Obama’s second inauguration speech may be his Queeg moment — an undeniable demonstration that, in an emergency, he is incapable of grappling with reality. For all his unceasing invocation of the word “change,” the outstanding thing about Obama has been his apparent inability to react, even to an imminent crisis. Like Queeg, he stands frozen on the bridge as the waves grow higher, or obsesses over issues like homosexuals and women in the military as the typhoon rises.
Faced with the worst looming fiscal cliff-fall in world history Obama, like Queeg in the typhoon, has done nothing at all, but has, increasingly, resorted to meaningless words. His pseudo-Keynesian fiscal notions and a mantra-like repetition of old and failed ideas, suggest a serious lack on mental versatility.
Economics is not an exact science, but some of its rules are now well-known, and one is that a government cannot spend its way out of a recession.
Maybe. But don’t rule out malice.
But where’s the mutiny, when over half the crew stand behind Queeg and think that steaming in circles is a great way to escape a typhoon?
It’s a great comparison. I think we’ve all seen it, especially in areas of endeavor wherein decisions, or just as importantly the lack thereof, can have very serious consequences, even life and death — the one in charge is completely out of his or her depth and so turns his/her attention to trivia in order to distract themselves from the larger problem and create the self-delusion of decisive action.
Obama is just completely out of his depth as POTUS. The choom gang and affirmative action at Harvard Law plus “community organizer” positions simply never prepared nor vetted him for any real position of leadership. As has been pointed out before, the United States will no doubt survive Obama. It may not survive a population which sees Obama as a realistic choice for President.
Observing the Obama-era USA helps me to appreciate Canada’s form of government. In the USA, if the Head of State is insane or corrupt it takes a conspiracy to remove him, in Canada it takes a conspiracy to keep him.
Kate…do not attribute to malice what can shown as psychopathic.
I suspect the narcissist in chief has no great malice, that would require having a clue, the true malice for America as land of the free, lies with the handlers.
Who provides the talking points that go up on the teleprompter?
Who is richly rewarded with taxpayers money?
Remember Obama has toured all 57 states and runs the most transparent administration ever.Oh and math is hard?
Displacement activity.
I am starting to think that the Founders really screwed up with regards to America`s form of government. They made it bicameral so no one could get stuff through. They didn`t think forward to the inevitable, when stuff would get through but no one can repeal it and no one takes responsibility for it! Statism sucks but its better when someone is forced to manage it competently. I like Heinlein`s idea of a legislative body that can repeal any legislation with a one-third vote.
People. He is a socialist. Socialists don’t like the US of A; even American socialists. He hasNO exprience or achievements, except being the first “black” whatevers, helped there by a wealthy familly and racial quotas…
His narcissism is revolting, comparing himself symbolically with Abraham Lincoln.
No, apart from incompetance, inexperience and narcissism he believes capitalists are bad and the Constitution wrong. This is why he cannot make political deals. He is the front man for Chicago boys and business and labor cronies, who he rewards in true crony style.
When your goal is to ruin the econamy of America and your advisor is george soros i would say he on course.2
“…if the Head of State is insane or corrupt, in Canada it takes a conspiracy to keep him. ”
Posted by: glasnost
The good thing about our constitutional arrangements is that if the Head of State is insane or corrupt, or not, they aren’t head of government.
The Queeg analogy is applicable to the USA’s form of government. Captain Obama is in charge, and it’s necessarily very difficult to question his command.
But should a Country be run like a ship at sea? Or should there be other democratic checks and balances, like we have in Canada.
TheTooner, you’re correct; I conflated the terminology “Head of State” with the head of government, which is Ok for the USA but not for Canada. Nonetheless, if the “head of government” in Canada were insane or corrupt, it would take a conspiricy of elected representatives to keep him in power.
soros is his handler. soros is the president of the ussa. he bought and paid for both elections and he calls the shots.
The British system is set up to force decision. It can lead to an elected dictatorship, but one way or another, there is decision.
Henry Adams certainly was worried about the indecisiveness which lives at the heart of the American federal system, and I think one of his forebears (John Quincy Adams??) expressed himself similarly.
The political genius of the Americans was making such a ridiculous system work for so long. Now, no longer. Even a good system will only work given an electorate, and representatives, who are active in their requirements for good government. As we see in Britain, weaklings, pooftahs, can wreck anything.
Bagehot’s distinction between the effective and the dignified parts of the constitution is useful. He meant “constitution” in the sense of the power structure.
The effective part is the political and administrative leadership – the PM, the Cabinet, and senior civil servants; maybe the Leader of the Opposition. The dignified part is the monarchy – ceremonial, colourful, supportive. It is a deep foolishness that the Americans devised their constitution based on their provincial misunderstanding of the way in which 18th C Britain worked. We in Upper and Lower Canada were wiser. It is a real drawback of the US that while the Englishman can day, “God save the Queen and God d*** David Cameron”, the American can only say “God save Barack Obama in his capacity of Head of State, and God d*** Barack Obama in his capacity of political leader and chief administrator of the US.” That is a little too demanding for most people!
I am cleaning my .308 rifle right now.
What was the question?
Alinski was all malice.
Cloward-Piven were all malice.
Obama is all malice. And he’s having a ball!
A wrecking ball.
Don’t be outraged by the Lincoln pretensions.
He is a modern day Lincoln except not nearly as hated by his contemporaries as Lincoln was.
Check out diLorenzo’s two books on the monster.
who would have thought that Moochelle could have chosen so poorly??
Have you not looked at the House and the Senate in the US? And the entire Praetorian Guard as well?
It is a deep foolishness that the Americans devised their constitution based on their provincial misunderstanding of the way in which 18th C Britain worked. ~John Lewis
It seems to me that the Americans devised their constitution specifically because of their understanding of the way in which 18th C Britain worked.
Interesting and very apt anaology.
JDN, your comment and Drd’s ” As has been pointed out before, the United States will no doubt survive Obama. It may not survive a population which sees Obama as a realistic choice for President.”.
I suspect that those who suggest that Soros in the money bags behind this are also right. After all his front organizations are big into big city municipal elections here in Canada.
Queeg was a career officer with a long history of achievements. He was at the end of the line, a shadow of what he was. Obama is just plain incompetent, a stupid novice, without any ability to command a ship, let alone govern a nation.
GM
Bammy is an empty shirt standing beside an empty skirt(H.R.Clinton).I can’t think of anything use-full either has done, but their “third world” electorate faun over them. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so dangerous.
If America (its economy or free republic) fall, it will certainly be by design. The vanguard of the new left have loathed capitalism, Americanism, free society and the wide affluence and independence all these have produced. They have actively been at work undermining these pillars of America’s success for years. As the 3 generation of new left ascend to the levers of political and economic power they have become accustomed to the decadent lifestyle of the super class. They are comfortable with the merger of leftist social engineering with corporate nepotism. They are actively preparing an orderly economic collapse, from which the corporatist authoritarian state will rise.
If you objectively witness the preparations the government and eastern financial oligopoly have been making, they all point to an eminent, (probably orchestrated) fiscal collapse and the imposition of a corporate police state in the post capitalist/constitutional era. They will, of course invite America’s enemies in to feast on the carcass and to establish absolute conformity to the new order.
Yes, we do live in a Corporatocracy. It arose from four post war trends – complicit national parties, strong political influence of political/economic cartel controlled districts, a huge U.S. military-security-industrial establishment, big insider money influencing election campaigns, and globalist standardization of economic and political systems tilting the balance of economic and political power away from the middle class to a super class. The ascension of the corporatist ruling class explains nepotistic corporate and bank bailouts, excessive pay for CEOs and politicians, the reduced criminal liability for the corporate/political class as well as the exploitation of national treasuries, the tax base, and natural resources for exclusive private interests. This has been the best kept secret of the financial press but now it is becoming obvious, the executive class criminals behind it are scheming a way to avoid public backlash.
An economic collapse will bury many crimes committed by the super class who have been abominating America’s crrency, markets and government for the past 5 decades. Hyper-inflated dollars due to reserve plundering and debt instrument fraud, fiscal and monetary mismanagement as well as market plunder and trading fraud vanish in a collapse – so does the population’s resolve for justice – it’s hard to be an American patriot when you are broke, starving and your society has collapsed due to a lengthy absolute depression. People will be willing to empower any evil if it offers them remote hope of alleviating the suffering. From this orchestrated chaos the new American order will rise – a merger of oligopoly and state – authoritarian corporatocracy. The new age and new order await a US based economic holocaust to establish dominance.
Thank-you for that comment Occam. If people would force themselves to see the big picture then they could mobilize themselves to save themselves and the brilliant idea that really is America: “Home of the Brave, Land of the Free. As Ken (kulak) has often reminded readers here at SDA: ‘Freedom is not Free’. Freedom costs individuals energy, time, education, devotion, courage, life…refusing to submit to traitors and slavers is the cost of Freedom. It takes courage and a strong moral fiber to stand up for an idea when a person sees everyone else caving in and some profiting from the cave in while the fighters for their own and other’s rights lose everything. The ‘cautious’ ones always are there to ‘cash in’ when the strong and the brave have done the dirty work. A trait of freedom loving people has always been that they just want to be left alone to live their own lives as they see fit; they leave it to others to do the same: believing that ‘others’ will value freedom and defend it.
For all the critics of the Republic of America – Canada does not have a Constitution or a Bill of Rights to protect us against Totalitarians – we have a 1917 copy of Lenin’s Constitution to the people of Russia as our ‘Rights and Freedoms’ thingie – presented to us by Turdo when he scrapped the BNA Act and the Diefenbaker improvements. We have a great Prime Minister right now, but we have a gang of far left zealots waiting in the Liberano/Dipper/Blocista wings just itching to reclaim the public tax trough. That group is powerful and Canadians are inclined to turn left when they don’t get their ‘entitlements’. Something to put it the perverbial pipe to smoke – as the Chiefs did it the presence of PMSH! Our Prime Minister is alergic to tobacco smoke (he has asthma) – where was the outrage? Haven’t heard anything on that topic…why not? Do all laws apply to all people or do we live in a place where laws apply to some and not others? Are chiefs and their kin allowed to smoke tobacco anywhere at any time? They certainly have set a high bar – smoking in a public place with the Prime Minister. Anyone else here have a problem with the rules for some of the people, some of the time? Oh, you don’t smoke so this does not concern you? Isn’t this the same as no concern for the rifle owner because you do not know how to hunt?
Here is a link to that 1917 Bill of Rights in Russia (USSR):
http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/government/1917/11/02.htm