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Anatomy of a Failed Presidency!

The following is an interesting article and I wonder how long Dr. Hunt can remain at NIH once the powers that be get wind of this article.
Dr. Hunt is a social and cultural anthropologist. He has had nearly 30 years experience in planning, conducting, and managing research in the field of youth studies, and drug and alcohol research. Currently Dr. Hunt is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Scientific Analysis and the Principal Investigator on three National Institutes on Health projects. He is also a writer for American Thinker.

Another Failed Presidency

An article from American Thinker by Geoffrey P. Hunt

Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson. In the modern era, we've seen several failed presidencies--led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed presidents have one strong common trait-- they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out.
Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party. Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by his triumphant overture to China.

But, Barack Obama is failing. Failing big. Failing fast. And failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in forging connections with the American people. The incomparable Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger on it: He is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe them. Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard says he is failing because he has lost control of his message, and is overexposed. Clarice Feldman of American Thinker produced a dispositive commentary showing that Obama is failing because fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame.
But, there is something more seriously wrong: How could a new president riding in on a wave of precedented promise and goodwill have forfeited his tenure and become a lame duck in six months? His poll ratings are in free fall. In generic balloting, the Republicans have now seized a five point advantage. This truly is unbelievable. What's going on?
No narrative. Obama doesn't have a narrative. No, not a narrative about himself. He has a self-narrative, much of it fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else. But this self-narrative is isolated and doesn't connect with us. He doesn't have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of us. All successful presidents have a narrative about the American character that intersects with their own where they display a command of history and reveal an authenticity at the core of their personality that resonates in a positive endearing way with the majority of Americans. We admire those presidents whose narratives not only touch our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and smarter than we are. Presidents we admire are aspirational peers, even those whose politics don't align exactly with our own: Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Ike, and Reagan.
But not this president. 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 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.
In the meantime, while we've been struggling to take a measurement of this man, he's dissed just about every one of us--financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance executives, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, post office workers, and anybody else who has a non-green job. Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in 2012:
"For those of you I offended, I apologize. For those of you who were not offended, you just didn't give me enough time; if only I'd had a second term, I could have offended you too."
Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 devised a useful remedy for such a desperate state--staggered terms for both houses of the legislature and the executive. An equally abominable Congress can get voted out next year. With a new Congress, there's always hope of legislative gridlock until we vote for president again two short years after that.
Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama among them. The coyotes howl but the wagon train keeps rolling along.
Margaret Thatcher: "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people's money."
"When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." - James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union
"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus

"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own." - Unknown

STIMULUS SERMON

Genesis 47:13-27

I would love to give the Pastor of this predominantly black church in

Virginia a hug and a high five. This guy is obviously a leader.

Perhaps we should each decide who our

real leader is...It is amazing to see that very little has

changed in 4,000 years.

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Good morning, brothers and sisters; it's always a delight to see

the pews crowded on Sunday morning, and so eager to get into

God's Word. Turn with me in your Bibles, if you will to the 47th

chapter of Genesis, we'll begin our reading at verse 13, and go

through verse 27.

Brother Ray, would you stand and read that great passage for us?

....(reading)...

Thank you for that fine reading, Brother Ray... So we see that

economic hard times fell upon Egypt , and the people turned to

the government of Pharaoh to deal with this for them. And Pharaoh

nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses

that he had built. So the people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a

great tax increase, and gave it all to him willingly in return for grain. And

this went on until their money ran out, and they were hungry again.

So when they went to Pharaoh after that, they brought their

livestock -their cattle, their horses, their sheep, and their donkey -

to barter for grain, and verse 17 says that only took them through

the end of that year..

But the famine wasn't over, was it? So the next year, the people

came before Pharaoh and admitted they had nothing left, except

their land and their own lives. "There is nothing left in the sight

of my lord but our bodies and our land. Why should we die before

your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food,

and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh." So they

surrendered their homes, their land, and their real estate to

Pharaoh's government, and then sold themselves into slavery

to him, in return for grain. What can we learn from this, brothers

and sisters?

That turning to the government instead of to God to be our provider

in hard times only leads to slavery? Yes. That the only reason

government wants to be our provider is to also become our master?

Yes.

But look how that passage ends, brothers and sisters! Thus Israel

settled in the land of Egypt , in the land of Goshen .. And they gained

possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly." God

provided for His people, just as He always has! They didn't end up

giving all their possessions to government, no, it says they gained

possessions! But I also tell you a great truth today, and an ominous

one. We see the same thing happening today - the government today

wants to "share the wealth "once again, to take it from us and redistribute

it back to us. It wants to take control of healthcare, just as it has taken

control of education, and ration it back to us, and when government

rations it, then government decides who gets it, and how much, and

what kind. And if we go along with it, and do it willingly, then we will

wind up no differently than the people of Egypt did four thousand years

ago - as slaves to the government, and as slaves to our leaders.

What Mr. Obama's government is doing now is no different from what

Pharaoh's government did then, and it will end the same. And a lot of

people like to call Mr. Obama a "Messiah," don't they? Is he a Messiah?

A savior? Didn't the Egyptians say, after Pharaoh made them his slaves,

"You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh"?

Well, I tell you this -

I know the Messiah; the Messiah is a friend of mine;

and Mr. Obama is no Messiah! No, brothers and sisters,

if Mr. Obama is a character from the Bible, then he is Pharaoh.

Bow with me in prayer, if you will.

Lord, You alone are worthy to be served, and we rely on You, and You alone.

We confess that the government is not our deliverer, and never rightly will be.

We read in the eighth chapter of 1 Samuel, when Samuel warned the people

of what a ruler would do, where it says "And in that day you will cry out

because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but

the LORD will not answer you in that day." And Lord, we acknowledge

that day has come. We cry out to you because of the ruler that we have

chosen for ourselves as a nation. Lord, we pray for this nation. We pray

for revival, and we pray for deliverance from those who would be our masters.

Give us hearts to seek You and hands to serve You, and protect Your people

from the atrocities of Pharaoh's government.

In God We Trust...

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