"What if Obama can't lead?" :o

[OCinBuffalo]

http://www.nationalj...t-lead-20130731

 

Now this is just hilarious. It's an idiot's attempt at introspection. I say idiot, because the obvious eludes this guy, over and over. He's just stumbling around, because he's finally obtaining some clarity on Obama. It's a very emotional and personal time for him, and I probably should be more sensitive to what he is going through.

 

F that. Let's exploit the lack of logic, just like always! The best part is this guy is really trying to be critical of Obama, but because he can't actually be critical of what Obama represents, or more importantly his own errors, that created Obama, he fails miserably.

 

First, idiot premise:

In Obama's case, the modern GOP is an obstructionist, rudderless party often held hostage by extremists.

Yeah...that attitude and conclusion? Nothing wrong there at all right, clown?

 

I've used that sort of crappy, but more importantly, lazy approach to dealing with contentious, or just straight up out to get me, VPs to great effect. Yeah, just go into the conferece room and call them names, and even better, reduce their position to a caricature, without the slightest consideration that some in the room/audience might actually consider some or all of that position to have merit. A fine example of how to lead the meeting right there. I guess leading by example isn't an approach here?

 

And, given this attitude, they wonder why the Republicans refuse to deal with them? There is no point in dignifying this attitude or behavior with your presence. You just leave the meeting.

 

So, for those keeping score? The Leadership FAIL starts right here, with this attitude, that both Obama and this clown share.

 

Moving on, idiot construct:

the modern GOP is less willing than Democrats to compromise

Yet, the clown says, only 4 sentences earlier

sophisticated redistricting that has helped create a polarized Congress packed with lawmakers with no incentive to compromise

And reading comprehension here is a problem? This guy doesn't even read or comprehend what he wrote, in the same damn paragraph!

 

Apparently redistricting is only making the GOP less willing to compromise? Does this clown have amnesia? Who said "Republicans can come along for the ride, but they have to get in the back"? Who said "we are here to rule"? Who shut the Republicans out completely from the the design of Obamacare? Who used gimmicks and payoffs and corruption to get Obamacare passed?

 

So, again, when you can't see things clearly, you miss the root cause. Republicans aren't unwilling to compromise. Republicans are fighting against bad policy, and since you clowns shut them out of it, and everything else for 2 years, they have no reason to work with you, to fix the bad policy, because none of their skin is in the game! What is there to compromise on? When you own 100% of the solution, you own 100% of the issues with it. The only compromise going forward is: you have to give some the 100% away. WTF else is there?

 

Fundamental error in Leadership causing FAIL #2. If you don't obtain commitment from all parties with interest in the issue at hand, any of them can run away from your solution at any time, leaving you holding the bag, and no consequences for them. Even a rookie consultant knows this one, or, they learn it pretty quick, the first time it costs them their weekend.

 

And finally this takes the cake:

3. The outsize attention given to the president gives him unparalleled advantages. Obama can make better use of it. He could talk to the media and the public more often with a more compelling and sustained message. He could build enduring relationships in Washington rather than being so blatantly transactional with his time. He could work harder, and with more empathy, on Capitol Hill to find "win-win" opportunities with Republicans. He could make better use of his Cabinet to message and enact policies. In private, he could talk less and listen more. In public, he could set reasonable expectations and meet them. He could pick his fights better. In hindsight, Obama should have gotten much more out of Congress when Democrats controlled both chambers.

The clown here exposes his real thoughts with what is bolded. So much for "compromise with Republicans", huh? He spells out accurate criticism, but then, catches himself and marches straight back into the "tyranny is OK, because it's our tyranny" mindset.

 

And, does anybody really think it's the messenger, and not the message, at this point?

 

Only a fool would advise Obama, to go out and make another speech, rather than going in, to his desk and finally getting to work, on the phone, begging, yes, begging Congress to give him another chance. Again I ask, when this guy has treated Congress so badly, what incentive do they have to work with him, either party, today?

 

 

The best part of all?

 

This guy accepts exactly 0 of the blame. 0. Did he actually making an honest attempt at ascertaining Obama's actual leadership ability BEFORE he and the rest of liberal media back stabbed Hillary and annointed Obama the Lord and Savior? Hell no.

 

That's the most hilarious part of this, which is why it's the best: Introspection, real instrospection, starts with: "What could I have done differently, and how did I contribute to the problem?

 

This guy has no clue, I can't even give him credit, because he doesn't even know where to begin.

[B-Man]

Two more articles regarding Mr. Obama's lack of administrative skills.

 

 

James Risen, the First Amendment, Congress, and the Emperor Hussein.

 

FTA:

From the moment he invented the Office of the President-Elect, Obama signaled that his would be a different kind of presidency, one solely dedicated to him and his wishes. (Would we even have noticed if Mitt Romney had become president? He would have been the most invisible resident of the White House since Silent Cal.) America was at last to be “fundamentally transformed,” delivered from its “charter of negative liberties” and brought into the sunny uplands of the Progressive vision of My Way or the Highway. For his vice-president, Obama chose the risible plagiarist Joe Biden, perhaps (only “perhaps” because the competition is so fierce) the stupidest man in the Senate, and very likely the only fellow member who had even less intellectual firepower and record of accomplishment than Obama did.

 

{snip}

 

On the other side, of course, are the Democrats, who have entirely purged their party of its Scoop Jackson moderates to become the party of ever-bigger government, forever expanding the tentacles of the Leviathan State. Paradoxically, the GOP has become their biggest and most important ally, dutifully still playing by the old rules, until today it can truly be said that we have a Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Government, of which Hussein is the head.

 

Most Americans in flyover country aren’t obsessed with politics the way their blue-state brethren are, and don’t make politics their life’s work. They’re the Makers, not the Takers, and it never occurs to them that a sizable part of the country, perhaps now a majority, from the president on down, is devoted to plundering the productive class. That’s the real meaning of “fundamental transformation,” and if Barack Obama succeeds in effecting it, he’ll go down in history as the most successful president in American history

 

 

 

and

 

 

Shocker: Obama was ‘rude and dismissive’ in exchange with Democrat.

 

“During a question and answer session Wednesday with Democrats on Capitol Hill, President Barack Obama offered what Democratic sources said was a testy response to a question about a federal loan guarantee program, with one source in the room calling it ‘rude and dismissive.’” I’m inclined to believe that, since that’s his style whenever he’s challenged.

[B-Man]

[DC Tom]

 

Okay, that IS funny.

[OCinBuffalo]

Two more articles regarding Mr. Obama's lack of administrative skills.

 

And therefore, again, I ask: what incentive do members of Congress have, in either party, to work with Obama today?

[....lybob]

And therefore, again, I ask: what incentive do members of Congress have, in either party, to work with Obama today?

Well I would think poll numbers like this ]http://www.ibtimes.com/congress-approval-rating-all-time-low-obamas-lowest-2011-1360879 could be an incentive for some but it hasn't motivated them so far.

[OCinBuffalo]

Well I would think poll numbers like this ]http://www.ibtimes.c...st-2011-1360879 could be an incentive for some but it hasn't motivated them so far.

...lybob...are you trying to use data and/or #s to make a point, and not a dopey youtube video, or something you just made up?

 

I am proud of you. All this time I never thought you had it in you.

 

Gold star for the attempt at real thinking this time. Now let's correct it: Congressional Approval rating IS very low. But if you'll see here: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional_job_approval-903.html it's been low for quite some time. In fact, if you look at the chart objectively, you can see that the goodwill that both the Democratic Congress elected in 2008 and Obama enjoyed...has been squandered. But, even at its highest point = Mar 15 2009? It was only at 37%. In fact, it only took them ~1 year to drive it back down to below what it was when they took office = Feb 13, 2010.

 

The simple reason for that? Obamacare. This was the time when the Obamacare law was being gimmicked, pandered, and corrupted into law. People don't approve of the branch of government that gave us Obamacare, and they will not, until it is gone. Period.

 

If I am a member of Congress, and I've been re-elected multiple times since 2008, on either side, given the #s shown over time, not at a point in time, I ask you ...lybob: why should I care about the body's approval rating? It hasn't meant a thing for me.

 

Now that the 2010 election's consequences are clear, even to the dumbest of liberals, they realize that attacking Congress? Means very little in the end.

 

So, no, approval rating, especially at this point in time, means literally nothing, and therefore, no, it is not an incentive to work with Obama.

 

Nice effort though.

[....lybob]

...lybob...are you trying to use data and/or #s to make a point, and not a dopey youtube video, or something you just made up?

 

I am proud of you. All this time I never thought you had it in you.

 

Gold star for the attempt at real thinking this time. Now let's correct it: Congressional Approval rating IS very low. But if you'll see here: http://www.realclear...proval-903.html it's been low for quite some time. In fact, if you look at the chart objectively, you can see that the goodwill that both the Democratic Congress elected in 2008 and Obama enjoyed...has been squandered. But, even at its highest point = Mar 15 2009? It was only at 37%. In fact, it only took them ~1 year to drive it back down to below what it was when they took office = Feb 13, 2010.

 

The simple reason for that? Obamacare. This was the time when the Obamacare law was being gimmicked, pandered, and corrupted into law. People don't approve of the branch of government that gave us Obamacare, and they will not, until it is gone. Period.

 

If I am a member of Congress, and I've been re-elected multiple times since 2008, on either side, given the #s shown over time, not at a point in time, I ask you ...lybob: why should I care about the body's approval rating? It hasn't meant a thing for me.

 

Now that the 2010 election's consequences are clear, even to the dumbest of liberals, they realize that attacking Congress? Means very little in the end.

 

So, no, approval rating, especially at this point in time, means literally nothing, and therefore, no, it is not an incentive to work with Obama.

 

Nice effort though.

I guess we will see as the 2014 elections get closer - just about every weak Republican will be facing a primary challenger, establishment Republicans will face Tea partiers and Vice-versa, it will be interesting.

[B-Man]

 

 

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Obama Who?

Critics of the president are convinced that Barack Obama will do lasting damage to the U.S. I doubt it.

 

Obama came to power in the third year of large Democratic congressional majorities. In his first referendum, he lost the House and may soon lose the Senate; in other words, there followed a somewhat normal reaction against a majority party. Obama’s popularity rating is well below 50%, despite an obsequious media, and a brilliantly negative billion-dollar campaign that long ago turned Mitt Romney into a veritable elevator-using, equestrian-marrying, canine-hating monster.

 

In the second term, there is little of the Obama bully pulpit left. “

Make no mistake about it

” and “

let me be perfectly clear”

can incur caricature, not fainting.

“Really,” “I’m not kidding,” “I’m serious,” “in point of fact,” and “I’m not making this up

” often prove rhetoric hints that the opposite is true. When Obama warns about gridlock in Washington, the “same old tired politics,” the dangers of a tyrant or king in the White House, the need for an honest IRS, or the perils of government surveillance, these admonitions have tragically become a psychological tic to warn us about himself. Former jokes about siccing the IRS on his enemies, or using Predator drones to go after suitors of his daughters are as eerie as comedic. . . .

 

Americans are always up for a good class war. Obama gave them one, with all the talk of the “one percent”, “millionaires and billionaires”, and the “pay your fair share” boilerplate. But to be a good class warrior also requires the pretense of populism. Ralph Nader and Dennis Kucinich were at least not habitués of Martha’s Vineyard, did not make second homes out of tony golf courses, did not have the family jetting to Aspen and Costa del Sol to take time off with those who forgot when to quit their profiting. How can a president so rail at the 1% and yet so wish to play, vacation, and be among those who didn’t build their wealth?

 

The president’s signature achievement? He has established a precedent that the president can play all the golf he wishes without being caricatured as a distracted would-be aristocrat.

 

Jimmy Carter’s four years had short-term consequences — almost all negative — but little long-term damage. Obama’s eight years in theory should have far more lasting ramifications, given the huge debt, radical appointees, job-killing regulations, and dismal economy of the last five years. Yet we are learning that he is proving even a more inconsequential figure than was Carter. And so likewise in years to come, even his true believers will talk more of an iconic Barack Obama before and after he was president — but rarely during.

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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Obama Who?

 

 

Jimmy Carter’s four years had short-term consequences — almost all negative — but little long-term damage. Obama’s eight years in theory should have far more lasting ramifications, given the huge debt, radical appointees, job-killing regulations, and dismal economy of the last five years. Yet we are learning that he is proving even a more inconsequential figure than was Carter. And so likewise in years to come, even his true believers will talk more of an iconic Barack Obama before and after he was president — but rarely during.

 

 

Obama's 8 years will have long lasting serious ramifications.

 

He has set a dangerous precedent by picking and choosing which laws to enforce and which to ignore. How would Democrats feel if a President Santorum wielded the same authority?

 

His golf outings and vacations are good for jokes, but seriously all we have done is elect a corporate spokesman. The entrenched Federal bureaucracy are the ones running the show. At least every 4 years we get to elect a new talking head. The bureaucracy on the other hand has become a 4th branch of government accountable to nobody.

 

The expansion of Food Stamps, EBT, SNAP, SSDI, etc is creating an ever increasing underclass dependent upon the system run by the Federal bureaucracy. Which in turn cedes more authority over to this unaccountable 4th branch.

[B-Man]

Russia and China know that he can't lead................

 

 

 

 

 

During the 2012 campaign, Obama mocked Mitt Romney’s statement that Russia was our greatest geopolitical threat.

 

In classic Obama style, he played a linguistic slight of hand, failing to distinguish “geopolitical” threat from other threats.

Obama’s canned sound bite zinger of the debate was “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years”

 

Romney did respond with the distinction about geopolitical threats, but such nuance was not sound-bite worthy unlike Obama’s dig.

 

Look who’s the fool now .

 

In a rare diplomatic rebuke, President Barack Obama on Wednesday canceled his Moscow summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

 

The decision reflected both U.S. anger over Russia’s harboring of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and growing frustration within the Obama administration over what it sees as Moscow’s stubbornness on other key issues, including missile defense and human rights.

 

Obama will still attend the Group of 20 economic summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, but a top White House official said the president had no plans to hold one-on-one talks with Putin while there. Instead of visiting Putin in Moscow, the president will add a stop in Sweden to his early September travel itinerary.

 

 

 

http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/08/the-cold-war-is-now-calling-to-ask-for-the-2012-election-back/

[DC Tom]

Russia and China know that he can't lead................

 

 

 

 

 

During the 2012 campaign, Obama mocked Mitt Romney’s statement that Russia was our greatest geopolitical threat.

 

In classic Obama style, he played a linguistic slight of hand, failing to distinguish “geopolitical” threat from other threats.

Obama’s canned sound bite zinger of the debate was “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years”

 

Romney did respond with the distinction about geopolitical threats, but such nuance was not sound-bite worthy unlike Obama’s dig.

 

Look who’s the fool now .

 

In a rare diplomatic rebuke, President Barack Obama on Wednesday canceled his Moscow summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

 

The decision reflected both U.S. anger over Russia’s harboring of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and growing frustration within the Obama administration over what it sees as Moscow’s stubbornness on other key issues, including missile defense and human rights.

 

Obama will still attend the Group of 20 economic summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, but a top White House official said the president had no plans to hold one-on-one talks with Putin while there. Instead of visiting Putin in Moscow, the president will add a stop in Sweden to his early September travel itinerary.

 

 

 

http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/08/the-cold-war-is-now-calling-to-ask-for-the-2012-election-back/

 

How's that reset button doing now?

[OCinBuffalo]

How's that reset button doing now?

Yes, in the midst of every other way Obama has F'ed up, "the reset button" = is like classic rock.

 

The original liberal grievance against Bush was "he's lowered us in the rest of the world's eyes"...and that Obama was going to come in and right the ship. (Of course, no mention of HOW exactly Obama was going to do that)

 

That grievance, if we are being HONEST, is just as valid for Obama as it ever was for Bush. The question is: will the clowns own up to it? Or, will they keep lying to themselves about it? At least with Bush, everybody knew where they stood, and where the line was.

 

With Obama, why shouldn't both Russia and China keep pushing? There hasn't been anything close to a line from this WH. They are doing a hell of a job enforcing the stereotype that far-left Democrats are weakness personified.

 

Confirmation of this: John Kerry, the moderate Democrat(if you believe his Prez campaign), gets the job, and in months does 2x more than Hillary even approached talking about.

 

My fear? The wild punch Obama throws when, after months of getting his ass kicked on foreign policy, misses our adversaries and hits our allies.

[GG]

 

 

How's that reset button doing now?

Did I read that a senior administration official said that Russia needs to know they can't push the United States around?

[Keukasmallies]

At least the guy deserves credit for finishing off al queada...er, al franken..um maybe al sharpton....well, one of those al's... I think.

[B-Man]

Dems get free passes. That´s just the way it is in this land of 57 states.

 

 

 

 

 

ABC, CBS and NBC Overlook Obama's Gaffe-tastic Performance on Leno

By: Geoffrey Dickens

 

Barack Obama delivered one gaffe after another in his August 6 interview with Jay Leno, but the networks that usually mock every mistake or slip of the tongue made by Republicans ignored the President's verbal mishaps.

 

ABC's Good Morning America, CBS's This Morning and NBC's Today show, on Wednesday morning, all bypassed the chance to criticize Obama for: downplaying the threat of terrorism; falsely claiming Vladimir Putin once ran the KGB; placing the Atlantic coast cities of Savannah, Charleston and Jacksonville on the Gulf of Mexico; confusing the Winter Olympics with the Summer Olympics. (video at the link)

 

 

 

 

 

Read more: http://newsbusters.o...o#ixzz2bOPvuFiN

[LeviF]

"What if OCinBuffalo still hasn't figured out thread tags?"

[DC Tom]

confusing the Winter Olympics with the Summer Olympics. (video at the link)

 

That wasn't a gaffe. That's because of global warming.

[B-Man]

How's that reset button doing now?

 

Here you go sir......................

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[OCinBuffalo]

"What if OCinBuffalo still hasn't figured out thread tags?"

 

Do you really think #Why things that suck are: bad, and, #Not my fault, aren't useful as tags? They are reusable and they are distinct, are they not? How many posts/threads could we tag with them? Hell, you could even make a case for #Introspection over.

 

How about I use #TheScarfMakesTheGirl from now on? That would be perfect for you.

 

Ok...ok...I will come clean. I miss the second subject line.