Is There Nothing That Obama Can't Do?

Looks like government agencies dumping taxpayer money at the end of the fiscal year.

That would be the October surprise we've all been expecting.

I'll take this chance to say something about Mitt Romney's confidence.

He's a combined MBA/LLB grad from Harvard, which puts him in the top 0.01% smartest graduates of business and law on the planet in the day; I applied to the combined MBA/LLB program in 1989 at Western, but fell a bit short on the LSAT.

One of the things I always heard in the MBA, and which we always debated, was the appropriate metric(s) for a CEO -- and it was seriously represented to me by seriously capable people that a CEO worth their salt always has their own metrics around what constitutes success.

Mitt has his own metrics that he keeps to himself, and he looks like his metrics are working for him -- he's been confident for a long time, all through debate season, and particularly his speech at the Alfred E. Smith Dinner and the third debate.

The problem with Obama is that he's a cloisterf**k, which he is, and Mitt's totally organized.

The Dems will no doubt spin this as proof of their genius - without their mandarinist machinations the US economy would see zero growth.

I gave this president an honest chance when he was elected. No, his policies were not mine, but he was still properly elected and I decided not to jump on any mirror-image Bush degrangement bandwagon. I thought ET was exagerrating with constant warnings about his autocentric pathologies, thinking well arrogance and ego are commonplace with leadership.

Then he totally dropped the ball on the BP oil spill. Immediate assistant was available and he dithered in Martinesque fashion, and caused needless environmental damage.

And then the orgy of spending and borrowing kept growing and growing, but the economy continued to tank to the point that job growth has been so stifled that it consistently fails to even keep up with population growth.

Now, we have a president who incomprehensively fails to send a clear signal to Iran by meeting Neyanyahu, then on the AQ attack in Behghazi, is either and willfully kept in the dark, or dithers on how to deal with a military attack, when immediate assistance is available. Does anyone else sense a pattern here?

So mea culpa to ET, you nailed Obama on this narcissism problem. Using the Benghazi as an example, where ideology shouldn't matter, it's quite arguable that Obama looked at the operation through his Obamame lense. Instead of trying to prove to himself his "video" thesis, he should have sent in military forces then, not when he says he personally became aware (likely when the ambassador was already dead).

We really shouldn't be surprised at this deer in the headlights president. He brought words not qualifications into the office and it has shown - we now see a rather weak president, shedding his nice guy image in a planned from the start bluff and bluster run to the finish, with a meme of economic irresponsibility, with his cure being the cause of the disease.

This is the incomprehensible presidency. He might even make it, and if he does the screw will turn in the US. Americans may not believe the US is the Europesque technocracy now Obamaenvisioned, if re-elected he won't have to convince Joe and Mary Sixpack any more - they will all become a part of, a servant therefore, of government and the new American royal family and its courtesans, those who actually control him.

I hope America does not bite into this bitter fruit.

And that is how you make a recovery along with govt. buying fleets of vehicles to bolster GM's bottom line. "This game is rigged"! damn I'm going to another table said the voter.

Somebody is trying to bribe voters with their children's money?

@ Anthony at October 28, 2012 6:55 PM

Their childrens money is already in China. 16 trillion buys a lot of hope for Chinese children.