Fortunately you are wrong. Fortunately the majority of Americans realize they are citizens of the world rather than actually BEING the world.
-----Original Message----- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Michael Madigan Sent: Saturday, 7 February 2009 2:49 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: RE: [OT] The Impending Obama Meltdown No one gives a shit what the rest of the world thinks. ************************************************* 1/20/2013 Eviction Notice http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingmike/6169336 --- On Fri, 2/6/09, Geoff Flight <data...@adam.com.au> wrote: > From: Geoff Flight <data...@adam.com.au> > Subject: RE: [OT] The Impending Obama Meltdown > To: "'ProFox Email List'" <profox@leafe.com> > Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 11:08 PM > 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 don’t > 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 out—brought 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 > Richardson—with 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 > Muslims—apparently 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 > Constitution—FISA, 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 Club—and 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 > Carterism—angry 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/006d01c9891d$02258500$06708f...@com.au ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
