Some of us have been warning that it was not healthy for the U.S.
media to have deified rather than questioned Obama, especially given
that they tore apart Bush, ridiculed Palin, and caricatured Hillary.
And now we can see the results of their two years of advocacy rather
than scrutiny.

We are quite literally after two weeks teetering on an Obama implosion—
and with no Dick Morris to bail him out—brought on by messianic
delusions of grandeur, hubris, and a strange naivete that soaring
rhetoric and a multiracial profile can add requisite cover to good old-
fashioned Chicago politicking.

First, there were the sermons on ethics, belied by the appointments of
tax dodgers, crass lobbyists, and wheeler-dealers like Richardson—with
the relish of the Blago tapes still to come. (And why does Richardson/
Daschle go, but not Geithner?).

Second, was the "stimulus" (the euphemism for "borrow/print money")
that was simply a way to go into debt for a generation to shower
Democratic constituencies with cash.

Then third, there were the inflated lectures on historic foreign
policy to be made by the clumsy political novice who trashed his own
country and his predecessor in the most ungracious manner overseas to
a censored Saudi-run press organ (e.g., Bush is dictatorial, the Saudi
king is courageous; Obama can mend bridges that America broke to
aggrieved Muslims—apparently Tehran hostages, Rushdie, serial attacks
in the 1990s, 9/11, Madrid, London never apparently occurred; and
neither did feeding Somalis, saving Kuwait, protesting Chechnya,
Bosnia/Kosovo, billions to Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinians, help in
two Afghan wars, and on and on).

Fourth, there was the campaign rhetoric of Bush shredding the
Constitution—FISA, Guantánamo, the Patriot Act, Iraq, renditions, etc.—
followed by "all that for now stays the same" inasmuch as we haven't
ben hit in over seven years and can't risk another attack.

Fifth, Gibbs as press secretary is a Scott McClellan nightmare that
won't go away, given his long McClellan-like relationship with Obama
(McClellan should have been fired on day hour one on the job). Blaming
Fox News for Obama's calamities is McClellan to the core and doesn't
work. He already reminds me of Reverend Wright's undoing at the
National Press Club—and he will get worse.

Six, Biden is being Biden. Already, he's ridiculed the chief justice,
trashed the former VP, bragged on himself ad nauseam in Bidenesque
weird ways, and it's only been two weeks.

And the result of all this?

At home, Obama is becoming laughable and laying the groundwork for the
greatest conservative populist reaction since the Reagan Revolution.

Abroad, some really creepy people are lining up to test Obama's world
view of "Bush did it/but I am the world": The North Koreans are
readying their missiles; the Iranians are calling us passive, bragging
on nukes and satellites; Russia is declaring missile defense is over
and the Euros in real need of iffy Russian gas; Pakistanis say no more
drone attacks (and then our friends the Indians say "shut up" about
Kashmir and the Euros order no more "buy American").

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.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/pos...ZiYTJhZDQ5YTY=

-------------------------------------------
Heh heh heh...

On Feb 5, 4:53 pm, wrote:
Some of us have been warning that it was not healthy for the U.S.
media to have deified rather than questioned Obama, especially given
that they tore apart Bush, ridiculed Palin, and caricatured Hillary.
And now we can see the results of their two years of advocacy rather
than scrutiny.

We are quite literally after two weeks teetering on an Obama implosion—
and with no Dick Morris to bail him out—brought on by messianic
delusions of grandeur, hubris, and a strange naivete that soaring
rhetoric and a multiracial profile can add requisite cover to good old-
fashioned Chicago politicking.

First, there were the sermons on ethics, belied by the appointments of
tax dodgers, crass lobbyists, and wheeler-dealers like Richardson—with
the relish of the Blago tapes still to come. (And why does Richardson/
Daschle go, but not Geithner?).

Second, was the "stimulus" (the euphemism for "borrow/print money")
that was simply a way to go into debt for a generation to shower
Democratic constituencies with cash.

Then third, there were the inflated lectures on historic foreign
policy to be made by the clumsy political novice who trashed his own
country and his predecessor in the most ungracious manner overseas to
a censored Saudi-run press organ (e.g., Bush is dictatorial, the Saudi
king is courageous; Obama can mend bridges that America broke to
aggrieved Muslims—apparently Tehran hostages, Rushdie, serial attacks
in the 1990s, 9/11, Madrid, London never apparently occurred; and
neither did feeding Somalis, saving Kuwait, protesting Chechnya,
Bosnia/Kosovo, billions to Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinians, help in
two Afghan wars, and on and on).

Fourth, there was the campaign rhetoric of Bush shredding the
Constitution—FISA, Guantánamo, the Patriot Act, Iraq, renditions, etc..—
followed by "all that for now stays the same" inasmuch as we haven't
ben hit in over seven years and can't risk another attack.

Fifth, Gibbs as press secretary is a Scott McClellan nightmare that
won't go away, given his long McClellan-like relationship with Obama
(McClellan should have been fired on day hour one on the job). Blaming
Fox News for Obama's calamities is McClellan to the core and doesn't
work. He already reminds me of Reverend Wright's undoing at the
National Press Club—and he will get worse.

Six, Biden is being Biden. Already, he's ridiculed the chief justice,
trashed the former VP, bragged on himself ad nauseam in Bidenesque
weird ways, and it's only been two weeks.

And the result of all this?

At home, Obama is becoming laughable and laying the groundwork for the
greatest conservative populist reaction since the Reagan Revolution.

Abroad, some really creepy people are lining up to test Obama's world
view of "Bush did it/but I am the world": The North Koreans are
readying their missiles; the Iranians are calling us passive, bragging
on nukes and satellites; Russia is declaring missile defense is over
and the Euros in real need of iffy Russian gas; Pakistanis say no more
drone attacks (and then our friends the Indians say "shut up" about
Kashmir and the Euros order no more "buy American").

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.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/pos...A5MWQxOGNjMzU3....

-------------------------------------------
Heh heh heh...

Learn how to say "President Biden"

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:53:55 -0800 (PST), wrote:

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.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/pos...ZiYTJhZDQ5YTY=

Dude - are you saying that Community Organizing skills might not be
the type of job skill a President of The United States should have?

That maybe four years experience in the Senate, two of which were
spent running for President and with no significant legislative
accomplishment are insufficient to govern what is arguably only viable
Western democracy left on the planet?

Is that what you are saying?

--

Alcohol & calculus don't mix. Never drink & derive.

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:53:55 -0800 (PST), wrote:


http://corner.nationalreview.com/pos...ZiYTJhZDQ5YTY=

The National Review.

It must have stung pretty badly when one of their own ditched the
Republican party for Obama. Looks like they're trying to scrape
together some credibility so more of their readership doesn't desert
their subscriber roles.

God knows what they'd have said three weeks into Bush's disastrous
reign if he'd have faced the same dilemma. They'd have likely been
defending his hiding under Cheney's skirt.

jps wrote:
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:53:55 -0800 (PST), wrote:


http://corner.nationalreview.com/pos...ZiYTJhZDQ5YTY=

The National Review.

It must have stung pretty badly when one of their own ditched the
Republican party for Obama. Looks like they're trying to scrape
together some credibility so more of their readership doesn't desert
their subscriber roles.

God knows what they'd have said three weeks into Bush's disastrous
reign if he'd have faced the same dilemma. They'd have likely been
defending his hiding under Cheney's skirt.


The National Review has gone straight to the dumpster since WFB gave up
control and then died. It's nothing but a screed these days.