Obama- U.S. News & World Report

Obama- U.S. News & World Report

Mortimer B. Zuckerman has come up with a poignant analysis in U.S. News & World Report, Fri., Jan. 22, 2010 – The Incredible Deflation of Barack Obama.
May I share excerpts with you?

1.)His promiscuity on TV has made him seem as if he is still a candidate instead of president and commander in chief.

2.)Obama’s reliance on a teleprompter for flawless delivery made for boring and unemotional TV, compounding his cerebral and unemotional style.

3.)He sets deadlines and let’s too many pass. He announces a strategic review of Afghanistan, describing it as “a war of necessity,” only to become less sure to the point that he didn’t seem committed to the policy he finally announced.

4.)He assigned the drafting of central legislative programs not to cabinet departments or White House staff but to the Democratic congressional leadership of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, the very people so mistrusted by the public. Who could be surprised that the critical bills – the stimulus program and healthcare – degenerated under the welter of pork and earmarks that has so outraged the American public in the past?

5.)Pelosi benefited from $54 million to relocate a Bay Area wine train, not to speak of a secret deal with the drug industry lobby to preclude negotiations on Medicaid drug prices and exclude imports from Canada. Concessions that had previously strongly rejected by Obama.

6.)Reid favored the gambling industry by arranging an earmark for a L.A. to Los Vegas high-speed monorail, even though it won’t be built for years.

7.)Taxpayers have thus come to see politics as usual masquerading as economic recovery… Most critically, Obama misjudged the locus of the country’s anxiety: the economy… jobs, jobs, jobs.

8.)Over 60% of the country believes that government spending is excessive…

9.) Obama has failed to veto spending while centralizing power. A majority of Americans think it a mistake at this time of economic distress to embark on a costly health care program.

10.) In a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, only 23% said they “trusted the
government just about always or most of the time” – smallest portion in 12 years, and the all-important independent swing voters who decide elections now favor Republicans by 52% up from 30%.

11.) The administration seems “hopelessly naïve,” according to one Arab foreign
minister, and unable to face the full truth about Islamic terrorism.

12.) One major international political leader recently put it well: “Not only does
leadership of this region not think that Obama is strong enough to confront his enemies; they aren’t sure he is strong enough to support his friends.”

13.) Obama gets the approval of 76% of non-whites, his approval among whites is down to 41 %, according to Gallup.

14.) Obama’s political realignment of America is over, We no longer believe that he will “change the world” and “transform the country.”

George H. Kubeck, In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, January 26, 2010