[142857] Magic # Anatomy of a Failed Presidency by Dr Geoffrey Hunt / Courtesy of M Uría

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AMWERICAN THINKER 
 


NOVEMBER 18, 2009
 





ANATOMY OF A FAILED  PRESIDENCY 

Google Dr.  Geoffrey P. Hunt  

_http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/another_failed_presidency.html_ 
(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/another_failed_presidency.html)  
 


The  following is an interesting article and I wonder
how long Dr. Hunt  can remain at NIH once the powers that be
get wind of this  article.

Dr. Hunt is a social and cultural  anthropologist.  He
has had nearly 30 years experience in  planning, conducting,
and managing research in the field of youth  studies, and
drug and alcohol research. Currently Dr. Hunt is a  Senior
Research Scientist at the Institute for Scientific  Analysis
and the Principal Investigator on three National  Institutes
on Health projects. He is also a writer for  American
Thinker..

Subject: Another  Failed Presidency

An article from American  Thinker by Geoffrey P. Hunt

Barack Obama is  on track to have the most
spectacularly failed presidency since  Woodrow Wilson.  In
the modern era, we've seen several failed  presidencies--led
by Jimmy Carter and LBJ.  Failed presidents  have one strong
common trait-- they are repudiated, in the  vernacular, spat
out. Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp  early,
avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party.  
Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his
reputation as  a statesman has been partially restored by his
triumphant overture to  China.

But, Barack Obama is failing.  Failing big.   Failing
fast. And failing everywhere: foreign policy,  domestic
initiatives, and most importantly, in forging  connections
with the American people. The incomparable  Dorothy
Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger on  it:
He is failing because he has no understanding of the
American  people, and may indeed loathe them. Fred Barnes of
the Weekly  Standard says he is failing because he has lost
control of his  message, and is overexposed.  Clarice Feldman
of American  Thinker produced a dispositive commentary
showing that Obama is  failing because fundamentally he is
neither smart nor articulate; his  intellectual dishonesty is
conspicuous by its audacity and lack of  shame.

But, there is something more  seriously wrong: How
could a new president riding in on a wave of  unprecedented
promise and goodwill have forfeited his tenure and  become a
lame duck in six months?  His poll ratings are in free  fall.
In generic balloting, the Republicans have now seized a
five  point advantage.  This truly is unbelievable.  What's
going  on?
No narrative. Obama doesn't have a  narrative.  No, not
a narrative about himself.  He has a  self-narrative, much of
it fabricated, cleverly disguised or written  by someone
else.  But this self-narrative is isolated and  doesn't
connect with us.  He doesn't have an American narrative  that
draws upon the rest of us.  All successful presidents have  a
narrative about the American character that intersects  with
their own where they display a command of history and  reveal
an authenticity at the core of their personality  that
resonates in a positive endearing way with the majority  of
Americans. We admire those presidents whose narratives not
only  touch our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and
smarter than we  are.  Presidents we admire are aspirational
peers, even those  whose politics don't align exactly with
our own: Teddy Roosevelt,  FDR, Harry Truman, Ike, and
Reagan.

But  not this president. It's not so much that he's a
phony, knows nothing  about economics, and is historically
illiterate and woefully small  minded for the size of the
task--all contributory of course.   It's that he's not one of
us.  And whatever he is, his profile  is fuzzy and devoid of
content, like a cardboard cutout made from  delaminated
corrugated paper.  Moreover, he doesn't command our  respect
and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His  notions
of right and wrong are repugnant and how things work  just
don't add up. They are not existential. His descriptions  of
the world we live in don't make sense and don't correspond
with  our experience.

In the meantime, while we've  been struggling to take a
measurement of this man, he's dissed just  about every one of
us--financiers, energy producers, banks,  insurance
executives, police officers, doctors, nurses,  hospital
administrators, post office workers, and anybody else  who
has a non-green job.  Expect Obama to lament at his  last
press conference in 2012: "For those of you I offended,  I
apologize.  For those of you who were not offended, you  just
didn't give me enough time; if only I'd had a second term,  I
could have offended you too."

Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional
Convention in 1787  devised a useful remedy for such a
desperate state--staggered terms  for both houses of the
legislature and the executive.  An  equally abominable
Congress can get voted out next year.  With a  new Congress,
there's always hope of legislative gridlock until we  vote
for president again two short years after that.

Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama  among
them.  The coyotes howl but the wagon train keeps  rolling
along.

 
 
   
SELECTED  thoughts of VARIOUS authors SELECTED BY MIGUEL URIA WHICH HE 
BELEIVES ARE  APPLicABLE TO the CAUSE OF FREEDOM EVERYWHERE TODAY  

Loyalty  above all else 

'I never emulate white men and  brown men whose fates didn't speak to my 
own. It was into my father's  image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd 
packed all the attributes I  sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and 
Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.' 
Barak Obama  Hussein   
HOW TO BE A GOOD  COMMUNIST
by
Nelson  Mandela

INTRODUCTION 
Under a Communist Party Government South Africa will  become a land of milk 
and honey. A Communist is a member of the Communist  Party who understands 
and accepts the theory and practice of Marxism-Leninism as  explained by 
Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin , and who subjects himself to the  discipline of 
the Party. Political, economic and social rights will cease to be  enjoyed 
by Whites only. They will be shared equally by Whites and Non-Whites.  There 
will be enough land and houses for all. There will be no unemployment,  
starvation and disease. Workers  will earn decent wages; transport will be 
cheap and education free. There will  be no pass laws, no influx control, no 
Police raids for passes and poll tax, and  Africans 

Under this  system the best incentive for work disappears, production 
necessarily drops and  indolence and misery prevail in all of  society” 
Plinio Correa  de Oliveira 

*  "We  cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the 
national  security objectives we've set. We've  got to have a civilian national 
security force that's just as powerful, just as  strong, just as 
well-funded." Barak Obama Hussein / Colorado  Springs  on July 2, 2008. 


“The problem with socialism in that you eventually run  out of Money” 
Margaret  Thatcher 




'I will stand with the Muslims should  the political winds shift in an ugly 
direction.' 
Barak  Obama Hussein 

"Owners of capital  will stimulate the working class to buy more and more 
of expensive goods, houses  and technology, pushing them to take more and 
more expensive credits, until  their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt 
will lead to bankruptcy of banks,  which will have to be nationalized, and 
the State will have to take the road  which will eventually lead to 
communism."  
Karl Marx, Das  Kapital, 1867 


"You  cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out 
of  freedom. What one person receives without working for,  another person 
must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to  anybody 
anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.  When half 
of the people get the idea that they do not have  to work because the other 
half is going to take care of them, and when the other  half gets the idea 
that it does no good to work because somebody else is going  to get what they 
work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.  You cannot 
multiply wealth by dividing it."   
Dr.  Adrian Rogers, 1931   




You cannot multiply wealth by  dividing it." 
~~~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 - 2005  ~~~~~ 


President Barack Obama said in Turkey: "We do not consider ourselves  a 
Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves  
a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values."   


We  cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but 
we can  assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of 
socialism until  they suddenly awake to find they have Communism. 
Soviet Prime Minister Nikita  Khrushchev, 1959 



May God have Mercy upon my enemies, because I wont.  
Gen George S Patton Jr. 

The democracy will cease  to exist when you take away from those who are 
willing to work and give  to those who would not.  / It is incumbent on every 
generation to  pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on 
would save one-half  the wars of the world.  / I predict future happiness for 
 Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of 
the  people under the pretense of taking care of  them./ My reading of history 
convinces me  that most bad government results from too much government. / 
No free man  shall ever be debarred the use of arms. / The  strongest reason 
for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is,  as a last 
resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in  government. / The tree of 
liberty must be refreshed  from time to time with the blood of patriots and 
tyrants.  
_Thomas Jefferson_ 
(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff109180.html)   

_“I don’t like the idea of spending more government  money, nor am I 
interested in expanding government’s role_ 
(http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/03/obama_says_broa.htm)   
Barack Obama 



“ The truth  is , in order to get things like universal Health Care  and a 
revamped Educaton System. Then  someone is going to have to give up a piece 
of the pie so that someone else can  have more” 
Michelle  Obama 




"I was a rowdy nationalist  on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down 
on April 29th," he said. "By  August, I was a communist." Van Jones _Special 
 Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Advisor_for_Green_Jobs,_Enterprise_and_Innovation)  at the 
_White House  Council on Environmental Quality_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Council_on_Environmental_Quality)   (CEQ). 

"The  American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.   But, under  
the
name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the  socialist
program, until one day America will be a socialist nation,  without knowing
how it happened."
Norman Thomas  U.S.  Socialist Party Presidential candidate 1940 

Today's Americans,  enticed, perhaps enchanted, by charismatic speeches, 
are ceding so much power to  Washington, and like yesteryear's Germans are 
building the Trojan Horse for a  future tyrant. / Born in Philadelphia in 1936, 
Walter E. Williams holds a bachelor's  degree in economics from California  
State University (1965) and a master's degree (1967) and  doctorate (1972) 
in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.  

I still say that, as  it happened in Cuba, most are waiting for  others to  
take the chestnuts out of the fire. And then the time comes when it will be 
too  late.  
Miguel  Uria 
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PENSAMIENTOS POR SELECCION DE MIGUEL URIA QUE ESTIMAMOS  APLICABLE A LA 
CAUSA QUE NOS UNE 




El socialismo y la miseria dolorosa y depravada de las masas, son  
inseparables. La opresión y la miseria siguen al socialismo como la sombra al  cuerpo
”. 
Eudocio Ravines 


“Asunto oficial del Departamento de Seguridad Interno  (Homeland 
Security)Definiciones del extremismo doméstico no  islámico”. 
“Extremismo Independentista cubano.   
"Un movimiento de grupos o individuos que no reconocen la  legitimidad del 
gobierno comunista de Cuba y que intentan subvertirlo a través  de actos de 
violencia principalmente desde dentro del territorio de Estados  Unidos”. 
“(también: grupos  anticastristas)”. 




 
A raiz del reciente documental que se produjo sobre la crisis  política en 
Honduras, 
el SR. ELIAS SEIFE DE LA ORGANIZACION AUTENTICA O/A entrevista  a 
los CONGRESISTAS DE EEUU DAN BURTON Y THADDEUS MCCOTTER   
en Washington (en ingles). 

El Congresista Burton ordenó una  investigación para determinar si el 
Departamento de Estado, la  administración de Obama y la 
Embajada Americana en Honduras tuvieron que ver con la crisis   existente 
en Honduras y averiguar que razonamientos condujeron a las  posiciones 
políticas que han seguido y  continuan. 
Rep. Dan  Burton - _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKFQJKw-Zlw_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKFQJKw-Zlw)  


«Este es el mayor peligro que hoy amenaza a la  civilización: la 
estatificación de la vida, el intervencionismo del Estado, la  absorción de toda 
espontaneidad social por el Estado; es decir, la anulación de  la espontaneidad 
histórica, que en definitiva sostiene, nutre y empuja los  destinos humanos. 
El resultado de esta tendencia será fatal. Ninguna nueva  simiente podrá 
fructificar. La sociedad tendrá que vivir para el Estado; el  hombre, para la 
máquina del gobierno. El Estado, después de chupar el tuétano a  la sociedad, 
se quedará hético, esquelético, muerto con esa muerte herrumbrosa  de la 
máquina, mucho más cadavérica que la del organismo  vivo» José Ortega y 
Gasset, La Rebelión de las Masas,  1993 

Por una Cuba ni China ni Soviética. Tampoco Norteamericana.  Anti marxista, 
comunista, leninista, castrocomunista. Pero si con Democracia  
Representativa, Division de Poderes, Voto Universal y Secreto, practica efectiva  de 
"Habeas Corpus" en el marco de una actualizada Constitucin de 1940  manteniendo 
a Dios en su Preambulo. De Libre Empresa y respeto  a la Propiedad Privada 
con función social. Civilista. Cristiana. Martiana. UNA  CUBA  CUBANA. 
Miguel  Uria

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