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Subject: Another Failed Presidency
An article from American Thinker 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, and Reagan.
But not this president. It's not so much that he's a phony,
> knows nothing about economics, and 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."
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
About the Author:
>
> Dr. Hunt is a social and cultural anthropologist. He 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. He is also a writer for American Thinker.
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