The Reckoning

[The Big Dog]

Is Barack in trouble with his base? Is he finally beginning to see the economic disaster his approach has set in motion? Hell it was just this last week that editorial cartoonist / hate filled buffoon Ted Rall openly called on Barack to resign and turn it over to the grown ups.

Yeah, like that's going to happen.

Unfortunately, I can not be nearly as optimistic as Professor Hanson is in this piece. Given the people Barack has surrounded himself with and been influenced by in his life, it is only a matter of when we lose the farm.... he is not going to wise up.

My expectation for Barack's post presidency is that he will step into the role currently occupied by President Carter... the left's gutter snipe in chief.

The Reckoning
Obama Versus the Way of the Universe
Victor Davis Hanson
Pajamasmedia

I wish the President well, but he is butting up against human nature. And that is a fight one cannot win. If one runs up nearly a $2 trillion annual deficit, and then persists in such red-ink to the point of adding another $9 trillion, all to reach an aggregate $20 trillion national debt, there are not too many options. If there were, everyone-both states and individuals-would simply spend, call it stimuli, and then find academics to offer contorted explanations why it was OK and the money need not really have to be paid back. Does Obama think his debt is like buying a house in a down market with an up market inevitable?–that is, we borrow to the max and then count on our equity to come to bail us out? But houses do not always go up, and we can’t quite sell off the US to capture our speculative profit.

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The world sadly does not work that way. If one were to do that, we know the outcome: a group of rival execs would say “Hmmm, time to steal market share from Citibank, or Hilton isn’t really up to the arena anymore, let’s move in on its Western region, etc.”

Only someone who has not been in the real world, but only marketed rhetoric without consequences (e.g., if Obama had a bad day organizing, or legislating, was he fired?) could believe such things.

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Obama will come to his senses with his ‘Bush did it’, reset button, moral equivalency, soaring hope and change, with these apologies to Europeans, his Arab world Sermons on the Mount to Al Arabiya, in Turkey, in Cairo, etc., his touchy-feely videos to Iran, his “we are all victims of racism” sops to Ortega, Chavez, and Morales. It is only a matter of when, under what conditions, how high the price we must pay, and whether we lose the farm before he gains wisdom about the tragic universe in which we live.

A sojourn at an elite university, you see, can sometimes become a very dangerous thing indeed.

So how's that change working for you now?

[The New Guy]

ever so slowly, the scales begin to tip.

while diehard kool-aid fans such as mink and santurelle will never renounce their devotion to "the one," eventually enough people with a trace of brain activity will begin to see obama for the empty suit he is. they will begin to understand that he isn't the smartest man in the world and really knows nothing about nothing except for how to captivate an audience. they will realize that he cannot change the nation's economy for the better by appointing a government full of academic cronies - 99% of whom have NO business experience at all.

soon enough they will realize they have done this nation what is perhaps it's greatest disservice by electing the boy king. you can't be an effective leader on charisma alone.

my hope is that enough folks wake up by the time 2012 rolls around. it would certainly be ashamed to reelect this man.


btw, a historian he is not:



crusades, you say???


here is more muslim "ass kissing" from dear leader:
(i ask that mink and santurelle pay particular attention at about the 7:00 mark when the iranians show how much they adore obama)



when can we expect achmedinijad to make a nice video for us extolling the wonders of Christmas?

[subdjoe]

Now, now. The former junior senator from IL is just being sensitve to their cultural context. You see, it doesn't matter if they oppress everyone else, or ever kill them in cold blood, just so long as it is OK by their cultural context.