The last few paragraphs have a real stick-a-fork-in-him tone:
Obama, in his Thursday news conference, spoke of regaining his clout as part of the game. His game plan: “My intention in terms of winning back the confidence of the American people is just to work as hard as I can, identify the problems that we’ve got, make sure that we’re fixing them.”“There are going to be ups and downs during the course of my presidency,” Obama said. “I think I said early on when I was running, I am not a perfect man and I will not be a perfect president.”He didn’t seem to consider that this may not be part of the usual ups and downs. And though he deserves credit for his apologies — seven times during his news conference, he said the problems with Obamacare are “on us” or “on me” — it’s not likely that the public’s loss of trust will be repaired no matter how often or how genuinely he says “my bad.”Even as he accepted responsibility for the debacle, he couldn’t resist transferring some blame to the assembled press (“the things that go right, you guys aren’t going to write about”) and to Republicans (“repeal, repeal, let’s get rid of this thing”).But Obama seemed genuinely puzzled by the notion that his leadership may have been the cause. He dismissed a question about whether his administration may be too insular (“I meet with an awful lot of folks”).And, he said, “when I do some Monday-morning quarterbacking on myself,” he concludes that maybe he should have been “breaking the mold” with the rollout earlier because “the federal government has not been good at this stuff in the past.”Wait a minute: Monday-morning quarterbacking? Maybe the president does understand that the game is over.
Anybody who is still carrying the Most Equal Comrade's water is certifiably delusional.
#1 be careful what you pray for & #2 when the going gets tough the tough get going.
ReplyDeleteYou would think that he would want to prove that government can do, but he can not. This could be viewed as karma for ramrodding the bill through without a single vote for even a miniscule measure of bipartisan support. That may be the lasting lesson for the remainder of our lifetimes. Not sayin' whatever the opposite of reasonable gentlepersons might be can't accomplish miracles with their God, if not exactly karma on their side by ramrodding any freedom loving agenda they might have in mind though.
ReplyDeleteI think this is part of what you're saying: The odd thing is that this guy seems barely interested in the fate of his signature achievement. I guess it's just of a piece with his generally aloof nature. Foreign policy seems to bore him as well. He's a lofty rhetoric guy, not a project-management guy.
ReplyDeleteNew reports out say he was trained to look, if not act, presidential, by an actor who had experience playing top executives. All the world's indeed a stage. If only someone with real substance, like Teddy (lol) were around to help him execute.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, Marco Rubio is already playing the morality card. I fear we will be facing the thought and action police again with the Pubs resurgence if it happens:
After he took the stage, one man yelled, “Rubio for president!” followed by applause. “The American Dream cannot be saved unless our people have the values they need for success,” Rubio said. “They cannot be taught by government, and they will not be taught by the tornado of entertainment content and media messaging swirling around our children every day.”
read more at http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/11/16/sen-marco-rubio-to-anti-gay-group-nations-morality-at-risk/
And now here comes your beloved Barracuda digging deep into what the new "liberal" pope's message is, as if she has some sort of moral compass. Well, it is late in the day as you say, even the pope can be corrupted with liberalism, right?
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