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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