I think Obama is clearly in way over his head, and will crack early under pressure. Our enemies know this.
I think he's already made some monumentally bad decisions, not the least of which is totally smashing the piggy bank into dust particles on pure, partisan political payback and vote-grubbing, all in the name of stimulus. This is reckless on so many levels, you need a supercomputer just to list them, forget calculating the economic damage. The magnitude of this bill borders on incomprehensible, both in size and scope. Unfortunately it's 93% pork, and only 7% stimulus--and that part phased in over several years. He has no leadership experience, and it is really starting to show, already. Nancy and Harry are playing him like a fiddle, and so are all the foreign leaders in the Axis of Weasels. His partisan "news conference" the other day--literally mocking the concerns of the other side, bragging about his party's principles, you think that was presidential? He also has no integrity. His broken promises about hiring lobbyists, or eradicating earmark/pork spending. His *nomination* of so many serial tax cheats (one of which now heads our treasury) and business-as-usual wheelers-and-dealers ought to say a lot, but of course I'm sure you think it's all honky dory, nothing to see here, move along. All this in just 2 weeks! I think Biden had it inversely correct, as usual. Their chance of screwing up isn't 30% but 70% if not a lot higher. And when everything breaks down, and it will, then they'll be "forced" to institute all kinds of draconian measures, and that's when this cocky little man-child of a "leader" will grow into his own, as an American Hugo Chavez. I have nothing more to say about Bush. Quit dwelling on the past. We have a whole new set of disastrous policies and their catastrophic consequences to ponder. - Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On > Behalf Of Geoff Flight > Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 11:08 PM > To: 'ProFox Email List' > Subject: RE: [OT] The Impending Obama Meltdown > > President for 2 weeks and all the ills are Obama's fault. Is this the > logic > of the Bush-lovers? Because if it is it explains just how the > Disaster-that-was-Bush occurred. If you really dont think Bush lowered > America's reputation in the world then perhaps you are not listening to > the > right people. If you really think everything that is wrong with America > is > Obamas fault then perhaps you need some serious help. > > -----Original Message----- > From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On > Behalf > Of Bob Calco > Sent: Saturday, 7 February 2009 2:21 PM > To: 'ProFox Email List' > Subject: [OT] The Impending Obama Meltdown > > http://tinyurl.com/d7ggnp > > - - - > Some of us have been warning that it was not healthy for the U.S. media > to > have deified rather than questioned Obama, especially given that they > tore > apart Bush, ridiculed Palin, and caricatured Hillary. And now we can > see the > results of their two years of advocacy rather than scrutiny. > > We are quite literally after two weeks teetering on an Obama implosion > and > with no Dick Morris to bail him outbrought on by messianic delusions > of > grandeur, hubris, and a strange naivete that soaring rhetoric and a > multiracial profile can add requisite cover to good old-fashioned > Chicago > politicking. > > First, there were the sermons on ethics, belied by the appointments of > tax > dodgers, crass lobbyists, and wheeler-dealers like Richardsonwith the > relish of the Blago tapes still to come. (And why does > Richardson/Daschle > go, but not Geithner?). > > Second, was the "stimulus" (the euphemism for "borrow/print money") > that was > simply a way to go into debt for a generation to shower Democratic > constituencies with cash. > > Then third, there were the inflated lectures on historic foreign policy > to > be made by the clumsy political novice who trashed his own country and > his > predecessor in the most ungracious manner overseas to a censored Saudi- > run > press organ (e.g., Bush is dictatorial, the Saudi king is courageous; > Obama > can mend bridges that America broke to aggrieved Muslimsapparently > Tehran > hostages, Rushdie, serial attacks in the 1990s, 9/11, Madrid, London > never > apparently occurred; and neither did feeding Somalis, saving Kuwait, > protesting Chechnya, Bosnia/Kosovo, billions to Egypt, Jordan, the > Palestinians, help in two Afghan wars, and on and on). > > Fourth, there was the campaign rhetoric of Bush shredding the > ConstitutionFISA, Guantánamo, the Patriot Act, Iraq, renditions, > etc.followed by "all that for now stays the same" inasmuch as we > haven't > ben hit in over seven years and can't risk another attack. > > Fifth, Gibbs as press secretary is a Scott McClellan nightmare that > won't go > away, given his long McClellan-like relationship with Obama (McClellan > should have been fired on day hour one on the job). Blaming Fox News > for > Obama's calamities is McClellan to the core and doesn't work. He > already > reminds me of Reverend Wright's undoing at the National Press Cluband > he > will get worse. > > Six, Biden is being Biden. Already, he's ridiculed the chief justice, > trashed the former VP, bragged on himself ad nauseam in Bidenesque > weird > ways, and it's only been two weeks. > > And the result of all this? > > At home, Obama is becoming laughable and laying the groundwork for the > greatest conservative populist reaction since the Reagan Revolution. > > Abroad, some really creepy people are lining up to test Obama's world > view > of "Bush did it/but I am the world": The North Koreans are readying > their > missiles; the Iranians are calling us passive, bragging on nukes and > satellites; Russia is declaring missile defense is over and the Euros > in > real need of iffy Russian gas; Pakistanis say no more drone attacks > (and > then our friends the Indians say "shut up" about Kashmir and the Euros > order > no more "buy American"). > > This is quite serious. I can't recall a similarly disastrous start in a > half-century (far worse than Bill Clinton's initial slips). Obama > immediately must lower the hope-and-change rhetoric, ignore > Reid/Pelosi, > drop the therapy, and accept the tragic view that the world abroad is > not > misunderstood but quite dangerous. And he must listen on foreign policy > to > his National Security Advisor, Billary, and the Secretary of Defense. > If he > doesn't quit the messianic style and perpetual campaign mode, and begin > humbly governing, then he will devolve into Carterismangry that the > once-fawning press betrayed him while we the people, due to our > American > malaise, are to blame. > - - - > > What he said. > > - Bob > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/04eb01c988e8$61eea5f0$25cbf1...@rr.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. 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