Obama.

Making himself irrelevant.

One country at a time.

Overheard at the whitehouse:

"It's so unfair! They don't like me, they really don't like me"

If nothing else the first tell all book from the first defector from within the Obama administration should be a doozy....

Has any president had a worse first two weeks - this guy is even worse than Rush feared. And this is the easy part - wait til he has to make a real decision or faces a real crisis. Obama being president is like me quarterbacking the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl. How long before he is picking his teeth out of the turf.

Fritz I have to ask the question does HE know he has had a bad week. Most of the problems I have seen him encounter are ones he created to a degree. I'm sure the basic question is "Did you pay your taxes?" or "Why didn't Bush-Hitler let the Israelis blow the crap out of Iranian nuclear facilities."

I guess the 'test' the loose cannon / 'scrappy scranton Joe' predicted for the mighty 0 in the campaign has arrived, sooner than expected, and the cheat-sheets have not been prepared yet...

no surprise that internationally he's an empty suit but the havoc he can wreak domestically is mind boggling....

the poor lad is way out of his depth....how disappointing the concatenations will be for his acolytes...

i shall pray for them in the very same manner i pray for superduper K man .....

The really sad thing is that I have learned more in the last 4 minutes by reading the above links than all the people who voted for him have learned in the past 4 months or more.

None of the pro-O folks will ever know what has been shown here and posted about.

Whatever happens, he will continue to be the OWTSSOHA (One With The Sun Shining Out His Ahhh, you know the rest)

1. Why is India so belligerent these days? Its economy seems to be doing better than in the old dirigisme days. But with all the pressure on Pakistan regarding its al-Qaeda links and so on, perhaps India is taking the opportunity to get in a little more pressure of its own against its no. 1 enemy?

2. If the EU "retaliates" against the Buy America campaign, it will be hurting itself more than the Americans. The smart move is to do nothing and let the other guy hang himself. Same goes for Canada.

3. The Iranian satellite reminds me of the old bad news / good news joke on the Tonight Show about 20 years ago. The bad news: Iran has the bomb. The good news: the rest of their technology is so backward, they have to drop it off the back of an ox cart.

I recall telling my wife during the presidential campaign, "I almost hope that Obama wins, because it will be quite the train wreck to witness."

I didn't expect things to come off the rails so quickly. But, my god, who the hell has he hired to vet cabinet nominees? It seems to me anybody with a minimal amount of competence would have rooted out tax deadbeats from the vetting process. Of course, the cynic in me suggests they knew about these tax problems, and put forth the deadbeats for nomination anyways expecting to get a free pass.

Honestly, when a real crisis develops, I am not at all confident Obama has surrounded himself with people who have the ability to advise with any degree of competence.

Maybe it's because I had such low expectations but, I think that he's performing reasonably well. It's been 68 years since a U.S. President walked into such a perfect storm of domestic and international grief. Let's put aside the schadenfreud and pray that he succeeds in the big stuff, or the whole world will be in very deep shite.

How many of his promises has he broken already in only two weeks? His Cabinet is now full of tax-cheats and lobbiests - the most ethical Administration ever!

And Zog... seriously now, you were joking right? This has been the most pathetic start ever to a Presidency. Just imagine how bad it would be if the Left Wing Media weren't on their knees for The Big Zero!

Kate he is also planning a meeting with Hugo Chavez.

I still think this is all part of his 'uncle joe' strategy - he knew buy America would not fly. More show for the loons on the left and the unions and no go for the pragmatists.

Sooner or later he is going to have to make one of these moves stick otherwise the KOS crowd will turn on him I just don't know what or when and I doubt BO does either.

Pretty reckless either way and he is burning up a lot of political capital both domestically and internationally at a pretty rapid rate. To much more of this and he's going to make we Stelmach look like a man of steely resolve by comparison.

Zog -- it's a perfect storm, yes. But, there's a right way and a wrong way to deal with things. I'd suggest handing a trillion dollar stimulus package to the likes of Pelosi and Reid to oversee is the wrong way to approach things. Those two avowed lefties have thrown every liberal program, including the kitchen sink, into the so-called stimulus bill. This is why it is, rightly, running into so much opposition. Protectionism caused the Great Depression to last, according to studies, seven years longer than it probably otherwise would have. Yet, the Democratic congress has insert a buy-American clause into the 'stimulus' bill. These people have no grasp of history, and/or an unhealthy allegiance to special labour interests in the U.S. In either case, they are the wrong folks to be overseeing such a historically important spending bill.

Obama should have wrote the damn thing in the White House, with a team of economic advisors before bringing in the other branches of government. He screwed the pooch big time on this one, and he's only two weeks into the job.

This, of course, is just my humble opinion. But, so far, I am unimpressed in the extreme with President Hopeandchange.

Three weeks since his inauguration and not a single terrorist attack on American soil. There is nothing that Obama cannot do!

Has he met Putin yet? That ought to be fun.

Sure he has run into the perfect storm of economic, domestic and international challenges. But the point is he doesn't think that is enough of a challeng. He is piling more and more onto it. And what he is piling on is certainly distracting - but not if you run away and play with the kiddies.

I hope his is able to surround himself with a good group of advisors - but the track record so far worries me. We need him to perform better and we should be hoping and praying for his success - without which we are in very deep do do.

"..."We were just tired of being in the White House," the president candidly told the gleeful second-graders at Capital City Public Charter School." (President Barack Obama)

"It's easy to campaign, it's difficult to govern."
(Karl Rove)

POTUS Obama's on-the-job-training's first "nap time" break.

I don't support the little twit who is predictably overwhelmed by the job, well he lied his way into power, lets see him lie his way out of this mess. He is not my president.

The Democratic party in the U.S. has been taken over by Jack Layton types. It is now controlled by spoiled brat leftists who have never worked a day in their lives without Mommy and Daddies or tax payers support. Although brought up in a system that provided them with everything they prefer a system that throughout the world has denied everything to others. Obama will throw these folks off within the quarter... he has no choice.

O is upsetting the tobacco and the dog walking industries.
There oughta be a law ...-

"Obama not smoking at the White House
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS"

"Another thing not happening on the White House grounds right now - dog walking."

his press secretary got an ass kicking yesterday as well . . . looks like some media types, not the A-Team TV rypes but the less well known print reporters are reverting to form, smelling blood in the water and starting to act like a pack about to chew on BHO's star kissed ass.

We.Are.F***ED.

Maybe some dim Dems are beginning to believe that Sarah's experience isn't so irrelevant after all. It shows that the big O has little experience to fall back on. I guess its learn as you go.

And herein lies the difference between executive experience and senatorial experience - the big deal used to regularly trash Palin. Senators don't make significant decisions, except maybe to decide if they are actually 'present' or not). Governors need to make actually policy and procedural decisions on a daily basis and move on quickly to the next item.

Having a Harvard education is only a guarantee that you might think like David Miller on a bad day. None of his qualifications are a clue to leadership and its showing. This was one of the same sins the left accused Palin of - having to learn on the job. And, as was predicted. Biden is hung back up in the closet, nowhere to be seen.

Do I want to see the twit fail? You bet.But I sure don't want him to fail at the most and only important job he has ever had.Whither goes the once great USA,so goeth Canada.I pray for both of us.This is not the time for petty politics and protectionism.Surely there is somebody in his cabinet who can slap him upside the head,and set him straight??

O-bservers and Mao Stlong aglee over O.
O is a catastlophe?
...-

"Obama backing down on China [another embarrassment for the President]
China Post"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178060/posts

Colin: good point on the leadership or lack of it coming from the white house. On the biggest spending bill the world has ever seen he is deferring to pelosi and reid two politicians with near single digit approval ratings.

But really what did he campaign on other than the democratic party platform (except that he favours school choice and he has said diddly sqaut about that since november) he does not strike me as a guy who is spending timethinking about the things he wants done as potus. I will have to look into it more but ithink he may be the most vacuous potus from a policy standpoint since Harding.

ulianov @ 3.42 AM
Your point is well taken.
I believe that there is at least a 2 yr period that the new administration is stuck with the agenda of the outgoing.
Its good to see that you finally aknowledge the good work of GWB.
AND (read 911) the poor quality of Slick Willie.

"We were just tired of being in the White House," the president candidly told the gleeful second-graders at Capital City Public Charter School."

"We got out! They let us out!" Mrs. Obama said as the kids and their teachers laughed."

Wow, only two weeks in office!

The economy crashing and Obama reads to school kids. I remember another President being hammered in the papers for doing something similar. However, this President's emergency happened while he was reading to the school kids.

The 'perfect storm' in my opinion was concocted by his cohorts. They were the NINJA financiers in the Democrat party. That led to the credit crisis, which led to the bailout of pork. Vultures come home to roost. Now if he put Reid and Pelosi in an airtight box he may get better traction.

"The economy crashing and Obama reads to school kids. I remember another President being hammered in the papers for doing something similar. However, this President's emergency happened while he was reading to the school kids."

No,no,no,RFC.BushitlerMcchimpy was hiding out,planning the 911 attack.Don't you believe Rosie???

Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing it's idiot.

Funny he did't just hide under the bed.

Predators can smell weakness. Obama is giving off the scent of a wounded rabbit by making noises about placating America's antagonists.

"Er uh Jack and uuuhhhhm Jill, Uhhhhh Went up the , went up the , (hold on) er uhm, went up the uhm hill."
You know Michelle always uhm says, To fetch a , to fetch a ...(stick with me here)...

I think you have it all wrong.

Obama, as usual was looking for a challenge, and decided to face a tough audience, with tougher questions than he has been used to getting.

Network anchors tinkle on their leg when they face the Prez. No network anchor has had the temerity to ask the Pres to make a singular, definitive choice of anything let alone a favorite Super Hero.

Facing the public, unscripted, shows the Pres' bravery and common touch. O!

The biggest gaffe was conveniently swept under the rug: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner "forgot" or "neglected" or "misremembered" to pay some $42,000 in taxes. Now most folks in the US who do that find the long arm of the IRS around their necks. Sometimes they even get free room & board out of it: just ask Wesley Snipes.

However, when it's a democrat nominee for the Secretary of the Treasury (the guys who RUN the IRS)... why it's an "honest" mistake, and they give him the top job.

The irony and double-standard is stunning. So is the total silence on the part of the MSM, but that, anyway, is not surprising.

Obama: Too. Big. To. Fail.

mhb23re
at gmail d0t calm

(hey! Wonder if he was reading "My Pet Goat" to the kids)

Nobody thinks Iran deliberately waited for a post-inauguration satellite launch, right...right??

Hopefully the power behind the throne has their sh1t together, because Barry sure doesn't. I just pray The One doesn't go all megalomaniac and preemptively nuke Iran.

These primadona Lefties have a marked tendency to do stuff like that when they get cornered. That could be... bad.

If you look closely at the financial markets, the prospects of an "Obama Bounce" are also fading. Which leads me to believe that despite all the hype, investors are giving a decided thumbs-down to his administration's economic policies.

We'll likely see a bounce in the financial markets in spring/early summer, but it will be a narrow rally driven by internal market mechanics only. This will be seized upon by Obama's supporters as evidence that his "stimulus" is working, but by fall the markets will continue their long grind downwards.

I don't think that Obama's behaviour has anything to do with having or not having experience. Experience won't change him. I think it's due to his psychological nature as a narcissist.

Obama's life history shows that he is not interested in the development or analysis of policies, theory, infrastructure, logical cause-effect, history. These quickly bore him; we can see this by his indifference in the Senate. I suspect they not only bore him but he even feels harmed by them; focusing on issues depletes his energy, takes something away from him.

He focuses, probably unconsciously, on people. Not issues. His focus on people is on his ability to manipulate them to get them to approve of him.

However, he doesn't get them to like him for his policies which would be an indirect strategy that would be hard for him to control. And it would emotionally 'empty' him.
He uses the strategy of direct psychological manipulation via the emotions of rhetoric. In this sense, Obama operates in a 'fictional' world; one that he creates and controls. The world of policies is one that is out of his control and he stays clear of that.

As for policies, he leaves that to others. He is simply 'cold' to policies because they operate in intellectual rather than psychological zones. Why does he align himself with the socialists? Because their policies are populist rather than individualist. Their policies are based on emotional utopianism rather than realist economics, and are geared to emotions rather than reason.

He's not interested in the policies, in their short-term or long-term effects as structural actions. He's only interested in their emotional effects that give him control over how people think of him.

Obama has, in my view, a severe personality neurosis, that means that his decisions are not made for their effects in themselves, but only for their capacity to enable him to 'make people like him'.

This leaves his governance empty, vulnerable and open to backroom political powermongering, to unaccountable agents. We can see this in the 'stimulus package' which is a dangerous, expensive hodge podge of Democratic special interest paybacks - rather than an economic stimulus structure.

We see this in his 'choices' of key positions, which were probably suggested to him by those backroom dealers who are steadily moving in and taking over governance.

We'll see more of this, and more flip flops and other errors.

To help O B put his stamp on his administration, I have a suggestion.

Just to identify his "new" rigime, he needs to wear AC/DC's schoolboy uniform.

That's how unique he is percieved....

its not up to us mortals to question the way of the messiah, when the time is right his royal Obamaness will raise his hand, nod his head and everything will be right in the world

Victor Davis Hanson has an excellent article in the National Review, on The Impending Obama Meltdown.

Obama Meltdown

As Hanson says,

"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."

My own view is that Obama's psychological nature won't let him drop the perpetual campaign mode. He freezes in the realm of policies and issues and only feels OK when he feels he can directly manipulate people.

Did I hear 'The O-Mighty One' say that he was going to make sure he did not "screw it up again"?

It was during an interview with Chris Wallace from FOX News.

The question was about how it looked to Americans regarding some of his appointments and the tax issues.

Our Prime Minister was chastised greatly for using such terminolgy. Funny how that goes, isn't it?

another meltdown coming.

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/corrupt_currency.pdf

ET, because Obama is a narcissist which I agree with you he will process information and events incorrectly. It's pretty self-evident now. He has no way of understanding that it's not all about him.

He's got some handicapping baggage that his own little shallow vanity autobiography underscores - a feckless immature mother, an abandoning father to whom he has misplaced idealism and what seems the lonely life of a kid shuttled to more responsible grandparents although he never made it to Grandma's funeral which is odd. I don't think Obama has ever been comfortable in his own skin as a male or bi-racial person.

Wiser minds in his administration will in time do an end run around his Chauncy Gardner shallowness, they'll have no choice.

As VDH points out the world's thugs are salivating over their good fortune. It won't be long before that translates into something very bad for all of us. The press is simply not going to be able to carry water for him forever.

Gee, anyone notice the trolls have gone awfully quiet.....

I keep having to say this over and over to the Obabots, he is not from America, Obama's roots are in Mumbasa, Kenya. What the hell would he know about US Policy, especially US Foreign Policy, and what does he do, he employs dayyam near eveyone of Hill and Bill's rejects.

Hey Obama, don't know who is advising you, but there is a reason all your Cabinet Picks are Ex-Democrat Politicians. They are EX's because they 1) got caught with hand in cookie jar, 2) Voters voted them out.

Jeeeez,,, who has he got vetting these folks, oh yea, that's right it was Caroline, who forgot to vett herself, ;-)

Well, just wait till some Foreign Super-Power kidnaps one of Baracks numerous half-breed relatives for ransom that ought to be interesting.
,

RFC

you stole my thunder.

Phantom

I agree with you. This isn't PC but oh well; your comment reminds me of the (stereotypical) female cop who has to show the bad guys that she's just as tough as her male counterpart. She often tries to accomplish this by being extra confrontational; you know, getting in your face.

It reminds me of a comment on another thread that said "If you are a world class organization, you don't have to tell people you are a world class organization". IMO the same goes for "toughness", those who flex the most are often the weakest and the most scared. Is BO weak and scared?

Hey Skip, I don't think a Harvard Degree means squat if you got in under Affirmative Action.
,

"Wash. Times Exclusive: Obama Backs Out on Iraq Appointment

The Obama administration asked retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni to be U.S. ambassador to Iraq but abruptly withdrew the appointment without explanation, Gen. Zinni said Tuesday."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178203/posts

Comments are somewhat, er scathing?

"To: kristinn

I think Zinni was an early supporter of the messiah. That pissed off the Clintonistas and I am sure when the shrew Hillary got into the State Dept, she deep sixed him for the job in Iraq. Look to see more of this from State Dept., I feel under Hillary they will go off the Obama reservation many times. No way Barry is going to able to reign in the Hildabeast.

The Clinton’s have their eyes on the White House, and Barry was too dumb to know you can never trust them. His lack of executive experience is already painfully obvious, just now he came on tv whining about the stimulus package and in his usual arrogant fashion, declared the Ameerican voters elected change in November, so everyone needs to get on board his stimulus version ,no matter how stupid it is."

Well the backdown on Buy America wasn't caused by the MSM that's for sure. They didn't say a peep about it right up until yesterday. Very soon as an act of commercial self-preservation they will have to start well, REALLY reporting the news.

Excellent column by hansen by the way, lately he has elevated his always high-quality op-eds to an even higher level. with his depth of historic knowledge I think he sees what Obama is more clearly than anyone and thus what it means for america and the world going forward. Chilling...

I don't think that Obama realizes the mess he's in. He not only has no experience at governance but he's psychologically unsuited to do so. He's a salesman; that's all. He has no interest in or ability to know, the values of the product he's selling.

Therefore, the governance is rapidly, faster than the spread of a plague, being taken over by backroom Clinton Party and other Democrats. The 'stimulation package' is written by Pelosi and Reid and has nothing to do with the good of the economy.

The appointments are all backroom deals by the old gang - and as the Clinton become stronger in these backroom deals, we'll see excellence going out the window. Already, Obama is rejecting senior military advice (Petraeus).

So, Obama then turns to the media, to sell these packages. He uses psychological manipulation - if you don't like me/the policy, there is something wrong with YOU.

And remember, he didn't develop these policies; he doesn't know the long term results but he has to trust his advisors because he, himself, doesn't function in the area of developing policy.

Already I can see the honeymoon with Obama ending for lots of people, and yet I still cant find any "dont blame me, I voted for McCain" bumper stickers.

Here's hoping that the world continues to show the same level of respect to B.O. that they gave to George Bush!

"I don't think a Harvard Degree means squat if you got in under Affirmative Action"

Lots of white Harvard Law Review Presidents started out their first two years of higher ed in community college. Lots and lots I am sure. That Harvard Degree is gold backed and God certified. DO NOT QUESTION IT!

"Somewhere in Kenya a village has lost its idiot." So frickin' true. We all know that the missing Texas idiot was Dan Rather.

"Well the backdown on Buy America wasn't caused by the MSM that's for sure."

Obama's the only one backing down and he's irrelevant in this. Congress writes the bills and the president has two choices - sign the whole thing or not sign the whole thing; he can't pick and choose. To date, the Senate is still planning on expanding the House provision.

Posted by: Dave at February 4, 2009 11:32 AM

"Gee, anyone notice the trolls have gone awfully quiet....."

I keep waiting for them to show up and explain all of this to me in a language I can understand. Afterall, there must be some reasonable explanation for why Obama is driving his train off into the wilderness where there are no tracks.

The trolls have essentially gone quiet at Hot Air also. Must be a big WHOOPS! in the system somewhere. The most ardent and prolific Bush-hating/Obama-loving poster at HA, a Canadian, has gone scarce.

I guess reality can be a jarring awakening.

Obama should be deported back to Kenya where he was born. Then he apply for American citizenship and become legal.
Peter

I for one hope that he succeeds in his presidency, but the outlook is grim. I just don't think he has the brains to recover from his initial missteps like Kennedy, Clinton and Bush did. I hate to say it, and it will be bad news for us all if it is true, but Obama is looking even worse than Carter. I don't know if the free world can survive a presidency as disastrous as this one could be.

I think ET is soooo right on with the narcissistic personality of The Messiah. That's what makes me worry he may lose it and nuke somebody for pissing in his little red wagon.

Let us all remember the 1990's for a moment, when Bill Clinton used to bomb somebody every time he needed the media's attention turned someplace else. The difference between Clinton and Obama, I think Billy is fundamentally crooked and out for Numero Uno. He doesn't believe his own hype, and when he does something he's calculated what's going to happen.

Obama, he seems much more into the adulation. He's in it for the cheering and the stroking, so when it stops and the booing and shoe throwing starts, he could go really weird.

I also think Bill Clinton is a hell of a lot smarter than The One. Scary frickin' thought, that. Hillary, not so much.

Time for the Republicans to get it together. They have to have some real quality going into the mid-terms. I like Ms. Palin for VP but they need a big dog for Pres. Remember, Biden is a heartbeat from the Presidency.

Notice that the latest polls are showing that Americans are turning against Obama's 'stimulus package'. Check out the Rasmussen Reports

Makes Things Worse

Meanwhile, Obama is going on the MSM saying that 'you must pass the package or it will be disastrous'. That's his strategy of inducing fear so that you will do what he wants. Remember, he's not interested in the policies; he has no knowledge of cause-effect, of long term effects, of economics, of finance, of banking. Nothing. The fact that the package is pork and not stimulus is of no interest to him.

His goal is control of people; they must do as he asks just because He is the one who is asking. It's a severe psychological need not a rational need.

Meanwhile, Obama has backed off from his foreing minister appointments (Iraq), his other appointments suggested by the Old Gang have been found compromised with corruption; he's in conflict with military advice..and so on. All because he is not focused on policies or even the good of America, but on his ability to control people and be liked.

In this vacuum of leadership, the backroom Boys rapidly move in. Pelosi and Reid. The Clintons. Put these two groups together, and it's a serious slipperly slope to a meltdown.

Too bad the pathetic, pitiful Canadian lickspittles who dare call themselves journalists are still wiping their lips, getting on their knees and giving the big-O the full monica.

Ibbitson was vomit-inducing today. "Obama is god and that Harper guy is making Canada into nobodies on the world stage!" says sycophant Ibby. It's enough to churn your stomach.

I don't hate Obama and I don't think he'll do as bad a job as a lot of other people on the board do (pelosi and the house & senate are another matter. They will likely be the worst ever.) It's more the media's treatment of Obama rather than the man himself I can't stand.

You people are delusional. There are a lot of idiots posting on here. After 8 years with Bush, I can't believe everyone is being so hard on Obama. He's only been president for 2 weeks and it seems to me that he is attempting to set things right. He has been given two wars and a crappy economy thanks to the last administration. I am also sick of reading that Obama is somehow not American. I mean, I know there is a lot of junk online but it isn't that hard to find his birth certificate. It's obvious that you just don't like Obama and are going out of your way to criticize him. It's sickening, really.

Maybe the military will step in and turf him if it gets too serious. I think they almost turfed Kennedy during the cuban missile crisis.

I don't know, just sayin'.

Holly,

Bush wasn't even in power before you leftards started scretching.

What's been sickening is that after 8 years of the most viscious, personal, degrading attacks, you POS leftards think you can demand civility now?

Go. F***. Yourself. With. Something. Painful. Like a liberal.

Warwick,

Why are people like you so vile? This is America. I am thankful that I can disagree with the anti Obama rants on this stupid website. Why don't you go watch Rush Limbaugh so he can tell you what to think.

In a simpler and more innocent bygone era, the press and his administration kept Roosevelt's wheelchair under wraps as if it didn't exist. But, then, the issue wasn't his mental incapacitation.

If this little twit spirals any faster in his downhill trajectory it's going to be real fun seeing the MSM and his inner circle trying to hide his incapacitation deploying extreme Hollywood methods. There might come a day when an Obama press conference is done in animation. Then, the question becomes can you impeach a cartoon.

Holly,

I don't know what site you think you've come to, but this is CANADA. I'm in Ontario and this site is hosted out of Saskatchewan.

As for "people like me" I guess people like me are just sick and tired of people like you. Whenever your lot are out of power, the anger, venom and sickening "chimpy McHitlerburton, inside job, stolen election" tin hat jerknuts come out yapping. Granted, when Clinto was in, he took endless crap from the GOP and conservatives everywhere but the bile was nowhere in the same ballpark.

Unlike you, I need no one to tell me how to think. And my venom wasn't directed at Obama but you (and in an earlier post, the media - where rush also works. I don't like him either except so much as he makes leftard such as yourself froth.)

Good Golly Miss Holly

Why don't you go watch Rush Limbaugh so he can tell you what to think.

Let me rephrase that for you because what you really meant was, “Why don't you go watch Rush Limbaugh until such time we shut down freedom of speech and talk radio and then we will tell you what we think".

Lil'Miss Irony:

Holly(3:43): "You people are delusional. There are a lot of idiots posting on here."

Holly(3:52): "Why are people like you so vile? This is America."

Holly

re: Rush limbaugh

Do yourself a favour and check out hannity's interview with Rush on Youtube. Then come back here and provide some concrete criticism of what he's saying.

...

Yes there are some screeds above (as there were and are on left-wing sites about GWB) but there are also some excellent arguments being made (and the Hansen link is tremendous - i suspect it is the plot outline for the next four years) please take the time to read them and by all means make some non-ad hominem arguments against them.

Frankly it is what the majority of those reading this are hungering for - a reasoned argument from the those who think BO is doing a good job. So far all we have seen is gushing praise (eg the ibbitson column noted above) from people who are paid to know and do better.

The motivational speaker suddenly finds himself CEO and he hasn't a clue -- surprise, surprise. What's perhaps more worrisome is that he's surrounded himself with corrupt, carpet-bagging, greedy leftist ideologues who are just as clueless as he is. It's like the frat-house drunks from the Lido deck now have control of the ship.
On the international scene, the wolves are coming out because the German Shepherd sheep dog just got replaced by a golden retriever pup. The wolves are going to try their luck and why shouldn't they? There's going to be a lot of suffering at home and abroad before a leader emerges somewhere behind the scenes.
I suspect things will get worse for the two years it will take before the Republicans regain control of congress and can effectively force the executive branch to sober up. Tough times ahead.

Hmmmm....if these mistakes keep up, people are going to start saying that B.O. isn't America's first African American president after all. They may even start making things up...saying that he's multi-racial or telling similar lies.

Holly.

OMG As an American would you please stop insluting my Canadian friends.

Maybe you should check on the website before you make such stupid comments.

PS.. You can't watch Rush on TV, he's on radio.
Jezzzzz

Warwick..

I have leftard friends like that.

"Why can't you stupid half functional retard conservatives show some love and respect for the new Prez..."

Well, since you put it that way.....

RFC

Exactly. After the bile and spittle of Bush Derangement Syndrome, I am in no mood for leftards demanding respect. F*** your respect. Want some? Show some.

I don't even dislike Obama. It's not really his fault all his fans and supporters are idiots (including the media.)

I'm willing to bet he has an initial hissy fit and (with luck) his intellect shuts down his ego and he gets to work. If VDH is right though (and betting against isn't good odds) then we're screwed.

I'd rather hope the other team's guy does well if they're running the place. If they flop, I want it to be before they get their hands on the football.

Hey Dr. D, easy on the Golden Retrievers there eh? My golden faced off a whole coyote pack one time. They checked him out but kept on going.

I'm sure he'd have made a better President than Barry OmigawdBama. Smarter, for one thing.

Yes Holly, my dog was smarter than your guy is. Deal with it.

Warwick

I for one enjoy your "colorful metaphors" when you rant.

BTW OT

Did anyone enjoy O'Reilly's interview with the two lawyers on the octuplets topic? My wife and I giggled for a good 10 minutes after that one(In a good way).

You can see when Bill's going to blow-up a few seconds early if you watch his eyes, he should probably avoid the poker table. Anyway, that's the mental image I've got when you blow-up Warwick.

"He's only been president for 2 weeks and it seems to me that he is attempting to set things right".

Snicker, snicker, mphffff, chuckle, giggle, hee hee. HAW HAW HAW HAW, ROFLMAO. Oh my aching sides!!!

Snicker....

Posted by: Holly at February 4, 2009 3:43 PM

Where to begin?

"After 8 years with Bush, I can't believe everyone is being so hard on Obama

My irony meter just broke. Are you for real, holly? Are you entirely innocent of the huffington post & dailykos, and the serial venom heaped upon W. during his entire 8 years in office? Good grief: add all the wistful musings about a Bush assassination, and giving the man credit for absolutely NOTHING. And your lot were the ones who showed the ultimate in boorishness: heckling Bush at his farewell hand-off to obama. Introspection? Try it sometime; it might be useful for you.

He's only been president for 2 weeks and it seems to me that he is attempting to set things right.

And what a 2-week splendour it's been! I've nothing to add to Hanson's summary; it's fascinating reading. Ask yourself if you feel more secure from attacks when obama's first order of the day to protect America was to release terrorists from Gitmo. Holly, try this: refrain from being such a loyal O-bot for 10 minutes, and give a read without judgement. Who knows? You might learn something about truth & how the media are in the tank for the guy, and gain some insight into the phenomena known as "cult of personality".

He has been given two wars and a crappy economy thanks to the last administration.

Please. The Dems voted for both wars (well, John Kerry voted for/against/neither of the above), and then the democrats decided the best offense was to sit back and sabotage the war efforts from home (remember Harry Reid? "The war is LOST", just before the Surge turned the tide). As for the economy, you really are delusional if you think it was a republican affair. Google "Jimmy Carter", "Community Reinvestment Act", "Bill Clinton & Janet Reno", "Chris Dodd", "Barney Frank" and "ACORN" for starters. Admittedly, Bush blew it with the bailout; that wasn't the work of a conservative, to be sure.

It's sickening, really

No; what's sickening is your penchant for either ignoring or rewriting history these last 8 years, and your wide-eyed sycophancy in following obama.

The world - not just the US - has a long 4 years ahead of it if he doesn't pull out his thumb and learn his job, and quickly, too.

mhb23re
at gmail d0t calm

Geraty (sp.) at the washington post is reporting that it looks like BO was facilitating secret talks with - get this - Al Queda since as early as july. If true it makes Nixon's discussions with the SVN government in '68 look like child's play.

Discussions with al queda? maybe after they deliver the heads of all those involved with the bombing of the Cole and 9/11 on pikes (literally or figuratively) but not before.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/03/s-u-b-m-i-s-s-i-o-n/

key text:

According to GeostrategyDirect.com, a newsletter published by The Washington Times' ace national security reporter Bill Gertz, "Diplomatic sources said Barack Obama has engaged several Arab intermediaries to relay messages to and from al Qaeda in the months before his elections as the 44th U.S. president. The sources said al Qaeda has offered what they termed a truce in exchange for a U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. 'For the last few months, Obama has been receiving and sending feelers to those close to al Qaeda on whether the group would end its terrorist campaign against the United States,' a diplomatic source said. 'Obama sees this as helpful to his plans to essentially withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq during his first term in office.' "

he also discussed on hughhewitt last night:

http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/MediaPlayer/AudioPlayer.aspx?ContentGuid=943c8cec-d1da-40ff-a0e5-e071f2f14da3

cue to about the 24:30 mark

Here's more on the Obama meltdown as he moves from messianic rhetoric into actually making policy - and people are realizing that he has no clue, absolutely no clue, about economics, finance, security, social infrastructure..nothing.

Here's Terence Cocoran in the National Post about Obama's 'Wall Street Policy'.

Obama and Wall Street

Obama is making the situation worse.

Hummmm...pretty intense comments here. I've been praying that o will have wisdom, knowledge and discernment to lead our country on the right path (and I hope you are too). IMHO, it doesn't look like it from all that he has done to date...

I agree with you Orlin. Unfortunately,being POTUS is not a job that gives time for on-job-learning.The learning curve is steep and immediate. It is hands on NOW,and a blunder can be very costly.Hopefully,he has George's number and is willing to use it.

Sometime in earlier 2010 Obama will pull an hyper-Mitterand.

" [Obama's] intellect shuts down his ego"

What evidence do you have of intellect? Was it his stint in community college? Was it something he said? I haven't heard anything beyond the ability to parrot marxist philosophy. How abouts a quote and we can discuss it. Otherwise, I am sticking with the painful truth, he is a very pretty, but otherwise average man, in over his head. We may as well have elected that hot blond who sits next to Regis. We elected Chauncey Gardner.

"I've been praying that o will have wisdom, knowledge and discernment to lead our country on the right path (and I hope you are too)"

I don't want to discourage you, but I'm afraid you and millions of others are about to discover that the "right path" bears no resemblance to what obama's promised: reduction in national security, rampant government spending, inflation/higher taxes/high interest rates, wealth redistribution, cronyism, and the permanent shift in the American paradigm that has made you folks so successful & powerful: moving away from the idea of individual liberty, freedom and opportunity to succeed in favor of big government control.

Many pundits have noted - correctly - that when you have over 50% of the voting population on some form of government handout, then they will vote to continue the largesse; the tax-paying minority cannot find enough voice to reverse the trend. And with spending on the recent "stimulus", which is basically pork for potential democrat voters, that voter shift will continue. Rush Limbaugh was bang-on in hoping that obama would fail, as "success" for obama's plan would change the US for decades, if not longer, and not for the best.

Canada has been there before, friend. Over 30 years ago we fell in love with our own demagogue: a well-spoken man raised with a silver spoon in his mouth who disdained the common man, and never worked a real job in his life. He caused irreparable damage to this country this remains to this day: multiculturalism, enforced bilingualism (for all of the country except quebec), the ballooning of our national debt, rampant government spending on "just" causes that never achieve their goals, the decimation of our fighting forces and ending of a meaninful foreign policy. Canada became a real-life social experiment for trudeau, and this country has never been the same since his destructive hands manned the national helm.

Maybe you wonder why canadians are all a-tussle over obama and his path. It'd be much too easy to say it's only our vested self-interest as your largest trading partner. I think (well, for me, anyway), that there is a huge vested interest in the success of the US as the world's last hope for free market capitalism, individual liberty, and in governments that recognize their constitutional function to minimize their impact on the private sector and let people be free to achieve their dreams. This is the true success of the American experiment, and it is the reason why in less than 300 years you've progressed from 13 colonies to the most powerful and successful nation on earth. Personally, I think it'd be tragic beyond words to see you descend into socialism (as we did); in the end the thought becomes, "If the US can't pull out of this tailspin, then what hope do we or any other country have?"

The world needs a strong, confident and powerful US both as a bulwark against terrorism and rogue states, and as an economic example to follow. And, out of the gate, it doesn't look very promising.

I wish you good luck, friend.

mhb23re
at gmail d0t calm

Honest to goodness, China needs the American consumer a hell of a lot more than we need China. Nothing, NOTHING, comes out of Europe that I can't get here or somewhere else. Who are they kidding? The so-called global economy is powered by the U. S. consumer. Let's hope the U. S. consumer wises up. We're spending too much and need to save more.