Comments on: Getting Obama and not getting Obama

By: RickZ

RickZ — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 16:31:02 +0000

Yancey Ward Says: When I watch Obama, I see nothing but a thin-skinned, haughty gum smacking teenager.

FTFY

By: Gail Finke

Gail Finke — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 04:13:57 +0000

I thought it was a good piece. I don’t think she was saying that Obama wants to change but can’t, I think she’s saying he’s a one-trick pony: This is who he is and what he’ll do, regardless of what happens, and he doesn’t care. And she has said the same thing pretty consistently in all the time I’ve been reading her. I really look forward to her columns. But I haven’t been reading her for more htan about 4 years, so I don’t know what she said before then.

By: Matt_SE

Matt_SE — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 22:18:03 +0000

There is only one constraint on Obama left, and it is considerable:
If he so ruins the reputation of Democrats in his last two years that the entire party is soundly rejected in 2016, it will make it very easy for a Republican president to erase much of Obama’s legacy.
There is very little PERMANENT damage Obama can do in two years. Not if the opposition has any spine.

By: G Joubert

G Joubert — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 15:09:46 +0000

From the day he first began running for the office in 2007, it seems Obama may have been angling for this moment all along. The moment being his last 2 years as a lame duck, freed up to do all that he wants with his phone and his pen. This was planned for, and there’s much he wants to get done. Stand by for heavy rolls.

By: southpaw

southpaw — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 14:44:51 +0000

Neo- the real question is what will the republicans do about it, and what will be the threshold at which his usurpations are condemned by the media? Does that threshold exist? Gwynith Paltrow would say no.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:36:12 +0000

kcom: I've thought about Honduras a lot too, lately. It was a portent of things to come.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 12:06:12 +0000

Is Obama continuing a scorched earth policy?
http://wheelgun.wordpress.com/2014/11/14/150-years-ago-today-the-burning-of-atlanta-and-shermans-march-to-the-sea/

By: M J R

M J R — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 05:18:20 +0000

FYI, not an endorsement, not a censure.

Full text of the piece . . .

The Loneliest President Since Nixon
Facing adversity, Obama has no idea how to respond.
By Peggy Noonan · Nov. 15, 2014

http://patriotpost.us/opinion/30975

By: Sharon W

Sharon W — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 04:46:12 +0000

I had problems with Peggy Noonan during Pres. George W. Bush’s presidency. Her deepest criticisms were for him and the Clintons. It never fully added up. I found myself questioning her perspective at the time of her column regarding Paul Wellstone’s funeral and it just snowballed from there. By the time she was too good for Sarah Palin I was confirmed in my contempt for her. Peggy Noonan? I’ve got better ways to spend my limited free time.

By: Ralph Kinney Bennett

Ralph Kinney Bennett — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 04:40:53 +0000

Mike is so on the money about Noonan. But as to our first affirmative action president, there is another element, tied up with his narcissism. Like most modern liberals, he is shameless. He cannot feel ashamed of himself. He lives by no standards which would measure shame. He gorged himself on Rev. Wright’s Kool-Aid and he has never really regretted it. He damns his nominal Christianity with faint praise. His hate-driven guile is still somehow seen by some as intelligence. Peggy Noonan is one of too many Americans who voted for Obama partly because he is black, but mostly because it would make them feel good about themselves.