Barack Obama (H/T: Hot Air Headlines):
“Realistically, I could get a whole lot more done if Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of the House,” he said as the [Calfiornian] crowd applauded.
Moe Lane:
…Which is why Nancy Pelosi is no longer Speaker of the House.
[pause]
That’s it.
Moe Lane
Evidently, Mr. Campaigner, Mr. the-gun-is-my-skill-list, can’t figure out how to sell his ideas outside his own voter plantations.
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So sad, too bad.
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Mew
If I could pick the exact circumstances under which I have to do my job, I’d be pretty darn good.
If you’re not influencing the circumstances of your job to your best advantage …
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He was sold to us as a great salesman.. and is failing to sell. It seems the marketing literature was wrong.
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Mew
It is astonishing to me how people are so eager to give him a pass on not being able to do anything unless he has overwhelming democratic majorities. That’s not an executive.
That’s because he’s *not* an executive.
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He’s a demigod, or an orator, or a bully.. and while some of those skills may be useful to an executive, they are not – as Bush 2.0 demonstrated – mandatory.
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The only thing Obama is good at, it seems, is campaigning .. and then only for Obama.
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Mew
I had a long chat with a staunch Illinois Democrat*, back in 2006.. we agreed that Obama should try to replace Blagojevich as Governor before running for anything else …
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Mew
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*Downstate Democrat, to be specific, not Chicago Corruptocrat.
Your right that he’s a demi-god. My problem is with his disciples.