What is it he said? He purportedly said that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. Isn't it wonderful that our President would rather have totalitarian control of our nation so he wouldn't have to tolerate dissent?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/sayings_of_chairman_maobama_FSOKC0BqmCpXK1ozBxXlrM
First I did a double take. He said what? I read it again and the shock waves followed.
A beleaguered President Obama has told aides it would be so much easier to be the president of China, The New York Times reports.
There are two ways to read the remark, which is attributed to anonymous aides. One is that Obama resents the burden of global leadership that comes with the American presidency. The other is that he longs for an authoritarian system, where he need tolerate no dissent.
Under either or both interpretations, his confession carries a dose of self-pity that means Obama has hit a wall.
He is in over his head, and he knows it.
Yeah, Obama is out of league, knows it, and is struggling not to show it. That's why he is "distancing himself" from major issues like debt reduction. But nothing he can do is "working," in the sense that people hate his initiatives and problems he can't fix keep cropping up.
His responses range from halfhearted to wrongheaded. Nothing is working. Unhappy voters already repudiated his first two years and might fire him when they get the chance. It is a moment that brings home the truth of the sign on Harry Truman's desk: "The buck stops here."
Yet my suspicion is that it's not the problems per se that have Obama envying a lower rung on the global ladder. It's that he regards them as endless distractions that keep getting in the way of his transformative agenda.
He is a man of the faculty lounge who wants a blank slate so he can remake the nation into a more perfect place, as he sees it. Remember, he greeted his election with the messiah-like claim that future generations would say, "This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."
Remember this in 2012, okay? Do we REALLY want to re-elect a President who would rather have totalitarian control over the nation?
I don't...
Ref"There are two ways to read the remark, which is attributed to anonymous aides. One is that Obama resents the burden of global leadership..."
ReplyDeleteI have to disagree with the 'resents global leadership" line...he not only does not resent it, he relishes it...it's all a part of his plan...he knows exactly what he is doing. His decisions are all carefully weighed and after they are carried out, analyzed. The analysis always includes the "how much did I get away with this time to get away with more next time" game.
Norm