The deepening notes of disenchantment with Barack Obama now issuing from commentators across the political spectrum were predictable. So, too, were the charges from some of the president’s earliest enthusiasts about his failure to reflect a powerful sense of urgency about the oil spill.
There should have been nothing puzzling about his response to anyone who has paid even modest critical attention to Mr. Obama’s pronouncements. For it was clear from the first that this president—single-minded, ever-visible, confident in his program for a reformed America saved from darkness by his arrival—was wanting in certain qualities citizens have until now taken for granted in their presidents. Namely, a tone and presence that said: This is the Americans’ leader, a man of them, for them, the nation’s voice and champion. Mr. Obama wasn’t lacking in concern about the oil spill. What he lacked was that voice—and for good reason.
Those qualities to be expected in a president were never about rhetoric; Mr. Obama had proved himself a dab hand at that on the campaign trail. They were a matter of identification with the nation and to all that binds its people together in pride and allegiance. These are feelings held deep in American hearts, unvoiced mostly, but unmistakably there and not only on the Fourth of July.
A great part of America now understands that this president’s sense of identification lies elsewhere, and is in profound ways unlike theirs. He is hard put to sound convincingly like the leader of the nation, because he is, at heart and by instinct, the voice mainly of his ideological class. He is the alien in the White House, a matter having nothing to do with delusions about his birthplace cherished by the demented fringe.
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This woman appears to be speaking with a fork tongue. What she says in one paragraph she seemingly contradicts in the next one. I think she may be the one of many who originally supported the usurper (aka the current president of the US) but now she is confused and does not know how to solve this confusion. She might have made too much emotional investment in Obama in 2008 and now can not get out of this contradicting situation despite the fact that Obama is visibly hell bent on destroying the USA with his super majority, one-party system. Have you studied how many parties existed in ex-Communist countries? Obama has his super-majority Left coalition in Congress (Communists, Liberals, Progressives, Marxist, Islamist – the spectrum is very wide. Hardly can wait until the 2nd of November, 2010. The disadvantage may be that we may have a huge right swing giving the Republicans an absolute majority. I refer here again to a one-party system. I hope the Republican win will NOT create that dangerous situation and the majority Republicans will govern and not dictate like Obama does now.
Re Obama the musslim, the socailist that bowed to the world of Islam”saved from darkness by his arrival—was wanting in certain …
Never ,never again
It was expected