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This election, being Obama is bad, but being the non-Obama won't help Romney
President's rival is like Illinois' white-shoe Republicans, helping to spend state into debt
Chicago Tribune
John Kass
6/24/2012
Excerpt:
"President Barack Obama has had a terrible few weeks, and it could get worse.
Especially if the Supreme Court accepts the ancient premise in that old, forgotten document called the Constitution that the federal leviathan cannot force Americans to purchase a thing, let alone health care.
But I still believe that the guy from Chicago will win re-election in November, despite all the anguish around him, because the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, isn't exactly inspiring either.
Romney is no conservative alternative, he's merely the un-Obama corporatist, eerily similar to the big-government Illinois Republicans who partnered with Democrats to spend the state into crippling debt, those white-shoe Republicans whom Obama dealt with and learned from during his brief political apprenticeship here. He knows the type.
So if the 2012 presidential race is on Obama's ground, if it's about government subsidies for business versus government subsidies for select demographic voting constituencies, and if all of us in America keep our hands extended, waiting for government plums, then Obama wins. It's Chicago machine politics writ large.
But there are problems for the president. Centrist Democrats in the Clinton wing can't help but peel away from him, perhaps looking for a safe landing, or maybe they've got eyes on a Hillary Clinton-Rahm Emanuel ticket in 2016.
Watching Obama squirm next to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin recently, Obama avoiding eye-contact as they met to discuss Russian ambition and the catastrophe in Syria, you couldn't help but remember Mrs. Clinton's campaign commercial about that 3 a.m. phone call.
Our American president must have learned about not making eye contact with strongmen during his days in Chicago dealing with the Democratic bosses. And the first thing I thought of was how a President Hillary Clinton would have sat with Putin, perched on the edge of her chair, staring dispassionately at the Russian leader as if she were a velociraptor.
And if she had a paring knife in her purse, she might have peeled him like an apple.
You can feel the yearning for Hillary among Democrats, can't you? The Clinton wing recoiling from Obama's class-war attacks on Romney's firm Bain Capital is an indicator. Newark Mayor Cory Booker was among the first to defend Bain, saying that private-equity firms are critical in providing dollars and creating jobs, but the Obama White House broke him and backed him down. But then former Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell called the Bain attacks "very disappointing," and a guy like Rendell doesn't go to the White House woodshed. Others joined in. - (bold emphasis added in the above five paragraphs)
And more trouble is ahead for Obama. The economy remains stagnant, and unemployment numbers are outrageously high — not the 8 percent or so that seems to be the accepted figure, but higher, with so many just giving up and dropping out of the jobs market and out of the statistics. For the first time in the postwar era, American families face the reality that the children might not have better opportunities than their parents.
Meanwhile, the Operation Fast and Furious scandal gets hotter, the Middle East is roiling, Europe trembles, the Greek welfare state is at the verge of political and social collapse. So Obama's media mouthpieces were sent out to beat the bushes that the U.S. is not Greece, and that we should boldly pin our ears back and spend, spend, spend our way back to paradise."
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View the complete article at:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...7364096.column
My comment: Hmmmm! Here's another relatively unfavorable article concerning Obama in the Chicago Tribune, his HOME TOWN NEWSPAPER! There is lots of enthusiastic talk in the article about Hillary. I think there is some significant probability that Obama may be pressured, by the very powerful individuals and groups who have always controlled his destiny, to resign the office by the September Democratic Convention, and be replaced by Hillary on the Democratic ticket.
Obama, as POTUS, holds an incredible amount of power himself, of course, and he can be extremely dangerous. However, he is also extremely vulnerable to BLACKMAIL, and his power can be greatly diminished and circumvented by individuals in control of the money printing and the MSM press! I think these individuals wish to keep control of BOTH SIDES of our traditional two-party political system. It's easier to confuse and control the people that way. If the radically-left narcissist, fascist Obama, is allowed to continue on his track toward a single party dictatorship, it will 'complicate' the game and end up costing the controlling groups and individuals a lot of money.
-- So, make it a horse race against Romney. Dump 'damaged-goods' Obama, run with extremely-left, Hillary, America's 'most admired' woman 16 times since 1993! Bury all this increasingly embarrassing 'ineligible POTUS Obama' stuff, involving many powerful individuals in both the Democratic and Republican parties. Sounds like a workable plan! Now, if they can just find a way to get Sheriff Arpaio and those pesky 'birthers' to STFU so the American Public can go back to sleep, all will be well!
If considerably-left Romney wins, no problem! Socialism isn't really concerned with 'sharing' the wealth. It's about CONTROLLING the wealth and letting the little people share the POVERTY! (p.s. - Stop the world, I want to get off!)
President's rival is like Illinois' white-shoe Republicans, helping to spend state into debt
Chicago Tribune
John Kass
6/24/2012
Excerpt:
"President Barack Obama has had a terrible few weeks, and it could get worse.
Especially if the Supreme Court accepts the ancient premise in that old, forgotten document called the Constitution that the federal leviathan cannot force Americans to purchase a thing, let alone health care.
But I still believe that the guy from Chicago will win re-election in November, despite all the anguish around him, because the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, isn't exactly inspiring either.
Romney is no conservative alternative, he's merely the un-Obama corporatist, eerily similar to the big-government Illinois Republicans who partnered with Democrats to spend the state into crippling debt, those white-shoe Republicans whom Obama dealt with and learned from during his brief political apprenticeship here. He knows the type.
So if the 2012 presidential race is on Obama's ground, if it's about government subsidies for business versus government subsidies for select demographic voting constituencies, and if all of us in America keep our hands extended, waiting for government plums, then Obama wins. It's Chicago machine politics writ large.
But there are problems for the president. Centrist Democrats in the Clinton wing can't help but peel away from him, perhaps looking for a safe landing, or maybe they've got eyes on a Hillary Clinton-Rahm Emanuel ticket in 2016.
Watching Obama squirm next to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin recently, Obama avoiding eye-contact as they met to discuss Russian ambition and the catastrophe in Syria, you couldn't help but remember Mrs. Clinton's campaign commercial about that 3 a.m. phone call.
Our American president must have learned about not making eye contact with strongmen during his days in Chicago dealing with the Democratic bosses. And the first thing I thought of was how a President Hillary Clinton would have sat with Putin, perched on the edge of her chair, staring dispassionately at the Russian leader as if she were a velociraptor.
And if she had a paring knife in her purse, she might have peeled him like an apple.
You can feel the yearning for Hillary among Democrats, can't you? The Clinton wing recoiling from Obama's class-war attacks on Romney's firm Bain Capital is an indicator. Newark Mayor Cory Booker was among the first to defend Bain, saying that private-equity firms are critical in providing dollars and creating jobs, but the Obama White House broke him and backed him down. But then former Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell called the Bain attacks "very disappointing," and a guy like Rendell doesn't go to the White House woodshed. Others joined in. - (bold emphasis added in the above five paragraphs)
And more trouble is ahead for Obama. The economy remains stagnant, and unemployment numbers are outrageously high — not the 8 percent or so that seems to be the accepted figure, but higher, with so many just giving up and dropping out of the jobs market and out of the statistics. For the first time in the postwar era, American families face the reality that the children might not have better opportunities than their parents.
Meanwhile, the Operation Fast and Furious scandal gets hotter, the Middle East is roiling, Europe trembles, the Greek welfare state is at the verge of political and social collapse. So Obama's media mouthpieces were sent out to beat the bushes that the U.S. is not Greece, and that we should boldly pin our ears back and spend, spend, spend our way back to paradise."
.........................................
View the complete article at:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...7364096.column
My comment: Hmmmm! Here's another relatively unfavorable article concerning Obama in the Chicago Tribune, his HOME TOWN NEWSPAPER! There is lots of enthusiastic talk in the article about Hillary. I think there is some significant probability that Obama may be pressured, by the very powerful individuals and groups who have always controlled his destiny, to resign the office by the September Democratic Convention, and be replaced by Hillary on the Democratic ticket.
Obama, as POTUS, holds an incredible amount of power himself, of course, and he can be extremely dangerous. However, he is also extremely vulnerable to BLACKMAIL, and his power can be greatly diminished and circumvented by individuals in control of the money printing and the MSM press! I think these individuals wish to keep control of BOTH SIDES of our traditional two-party political system. It's easier to confuse and control the people that way. If the radically-left narcissist, fascist Obama, is allowed to continue on his track toward a single party dictatorship, it will 'complicate' the game and end up costing the controlling groups and individuals a lot of money.
-- So, make it a horse race against Romney. Dump 'damaged-goods' Obama, run with extremely-left, Hillary, America's 'most admired' woman 16 times since 1993! Bury all this increasingly embarrassing 'ineligible POTUS Obama' stuff, involving many powerful individuals in both the Democratic and Republican parties. Sounds like a workable plan! Now, if they can just find a way to get Sheriff Arpaio and those pesky 'birthers' to STFU so the American Public can go back to sleep, all will be well!
If considerably-left Romney wins, no problem! Socialism isn't really concerned with 'sharing' the wealth. It's about CONTROLLING the wealth and letting the little people share the POVERTY! (p.s. - Stop the world, I want to get off!)
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