The Imaginarium of Barack Obama

By Victor Davis Hanson
11/17/11


The presidency of Barack Obama is full of funny things that need not follow any sort of logic. Images and ideas just pop in and out, without worry of inconsistency, contradiction, or hypocrisy. It’s a fascinating mish-mash of strange heroes and bogeymen, this imaginarium of our president.

Republicans Should Make Intellect the Issue

September 9, 2011
By Peter Heck


I think the 2012 election is a perfect time for Republicans to remind the American people of the wisdom of Forrest Gump: "Stupid is as stupid does." And as Bret Stephens accurately confirmed to readers in the Wall Street Journal not long ago, "the presidency of Barack Obama is a case study in stupid does."

Obama: Our First Post-Racial Failure

October 12, 2010
By Stuart Schwartz



The consensus is growing that the greatest failure of the modern presidency is no longer a self-absorbed, mean-spirited white guy who embraces dictators and tyrants, can't manage his way out of a paper bag, and blames everything from earthquakes in Pakistan to bedbugs at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York on Israel. Rather, it is a self-absorbed, mean-spirited black guy who embraces dictators and tyrants, can't manage his way out of a paper bag, and blames everything from earthquakes in Pakistan to bed bugs at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York on Israel.

‘Like a Dog’: The Origins of Barack Obama’s Petulance

09/08/10
By Victor Davis Hanson

Obama in just twenty months has developed a reputation for being petulant, unusually sensitive to the normal run-of-the-mill criticism. His latest pushback was his strangest so far: “And they’re not always happy with me. They talk about me like a dog. That’s not in my prepared remarks, it’s just — but it’s true.”

The Art of Blowing It Bigtime

By Victor Davis Hanson

July 14, 2010 

At the root of the president’s problems lies an erosion of public trust in his competence and his credibility. Voters simply do not believe much of what he says any more, whether or not they otherwise agree with his agenda. The old tonic, teleprompted “hope and change” banalities, has become a caricature, and his empty gestures are fooling few these days.

A Hapless Administration

July 06, 2010By Jeffrey Folks

The fact is that government is failing to produce jobs for the simple reason that government cannot create jobs. Jobs are created by the private sector as it produces goods and services that the public wants and needs. Other than necessary spending for national defense, government should have no role in the economy.

Obama's Deliberate Katrina

by Paul Driessen
07/03/10


The 2010 oil spill is defined by yeoman’s efforts by Gulf Coast governors – and an Obama administration response that is leagues beyond inept. It is proactively incompetent and obstructionist, as though it is determined not to let this crisis go to waste – but to prolong and intensify the environmental and economic calamity, to advance its political objectives: shutting down offshore leasing and drilling, bringing the US oil industry into the automotive-banking-housing-healthcare sphere of federal control, forcing a massive shift to costly renewable energy, and ramming cap-tax-and-trade through Congress.

Derangement At The Top

By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
07/03/10


Putting it all together, the Obama Administration fans the flames of crisis after crisis, a Fascist’s dream for seizing control of a free nation. He and his cronies are dismantling piece by piece the foundation of our nation and flushing down the toilet 235 years of American ingenuity and values.

Our Government Slowed Down the Gulf Cleanup

June 22nd, 2010
by Ernest Istook

BP has apologized.  And still must be held accountable.  But where’s the apology from our government—and the accountability?

Urgent Priorities and Common Sense in the Gulf

By Charlie Daniels
06/24/2010

The Obama administration is completely lost on how to deal with the spill and the president seems helpless except to appoint commissions and place blame anywhere except 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Report: Obama said 'I Am a Muslim'

June 16, 2010By Pamela Geller

Barack Obama took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, and yet whether he is a Muslim or not, he has undeniably gone around the world promoting Islam and Sharia (Islamic law).

Should We Care What's Wrong with Obama?

June 14, 2010By Kyle-Anne Shiver

We'll never know all that may be wrong with Obama or what caused his stubborn, willful refusal to acquire the strong character denied him in childhood. But I, for one, have begun to ask my Obama-voter acquaintances, even strangers who admit their vote and want to talk about it, "What were you thinking?" Civil confrontation is one of the best tools, available to every one of us, in helping Obama voters to come to grips with the enormity of their decision in the 2008 election.

A Shrink Asks: What's Wrong with Obama?

June 11, 2010By Robin of Berkeley

Obama's odd mannerisms intrigue a psychotherapist like me. He also presents a serious diagnostic challenge.  

For one, Obama's teleprompter and the men behind the Blackberry keep him well-scripted. We know so little about the facts of his life.

But it's more than just a lack of information. Obama himself is a strange bird. He doesn't fit easily into any diagnostic category.

Many people attribute Obama's oddness to his narcissism. True, Obama has a gargantuan ego, and he is notoriously thin-skinned.

The Alien in the White House

By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ

JUNE 9, 2010

The distance between the president and the people is beginning to be revealed.

Can Black Americans Afford Obama?

by Walter E. Williams

June 09, 2010

Early indications suggest that the Barack Obama presidency might turn out to be similar to the failed presidency of Jimmy Carter. That's bad news for the nation but especially bad news for black Americans. No white presidential candidate had to live down the disgraced presidency of Carter but I'm all too fearful that a future black presidential candidate will find himself carrying the heavy baggage of a failed black president.

America 101 with Dean Obama

by Victor Davis Hanson

June 9, 2010

America is not a campus. It has real jobs that are not lifelong sinecures. Americans work summers. There are consequences when rhetoric does not match reality. Outside of Harvard or Columbia, debt has to be paid back and is not called stimulus. We worry about jobs lost, not those in theory created or saved. We don’t blame predecessors for our own ongoing failures. Those who try to kill us are enemies, whose particular grievances we don’t care much to know about. Diversity is lived rather than professed; temporizing is not seen as reflection, but weakness.

The Coming Resignation of Barack Obama

By Peter Ferrara
06/02/10


I am now ready to predict that President Obama will not even make it that far. I predict that he will resign in discredited disgrace before the fall of 2012. Like my previous prediction, that is based not just on where we are now, but where we are going under his misleadership.

The Problem With Having an Olympian God for a President

05/26/10

by Ben Shapiro

It turns out that the only way to plug a hole is to plug it, not to talk about it; the only way to stop illegal immigration is to stop it , not blather about it; the only way to stop Iran is to defeat Iran, not to bluster about it; the only way to stop fiscal meltdown is to cut spending, not to bloviate about it.

Obama's Horse Sense

By Chuck Hakes
05/08/10

Between the end that you stuff fresh oats into, and the end that dispenses used oats, there is
the horse, a beast weighing upwards of a ton or more, with lots of working power, that can
be guided by just one person.

There is no report that Obama has ever ridden a horse, but he knows how one works.  You
see, you guide the horse by guiding the horse's head.  Point its nose in the direction you
want it to go and the rest of the horse follows.  It's normally simple and easy.  The only control
that is applied directly to the rest of the horse is a little boot in the ribs to hurry it up or some
encouraging pats.

If you don't want the horse distracted by other things it might see, you put blinders on it.  You
withhold information.

Some of Obama's horses are AARP, the AMA, the NEA, AFL-CIO, the food workers
whatever they are called, the Teamsters, and also GM and Chrysler.  Et al.

In each of these organizations the horse's head has been steered into supporting Obama,
making it appear that the body of the horse goes along.  We have seen that isn't the
case.  AARP and  AMA members bucked when their leadership steered them astray even
though the heads of these organizations whinnied their support.

We are faced with the strange situation now where the body of the horse has to develop its
own senses and do its own thinking lest it be led where it doesn't want to go, especially if
where the head wants to take the horse is on the path to self-destruction.

Obama is a master at applying leverage.  He knows he doesn't have to convince
Americans to follow him.  He only has to convince those opinion and power leaders to follow
him because everyone of them will add not one voice but a thousand voices to his support.

Sadly, many of our fellow Americans will do nothing but follow where the horse's nose is
pointed.  That's the easy route.  But only in the short term.

Years ago I took the family horseback riding in the Tetons.  Since I was the biggest guy I got
the biggest horse -- Spanish.  We looked into each other's eyes and it was instant hatred.

I got my first warning when I reached to give Spanish a friendly touch on the forehead and the
cowpoke said "don't touch Spanish there or he will pull that hitching rail right out of the
ground."

I pointed Spanish's nose where I wanted him to go and for the whole ride he went sideways
through sticker bushes for a warm-up and then tried to scrape me off against trees.  I neck-
reined, I jerked his head around, I applied muscle, I tried gentleness, I spoke kindly, I cursed. 
He was so damn fat that I couldn't get my heels down to his sides to give him a boot. 

I pointed his nose in the right direction but the rest of Spanish refused to follow.

As I reflect on it, Spanish was teaching me a lesson appropriate for the times we're in today.
When we hear of an endorsement of Obama by some organization we have to ask, does
the endorsement reflect the body or the horse or only the head?  And Americans who are the body
must think for themselves.

The democrats will not be able to survive an electorate that consists of thinking, reasoning, informed individuals.

Why Obama is Bad For America

By Robert A. Hall
05/03/10

Many of these are pulled from e-mails or posting on the web. Some large, some small, some new, some old, and in no particular order: