Buyer’s Remorse – The Left Is Throwing In The Towel…
Long-time supporter, Taylor Marsh gives up on Obama.
HotAir: “a simply jaw dropping editorial tirade this weekend from Taylor Marsh. (Actually Michelle Marshall). For those not familiar, she was arguably one of Obama’s most hard core supporters. A devotee of Gloria Steinam, to say that she embodies the modern progressive movement would be a bit of an understatement to say the least.
All of this is what makes her New Years declaration more shocking. Titled, “The Party’s Over,” she takes not only Barack Obama, but Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democratic establishment to task while pretty much running up the white flag for liberalism.
It’s a great read from the left’s perspective…
Best comment: Sums it all up.
Karl K:
You lefties just KILL me. How does it feel to be totally snookered by Obama? Of course, had you exercised an ounce of critical thinking before you all swooned over him, you wouldn’t have be so soundly and thoroughly snookered.
So why will Obama go down as a WORSE president that Jimmy Carter? Simple. He is an incompetent lazy hypocritical petulant charlatan.
That’s right, Obama is a charlatan, with neither the temperament, attitude, or intellect — yes, I said intellect — to be president. Because in the end, Obama is simply not that bright.
I don’t know about you, but when he got up and said “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for” and “this is the day the planet began to heal” my bullshit meter was redlining. Or when he says during the BP fiasco, “we won’t rest until…” — gimme a break. Astonishingly pretentious because, you know, we won’t be resting because we will be playing a lot of golf. Or raising a lot of campaign money. From a lot of Wall St. guys. If the speechifying isn’t pompous, or arrogant, it’s exploring new depths of banality and demagoguery, erecting false choices and straw men in sentence after sentence after sentence. And the quantity of speechifying! For a while there he was on TV giving an address or news conference more often than Seinfeld reruns.
Meanwhile, he’s supposed to be this intellectual giant, compared to Chimpy Bush McHitler, but then winds up shooting his mouth off about the Cambridge police and surgeon’s fees for diabetic amputations without having any facts at hand, among other examples too numerous to mention. He lies about his mother not getting insurance because of pre-existing conditions.
Then there are his rhetorical gaffes — 57 states, the constitution was written 20 centuries ago, “corpseman” Austrians speak Austrian — that pass by unnoticed by the fawning media but would be front page news if uttered by Dubya or, the media’s favorite whipping girl, Sarah Palin, or the favorite whipping boys, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum. Of course, even when the teleprompter provides him fully formed sentences, virtually everything Obama says has a “sell-by” date — Guantanamo, status of Jerusalem, the ground zero mosque, health care negotiations on CSPAN, shovel ready projects-, and the biggest whopper of all, deficit reduction — you name it, he’ll take one side, and then the other, or ignore what he promised, and then give us the “HOPE” upturned look, pretending that he’s actually thinking.
Of course, the apologists put it down to other qualities — too aloof, too technocratic, too businesslike — matters of style, not substance. Of course, that’s what OBAMA thinks too – in his delusion or pretense (I’m not sure which is worse) the “shellacking” he and his party got in the 2010 mid-term election was all about not getting the message out well enough. Of course, that’s total drek. The Democrats got their asses handed to them because (1) they spent too much money — the stimulus was about as effective as dropping $100 bills randomly out of airplanes — and (2) they rammed through a 2700 page baroque health care bill whose intended and unintended consequences have yet to unfold but which reflect a kind of governmental intervention that the American electorate is, with some justification, suspicious of.
Top that off by the fact that people are waking up to the horror that state and local governments have spun out of financial control — largely under the reign of Democrats — and for Democrats, you’ve got a 3-part formula for being summarily shown the exit door, and told not to let it hit them on the way out.
You know, sometimes, in my most cynical moments, I think folks are swayed because Obama looks good in a suit — see the covers of Rolling Stone — especially when he does that swagger walk. 40 long is my guess. If nothing else, he has a future career as a Ralph Lauren model, which may come sooner that he wants. It’s the “glamour.”
But when you cut through it all, Obama has revealed himself: he’s a narcissistic petulant hypocrite (“They talk about me like I am a dog.”) And then there’s the pettiness — it’s like there’s nothing else out there that rivals the menace of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, the state of Arizona and its immigration policies — or that most insidious of organizations, the US Chamber of Commerce(!!). Holy crap. Attacking the Supreme Court during the state of the union while they have to sit there, stone faced. It brings new meaning to the word “crass.”
His policy and management mistakes are taking on epic proportions. He outsourced his legislative agenda to the Assistant Vice Principal Harry Reid and the frozen-faced Speaker Pelosi (“We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it;” “The health care bill will create 400,000 jobs”)…if both of them had IQs any lower we’d have to water them twice a day. And then we get Cash for Clunkers, bailing out GM with money the taxpayer will never see…rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat.
And virtually every senior person he has put into his administration has been a joke; (the only decent one, Gates, was a Bush leftover). Salazar on the oil spill; Holder, he of the deaths from Fast and Furious, and who makes Alberto Gonzales look competent; Romer promising an amazingly unrealistic unemployment rate; Geithner the tax cheat and Goldman lackey; Napolitano and the TSA and the airport hand groping we all have to deal with; Chu the nobel prize winner who should be getting the economic BOOBY prize for flushing a half a billion dollars of taxpayer money down the Solyndra toilet….and on and on and on. His chief space guy thinks his main mission is outreach to the Islamic world. Really, it’s fucking endless.
His foreign trips have been humiliating embarrassments: running around the Copenhagen conference, trying to broker a meaningless climate deal, while everyone avoids him; pitching Chicago for the Olympics and getting voted off the island in the first round; in the Far East, selling stimulus when no one’s buying and failing to get a trade agreement that should have been signed and sealed before he left the country. Bowing to foreign leaders. Raising his hand in the middle of a group picture of world leaders. Idiotic.
Bottom line? Incompetence and embarrassment run wild in the clusterfuck that is the Obama administration.
Top it all off, the media still has their noses right up his sphincter, leaving Obama completely exempt from the rabid dog inquisitiveness customary with, say, Republican candidates. Of course he will not release his college and law school transcripts… because well, he thinks he is above it all. And the media go ga ga anyway. Of course he doesn’t have to explain his 20 years in the pew of a racist pastor. Of course he’s never asked why he renounced public financing of presidential campaigns in the general election, why he is the first candidate in recent memory not to have released his medical records, or the first to have raised $1 billion dollars in private cash, or the first to have played 90 rounds of golf in his first three years in office. No wonder he turns up his nose so often in his Mussolini like pose. He knows he will ALWAYS get a pass.
Meanwhile, all you guys are going to hold your noses and vote for him again…you too Taylor. You wanna know why? Because you all think Republicans are heartless devils who are going to turn the United States into a racist evangelical revival meeting, and force girls to get abortions by back alley quacks with un-sterile coat hangers.
In other words, there are new places of stupidity that you have to visit. My advice? Bring your dramamine.
Of course, this was the Obama strategy all along. Snooker them with visions of unicorns….and when they wake up and find nothing, snooker them by demonizing the opponents. So, come November, when you punch the card, or flip the lever, remember, you’ve been snookered again.
God I hope there’s real change coming. Frankly, a Pentecostal snake charmer would be an improvement over this guy.
photo credit: Bright Tal
January 2nd, 2012 at 10:08 am
He promised to pay for the public’s housing mortage and pay for their gas bills. What happened since then? Nothing! People lost their homes and so on.
The media bears the bigger responsibilty for allowing Obama to flow through their fingers without a nary a word in contradiction. He BOUGHT the media period.
January 2nd, 2012 at 6:36 pm
I have never been impressed with Obama’s speaking ability – not even during his 2008 campaign, when he was sending shivers down pundits’ legs. I just can’t see what the attraction is.
January 2nd, 2012 at 6:44 pm
In the words of Bonnie Parker from the movie “Bonnie and Clyde”:
Your advertising is dandy. Folks’d just never guess you don’t have a thing to sell.
February 16th, 2012 at 10:38 pm
I left the US in 2001 to live in Asia. Every time I return to America, I see the USA getting worse. I am angry, shocked, surprised, saddened, disappointed, and disgusted by the changes I see.
When I leave from a sparkling new modern Asian airport like Hong Kong, Seoul, or Shanghai and land at a run down American airport like LAX that has faded signs, broken water fountains, and a decor that looks like it hasn’t been updated since 1984, I feel like I have arrived in a 3rd world country.
I see Americans getting fatter.
I see more laws in the USA that outlaw everything from baggy pants to sex tourism to artificial turf to feeding the homeless to banning fast food restaurants.
I see the end of freedom in the US. Americans can now be added to no fly lists. The US Constitution has been overruled by the Patriot Act that has legalized wiretaps without a warrant and allows the government to deport and strip any American of his or her citizenship. Does that sound American to you?
http://articles.latimes.com/print/2011/jun/02/news/la-pn-patriot-act-alarm-20110602
The prison at Guantanamo has been opened to detain and torture suspected terrorists indefinitely without trial.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/06/25/human_rights_chief_appeals_to_us_on_guantanamo_inmates/
The US now has a secret panel “kill list” of Americans who are targeted to be assassinated without a trial.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/us-cia-killlist-idUSTRE79475C20111005
President Obama recently signed the National Defense Authorization Act that allows the indefinite detention of any American or foreigner accused of terrorism without trial by the US military on US or foreign soil.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/02/president-obama-signed-the-national-defense-authorization-act-now-what/
I see a higher unemployment rate and more welfare. I see jobs have been offshored to cheaper countries, more jobs lost to technology, and the US flooded with illegal immigrants that take American jobs, don’t pay taxes, and drain government resources.
I see indebted Americans who bought more than they could afford and a broke US government that has lowered taxes, but increased spending on unnecessary wars.
Looking at the history of Rome, Nazi Germany, and the United States, I see some disturbing parallels:
1. While becoming a superpower, Rome abandoned the very values with which it had won its supremacy.
2. Roman rulers used “self-defense” pretexts to invade other countries, with hawks criticizing doves for not being patriotic.
3. War benefited the Roman elite before the masses.
4. Wars were sold as about liberty and justice defeating tyranny.
5. The aggressor nation stated conditions to avoid war that are impossible for the opponent to comply with.
6. Powerful Romans hated to make concessions. They would have rather fought to the death instead of giving in to the the demands of citizens. The elite felt that they earned it, even though they used corruption to amass their wealth.
7. Romans became weak and lazy because the masses were given free bread and circuses.
8. The people seen as “barbarians” gradually wore down the empire, causing it to spend itself into bankruptcy.
In Nazi Germany, the Reichstag burned in 1933. In the USA, the World Trade center was attacked in 2001.
Nazi Germany passed the Enabling Act that gave Hitler dictatorial powers. The US now has the Patriot Act.
Nazi Germany opened Jewish concentration camps. The US has opened the Guantanamo Bay detention camps.
Germany invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland. The US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan.
Americans should not just be concerned by the recent changes in the US, they should be outraged. We need to get our country back.
I suggest that we start moving the US in a better direction by doing the following:
1. Americans would be more healthier and better looking if they just started eating
less and exercising more.
2. The US really needs to end the very scary and obvious movement that is banning freedom, increasing nanny state laws, and expanding the creation of a military socialist dictatorship. Even if politicians says they won’t use unconstitutional laws on the books now, doesn’t mean that later officials won’t. Americans that stay silent while illegal laws are enacted should not depend entirely on the Supreme Court to protect their rights because courts once protected slavery, segregation, and concentration camps as well. The time to protest unconstitutional laws is before they are enacted. Americans cannot naively believe a dictator like Hitler or Stalin will never seize power in the US.
If America has no freedom, criticizing countries like China or North Korea is hypocritical.
Everyone opposes terrorism, but if you want to prevent terrorism, give suspected terrorists a trial, improve airline security, and don’t give out visas easily. Terrorism should not be an excuse to declare war against Americans. Not only are many of the growing flood of regulations wrong, they are also unnecessary. One only needs to look at the pro-democracy protests in the Middle East to see Arabs prefer following a democratic model instead of Osama bin Laden terrorism.
3. Americans should call for a much smaller government with less welfare, a greatly reduced military budget, a tax hike on the richest, higher visa fees for foreigners, increasing sin taxes on alcohol and tobacco, reducing the wages of government workers, ending government farm and airline subsidies, and eliminating less important programs like Amtrak, PBS, and the National Endowment for the Arts. We should stop extending unemployment benefits and require unemployed Americans to take jobs in farming, meatpacking plants, construction, landscaping, and hotels. Business people should not be punished while lazy people are encouraged to depend on government welfare. Welfare makes people lazy and no country would be foolish enough to attack the US even with a smaller military. We need to get the American house in order before we try to control the world.
4. Americans need to start moving overseas to teach English and export US products. Whining about jobs being outsourced because foreign workers are willing to work cheaper is not very practical. Americans would be shocked how poor product quality and shopping selection is in 3rd world countries compared to the US. Would you rather have an American car or a Chinese one?
5. One of the few areas the US government needs to increase spending is enforcing immigration laws and protecting the border from illegal immigrants. Limited legal immigration is not bad, but allowing illegal immigrants to live in the US encourages disrespect for the law. Illegal immigrants should not be allowed to have driver licenses, pay in-state tuition, or receive government benefits. The lives of illegals should not be made easier or be rewarded for breaking the law. Illegals should be deported and employers should be required to use E-Verify. If 13 million Americans are out of work, 12 million illegal immigrants should not be taking up the jobs.
6. Americans need to start living within their means and stop taking on credit card debt, auto
loans, mortgages, and student loans. What you want and what you need are two different things.
7. Americans should vote for any presidential candidate other than Obama. Obama is a pessimistic pro-government, anti-business, anti-freedom, pro-illegal immigration, and pro-war politician who is continuing most of the worst policies of George W. Bush that will bankrupt the US without improving much at all.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/06/obama-we-still-face-some-tough-times/1
http://www.boston.com/business/healthcare/articles/2010/03/26/congress_completes_overhaul_of_health_care/
http://articles.latimes.com/print/2009/jan/28/nation/na-obama-capitol-hill28
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-acts-ease-burden-student-loans-001017820.html
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/09/GOP-Obama-regs-are-killing-jobs-548766/1
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/05/news/la-pn-obama-immigration-regulation-20120105
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1946990,00.html
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/10/obama-dispatches-100-troops-to-uganda/1
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-03-21-1Alibya21_CV_N.htm
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/11/fed-debt-hits-15-trillion-gop-blasts-obama/1
8. Despite the very real problems facing the US, Americans also need to remain confident. The USA is by far the richest and most powerful country in the world. Who invented the assembly line, telephones, movies, light bulbs, airplanes, air conditioning, elevators, skyscrapers, television, the atomic bomb, the pill, calculators, microwaves, lasers, the Internet, mobile phones, the space shuttle, and landed on the moon? What country wins the most medals at the Olympics despite having only 5% of the world population? If the United States is dying, why do so many people want to immigrate there?
While I must admit that I once did not oppose some of the policies like the Iraq war, less banking regulation, and tax cuts that lead to part of our current troubles, I now fear that more terrorism laws, bigger government, coddling illegal immigrants, and increased debt are not the solutions to our problems. I was quiet once about concerns I saw in the past and I regret it. Now I think people should not keep silent while watching a potential train wreck.
The problems facing the USA require urgent action. I love the United States and I do not want the strongest, richest, and most free country in the world to fall. Talk about the changes happening to the US with your friends and family, vote, donate to the ACLU, contact the media, and write to your elected officials. Thousands of Americans did not die fighting for freedom and democracy in wars to have liberty denied in the USA. Do not let their sacrifice go to waste.
America won’t be a beacon to the world if freedom is banned and the US goes bankrupt. Stand up, fight for your rights and values, and protect our country now!
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
http://www.aclu.org/
http://www.nannystate.com/
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