Unfortunately, we can have a “I told you so” attitude, but the damage will have been done.

Regarding your last point, I think that you are optimistic. Let’s see what Bookworm has to say.

These are just things that have been going around in my brain recently. It probably isn’t good for my health, or anyone else’s for that matter.

I keep vowing to adopt a wait and see approach. I want to give him a chance. But every day, I wake up and see something else that makes me really concerned.

Today, I woke up and read that apparently, Obama’s team was busy meeting with Hamas, the same Hamas that the U.S. State Dept. classifies as a terrorist organization, BEFORE the election!!

Obama and his aides did this, even though he promised throughout his campaign that he would, “only talk with Hamas if it renounces terrorism, recognizes Israel’s right to exist, and agrees to abide by past agreements.”

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/reported-obama-hamas-contacts-bode-ill/

This is just crazy. Nuts.

BUT! I DO think there might be a silver lining to a lot of this. For example: An awful lot of Jewish Americans voted for Obama. I think they are going to be disappointed, significantly, before this is all said and done. Perhaps in the future, they won’t be so willing to support Democrats en masse.

If it’s the narcissist, he’ll do whatever makes him feel “great” or what he _thinks_ makes him look great.
If it’s the ideologue, we’re in deep trouble.

In either case, we’re in trouble…the question is only how deep the doo doo is.

Cut it out, already, will ya?

Who knows?

All new presidents are unknown to a certain extent. But at least with Reagan and to a lesser degree, both Bushes, we KNEW what they believed. They outlined their governing principles as well as specific ideas during their campaign.

We got none of that from Obama. Zip. Zero. Zilch.

And this is what makes me nervous because everyone is going to want to see what it is he stands for, where he draws his lines. Americans are willing to wait and see but something tells me that countries who don’t share America’s values won’t “wait and see.” They’re going to test him out.

Deana

Yes. The world is listening. I’m convinced that an awful lot of folks whom we don’t want as friends have been listening to Obama very closely. More closely, in fact, than a lot of Americans who voted for him.

And now the likes of Hamas, Assad, Ahmadinejad, Chavez, etc, are coming calling and they expect Obama to do what he said, just like the people who voted for him.

It strikes me that it might be somewhat difficult for Obama to learn what should and should not be said and how. What is in one’s heart and mind has such a huge impact on what comes out of one’s mouth. I suspect that Obama and his staff know that what needs to come out of his mouth his not always what he has in his heart and mind.

Deana

Unfortunately for Bill, utterly nobody today can spontaneously remember anything that he said unless it was about blowjobs.

The difference between him and Obama is that Bill’s ejaculations took place during a relatively benign patch in U.S. history. So, when The One comes to us in this ominous time with his mellifluous offers and intonations, keep in mind that in modern German and Old English the word “gift” means poison.

It’s best to look under the wrapping.