Comments on: Barack’s Silver Hammer

By: Rufus

Rufus — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:30:31 +0000

One thing that concerns me is there seems to be a remarkable coincidence of a long string of Presidents being faced by just the type of crisis they are least interested in while being diverted from the precise type of crisis they wanted to engage in. Bush II wanted to be the CEO President, business and taxes were huge on his list, as well as diverting government funds to charitable organizations and “fixing” social security. He barely got around to any of that stuff as his terms were dominated by foreign policy. Clinton campaigned on socialized medicine and ended up fighting in Kosovo instead. Bush I was big on foreign policy but was broadsided by domestic, policy issues…

By: G-MAN

G-MAN — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:21:18 +0000

Good points. The Vampire President…sucking the lifeblood of America.

By: Floyd

Floyd — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:11:21 +0000

I agree his efforts abroad are meek and ineffective, but he’s your typical narcissist. He has male slut foreign policy. Like a guy who wants to sleep with all the good-lookin’ girls he can, but never commits… he wants to be with and receive adulation from as many countries as he can, but he doesn’t want to commit to any of them because they would be a distraction from his true love — himself.

And the fact that we don’t love him here anymore will get worse for us before it gets better. 3 1/2 years is a lifetime.

By: Floyd

Floyd — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:07:33 +0000

silver v. plastic…. he won’t use the hammer over seas — he disengages there. Foreign issues are a distraction from his agenda and drain funds from his over-arching goal of a statist America. His damage will be domestic — we will be lesser — dented both by his negligence and intentional disengagement abroad and by his using the levers of State to bash his domestic enemies. No man who has THAT Dept. of Justice and the IRS, FCC, etc. at his disposal carries a plastic anything.

Our saving grace? We’re Americans goddamit and we don’t line up behind anybody. Those people who have citizenship (talk about plastic — we need to bulk up those requirements) who will line up are not Americans in my book.

By: Tracy, txmom2many

Tracy, txmom2many — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:01:11 +0000

I’m following your thought here g-man, like those plastic squeaky annoying things the sell at amusement parks? They are ineffective but annoying as all get out?

It would have made a great Beatles song.

By: G-MAN

G-MAN — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:59:28 +0000

They were before the obama generation.

By: Floyd

Floyd — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:55:52 +0000

yeah but the Beatles didn’t make a song called Maxwell’s Plastic Hammer. It’s all — or mostly — about the post title.

By: G-MAN

G-MAN — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:52:45 +0000

I’m not convinced about the silver hammer. I see more of a plastic hammer. The kind made in China. At least as far as the health plan, foriegn affairs, the economy, indecision in military decisions. I doubt he reads everything as you claim, BarryO. He’s been advertising how great the health care plan is, when there was not a health care plan put together beside the horrendous patchwork of documents stuck together into a box that no one in congress was reading through. I haven’t seen a great intellect, either, Rufus. If it was there, it would have come out by now. He’s a great communicator of ideals, but those ideals are founded upon false assumptions. A great argument built on a false premise still brings forth a false conclusion. An example is a belief in diplomacy as an effective tool. It is with reasonable people who are willing to negotiate. Not with dangerous people like this guy:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091023/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_nuclear
And basically the enemies we have left are like that guy.

A man with a plastic hammer will have little success in dealing with those who must be dealt with on a serious level.

By: Rufus

Rufus — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:09:05 +0000

By the way, BarryO, I know others here have said it, but I don’t believe I ever have:
I greatly appreciate you taking time to come here and explain your opinions and debate ours. I know there are many, many intelligent, well intentioned liberals in this country and there are often good reasons for being on the non-Conservative side of the issues. There are important things we need to debate and decide as a nation and folks like you will help us get to the correct solutions.

By: Rufus

Rufus — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:06:15 +0000

What does being President have to do with being a good trial attorney? Johnathon Edwards was an extremely successful trial attorney and I doubt any of us imagine he would be a good Commander in Chief.