| Obama's Crisis Management |
| Monday, 14 June 2010 21:01 |
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The oil spill is President Obama's biggest test in crisis management, which -- as past presidents have learned -- could define his place in history.
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Re:Obama's Crisis Management
Jul 03 2010 22:52:42 The Cuckoo's Nest Redux
But It Ain't Funny At All It's one thing to be on the wrong side of an issue ... but quite another thing to be on the wrong side of the American people on issue after issue. And the real cluelessness is found in the fact that no matter what uproar emerges, it is sloughed off as the musing of the unenlightened. Therein lies the danger. When a leader is so removed from the mainstream of his countrymen, it does not take long for the popularity slide to morph into an avalanche. Obama's handling of the nation-rending immigration situation, the entire upset of national healthcare, and the greatest oceanic disaster in history ... all perfect illustrations of a man out-of-touch. It is a symptom of a man severely off balance. Of a man in a personal, meglomaniac slide. And, of course, this is not what we should endure. But this is a new national crisis perhaps not seen ever before in our country's history ... a president mentally and emotionally unfit for the position. And that is a dangerous dilemma. Rational men ... even those impaired by all sorts of inner demons ... are likely to encounter a sort of epiphany that, at the very least, provides a momentary window of lucidity. But an irrational man has neither the inner voice nor the inner honesty to recognize his personal recklessness. And he is so concreted in his own perceived righteousness that the rational has not a chance of impact. This is our current president. He is, essentially, unwell. And a man in such a state ... under such pressure ... is not likely to right himself at all. Instead, the very situation is more certain to encourage more of the bizarre, more of the detachment, and more of the rancid self-absorption we are witnessing. Obama is not a man of genuine diabolical design. He is a man ill-equipped ... in both talent and psyche ... for the position. He is a mistake. But the mistake is now the issue for all of us ... not just for a single man. To compound matters, he is insulated from any glimmer of rationality because of who surrounds him. "Enablers" are the therapist's nightmare ... as they are the fuel of mentally unbalanced. And they have small treasure in the outcome of matters ... they neither share the spotlight nor do they garner the scrutiny. And this makes them special rogues. They feed and nurture the demon ... and provide a sort of sick back-slapping that deepens the disorder and further impairs genuine clarity. And they keep that important epiphany from ever emerging. The nation is peeling away from this president ... and even some of his most ardent supporters are openly questioning what has happened to a presidency once trumpeted as history-altering. Not quite the change most imbued in him, is it? It's slushy fun to term Obama wacky, disconnected ... as an out-of-control ideologue ... and worse. But such terms are forum fodder ... mostly empty political epithets. And they have inherent danger, too. Simplistic barbs and and political joke-posts do something very harmful as well ... they cloud the grim truth. And the grim truth is scary and beyond the impact of a forum flex by most of us. This is now a national moment of crisis. President Obama is emotionally impaired and this has led to political impairment. But it also leads to national danger ... immediately and down the road. He is absent proper faculties ... and absent from reality. He is drifting in his own ether ... unaware of his personal disorder and the peril it engenders. The Gulf is rotting before our eyes, citizens are clamoring for border and immigration reform. There is a national shriek of disgust with run-away federal spending and an allergic to reforms all see as necessary. Presidential blinders ... ever provided by the enablers ... excuse him ... in his mind ... from the present. As though it has no relation to the future. He is a man detached and unglued from the tasks he should have known were part of the job description. The nation is reeling from issues of the moment, but this president muses into the far away. In polite terms, he'd be tattooed a dreamer ... in real terms he'd been diagnosed as paranoid. We have a crisis unlike any we've encountered as a nation. We have a man unwell ... a man paralyzed by a twisted inner core ... surrounded by dangerous, unaccountable and enabling political groupies ... whose wholesale disgust for a nation they seek to renovate entirely is paramount. But the crisis is compounded because it is so opaque in nature ... so out of the vision of the ordinary citizen ... at the moment, that is. And that characteristic gives this presidency even more time foul our national foundation. President Obama's rationality has escaped him. And now, this nation must escape President Obama. Aidan |
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Obama's Crisis Management
Jul 03 2010 21:14:23 The Cuckoo's Nest Redux
But It Ain't Funny At All It's one thing to be on the wrong side of an issue ... but quite another thing to be on the wrong side of the American people on issue after issue. And the real cluelessness is found in the fact that no matter what uproar emerges, it is sloughed off as the musing of the unenlightened. Therein lies the danger. When a leader is so removed from the mainstream of his countrymen, it does not take long for the popularity slide to morph into an avalanche. Obama's handling of the nation-rending immigration situation, the entire upset of national healthcare, and the greatest oceanic disaster in history ... all perfect illustrations of a man out-of-touch. It is a symptom of a man severely off balance. Of a man in a personal, meglomaniac slide. And, of course, this is not what we should endure. But this is a new national crisis perhaps not seen ever before in our country's history ... a president mentally and emotionally unfit for the position. And that is a dangerous dilemma. Rational men ... even those impaired by all sorts of inner demons ... are likely to encounter a sort of epiphany that, at the very least, provides a momentary window of lucidity. But an irrational man has neither the inner voice nor the inner honesty to recognize his personal recklessness. And he is so concreted in his own perceived righteousness that the rational has not a chance of impact. This is our current president. He is, essentially, unwell. And a man in such a state ... under such pressure ... is not likely to right himself at all. Instead, the very situation is more certain to encourage more of the bizarre, more of the detachment, and more of the rancid self-absorption we are witnessing. Obama is not a man of genuine diabolical design. He is a man ill-equipped ... in both talent and psyche ... for the position. He is a mistake. But the mistake is now the issue for all of us ... not just for a single man. To compound matters, he is insulated from any glimmer of rationality because of who surrounds him. "Enablers" are the therapist's nightmare ... as they are the fuel of mentally unbalanced. They feed and nurture the demon ... and provide a sort of sick back-slapping that deepens the disorder and further impairs genuine clarity. And they keep that important epiphany from ever emerging. The nation is peeling away from this president ... and even some of his most ardent supporters are openly questioning what has happened to a presidency once trumpeted as history-altering. Not quite the change most imbued in him, is it? It's slushy fun to term Obama wacky, disconnected ... as an out-of-control ideologue ... and worse. But such terms are forum fodder ... mostly empty political epithets. And they have inherent danger, too. Simplistic barbs and and political joke-posts do something very harmful as well ... they cloud the grim truth. And the grim truth is scary and beyond the impact of a forum flex by most of us. This is now a national moment of crisis. President Obama is emotionally impaired and this has led to political impairment. But it also leads to national danger ... immediately and down the road. He is absent proper faculties ... and absent from reality. He is drifting in his own ether ... unaware of his personal disorder and the peril it engenders. The Gulf is rotting before our eyes, citizens are clamoring for border and immigration reform. There is a national shriek of disgust with run-away federal spending and an allergic to reforms all see as necessary. Presidential blinders ... ever provided by the enablers ... excuse him ... in his mind ... from the present. As though it has no relation to the future. He is a man detached and unglued from the tasks he should have known were part of the job description. The nation is reeling from issues of the moment, but this president muses into the far away. In polite terms, he'd be tattooed a dreamer ... in real terms he'd been diagnosed as paranoid. We have a crisis unlike any we've encountered as a nation. We have a man unwell ... a man paralyzed by a twisted inner core ... surrounded by dangerous, unaccountable and enabling political groupies ... whose wholesale disgust for a nation they seek to renovate entirely is paramount. But the crisis is compounded because it is so opaque in nature ... so out of the vision of the ordinary citizen ... at the moment, that is. And that characteristic gives this presidency even more time foul our national foundation. President Obama's rationality has escaped him. And now, this nation must escape President Obama. Aidan |
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Re:Obama's Crisis Management
Jun 16 2010 02:30:29 Barry compared The Gulf Oil Platform explosion ,and 9/11..
Yea I can see the how they are the same. First we all remember the high jacked jets which crashed into the oil platforms.. We all remember the people who were trapped on the platforms who jumped to their deaths rather than be burned alive. We remember the Police and Fireman who gave their lives on the oil platform….We remember how when Barry was told the Oil Platform exploded he went out and played golf on day one, two and 18,32,45,50…WE remember how Barry stood on the heap of the Wrecked oil platform and told us “ WE WILL KICK SOMEONE’S ASS FOR THIS” , We remember how Barry protected not the country but his Programs and that of his thug friends with an attempt to link CAP AND TAX to the gulf oil mess. And we also remember that Barry his friends and ALGORE will make billions if they get away with this . There are others who say this is Barry’s Katarina. It is in that Barry and his Thugs response to the Oil Problem is in line with Mayor Negans and the Gov of La response to Katarina. WE SHOULD DO WHAT ? was all three jerks responses. Oh yea all three blame Pres Bush for what they failed to do. \ We have learned that right after the Platform exploded their were many offers from Foreign Governments with experience with oil leaks/clean ups to help and supply the needed equipment… Barry and his thugs said no thanks and Racist Holder flew down to do what progressives/leftist lawyers do best see who they can bring to court, NOT FIX THE PROBLEM AND DO WHAT EVER IT TAKES TO KEEP THE OIL FROM THE COAST AND TAKE WHAT EVER HELP IS NEEDED BUT RATHER ATTEMPT TO SCORE POINTS GRAB MORE POWER ,MAKE THE WORLD HATE BP, AND SAY NO TO ANY REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR OR MAYOR WHO HAS A PLAN TO DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM. Who will be Barry’s William Jefferson and get caught with his hand in the cookie jar??? The betting window is open.. |
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