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Why Obama's Boyish Utopia Endangers Us
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by Kevin McCullough
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President Barack Obama is still just a lost boy at his age, and he searches for a world he wished existed. His insistence upon living in his world, though attractive to the uneducated, neglected, and naive, is dangerously heaping hot coals of consequence on the heads of those who know better.
As the very first pundit in America to predict the rise and electoral success of President Barack Obama, it is with great regret that I say the following: President Barack Obama is not a strong leader. His willingness to cede most of his domestic agenda to Nancy Pelosi has cost him dearly in his first year. And his unwillingness to admit that the world is facing a crossroads of strength through force now, or humiliation and pain through attack in days to come is a demonstration of his paralysis in the most important question of our time. His rejection in Copenhagen was a sting of confirmation--not only of his global powerlessness--but of his ability to use campaigning on his personality as a legitimate tool of negotiation.
President Obama believes his good press far too often, trusts his advisors' agreement as a sign of genuine critical analysis, and believes the American people are too unenlightened to truly understand his methods. All three realities push the President further into an altered state of worldview that are having disastrous impact on the life of average Ameicans.
The new jobs report out this week shows, for yet another month in a row, that the American people are suffering under near 10% unemployment and 17% under-employment. A proven strategy to grow the economy, and thus help small business owners expand their operation, and thus begin a hiring trend would be to not just keep the tax incentives for small business from disappearing in 2010, but to add to them, and allow the free market to multiply. An expansion of a robust economy is the only answer to serious unemployment. But the President believes that if he just has the right czar, in the right position, then job losses will be controlled. In the President's utopia, employment and the number of jobs available are fixed and "saving them" is better than or, at minimum, equal to "creating them."
With the newest Rasmussen polling numbers showing again that the majority of the American people do believe in health care reform, but do not under any circumstances desire the government controlled option--or takeover--of the industry, President Obama doesn't seem to grasp the expressed will of the people who elected him. In the President's utopia it is doctors, not trial lawyers, that are being selfish and charging people for procedures they do not need just to "make a buck." In the world you and I live in, we know that doctors run the risk of a massive lawsuit every time they deliver bad news to a patient.
In Afghanistan, President Obama has waited now for more than a month to make a decision to expand our footprint there by no more than 40,000 troops. 43 more soldiers have perished while he awaits settling on a new strategy, while the military personnel he put in place to do the job are begging him for more troops. He met with General McChrystal for all of forty-five minutes on Air Force One (for only the second time since commissioning McChrystal to the theater), while Joe Biden whispers in his ear to continue things that are not presently working. In President Obama's utopia he wishes war did not exist, but he has yet to realize that in order for it to be halted, he himself may have to recognize the threat that not addressing it properly would have.
On Iran, President Obama has issued a stern assessment of their nuclear ambitions. His stern words, in President Obama's utopia, should be enough for a reasonable world leader to be worried about so as to pick up a phone and wish to work it out that afternoon. Yet even after the IAEA's meetings on Iran, even after President Obama issued another stern deadline, the administration has begun to backtrack. In President Obama's utopia, the United States is not superior to other nations and therefore we should be powerless to have any say on how they develop. In fact if we simply give up our weapons, in President Obama's utopia, he believes they will give up theirs.
On the economy, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" sounds good. In a perfect world, such purity of goodness would be a place none on this planet recognize. In President Obama's utopia, the socialists and the communists DO have it right, and this is perhaps the major reason he records in his own books his great delight in hanging with them in college. But man's depravity has always been and will always be the fatal flaw in this theory.
On America's image in the world, in President Obama's utopia he is fine with the idea of "American Exceptionalism" being challenged or even turned upside down. Yet in reality no country has suffered more loss of its own, for the welfare of others in history. To Obama, an America that stands tall in contrast to others seems arrogant. To our enemies, an America that seems ashamed of herself seems weak.
President Obama is not a strong decision maker--most law professors aren't. They are too accustomed to arguing the issue from all sides possible. He is also a man who envisions a world that will never exist. It is his inability to see it thus, that tonight makes America more vulnerable, more hopeless, and without any immediate hope of changing coming anytime soon.
It is, in a word, dangerous.
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Spot on.
We have Peter Pan as president.
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Still W makes him look good
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Still W makes him look good
W was a disaster. i knew the minute he made that "political capital" speech the night he was elected we probably were in for it.
His second term was just a monumental train wreck.
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Ha ha! Is there a link to stormfront on that page?
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333 - can you make it through one friggin day without posting how were all doomed because of Obama
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333 - can you make it through one friggin day without posting how were all doomed because of Obama
Can you make it one day without proving you have your head up your ass?
The answer to both is probably no. ;D
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Nope..that piece of shit is ruining this country.
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Can you make it one day without proving you have your head up your ass?
The answer to both is probably no. ;D
you're a broken record man
give it a rest
we'll still be doomed tomorrow
shit man, you're a bottom feeder in the legal profession
If you really think Obama is causing all our problems you should be thanking him for helping you stay profitable
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Nope..that piece of shit is ruining this country.
how exactly is he "ruining" the country
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you're a broken record man
give it a rest
we'll still be doomed tomorrow
shit man, you're a bottom feeder in the legal profession
If you really think Obama is causing all our problems you should be thanking him for helping you stay profitable
I think John Edwards takes the prize Straw.
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I think John Edwards takes the prize Straw.
takes the prize for what?
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Point to anything the guy has really done...really done. Not speeches...not bullshit..solid things. Nothing. The stimulus has done nothing...heathcare will either bankrupt us or not get passed....Cap and Trade...and on foreign policy he's a joke. The guy gets played every time he opens his mouth.
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"His rejection in Copenhagen was a sting of confirmation--not only of his global powerlessness--but of his ability to use campaigning on his personality as a legitimate tool of negotiation."
I have to wonder how much the 3-day Drudge anti-chicgo campaign hurt the USA's chances.
I also have to wonder how much Obama would have been criticized had he NOT done what the presidents of the other 4 countries did - attend and deliver their case for their country to host. Rush and friends would have been screaming that Obama didn't love American enough to attend.
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"His rejection in Copenhagen was a sting of confirmation--not only of his global powerlessness--but of his ability to use campaigning on his personality as a legitimate tool of negotiation."
I have to wonder how much the 3-day Drudge anti-chicgo campaign hurt the USA's chances.
I also have to wonder how much Obama would have been criticized had he NOT done what the presidents of the other 4 countries did - attend and deliver their case for their country to host. Rush and friends would have been screaming that Obama didn't love American enough to attend.
240 - he made it about himself and his sasquatch wife not our country. Everyone with an ounce of a clue knew Chicago never had a chance at getting this. Only the kool aiders like yourself thought Obama had any type of clout to change what everyone else in the world knew beforehand: RIO WAS ALWAYS GETTING THIS!
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240 - he made it about himself and his sasquatch wife not our country. Everyone with an ounce of a clue knew Chicago never had a chance at getting this. Only the kool aiders like yourself thought Obama had any type of clout to change what everyone else in the world knew beforehand: RIO WAS ALWAYS GETTING THIS!
chicago had a great chance lol
hundreds of millions were lost by selecting rio
spin it how you like
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240 - he made it about himself and his sasquatch wife not our country. Everyone with an ounce of a clue knew Chicago never had a chance at getting this. Only the kool aiders like yourself thought Obama had any type of clout to change what everyone else in the world knew beforehand: RIO WAS ALWAYS GETTING THIS!
I think that's because the world loves obama a lot more than they love chicago.
and i also think you'd be hatin' on obama if the other 4 presidents had shown up, and he didn't bother.
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chicago had a great chance lol
hundreds of millions were lost by selecting rio
spin it how you like
Chicago was always the least likely pick. Everyone knew this. I posted this before the pick. Brazil is a nation on the rise and games were never held in SA before.
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I think that's because the world loves obama a lot more than they love chicago.
and i also think you'd be hatin' on obama if the other 4 presidents had shown up, and he didn't bother.
He made it about himself 240. Why did he and his wife and Oprah make it all about them? Again, everyone but kool aiders knew Chicago never had a chance.
Addiotionally, I have a suprise for you, the world does not love Obama. At the least the leaders do not.
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He made it about himself 240. Why did he and his wife and Oprah make it all about them? Again, everyone but kool aiders knew Chicago never had a chance.
Addiotionally, I have a suprise for you, the world does not love Obama. At the least the leaders do not.
Sorry. You run any poll in the world... obama is more popular than his policies, and damn sure more popular than chicago.
He used the capital he had. What's he gonna say? Come make my corrupt buddies rich? haha... if you think the world doesn't like the guy, you're in denial.
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Sorry. You run any poll in the world... obama is more popular than his policies, and damn sure more popular than chicago.
He used the capital he had. What's he gonna say? Come make my corrupt buddies rich? haha... if you think the world doesn't like the guy, you're in denial.
I loves me some Obama.
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takes the prize for what?
Low lifes in the legal profession. John Edwards is scum of the earth and made his fortune bankrupting doctors on dubious claims.
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"His rejection in Copenhagen was a sting of confirmation--not only of his global powerlessness--but of his ability to use campaigning on his personality as a legitimate tool of negotiation."
I have to wonder how much the 3-day Drudge anti-chicgo campaign hurt the USA's chances.
I also have to wonder how much Obama would have been criticized had he NOT done what the presidents of the other 4 countries did - attend and deliver their case for their country to host. Rush and friends would have been screaming that Obama didn't love American enough to attend.
Yes,the IOC and the rest of the world turn on Rush and read Drudge everyday.Give it a rest.Obama FAILED.His tranny wife ,who CNN said "stole the show" FAILED.
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Sorry. You run any poll in the world... obama is more popular than his policies, and damn sure more popular than chicago.
He used the capital he had. What's he gonna say? Come make my corrupt buddies rich? haha... if you think the world doesn't like the guy, you're in denial.
The question is WHY do they like Obama. If they like him, because they think he's a punk and can run roughshot over him and America, that's a problem.
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Sorry. You run any poll in the world... obama is more popular than his policies, and damn sure more popular than chicago.
He used the capital he had. What's he gonna say? Come make my corrupt buddies rich? haha... if you think the world doesn't like the guy, you're in denial.
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The left is incredible.When Obama is elected ,Rush and FOX have ZERO power,when he fails,the left screams "ITS RUSH AND FOX THAT ARE DOING IT".