tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post7168949486032558106..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: President Obama's G8 DebacleStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-28484001415482749982013-06-23T18:17:18.812-07:002013-06-23T18:17:18.812-07:00To Dennis" National Post piece:
Obama was th...To Dennis" National Post piece:<br /><br />Obama was the vessel to which many, many people attached their greatest hopes and desires. His entire campaign was designed to create that response.<br /><br />Yet there was little there. Perhaps nothing, as we are finding out now.<br /><br />So, where was the Fourth Estate to vet, challenge and test this nan? AWOL. The American press deserves nothing short of contempt.<br /><br />TipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-81457146626631542632013-06-22T07:09:08.002-07:002013-06-22T07:09:08.002-07:00One wonders why the people most affected by action...One wonders why the people most affected by actions are the last to see the fragility of those actions, especially those taken by our government. It would seem that the Canadians, the Russians, the English, the terrorists, et al have a better handle on the incompetence of Obama than we do.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-21421678549462909312013-06-22T06:32:25.912-07:002013-06-22T06:32:25.912-07:00Thanks, Dennis, for linking an excellent piece in ...Thanks, Dennis, for linking an excellent piece in the National Post.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-73426772914100898512013-06-22T06:04:05.468-07:002013-06-22T06:04:05.468-07:00I always thought that Bill Clinton had all the ski...I always thought that Bill Clinton had all the skills necessary to be a great leader, but not the wherewithal. Clinton was never going to get pass the college dorm "brainstorming" to take effective, efficient action to solve problems. I would postulate that this is a problem with people who have too much education. There comes a time when that education has to cease being talking points and become action tempered by a learned wisdom. Here Obama does not have the kind of education that would lead him to wisdom. Obama is incapable of getting to a higher plane of thought and action.<br />Clinton, as well as Obama, gave great speeches, Clinton was a very good extemporaneous speaker on almost any issue where Obama needed his teleprompter because he is so limited in his ideas. If one took the time to read their speeches one was left with the uncomfortable feeling that they were not very well done and lacked in both intellect, meaning and a plan for real action. The speeches were just gauzy phrase like "Hope and Change" et al.<br />Clinton has been able to hold on to his public persona because he actually had the capacity to be great, not considering that he never meet those expectations. Obama just does not have that capacity, was a media built charade and was bound to fail because there is no real substance, just a time worn ideology.<br />http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/06/22/rex-murphy-the-ordinary-president/Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-59185636518883458182013-06-21T15:08:51.337-07:002013-06-21T15:08:51.337-07:00Well, as most of us know, Republicans and conserva...Well, as most of us know, Republicans and conservatives are the only known enemies of Obama, or the only ones he considers to be his enemies.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-62302719923117934862013-06-21T05:39:33.489-07:002013-06-21T05:39:33.489-07:00Thanks, Dennis. The Will column is excellent. It e...Thanks, Dennis. The Will column is excellent. It examines exactly what Obama said in Berlin... and shows that the more you look at the speech the worse it gets.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-82145928157214051742013-06-21T05:34:24.672-07:002013-06-21T05:34:24.672-07:00Saying "I told you so" just does not hel...Saying "I told you so" just does not help when one is watch a great nation being destroyed by a totally incompetent person in the form of its leader and most of the cadre that oozed its way from Chicago politics.<br /><br />George Will says it better than I. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-f-will-obama-hits-a-wall-in-berlin/2013/06/20/bfff0426-d9df-11e2-a016-92547bf094cc_story.html<br /><br />What is worse is that we are seeing someone just as incompetent, just exactly what did she accomplish as the Secretary of State, being touted as Obama's heir. One is forced to wonder if too many of the real best and brightest died protecting this country and defending the Constitution that a large percentage of what is left are those who only have their own best interest at heart.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-8783706628136453222013-06-20T13:44:18.269-07:002013-06-20T13:44:18.269-07:00Good summary. My own sense of it is that Obama cap...Good summary. My own sense of it is that Obama capped his drift toward being a non-entity when he failed to react to the attack in Benghazi, both while it was underway and afterward.<br /><br />He showed himself to be risk-adverse and unwilling to exercise leadership. (Of course, he never has exercised leadership -- he delegated that to his party's political hierarchy and to Washington's permanent bureaucracy -- but Benghazi proved that he's approaching absolute zero.)Lastangonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-30614805390517677712013-06-20T11:17:11.949-07:002013-06-20T11:17:11.949-07:00"To imagine that Europeans want what is best ..."To imagine that Europeans want what is best for America bespeaks an astonishing level of naiveté."<br /><br />Kind of like the Republicans listening to the Democrats and media on immigration reform.<br /><br />PS: Amazing - WV included "credulity"katzxyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02271736861541089213noreply@blogger.com