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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 07:49:15 -0800
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Subject: An article from American Thinker
An article from American Thinker by Geoffrey P. Hunt
Anatomy Of A Failing Presidency
Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency
since Woodrow Wilson. In the modern era, we've seen several failed
presidencies--led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ.. Failed presidents have one strong
common trait-- they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out. Of course, LBJ
wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his
own party. Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a
statesman has been partially restored by his triumphant overture to China 20.
But, Barack Obama is failing. Failing big. Failing fast. And failing
everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in
forging connections with the American people. The incomparable Dorothy
Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger on it: He is failing
because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe
them. Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard says he is failing because he has lost
control of his message, and is overexposed. Clarice Feldman of American
Thinker produced a dispositive commentary showing that Obama is failing because
fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his intellectual dishonesty
is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame.
But, there is something more seriously wrong: How could a new president
riding in on a wave of unprecedented promise and goodwill have forfeited his
tenure and become a lame duck in six months? His poll ratings are in free
fall. In generic balloting, the Republicans have now seized a five point
advantage. This truly is unbelievable. What's going on?
No narrative. Obama doesn't have a narrative. No, not a narrative about
himself. He has a self-narrative, much of it fabricated, cleverly disguised or
written by someone else. But this self-narrative is isolated and doesn't
connect with us. He doesn't have an American narrative that draws upon the
rest of us. All successful presidents have a narrative about the American
character that intersects with their own where they display a command of
history and reveal an authenticity at the core of their personality that
resonates in a positive endearing way with the majority of Americans. We admire
those presidents whose narratives not only touch our own, but who seem
stronger, wiser, and smarter than we are. Presidents we admire are aspirational
peers, even those whose politics don't align exactly with our own: Teddy
Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Ike, and Reagan.
But not this president. It's not so much that he's a phony, knows nothing
about economics, and is historically illiterate and woefully small minded for
the size of the task--all contributory of course. It's that he's not one of
us. And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a
cardboard cutout made from delaminated corrugated paper. Moreover, he doesn't
command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His
notions of right and wrong are repugnant and how things work just don't add up.
They are not existential. His descriptions of the world we live in don't make
sense and don't correspond with our experience.
In the meantime, while we've been struggling to take a measurement of
this man, he's dissed just about every one of us--financiers, energy producers,
banks, insurance executives, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospital
administrators, post office workers, and anybody else who has a non-green job.
Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in 2012: "For those of you
I offended, I apologize. For those of you who were not offended, you just
didn't give me enough time; if only I'd had a second term, I could have
offended you too."
Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 devised
a useful remedy for such a desperate state--staggered terms for both houses of
the legislature and the executive. An equally abominable Congress can get
voted out next year. With a new Congress, there's always hope of legislative
gridlock until we vote for president again two short years after that.
Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama among them. The coyotes howl
but the wagon train keeps rolling along.
Margaret Thatcher: "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you
run out of other people's money."
"When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." - James
Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union
"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus
"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own." - Unknown
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