As VDH points out:
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 constinuencies 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 censured Saudi-run press organ . . . . .
Fourth, there was the campaign rhetoric of Bush shredding the Constitution—FISA, Guantanamo, 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.
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At home, Obama is becoming laughable and laying the groundwork for the greatest conservative populist reaction since the Reagan Revolution.
Ssshhhh, Victor. That was supposed to be between us girls.
But then comes the scary part:
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 Sec. 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.
Yeah. This is getting, as Graham Parker would say, “beyond a joke.”
Via Insty, who remarks “He’s had some bad appointments, and he’s being tested by the Russians, et al., but isn’t it a bit early to declare him a failure?”
He didn’t say Big O was a failure; only that the situation was “serious,” and that it is time for Obama to “begin humbly governing.”
Which I would like to see.
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Thats why I say keep that sarah Palin in the news, our only hope for the future of this country.
eyeonpalin.org/news/index.php
As long as the Left believes that every month 500 million Americans lose their jobs, we will be OK. As for the part where Nancy Pelosi says she “wants to pee on the Washington Times,” I say good for her! Paper training will save the taxpayers janitorial expenses on the House floor. That’s a start.
::SIGH::
VDH is quite brilliant and he’s so eloquent that its hard to keep up my self imposed pretense that things are not going quite very really poorly. I had hope for 36 hours that maybe there was something behind the facade but the something is the facade.
Instead of that Azmat, a slight reworking is in order
http://www.imao.us/index.php/2009/02/they-should-call-it-whysarahpalinissofreakingawesomeorg/