March 02, 2009
Our President Is Out of His Depth
Not that most of you haven't already started coming to that conclusion yourselves.
I don't know why so many people have put their blind faith into a man who has phenomenal public-speaking skills, but who has never had a prominent real-world job.
Barack Obama has never been in charge of anything even as substantial as a Cub Scout troop den, and it shows.
Perhaps Americans are in denial, clinging to an illusion to simply avoid taking responsibility for allowing themselves to be duped into voting for a man big enough for a television screen, but woefully too small, too inconsequential in substance, for the Presidency.
And we're all paying the price.
Update: How petty. Not to mention a transparent sop to the netroots to keep them distracted, so they won't turn on him for his obvious and growing inadequacies.
This is in part why all the talk about a president or potential president's IQ never meant anything to me.
For one thing, the job is so huge -- I DON'T WANT a president who thinks he is so brilliant he can do it all himself --- someone out micromanaging everything - (like Johnson did the Vietnam War, perhaps).
This is where being a good manager comes in --- the ability to delegate wisely.
The best asset of a manager is being able to pick capable people to lead his/her team and then give them broad strokes directions when needed. He needs to be smart enough to process the information up to him -- to make clear decisions - but he doesn't need to be a genius that can micromanaging everything or rush out to conquer the toughest problems pretty much on his own.
...which is what happens when ego and intelligence combine with significant power.
(And I'm not saying that is Obama - but that is what I think when I hear people talk about how intelligent (or not) a presidental hopeful is or was
Posted by: usinkorea at March 3, 2009 12:19 AMre: "Obama releases secret Bush anti-terror memos"
Can I call them traitors yet? Have they no sense at all? No shame? Is this truly the age of oneupsmanship only?
"...what happens when ego and intelligence combine with significant power..."
What happens is what is happening. Hubris runs rampant and destroys those it touches. The man is an enemy of the Republic. Can't people see it or are they still in denial?
This administration is Carter II, or Jimmy Carter on Speed. I nominate Eric Holder to fill the role of Andy Young.
Posted by: Tregonsee at March 3, 2009 08:22 AMI have always found B Obama to be a small and petty person. Don't know why everyone couldn't see it too.
(flipping off McCain and Hillary during speeches, publicly insulting Nancy Reagan and then that singer (Roma's girlfriend?), criticizing Bush unnecessarily during speeches after the election.)
He shows himself to be an ungracious, petty person.
Posted by: Jane at March 3, 2009 08:51 AMBrownies have troops. Cubs have Dens and packs.
Posted by: Rod Stanton at March 3, 2009 09:59 AMI've never thought Teh Messiah's speaking skills were that great. He's OK with a teleprompter, but I still find him monotonous and boring.
Posted by: Tim at March 3, 2009 10:29 AMPetty?? I saw Obama on video, twice, perform a gesture toward his opponent that can only be described as a thinly disguised 'flipping the bird' (scratching nose with middle finger).
Obama was mentored by Communists, associated with Marxists in college, pastored by an extremist anti-American black racist, politically groomed by unrepentant domestic terrorists, and inspired by agitprop author Saul Alinsky to undermine the capitalist economic and political system that have made America great.
Obama entered the White House with a carefully cultivated and concealed rage and hatred against America.
He intends to make the most of this opportunity to burn it to the ground.
Neither the freefalling stock market nor the growing bipartisan backlash will stop his crusade.
And like other collectivist crusaders throughout history, Obama believes so passionately in the rightness of his cause that, as we will see, he will let nothing stand in his way.
Petty, dishonest, arrogant, partisan and vindictive? We haven't begun to see Obama at his worst.
Posted by: Tailgunner at March 3, 2009 11:19 AM"Our President Is Out of His Depth"
Sorry, CY, but I think your presumption Obama does not intend for pushing this catastrophic economic meltdown, is false. Obama needs to destroy capitalism in order to replace it with what he wants.
The exact form of tyranny and absolutism he envisions is still up for discussion.
Posted by: Dusty at March 3, 2009 02:01 PM"Our President Is Out of His Depth"
This yahoo would be out of his depth in a heavy dew.
Posted by: wolfwalker at March 3, 2009 08:39 PMSeems the Obama budget has $1.5 trillion in savings by not having 10 more years of the Iraqi "Surge" .. something that even Bush hadn't planned on.
With accounting like this, you too can be a trillionaire.
Posted by: Neo at March 3, 2009 11:50 PMI just saved a quadrillion dollars by canceling the project to put a man on pluto by next January.
Posted by: PA at March 4, 2009 01:38 AMI also feel he's out of his depth. I wonder how he would function under the stress the Democrats gave to Bush? Like bumper stickers and posts on web sites appearing with the slogan "Obama Lied; the Economy Died". As Tony Blankley wrote, that's to capture the spirit of bipartisanship as practiced by the Democratic Party over the past eight years.
Posted by: Rick at March 4, 2009 08:20 AMI don't believe he's out of his depth. It's far worse, he knows exactly what he's doing and all the destruction he's doing is quite intentional.
And, to speak with Ronald Reagan, "you ain't seen nothing yet".
Assume another 40 years of Abama presidency (dictators tend to live a long time unless murdered).
Posted by: J.T. Wenting at March 4, 2009 11:50 AMHitler was good at making speeches too...
