Thanks Judi cole!

This is right on, Judi. It is unbelievable how rapidly this guy has dismantled the capitalist system for the socialist-communist one. And all of the libs still love him. Fortunately swe have fewer of the libs than right thinking Americans. They got what they want, an election win at all costs, and America lost big time.




Sam



----- Original Message -----

From: judith Cole

Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:15 PM

Subject: A Review of the President's Performance









SEE WHAT YOU THINK OF THIS NARRATIVE.





Dr. Hunt is a social and cultural anthropologist, who has had nearly 30

years experience in planning, conducting, and managing research in the

field of youth studies, and drug and alcohol research. Currently Dr. Hunt

is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Scientific Analysis

and the Principal Investigator on three National Institutes on Health

projects.



Another Failed Presidency

By Geoffrey P. Hunt



Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency

since Woodrow Wilson. In the modern era, we've seen several failed

presidencies--led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed presidents have one

strong common trait-- they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out. Of

course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into

oncoming traffic by his own party. Richard Nixon indeed resigned in

disgrace, yet his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by

his triumphant overture to China ..



But, Barack Obama is failing. Failing big. Failing fast. And failing

everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in

forging connections with the American people. The incomparable Dorothy

Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger on it: He is failing

because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed

loathe them. Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard says he is failing because

he has lost control of his message, and is overexposed. Clarice Feldman

of American Thinker produced a dispositive commentary showing that Obama

is failing because fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his

intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame.



But, there is something more seriously wrong: How could a new president

riding in on a wave of unprecedented promise and goodwill have forfeited

his tenure and become a lame duck in six months? His poll ratings are in

free fall. In generic balloting, the Republicans have now seized a five

point advantage. This truly is unbelievable. What's going on?



No narrative. Obama doesn't have a narrative. No, not a narrative about

himself. He has a self-narrative, much of it fabricated, cleverly

disguised or written by someone else. But this self-narrative is isolated

and doesn't connect with us. He doesn't have an American narrative

that draws upon the rest of us. All successful presidents have a

narrative about the American character that intersects with their own

where they display a command of history and reveal an authenticity at the

core of their personality that resonates in a positive endearing way with

the majority of Americans. We admire those presidents whose narratives not

only touch our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and smarter than we are.

Presidents we admire are aspirational peers, even those whose politics

don't align exactly with our own: Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Ike,

Reagan.



But not this president. It's not so much that he's a phony, knows nothing

about economics, is historically illiterate, and woefully small minded for

the size of the task--all contributory of course. It's that he's not one

of us. And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of content,

like a cardboard cutout made from delaminated corrugated paper. Moreover,

he doesn't command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common

sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant and how things work

just don't add up. They are not existential. His descriptions of the world

we live in don't make sense and don't correspond with our experience.



In the meantime, while we've been struggling to take a measurement of this

man, he's dissed just about every one of us--financiers, energy producers,

banks, insurance executives, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospital

administrators, post office workers, and anybody else who has a non-green

job. Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in 2012: "For

those of you I offended, I apologize. For those of you who were not

offended, you just didn't give me enough time; if only I'd had a second

term, I could have offended you too."



Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 devised

a useful remedy for such a desperate state--staggered terms for both

houses of the legislature and the executive. An equally abominable

Congress can get voted out next year. With a new Congress, there's always

hope of legislative gridlock until we vote for president again two short

years after that.



Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama among them. The coyotes howl

but the wagon train keeps rolling along.



Margaret Thatcher: "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run

out of other people's money."



"When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." James

Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union



"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus



"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own." -

Unknown