Here is an article that says Obama is no Reagan… well no kidding. Obama is not worthy to set at the same desk Reagan sat at better yet be compared to him – Reagan loved this country, Obama not so much.
Reporting from Washington — If Ronald Reagan was the classic Teflon president, Barack Obama is made of Velcro.
Somehow, I think saying Obama is made of Velcro will be called racist by those on the left (don’t ask me to explain it).
Through two terms, Reagan eluded much of the responsibility for recession and foreign policy scandal. In less than two years, Obama has become ensnared in blame.
That’s because Reagan was making things better, not worse.
Hoping to better insulate Obama, White House aides have sought to give other Cabinet officials a higher profile and additional public exposure. They are also crafting new ways to explain the president’s policies to a skeptical public.
You will never shut this narcissist up – they have to be the center of attention good or bad.
But Obama remains the colossus of his administration — to a point where trouble anywhere in the world is often his to solve.
Narcissistic personality disorder look it up – the man-child has it in spades.
The president is on the hook to repair the Gulf Coast oil spill disaster, stabilize Afghanistan, help fix Greece’s ailing economy and do right by Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official fired as a result of a misleading fragment of videotape.
What’s not sticking to Obama is a legislative track record that his recent predecessors might envy. Political dividends from passage of a healthcare overhaul or a financial regulatory bill have been fleeting.
Political dividends from passage of a healthcare overhaul or a financial regulatory bill? You are kidding me in your observation that envy has been fleeting – nobody wanted it! The public is against it and we are sick of this little boy telling us what’s good for us.
Instead, voters are measuring his presidency by a more immediate yardstick: Is he creating enough jobs? So far the verdict is no, and that has taken a toll on Obama’s approval ratings. Only 46% approve of Obama’s job performance, compared with 47% who disapprove, according to Gallup’s daily tracking poll.
Gallup huh? Let’s have a look at the collective reality – the RCP average is 45% approve and 49.7 disapprove as of 7/31
Obama lately has tried to rip off the Velcro veneer. In a revealing moment during the oil spill crisis, he reminded Americans that his powers aren’t “limitless.” He told residents in Grand Isle, La., that he is a flesh-and-blood president, not a comic-book superhero able to dive to the bottom of the sea and plug the hole.
“I can’t suck it up with a straw,” he said.
I seems to remember Obama’s megalomaniacal line – “I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.” — anybody else remember that bullshit? Now he said that before the election and yet the drones still voted for his dumbass.
Clinching the Democratic nomination two years ago, Obama described the moment as an epic breakthrough when “we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless” and “when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”
Those towering goals remain a long way off. And most people would have preferred to see Obama focus more narrowly on the “good jobs” part of the promise.
What I said …
Unemployment has been rising — from 7.7% when Obama took office, to 9.5%. Last month, more than 2 million homes in the U.S. were in various stages of foreclosure — up from 1.7 million when Obama was sworn in.
“Folks just aren’t in a mood to hand out gold stars when unemployment is hovering around 10%,” said Paul Begala, a Democratic pundit.
You think so Captain Obvious?
But the Obama administration is about one man. Obama is the White House’s chief spokesman, policy pitchman, fundraiser and negotiator. No Cabinet secretary has emerged as an adequate surrogate. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner is seen as a tepid public speaker; Energy Secretary Steven Chu is prone to long, wonky digressions and has rarely gone before the cameras during an oil spill crisis that he is working to end.
So, more falls to Obama, reinforcing the Velcro effect: Everything sticks to him. He has opined on virtually everything in the hundreds of public statements he has made: nuclear arms treaties, basketball star LeBron James’ career plans; Chelsea Clinton’s wedding.
That’s because narcissist are control freaks and are of the opinion that no one can do anything but them – they believe they are the smartest idiot in the room and if they do not do it it can not be done – Reagan on the other hand was older, wiser and more mature and knew how to delegate – something the little man-child can’t do.
“Stylistically he creates some of those problems,” Eddie Mahe, a Republican political strategist, said in an interview. “His favorite pronoun is ‘I.’
Don’t forget – ‘me’ and ‘my’ – like I said NPD – Narcissistic personality disorder.
A new White House strategy is to forgo talk of big policy changes that are easy to ridicule. Instead, aides want to market policies as more digestible pieces. So, rather than tout the healthcare package as a whole, advisors will talk about smaller parts that may be more appealing and understandable — such as barring insurers from denying coverage based on preexisting conditions.
But at this stage, it may be late in the game to downsize either the president or his agenda.
Or what is known as piece-mill policies – keep your ears open for them.
Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) said: “The man came in promising change. He has a higher profile than some presidents because of his youth, his race and the way he came to the White House with the message he brought in. It’s naive to believe he can step back and have some Cabinet secretary be the face of the oil spill. The buck stops with his office.”
No Dick, the buck passing, finger pointing, not me mentality starts with his office.
Yes, Obama disses America’s BFF (Best Friend Forever), Great Brittan. You might already already know this, Gordon Brown gave Dopey gifts included an ornamental desk pen holder made from the oak timbers of Victorian anti-slaver HMS Gannet, once named HMS President, he also gave Obama a first edition set of the seven-volume classic biography of Churchill by Sir Martin Gilbert.
