big time.
Keemo on March 9, 2009 at 9:27 AM
imo, those polls that show Obarfo’s approval rating staying the same are BS. I’ve talked to Democrats in my community that are totally disgusted with what Obarfo and Congress are doing.
I sure would like to know who they decide to poll.
becki51758 on March 9, 2009 at 9:28 AM
Sometimes you just have to call it as you see it.
Obama is a socialist.
The media has become our own version of Pravda.
The Democrats in this country view themselves as the ruling elite who are above the laws they impose upon us.
The GOP had better wake up.
NeoKong on March 9, 2009 at 9:29 AM
But don’t you understand? It makes them FEEEEEEEELLL good! To tell with whether it works or not!
blatantblue on March 9, 2009 at 9:30 AM
I’d say he’s keeping about 2/3rds of his campaign promises.
He promised he’d push for an aggressive healthcare reform bill this year. He is. He promised he’d push for tax increases on the top 5%, for closing tax loopholes for big business and for a tax cut for 95% of workers, all of which he has either pushed for or passed via the stimulus bill. He set a reasonable date for Iraq withdrawal and (unfortunately) is keeping his promises about Afghanistan. He promised energy would be a big part of his stimulus bill, it was as is infrastructure and funding for schools.
I’m thoroughly displeased with his failure to back up the earmarks promises and his selection of wall street hacks Geithner and Summers who are apparently just continuing Paulson policy. For those enraged by our continued bank bailouts, come to 55 17th street in Manhatten April3-4, anti-TARP protest!!
I’m also not thrilled about the lack of vetting for some of the nominees and the propensity to chose Washington insiders.
I would say Obama, compared to most Presidents, is about normal for campaign promises kept vs. ignored. And on the issues that really matter to me (outside of TARP) he’s doing all the things that caused him to inspire me to vote for a Dem for the first time ever. That doesn’t mean I won’t be doing everything I can to push him to be better, but I can’t get on board with the right wing attempts to paint him as some evil creature who wants to destroy America. Whatever man, he just has a different set of ideologies but he thinks they are good for America. I wish people could just be a little more reasonable.
DeathToMediaHacks on March 9, 2009 at 9:30 AM
I’ve said it a million times, and I’ll say it again: Obama is running with the Chavez playbook, only without the violence. He’ll start with socialist healthcare and the nationalization of a car manufacturer or a big bank. But then we’ll need to do more. Perhaps gas prices will go up, and we’ll have to impose price controls. Then when supply drops, Obama will have to nationalize oil refineries because “we can’t have greedy oil companies choking our economy.” We can’t have pesky conservative talk radio people talking down our glorious socialist revolution, so we’ll need “localism” to make sure local voices are heard.
Just wait for the proposal, which will come around 2012, that the constitution be amended to allow Obama to serve a third term.
Outlander on March 9, 2009 at 9:30 AM
I believe the polls. People are willing to give him time. It’ll take til June or July before his numbers really start to suffer. If after 6 months in office, unemployment is still high, the stimulus fails to stimulate, the stock market is still in the toilet, and the banking crisis is unresolved(or God forbid, they’re all nationalized), then he’ll be in high 40′s/low 50′s.
Doughboy on March 9, 2009 at 9:31 AM
No doubt you questioned the polls which showed Obama winning in November too.
DeathToMediaHacks on March 9, 2009 at 9:31 AM
“We live in the greatest nation on Earth. Vote for me and I’ll change that.” Isn’t that the sales pitch the American people really agreed to? So why be surprised when he changes it? It is what he said he would do. The clarity moment in the entire campaign was the Joe the Plumber moment. Obama revealed that his goal was socialism in that moment, and the idea was so unacceptable that the majority refused to accept that he meant what he said.
MikeA on March 9, 2009 at 9:31 AM
I think we are seeing a chief executive with NO executive experience performing exactly as many of us expected. As a legislator, he was never responsible for the outcomes of his actions. I don’t think he fully realizes that what he says and what he does can have disasterous consequences.
huckleberryfriend on March 9, 2009 at 9:32 AM
I think you are right. They thought recessions naturally cycle and would come out of the recession in 2010 with gov programs implemented. But 2009 will be worse than 2008. 2010 will be worse that 2009. Why? Because of what the dems are doing right now.
pearson on March 9, 2009 at 9:32 AM
Obama’s approval ratings are 13 points below Bush’s in comparable periods in their presidencies (March 2009 v. March 2001).
blue13326 on March 9, 2009 at 9:33 AM
If Hannity does not hammer Newt on this crap he’s pulling then I will turn off Hannity also… Newt is a loser!!!
Rush, Mark Levin and Glen Beck understand the danger od The Messiah, seems Newt is in the mood to go along to get along like Fraum, Noonan, Brooks, Will and yes, Allah too…
I’m DONE with faux-Conservatives and RINO’s… and the RNC!
Real Conservatives need to take America back from the brink, Moderates and Centerists will NOT do… Too much at stake to go make compromises with an idiot that wants total destruction of the American tradition of hard work and personal responsibility.
Mark Garnett on March 9, 2009 at 9:33 AM
He wants Americans to take a nap while he changes the core of this nation to suit himself.
Speakup on March 9, 2009 at 9:34 AM
The pendulum swings………..The Messiah, rising so fast to the top, will be back selling crack in Chi-Town with Blaggo and Bill Ayers. Now that is change I can hope for……..
Cinday Blackburn on March 9, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Newt can’t be trusted in the long haul; His ego gets the best of him everytime. You can almost see him thinking about holding back, and then he has to open his mouth and stick his foot in it. He’s also a big blowhard about that damn movie “me and Calista made”. I’m sick of hearing about “me and Calista”.
anniekc on March 9, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Way too early to trust in any sort of polling data; most of Ogabe’s really heavy policies haven’t hit the public yet.
I have faith that Americans will turn on Ogabe as they are starting to do now with the tea parties. Once those moronic tax schemes and spending boondoggles start affecting large swaths of society, it’s over for the Great Pretender.
Bishop on March 9, 2009 at 9:35 AM
What tax cut??
pearson on March 9, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Sure, he’s been really reasonable the last few years by never missing an opportunity to mock, slander, lie about and kick President Bush in the groin.
Bammy told us this President thing would be an absolute breeze and that when we coronated him and placed his team of razor sharp Democrats in charge, everything would be smooth sailing from day 1.
I don’t remember the man who never before held a real job, telling us that being President might be hard.
Now that Obama is crapping the bed on a daily basis, we’re asked to be “patient” and that this is a “sniff, sob”, really hard job.
It’s a real hard job because Obama is the very same unqualified, unaccomplished hack we all thought he was.
And BTW, if this hack gets both Card Check AND Cap and Trade enacted, he’s going to have to worry about a whole lot more than not being re-elected. He will crash the economy on those two icebergs and the American people will hold him directly responsible.
NoDonkey on March 9, 2009 at 9:36 AM
My guess is that he’s aiming much more for France than Venezuela,
But what if he were aiming for Canada?
ernesto on March 9, 2009 at 9:01 AM
Being a Canadian citizen i can assure you socialism SUCKS that’s the reason i moved to the US.Wake up America i for one don’t appreciate paying for useless programs and you won’t either.I moved to this contry in 92 and i can assure you this country is truly moving in the the WRONG direction.
heshtesh on March 9, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Oh don’t give the O-man so much credit. He doesn’t have a clue what he wants. He’s just got a bunch of empty rhetoric and blows about each and every way like the wind – no where is this more evident in when he speaks extemperaneously.
The only thing he knows about is getting his hands on other people’s money and spending it on his political friends so that he can sure up his power base to fulfil his personal ambition (driven largely by his daddy issues). What’s so different about his first days in office?
The only difference now is that he’s about to bankrupt America not just Chicago and Illinois.
He’s never had a real job, never run a business, never had to earn his keep, never obtained any position on merit (apart from winning every previous office by dirty tactics to eliminate the opposition, he even bought a dismal federal election win with $600m of other people’s money), doesn’t have any friends or associates who shouldn’t be on an FBI watchlist, never had to defend America, has never been seen or heard defending America.
The guy is such a prissy he can’t stand a bit of cold so he has to turn the Oval Office into a humid crib while lecturing others about Chicago flintiness.
Stop giving this man credit for anything. There is simply no evidence of it. Admit it: America elected a Reader-in-Chief who is nothing more than a Chicago thug-politician.
Obama’s only concern is Obama.
saint on March 9, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Now he realizes he’s got a legitmate crisis on his hands and he doesn’t know what to do.
I’m concerned Ogabe “isn’t getting enough rest” so maybe a nice three hour nap every day would do the trick.
This presidenting thing is hard work, ya know.
Bishop on March 9, 2009 at 9:38 AM
As the Obama recession turns into the Obama depression, look for Tea Parties to get larger and more organized.
pearson on March 9, 2009 at 9:38 AM
according to ckoeber, he wants us to invest our hope in him.
Or maybe he just wants our souls.
MarkTheGreat on March 9, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Asking again DTMH, you ignored my last request…
Love to hear you tout the benifits of the Socilist medical systems for me…
Mark Garnett on March 9, 2009 at 9:40 AM
The only poll I follow is Rasmussin. It was shown during the election that other polls were skewed to the right and the number of Republicans polled was a smaller percentage. Give Obama time..his numbers will go lower.
It is telling that they report that the poor president isnt getting any sleep and is over worked. It shows how in over his head he is. Obama’s ratings are inline with quite a few former presidents at this time in their presidency. I think Carter’s favorable rating was higher. And we know how Carter’s presidency was a big fail.
becki51758 on March 9, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Just a thought..
SassyDarlin on March 9, 2009 at 9:41 AM
You give the media too much credit – they knew exactly what was planned. They chose to hide it.
Vashta.Nerada on March 9, 2009 at 9:41 AM
The $12.00 a month for one year that you got, oh wait…
I bet you make over $100k and are not part of ACORN or black, so your check is… ahhhhhh, well….
Mark Garnett on March 9, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Bishop – that’s what it looks like from this distance.
P.S. The term coined by one Aussie blogger is “Metrosexual Mugabe”.
saint on March 9, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Are you OK with socialism/communism? I am not.
Johan Klaus on March 9, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Remember during the campaign how they made fun of John McCain about taking naps. Plus, Pres. Reagon during his presidency. Ronald Reagon was older than Obarma during his terms and he could run circles around Obama.
becki51758 on March 9, 2009 at 9:44 AM
I’m sure you’re used to it by now, but I’m betting these socialist trolls will call you a reactionary, selfish fascist for the sin of wanting to keep your own money when there are so many people without health insurance. In their pea brains, that is the ultimate sin.
Then, they’ll start plying you with sob stories about people without health care going bankrupt, blah, blah, blah.
It’s all so damn tiresome to listen to.
venividivici on March 9, 2009 at 9:44 AM
This describes Obama perfectly.
becki51758 on March 9, 2009 at 9:44 AM
Or being given a beeper, told to go home and pack a bag, and wait until they call you six weeks later for emergency open heart surgery.
ladyingray on March 9, 2009 at 9:48 AM
I don’t accept those arguments. They’re cute politically, but the Dow droped from 13,000 in May 2008 to 7,949 on Obama’s inauguration day. Today it’s 6,627. Losing 1,300 points on the Dow during your administration is not so good (as is losing 3,000 points on the Dow since the day you were elected). But come on, in fairness, the Dow dropped at least 3,500 points on Bush’s “watch.”
I think it’s hard to say that the Dow dropped because investors are panic selling out of fears of an Obama tax increase.
Outlander on March 9, 2009 at 9:49 AM
What’s it like in an echo chamber?
I definitely do not want Canada’s, I haven’t read enough about the UK to know either way, forgive me if I don’t trust individual anectdotal stories or your characterization. I don’t see any similarities between Canada’s system and the one being proposed by Obama. I think it’s a crutch on your part, people can’t really attack Obama’s healthcare plan, they just say “Canada!” Well Canada is Canada, but I don’t have to defend their system to argue that Obama’s looks like it will make sense.
The question is can you justify the current system? Or the GOP’s “free market” plans to deal with the healthcare crisis. Healthcare costs are crippling family budgets, causing tens of thousands of Americans to go into bankruptcy. And we’re not talking about deadbeats here. People with jobs, who have health insurance but their plan doesn’t cover what they become ill with, despite ridiculously high premiums. Or maybe a family member without insurance gets seriously ill and, being human beings, they can’t just let them suffer. Or maybe they are a younger person just starting out in a job without benefits, but not yet making enough to pay for health insurance and they get sick and their parents have to help them. These kinds of situations happen every. single. day. In this country, why do you think it polls so high as a critically important issue? Yet the right looks at all that and pretends that none of it matters.
DeathToMediaHacks on March 9, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Obama’s Political Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome
Otis A. Glazebrook IV
President Obama has purposely recreated the political version of Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome by following the Hoover/FDR model of economic destruction.
American Thinker
maverick muse on March 9, 2009 at 9:50 AM
“Reasonable” people do not want to see their country devastated by sweeping and destructive political moves during a time of global economic crisis. Obama is an ideologue, and that makes him dangerous.
All the talk of “growing the economy” is Democrat-speak for growing the government–and it’s already morbidly obsese.
RandyChandler on March 9, 2009 at 9:50 AM
Understatement of the day. What is too bad is while most here and the “political junkies” that understand Obama’s agenda, are already “soured”. Our lame-stream media will continue to keep the general public in the dark, or worse, help in promoting it.
With the markets dropping over 20% in the past four weeks, hopefully more are taking notice that Obama’s attempt to control the entire “free market capitalist system”, (thru strengthening unions, nationalizing our financial institutions, and creating another massive program that will pale the cost of social security—
national, government controlled health care). All of these programs will be sorely underfunded while the tax base, (total federal revenue), will shrink by up to 40% over the next few years.Our President is turning the country upside down financially to the tune of trillions in more debt, while half of this nation’s population reach out to the government for a source of income. It will become an addiction and dependency that will not be easily kicked.
Rovin on March 9, 2009 at 9:51 AM
Stop it! Logic and reason are NOT permitted around here.
DeathToMediaHacks on March 9, 2009 at 9:51 AM
0bama’s a sly fox of a politician. Appointing/annointing Joe ‘The Retard’ Biden as VP greatly lessens his chances of meeting an unintended consequence of 0bama’s actions. Would you want HopenChange swapped for Retardism?
GeneSmith on March 9, 2009 at 9:51 AM
Two things are at play. Obama is an angry black Socialist. Bad combo.
Obama is deeply bitter about how white folks have made fortunes at the expense of blacks. He is punishing the white folks for social crimes and slavery with quasi reparations. Secondly, he is a Socialist at heart, and he has to further depress the economy. So, he’s trying to accomplish his social engineering while punishing the evil “rich” white folks – a two-fer. Actually, there’s another thing. He’s thin-skinned and was a miserable failure at his only private sector job, and has yet another chip on his shoulder for businesses. Extreme idealogue with multiple chips on his shoulder. There are tons of these types out there, but very few who can lie so adroitly to make it appear that he’s actually a moderate. Perfect storm of attributes for a radical freak.
marklmail on March 9, 2009 at 9:52 AM
Obama doesn’t even like America. Nor does Michelle for that matter.
I don’t think he wants it to succeed. We owned slaves 200 years ago, after all. We should be punished.
Riposte on March 9, 2009 at 9:53 AM
I don’t understand why the employees of The America Company are so surprised at the current malaise of their business.
They decided to appoint the inexperienced junior mail clerk as CEO, some dope whose experience consisted of filling the postal cart, and now they can’t understand how things have gotten so bad so quick.
Bishop on March 9, 2009 at 9:54 AM
Obambi is only a figurehead. He’s just there to sign the socialist legislation passed by Tsar Nancy and Hallelujah Harry and smile for the TV cameras. David Axelrod and Rahm Emmanuel control his almost every move at the instigation of their master George Soros. Soros wants to run this country into the ground. Forget Venezuela. He wants the Sudan. The man is a modern day Dr. Mabuse. Obambi is only his puppet.
Percy_Peabody on March 9, 2009 at 9:54 AM
Stop it! Logic and reason are NOT permitted around here.
DeathToMediaHacks on March 9, 2009 at 9:51 AM
And here you are.
Bishop on March 9, 2009 at 9:56 AM
I really think as far as policy goes, it’s not so much what he wants as it is what he’s open to. It’s more what Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and others want, and Obama’s just along for the ride.
The problem is, he’s just been along for the ride for his entire political life, when the ride taken on a proper course could move you on to a higher elected office. Now, there’s no higher office he can seek (unless he sees Secretary General of the United Nations as a step up from the Oval Office), so he can’t just steer along the path of least congestion. He has to lead and state a desired domestic and foriegn policy, or else the plans of others in Congress and the Administration will by default become his own.
The problem is (and it’s true with both sides of the political spectrum) is that just because your side was right about items A, B or C doesn’t mean they’re right about items D through Z. Liberals have believed that because they were right about items involving socio-economic policy done during the Roosevelt administration, they’re right about things today (never mind there’s a strong argument to make that Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini did as much to get America out of the depression as the NRA, WPA, CCC and the other federal acronyms did). So you see people on the left hearkening back to extend the policies of FDR (and LBJ, but his name is still mud on the left due to Vietnam) while at the same time saying the policies of Reagan are no longer applicable, as if Reagan’s election and policies weren’t a reaction to the failures of the Democrats’ social welfare state during the last period of double digit unemployment and inflation.
jon1979 on March 9, 2009 at 9:57 AM
Yes, and the hope is that we can survive two (or more) years of his one-party rule without losing the Republic.
I’m more concerned about the future of this country now than any time before, including 9/11.
petefrt on March 9, 2009 at 9:58 AM
He wants total control over ever aspect of our lives.What we believe,read,watch,eat, drive ,live,school for our kids,health care and how much money we make and can keep.Obama is a true belever in the Gov.knows best for all and the average folks are to dumb to make dissions for them self.If we let him and his people get away with this with out a fight. Them there is no coming back. GOD help us all!!!
thmcbb on March 9, 2009 at 9:58 AM
Actually, things didn’t start to get peachy until the Republicans took over Congress in the Clinton era. Things started going to Hell again when the Dems and Senator Obama took Congress back in 2006. Those are facts, bubba.
Couple those facts with Jimmah Carter, Bubba Clinton, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Maxine Waters and others forcing banks into bad loans and here we are. I don’t blame Obama alone for where we are now; his entire party shoulders this one.
Patrick S on March 9, 2009 at 10:01 AM
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