tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post4462314013855107361..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Cool Hand BarackStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-42743874610672451242014-07-07T11:30:52.335-07:002014-07-07T11:30:52.335-07:00But can he eat fifty eggs in an hour?But can he eat fifty eggs in an hour?sestamibinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-85587374742513882722014-07-07T07:14:47.720-07:002014-07-07T07:14:47.720-07:00I want to amend one part of what I said above abou...I want to amend one part of what I said above about Obama's "full knowledge and endorsement." I think the a Obama White House established the tenor and bearing if its Chicago-style politics early in the Administration. His direct remarks to Supreme Court justices for the Citizens United decision in his 2010 State of the Union was a clear signal delivered in unprecedented form: he publicly dressed them down on live television. He doesn't have to be hands on in directing an operation like IRS targeting, and a modern White House would be sophisticated in getting the word out on the street about what needs to be done. Obama's lieutenants are clear to direct operatives on their own without putting the President directly at risk.<br /><br />Which begs another point: bureaucratic integrity and respect for the Constitution's Separation of Powers, which is the fire genius of our government structure. I recently watched a PBS "Frontline" episode on the NSA and the surveillance state. I was struck by the Bush-era Justice Department attorney appointees (even clear Bush allies who sympathized with his war powers) questioning whether the President had these powers to make certain national security Executive Orders. The skeptics included Attorney General Ashcroft. There was a healthy skepticism among high-level career officials at the CIA, DIA, NSA and Justice Department about whether the President had these sweeping powers under Article II. That was then. Where are these same bureaucrats and appointees now? Who's asking questions? How about at Holder's Justice Department? How about at the IRS, EPA and HHS? It all seems to be "Because I can" politics. Who's acting as a check on executive power? That's what I find scary.<br /><br />TipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-89563546119105060202014-07-06T14:27:02.949-07:002014-07-06T14:27:02.949-07:00The Obama Administration is a shameless, lawless C...The Obama Administration is a shameless, lawless Chicago political operation. There are no people acting independently. People who go rogue in Chicago politics end up with a bad limp or are found dead in the river.thus is all coordinated.<br /><br />One more name for ya alongside Kerry's: Joe Biden. He's Obama's insurance policy.<br /><br />The IRS targeting of conservative groups is THE political scandal of our age, and it was launched by the White House with the President's full knowledge and endorsement. Lois Lerner is not a patsy, she is a full-fledged political operative. This goes all the way to the top. The IRS targeted political opponents using the most terrifying weapon in the federal bureaucracy: auditing. It's not just for Scientologists anymore. The President's most feared political opponents were not high-level political operatives of the opposition party. Instead, they were private citizens organizing grassroots resistance to Administration economic policies. This is a different kind of scandal. The U.S. government conducted operations against "community organizers" advocating for significant reductions government spending and against regulatory intrusion. Obama's goons brought a howitzer to a rabbit hunt. After all, you have to send a clear message to silence people. That's how thuggery works, and fear is why it works. That's why the Attorney General won't investigate. <br /><br />Straw men are combustible. So is the Constitution.<br /><br />TipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-22713150318420251612014-07-06T06:27:06.004-07:002014-07-06T06:27:06.004-07:00It must be hard to be an Obama lover because you j...It must be hard to be an Obama lover because you just have to keep making more and more excuses for the failures and plain incompetence he and his administration keep blundering into. Slowly even the low information voter is noting that the "Emperor has no clothes."<br />I know the feeling because I voted for Jimmy Carter because he was a Democrat who had actually served in the military and should have at the very least known the needs and uses of it. Never again will I vote for someone and not know as much as I can get about the person, though in most cases it is the lesser of two evils.<br />As Lastango said the only real care he has for this country and its citizens, Thank God at this juncture in history we have not become subjects, is self serving and not in the interest of either the country or its people. An aside. When the government can control what medical care one can get they are very close to making one a subject. If they can control the language one uses by denoting it is a form of hate or oppressive speech one is close to being a subject. When the government can take your ability to defend yourself away then one is close to being a subject.<br />Foreign policy gets in the way of Obama transforming this country into an oligarchy where he and his fellow travelers will control every aspect of our lives. The bigger the government the less freedom we all have. <br />There are so many laws in this country that not one of us cannot be prosecuted by a controlling government. If one thinks that they are immune to these kind of acts by government one has no real concept about how many rules and regulations are promulgated each and every day. Gone are the days of "Ignorance of the law is no excuse."<br />One does not need to create "straw-men." The reality is far more dangerous.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-12663336112334995712014-07-05T16:53:19.170-07:002014-07-05T16:53:19.170-07:00Very insightful, you and Peggy Noonan both. I'...Very insightful, you and Peggy Noonan both. I've reblogged this here with comments and illustation:<br /><br /><a href="http://ex-army.blogspot.com/2014/07/too-cool-to-do-presidential-stuff.html" rel="nofollow">Never mind being President — Obama may be too cool to be ANYTHING!</a><br /><br /><br />Baloohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08245765878554696634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-70665256604709054932014-07-05T12:28:44.239-07:002014-07-05T12:28:44.239-07:00Ares been reading too much from Paullie "The ...Ares been reading too much from Paullie "The Beard" Krugman.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-11999296558654470962014-07-05T11:47:22.168-07:002014-07-05T11:47:22.168-07:00Cool or indifferent?
Obama embodies postmodern ch...Cool or indifferent?<br /><br />Obama embodies postmodern chic. There is no truth, so he deems himself the superman/daesin/thetan just creates his own and the "we are the people we've been waiting for" people follow him like zombies. He is the new American redeemer, Jeremiah Wright's creation. Obama doesn't need anyone else. He is his own truth. After all, "You didn't build that!"<br /><br />The media's burial of the Jeremiah Wright story in 2007 confirmed that the mainstream media was in the bag, championing O's campaign narrative that held his grandmother's racism as comparable to Wright's. He declared he would not declare either, though one was blood and the other a long-term choice. McCain's declaring the Wright issue off limits sealed his doom as a candidate. <br /><br />Now that the planet has healed and the oceans have receded, what's next for The One?<br /><br />TipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-81826163456762358982014-07-05T11:34:11.161-07:002014-07-05T11:34:11.161-07:00It must be hard to be a political pundit. You have...It must be hard to be a political pundit. You have to dress up strawmen and knock them down, but in a more clever way than the last time, while pretty much saying the same thing - someone I don't care about sucks. How tedious.<br /><br />For every opinion a pundit holds, there is an equal and opposite opinion they also hold the will reappear moment that it suits their narrative, maybe so of like a politician perhaps, except without any need for grace.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-6648612466171022952014-07-05T10:40:03.062-07:002014-07-05T10:40:03.062-07:00Obama and his wife know that they will always be a...Obama and his wife know that they will always be adored within their circles. They will always have fame and money. They and their children and grandchildren will be well cared for just like the Clintons and Chelsea have done well no matter how much Hillary doth protest too much. Also, see Al Gore.<br /><br />Its the same phenomenon with all these politicians and Obamacare. Pelosi, Reid, etc. know they will never be ruled by the caprices of the health care bureaucracies, so what do they care. They are wealthy and more importantly, well connected, so they and theirs will always be well cared for.Buttercupnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-42395754283331820572014-07-05T08:31:54.343-07:002014-07-05T08:31:54.343-07:00"He once seemed a serious man. He wrote books..."He once seemed a serious man. He wrote books, lectured on the Constitution."<br /><br />Books like Dreams from my Father and Audacity of Hope?<br /><br />He never made professor at U of C.<br /><br />He was just some 'clean-cut black guy' cheery-picked by rich Liberal Jews and homosexuals in Hyde Park to dupe the dumb masses. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com