Posted: 2/18/2010 3:28:35 AM EDT
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American Thinker Whether or not you support President Obama's policies, one thing is becoming increasingly obvious: he simply lacks competence. The best indicator of this is his in effectiveness in accomplishing any of his own objectives. His first year in office resembles a quarterback who never completes a pass. His list of failures is all too familiar-health care reform, closing Guantanamo, cap-and-trade, and so on. He has failed to accomplish any of his self-identified top priorities. Other than getting himself elected, he appears to have a very limited range of abilities. For conservatives the president's incompetence is a mixed blessing. Conservatives are breathing sighs of relief that health care reform and cap-and-trade have crashed and burned. For his supporters his ineffectiveness must be painful to watch. Nevertheless, the fact that the most powerful man in the world is incompetent is not a good situation. Unfortunately, he is in a position to do major damage and has, in fact, already done so. His poorly conceived economic policies have unnecessarily prolonged and deepened the recession. His foreign policy missteps have jeopardized our national security. The frequency of the apologies and backtracks the president and his cabinet have had to make demonstrates that they don't seem to think before they speak or act. The president likes to make promises but seems to have no serious intention to actually deliver on them. Almost immediately after taking office he promised to close Guantanamo. Doing so is obviously a much more complicated and difficult undertaking than he envisioned. As George H. W. Bush discovered, there's no such thing as a free promise. His broken promise not to raise taxes cost him a second term. Mr. Obama is also ineffective in helping fellow Democrats win elections. Unless his success rate improves, he will earn the title of "the biggest loser." Democrat candidates this year may well be telling him, "thanks but no thanks." The president is not a good strategist. He is not a good judge of probabilities. He has a tendency for picking fights he has little or no chance of winning. It almost appears that he likes losing. Competence is mainly an issue for leaders of democratic countries. A dictator does not necessarily need to worry about it. A dictator gets things done through brute force, which is also the way he maintains his power. The citizenry pays a price for his incompetence, but the dictator does not. Mr. Obama has surrounded himself with similarly incompetent personnel. Ann Coulter has described Joe Biden as "Obama's assassination insurance." A president's press secretary is his public spokesman and primary interface with the press. You have to wonder what possessed him to hire someone like Robert Gibbs for that position. Mr. Gibbs is not an impressive persona, to put it mildly. Numerous other cabinet members have also been an embarrassment. Most of Mr. Obama's supporters have yet to admit that he is incompetent. It's becoming increasingly obvious, however, and they can't be happy with his lack of results. The evidence of his incompetence is bound to accumulate further, and denial will be increasingly hard to maintain. If anyone is surprised by Mr. Obama's incompetence, you would have to wonder why. When he was running for the presidency, on what basis would anyone have assumed that he was competent? He had about the thinnest resume of anyone who had ever run for the office, with virtually zero executive experience. He really was the "hope" candidate, elected by voters relying on hope rather than evidence or common sense. Election results in New Jersey, Virginia, and Massachusetts demonstrate that many voters are suffering buyers' remorse. Unfortunately they have three years left on an unbreakable purchase contract. What is the probability that Mr. Obama will "grow in office" and develop competence? It's not high. After the president had gratuitously trashed his city for the second time, the mayor of Las Vegas, Oscar Goodman, observed that "the president is a real slow learner." Mr. Obama seems to be immune to feedback. He, in fact, brags about his stubbornness and refusal to give up on Obamacare in the face of overwhelming public disapproval and the high cost of prolonging a hopeless endeavor. The change candidate is himself unwilling to change. Although Mr. Obama's incompetence will persist, other important corrective steps are already underway. Conservatives are more energized and motivated than perhaps any time in memory. We may very well see a Democrat electoral bloodbath in November. Judging from how much fun Scott Brown's victory was for conservatives, it could be a time to cherish. As time goes by, it becomes vividly apparent that Zer0 is a man of average intelligence, an affirmative action student pushed along through the sysem by an adoring academia because of his Marxist leanings. 0bama is a dangerous man put in place by others whose goal is to take down America. Too much secrecy to be anything else. If it's not true, then he needs to prove it. |
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The president is not a good strategist. He is not a good judge of probabilities. He has a tendency for picking fights he has little or no chance of winning. It almost appears that he likes losing.
for obama, losing justifies his racist "white man's greed runs a world in need" worldview. |
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while entirely factual, the article assumes obama has achieved nothing. the .gov has usurped more power than it ever has before during peace time, the .gov is also larger than ever before. there's turmoil on many levels. the first two have undoubtedly been the hopes of obama since he attended college and wrote of seeking out radicals and marxist professors as mentors. one might need to don the tin foil, at least loosely, to agree that obama wants turmoil, but reference cloward-piven and saul alinsky (another of obama's mentors) to see liberal playbooks to gain more power, both coming to fruition under obama.
so has he failed to achieve certain things? yes, but he's also achieved his overarching goal of more .gov power. |
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0bama is a dangerous man put in place by others whose goal is to take down America. Too much secrecy to be anything else. If it's not true, then he needs to prove it.
I believe this with every fiber of my being. HH Just look at how much money Soros has MADE in the last year. As always, follow the money trail. |
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Ann Coulter has described Joe Biden as "Obama's assassination insurance."
That's funny as hell, but quite sad as well.  Dennis Miller said he saw Biden on Ash Wednesday. At first he didn't realize that Joe was so religious, then it occurred to him that Obama was putting his smokes out on Joe's forehead. "It's part of the job, Joe."
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Ann Coulter has described Joe Biden as "Obama's assassination insurance."
That's funny as hell, but quite sad as well. Dennis Miller said he saw Biden on Ash Wednesday. At first he didn't realize that Joe was so religious, then it occurred to him that Obama was putting his smokes out on Joe's forehead. "It's part of the job, Joe." I literally lol'd when he said that last night. HH |