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"The Absurdly
Fortunate Rise of Barack Obama"
Part Two of Four
By Dave Andrusko
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Pro-Abortion
President, Barack Obama |
People, like me, who scribble for
a living are often prone to making too much out of too little.
In this case, however, I think if we piece together the rising
tide of evidence it supports the conclusion something very
serious is going on with pro-abortion President Barack Obama.
The first instance would be easy
to make fun of him--gosh, even the Washington Post starting a
column about it with "CHARLOTTE--Even by President Obama's
loquacious standards, an answer he gave here on health care
Friday was a doozy."
In case you missed it, the
President took 17 minutes and 2,500 words to
answer/rebut/steamroll/filibuster "a woman named Doris [who]
stood to ask the president whether it was a 'wise decision to
add more taxes to us with the health care' package," the Post's
Anne Kornblut reported. ""We are over-taxed as it is,' Doris
said bluntly."
Caught off guard, Obama started
out "feisty." His meandering answer covered the waterfront, and
then some. But that's nothing new. Unscripted, he goes on and on
and on.
And even though "Halfway through,
an audience member on the riser yawned," and that "it was not
evident that he changed any minds at Friday's event," AND that
"people in the back of the room began to wander off" as Obama
went through a laundry list of lists, these were not what made
this a verbal debacle.
Consider this. The reportorial
crew that is so desperate to bail water out of the leaking ship
of state uses as its main pump the assurance that Obama is so
dazzling that the public will, like dutiful children, readily
change its widespread opposition to ObamaCare.
But if we acknowledge, as the
Post does, that "Public opinion on the bill remains divided, and
Democratic officials are planning to send Obama into the country
to persuade wary citizens that it will work for them in the long
run," in light of the upcoming mid-year elections it is not
reassuring when Obama looks and sounds like a dunderhead.
Adding to the image of an
Administration adrift are Obama's ghastly job approval numbers.
They've dropped to an alarming 44%, both in a CBS poll and
Rasmussen. A year ago April the figure was a whopping 68%!
Specifically on the health care
issue, Obama's approval figure tumbled to an all-time low of
34%. If health care is his "signature issue," and the best he
can do is one-third approval and a marathon 17-minute answer to
a simple statement, you know Obama's in real trouble.
But the most ominous development
may be found tucked away in an unintentionally revealing book
review that appeared in the Washington Post over the weekend.
Written by one Obamaphile (Gwen Ifill, moderator of PBS's "This
Week") about the new book of another Obamaphile (The New
Yorker's David Remnick), Ifill actually concedes that Obama has
led an incredibly charmed political life.
Ifill, who wrote her own ain't-he-amazing
book about Obama, praises Remnick's "The Bridge: The Life and
Rise of Barack Obama" at some length only to suggest, however
obliquely, that Remnick is so in the tank for Obama that he
gives him the benefit of every possible doubt.
For example, Ifill writes, "If he
[Obama] can't be in control, he is ready to move on. Remnick
mentions frequently how easily Obama can get bored. He was bored
at Occidental, the first college he attended; bored at the
University of Chicago, where as a teacher he focused on writing
his first book; bored in the Illinois Senate; and even bored in
the U.S. Senate, where he was more interested in writing his
second book. Remnick obviously admires the president, so he does
not interpret such lofty boredom as peevish or self-absorbed, as
critics might."
Then in another unintentionally
hilarious remark, Ifill observes, "Perhaps it is that generosity
to Obama -- gushy praise, Nobel Peace Prizes -- that drives his
political competitors nuts." Well…..
Well before he was even
nominated, anyone who read even those who praised Obama
effusively knew that Obama (to put it gently) had a highly
limited attention span, an ego the size of Chicago, and a
willingness to play hardball when it served his purposes.
All this--the immaturity and
narcissism-- was covered up by a supplicant press corps. So it
is hardly comes as a surprise that the same people would hide
how far down the field ObamaCare pushed the agenda of Planned
Parenthood.
If you get a chance, read Ifill's
review. It's at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040201516.html.
By the way the link on the Post
web page to the review reads, "The absurdly fortunate rise of
Barack Obama."
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latest at
www.nationalrighttolifenews.org. Send your thoughts and
comments to
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