Pride of Ownership

“Hey, all you do is criticize our president. For a change why don’t you help the guy? At least print something constructive,” we’re admonished by the nursery crowd; which is to say, ok, we lefties got all of us into a fix, just as you predicted but we want you to help clean up the mess anyway and guide this guy to his next term.

Are you kidding me? Why should we lay off this guy? The Founders put a system in place that will take care of it over the near term.

We stated flatly last year that BO does not understand 1) Americans or 2) America. Others have come to see this truth. Johan Goldberg tags Obama quite accurately as, “A creature of elite universities with a progressive’s love of technocrats; Obama is most comfortable leading colloquia of perfect-SAT-score propeller heads.”

Indeed, earlier we highlighted a portion on an interview, where BO explained, “I would have loved nothing better than to simply come up with some very elegant, academically approved approach to health care. . . . But that’s not how it works in our democracy. Unfortunately, what we end up having to do is to do a lot of negotiations with a lot of different people.” Oh, these miserable democracies! This clown is at the helm?

Dorothy Rabinowitz calls BO, The Alien in the White House. “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...”

Geoff Hunt writes in the American Thinker, wondering why the free fall, why the “deer-in-the-headlights” at the WH. “It's not so much that he's a phony, knows nothing about economics, and is historically illiterate and woefully small minded for the size of the task --- all contributory of course. It's that he's not one of us, and, whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout made from delaminated corrugated paper. Moreover, he doesn't command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant, and his notions of how things work just don't add up. They are not existential. His descriptions of the world we live in don't make sense and don't correspond with our experience.”

So no, we’re not being petty, throwing shots from the cheap seats. We have understood all along that there is nothing there.

Obama may be an citizen on paper,yet all but the willfully blind now understand that he has no pride of ownership.

Robert Craven