Ignore What You See With Your Own Eyes
By Mitch Berg
According to Drew “Don’t Call Me Michael” Westen, Obama’s problem is that he wasn’t interventionistic, imperial, demigogic…progressive enough!
No, I’m not going to quote it. Read it. On an empty stomach.
August 9th, 2011 at 11:45 am
What a strange article.
The author wants you to believe that the Democrats only took control of congress in 2009, that there were no deficits prior to the GW Bush presidency, and that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were begun and continued despite the wishes of the Democrats and the American people.
And that is just page one.
August 9th, 2011 at 12:25 pm
Psst, Terry. Democrats lie. Pathologically.
August 9th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
The Westen article was a bizarre liberal fantasy. Instapundit links to an honest appraisal of Obama and the Democrats: http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Chickens-Coming-Home-to-Roost
Biden said it all, when he added, “I mean that’s a storybook, man.” What he meant was that Obama’s biography was a narrative that the Democratic Party could use to sell us a bill of goods. They did not care that Obama had never held executive office, that he had never run anything (apart from a campaign), that as a state senator he had mostly voted present, and that – while he had been elected a United States Senator – he had never actually served as a Senator. In fact, Obama made John Kerry look positively presidential. The former had chaired a senatorial subcommittee – on Afghanistan, as it turned out – but, tellingly, he had never even bothered to call a meeting. He had been honored in all sorts of ways in the course of his life, but he had never delivered the goods – not on the Harvard Law Review, not at the University of Chicago Law School, nowhere nohow, notime.
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Never does it seem to have crossed Barack Obama’s mind that, if Congress were allowed to write major bills, every Senator and every Congressman who had any swat would write into it a special deal for his supporters. Never did it dawn on him that the President – and no one but the President – represents the national interest. The results were utterly predictable – bills running thousands of pages, which no one had read or could comprehend, and debts extending from here to the moon.
Obama is, as was obvious from his record, a man of legislative temperament – eager to dodge responsibility, always happy to run his mouth in front of a microphone, good at posturing, incapable of rising to the occasion, forever intent on blaming someone else.
That’s the real Obama story. No leadership skills, no presidential skills, and incapable of learning them.
August 9th, 2011 at 3:16 pm
The results were utterly predictable
And those of us in the reality-based community predicted them for over a year. Sadly, America likes it’s flavor of the month. Regardless of the consequences.