My Problem Is I'm Too Good By Clarice Feldman

 

My Problem Is I'm Too Good by Clarice Feldman over at the American Thinker

A dear, now deceased, relative used to say, "My problem is I'm too good," without realizing the humor of that self-evaluation. I was reminded of that this week, when for the first time President Obama acknowledged he just might have a teeny flaw.

"The mistake of my first term - couple of years - was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right. And that's important. But the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times.

"It's funny - when I ran, everybody said, well he can give a good speech but can he actually manage the job?"

bgates and hit & run , those wise guys, chimed in immediately.

Bgates:

"I also shouldn't have skimped on those bargain basement vacations, and it wouldn't have killed me to play some golf or watch some basketball once in a while either."

"And I should have been tougher on those kikes."

Barack Obama: Needs to talk more

Nancy Pelosi: Too reverent towards our founding documents

Magic Johnson: Not enough time spent with the ladies

Hit & run:

"I also shouldn't have accepted so much personal responsibility for the lack of any meaningful recovery in the economy and endeavored to blame other people and events more. Oh, and technology. I should have blamed technology more."

ABC noted that this sort of self-analysis by politicians often lends itself to lampooning:

Call it "too much substance, not enough style?" President Barack Obama says his biggest mistake since getting to the White House three and a half years ago has been his tendency to tackle the job as national policy wonk rather than the inspiring figure he cut in the 2008 campaign. [snip]

Presidents - politicians in general - tend to sidestep questions about their biggest mistake in office, though they sometimes stumble spectacularly over them ( as George W. Bush did in April 2004), or offer up a self-serving answer that might be lampooned as "I just love America too much." Obama seems to be saying that, dagnabbit, he just took the job too gosh-darn seriously. Republicans wasted little time in mocking the answer. Republican National Committee spokesman Tim Miller tweeted "I'd go w/ utter economic failure."

I wonder what the media would do if asked what its major flaw was.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/my_problem_is_im_too_good.html#ixzz20hmxHbu1

 

The Book Of Obama- The Ganza Megillah By Clarice Feldman

 

The Book of Obama- The Ganza Megillah by Clarice Feldman over at American Thinker

 

The story of Purim is found in the Book of Esther, a long, detailed story known as the "Megillah." In Yiddish, the term "Ganza Megillah" has a number of meanings -- usually a long story -- which is how I am using it now. This week was Purim, the start of the post-mortem releases of the Breitbart tapes on Obama. This is the beginning of the Breitbart effort to force the first open media focus on the racism at the heart of so called Critical Race Studies and an honest examination of who Obama really is.

 

I think all three -- Purim, Breitbart and Obama -- are related in this Megillah.

 

Purim

 

Let's start with Purim and the remarkable account of the holiday by blogger Sultan Knish.

 

It is the story of how Queen Esther at the urging of her uncle saved her people from the slaughter urged upon the king by an evil vizier, but it is much more. In Sultan Knish's telling -- far more accurate a telling than one finds in most synagogues in America today or the Huffington Post or wherever New Agers congregate -- it is a violent story about strategic preemptive strikes for survival and is a poor fit for liberal pieties. It's about a God "less concerned about feelings and tolerance than with justice and truth." It's about skin of the teeth survival, and in the end an event well worth celebrating:

[The Grand Vizier] casts a lot, [to decide when the slaughter shall begin] random chance in a random world where chance is supreme and the whim of every ruler outweighs the weight of history. The bills are signed, the laws are passed, the decrees go out, the officers from the vast imperial bureaucracy are assigned to inform every citizen that their new age will be inaugurated with blood. A people who are not a proper part of the multicultural empire of laws must be wiped out in a properly democratic fashion. Crowd-sourced genocide.

 

And then the Grand Vizier ends up dangling from a rope, the tanks break through to Berlin, the chariots fall into the sea, the mustachioed dictator dies in a bedroom in Moscow his clothes soaked in his own urine -- and everything has gone completely wrong.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/the_book_of_obama_the_ganza_megillah.html#ixzz1oo3RY64R

The Bell Tolls For Breitbart

 

The Bell Tolls for Breitbart by Clarice Feldman over at American Thinker

 

The untimely death of the conservative media genius, Andrew Breitbart, came during a week where the lesson he taught us about media manipulation of the voters in support of leftwing Democratic goals was yet again manifest.

William Jacobson set out perfectly the danger of a second Obama term in office:

The threat of an Obama unrestrained by the need to be reelected is a theme I've hit on repeatedly with regard to Israel. There is no doubt that but for the need to keep Jewish votes and money coming, Obama would have lowered the hammer on Israel even more than he has. Obama will force his vision of a settlement on Israel in a second term.

 

Domestically, Obama has shown a willingness to use the power of his presidency to force deals (e.g. auto bailout) which extinguish or diminish property rights, direct government funds to companies run by campaign donors, slow walk compliance with judicial orders (the Gulf drilling ban), direct stimulus funds as de facto public sector employee union subsidies, and use regulatory powers under the sweeping ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank bills to reshape almost every aspect of the economy.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/the_bell_tolls_for_breitbart.html#ixzz1o8xhiWZs