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Has Obama has "checked-out"?
From WSJ:
It’s one thing if hardened critics like Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly ask whether the Obama presidency is “imploding,” as she did last month , citing a string of foreign policy debacles and domestic scandals.
Or if Republican lobbyist Ed Rogers says Obama “seems to have taken something like an early retirement,” as he did in his Washington Post blog earlier this month, finding that the president’s recent speeches reveal “a state of mind that suggests he has checked out.”
It is another, however, if the chief U.S. commentator for the Financial Times, Edward Luce, takes Obama to task, as he did this week, in an op-ed titled “Farewell to trust: Obama’s Germany syndrome.”
Luce takes the flap over the CIA spying on an ally like Germany as symptomatic of an administration that has lost the trust of the public both at home and abroad.
The British journalist notes that Obama dismisses such charges as cynical, but Luce rejects that label for himself and other critics in the press.
“Most reporters are better described as skeptical,” Luce says. “A cynic believes there is nothing new under the sun. A skeptic resists gullibility. On the basis of the latter, Mr. Obama does not appear to relish being chief executive.”
Kelly dismissively refers to Obama’s response to crisis as “smiling, golfing and at this very moment partying,” but Luce, too, notes that Obama has played golf 179 times while in office, much more than avowed golf lover George W. Bush, and headlined 393 fundraisers, more than double his predecessor’s total.
“If Mr. Obama put half as much effort into co-opting or wrong-footing his opponents as he does raising cash from the wealthy, people might be less skeptical,” Luce writes.
Veteran journalist Patrick Smith, who has written for liberal publications like The Nation and the New Yorker, also takes Obama to task for the German spy scandal and the insufficient response by American officials.
“I can think of two names for this,” Smith wrote this week in Fiscal Times. “One is ‘outmoded arrogance.’ The other is ‘asleep at the wheel.’ Whatever the moniker, some measure of incompetence lies behind it.”
When MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski interviewed Obama last month on the subject of Iraq, network commentator Donny Deutsch, an avowed Democrat, said, “I’ve never seen a less-engaged look in his eyes.”
Deutsch added: “He almost seemed — I don’t want to say checked-out because that is not the right thing — but watching him, his cadence was different. He feels like he almost wants to go home at this point.”
Another commentator on that program, Mark Halperin, said that Obama’s answers on the Syrian situation were nuanced and accurate, but people expect more from a president than great analysis of problems.
ROBALO's thought:
I think the POS POTUS "Checked-out" in 2006. Back then he fought against the same crap he threw at us, never takes blame for anything and is so GD stupid (or thinks we are so GD stupid) that he has said "He didn't know about (add the issue here) _____________ until he saw it on the News."
It just sickens me to know we have a POTUS with a 10 y.o.'s mentality-a proven liar, a thief, a crook, a demagogue.
He cares more about raising funds for his campaign than dying US citizens and is the blame for the so-called Border Crisis. He is an embarrassment abroad and is so damn immature it is just sad. His ObamaCare is a bust and just added millions to Medicaid-BFD-Medicaid doctors were IMO the cause of my niece's death due to poor care, so why is Medicaid so GD great??? It is not!! Dumbazzes think so until they experience it themselves.
Paint it pretty, tell the ignorants how great it is and how it doesn't stink, but it is still sheeit no matter what you do to it or say it is. That is what Obama had done for 7 farging years! Thanks you dumbazz, ignorant Dummycrats for electing the POS POTUS. WORST POTUS EVER AND HISTORY WILL PROVE THAT!!
It’s one thing if hardened critics like Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly ask whether the Obama presidency is “imploding,” as she did last month , citing a string of foreign policy debacles and domestic scandals.
Or if Republican lobbyist Ed Rogers says Obama “seems to have taken something like an early retirement,” as he did in his Washington Post blog earlier this month, finding that the president’s recent speeches reveal “a state of mind that suggests he has checked out.”
It is another, however, if the chief U.S. commentator for the Financial Times, Edward Luce, takes Obama to task, as he did this week, in an op-ed titled “Farewell to trust: Obama’s Germany syndrome.”
Luce takes the flap over the CIA spying on an ally like Germany as symptomatic of an administration that has lost the trust of the public both at home and abroad.
The British journalist notes that Obama dismisses such charges as cynical, but Luce rejects that label for himself and other critics in the press.
“Most reporters are better described as skeptical,” Luce says. “A cynic believes there is nothing new under the sun. A skeptic resists gullibility. On the basis of the latter, Mr. Obama does not appear to relish being chief executive.”
Kelly dismissively refers to Obama’s response to crisis as “smiling, golfing and at this very moment partying,” but Luce, too, notes that Obama has played golf 179 times while in office, much more than avowed golf lover George W. Bush, and headlined 393 fundraisers, more than double his predecessor’s total.
“If Mr. Obama put half as much effort into co-opting or wrong-footing his opponents as he does raising cash from the wealthy, people might be less skeptical,” Luce writes.
Veteran journalist Patrick Smith, who has written for liberal publications like The Nation and the New Yorker, also takes Obama to task for the German spy scandal and the insufficient response by American officials.
“I can think of two names for this,” Smith wrote this week in Fiscal Times. “One is ‘outmoded arrogance.’ The other is ‘asleep at the wheel.’ Whatever the moniker, some measure of incompetence lies behind it.”
When MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski interviewed Obama last month on the subject of Iraq, network commentator Donny Deutsch, an avowed Democrat, said, “I’ve never seen a less-engaged look in his eyes.”
Deutsch added: “He almost seemed — I don’t want to say checked-out because that is not the right thing — but watching him, his cadence was different. He feels like he almost wants to go home at this point.”
Another commentator on that program, Mark Halperin, said that Obama’s answers on the Syrian situation were nuanced and accurate, but people expect more from a president than great analysis of problems.
ROBALO's thought:
I think the POS POTUS "Checked-out" in 2006. Back then he fought against the same crap he threw at us, never takes blame for anything and is so GD stupid (or thinks we are so GD stupid) that he has said "He didn't know about (add the issue here) _____________ until he saw it on the News."
It just sickens me to know we have a POTUS with a 10 y.o.'s mentality-a proven liar, a thief, a crook, a demagogue.
He cares more about raising funds for his campaign than dying US citizens and is the blame for the so-called Border Crisis. He is an embarrassment abroad and is so damn immature it is just sad. His ObamaCare is a bust and just added millions to Medicaid-BFD-Medicaid doctors were IMO the cause of my niece's death due to poor care, so why is Medicaid so GD great??? It is not!! Dumbazzes think so until they experience it themselves.
Paint it pretty, tell the ignorants how great it is and how it doesn't stink, but it is still sheeit no matter what you do to it or say it is. That is what Obama had done for 7 farging years! Thanks you dumbazz, ignorant Dummycrats for electing the POS POTUS. WORST POTUS EVER AND HISTORY WILL PROVE THAT!!
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