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The Question Is Not 'Electability,' but 'Re-electability'
· Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Republican internecine squabbles this primary season seem to turn on the vying candidates' respective electability against incumbent Barack Obama. But if even uber-liberal New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has finally awakened to President Obama's arrogance, what does it say about his electability?
It's understandable that a lib would take so long to turn on the messiah, having invested so much in his presidency. But I wonder whether these people ever realize how late they are to the party and how utterly devoid of profundity their belated epiphanies are.
Dowd starts off her latest column describing Obama's opening appearance at a fundraiser at the Apollo in Harlem: "For eight seconds, we saw the president we had craved for three years: cool, joyous, funny, connected."
Unless you are a liberal utopian, such as my friend Mark Levin describes in his latest masterpiece, "Ameritopia," you wouldn't place so much faith in one deliberately mysterious man to usher in a new, unspecified era, and you especially wouldn't hold on to the painfully unrealistic hope that after three years, this man will finally present himself to be someone he has never been.
Savor a few of the tardy revelations Dowd has now come to see with pungent clarity:
"The man who became famous with a speech declaring that we were one America, not opposing teams of red and blue states, presides over an America more riven by blue and red than ever."
"The man who came to Washington on a wave of euphoria has had the presidency with all the joy of a root canal."
Dowd quotes Obama's lament to CNN's Fareed Zakaria that he is only seen as "cool and aloof" because he stays at home with his daughters instead of going "to a lot of Washington parties." Dowd will have none of this, saying that Reagan didn't socialize with the press, either, "but he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend."
Dowd cites Jodi Kantor's new book, "The Obamas," in which Kantor paints a portrait of "the first couple" as people who feel aggrieved and misunderstood and who, in Dowd's words, "do believe in American exceptionalism -- their own, and they feel overassaulted and underappreciated."
Twisting the knife further, Dowd says that the Obamas, in their minds, haven't disappointed Americans. "We disappointed them."
Dowd quotes Michelle Obama, who apparently spoke too soon when she said she was proud of America for the first time when her husband was elected. The first lady said: "The question isn't whether Barack Obama is ready to be president. The question is whetherwe're ready. And that continues to be the question we have to ask ourselves." The Obamas, according to Dowd, are still convinced that presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett is correct that Obama is "just too talented to do what ordinary people do."
Dowd, again citing Kantor, reports that when Democrats took a shellacking in the 2010 midterm elections, Obama "did not seem to comprehend the anxiety that had spawned the Tea Party, or feel any regret," and that he told one Democratic congressman defeated in that anti-Obama wave that his loss was "for the greater good of the country."
No offense, Maureen, but we could have spared you three years of pining, even four if you care to go back to the campaign. From the beginning, for those not blinded by messianic delusions, Obama revealed himself as singularly divisive, narcissistic, cool and aloof, and dictatorial and as one who believes he is a gift to America rather than the other way around.
When Obama gave a bizarre shoutout to Dr. Joe Medicine Crow as a preamble to what was supposed to be a somber memorial to the victims of the Fort Hood shooter, British journalist Toby Harnden observed that he exhibited "curiously bloodless" behavior and a "strange disconnectedness." After his agenda was repudiated in the election for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, Obama said he wanted the American people to take another look at his plan. When Democrats lost the 2010 congressional elections, he didn't show the slightest recognition that he had anything to do with it. The American people, he said, just wanted the parties to work together.
We've known that those in Obama's extreme leftist base are discontented with him because, amazingly, they don't believe he's been liberal enough. But now we have a prominent media liberal in Maureen Dowd acknowledging that he is an empty shell. With that in mind, how about the vaunted independents?
Think about it, folks. Next time you hear someone telling you how unelectable this or that potential Republican candidate is, consider how un-reelectable Obama is. His messianic image is gone; he has a disastrous record; and even liberals are discovering that he is insufferably arrogant and contemptuous of the American people.
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mmccrindle
Obastard's arrogance simply leaves no room for class.
He is a liar and has no honor or integrity.
He has also funded his campaign through his stimulis package which might just buy him this election.
Posted January 24, 2012 at 8:30:34 AM
CraigOmaha
Prayer can trump any amount of campaign money. I pledge to pray everday for Obama to be defeated from now until November.
Posted January 24, 2012 at 9:38:32 AM
Fed Up
Gingrich cannot beat Obama if he gets the Republican nod.
Although I, and I believe many, might like to see a real Conservative get the White House, Gingrich will never garner nor appeal to the wishy-washy moderate voters whose temperaments change like monthly cycles. As well, he will lose the young vote by large margins to Obama and the leftists with the ‘grouchy old republican’ Gingrich running for office.
Romney has unfortunately been forced on us as the only alternative if we want to rid our country of the socialist in the White House.
In the end I fear we will put Gingrich against Obama, and lose.
We will have four more years of ruin from as a result of socialism, and our country will be beyond return.
We will be doomed by our spite for anything but a true conservative and will have to live with that for a long time.
Posted January 24, 2012 at 9:59:07 AM
wjmccrindle
I wonder if Joe Wilson will be in attendance at the State of the Union Speach tonight. If I didn't have to work tomorrow (I thank God every day I still have a job), I would play a drinking game, and have a sip of an adult beverage every time the chairman lies. I would wager that I would fail to get to the end of the speach. If anyone tries it I would like to know the results in the Wed Digest comments. I wonder if any gay military members will be there? That is another drinking game you can play, up pops a homo, when watching any prime time hillarity on ABC, CBS, NBC, or FOX.
Obam should be un-electable. The fact that he stands a chance is the scary part of the story.
Posted January 24, 2012 at 10:04:14 AM
One VA Patriot
@CraigOmaha
I'm there with you. I've been on my knees since September 2008, just after the Joe Wurzelberger question. What I pray for is a reawakening of the American spirit of Liberty and its preservation.
And to Fed Up, another four years of the communist wanna-be will completly destroy this country and all she stands for.
Posted January 24, 2012 at 10:09:41 AM
Kathy
I agree and it seems to me that if the libs are less enamoured with him, perhaps there's hope for us yet, but we must never stop praying.
Posted January 24, 2012 at 10:27:26 AM
veritaseequitas
This is exactly why we have to elect anybody but Obama. As Glen Beck so succinctly put it, he would vote for his own shoe over Obama. When I read the comments of people who claim they won't vote for Romney or Paul or Gingrich or Santorum if they are the nominee, but will go ahead and vote for Obama instead, I have to sneer in scorn at their sheer stupidity. Obama has been the greatest disaster this country has faced in a very long time. Anyone who votes for his re-election is an unmitigated a$$. I would think even the blacks who voted for him just because he is half black would have gotten a bellyful of his b.s. by now.
Posted January 24, 2012 at 1:19:02 PM
M Rick Timms, MD
Once Obama is the official nominee of the Democrat party, the Republican nominee should release all of his college and grad school grades as well as the college applications, and challenge Obama to do the same.
Not only is Obama not a genius, but his applications will reveal him to be a "foreign applicant".
Just because Obama was able to hide his true identity the last time around, does that mean we cannot demand to see his records this time around?
Posted January 24, 2012 at 1:19:37 PM
Richard Ryan
Sadly there are still a lot of ninnies out there who will still kiss the One`s back side if given the chance. After Obama got up and crooned two or three notes I am pretty sure the reporteretts on the local Los Angeles news had to go home and change their panties. After watching their unbelievable swooning I had to mop up the puke from my daughter`s living room floor. I pray those of us who are still patriots will not let down our guard. Please, everyone, do not get over confident. These are desperate times for our constitutional republic.
Richard Ryan
Lamar,Missouri - Birthplace of Harry S Truman
Posted January 24, 2012 at 1:31:46 PM
PDK
David please do not count Obama out yet. There are so many people who have not a clue of Obamas mission to destroy America.
Most liberal dolts actually vote democrat to preserve the illusion they have created to avoid reality, rather than doing the work to mature. These people will not wake up to Obamas genuine mission to destroy America, they can`t wake to Obamas genuine mission because they need to preserve their illusion and to awake or see reality is to destroy their illusion.
Further, 95% of blacks voted for Obama, he is the means through which they fill their empty bucket of self esteem. They live vicariously through him.
Unfortunately, in my opinion, we are a totally enfranchised democracy. This Presidential election is as much about the character of we Americans as it is about Obamas "right" to destroy America. I am sorry to say this, but I believe we Americans are, or have become, a little short in the character department.
We must remain vigilant untill after the elections. Otherwise good post as usual David.
Nobama 2012, vote republic. Thank you.
Posted January 24, 2012 at 6:34:03 PM