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Title: Obama shellacked again
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URL Source: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/ob ... more_and_more_like_lost_cause/
Published: Aug 2, 2011
Author: Michael Graham
Post Date: 2011-08-02 03:00:55 by socalv8
Keywords: debt, shellacked, racist?!
Views: 555
Comments: 8

“Americans love a winner. Americans will not tolerate a loser. The very idea of losing is hateful to an American.”

— Gen. George Patton

America is a center-right nation but we will, under the right conditions, vote for a liberal — even an extreme liberal. We might vote for a lush, a Lothario, perhaps even a lunatic.

But there is one thing Americans will not abide: A loser. That’s the one “L” word President Barack Obama cannot overcome.

And he’s dangerously close to a full-on “L7” face plant.

Forget all the talk about the Tea Party’s big win on the debt ceiling debate (which it was, by the way). Focus instead on the fact that, as a minority faction of the minority party that holds just one house of Congress, they opened a can of whoop ass on the “Leader of the Free World.”

Less than 1,000 days after Obama’s election swept progressives into power and conservatives into late-night gigs on Fox News, the Tea Party movement has beaten Barack back into borderline irrelevance.

Obama, aka “The Smartest President Ever” insisted for months that the debt ceiling be a “clean bill,” aka “no restrictions,” then abandoned that position for “balanced approach,” aka “tax hikes.”

In the end, Obama was forced to face the cameras Sunday night and endorse a plan that doesn’t include any — none — of the president’s original demands. Heck, it’s such a lousy deal for his liberal “friends” that he’s forced to brag about how well he works with his foes.

“It is a balanced compromise reflective of a divided government,” White House flak Jay Carney said yesterday.

In fact, it was a GOP proposal reflective of Obama’s plunge in popularity among independents. His support from these swing voters is down to a pathetic 34 percent. (In May ‘09 it was at 63 percent.)

Why has Obama lost the independents? Because he lost the debate. On spending, stimulus, Obamacare, taxes — this Ivy-League intellectual has lost every single argument to the “extremists” of the Tea Party.

Losing the ideological debate in 2009 led directly to his self-described “shellacking” in the 2010 elections. With Obama supporters losing big in every state that hadn’t recently elected a Kennedy, Obama lost the House and is very likely to lose the Senate next year.

And since losing that election, Obama has lost, well, everything.

The debt-ceiling debacle looks even worse when you recall that this entire “crisis” started as a GOP trap set by Team Obama. They believed that talking about financial collapse and cutting off Granny’s Social Security check would force the GOP into supporting tax hikes or, at the very least, something that looked enough like higher taxes to water down the issue in 2012.

Bill Clinton would have handed the GOP its head and bragged about it at the next intern sleepover. George W. Bush would have gritted his teeth and held his ground until he got something.

But Barack Obama, as Peggy Noonon pointed out in The Wall Street Journal, found a way to lose a fight “in which he had superior forces.” His foes have given him “too much mystique,” Noonan says. “He is not a devil, an alien, a socialist. He is a loser. And this is America, where nobody loves a loser.”

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#1. To: socalv8 (#0)

At some point the Bug becomes recognized as the Feature...;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-08-02   9:33:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: mcgowanjm, socalv8 (#1)

Obama did lose but by allowing the GOP to win it destroys America and positions China and Germany as the new world powers. America is just the land where obese, meth addicted unemployed kooks live. Putin already is calling America a parasite and urging a retreat from the dollar as the de-facto reserve currency of the world.

Win - Win for the world.

With the economy still in the dumper -- maybe permanently? -- and full-time jobs becoming as scarce as rain during a drought, huge percentages of Americans have had their (misplaced) faith in the American dream shaken, the upper-middle-class consumerist lifestyle is exposed as a mirage for anybody who plays by the rules. Capitalism and the America that embraced it as a way of life is now and forever more a failure. It does me good to know that the generation that voted in Reagan and his ideology will see their America die from that ideology before their very own eyes and knowing they had a hand in its destruction.

Godwinson  posted on  2011-08-02   10:01:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: socalv8 (#0)

Forget all the talk about the Tea Party’s big win on the debt ceiling debate

If that's the case then why are most of their "major" members coming out against it?

America...My Kind Of Place...

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I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...

war  posted on  2011-08-02   11:48:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Godwinson (#2)

America is just the land where obese, meth addicted unemployed kooks live.

Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president

no gnu taxes  posted on  2011-08-02   15:54:16 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: war (#3)

Forget all the talk about the Tea Party’s big win on the debt ceiling debate If that's the case then why are most of their "major" members coming out against it?

About the only thing they got out of it was no tax hikes, other than that they got nothing.......

When asked by a Liberal what I bought my Granddaughter for her 1st birthday I replied, "MORE AMMUNITION"!!!! -----------------------------"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

CZ82  posted on  2011-08-02   17:31:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Godwinson (#2)

China and Germany as the new world powers.

Germany has it's own problems brewing. Watch, hippy.

socalv8  posted on  2011-08-03   3:22:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Godwinson (#2)

A thrashing dinosaur.

Watch out for the tail...;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-08-03   8:39:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: socalv8 (#6)

Germany has it's own problems brewing. Watch, hippy.

Like then bear story.

Germany only has to out run US...;}

And Germany has Russia now...;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-08-03   8:40:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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