I once said that this election had turned into a high school popularity contest. I also said that Obama does not have the experience to be President emphasizing that fact that running a presidential campaign does not count as experience. I believe both of these statements have shown to be true. Even now President Obama seems to try to run the government as if he is running an election campaign. Off of polls and speeches.
When questioned on the excessive and wasteful government spending in the stimulus bill, David Axelrod responded by saying that the polls showed Obama had support for the spending. I am not sure exactly where he got his poll numbers from because everywhere I looked I saw outrage. Obama simply answered, I won. Of course he won with a message of supposed moderation, not the far left policies he has unleashed. As support waned, Obama made another campaign speech.
Even with the issues facing the country, Obama’s staff took the time to be the politicians they said that they were not. I think everyone knows that everything the President says or does is calculated and this held true for Obama’s attack on Rush Limbaugh as well. We now know that it was based upon poll numbers. Democratic strategists Stanley Greenberg and James Carville ran polls showing that Rush was not popular with younger voters. Armed with this information, Obama staff members to include Rahm Emanuel decided to go on the attack with Obama as their lead man. Rush is obviously an easy target, but he was also exposing a lot of the deceptions and wasteful spending in the stimulus at the time. Of course if Obama’s team looks at the poll numbers every week as Karl Rove recently stated, they know that their plan kinda backfired.
Obama’s inexperience is pretty evident even to those leaning hard to the left. You could see it coming during the campaign. His staff had an incredibly hard time getting schedules to the press in a timely manner and Obama himself was rarely on time. This pattern has followed him to the White House as he still cannot make it to scheduled events on time. Whether it is lack of time management and organization or ego is anyone’s guess.
My guess is lack of organization especially when you combine the lack of oversight of his political campaign donations. If the government had the time or money to investigate these donations a few more of Obama’s friends might be going to jail. There was also the unpaid bill of $1.74 million to his home city for his victory party on 4 Nov. I am sure it is paid now, but as of the end of February it wasn’t. I guess you could blame the DNC, but that just adds more fuel to the fire. That’s because the DNC has $5.9 million in funds, but $5 million in debts. (just for the record the RNC has a little over $22 million in funds and no debt) Kind of funny that they say they can fix our economy but have so much debt. Their debt is one of the reasons that Obama will be doing some fundraising here shortly. He is good at that, but probably could make better use of his time right now. Maybe he should think about doing that for charity instead of politics.
Obama’s inexperience has also been seen with his nominations for cabinet positions. His picks have been absolutely a nightmare for his administration. You could say it is judgment, but it is also a virtually non-existent vetting system. Why would you nominate someone who is already under investigation for pay to play politics (Bill Richardson)? Or numerous nominations of those with tax issues?
All this ranting really shows is what many people knew all along. Obama is a politician just like any other politician. His far left leaning policies are one thing, but all the stuff I talked about is the Change that was promised but not followed up on. As much as I disagree with his policies, I would have more respect for him as a person if he wasn’t so hypocritical on the very point he ran his campaign on. I think we all would.
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As usual, a calm, clear-sighted analysis. Thanks, Steady, for the solid research, concisely laid on the table.
inexperienced, you are being too kind, steady. all this guy has is media appeal to a dwindling base. all who voted for obama will be deeply disappointed. i just wonder how long it takes them to admit it. he appears on leno, makes a feeble gesture to iran in a video, needs a tele-prompter to articulate his ideas. it is amateur hour in the white house. it is so obvious that he/they have no clue as to what to do about the economy. bernanke just fired his final bullets on wednesday by allowing the fed to purchase treasuries. do you know what that means. it is double dipping. you see, treasuries are debt obligations that other people/countries purchase with existing dollars, yen, yuan, euros, etc…, but having the fed purchase treasuries with newly printed money out of thin air is criminal. i am now convinced their goal is to collapse the dollar and issue a new currency that will be greatly devalued from the existing dollar currency. there is one problem, the g-20 is going to beat the obama gang to the punch. they are orchestrating a new world currency and guess what, we will not be included. sure the g-20 will invite us to participate, but we will take the arrogant low road and try to go it alone, without the rest of the global financial community. we are toast and we don’t even know it yet.
the congress is the problem also:
we want them to obey our constitutional mandates and secure our borders and they ignore us.
we ask them to enforce our existing immigration laws and they ignore us.
we say, “stop the madness of handing out $300 billion of an already bankrupt treasury to illegal alien welfare”, and they ignore us.
we say, “stop exporting our industry to foreign shores”, and thery ignore us.
we say, “no to using our money to bailout failed, corrupt, and greedy businesses”, and they ignore us.
if our self serving congress were a business they would be in jail.
only when these non-representing representatives feel the allmighty wrath of “we the people” will they get the message. we have lost our representative republic, our servants have become our masters. taxation w/o representation is tyranny, but we still look to government to solve the problems that they created.
now, the missouri think tank is identifying anyone with anti-government rhetoric on t shirts and bumper stickers as modern militias and domestic terrorists. steady, they are beginninfg to feel the pressure of “we the people”, i need you to say no to the establishment. they are the problem. don’t give up hope, answer the call, get into the fight. it’s a good time to be a patriot. let’s put aside our differences and come together as americans, not republicans, democrats, libertarians. we have the right to question our government, not to overthrow it. i do not advocate that at all. questioning government is at the heart of of america’s proud heritage. it is the idea of liberty, not militias nor domestic terrorists that most threatens the establishment. finished
Thanks Zack.
Very well said Greg. I know a lot of people from all sides are tired of whats going on right now.