obummer is so low now that whale shit is falling on him. On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Daniel Seigler <[email protected]>wrote:
> I am contemplating running for the Office of Representative for the 2d > District of Oregon to the House of Representatives in Washington DC this > election cycle. BUT i must wait until after the Organized Party Primary > Election and other votes are done before i can Register. > > ------------------------------ > > From: > To: > Subject: FW: An article from American Thinker > Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 07:49:15 -0800 > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > CC: > To: > Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 10:05:11 -0500 > From: > 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 > ------------------------------ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2708 - Release Date: 02/24/10 > 14:34:00 > ------------------------------ > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2708 - Release Date: 02/24/10 > 14:34:00 > > ------------------------------ > Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. 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