In today's dog-and-pony show over at Blair House in Washington, D. C., the American people got to see the Dear Leader, President Obama, in a really bad light.
What many Americans saw was a president that did not like to be questioned, reminded or told that he may actually be wrong about aspects of the so-called health care "reform" he and fellow Democrats are trying to force on the American people.
Ace over at Ace of Spades had it spot on how the Dear Leader, President Obama, was conducting this so-called "forum" and here are five rules of the Dear Leader, President Obama:
1. Democrats get more time because "I'm the President."
2. Republicans may not criticise my bill. They can only talk about things on which we agree.
3. Republicans may not use the word "Washington" because it tips the scales.
4. Republicans may not use or reference an actual copy of the Senate bill. That's a "prop" and it's unfair.
And add to that 5:
5. We're not in "campaign mode anymore," by which he means McCain cannot mention his dirty dealings.
And do check out the video at the link. It shows Sen. John "F--- You" McCain (R-Ariz) showing some cajones reminding the Dear Leader of his broken campaign promises. And of the backroom deals that he did not make a peep about. Until alternative media pointed it out. And hence, that is where rule number five comes in.
What the American people saw was a professor lecturing, mocking, unable to pivot when called out. And it is just rather unbecoming of the office of President of the United States. And that was most of his 119 minutes of droning.
A lot of people criticized former President George W. Bush for a kind of arrogance. A Texas style that grated on the Establishment nerves. Maybe that is true to some.
But a real political arrogance that hurt the former president came two days after victory in the 2004 election.
Then-President Bush said that he gained "political capital" and that he was going to use it aggressively. And he started on another domestic powder-keg. Social Security reform.
Now I will not go into the details of that proposal. But then-President Bush and his team tried some of the same tactics that the Dear Leader, President Obama, and company are trying to do on so-called health care "reform". And this is while the war in the Iraq theatre in the War Against Islamofacsist Terror was continuing into an untenable stalemate.
Mr. Bush appeared arrogant and unbending. And eventually, the Social Security reform was voted down and the Iraq theatre grew worse by the day. And the Democrats by 2006 took back Congress.
But this is larger and the stakes enormous.
What will happen eventually is that the federal government will control one-sixth of the United States economy. And judging by the track record in Social Security, Medicare and any other federal government program, this will end in the same fate.
F A I L U R E!
And for some reason, the Dear Leader, President Obama, continues to try to paint Republicans as the only group standing in the way of the New Utopia.
The Dear Leader, President Obama, seems to be forgetting his own Democrat party. Or the fact that the American people have crystallized in opposition to the so-called health care "reform" now on the table.
One thing that the American people do not like is being lectured to by anybody. Whether it be a politician, a celebutard, any one.
And yet that is what the Dear Leader, President Obama did. And it really looks like it backfired on him.
Consider two separate reactions from two contributors at National Review online.
Yuval Levin had an early analysis of how the Dear Leader, President Obama, was in the morning session. Most telling is that Mr. Levin noted the obvious. That the Dear Leader, President Obama, is the only star that the Democrats have.
Jim Geraghty has a couple of interesting observations, both reinforce that the Dear Leader, President Obama, did not look all that well in today's confab.
Americans relate to presidents like Ronald Reagan and yes, Bill Clinton, because they did not lecture the people. They spoke to the American people. They reinforced the positive and has a smile on their face. There is a reason those two won two elections each over candidates like the current president. A man aloof and not truly trying to win over the critics.
And that maybe what dooms the so-called health care "reform"
Arrogance from the top.
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