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

[DC Tom]

It’s all about him. Every. Single. Time.

 

 

 

"Oh, JFK was assassinated 50 years ago today? Let's take a pic of me with him in it somewhere and tweet it."- WH

 

Because nothing says "Honor JFK" like gazing at the back of Barack Obama's head gazing up at JFK

 

The faux-spontaneity of the shot would be hilarious if it weren't so blatantly patronizing.

[Joe Miner]

It’s all about him. Every. Single. Time.

 

 

 

"Oh, JFK was assassinated 50 years ago today? Let's take a pic of me with him in it somewhere and tweet it."- WH

 

Because nothing says "Honor JFK" like gazing at the back of Barack Obama's head gazing up at JFK

 

Apparently Obama even makes JFK hang his head.

[OCinBuffalo]

The title of this thread bothers me. It gives him credit for the possibility that he has leadership skills. It has never been in doubt that he has the leadership abilities of a lemming.

The title of this thread wasn't mine. It's the title of the article. The article was supposed to be about a liberal columnist, who used to be a "journalist" coming to terms with the fact that he never actually processed candidate Obama: as a viable President. He wished for it all to be true...and so it was.

 

The hilarious part: the man, even though he subconsciously knows he's empirically wrong, still goes out of his way to defend his wish, and there goes the article. It's like watching a fly struggle in a web, but there is no spider. The fly made the web, and the way out is clear: but, he doesn't choose it. Instead he keeps struggling into the web, making it worse.

 

Consider:

It's the same thing that happened with ESPN and Mark Sanchez. ESPN's "fan based" approach used to be a strength. But, now it sucks, because the writer's and analyst's cubes in the back rooms, are all dominated by Jets fans. That's how you get skewed coverage. That's how Mark Sanchez vs. Tony Romo on Monday Night Football gets touted as a "QB battle for the ages"....and ends up being laughable.

 

That's how our offense can go put up 20 non-turnover points on the Jets defense, and nobody says a word on live TV. Not on Monday either. 20-14, the Bills still win, and that's if you include the 7 the Jets got from Moorman's grubby kick, or whatever that was.

 

Rather than doing their jobs, and maintaining the integrity of those jobs, which supposedly entitles them to "access" and asking the tough questions?

 

They look at their jobs as though they are merely selling influence. And, whoever coddles them, and their personal wishes, the most gets the best treatment.

 

The writer of the article, if he wasn't then, has now been confronted with the empirical evidence that says his wishes aren't real. Just like the Jet fan boi who works at ESPN, he was rooting for his "team" when he said Sanchez was the next Brady. This guy gets confounded by Obamacare, fan boi? Buttfumble.

 

The point is: You aren't going to get a Jet fan to stop being a Jet fan, and you aren't going to get a liberal to stop being a liberal.

 

The solution is: stop pretending these people are the source of "news". Start understanding that these people are the source of "analysis", and that they aren't entitled to the terms "expert", or "expert opinion". They'd have to be objective and know something, for those terms to apply. They aren't ever going to be.

 

The real solution is: we need more balance of perspective, both in the media, and at ESPN. If you have all stripes of "fan" then you don't have groupthink.

 

It always amazes me that: for people who love "diversity", they refuse to diversify their own place of business.

Edited November 23, 2013 by OCinBuffalo

[B-Man]

I hope some artist paints a picture of that important moment when Obama stared at a painting of JFK.

 

LOL.............you have to love the response to Obama's vanity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[3rdnlng]

The title of this thread wasn't mine. It's the title of the article. The article was supposed to be about a liberal columnist, who used to be a "journalist" coming to terms with the fact that he never actually processed candidate Obama: as a viable President. He wished for it all to be true...and so it was.

 

The hilarious part: the man, even though he subconsciously knows he's empirically wrong, still goes out of his way to defend his wish, and there goes the article. It's like watching a fly struggle in a web, but there is no spider. The fly made the web, and the way out is clear: but, he doesn't choose it. Instead he keeps struggling into the web, making it worse.

 

Consider:

It's the same thing that happened with ESPN and Mark Sanchez. ESPN's "fan based" approach used to be a strength. But, now it sucks, because the writer's and analyst's cubes in the back rooms, are all dominated by Jets fans. That's how you get skewed coverage. That's how Mark Sanchez vs. Tony Romo on Monday Night Football gets touted as a "QB battle for the ages"....and ends up being laughable.

 

That's how our offense can go put up 20 non-turnover points on the Jets defense, and nobody says a word on live TV. Not on Monday either. 20-14, the Bills still win, and that's if you include the 7 the Jets got from Moorman's grubby kick, or whatever that was.

 

Rather than doing their jobs, and maintaining the integrity of those jobs, which supposedly entitles them to "access" and asking the tough questions?

 

They look at their jobs as though they are merely selling influence. And, whoever coddles them, and their personal wishes, the most gets the best treatment.

 

The writer of the article, if he wasn't then, has now been confronted with the empirical evidence that says his wishes aren't real. Just like the Jet fan boi who works at ESPN, he was rooting for his "team" when he said Sanchez was the next Brady. This guy gets confounded by Obamacare, fan boi? Buttfumble.

 

The point is: You aren't going to get a Jet fan to stop being a Jet fan, and you aren't going to get a liberal to stop being a liberal.

 

The solution is: stop pretending these people are the source of "news". Start understanding that these people are the source of "analysis", and that they aren't entitled to the terms "expert", or "expert opinion". They'd have to be objective and know something, for those terms to apply. They aren't ever going to be.

 

The real solution is: we need more balance of perspective, both in the media, and at ESPN. If you have all stripes of "fan" then you don't have groupthink.

 

It always amazes me that: for people who love "diversity", they refuse to diversify their own place of business.

 

Sure, blame it on someone else.

[B-Man]

Worse Than ObamaCare: Obama’s biggest failure is that he hobbled the U.S. economy.

For many Americans, the Obama leadership meltdown began five years ago. In fall 2008, the U.S. suffered its worst financial crisis since the Depression. That wasn’t Barack Obama’s fault. But five years on, in the fall of 2013, the country’s economy is still sick.

 

Unemployed middle-aged men look in the mirror and see someone who may never work again. Young married couples who should be on the way up are living in their parents’ basement. Many young black men (official unemployment rate 28%; unofficial rate off the charts) have no prospect of work.

 

Washington these days kvetches a lot about what Healthcare.gov is doing to the Obama “legacy.” Far worse than ObamaCare, though, is that the 44th president in his second term presides over a great nation that is punching so far below its weight that large swaths of its people have lost heart.

 

For five years, news stories have chronicled the social and economic deterioration in America of people with no jobs or weak jobs.

 

Here’s a headline over a Gallup report: “

In U.S. Fewer Believe ‘Plenty of Opportunity’ to Get Ahead

.”

 

Two from The Wall Street Journal recently: “

Parents Serving as Emergency Support for Adult Kids

,” and “

Workers Stay Put, Curbing Jobs Engine.”

 

On Tuesday, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development put out a report saying the U.S. has become a threat to global recovery. The OECD ratcheted down growth estimates almost everywhere for the rest of this year. For the euro-zone nations: -0.4%; for “emerging” India it’s down to 3%; South Korea: 2.7%. . . .

 

In February 2009, he got $831 billion of stimulus spending. Not even seismographs can detect the results. Every speech he outputs about “middle-class folks” offers them the same solutions: more public spending on education, on public infrastructure projects and, even now, on alternative energy. As he tirelessly repeats what remain promises, the Labor Department’s monthly unemployment-rate announcement on Friday mornings has become a day of dread.

 

A normal post-recession growth rate of at least 4%

would have made it possible for Mr. Obama and his progressive allies to chase virtually any pie-in-the-sky policy they wanted. Instead, the U.S. has fallen far off its normal 3.3% growth rate.

 

A U.S. president, faced with such devastating labor-market problems and persistently weak growth, should do anything—anything—that will give the American workplace more lift.

 

Instead, he’s willing to entertain just one idea: more federal spending.

 

More at link..................

 

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[3rdnlng]

Just for fun:

 

http://scrappleface.com/2013/11/22/obama-recalls-moment-he-heard-jfk-was-shot/

(2013-11-22) — On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, President Obama recalled for reporters the moment he learned JFK had been slain.

“Like JFK, my grandfather served in the military,” Mr. Obama said after a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. “And, of course, John Kennedy and I both served in the U.S. Senate and overcame America’s deep-seated bigotry to win the presidency. Young and vigorous, we both garner praise for our speeches, and the way we drew the youth of the nation into the political process.”

Pressed again by journalists to specify what he thought and felt at the actual moment when he heard Kennedy had been shot, Obama choked back his emotion and recalled, “I was sitting in my 10th-grade American history class when the teacher made the announcement. Everyone just fell silent. It was 1977, and we couldn’t believe JFK was gone, Camelot was ended. I think they sent us home early that day. We were pretty shaken up.”

The White House called for all Americans to commemorate Obama’s historic remembrance of the tragedy by “finding some way to serve in your community, like organizing a voter-registration drive with your local SEIU chapter.”

I think Scott may have preempted Obama on this. Scrappleface is another site like "The Onion" and has excellent satire.

[Nanker]

[B-Man]

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Obama Signs Deal To Keep U.S. Troops In Afghanistan Until 2024.

 

 

 

GEORGE WILL: Obama’s Presidency Unravels Through Chaos and Crisis.

 

 

 

 

[Chef Jim]

A Facebook post from a delusional uber-liberal friend of mine. Well actually a friend of my wife's.

 

I know, while our entire media is ablaze with manufactured crises and website glitches from the obstipated obstructionist GOP; Obama has put an end to Bin Laden, saved the global economy from another Great Depression, ended two wars, givenHealthCare to 40 million Americans and reformed HealthCare Insurance. Oh, and now he is moving save the world from the threat of a nuclear war in the MiddleEast. He is a thinking president, not a reactionary cowboy president. What has the GOP done for me lately? Zilch, nada, Zip. Oh they did shut down the entire government for 2 weeks and paralyzed our economy. I say, GO Obama!

 

[IDBillzFan]

A Facebook post from a delusional uber-liberal friend of mine. Well actually a friend of my wife's.

 

 

 

 

This is cut-and-paste support at this point. I've ready virtually the exact same thing in other FB posts as well as in comment sections of articles.

[Alaska Darin]

A Facebook post from a delusional uber-liberal friend of mine. Well actually a friend of my wife's.

 

 

 

I think I got that exact blather in an email bomb from one of the usual wacko lefty organizations.

 

People never get tired of being "led" down the road to ruin.

[B-Man]

The America that doesn't work: It Costs $200B to Manage $500B In Federal Grants.

 

 

 

 

NEW CNN POLL:

 

“Obama’s woes are not limited to honesty and his managerial skills. Fifty-six percent say he is not a person they admire, and an equal number say he does not agree with them on important issues. Fifty-six percent also say he does not inspire confidence, and 53% don’t view him as a strong and decisive leader.”

 

 

He’s only strong and decisive when attacking his domestic political opponents.

 

 

 

 

 

Salena Zito: For Obama, Everything Is About Politics.

As a president, his governing style always has required a bad guy, someone who is “against” him.

 

It is a way of operating that his staff has adopted. That is why, when senior staffers such as Pfeiffer are questioned by reporters, their default answers aren’t thoughtful or mindful of the office they represent.

 

Instead, the answers are laced with bitterness toward the questioners and with disdain for the people who might care about an inconvenient issue.

 

They’re not very nice people. They’re not especially bright or competent, either.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Nanker]

He’s only strong and decisive when attacking his domestic political opponents.

 

Salena Zito: For Obama, Everything Is About Politics.

As a president, his governing style always has required a bad guy, someone who is “against” him.

 

It is a way of operating that his staff has adopted. That is why, when senior staffers such as Pfeiffer are questioned by reporters, their default answers aren’t thoughtful or mindful of the office they represent.

 

Instead, the answers are laced with bitterness toward the questioners and with disdain for the people who might care about an inconvenient issue.

 

They’re not very nice people. They’re not especially bright or competent, either.

 

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Hallmarks of far lefties. Oh, and their women are ugly too.

Edited November 25, 2013 by Nanker

[DC Tom]

Salena Zito: For Obama, Everything Is About Politics.

As a president, his governing style always has required a bad guy, someone who is “against” him.

 

It is a way of operating that his staff has adopted. That is why, when senior staffers such as Pfeiffer are questioned by reporters, their default answers aren’t thoughtful or mindful of the office they represent.

 

Instead, the answers are laced with bitterness toward the questioners and with disdain for the people who might care about an inconvenient issue.

 

No ****. President Obama is in many ways the ultimate expression of the "victim as hero" mentality in American society.

[boyst]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/26/world/asia/china-us-b52s/

 

Has he commented on this yet? Seems awful bold for such a soft Pres.

[Koko78]

http://www.cnn.com/2.../china-us-b52s/

 

Has he commented on this yet? Seems awful bold for such a soft Pres.

Do you really think that Obama had anything to do with it? He probably didn't know about it until he watched it on CNN, like with every other major issue.

 

Though it is pretty funny that the Air Force is screwing with the Chinese like that.

[boyst]

Do you really think that Obama had anything to do with it? He probably didn't know about it until he watched it on CNN, like with every other major issue.

 

Though it is pretty funny that the Air Force is screwing with the Chinese like that.

if this was Bush in office we would be told he knew and called for it because he is a war monger.

[Koko78]

if this was Bush in office we would be told he knew and called for it because he is a war monger.

 

And moments after lamenting the evil genius that was Bush, they would declare he's an idiot who cannot eat a pretzel without choking.

[B-Man]

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: An Outbreak Of Lawlessness.

 

“For all the gnashing of teeth over the lack of comity and civility in Washington, the real problem is not etiquette but the breakdown of political norms, legislative and constitutional. . . .

 

The law remains unchanged.

 

The regulations governing that law remain unchanged.

 

Nothing is changed except for a president proposing to unilaterally change his own law from the White House press room.

 

That’s banana republic stuff, except that there the dictator proclaims from the presidential balcony.”

 

 

 

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