WaPo:“Hey, Mr. President, why not quit while you’re behind?” h/t
59 Replies to “Losing The Democrats”
Obama most certainly will try to run again in 2012. His hubris will not permit any other decision. All you had to do to gauge the man’s mind-set was listen to his comments the day after the recent congressional and house elections.
In his mind, the problem is that Americans need more Obama. He just has not explained his brilliant ideas properly to the American people. When he does, they will adore him. So look for two more years of TelePrompted proselytizing by Bam-bam. Chin up a-la-Mussolini, look left, look right, look left…..
It was good that the others there would not let the bimbo spin this into “It’s not true that Republicans have never been invited to the white house”. She was rather quickly shot down on that point.
JMD – I’m betting that Obama won’t run in 2012. I accept his inability to acknowledge reality; he lives in a self-authored Virtual Bubble World where he reigns supreme.
But – there are several factors against his running. The first, the most minor, is the fact that Obama is psychologically incapable of acknowledging the existence of anything – nation, person, event – outside of his Virtual Bubble. So, Obama is not merely bored with having to make decisions and talk about issues but such a task ‘depletes’ him. Obama, as pathological, requires psychological feeding. The ‘food’ is adulation by others and subservience of others.
How long can his staff keep him in motion on a red carpet, before cheering crowds? The international world thinks he’s a vapid buffoon and is ignoring him; the home world is moving away from him.
But above all, there is Obama’s role for the radical socialists who have taken over the Democratic Party – George Soros and people like Pelosi, Reid, etc. Each with their own agenda, but that agenda is about inserting a centralist authoritarian state structure into America. Obama isn’t doing very well in his assigned role of selling or slithering this agenda through. If a backlash continues – they’ll dump him.
And, there’s the rest of the Democrats, the moderates, who are appalled by the take-over of their party by these radicals. They want to get rid of both Obama (as shown by their recent campaigns where they even openly stated they rejected his policies)..and get rid of the radicals.
So-there’s a problem. You have set up a president whose focus is not on America but on adulation and control and this adulation is disappearing. There is a cabal of radicals with their agenda of inserting statism. And, a set of moderates who reject this extreme statism. Oh – and there’s the American people – who reacted to this agenda with common sense instructions to reduce govt, reduce taxes, and leave power, as it says in the Constitution, with the people.
If the cabal can’t control the government via Obama, even with Executive Fiat, they’ll try to get rid of him. Send him off to the UN where his pontification will fit right in.
Or create a crisis and set up a dictatorship in the US?
This clip is fannnnn-tastic. Love it!!
Article quote:
Obama himself once said to Diane Sawyer: “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.” He now has the chance to deliver on that idea.
Really good for whom? If he was really good for the people he would not be one term, he’d get re-elected. So does he mean really good for helping Soros short the US dollar? Level America to Indonesia?
I see one way that Obama does not run for a second term. If the economy gets worse, a distinct possibility, and he sees that he is headed for an epic defeat, he will not run “for the good of the country.”
As far as the post-partisan, above the fray BS this editorial is spinning, NOT A CHANCE! Even if Obama thought that was a good idea, he could not pull it off. If he makes even the slightest concession to the Republicans, the Democrats would rip him to shreads, the Republicans would not trust him and all his ‘Czars’ would be working to reverse it all immediately.
Besides, all he has to do is go on television, patiently and calmly describe why the Republicans are wrong, racist and idiots, they will agree and completely change their stances. I mean, it certainly has worked well for him the first two years of his presidency.
QOTW: “Can you believe what he is doing today?!”
Never in the history of the US has such an incompetent reached such a high office!
Even parts of Left begin their own civil war… http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/2010/11/11/accepting-apologies-on-line-1/
Many remain delusional (Reading the comments, I think they severely overestimate Hillary Clinton’s abilities both inherent and demonstrated as US SecState as well as having no clue what is going on the US Economy), oh but the angst they feel now.
Sweet sweet tears…
Remember the Hans Christian Anderson story, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”? That can be called a metaphor for clueless liberals-leaders, their minions and their sycophants.
We can summarize this in that one word, cluelessness, defined as a rigid left-wing ideological view of the world, and how to them, their wishful thinking defines how the world works. This is as opposed to a non-fascist objective grasp of reality.
We can really apply this pathology to all the West’s collectivist left. What are the ideological and psychological differences between a British Labourite, a Canadian Lieberal or an American Democrat? What are those differences between an NDP’er and an Obamanaut? Not much.
So, Canada’s “Naked Emperor” clone is Jack Layton. America’s “Naked Emperor” clone is Obama. If nothing else, seeing Pres. Obama in office shows Canadians how a Prime Minister Layton would govern. So, for all the Canadian conservatives feeling disappointed, let-down, by Harper & Co., think how infinitely worse it could be, with P.M. Layton & Co. Canadians, count your blessings!
So, Obama was an unknown character even to the Democrats in the House and Senate.
He had to get elected POTUS so that even the Dems themselves come find out he was an empty suit.
The WaPo op-ed is dated Sunday, November 14. Is it common for the Post to release editorials in advance? That coupled with the online chat scheduled for Monday would seem to indicate they see Obama forfeiting a second term to be paramount.
Did they finally realize the suit and the rhetoric that came with it are empty?
Aside from the date stamp on the WaPo article the truly scary part is found in the comments. The high percentage of commentators who still support Oblamebush and would vote for him again is reason enough to dump the US dollar.
I can’t see him running again. He likes the perks but if the Dems want hope, they dump him. I mean he is going to be an embarrassment long after he is out of office. Know an organization that wants to be looted?
This is good news, hidden though it’s been up to now.
The Obamessiah would be a fool to run again, and as for the perks he likes, Speedy: He and Michelle will be rolling in do-re-mi for the rest of their sorry, greedy, narcissistic lives. He’ll write another few books — all about Him — and hit the speakers’ circuit, teleprompter under his arm.
Woe to the TOTUS if an airline misdirects his teleprompter! Lecture cancelled!
Mika = Dingbat….every single clip I’ve seen with her in it, she’s sitting there, the comments flying way over her head and she is powerless to come back with anything that makes sense. Not a clue, nada…
Obama is an (more or less) educated idiot.
To get rid of him, there will have to be an offer of something like secretary general of the UN to go to. I cannot imagine that he will be of any use to his democrat pals after he quits … based on that video.
Otherwise, I have no doubt that three days after completing his one term he will simply ascend to heaven with his entire body intact just like that last savior of humanity did a couple of thousand years ago.
Bam Bam is the gift that keeps GOP alive. In 2 more years time this inept narcissist will have things in such a balls-up FUBAR the GOP could run with a broken lawn tractor and win.
The poor bugger is in waaaaaaay over his depth.
Resign and save the embarrassment ahead. If he sticks it out to Nov. 2012, he’ll be virtually unemployable. The great cosmic fail.
check out the blond bimbo’s body language.
the agony of defeat. defending the indefensable BamBam
The average US Senator has an enormous ego and always thinks they know better than everyone else. Better than you, me, their “esteemed colleagues,” and NOW definitely better than the guy that just got them slaughtered in the elections.
But 8 months ago they followed him off a cliff on obamacare with 100% dem Senate vote. All 60 Senate votes came from the dems.
They were just too stupid to realize it last year, but they are sooooooo much smarter now.
Which senators are part of the 7? Probably only 53 of the 57 democrats. Klobuchar and a few others are too stupid to realize it.
I think Obama does run again. He is incapable of looking at the situation and accepting how badly he’s screwed things up. He’s a narcissist and a not very intelligent one to boot.
Article Quote: While we believe that Obama can be re-elected, to do so he will have to embark on a scorched-earth campaign of the type that President George W. Bush ran in the 2002 midterms and the 2004 presidential election, which divided Americans in ways that still plague us.
Scorched earth by Bush??? Now there’s the hidden agenda of the WaPo. Are they setting up the Hildebeast for 2012? It was not scorched earth for Bush to confront the lying John “Christmas in Cambodia” Kerry. But unfortunately McCain was not scorched earth enough with Obama or we would not have to suffer this Obamarx gang.
What the WaPo doesn’t get is that Bush was divisive over foreign policy and war, which is normal divisiveness that we’ve seen since Jimmy Carter led the appeasing Kumbayah Democrats. But this time the divisiveness is about domestic policy and never has that been so acute, perhaps since the Civil War.
Meanwhile let’s hope Obama does a Kamikaze into the 2012 elections. He won’t be allowed to have a teleprompter with the answers on it during the debates. The debates will surpass the Super Bowl audiences with more GOP touchdowns than Joe Montana could muster. Obama will be offering up EU style government (without the French cooking) just as Europe is burning down its castles of socialism.
He’s destroying the Democrats, possibly for a very long time.
There’s a parallel between Obama/Clinton and Chretien/Martin. The next two years are going to be very interesting. Watch Obama send Hillary out of the country, and watch her position herself for 2012.
Is he capable of ignoring the reality of the polls. It is one thing to get drubbed in a mid term, thats someone elses position that disappears. It is quite another to face a drubbing yourself.
I disagree with the WaPo that he needs to decide now. He needs to decide in about 11 months. The findamental assumption that the waPo is making is that Obama cares about “America” or has a plan to help America. He may have a plan but it may have a lot less to do with America than with a specific group or with an ideology.
He is highly partisan, his professions of draining the poison were punchlines in a campaign speech, he doesnt feel it if you look at his actions. So I wonder if he really is capable of saying that he will work cross partisan for the ood of the country.
The wapo is just fearing that two more years of Obama will so poison the dem brand that what comes next is an anathema to them. That is the real concern that even Hillary couldnt pull this one out of the water if she had two years to distance herself from it.
No I think there will be at least two more years of parties and high living at the white house. Two more years of blaming the GOP, some of it might even be deserved, two more years of apologizing in foreign countries. Whether he runs again or not, he wont make the decision till a year from now. I dont think he will, because it will be clear to him he cant win and wont face the consequences of his actions, thats just the way he rolls.
So what was the purpose of that Nobel Peace Prize again. Was it really as it appeared to be, a blatant attempt to pump up the guy the international left couldnt believe they were lucky enough to get into the White House? And they were so shocked when nobody fell over because they endorsed him.
One day the whole story will be told. The problem is America will have had 2 decades of below average presidents. I would be happy if they just regressed to mean and we got a Truman or Eisenhower. Too much to ask for Reagan or a Lincoln.
The Wapo article could have been much shorter
Yes we mistakenly exalted and glorified a crude and low-bred anarchist who’s barely able to hide his racist beliefs and refers to Americans as ‘enemies’ who need to be punished. While we agree with everything he’s done and all that he stands for, we didn’t think the peasants would catch on so quickly. The next Democrat we endorse will have to be much more subtle. Oh, and BTW, we’re still right about everything.
Stephen;
“Is he capable of ignoring the reality of the polls.”
Obama has already proven that he is quite capable of that. Just look at Obamacare when it was nearing the end game. Nervous Dems, looking at the poll numbers showing the likelihood of the same kind of debacle that hit Clinton in 94 largely because of Hillarycare, had a meeting with him to express their concerns and were told that “things are different now”. When they asked him how exactly, Obama’s response was, “Now you’ve got me.”
The man has a serious mental defect.
The Democrats F****D Up & they know it, they did not do their homework, They wanted to be the first political party in the history of the US to get a colored person elected to the highest office, And they will not say it. So what happened it worked they timed it to blame everything on GWB & still are, And everyone sucked into the scheme & wanted a piece of the glory & history, Good greif he even got the Nobel Peace Prize & for what? he had not been in office what 2months if that, so how can you win with that other then they (Nobel Com) wanted to be part of the history. It was kinda like the Kennedy days was he not the first catholic? then the boys did not like his radical ideas.
Bob,
Thats exactly my point. It is about him, so while someone elses a55 is on the line then its one thing. I just wonder if he is capable of ignoring his own defeat. I dont think he is. I think he would do anything to avoid a Dukakis like defeat. Or even a Gore like defeat.
He has successfully avoided taking responsibility for his entire career, voting present, artful delegation at the Harvard Law Review, outsouricing the writing of his book…..he is a happy go lucky kid who has never really faced adversity, adversity in terms of getting ideas through, making tough choices or taking a stand and having to answer for being wrong.
Be curious how he plays basketball.
My bet, he wont run or on the off chance that he runs and loses badly he will have great diffuiculty understanding it, quite honestly, I would put him on suicide watch.
The Democrats are all certainly true believers in the vicious opium dream called liberalism, none more so than Obama, who took a visible pleasure in urging his voters to bring down retribution at the polls on those he identifies as ” enemies “.
But at a more basic level, it is also true that Democratic officeholders are simply servants of assorted extreme left-wing groups, with Obama being an exemplar, rather than an exeption to the rule. Leftists are by definition, unsentimental, unforgiving, and above all, focused on ruling with an iron hand. Obama realizes this, and it is why he has been undeviatingly left, and I believe,explains why he never speaks except from prepared remarks off a TelePrompter. If 2011 is another catastrophic year for Obama, the liberals will write him off in a heartbeat and put all their weight behind the campaign of the other Alinsky-disciple-in-waiting, Hillary Clinton. As the servant of Alinskyite taskmasters, Obama is well aware that his political future is in a state of constant, mortal peril. He lives with the daily knowledge that he may well be one screwup away from abandonment by them.
The test of whether he stays will be who controls the political dialogue over the next few months. If he fails to control it, he will be pushed out. If he seems to have control at mid year, he will be safe, as it will be too late by then to fire up the campaign of a rival, and he would remain the liberal interests’ nominee for President.
I doubt if the Democrats will go for Hillary. She and Bill Clinton might have that in mind but, if the GOP is putting up someone from the new generation (i.e., not the old guard of Romney, Huckabee, etc)..but Cantor or Christie or Pawlenty or…then, the Democrats will have to select a ‘new generation’ nominee as well.
I also reject Palin; she has, strange to say, a far more important role in this Fight For America, than as a political leader. She has to be the voice of the American people.
A major problem for the Democrats is that this recent election has, instead of moving them to regenerate (as the 2008 election did for the GOP), it has resulted in an entrenchment of the Old Guard (Pelosi, Reid, etc). They are effectively preventing a new generation of Democrats (most of whom were voted out in this last election)..from emerging. So, the Old Guard are freeze-drying the Democratic party.
Add to that, that this Democratic Party has been sabotaged and taken over by a radical socialist agenda (Soros, Unions, Pelosi)..each with their own power-agenda…and it’s a mess.
Will they keep Obama? It isn’t entirely up to Obama, who has no interest in the governance or policies, but only in the sense of control and adulation. Obama is bored with governing because he requires a constant ‘fix’ of adulation; he can’t handle rejection and criticism. He’ll grow resentful, vindictive, angry.
The real question is whether the BackRoom Gang, the radical socialists who run Obama, will keep him. If he can’t ‘deliver the goods’ of statism and authoritarian central all-powerful govt, then, he’s useless to them. They’ll fob him off to the UN.
That still leaves them, if the moderate Democrats are unable to regain control of the Democratic Party, with a dilemma. Who do they have who can oversee the destruction of the Republic and the insertion of a central statist structure? I can’t see Soros et al giving up. So- what will the radicals do? Will they set up a crisis that will enable them to take authoritarian charge?
The WAPO article was written by Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell, two Democratic strategists of former Presidents. They represent the centrist element of the Democratic party who pretty much were obliterated in the recent House mid term election. Their goal, in writing this is to salvage the Democrats from the leftist Cabal (ET’s word – good analysis).
I think the struggle in the US is more important than the survival of the Democrats. The growth of leviathan has become so cancerous that a goal of both sides of the aisle having a Kumbaya moment will no nothing but prove Rand’s analogy of what good comes from compromising with a rapist.
It’s going to be an ugly two years ahead and the Democrats will be ripped apart in the process. Class warfare will accelerate with the nation intent on avoiding the fate of California where, in Victor Davis Hansen’s words, you have three classes, an entitlement nurtured, largely illegal alien and illiterate underclass politically allied with the Coastal strip of wealthy ruling class plutocrats mired in watermelon politics that has succeeded in tying up most of the state’s resources through regulation. Against this is an over-taxed middle class struggling to succeed but increasingly fleeing. He sees the future of California to be indistinguihable from parts of Mexico. The only question remaining is what role the Federal government will play when the state goes into default.
I say he doesn’t run again. He senses he might lose, and he couldn’t handle it. And I doubt the dems want him – well, watch the above video (who is the guy, BTW?). But Abe Froman is right @10:59; they’ll Peter Principle him. Something in the U.N. probably.
Stephen;
You may well be right. Time will tell. I suppose the question is, is Obama a/ a calculating pol who said to himself, “I’m going to push Obamacare through to cement my place in history as having achieved something that no one before me was capable of doing even if it means the destruction of my party in the process. Or was his thinking /b, “Despite the bad polls, all I have to do is force it through then get out in front of the public and remind them of the awesome wonderfullness of ME and they’ll love me for it.”
I honestly believe it was the latter. I think he’s mentally ill. I couldn’t agree more with your last statement that “on the off chance that he runs and loses badly he will have great diffuiculty understanding it, quite honestly, I would put him on suicide watch.”
This is a great clip.
“Losing the Democrats” is good. Maybe the Democrtats will take back their party from the Marxists.
Dave in Pa @ 10:17, I like your thoughts. Especially your last sentence and I have to work on my occasional grumpiness regarding the “progressive” stuff that Harper & Co. let or push through. The alternatives, Mr. Blithers aka Mr.Iffy and the new Duke of Toronto would be considerably worse, in fact catastrophic.
ET, without appearing to be too gushy, I think you have great analysis on your posts of 10:02 and 1:15.
John Chittick is right about what it is all really about. There is a battle going on that few people in North America realize. When Obama said “fundamental change”, the vast majority of the people did not realize he meant in on how the country will be governed in the future and to what ends.
It’s not only the Dems that messed up. Too many people were deluded, even some SDA commenters.
Occasionally I go back to Palin’s speech at the RNC ’08. I fight the urge to scream at the voters, and the media…TOLD YA!!!
ET – I agree any politician who can identify themself in the public mind as personifying the new, or the future, has an advantage. But who will the Dems pick as a new generation leader? There are none with stature comparable to Christie, or a few others on the Repub side. Aren’t they stuck with Hillary? A race between an established Repub with national recognition and a new Democratic face would, from the start, be lopsidedly in the Republican’s favor.
They will find Hillary the natural choice, and they will believe they can sell her – as implausible as this may seem – as a new generation leader. The minute she becomes the nominee, they can count on the media’s immediate and effective coordination with her campaign to blast out her message. The Dems are very sure of this strategy, which is why the media has been the point of the spear of every Democratic presidential campaign, always, in every Democratic presidential campaign since Carter lost in 1980.
Besides, the liberal’s world view is that the Democratic nominee is by default, the small p progressive candidate; a new generation leader.
ET
[…….The international world thinks he’s a vapid buffoon and is ignoring him;…….]
Pretty much …….which clearly removes the Dems’ oportion of fobbing him off on the UN, the UN multicultural/islamic clique desires/needs a more reliable useful idiot….
I genuinely expect ET is probably right….
[……Who do they have who can oversee the destruction of the Republic and the insertion of a central statist structure? I can’t see Soros et al giving up. So- what will the radicals do? Will they set up a crisis that will enable them to take authoritarian charge?……]
This is a dangerous momment with OBOZO abroad, it is a perfect/logical time for a false-flag terrorist attack—-maybe nuclear…..the sum of all fears…….
If it fails because a weak link has second thoughts/screws up and the plot is exposed—-it’s all over. If the attack succeeds and is exposed—-it’s really over….
This latter scenario not just my conclusion and is possibly already in motion and for all we know already detected/interdicted/aborted…..and classified.
However classified or not, publicly exposed or not, the result will be the same…a massive high-level purge, coronaries, strokes, plane crashes….thta’s how lefies roll….. with Joe Biden, oddly enough, a survivor……an out of the loop puppet.
bob c – yes, that American Standard article on Obama’s vanity is good, with its outline of how little he’s done.
However, I maintain that his problem is not vanity, but a much more serious psychological dysfunctionality, that of clinical narcissism. This has nothing to do with vanity but is a pathological of an individual need to control all interactions he has with others.
Because of this, Obama long ago moved into a ‘virtual bubble world’ where his reality is confined to the interior of this bubble. Inside this bubble, he controls all interactions with others; he does this by lies and emotional manipulation. If you dissent, he’ll try to control you – or – kick you out. Once outside, you literally cease to exist for him. That’s not vanity; that’s a deep inability to interact with the real world and with real people.
If you put such an individual in a powerful position such as president, where he obviously can’t control everyone and everything he’ll start to ‘freeze’. He’ll become more aloof, more rigid, more disdainful of others..talk about ‘enemies’, try to divide-and-conquer..and so on. He might at some time, crack and move into a pathological rage…unless he’s kept ‘fed’ with accolades and sycophants.
small c-conservative. Maybe they’ll choose Hillary. I don’t see it but I agree, as you point out, the Party hasn’t allowed new blood to emerge. They have no-one else.
sasquatch – that’s an interesting point. I hadn’t thought that an internationally useless Obama would also be viewed by the UN as useless. Hmm. You may indeed be right. That does indeed leave the Democrats with nowhere to dump him.
And yes, paranoid as it seems, I can see the possibility of your outline of a crisis situation – an attack (staged) as a strong possibility; a failure and exposure…
ET, I believe Obama will attempt to run in 2012 because he is far too proud not to. This pride enabled him to sell his brand to extremely gullible people. Voters should have raked him across the coals for his softness on Iran or “punished with a baby” gaffe. They did not and now the US has a multitude of problems.
I agree with rd @11:06 and like Ken Kulak, I like your remarks re: PMSH, dave in PA. ET you are on top of the game and your insights are always informative.
Saquatch – I share your apprehension – that ‘note’ (threat) that georgie porgie soros gave Glen Beck has given me chills – the World Gument set-up – shut up Beck, you are hurting my (georgie) business? Glen vows exposure and declines to shut up, so maybe you will be stopped via exposure georgie porgie?; reply: “That ship has already sailed’.
There is so much about Obama that is hidden and IF fully known would seal both his fate as a president and any political office.
Mr. Soros and his shadow party bear the full brunt along with the Dem leadership. THEY know who he is and they know he is not qualified.
Now the whole world knows it, peace prize notwithstanding.
When you are Mau Mau you get found out eventually.
The sooner the better.
And then there is Hillary. She is Soros idealogical child and could easily step into a leadership role in the next primary.
Look for it.
I think it’s impossible that Obama would declare himself a one-term president, I don’t think it’s in him. It would be interesting, though, to see if he faces challengers for the democratic presidential ticket in 2012. It could be possible that the party will try to throw him under the bus but I don’t really see anyone who is electable that could replace him. Maybe Pelosi or Dean for the left wingers? It would be interesting to see a challenge come from the conservative wing of their party though.
@ Sasquatch 2:41
It’s interesting that you’re talking about false flag attacks because I came across this: http://tiny.cc/33o1z
That basically suggested the “mystery missile” was a broad series of tests to see if the FBI could control media messaging. Something I kind of dismissed because at best it’s hearsay and at worst it smacks of paranoia. Who knows though really? We’re at one of those turning points in history and the powers that be have a game to play. Let’s just be sure to sidestep the same pit the truthers fell into though.
The big zero is the scariest manifestation of the Dunning-Kruger effect in the world today. What I’m curious about is where the widely held delusion that he is intelligent came from as he has certainly demonstrated none. All he has is a supreme confidence in himself and the ability to read a teleprompter. It’s quite interesting that absolutely no scholastic records have been released, it would probably be considered racist to publish his IQ score (although the media had no difficulty publishing Bush’s IQ). Obozo is an example of the dangers of affirmative action and shows how prophetic the movie Being there was.
“I think they severely overestimate Hillary Clinton’s abilities both inherent and demonstrated as US SecState”
I’d agree. I have this abiding sense now that Hillary has become increasingly marginalized as yesterday’s candidate. Time is moving on; there are fresh, aggressive new potential contenders popping up in both parties. She just looks tired and I think Bill’s political clout is reaching its “best before” date.
Whatever you might think of President Obama, I do feel he has accomplished two things regarding the Clinton era:
1. He broke the back of a campaign that would have seen another Clinton in the White House on the basis that she used to sleep with the president – positively Argentinian!
2. By luring Hillary into the State job (something her ego couldn’t possibly let her pass up), I feel Obama cleverly neutered her. She’s neatly buried over at Foggy Bottom for the duration. Politically, it’s almost as if she no longer existed. And her performance as SecState has been nothing to write home about. Besides, as P.J. O’Rourke once wrote, “Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America’s miniature schnauzer – a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.”
(Sorry about that reference to the schnauzer, Kate – I own one myself but P.J.’s quote is still a good one regardless.)
Will Oblamebush run in 2012:
Yes: Unless he is removed from office previously because of mental instability. Unless he feels the public doesn’t appreciate his brilliance. Unless he finds something bigger to expend his vast talent upon. Unless the Democrats won’t let him enter the primaries because of the damage he has inflicted. Unless the Republicans use their new power in the house to properly vet him and find him wanting.
ET;
I think you missed the title of the article I gave a link to. It was “American Narcissus:
The vanity of Barack Obama.”
Narcissism is defined as “the personality trait of egotism, vanity, conceit”
Clearly this author wasn’t just trying to say Obama was vain, but that it was to the extent of qualifying as narcissism.
bob c -yes, I’m aware of the title. My point is that Obama’s narcissism isn’t that which enables someone to function, reasonably, in everyday life.
The ordinary vain or narcissistic person can be pompous, a bit ‘full of himself’ but is still in touch with reality.
Obama is a pathological narcissist; that’s a completely, totally, different psychological state. In this state, the individual is unable to be in touch with reality. The pathological or clinical narcissist moves into an isolate ‘virtual world’ where he controls all interactions – and effectively shuts out the power and forcefulness of the external real world.
Obama most certainly will try to run again in 2012. His hubris will not permit any other decision. All you had to do to gauge the man’s mind-set was listen to his comments the day after the recent congressional and house elections.
In his mind, the problem is that Americans need more Obama. He just has not explained his brilliant ideas properly to the American people. When he does, they will adore him. So look for two more years of TelePrompted proselytizing by Bam-bam. Chin up a-la-Mussolini, look left, look right, look left…..
It was good that the others there would not let the bimbo spin this into “It’s not true that Republicans have never been invited to the white house”. She was rather quickly shot down on that point.
JMD – I’m betting that Obama won’t run in 2012. I accept his inability to acknowledge reality; he lives in a self-authored Virtual Bubble World where he reigns supreme.
But – there are several factors against his running. The first, the most minor, is the fact that Obama is psychologically incapable of acknowledging the existence of anything – nation, person, event – outside of his Virtual Bubble. So, Obama is not merely bored with having to make decisions and talk about issues but such a task ‘depletes’ him. Obama, as pathological, requires psychological feeding. The ‘food’ is adulation by others and subservience of others.
How long can his staff keep him in motion on a red carpet, before cheering crowds? The international world thinks he’s a vapid buffoon and is ignoring him; the home world is moving away from him.
But above all, there is Obama’s role for the radical socialists who have taken over the Democratic Party – George Soros and people like Pelosi, Reid, etc. Each with their own agenda, but that agenda is about inserting a centralist authoritarian state structure into America. Obama isn’t doing very well in his assigned role of selling or slithering this agenda through. If a backlash continues – they’ll dump him.
And, there’s the rest of the Democrats, the moderates, who are appalled by the take-over of their party by these radicals. They want to get rid of both Obama (as shown by their recent campaigns where they even openly stated they rejected his policies)..and get rid of the radicals.
So-there’s a problem. You have set up a president whose focus is not on America but on adulation and control and this adulation is disappearing. There is a cabal of radicals with their agenda of inserting statism. And, a set of moderates who reject this extreme statism. Oh – and there’s the American people – who reacted to this agenda with common sense instructions to reduce govt, reduce taxes, and leave power, as it says in the Constitution, with the people.
If the cabal can’t control the government via Obama, even with Executive Fiat, they’ll try to get rid of him. Send him off to the UN where his pontification will fit right in.
Or create a crisis and set up a dictatorship in the US?
This clip is fannnnn-tastic. Love it!!
Article quote:
Obama himself once said to Diane Sawyer: “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.” He now has the chance to deliver on that idea.
Really good for whom? If he was really good for the people he would not be one term, he’d get re-elected. So does he mean really good for helping Soros short the US dollar? Level America to Indonesia?
I see one way that Obama does not run for a second term. If the economy gets worse, a distinct possibility, and he sees that he is headed for an epic defeat, he will not run “for the good of the country.”
As far as the post-partisan, above the fray BS this editorial is spinning, NOT A CHANCE! Even if Obama thought that was a good idea, he could not pull it off. If he makes even the slightest concession to the Republicans, the Democrats would rip him to shreads, the Republicans would not trust him and all his ‘Czars’ would be working to reverse it all immediately.
Besides, all he has to do is go on television, patiently and calmly describe why the Republicans are wrong, racist and idiots, they will agree and completely change their stances. I mean, it certainly has worked well for him the first two years of his presidency.
QOTW: “Can you believe what he is doing today?!”
Never in the history of the US has such an incompetent reached such a high office!
Even parts of Left begin their own civil war…
http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/2010/11/11/accepting-apologies-on-line-1/
Many remain delusional (Reading the comments, I think they severely overestimate Hillary Clinton’s abilities both inherent and demonstrated as US SecState as well as having no clue what is going on the US Economy), oh but the angst they feel now.
Sweet sweet tears…
Remember the Hans Christian Anderson story, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”? That can be called a metaphor for clueless liberals-leaders, their minions and their sycophants.
We can summarize this in that one word, cluelessness, defined as a rigid left-wing ideological view of the world, and how to them, their wishful thinking defines how the world works. This is as opposed to a non-fascist objective grasp of reality.
We can really apply this pathology to all the West’s collectivist left. What are the ideological and psychological differences between a British Labourite, a Canadian Lieberal or an American Democrat? What are those differences between an NDP’er and an Obamanaut? Not much.
So, Canada’s “Naked Emperor” clone is Jack Layton. America’s “Naked Emperor” clone is Obama. If nothing else, seeing Pres. Obama in office shows Canadians how a Prime Minister Layton would govern. So, for all the Canadian conservatives feeling disappointed, let-down, by Harper & Co., think how infinitely worse it could be, with P.M. Layton & Co. Canadians, count your blessings!
So, Obama was an unknown character even to the Democrats in the House and Senate.
He had to get elected POTUS so that even the Dems themselves come find out he was an empty suit.
The WaPo op-ed is dated Sunday, November 14. Is it common for the Post to release editorials in advance? That coupled with the online chat scheduled for Monday would seem to indicate they see Obama forfeiting a second term to be paramount.
Did they finally realize the suit and the rhetoric that came with it are empty?
Aside from the date stamp on the WaPo article the truly scary part is found in the comments. The high percentage of commentators who still support Oblamebush and would vote for him again is reason enough to dump the US dollar.
I can’t see him running again. He likes the perks but if the Dems want hope, they dump him. I mean he is going to be an embarrassment long after he is out of office. Know an organization that wants to be looted?
This is good news, hidden though it’s been up to now.
The Obamessiah would be a fool to run again, and as for the perks he likes, Speedy: He and Michelle will be rolling in do-re-mi for the rest of their sorry, greedy, narcissistic lives. He’ll write another few books — all about Him — and hit the speakers’ circuit, teleprompter under his arm.
Woe to the TOTUS if an airline misdirects his teleprompter! Lecture cancelled!
Mika = Dingbat….every single clip I’ve seen with her in it, she’s sitting there, the comments flying way over her head and she is powerless to come back with anything that makes sense. Not a clue, nada…
Obama is an (more or less) educated idiot.
To get rid of him, there will have to be an offer of something like secretary general of the UN to go to. I cannot imagine that he will be of any use to his democrat pals after he quits … based on that video.
Otherwise, I have no doubt that three days after completing his one term he will simply ascend to heaven with his entire body intact just like that last savior of humanity did a couple of thousand years ago.
Bam Bam is the gift that keeps GOP alive. In 2 more years time this inept narcissist will have things in such a balls-up FUBAR the GOP could run with a broken lawn tractor and win.
The poor bugger is in waaaaaaay over his depth.
Resign and save the embarrassment ahead. If he sticks it out to Nov. 2012, he’ll be virtually unemployable. The great cosmic fail.
check out the blond bimbo’s body language.
the agony of defeat. defending the indefensable BamBam
The average US Senator has an enormous ego and always thinks they know better than everyone else. Better than you, me, their “esteemed colleagues,” and NOW definitely better than the guy that just got them slaughtered in the elections.
But 8 months ago they followed him off a cliff on obamacare with 100% dem Senate vote. All 60 Senate votes came from the dems.
They were just too stupid to realize it last year, but they are sooooooo much smarter now.
Which senators are part of the 7? Probably only 53 of the 57 democrats. Klobuchar and a few others are too stupid to realize it.
I think Obama does run again. He is incapable of looking at the situation and accepting how badly he’s screwed things up. He’s a narcissist and a not very intelligent one to boot.
Article Quote: While we believe that Obama can be re-elected, to do so he will have to embark on a scorched-earth campaign of the type that President George W. Bush ran in the 2002 midterms and the 2004 presidential election, which divided Americans in ways that still plague us.
Scorched earth by Bush??? Now there’s the hidden agenda of the WaPo. Are they setting up the Hildebeast for 2012? It was not scorched earth for Bush to confront the lying John “Christmas in Cambodia” Kerry. But unfortunately McCain was not scorched earth enough with Obama or we would not have to suffer this Obamarx gang.
What the WaPo doesn’t get is that Bush was divisive over foreign policy and war, which is normal divisiveness that we’ve seen since Jimmy Carter led the appeasing Kumbayah Democrats. But this time the divisiveness is about domestic policy and never has that been so acute, perhaps since the Civil War.
Meanwhile let’s hope Obama does a Kamikaze into the 2012 elections. He won’t be allowed to have a teleprompter with the answers on it during the debates. The debates will surpass the Super Bowl audiences with more GOP touchdowns than Joe Montana could muster. Obama will be offering up EU style government (without the French cooking) just as Europe is burning down its castles of socialism.
He’s destroying the Democrats, possibly for a very long time.
There’s a parallel between Obama/Clinton and Chretien/Martin. The next two years are going to be very interesting. Watch Obama send Hillary out of the country, and watch her position herself for 2012.
Is he capable of ignoring the reality of the polls. It is one thing to get drubbed in a mid term, thats someone elses position that disappears. It is quite another to face a drubbing yourself.
I disagree with the WaPo that he needs to decide now. He needs to decide in about 11 months. The findamental assumption that the waPo is making is that Obama cares about “America” or has a plan to help America. He may have a plan but it may have a lot less to do with America than with a specific group or with an ideology.
He is highly partisan, his professions of draining the poison were punchlines in a campaign speech, he doesnt feel it if you look at his actions. So I wonder if he really is capable of saying that he will work cross partisan for the ood of the country.
The wapo is just fearing that two more years of Obama will so poison the dem brand that what comes next is an anathema to them. That is the real concern that even Hillary couldnt pull this one out of the water if she had two years to distance herself from it.
No I think there will be at least two more years of parties and high living at the white house. Two more years of blaming the GOP, some of it might even be deserved, two more years of apologizing in foreign countries. Whether he runs again or not, he wont make the decision till a year from now. I dont think he will, because it will be clear to him he cant win and wont face the consequences of his actions, thats just the way he rolls.
So what was the purpose of that Nobel Peace Prize again. Was it really as it appeared to be, a blatant attempt to pump up the guy the international left couldnt believe they were lucky enough to get into the White House? And they were so shocked when nobody fell over because they endorsed him.
One day the whole story will be told. The problem is America will have had 2 decades of below average presidents. I would be happy if they just regressed to mean and we got a Truman or Eisenhower. Too much to ask for Reagan or a Lincoln.
The Wapo article could have been much shorter
Yes we mistakenly exalted and glorified a crude and low-bred anarchist who’s barely able to hide his racist beliefs and refers to Americans as ‘enemies’ who need to be punished. While we agree with everything he’s done and all that he stands for, we didn’t think the peasants would catch on so quickly. The next Democrat we endorse will have to be much more subtle. Oh, and BTW, we’re still right about everything.
Stephen;
“Is he capable of ignoring the reality of the polls.”
Obama has already proven that he is quite capable of that. Just look at Obamacare when it was nearing the end game. Nervous Dems, looking at the poll numbers showing the likelihood of the same kind of debacle that hit Clinton in 94 largely because of Hillarycare, had a meeting with him to express their concerns and were told that “things are different now”. When they asked him how exactly, Obama’s response was, “Now you’ve got me.”
The man has a serious mental defect.
The Democrats F****D Up & they know it, they did not do their homework, They wanted to be the first political party in the history of the US to get a colored person elected to the highest office, And they will not say it. So what happened it worked they timed it to blame everything on GWB & still are, And everyone sucked into the scheme & wanted a piece of the glory & history, Good greif he even got the Nobel Peace Prize & for what? he had not been in office what 2months if that, so how can you win with that other then they (Nobel Com) wanted to be part of the history. It was kinda like the Kennedy days was he not the first catholic? then the boys did not like his radical ideas.
Bob,
Thats exactly my point. It is about him, so while someone elses a55 is on the line then its one thing. I just wonder if he is capable of ignoring his own defeat. I dont think he is. I think he would do anything to avoid a Dukakis like defeat. Or even a Gore like defeat.
He has successfully avoided taking responsibility for his entire career, voting present, artful delegation at the Harvard Law Review, outsouricing the writing of his book…..he is a happy go lucky kid who has never really faced adversity, adversity in terms of getting ideas through, making tough choices or taking a stand and having to answer for being wrong.
Be curious how he plays basketball.
My bet, he wont run or on the off chance that he runs and loses badly he will have great diffuiculty understanding it, quite honestly, I would put him on suicide watch.
The Democrats are all certainly true believers in the vicious opium dream called liberalism, none more so than Obama, who took a visible pleasure in urging his voters to bring down retribution at the polls on those he identifies as ” enemies “.
But at a more basic level, it is also true that Democratic officeholders are simply servants of assorted extreme left-wing groups, with Obama being an exemplar, rather than an exeption to the rule. Leftists are by definition, unsentimental, unforgiving, and above all, focused on ruling with an iron hand. Obama realizes this, and it is why he has been undeviatingly left, and I believe,explains why he never speaks except from prepared remarks off a TelePrompter. If 2011 is another catastrophic year for Obama, the liberals will write him off in a heartbeat and put all their weight behind the campaign of the other Alinsky-disciple-in-waiting, Hillary Clinton. As the servant of Alinskyite taskmasters, Obama is well aware that his political future is in a state of constant, mortal peril. He lives with the daily knowledge that he may well be one screwup away from abandonment by them.
The test of whether he stays will be who controls the political dialogue over the next few months. If he fails to control it, he will be pushed out. If he seems to have control at mid year, he will be safe, as it will be too late by then to fire up the campaign of a rival, and he would remain the liberal interests’ nominee for President.
I doubt if the Democrats will go for Hillary. She and Bill Clinton might have that in mind but, if the GOP is putting up someone from the new generation (i.e., not the old guard of Romney, Huckabee, etc)..but Cantor or Christie or Pawlenty or…then, the Democrats will have to select a ‘new generation’ nominee as well.
I also reject Palin; she has, strange to say, a far more important role in this Fight For America, than as a political leader. She has to be the voice of the American people.
A major problem for the Democrats is that this recent election has, instead of moving them to regenerate (as the 2008 election did for the GOP), it has resulted in an entrenchment of the Old Guard (Pelosi, Reid, etc). They are effectively preventing a new generation of Democrats (most of whom were voted out in this last election)..from emerging. So, the Old Guard are freeze-drying the Democratic party.
Add to that, that this Democratic Party has been sabotaged and taken over by a radical socialist agenda (Soros, Unions, Pelosi)..each with their own power-agenda…and it’s a mess.
Will they keep Obama? It isn’t entirely up to Obama, who has no interest in the governance or policies, but only in the sense of control and adulation. Obama is bored with governing because he requires a constant ‘fix’ of adulation; he can’t handle rejection and criticism. He’ll grow resentful, vindictive, angry.
The real question is whether the BackRoom Gang, the radical socialists who run Obama, will keep him. If he can’t ‘deliver the goods’ of statism and authoritarian central all-powerful govt, then, he’s useless to them. They’ll fob him off to the UN.
That still leaves them, if the moderate Democrats are unable to regain control of the Democratic Party, with a dilemma. Who do they have who can oversee the destruction of the Republic and the insertion of a central statist structure? I can’t see Soros et al giving up. So- what will the radicals do? Will they set up a crisis that will enable them to take authoritarian charge?
The WAPO article was written by Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell, two Democratic strategists of former Presidents. They represent the centrist element of the Democratic party who pretty much were obliterated in the recent House mid term election. Their goal, in writing this is to salvage the Democrats from the leftist Cabal (ET’s word – good analysis).
I think the struggle in the US is more important than the survival of the Democrats. The growth of leviathan has become so cancerous that a goal of both sides of the aisle having a Kumbaya moment will no nothing but prove Rand’s analogy of what good comes from compromising with a rapist.
It’s going to be an ugly two years ahead and the Democrats will be ripped apart in the process. Class warfare will accelerate with the nation intent on avoiding the fate of California where, in Victor Davis Hansen’s words, you have three classes, an entitlement nurtured, largely illegal alien and illiterate underclass politically allied with the Coastal strip of wealthy ruling class plutocrats mired in watermelon politics that has succeeded in tying up most of the state’s resources through regulation. Against this is an over-taxed middle class struggling to succeed but increasingly fleeing. He sees the future of California to be indistinguihable from parts of Mexico. The only question remaining is what role the Federal government will play when the state goes into default.
I say he doesn’t run again. He senses he might lose, and he couldn’t handle it. And I doubt the dems want him – well, watch the above video (who is the guy, BTW?). But Abe Froman is right @10:59; they’ll Peter Principle him. Something in the U.N. probably.
Stephen;
You may well be right. Time will tell. I suppose the question is, is Obama a/ a calculating pol who said to himself, “I’m going to push Obamacare through to cement my place in history as having achieved something that no one before me was capable of doing even if it means the destruction of my party in the process. Or was his thinking /b, “Despite the bad polls, all I have to do is force it through then get out in front of the public and remind them of the awesome wonderfullness of ME and they’ll love me for it.”
I honestly believe it was the latter. I think he’s mentally ill. I couldn’t agree more with your last statement that “on the off chance that he runs and loses badly he will have great diffuiculty understanding it, quite honestly, I would put him on suicide watch.”
This is a great clip.
“Losing the Democrats” is good. Maybe the Democrtats will take back their party from the Marxists.
Dave in Pa @ 10:17, I like your thoughts. Especially your last sentence and I have to work on my occasional grumpiness regarding the “progressive” stuff that Harper & Co. let or push through. The alternatives, Mr. Blithers aka Mr.Iffy and the new Duke of Toronto would be considerably worse, in fact catastrophic.
ET, without appearing to be too gushy, I think you have great analysis on your posts of 10:02 and 1:15.
John Chittick is right about what it is all really about. There is a battle going on that few people in North America realize. When Obama said “fundamental change”, the vast majority of the people did not realize he meant in on how the country will be governed in the future and to what ends.
It’s not only the Dems that messed up. Too many people were deluded, even some SDA commenters.
Occasionally I go back to Palin’s speech at the RNC ’08. I fight the urge to scream at the voters, and the media…TOLD YA!!!
Stephen;
As coincidence would have it, here’s something I just happened upon.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/american-narcissus_516686.html
ET – I agree any politician who can identify themself in the public mind as personifying the new, or the future, has an advantage. But who will the Dems pick as a new generation leader? There are none with stature comparable to Christie, or a few others on the Repub side. Aren’t they stuck with Hillary? A race between an established Repub with national recognition and a new Democratic face would, from the start, be lopsidedly in the Republican’s favor.
They will find Hillary the natural choice, and they will believe they can sell her – as implausible as this may seem – as a new generation leader. The minute she becomes the nominee, they can count on the media’s immediate and effective coordination with her campaign to blast out her message. The Dems are very sure of this strategy, which is why the media has been the point of the spear of every Democratic presidential campaign, always, in every Democratic presidential campaign since Carter lost in 1980.
Besides, the liberal’s world view is that the Democratic nominee is by default, the small p progressive candidate; a new generation leader.
ET
[…….The international world thinks he’s a vapid buffoon and is ignoring him;…….]
Pretty much …….which clearly removes the Dems’ oportion of fobbing him off on the UN, the UN multicultural/islamic clique desires/needs a more reliable useful idiot….
I genuinely expect ET is probably right….
[……Who do they have who can oversee the destruction of the Republic and the insertion of a central statist structure? I can’t see Soros et al giving up. So- what will the radicals do? Will they set up a crisis that will enable them to take authoritarian charge?……]
This is a dangerous momment with OBOZO abroad, it is a perfect/logical time for a false-flag terrorist attack—-maybe nuclear…..the sum of all fears…….
If it fails because a weak link has second thoughts/screws up and the plot is exposed—-it’s all over. If the attack succeeds and is exposed—-it’s really over….
This latter scenario not just my conclusion and is possibly already in motion and for all we know already detected/interdicted/aborted…..and classified.
However classified or not, publicly exposed or not, the result will be the same…a massive high-level purge, coronaries, strokes, plane crashes….thta’s how lefies roll….. with Joe Biden, oddly enough, a survivor……an out of the loop puppet.
bob c – yes, that American Standard article on Obama’s vanity is good, with its outline of how little he’s done.
However, I maintain that his problem is not vanity, but a much more serious psychological dysfunctionality, that of clinical narcissism. This has nothing to do with vanity but is a pathological of an individual need to control all interactions he has with others.
Because of this, Obama long ago moved into a ‘virtual bubble world’ where his reality is confined to the interior of this bubble. Inside this bubble, he controls all interactions with others; he does this by lies and emotional manipulation. If you dissent, he’ll try to control you – or – kick you out. Once outside, you literally cease to exist for him. That’s not vanity; that’s a deep inability to interact with the real world and with real people.
If you put such an individual in a powerful position such as president, where he obviously can’t control everyone and everything he’ll start to ‘freeze’. He’ll become more aloof, more rigid, more disdainful of others..talk about ‘enemies’, try to divide-and-conquer..and so on. He might at some time, crack and move into a pathological rage…unless he’s kept ‘fed’ with accolades and sycophants.
small c-conservative. Maybe they’ll choose Hillary. I don’t see it but I agree, as you point out, the Party hasn’t allowed new blood to emerge. They have no-one else.
sasquatch – that’s an interesting point. I hadn’t thought that an internationally useless Obama would also be viewed by the UN as useless. Hmm. You may indeed be right. That does indeed leave the Democrats with nowhere to dump him.
And yes, paranoid as it seems, I can see the possibility of your outline of a crisis situation – an attack (staged) as a strong possibility; a failure and exposure…
Bob,
Nice find.
So the real question is when can we derisively start calling Obama….Megamind?
http://www.belch.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/megamind.jpg
ET, I believe Obama will attempt to run in 2012 because he is far too proud not to. This pride enabled him to sell his brand to extremely gullible people. Voters should have raked him across the coals for his softness on Iran or “punished with a baby” gaffe. They did not and now the US has a multitude of problems.
I agree with rd @11:06 and like Ken Kulak, I like your remarks re: PMSH, dave in PA. ET you are on top of the game and your insights are always informative.
Saquatch – I share your apprehension – that ‘note’ (threat) that georgie porgie soros gave Glen Beck has given me chills – the World Gument set-up – shut up Beck, you are hurting my (georgie) business? Glen vows exposure and declines to shut up, so maybe you will be stopped via exposure georgie porgie?; reply: “That ship has already sailed’.
There is so much about Obama that is hidden and IF fully known would seal both his fate as a president and any political office.
Mr. Soros and his shadow party bear the full brunt along with the Dem leadership. THEY know who he is and they know he is not qualified.
Now the whole world knows it, peace prize notwithstanding.
When you are Mau Mau you get found out eventually.
The sooner the better.
And then there is Hillary. She is Soros idealogical child and could easily step into a leadership role in the next primary.
Look for it.
I think it’s impossible that Obama would declare himself a one-term president, I don’t think it’s in him. It would be interesting, though, to see if he faces challengers for the democratic presidential ticket in 2012. It could be possible that the party will try to throw him under the bus but I don’t really see anyone who is electable that could replace him. Maybe Pelosi or Dean for the left wingers? It would be interesting to see a challenge come from the conservative wing of their party though.
@ Sasquatch 2:41
It’s interesting that you’re talking about false flag attacks because I came across this:
http://tiny.cc/33o1z
That basically suggested the “mystery missile” was a broad series of tests to see if the FBI could control media messaging. Something I kind of dismissed because at best it’s hearsay and at worst it smacks of paranoia. Who knows though really? We’re at one of those turning points in history and the powers that be have a game to play. Let’s just be sure to sidestep the same pit the truthers fell into though.
The big zero is the scariest manifestation of the Dunning-Kruger effect in the world today. What I’m curious about is where the widely held delusion that he is intelligent came from as he has certainly demonstrated none. All he has is a supreme confidence in himself and the ability to read a teleprompter. It’s quite interesting that absolutely no scholastic records have been released, it would probably be considered racist to publish his IQ score (although the media had no difficulty publishing Bush’s IQ). Obozo is an example of the dangers of affirmative action and shows how prophetic the movie Being there was.
“I think they severely overestimate Hillary Clinton’s abilities both inherent and demonstrated as US SecState”
I’d agree. I have this abiding sense now that Hillary has become increasingly marginalized as yesterday’s candidate. Time is moving on; there are fresh, aggressive new potential contenders popping up in both parties. She just looks tired and I think Bill’s political clout is reaching its “best before” date.
Whatever you might think of President Obama, I do feel he has accomplished two things regarding the Clinton era:
1. He broke the back of a campaign that would have seen another Clinton in the White House on the basis that she used to sleep with the president – positively Argentinian!
2. By luring Hillary into the State job (something her ego couldn’t possibly let her pass up), I feel Obama cleverly neutered her. She’s neatly buried over at Foggy Bottom for the duration. Politically, it’s almost as if she no longer existed. And her performance as SecState has been nothing to write home about. Besides, as P.J. O’Rourke once wrote, “Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America’s miniature schnauzer – a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.”
(Sorry about that reference to the schnauzer, Kate – I own one myself but P.J.’s quote is still a good one regardless.)
Will Oblamebush run in 2012:
Yes: Unless he is removed from office previously because of mental instability. Unless he feels the public doesn’t appreciate his brilliance. Unless he finds something bigger to expend his vast talent upon. Unless the Democrats won’t let him enter the primaries because of the damage he has inflicted. Unless the Republicans use their new power in the house to properly vet him and find him wanting.
ET;
I think you missed the title of the article I gave a link to. It was “American Narcissus:
The vanity of Barack Obama.”
Narcissism is defined as “the personality trait of egotism, vanity, conceit”
Clearly this author wasn’t just trying to say Obama was vain, but that it was to the extent of qualifying as narcissism.
bob c -yes, I’m aware of the title. My point is that Obama’s narcissism isn’t that which enables someone to function, reasonably, in everyday life.
The ordinary vain or narcissistic person can be pompous, a bit ‘full of himself’ but is still in touch with reality.
Obama is a pathological narcissist; that’s a completely, totally, different psychological state. In this state, the individual is unable to be in touch with reality. The pathological or clinical narcissist moves into an isolate ‘virtual world’ where he controls all interactions – and effectively shuts out the power and forcefulness of the external real world.