Whaddya know .... part duex

[PBzeer]

Seems Charles Fried over at Newsweek, writing on their blog, the Daily Beast, has figured out the problem with the Obama Presidency. He's too good for us.

We just aren't worthy of his exalted leadership. Otherwise, we'd just crown him Emperor and let him do what must be done. We need to abolish the Constitution, dismantle the Congress, and do away with the Supreme Court, then he can lead us all to the Promised Land with his benevolent guidance.

(Mop available on request)

[erps]

up the same alley:

"a June 2008 column by Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle's website, who, citing unidentified "spiritually advanced people" (we are not making this up), described Obama as "a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being . . . who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment."

Weisberg vs. the People - WSJ.com

[RAGNAR]

We surrendered our education system to this mentality generations ago. That the culture would follow, or shut down, was inevitable. The only way to take it back is to start down the path of genuine privatization. We ca start with unconditional tax credits and vouchers.

Genuinely empowered parents, choosing between competing pedagogical theories and applications of those theories -- what I sight that would be.

[SlowButSteady]

I have to admit, the opening of Fried's piece is pretty good:

Barack Obama is not a skillful strategist like Bill Clinton. He is not a gifted rhetorician like Ronald Reagan. Nor is he a bold and inspiring leader like Abraham Lincoln. And he can’t seem to shake himself loose from the strings that attach him to the trial lawyers, to big labor, and, surprisingly, to the standard banker-economists who got us into the mess we are in now. But he is an honest man. He is intelligent, analytical, and knowledgeable. And he tries hard to think through the dilemmas which confront us and to tell us clearly and straightforwardly what he wants to do and why he wants to do it.

But it doesn’t seem to work.

Contrast this to the politicians he is up against. When John Boehner at the height of the debt ceiling crisis answered him on the national media he simply did not tell the truth. He said that the president would not compromise, would not take yes for an answer, and wanted it all his own way. But he cannot have forgotten that he had negotiated Obama into far more cuts than Obama and his caucus had wanted, thought wise or even palatable in return for a modest increase in revenue to be achieved by closing egregious and unfair loopholes in personal and corporate taxes. This is the same compromise recommended by the “Gang of Six,” which included the extremely conservative and admirably patriotic Senator Tom Coburn, by the bipartisan Bowles-Simpson group, and by Republican economists like Martin Feldstein. It was the Speaker who, Arafat-like, walked away from that deal because he concluded he lacked the skill or the muscle or the spine to sell it to his own caucus. Let it be said that this compromise included recalculating the cost of living formula for social security—a change every responsible economist recommends—but the equally rigid Nancy Pelosi rejected.

[SloopJonB]

Originally Posted by SlowButSteady

I have to admit, the opening of Fried's piece is pretty good:

I have to admit that Obama has been something of a disappointment to me. When he was running, because he is young and a good speaker, I hoped he might prove to be inspirational, ala JFK, but it hasn't happened. He was way too reasonable in the first two years - he should have ignored the Republican minority and got things done but he wimped out and now it's too late.

At the time, true to the JFK comparison, it also crossed my mind that on a legislation basis he might be as ineffective as JFK was. I don't know if it still true, but in 1976, Kennedy held the record for the smallest amount of legislation passed by a sitting President.

However, If Obamas' Presidency accomplishes nothing else, at least he finally got the USA over the hump of its age old racism. Now that a black man has been President, the country is finally on the home stretch of relegating it to history.

[poopdeckpappy]

.....but in 1976, Kennedy held the record for the smallest amount of legislation passed by a sitting President.

Don't know but, could it be it's because he was killed in 1963 ?? ( a little less than 3yrs as President )

However, If Obamas' Presidency accomplishes nothing else, at least he finally got the USA over the hump of its age old racism. Now that a black man has been President, the country is finally on the home stretch of relegating it to history.

That's the biggest crock of sh*t I've ever heard, if nothing else he has has fan the fire ( way too much MSM in your diet )

[SloopJonB]

Originally Posted by poopdeckpappy

That's the biggest crock of sh*t I've ever heard, if nothing else he has has fan the fire ( way too much MSM in your diet )

Obviously the first one would inflame things temporarily but its a done deal now, not a dream for the future of all the black people in the States.

And by the way, there ain't much MSM in my diet but there also isn't such things as the Ayn Rand institute being passed off as scientific research and fact.

[erps]

Obviously the first one would inflame things temporarily but its a done deal now, not a dream for the future of all the black people in the States.

Are you speaking for all black people in the states now?

[SloopJonB]

Originally Posted by erps

Are you speaking for all black people in the states now?

Well you and Pooper and Rags sure as hell aren't. The three of you consistently stand on the podium for writing Bull$hit.

[poopdeckpappy]

Originally Posted by SloopJonB

Well you and Pooper and Rags sure as hell aren't. The three of you consistently stand on the podium for writing Bull$hit.

You mean like this

If Obamas' Presidency accomplishes nothing else, at least he finally got the USA over the hump of its age old racism. Now that a black man has been President, the country is finally on the home stretch of relegating it to history.

and this, which I'm still trying to figure out if you understand what you wrote

but there also isn't such things as the Ayn Rand institute being passed off as scientific research and fact.