[StBernard] Canadian Press

[Westley Annis]

This is not flattering at all.  Interesting that it is from the Canadian
Press and not some Right wing zealot.  
 
The Canadian Press and Obama


"A shallow, manipulative and egotistical amateur who is in over his head"
The Canadian Press.

  

http://www.thecanadianpress.com/about_cp.aspx?id=104
Obama's White House is Falling Down
By Daniel Greenfield Thursday, June 11, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/q4mylk

In the sixth month of his presidency, Obama has turned an economic downturn
into an economic disaster, taking over and trashing entire companies, and
driving the nation deep into deficit spending expected to pass 10 trillion
dollars.

Abroad, Obama seems to have no other mode except to continue on with his
endless campaign, confusing speechmaking with diplomacy. It is natural
enough that Obama, who built his entire campaign on high profile public
speeches reported on by an adoring press, understands how to do nothing else
but that.

Ego driven photo op appearances and clueless treatment of foreign
dignitaries

While the press is still chewing over Obama's Cairo speech, this celebrity
style coverage ignores the fact that Obama's endless world tour is not
actually accomplishing anything. Instead his combination of ego driven photo
op appearances and clueless treatment of foreign dignitaries have alienated
many of America 's traditional allies. Those who aren't being quietly angry
at Obama, like Brown, Merkel or Netanyahu, instead think of him as as
absurdly lightweight, as Sarkozy, King Abdullah or Putin do.

While his officials carry out their dirty economic deeds, Obama responds to
any and every crisis as if it were a Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland musical,
with a cry of, "Let's put on a show." Thus far Obama has put on "shows"
across America , Europe and the Middle East . And what the adoring media
coverage neglects to cover, is that Obama's shows have solved absolutely
nothing. They have served only as high profile entertainment.

Neither alienating America 's traditional allies, through a combination of
arrogant bullying and ignorance, nor appeasing America 's enemies, has
yielded any actual results. Nor does it seem likely to. Islamic terrorism is
not going anywhere, neither are the nuclear threats from North Korea and
Iran . While Obama keeps smiling, the global situation keeps growing more
grim.

At home, if Obama was elected as depression era entertainment, the charm of
his smiles and his constant appearances on magazine covers appear to be
wearing thin on the American public. Despite the shrill attacks on Rush
Limbaugh or the Republican Enemy of the Weak-- the Democratic party of 2009,
is polling a lot like the Republican party of 2008. The Democrats have
suddenly become the incumbents, and the only accomplishment they can point
to is lavish deficit spending, often on behalf of the very same corporations
and causes they once postured against.

The European Union Parliament's swing to the right cannot be credited to
Obama, though doubtlessly some European voters seeing socialist economic
crisis management on display in the world's richest country decided they
wanted none of it, but it is part of a general turning against federalism.
And Obama's entire program is dependent on heavily entrenching federalism at
the expense of individual and state's rights. Yet that is precisely his
achilles heel with independent voters who are polling against more taxes and
expanded government. And no amount of speeches by Obama can wish away his 18
czars or the national debt he has foisted on generation after generation of
the American people.

That leaves Obama with a choice between socialism and the independent voter.
And thus far he has chosen socialism.

Obama's tactic of hijacking Bush Administration era policies on the economy
and the War on Terror, and exploiting them as trojan horses to promote his
own agenda, have left him coping with a backlash from his own party, as well
as general Republican opposition.

His Czars are meant to function as the bones in an executive infrastructure
accountable to no one, but a lack of accountability isn't just another word
for tyranny, but for incompetence. A functional chain of command is
accountable at multiple levels if it is to function effectively. Obama's
White House by contrast is in a state of over-organized chaos, the sort of
organized disorganization that undisciplined egotistical leftists naturally
create for themselves, complete with multiple overlapping levels of
authority and no one in charge but the man at the top, who's too busy doing
other things to actually be in charge.

Dennis Blair as National Intelligence, who collaborated with the Muslim
genocide of Christians in East Timor , trying to muscle out the CIA to
create his own intelligence network, is typical of the kind of chaos being
spawned by every chief in an expanding government bureaucracy working to
make sure that all the Indians answer to him. Similarly the National
Security Council wrestling with the State Department, highlighted by
Samantha Power getting her own specially created NSC position to butt heads
with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, illustrates the state of conflict
and chaos in American foreign affairs. A state of chaos so pervasive that
incompetence has now become commonplace, and no one can even be found to
double check the spelling of a Russian word that is meant to be the theme of
American's diplomatic reconstruction with Russia , or to pick out a gift for
the visiting British Prime Minister.

The death of Chrysler at the hands of Fiat and the UAW 

Meanwhile on the economy, Obama exploited the ongoing bailouts, transforming
them from bailouts into takeovers meant to shift the balance of power in
what had been a democracy and socially engineer not only corporations, but
the lives of ordinary Americans. But the public's patience with corporate
bailouts is at an end, most Americans were never happy with them to begin
with, and want them to end. The death of Chrysler at the hands of Fiat and
the UAW might look like a victory in the union ranks, but it doesn't play
too well outside Detroit . And tacking on CAFE standards that will kill the
pickup truck and the SUV will badly erode Obama in the swing states, if
exploited properly in 2010 and 2012. Despite the constant media barrage,
orchestrated out of the White House, the public is growing disenchanted with
the performance of Obama and the Democrats. 

With unemployment booming and the economy dropping, the jobs aren't there
and the spending is out of control. Republicans today are polling better on
ethics and the economy, than the Democrats are. That shows a trend which is
likely to register in the mid-term elections in 2010, in the same way that
the EU parliamentary elections served as a shock to the system.

In the opposition, Republicans are free to embrace the rhetoric of change,
to champion reform and push libertarian ideas about the size and scope of
government. In turn all Obama has is his celebrity fueled media spectacle
world tour. A charade now serving as a parallel to the depression era
entertainment that functioned as escapism in a dour time. But before long,
it may be Obama that the American public will want to escape from.

A shallow, manipulative and egotistical amateur who is in over his head

Obama has tried to play Lincoln, Reagan, JFK and FDR-- but in the end he can
only play himself, a shallow, manipulative and egotistical amateur who is in
over his head, and trying to drag the country down with him. Obama's White
House is falling down and while the flashbulbs are still glittering and the
parties are going on in D.C. and around the world, Obama and the Democratic
Congress may be headed for a recession of their own