Has Obama Quit Or Does He Find It Impossible To Deal With Facts?
Within the last two weeks I published a post which questioned what an incumbent candidate for re-election could do if he changed his mind. The title of the piece was How Does A President Say “No Mas?” It contrasted the Obama-Romney first debate to Cassius Clay’s fight for the heavyweight championship. Clay won the first fight, changed his name to Muhammed Ali, and then went on to leave an indelible mark on boxing and the American scene. Liston actually “quit” in the first fight, refusing to come out for the seventh round. There was a rematch in which Liston was felled by an “invisible” punch and lost in the first round, arguably another quit.
The point of the article was that Liston knew he was beaten, in both fights. He knew Clay/Ali was better than him and there was nothing he could do about it other than get beaten again for another payday.
That was my impression of Obama in the first debate. He was Liston and Romney was Clay. Obama was rocked by an upstart. That never happened before. It was never supposed to happen to the man who has doors opened for him at every turn. Obama, not Romney, was the man of privilege. He had never suffered defeat or humiliation. For that matter he had never even been challenged. His road had been paved with shortcuts and favorable treatment. He was not used to being hit and unable to fight back.
Today’s accompanying article deals with Obama’s problem with reality. He does not live in a real world and never has. Nor can he deal with reality when it is thrown back at him. His is a world of fantasy, imagery and lies which he has been allowed to get away with his entire life. Romney was unwilling to roll over for him. Instead he steamrollered him.
The second debate was probably a draw or maybe even a slight win for the tag team of Obama-Crowley. It was not enough, at least according to the polls which produced no bounce for the incumbent. Perhaps the outcome stemmed his decline, but he is now behind. A tie when you are losing is a battle wasted.
Since the “No Mas” piece, others have suggested that Obama no longer has the willingness to fight. Yesterday, Marco Rubio came close to saying that on ABC’s “This Week.” According to TheHill.com:
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Sunday charged that President Obama had “given up” on trying to present voters with a second term agenda.
“The most startling thing that has happened here the last month over this campaign is the president has completely given up on outlining any sort of agenda for the future. What’s his plan for the next four years?” asked Rubio, a prominent surrogate for GOP presidential challenger Mitt Romney, on ABC’s “This Week.”
Whether it be a desire to quit or an inability to present a future that is no different from the last four years is indeterminate. The “No Mas” article dealt with the former and today’s accompanying article deals with the latter, specifically Obama’s unwillingness to deal with reality.
Either way, Obama looks weak and without a will to fight. Perhaps he knows Romney is the better man. Or perhaps he realizes that people no longer believe his empty and meaningless rhetoric. He may not have realized that he lost the first debate, but the polls are probably telling him he cannot win this election. It was supposed to be a walkover. But then so was the Liston-Clay bout.
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Barry may be delusional but he is no idiot and the people who surround him are in many cases quite skilled in the political arena of the United States. So why the poor showing to this point? I have two theories which I have not heard voiced elsewhere:
First, perhaps he knows the outcome is so rigged he can take it easy and schedule more golf or weekends at Camp David.
Second, and more likely is that it is part of the plan. Much has been written of the impending financial collapse which is rapidly approaching. If the R’s are handed even a slim majority in the Senate, hold the House and have the Presidency and the collapse occurs during that time, who but the R’s will be blamed? Then the final chapter will be written as Barry and his commie thugs are swept back into power in 2016 as the march toward tyranny is made complete.
Win or lose in two weeks, we have a long way to go to restore the Republic.
Yes, we are a long way off to restore the Republic. Regarding the economic and social collapse (slow motion or not), sure people will try to affix blame (that is a normal human reaction), but we are at a point where blaming the economic collapse on, for example, private small businesses, even for the mentally challenged, would seem absurd. The solution to too much government is surely less, not more as recommended today by both the cultural Marxist Dems and cultural Marxist lite RINOs. The silver lining is that whatever version of cultural Marxism that is in control (as both contenders are), it is physically impossible to revive the economy with more government and more debt, which both sides are proposing to greater or lesser degrees. My point would be that we can only speculate on counterfactuals so much when the boundary conditions of too much government and political correctness seem to have already been pierced. Thus, the Dems can keep screaming for more “redistribution” and importing more parasites, but if there is precious little to redistribute or feed upon, what are even the mentally challenged to think? Failure is failure.
As point of historical reference, the country has gone in about 40 years from an economic and cultural juggernaut to a hospice patient, why? Two or three obvious differences between the “good old days” and now are: (1) more and more government involvement in the economy, (2) the results of the Immigration Reform Act have come home to roost, and (3) the Federal Reserve and Federal Government have decided to sacrifice the real economy for the FIRE economy (i.e., Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate). Essentially the cultural Marxists have control of the media, schools, government, and large businesses, and they didn’t 40 or so years ago. As we descend into a recognized depression (we already are in one, but the media and even academia are covering for Barry and company until shortly after the election), my hope is that the correct villains are identified because the insanity of trying to solve too much of something with more of it can be made clear to even an average 12 year old. If not, then I would suggest curling up into the fetal position and hoping for a swift end.
Yes, certainly he is unable to deal with reality or the facts derived from it. He is essentially a narcissistic, spoiled, affirmative action psychopath. More specifically, he is a study in oxymorons, with the emphasis on the moronic. For example, little Barry is not very bright, yet arrogant; in addition, he is clearly not able to think on his feet (i.e., especially without a teleprompter and speechwriter), yet thinks he can, etc., etcetera. Actually, being anointed and pushed through every door, he has never had to deal with reality, even during these so called “debates”. He is constantly protected by his fellow travelers in the cultural Marxist media, yet he imagines that it is his opposition that is unfair. I could go on, but I wonder when he has ever had to really perform from either economic motivation or intrinsic motivation (e.g., pride of mastery). For example, he thinks that speaking another language is a must for American school children yet he has lived overseas (and indeed is likely an Indonesian citizen, or at least was), claims to be multicultural, multiracial, etc., yet he claims to not know a second language. Especially if they grow up in other countries, I’ve know people of average intelligence that have mastered several languages; in addition, many people who are merely curious show a higher level of knowledge in, for example, other cultures and languages than little Barry. In fact, and possibly most bizarrely, he shows little knowledge or respect for the U.S. Constitution (i.e., other than cultural Marxist talking points), yet he was a professor of Constitutional law and went to law school. He was editor of the Harvard Law Review, yet has never written an article for it (or edited any as far as I know) or any other law journal. Do you get the idea? What stands out isn’t reality or facts but the bubble he has cruised around in for essentially his entire life even though his mother and father (i.e., whoever it turns out to be) largely rejected him in favor of Marxist rhetoric. If you even mildly dispassionately analyze this thing that occupies the White House, it is really difficult not to come to the conclusion it should be committed to an asylum, yet there it is grinning like Biden and blithely saying on a comedy show that four or so avoidable deaths in Libya which were covered up by his administration were “non optimal”. Non optimal for whom?
Regarding the debates themselves, there is essentially not much to gather from them in that they are no measure of extemporaneous thinking or thoughts. As far as I know, the “debaters” know in advance what topics are covered, and even then they tend to ignore the specific question and digress toward the memorized answer. Thus, little Barry is fed lines and told to act in certain ways when certain topics come up. While it would truly be fascinating to watch Barry try to debate, I’m afraid it would only reinforce the know pathology of what is known, and nobody really wants to see a grown affirmative action president man-child narcissist on the “down-low” cry.
Yes, certainly he is unable to deal with reality and its associated facts. He is essentially a narcissistic, spoiled, affirmative action psychopath. More specifically, he is a study in oxymorons, with the emphasis on the moronic. For example, little Barry is not very bright, yet arrogant; in addition, he is clearly not able to think on his feet (i.e., especially without a teleprompter and speechwriter), yet thinks he can, etc., etcetera. Actually, being anointed and pushed through every door, he has never had to deal with reality, even during these so called “debates”. He is constantly protected by his fellow travelers in the cultural Marxist media, yet he imagines that it is his opposition that is unfair. I could go on, but I wonder when he has ever had to really perform from either economic motivation or intrinsic motivation (e.g., pride of mastery). For example, he thinks that speaking another language is a must for American school children yet he has lived overseas (and indeed is likely an Indonesian citizen, or at least was), claims to be multicultural, multiracial, etc., yet he claims to not know a second language. Especially if they grow up in other countries, I’ve know people of average intelligence that have mastered several languages; in addition, many people who are merely curious show a higher level of knowledge in, for example, other cultures and languages than little Barry. In fact, and possibly most bizarrely, he shows little knowledge or respect for the U.S. Constitution (i.e., other than cultural Marxist talking points), yet he was a professor of Constitutional law and went to law school. He was editor of the Harvard Law Review, yet has never written an article for it (or edited any as far as I know) or any other law journal. Do you get the idea? What stands out isn’t reality or facts but the bubble he has cruised around in for essentially his entire life even though his mother and father (i.e., whoever it turns out to be) largely rejected him in favor of Marxist rhetoric. If you even mildly dispassionately analyze this thing that occupies the White House, it is really difficult not to come to the conclusion it should be committed to an asylum, yet there it is grinning like Biden and blithely saying, for example, that four or so avoidable deaths in Libya which were covered up by his administration were “non optimal”. Non optimal for whom?
Regarding the debates themselves, there is essentially not much to gather from them in that they are no measure of extemporaneous thinking or thoughts. As far as I know, the “debaters” know in advance what topics are covered, and even then they tend to ignore the specific question and digress toward the memorized answer. Thus, little Barry is fed lines and told to act in certain ways when certain topics come up. While it would truly be fascinating to watch Barry try to debate, I’m afraid it would only reinforce the know pathology of what is known, and nobody really wants to see a grown affirmative action president man-child narcissist cry.