Posted: 18 Mar 2009 06:29 PM PDT
Not so long after castigating Senator McCain for saying that the fundamentals of the economy were okay and Governor Palin for trying to talk to the people, past the press-- Obama encouraged decided to talk to the people and past the press, by going on Leno. But then of course originality had never been Obama's strong point. With catchy slogans and book titles raided from everyone from Jeremiah Wright to Alice Walker, and a stylized portrait stolen from an AP photograph, Obama stumbled first to fame and then to power. Two months in and it's painfully obvious even to the press that Obama is a failure. The double standard that kept him going this long required an endless propaganda loop and infinite second chances. It demanded that the public think the best of Obama and the worst of his opponents. So when Obama talked about visiting 57 states, it was written off as a meaningless gaffe, but when Palin talked about seeing Alaska from her house, it was transformed into an ongoing taunt. And now thanks to the wonders of the teleprompter and carefully screened questions from the press, we have a man in the White House who might be more incompetent than he is corrupt, or more corrupt than he is incompetent. With the economy stumbling further, stock in incompetence is rising, even while no other stock is. There's no question about it, the paint is flaking, the antenna is bent and the wheels are coming off. To increasing numbers of Americans who did vote him, Obama is a nice guy who's completely out of his depth. A year in, the assessment is likely to be far worse. Obama's national socialist agenda of bailouts and nationalization funded by deficit spending have produced a strong public backlash. And Obama and fellow Senate Democrats like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, who were heavily in bed with the same industries they were supposed to be watching over, are making a public show of outrage. Dodd and Obama, respectively the number 1 and number 2 recipients of contributions from AIG, are busy pretending to be outraged by AIG's bonuses. Channeling Casablanca's Captain Renault, the epitome of civic hypocrisy, they proclaim, "We are shocked that there are bonuses exempt executive bonuses, and as if Obama didn't sign a bill with that amendment in it. Once again corruption and incompetence go at it, and corruption wins, followed by an incompetent coverup. But the public doesn't care about the coverup, or about the crime, so long as the people they elect solve the crisis they elected them to solve. The media's scaremongering helped topple the Wall Street house of cards, and expose the corruption that Democrats themselves had promoted, from sub prime mortgages to pyramid schemes by their own major contributors. The media didn't stop spinning though until Obama, who had been closely tied to sub prime mortgages and was involved in a major real estate scandal that would ultimately help topple Governor Blagojevich, was in the White House. But now Obama is in the White House and after passing a major stimulus package heavy on the pork that did nothing for the economy. After touting Caterpillar as an example of a company that would hire again, only to have Caterpillar turn around and fire over 2000 employees. After his own tax hikes are causing companies to flee the US and after his bailouts have elicited public outrage, Obama is still spinning frantically. The Two Minute Hate campaign targeted first at Limbaugh, then at Wall Street commentators who questioned his tactics, and finally the Republican party as a whole-- crashed and burned despite media enthusiasm. The public as it turned out didn't care about Rush Limbaugh, and were not prepared to blame him for Obama's failures. Aside from the core of hard left wing activists, the American people were not interested in playing Obama's blame game. They just wanted results. Heading to Leno to promote his economic plan, something no sitting President had ever done, Obama was once again falling back on his same old "like me, believe in me" spiel that had gotten him this far. But if a pity vote had helped get him elected, too many Americans have no pity to spare for the man whose wife boasts that the great thing about living in the White House is that when something breaks, right away it's replaced. Not when they're working two jobs to make ends meet. Obama's economic plans are a failure. He did as his advisers advised, he seized the crisis, and the resulting pigfest at the mud pit revolted even many of his own supporters. Meanwhile more quietly, he was a failure abroad. Brown's trip was a failure and an insult, whether calculated or not calculated. Europeans who had formerly been hopeful about Obama's victory, were turning cynical even in an article in the pages of the Obama boosting Time Magazine. Tariff wars are suddenly a possibility, with Mexico first in line. Meanwhile Russia was laughing at the inability of America's entire State Department to spell even one Russian word correctly-- even as Russia was pushing to create bases in the Western Hemisphere. In the Middle East things were even worse. While Obama and his trolls were busy snubbing Israel, they also managed to snub virtually every American ally in the Muslim world. Amir Taheri lays out the disaster that Obama and his people have touched off better than anyone else could.
If you want it all boiled down, Obama has managed to do more damage to foreign policy in barely two months, than Bush had in 8 years. Obama's "Eyes Only for Iran" foreign policy has raised Iran's stature and power tenfold. Power Iran will use against the United States, even as we will find ourselves without any allies left. Corruption or radical anti-americanism, the diagnosis may differ, but the end result is the same. Week after week, the Messiah has turned in one failure after another. Unable to even assemble a full cabinet, with nominee after nominee falling away due to tax problems, his failure is swiftly becoming a fact. While Republicans may be taking an outward beating, partly due to incompetent leadership from Michael Steele, we only need to hang on through the storm. A storm that will have Obama in the center of it regardless of what he does. Now the first major anti-war rally is being planned and it specifically targets Obama, while we can expect the press to ignore it, it will begin hardening the break with many of Obama's old allies, even as he's running low on new ones. Obama has a Democratic congress, which means he also has all the rope he needs to hang himself with. The backlash against his policies is already beginning, and the Messiah looks more hapless than ever as the greasepaint and sweat begins to run down his face. There's nothing to be done about it. The Messiah is melting.  |
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