There is something to be said for considering the message rather than attacking the messenger. In this case we have a number of messengers from all across the spectrum of political viewpoints.
I welcome these messages, because I want Obama out of the presidency (safely and legally) so that Glass-Steagall legislation can be reinstated as a necessary first step to stopping the now immanent hyperinflationary insanity--the good news of which is we will, many of us, all soon be millionaires; the bad, we'll be lucky to be able to get a loaf of bread with our wheelbarrow of money.
A few weeks back, CBS News characterized President Obama as the "fundraiser-in-chief," a term used to describe a "failed President" who spends his time, dodging public appearances with party candidates, while raising money at strictly closed-door sessions with big money party true believers. Now, President Obama has confirmed that judgment, embarking this morning on a three-day cross-country fundraising jaunt, in which his only public appearances will be at factory sites, claiming his jobs-creating program is working (the public functions mean that the party fundraising tour will be paid for by taxpayers). Obama arrived midday today in Wisconsin, went on later in the day to California. He will next go to Washington State, Ohio and Florida, before arriving back at the White House late on Wednesday, Aug. 18—just in time to pack his bags for yet another family vacation. Thursday morning, Obama and First Family head off for ten days on Martha's Vineyard. Poor Michelle obviously had to cut short her stay in Marbella with a grieving friend, to race back home to pack for Cape Cod.
In the midst of the greatest financial meltdown in history, the President is AWOL from Washington for two full weeks, raising the obvious question: Who's really in charge? Maybe some serious patriots should take the occasion of the Obamas' Martha's Vineyard vacation, to have a serious talk with Obama, and extract his signature on a resignation letter. [1]
Compare the recent "Financial Reform" debacle with Glass-Steagall which was only about eight pages. People may not be aware of that, but more and more people are painfully aware that we need sweeping radical sane change.
Obituaries for the Obama Presidency are pouring out. London's Daily Telegraph's Nile Gardiner headlined his August 12th column: "The Stunning Decline of Barack Obama: 10 Key Reasons Why the Obama Presidency Is In Meltdown." Liberal New York Times columnist Frank Rich discusses "the political culture's consensus on Obama's presidency in June 2010: doomed," in the August 19th New York Review of Books. The neo-con New Republic depicts Obama as a plummeting Icarus, illustrating its lead story today, on "The Unnecessary Fall: A Counter-History of the Obama Presidency." (supposedly available free only to subscribers)
Rich asks how the "golden-tongued evangelist" reached "the nadir so fast," the BP oil spill becoming the "metaphorical indicator for a Presidency that was verging on disaster." Describing Obama as detached and disconnected from American reality, "imprisoned within the cozy Summers-Geithner group" of economic advisors, Rich timidly points to the more profound psychological danger of Obama which he dares not elaborate: "If he's so smart, and so sane, why has he fallen short of his spectacular potential so far?"
For New Republic senior editor John Judis: "What doomed Obama politically was the way he dealt with the financial crisis in the first six months of his presidency." When Obama was inaugurated, the financial crisis was in full swing, and the public was "up in arms. But, instead of rallying the public against the money changers, as Roosevelt had done in his first inaugural, Obama, taking a leaf from Jimmy Carter's infamous malaise speech, put the blame on the public as a whole.... Obama—in sharp contrast to Roosevelt in his first months—failed to push Congress to immediately enact new financial regulations or even to set up a commission to investigate fraud."
Judis profiles Obama as a "dispassionate" leader, a "post-racial politician," under the control of the Geithner-Summers team and disconnected from Americans who have their pitchforks out against Wall Street. "Why has the White House failed to convince the public that it is fighting effectively on its behalf? The principal culprit is clearly Barack Obama... He was not a typical blue-collar, bread-and-butter Chicago Democrat, but the kind of good government liberal that represents the upscale districts of the city..."
As Daily Telegraph's Gardiner noted: "Can it get any worse for President Obama? Undoubtedly yes." Senior Democratic Party sources have confided that the New Republic piece, in particular, is just the beginning of a full-scale assault on the Obama personality. It seems that the LPAC video on Obama's failed personality has struck a raw nerve.
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Seems to me time has treated my September 2008 diaries against the bailouts pretty well. It won't take so long to see how this one looks in perspective of events.