P.S.
Make no mistake; Mr Obama is again disinterested, uninvolved and arrogant. When the New York Times writes a piece like this, you know the brass is tarnishing rapidly:
Obama’s Enthusiasm Gap:
All the post-game punditry aside, President Obama didn’t really blow Wednesday night’s debate in any spectacular or memorable way, the way George H.W. Bush glanced at his watch, or the way Al Gore sighed dramatically. Mr. Obama’s transgression was that he seemed to simply endure it. It was as if he had turned to his advisers at some point and said, “OK, I’ll show up at this thing with Mitt, but I am not getting drawn into some kind of debate.”
In this way, Mr. Obama’s performance, the first of three in any event, probably didn’t change the essential arc of the campaign, which was always going to tighten in the final month. But it did tell us something about what many feel is missing from his presidency.
Watching the president grimace his way through the restrained back-and-forth reminded me of a conversation I recently had with a friend in Democratic politics, who posited that Mr. Obama simply doesn’t love being president. Not that he doesn’t want the job or believe he should have it, or that its challenges don’t give him plenty of cause for stress or solemnity — just that he doesn’t appear to actually enjoy the daily business of running the country.
Mr Obama is better than this, better than you, better than me, better than all of us. And we’d damned well best realize it.
You most certainly DO. This is the absolute cornerstone of your philosophy.
Not just equal opportunity but an equality of outcome, guaranteed by the government for those who choose to do nothing but quail about their victimhood.
Economist Milton Friedman, from his book “Free To Choose,” said there were three categories for human equality: equality before God, equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. He thought the first was the Founders’ use, the second was compatible with liberty, and the third was Socialism.
He was correct.
The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead of using its powers to offset the depression, it presided over a decline in the quantity of money by one-third from 1929 to 1933 … Far from the depression being a failure of the free-enterprise system, it was a tragic failure of government.
—Milton Friedman, Two Lucky People, 233
To those Water Carriers for Obama: you couldn’t be supporting a more disinterested, disengaged and indifferent politician to your actual plight, whatever it may be.
I thought the format accomplished its purpose, which was to facilitate direct, extended exchanges between the candidates about issues of substance. Part of my moderator mission was to stay out of the way of the flow and I had no problems with doing so. My only real personal frustration was discovering that ninety minutes was not enough time in that more open format to cover every issue that deserved attention.
I have to agree. One important duty of a moderator is to “get out of the way” of the candidates.
Leftists.
Leftists.
Leftists.
Leftists.
Make Barack Hussein Obama “hit the road” in twenty-seven days.
