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A failing presidency
Posted: Wednesday, July 7, 2010 9:58 pm
Barack Obama (not his real name) is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson.  In the modern era, we have seen several failed presidencies – led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ.  Failed presidencies have one strong common trait, they are rejected. 

LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove onto oncoming traffic by his own party. Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by his overture to China. But Barack Obama is failing. Failing big, Failing fast. And everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, foreign connections with the American people. 

The great Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger on it: He is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may even loathe us. Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard says he is failing because he has lost control of his message, and is overexposed. Clarice Feldman of American Thinker produced a commentary showing that Obama is failing because fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame. But there is something more seriously wrong: How could a new president riding on a wave of unprecedented promise and goodwill have forfeited his tenure and become a lame duck in six months? His poll ratings are in free fall. The Republicans have now seized a five point advantage. This is truly unbelievable. What is going on? Obama doesn’t have a narrative.  No, not a narrative about himself. He has a self-narrative, much of it fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else. But this self-narrative is isolated and doesn’t connect with us. He doesn’t have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of us. All successful presidents have a narrative about the American character that intersects with their own where they display a command of history and reveal an authenticity at the core of their personality that resonates in a positive endearing way with the majority of Americans. We admire those presidents whose narratives not only touch our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and smarter than we are. 

Presidents we admire even though whose politics don’t align exactly with our own: Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Ike, and Reagan. But not this president. It’s not so much that he is a phony, knows nothing about economics, and is historically illiterate and woefully small minded for the size of the task. It’s that he is not one of us.  And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout. He does not command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant and how things work just don’t add up. His descriptions of the world we live in don’t make sense and don’t correspond with our experiences. 

In the meantime, while you and I have been struggling, he has dissolved just about every one of us – financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance executives, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, post office workers, and anybody else who has a non-green job. While he keeps apologizing for America’s faults, our standing in the world falls. We do not need to apologize for anything. America has helped every country in this world.  Without America the world would be a sad place. Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in 2012.  “For those of you I have offended, I apologize. For those of you who were not offended, you just didn’t give me enough time; if only I would have had a second term, I could have offended you too.” Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 devised a useful remedy for such a desperate state – staggered terms for both houses of the legislature and the executive(president).  An equally abominable Congress can get voted out this year.  With a new Congress, there is always hope of legislative gridlock until we vote for a new president again in two short years after that. 

Margaret Thatcher said, “The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other peoples money.”  “When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.” James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union.  “The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates.” Tacitus “A liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn’t own.”  So you see we have a problem…. The problem is the Congress and the president. This job is too big for us so we need to pray and get God Almighty back into America so that we can do things right!! Let us all get down on our knees and pray for America and ask the Almighty for forgiveness so He can heal our land!! Our freedom is at stake……



Thank You,         

Karl Pelovsky

Le Center

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Member Opinions:
By: ziggym on 7/16/10
Complete B.S. So clearly clueless, this writer is actually funny! Nice try. Have fun making up falsehoods about our amazing president and believing them... sorry, it still doesn't make any of it true.


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