November 13, 2013
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Jimmy Carter Looking Better Every Day
What follows is a partial excerpt from an article by Michael Goodwin in today's (Nov 13, 2013) New York Post.
"When I first saw the headline saying Bill Clinton was advising President Obama to “honor his commitment,” I had to laugh.
". . . Then I got to wondering. Which commitment was Clinton talking about?
"Is it the one Obama made to the Israeli people, that he had their backs and would never let Iran get a nuclear weapon? Or was it his promise to enforce a “red line” in Syria?
"Or maybe it was Obama’s promise to “never rest” until we caught the terrorists who killed our ambassador and three other Americans in Libya?
"Or was Clinton talking about the many times the president said he would “never rest” until every American who wanted a job had one?
"Or maybe he was talking about the pledge to change the tone in Washington? Or to go through the budget “line by line” and cross out the waste driving up the deficit?
"You get the picture — any of those whoppers would qualify. But, of course, Clinton was talking about the broken promise of the moment, the one where Obama vowed that “if you like your health insurance, you can keep it.”
"It ranks as one of the biggest presidential lies of modern times, all the more so because Obama repeated it 30 times.
". . . the Big Lie is shredding Obama’s ace in the hole — his personal credibility.
". . . ObamaCare is breaking that bond [with the American People] — and creating a domino effect. The public is turning ever harder against his policies, with only 31 percent now supporting him on the economy and 32 percent on immigration in the latest Pew poll.
"Most important, they are also giving a thumbs-down on his overall performance. Pew finds that only 41 percent approve of his handling of the presidency, down 14 points since December, while 53 percent disapprove. And Quinnipiac late Tuesday found he’s hit a new low with 39 percent approval, while a majority said he’s not honest."
Jimmy Carter is looking better every day.
Comments (5)
Obama is unquestionably the most controversial president of recent times, in that he engenders the strongest feelings among followers and detractors.
I'm sure part of this is his background - absolutely unacceptable to "traditional" Americans who simple cannot conceive of the idea that the offspring of a hippy and a disgraced african politician and who spent his childhood in Indonesia could actually become the president of the US... and be reelected by a substantial majority!
His training and talent notwithstanding, he has had to face extraordinary opposition among those who are desperate to return to the familiar nation they grew up in - a nation that has changed beyond their worst nightmare.
Obama is the living embodiment of that change ... and you can't ever go home again...
Anyone who believes that someone who disagrees with Obama's politics is a racist is both stupid and dishonest. Stupid because they tend to lump everyone into the same category as the few; dishonest because they don't have the courage to recognize when their man is wrong. They can't bring themselves to accept that he, and perhaps they, may have made a mistake, so they fall back to the one argument that is the most ridiculous of all, knowing that people are generally afraid to be accused of being a racist. Frankly, I find such people offensive.
To say/think that racism does not play a significant part in anti-Obama rhetoric is naive.
Of course Obama has made mistakes and misjudgments - some of them real blunders - his most ardent supporters are quick to point them out - but this does not explain the unreasoning hatred and rejection of all his programs - even those initiated by republicans. Just what is it that you don't like about him?
I never said that there is no racism where Obama is concerned. I said that lumping everyone who disagrees with him into a racist category is stupid. Everyone is not the same. I will add that I don't think the majority of the people have any racist feelings toward Obama. I offer as proof the fact that Obama could not have been elected in 2008 and again in 2012 without a substantial majority of the While Vote, a fact that those who keep raising the race argument always seem to forget.
I don't dislike him as you suggest. For all I know he's a very nice, personable guy -- someone who I could be friends with. What I don't like is politics. I think he is doing a lot of damage to our economy with his willingness to bypass congress and the constitution to have his own way. He is also routinely violating his oath to uphold the laws of the nation, deciding for himself which laws he will and will not enforce. For someone who claims to be a constitutional scholar, he seems to have forgotten all he knew about it and the system of government the Founding Fathers gave us. But what else can we expect from someone who openly states that the Constitution of the United States is a fundamentally flawed document. That was his statement during the 2008 campaign.
Presidents selectively enforcing laws isn't a new idea. Back in our early history Andrew Jackson was famous for his comment (paraphrased) "...the supreme court has declared this law to be constitutional... now let them enforce it"
The great benifit of our constitution is its flexibility and brevity - which allows it to remain the governmental framework for a modern developed nation when it was written for a small agricultural-based one with only a couple of dozen changes. Most of the flaws in the constitution are the result of compromises those "Founding Fathers"had to make in order to assure acceptance by all thirteen states e.g. the idea that all states would have equal representation in the Senate regardless of their population and the concurrent concept of the electoral college - also not very democratic
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