If it is true that the best defense is a good offense, President Obama should be celebrating in the end zone now. Obviously furious over criticism that his anti-terror policies are weak and that the Orlando slaughter proves it, he went on a televised tirade to let America know he’s mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.
He laid waste to a field of straw men, cable-TV pundits and the always-evil “partisan rhetoric,” by which he means anyone who disagrees with him. It was a striking display of personal anger and pent-up grievances — and a total failure of leadership during a national crisis.
It also, inadvertently, captured why Donald Trump was able to brawl his way to the GOP nomination. All his nice Republican rivals couldn’t stir voters because they never knew how to rattle Obama the way Trump is doing. The president didn’t mention Trump yesterday, but the whole speech was nothing but a desperate and incoherent reaction to Trump-ism.
As such, it was a huge moment in the general-election campaign, even though it comes before the nominees are formally crowned. For one thing, it showed that Obama’s plan to campaign against Trump as if he is running for his own third term won’t be a cakewalk for the president or his legacy.
For another, the Obama-Trump war means Hillary Clinton could be overshadowed in what was supposed to be her campaign for vindication. Throw in her husband and the stage is going to get crowded with alpha males competing for attention.
Obama’s demeanor and tone were far from presidential — tantrums rarely are. Nor was he effective in rallying the nation to his cause. No surprise there. His cause is himself, always and only, and his greatly diminished historic presidency looks especially insignificant next to the bloodshed in Orlando. The iconic redeemer who promised hope and change never seemed so small and hopeless.
America saw Barack Obama at low tide yesterday, revealed as brimming with fury and bankrupt of ideas and even sympathy for the dead. The man who had an answer for everything and a solution to nothing is now also out of excuses.
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7 comments:
Well said and very true, he is a useless POC that will go down in history as the worst POTUS, topping Richard Nixon, that is his legacy now, chew on that Obama
He can't say the problem out loud. THAT'S the problem!!!!!!!
It's not only Radical Islamics, but even moderate ones as well, and Hussein Obama has a speech impediment when it comes to telling us who is the perpetrators of these assaults.
I say we just shit him.
Obama is always at low tide!!
Eventually he'll be a slobbering ninny in a straight jacket living in a mental institution mumbling something about his legacy.
Keep on talking Trump, love it, hope it gets to him real good. The POS Obama is going to be exactly as 12:04 AM labeled him.
12:04 Good one. Maybe he already is and this is like the Truman Show. Makes since that we are all part of the film because it really does feel like a very bad movie.
I wish the public would finally recognize that the POTUS has no clothes. He is a stooge. A puppet. A mouthpiece for the elite.
He says (reads) exactly what is written for him to say. He acts out his part in the play which is US Politics. It is all for media consumption. It is make-believe. Disneyland. Hollywood.
Focus instead on the elite who rule over us.
They are the international bankers.
Wall Street, K Street, the puppet-masters who pull the strings.
When Billary gets elected (because of Trump's efforts)she will do exactly what they tell her to do. And say. So on.
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