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Title: Obama Is Borrrring! -- Reveals himself to be less articulate than George Bush
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URL Source: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/355136
Published: Sep 16, 2010
Author: Jennifer Rubin
Post Date: 2010-09-16 09:27:46 by no gnu taxes
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Views: 3597
Comments: 11

Obama’s public persona is so predictable and his image so overexposed that even the left is over him. He’s gone from fascinating and cool to a crashing bore in less than two years. Greg Sargent: “Seems the consensus is that Obama’s presser [Friday] was way too boring, substantive and unemotional to produce an abrupt and massive enough turnaround in the polls to guarantee in advance that Dems hold their majority.” Ditto, hisses Maureen Dowd: “How did the first president of color become so colorless?” Well, he ran out of catchphrases and revealed himself to be less articulate than George Bush. Dowd admits he sounds downright loopy at times:

“How have you changed Washington?” [Chuck] Todd asked.

The president answered that he is trying to help “ordinary families” and not special interests, before conceding that he, too, is frustrated by his inability to create “a greater spirit of cooperation in Washington.”

“You know, are there, you know, things that I might have done during the course of 18 months that would, you know, at the margins have improved some of the tone in Washington?” Obama asked. “Probably.” Uncharacteristically valley girl, the usually eloquent president must have, you know, had a hard time acknowledging that.

Why are liberals so bored all of a sudden? Conservatives, of course, rolled their eyes over his New Age-like campaign rhetoric and have begun to pine for Bill Clinton, who, at least, was intellectually creative and amusing. There are, I think, several things at work.

First, style — that “superior temperament” and the coolness — was what attracted many urban liberals to him in the first place. Obama was in essence the latest trend, equivalent to this season’s fashion or the newest cell phone, which they had to have. But trends by definition come and go, and surface impressions and infatuation don’t last long.

Second, it is easier to admit that the candidate they swooned for is boring than it is to say he’s incompetent (or an empty suit). The former implies that Obama has lost his charm, the latter suggests that their own judgment was faulty. This also neatly sidesteps the troubling matter that Obama’s policies have tanked. (If he could only be more eloquent about the trillions spent, the public wouldn’t dessert him, the thinking goes.)

Third, Obama just doesn’t wear well. Having never stepped out of his campaign mode or put aside his contempt for the Bible and gun clingers (that would be a large segment of America), he’s grating on the nerves. Dowd quotes a “Peggy” (that Peggy? who knows if there is a Peggy at all):

I don’t watch him anymore. I’m turned off by him. I think he’s an elitist. He went down to the gulf, telling everyone to take a vacation down there, and then he goes to Martha’s Vineyard. He does what he wants but then he tells us to do other things. I want him in that White House acting like a president, not out on the campaign trail. Not when the country is going down the toilet.

And finally, Obama thought we could never get enough of him. He has been omnipresent — everywhere from the all-star game to People magazine. Former White House officials warned that the presidency is a commodity that should be jealously guarded. But Obama has insisted on splattering himself on every publication and appearing on virtually every cable TV station. (He might have missed Food Network, although his wife did show up there.) Even someone with something interesting to say can’t say it for two years without losing his freshness.

I’m doubtful Obama can reinvent himself, either intellectually or personally. He’s not struck us as one willing to moderate his ideology or to reflect on his own weaknesses. And it may be that just as bored as liberals are of him, he’s bored with the job and tired of the incessant criticism, fed up with unappreciative Americans, and frustrated that the country and world do not fall at his feet. Maybe one term really is enough for him — and for his disenchanted supporters.

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#1. To: no gnu taxes (#0)

The problem here is the attempt to keep up with the MSM.

Like note how the Quran Burning/Mosque at Ground Zero has just disappeared?

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We've also talked ad nauseam about the effects of both increasing debt levels and lower tax revenues on essential services. Cutting police services in a time when people overall get poorer, and a huge part of the younger population realizes that it’ll never be allowed anything near the level of -financial- well-being their parents' generation has enjoyed, it's like laying out the fuse to the powder keg for everyone to light.

Hell is here!

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-16   10:20:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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Yet, Spanish leaders were deluded by a sense of false prosperity. This is testified by the statement of a prominent official, Alfonso Nunez de Castro in 1675: “Let London manufacture those fine fabrics of hers to her heart's content; let Holland her chambrays; Florence her cloth; the Indies their beaver and vicuna; Milan her brocade, Italy and Flanders their linens...so long as our capital can enjoy them; the only thing it proves is that all nations train their journeymen for Madrid, and that Madrid is the queen of Parliaments, for all the world serves her and she serves nobody.” A few years later, the Madrid government was bankrupt. The Spanish nobleman had foolishly elevated consumption, a use for wealth, above production, the creation of wealth.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-16   10:22:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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Today, the American “empire” is also trying to consume more than it produces. The U.S. trade deficit is nearing Spain’s nadir of imports being double exports. Both government spending and private consumption are financed heavily by debt. Washington is printing money, the modern equivalent of digging gold out of the ground, rather than earning the means to pay its bills. And the political and military elites are apparently indifferent to the fate of domestic business and industry. Americans must learn ... from the Spanish experience ... and take corrective action while they still can.

The United States Joint Forces Command - which oversees military operations in the North Atlantic geographic area and supports the other commanders-in-chief in their geographic regions around the world - is now echoing all of these themes.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-16   10:23:19 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: mcgowanjm (#3)

Washington is printing money,

"The pump don't work, 'cause the vandal took the handle" ~Bob Dylan (Subterranean Homesick Blues)

Hondo68  posted on  2010-09-16   11:11:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: hondo68 (#7)

Washington is printing money,

"The pump don't work, 'cause the vandal took the handle" ~Bob Dylan (Subterranean Homesick Blues)

Worse. The 'printed money' is only electronic bytes.

DC can't produce the actual 'bill' any faster than they have been.

We have maybe $2 trillion in actual currency now.

To pay off $1.5 Quadrillion.

So the struggle of barbarism vs. civilization plays out along these lines: It’s centralization vs. decentralization, concentration vs. rational and equitable distribution, corporatism vs. anti-corporatism, democratic federalism vs. Bigness itself, in two words democracy vs. elitism.

All large structures - corporations, the government, the MSM, academia, most if not all large advocacy groups – are on the wrong side of this divide. They’ve all become corporatized, kleptocratized. Even the most well-meaning cadres (what few there may be) within this structure still want elitist monopoly, elitist collection of all the social wealth, and for some of it to then trickle back down. Anyone who wants this is the enemy.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-16   11:32:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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2. As has been empirically proven after decades of neoliberalism’s freedom to perform its alleged trickle-down magic, all its effects are bad. Jobs, income, quality of life, social feelings of comfort and security, community health and psychological well-being, medical health – by these and many other metrics all its promises were lies. So even if one is by nature a conformist slave who would be happy to live under trickle-down, one would if one were honest still have to call it a failure since it doesn’t work the way it was promised anyway.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-16   11:39:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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2. As has been empirically proven after decades of neoliberalism’s freedom to perform its alleged trickle-down magic, all its effects are bad. Jobs, income, quality of life, social feelings of comfort and security, community health and psychological well-being, medical health – by these and many other metrics all its promises were lies. So even if one is by nature a conformist slave who would be happy to live under trickle-down, one would if one were honest still have to call it a failure since it doesn’t work the way it was promised anyway

The Reagan legacy.

mininggold  posted on  2010-09-16   12:23:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: mininggold (#10)

And All it's promises were lies.

'I find your lack of faith in the power of the force, disturbing.'

D Vader 8D

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