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8/17/2009 8:41:53 AM EDT
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWRmMjAxNmNhZDRhMjllYmFjYTZjYmRlYTZmYWNjYTA=



What Went Wrong

Piling up debt, gaffes, and hypocrisy, Obama & Co. are sinking.



By Victor Davis Hanson


















We are witnessing one of the more rapid turnabouts in recent American political history. President Obama’s popularity has plummeted to 50 percent and lower in some polls, while the public expresses even less confidence in the Democratic-led Congress and the direction of the country at large. Yet, just eight months ago, liberals were talking in Rovian style about a new generation to come of progressive politicsand the end of both the Republican party and the legacy of Reaganism itself. Barack Obama was to be the new FDR and his radical agenda an even better New Deal.



What happened, other than the usual hubris of the party in power?



First, voters had legitimate worries about, global warming, immigration, energy, and inefficient government. But it turns out that they are more anxious about the new radical remedies than the old nagging problems. They wanted federal support for wind and solar, but not at the expense of neglecting new sources of gas, oil, coal, and nuclear power. They were worried about high-cost health care, the uninsured, redundant procedures, and tort reform, but not ready for socialized medicine. They wanted better government, not bigger, DMV-style government. There is a growing realization that Obama enticed voters last summer with the flashy lure of discontent. But now that they are hooked, he is reeling them in to an entirely different — and, for many a frightening — agenda. Nothing is worse for a president than a growing belief among the public that it has been had.



Second, Americans were at first merely scared about the growing collective debt. But by June they became outraged that Obama has quadrupled the annual deficit in proposing all sorts of new federal programs at a time when most finally had acknowledged that the U.S. has lived beyond its means for years. They elected Obama, in part, out of anger atGeorge W. Bush
for multi-billion dollar shortfallsand yet as a remedy for that red ink got Obama’s novel multi-trillion-dollar deficits.



Third, many voters really believed in the “no more red/blue state America” healing rhetoric. Instead, polls show they got the most polarizing president in recent history
both in his radical programs and in the manner in which he has demonized the opposition to ram them through without bipartisan support. “Punch back harder” has replaced “Yes, we can.”



Fourth, Americans wanted a new brandyouthful, postracial, mesmerizing abroad. At first they got that, too. But after eight months, their president has proven not so postracial, but instead hyper-racially conscious. Compare the Holder “cowards” outburst, the Sotomayor riff on innate racial and gender judicial superiority, and the president’s Cambridge police comments. All that sounds more like Jesse Jackson than Martin Luther King Jr. Demagogues, not healers, trash their predecessors at the beginning of every speech. When a once-eloquent president now goes off teleprompter, the question is not whether he will say something that is either untruthful or silly, but simply how many times he might do so at one outing. Some once worried that George W. Bush could not articulate our goals in Iraq; far more now sense that Obama is even less able to outline his own health-care reform.



Fifth, even skeptics are surprised at the partisan cynicism. A year ago, Democratic leaders such as Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama praised organizing, dissidents, and protest. Today they have become near-Nixonian in demonizing popular resistance to their collectivized health-care plans as mob-like, inauthentic, scripted, Nazi-like, and un-American. There are still ex-lobbyists in the government. High officials still cheat on their taxes. Hacks in the Congress still profit from their office. The public is sensing not only that Obama has failed to run the most ethically clean government, as promised, but indeed that he is not running as ethically clean a government as the predecessor whom he so assiduously ridiculed.











8/17/2009 8:48:38 AM EDT
[#1]
My advice to Chocolate Jesus -

Don't quit now.  Push harder.  
8/17/2009 8:50:15 AM EDT
[#2]
Hubris. Good answer.
8/17/2009 8:52:03 AM EDT
[#3]
Ha-Ha! I love telling people that voted for oblamma "I told you so"!
8/17/2009 8:53:32 AM EDT
[#4]
Quoted:
My advice to Chocolate Jesus -

Don't quit now.  Push harder.  


"hit them twice as hard"––––

8/17/2009 8:54:02 AM EDT
[#5]
Liberal elites like to fuck themselves



2010
8/17/2009 8:56:29 AM EDT
[#6]
At this rate, 2010 will be a walk in the park.  These dip**** dumbos who tie their careers to zero are fools.  They'll be jumping ship before then, and trying to save their butts despite the zero-in-chief.

HH
8/17/2009 8:58:24 AM EDT
[#7]
Could you please dit out all the board code BS so this can be read without generating a headache?
8/17/2009 8:58:52 AM EDT
[#8]

8/17/2009 8:59:01 AM EDT
[#9]
He's yesterday's super rock star now.

You know, like those guys on Hollywood Squares.
8/17/2009 8:59:57 AM EDT
[#10]
Quoted:
At this rate, 2010 will be a walk in the park.  These dip**** dumbos who tie their careers to zero are fools.  They'll be jumping ship before then, and trying to save their butts despite the zero-in-chief.

HH


They're already jumping ship which is why the Kenyan can't get Obamacare or an AWB through Congress in spite of his party's majority in both houses.

And according to a late breaking article on Yahoo news; he's pushing back immigration "reform" as well.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090817/pl_cq_politics/politics3191976
8/17/2009 9:01:24 AM EDT
[#11]
We will need the MSM to buy into this in a major way and push it nonstop for the random assholes out there to accept it.


Not gonna be easy.


Look how big of a fuckup Clinton was and they STILL love him.
8/17/2009 9:01:33 AM EDT
[#12]




Quoted:

Could you please dit out all the board code BS so this can be read without generating a headache?




Sorry
8/17/2009 9:01:46 AM EDT
[#13]
Quoted:
My advice to Chocolate Jesus -

Don't quit now.  Push harder.  


I'll be happy to help!
8/17/2009 9:02:18 AM EDT
[#14]
I wonder how long till his oversized ego snaps .

8/17/2009 9:03:00 AM EDT
[#15]
Ha Ha fuck you obummer.
8/17/2009 9:03:13 AM EDT
[#16]
Quoted:

Quoted:
Could you please dit out all the board code BS so this can be read without generating a headache?


Sorry


Ahhhhhhh! THAT's better!
8/17/2009 9:03:46 AM EDT
[#17]




Quoted:

I wonder how long till his oversized ego snaps .







Good question...so far, he just blinks and says uhhhh alot. I wanna see a meltdown like he did with stupidly, but more boisterous. He's got to snap at some point.
8/17/2009 9:06:53 AM EDT
[#18]



Quoted:





Quoted:

I wonder how long till his oversized ego snaps .







Good question...so far, he just blinks and says uhhhh alot. I wanna see a meltdown like he did with stupidly, but more boisterous. He's got to snap at some point.


I want to see a full blown meltdown.  Screaming rage, tears and shaking of fists!  May it be so bad that the wookie locks him out of the white house....



 
8/17/2009 9:06:54 AM EDT
[#19]
It's been a long 15 minutes......




8/17/2009 9:08:08 AM EDT
[#20]
Quoted:

Quoted:

Quoted:
I wonder how long till his oversized ego snaps .



Good question...so far, he just blinks and says uhhhh alot. I wanna see a meltdown like he did with stupidly, but more boisterous. He's got to snap at some point.

I want to see a full blown meltdown.  Screaming rage, tears and shaking of fists!  May it be so bad that the wookie locks him out of the white house....
 




I'd pay to see that!

HH
8/17/2009 9:11:04 AM EDT
[#21]
hope his teleprompters go on strike... bet the bastards are union. Let the moron mumble incoherently for a few months - make Biden look like a genius
8/17/2009 9:13:11 AM EDT
[#22]
ohh, somebody hide his smokes too












8/17/2009 9:13:36 AM EDT
[#23]
Quoted:
At this rate, 2010 will be a walk in the park.  These dip**** dumbos who tie their careers to zero are fools.  They'll be jumping ship before then, and trying to save their butts despite the zero-in-chief.

HH


Not going to happen HH.  Acorn will see to it.  I would not be surprised to see if the Dems grab more of a foothold.  Then the shit will truly hit the fan.


Blatant vote rigging is blatant...
8/17/2009 9:14:00 AM EDT
[#24]
Quoted:
Quoted:
At this rate, 2010 will be a walk in the park.  These dip**** dumbos who tie their careers to zero are fools.  They'll be jumping ship before then, and trying to save their butts despite the zero-in-chief.

HH


They're already jumping ship which is why the Kenyan can't get Obamacare or an AWB through Congress in spite of his party's majority in both houses.

And according to a late breaking article on Yahoo news; he's pushing back immigration "reform" as well.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090817/pl_cq_politics/politics3191976


8/17/2009 9:15:29 AM EDT
[#25]
Quoted:
Quoted:
At this rate, 2010 will be a walk in the park.  These dip**** dumbos who tie their careers to zero are fools.  They'll be jumping ship before then, and trying to save their butts despite the zero-in-chief.

HH


Not going to happen HH.  Acorn will see to it.  I would not be surprised to see if the Dems grab more of a foothold.  Then the shit will truly hit the fan.


Blatant vote rigging is blatant...


I hope you're wrong, but I'm not gonna hold my breath, either.

HH
8/17/2009 9:17:16 AM EDT
[#26]
Quoted:
Quoted:
At this rate, 2010 will be a walk in the park.  These dip**** dumbos who tie their careers to zero are fools.  They'll be jumping ship before then, and trying to save their butts despite the zero-in-chief.

HH


They're already jumping ship which is why the Kenyan can't get Obamacare or an AWB through Congress in spite of his party's majority in both houses.

And according to a late breaking article on Yahoo news; he's pushing back immigration "reform" as well.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090817/pl_cq_politics/politics3191976


Good article.  The far left is going to go bonkers as he didn't keep his promises.  Too bad.  

HH
8/17/2009 9:18:19 AM EDT
[#27]
He lied about:



End income tax for seniors making less than $50,000
Allow five days of public comment before signing bills
Tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials
Create a $3,000 tax credit for companies that add jobs
Allow penalty-free hardship withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009
Recognize the Armenian genocide
Negotiate health care reform in public sessions televised on C-SPAN




So far.
8/17/2009 9:19:15 AM EDT
[#28]
Obama's is going down in history as the "Bait and Switch" presidency. His campaign was nothing but a string of lies and deceit. He painted himself as a moderate, a healer and uniter, the "cool guy". Now people are waking up to the fact that he is a far left radical ideologue, a divisive arrogant person with many axes to grind, and a bumbling douche. Quite the cold shower for those stupid enough to have bought what he was selling...
8/17/2009 9:21:14 AM EDT
[#29]
It isn't necessarily "bait and switch" - In the paper today I read about a teacher who's upset that Obama wants to tie student scores to teacher evaluations.  She thought he was going to get rid of No Child Left Behind!  Obviously, she is one of MANY who weren't paying attention.  I've never understood why teachers and their union supported him - he's been in support of charter schools, testing, and pay for performance since the beginning.  All of which are opposite what most teachers want.  What did they think they were getting??  He was clear about what he was going to do - a lot of people ignored what he said and superimpossed their desires and fantasies on top of him.
8/17/2009 9:22:22 AM EDT
[#30]



Quoted:


In the paper today I read about a teacher who's upset that Obama wants to tie student scores to teacher evaluations.  She thought he was going to get rid of No Child Left Behind!  Obviously, she is one of MANY who weren't paying attention.  I've never understood why teachers and their union supported him - he's been in support of charter schools, testing, and pay for performance since the beginning.  All of which are opposite what most teachers want.  What did they think they were getting??


Teachers union is blatantly liberal, and will ALWAYS vote and spend on the liberal candidate.  

 
8/17/2009 9:23:45 AM EDT
[#31]
the condom broke on that one...
8/17/2009 9:23:48 AM EDT
[#32]
Quoted:
Obama's is going down in history as the "Bait and Switch" presidency. His campaign was nothing but a string of lies and deceit. He painted himself as a moderate, a healer and uniter, the "cool guy". Now people are waking up to the fact that he is a far left radical ideologue, a divisive arrogant person with many axes to grind, and a bumbling douche. Quite the cold shower for those stupid enough to have bought what he was selling...


>>>>GOLF CLAP<<<<

HH
8/17/2009 9:30:07 AM EDT
[#33]

You missed 6-10:

Sixth, there is a growing fear that Obamism is becoming cult-like and Orwellian. Almost on script, Hollywood ceased all its Rendition/Redacted–style films. Iraq — once the new Vietnam — is out of the news. Afghanistan is “problematic,” not a “blunder.” Tribunals, renditions, the Patriot Act, and Predators are no longer proof of a Seven Days in May coup, but legitimate tools to keep us safe. Words change meanings as acts of terror become “man-caused disasters.” Hunting down jihadists is really an “overseas contingency operation.” Media sycophants do not merely parrot Obama, but now proclaim him a “god.” New York Times columnists who once assured us that Bush’s dastardly behavior was proof of American pathology now sound like Pravda apologists in explaining the “real” Obama is not what he is beginning to seem like.

Seventh, the Obama cabinet is sounding downright uncouth and boorish. The tax-challenged Treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, unleashed a profanity-laced diatribe against bank regulators. Hillary Clinton’s recent outburst in the Congo, captured on YouTube, was something out of Days of Our Lives. Joe Biden cannot speak extemporaneously without causing an incident with the Russians or misleading the public about swine flu. Attorney General Holder sounds like a tired scold, only to be overshadowed by the president’s off-the-cuff cuts about the Special Olympics, Las Vegas, and the Cambridge police. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs makes Scott McClellan sound like a Cicero by comparison.

Eighth, we were all appalled by Wall Street greed and the notion that an individual could take $100 million rather than one or two million as a bonus. But the Obama remedy for that obscenity was to conflate Goldman Sachs or AIG with the family orthodontist or local asphalt contractor whose 80-hour weeks might result in an annual $250,000 income. Worse still, the public impression is that while small entrepreneurs may pay up to 65 percent of their income in new state and federal income taxes, payroll taxes, and surcharges, those on Wall Street have been bailed out and have cut various deals with upscale liberals in government.

Ninth, Democratic populism turned out to be largely aristocratic elitism. Obama spends more money on himself than did Bush. The liberal Congress has a strange fondness for pricy private jets. Those environmentalists and racialists who lecture us about our ecological and ethical shortcomings prefer Martha’s Vineyard and country estates to Dayton and Bakersfield. Offering left-wing populist sermonizing for others while enjoying the high life oneself is never a winning combination.

Tenth, Americans no longer believe this is our moment when the seas stop rising and the planet ceases warming. Instead, there is a growing hopelessness that despite all the new proposed income taxes, payroll taxes, and surtaxes, the deficit will skyrocket, not shrink. There is foreboding that while apologies abroad are nice in the short term, they will soon earn a reckoning. And while the productive classes pay more of their income, and while government grows and entitlement expands, there is a sense that what follows will not be thanks for either taxes paid or benefits received, but even more anger that neither is enough and that much more is owed.

Obama’s popularity might rebound with a natural upturn in the economy, continued low energy prices, and good will for our first multiracial president. But then again, it could get even worse if the recovery turns into stagflation, gas prices soar, and the identity-politics lectures amplify. The next six months should be interesting.

8/17/2009 9:33:08 AM EDT
[#34]
Quoted:
Obama's is going down in history as the "Bait and Switch" presidency. His campaign was nothing but a string of lies and deceit. He painted himself as a moderate, a healer and uniter, the "cool guy". Now people are waking up to the fact that he is a far left radical ideologue, a divisive arrogant person with many axes to grind, and a bumbling douche. Quite the cold shower for those stupid enough to have bought what he was selling...


He actually has zero in the way of ideology.

He is a pure narcissist who happened to get on board the radical left ideological train to fame.

His only belief system is in his own ego.

He could have just as easily become a tent evangelist, actor, or used car salesman.  

8/17/2009 9:34:26 AM EDT
[#35]
Ron Paul lost is what went wrong...
8/17/2009 9:35:04 AM EDT
[#36]
Quoted:
Obama's is going down in history as the "Bait and Switch" presidency. His campaign was nothing but a string of lies and deceit. He painted himself as a moderate, a healer and uniter, the "cool guy". Now people are waking up to the fact that he is a far left radical ideologue, a divisive arrogant person with many axes to grind, and a bumbling douche. Quite the cold shower for those stupid enough to have bought what he was selling...


Boy, I wish there was someway to know what he was like before the election.

 Dumbasses

8/17/2009 9:36:51 AM EDT
[#37]
I blame the MSM for this shit and hope the backlash spills over onto them as well. I watched obama all through the campadign and knew he was full of shit, yet the lib media slobbered all over him and refused  ask any  intelligent or thought provoking questions regarding his "plan". Any skilled interviewer could have exposed him but instead they spent all their time smearing the opposing VP candidate. Their viewer numbers are tanking and I hope they go bust. I'm sure they will get a bailout though...
8/17/2009 9:38:18 AM EDT
[#38]




Quoted:

He's yesterday's super rock star now.



You know, like those guys on Hollywood Squares.




I was going to write some long winded post buy you just summed it up nicely.

8/17/2009 9:42:23 AM EDT
[#39]
Hope and Change turned out to be Hype and Chains after the luster wore off.  America decided we didn't want his form of national socialism.
8/17/2009 9:47:50 AM EDT
[#40]
I'd like to print a million "NEVER AGAIN" bumper stickers, but it'd be taken the wrong way since Socialism is the new "N" word.
8/17/2009 9:48:03 AM EDT
[#41]





Quoted:



I blame the MSM for this shit and hope the backlash spills over onto them as well. I watched obama all through the campaign and knew he was full of shit, yet the lib media slobbered all over him and refused  ask any  intelligent or thought provoking questions regarding his "plan". Any skilled interviewer could have exposed him but instead they spent all their time smearing the opposing VP candidate. Their viewer numbers are tanking and I hope they go bust. I'm sure they will get a bailout though...



As do I. They are the guilty party with the biggest blame in bringing that Trojan Horse O' Fail to the White House. They are so compromised now that they will never get their credibility back, ever. And as such, I would shed no tear at the guilty parties' immediate dismantling. What we have now is free  subversion for the leftist scum and that is a dangerous thing. As evidenced by November 4th, 2008. How do we fix it? I don't know. But we better do something.







 
8/17/2009 10:06:03 AM EDT
[#42]
What happened to the Clinton Brothers happened to Bush, and is now happening to Obama.

A party gets control of both houses of Congress and the White House and they get all cocky.  It pisses people off, and the jackasses in D.C. pay.  It's just happening a lot faster this time.
8/17/2009 10:11:57 AM EDT
[#44]




Quoted:



Quoted:

Obama's is going down in history as the "Bait and Switch" presidency. His campaign was nothing but a string of lies and deceit. He painted himself as a moderate, a healer and uniter, the "cool guy". Now people are waking up to the fact that he is a far left radical ideologue, a divisive arrogant person with many axes to grind, and a bumbling douche. Quite the cold shower for those stupid enough to have bought what he was selling...





He actually has zero in the way of ideology.



He is a pure narcissist who happened to get on board the radical left ideological train to fame.



His only belief system is in his own ego.



He could have just as easily become a tent evangelist, actor, or used car salesman.







I agree, he was talking to Veterans today, like he stormed the beaches of Normandy. He acts like he is an expert on any and every subject. Amazing to watch him spin his lies. I bet he was hoot to hear when he was a kid. "My Daddy was a war hero and is now a Secret Agent and he beat the Japanese single handedly!"
8/17/2009 11:27:02 AM EDT
[#45]
Quoted:

Look how big of a fuckup Clinton was and they STILL love him.


Only because he was able to stand on Bill Gates Shoulders.  Some people are not intelligent to realize we had a huge boom in technology and the world wanted to keep up with us.  We had something to sell.  Now they know how to steal it all.
8/17/2009 11:48:17 AM EDT
[#46]
Quoted:

Quoted:
Quoted:
Obama's is going down in history as the "Bait and Switch" presidency. His campaign was nothing but a string of lies and deceit. He painted himself as a moderate, a healer and uniter, the "cool guy". Now people are waking up to the fact that he is a far left radical ideologue, a divisive arrogant person with many axes to grind, and a bumbling douche. Quite the cold shower for those stupid enough to have bought what he was selling...


He actually has zero in the way of ideology.

He is a pure narcissist who happened to get on board the radical left ideological train to fame.

His only belief system is in his own ego.

He could have just as easily become a tent evangelist, actor, or used car salesman.



I agree, he was talking to Veterans today, like he stormed the beaches of Normandy. He acts like he is an expert on any and every subject. Amazing to watch him spin his lies. I bet he was hoot to hear when he was a kid. "My Daddy was a war hero and is now a Secret Agent and he beat the Japanese single handedly!"



Dude, you got that completely wrong.  Let me see if I can "enlighten" you.  It should be:  My daddy was a jihadist, and slew hundreds of infidels.  He now lives in a mud hut with 4 concubines.
8/17/2009 11:48:18 AM EDT
[#47]
Quoted:
My advice to Chocolate Jesus -

Don't quit now.  Push harder.  


Please God, please make him push harder !!!

Seriously, this fucker is only backing off to quiet us down.

Rush said today that we are going to have to keep fighting and protesting the FedGov for the rest of our lives...and I tend to believe it.
8/17/2009 12:07:46 PM EDT
[#48]





Quoted:



Obama's is going down in history as the "Bait and Switch" presidency. His campaign was nothing but a string of lies and deceit. He painted himself as a moderate, a healer and uniter, the "cool guy". Now people are waking up to the fact that he is a far left radical ideologue, a divisive arrogant person with many axes to grind, and a bumbling douche. Quite the cold shower for those stupid enough to have bought what he was selling...





As I've said for well over a year... he's a shit salesman with a mouthful of samples, as well as a Marxist and, an economic terrorist.
 
 
8/17/2009 12:09:01 PM EDT
[#49]

By Victor Davis Hanson


You have my COMPLETE attention.......
8/17/2009 12:22:34 PM EDT
[#50]
Quoted:
Quoted:
My advice to Chocolate Jesus -

Don't quit now.  Push harder.  


Please God, please make him push harder !!!

Seriously, this fucker is only backing off to quiet us down.

Rush said today that we are going to have to keep fighting and protesting the FedGov for the rest of our lives...and I tend to believe it.




You will get your wish, because I believe he isn't really backing off anything. He is too arrogant to stop now. Their talking now of health insurance coops
that will be seeded by the Gov't instead of the public option. They claim the Govt will not be running it, but I don't buy that for one second.
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