Posted: 11/1/2013 4:08:16 PM EDT
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This was a piece in todays California Bay Area San Jose Mercury News.
11/01/2013 America functioning without a president By Victor Davis Hanson We are learning whether the United States really needs a president. Barack Obama has become a mere figurehead, who gives speeches few listen to anymore, issues threats that scare fewer and makes promises almost no one believes he will keep. Yet America continues on, despite the fact that the foreign and domestic policies of Obama are unraveling, in a manner unusual even for star-crossed presidential terms. Abroad, American policy in the Middle East is leaderless and in shambles after the Arab Spring – we’ve had the Syrian fiasco and bloodbath, leading from behind in Libya all the way to Benghazi, and the non-coup, non-junta in Egypt. This administration has managed to unite existential Shiite and Sunni enemies in a shared dislike of the United States. While Iran follows the Putin script from Syria, Israel seems ready to pre-empt its nuclear program, and Obama still mumbles empty “game changers” and “red line” threats of years past. We’ve gone from reset with Russia to Putin as the playmaker of the Middle East. The Persian Gulf sheikdoms are now mostly anti-American. The leaders of Germany and the people of France resent having their private communications tapped by Obama. – the constitutional lawyer and champion of universal human rights. Angela Merkel long ago grasped that Obama would rather fly across the Atlantic to lobby for a Chicago Olympic Games – or tap her phone – than sit through a 20th anniversary commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. At home, the signature Affordable Care Act is proving its sternest critics prescient. The mess can best be summed up by Republicans’ being demonized for trying to delay or defund Obamacare – after the president chose not to implement elements of his own law – followed immediately by congressional Democrats seeking to parrot the Republicans. So are the democrats followers of Ted Cruz or Obama? Is Obama following Cruz? The problem is not just that all the president’s serial assurances about Obamacare proved untrue – premiums and deductibles will go up, many will lose their coverage and their doctors, new taxes will be needed, care will be curtailed, sign-ups are nearly impossible and businesses will be less, not more, competitive – but that no one should ever have believed they could possibly be true unless in our daily lives we usually get more and better stuff at lower cost. Three considerations are keeping the U.S. afloat without an active president. First, many working Americans have tuned the president out and simply go on about their business. If gas and oil leases have been curtailed on Federal lands, there is record production on private land. Farmers are producing huge harvests and receiving historically high prices. There is as yet no French or Chinese Silicon Valley. In other words, after five years of stagnation, half the public more or less ignores the Obama administration and plods on. Second, the other half of Americans gladly accept that Obama is an Iconic rather than a serious president. Given his emblematic status as the nation’s first African-American president and his efforts to craft a vast coalition of those with supposed grievances against the majority, he will always have a strong base of supporters. With huge increases in federal redistributive support programs, and about half the population not paying federal income taxes, Obama is seen as the protector of the noble deserving. In other words, the presidency has become a virtual office. Almost half the people do not mind, and those that do just plod onward. |
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We haven't had a LEGITIMATE President since the last one left office on the morning of January 20th, 2009. NO WAY do I believe the forged birth certificate he produced only after much hemming and hawing and obstruction of justice. NO WAY do I believe that someone who has had virtually ALL of the records concerning his ENTIRE past sealed, is someone who would be qualified or eligible to be President. In fact America has NOT had a President since the end of George W. Bush's second term in office. |
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Quoted: You know, we need something more.......hateful than FBHO. It just doesnt do justice to the searing hatred I have for that fuckstick Quoted: Quoted: FBHO You know, we need something more.......hateful than FBHO. It just doesnt do justice to the searing hatred I have for that fuckstick Shit, "Obama" by itself is about as terrible as I can come up with. There isn't much that's more repugnant and vile, in my eyes. |
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We haven't had a LEGITIMATE President since the last one left office on the morning of January 20th, 2009. NO WAY do I believe the forged birth certificate he produced only after much hemming and hawing and obstruction of justice. NO WAY do I believe that someone who has had virtually ALL of the records concerning his ENTIRE past sealed, is someone who would be qualified or eligible to be President. In fact America has NOT had a President since the end of George W. Bush's second term in office. He might have been a dumb-ass, but he had heart and I believe good intentions. I'd rather have him now than this fool. |
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Quoted: He might have been a dumb-ass, but he had heart and I believe good intentions. I'd rather have him now than this fool. Quoted: Quoted: We haven't had a LEGITIMATE President since the last one left office on the morning of January 20th, 2009. NO WAY do I believe the forged birth certificate he produced only after much hemming and hawing and obstruction of justice. NO WAY do I believe that someone who has had virtually ALL of the records concerning his ENTIRE past sealed, is someone who would be qualified or eligible to be President. In fact America has NOT had a President since the end of George W. Bush's second term in office. He might have been a dumb-ass, but he had heart and I believe good intentions. I'd rather have him now than this fool. Dumb-ass? Bush graduated from Harvard Business School and did pretty well. Obama's GPA is unknown, sealed, but people close to Obama say he is "the least intellectual President of their lifetimes". President Bush, who is routinely derided as a "moron" by embittered Democrats, earned slightly better grades at Yale University than Sen. John Kerry, the supposed Massachusetts intellectual. According to college transcripts from the top Ivy League school obtained by the Boston Globe, Kerry was well on his way to flunking out during his freshmen year, receiving no fewer than four D's. Kerry's intellectual deficit revealed itself in geology, two history courses and, most surprisingly for a top politician, political science. "I always told my dad that D stood for distinction," the failed presidential candidate told reporters. He showed a slight improvement in subsequent semesters, topping out with an 81 average his senior year. Kerry had a cumulative average of 76, or what some might call "a gentleman's C." The president received just one D in his freshman year - a 69 in astronomy - to Kerry's four. His cumulative grade point average was 77 - a point higher than Kerry's. Last year, when an analysis of Kerry's Navy aptitude test showed that Bush actually had a higher IQ, the top Democrat blamed his lackluster performance on drinking. "I must have been drinking the night before I took that military aptitude test," Kerry told NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw. President Bush suffered the same type of derision during the 2000 campaign, when critics regularly portrayed him as intellectually inferior to Al Gore. Gore attended divinity school after graduating from Harvard in June of 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. But transcripts from Vanderbilt University showed that he received F's in five of the eight classes he took over the course of three semesters. Gore left Vanderbilt without receiving a degree. Bush isn't the slick speaker Obama is, but he's by FAR the smarter and better man. |
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He might have been a dumb-ass, but he had heart and I believe good intentions. I'd rather have him now than this fool. Quoted:
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We haven't had a LEGITIMATE President since the last one left office on the morning of January 20th, 2009. NO WAY do I believe the forged birth certificate he produced only after much hemming and hawing and obstruction of justice. NO WAY do I believe that someone who has had virtually ALL of the records concerning his ENTIRE past sealed, is someone who would be qualified or eligible to be President. In fact America has NOT had a President since the end of George W. Bush's second term in office. He might have been a dumb-ass, but he had heart and I believe good intentions. I'd rather have him now than this fool. He was smart enough to fly jet fighters. And Obama... he was a community organizer! 
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Shit, "Obama" by itself is about as terrible as I can come up with. There isn't much that's more repugnant and vile, in my eyes. Quoted:
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FBHO You know, we need something more.......hateful than FBHO. It just doesnt do justice to the searing hatred I have for that fuckstick Shit, "Obama" by itself is about as terrible as I can come up with. There isn't much that's more repugnant and vile, in my eyes. And its amazing at the people who still believe this jugged earred slack jawwed faggot is doing a good job. 
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This was a piece in todays California Bay Area San Jose Mercury News. 11/01/2013 America functioning without a president By Victor Davis Hanson We are learning whether the United States really needs a president. Barack Obama has become a mere figurehead, who gives speeches few listen to anymore, issues threats that scare fewer and makes promises almost no one believes he will keep. Yet America continues on, despite the fact that the foreign and domestic policies of Obama are unraveling, in a manner unusual even for star-crossed presidential terms. Abroad, American policy in the Middle East is leaderless and in shambles after the Arab Spring – we’ve had the Syrian fiasco and bloodbath, leading from behind in Libya all the way to Benghazi, and the non-coup, non-junta in Egypt. This administration has managed to unite existential Shiite and Sunni enemies in a shared dislike of the United States. While Iran follows the Putin script from Syria, Israel seems ready to pre-empt its nuclear program, and Obama still mumbles empty “game changers” and “red line” threats of years past. We’ve gone from reset with Russia to Putin as the playmaker of the Middle East. The Persian Gulf sheikdoms are now mostly anti-American. The leaders of Germany and the people of France resent having their private communications tapped by Obama. – the constitutional lawyer and champion of universal human rights. Angela Merkel long ago grasped that Obama would rather fly across the Atlantic to lobby for a Chicago Olympic Games – or tap her phone – than sit through a 20th anniversary commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. At home, the signature Affordable Care Act is proving its sternest critics prescient. The mess can best be summed up by Republicans’ being demonized for trying to delay or defund Obamacare – after the president chose not to implement elements of his own law – followed immediately by congressional Democrats seeking to parrot the Republicans. So are the democrats followers of Ted Cruz or Obama? Is Obama following Cruz? The problem is not just that all the president’s serial assurances about Obamacare proved untrue – premiums and deductibles will go up, many will lose their coverage and their doctors, new taxes will be needed, care will be curtailed, sign-ups are nearly impossible and businesses will be less, not more, competitive – but that no one should ever have believed they could possibly be true unless in our daily lives we usually get more and better stuff at lower cost. Three considerations are keeping the U.S. afloat without an active president. First, many working Americans have tuned the president out and simply go on about their business. If gas and oil leases have been curtailed on Federal lands, there is record production on private land. Farmers are producing huge harvests and receiving historically high prices. There is as yet no French or Chinese Silicon Valley. In other words, after five years of stagnation, half the public more or less ignores the Obama administration and plods on. Second, the other half of Americans gladly accept that Obama is an Iconic rather than a serious president. Given his emblematic status as the nation’s first African-American president and his efforts to craft a vast coalition of those with supposed grievances against the majority, he will always have a strong base of supporters. With huge increases in federal redistributive support programs, and about half the population not paying federal income taxes, Obama is seen as the protector of the noble deserving. In other words, the presidency has become a virtual office. Almost half the people do not mind, and those that do just plod onward. more libtards bitching about the president they voted for.guess what dummys? elections have consequences,be sure to vote for hillary in 2016 when she promises a bunch of shit that she wont do just like obama |
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more libtards bitching about the president they voted for.guess what dummys? elections have consequences,be sure to vote for hillary in 2016 when she promises a bunch of shit that she wont do just like obama Quoted:
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By Victor Davis Hanson more libtards bitching about the president they voted for.guess what dummys? elections have consequences,be sure to vote for hillary in 2016 when she promises a bunch of shit that she wont do just like obama You might want to check out Victor Davis Hanson before decrying him as a libtard.Not many liberals write for National Rrview and City Journal. |