Do You Want Barack Obama to Succeed?
I have seen a lot of discussion on this very question over the past few weeks. I think it’s an idiotic discussion but it is there nonetheless.
Michael Medved (the only human being further up McCain’s ass than Lindsey Graham) thinks that we should all be on our knees praying for Obama to be successful.
Rush Limbaugh takes an entirely different view and hopes that Obama fails miserably based on what Rush thinks he wants to do.
Let’s analyze these two learned positions shall we?
Medved is an old time law school, Jewish liberal who is far more armed to do his movie review stuff than political commentary. In fact, he was very involved in far left, liberal politics until he met with President Gerald Ford’s Chief of Staff who somehow did some kind of mind meld and turned him into a Republican. Who could have such powers? Oh yeah, Ford’s Chief of Staff was no less than Dick Cheney.
The truth is that Medved is not a conservative, he is a Republican and a squishy-moderate at that. Think Lincoln Chaffee with a radio show.
His position is dead-assed wrong! More to follow on that momentarily.
Rush is a true black and white idealogue. I believe that Rush is a true conservative but he is woefully uneducated and that is of his own accord; he had every opportunity and chose not to pursue it. Though he is the son of a lawyer, his brother David is a lawyer, he has an uncle on the federal bench and a cousin on the Missouri Supreme Court; Rush has a high school diploma and sometimes it shows.
By the way, both Medved and Limbaugh avoided the draft during Vietnam. Medved through college deferments and Rush through some kind of cist on his ass.
I have a lot of respect for Limbaugh, not so much for Medved but that’s not the issue.
Both of their positions are wrong and wrong for reasons worth discussing here. Both of their positions are based on the hope for successor failure of an individual not an ideology. That is an intellectually lazy and reasonably stupid position to start from.
I voted for President Bush twice but I never wished him 100% success because I knew that I would disagree with him often. I disagreed with McCain-Feingold which Bush signed into law. I disagreed with the Medicare drug benefit program and had Bush been 100% successful the open borders law would have passed.
Bush was, from my view, far better than Gore or Kerry but also far from an infallible figure that I was prepared to blindly follow.
The point is that we should be wishing for and working for a better country and not let that goal be nuanced by personality politics.
I wish no ill will on President Obama but don’t give a damn about his personal agenda.
I only wish the best for this nation that so many us of have shed blood for.
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The question is flawed. Do I want prosperity for the country, of course. Do I want the political ideologies of Barack Obama to win the day, OH GOD NO.
It is flawed. Have you stopped beating your wife?
I do not want Barack Obama to succeed at the agenda he has proposed. I would like him to succeed at doing something beneficial for our nation, but I hold no hope that he has any intention of doing so.
Seeing Obama fail just to make the next election look better for the Repubs is bad (Obama fails…America fails…during a time of war!), but kissing his ass is a bad idea too. Andy Levy had some good ground rules for criticizing the messiah that I recommend. But I truly believe that Obama’s ideas on a lot of things will be bad for our nation, and his followers frighten me more and more by the day. We shouldn’t neglect that many of the worse tyrants built their fiefdoms based on a cult of personality (Dear Leader anyone?). One thing that I like about blogging is that you can talk about politics without being part of the political establishment full of secret handshakes and trying to solicit money. We shouldn’t be ashamed to speak our mind. It’s a republic…if we can keep it.
What I want Obama to succeed at is to realize we can’t spend our way out of financial troubles. Too many people have tried it in their personal lives and had to file bankruptcy. If the USA has to file for bankruptcy, how much of the USA will China get?
His first concern still seems to be getting more people under government control and more money for his politicly connected subjects. I just read lately there are now more government employees than private sector employees. That means each civilian employee is supporting one government employee, and Obama wants to add 3-4 million more. How many can you afford to support?
When is he and the other democrats going to realize the government can only survive off of the prosperity of individuals? The more you tax them off the top, the less they have to spend to help other business grow, expand, and hire new employees. Evidently Illinois doesn’t teach economics in their school, or Obama missed that class.
smorg Obama never went to school in Illinois.You’ll surely learn more about him over the next 8 years.Enjoy the ride.
Somewhere in Kenya, A Villige Is Missing It’s Idiot
Raoul!!! Damn it, I needed a spew alert!!
I’m on the fence…not. What I want and what I am fairly certain is going to happen doesn’t give me warm fuzzies.
I wish him well, but not success. His agenda and his proposed policies, are not good for this country and will lead us closer to a totally socialistic government, and for that I cannot wish him success.
I hope he keeps us as safe as GW did, but if he doesn’t pay attention to the experts, he will not.
It depends on your meaning of success. I certainly want Barack to succeed in being a more spectacular failure that Jimmy Carter, ensuring a short, one term presidency.
This post puts into words a frustration I’ve been having with the “success” issue all along. First, it’s a stupid question, the same guy must be writing for Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh et al…
I want America to be successful and that involves preserving our way of life. Obama can fail and America perservere.
I don’t want his policies to even appear to succeed because the sheep will fall right in line behind the left’s crazy plans.
It’s an impossible situation. I want him to fail miserably in his fiscal and social policies, because I’m not big into socialism. But if he is a failure as a president, it means he will be weak politically and not have much power. That will be a green light for Bin Laden in his cave to start up round two.
Weak on domestic policy means weak on foreign policy.
Strong on foreign policy means strong on domestic policy.
Damned if you do, damned of you don’t.
His social and economic policies are death to the American way of life. No, I do not want him to succeed in implementing these policies. I can only hope that after reading those security briefs he would put the country first and his personal agenda second. But I doubt it. The full-blown personality cult that we already have (“he was born to lead us” by tearful Beyonce) will not allow him to put his personal agenda aside for the good of the country.
As I mentioned in another thread, I respect to Office of the Presidency and Barack Hussein Obama is now the 44th President and he is our President. It’s hard for me to find anything that he brings to the table as President that I can support. I do hope he fails at implementing “change” that will destroy our Constitutional Republic.
Raoul The village Idiot is safely home in his small Texas town with the lowest approval rating for an outgoing Pres. in American history.Fear not;three new wise men(Limbaugh,Hannity and Beck) with a total of 0 years of college education between them will TAKE UP THE CAUSE.
“The point is that we should be wishing for and working for a better country and not let that goal be nuanced by personality politics.”
I don’t see how this differs from Rush’s view on Obama. I have heard his say exactly what you said countless times on his show.
He wants what is good for our country, he (rightly so) just believes that we won’t get that from The One.
Medved has a an uncanny ability to withdraw facts and trivia from his brain at a near supernatural rate, but I agree, that doesn’t make him right nor does it make him morally superior as he tries his best to define what he considers to be “conservatism”. At best, Medved’s brand of conservatism camps out in a very strange area of the political landscape where John McCain and Lindsey Graham are virtual heroes for capitulating on many of the things that doomed the Republicans to failure over the last 8 years. Medved is a bright guy, no doubt about that, but I find myself strangely defining him as little more than a dreaded “neocon” who places party above country, all the while admonishing those who dare to question the motives of the Jello-spined RINOs who frequent his program. He also looks like he’d be a shoe-in for the cowboy dude in the Village People, but why even bring that up…I digress.
Wheeler you need to check your facts. One poll, CBS, put him at 22%. Even if that were correct, Nixon was still lower.
But 22% isn’t accurate-two days earlier UPI polled the same question and found 34% approval rating.
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But the sad part is that you could use either number and Bush still has a better approval rating than Congress.
Higher than Nixon.Maybe.Something to be proud of.
COB6,
The trouble with that question, is the obvious reason for the resounding answer of “HELL,NO”.
The individual and ideology in this case, are not mutually exclusive.
I still don’t know who the hell Barack Obama really is, so how can I answer that question? Seriously though, this morning I woke up and turned on the news and saw/heard the footage of people booing and jeering President Bush during the inauguration and it sent me into a frothing-at-the-mouth, apoplectic rage. I really do want to take a sincere hiatus from this vicious cycle of political rants and vitriol, but every time I turn around somebody on the left does some other bile-inducing thing and I’m right back where I started. I don’t see how I can possibly wish President Obama “success” (whatever that actually means) because it helps validate all the truly awful things that the left did to my last president for eight years straight (and that they seem content to continue doing ad infinitum). Unless I woke up tomorrow and turned on my television to find Barack Obama openly castigating those little scumbags from his inauguration and publicly bitch-slapping anybody that ever compared Bush to Hitler, I couldn’t possibly bring myself to support him. To me (and I suspect to many others) he is already doomed by the company he keeps. I wish my country all the best, but not that man, not his administration, not his apparent agenda, and certainly not his party’s political ideology.
Since success for Obama and for that matter, the rest of the left means the reciprocal, or utter disaster for the US, obviously, I do not wish it.
Sure I want Obama to succeed…at implementing policies that will keep this country safe and prosperous. I don’t want him to be successful at really anything that he has actually proposed though. Except getting bin Laden. I want him to see the light and become Reagan-esque and beat the crap out of Reid and Pelosi. Then I will vote to re-elect him. If he actually tries to do any of those things you hear when someone pulls the string in his back I will pray for his failure at all levels because it will hurt our country. But other than that, I wish for his successful transition in four years.
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