got this email "Failing President"

[cycloneman]

I do not have a link but i guess you can reasearch it if you want. This is how i got it


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>
>
>
> The following is an
> interesting article. You might ask how
> long Dr. Hunt can remain at National Institute of Health
> once the White House
> gets wind of this article.
>
>
>
>
>
> Dr. Hunt
> is a social and cultural
> anthropologist. He has had nearly 30 years experience
> in planning,
> conducting, and managing research in the field of youth
> studies, and drug and
> alcohol research. Currently Dr. Hunt is a Senior
> Research Scientist at
> the Institute for Scientific Analysis and the Principal
> Investigator on three
> National Institutes on Health projects. He is also a
> writer for American
> Thinker.
>
>
>
>
>
> This is an
> article from American Thinker
> by Geoffrey P. Hunt
>
>
>
>
>
> Anatomy
> of a Failing Presidency
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Barack
> Obama is on track to have the most
> spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson.
> In the modern era,
> we've seen several failed presidencies--led by Jimmy
> Carter and LBJ.
> Failed presidents have one strong common trait--they are
> repudiated, in the
> vernacular, spat out. Of course, LBJ wisely took the
> exit ramp early,
> avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own
> party. Richard Nixon
> indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a
> statesman has been
> partially restored by his triumphant overture to
> China .
>
>
>
> But,
> Barack Obama is failing.
> Failing big. Failing fast. And failing
> everywhere: foreign
> policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in
> forging connections with
> the American people. The incomparable Dorothy
> Rabinowitz in the Wall
> Street Journal put her finger on it: He is failing
> because he has no
> understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe
> them. Fred
> Barnes of the Weekly Standard says he is failing because he
> has lost control of
> his message, and is overexposed. Clarice Feldman of
> American Thinker
> produced a dispositive commentary showing that Obama is
> failing because
> fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his
> intellectual dishonesty
> is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of
> shame.
>
>
>
>
> But, there
> is something more seriously
> wrong: How could a new president riding in on a wave
> of unprecedented
> promise and goodwill have forfeited his tenure and become a
> lame duck in six
> months? His poll ratings are in free fall. In
> generic balloting,
> the Republicans have now seized a five point
> advantage. This truly is
> unbelievable. What's going on?
>
>
> No
> narrative. Obama doesn't have a
> narrative. No, not a narrative about himself.
> He has a self-narrative,
> much of it fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by
> someone else. But
> this self-narrative is isolated and doesn't connect
> with us. He doesn't
> have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of
> us. All successful
> presidents have a narrative about the American character
> that intersects with
> their own where they display a command of history and
> reveal an authenticity at
> the core of their personality that resonates in a positive
> endearing way with
> the majority of Americans. We admire those presidents
> whose narratives
> not only touch our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and
> smarter than we are.
> Presidents we admire are aspirational peers, even
> those whose politics
> don't align exactly with our own: Teddy
> Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman,
> Ike, and Reagan.
>
>
>
> But not
> this president. It's not so
> much that he's a phony, knows nothing about economics,
> and is historically
> illiterate and woefully small minded for the size of the
> task--all contributory
> of course. It's that he's not one of
> us. And whatever he is, his
> profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard
> cutout made from
> delaminated corrugated paper. Moreover, he
> doesn't command our respect
> and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His
> notions of right and
> wrong are repugnant and how things work just don't add
> up. They are not
> existential. His descriptions of the world we live in
> don't make sense
> and don't correspond with our
> experience.
>
>
>
>
>
> In the
> meantime, while we've been
> struggling to take a measurement of this man, he's
> dissed just about every one
> of us--financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance
> executives, police
> officers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, post
> office workers, and
> anybody else who has a non-green job. Expect Obama to
> lament at his last
> press conference in 2012: "For those of you I
> offended, I
> apologize. For those of you who were not offended,
> you just didn't give
> me enough time; if only I'd had a second term, I could
> have offended you
> too."
>
>
>
>
>
> Mercifully,
> the Founders at the Constitutional
> Convention in 1787 devised a useful remedy for such a
> desperate
> state--staggered terms for both houses of the legislature
> and the
> executive. An equally abominable Congress can get
> voted out next
> year. With a new Congress, there's always hope of
> legislative gridlock
> until we vote for president again two short years after
> that.
>
> Yes, small
> presidents do fail, Barack
> Obama among them. The coyotes howl but the wagon
> train keeps rolling
> along.
>
>
>
> Margaret
> Thatcher: "The
> trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out
> of other people's money."
>
>
>
> James Dale
> Davidson, National Taxpayers
> Union: "When
> you subsidize
> poverty and failure, you get more of
> both."
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Tacitus:
> "The
> more corrupt the state, the more it
> legislates."
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Unknown:
> "A Liberal is
> a person who will give away everything he
> doesn't own."
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

[Suicide*Ride]

I don't care where it came from or who wrote it...... IT'S THE TRUTH!

I only hope I can hold out till the end of obozo's term.

SR

[armedandsafe]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/...residency.html

[editor's note: The author is not the not the same person as Geoffrey P Hunt, who works at the Institute for Scientific Analysis as a senior research scientist.]

August 31, 2009
Another Failed Presidency
By Geoffrey P. Hunt

Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson.

In the modern era, we've seen several failed presidencies--led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed presidents have one strong common trait-- they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out. Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party. Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by his triumphant overture to China.

George Bush Jr didn't fail so much as he was perceived to have been too much of a patrician while being uncomfortable with his more conservative allies. Yet George Bush Sr is still perceived as a man of uncommon decency, loyal to the enduring American character of rugged self-determination, free markets, and generosity. George W will eventually be treated more kindly by historians as one whose potential was squashed by his own compromise of conservative principles, in some ways repeating the mistakes of his father, while ignoring many lessons in executive leadership he should have learned at Harvard Business School. Of course George W could never quite overcome being dogged from the outset by half of the nation convinced he was electorally illegitimate -- thus aiding the resurgence of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party.

But, Barack Obama is failing. Failing big. Failing fast. And failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in forging connections with the American people. The incomparable Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger on it: He is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe them. Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard says he is failing because he has lost control of his message, and is overexposed. Clarice Feldman of American Thinker produced a dispositive commentary showing that Obama is failing because fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame.

But, there is something more seriously wrong: How could a new president riding in on a wave of unprecedented promise and goodwill have forfeited his tenure and become a lame duck in six months? His poll ratings are in free fall. In generic balloting, the Republicans have now seized a five point advantage. This truly is unbelievable. What's going on?

No narrative. Obama doesn't have a narrative. No, not a narrative about himself. He has a self-narrative, much of it fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else. But this self-narrative is isolated and doesn't connect with us. He doesn't have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of us. All successful presidents have a narrative about the American character that intersects with their own where they display a command of history and reveal an authenticity at the core of their personality that resonates in a positive endearing way with the majority of Americans. We admire those presidents whose narratives not only touch our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and smarter than we are. Presidents we admire are aspirational peers, even those whose politics don't align exactly with our own: Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Ike, Reagan.

But not this president. It's not so much that he's a phony, knows nothing about economics, is historically illiterate, and woefully small minded for the size of the task-- all contributory of course. It's that he's not one of us. And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout made from delaminated corrugated paper. Moreover, he doesn't command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant and how things work just don't add up. They are not existential. His descriptions of the world we live in don't make sense and don't correspond with our experience.

In the meantime, while we've been struggling to take a measurement of this man, he's dissed just about every one of us--financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance executives, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, post office workers, and anybody else who has a non-green job. Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in 2012: "For those of you I offended, I apologize. For those of you who were not offended, you just didn't give me enough time; if only I'd had a second term, I could have offended you too."

Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 devised a useful remedy for such a desperate state--staggered terms for both houses of the legislature and the executive. An equally abominable Congress can get voted out next year. With a new Congress, there's always hope of legislative gridlock until we vote for president again two short years after that.

Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama among them. The coyotes howl but the wagon train keeps rolling along.

[editor's note: The author is not the not the same person as Geoffrey P Hunt, who works at the Institute for Scientific Analysis as a senior research scientist.]

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Pops

[K1D_5150]

I think Mister Hunt and his staff PEGGED it. Good find. I wanna frame that on my wall.

[armedandsafe]

I moved this to this forum, because this is where such should be posted.

Pops