Weakness and utter confusion in time of crisis. Cracking like the Washington Monument from his self-caused gathering storm. The curtain is falling on the Obama presidency as the final act of this tragedy unfolds.
Samuel in the comments section of my last piece wrote this bit of wishful thinking:
"GOP IS GOING TO BE P.O.'D
Something tells me that Obama has something big planned and you Repubs and tea party extremists are not going to like it. Just like when Obama got bin Laden. Boy, were you guys p.o.'d about that. GWB promised it but then stopped the hunt (by his own admission) Obama is not the bully street fighter that you people are. Obama is a very cerebral person and chooses to win by using his brains."
My reply is as follows:
Obama isn't just a very cerebral person Sam, he's overly, excessively, lopsidedly cerebral-which is a problem for him and his party. There's a huge disconnect between Obama's head and heart that makes him too cold, detached and emotionless to be an effective communicator and speaker-unlike FDR and Reagan he never reaches your gut.
Thursday's speech will be like all the others: unmoving, unconvincing, tedious, sad-unable to make a deep impression on people and rally them to his flag. As Obama failed to persuade most Americans to back his healthcare plan, what then can he accomplish with a public that's lost faith in him? That's lost trust after all the broken promises, mendacity, childishness and lies? Why would they believe him now on anything he says? Why when all his political capital is spent; used up on his fight for healthcare reform which most Americans abhor as another budget busting entitlement program?
After 31 months the public is tired of Obama and sees him for what he is: an economic failure who doesn't know what he's doing; who spreads weakness, uncertainty and confusion; who can't make his presidency work; who lacks the judgment, instincts and maturity to command; who's an erratic, directionless nowhere man; nothing he'll say on Thursday will change that. Character is destiny. And whatever deceitful concessions he makes to the GOP on tax cuts, regulatory easing, and spending restraints the damage is done having gone too deep. OBAMA'S FATE IS SEALED. This speech comes too late to save him and his party from political defeat.
Postscript: Answering Karen On Obama's Deceitful EPA Concession
Our friend Karen writes:
"Apollo, what do you make of this?
POLITICO: Sep. 2, 2011 - 6:01 PM EST
Leaders of environmental and public health groups arrived at the White House Friday morning for what was supposed to be a look-ahead at the fall energy and environment agenda.
What they got instead was a rude awakening.
Administration officials told the stunned environs that President Barrack Baa was pulling the plug on plans to tighten Bush-era ozone standards — standards Baa’s own EPA chief has previously declared “not legally defensible.”
Obama announced that he was asking EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to put the new rule on ice — characterizing the decision as part of a larger effort aimed at “reducing regulatory burdens and regulatory uncertainty, particularly as our economy continues to recover.”
I'm just as stunned as the green nuts. What say you [Apollo]?
What I say is this:
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. You will notice that the Politico article reads that the regulations "have been put on ice." This suggests that if reelected the ice will thaw like an iceberg melted by Climate Change, and that Obama will execute these stifling regulations in his second term. Indeed, if Lisa Jackson doesn't resign as EPA head over this "outrage" that's a sign that Obama's playing hocus pious politics-and isn't serious, as Greek Fire says, about "extending the Bush Clean Air Act." If Obama were serious about "reducing regulatory burdens and regulatory uncertainty, particularly as our economy begins to recover" he'd call for the repeal of ObamaCare and Dodd/Frank with their thousands of pages of burdensome, uncertainty causing rules and regulations. This is nothing more than a campaign ploy to seem centrist (a centrist offensive), silence Republicans and recapture the independent vote. But it's a two edged sword. Obama may have opened a Pandora's Box. Now the GOP candidates will be pounding him that he hasn't gone far enough and that he must repeal ObamaCare and FinReg to prove he means business (which he doesn't).
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