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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 680671" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p><strong>Re: Obamanation here today</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Dr. Hunt is a social and cultural anthropologist.. He has had</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">nearly 30 years experience in planning, conducting, and managing</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">research in the field of youth studies, and drug and alcohol</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">research. Currently Dr. Hunt is a Senior Research Scientist at the</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Institute for Scientific Analysis and the Principal Investigator on</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">three National Institutes on Health projects. He is also a writer</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">for American Thinker.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">____________________________________________________</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">An article from American Thinker by Geoffrey P. Hunt</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Anatomy of a Failing Presidency</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">presidency since Woodrow Wilson. In the modern era, we've seen</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">several failed presidencies--led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">presidents have one strong common trait-- they are repudiated, in</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">the vernacular, spat out. Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">statesman has been partially restored by his triumphant overture</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">to China 20.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">But, Barack Obama is failing. Failing big. Failing fast. And</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">importantly, in forging connections with the American people. The</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">incomparable Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">finger on it: He is failing because he has no understanding of the</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">American people, and may indeed loathe them. Fred Barnes of the</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Weekly Standard says he is failing because he has lost control of</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">his message, and is overexposed. Clarice Feldman of American</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Thinker produced a dispositive commentary showing that Obama is</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">failing because fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">of shame.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">But, there is something more seriously wrong: How could a new</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">president riding in on a wave of unprecedented promise and goodwill</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">have forfeited his tenure and become a lame duck in a year?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">His poll ratings are in free fall. In generic balloting, the</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Republicans have now seized a five point advantage. This truly is</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">unbelievable. What's going on?</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">No narrative. Obama doesn't have a narrative. No, not a</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">narrative about himself. He has a self-narrative, much of it</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else. But</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">this self-narrative is isolated and doesn't connect with us. He</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">doesn't have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of us.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">All successful presidents have a narrative about the American</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">character that intersects with their own where they display a</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">command of history and reveal an authenticity at the core of their</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">personality that resonates in a positive endearing way with the</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">majority of Americans. We admire those presidents whose narratives</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">not only touch our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and smarter</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">than we are. Presidents we admire are aspirational peers, even</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">those whose politics don't align exactly with our own: Teddy</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Ike, and Reagan.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">But not this president. It's not so much that he's a phony,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">knows nothing about economics, and is historically illiterate and</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">woefully small minded for the size of the task--all contributory of</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">course. It's that he's not one of us. And whatever he is, his</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">made from delaminated corrugated paper. Moreover, he doesn't</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant and how things</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">work just don't add up. They are not existential. His descriptions</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">of the world we live in don't make sense and don't correspond with</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">our experience.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">In the meantime, while we've been struggling to take a</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">measurement of this man, he's dissed just about every one of us-- financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance executives, police</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">officers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, post office</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">workers, and anybody else who has a non-green job.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in 2012: "For</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">those of you I offended, I apologize. For those of you who were</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">not offended, you just didn't give me enough time; if only I'd had</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">a second term, I could have offended you too."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional Convention in</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">1787 devised a useful remedy for such a desperate state--staggered</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">terms for both houses of the legislature and the executive. An</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">equally abominable Congress can get voted out next year. With a</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">new Congress, there's always hope of legislative gridlock until we</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">vote for president again two short years after that.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama among them. The</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">coyotes howl but the wagon train keeps rolling along.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Margaret Thatcher: "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">later you run out of other people's money."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">"When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">both." - James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." – Tacitus</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">own." <span style="color: #1f497d"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">–</span></span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"> Unknown</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 680671, member: 1246"] [b]Re: Obamanation here today[/b] [FONT=Century Gothic]Dr. Hunt is a social and cultural anthropologist.. He has had[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]nearly 30 years experience in planning, conducting, and managing[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]research in the field of youth studies, and drug and alcohol[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]research. Currently Dr. Hunt is a Senior Research Scientist at the[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]Institute for Scientific Analysis and the Principal Investigator on[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]three National Institutes on Health projects. He is also a writer[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]for American Thinker.[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]____________________________________________________[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]An article from American Thinker by Geoffrey P. Hunt[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]Anatomy of a Failing Presidency[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]presidency since Woodrow Wilson. In the modern era, we've seen[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]several failed presidencies--led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]presidents have one strong common trait-- they are repudiated, in[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]the vernacular, spat out. Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party.[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]statesman has been partially restored by his triumphant overture[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]to China 20.[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]But, Barack Obama is failing. Failing big. Failing fast. And[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]importantly, in forging connections with the American people. The[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]incomparable Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]finger on it: He is failing because he has no understanding of the[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]American people, and may indeed loathe them. Fred Barnes of the[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]Weekly Standard says he is failing because he has lost control of[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]his message, and is overexposed. Clarice Feldman of American[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]Thinker produced a dispositive commentary showing that Obama is[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]failing because fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate;[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]of shame.[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]But, there is something more seriously wrong: How could a new[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]president riding in on a wave of unprecedented promise and goodwill[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]have forfeited his tenure and become a lame duck in a year?[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]His poll ratings are in free fall. In generic balloting, the[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]Republicans have now seized a five point advantage. This truly is[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]unbelievable. What's going on?[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]No narrative. Obama doesn't have a narrative. No, not a[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]narrative about himself. He has a self-narrative, much of it[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else. But[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]this self-narrative is isolated and doesn't connect with us. He[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]doesn't have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of us.[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]All successful presidents have a narrative about the American[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]character that intersects with their own where they display a[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]command of history and reveal an authenticity at the core of their[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]personality that resonates in a positive endearing way with the[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]majority of Americans. We admire those presidents whose narratives[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]not only touch our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and smarter[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]than we are. Presidents we admire are aspirational peers, even[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]those whose politics don't align exactly with our own: Teddy[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Ike, and Reagan.[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]But not this president. It's not so much that he's a phony,[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]knows nothing about economics, and is historically illiterate and[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]woefully small minded for the size of the task--all contributory of[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]course. It's that he's not one of us. And whatever he is, his[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]made from delaminated corrugated paper. Moreover, he doesn't[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant and how things[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]work just don't add up. They are not existential. His descriptions[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]of the world we live in don't make sense and don't correspond with[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]our experience.[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]In the meantime, while we've been struggling to take a[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]measurement of this man, he's dissed just about every one of us-- financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance executives, police[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]officers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, post office[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]workers, and anybody else who has a non-green job.[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in 2012: "For[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]those of you I offended, I apologize. For those of you who were[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]not offended, you just didn't give me enough time; if only I'd had[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]a second term, I could have offended you too."[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional Convention in[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]1787 devised a useful remedy for such a desperate state--staggered[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]terms for both houses of the legislature and the executive. An[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]equally abominable Congress can get voted out next year. With a[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]new Congress, there's always hope of legislative gridlock until we[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]vote for president again two short years after that.[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama among them. The[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]coyotes howl but the wagon train keeps rolling along.[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]Margaret Thatcher: "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]later you run out of other people's money."[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]"When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]both." - James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." – Tacitus[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't[/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic]own." [COLOR=#1f497d][FONT=Century Gothic]–[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic] Unknown[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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