Quotes of the day

How many may finally be thinking that Obama is not a smart man, as we have been told? Nor is he a calculating man, as has been inferred. He probably isn’t anywhere near the educated man, as has been touted. He is not any of the things his supporters tried to convince us we would see in him.

His single-mindedness, which can just as quickly morph into indeciveness, surrounded by near-evil smiles and nervous laughter is disconcerting.

I believe that we are actually looking at a very real sociopath who has nearly learned to hide the affliction with the deftness of a Chameleon.

Yoop on March 22, 2009 at 11:31 PM

All very true, but we should also remember that Obama is above all a liberal man, and one of the reasons his presidency is sinking after only a few months is that liberalism is utterly unable to cope with the kind of financial crises we are facing. What ideas could liberal socialism possibly advance that would be of any use in these times, especially when almost any effective strategy would be an utter repudiation of the liberalism that crashed the housing market?

Obama is uniquely awful because he falls so far short of the overwhelming hype created around him, because he’s so politically sheltered and inexperienced that he can’t think of anything better to do than go on “Letterman” or “60 Minutes” and act like a right-wing cartoon caricature of himself… and because there’s something terribly melancholy about the rising prospect of America’s First Black President becoming one of its most spectacular failures. I think many of us truly hoped we would see that first black president in our lifetimes, but we dreamed of a cross between early-90s Colin Powell and the character Dennis Haysbert played on “24.” We didn’t want this, but anyone who paid serious attention to Obama during the campaign isn’t really surprised. That “60 Minutes” interview, and the awful week of serious damage to America that it capped off, is what happens when an accident of history, and a weak opponent, drops executive power into the lap of the moral coward we saw during the Jeremiah Wright controversy, the cold-blooded opportunist who was happy to be mentored by Bill Ayers instead of beating him into a bed at the local emergency ward, the tedious and unimaginative ideologue who handled a chance encounter with a mildly critical citizen by quoting from Chairman Mao.

But, really, what serious liberal could do any better? Someone more politically omnivorous, like Clinton, might have found a way to “triangulate” and take some effective steps to restoring economic confidence, because he would sense his future career depended on it. No liberal true believer would do anything much different than Obama has done – raise taxes, expand government power, spend gigantic amounts of money, and have meetings with media hatchet men to line up a succession of designated enemies for the weekly Two Minute Hate. Every serious liberal would seem as clueless and confused as Obama does. They have a very primitive understanding of economics – pouring piles of dollar bills into the economy “fixes” it, right? – and a built-in disdain for the private sector, which they view as a hated but tragically essential work horse.

Reading this wave of liberal journalists wringing their hands about Obama and expressing their mounting fears that his presidency is falling apart just makes the truth more obvious: they’re nervous because none of them can think of a single thing they would do any different when it comes to policy, and they had convinced themselves Obama was a demigod when it comes to politics. With every truly effective option utterly foreclosed and unthinkable due to liberal and socialist ideology – tax cuts, deregulation, privatization, reduction of government spending, serious efforts to reform a badly broken government – they can only watch helplessly as Obama proves himself to be horribly inept at the one thing they were certain he could do well.

Doctor Zero on March 22, 2009 at 11:54 PM