Something to dream about
Bookworm on Jan 14 2009 at 11:15 pm | Filed under: Barack Obama
Do you ever look ahead eight or ten months in your calendar just to enjoy how empty it is? My current calendar is so crowded, and my calendar for October 2009 looks so spacious, if you know what I mean.
I know this is vindictive of me, speaking of being busy and overwhelmed, but I rather hope that Obama does not enjoy his presidency. This is different from the fact that I wish him success — or at least, success as I define it, which is a strong economy at home, and security both at home and abroad. (There are other indicators of success, but those are the key ones.)
However, I can’t get by my feeling that it was incredible chutzpah for a man with his singular lack of qualifications to run for the presidency (ignoring the fact that more than 50% of the American people were, in my opinion, foolish enough to vote for an empty shirt), and I would like him to sweat a bit. Uneasy is the head that wears the crown — not, in the case because (God forbid) he’s at risk of losing his head, but simply because I think he already is, and will continue to be, quite overwhelmed. He bit off more than he can chew and, for that arrogance, I hope he chokes a little.
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You’re a better person than I am, Book. Personally, I hope Obammy chokes a LOT. I hope his failures swallow that whole pack of leftist Democrat hyenas en masse. I hope his demise discredits the sewage of liberalism and progressivism forever and ever. His loss is future Americans’ gain.
OK okay, I realize that’s too much to expect.
How about a delegation from Hamas showing up for “An Afternoon of Dialogue Without Preconditions” (for Obama), but demanding (as a precondition) that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton must not be allowed to sit in the negotiations unles she is silent and wears a full black hijab?
Oh yeah. I’ll settle for that.
I think for much of his term he’d rather stand behind his podium with the “office of the president-elect” sign.
Hillary silent?
Not gonna happen.
Hillary in a formless black schmata that hides a butt that, were it to visit Istanbul it would bridge two continents?
Please, God, make it so.
So you wish for America to prosper, Book, but not at the expense of justice, eh?
You may wish for the failure of Obama and the Democrats (sounds like a reggae band, doesn’t it?) but unless the Republicans can offer a viable alternative then that failure leaves us that much worse off. I’m not optimistic.
As Al Qaeda proved in Iraq, failure on their part can provide opportunities to us, even if we had nothing to offer, yet.
I am expecting the worse but hoping for the best. We only have one country, after all, and there is no other place to which to run. If Obama and the Democrats go down, we go down with them. So, count me in the loyal opposition.
I like to that that conservatives have class where Democrats are crass – I will NOT descend into the cheap, surly, vile Clintonista and BDS madness that characterized the Democrats for the past 16 years.
“I will NOT descend into the cheap, surly, vile Clintonista and BDS madness that characterized the Democrats for the past 16 years.”
Nor will I. Political discourse has become irrational, spittle-flecked and bile-filled. Basta!
Aviation analogy: Here we have a guy who once flew a Cessna 152 around the pattern, on a sunny day, with an instructor sitting right beside him. Now he has somehow become pilot in command of a large and complex airliner, in instrument weather and with thunderstorms about, and with several of the aircraft systems known to be broken and other behaving strangely. We are the passengers.
We want him to maintain a good degree of self-confidence, but we also want him to understand the seriousness of the situation. And especially we want him to focus on flying the airplane rather than daydreaming about how wonderful his press clippings will be after he lands the plane.
Good analogy!
I agree. That is a good analogy.
I should also have said that, at the end of a “successful” Obama presidency, I hope that we still have most of our constitutional freedoms intact.
Wow. True colors?
David –
That is an excellent analogy.
I love this country passionately and do not want to see us suffer. And yet at the same time, the only way people learn from their mistakes (particularly if they are obstinate in the face of all evidence) is suffering.
I do not wish President-Elect Obama ill on a personal level at all. I pray for his health and well-being. But he is way, way, WAY in over his head.
I was driving around Chicago this morning and heard a discussion on talk radio in which a liberal reporter expressed, uh, a bit of concern that Obama might just be an average politician. I looked ridiculous to passersby I am sure but I was screaming at the radio, “WHERE WAS YOUR DOUBT BACK IN OCTOBER??!?!?!”
But no – back then, it was a love-fest and Obama could walk on water.
Sigh.
Deana
Party loyalty kept it locked up in October, Deana. The Left makes a lot of bones about us patriots followingly blindly behind America, but they were always talking in front of a mirror.
Helen #12,
Helen are you really surprised? We’re not a bunch of tea sipping dilettantes here.
Most of us are quite upset at the direction in which slightly more than half of the voters have chosen to take us.
And if you compare our verbiage against what we saw with Bush Derangement Syndrome on so many leftist blogs, well, there simply is no comparison.
We believe the leftist program won’t work. Unlike the Goracle with global warming, we have the evidence (we believe) to back it up, and we don’t cherry pick the data, as he and his toy scientists did, to make our “models” work out. And we’re confident in our predictions, too. The global warming models of the Goracle keep failing, but we’re certain our models are going to predict, quite accurately, the results of the Obama experimentations.
I want prosperity for all Americans. If Obama succeeds, then, heck, fantastic for all of us. What a shocker that would be, though.
Helen…
What do you think of Obama’s personnel choices so far?
If you disagreed with them would you say so?
I’m not going to predict Helen’s response but I think Geithner’s negligence in paying his taxes disqualifies him from serving as Treasury secretary and if Holder played a material role in getting the Marc Rich pardon through he should not serve as AG.
Folks, you’re forgetting the essential difference between leftists and conservatives:
Leftists can and do make “mistakes” (which all bad acts are labeled these days), but are always capable of “moving on” and “learning” from them.” We must be willing to forgive them and quit harming our karmas by obsessing over bygones.
But conservatives cannot change and are unalterably bent. Even if the “mistake” they made was 30 or 40 years ago, it cannot be forgiven or overlooked. That is because conservatives are warped and evil at their core–everything they do is informed by this essential badness.
Leftists on the other hand mean well. Even if they murder millions of kulaks like the Communists did, or destroy three generations of African Americans through terrible schools, abortion and subsidized debauchery, their hearts are in the right place.
So, Obama’s supposedly bad choices are really a big-hearted effort to extend forgiveness to some great people who can really help us enter the Era of Hopey Changiness. Get off their backs and quit second-guessing The One.
Glad I could clear that up.
Thank you, Charles. I am now thus enlightened. Struck, as it were, on the Road to Damascus. And ready to embrace the EHC.
Your loyalty to the New Order will be tested, Zhombre, in light of reports of Secret Counter-Revolutionaries fighting to bring down our Glorious Future.
Charles:
Leftists can and do make “mistakes”
I think the current term is ‘hiccup’ according to Harry Reid.
Has anyone read or heard anything about when sunspot activity is going to pick up again? We hit an absolute dearth five months ago – and resulting predictions of extremely cold weather have certainly come true – and I for one would like to see even a temporary warming trend. Though from what I have heard, all the solar science indicates we are in for several more years of this before solar activity picks back up. Welcome to the latest cyclic Maunder Minimum.
Of course, this has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with global, ahem, warming… since the Goracle has declared that the debate is over and all doubters are as bad as Nazis. Thanks be unto Him and His Messiah President.
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Sorry, I just got back. Some guy in a Euell Gibbons mask was leading his acolytes in a chant around the tree in my backyard, prying off pieces of bark and eating them. I chased them away, but one of them dropped a well-leafed book titled “I Hate Science, And I Don’t Respect Proof”. Lots of signs of chewing around the edges.
“They Knaw”
Sunspot activity will resume with vigor after the Inauguration.
Mike, you’re showing your age with that reference to Euell Gibbons. I haven’t thought about him in years!
Ever eaten a pine tree? Many parts are edible.
I will defend the right of my pine tree friends to not be eaten to the Death.
White pines are best, though when taken with a good Scotch on the side, it’s enough for anyone to see Red. That’s just my O’Pinon, Jack. Perhaps we should take a Lodge-Poll to settle this…Fir sure.
Park Seeds this year is offering a “Victory Garden” package with seeds for half a dozen basic veggies.
The new catalog just arrived this week.
Is anyone familiar with the Foxfire series? (Wigginton).
The collections are selling for outrageous amounts on ebay. The skills discussed are _really_ retro – like pre-industrial. I understand 2k survivalists buying them, but the present demand seems surprising.
To be honest, I’m collecting a small library of basic skill set info myself to pass on to one of my sons who is interested…but I’m surprised at the number of people who seem equally interested and are willing to pay large (imo) sums for them.
I do not wish Obama success in this sense; I hope that he is not able to implement his agenda. I do wish him success in the sense that although thwarted in his agenda, the nation prospers and his worshipers can proclaim his Presidency successful at the end. In four years.
How is that for wishful thinking? It presumes no more than one or two Supreme Court vacancies—and those among the wild-eyed, French justice loving faction. It presumes that enough Senators will oppose the more radical aspects of the makeover of our economy, health system, and social contracts. Perhaps it assumes a change in the Congressional make-up in 2010; which would assume that the American people actually wake-up in time–and the Republicans remember what they are supposed to stand for.
Not sanguine. This extraordarily arrogant and narcisstic attempt to appear as the second coming of Abraham Lincoln is very worrying. It is almost psychotic in its intensity. I don’t know if folks around the country are noticing, but the Obama folks and the Secret Service have just about brought all traffic into or out of DC to a halt as of today. Major concert at the Lincoln Memorial tomorrow. He arrived by train from Baltimore today–per Lincoln. There will be no vehicle traffic whatsoever into DC on Tuesday and practically no foot traffic. Estimates of the cost of the inauguration now range up to $160mil; with the economy in distress and the government poised to spend like drunken politicians. The only satisfing aspect of the whole thing is that the high temp in DC is forecast at 32; with significant wind-chill. Too bad the event wasn’t today, it was 0 in Northern Virginia this morning. Snow forecast tomorrow, so the concert may be a bust; unless the Obama can bring forth the sun.
Despite the gushing over certain “moderate” appointees, I see little to encourage anyone at this point.
PS
My southern California, Obama loving Nurse daughter informed us that the miracle on the Hudson was a manifestation of the Obama era. (She did laugh as she said it–thank goodness) Her mother told her it was actually the last manifestation of the Bush era. I don’t think she laughed.