Monday, November 30, 2009

But, the Messiah isn't wearing any clothes!

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7 stories Obama doesn't want told John F. Harris
...Presented with a vivid storyline, voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their minds...
won the 2008 election in part because they were better storytellers than the opposition. The pro-Obama narrative featured an almost mystically talented young idealist who stood for change in a disciplined and thoughtful way. This easily outpowered the anti-Obama narrative, featuring an opportunistic Chicago pol with dubious relationships who was more liberal than he was letting on....Obama’s gift for controlling his image shows signs of faltering... Here are seven storylines Obama needs to worry about:
He thinks he’s playing with Monopoly money...
Too much Leonard Nimoy... Obama, a legislator and law professor, is fluent in describing the nuances of problems....a growing critique that decisions are detached from rock-bottom principles... likened him to Star Trek’s Mr. Spock.****His "intellectuality" is hardly up to Spock's standard and, when analyzed, is based on hidden academic records, no academic publications, and no achievements except that he "didn't take calculus."****... No soldier wants to take a bullet in the name of nuance.
That’s the Chicago Way... his West Wing is dominated by brass-knuckled pols....the Obama West Wing gladly reverted to campaign hack mode.... Obama wants to buy off the people he can and bowl over those he can’t....
He’s a pushover...some of the same insider circles that are starting to view Obama as a bully are also starting to whisper that he’s a patsy....this unflattering storyline would take a more serious turn if Obama is seen as unable to deliver on his stern warnings in the escalating conflict with Iran over its nuclear program.
He sees America as another pleasant country on the U.N. roll call, somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe... the safe ground has always been to be an American exceptionalist.... unwelcome for Obama if the perception took root that he is comfortable with a relative decline in U.S. influence or position in the world.... On the left, the budding storyline is that Obama has retreated from human rights...he is more interested in being President of the World than President of the United States,... will be heard more in December as he stops in Oslo to pick up his Nobel Prize and then in Copenhagen for an international summit on curbing greenhouse gases.
President Pelosi...No figure ... has had more success in advancing his will than the speaker of the House, despite public approval ratings that hover in the range of Dick Cheney’s....Pelosi’s achievements are more impressive than Obama’s or come at his expense....Obama has allowed the speaker to become more nearly an equal —
He’s in love with the man in the mirror...A photo the other day caught him leaving the White House clutching a copy of GQ featuring himself....****Examples of his narcissism are myriad.****
Turning Point: Couric Rips Obama
... Couric said on “CBS Evening News” that Americans are growing “disenchanted” with Obama and are openly questioning his credibility. “Is the honeymoon over?” anchor Couric said...“Although President Obama has been in office less than a year, many Americans are growing disenchanted with his handling of the enormous problems he and the country are facing, from healthcare to unemployment to Afghanistan. “His poll numbers are sliding, and at least one poll shows his job approval rating has fallen, for the first time, below 50 percent.”...“The president is getting battered on everything from the economy to foreign policy. Some polls show Americans are increasingly questioning his credibility.”...while Obama talks about dealing with unemployment, which is over 10 percent and expected to rise, he has developed “no new ideas” for dealing with the problem....cited a poll showing that only 14 percent of Americans believe Obama’s claim that healthcare reform won’t add to the budget deficit, and only 7 percent believe that the stimulus has created any jobs at all....criticized the president for being “indecisive” on Afghanistan, and for returning from his recent Asian trip “with little to show for it.”...describing his trip as the “amateur hour,” as he did not line up agreements with foreign countries before venturing abroad

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