Whether we, as Americans, are well served if Obama implodes
Bookworm on Jan 27 2010 at 2:52 pm | Filed under: Barack Obama
I observed to my friend Joseph Libson that I’m of two minds about what appears to be an Obama implosion. On the one hand, since I think he’s a dangerously bad president, I want him exposed as quickly and fully as possible, so that he is president for as short a time as possible. On the other hand, when you are a person occupying a position as important as Obama’s when you go down, you tend to take others with you. If the others are Axelrod, Emanuel, etc., good riddance to bad rubbish. But what if the “others” are you and me, and the rest of the American people. Joe took my concerns to heart and returned with this very thoughtful answer:
I contend that the sooner a bad leader is not in power the better. Rather than “taking us all down with him” it would allow our country to put itself back together.
What an American leader needs more than anything else is a moral center. Second they need a love for our country. Carter had the former, and some of the latter. Clinton had some of the former and a lot of the latter. The Bush’s had lots of both.
Our current president is an oblivious egomaniac with very little love for the US. He is not that bright and he has left the work of the country in the hands of some very cynical, intelligent and malignant folks (Alexrod, Emanuel, Jarret etc). He will in no way act as a break on their activities as long as they increase his own perception of his own grandeur.
Biden, while not a terribly competent individual, definitely has a love for the country. And I have a nagging suspicion that he also has a moral center. So the sooner BO decides that we are unworthy of his esteemed “leadership” the better.
To which I can only add that it’s a sad day when Joe Biden seems like a good choice.
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What we need is a system that minimizes the harm such people can do–something like the system of limited government. A crazy idea, I know.
I saw a clip of Hillary talking at the Afghanistan conference today. She was talking about Yemen. There was something in her tone and manner that seemed less parroting–more like she was expressing her own thoughts. Perhaps if Obama shrinks further, she and Gates (and others?) will take more control. I’m no big Hillary fan, but I think she’s a lot more realistic than Obama.
To channel Daniel Moynihan, the Dems have really defined deviancy down.
As bad and inept as Obama is now, there are two looming events that will make him much much worse. One is the KSM trial- a disaster with no positive fallout for him or us. The second is Iran and the nuclear bomb it will soon have,
If Obama “implodes,” what is it that he realistically could do to damage the country even more than he already has?
Order some disproportionate military action? The Pentagon may be infested with docile careerists, but how many of them are going to follow a tyro’s orders that could get the U.S. involved in an unnecessary war or get them indicted in the hisotry books for the crime of debacle?
Use Congress to push through some really destructive legislation like, oh, say, the expropriation of a sixth of the U.S. economy?
Maybe create a crisis that allows him to call for the confiscation of the 200 million civilian arms in this country? Good luck with that on the South Side of Chicago and most of Texas.
Appeasement of our enemies? Curtsies to tyrants? An attempt to exhaust our oil reserves by taking Air Force One out on endless jaunts?
As somebody here has already said here, we could suffer a fool like Biden better than a ideologue like Obama. Say Obama were to descend into whatever self-referential slough of despond narcissists splash around in when they go down. Even Marxist creeps like Rahm and Holder don’t want to be incinerated. They’ll either work internally to get him to resign or externally to get him impeached. (The left has always been willing to turn on its own, so the latter isn’t as much a long shot as it seems.)
Yes, we are in Captain Queeg territory. So, who’s our Fred McMurray?
The situation kind of reminds me of the Stephen King novel (and later the movie), The Dead Zone.
So who is going to be the Christopher Walken character?
And who woulda thunk that we would ever consider Joe Biden a better choice?
Charles Martel #5:
> Say Obama were to descend into whatever self-referential slough of despond narcissists splash around in when they go down.
So many good lines from so many people here! That one was just the latest. What a pleasure each visit is!
Last year, it was the loud – and, yes, obnoxious, “YOU LIE!”, delivered to Our Emperor Who Is Without Clothes, that we remembered.
This year, it is the quiet, dignified mouthing of “Not True” by a shocked Supreme Court Justice that we will remember.
The bumbling, stumbling Obama does it again! Many are commenting already… Chicago-style raw-knuckle politics, against a small band of nine dignified elderly judges sitting amongst the hundreds of Democrats egged on by the Great Dictator to hound and harass them. The Great Dictator shows such Great Courage, the courage of the schoolyard bully and his friends confronting the lone nerd in the corner of the schoolyard! What a great image. What a buffoon!