#83: Newsflash: Why Obama Fails so Often!
November 16, 2010
We thought we knew, but we didn’t! Now. Now, thank goodness, we know!
Since Obama took office, a large number of his initiatives have
failed dramatically, ranging from his efforts to get the economy moving again
to his flirting with the evil triplets,
Given the electorate’s short attention span and memory, that line has been growing increasingly thin lately; most of the voters no longer remember exactly who G.W. Bush actually was. Obama and his backers needed a new explanation, other than the true one, namely, that this clown was elected by a population in love with an idea, the idea of a brilliant and beautiful black-and-white hybrid who would redeem the country from its history with slavery.
As I’ve argued before, frustrated and frightened people tend to abandon reason and experience at precisely the point when they should be using them most. This was actually a Humean doctrine that Obama himself appealed to in explaining why people have not warmed to his policies. Unfortunately, he was confusing a case in which experience was present with one in which it wasn’t. Just as Hume suggested that the belief in miracles takes place at precisely the point at which experience fails us, voters elected an utterly unprepared neophyte strictly on the basis of his skin color and at precisely the time when the country really needed a firm and experienced hand on the tiller. This was indeed an instance of hope over brains, but rejecting his policies was not.
No matter that he wouldn’t release the details of his academic performance, no matter that he avoided voting on anything controversial, no matter that he was inserted into his senatorial spot by the Chicago dem machine, no matter that he only spoke from teleprompter, no matter his aggressive anti-American associations, no matter anything: he would be the redeemer.
But now, two years down the road, he doesn’t seem like so much of
a redeemer. The population is quite ready for him to leave; in fact, it can’t
wait for him to leave. The country can’t wait to turn his administration into a
memory that fades as quickly and inexorably as a bad dream during a busy
morning. Obama? Obama? What is that? Some imported North African colonic
irrigation? Oh, wait, wasn’t he president of
But there are two more years to go and the Blame-Bush mantra is getting oh-so tired, so the scribblers have to come up with a new idea, a new excuse for the Redeemer’s lurching from one failure to the next.
The scribblers have found their new narrative:
THE JOB IS TOO BIG FOR ANYONE!
Yes, it’s not that Obama is too small for the job, oh, no! And it’s not that the job is too BIG for Obama. Oh, no! The truth is that NO one could do this job, and, therefore, it can’t be done even by someone with the (almost) superhuman endowments of Barack Hussein Obama!
Everyone knows these universally accepted facts, namely that Obama is: 1) a really charming guy, 2) ridiculously smart, 3) a phenomenal “communicator” (“orator”, etc.), 4) concerned only with the welfare of the American people, and so forth.
But even with these extraordinary attributes, the JOB IS JUST TOO BIG. In a recent Newsweek piece, Daniel Stone authored a piece entitled “Is Presidency Too Big a Job for Obama?” His answer, bolstered by responses from several eminent presidential historians is, quelle surprise! Probably yes. What a shock! And from a publication whose even-handedness is legend. How remarkable that we had to wait for the office to be occupied by a self-in-love untrained and inexperienced naïf working from an inherited simplistic understanding of discredited European theories, before coming to the conclusion that the JOB IS JUST TOO BIG.
It was also too big, they say, for G.W. Bush. But was it too big for Truman? For Eisenhower?
I’ll grant them that it was too big for Jimmy Carter and for Kennedy, but that was because those two were too small for the office.
Maybe that’s it.
Maybe the job isn’t really too big. Maybe the man is just too small. Way too small.
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