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I think Obama has been a loner his whole life
« on: October 10, 2011, 12:13:08 PM »
Folks, in other words Obama is mentally depressed!!

Aimless Obama walks alone

Last Updated: 3:45 AM, October 9, 2011

Posted: 2:49 AM, October 9, 2011

The reports are not good, disturbing even. I have heard basically the same story four times in the last 10 days, and the people doing the talking are in New York and Washington and are spread across the political spectrum.

The gist is this: President Obama has become a lone wolf, a stranger to his own government. He talks mostly, and sometimes only, to friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett and to David Axelrod, his political strategist.

Everybody else, including members of his Cabinet, have little face time with him except for brief meetings that serve as photo ops. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner both have complained, according to people who have talked to them, that they are shut out of important decisions.

The president’s workdays are said to end early, often at 4 p.m. He usually has dinner in the family residence with his wife and daughters, then retreats to a private office. One person said he takes a stack of briefing books. Others aren’t sure what he does.

If the reports are accurate, and I believe they are, they paint a picture of an isolated man trapped in a collapsing presidency. While there is no indication Obama is walking the halls of the White House late at night, talking to the portraits of former presidents, as Richard Nixon did during Watergate, the reports help explain his odd public remarks.

Obama conceded in one television interview recently that Americans are not “better off than they were four years ago” and said in another that the nation had “gotten a little soft.” Both smacked of a man who feels discouraged and alienated and sparked comparisons to Jimmy Carter, never a good sign.

Blaming the country is political heresy, of course, yet Obama is running out of scapegoats. His allies rarely make affirmative arguments on his behalf anymore, limiting themselves to making excuses for his failure. He and they attack Republicans, George W. Bush, European leaders and Chinese currency manipulation -- and that was just last week.

The blame game isn’t much of a defense for Solyndra and “Fast and Furious,” the emerging twin scandals that paint a picture of incompetence at best.

Obama himself is spending his public time pushing a $450 billion “jobs” bill -- really another stimulus in disguise -- that even Senate Democrats won’t support. He grimly flogged it repeatedly at his Thursday press conference, even though snowballs in hell have a better chance of survival.

If he cracked a single smile at the hour-plus event, I missed it. He seems happy only on the campaign trail, where the adoration of the crowd lifts his spirits.

When it comes to getting America back on track to economic growth, he is running on vapors. Yet he shows no inclination to adopt any ideas other than his own Big Government grab. His itch for higher taxes verges on a fetish.

Harvey Golub, former chairman of American Express, called the “jobs” bill an incoherent mess. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, he said that among other flaws, the bill includes an unheard of retroactive tax hike on the holders of municipal bonds.

“Many of us have suspected that economic illiterates were setting the economic policy of this administration,” Golub wrote, adding that the bill “reveals a depth of cluelessness that boggles the mind.”

The public increasingly shares the sentiment. A new Quinnipiac polls finds that 55 percent now disapprove of Obama’s job performance, with only 41 percent approving. A mere 29 percent say the economy will improve if the president gets four more years.

The election, unfortunately, is nearly 13 months away.

The way Obama’s behaving, by then we’ll all be talking to portraits of past presidents, asking why this one turned out to be such a flop.

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Re: I think Obama has been a loner his whole life
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2011, 03:10:07 PM »
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/spin-meter-obama-disconnects-1197664.html

SPIN METER: Obama disconnects rhetoric, reality

By ERICA WERNER

The Associated Press
6:31 a.m. Monday, October 10, 2011

WASHINGTON — In President Barack Obama's sales pitch for his jobs bill, there are two versions of reality: The one in his speeches and the one actually unfolding in Washington.

When Obama accuses Republicans of standing in the way of his nearly $450 billion plan, he ignores the fact that his own party has struggled to unite behind the proposal.

When the president says Republicans haven't explained what they oppose in the plan, he skips over the fact that Republicans who control the House actually have done that in detail.

And when he calls on Congress to "pass this bill now," he slides past the point that Democrats control the Senate and were never prepared to move immediately, given other priorities. Senators are expected to vote Tuesday on opening debate on the bill, a month after the president unveiled it with a call for its immediate passage.

To be sure, Obama is not the only one engaging in rhetorical excesses. But he is the president, and as such, his constant remarks on the bill draw the most attention and scrutiny.

The disconnect between what Obama says about his jobs bill and what stands as the political reality flow from his broader aim: to rally the public behind his cause and get Congress to act, or, if not, to pin blame on Republicans.

He is waging a campaign, one in which nuance and context and competing responses don't always fit in if they don't help make the case.

For example, when Obama says his jobs plan is made up of ideas that have historically had bipartisan support, he stops the point there. Not mentioned is that Republicans have never embraced the tax increases that he is proposing to cover the cost of his plan.

Likewise, from city to city, Obama is demanding that Congress act (he means Republicans) while it has been clear for weeks that the GOP will not support all of his bill, to say the least. Individual elements of it may well pass, such as Obama's proposal to extend and expand a payroll tax cut. But Republicans strongly oppose the president's proposed new spending and his plan to raise taxes on millionaires to pay for the package.

The fight over the legislative proposal has become something much bigger: a critical test of the president's powers of persuading the public heading into the 2012 presidential campaign, and of Republicans' ability to deny him a win and reap victory for themselves.

"He knows it's not going to pass. He's betting that voters won't pick up on it, or even if they do they will blame Congress and he can run against the 'do-nothing Congress,'" said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a senior fellow at the University of Southern California's School of Policy, Planning and Development.

John Sides, political science professor at George Washington University, said Obama's approach on the jobs bill is "more about campaigning than governing."

"He's mostly just going around talking about this and drawing contrasts with what the Republicans want and what he wants and not really trying to work these legislative levers he might be able to use to get this passed," Sides said. "That just suggests to me that he is ready to use a failed jobs bill as a campaign message against the Republicans."

The president's opponents aren't exactly laying it all out, either.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., tried to force a vote on the bill last week, innocently claiming that the president was entitled to one. McConnell knew full well that the result would be failure for the legislation and an embarrassment for Obama.

House Speaker John Boehner, meanwhile, claimed that Obama has "given up on the country and decided to campaign full-time" instead of seeking common ground with the GOP. But Boehner neglected to mention that Obama's past attempts at compromise with Republicans often yielded scant results, as Obama himself pointed out.

The approach for Obama, who is seeking a second term in a dismal economy, is far different than the one he took when running for president. He criticized the GOP then, but talked about ending blue-state and red-state America, replacing it with one America, fixing the broken political system, and fundamentally changing Washington.

That ended up being change he could not bring about, and now analysts say Obama may have little choice but to campaign more narrowly by attacking opponents rather than trying to bring people together.

Obama's attempts at compromise with the GOP on the debt ceiling and budget won him little in the way of policy, instead engendering frustration from Democrats who saw him as caving to Republican demands.

The new, combative Obama isn't looking for compromise. He's looking for a win. And if he can't get the legislative victory he says he wants, he has made clear that he's more than willing to take a political win.

It is, he acknowledges, a result his campaign for his jobs bill is designed to achieve.

Talking up the bill in an appearance last month with African-American news websites, Obama said: "I need people to be out there promoting this and pushing this and making sure that everybody understands the details of what this would mean, so that one of two things happen: Either Congress gets it done, or if Congress doesn't get it done, people know exactly what's holding it up."

EDITOR'S NOTE _ An occasional look behind the rhetoric of public officials.

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Re: I think Obama has been a loner his whole life
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2011, 09:28:58 PM »
  I never noticed President Obama reaching for a halfway position or trying to compromise any other way with Republicans when he had the reigns of a unified government.

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Re: I think Obama has been a loner his whole life
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2011, 10:03:23 PM »
  I never noticed President Obama reaching for a halfway position or trying to compromise any other way with Republicans when he had the reigns of a unified government.

That's because he never had to compromise anything in life. Nobody ever said no to him. Even when it came to Harvard the answer was yes by all means yes go forth black man, you have Affirmative Action on your side.

Obama is deeply flawed in many many ways. He's about as dysfunctional as a human being can be.

And now that things aren't going his way and out of his control he's breaking down and withdrawing.

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Re: I think Obama has been a loner his whole life
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2011, 10:25:34 PM »
  I never noticed President Obama reaching for a halfway position or trying to compromise any other way with Republicans when he had the reigns of a unified government.

That's because he never had to compromise anything in life. Nobody ever said no to him. Even when it came to Harvard the answer was yes by all means yes go forth black man, you have Affirmative Action on your side.

Obama is deeply flawed in many many ways. He's about as dysfunctional as a human being can be.

And now that things aren't going his way and out of his control he's breaking down and withdrawing.



    Don't agree.

      Barak H. Obama thrived in the political environment of Chicago.
      That is something itself.

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Re: I think Obama has been a loner his whole life
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2011, 10:29:24 PM »
  I never noticed President Obama reaching for a halfway position or trying to compromise any other way with Republicans when he had the reigns of a unified government.

That's because he never had to compromise anything in life. Nobody ever said no to him. Even when it came to Harvard the answer was yes by all means yes go forth black man, you have Affirmative Action on your side.

Obama is deeply flawed in many many ways. He's about as dysfunctional as a human being can be.

And now that things aren't going his way and out of his control he's breaking down and withdrawing.



    Don't agree.

      Barak H. Obama thrived in the political environment of Chicago.
      That is something itself.

I think it was him telling people how it was going to be rather than the other way around.

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Re: I think Obama has been a loner his whole life
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2011, 10:48:33 PM »
  I never noticed President Obama reaching for a halfway position or trying to compromise any other way with Republicans when he had the reigns of a unified government.

That's because he never had to compromise anything in life. Nobody ever said no to him. Even when it came to Harvard the answer was yes by all means yes go forth black man, you have Affirmative Action on your side.

Obama is deeply flawed in many many ways. He's about as dysfunctional as a human being can be.

And now that things aren't going his way and out of his control he's breaking down and withdrawing.



    Don't agree.

      Barak H. Obama thrived in the political environment of Chicago.
      That is something itself.

I think it was him telling people how it was going to be rather than the other way around.
No , he had to take on more established names now and then, Chicago is not an easy place to be a young politician.

   But as a very skilled politician BHO would sometimes legislate a vote of "Present" neither yea nor nay where the choice would be politically inexpediant.

    This should have been a warning to us that to him his image is more important than any cause, that his promotion is more important than the advancement of the people.

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Re: I think Obama has been a loner his whole life
« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2011, 11:30:22 PM »
  I never noticed President Obama reaching for a halfway position or trying to compromise any other way with Republicans when he had the reigns of a unified government.

That's because he never had to compromise anything in life. Nobody ever said no to him. Even when it came to Harvard the answer was yes by all means yes go forth black man, you have Affirmative Action on your side.

Obama is deeply flawed in many many ways. He's about as dysfunctional as a human being can be.

And now that things aren't going his way and out of his control he's breaking down and withdrawing.



    Don't agree.

      Barak H. Obama thrived in the political environment of Chicago.
      That is something itself.

I think it was him telling people how it was going to be rather than the other way around.
No , he had to take on more established names now and then, Chicago is not an easy place to be a young politician.

   But as a very skilled politician BHO would sometimes legislate a vote of "Present" neither yea nor nay where the choice would be politically inexpediant.

    This should have been a warning to us that to him his image is more important than any cause, that his promotion is more important than the advancement of the people.

any way you slice it he has unsavory character.