{"id":523,"date":"2010-02-01T23:19:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T05:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2010-02-01T23:19:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T05:19:31","slug":"the-fall-of-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"The Fall of Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a January 20, 2010 editorial, the Editor in Chief of U.S. News & World Report<\/em>, Mortimer Zuckerman, had this to say: \u201cObama\u2019s ability to connect with voters is what launched him.\u00a0 But what has surprised me is how he has failed to connect with the voters since he\u2019s been in office.\u00a0 He\u2019s had so much overexposure.\u00a0 You have to be selective.\u00a0 He was doing five Sunday shows.\u00a0 How many press conferences?\u00a0 And now people stop listening to him\u2026\u00a0 He\u2019s lost his audience.\u00a0 He has not rallied public opinion.\u00a0 He has plunged in the polls more than any other public figure since we\u2019ve been using polls.\u00a0 He\u2019s done everything wrong.\u00a0 Well, not everything, but the major things\u2026 I don\u2019t consider it a triumph.\u00a0 I consider it a disaster.\u201d\u00a0 And that\u2019s what his friends are saying about him.<\/p>\n

As the boy president occupied the White House on January 20, 2009 it was predictable that his presidency would last a year, at most, because the things he promised and the things he stood for were so uniquely un-American.\u00a0 Looking back over his year in office, any reasonably precocious fourth grader could make a cogent argument in opposition to nearly everything he\u2019s done.\u00a0 In fact, his policies have been so extreme and so far outside the mainstream that he was destined to achieve the most spectacular fall from grace of any American president in history.\u00a0 It was easy to see him serving out the final three years of his term as a virtual exile in the White House\u2026 afraid to venture out among any but the most rabid partisans.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seeing his most ambitious initiative, healthcare reform, die in the flames of the Massachusetts Massacre, Obama made a hastily-planned \u201csortie<\/em>\u201d to Ohio for yet another Bush-bashing, self-aggrandizing stump speech on job creation.\u00a0 It was vintage Obama\u2026 full of left wing hyperbole and planted questions from the Kool-Ade drinkers in the hand-picked audience\u2026 but there were just two things wrong with it: 1) Almost everything he said was either wrong or an outright lie, and 2) He is so overexposed that no one in the television audience really wanted to see him. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Obama Kool-Ade drinkers in the media, and elsewhere, like to describe Obama as a \u201cvery bright man, a true intellectual (compared to George W. Bush and Sarah Palin, of course).\u201d\u00a0 If that is the case, why has he demonstrated such a great inability to learn from his failures?\u00a0 The strident words and the in-your-face attitude of his Ohio speech were proof that he has totally misread the meaning of the Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts. \u00a0Whatever hopes and dreams he had for his time in the White House, whatever grandiose plans he had for transforming the United States from a constitutional republic with a free market economy into a socialist dictatorship with a centrally planned economy, were all lost on Tuesday, January 19, 2010\u2026 one day short of a full year in office.\u00a0 Yet, he appears to have learned nothing from the experience.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Comedian George Gobel once asked, rhetorically, \u201cDid you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?\u201d \u00a0In the context of 21st<\/sup> century American politics, and assuming that he has any capacity at all for honest self-examination, Obama must be feeling today very much like a pair of brown shoes at a black tie soiree<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When a politically na\u00efve<\/em> and totally inexperienced young black man, with a glib tongue and an exceptional ability to read words convincingly from a teleprompter, announced that he was ready to serve as President of the United States, liberals and Democrats saw it as a perfect opportunity to expiate whatever white guilt they may have felt\u2026 which was apparently considerable among those on the political left.\u00a0 \u00a0It didn\u2019t seem to bother them that, as one pundit has remarked, \u201cevery time he walks into a room he is the least experienced and the least qualified man in the room.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, his friends in the worldwide socialist movement and the international banking community figured out how to smuggle hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal campaign funds into the country, the black community rallied to his banner, and American liberals and the mainstream media jumped on board the bandwagon.\u00a0 Together, they made it happen for him.\u00a0 But now, just one year later, Obama appears destined to become the unhappiest man in American politics\u2026 unhappier than even former Senator John Edwards, who runs a close second, and former president Bill Clinton.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Clinton will be the third unhappiest man because, after capturing the big prize, he frittered away whatever chance he had of ever being compared favorably with Franklin D. Roosevelt as one of the 20th<\/sup> century\u2019s greatest Democratic presidents.\u00a0 Not only was he a politician of unusual skill and insight, he was widely known as a policy \u201cwonk\u201d among policy wonks and he had the drive and the personal charm to be loved and respected around the world.\u00a0 Unfortunately, he was never able to put the public trust at the top of his priority list.\u00a0 Instead, he surrounded himself with a large cadre of trusted enablers who allowed him to conduct himself as if he were, not the President of the United States, but the class stud on an extended spring break in Acapulco.<\/p>\n

Now that he\u2019s been out of office for nearly a decade and he\u2019s married to the current Secretary of State, he spends his days trying to find something useful to do without calling an undue amount of attention to himself.\u00a0 Having lied so shamelessly to the American people, having perjured himself in a court of law, having turned the Oval Office into a sexual playpen, and having suffered the humiliation of impeachment, he\u2019s smart enough to know that he has little reputation left to protect.\u00a0 So in order to protect whatever legacy remains, he walks a tightrope every day\u2026 and he has many more years to walk it without falling off.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Former Senator John Edwards is destined to be the second unhappiest man in American politics because he will be known forever as the most thoroughly despised scumbag in the political arena.\u00a0 A trial lawyer, Edwards amassed a $60 million fortune by winning large jury awards against doctors, hospitals, and corporations.\u00a0 His specialty was cases in which children were born with cerebral palsy, which he blamed on doctors who had waited too long to perform C-sections, a claim that doctors and medical researchers have described as \u201cjunk science.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, like Obama, he decided that his experience in the courtroom, his glib tongue, and his one term in the U.S. Senate qualified him to be President of the United States.\u00a0 He entered the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries, raising an incredible amount of money for a newcomer to elective office\u2026 most of it raised illegally by \u201cbundlers\u201d in plaintiffs\u2019 law firms across the country.\u00a0 He was unsuccessful in his quest for the Democratic nomination but was selected by his Senate colleague, John Kerry, as his running mate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two years later, in 2006, Edwards met a young blonde film producer, Rielle Hunter, and embarked on a love affair with her.\u00a0 On February 27, 2008, Hunter gave birth to a daughter, for whom Edwards has consistently denied paternity\u2026 until now.<\/p>\n

Taking into account that all of this was happening while his wife was waging a long battle with breast cancer, Edwards now has the well-deserved reputation of being the sleaziest of the sleazy.\u00a0 He is so universally despised that, if he is on the lookout for a friend, he might as well resign himself to getting a dog\u2026 or moving in with O.J. Simpson.\u00a0 Terry Moran, host of ABC\u2019s This Week<\/em>, put it all in perspective.\u00a0 He said, \u201cWhat\u2019s interesting to note is that Edwards\u2019 latest admission (that he is the father of Hunter\u2019s child) came while he was in Haiti.\u00a0 As if the people of that sad place didn\u2019t have enough problems.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Clearly, the one thing Clinton and Edwards share that places them near the top of our list is their sexual peccadilloes, a shortcoming that Obama does not appear to share with them\u2026 at least from what we know so far.\u00a0 What we do know about Obama is that, since his teen years, he has been mentored by, gravitated toward, and surrounded by the most dangerous sort of America-hating socialists, communists, and Marxists\u2026 from Frank Marshall Davis and Saul Alinsky to Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, George Soros, and countless radical left college professors.<\/p>\n

What destines Obama for the top spot on the list of unhappiest American politicians\u2026 aside from the failure of his economic recovery program, the failure of his radical cap-and-trade proposal, his failed attempt to give labor bosses unprecedented power to intimidate blue collar workers, and his ill-fated attempt at healthcare reform\u2026 is the fact that he carries on his shoulders the hopes and aspirations of every black child in America.\u00a0 It is unfortunate that, because he is so far outside the American mainstream, and because he carries so much hatred in his heart for the country he seeks to lead, his failures will be viewed by generations of black children, not as the failure of a black socialist attempting to bring down a constitutional republic, but simply as the failure of a black man.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A man can fail in the eyes of his countrymen and still be dearly loved by those closest to him.\u00a0 But in Obama\u2019s case, his wife and his two daughters will be there to suffer every agonizing step of his fall along with him.\u00a0 And for the rest of his life, each time he looks into their eyes, and into the eyes of black people everywhere, he will see the crushing disappointment that his ill-fated attempt at national transformation has caused them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He will be the country\u2019s unhappiest man, living the rest of his life knowing that his daughters know that the whole world sees him as a failure.\u00a0 He is simply the wrong man, in the wrong job, in the wrong country, at the wrong time in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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