Anatomy of a Failing Presidency

The following is an interesting article. You might ask how long Dr. Hunt can remain at NIH once the White House gets 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.

An article from American Thinker by Geoffrey P. Hunt

Anatomy of a Failing Presidency

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 20.

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 n either 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 unprecedented 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

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