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In response to a story about Øbama's fall in popularity in the polls to 40%.

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The One’s biggest problem is his refusal to admit that he is ever wrong about anything.
He is a sort of super-Hillary! in this respect. He essentially came into office claiming vast powers to do things that mortal men couldn’t (“the oceans begin to recede and the planet begins to heal”) and when his policies didn’t deliver, instead of acknowledging that those were pretty stupid promises to make to start with, he “pivoted” to blaming a vast conspiracy against him, personally.

He tends to “ride” crises, in the sense that he “never lets one go to waste” if he can somehow use it to take and hold more (extra-executive) power. The drawback is that once he has such power, he uses it to enact more of his dogmas, simply automatically assuming that they, and he, are inescapably RIGHT.

And when that doesn’t work, he “doubles down”, demanding more money, more resources, and more power, to…do more of what caused the problem to begin with.

The American people’s problem with The One isn’t his albedo, no matter how much he’d like to blame it on that. Or his religion; we’re used to narcissists in positions of power.

The problem is that he absolutely refuses to learn from experience. And reacts to every failure of his own like a whiny schoolyard bully blaming the little kid with the glasses. “Well, he made me beat him up!”

The main problem is, to him, we’re simultaneously the kid with the glasses and The Source Of All Evil In The Universe. He wants to beat us up just for existing, at the same time that he’s sure that left unchecked by Super-Him, we will destroy the world.

He dislikes the world as it is almost as much as he dislikes us. To be exact, he hates the “evil, materialistic West” and loves the “mystical, enlightened East”. He wants to make the entire world like the bazaar he wandered happily through as an eleven-year-old in Indonesia. Not understanding what that sort of “de-evolution” would do to humanity as a whole.

Then again, like James Hansen and John Holdren, he may understand, and either be in favor of it or just not care.

This is at the heart of the disapproval of this POTUS. The American people see him as hostile to them, and to civilization.

What is more disquieting is the number of Americans who still support him. One can only assume that they share his contempt and animosity toward the rest of us, and the rest of humanity.

by eon on August 6, 2014


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While emotionally satisfying, Obama’s numbers are of virtually no consequence, except as a token of a larger dissatisfaction.

Obama, as a person, is a mewling, whiny untalented talking head who is a tool of others. His personal incompetence has had some effect but the decisions and actions of this government are only fractionally his own, and while his Teflon Blackness™ has allowed a much quicker advance of the statists than would have been possible otherwise, he can in no way be considered a leader of the progressives.

We should be much less concerned over who sits in the Captain’s chair and spend more worrytime over the half of federal government who appear to have sold their soul to the statists, and the vast majority of the leftwing bureaucracy that does the most to constrain our liberties.

Dolce Far Niente, August 6, 2014