Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Re: Anatomy of a Failing President



On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:42 PM, euwe <machgielis@gmail.com> wrote:
 


deregulation of banks and oil drilling,

*See* the "Democrats'/Socialist-Elitists'/Anti-American's" policy
called,
"Communiuty Reinvestment Act" which caused the whole economic debacle.
Attached is a post I wrote to Euwetopia (and PF) almost two years ago:
 
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Bush participated and succeeded.
 
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Euwe,
 
You have your facts completely wrong, and are attempting to cover up the the worst economic boondoggles in our Nation's History. The Bush Administration called for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reforms repeatedly, all to fall upon deaf ears by the Socialist-Elitist controlled Congress:  

 

"Bush Called For Reform of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac 17 Times in 2008 Alone... Dems Ignored Warnings"

 

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/bush-called-for-reform-of-fannie-mae.html
 
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call for wilderness drilling, incentives for oil companies
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he failed here too.
 
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How so? 
 

 



reducing barriers for minority home ownership
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He called for this, and succeeded.


the bailout
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succeeded at this

and the longest list of clumsy misspoken lines since rock lyric
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and this.

On Jun 8, 3:26 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Euwe, Euwe, Euwe.   Just a few thoughts on your ramblings.....You should at
> least get your facts straight.....Let's review:
>
> failure to win popular vote,
>
> (It's called, "The Electoral College" and has worked quite well for over 200
> years.  It serves a purpose, from allowing the large states too much power,
> in the vote....In this case, it prevented a bunch of folks who don't pay
> taxes and believe in sucking this Nation dry;  e.g.; the "Welfare Crew in
> the inner cities"  versus the rest of the American people who knew Al Gore
> was a threat not only to our Nation, but to Tipper, and buffet bars
> everywhere)
>
> bin Lostim,
>
> (Dead~~We just don't want to make a martyr out of him)
>
> "Mission Accomplished," loser;
>
> Obviously we still have troops in Iraq, and there is still an element of
> danger there.  If the goal was to leave Iraq with a stable Republican form
> of government, which was democratically elected by the Iraq citizenry,
> capable of defending itself from internal as well as external enemies, and
> to leave a government that is friendly to our national interests, then I
> would surmise that we have achieved that goal.
>
> Although I don't necessarily believe that Democrats wished for American
> servicemen and women to be harmed, *per-se*, I do believe that many
> Democrats wished for President Bush and his Administration to fail, and if
> this cost American servicemen their lives, then this was a part and parcel
> of their objective.  I recall not only Harry Reid, but also "Nanc" Pelosi,
> Ted Kennedy and other socialist agenda Democrats saying, "The War Is Lost";
> and opposing the surge which proved to be successful.
>
> Can you imagine, had the socialist agenda Democrats prevailed, and we would
> have actually pulled our troops from Iraq over two years ago, what the
> region would be like today?   A region that would still be in conflict, with
> Iran dominating the region and Iraq being nothing less than a haven for
> terroristic individuals who wish to destroy Western Civilization.
>
> It is not an argument of whether we should have ever got involved in the
> conflict.....We did, and I think most thinking Americans from both sides of
> the aisle would agree that it was a mistake.  An understandable mistake, but
> a mistake nevertheless.  The distinction was how those with a very partisan
> agenda handled the situation. Instead of wanting to achieve victory and get
> our military out of the conflict while still accomplishing the goals, there
> were many Democrats whose only goal was to discredit the Bush
> Administration.
>
> Privatized Social Security,
>
> (It's coming, and should have come over twenty years ago, long before the
> Bush Administration, since Social Security is a dismal failure, and broken).
>
> Abortion,
>
> (In the United States, over 1.4 million abortions a year:
>
> http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html
>
> and we have an Administration that covets partial birth abortions.   What's
> wrong with this picture??? )
>
> "Faith Based Sinniative",
>
> What I don't understand from those on the far left, and even those who are,
> "Moderate" is their contempt for any charity that happens to be, "Faith
> Based".   Why is this so troubling to Moonbats?
>
> For the record, the Obama Administration has continued the course:
>
> http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/election/764
>
> http://biggovernment.com/wthuston/2010/05/16/obamas-faith-based-progr...
>
> Amnesty,
>
> Here Euwe, we might actually agree.  I find it laughable, Iand deeply
> disturbing, that a Presidential Administration, (both Republican and
> Democrat)  can ask the American people to give up some of their inherent
> rights, in the name of security, but do nothing in order to secure our
> borders.
>
> As compared to the Bush Administration, the Obama Administration is clearly
> championing Amnesty, and the Obama Administration pales in comparison in
> stopping illegal immigration to the Bush Administration, which I openly
> admit, was pitiful.  Here is a discussion between O'Reilly and former Bush
> Administration Chief Of Staff, Karl Rove.  Interesting discussion, the point
> being, is that the Obama Administration could do much more:
>
> http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-oreilly-slams-bushs-immigration-polic...
>
> outsourcing,
>
> What, prey tell, do you think the Federal government should be doing about
> this, other than lowering taxes on corporations?  We need no more "Nanny
> State"!!!
>
> deregulation of banks and oil drilling,
>
> *See* the "Democrats'/Socialist-Elitists'/Anti-American's" policy called,
> "Communiuty Reinvestment Act" which caused the whole economic debacle.
> Attached is a post I wrote to Euwetopia (and PF) almost two years ago:
>
> call for wilderness drilling, incentives for oil companies,
>
> We should!   The disaster in the Gulf is partially caused by
> environmentalists push for drilling in deep waters away from our shores.
>
> reducing barriers for minority home ownership,
>
> *See* Attached.  All Democrats/Socialist-Elitists/Anti-Americans who caused
> this.
>
> the bailout and the
> longest list of clumsy misspoken lines since rock lyrics.
>
> > On Jun 7, 1:15 pm, JSM <ekrub...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >                   Anatomy of a failing President
>
> > >         The following is an interesting article. You might ask how long
> > Dr.
> > > Hunt can remain at NIH once the White House gets wind of this article.
>
> > >         Dr. Hunt is a social and cultural anthropologist.  He has had
> > nearly
> > > 30 years experience in planning, conducting, and managing research in the
> > > field of youth studies, and drug and alcohol research. Currently Dr. Hunt
> > is
> > > a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Scientific Analysis and
> > the
> > > Principal Investigator on three National Institutes of Health projects.
> > He
> > > is also a writer for American Thinker.
>
> > >     ____________________________________________________
>
> > >     An article from American Thinker by Geoffrey P. Hunt:
>
> > >     Anatomy of a Failing Presidency
>
> > >     Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed
> > > presidency since Woodrow Wilson.  In the modern era, we've seen several
> > > failed presidencies--led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ.  Failed presidents have
> > > one strong common trait-- they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat
> > out.
> > > Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into
> > > oncoming traffic by his own party.  Richard Nixon indeed resigned in
> > > disgrace, yet his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored
> > by
> > > his triumphant overture to    China .
>
> > >     But, Barack Obama is failing.  Failing big.  Failing fast. And
> > failing
> > > everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly,
> > in
> > > forging connections with the American people. The incomparable 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 indeed
> > > loathe them. 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 dispositive 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 in 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.  In generic balloting, the Republicans have now seized a five point
> > > advantage. This truly is unbelievable.  What's going on?
>
> > >     No narrative. 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 are
> > > aspirational peers, even those 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's a phony, knows
> > > nothing about economics, and is historically illiterate and woefully
> > small
> > > minded for the size of the task--all contributory of course.  It's that
> > he's
> > > not one of us.  And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of
> > > content, like a cardboard cutout made from delaminated corrugated paper.
> > > Moreover, he doesn't 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. They are not existential. His descriptions of the
> > > world we live in don't make sense and don't correspond with our
> > experience.
>
> > >     In the meantime, while we've been struggling to take a measurement of
> > > this man, he's dissed 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.
>
> > >     Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in 2012: "For
> > those
> > > of you I offended, I apologize.  For those of you who were not offended,
> > you
> > > just didn't give me enough time; if only I'd 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.  An equally abominable
> > Congress
> > > can get voted out next year.  With a new Congress, there's always hope of
> > > legislative gridlock until we vote for president again two short years
> > after
> > > that.
>
> > >     Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama among them.  The coyotes
> > > howl but the wagon train keeps rolling along.
>
> > >     Margaret Thatcher: "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later
> > you
> > > run out of other people's 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."
> > -
> > > Unknown
>
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