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FAILED PRESIDENCY
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.
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 20.
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.
Margaret Thatcher: "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or
later you run out of other people's money."
"When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both."
- James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union
"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus
"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't
own." - Unknown
FAILED PRESIDENCY
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.
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 20.
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.
Margaret Thatcher: "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or
later you run out of other people's money."
"When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both."
- James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union
"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus
"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't
own." - Unknown
