Changey, not so hopey
Michael Goodwin echoes a theme that has been making the rounds (see Belmont Club for example):
I have heard basically the same story four times in the last 10 days, and the people doing the talking are in New York and Washington and are spread across the political spectrum…Obama has become a lone wolf, a stranger to his own government. He talks mostly, and sometimes only, to friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett and to David Axelrod…
Everybody else, including members of his Cabinet, have little face time with him except for brief meetings that serve as photo ops. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner both have complained, according to people who have talked to them, that they are shut out of important decisions.
Is this surprising? The guy made clear from the beginning, for example in this 2008 exchange with Charlie Gibson, that he had an agenda that maybe made sense among his Chicago community-organizing friends, but made no sense in the real world. He made it clear in early 2010 that his choice was to double down on failed policies when he upbraided Blanche Lincoln. So now they’re circling the wagons.
70% of the country disagrees with his ideas, so 70% of the country must be wrong. The guy is serious about changing the country whether it wants changing or not. We assume there will be a lot more street theater and anything else to distract from the central fact that the only issue is jobs, and that he must oppose real job creation in order to serve his ideology.
Some White House insiders saw this a year ago and got out while the getting was good. It surprises us that many more career politicians haven’t deserted this sinking ship. One bright spot is that the media are so openly disgracing themselves in continuing to cover for this guy. So there are some upsides, but at such a great cost to the nation.
October 11th, 2011 at 3:59 pm
If the nation ends up not trusting a corrupt media, then it’s a big plus. Those who can be trusted will win great rewards in the long term. As it should be.
October 11th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
That’s America. We eat our elites. But it can get messy.
October 12th, 2011 at 2:20 am
Elites are not what they used to be. One would have thought that the original Jimmy Carter was lesson enough for a lifetime.
October 12th, 2011 at 3:07 am
Valerie Jarrett has long been rumored to be a key insider for Obama. Perhaps she is really pulling most of the strings. Her praise of Van Jones (self proclaimed communist, Obama’s old green czar) His ideals fit right in with some of Obama’s statements.
Van Jones says the “green movement” is just a start, but “we’re going to push it, push it till it is the engine for transforming the whole society”.
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” ~Barack Hussein Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnDxzvc0OXk
Obama is in way over his head as leader of the free world. But he excels as a “secret agent” for real radicals. Why did Obama take the side of Chavez and Castro in Honduras, when Zelaya tried to set himself up as another banana republic dictator? What kind of transformation do he and Valerie really have in mind? Does it have anything to do with his desire for “an internal security force” as powerful and well funded as our military?
Obama consistently acts against the country’s interest, but in line with the gradualism that has been the far left’s strategy for decades. He shuts down American energy production at every turn, then hands over billions to Solindra style contributors in the name of saving the planet. Or to unions in the name of saving jobs.
October 12th, 2011 at 4:05 am
But then there is this from the Examiner:
“In fact, Gallup lists polls of GOP nomination battles taken at this point in every pre-election year dating back to 1959, and over the past half century, no front-runner has ever polled as low as 20 percent.It’s true that Sen. John McCain won the nomination despite polling at 16 percent this time four years ago and not being the frontrunner. But he lost. In fact, every one of the above candidates who went on to win the presidency was polling at above 40 percent by this point of the race.’
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/gop-should-be-alarmed-weakness-prez-field
Perhaps the old rules no longer apply, but I am becoming increasingly uneasy with our choices.