According to Representative Marion Berry, all we really need is more Barack Obama.
According to Barack Obama, that is:
The retiring Berry, who doesn’t say when the remarks were made, now scoffs at Obama’s 50-or-below approval rating:
Writes ADG reporter Jane Fullerton:
Berry recounted meetings with White House officials, reminiscent of some during the Clinton days, where he and others urged them not to force Blue Dogs “off into that swamp” of supporting bills that would be unpopular with voters back home.
“I’ve been doing that with this White House, and they just don’t seem to give it any credibility at all,” Berry said. “They just kept telling us how good it was going to be. The president himself, when that was brought up in one group, said, ‘Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me.’ We’re going to see how much difference that makes now.” [snip]
Does Obama really think he was that big an edge on Bill Clinton in the “personal charm” department? Perhaps, but let’s remember Clinton combined “Bill Clinton” with a heck of a lot of triangulation to save his presidency in 1994. Obama seems, if anything, to be triangulating left.
Berry seems to think so, too:
“I began to preach last January that we had already seen this movie and we didn’t want to see it again because we know how it comes out,” said Arkansas’ 1st District congressman, who worked in the Clinton administration before being elected to the House in 1996… “I just began to have flashbacks to 1993 and ’94. No one that was here in ’94, or at the day after the election felt like. It certainly wasn’t a good feeling.”
We shall see.
There is great pressure on private industry to have a diverse-looking workplace if onlyl for the company brochures. Government and education, even more so. This leads to affirmative action hiring aimed at filling jobs with people of the right color, gender or race, regardless of skill.
But most people hired to fill a goal are little more than minimally qualified. Sometimes they surprise you, but often about a year into their tenure it becomes obvious they’re just taking up space. That’s when they get a “lateral transfer” to some make-work committee that keeps our diversity numbers looking good but can’t screw up anything.
If the federal government were private industry, after a State of the Union speech like that one, Obama should start looking over his shoulder for Rahm to come along saying “Barry, buddy, we’ve found this great gig for you at the UN as Community Organizer of The World. Much better than being President of just one little country. Travel, speeches, lots of adoring Europeans; it’s you, babe. You start Wednesday.”
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Now we all know what would happen if your average liberal state assemblyman was elected president.
So Obama=more cow bell. Makes as much sense as anything else coming out of the White House.
You are wrong, Buzz. We always need more cowbell.