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On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 19:17:39 -0500, "MGCIS 1" <hrreeves@swbell.net>
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>Ahmen brother
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>> Anatomy of a failing President
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>>   The following is an interesting article. You might ask how
>>   long Dr. Hunt can remain at NIH once the White House gets
>>   wind of this article.
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>> Dr. Hunt is a social and cultural anthropologist.  He
>>   has had nearly 30 years experience in planning, conducting,
>>   and managing research in the field of youth studies, and
>>   drug and alcohol research. Currently Dr. Hunt is a Senior
>>   Research Scientist at the Institute for Scientific Analysis
>>   and the Principal Investigator on three National Institutes
>>   of Health projects. He is also a writer for American
>>   Thinker.
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>> An article from American Thinker by Geoffrey P. Hunt
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>> Anatomy of a Failing Presidency
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>> Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly
>>   failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson.  In the modern
>>   era, we've seen several failed presidencies--led by Jimmy
>>   Carter and LBJ.  Failed presidents have one strong
>>   common trait-- they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat
>>   out. Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early,
>>   avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own
>>   party.  Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet
>>   his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by
>>   his triumphant overture to  China .
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>> But, Barack Obama is failing.  Failing big.
>> Failing fast. And failing everywhere: foreign policy,
>>   domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in forging
>>   connections with the American people. The incomparable
>>   Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger
>>   on it: He is failing because he has no understanding of the
>>   American people, and may indeed loathe them. Fred Barnes of
>>   the Weekly Standard says he is failing because he has lost
>>   control of his message, and is overexposed.  Clarice
>>   Feldman of American Thinker produced a dispositive
>>   commentary showing that Obama is failing because
>>   fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his
>>   intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and
>>   lack of shame.
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>> But, there is something more seriously wrong: How could a
>>   new president riding in on a wave of unprecedented promise
>>   and goodwill have forfeited his tenure and become a lame
>>   duck in six months?  His poll ratings are in free
>>   fall.  In generic balloting, the Republicans have now
>>   seized a five point advantage.  This truly is
>>   unbelievable.  What's going on?
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>> No narrative. Obama doesn't have a narrative.  No, not
>>   a narrative about himself.  He has a self-narrative,
>>   much of it fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by
>>   someone else.  But this self-narrative is isolated and
>>   doesn't connect with us.  He doesn't have an American
>>   narrative that draws upon the rest of us.  All
>>   successful presidents have a narrative about the American
>>   character that intersects with their own where they display
>>   a command of history and reveal an authenticity at the core
>>   of their personality that resonates in a positive endearing
>>   way with the majority of Americans. We admire those
>>   presidents whose narratives not only touch our own, but who
>>   seem stronger, wiser, and smarter than we are. Presidents we
>>   admire are aspirational peers, even those whose politics
>>   don't align exactly with our own: Teddy Roosevelt, FDR,
>>   Harry Truman, Ike, and Reagan.
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>> But not this president. It's not so much that he's a phony,
>>   knows nothing about economics, and is historically
>>   illiterate and woefully small minded for the size of the
>>   task--all contributory of course.  It's that he's not
>>   one of us.  And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy
>>   and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout made from
>>   delaminated corrugated paper.  Moreover, he doesn't
>>   command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own
>>   common sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant
>>   and how things work just don't add up. They are not
>>   existential. His descriptions of the world we live in don't
>>   make sense and don't correspond with our experience.
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>> In the meantime, while we've been struggling to take a
>>   measurement of this man, he's dissed just about every one of
>>   us -- financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance
>>   executives, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospital
>>   administrators, post office workers, and anybody else who
>>   has a non-green job.
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>> Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in
>>   2012: "For those of you I offended, I apologize.  For
>>   those of you who were not offended, you just didn't give me
>>   enough time; if only I'd had a second term, I could have
>>   offended you too."
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>> Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional Convention
>>   in 1787 devised a useful remedy for such a desperate
>>   state--staggered terms for both houses of the legislature
>>   and the executive.  An equally abominable Congress can
>>   get voted out next year.  With a new Congress, there's
>>   always hope of legislative gridlock until we vote for
>>   president again two short years after that.
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>> Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama among
>>   them.  The coyotes howl but the wagon train keeps
>>   rolling along.
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>>  >> Margaret Thatcher: "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner
>>  >> or later you run out of other people's money."
>>  >>
>>  >> "When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of
>>  >> both." - James Dale Davidson, National
>>  >> Taxpayers   Union
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>>  >> "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." -
>>  >> Tacitus
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>>  >> "A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he
>>  >> doesn't own." - Unknown
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