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Posté le Mercredi 4 février 2009 par Sittingbull
The Impending Obama Meltdown [Victor Davis Hanson]
Some of us have been warning that it was not healthy for the U.S. media to have deified rather than questioned Obama, especially given that they tore apart Bush, ridiculed Palin, and caricatured Hillary. And now we can see the results of their two years of advocacy rather than scrutiny.
We are quite literally after two weeks teetering on an Obama implosion—and with no Dick Morris to bail him out—brought on by messianic delusions of grandeur, hubris, and a strange naivete that soaring rhetoric and a multiracial profile can add requisite cover to good old-fashioned Chicago politicking.
First, there were the sermons on ethics, belied by the appointments of tax dodgers, crass lobbyists, and wheeler-dealers like Richardson—with the relish of the Blago tapes still to come. (And why does Richardson/Daschle go, but not Geithner?).
Second, was the « stimulus » (the euphemism for « borrow/print money ») that was simply a way to go into debt for a generation to shower Democratic constituencies with cash.
Then third, there were the inflated lectures on historic foreign policy to be made by the clumsy political novice who trashed his own country and his predecessor in the most ungracious manner overseas to a censored Saudi-run press organ (e.g., Bush is dictatorial, the Saudi king is courageous; Obama can mend bridges that America broke to aggrieved Muslims—apparently Tehran hostages, Rushdie, serial attacks in the 1990s, 9/11, Madrid, London never apparently occurred; and neither did feeding Somalis, saving Kuwait, protesting Chechnya, Bosnia/Kosovo, billions to Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinians, help in two Afghan wars, and on and on).
Fourth, there was the campaign rhetoric of Bush shredding the Constitution—FISA, Guantánamo, the Patriot Act, Iraq, renditions, etc.—followed by « all that for now stays the same » inasmuch as we haven’t ben hit in over seven years and can’t risk another attack.
Fifth, Gibbs as press secretary is a Scott McClellan nightmare that won’t go away, given his long McClellan-like relationship with Obama (McClellan should have been fired on day hour one on the job). Blaming Fox News for Obama’s calamities is McClellan to the core and doesn’t work. He already reminds me of Reverend Wright’s undoing at the National Press Club—and he will get worse.
Six, Biden is being Biden. Already, he’s ridiculed the chief justice, trashed the former VP, bragged on himself ad nauseam in Bidenesque weird ways, and it’s only been two weeks.
And the result of all this?
At home, Obama is becoming laughable and laying the groundwork for the greatest conservative populist reaction since the Reagan Revolution.
Abroad, some really creepy people are lining up to test Obama’s world view of « Bush did it/but I am the world »: The North Koreans are readying their missiles; the Iranians are calling us passive, bragging on nukes and satellites; Russia is declaring missile defense is over and the Euros in real need of iffy Russian gas; Pakistanis say no more drone attacks (and then our friends the Indians say « shut up » about Kashmir and the Euros order no more « buy American »).
This is quite serious. I can’t recall a similarly disastrous start in a half-century (far worse than Bill Clinton’s initial slips). Obama immediately must lower the hope-and-change rhetoric, ignore Reid/Pelosi, drop the therapy, and accept the tragic view that the world abroad is not misunderstood but quite dangerous. And he must listen on foreign policy to his National Security Advisor, Billary, and the Secretary of Defense. If he doesn’t quit the messianic style and perpetual campaign mode, and begin humbly governing, then he will devolve into Carterism—angry that the once-fawning press betrayed him while we the people, due to our American malaise, are to blame.
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5 réponses à “Obama: la glissade est rapide, on déchante”
5 fév 09 à 17:59
C’est juste. Je pense qu’à gauche ça prendra plus de temps, d’autant plus qu’il les flatte radicalement dans le sens du poil, (environnement, agenda anti croissance, expansion de l’état -providence ou pas-, etc). Probablement qu’ils ne déchanteront jamais, ça se jouera au centre qui s’est déplacé, pour cette élection, des républicains aux démocrates.
5 fév 09 à 14:03
Je suis d’accord avec tout ça, mais en même temps, c’est VDH, qui déchante. C’est pas comme si c’était Krugman. On peut dire que d’emblée Obama est mauvais, voire pire que prévu d’un point de vue conservateur, pour autant c’est difficile de prétendre qu’il déçoive déjà.
5 fév 09 à 13:54
Les pessimistes , dont je fais partie, ont eu tort à propos d’Obama.
La réalité est PIRE que ce que l’on a imaginé !!
5 fév 09 à 03:18
Sur Ynet ce matin:
Il n’a fallut que 14 jours pour qu’Obama s’ecrase sur le terrain des realites ! Ses nominations honteuses ont touche sa position ds les medias, le publique et les programmes TV – et cen’est qu’un debut
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3667017,00.html
ההתרסקות של אובמה אל קרקע המציאות
הנשיא הטרי המריא לוושינגטון על כנפי בשורת השינוי, ואחרי שבועיים בלבד נאלץ לנחות אל קרקע המציאות. שורת המינויים המבישה פגעה במעמדו בתקשורת, בדעת הקהל ובתוכניות הלילה. וזוהי רק ההתחלה
יצחק בן-חורין, וושינגטון פורסם: 05.02.09, 01:26
14 יום בלבד לקח לכוכבו של ברק אובמה לצנוח ברעש מחריש אוזניים משמי הבירה אל קרקע המציאות של וושינגטון. « האם ירח הדבש הסתיים? » – זו השאלה החמה בדיונים הפוליטיים בערוצי החדשות האמריקניים.
4 fév 09 à 17:39
À peu près tout ce qu’eXc avait catalogué comme maux à venir. Et ce n’est qu’un début…
