Peggy Noonan: NOBODY LOVES OBAMA!

From an article by Peggy Noonas in today’s Wall Street Journal:

“I want to talk about something that started bo become apparent to me during the debt negotiations.   It’s something I’ve never seen in national politics.

It is that nobody loves Obama.   This is amazing because everhy president has people who love him, who feel deep personal affection or connection, who have a stubborn, even beautiful refusal to let what they know are just criticisms affect their feelings or regard.  At the height of Bil Clinton’s troubles there were always people who’d say, “Look, I love the guy.”  they’d often be smiling – a wry smile, a shrugging smile.  Nobody smiles  when they talk about Mr. Obama.  There were people who loved George W. Bush when he was at his most unpopular, and they meant it and would say it.  But people aren’t that way about Mr. Obsama.  He has supporters and bundlers and contributiors, he has voters, he may win.

But his support is grim support.  And surely this has implications.

Here are the words of a harline progressive and wise veteran of the political wars:  “I never loved Barack Obama.  That said, among my crowd who did ‘love’ him, I can’t think of anyone who still does.”

………Why is Mr. Obama different from Messrs. Clinton and Bush?  “Clinton radiated personality.  As angry as folks got with him about Nafta or Monica, there was always a sense of genuine, generous caring.”  With Bush, “if folks were upset with him, he still had this goofy kind of personality that folks could relate to.  You might think he was totally misguided but he seemed genuinely so…….Maybe the most important word that described Clinton and Bush, but not Obama, is ‘genuine'”.  He  “doesn’t exude any feeling that what he says and does is genuine.”

…..The fact is, he’s (Obama) good at dismantling.  He’s good at criticizing.  He’s good at not being the last guy, the one you didn’t like.  But he’s not good at building, creating, calling into being.  He was good at summoning….

And so his failures in the debt ceiling fight.  He wasn’t serious, he was only shrewd-and shrewdness wasn’t enough.  He demagogued the issue – no Social Security checks-until he was called out, and then went on the hustings spouting inanities. ….”

Comment:   I wonder why Ms. Noonan was so blinded by Obama throughout his  campaigns against Hillary Clinton and John McCain.   Had she not looked into his background…..his lack of anything that suggested he might be a worthy man in the White House?   Did it not worry her then that he had no friends….no one from his past who verified his honesty, character, and loyalty…..this Barack Hussein Obama?    

His disdain for America was in full gear then.   He belonged to the Jeremiah “Goddamn America Wright’s parish in Chicago for 22 years.   There was his shadowy record in the Senate chambers of his Illinois.

THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN HIS BACKGROUND THEN TO SUGGEST HE HAD ANY VALUE AT ALL TO BECOME PRESIDENT.  He wore neat suits, pronounced his words clearly except when in American black crowds, and repeated  the word HOPE…….frequently ad nauseum.

America deserved what it got for president in 2008, a petty, friendless, dogmatic, angry antiAmerican Marxist.

Endemic Voter Fraud in American Black Communities?

from the Daily Caller:

“While NAACP President Benjamin Jealous lashed out at new state laws requiring photo ID for voting, an NAACP executive sits in prison, sentenced for carrying out a massive voter fraud scheme.

In a story ignored by the national media, in April a Tunica County, Miss., jury convicted NAACP official Lessadolla Sowers on 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots. Sowers is identified on an NAACP website as a member of the Tunica County NAACP Executive Committee.

Sowers received a five-year prison term for each of the 10 counts, but Circuit Court Judge Charles Webster permitted Sowers to serve those terms concurrently, according to the Tunica Times, the only media outlet to cover the sentencing.

“This crime cuts against the fabric of our free society,” Judge Webster said.

Sowers was found guilty of voting in the names of Carrie Collins, Walter Howard, Sheena Shelton, Alberta Pickett, Draper Cotton and Eddie Davis. She was also convicted of voting in the names of four dead persons: James L. Young, Dora Price, Dorothy Harris, and David Ross.

In the trial, forensic scientist Bo Scales testified that Sowers’s DNA was found on the inner seals of five envelopes containing absentee ballots.

This wasn’t Sowers’s first run-in with the law. Sowers previously had her probation revoked for disturbing the peace at a junior high school library, the Commercial Appeal of Memphis reported in 1990. During a hearing at that time, Sowers played the race card. She claimed to be the victim of “an attempt by powerful whites to silence” her, the newspaper reported. It didn’t work. She was ordered back to prison to complete the remaining two years of a three-year sentence she received for check forgery.

The NAACP has had other problems with voter fraud. The NAACP National Voter Fund registered a dead man to vote in Lake County, Ohio, in 2004. That same year, out of 325 voter registration cards filed by the NAACP in Cleveland, 48 were flagged as fraudulent.

But the NAACP’s voter fraud record doesn’t approach that of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. At least 54 individuals employed by or associated with ACORN have been convicted of voter fraud.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/29/mississippi-naacp-leader-sent-to-prison-for-10-counts-of-voter-fraud/#ixzz1TdisTY8K

Creeping Socialism Stifles Job Growth

CUTTING LOCAL REGULATIONS KEY TO JOB GROWTH

“By imposing onerous and usually pointless requirements on those wishing to enter a trade or line of work, state legislatures erect needless barriers around occupations perfectly suited for those entering the work force, midcareer switchers and pink-slip recipients, say Chip Mellor and Dick Carpenter of the Institute for Justice.

• Only one in 20 workers needed the government’s permission to pursue their chosen occupation in the 1950s, notes University of Minnesota Prof. Morris Kleiner.
• Today that figure is nearly one in three.

The breadth of jobs requiring a license is remarkable.  Travel and tourist guides, funeral attendants, home-entertainment installers, florists, makeup artists and even interpreters for the deaf are all regulated by various states.

Proponents of such requirements justify these barriers by endlessly parroting the same worn-out phrase: public health and safety.  Yet if public health and safety were truly at risk, we would expect to see florists regulated in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., not just in Louisiana as they are now.

State legislators largely seem oblivious to the counterproductive effects of the licensure schemes they create.  This spring there was a ray of sunshine in the gloom of occupational licensure when Florida’s new governor, Rick Scott, proposed a list of 20 occupations ripe for deregulation.

• It included auctioneers, talent agents, ballroom dance teachers, hair braiders and interior designers.
• The legislature took up the cause with apparent enthusiasm but then succumbed to the usual suspects of licensure advocacy — industry trade associations, or cartels, eager to protect their state-granted shelter from competition.

Instead of looking to the federal government to create jobs, state legislatures could have a real and immediate effect on unemployment in their states by showing how less truly is more.  They can remove the barriers to job creation that their predecessors erected and enjoy the job-generating drive of their states’ aspiring entrepreneurs, say Mellor and Carpenter.”

Source: Chip Mellor and Dick Carpenter, “Want Jobs? Cut Local Regulations,” Wall Street Journal, July 28, 2011.

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