Washington Post: Obama Biggest Disappointment

Eugene Robinson, of the Washington Post, is finally looking past Obama’s skin color and his own.  He wrote a piece being too kind to Obama and naively surprised by his actions:

President Obama's brief display of drive-by compassion Thursday in New Orleans was, for me, by far the worst outing of his presidency thus far -- and the biggest disappointment.

I covered Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath -- the flood in New Orleans that drowned a great city, the storm surge in Mississippi that erased whole communities, the devastation, the agony. For weeks afterwards, I had trouble sleeping. I couldn't forget the scenes I'd witnessed or the stories I'd heard.

More than a year later, I covered a Senate subcommittee hearing in New Orleans on the lagging reconstruction effort. I watched as a young senator who was thought to be considering a presidential run -- that would be Barack Obama -- used his Harvard Law skills to eviscerate Bush-era officials for not doing enough to rebuild and revive the Gulf Coast region. 

So it was strange and disheartening that Obama would wait nine months to make his first visit to New Orleans as president. It was stunning that he would spend only a few hours on the ground and that he wouldn't set foot in Mississippi or Alabama at all. But worst of all was the way he seemed to dismiss the idea that his administration could and should be doing much more.

I know that local officials say the Obama administration is more responsive and more effective than the Bush administration, but that's not saying much. What says more is that New Orleans still doesn't have an operational full-service hospital. And that an adequate flood barrier is still not in place.

"I wish I could just write a check," Obama said. If that was his message, he should have stayed home. We now know that our government can make hundreds of billions of dollars available to irresponsible Wall Street institutions within a matter of days, if necessary. We can open up the floodgates of credit to too-big-to-fail banks at the stroke of a pen. But when it comes to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, well, these things take time.

I doubt these are the priorities Obama wants to be remembered for.

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Massachusetts Nazis Proclaim Their Love For Obama

Lakeville, MA -- Police along with the Secret Service are investigating after a local country club discovered a symbol resembling a swastika carved into the green.

Lakeville County Club workers discovered the vandalism early Monday morning.  Carved into the green on the 18th hole was a swastika look-a-like next to President Barack Obama's name.  The vandals snuck in at night and carved their message of love, according to the owner of the country club.

"We don't know if they did it with some type of cleated shoe, or they had some type of tool and this time of year to have that happen, it's a problem it's much harder to fix now," said Lou Mincone, the assistant manager of the Lakeville Country Club.

The manager is trying to figure out the best way to get rid of it.  Workers attempted to cover it temporarily with green spray paint; however, the symbol was carved too deep. They will now try to get turf from another area to fill in the message.  Work is scheduled to begin on Tuesday morning. 

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UN & Liberal Europeans Are Dictating US Policy & Pushing Obama Around

CARACAS - Venezuela's communist leader Hugo Chavez said on Sunday that Obama had done nothing beyond wishful thinking to earn the Nobel Peace Prize.  Chavez, who has mixed praise for Obama personally with criticism of his government's "imperialist" policies, said he thought it was a mistake when he read the U.S. leader had won.

"What has Obama done to deserve this prize? The jury put store on his hope for a nuclear arms-free world, forgetting his role in perpetuating his battalions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and his decision to install new military bases in Colombia," Chavez wrote in a column.

"For the first time, we are witnessing an award with the nominee having done nothing to deserve it: rewarding someone for a wish that is very far from becoming reality."

Chavez said giving Obama the Nobel award was like giving a baseball pitcher a prize simply for saying he was going to win 50 games and strike out 500 batters.  Although mild compared to some of the virulent rhetoric he often uses against the United States, Chavez's criticism contrasted with the assessment of his mentor, Fidel Castro.

The former Cuban leader said it was "a positive measure" that implied criticism of the "genocidal" policies of Obama's predecessors in the White House.  Though Caracas and Washington have hostile political relations, the United States remains the main buyer of oil from the OPEC member nation.

Chavez, Castro, the public and the MSM are missing is the big picture.  Winning the Nobel, the UN declaring ‘MAJOR DISCREPANCIES’  in the Afghan election & Obama delaying the additional troops decision is all by design.  Obama applied for the Nobel Piece Prize and was told he would win, back on Feb. 1st.  Fully aware of the date of the Nobel Piece Prize announcement he would delay any decision on Afghanistan.  He will then use the UN declaration, winning the Nobel and his hatred for America to back out of Afghanistan or do little as possible (I hope I am wrong). Welcome to change: The UN and liberal Europeans are dictating US policy and pushing Obama around. 

Newsweek Calls Obama An Empty Suit

A great site, I Hate The Media, had a greart piece:  Newsweek speaks the unspeakable: Obama is an empty suit:

Howard Fineman takes to the pages of Newsweek to say the words Obamaniacs do not want to hear, especially not from another lib.  Barack Obama is an empty suit:

The president’s problem isn’t that he is too visible; it’s the lack of content in what he says when he keeps showing up on the tube. Obama can seem a mite too impressed with his own aura, as if his presence on the stage is the Answer. There is, at times, a self-referential (even self-reverential) tone in his big speeches. They are heavily salted with the words “I” and “my.” (He used the former 11 times in the first few paragraphs of his address to the U.N. last week.) Obama is a historic figure, but that is the beginning, not the end, of the story.

There is only so much political mileage that can still be had by his reminding the world that he is not George W. Bush. It was the winning theme of the 2008 campaign, but that race ended nearly a year ago. The ex-president is now more ex than ever, yet the current president, who vowed to look forward, is still reaching back to Bush as bogeyman.

He did it again in that U.N. speech. The delegates wanted to know what the president was going to do about Israel and the Palestinian territories. He answered by telling them what his predecessor had failed to do. This was effective for his first month or two. Now it is starting to sound more like an excuse than an explanation.

Members of Obama’s own party know who Obama is not; they still sometimes wonder who he really is. In Washington, the appearance of uncertainty is taken as weakness—especially on Capitol Hill, where a president is only as revered as he is feared. Being the cool, convivial late-night-guest in chief won’t cut it with Congress, an institution impervious to charm (especially the charm of a president with wavering poll numbers).

Welcome to the party, Howard, but you’re a little late. Check your invitation. It started back in 2007.

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Andy Williams, Kennedy Friend & Writer Of Moon River, Calls Obama A Communist

Andy Williams, whose hits include Moon River and Music To Watch Girls By, told the Radio Times he thought Mr Obama wanted to turn the US into a "socialist country".  The 81-year-old was a friend of the Kennedy family during the 1960s and was present at the Los Angeles rally where Robert F Kennedy was assassinated in 1968.

"I was very close to Bobby and he asked me to be a delegate for him when he ran for president," he said.

"He knew about me being a Republican, but just laughed and said, 'Sign yourself in as a Democrat and then change back afterwards'. Sadly, I never got to do that.

"I was very close to Teddy Kennedy, too, and his death recently brought it all back. What a tragedy. Had he lived, I think Bobby would have been a great president."  But Williams had a less favourable opinion of the current president.

"Don't like him at all," he said, "I think he wants to create a socialist country. The people he associates with are very Left-wing. One is registered as a Communist.

"Obama is following Marxist theory. He's taken over the banks and the car industry. He wants the country to fail."

Politicians, media personalities and conservative activists have accused the US president of espousing socialist ideas.

Earlier this month, Jim Greer, the chairman of the Republican Party in Florida, said he was "absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama's socialist ideology", after the US leader appeared in a televised address to be shown in classrooms around the country.

3 Communists Blow Each Other: (1)The AP Reports: (2)Fidel Castro praises (3)Obama

The AP Reports from Havana, Cuba: —  Obama's anti-American agenda or a call for action on climate change and his admission that capitalist nations have a particular responsibility to lead has received strong praise from his communist ally — U.S. nemesis Fidel Castro.

The communist leader and mass murder Cuban leader called the “Tele-prompter of our 57 United States” speech at the United Nations "brave" and said no other American head of state would have had the courage to make similar remarks. Dumb & Dumber.

  

As our economy falters and the Taliban gain strength Obama focuses on climate change, criticizes the US and said Washington was now prepared to be a full partner as the world confronts the threat.  God help us!

Obama spewed more anti-American garbage:  “developed nations that have caused much of the climate change the planet has suffered have a responsibility to lead," but added that rapidly growing nations must do their part as well.  Sadly, Obama is not only prepared to destroy our economy but also rapidly growing nations!

That admission of anti-America's hate speech "was without a doubt a brave gesture," Castro wrote in comments published by Communist Cuban state-media Wednesday.  "It would only be fair to recognize that no other United States president would have had the courage to say what he said," said the mass murdering Cuban leader.

In Wednesday's edition, the mass murdering Cuban leader quoted extensively from Obama's speech, though he also criticized what he called America's aggressive military and economic foreign policy.  "Its hundreds of military bases installed in dozens of countries on all the continents, its aircraft carriers and naval fleet, its thousands of nuclear arms, its wars of conquest, its military industrial complex and its arms trading are not compatible with the survival of our species," he wrote.

US-Cuban relations have tightened somewhat since Obama and Castro are communists at heart. Obama has loosened financial and travel restrictions on Americans with relatives on the island, and the two countries last week held talks on restarting direct mail service suspended since 1963.

Raul Castro has said he is open to meeting face-to-face with the U.S. leader on neutral ground, and that all subjects could be on the table, and Fidel has praised Obama as a devout communist. That is quite a difference from Cuba's attitude toward former President George W. Bush, who was depicted on Havana billboards as a vampire.

But the warm words have so far failed to bring about concrete change on core issues.

Obama has left intact the 47-year trade embargo on the island, and U.S. officials have said for months that they would like to see the single-party, communist state accept some political, economic or social changes.  Cuba has repeatedly ruled out making any concessions in return for the lifting of the embargo.

Obama also demonstrated he is a pussy & a coward  and thus received praise from (x-communist?) Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin earlier this month for canceling parts of a missile defense system.  Poland and Czech leaders called the move cowardly.  

Governor Sarah Palin called it:  “Obama is making the Poor Poorer” as a good communist always does!!