That said, the BALANCE of what the non-Democrats have to say about Obama is SPOT ON (I think this is one of the most important political analysis' I have read).
Barack Obama -- a man who was as unprepared to be president as any man in our lifetime -- has over the last 16 months shown that he is overmatched by events.
The fact that a first term U.S. Senator with absolutely NO OTHER life success was elected president can be expressed in no better terms than my own "The MTVization of Politics". (Just kidding! I think its catchy... but as for being the best? I await our regular commenters crack at this.) BHO was not a self made millionaire (spare me on the "book") BHO never ran so much as a popsicle stand), pulling himself up by the boot straps and in the process showing Americans how its done. No, he is a lawyer, and a very bright one by all accounts, but being a "Constitutional Scholar" is almost the most hysterical oxymoron ever. Heck, if that works, I am going to promote myself to "Energy Scholar" or "Financial Markets Scholar"! (Sounds better than "analyst", doncha think?)
There is a good reason why America cannot address its dooming social spending programs, deficits, and energy policies. America is made of its people! A people that have been conditioned by strange forces into believing that something can be had for nothing, hard-work and effort have no account, frugality and modesty are obsolete, and human life is not worthy of respect (our solution for all problems and inconveniences? Bullets, bombs, abortions, more and more brutal "Justice" - all promulgated without a SHRED of thought for the "unintended consequences" nor any sort of "cost/benefit" analysis). It is disgustingly impressive how effectively TPTB have triangulated the people into a hodge-podge of hot button issues, allowing the extremes on either side to rule in concert as the 2 headed, one party system we all know and don't love.
Who elected/voted for BHO? Let's be BRUTALLY frank in this discussion. Was it the small business owner? The self made middle class millionaire living in flyover land? The family MAN living in a traditional household? NAFC.
Goldman Sachs' management is overwhelmingly Democrat - they went for Obama. The inner City (arguably the least productive regarding tax payments and the most costly in benefits)? 99% for BHO. Pro-Abortionists? 99% for BHO. Young people that have not supported a family, met a payroll, or a mortgage (for any length of time)? Overwhelmingly for Obama.
Don't like my analysis? TS (That is a "Tough Situation"). This is the Blogsphere, where NOTHING is sacred and where no subject - no matter how inconvenient, politically incorrect, or just plain sh*tty cannot be discussed without fear of reprisal. I read about the scientist that was working on the GOM problem was fired by the Government for some very non-P.C. writings on his website - that incident completely disabused me of the notion that anything intelligent will be done by the Government on that problem.
There's the way it is, and then there's the way you THINK it ought to be. The GOM is only the latest in a series of inconsistencies that our ELECTORATE, through their elected officials, has FUBAR. We, as a people have simply GOT to stop blaming others - even our elected officials... after all we elected them - and start taking responsibility. Not that this is a likely outcome at this moment... it is far more likely that it will be forced on us, but at least we can discuss it.
Because:
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. - Mark TwainObama's presidency is done; you can put a fork in it. He and Jimmy Carter will live forever in the speech circuit/book writing limbo of the folks that voted for them. This not a happy moment. I never held out much hope for BHO on issues like the social programs, the deficit, Fannie Mae et al. After all, he is a Liberal Democrat, he won, and to the victor go the spoils. I did hope that he might take a stab at reeling in the "empire", shrinking our military occupation forces around the world, and insist that the OTHER nations provide for their own security. What a joke! BHO's 2 biggest voting blocks, Feminists/Abortionists and Americans of African descent have no interest in reigning in the social programs but professed to be anti-empire. I guess not.
You can't get a little bit pregnant. The wars are bankrupting our nation and KILLING people while the P.C. crowd freaks out about Rand Paul. Well, "Me thinks THE MAN doth protest too much"... THE MAN being the the elitists populating Goldman Sachs, the U.S. Treasury, The Fed, and the current administration... it amazes me how these elites have so successfully tatooed the the racist moniker on the Tea Party folks while perpetuating the subgugation of people the world over. You see its ok to BOMB non-combatants and murder women and children, just don't point out what an abject failure the social programs have been in assimilating the inner city.
The GOM disaster is just one in a long line of challenges that our political system will fail.
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You left out the feminist vote as a main Obama supporter. When NOW and LWV threw in behind Obama Hillary went down in flames during the primary. Not that I think Hillary would have been better but.
Around these parts the voters who admit to voting for Obama are almost exclusively women and most admit they did so because of the backing he got by womens groups. Not from their own research.
BO was even heralded as an honorary woman right after the election by these groups.
Politics have always been a popularity contest but once the "fashions" become bazaar enough, like it has in other great societies in the past,that popularity rests on totally irrelevant attributes. Looks, smooth mannerism, popular whims and emotions not ability or experience.
I don't suppose that someone who has never worked in the energy industry, but instead traded shares of stock, is qualified to run an "American Energy Crisis" blog? :)
Like I said, Obama (and Rand Paul) were cries for help, and nothing more. Cries from an electorate that knows this country is on the wrong track (59% wrong direction in recent polls), that have 350% debt to GDP ($3.5 borrowed for every $1 in economic production), who can't figure out why they can't get ahead, that may be witnessing the inevitable end of the American empire, and a real worry that they may never get the benefits in their old age that they were promised.
The SUV orgy, as buyers wanted to buy these tanks and not be at the mercy of some natural disaster, should give us an idea of how terrified the over-50 set is of the future right now.
Obama was like Perot of 1992 -- perhaps no political experience, but they had what it took to bring people together to solve problems. Maybe this time that is not enough. Maybe if Obama stuck to what we elected him to do, he'd be better off. We did not elect him to expand expensive wars and bail out the rich people. Obama became a Republican. :(
Controversial writings?
Another day on Bizarro World, I reckon.
I thought I did put that in... my apologies.
I was disgusted at the way the Dems treated Hillary... She was, by far, the better candidate... I wrote about this during the campaign. I said that, at the very least, the opposition could do business with the Clintons
The Dems wanted to elect an African American so badly they abandoned the Clintons, and every other worthwhile candidate, to place upon a pedestal an untested, un-seasoned, HALF white guy that was RAISED in a white home - because he LOOKED black. Bill Clinton was the first black president - Obama was from a white, suburban background who just happened to have a black man as his mother's sperm donator. He is not the descendent of slaves. He's not from rural poor southern or northern inner city stock. He looked good in a suit and gave good speech.
BHO might have been a good president in 10 or 15 years, after a term or 2 in the Senate and maybe a Governorship... or maybe some time as a major university president (keeping the faculty in order is good training, too). As it is, he is about to join Jimmy Carter in obscurity. The presidency is a tough nut to crack.
BUR:
Actually, my first job was selling heating oil, gasoline, and distillate fuels to homes and industry, and my most recent job was trading energy futures.
And no, I am NOT competent to be running Exxon... not because I am not smart enough but like BHO I don't have the years under my belt to run an organization of that complexity.
And that does not mean that inexperienced people CANNOT rise the occasion... its done all of the time... just not with our current president.
To be fair, perhaps NO ONE could do the job considering our political realities. Its just that everything is relative - as it turns out the Messianic figure that was BHO has turned into a mere Mess. THat's the problem with high expectations.
Bur,
Did you really compare Obama to Perot? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. A self made billionaire compared to a narcissistic little wind bag. It had nothing to do with hope and everything to do with money brought in by Soros. My hope is that this weasel and the ones like him are booted out on their ass. This would include McCain and other socialist light.
Read about Perot, Guy was really amazing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot
Before he was even elected, people who put money on Obama (like me) asked ourselves "why would anyone even WANT the job?" But this black guy seemed to be the best choice at the time.
Hillary didn't have a chance from the beginning. Her unfavorable ratings were in the high 40-percentile among the white male middle. You can't get elected without them. And since Obama was the "cry for help" I mentioned, people were willing to forget about the "black thing" and figured maybe he would do some good. Maybe he still will. But his time is running out.
Experience does help, but the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff usually is picked from one of the four branches of the military. They are not chosen because they are the best soldier or sailor or pilot or marine, but because they are best at seeing "the big picture." I suppose that's you, Jeffers. :)
Perot was no politician. He hoped someone could be found with the answers. Obama never felt that there was anything that couldn't be fixed, and we had lots of time to do it. Their non-traditional thinking is what made them both "men of the moment."
Bur:
BULL SH*T!
NO DEMOCRAT gets elected based on how well they did with white males. That segment goes OVERWHELMINGLY Republican.
Had Hillary won the nomination, she would be Madam President as we speak... not that that is relevant at the moment.
Here's the deal: The P.C. sh*t heads running the train set have got most things FUBAR. Our electorate has been conditioned into TV-watching-numbing of the mind and really believes that we can all live happily ever after by borrowing money.
The next 10 presidents might all be 1 term, except the one that bring on the dogs.
What a world!
In early 2008 the pollsters all were saying that Hillary just pisses off Joe-Sixpack-white-non-college-blue-collar-average-working-guy so much that they would NEVER vote for her. Maybe for a woman, but not her. Her negatives were in the high 40s, and that fact would never change.
But, she will run for president again someday, and we'll perhaps see a change in viewpoint. All the Pro-Obama people like me just knew Obama was a shoe-in, just like when you saw Bill Clinton on stage with the other 4 pres. candidates in 1992 --- you just knew he was going to be president by how he talked.
A good investor learns how to predict the future.
As I remember reading white males rarely vote close enough to even be looked on as a voter block today. The largest single voting block is usually reported as being white female followed or sometimes over taken by Hispanic and then the black vote.
When those three have a consensus you get an Obama, which is more than likely why all his pleas for support mention those segments and exclude the white male vote.
As for others (like investment bankers) being qualified to run whatever. I seriously doubt any inexperienced but well meaning person thrown in over their head would take a vacation every few weeks. Or would be caught on the golf course every single time a national emergency develops.
I honestly don't think Obama really cares what happens.
Bur,
Everytime I read your comments its painful and I am stupider for having been exposed to them. Please stop.
Sincerely,
Losing IQ Points
Well said Mr. Jeffers. Perhaps you were a bit too kind. After George Bush (the man will go down in history for banning the incandescent light bulb!), it was inevitable an even greater incompetent should be elected, B.O.. As the Vikings say, "Our weird is upon us" .
Burt et al:
Not to get caught up in details while you all debate presidential elections and candidates, but I don't think people bought SUVs mainly out of safety concerns.
Instead, I think they were bought due to the effects of the Corporate Avg. Fuel Economy ratings imposed on car companies by the govt. Recall in the 1980s, the govt. instituted required avg. fuel economy ratings on car fleets. Light trucks were largely spared - at least in the first several years of CAFE requirements. This had the effect of greatly downsizing cars. Then along came air bags, child seats, and other safety features, and soon enough, family cars that once seated 5 or 6 comfortably while simultaneously holding a decent amount of cargo, disappeared from show rooms. People who had never before considered buying a Suburban or Bronco suddenly saw the SUVs as the solution to their problem.
Minivans, as designed by Iacocca and Chrysler circa 1985, were also a dodge around the new CAFE rules.
Yeah, after people (read moms) got into SUVs and drove them for a while, they felt safer, but the original idea for buying them was because they needed something to replace their Country Squire wagon with.
(Comments from someone who is "Anonymous" mean nothing to me. Get a spine.)
From "Real Clear Politics -- March 2010...
(A cry for help) ...
"For more than three decades before the 2008 election, no Democratic president had won a majority of the electorate. In part, that was because of low support -- never more than 38 percent -- among white male voters. Things changed with Obama, who not only won a majority of all people voting, but also pulled in 41 percent of white male voters.
Polling suggests that the shift was not because of Obama but because of the financial meltdown that preceded the election."
Whats really interesting about that article, which I remember reading, was that particular emphasis on the white male vote. As if the mere +3% meant anything nor did they break it down into the States McCain won which really showed a much smaller overall number of white male votes. Again sectionalism is showing I think.
The white female vote making up 39% of the overall total is where the real swing towards Obama came from launching Obama over Kerry's total white vote by a good few percentage points.
I always thought the hispanic vote was much larger than it appears to be reported as, so who knows. I did also think the white female vote was more one sided so live and learn.
Pioneer:
There are some really, really sad issues with our electorate. EVERYBODY blames those "scumbag politicians". Its time for the electorate to take some responsibility.
Sad issue 1: The White Female vote is now a one issue vote. Abortion. This group would gladly send their sons to slaughter in pointless and hopeless wars rather than vote for a Pro Life candidate. This is a painful impeachment - but absent malice and entirely accurate.
Sad issue 2: The various state and federal social programs and laws have DESTROYED the African American community. Just take a look at California - the state built 23 prisons in 23 years... and only one university. Over 75% of AA children are born to unmarried parents, over 90% will receive food assistance in their life times. 90%!!!!!
Unfortunately, we are not allowed to discuss this, because doing so automatically makes you a racist, at least according to the Elite and the Media.
Sad fact 3: Our senior citizens of the past 30 years were and have been Public Enemy # 1. This special interest group/voting block's only voting interest was the continued extraction of resources from their children.
I despise Government Sachs as much as anyone can. Their sins are small time venal compared to these other folks.
I think that you have to also consider libertarian leaning Republicans, i.e., fiscally conservative and socially liberal types who were unhappy over Bush's spending, the Iraq war and his attack on civil liberties.
As the GOP turned hard right on social issues, I suspect that a lot of social liberals in the GOP were unhappy about hanging out with social conservative nut cases. To a large degree, I think that the GOP has become the CWP--Crazed Whiteperson Party. Case in point, the "Birthers" nonsense.
If Sarah Palin is nominated by the CWP in 2012, it will be an interesting coincidence. In Heinlein's "Future History" stories, a backwoods preacher, Nehemiah Scudder, was elected in 2012, which was the last year that free elections were held.
But in any case, as Tom Brokaw said, in regard to the 2008 presidential election, the "winner" should have demanded an immediate recount.
"... fiscally conservative and socially liberal types who were unhappy over Bush's spending, the Iraq war and his attack on civil liberties."
Why, WesternTexas, I didn't know you knew me so well! :)
If socially liberal means being against govt. interference in things like marriage, count me in, but if it means gobs more handouts to unwed moms to have multiple babies, living in govt. supported housing, while the men run around doing drugs and shooting each other, count me out.
Point? I hate how one supposedly has be either socially liberal or conservative. I'm libertarian and that about covers it.
Westexas:
I couldn't agree more. I am SCREAMING Libertarian. THe only reason I maintain a Republican registration is I don't find them as offensive as the Dems and we Libertarians just can't seem to put it together.
I pray to heaven to live long enough to kick sand over the body of the two headed single party (one head being the "crazed white people" ... now we need a catchy name for the other side). Right now we are as close as we have ever been to having a real 3rd party - although in name, they are called Republicans.
40 years ago it was the REPUBLICANS that were the rational party... and it was the Dems that were the "crazed-white-people". Things changed. Things can change again.
Good Lord! I hope that's true.
Actually.... "Craze White People" is not a fair nor accurate description...
TPTB have VERY successfully triangulated both poor whites and poor blacks. Or maybe it was just phenomenon... the fact is in the end... we are personally responsible for our selves, our own actions, and the our own results.
IMHO... You are what you DO... You are NOT what you think.
The level of hypocrisy is astounding. Rachel Maddow takes Rand Paul to task on the Civil Rights Act, while and African American Commander in Chief drops bombs out of unmanned drones on "suspected terrorists" 9000 miles away.
What would SOOOO BAD of the U.S. shrunk its forces around the world, took a diminished interest in playing world cop, and stopped killing people in foreign lands? Is that really such a bad example to set? Heck, we have PLENTY of nuclear deterrent, the big boyz don't really want to mix it up, and the little guys? The terrorists? Cars kill more people in a month than these guys have in a century. Further , we can prevent them from traveling here... but you can't kill an idea... pretty soon they will be home grown.... and the best way to prevent that is to stop pissing people off.
Further, you want China and Iran to respect human rights... and then you go and execute people 25 years after the crime? This is not a hard one... Killing people is WRONG.
The sad thing is that the Left gets this, and then promotes "Pro-Choice" like its an HONORABLE position! WTF!!??
Libertarians like me don't think we have any right to play G-d.
Greg
Some very correct observations there and I agree 100%. Only thing I would add was the sad fact that the feminist managed to infiltrate, duplicate and gain control of the civil rights movement. Whomever thought of that bit of brilliance managed to completely divide the overall white voting block into two or maybe more like three. Adding abortion onto it and giving women the same benefits as minorities assured the liberals a majority.
I still find it hard to believe the one clear majority we have in this country is given minority benefits.
And thus we continue to pay for it until...well...we can't anymore.
It certainly was brilliant, and until the Blogsphere came into existence you couldn't even mention such an accurate description of events without being labeled any number of unpleasant monikers.
Ah, but in this I am more optimistic than you... this issue/special interest group is dying off (otherwise Hillary would have been president)... perhaps too slowly for our liking, but it is happening none the less. You see, young women are rejecting the feminazi agenda - thankfully. At the end of the day, hating just doesn't cut it.
There are a great many non-Dems like me. People that reject the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the War on Drugs, capital punishment, AND abortion.
Human Life is sacred. I don't need religion to come to this conclusion.
And as I've said many times before... I am as unwilling to use government thugs with guns and clubs to enforce an abortion prohibition as I am a drug prohibition. There is a better solution, and it ain't building more prison space for doctors and women.
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